My teenage high school romance comedy can't be this perverted!

Chapter 95: Save Her

Beta read by Shigiya

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-Kuoh Academy-

What was this scenario? I felt as if I was transported into one of those interrogation rooms you constantly see in thriller detective movies. The imaginary intense white light beamed upon my head. Despite me being the one who was asking the question, I felt an enormous sense of dread and confusion. 

“How did you know, Aika?” I asked the bespectacled girl as she sat across from me, casually enjoying her lunchbox. This particular question burned in my mind the moment we returned to the clubroom after finishing helping the gardening club. The girl acted casually the entire time, her attitude making me that much more uncomfortable. “Best we discuss this matter now before the others return.”

In the middle of eating her bento, she placed the chopsticks down, giving me a confused stare. 

“How did I know what exactly?” she said with such a tone, acting ignorant and innocent. I was not planning on being fooled by her deception.

“Stop it. You know very well what I am saying. How did you learn about the supernatural world?” I asked again calmly, not breaking eye contact once. Had I been deceived this entire time and this person happened to be a mage or some other type of magic user? Couldn't be, even Vritra never sensed anything and he spent a lot of time around her to sense something. 

"Huh, you're not going to take the subtle approach of acting oblivious and ignorant to my words? I expected a bigger challenge, buchou!"

I was glad that there was no one else in the room other than the two of us. If either Asia or Xenovia were present, I didn’t trust either of them to keep their mouths shut and not blurt out every single event we had been through so far. I knew Akeno would have just played along or found the entire thing amusing, most likely grabbing a bucket of popcorn and watching me handle the case as if it were a comedy show.

Waving my hands, I dissuaded that idea. “It wouldn't have worked in the place, you already called me a bad liar in the past, not like I've gotten better these last few months.” 

“Wrong, you are a good liar by keeping some matters hidden from every student with that dead fish eye stare of yours. You just never bothered to actually try lying to my face in the past.” 

“Have you become a psychologist? I thought you were planning to become an Andrologist.” 

“I can be both!”

This girl wouldn't stop any time, “Let's get back to the topic at hand. You're not the type to mess around with such things when I ask you seriously. How long have you known, and why didn't you say anything before?"

The chances that she was afraid of the aftermath of me finding out was a possible solution. Taking the logical route, if she was aware of this fact for a long time and wished to remain anonymous then it made sense to hide it. But that still brought up the question as to why she chose to bring it up now. 

I was going through every single interaction we have had from the beginning of this year until now. There were just too many moments to count and to accurately guess honestly. At no point did she suddenly change or behave with me out of the ordinary?

"Che! You're no fun." Finally looking like she was going to take me seriously, the girl took a deep breath. "Well, it happened quite recently, to be honest. The day when we helped out the drama club with their assignment, around that time we had to help that stray cat from the tree.”