Chapter 67: Nephrite in the news (HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025)
*knock, knock* "Buchou-sama, Mio-sama say, dinner is ready... Hé? What are you two doing?"
"Shhhhh!" Akeno gave the shushing signal to Yuuto who just entered, who, after knocking on the door and entering as usual, was surprised to see Akeno and Koneko stuck to the door of Rias's room with one ear pressed against the wood of the door.
Upon arriving at the old club building, he noticed that Miss Lala was in the dining room with what appeared to be her younger twin sisters, arranging plates. Upon greeting them, he learned that Mio was in the kitchen with Gaspar and Maria finishing cooking.
Seeing him, they greeted Yuuto, and told him that Christel was upstairs with Rias who had sent for her with Koneko.
But now, seeing Akeno and Koneko stuck to the door of his club president's room, images flashed through his mind, and he preferred to walk away and go down the stairs. He had already accomplished his mission.
The girls don't exclude Yuuto, they think he's a different boy from the others and he's trustworthy, almost as if he were a friend.
As Yuuto walked away, Akeno and Koneko didn't care and continued trying to listen through the door.
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Meanwhile, the girls from the tennis and kendo clubs failed to catch the perverted trio and the unknown boy. So they returned to their respective club activities, and without the need to warm up anymore, after a run and a strenuous workout, they got down to practice.
Kiyome started her practice with training games with the other members of the tennis club, but even though she had a moment to go to the locker room, and check that everything is okay with her body and change from her school uniform to her tennis sports uniform.
She still had in her mind what had happened. The strangeness of her body, and despite being distracted, her senses were in an excited state. All the balls that were thrown at her were easily reached and she could easily see and calculate their trajectory.
With the cheers of her fellow club members and the current leader of the tennis club, Kiyome felt that Christel was not ordinary. It seemed that her essence permeated her, causing her physical abilities to be enhanced. She didn't know if this enhancement was permanent or momentary, but she wanted to check it out later, also if there was any change regarding her beast tamer abilities and if the change also influenced her contracted beasts.
Somewhere else.
Murayama had mixed feelings at the moment, she, like Katase, did not need to practice for now, they had just passed the tournament and their respective championships now rested in the trophy room in the main building of the Academy.
So, despite having already changed into their combat uniforms with their respective shinai, they now find themselves in a secret location. Which is actually not that secret, it's the pool maintenance room, but it's spacious and hidden enough for the secret club where a group of exclusive girls have joined for just one reason.
"How long will it take you to develop the photos, Kiryuu-san?"
"They're almost there, don't be impatient"
"Hehehe, thanks to the equipment we confiscated from Matsuda on behalf of the Sun Goddess Club, we have some excellent photos of Christel-sama for the collection."
"But don't forget Tadami's photography skills, they are great"
"But Tadami-san, how do you take photos at different angles and with different cameras?"
"hehehe~ that's a professional secret"
"heeee~" x N
As the girls chatted, Murayama thought about today's photos that captured the events. She felt a slight pain in her chest and fell silent, lost at times.
"Mura, are you okay?"
"Mm? Katase, yes, nothing is wrong with me"
"Are you thinking about what happened today between Christel and Kiyome, the Ace of the tennis club?"
"N..no, I, I don't think about that!"
Katase had pulled Murayama aside and whispered to her. She had noticed that her friend was a little off, and suspected that she might have feelings for Christel and that she was now jealous, especially since the same thing that happened with Kiyome had happened with Murayama at the beginning of the school year.
Katase remained silent and just hugged her best friend around the waist. She, like everyone in the group, was united by something more than just admiration for Christel's genius and beauty, everyone in the secret club has had contact with her in some way, and the club is only there to safeguard and protect her safety and integrity.
Especially when Katase heard about the club from the perverted trio. Gathering everyone together, they managed to take down the perverted trio and forcibly take over the club and move their base to this place.
All the girls are proud of what they have accomplished this vacation, and hope that they can gather the other girls from the Academy who admire Christel to the club, to protect their sun goddess.
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Meanwhile, in another part of the Academy, although not far away.
"Woaaa, Basara-kun, how did you manage to run so fast!"
"Mm! You seem to be part of your old school's athletic club, or were you part of the soccer club?"
Hidden in the grove between the school pool and the parking lot, three four-year-old boys sat on the ground breathing heavily, while two admired a boy who remained upright and looked as cool as a cucumber.
"Humph! She abandoned us. We almost got caught by the girls from the kendo and tennis club... ufff"
Issei replied coldly. He didn't like his friends, Matsuda and Motohama, saying nice things to the new boy.
Basara, after managing to escape from the chase, did not know what happened. Managing to reach the parking lot, he decided to wait a moment between the trees to check the situation.
But Issei and the other two found him and approached. Basara with a black face, didn't want to be close, but when he was about to leave, he saw a group of girls coming who were still looking for him, so he stayed hidden among the trees and bushes.
Although he was surprised to enter an Academy with 99% female students, and it was practically every man's dream. He didn't think that on the first day, he would almost get a stain that couldn't be removed, even if he jumped into the Yellow River.
If he were caught, there's no telling how his aunt would react, but she'd probably hang him from a tall tree by his feet. Then she'd tell his father, who would surely come running and beat him to death.
Basara decided to stay away from this trio and never trust them again when they talked about doing men's activities.
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In the old building of the Occult Research Club, a group of beautiful girls and a handsome boy were having lunch while watching the news on a television in the living room.
[...although the authorities have not yet given an official statement, we believe that this is a terrorist attack by some environmentalist cell. Despite the destruction, which experts have estimated at billions of yen, this area seems to have been reclaimed by Mother Nature.
No human casualties have been reported and all has been material losses. That is the end of my report...]
"Who would attack Tokyo like that?"
"Some crazy environmentalist, didn't you see how the area ended up? It seems like they threw seeds and the whole place was filled with plants and trees?"
"But that would take time, do you think someone did it..."
"Cough, cough! Let's stop watching TV. We have to prepare for the -Cultural Festival (文化祭 Bunkasai)-, it's about two months away. Christel, as your president I'm sending you on a mission. Make Sona allow us to..."
"Rias-Kaichousama, I don't promise!"
While watching TV on the news channel, the girls, and a boy (Gaspar counts as a girl in Christel's mind), learned about an attack on a local school-level tennis event in Tokyo.
Christel knows what happened yesterday, thanks to her golem that she has kept active all this time, apparently, Nephrite, could no longer remain passive, the Dark Queen has been demanding achievements from her. So she decided to attack a girl named Rui Saionji, who had energy at its highest point according to the stars, and she planned to steal her energy in one hit at the local tournament in Tokyo.
But he encountered Usagi and Naru, whom he suspected was Sailor Moon because he sensed a large amount of energy from her.
Naru Osaka is Usagi's childhood friend and they attend the same school and are in the same grade and group. For some reason, she started getting attacked on several occasions, which caused Usagi to transform into Sailor Moon to save her. Making Naru become a fan of Sailor Moon.
So this time, Nephrite tried to attack Rui and Naru, causing Usagi to transform and Sailor Moon to fire. But since she was alone this time, it seemed like she was about to fail in protecting her friends.
Only this time, the amulet that Usagi had on her cell phone and was hiding in her clothes due to her transformation, reacted, placing Sailor Moon in a golden bubble, and hitting Nephrite with an expanding beam.
Christel, noticing her guardian amulet activating, felt the signal from her golem and thought of injecting her spiritual power through the contract and controlling the golem herself.
When the golem controlled by Christel appeared coming out of the ground and in front of Naru and Rui, it momentarily took the form of Christel, like a clone. Rui didn't know who the beautiful girl who came out of the ground was. But Naru recognized her, since she has lighter and brighter golden hair than Usagi and he has seen her on a couple of occasions.
But when he was about to say her name, he stopped when he saw that the girl changed shape and became bigger, in a more adult appearance, growing, and changing her hair tone to pink and her eyes to a greenish color.
Christel thought that she couldn't appear like that with her physique, even if she is a clone, so she quickly copied a form similar but different to Lala, not knowing that a girl behind her clone had recognized her in an instant.
With this form, with the power of the earth of the mud golem and its plant ability from the art of the druid, I help Sailor Moon attack Nephrite while maintaining an auxiliary and support role with area control skills.
Sailor Moon managed to land a few hits on him with her moon arts like the Lunar Tiara and star dust. And to Christel's surprise, Usagi also used the attack -Moon Princess Halation- after sending Nephrite flying with a Lunar Kick, causing him a good amount of damage.
Although the material damage of billions as the hostess says is an exaggeration, Christel feels that it is only a few million or maybe dozens of millions. 'It's not like it's a modern avant-garde architecture football stadium, besides, all the damage was caused by Nephrite with his starlight magic attacks.' Christel complains in her heart with a pout.
But Christel isn't interested in that. Right now she's texting Yuuma, after being with Rias for about 20 minutes, the fire inside is about to explode like a volcano, and she needs someone now.
Rias, despite now being his official girlfriend, knows that he's only using her as a power source for his Demonic Cultivation, so with great effort, she's kept his Sightless Eye cultivation at bay, which hasn't caused something to be born in Rias' body like it did a few moments ago with Kiyome through carelessness.
Now at home with Lala's younger twin sisters, Maria knows she can't do anything too over the top. Momo and Nana aren't as perceptive as Lala and will notice any anomaly. Like now, they smell Christel's scent and although they don't know why, they feel drawn to her.
So Christel is making an appointment with Raynare to spend some time, and he is also telling himself the excuse that he needs the power of Raynare's holy light as an angel to have one more weapon when dealing with Moreina tonight.
"Mooo~ Christel-chan, do it for me~"
Rias hugged Christel by the neck and pulled her towards her, placing her face on her snowy mountains.
"Ugh, ok ok, I promise I'll try, but Rias, you know it's hard. Sona is still mad about what happened with the Haunted Hunt."
"I know you can! Christel-chan~"
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