After leaving, Sona cast a barrier spell within a kilometer radius around them.
"Stay alert!" Sona ordered.
"Yes, Sona-kaichou!"
Everyone displayed a pair of demon wings on their backs as they floated.
Witnessing all this, Ai Hoshino felt as if she were dreaming. "Aii," she murmured as she pinched herself, but soon realized that everything was real.
Sona observed Ai's action but did not blame her. From what she understood, Ai Hoshino probably had not had much contact with the supernatural. However, what made her more cautious was the fact that there was something like a purple lightning thread in her body.
After some reflection, Sona thought of Light Yagami, but had no way to prove it was him. Therefore, it was better to be safe than sorry.
'What's going on? They mentioned something about someone putting a kind of magic tracker on me and... Why does it seem like they're about to go to war? This... This is so confusing.' Being directly exposed to a possible battle, Ai Hoshino was completely lost about what was happening and what was about to happen.
Fear and confusion intertwined in her mind, making it difficult for her to fully process the situation. A feeling of insecurity enveloped her, making her question every detail of what was happening around her. The idea of being tracked by magical means scared her, and the prospect of an imminent battle made her even more anxious. She felt like a lost child in an unknown world, yearning for answers and security.
She had just overcome the shocking reality that, in the near future, she would be killed a few years after giving birth to twin children. Which, after calmly reflecting, she concluded that she just needed to avoid meeting and getting involved with Hikaru Kamiki. However, the current situation was entirely out of her control.
Sona, noticing the tumultuous emotions of Ai Hoshino, reassured her with her soft voice: "It will be alright, we are here, and we will protect you."
Ai Hoshino didn't know why, but hearing Sona's voice, she felt she could trust her. It was as if Sona's voice contained some kind of soothing balm that allowed Ai to breathe more easily and made the previous fear dissipate considerably.
Just to be safe, Sona created a barrier around Ai Hoshino. After all, she was still a regular human.
"It's here!" exclaimed Tomoe Meguri.
High in the sky, a figure shrouded in a sinister aura and crackling purple lightning around it appeared like a specter.
It was Light, and his arrival was marked by an atmosphere of unease. The sky, once clear, seemed to be consumed by the darkness that enveloped him. The purple lightning, not only surrounded his figure but also tore through the sky, creating a chilling contrast with the darkness that enveloped him. The aura surrounding him was oppressive and dense, making the air around seem heavy. His presence was almost ghostly, a fearsome apparition that emanated dark and powerful energy. As he descended, it seemed that the world around was being consumed by the darkness he brought with him, making the scene almost apocalyptic.
Ai Hoshino felt fear again... Actually, she was terrified!
However, this fear seemed to dissipate when the person who arrived began to undo all the phenomena he had created before, and she recognized from afar the person who was flying in the sky.
'Isn't it the same boy I saw near the convenience store off my house?' Ai Hoshino had a sharp memory. She remembered seeing him looking at her; she even smiled at him, although she was wearing a mask. And she remembered very well that it was right after that she heard a voice in her mind narrating her tragic end.
{So it was Sona Sitri's group... Why are they with Ai Hoshino? Does Sona Sitri want to recruit her to her Peerage? Hmm... It's possible. I noticed that Ai Hoshino has a great affinity with spiritual energy; if she learns some mental skill, it won't be a bad idea to make her reincarnate as a Devil... and her eyes...}
He made a dramatic pause, but for those who could hear the voice of his heart, it seemed he was deeply pondering something until, finally, the voice of his heart manifested again.
{By the way, now that I know who they are and that Ai Hoshino is not in danger, I realize I worried about nothing. Sigh~ should I go there and talk to them? After all, they seem to be on alert, they must have thought that I could have malicious intentions. But how to explain the reason for leaving the lightning thread in Ai Hoshino? I was concerned about her safety, but in this life, I haven't even met her in person yet...}
Light made a point of observing their expressions from afar. Among all of them, only Ai Hoshino did not react to his inner voice. It was clear that Sona and her group were heroines, and Ai, by becoming the Chosen of Fortune, ceased to be able to hear the inner voice of other Chosen of Fortune, including his.
'How can he be so powerful!?'
On the other hand, Sona was in shock!
Not only her but everyone in her Peerage, when they discovered that it was the newly-reborn Devil by Rias Gremory who had arrived, showed the power of a High-Level Devil.
He not only became directly a High-Level Devil, but the pressure he exerted at the beginning was more powerful than many High-Level Devils.
'Sigh~ It's a shame that Rias got to him before me...' Sona lamented once again for not being quick enough to find him and ask him to be part of her Peerage.
However, that didn't stop her from wanting to befriend him. As he seemed to know several things about their future, she would like to get closer to him and try, indirectly, to find out more things through the voice of his heart.
But something intrigued her: why did Ai Hoshino stop hearing the voice of Light Yagami's heart, but now they could hear her voice? Could it be, as she thought, that Ai Hoshino became the protagonist of her own story?
The words spoken by the voice of Light Yagami's heart led her to this conclusion. If that was really the case, wouldn't it make Ai Hoshino even more special?
'So, the original protagonist must be one of her children in the future. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense for this kind of change to have occurred.' Sona pondered.
While Sona's mind wandered, seeming to have discovered the truth, the reality was that all of this was thought in a matter of seconds and, soon, she opened her mouth and said with a calm voice: "You are Light Yagami, aren't you?"
"... Yes, you are right." Knowing that he was recognized, Light decided to go to them and started to hover slowly in their direction.
"That voice... It's the same!" Ai Hoshino, upon hearing Light's voice, was in shock and ecstasy at the same time, as it was, after all, the same voice that had 'warned' her about the risk of meeting the boy, Hikaru Kamiki.
Sona, realizing this, panicked, fearing that Ai Hoshino would alert Light Yagami that the voice of his heart could be heard and, thus, put him on alert. However, she quickly calmed down, not letting her emotions show, and sent a telepathic message to Ai Hoshino: {"Don't say anything to him about having heard the voice of his heart before; Do this and I will explain later why."}
Reaching this point, she could only hope that Ai Hoshino would choose to follow her advice. Although they didn't know each other well yet.
Ai Hoshino looked in the direction of Sona Sitri and felt strange. She heard her voice directly in her head, but it was different from when she heard Light's voice; Light's voice seemed to come from the heart, while Sona Sitri's seemed more like ventriloquism.
As she did not know how to use something like telepathy, Ai Hoshino was understanding and nodded in the direction of Sona.
Light, who observed this small interaction, could guess what had happened, but chose to pretend ignorance. However, he couldn't completely feign ignorance, so he asked, looking at Ai Hoshino: "Oh, have we met before?"
Her eyes, which changed from purple to pink and had a six-pointed star in each, blinked innocently as she placed her left index finger on her chin, showing a thoughtful expression: "Mm... Actually, I think not, I was mistaken, I thought it was the same voice as one of my fans, you know~" She playfully stuck out her tongue.
Sona, seeing Ai acting this way, felt like giving her a thumbs up in approval. Tomoe Meguri and the rest of the group had the same reaction.
"Is that so?" Light asked rhetorically, soon turning his attention to Sona and the rest of the group. He introduced himself in a calm and polite manner: "Hello, I am Light Yagami, the newest member of Rias Gremory's Peerage, Rook and Bishop. It's a pleasure to meet you all."
At this point, he had already descended and retracted his wings. Walking until he was very close to them, he stopped just a few meters away.
Sona introduced herself calmly: "I see, so you are the newest member of Rias." She feigned ignorance, as if it was the first time she found out: "You seem quite talented, Rias was very lucky this time." When she said that, she was being sincere.
"Changing the subject, Light, right?" Tsubaki adjusted her glasses and asked with a slightly dry voice: "Why did you come here, after all? Were you the one who put the lightning wire on Ai Hoshino?"
"Yes." Light admitted.
"..." Everyone fell silent.
In fact, at this point, they believed he would make up some excuse, but it seemed that it was not the case now. This made them curious about why he admitted it.
"Why did you do that?" Sona raised an eyebrow while crossing her arms.
Ai Hoshino, upon hearing this, also became curious. She narrowed her eyes slightly while looking more intently at Light.
It was obvious that Light could not reveal the complete truth, even knowing that they probably already knew the real reason behind his actions. He then articulated a partially true explanation for his actions: "I saw her near a convenience store for the first time these days. Although she was disguised at the time, I recognized that it was, in fact, the idol that my little sister adores."
Tsubaki questioned: "But, that's not a reason to do what you did, right?"
"Yes, you are right." Light said slowly: "The truth is that I am a descendant and heir of the Amakawa House, because of that I had supernatural powers even before becoming a Devil, and when I saw Ai Hoshino, I noticed that she had a dark aura about her and used the lightning wire as a last resort in case she got in danger and warned me, after all, I didn't want to see my little sister sad."
{It's not exactly a lie. I am, indeed, the heir of the Amakawa House, and my younger sister really likes the B-Komachi group. I hadn't realized it before, but after I found out that Ai Hoshino was an idol in this parallel world, I remembered the wallpaper in my little sister's room and then realized that it was Ai Hoshino's group. And, even if Ai Hoshino from this world is not the same as the one I knew, she is, after all, a version of her in a parallel world. I owe this to Little Fifteen...}
Only Ai Hoshino did not hear Light's heart's voice, but Sona Sitri transmitted Light's voice with one of her spells in the form of telepathy to Ai Hoshino.
This time, not even Light expected it, since he only intended to use his inner voice to think up to the part where he found out that his little sister is a fan of Ai Hoshino. And, even though he let out a bit of what was really trapped in his heart, he could not imagine that it was passed on to Ai Hoshino by Sona.
As for the reason Sona did this... Well, she has her reasons.
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