Chapter 62 - Alliance

After checking whether the laboratory was completely destroyed or not Tatsuya went towards the girls and asked, "So what are you all plan to do from now on."

Hearing his question the girls started discussing among themselves. Seeing that the girls were not going to reach a conclusion anytime soon Tatsuya clapped his hands to get their attention and said, "Stop it, you all are coming with me to the Nekomata tribe I saved recently you all can discuss further after we reach there." He then opened his arms and said, "Grab on."

The girls hesitated a bit but still took a hold of his arms. They have already seen his strength and they surely don't want to annoy him at all.

Once Tatsuya confirmed that all of them were holding his arms he nodded and then teleported away.

In an instant all of them were in the area where Tatsuya and his team killed the devils. The others also noticed that he have came back and started to come near him.

Once the Nekomata saw the blonde nekoshou they all quickly rushed toward her and started to bombard her with questions and apologies.

Tatsuya slowly walked towards Himari and asked, "Is she the one?" Himari looked at the blonde nekoshou for a while and said with a smile, "Yep, she is the one." She then looked at him and said, "Thanks a lot Tatsuya." and hugged him.

Tatsuya hugged her back and slowly caressed her back and said, "You don't need to be grateful to me, didn't I say that I will help you anyway possible when you joined the team." Himari smiled and snuggled closer to him. Tatsuya looked at her and said with a smile, "Besides I will make sure to enjoy your ears and tail once we go back home as a compensation, so it is a win-win condition for me."

Himari blushed on thought about what all Tatsuya would do to her but Tatsuya suddenly said, "I am not going to do any of those perverted things that you are thinking about right now."

Hearing this Himari looked up while she was still a blushing mess and with her ears dropped looked at Tatsuya with puppy eyes with some tears forming at the corner of her eyes.

Tatsuya who looked at her took a critical hit and blushed as well. He hugged her tightly and said, "Himari you are too cute." Himari who heard him was happy and again snuggled closer to him.

While this was going on at the side both Miyuki and Ingvild were looking at Tatsuya and Himari who seem to have made their own temporary world for now. Miyuki kept looking on them and said, "Should we start wearing animal ears as well?" Ingvild who heard the question still kept on looking at them as well and said with a nod, "We should try it. It looks like they would be very effective on him." Ingvild and Miyuki both looked at each other and then shook their hands forming an alliance.

After a while all the Nekomata and nekoshou gathered around Tatsuya and the others Nd bowed their heads and said, "Thank you very much for saving us from those devils. We would be forever grateful to you."

Tatsuya shook his hand and said, "You don't need to be grateful to me, I only did this because my friend Himari had someone she wanted to meet and there was a chance that her friend would be among you all. So if you want to thank someone it should be Himari."

Tatsuya noticed that when he took Himari's name the blonde haired Nekoshou's eyes widened. The blonde then came forward with a shocked expression and seeing that Himari came forward as well. The blonde looked at Himari and asked, "Are you Himari?" Himari smiled and said, "Long time no see Asumi." Hearing that the blonde started to cry and hugged Himari while saying, "Sorry" over and over again. Himari smiled and started to console her and after she stopped crying they started to talk to each other.

At the same time the other Nekoshou and Nekomata started to discuss about what to do from now on. On the other hand Tatsuya, Miyuki and Ingvild were sitting in a corner with Tatsuya being in the middle of the them. Tatsuya and the girls looked at the scene in front of them and Tatsuya unconsciously said, "There are a lot of cats here for sure." Ingvild nodded her head and said, "There sure are." Miyuki glared at the nekos and said, "Should I 'take care' of some of those future thieving cats Onii-sama."

Both Tatsuya and Ingvild looked at Miyuki with a swear drop. Tatsuya decided to change the topic and said, "By the way who won the competition among you three." At his question Ingvild beamed with happiness and hugged him tightly.

Seeing the reaction Tatsuya looked at Ingvild with a smile and said, "Good job Ingvild, it looks like you are getting better and better getting a hold on you power. I am really proud of you." Ingvild smiled sheepishly on hearing Tatsuya's praise and nodded her head.

Tatsuya had already told her that she was a powerhouse, having a power equal to if not greater than a Superclass devil. But having power and being able to use it were two different things. She was not able to properly control her power so instead of increasing her power like Miyuki and Ingvild she focused on controling her already massive power.

Tatsuya then noticed the gloomy atmosphere around Miyuki and patted her head and said, "Don't be sad, losing now only means that you have to leave your opponent in dust when the next time you compete with her understood." Miyuki who was in bliss because of the headpat nodded her head and said, "Yes onii-sama" Tatsuya smiled at her but suddenly his expression turned serious.

Tatsuya stood up and looked at the Nekos still talking to each other. Tatsuya went towards them and said, "I don't want to interrupt you all but it looks like the nekopervert survived somehow and is now coming here with his army."

Hearing his words the nekos stopped talking and immediately checked their surroundings using senjutsu. Confirming the things that Tatsuya just said they all started to panic. Tatsuya gave a sigh and then sat down and started waiting for them to calm down.

Seeing his actions his teammates gave a sigh and sat down as well.

The Nekomata kept on panicking and seeing that the nekoshou started to release their pressure on them making them silent. The nekoshou then came forward and said, "We will stall him and his army for a while and in the meantime you all runaway. The Nekomata started to refute and asked them to not give away their lives for them. Tatsuya then stood up and said, "Can you really provide them enough time to run away. You are only giving their lives away for nothing and if by any chance they all survive then who is going to lead them in this world full of dangerous and selfish people like those devils coming here."

Hearing him the nekoshou gritted their teeth but didn't said anything. They all knew that what Tatsuya was saying was true and they didn't had any way of saving themselves at all. Suddenly Asumi came forward and grabbed Tatsuya's collar and said, "Then what do you think that we should do, just hand ourselves to him and let him kill us." Tatsuya looked at her for a while and then sent her flying with a forehead flick making the others look at them with a sweat drop.

The others fell into despair thinking that they don't have anyway to save themselves. Suddenly the rest of the nekoshou came forward and bowed their heads and said, "Then can you save them?" Tatsuya looked at them and said, "Yeah I can save them." Hearing him the Nekomata got a little hope and they all looked at Tatsuya with expectant gaze. But Tatsuya being like usual was about to ask them for his compensation for saving them but suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder.

Tatsuya turned around and saw Himari looking at him with worried eyes and thought, 'I guess I know what she is about to say.' Tatsuya looked at her and asked, "What?" Himari said, "Tatsuya can you please help them? Even if just for a bit, Asumi still helped me survive in the past." Tatsuya who heard this thought, 'bullseye' and sighed.

He then looked away and said, "Looks like there is still some work left for me. Remember I will be taking more compensation once we get home for this favour as well." He said that and took off.