Soul for a Girlfriend?

Chapter 199 - The Fourth Target

Even though I had no point asking her these questions, it was better to have some information than none since she would tell me about things as long as it's not related directly to the contract. I was trying to extract as much intel as I could so that I could use them later.

"So Devil-chan… these targets, they are just an empty container for the souls, right?" With a slight pause I asked as she replied with a soft hum, "Yes…"

My gaze was on a random girl passing by me, as I looked towards her and asked, "What if that girl gets a soul inside her?" As Lilith didn't reply, I added, "Will she become a target, then?"

"It's not that simple." After a while of silence, she replied in a hesitant tone, and I prodded her to continue. "Eh?"

Lilith let out a slight breath, and with a soft voice, she started speaking, "Yeah… it's like trying to pour 5 litre water in a 2 litre bottle."

She was good at giving examples, or maybe this wasn't really tough to understand for them. That's why she explained it so easily. But I got the idea of how a soul resides inside a body. Nodding slowly, I asked, "So… like the body must be sufficient for the soul?"

"Yes…" She replied, and as much as I could comprehend into simpler words, I said, "In other words… compatibility?"

"Exactly!" Lilith exclaimed in a rather cheerful tone, but it sounded more like an attempt to make me stop asking questions, as she groaned and scolded me, "Anyways, stop distracting me… I'm trying to locate her!"

I waited for a few moments while glancing around me as there were a lot of students walking past me while I kept looking at every other girl in hope of finding the next target soon.

  "Wait… I can feel her mana… closing in…" After a moment of silence, I heard her voice mumbling as I looked around too, but subtly so as to not give off a creepy vibe. 

Everyone seemed rather normal to me. The mark on my hard only activates once the target gets captured, which was a good feature, but I wanted it to respond in some way if I was near the target unknowingly. Then again, I would rather not feel that stinging pain in my arm again.

As there was a hint of uncertainty in her voice, Lilith suddenly said in a sharp and confident tone, "There she is!"

"Where?" I asked her in confusion as she replied, "That girl…"

Everytime she would introduce a new target to me, glimpses of all the events that happened with the other targets would flash in front of my eyes as I would feel a strange nervousness. With a gut wrenching feeling, I asked, "Yeah… tell me her description…"

"That one… see she is laughing with her friends… ginger hair…" She said as my eyes gazed around to find a girl laughing but there were a lot of girls around me so it was hard to pinpoint a single one laughing.

As my eyes slowly adjusted to the crowd and I found the girl who was laughing, a strange feeling of emptiness hit me as I stood there with my mouth hung open. The only words I could utter were, "No fucking way!"

"What happened?!" Lilith asked in confusion with a hint of concern in her voice, as I asked her in an agitated tone, "She is the target?"

"Yes… Shiraishi Suzuha. She is the same age as you. Is she your classmate?" Lilith seemed to nod her head as she repeated the details of the target, and I kept listening to it while looking at the girl.

The girl had a huge smile plastered on her face as she seemed to be surrounded by her group of friends. Her ginger coloured hair was what made her stand out from her group of friends. Her hair was tied up in a bun, so I assumed that it was her preferred hairstyle as her blue eyes suddenly met mine from a distance and she caught me glancing at her.

The expression on her face didn't change at all. Actually, she didn't react at all except her eyes, which seemed to be looking at me with a weird vibe in them. I quickly looked away from her and replied to Lilith's question, "No…"

"You reacted like you know her?" Lilith asked with clear confusion, as she didn't know about the girl who kissed me even though she was aware of the event. Letting out a deep breath, I said, "She is the girl!"

"What?" Lilith asked, as I replied instantly, "The one who kissed me suddenly. It's the crazy ginger head."

After what she did, I named her crazy ginger head because I was obviously not aware of her name being Shiraishi Suzuha. With a hint of excitement in her voice, Lilith asked, "Hoo… the target made contact first this time?"

"How interesting." She chuckled to herself, as she was correct. It was the first time the target approached me first and not only did she approach me, she did the unthinkable. This girl is sure going to be troublesome.

Even though what Lilith said was weird as it felt like there was more to it than she was telling, I asked, "What do you mean?"

"Nothing… but since you already had such an interaction with her, I hope you won't have problems dealing with her." She said, brushing off my question, as I said, "Just because she kissed me doesn't mean this is going to be easy for me!"

"But you won't have to go through the whole deal of approaching her and all." She said which was indeed true, so I agreed to it and nodded my head, "True."

So my fourth target is none other than the crazy ginger head whose name was Shiraishi Suzuha. I would've to gather intel on her and I felt stupid for not understanding such an obvious hint that she was a target from the moment she kissed me.