Talk:Kazuma Kval/@comment-28957772-20151008171730/@comment-25121259-20151009150317

^ Well, not quite. (IIRC) You see, for Kazuma, Trinity was the closest person to him in the Academy (without his memories, it could be even considered the closest person in the world), she was the only person that he talked with on daily basis. He actually cared for her somewhat, as the moment that Terumi started badmouthing her, he aggressively reacted to it and forced him to shut up. Among the things that Terumi said about her was that she wasn't his friend, none of the girls were, that in reality, from the very beginning, she was tasked with observing Kazuma, all according to Nine's order. Of course Kazuma couldn't believe it, he didn't want to believe it, between Terumi and Trinity, he would rather trust her than him (hence the possibility of Kazuma completely denying Terumi appeared).

Then, during the event mentioned above, when Kazuma was about to deny Terumi completely, Nine had said something, something that only he (Kazuma, also Terumi technically speaking) and Trinity should know about. From Kazuma's perspective, it was a proof that what Terumi said was the truth, that Trinity was indeed relying information about Kazuma and what he was doing to Nine, that she only approached him to monitor him...

Of course, in reality it wasn't quite like that. You see, Trinity was in love with Kazuma, hence when he started acting strange (like ditching classes, researching something in the library, being assaulted and nearly killed by unknown assailant), she was worried about him. Naturally, she talked about such worries with her best friend Nine, as a normal girl would do in such situation... the problem was that Nine was, well, Nine (...). Because of her awful relationship with her father, Nine detested all males of the human species (one of the reasons why she actually ended up with a nekomata instead). Not to mention some shady guy like Kazuma, not only was he shady, but he was somewhat close to her best friend (Trinity), so naturally Nine not only held animosity towards him, but was also extremely vigilant of him (then, when he started acting strange and strange thing started happening to/around him... well you can imagine).

Basically, if Tomonori hadn't assaulted Kazuma, then Terumi wouldn't be able to manifest within his mind to this extend (unless Kazuma encountered another/different life and death situation). Even if that happened (as it happened), there was still chance that Kazuma would deny Terumi, but that was ruined because of Nine by being Nine(...)... well in the end, later on (right after the Dark War) Kazuma-Terumi opened the Cauldron with his/their Azure Grimoire and dragged Nine to the Boundary using Ouroboros... so, karma (well this was brought upon her by herself to some extend) ? Or one could say that Terumi splendidly manipulated Kazuma ?