However, it feels like I will be rejecting all the experience I had in that house if I were to die, and I simply hated the idea of that happening. Granduncle breathes out in grief, and shook his head to the side. “Do you really think a human with black wings will be able to experience the life of a normal person? In the past one year and six months, you should have realised it when you travelled to different areas. ……You are a smart child after all. For a monster to attain the living style of a human, did you not come to realise that it isn’t something you can achieve with an ordinary strength?”
……Yes, I have witnessed it. While I was travelling throughout the country, I came to understand that in order for someone who has an extraordinary power, you would need a strong determination and strength to live like a normal person. I still don’t have a strong determination and strength. For that reason I became scared many times. I started to think that there isn’t any place for me in this world—. —No, I am here! I am living here! I still…..can’t die! I don’t want to die! I make lightning within my hand and released it towards the Himejima mountaineering ascetics! While making a bright flash, my lightning strikes between them. Possibly due to the power of my lighting being stronger than they imagined, it seems like I got them while they let their guard down, and they didn’t know where to aim their staff at. “Ha(Destroy)!”
Granduncle makes a loud voice. It seems like a strong spiritual power was released at the same time, and it disperses my lightning. ……It looks like my lightning won’t work on granduncle. Even though it ended like this, I did increase the power since the last time I fought him……
The mountain ascetics fix their stance, and increase their hatred toward me. “Damn! The power of her “Light and Thunder” is getting more powerful as days pass!”
“If we don’t take her down quickly, we will be the ones getting killed eventually!”
The mountain ascetics direct their staff at me—. “Oni!”
“Oni-ni!”
The small Onis stands in front of me to protect me from the mountain ascetics. No! All of you will be wiped out! “Don’t!”
I desperately move my body despite being wrapped in the net, and use my whole body to protect the Onis. “……So you will protect the Onis huh. Looks like you have also inherited the blood from that girl Shuuri.”
Granduncle points his staff at me cold heartedly, who is protecting the Onis. A powerful power gathers at the tip of his staff. I will most likely die if I get hit by it. “I’m sorry, but this is the end for you. It seems like the black Angels aren’t interfering. The least I can do is to send you off without any pain.”
……I hate men. I really hate adults. They were only worried about how they will appear to others, and didn’t forgive my mother at the end……! They also see me as a disgusting creature. I hide my hatred towards them and tell my Granduncle my last wish. “……Please spare these small Onis.”
“……Sure, very well.”
“One more. ……Please put my grave next to Kaa-sama’s……I beg you.”
“I cannot allow that. You are an existence that was not supposed to exist. I will only promise you the matter regarding the small Onis.”
……I didn’t have that much expectation for him to approve the latter wish. However, it was a faint hope I held that it was possible. However, as long as the small Onis will be safe then it’s all right. “……Oni.”
The small Onis are shedding tears because they are worried about me. It’s all right. Thank you for serving me until now. It’s okay. Live on behalf of me. All of you shouldn’t hold a grudge against them. It seems like the small Onis understood what I want to tell them without saying it to them. Granduncle’s staff gathered even more powerful spiritual power, and it happens when he was about to unleash it towards me. When I close my eyes, I hear a voice. “—Hold on.”
The light gathered around the staff disappears due to that voice. The mountain ascetics and my eyes move towards the depth of the forest. The one who appears from there is a crimson haired girl, —Rias Gremory. Next to her is a middle aged man wearing butler’s clothing who has a refined look. Rias then says. “There are some personal questions I want to ask that girl.”
Since the mountain ascetics know that the identity of this girl is a Devil, they point their staff at Rias. Granduncle says it to Rias without getting that shocked. “The Gremory’s daughter. I’m sure I had talked to you regarding this……”
Rias continues on while putting on a fearless smile. “Yes, you sure did. I do think this problem is the matter of your clan. However, tell me one thing. What will you do with this girl? Are you planning to kill her?”
“……And what will you do if that’s what we are planning to do?”
She then says this to what my granduncle said. “If you are planning to kill her, then I will be taking her.”
The mountain ascetics starts to stir up at her words. “Who the hell do you think you are?”
“Damn Devil!”
“This is the problem of our Himejima clan!”
They start to say abusive words to her. Granduncle then calms them down. “Calm down, all of you. ……Gremory’s daughter, are you planning to interfere in our problem?”
The two sides then glare at each other, and the man who was next to Rias gets in-between them and tells my granduncle while smiling. “Now now, please calm down. I am the [Bishop] of the current Head of the House of Gremory, and the one that is in charge of this area, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Please call me Agrippa.”
Yes, I entered the territory of this person called Agrippa who happens to be a servant of the current Head of the House of Gremory. The man with noble atmosphere who called himself Agrippa points towards the depth of the forest and says it. “How about we have a little chat over there? Don’t you think having the children listen to the circumstance of us adults will only make them learn unnecessary abusive words?”
Since he is able to say this in front of Rias who is the daughter of his Master, it proves how much faith she has in him. “…………Very well.”
My granduncle and others, the mountain ascetics, disappear into the depth of the forest. Rias removes the net around my body right away. “You will be fine now.”
She shows a smile to me like a girl of her age. Rias then says it after staring at my black hair. “You sure have beautiful black hair. I love the black hair of the Japanese people.”
—! Why is it? Her words are making me feel happier. Is it perhaps because she is calling me “Japanese”? Or is it because she praised my black hair? No, maybe because I’m feeling as though I was rescued by her attitude that is speaking to me while accepting who I am. After a while, the mountain ascetics and Sir Agrippa return. Granduncle says this to me who got untied. “……Promise me two things. I will swear to you that we won’t lay our hands on you if you keep those promises. First, you must not step foot into the territory that is under our surveillance.