After all, you won’t encounter a chance where you would become Santa Claus and hand out presents. It’s totally different to playing the role of Santa Claus for your part-time job to stand in front of the shop. Are Devils even allowed to dress up as a Santa Claus? Furthermore, can we experience the tradition of the Christianity? Even though we had such questions, we made up our minds and decided to do this by thinking “Doing this for a change is okay”. Well, I really do think doing this for a change is good. “Ufufu, this over here is the Santa Claus costume.”
The example of the Santa Claus costume for girls that Akeno-san prepared. A costume with the colour contrast of red and white. Xenovia asks Irina while taking that to her hand. “Are we going to prepare a reindeer?”
“Can reindeer even fly?”
When Irina asks Sister Griselda, she answers by saying “We will cast magic on them to make them fly”. Wow, so we can see the reindeers pulling a cargo and having a leash on them during the night of the sky? “It’s an honour to be able to become Santa Claus.”
“But I do feel bad since it seems like we are stealing Santa Claus’s job. This is pretty much interfering with their business, right?”
Xenovia and Irina start having a laugh as if Santa Claus even exists. “Hold on, there’s no way Santa Claus exists in the first place—”
I try to finish my sentence, but the two of them answer at the same time while putting on a shocked face. “ “? But he does exist?” ”
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They say it as if that’s a natural answer. ……Aren’t your parents the ones who dress up as Santa Claus? I know that what I’m saying doesn’t have any imagination, but that’s the truth…… There’s no way Santa Claus exists—
I then ask Rias. “……Eh? He exists?”
She’s putting on a smile. “Yes, he does. Well, speaking about that will turn into a different topic so I will refrain from explaining it.”
Seriously!? Santa-san exists!? W-Well, Devils and Angels exist, so it won’t be weird if Santa Claus exists too! But I had been living for seventeen years, yet, I have never met him even once! I never received a present from him! “……So Santa-san never came to lecherous children.”
I received a harsh comment from Koneko-chan! I guess so! He sure didn’t come to lecherous children! I’m sorry that I was craving for porno DVDs and magazines since I was a grade school student! Even though I was repenting for my actions inside me, Rias continues without noticing me. “Christmas is also the time the Devils profit. We will also have a meeting regarding that, so my servants will need to gather back here again.”
[Roger that.] The Gremory group responds. Kiba then tells me. “Even in terms of Devils’ jobs, Christmas would be a busy time.”
Apparently they receive many requests every year from residents that spend their Christmas lonely. And the number of requests goes up a dozen times more than the usual that is sent to us. I do feel that summoning a Devil during Christmas is a bad act, but I’m sure they are either bored or lonely that they want to go far to summon a Devil. I can also understand that! You normally would prefer to spend Christmas with your girlfriend! “We have to visit our customers who made Christmas day free to summon us.”
It’s just like Rias said. ……Yeah, I did want to spend time with Rias, but at this rate, it looks like I have to postpone it this year. The present project for Christmas and the Devils’ jobs would seem enough to kill me. I then say to Kiba. “You will probably get summoned by the older women. Are you planning to cook them your food that you are proud of?”
“I had lots of requests like that last year. ……Though I do think that it will be good to spend this Christmas with my friend.”
Kiba suddenly puts on emotional eyes. He said that while brushing! “I’m planning to bake a cake. ……I kind of want to have you eat it as well, Ise-kun.”
Why the heck do you want to do that for me!? A handsome guy shouldn’t put on an expression like that of a maiden! “Haven’t I always told you that you should say that to girls!? Alright, I’ll call Shinra-fukukaichou and have her invite you!”
I sent a mail regarding Kiba to Shinra-fukukaichou whom I exchanged e-mails with! I’ll send her a safe mail which goes: [Kiba is planning to bake a cake, so would you like one?] Kiba panics hearing that! “W-Why does Shinra-fukukaichou's name pop out here? Why are you trying to have me meet with Shinra-fukukaichou so often lately?”
I need to have him walk on the right path! At this rate, he’ll head to the wrong path and he’s scaring me! And if a woman is by his side, I’m sure he will stop being reckless. This guy……tries to do reckless things more than me. Just like how he’s trying to use his Gram and also during battle where he gambles his safety. As a result, he succeeds thanks to his techniques……but even so, he may face a difficult situation. ……Though it will be weird for me to say it since I charge ahead without thinking twice. But still, I don’t want to see my pal being put in a life or death situation and then die. For that reason, it’s necessary for there to be someone who can support him. And a woman fits that role. I’m sure the place of security a man can return to is a woman’s side. That’s one of the facts I know very well after I started dating Rias. Since I have a strong feeling of wanting to return to Rias’s side alive, I came to think of a way to keep myself alive. Just like that, I am working hard to have Kiba and Shinra-fukukaichou become an official couple (Sona-kaichou and the Sitri girls are with me in this). Though they haven’t become a couple yet. “Oh yeah, the Sitri-side can’t join this conversation till the last moment, right?”
I ask Sensei. Sona-kaichou and her group also said that they will join the Christmas project, but the timing was bad so they couldn’t join this meeting. So they will basically join the project without any discussion. “Yeah, they are in middle of repairing and reconstructing Auros. Even if they can fix it with the use of demonic-powers, they will need to equip that place with equipment against incidents happening there. They are going to re-plan the whole construction there.”
The Auros academy got partially destroyed due to Qlippoth’s assault. It became necessary to look over the equipment installed at the country town so the soldiers are currently stationed over there to guard it. After that, the anti-terrorist protection wall is put on there once again and it certainly did become more powerful than before…… But our opponents aren’t someone to be taken lightly, so we won’t know what will happen if they attack again. Well, I doubt they would make their assault right away yet. Apparently they took in the residents that were sent out of the floating island. Even though such a thing happened, the number of applicants for the academy’s experience day has risen dramatically. I hear that there are bookings for several years ahead already, so it does show how much impact that incident caused to the Underworld.