I was careless.”
Rias who heard about our encounter with Euclid is regretting her lack of awareness. ……This town has been assaulted once already, and since it was originally within the area of the Three Great Powers, the security over here has been raised. Of course Tokyo which is the capital city of Japan is receiving cooperation from each of the forces and they are putting their alert on (Mainly the group of supernatural organised by the higher ups of Japan is on alert as the main force). Even so, he……appeared in front of us so daringly during daytime! Irina says it while narrowing her eyes. “……They are clearly different to the supernatural beings that have caused terrorism till now. The Qlippoth seems like they have no hesitations in leaving influence to the human world and causing casualties.”
It must be as Irina said. They are different to the terrorists we have been facing till now. The ones we have fought till now had a clear target and concentrated their attacks there. If it was the Old Maou faction, then they would have mainly attacked the Three Great Powers, and if it was the Hero faction they would have challenged the supernatural beings. They, the Qlippoth, are different. In order to fulfil their aim, they would bare their evil intent to the humans and the human world. No, to any beings. All for the sake of fulfilling their desires—. As a result, the world of Vampires was nearly annihilated. If we had fought them there and had them summon the Evil Dragons…… Disaster won’t be enough to describe what the situation would have been like. Fatalities wouldn’t have been minimised to one or two hundred people……
……Were Rossweisse-san and my action careless……? I’m hanging my head but then Rias says it to me. “Ise, you shouldn’t let it get it to you. They are terrorists with powers. To be blunt, they could have appeared anywhere if they thought about it and having him appear and confront you during your private time was something that we never anticipated.”
Akeno-san continues after her. “Yes, that action would pose more risk to them as well. Even if they could intrude into any of the major cities, it isn’t something they can do very often. If they do it once, then it would lead them to lose their second chance since we would strengthen the forces in that location. Unless they have to, they won’t make their move just yet.”
Like Akeno-san said, the alert level of Tokyo against the Qlippoth has become higher due to their appearance. No, the alert level was already high, but I hear that it has become even higher. Ravel then moves her gaze towards Rossweisse-san. “……They approached Rossweisse-san even to the extent to take that risk…… I presume this shows how much they take the essay written by Rossweisse-san during her time as a student as a crucial piece of information, correct?”
Rias continues after her. “Judging from his words, it’s natural to think that there is a high chance for that essay to have so much value to them. It’s about time for Azazel to give us his usual call now, so let’s listen to what he has to say about it. Rossweisse, can you talk to Azazel about it?”
“Yes.”
Rossweisse-san nods at Rias’s order. ……Rossweisse-san has been putting on a difficult expression ever since she met Euclid. A few minutes later, we receive a regular call from Azazel-sensei. The truth is, Azazel-sensei isn’t here in this town right now. He returned to the Underworld and had been having an ongoing conversation with the researchers of the Grigori about the Sacred Gears, the other world, and the movement of Qlippoth for days. Azazel-sensei’s face appears from the communication-type magic-circle. We explained the whole thing to him. [……I see, so Rossweisse had been targeted.] Sensei narrows his eyes while putting his hand under his chin. [Do you all know about the incidents with how skilled Magicians are missing?] We nod to that question. We heard about that from Rias and Gondur-san the other day. [There’s one similarity between the incidents. —All of them are those that had been researching “the number of the beast”, 666. And they were researchers that had been investigating from another method to general one. Apparently the ones coming to the assembly were those kind of researchers.] —! ……I became speechless to Sensei’s report. ……There’s a clear connection now. According to Euclid, Rossweisse-san had written an essay regarding 666. And since the Magicians that are missing share the similarity of having researched about 666—. “In other words they are abducting Magicians that hold information about “the number of the beast”—Trihexa.”
Sensei nods to Rias’s words. [You can imagine what kind of seal has been used if you know about the content of the Apocalypse and the God from the Bible. I did however conclude that there are 23 different powerful seals those guys from Qlippoth may have difficulty in unsealing. We are currently having a conference over here and are calculating how much time we have left till the 666 gets released by calculating from that information. We have no intention of letting those guys bring back 666, but we do need to prepare for the worst.] ……If 666 is brought back and fights against Great Red, what on earth will happen to this world……? Sensei laughs loudly after seeing how uneasy we are feeling. [It’s still too early to get depressed, youngsters. We are planning to have some “insurance” ready besides you all, just in case. I need to get ready for that soon, but I will discuss about this with all of you further in the future.] Does Sensei have some kind of plan? It’s this man we are talking about. It feels as though he will have some “insurance” in a different way. [Well, I don’t even know if I can even trust the answer we get by the end of this conference. We don’t even know what kind of influence the abducted Magicians will have had on the seals after all.] I wonder what on earth happened to those people that had been caught by them. This is Qlippoth we are talking about. I can only think they are using a wrong way to make those people do what they say. Sensei then asks Rossweisse-san. [I’ll just ask you one simple question. Rossweisse, how did you try to encode the number 666?] Rossweisse-san opens her heavily shut lips. “……I researched it by using the number “616” which has a different approach. I used that number to compare it with the documents and incidents that occurred within each forces as I made a numerical formula and technical formula.”
[—! …………I see, just as I thought.] It seems like Sensei predicted most of what Rossweisse-san was going to say. ……What the, what’s with 616? Shouldn’t it be 666? I’m full of suspicions but Sensei says it to me. [When many of the researchers of Apocalypse were focusing on the number 666, one portion of the Magicians apparently used the different approach of using the number 616 to research about it.