I really do want to crush your team down head on. I am always yearning for you and Vali.”
Saying just that, Cao Cao leaves. …………
……Damn, I mean seriously. All of these guys are……! Those who speaks to me ——— are high in battle spirits and are observing me. Furthermore, this God called Shiva, the Prince of Asura, Cao Cao, and Raiser aren’t looking at me as Rias’s servant but are looking at me directly———. ……There is this emotion building inside me. ———The World Tournament where the strong will gather. And my own team, huh. Then the thing Shiva said to me swirls inside me. ———You like strong individuals, right? ……Yeah, I sure do! There are just too many awesome guys around me that takes my attention, that makes me want to aim for them, and that makes me want to surpass them! I grip really hard. The fire which has lit the fuse of my heart is getting even stronger. After Cao Cao left it seems like Shiva and Mahabali finished their business so they left the scene together with Beelzebub-sama———. There were continuous appearances of unexpected guests. All of us have calmed down and headed home after the party. I look out the window while on our way home by train. ……I then see the sight of the stadium we passed by when we came here. ……That place will also become the stadium of the game. All these frustration is building inside me———
My own team———
The warriors that appears in front of me are all seeking for me———. I have become a High-class Devil———. I am Rias’s [Pawn] but ——— I am a [King] as well. …………
……It’s not just your regular Rating Game. It’s a World Tournament type……
……To not participate while all of those guys I know are participating……
———There’s no way I’ll let that happen! The fight against him. And the fight against him as well. Having that taken away from me by someone else is frustrating me even more. Can I allow myself to simply stand and watch the guys I’ve fought lose against someone else besides me!? ———I then realised that I have stood in a new start line once again. Myself who feels as though my burning soul is about to burn my body. But then there are those who approached me. ———It’s Asia, Xenovia, and Ravel. All three of them have a determined look. Xenovia then says it heroically. “……Ise, I have made up my mind.”
Asia also nods to her words strongly. “Yes, I am the same as Xenovia-san. I will follow the path Ise-san chose. ———I am your [Bishop].”
Ravel then asks me fearlessly. “Now then, Ise-sama. Isn’t there something in your mind which had been stimulated?”
……Geez, all of you knows me very well……
“……Asia, Xenovia, and Ravel. Can you listen to what I have to say for a bit?”
I———then shared my thoughts to my first ever peerage———
Around a bit after Rias-neesan’s graduation when it entered the Summer holiday———
All of us that had an express tour starting from the Hokkaido located at the North down to Okinawa located in the South for the graduation tour. It was a tour filled with many kind of emotions, but I’ll use another occasion to talk about that. During such tour, on the morning of the final day when we were at Okinawa when we all woke up ——— Ise-kun, Asia-san, Xenovia, Irina-san, Ravel-san, and Rossweisse-san had already left the hotel in Naha. Rias-neesan who found that out sighed in astonishment. “……To behave like, no, to make action like a [King]. It sure is like him.”
Yes, during the holiday no matter how much spree he stirred, he must have left the hotel with the right attitude. Rias-neesan looks out to the blue ocean from the window of the hotel room as she stroke her red hair back. “Now then. We should also start making plans for the tournament. Obviously after we eat our breakfast, that is.”
And so, the feast begins quietly———
What will begin now is an intense feast to find out who is the “strongest” among all of those rivals we have met till now as well as those strong foes we would be meeting from now. On the day of the graduation———
On that day, Rias woke up early as usual and started to put her uniform on as usual. However———this will be the last time she will be wearing it as a high school student. She said she wanted to head to school before others finds out so she went to school while taking Akeno-san with her. ———She says it to me as well. “Ise, you come with us as well.”Rias, Akeno-san, and I head to school with just the three of us. On our way there Akeno-san grabs my arm so there was a situation where Rias competes with her by taking my other arm. It’s like usual. But from tomorrow, this won’t be happening anymore. When I think about that……I start to feel sad. The Kuou Academy where no one is here yet……or that’s what I thought anyway. Two familiar faces are standing at the school gate and are cleaning the area. “Oh, Rias, Akeno, and Ise-kun. How are all of doing?”
Oh man, the former student president Sona and the former student vice-president Shinra are cleaning the school gate with a broom! Wow, I never imagined there would be someone who would come to school earlier than Rias and Akeno-san……
The former president then says. “Ufufu, I couldn’t help myself but to wake up early today. There wasn’t anything I could do at home so I decided to come a bit early to start cleaning here. Then I found Tsubaki here……”
“Yes, for some reason I woke up early today of all days……”
So the four graduates ended up waking early huh. Rias, Akeno-san, the former student president, and the former student vice-president starts to laugh. After saying good bye to the former student president and the former student vice-president, the place we headed to wasn’t the school building but the old school building. ———We are on our way to the ORC room. The three of us enter the room. The view of the clubroom which is no different than usual. Even though Rias and Akeno-san hasn’t been showing up that much, we still continued to use it normally. We can’t suddenly become pathetic just because the seniors left after all. This place is……a room which Rias and others rebuilt. Rias goes to the club president’s desk slowly. “Ufufu, I will make some tea then.”
Akeno-san starts to boil water like usual. Rias sits on the club-president’s chair. It really has been a while seeing this view. Right now it is Asia who is sitting on that chair. I feel bad for Asia but it certainly does suit Rias better sitting on that chair. Rias then says. “……It was just the two of us until Yuuto and others joined here, wasn’t it, Akeno?”
“Yes. We went around the academy in order to preserve this club somehow. Even though we lacked in number of members.”
Akeno-san starts to chuckle. “Even still, we couldn’t increase members if we take in account about our identity…… Did you know, Ise? That at the beginning Sona and Tsubaki came here frequently? That’s why it wasn’t unexpectedly lonely at all.”
“That was something we could do only at that time.”
Hmm, it’s my first time hearing that.