During the Evil Dragon War, I had seen her once before going off the stop Trihexa! She was the only woman whom Vali couldn’t oppose, Lavinia Reni! No, but…. Before I even became aware of it, I had become fascinated by her, and I thought that she was truly such a beautiful woman. Beside me, Rias cleared her throat lightly and then pulled on my ear. “Over here.”
Owowow! Rias, are you angry? I saw Lavinia-san and felt fascinated by her and made you angry! I’m really sorry! I still don’t have much of a resistance to beautiful women! Rias sent her gaze towards the bar. A young bartender stood there. —It was Ikuse-san! After we saw him, the four of us sat down side-by-side at the bar counter. Ikuse-san poured glasses of water for us while he asked
“She has a nice voice, doesn’t she? She’s our poster girl.”
Poster girl Lavinia-san! Ah, this place is truly an exquisite bar, so please allow me to keep coming here! I couldn’t help but ask Ikuse-san a few of my questions. “—Ikuse-san, your outfit…”
“Yeah, I’m a bartender here. And she — Lavinia is the exclusive singer here.”
So Ikuse-san is a bartender! I had heard that this was one of the Grigori’s establishments, and since Ikuse-san was already an adult, that was why he worked here. Speaking of which, he’s a pretty cool bartender! This handsome dude looks pretty cool when he’s making cocktails behind the bar counter. “Welcome, all members of the Hyoudou family. — This is the [Black Dog] Bar. I can’t serve you alcohol, though I can give you some juice. Do you have any requests?”
After he asked us, I replied with
“Mango juice.”
Rias and the others then followed on with
“I’ll have some apple juice please.”
“The same.”
“Well, okay.”
It seemed as though all of the girls had chosen apple juice. Ikuse-san quickly prepared the juice and then placed it on top of the bar counter. “Thank you.”
After we received it, Ikuse-san said
“Rossweisse-san, I hear that you’ve been here before.”
“Yes, I was with Odin-sama at the time. But you and Lavinia Reni didn’t seem to be here at that time.”

“That would be because I had something else to take care of back then.”
It didn’t seem like he worked here every day. I guess that was only natural. “Do you work here?”
After listening to my question, Ikuse-san raised the glass of vegetable juice that he had prepared for himself as he replied
“Only in the evening. I’m a university student during the day. I may look like this, but I’m still only twenty two years old.”
He’s still a student! B-But, it would be correct for him to be a university student if he’s twenty two. Well, I guess working here is his part-time job. It seems pretty nice to work as a bartender. “Are you also responsible for management?”
Rias asked. Ikuse-san took a sip of the vegetable juice and then answered
“No, the manager is Azazel-san. He isn’t here now, so he’s represented by the cadres of the organisation instead.”
So this shop belongs to Azazel-sensei huh. That person, or the Grigori to be more precise, has given us that school and so many other things…. The supernatural races may actually possess a lot of establishments in places that we don’t even know about. We then heard a round of applause echo about, and as we turned back around, we noticed that Lavinia-san’s song had ended. Ikuse-san said
“Vali has also been here only once before, though he obviously made sure to come at a time when Lavinia wasn’t here.”
Heh, so that guy’s also been here. He also chose to come at a time when Lavinia-san wasn’t here, so I guess that guy isn’t very good at dealing with women…. Because he kept on ignoring Kuroka’s advances, she eventually turned her eyes towards me. B-But, I have benefited a lot in terms of erotic occasions, so I should thank him for that. But if he’s always refusing such a beauty like that as well, then he’ll—. Just as I was thinking that, a voice suddenly came from behind us. “Exactly. Va-kun isso cold.”
“Wah! When did she…”
As I turned to look back — Lavinia-san was right behind me. Lavinia-san gave a curtsy and then greeted us. “Please allow me to introduce myself again. I’m Lavinia Reni, a witch belonging to [Grau Zauberer].”
She was a powerful witch who was also the wielder of the Longinus [Absolute Demise]. In a slightly shy manner, I returned my greeting. “Likewise, it’s nice to meet you. Speaking of which, we did meet each other once during the Evil Dragon War, before the battle with Trihexa.”
Lavinia-san smiled lightly as she said
“That’s true.”
The atmosphere of this warm and sweet onee-san made me feel completely relaxed! Moreover, the cleavage revealed by her dress really emphasised her magnificent peaks! Vaaaliiii! Are you really a member of the butt faction!? Even if that’s true, did you still decide to choose that after seeing Lavinia-san’s chest!? I-I should go and ask him if he’s really a member of the butt faction…. “““……”””
The way that I was dreamily staring at Lavinia-san caused all of the girls — Rias, Rossweisse-san and Ravel to look at me with particularly frightening glares! Lavinia-san sat down beside me and created a small magic circle upon the bar counter from which she took something out. “—I want you to see this.”
The object that Lavinia-san had taken out — was a small notebook. Lavinia-san spread the pages of the notebook open and urged me to read it. …Is this what Ikuse-san wanted to tell us about? “This is…?”
I picked the notebook up and looked at the cover. The words [Vali Lucifer] were written there in English. The name of the owner of this notebook…in other words, this is Vali’s!? What’s Vali’s notebook doing here!? I looked up at Lavinia-san’s face, but she simply returned a sweet smile at me. It seemed as though I had no choice but to read it, so I flipped through and then I came across this passage. …There were some lines within that sounded familiar. Say, aren’t these the same words that he said to me the very first time that we fought against each other…? “…W-What exactly is this?”
I asked Lavinia-san, and Lavinia-san then proudly said
“—This is the profile material collection that Va-kun wrote four years ago. It’s so well written that I just thought that I had to show it to the lifelong rival who would one day appear before Va-kun. After he wrote such cool lines four years ago, Va-kun’s been constantly training through night and day.”
—Vali’s profile material collection. ……All of these are entries that that guy wrote four years ago!? He had so manychuunibyououtburstsone after the other!? Moreover, he still seems to be using them!? I seemed to recall having heard most of the phrases! In front of us, Ikuse-san covered his face with his hands as he tried to hold himself back from laughing out loud. “…The notebook that Vali’s been looking for all this time…Lavinia, so it’s been in your hands. And you decided to take it out at a time like this…”
“It can only be at a time like this.”
So Vali’s been looking for this notebook.