Hyoudou Issei.”
……Looks like the God of Sea is giving his powers to Vali today. “And also about your ceremony. I also received the invitation. I’ll come if I’m in a mood.”
“Well, thanks for that then.”
I then look up to the sky. I couldn’t give any answers to Vali’s words then……but it’s also true that all these feelings are building inside me———
To participate in the Rating Game World Tournament with my own team———
The next day——— it’s the day before the High-class Devil promotion ceremony. I’m currently with a certain person and am visiting the Kuou academy which is empty of people. “Oh, so this is the Kuou academy!”
The one who is acting really excited by looking at the school building from next to me is a girl with a fox’s ear——— it’s Kunou. Kunou who is going to be joining the Kuou academy’s elementary campus from next year. She came from Kyoto because she wanted to see the academy. ———Though the building I’m showing her right now is high school building which is the one all of us are going to all the time. I brought her here because she said she wants to see the high school building right after we showed her the elementary building. The elementary and the junior school is located on the same campus. A bit further away from them is the high school campus and the college campus. We are planning to go to the college campus once we take a look around here. It’s the place where Rias and Akeno-san will be attending very soon. So I may as well check it out too. Though I went there several times already since I had business there. Kunou is already wearing the elementary uniform. Since it’s a different uniform to the high school uniform that we wear it definitely has a refreshing taste to it. Well, I entered Kuou academy since the start of high school life so it’s natural that I’m not familiar with the uniform from the kindergarten up to the junior. From what I heard, Kunou will be moving into the Hyoudou residence from Summer. She will be going to the junior school soon as she lives here and gets acustmoised in living here. ———Then, when Kunou and I were looking around the school building from the outside we encounter someone familiar. “Ah, former student president Sona.”
It’s the former student president Sona. She’s looking up at the school building from the entrance. She notices our voice and as soon as she sees us she smiles at us. “Oh, Ise-kun. How do you do. Oh my, you must be the princess from Kyoto I presume? Now that I remember I did hear that you will be enrolling into the elementary division from Spring.”
Kunou bows her head. “I presume you are Sitri-dono. I am the daughter of Yasaka who is the leader of the youkais in Kyoto, and Kunou is my name. I’m very pleased to make your acquaintance.”
The former student president responds to her formal introduction by giving her gratitude. The former student president says it as she looks up to the building again. “I used my days off to take a look around the Kunou academy.”
She narrows her eyes as if she was feeling nostalgic. “……I remember very well when I first came here. Rias brought me here to this place.”
I think I heard Rias told me that before briefly. Apparently she brought the former student president to this place forcefully when there weren’t much people and then she showed her around. The former student president Sona then says. “I’m sure Rias wanted to show this place which she would be attending to me as I was her childhood friend. I can still remember the happy face she had when she was showing me around.”
“Did you enrol here due to Rias’s suggestion?”
This is what the former student president replies to my question. “Rias didn’t suggest it to me but I must have become enchanted to this place when she was showing me around. It was already decided that I will be going to the high school in the Underworld but I cancelled going there and came to this academy instead. If I try to remember the shocked face my sister had when I said I would be attending here was priceless, ufufu.”
After she had a small laugh she looks down and continues with a fragile but yearnly face. “…………Many things had happened here in the past three years. Especially when I became a third year student there had been continuous event filled of suprises.”
……The former student president had her own kind of three years here. The experiences she had from the different perspective from Rias. And Leviathan-sama who had been watching her from behind with warm eyes for the past three-years is——— no longer here. She is currently battling the Trihexa in a very long battle inside the isolated barrier. From what I heard from Rias the sorrow inside the former student president is something which you cannot express by words. Sona, the former student president, who usually had been putting up with her sister who wasn’t serious most of the time……but she is worried about Leviathan-sama more than anyone and she loves and respects her more than anyone. I hear the fact that she cannot show her sister when she graduate is making her sad the most. ……I am sure Leviathan-sama wanted to see her sister’s graduation which will be her sister’s shining moment……
———Then a new person appears to the scene. “Ah, Kaichou. You are here.”
It’s Saji. Looks like he came here to find her. “Saji, did something happen?”
Saji says it when the former student president asks him. “Looks like the matter from before can be proceeded. Tsubaki-san asked me to find you.”
Then the former student president lifts her glasses from the side and puts on her usual cool demeanor. “Is that so. Since I had a look around here we should return then. Now then, Ise-kun, congratulation for your promotion. I will be attending the ceremonial hall.”
“T-Thank you.”
The former student president leaves after saying that. It seems like Saji also has business with me so this is what he says after his master leaves. “Oh yeah. Hyoudou, I heard about your promotion to the High-class Devil. Congrats! I will definitely become one in the future as well!”
Saji who congratulates me with a smile. He starts patting my back. “Well, I still can’t believe that this is happening……but thanks.”
“……By the way, Hyoudou.”
Saji suddenly puts on a serious look and then he asks me. “Hmm? What’s wrong?”
“What are you going to do about the tournament? We’ll definitely be participating. I will be fighting under Sona-kaichou as her [Pawn]. Are you going to participate under Rias-senpai? Or are you———”
———He must want to ask me if I’m going to be participating as a [King] with my own team. “……You are asking me the same question like Vali. Well, who knows.”
I give him a vague answer……
Saji then says it as he looks up to the sky. “———I received an offer to promote to the Mid-class Devil.”
“———! Seriously? Congrats!”
I congratuate him from the bottom of my heart. Wow, that’s good to hear! Well, he did survive this far after getting involved in that many battles!