By having the Sekiryuutei who has gained many achievements next to her, both my husband and I can feel assured.] “Weird pests……?”
So she’s telling me to look after her so no guys would come near her in the human world? I’m also a guy you know….. W-Well, I won’t do anything like laying my hands on Ravel. She’s my important junior. She’s cute, but I won’t lay my hands on her! “I understand. I don’t know how much I can do, but I will protect your daughter!”
When I said that, the Lady made a bright expression. And besides me, ---Ravel has her face very red. ……..Hey hey, what happened Ravel……? ---! For a moment, the face of Buchou who appeared within my sight……looked sad……but was that just my eyes? [I thank you very much. …….Ravel.] “Yes, Okaa-sama.”
[You know what you must do? You have to support Rias-san, and you have to listen to your seniors, and on top of that you have to deepen your relation with Hyoudou Issei-san. As the daughter from the house of Phoenix, work very hard so you don’t tarnish the name of our house, okay?] “Of course!”
Looks like the mother and daughter are talking about something. I don’t know why, but Ravel has her face red, and it looks like she is filled with spirits……
[And lastly, Hyoudou Issei-san.] The Lady talks to me again. “Y-Yes.”
[I hear that your dream is to become a High-class devil.] “Yes, it is…….And?”
[My daughter is currently my [Bishop]. I traded with Raiser.] “Y-Yes, I have heard.”
[Please remember it very well. My daughter is free. She is my [Bishop]. She doesn’t belong to Raiser. Very well?] “Y-Yes! U-Understood!”
That’s something I already know, but well, I just nod my head just in case. Hearing that, the Lady nods her head. She looks satisfied….. Why? [My business here is done. Rias-san, Hyoudou Issei-san, and everyone, please forgive my sudden introduction. And it’s time now. Ravel, behave in a manner where you won’t make a shame as a lady.] “Yes, Okaa-sama.”
[Now then, everyone. Good bye.] FLASH
The light brightens, ---it then turns into a shallow light and disappears. …….The greetings of Lady Phoenix which came here like a storm. It must be due to worrying about her daughter and the greetings to us. Though there were things I’m not sure of……. I was in doubts and made a sigh, and Buchou who was about to leave the room unsteadily on her foot appears within my sight. “…….Bu….Buchou, where are you going?”
When I asked, Buchou stops, and she mutters without turning around. “…….Ise, will you protect me?”
……..Why do you ask such a thing suddenly…..? I don’t know, but my answer is obvious! “Of course, I will protect Buchou!”
“………And Asia?”
“Eh? Yes, I will also protect Asia!”
“And Akeno?”
“Akeno-san? That is obvious. But…….. What happened, suddenly asking me such a thing?”
I don’t get it. I don’t get what Buchou’s intention are at all. But, Buchou asks with a lower tone. “…………Hey, Ise.”
“Y-Yes…….”
“…………To you, ‘what’ am I? ‘Who’ am I?”
…………. I don’t get the meaning of this question…….. But, to me…..
“…….Ummm, to me Buchou is Buchou and---”
The moment I said that. “---!! Baka!”
She scolds me mixed with a sound of her crying. Buchou rushes away from the spot, and she left the clubroom. “Rias-oneesama!”
Asia goes after Buchou. Asia turns to me after she reaches the door. Her eyes……are soaked with tears. Why is Asia crying……? “Ise-san! You are horrible! It’s too much! Why can’t you…..! Why can’t you understand Onee-sama’s feelings! ?”
Saying that, Asia goes after Buchou. …………. Having Asia also say that to me, I just stood there dumbfounded. …….Wa, wait a sec! What’s the meaning of this!? Why is Asia also mad at me!? “That wasn’t right, Ise-kun.”
Kiba makes a sigh. “…….N-not right as in what?”
“That, precisely. Geez, you are so….. I can understand very well what the girls are going through.”
“Exactly. It’s natural for Rias and Asia-chan to get mad.”
Akeno-san also sounded mad. Even Akeno-san…….? “Even I, who is dense at these sorts of things thought you were a bit off, Ise.”
Even Xenovia looks at me with her eyes half-closed! “Mou! Ise-kun, sure is a no-no! Poor Rias-san!”
Even Irina was mad. “…….You are the worst.”
Ooooooo! I just received the coldest “You are the worst” quote from Koneko-chan! I don’t know what I did wrong! I just don’t know! To begin with, maybe I should go after her? I tried to leave, but I was stopped by Akeno-san. “The current Ise-kun will just hurt her more even if you go after her, so don’t.”
……..Seriously? Is it that serious? B-But…….. It’s my fault right? My fault……
I really don’t know. No, I actually have a ‘maybe’ kind of guess, but inside me that possibility is very unlikely…..
It’s basically impossible, that’s why I don’t understand…….. Shit! I started to get confused even more thinking about it! “……Hey, Gasper. Am I really bad here?”
I asked my junior. Gya-suke says it in apologetic manner while twitching his body. “………Umm……. Yes, I think you are very bad……..”
Even Gasper says that to me! I felt down. –Then Ravel asks while panicking. “U-Umm……..this is my mother and my fault, right……? I’m sorry…….”
Is it……Ravel’s fault? It seemed like Buchou tried to leave after the communication between the Phoenix mother and child……
Akeno-san places her hand on Ravel’s shoulders. “Ravel-chan doesn’t have to worry about it. Ise-kun’s the most at fault here because he never tried to think about the crucial thing between Rias and himself until now.”
Akeno-san cheers her up like that, and she started to prepare for tea after urging Ravel to sit on the sofa. It looks like I’m the biggest villain here. …..Uuu, what am I supposed to do? “Man, why is everyone acting like that…… What do they want me to do…….”
I mutter to myself in an empty room within the old-school building. After that, we continued to prepare for the school festival under Akeno-san’s instruction. The atmosphere of that situation was settled down after Akeno-san took responsibility to find Buchou and Asia. I was continuing to do work by myself within the empty room. Kiba and Gasper went out to buy things. This room is the place where we will be doing a fake purification for the school festival. If we do an actual purification it would be dangerous for us since we are devils, so we are doing a ritual which is kind of similar to it, but with an original creative idea which is like a devil-style purification which contradicts to our kind. What I’m doing is a decoration to make it look Japanese-style. I put down a tatami, and have to put furniture to make it look like a Japanese shrine. Well, on the day of the school festival, the plan is that Akeno-san will be in charge here, where Koneko-chan will use her senjutsu to make the flow of the ki inside our customers better and increase their luck. Phew….. But it sure makes you think when you are just by yourself. I was remembering about what happened just before. …….It’s my fault huh. I didn’t think about the important thing between me and Buchou…..?