Although you have to keep in mind that she was able to accept the truth to begin with. But I think that there’s no doubt that she meant what she just said. Because of this. I believe that what she just said was a gesture of kindness to accept me, in which case we…. …Not good, my eyes are wet. It’s because I’ve recently been thinking about the reason for the existence of devils, and too many things like conflicts have been happening. I don’t know if Kiryuu had noticed my current appearance, but she made a mischievous looking smile then poked my face with her finger. “What are you hesitating about. It’s not like you at all. So I’ll say this to you. I recognize you and Asia.”
“Ah, thank you.”
“You’re overthinking things. People can be good or bad, devils are the same, isn’t that so? It’s the same no matter where you are in this world, right? I don’t want to say this to you as a Japanese person, but you’re looking at things too pessimistically.”
Kiryuu spoke normally, but to me right now, such ordinary words were making me feel incredible joy. I felt moved by the fact that she called me a Japanese person. “For that, thank you so much. I feel like you’ve helped me up.”
“This is too exaggerated.”
Kiryuu smiled wryly. I made another request of her. “Xenovia will be depending on you then.”
Kiryuu puffed out her chest and did made a thumbs up pose. “Leave it to me. I’ll do my best.”
Ah, in this regard you’re full of enthusiasm. These were the words that Kiryuu said to me. —I was formerly a human who is now a devil. I live in Kuoh town, I’m a student of Kuoh Academy, and most importantly, I look forward to peace. I only want to live a peaceful life. Nothing more. I want to hold this feeling in my heart, as I take on tomorrow’s battle. That day late at night, I was alone in the underground swimming pool of the Hyoudou household. The battle was tomorrow, so I came to the pool to perform my final preparations. I wasn’t wearing armour, with only a bare upper body, I had released my dragon wings and I was flying above the pool. I was floating in mid-air, silently allowing energy to wrap itself around my body. This is what I’ve recently been doing, mental purification. Although training the body isn’t bad, training the mind shouldn’t be neglected. This is because it can allow a person to quietly think about a lot of things. Meditating while flying in mid-air is even better. I dimmed the room’s lights down to their lowest setting, as this environment made it the easiest to concentrate. …Flying was previously quite difficult, but now I could do it even without wearing my armour. Speaking of which, I meant that I wasn’t using a devils’ wings, they were dragon wings. Although I’m able to bring out my devil wings, my compatibility with dragon wings seems much better, as I didn’t think that I’d be able to fly so easily. …Currently I was able to use my dragon wings without wearing my armour. This means that my current body is no longer the same as the body I had before. This, I already understood very well. But each time I realised that my body had changed without me noticing, I couldn’t help thinking about it. …My previous body has already been destroyed as a result of Samael’s poison. My current body was born from the flesh of Great Red. Of course, Ophis also helped make my body function like a human’s…but most of it was still a dragon’s body. After that I reincarnated as a devil again…. Although my body has changed, my mind hasn’t, it really is quite a strange feeling. Although Azazel-sensei replaced a part of his body with a mechanical part, I still don’t feel that it’s very useful. Right now, the only change in my body that I could feel was that I had dragon wings on my back. Ddraig said
[Your body was made by Great Red, and it has also inherited Ophis’s power. It will probably bring about an unprecedented change, and it may also contain an unbelievable hidden potential.] In other words, even a dragon didn’t know what would become of it in the future. [Ah, yes. This thing, although it is worrying, it was also interesting. No, just let it be. To this day, we’ve overcome an innumerable number of crises.] I listened to him as he talked about this. …No, but peace comes first. It would be the best if everyone could understand each other…. [Whether it’s a human, a devil or a dragon, their upbringing will be different, and so will their values and experiences. There will naturally be some disagreements. You can only hope the grudges between each species won’t grow even larger.] Hmm, although you can say that, we’re always going against other people. Thinking about these things is inevitable…. Although peace and an alliance have been achieved, there will still be places where disarray arises, and it will unknowingly accumulate until it breaks out…. And I think that in principle, the [Khaos Brigade]’s Old Maou Faction, Hero Faction, Qlippoth, and this current situation are all the same…. “This is what you may call peace, but there are people who have suffered as a result….”
What Vali said to me has constantly been on my mind. It’ll probably be something that I’ll continue to ponder about…. I quickly patted my face. …I’ve got to cheer up. After all, the battle was tomorrow. “We accepted the challenge. Simply put, it’s a conflict. I — don’t want everything I’ve done till now to be wrong, so we accepted their challenge!”
Yes, that’s it! What I’ve been fighting for isn’t wrong! I need to sustain this belief when I take on tomorrow’s challenge! [This is fine, it’s too early for a kid like you to start doubting your own path. Say that after you’ve lived another hundred years. If you need to question your own path, it’s not too late to do it later.] Oh yeah, Ddraig. I must first continue without regrets. I need to take the path that I believe in to the end! Because I’m going to become a harem king! After I had steeled my determination, I moved over to the side of the pool. Then, it seemed like someone entered the pool. “Huh? Ise?”
It was Xenovia who was wearing only a T-shirt. “So it’s you. What are you still doing here so late?”
Xenovia made a wry smile when she heard my question. “Nothing really, I just wanted to come here. I wanted to go for a swim. Did I disturb you?”
“Of course not, I was just about to leave.”
“I see.”
After saying this, Xenovia headed over to the diving platform — then haughtily took off her T-shirt! She was wearing nothing underneath so she was completely naked! Not even wearing underwear! Her tight and curvaceous body, which was well proportioned, was visible in the dim lighting! The shape of her oppai was so beautiful! “—Hey, you swim naked! ?”
Although I said that with sarcasm, Xenovia didn’t care at all, and climbed onto the diving platform to make a diving pose! My gaze was attracted to her bottom, and then Xenovia jumped in! She was swimming through the pool freestyle. Then Xenovia said to me
“Swimming nude feels very unrestrictive you know?