Since Rias-san said she didn’t mind letting anyone have the rooms except for the second floor when we asked her.”
“Yes. This is the house of Ise’s mother and father. In the end, I and the others are just home-staying here.”
Buchou responded with words overflowing with grace. Arere!? Buchou, didn’t you say “This is my and Ise’s house” earlier in my room!? What an about face! “There is also an open-air garden on the roof. I will plant vegetables~”
My father said that as his eyes lit up! Aah, he has no doubts about it at all! There’s no mistake that his mind was numbed by the renovation of his dreams! “Because we built it so sturdily, it won’t collapse even in the case of a war.”
“Hahahaha, you’re quite skilled at joking, Rias-san.”
This was the conversation between Buchou and my father…What Buchou says really is true. This house’s structure was seriously transformed so that it could withstand even a war. There couldn’t be things like cannons concealed somewhere, could there? However, what did my father and Buchou’s father discuss during the parent visit the other day? I’m really worried about it. They couldn't have agreed on a discussion of selling me completely to the underworld or something, could they!? There was no way that could be, but even so I felt that the eyes that my parents looked at me with had changed just a little since the day of that parent’s visit. “There're also underground floors apparently.”
Xenovia said that while she was having a hard time with her chopsticks. “Underground floors! ?”
“Yeah, there are up to three underground floors.”
I was the one who cried out wildly. Buchou nodded and confirmed it. This house even has underground floors!? “The first underground floor is a huge spacious room. Not only can it be used as a training room, it can also be used as a movie theatre. It’s also equipped with a large indoor bath. The second underground floor is used entirely for an indoor pool. It can also use warm water. In the third underground floor are a library and a storehouse.”
Buchou explained this while taking out additional blueprints. …So my house even has an indoor pool…I don’t know what's what anymore…
“Since there’s also an elevator, you can smoothly get on and off from the sixth ground floor to the third underground floor.”
This house also has an elevator…It’s like a real building. I didn’t have any words left to say anymore. In this way, my house was transformed into a palatial residence a few days after summer holidays began. “You’re returning to the Underworld! ?”
Breakfast had ended, and Buchou nodded at me as I sat in my room. All the members of the occult research club were gathered in my room. All the members who were living together had rough appearances. Kiba, Koneko-chan and Gasper had arrived at my house just a little while ago as well. The first two were wearing casual clothes. Koneko-chan in a one-piece dress looked cute. Even with this many people here, there was plenty of extra space in my room. Everyone sat on expensive-looking sofas. Only Gasper got into a cardboard box he brought along, but…He was dressed in girl clothes! That’s also as usual! Yeah! The cross-dressing boy! “I’m returning home now that the summer holidays have started. I do this every year. —Wait, what’s wrong, Ise? Your eyes are teary?”
I shed tears at Buchou’s words! “Uu, because Buchou suddenly started talking about returning to the underworld, I thought of you leaving me behind and going back…”
I don’t want that! I don’t want Buchou to leave me behind and go back! When I think of Buchou’s breasts going somewhere far away, I feel sad, and I won’t be able to spend my summer holidays peacefully! I can’t imagine life without Buchou anymore! “Geez, is that all? You and I will be together for hundreds, for thousands of years from now on, so put your mind at ease. I won’t do something like leaving you behind.”
Buchou then gave a wry smile while rubbing my cheek. I see, we are Devils. We live longer than humans. So Buchou and I, as well as the other club members, will be together for a long time. When I think of that, I don’t feel lonely at all. Surely, I’ll live much longer than Matsuda, Motohama, or my parents. When I think of it like that, it seems lonely…That separation that must eventually come. Buchou gracefully drank tea as she said that. —Wait, we’re also going to the Underworld!? “Eh!? We’re going to the Underworld too! ?”
“That’s right. Since you’re all servant devils in my family, it’s only natural for you to accompany your master. You’re coming to my home together with me. Now that I think of it, this is also the first time for Asia and Xenovia, right?”
Asia nodded at Buchou’s question. “Y-Yes! I’m nervous about going to hell while alive! I-I thought I’d like to go there with the intention of dying!”
Asia! I don’t understand what you mean at all! “Yes. I've been interested in the underworld—in hell for a long time. However, for the sake of going to heaven, I had to serve the Lord…But now that I’m a Devil, there shouldn’t be any possibility of me going to heaven…I feel irony in setting foot in the same world as those who have been sent to hell as divine punishment. Hell, huh. It suits a former believer who became a Devil.”
Ah, you’re once again becoming depressed over futile worries, Xenovia…
“We will spend the remainder of the summer holidays there until after the 20th of August. It seems like we’ll be returning here at the end of the month. The plan is to train and attend various kinds of events at the underworld.”
Buchou thus told us the schedule. I see, so our group is going to spend time in the underworld until the end of summer. I went to the Underworld for a little bit during the battle with the Phoenix family…I don’t know anything about it besides the fact that the sky there is purple. Also, it seems to be the place where the souls of the dead arrive at as well, and the field of business management also seems to be popular there. But, if I spend the summer holidays there, won’t the schedule that I made fail? “Ah, but, there are things I want to do this summer.”
I let out a sigh as I spoke. The three of us, me, Matsuda and Motohama, all powerfully promised each other, “This year, let’s get girlfriends and have ero-ero experiences during the summer!”
We would go to the sea and to the pool this summer, where we would pick up girls! Or that was what we decided. I didn’t have a girlfriend…I had one before, but I was killed by my former girlfriend…
I’ll enjoy myself this summer! Or so I had thought. “Ara, Ise. Did you also have plans to go somewhere?”
Buchou asked me that dubiously. “Yes. I was going to go to the sea and the pool.”
“There aren’t any seas in the underworld, but there are huge lakes. There are also pools in this house and at my parents’ home as well, you know?