Sona Sitri should also know about it. You should be thoroughly careful. Since the possibility of you being crushed before you transform into Balance Break is high.”
Sensei, you’re that worried…I gave a bitter smile. “Fuh. Don’t worry. I’m an adult.”
While putting my hand to my forehead, I responded with a nihilistic smile. “What’s wrong? Somehow, you were acting as if you’ve matured a lot?”
“Sensei. I’m an adult. Because I poked them.”
Giving a thumbs up, I nodded vigorously. Yes, I have a special existence that has poked Buchou’s breasts. I’ve climbed the stairs to adulthood. “Ah, I get it, I get it.”
Sensei, please don’t talk that way. I have just gotten to this point. “Kiba.”
I put my hands on his shoulders. “What is it?”
To the puzzled-looking Kiba, I told him words of gratitude with understanding eyes. “There are two kinds of men. Men who have poked breasts, and men who haven’t poked breasts. I’m the former. It’s unrivalled. Incredible. I have crossed over.”
I thought that was the cleverest remark. Fufufu, Kiba. You’re a happy man. Since you can associate on equal terms with a man like me who has poked breasts. Kiba gave a look of pity, and shook his head several times. “…Buchou, this is no good. He needs to receive counselling before the game.”
Hmph. Since I’ve become a higher being, it seems that there are things we can no longer understand each other on. However, Kiba, that isn’t your fault. I’m the sinner for poking Buchou’s breasts. Yes, I’m an evil sinner. From now on, I’ll introduce myself as [Darkness Welsh Dragon]. Fufufu. “Ise-senpai is showing a strange smile…I’m scared…”
“…Gya-kun, don’t approach him, otherwise you’ll be infected with idiocy by being close to him.”
Gasper and Koneko-chan were giving me burning gazes, but…Fufufu, my charm is even understood by male girls and loli-kids…
Sensei closed his pen and said a final conclusion. “I’d say that the chances of you guys winning in this game is over eighty percent. I do believe that you’ll win, but—I don’t believe you’ll win “for sure”. And the value of pieces isn’t absolute either. Like an actual game of chess, the value changes according to the situation on the board.”
Sensei continued. Everyone listened seriously and attentively. This person’s words—had great effect. In the root of both the mind and body. “I have lived a long time. In that time, I have seen a great variety of battles. That’s why I will say this. —I have seen guys win despite having less than a ten percent chance of victory. Do not take even a one-percent chance lightly. Don’t believe that you’ll definitely win. However, think that you want to win no matter what. This is the last advice I can give to you all in this training camp.”
That was the last advice sensei gave us this time. After that, sensei discussed tactics with the members who had been left out in the conversation until the day of the decisive battle. —We’re definitely going to win! The day of the decisive battle—. There was a huge magic circle underneath the Gremory castle for the exclusive use of transporting us to the game area. Our group gathered on top of the magic circle, and prepared to transport to the game area, where the battle would soon be commencing. Besides Asia and Xenovia, we were all wearing our Kuou Academy summer uniforms. Asia was in her sister clothes, and Xenovia was wearing her bondage-like battle clothes that she had worn the first time we met. Both of them seemed to be full of fighting spirit. And the Sitri side also seemed to be wearing their Kuou Academy uniforms. Buchou’s father, mother, Millicas-sama and Azazel-sensei spoke from outside of the magic circle. “Rias, you’ve lost once before. Win for sure this time.”
“Fight a battle that won’t make you ashamed as the next head of the family. Everyone else as well, okay?”
“Do your best, Rias-nee-sama!”
“Well, I’ve taught you about the things you needed to be informed about this time. All that’s left is to exert yourselves and go all out.”
Sirzechs-sama and Grayfia-san weren’t here, but they seemed to have already moved to a spectator’s lounge for the exclusive use of VIPs. It was said that not only the leaders of the three great powers were present, but also VIPS from the other powers were invited. It seemed that sensei would be heading there after this. Our game was getting a lot of attention… As expected, among the promising young devils, the fight between the two little sisters of the Maous was being basked in attention…
A feeling of tension floated in the air, but the magic circle mercilessly began to shine. —At last, the game had begun! The place we arrived at after jumping through the magic circle was—a place full of tables. …This was a wide restaurant somewhere? When I thought that and looked at the surroundings, it seemed to be a dining floor, with fast-food restaurants surrounding the tables. Was this also an exact replica of a real place, prepared in a space for our exclusive use? The power of devils was just as amazing as usual. Huh? I feel like I’ve seen this place somewhere before… Things like the shop arrangement matched somewhere within my memories. I stepped out from this floor a bit and looked around the interior. There—was a vast shopping mall there. Familiar stores were lined up within the interior, and there was a glass-ceilinged atrium! Light spilled down through the glass. This oblong shopping mall and this glass atrium! They were ones that I knew well! “I didn’t expect that the department store near Kuou Academy would serve as the stage.”
Buchou said this as she came up next to me. Yes, the game stage was the department store we often went to! At that time, we heard an announcement in the store! [Everyone, I, the “Queen” of the Lucifer group, Grayfia, will be carrying the role of arbiter in the “Rating Game” between the Gremory group and the Sitri group on this occasion.] Just like during the battle with Raiser, the announcer was Grayfia-san. But, wasn’t her introduction slightly different from last time? That time she called herself a servant of the Gremory family, yet this time she clearly stated that she was part of the Lucifer group. Was it because the quality of the game was slightly different from last time…? [In the name of my master, Sirzechs Lucifer, I will watch over the battle between these two families. It’s a pleasure to be here. To get right to the main topic, the battlefield for today is the department store within the neighbourhood of the school “Kuou Academy” that Rias-sama and Sona-sama attend, which has been prepared within a separate space as the game field.] Since the game field was once more somewhere that we were familiar with, you would think that it would make things easy for us, but the same goes for the Sitri group as well. Since they’ve also come to this department store many times. This department store which had become our battle stage was a two-storied building. It wasn’t that big in terms of height.