Let’s go for the next shopping!”
Both of them are dumbfounded at how energetic I am, so they nod their head immediately while smiling. “Yeah!”
“Yes!”
It happens when all three of us raised our spirits. “Hey hey, you girls, are you all free right now?”
A group of three young men says that. They have their hair dyed; they have piercings, and have a flashy appearance. “Huh, aren’t all of you foreigners? Maybe our words won’t get through to them.”
One of the men says that. “No, we do understand what you are saying.”
Xenovia answers as such. Hearing that, it seems like the men are in joy. Devils can adjust with any language after all. Maybe they are shocked at her fluent Japanese. By the way, Angels also have the same ability regarding spoken languages! “Oh, then this will be quick. So, wanna have some fun with us from now on?”
Oh, is this the act called picking up a girl? Wow, it’s my first time experiencing it! I’m a bit moved! However, I think I would like it if it was someone much cooler! It seems like Asia-san is troubled. She’s hiding behind Xenovia shyly. “The blonder girl is seriously adorable!”
“Damn! She seems really pure!”
It seems like her action is taken positively by them. She does have a cute gesture. However, from Asia-san’s perspective, she will be confused if she tags along with other man besides Ise-kun. After Xenovia sees Asia-san who hides behind her, she says one thing. “I will only obey a man who is stronger than me. So, if you defeat me, then I will play around with you.”
She says such provoking things. The men smirk. If you look at her normally, Xenovia is slender, so they may think she’s fragile. However, she’s slim because she has trained herself. And since she is now a Devil, she has raw strength where no ordinary man can oppose her. “Now now, don’t say that—”
The moment one of the men extends his arm over, Xenovia evades his arm swiftly, and trips him over by using her legs. She then releases a sharp kick towards his face, and stops it before hitting him. “Still think you can win?”
“ “ “We are sorry!” ” ”
The men all shiver in fear and scatter at her cold words. “Asia, it’s alright now.”
Xenovia smiles to calm her down. “Yes! However, I think we've done terrible things to those people……”
Since Asia-san is kind, she’s worried about those men. Xenovia says it while stroking Asia-san’s head. “No, today I have the responsibility to protect Asia on behalf of Ise. I will protect you Asia, even if I have to push myself a bit.”
“Xenovia-san!”
Asia-san and Xenovia hug each other! Oh my, such beautiful friendship! And the place we head towards after this occurrence is the anime-shop. What Koneko-chan wants is a product of the anime show called “Neo Neko-Neko Paradise”. Koneko-chan watches and knows a lot of things. She has a broad range of interests which include anime, drama, music, and comedy shows. Among them, the programme Koneko-chan is fascinated by lately is apparently an anime programme about a cat human that starts to solve mysterious cases. Koneko-chan is our junior, and she’s a fellow Devil of Xenovia and Asia. She’s small and adorable! “Ah, this is the “The Green Dragon of the Eden”! It’s a shoujo manga that I’m very fond of. A Dragon with a big appetite solves many mysterious cases at the city of the sky.”
Asia finds the manga corner at the anime shop for the series she’s fond of, and she starts to become merry about it. “Hmm. I wonder if the series I like is here.”
It seems like Xenovia is also looking for something in the manga corner. “What can’t you find?”
“Yeah. I like the manga called “The Strike of the Student Council”. It’s a series where the five powerful warriors that were chosen by a vote from every student in the school continue to fight in the cramped student council’s room until they decided the strongest one among them. Right now, the vice-president died by the hands of the secretary from a poison, and it seems like a new vice-president will be showing up. The story is getting into the good parts. Perhaps, the president might create a new technique which will involve using his huge physique.”
It seems like Xenovia likes a shounen manga with battle themes. It seems like the two of them are learning Japanese letters while enjoying the manga. Huh? The series I stop my gaze at is the series Koneko-chan asked us to buy by a coincidence. There are anime goods besides the manga. This series alone has a single corner. “Hey, Xenovia, Asia-san. Isn’t this the one?”
Both of them gather around me with my words and check it. Xenovia nods. “This must be it. Koneko gave me a memo with a picture of it, so this merchandise must be it.”
What Xenovia takes into her hand is a doll of a cat. Hmm, so this is what Koneko-chan wanted. It’s a doll of a big cat who is wearing a butler’s suit. “Alright, if we want to follow the schedule, then we have to leave Akihabara and head home by 3 o’clock, so once we buy this, let’s have a look around here and then leave this shop.”
Today, Xenovia is showing her leadership. Perhaps, since Rias-san and Ise-kun are absent, she must be thinking, “I will have to protect Asia!”. Xenovia sure has a strong sense of responsibility. “However, since arriving in this Holy Land, we had our eyes glitter with light due to the home bakery, we bought a book in a bookstore, and it seems like I will be buying a manga in this shop again…… Lord, I’m such a greedy person who wastes money……”
Ah, looks like Xenovia started to repent again. She sure needs to fix this habit of hers. Since we have so many shopping bags with us, we are off towards our final shopping destination. In order to buy a present for Ise-kun, we diverged from the main street, and are walking in the back alley. We have turned left and right many times. I-I can’t tell where we originally came from now…… Xenovia leads us while looking at the map; however Asia-san and I are filled with anxiety. Xenovia stops walking. She gazes towards a building that is made up of different shops at the direction towards the right. We arrived? “X-Xenovia-san, are there shops in a place like this which is behind other buildings?”
Asia-san that seems to feel insecure asks her. “Yeah. The thing called “eroge” that Ise wants is something we can’t buy in ordinary shops.”
“Oh? Is it something they can’t sell in normal places?”
I ask her doubtfully, but it seems like Xenovia also isn’t sure. “Hmm, it’s what I heard from Kiryuu.”
Kiryuu-san is a girl with glasses who is also in our class. She’s a girl who says things clearly, and she’s filled with very lewd knowledge. E-Even I get troubled by her at times. However, Asia-san and Xenovia tend to listen carefully to Kiryuu-san’s opinion most of the time. It seems like they are trying to build lewd knowledge for Ise-kun, but is that really okay……? I’m not really sure about it. “She says that the shop in this building will even sell “eroge” to us. She says that it will be fine if we tell them we were told about this place from Kiryuu.