It happened right after we helped out with Leviathan-sama’s film.
That day, Buchou had raised her eyebrows at the guest who came to visit the clubroom.
“Rias-san, I have a favour to ask you. Will you allow me to borrow Hyoudou Issei-kun?”
The one who asks, with a mighty attitude, is the captain of the tennis club, Abe Kiyome-senpai. During the course of a tennis match, in the first semester, there was trouble between our clubs.
Buchou answers while narrowing her eyes.
“I feel like rejecting the favour when you are the one asking me, but I will still listen to what you have to say.”
Yeah, Abe-senpai challenged us to a match, making me the prize if she won. It resulted in us, the Occult Research Club, winning……but the match turned into the worst thing for me and it is something I can never forget!
It seems Abe-senpai is interested in the power of the Sekiryuutei within me. Is that the reason today as well?
Abe-senpai continues, while not knowing what is going through my mind.
“The truth is, my father will be returning from his travels. I want Hyoudou-kun to help me.”
Help her? Me?
“Ara ara, bullying our Ise-kun won’t be allowed you know?”
Aaah, Akeno-san sure is kind. I’m deeply moved!
“……This helping out might turn into a ‘flag’ for his death.”
The one giving such an ill omen, is Koneko-chan! Give me a break, Koneko-chan…..
“You are thinking that you have to help someone in need, correct?”
The one who said that, with such gentle words, is Asia!
“So what is this problem that requires Ise’s help?”
Buchou asks Abe-senpai once again.
“My father is telling me to have a marriage meeting. I’m still a high school student. I told him that he is rushing it, but he won’t listen to me….. My father is someone who makes sure he, "follows through", once he has made a decision.”
Hmm, a marriage meeting.
Hearing her story, the handsome guy of our club, Kiba nods his head.
“I see. Abe-senpai comes from a monster tamer household, with an ancient and honourable origin. So your parents decided to choose your groom immediately right?”
“That’s exactly right. To be expected from Kiba-kun.”
Yes, this person is a monster tamer….. My body shivers because I recalled a nasty memory.
Hearing that, Xenovia speaks to the nearby box.
“Gasper. She seems to be a monster tamer. Don’t you think you are the most fitting to be her consultant, since you are a Vampire?”
Hearing Xenovia, I heard “Hiiiiiii!” screamed from the box.
“I don’t want tooooo~! I won’t be of any uuuusssee~!”
Gasper, the hikikomori, went inside a box today because he was scared of meeting Abe-senpai, whom he never met before.
It’s basically a secret to other students at our school that we, the members of the Occult Research Club, are Devils. Since Abe-senpai has a secret "under the table" agreement, she knows about our situation as a special privilege.
Aside from Abe-senpai there are those in the elementary school, junior high school, high school, kindergarten, and university, that know about the existence of Devils. I haven’t met them much, but Buchou and Sona-kaichou know about them. Though the majority of those are humans with special powers or those who come from households with special backgrounds…….
Buchou asks while making a sigh.
“So you want Ise, to interfere in your marriage meeting or something?”
Abe-senpai nods her head.
“Yes, I want Hyoudou-kun to act as my boyfriend. I have already informed my father that I have a boyfriend and that I don’t want to have a marriage meeting. Then he told me, if that’s the case, he is willing to cancel the marriage meeting, under certain conditions. I just need him for that day and……. Arara, I feel like I'm suddenly receiving hostility now.”
Senpai is feeling chills. When I looked around, all of the girls were glowering dangerously at Abe-senpai. W-What’s wrong everyone….?
“Ise-senpai as her boyfriend…..?”
“That can’t be, even I still haven’t……”
“I won’t allow it.”
“Yeah, you are right.”
Asia, Akeno-san, Koneko-chan, and Xenovia have such a low tone that it’s scary!
Will Buchou also get mad!? Buchou adores me as if I’m a kitten, so maybe she wouldn’t like me sticking my nose in something dangerous! Maybe the conditions Abe-senpai got from her dad, involves me working hard or something!
That’s what I thought, but unexpectedly Buchou puts her hand on her mouth and it seems as if she is thinking. Hmm, she doesn’t appear to be angry.
She glanced at me once and then said to Abe-senpai.
“All right. I will accept that request, by receiving a price equal to it.”
All the club members were shocked, at Buchou’s unexpected answer!
Hence, it was decided that I would act as Abe-senpai’s boyfriend, in order to break off her marriage meeting……
More than that, I wonder, what is the required condition for breaking off the marriage meeting? I only have bad feelings about this……..
Part 2
The next Saturday we, the Gremory Group, were called over to Abe-senpai’s home.
I am the one who came to do some work, but including Buchou, everyone is worried about me!
Sob, having comrades sure is wonderful! I’m deeply moved.
When we arrived at senpai’s residence, there was a giant western-style house in front of us.
The garden is huge and the interior of the house is also magnificent. It seems senpai lives here, by herself, most of the time. Both her parents are famous monster tamers, who travel around the world for their work. When she thought her father had returned, after a long while, the matter of her engagement came up.
Well, this summer, my house was also renovated into a gorgeous mansion with Buchou’s self-indulgence. It is six storeys high and three storeys below ground!
The place we were guided to, after walking the corridor connecting the western-style building to another building, was the indoor pool.
We changed into swimsuits, that had been prepared for us and headed towards the pool.
Uoooooo! Buchou and Akeno-san are wearing swimsuits, that have so much exposureeeee! Their oppai are bouncing every time they move! Asia and Koneko-chan are wearing cute looking swimsuits, with frills on them. Xenovia is wearing a swimsuit used by athletic swimmers. Looking at the girls in swimsuits sure does feed my eyes. Even my junior, Gasper, is also wearing a cute looking swimsuit……
“You don’t have to wear it.”
I told him, just in case. Well, it does look good on him since he looks like a girl.
“Iyan! B..But if I wear the boys swimsuit, my breasts will be exposed and something outrageous will happen~!”
“Who would be happy at men’s tits!”
Oh well, I should stop mucking around with my junior.
“Here, this way.”
Abe-senpai urges us to go to the table by the pool side.
Everyone gathered around the table and senpai explained the requirements needed to break off the marriage meeting, once again.
“The requirements my father mentioned, are battle contests as monster tamers.”
“And what do you mean by that?”
When I asked, Abe-senpai answers, using her fingers.
“A Battle of three matches using land, sea and sky monsters! If Hyoudou-kun wins twice or more against my father, the marriage meeting will be cancelled.”
“Land, sea and sky you say…… Even if you say that, I’m not a monster tamer. I’m not actually confident…….”
It’s me who hasn’t got a familiar yet, you know? And they are asking me to suddenly have a match, while using monsters and also win……!? Hmm, won’t this be quite hard?
When I was thinking, while twitching my head, Abe-senpai points elsewhere.
“It’s not a problem. The monsters we would be using are already chosen. First of all, the land monster! Come out!”
“Hokyooooooon!”
My body became stiff at the familiar howl and drumming! …….D..Don’t tell me…..!
What appeared in front of us, is a giant white gorillaaaaaa! So it’s this thing after all!
She’s looking at me with passionate eyes!
“Uho.”
“For the land battle it will be her, the Yuki-onna, Christie.”
“That’s why, can you please stop calling that Snow Gorilla, a Yuki-onna! My fantasy is being crushed!”
Everyone! Did you know? The Yuki-onna of this World isn’t a beautiful youkai in a kimono, with a bewitching expression, but a white gorilla with a huge build which is right in front of me……
This is Christie. A Yeti(female). I don’t want to call her a Yuki-onna!
When I had a tennis match against Abe-senpai in the past, I fought this Snow Gorilla while pairing up with Buchou. I sure did suffer in that match because of her freezing breath….. I don’t want to remember it.
“Maybe she hasn’t realised it, but her fur is brighter than the last time I saw her.”
Buchou says, as if she finds it something to be praised! Fur is something which is nothing to be hyped about, isn’t it!? It’s a gorilla, a gorilla I tell ya!
“For the land battle I want Hyoudou-kun to use this Christie and battle against the monster my father would be using.”
You are telling me to use this Goristie!?
“Uho….”
Don’t look at me with such emotional eyes! Damn it! It seems like this thing got a crush on me, because of the tennis match in the past! I detest the World!
“I will call the sea monster next. It’s a mermaid.”
When Abe-senpai clicks her fingers, something starts to move in the pool! It’s moves with such amazing speed!
“A mermaid! Are you serious!?”
My face glittered, because Abe-senpai mentioned a mermaid!
A mermaid is that lovely creature, having the upper body of a beautiful girl and the lower body of a fish right!?
“If you say mermaid, then their beautiful voice is remarkable.”
Akeno-san also gives me additional information! Wow! I’m looking forward to this!
SPLASH!
A Mermaid-sama comes out from the pool!
“This is the mermaid, Estleena.”
What Abe-senpai introduces to us, is a massive fish with legs. It has the form of a tuna with legs!
“Gyogyogyo.”
Gyogyogyo!? It has a voice which suit