While returning to the floor I had been on before, I passed someone I knew.
“—Saji-kun.”
“Yo, Kiba.”
“What brings you here?”
“Well, Kaichou came to see how Rias-senpai is doing. So I came to escort her. We met with people from the house of Phoenix on our way.”
“I see. Thank you.”
So Kaichou also came to see Buchou’s well being.
I then walk along with Saji-kun. He then says it with resolved eyes.
“Kiba, I’m planning to participate in this case. I’m going to protect the civilians living in town.”
-! It looks like the Sitri group also stood up for the Underworld’s crisis. Youths with power are being summoned. There is no doubt that the Great-King Bael group and Archduke Agares will be dispatched as well. It wouldn’t be weird if the Sitri group were to be dispatched as well. Naturally we will also have to participate as youths that have power.
“We are also planning to join with you afterwards.”
I say that but Saji-kun asks me with concern.
“…..Are Rias-senpai and the others able to fight?”
…..It will be natural to feel that way knowing the situation of Buchou and others right now. He knows it. He knows that we won’t be able to fight properly with the current situation. Even so, we must go.
“We have to fight. All the Devils that have powers are summoned to it. We are Devils who have powers. ---We have to do it.”
“Yeah you are right.”
Saji-kun puts on a smile but then puts on a serious face.
“Do you know the one who killed Hyoudou?”
Saji-kun asks with eyes full of intensity.
“I do, but he’s no longer in this World. -He must have been defeated by Ise-kun.”
Yes, there is no way that Ise-kun couldn’t finish off Shalba. Even if he received the poison of Samael, he definitely must have eliminated Shalba. I believed that without the slightest of doubts. Saji-kun’s eyes shake for a moment with my answer.
“Yeah. Striking back when getting hit. No. There’s no way he would lose. He died after winning, right? There’s no way he would lose!?”
Saji-kun had lots of tears flowing out of his eyes and he seems really mortified. Saji-kun says it with a vigorous expression.
“So the guy who killed him is already gone. Then I just have to beat the Khaos-Brigade, which was the group that the guy who killed him belonged to.”
“Saji-kun. You…..”
“He was my aim. I was able to work this hard because of him. I was able to do well in the match against Agares as well….! I was able to endure any type of hard training because he was also the same “Pawn” as me who was nearby!”
……He has been running after Ise-kun’s back. For Saji-kun, Ise-kun who became a Devil at the same time as himself was a big existence to him. Saji-kun then spits out words of hatred.
“I won’t forgive those guys who took away my aim and killed my friend! I will burn all of them with the flame of Vritra….! My flame is a cursed black-flame that won’t disappear even if I die. I will take down their lives even at the cost of my own…..!”
Saji-kun is emitting an intense aura from his body. He is keeping down his power which seems like it will explode now.
“I will be troubled if you die, Saji.”
When I turned around Sona-kaichou is standing there.
“Kaichou.”
“Saji. I can understand you becoming emotional but I will be troubled if you die. ---If you are going to do it, burn your opponents while you stay alive.”
Saji-kun wiped his tears with his sleeve at her words and then nods his head.
“Yes!”
Sona-kaichou then looks at me.
“We will pardon ourselves here. We were given an order from Serafall Levithian to go to the capital of Maou territory, Lilith, to protect the city and evacuate the civilians.”
Since strong people with the power of Ultimate-class Devils are being dispatched to take care of the gigantic-monsters, the governments are making the skilled youths evacuate civilians and protect the cities.
“So have you met with Buchou?”
She nods slowly at my question.
“She’s keeping herself in her room. She won't respond even if I talk to her.”
……So it was no good even with Sona-kaichou who is her best friend.
“But I called someone who is the most suitable at a time like this.”
“Most suitable?”
I asked her doubtfully but she makes a shallow smile. She doesn’t tell me who that person is…….. Who did she call?
When I returned to the floor, the television was showing the circumstances of the capital. They were continuing the evacuations. Lots of people are being lead to safety by the soldiers. Then the children at the capitals were shown. The woman reporter asks one of the children.
[I’m okay! Oppai-Dragon will come and defeat that monster for us!]
The child answers the question with a big smile. He is holding onto a toy of “Oppai Dragon”. Then lots of voices and energetic faces appear on the screen.
[Yeah! Oppai-Dragon will defeat them!]
[Oppai! Oppai!]
Without showing any anxiety, they just believe that the Oppai-dragon will come to save them.
[Come quickly Oppai-Dragon!]
Seeing them in high spirits, I covered my mouth……to desperately stop the feeling I am keeping within me.
….Can you see, Ise-kun? The appearance of the children who are waiting for you…… They aren’t even showing a single thread of anxiety. They believe that you will come and save them…… Then you have to come back……! You have to be here……! Why can’t you go to them…!? You are their hero……! Please answer them Ise-kun. You can’t betray them……!
“The children of the Underworld are stronger than we think.”
-! A sudden voice. That man is already standing next to me.
“You are!?”
“Hyoudou Issei has put something very precious inside the children’s hearts. ---It’s been a while Kiba Yuuto. I came to see Rias.”
It was Sairaorg Bael.
Sairaorg Bael who was called here by Sona-kaichou arrived in front of Buchou’s room while taking me with him.
“I’m coming in Rias.”
Saying just that, Sairaorg Bael goes into Buchou’s room. When we walk inside the room……we found Buchou sitting on her table. Her eyes are even more hollow than Akeno-san's were and are swollen red. ……She must have been crying this whole time. Sairaorg Bael makes a sigh of boredom after getting close to her.
“You show me something very boring, Rias.”
Seeing his attitude, Buchou asks him with an unpleasant face and voice.
“……Sairaorg. Why did you come here…?”
“I received a call from Sona Sitri. Don’t worry. I received this call privately. So not a single thing about what happened to that man has been leaked to the Great-King faction.”
If the death of Ise-kun is leaked to the politicians from the Great-King faction, then we won’t know how they will argue against the current Maou government after this chaos. Ise-kun has become a very big existence in the Underworld. It seems like this person understands that. I think it is only a matter of time 'til it is leaked…… But even so, I feel happy for this person’s concern. Sairaorg Bael directly says it to Buchou.
“—Let’s go. It is a crisis in the Underworld. What is the point for you who has strong servants staying here and being useless? We are young Devils with great powers and we need to show and demonstrate it to the people behind us. And we can stand up to the standard of the higher ups, the Maou-sama, who has been watching over us with warm eyes.”
He said something very proper. The usual Buchou would have agreed with that. But Buchou just looked away.
“……It is not my concern.”
“….So you will fall this low, just because your man’s whereabouts are unknown, Rias. You were supposed to be a better woman than this.”
Hearing Sairaorg Bael say that, Buchou throws a pillow at our direction and she gets enraged.
“A world without him! I don’t care about the World without Ise! ……To me he was….. that person was….. He was more important than anyone else. For me to live without him……”
She tries to calm down while shedding tears. But…..
“That man…… The woman who that Sekiryuutei, Hyoudou Issei, fell in love with wasn’t a woman like this!”
Sairaorg said it loud to Buchou.
“That man was a strong person who kept on standing up with courage for your dream and living up to your expectations! How can the master, the woman that man loved, have such a low capacity and appearance!?”
Buchou seems shocked hearing Sairaorg Bael’s words. Sairaorg Bael continues.
“Stand up Rias. That man stood up no matter what. He stepped forward. He just kept on going forward. You should know that man, who defeated me in a fist fight head on, the best!”
Something only a rival can understand. Sairaorg Bael must have felt something from Ise-kun in that Rating Game through their fists and witnessed Ise-kun’s way of life.
“And do you really think that man actually died?”
-! Buchou…..and I became speechless at hearing Sairaorg Bael. He smiles looking at our reaction.
“Then that is something to laugh about. There’s no way that man will die. I will ask you one thing. Did that man make love to you yet?”
“……No he didn’t make love to me”
Hearing Buchou say that, Sairaorg laughed loud.
“Hahahahahahahahahahaha!”
After he finished his laugh, he then says it with eyes full of strength.
“Then that man really didn’t die. There’s no way that Hyoudou Issei will die when there's you and other women that are in love with him. He wanted to make love to you the most. There’s no way he will die without making love to you.”
-!
….That is something unreliable. But Sairaorg Bael’s words had more persuasive power than anything else.
“Isn’t that the [Oppai-Dragon]?”
He turns around after saying that.
“I will wait at the battlefield. ---Definitely come, Rias. And Gremory team! How can you call yourselves [Oppai-Dragon]’s comrades if you don’t protect the children of the Underworld who that man tried to protect!”
After saying that he leaves.
……A sudden silence.
So this is what Sona-kaichou meant by most suitable. ……Yes. We could have searched more to find the possibility of his survival. We could have search