On the day of the decisive battle.
"I'm ready."
I'm getting fired up in my room.
Right now, it's 10 o'clock at night. The decisive battle will start in two hours, exactly at 12am.
Today our job as a Devil is off. We went home straight after school. That's because we may end up wasting our stamina.
We plan to meet up at the club room 30 minutes prior to the match, so I can only stay here for about 90 minutes.
But still, I feel the most relaxed here in my own room. So I want to stay here as long as I can.
I'm wearing my uniform. I thought this would be the most fitting clothing for this. Rather, should I prepare clothing for battle purposes? When I asked that to Rias,
"If my group has a uniform, then it has to be the uniform of Kuou Academy. We are the members of the Occult Research Club, after all."
Rias replied like that to me with a smile.
That's why my battle uniform will be my school uniform. Well, if I were doing sword arts, I could have prepared a dougi.
I don't know how this battle will go. In accordance with Canon, we are supposed to lose the Rating Game.
But now, because of me, I think there will be a lot of butterfly effects. Though I have personally never seen any of the effect. Maybe it's because I've been carefully following the canon path.
Even in Asia's case, I followed the original path without even knowing. No, that's not true.
I know that outcome, but I don't act to change it. Only after the event was finished did I understand that what I did was cold-hearted.
Thinking about it, I still don't feel any guilt or anything of the sort. It was like that was what was supposed to happen.
So currently, I don't know if I am making any decision that I will happen to make, but I am choosing to ignore it.
Like Will, I purposefully lose to Riser just so as not to alter the canon storyline.
I don't know. Currently, my only thought is to defeat Riser, but what if, in a decisive moment of battle, I choose to pull back my punch and turn to my cold self?
Mmh, now that I think about it, if we lose in the Rating Game, then I can fight Riser in a one-on-one like in the original.
Through which, I can make a bond with Sirzechs. And He will also owe me one, like in canon.
For me personally, I feel like losing the rating game will give me lots of pros rather than cons.
Just as I conclude my opinion, I pause.
"I really started to think logically." I murmur. "Maybe that's why I didn't feel any fear when Dohnaseek tried to kill me before."
KNOCK KNOCK
Someone knocks on the door. Huh? Is it Asia?
"Ise-san, may I come in?"
"Yeah, sure."
I get a bit shocked when I witness the clothing that Asia is wearing.
That's because she is wearing a nun outfit. Obviously she doesn't have her Rosario hanging around her neck. She also doesn't have her veil on her head.
"Asia that outfit..."
"Yes. When I asked Buchou-san, she told me, "Wear something that you feel the most comfortable in". I thought about it a lot, and I found out that this outfit is the easiest for me to move around in. ...I'm not a Christian anymore, but I haven't forgotten my beliefs. Even though I'm a Devil now..."
Is that so? Good to hear.
It's takes a lot of guts to appear in a nun's outfit for a battle between Devils, but if that's what Asia chose then I don't have any complaints.
Since Rias also allow it, who I am to kidding.
"Yeah. You look the most natural in a nun's outfit. You also look good in our school uniform, but you were dressed in that outfit when I first met you. Yeah, you look great."
"Thank you very much."
Asia makes a very happy face when I praise her.
"U-Umm, Ise-san?"
Asia suddenly becomes hesitant. What's up with her?
"Can I sit beside you?"
"Yeah. Sure."
Asia approaches me who am sitting on my bed and then she sits beside me. She then hugs onto my arm tightly.
"What's wrong?"
I asked. Is she afraid.
"...I can't stop shaking when I think that there is a scary battle waiting for us. But if Ise-san is with me, I will be okay."
"Asia..."
"Ehehe. I'm not scared if I'm with Ise-san after all. ...Can I stay like this until we leave?"
"..Can I stay with you forever from now on?" Asia asked.
It that a proposal.
Looking at her face, looking innocently into my eyes, with a smile that seems to be untouched by any dirt. A small portion of her blonde hair that was peeking out of her nun dress.
I can honestly say she is one of the rare beauty in this world.
"Yeah, we will always be together." I also said.
Just as she hear the reply, her nose twitches. "Ise-san, You smell good." She said with a innocent smile.
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