Life.4 The Decisive Battle Begins! & Part.1

Part 1

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 from 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.

If I go there, I will feel nervous whether I like it or not. Ah, I feel more nervous than the time I was waiting for my entrance exam results to our academy...

I'm wearing my uniform. I thought this will be the most fitting clothing for this. Rather, should I prepare clothing for battle purpose? When I asked that to Buchou,

"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."

Buchou replied like that to me with a smile.

That's why my battle uniform will be my school uniform. Well, if I was doing martial arts I could have prepared a dougi.

There are lots of banana peels near me. I ate all of them already, and that technique that I have been practicing ever since camp is almost completed.

I can do this. I can do this! My new ultimate technique!

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..."

"Y-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? This girl must have thought deeply about it.

I'm sure that you need 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. Buchou will also allow it with a smile.

"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?"

"Y-Yeah. Sure."

Asia approaches me who am sitting on my bed and then she sits beside me. She then hugs onto my arm tightly.

"W-What's wrong?"

I panic, but I can feel her shaking through my arm.

"...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?"

"Sure."

"...Can I stay with you forever from now on?"

"Yeah, we will always be together."

I hold on to Asia's hand gently and we stay like this till we left the house. After that, I didn't feel nervous anymore and Asia's shaking has also stopped.