Visiting Kyoto

{POV Sona}

My name is Sona Sitri I am a pureblood devil from the house of Sitri. Currently, I am attending high school in the human world with my childhood friend Rias Gremory as well as our 2 queens Tsubaki Shinra and Akeno Himejima. We both entered the human world for 2 main reasons, 1) to understand the world, and 2) to find promising servants.

When a devil becomes a high-class devil they are allowed to have a peerage which can consist of 15 people or less depending on certain circumstances. As of right now, I have 5 servants while Rias has 3, but neither of us thought of it as a competition. These servants would be our support in the future so rather than choosing recklessly we are both looking for servants that can help us achieve our life goals.

Usually, we wouldn't have much access to the human world since we were heiresses of 2 powerful families but after a lot of persuasions, we eventually got the okay from our families. As of right now Rias and I are in our second year of high school and we would both inherit our families once we graduate college. For the next few years, we'd both try to accumulate enough knowledge to try and achieve our goals. Mine was to build a school where status didn't matter and Rias's was to step out of her families shadow.

I had already begun my plans for my goal by joining the student council and also by learning about school management and such. As for Rias, however, her goal was a little more difficult than mine. In order to step out of the shadow of her family, she'd need both power and influence, 2 things she currently didn't have access to.

She obviously knew this but from what I could see she showed no emotions of being bothered by it she simply continued to try and live her life as a 'normal' girl. An example of this is our current trip to Kyoto.

Since we are in the second semester of our second year of high school our entire grade was allowed to visit Kyoto for a few days. When we learned the news many were excited, and many even began planning 2 weeks in advance for this trip. In our group of four, there was me, my queen Tsubaki, Rias, and her queen Akeno, and of the 4 of us, Rias was the most excited.

One thing led to another and Tsubaki, Akeno, and I believed Rias was going to plan out the trip since she spent most of her free time the past few days studying Kyoto, however that may have been a mistake on our part.

Originally while I was excited to go to Kyoto I was also a little cautious of the city. When I first arrived in the human world, I researched any factions that were close to our school and the only faction I could find was the Haven faction found in Kyoto. Through my research, I learned of Haven's existence as well as all their achievements. Even to this day I still have members from the Sitri house keep me well informed on the factions status.

As of right now Haven was quiet and didn't cause trouble with anyone but even so, I still had to be vigilant at the potential dangers. I thought Rias would take this into consideration when planning out our trip but the answer to that question was no.

When we all looked at her map of the places she wanted to go to, I saw that besides the fact the whole thing was a mess was that some of the locations were even sites where the Haven faction had the most influence. When I told this to Rias she was confused at first since she never heard of the name Haven, but after I told her about it she also became vigilant.

So while she was a little disappointed at the sudden change in schedule she accepted the fact that it was better to be cautious than negligent. After that was done I realized that we spent 5 hours talking and still haven't done anything. Checking the time I saw that we had at most 4 hours before we were supposed to return to the hotel.

Making sure not to waste any more time we ended our little meeting and tried to make the most of the time we had left. Sadly because we weren't familiar with the city's layout we got lost on our way from one sight to the other. In the end, we had to return to the hotel after seeing only 3 sights.

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The next morning Rias, Akeno, Tsubaki, and I left the hotel when the teacher gave us the okay and we all decided to go to downtown Kyoto. The reason we decided to go towards downtown Kyoto was that not only was the influence of Haven was the weakest there, there were plenty of interesting sights there, and also there was a popular coffee shop there that caught my interest.

Although I haven't told anyone about it I do sometimes on my days off go and visit a local coffee shop in Kouh. At first I only went out of interest but eventually, I began to come more frequently since I liked the atmosphere. Because of this, I began to develop a soft spot for coffee and baked treats in my heart. So in the end, while we were planning for today I somehow got everyone to agree to go there.

When we arrived at the coffee shop I wasn't too surprised to see that it was packed since from online reviews I could tell this place was pretty popular. So we simply walked inside and tried to find a table but this proved to be better said than done. The place was very crowded and almost all the seats were taken.

Luckily, however, Rias was able to find a large table in the far corner of the room that was free and we all made our way towards it, but right as Rias was about to grab a chair someone else grabbed the chair at the same time. This surprised her and she quickly retreated her hand, while the boy simply showed a surprised expression.

Rias - Ah!

When I saw who it was I saw it was a boy. He had long light brown and grey hair, magenta colored eyes, and a handsome face. He was around 180cm tall and wore a brown jacket with a black shirt and blue jeans. From what I could tell he was lean but also well built. My personal opinion of this guy was that he was very handsome compared to all the other guys I've seen, but besides that had no real impression of him.

Right now he showed a surprised expression towards us but, from my experience in events similar to this, I believed this was an act. There is no denying that everyone in my group was very beautiful however, this would always cause guys to try and get close to us because of looks. The same thing happened a couple of times yesterday and I really didn't want to deal with this so early in the morning.

Thinking that he was going to try something, I tried to tell Rias that we should come back later, but before I could someone else entered the conversation.

??? - Yu what's wrong?

The voice came from a young girl who looked no older than 10 years old and compared to the rest of us who were standing she was already sitting on a chair.