Vacation and Sirzech Bad Day

~11 May 2008~

Kojiro looks at Sakura, packing all the things she decides to bring on their trip to the beach. He still remembers the smile of both Kunou and Sakura when Yasaka tells them about their plan to go to the beach.

"Are you ready?"

"Un"

He looked at Sakura wearing a light blue hoodie with a pocket on the front of the hoodie. She wears a yellow shirt underneath. She also wears a pink frilly skirt.

"Then come on."

After grabbing Sakura's hand, Kojiro opens up a portal to the palace. As they walk inside the portal, Kojiro sees Yasaka and Kunou already in their casual clothing, and he means by casual is their usual Miko uniform.

"Hello, Yasaka Kunou."

"Hello, Kojiro-kun. Before we go, could we wait for a minute? There is someone that wants to go with us to the beach."

"Oh? Who is it?"

"The one that wants to come with us is…"

However, before Yasaka can answer his question, he sees a magic circle appear near Yasaka, and coming from it is a tall man who looks to be in his late-20's and wearing a white robe with a Magatama symbol circling his white robe.

"Yo, Yasaka-chan. Long time no see."

"Susanoo-sama"

"Call me Susanoo Nii-chan as you do in the past."

"No"

"Hahahaha, Who is this?"

Susanoo looked at Kojiro and walked toward him with a broad smile on his face. He then begins to examine him from all directions before nodding at himself, satisfied with something.

"You must be Sasaki Kojiro, that Yasaka-chan talking about, huh? I must say that you have the same face as Kojiro I fought a long time ago."

He refrains himself, saying that he technically is the same Kojiro and not his descendant or something like that.

"But that is impossible since you have a completely different aura and magic than him. Hmmm"

"Susanoo-sama, please don't molest Kojiro-kun."

"Ara? Are you jealous?"

"N-no… Ehem, we need to go to the beach Susanoo-sama."

"Hahahahaha! Very well, come on."

Kojiro only smiles at the behavior of Susanoo and walks to the magic circle that Susanoo made with Sakura. As they step inside the magic circle, Susanoo activates it, and suddenly, the magic circle shines brightly and teleports us to our destination.

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A second later, they arrive in front of a massive mansion. Yasaka then led them to their room. After changing to his swimming suit, which consisted only of a light purple swim trunk, He met Susanoo already wearing a deep blue swim trunk. He and Susanoo then decide to prepare their spot. When they are finished placing down all the necessities, Kojiro sits down on the beach chair and takes out a cooler box from his Pocket Dimension.

"Kojiro-kun!"

He looked at Yasaka and immediately regretted that decision. The reason is that Yasaka is wearing a rather skimpy looking bikini. She is wearing a deep red bikini, and the top bikini is not ready to contain her massive breast and only makes it look like she only covers her nipples. She also wears a frilly bottom that covers all her sacred areas but reveals most of her plump buttock.

Kojiro shakes his head when he hears Yasaka say.

"How is it?"

"It's great. You are looking marvelous."

"Fufufufu"

He also looks at both children wearing their swimsuits and begins to play in the ocean.

"Nii-chan, come play with us!!!"

"Yes Yes"

Kojiro looks at Yasaka once more and says.

"Yasaka, do you want to take a swim?"

"Okay"

They walk to the ocean and slowly go to the children. As they reach the children, Yasaka and Kojiro begin to teach them how to swim. When Kojiro teaches Sakura and Kunou how to swim, he hears Susanoo scream.

"Cannonball !"

Susanoo called out as he smashed into the water, and the four people were covered entirely in a massive wave of water. Kojiro immediately took both Kunou and Sakura before the wave of water could wash them far away.

"Susanoo-sama! Please be careful with that!"

"Sorry Sorry, Are you guys okay?"

Kojiro let Sakura and Kunou cough a little and looked at Susanoo.

"Yeah, but please be careful next time, Susanoo-sama. The children are not yet ready for that kind of wave."

"Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Also, call me Susanoo or Nii-san!"

After that, Sakura and Kunou decide to build some sandcastles while he and Yasaka play around the ocean. He looks at Susanoo that chooses to do some underwater exploration and not yet appear from the water.

A few minutes later, Susanoo appears from the water and says,

"Oi Kojiro, Do you want to hunt some shark? There are some of them not too far away from here."

Kojiro looks at Yasaka, nodding her head.

"Sure"

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Sirzech looked at the people in front of him. The day has been bad and worse real quick. Not only they got some remainder from the Youkai faction about Rias and her peerage fight against the Fallen Angel that almost killed an innocent person because of some misunderstanding. They also get news from the Astaroth clan that their heir is killed inside their mansion, and his peerage is gone from the mansion as well.

"So, can you tell me how an unknown person can breach your barrier around the mansion?"

Lord Astaroth then tells him there is a blind spot to the northeast of the mansion. He also says to him that there is a hole in the barrier that even they can't feel. In conclusion, the barrier has been breached by an expert in the barrier-breaking technique that even the lord of the mansion never felt the breach. There is also some evidence that there is a fight between Diodora's peerage with the assassin in the state of the office.

"Then this is a work of an assassin group that has some hate toward the Astaroth clan or getting hired by an Astaroth clan enemy. I will order some people to go and increase the security around your territory. There is also a chance that it was the work of a Stray Devil. We will also post the death of Diodora and his peerage to the other clan so they will increase their security around their house."

"Yes, Lucifer-sama"

"Also, if you can, give some of the remains of Diodora to Ajuka so he can identify the cause of his death. We don't want anyone to have the same experience."

".... Very well."

After seeing the Lord of Astaroth clan leaving the room, Sirzech rested his head on the table and looked at the rest of Maou near him.

"What do you think about this disaster?"

"It must be a Stray Devil."

Sirzech looked at his oldest friend Ajuka.

"Oh?"

"Yes, By the look of it, I can only think about the stray devil that has a grudge toward the Astaroth clan. I am embarrassed to say it, but the Astaroth clan is one of the clans that agree to mass-produce the old Evil Pieces. It must be one of the older stray devils that know the barrier around the mansion."

"... Very well. Falbium, I want your personal troops to search around the Astaroth territory and try to find some clue. I know it was useless because I know the attacker will never leave anything behind, but try it anyway."

"Why not send some of the Astaroth troops and let me lead them?"

"No. If I send the troops from the Astaroth clan, then they will always say that we are not doing our best job. However, if it was an Elite troop from Asmodeus's personal army, then they will shut up because they can't accuse you of being incompetent, not sending your best effort."

"Very well."

Sirzech nods at Falbium and looks at Serafall, who has a serious face, not her usual childish one.

"Serafall, how is our status in Japan?"

"Still shaky. Not only Rias and Sona, including their peerage, almost kill an innocent person, but also they are a Noble House coming from a line of famous Onmyōji in Japan."

"... If they are coming from the line of Onmyōji, then they should be able to defend themself from the attack."

"Yes, I am suspicious it was just a fake play that they did to make us look bad in the eyes of people who lived in Japan."

"Then they do it flawlessly, huh?"

"Yes. Also, isn't it rather ironic that they use this tactic?"

"Why?"

"Don't you remember how we get the ownership of Kuoh?"

"...We use the same tactic, don't we?"

"Yes, We use this tactic to make the Youkai faction look like a tyrant in the eyes of their people."

"Haaaaaaa, Is there any good news?"

"Yes, the good news is that Nurarihyon will not charge us with the damage."

"Why is this good news? Nurariyhon uses this opportunity to make themself as a benevolent lord and unlike us who SUPPOSE to rule the land of Kuoh Town."

"Then I don't have any good news."

"Dammit"

Sirzech massages his neck before sighing and looking at Serafall.

"How is the preparation to visit Kyoto? We need to mend our relationship with the Youkai faction, at least. We are barely able to sign a non-aggression pact with the Norse faction, so we don't need the Youkai faction to break the alliance between our race."

"The process is like usual, but because of this recent event, I will need to remind them that this is not just for vacation but also to strengthen our relationship with Youkai."

"Good"

"Are you not angry with Rias?"

"I can't stay angry with my little sister. That is why I want you to remind them about this mission. While you love Sona as I do to Rias, you still can get angry at her if she is wrong."

As they sit there in silence, one of the guards walks inside the room and gives Sirzech a piece of paper. As he reads through the document, his eyes widen the more he reads it. When he passes the paper to the other, they also have the same expression.

A few seconds later, he looks at his friend and says.

"What do you think about this?"

The first one to answer his question is Ajuka.

"This is not as bad as it looks like. The Church and Heaven faction only want someplace to let their new exorcise train."

However, Falbium disagrees with Ajuka and says.

"Yes, while it was a good thing for us that the exercise is to stay inside Kyoto, it also let Youkai troops monitor Kuoh more tightly than ever. While it was not a bad thing, our movement in Japan became tighter than before as our every movement will be watched. Also, that is the reason why Nurarihyon was able to go to Kuoh personally to take care of the accident."

Sirzech sighs once again as the headache he feels becomes stronger than before. After rubbing his neck, he says.

"So, what should we do?"

"Nothing"

He looked at Serafall.

"There is nothing we can do about it but let it happen. Youkai faction is also kind enough that not the veteran exercise to go to Kuoh. If we show aggression, then it only makes our relationship more strained than before."

"So what are you suggesting?"

"We do nothing and let them watch our movement. We only need to show them that we do nothing wrong in their land. While the children will feel uncomfortable, they need to swallow it because of our situation."

"...Very well. We will discuss this thing tomorrow with the children present and tell them about this situation. Dismiss"

As his friend walks away from the room, Sirzech slumping into his armchair and hoping that there will be no more bad news knocking at his door.