The Knight Goddess 2: Prophecy

Chapter 190: Evil-Dragons

The meeting with the Vampires ended, and about 10 minutes have passed.

“I sure can’t come to like the Vampires like always……” Xenovia said and smacked the table.

“If it was you in the past, you would have gone cutting at them with Durandal. You endured it well. You sure have grown.” spoke Griselda after drinking from her tea. Having the Sister praise her, Xenovia puts on a complicated expression.

“What will you do? You probably won’t be able to ignore their cooperation. If you agree to their terms, you will end up sending Gasper-kun off. At the worst case, you might lose him.” Sona asks Rias.

Gasper takes a big breath, and spits it out with trembling voice.

“I-I’m going.”

"Gasper...." the rest of the members are shocked at his words.

“I’m not planning to return to the world of Vampires once again, because to me this is my home. B-But I want to save Valerie! She……I am indebted to her. Thanks to her, I was able to escape from the castle and was able to reach this place. I was able to become this happy, but thinking that Valerie is continuing to receive a painful experience is…… I am sure she is receiving unreasonable treatment!”

Gasper puts on a manly face, and then tells Rias.

“I want to save Valerie! And I will not die! I will save Valerie, and come back here!”

Hearing Gasper's determination, Rias stands up.

“I will be going there. This time I will be planning to sit down and talk with those from the House of Vladi. First I will go personally and see the situation over there with my own eyes. I think it won’t be late if the dispatch of Gasper comes after that.”

“Then we will also—”

Erin tries to make a suggestion, but Rias shakes her head.

“No, I want you and everyone to stay on standby in case something happens.”

“And what do you mean by that?”

Rias puts two fingers up to the Goddess' question.

“For the precondition, it’s appropriate for me who is Gasper’s master to visit them personally, and it won’t be rude towards the other party. And there will be two main reasons why I’m having all of you stay on standby here. First reason is having all of you being able to take action without me if an incident were to occur. There might be those who would attack this place so members who can handle them should stay here. For the second reason……"

Rias looks at all of her servants.

“If something were to happen to me over there, I will need reinforcements.”

“So Buchou, you are predicting that something might occur or that you might get dragged into something over there, correct?”

“That’s right, Yuuto. It will be the best if nothing happens, but judging from the past events, there is a chance that we will get dragged into it judging from the problems the Vampires are having. So it won’t be weird to take actions while anticipating it.”

“Then isn’t it better for all of us to go with you from the start……?” Rias shook her head at Erin's question.

“They will be on alert if we were to go there with all of us. Are they trying to solve it by using force? They will think like that and it will be harder to negotiate with them, so it will be appropriate for me to go there first. ……It was them who didn’t even try to listen to our words, so it is a must for me to go there. "