The Esper Devil ( Esper OC X Highschool DxD )

Chapter 48 - The long awaited trip

It's finally the day of our school trip to Kyoto. 

Me, Aya-chan and Ayumu are making our final preparations together with Liliana and the others from her peerage.

Aya-chan will stay with Liliana during our trip, she's a first grader so she can't go with us in the trip and obviously we won't leave her at home alone

"So this will be our farewell for now, huh?"

I ask, Liliana nods

"As much as I'd like to send you two off in the train station, it would be a problem if an unrelated teacher or student were to see us together and talked about it in Kyoto"

Aya-chan comes and hugs both me and Ayumu

"W-woah!"

Ayumu is taken by surprise

"Please be careful! I'll be waiting for you two!"

Ughhh! So cute!

I pat her head

"Don't worry, you too stay safe, alright?"

She nods

"Yes, I'll get stronger too so I can fight alongside you!"

Both me and Ayumu smile, I'm pleased mostly because Ayumu seems to really have taken a liking for Aya-chan even though...

"Ayumu-chan, take care of Tachan, okay~?"

Liliana says with a wink

Ayumu lifts her head from looking at Aya-chan to look at Liliana and her expression immediately turns sour

"R-right..."

She still doesn't seem to like Liliana very much.

"You two already have our numbers, in case anything happens contact us at anytime"

We nod, even with the ORC and Azazel present, Liliana thinks it's better if we talk to her directly.

And I agree, after all, we've been much closer to her and this whole plan was hers and Azazel's idea.

Also because... it could happen again.

While looking at the numbers I had saved in my phone, I smiled

"Not long ago I was trying to kill you... and look where we are now"

I get a few chuckles

"Never imagined you would become friends with a bunch of devils, huh?"

I laugh awkwardly

"Nope, not at all... but..."

I scratch my head

"In fact, I feel a little guilty over the fact that I only stopped to get to know you when I realized you were espers."

Remembering the day when we met. 

The day when Liliana stopped me from killing the ORC and the Student Council...

Even after captured, I only stopped struggling after they showed me they were espers

"If you hadn't showed me you were espers, I wonder what would have happened..."

Just as I start feeling bad, I feel two hands on my shoulders

"Hey!"

Liliana stands in front of me, looking directly eye-to-eye

The confidence reflected in her beatiful golden eyes, sends shivers down my spine and makes me freeze in place