Solo Leveling

(S3) Chapter 3: Train to Hell (Part 1)

Third Person POV

Issei: "Hey Kiba..."

Kiba: "Yes, Issei?"

Issei looked at the blonde knight.

Issei: "If I ever say 'I took a train to Hell'... please kill me."

Kiba: "Say no more."

Currently, Issei was hanging out with Kiba as the two were chilling on a wall-mounted table. After Rias announced that they were going to be spending their summer in the underworld, Issei informed his mother that he would be spending the summer with some friends, which she was alright with.

Miki was glad that her son had managed to make some actual friends, proper ones and not the two perverted idiots that he used to hang out with back in the day. Miki never really liked them, seeing them as nothing more than bad influences on her son. This, unfortunately, brought some bad memories to Issei, who still blamed himself for their deaths.

Either way, Miki told Issei to have fun with his friends and stay safe while he was at it. He told his mother that he would, just as long as she didn't do anything stupid like spend time with a certain person who kept coming over to their house.

Miki knew that Issei was talking about Azazel; he never really trusted him when they first met. She understood that Issei was protective of her, especially since she had overworked herself to the point of collapsing into a coma. But Azazel was a good friend, and she enjoyed spending time with him; he made her smile and laugh.

Issei just needed to understand that.

He'd come around and learn to trust Azazel; she wasn't sure when such a thing would happen. However, she believed that they both would get along with each other eventually.

Hopefully...

Anyways, not long had passed since Issei, Rias, and her Peerage had left the human world and begun their travel to the underworld, but they weren't taking any magic circles to get there; no, apparently they were instead taking a train to Hell, a literal train.

Issei couldn't recall the name of the train, probably something along the lines of "The Gremory Express" or something. Either way, the name of the vehicle didn't matter at the moment because Issei had to admit, despite not meeting Rias's family—minus her older brother... he was starting to like them more and more.

This train was pretty cool in his opinion; the room that he was currently in was very spacious. In fact, there was so much room that Issei figured it could be compared to the layout of a small house. Of course, most of the space was being taken up by things such as tables, chairs, and potted plants, but the fact still stood.

The train was cool, and Issei was definitely going to use it the next time he decided to go to hell, no pun intended. Maybe he would decide to explore it a little bit to see if all the rooms were the same or if they were all individually different from one another.

Issei glanced over at Kiba and saw that he was reading some sort of book.

Issei: "Hey, Kiba."

Kiba: "Hm?"

Issei pointed at the book in his hands.