Fate DxD

Chapter 72

I take a deep breath. I'm standing in front of the school entrance and notice a small note stuck to the gate. "Come in, it's open!" with a drawing of a little bat. I open the gate and close it behind me, causing the note to disintegrate. I climb the stairs of the old building and stop in front of the door, before knocking.

"Come in!" Rias' voice is heard.

I open the door and walk in. They all turn their eyes to me, especially Rias, her face lighting up when she sees me.

"Senji, glad to see you with us." She said, rising from her chair.

"Good evening president, everyone. First of all, I'd like to apologize for this message without warning you of anything. I'll answer any questions you may have." I say to Rias.

"Your request for help? At last Senji, you know very well now that we're here to help each other." Rias explains with a smile.

"I know... But with what's been going on, I thought you'd try to avoid anything remotely related to Darwin's Game."

"On the contrary Emiya-kun, to prevent such a situation from happening again, President herself had begun to prepare a way to keep a better eye on Fuyuki." Kiba explains.

"That's right, but when I received your plan, I thought it was the best solution, leaving you in charge, since you're part of it." Rias agrees.

"Besides, Minori-sensei warned us that you had a plan you were going to launch as soon as you got out of hospital, so we've been waiting for that, fufufu." Akeno chuckles.

"Obviously, it suits her to talk too much... Anyway, it served its purpose. By the way, thank you Asia, for bringing them the flags." I pat Asia on the head.

"No problem Senji-san, I'll always be here to help you!" She declares.

"Well, otherwise, how do you feel?" Rias asks, with a look of concern.

"It's okay, I've lost a little weight and muscle, that's all. Now I just have to double my exercise to get back what I lost." I explain, flexing my biceps.

"Don't overdo it right now, your body as well as your mind has been under a lot of stress, so take it easy again okay? Go find out what counter-shocks you can get." Rias asks

"About that... I must..." Rias puts a finger to my lips, stopping me from speaking.

"You want to apologize? There's no need Senji, you're the only person here who doesn't need to apologize." Rias explains, withdrawing her finger.

"But I almost..." She shakes her head.

"The fox demon tried to kill us, but you stopped him, you probably don't remember, but you held the fox demon back, it was incredible to see. You stopped it or made it change direction. I've never seen anyone with so much willpower, especially after what happened." Rias recounts.

"Fufufu... you were no less terrifying in that form, we could hardly breathe when we were next to you." Akeno added, licking her lips.

"In any case, we're the ones who owe you an apology, so excuse us, we failed, we could have acted much sooner but we were blind." Rias bows her head, followed by the others.

"Um... No, it doesn't, I feel like we're reversing roles..." I scratch my head. "...Thank you... thank you for fighting for Youta. I'll never forget it."

"We couldn't cross our arms while you and Youta were the prey of a manhunt." Kiba said.

"But hey, now that it's all over, we have to move on, don't we?" Rias says, sitting back in her chair. "And let's get on with our lives as Kuoh's student and the devil of the occult research club, shall we?"