Player of Fate

Hell

- 30 minutes later -

After eating a quick but tasty breakfast that Gremory made in order to forget of you-know-what, the redhead and I made our way to the nearest train station as our first stop. Our walk was a pleasantly quite one where no words were exchanged between us, simply due to the fact that neither of us were trying to make any small talk for different reasons. If I could see myself right now from a different point of view, we would just look like complete strangers that so happen to be heading towards the same direction/destination, not travelling companions.

We eventually reached the nearest train station, where we end up inside a small elevator that seems big enough for eight people to fit without any luggage added into the equation. As Gremory took a card from a magic circle, my mind wondered on something else...

Why use a train to travel between worlds?

I've been trying (and failing) to remember/think of the reason why Devils have to ride a literal Express Train to Hell because the more I think about it, the more stupid and pointless the idea seems to be. They have magic circles to travel to nearly anywhere, yet they're using trains in order to move between both worlds? Talk about a serious waste of parts.

Once we reached the bottom, ending up in a massive cave, I followed her on boarding the train that the [House of Gremory] owned. And once boarded, I was greeted by a rather interesting view: Gremory's [Knight], [Rook] and [Queen] dressed very differently from one another.

A true Yamato Nadeshiko is the first thing that came to mind when I laid my eyes on Himejima, even more so than she would normally be in school. Gremory's [Queen] is dressed in a lovely violet yukata that's held together by a red obi, and it did nothing more but highlight her beautiful curves. The yukata covered by purple and white cherry blossoms prints, with more flowers and cherry blossoms of different shapes and colours at the bottom part of the sleeves and rode. And like anyone who's wearing a yukata/kimono formally, she has the tabi and zōri combo instead of the typical geta. If it wasn't for the [Gamer's Mind], I would be so star struck by her beauty that I can be mistaken for a very realistic statue for standing so still.

Kiba, on the other hand, gave off the image of a handsome lady thanks to her dressed in a suit. The suit in question looks very similar the one that her male counterpart wore for Gremory's wedding with Phenex, but a few alterations: She has a tie with a very detailed western sword printed on it instead of a bow-tie, the button undershirt is a light grey colour and the vest is a double-breasted version with two side pockets. In all honesty, even I would think that Kiba's just a very pretty boy rather than a cross-dressing girl if it wasn't for the fact that I know the [Knight]'s actual gender in the first place.

As for Tōjō, her attire is a white t-shirt underneath a sleeveless zipper vest, a black bonnet with the image of a cat on it on top of her head, wristbands with a tiger stripe pattern between pink, white and black. Her black skirt stopped right in the middle of her thigh and black shoes with thigh-high socks that forms the famous Zettai Ryōiki. Despite dressing in a modernly plain manner, she looks really cute right now that I want to pet her-

"Kōjiro-kun." Gremory's voice broke me out of my trancing and forcing me to look at her to be greeted by various expressions from the rest of the team: A scowl from Tōjō, a forced smile from Himejima, a normal smile from Kiba and a 'You should greet your trainees.' look from the redhead.

"...Are you all ready to train your asses off?" Rather greeting them like a normal person, I went straight to business by asking them an important question. While they were a bit surprised, I saw the shift in their expressions before nodding "Good. Now I'll explain my training plan right here because we'll start training after we set things up in Gremory's home." I paused for a second before focusing on [Knight] and [Rook], mostly the former "I'll start with Kiba and Tōjō."