A Fool's Heart

The Fool

ALRIGHT GUYS!!!! HERE IT IS!!! THE BIG FIGHT!! Sairaorg vs Issei!!

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—2 weeks before the match with Sairaorg Bael

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"...What is this about, Grayfia?"

Buchou asked Grayfia-san, Sirzechs-sama's personal maid and wife, with a lack of interest.

Our group, the Occult Research Club, is currently gathered in the special training grounds used by our group for daily training. Or at the very least, the training grounds we "used to" use daily. At this point, it has almost become a rare occurrence that this place has been used for training.

Our entire group has seemingly lost all motivation to train after....Ise-kun's departure. Ever since he left, the group has been completely void of light. The mood gradually began to lighten again after the passage of one full month, but that came crashing down once the academy's cultural festival took place. That was when our group was denied the right to see Ise-kun, who had apparently attended the festival that day.

Time passed again, a few weeks, and the group began to get better. Though it wasn't much, it was easy to see that there was some light that began to surface again. Some of that was unknowingly thanks to the broadcast known as [The Adventures of the Foolish Sekiryuutei]. It was a new show that had apparently begun airing courtesy of Azazel-sensei. It was unexpected to say the least, and quite an unorthodox type of entertainment. But it was easy to tell that it wasn't just a show. Looking beyond the surface level, it was possible to realize that it was also a training regiment. An odd one that didn't really give much clues on why certain things were happening, but that's also deliberate. Surely sensei knew that there were things he had to keep hidden or omitted for the purpose of maintaining the integrity of the regiment.

All of that aside, just a few days ago, there was an incident. Our group gathered for the viewing of the broadcast as usual, but we came to find out there was none. Instead, Rossweisse-san personally received a physical copy of a CD containing the footage to the latest episode. At first, we were confused as to why it was being considered a [restricted episode], but we would soon come to know the reason why.

In the footage of the latest episode, there was nothing but a detailed recording of what was the most shocking thing we had ever witnessed. It was Ise-kun —facing off with an Evil-God, all on his own. It was an unthinkable event. Just watching the footage, it was unbelievable. It was beyond shocking. It was as if we were watching the footage of a nightmare in which a Godly being would brutalize Ise-kun without remorse until he died. It was all too much to process.

Little did we know that the most shocking part was yet to come. The truly most shocking parts— was watching Ise-kun himself wield Godly power, and fight on equal grounds with a mythological being of Greek legend. All on his own.

But above all else, the part that left us speechless, Ise-kun not only won the battle— He killed a God. He killed the very God he won his battle against. He single handedly eliminated a being from Greek legend.

After watching that event take place in the footage, we were all left speechless. It wasn't shocking to watch someone be killed. We have seen many battles, and there are those within our group who have killed enemies, but......that was not just any enemy. It was a God. An Evil-God perhaps, but a God nonetheless. With only one event, one battle, Ise-kun had essentially snuffed out an existence recorded in ancient legend.

The Ise-kun we all knew. The one who always showed mercy and had never killed one of his enemies in battle, he suddenly ripped the life of the Greek Titan-God [Atlas] from existence.