High School DxD:Volume 5 Life 1Mục

High School DxD:Volume 5 Life 1
Mục lục [ẩn]
1 Life.1 It's summer break, let's Go to the Underworld!
1.1 Part 1
1.2 Part 2
1.3 Part 3
1.4 Part 4
1.5 Part 5
2 Translator's notes and references
Life.1 It's summer break, let's Go to the Underworld!

Part 1
“No, it was renovated. I was also shocked when I got up this morning. The house was renovated while we were sleeping.”
Breakfast set. At the table that had become five times wider than before, my father said that while wearing a smile all over his face. Gathered around the table were all the members of my new family, including myself, my parents, Buchou, Asia, Akeno-san and Xenovia.
I had questioned my father after we began eating. The short question, “What’s going on?”
My mother brought in the breakfast miso soup from the kitchen which had also become five times wider.
“Apparently Rias’s father does work related to construction as well and he said that he’d renovate this place free of charge as part of a model house.”
There’s no way that kind of story could be true! No, I could understand it if Buchou’s parents did it.
It was because she knew all this that Buchou was eating her meal calmly and silently.
Rather, let alone renovating, didn’t our lot area also expand? Haven't the neighbouring houses completely disappeared and been turned into the grounds of our new house…?
“Now that you mention it, it seems that Suzuki-san and Tamura-san next door have moved away. I hear that they suddenly obtained some favourable plots of land and then moved there.”
So said my father.
—! Buchou’s family was definitely involved with that! There was no mistake!
“It’s all right. It was a peaceful settlement. So that everyone could be happy.”
Next to me, Buchou smiled widely while whispering.
So this is the negotiation technique of Devils!? Since Buchou said so, the neighbours had surely ended up happy as well, but… How dreadful they are, the Gremory family!
My mother held out the house blueprints. It looked to be the room assignment chart.
“On the first floor are the guest rooms, living room, kitchen, and Japanese-style rooms. On the second floor are the rooms of Ise, Rias-san and Asia-chan. The arrangement has the other two adjacent to Ise’s room. It seems to be structured so that you can go between the rooms next to each other from inside.”
I see, so the second floor was entirely for Buchou’s selfishness. Uwah, my room seems to be more than four times bigger than before…Was the installation of furniture also from the Gremory’s possessions? Amazing…There was a huge television I’d never seen before in the living room. There was also a chandelier on the ceiling…
“On the third floor are your father’s and my room, the study, and the storeroom. On the fourth floor are Akeno-san’s and Xenovia’s rooms. There’s also the room for Koneko-chan, who will be coming later.”
When my eyes met with Akeno-san’s, she gave me a full-blown smile. For some reason, that smiling face looked more genuine than the smiles she usually wore…Recently, Akeno-san has had a wonderfully nice smiling face when with me.
It was different than her smiling face from before. It was difficult to explain, but could I call it her true smiling face? Akeno-san would show that face to me now. I felt closer to Akeno-san now, with her having a much gentler atmosphere compared to before.
I felt like she wasn’t an existence outside of reach anymore—. Though, for me, she was still someone far beyond my grasp…
As my heart was pounding, Buchou lightly pulled my cheek. Auu, Buchou has steadily become more severe too…I have no intention of having any master besides Buchou, though. She worries too much.
My mother continued her explanation of the room assignments.
“The fifth and sixth floors are entirely made of just vacant rooms. For the time being we intend to use them as guest rooms. Since Rias-san said she didn’t mind letting anyone have the rooms except for the second floor when we asked her.”
“Yes. This is the house of Ise’s mother and father. In the end, I and the others are just home-staying here.”
Buchou responded with words overflowing with grace.
Arere!? Buchou, didn’t you say “This is my and Ise’s house” earlier in my room!? What an about face!
“There is also an open-air garden on the roof. I will plant vegetables~”
My father said that as his eyes lit up! Aah, he has no doubts about it at all! There’s no mistake that his mind was numbed by the renovation of his dreams!
“Because we built it so sturdily, it won’t collapse even in the case of a war.”
“Hahahaha, you’re quite skilled at joking, Rias-san.”
This was the conversation between Buchou and my father…What Buchou says really is true. This house’s structure was seriously transformed so that it could withstand even a war. There couldn’t be things like cannons concealed somewhere, could there?
However, what did my father and Buchou’s father discuss during the parent visit the other day? I’m really worried about it. They couldn't have agreed on a discussion of selling me completely to the underworld or something, could they!?
There was no way that could be, but even so I felt that the eyes that my parents looked at me with had changed just a little since the day of that parent’s visit.
“There're also underground floors apparently.”
Xenovia said that while she was having a hard time with her chopsticks.
“Underground floors!?”
“Yeah, there are up to three underground floors.”
I was the one who cried out wildly. Buchou nodded and confirmed it. This house even has underground floors!?
“The first underground floor is a huge spacious room. Not only can it be used as a training room, it can also be used as a movie theatre. It’s also equipped with a large indoor bath. The second underground floor is used entirely for an indoor pool. It can also use warm water. In the third underground floor are a library and a storehouse.”
Buchou explained this while taking out additional blueprints.
…So my house even has an indoor pool…I don’t know what's what anymore…
“Since there’s also an elevator, you can smoothly get on and off from the sixth ground floor to the third underground floor.”
This house also has an elevator…It’s like a real building. I didn’t have any words left to say anymore.
In this way, my house was transformed into a palatial residence a few days after summer holidays began.


“You’re returning to the Underworld!?”
Breakfast had ended, and Buchou nodded at me as I sat in my room. All the members of the occult research club were gathered in my room.
All the members who were living together had rough appearances.
Kiba, Koneko-chan and Gasper had arrived at my house just a little while ago as well.
The first two were wearing casual clothes. Koneko-chan in a one-piece dress looked cute.
Even with this many people here, there was plenty of extra space in my room. Everyone sat on expensive-looking sofas.
Only Gasper got into a cardboard box he brought along, but…He was dressed in girl clothes! That’s also as usual! Yeah! The cross-dressing boy!
“I’m returning home now that the summer holidays have started. I do this every year. —Wait, what’s wrong, Ise? Your eyes are teary?”
I shed tears at Buchou’s words!
“Uu, because Buchou suddenly started talking about returning to the underworld, I thought of you leaving me behind and going back…”
I don’t want that! I don’t want Buchou to leave me behind and go back! When I think of Buchou’s breasts going somewhere far away, I feel sad, and I won’t be able to spend my summer holidays peacefully! I can’t imagine life without Buchou anymore!
“Geez, is that all? You and I will be together for hundreds, for thousands of years from now on, so put your mind at ease. I won’t do something like leaving you behind.”
Buchou then gave a wry smile while rubbing my cheek.
I see, we are Devils. We live longer than humans. So Buchou and I, as well as the other club members, will be together for a long time. When I think of that, I don’t feel lonely at all.
Surely, I’ll live much longer than Matsuda, Motohama, or my parents. When I think of it like that, it seems lonely…That separation that must eventually come.
Buchou gracefully drank tea as she said that. —Wait, we’re also going to the Underworld!?
“Eh!? We’re going to the Underworld too!?”
“That’s right. Since you’re all servant devils in my family, it’s only natural for you to accompany your master. You’re coming to my home together with me. Now that I think of it, this is also the first time for Asia and Xenovia, right?”
Asia nodded at Buchou’s question.
“Y-Yes! I’m nervous about going to hell while alive! I-I thought I’d like to go there with the intention of dying!”
Asia! I don’t understand what you mean at all!
“Yes. I've been interested in the underworld—in hell for a long time. However, for the sake of going to heaven, I had to serve the Lord…But now that I’m a Devil, there shouldn’t be any possibility of me going to heaven…I feel irony in setting foot in the same world as those who have been sent to hell as divine punishment. Hell, huh. It suits a former believer who became a Devil.”
Ah, you’re once again becoming depressed over futile worries, Xenovia…
“We will spend the remainder of the summer holidays there until after the 20th of August. It seems like we’ll be returning here at the end of the month. The plan is to train and attend various kinds of events at the underworld.”
Buchou thus told us the schedule. I see, so our group is going to spend time in the underworld until the end of summer. I went to the Underworld for a little bit during the battle with the Phoenix family…I don’t know anything about it besides the fact that the sky there is purple.
Also, it seems to be the place where the souls of the dead arrive at as well, and the field of business management also seems to be popular there.
But, if I spend the summer holidays there, won’t the sch