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Vali stopped the mocking smirk and narrowed her eyes at Issei. Issei, too, didn't look away, returning Vali's gaze with a dead-serious expression.
"I'm definitely gonna surpass you, Vali."
"!!"
Issei declared it with force.
At first, Vali looked dumbfounded. But once she grasped the meaning behind his words, she smiled with a happiness he had never seen before.
"Yes. I'm looking forward to you climbing all the way up to where I am…"
"When we first met, I was disappointed by the 'weakest Red Dragon Emperor in history' with no talent whatsoever. But you've grown in ways no Red Dragon Emperor ever has before. You might be the first Red Dragon Emperor who tries to master his power while talking things through with Ddraig."
"Is that true, Ddraig?"
[Indeed. Past Red Dragon Emperors were all strong from the very start. They all wielded their power as they pleased, drowned in it, and met their end while still young, scattering their lives in combat. But you are different. You were pathetically weak at the beginning. That's precisely why you thought about so many things to become stronger, you conversed with me, and you grew without drowning in your power. You are the first Red Dragon Emperor to do so.]
Ddraig spoke, sounding somehow pleased.
"And you had Fuwa Kazuki by your side. Right there next to you was someone stronger than you to set your sights on. That's why you were able to grow straight and true without veering off course. From where I stand, that's something to be envied."
Vali suddenly sang him praises out of nowhere.
"Well, I've kept up my training because I wanted to become strong like Senpai. But honestly, having that gap that never seems to close shoved in your face all the time is pretty rough, y'know."
[But each time, you refused to give up and rose back to your feet, didn't you? Those kinds of guys are the most troublesome opponents in a real fight.]
Surprisingly, it was Albion who backed Issei up when he let a little weakness slip.
[That's rare, White One.]
[Hmph. It just means that even I acknowledge Hyoudou Issei's growth.]
Albion answered Ddraig's teasing tone.
"That's how it is. So I'll be waiting, Issei-kun. For the day you and I can fight for real."
Vali and Issei's gazes crossed.
"Yeah. Keep waiting."
Issei thrust his fist forward, and Vali did the same, lightly bumping their knuckles together with a soft tap.
For all their bickering, it seemed these two were building a fine rivalry.
"Ho ho ho, now that's what I call youth!"
Turning toward the dreamy voice, they found Odin—someone who had no business being there and shouldn't have been.
'Oi, oi, what is the old man doing in a place like this? Shouldn't he have been busy preparing for the conference right about now?'
"Why are you here, Odin-sama?"
"Oh, nothing, nothing. I simply wished to mingle with the young folk. I ended up slipping away on a whim."
At the old man's words, Kazuki looked up at the sky in exasperation. Saji and the others were probably searching for him by now...
"Still, the Two Heavenly Dragons of this generation are peculiar indeed. All the past Two Heavenly Dragons were naught but rampant ruffians. They rampaged about as they pleased, clashed so fiercely they blew away the surrounding mountains and islands... and then simply went and died on their own."
Odin spoke with a sigh.
"One a hopeless pervert, the other a battle-crazed terrorist—a pair of Heavenly Dragons so dangerous one could scarcely imagine more—yet upon meeting, they did not instantly try to kill each other. Truly, you two are different."
'Yeah, sorry for being a pervert!' But it seemed Issei and the others really were unusual.
Hearing about the previous hosts, Issei felt genuinely grateful that his counterpart was Vali. If Vali had been the type to annihilate any enemy on sight, like the past White Dragon Emperors, his life would have been long over by now.
"Fufu, battle-crazed suits me just fine. The past White Dragon Emperors mean nothing to me. I will fight my own battles, exactly the way I wish." Vali declared it with a fearless smile.
'Damn it,' she looked infuriatingly cool because of how beautiful she was.
Odin narrowed his eyes as he gazed at them.
"Youth is truly wonderful. Until now, I believed that with my own wisdom, I could resolve any situation. But that was the arrogance of an old man. What is truly important is the potential of young ones like yourselves. I have come to understand this recently... How foolish I have been. To think I have forced the bill for that folly upon you all—it is nothing short of pathetic."
The old man hung his head, his eyes clouded with sorrow. 'What is with that look?' The thoughts of important people were hard to grasp. Issei exchanged glances with Kazuki and Vali.
"Well, I don't really get it, but ain't it fine just to move forward one step at a time?"
"Indeed. Besides, it's not over yet, so I think it's too early to wallow in grief."
"If you have time to lament, then take action already. Honestly, this is why old people are such a pain..."
The three of them answered, each in their own way. Odin looked dumbfounded for a moment, then suddenly burst into a roaring "HO-HO-HO-HO" of laughter.
'What the hell? Had he finally lost it?' Just as Issei was thinking that…
"Youth is splendid. It always provides stimulation to us old folk. Ah, yes. You are exactly right."
Odin nodded repeatedly, over and over. The sorrow from earlier was gone from his eyes, replaced by a light that seemed somehow fulfilled. Just at that moment…
"!!!!"
A sudden, overwhelming pressure bore down upon all of them. That presence, there was no mistaking it!
"Right on time. They're here."
Vali's lips curled into a fearless sneer. Before Issei's eyes, space itself began to distort as their immensely powerful enemies prepared to emerge.
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