Chapter 170 - Train ride to the underworld

A few days have passed since the meeting between the three factions and there was quite an uproar among the devils of the Kuoh Highschool regarding Tatsuya and his group not being in the alliance.

Azazel also became the new advisor of the ORC and a teacher in the school and Tatsuya had to admit that it was good decision as hanging out with Gasper and Azazel while skipping classes was something that he enjoyed a lot. Though he and the other two were constantly reprimanded by Sona but Tatsuya easily got out of the situation by making Sona fl.u.s.tered or threatening her with some Magical girl So-tan photos.

Currently Tatsuya and his group along with Gremory and Sitri group who all decide to stay together were in a train compartment heading towards the underworld.

Tatsuya was playing a game of chess with Sona while the others were enjoying themselves. Rias came towards them and asked, "Hey Tatsuya can you tell me why did you not join the alliance."

Tatsuya didn't even looked at her and said, "Because I didn't want to."

Hearing that Rias's brows twitched while Sona just sighed and said, "Leave it Rias, he is not going to change his decision, but still it was shocking when you said that you are not going to join the alliance."

Tatsuya just stood up from his seat and said, "If you think that it was shocking then you all have a lot to learn. First rule of every leader should be to not take any rash moves and take everything into consideration and by the way checkmate." and walked away leaving the two heiresses confused.

He then sat beside Azazel who was at the bar and took a drink for himself.

Azazel looked at him and asked, "Drinking this early?"

Tatsuya looked at him and said, "Like you are one to talk. Anyway how is the alliance coming along?"

Azazel took a sip of his drink and said, "Well it is going well, it's just that my schedule got very hectic. I have already sent some invitations to some mythologies who I think might cooperate with us."

Tatsuya just nodded and then said, "And how are you going to rule out the spies and traitors?"

Azazel just sighed and said, "Well we can just pray to God and hope that nothing goes wrong, afterall it is impossible for is to find who is a spy or who is not if we don't have any evidence and just pointing someone out without evidence will only make the relations with the other factions worse."

Tatsuya nodded and then said, "By the way I hope that you don't use 'god' when you are with devils, your impressions in front of them which is already bad will worsen further." and looked at the devils who were clutching their heads because of the pain.

Azazel just smiled wryly and apologised for his mistake. Rias then looked at him and said, "It's fine, by the way Azazel can you tell us why the guy sitting beside you didn't join the alliance, I am getting curious because of it. I just went through the doc.u.ments and didn't find anything that may cause any harm to him."

Azazel took his glass and gulped the remaining drink down and said, "Yeah, there is nothing there in the clause related to his group and that is the reason."

Hearing that the rest of the people except for Tatsuya's group got confused but some people who were on the smarter side realized what was the reason.

Tatsuya looked at Sona who had widened eyes and said with a smile, "It looks like you realised it So-tan."

Sona looked at him with a serious expression and said, "There is indeed nothing there in the doc.u.ments that will be bad for your group but the fact that there is nothing that is beneficial for you made you reject the alliance, right?"

Tatsuya just nodded and said, "Indeed it is just like a contract which say that we will provide you protection, 'when you are in danger' but in return you have to work for the alliance. I mean which idiot will even take agree to such an agreement. Besides it will be mostly you the alliance who will be in need of protection, rather than us. So it is totally one sided crap. There are clauses that are helpful for the three factions, like Azazel's research on Sacred gears, Devils peerage technology information and even Heaven's support which is beneficial for devils as they are weak against holy element. I have no use of any of these benefits that the alliance is giving so simply not joining it is something that I would do."

Hearing that most of the people who were not aware of Tatsuya's group full might thought that he was arrogant and Rias said, "You mean to say that you have no need for protection against enemies? Don't you think that you are getting too arrogant? No matter how strong you are, you cannot be stronger than the three factions."

Hearing that Tatsuya was about to say something but Azazel interrupted him and then said, "Don't underestimate them Gremory heiress, his whole group even without him participating can easily crush both Grigori and Devil faction, with ease."

Rias looked surprised from Azazel's words and she was not alone. Sona's peerage except for Sona, Tsubaki and Saji had the same thought as well.

Rias then said, "That is simply over exaggeration?" But Azazel shook his head and said, "I would have agreed with you if I would have not seen the power of those two girls against Katerea that day, but now I cannot say the same especially since I don't know the power that other members of his group pack? Who knows if they are at the same level as them or some might be even stronger than them?"

Hearing that the all of them remained silent till an announcement about reaching the Sitri territory was made. Tatsuya stood up from his seat and bid Sona and the others farewell and promised to meet her later.

Azazel then looked at Rias and then said, "Anyway let's go, we have to discuss something important right?"

Rias looked at Azazel and then nodded her head. Azazel then looked at Tatsuya and said, "You too Tatsuya."

Tatsuya who was playing games with Gasper threw the console towards Kiba who caught it and said, "Coming." and left with the other two.