Vasco Strada

Since that day I talked with Rias, I tried my best to respond to her feeling. I would not force myself to love her, but making an effort to know her better was something I could do. There was a lot of things I did not know about her. All this time passed together and I still did not know nothing about them. Only now did I realize how much I was immersed in myself. I had dedicated all the time in my life to the training and did not know anything about my friends and my girlfriend. I did not even know when my girlfriends birthday was. Only after living a normal life with them did I discover that.

I still kept my training, but still I tried having something outside this life of fighting and destruction. By doing that I discovered that Rias and I had a lot in common. I was very surprised by her collection of games for example. I did not play as much as I did in my last life now, but I still loved playing. I was not really good with games though. Just by logging in in call of duty I managed to get myself sniped. She seemed to like beating me in the game. It seemed like she was venting her frustration she accumulated during the training with me in the game. It was hilarious though seeing the surprise in her face when I managed a lucky win against her.

Losing against me gave her a shock. After that single time I had to pass all night playing fighting games with her to satisfy her need to win. She was very competitive. I was made aware of that since that day. She seemed to be a lover of japanese culture too, enough to say that she preferred my eyes black. Her love of japan manged to scare even an otaku like me. I did like anime, not japan after all. Mine was more of a curiosity in my last life, but hers was an obsession. I could agree in her passion for cars though. She had an entire garage of cars in the underworld! I was a lover of cars too in my past life. I had a license to drive trucks too. I made her promise to make me ride at least one of them the next time. She had the same reaction I had to her love of japan, but she agreed to my request.

Obviously I did not pass all my time with Rias though. I managed to know better Akeno too. She liked more researching food and shopping. I loved that. They do say that the first step toward a man's heart is his stomach and I can confirm that. Just going outside with her, watching movies and shopping was enough for me. I was thinking of making a gift by myself for her. I was at a good point in my alchemy research so I was thinking of making her a gift that could protect her too. Maybe a ring. I was sure she would like that. I did manage to get information about everyone's birthday, so I knew Akeno's was during the summer break. Precisely on July 21, just one day after the beginning of the summer break. Rias's had passed. She was born on april 9th. Everything was peaceful. I trained. Passed some times with my friends, trained, went out with Akeno, Rias and Asia. I managed to know better the time stopping half vampire too. Gasper was a strange person, or dhampyr. At first I thought he was a girl, but it turned out he was a male. Honestly that was not so strange in an anime so I did not find it that strange that he liked to cross-dress. I mean if it makes him happy, who am I to judge that as a wrong thing? The strange thing was that he moved around inside a box even though he was immune to the sunlight. It seemed like he was some sort of hikkikomori too.

I could understand that this world was scary, but not training was not something I could allow him. He was a liability with his time stopping power, if he did not manage to control it, so I forced him a little. I was about to understand the time law too, so having him near me when he used that sacred gear would be beneficial for me. I think they called it "Forbidden Valor View". There was something worrying about him though. Contrary to his cute look, everything inside seemed dark. In a way he seemed to be darkness himself and something even more dangerous was inside him. I could feel something inside his sacred gear. Since that time I healed Misla Bael I was very sensitive to souls, so I could feel the fragment of soul power inside his sacred gear. It should not be the god Balor inside his sacred gear, right? I'm sure it's only my imagination. It must be so. I decided to not think about it. He seemed just a scaredy-cat dhampyr so I would treat him like that.

It was near june that I felt a giant aura approach the city. It seemed the aura of a human being? He seemed to come in the direction of our home. So while I was waiting his arrival I tried inquiring Rias if someone had some kind of appointment with her today. She did not seem to know anything. I prepared myself for a possible attack in that moment and got myself ready to attack at the first sign of hostility. A giant appeared in front of my door. He seemed to be about 2 meters tall. He seemed a white-haired old man, with wrinkles, if I watched only his face. His body was something different though. He had also an extremely developed muscular build, contradicting his advanced age. His body and aura seemed to have been refined by thousands of fights. Everything about him seemed to indicate a peak martial art master, a true warrior.

"Is this the house of Rias Gremory? I am Vasco Strada, I've come from the Vatican to talk to Asia Argento. Is it possible to meet her?" He talked to me in Italian. It seemed like he came to the first place with some demonic power. Rias and the other came outside in that moment with the others. Asia came outside too to see what was happening.