DxD: I Sealed Sukuna’s Finger, Now They Want My Number Chapter 543: [543] : Battle Healer Asia

In any case, Venelana's stay on Itogami Island was settled for now.

Inside the seaside villa, ti quickly arrived at post-lunch.

"Bokue, if you're free right now, could you bring this to Gasper?"

At the dining table, Rias—busy with cleanup work alongside the other girls—suddenly turned around, handing the young man a plate containing a single serving of food.

"Here—I picked everything she likes. She should be upstairs in her room right now. Just leave it outside her door, knock, and let her know."

"She... eats food?"

Bokue looked at the still-warm al in his hands hesitantly.

"Of course she does. Why wouldn't she?"

Rias blinked with confusion.

"Ah right, almost forgot you didn't know... Honestly, though Gasper's a vampire, she has severe hemophobia—so bad she's never sucked blood even once. She supplents nutrition by eating normal als like us. Plus, vampires aren't limited to blood consumption anyway."

"No, that's not what I ant."

Bokue glanced at the wall clock—only 12:30 PM now.

"I ant vampires usually co out at night, right? She should still be sleeping at this hour?"

"Mm... that's not impossible."

Rias thought briefly.

"Though Gasper's sleep schedule isn't that regular. Sotis she's awake during the day gaming in her room. Just take it up and check—if she's awake, she'll take it inside to eat."

"Got it..."

Scene transition—Bokue had already carried the al upstairs to stand before a certain blonde vampire girl's door.

Right now, basically all the girls were downstairs busy with lunch cleanup. The entire second floor was so quiet not a single person remained.

Bokue raised his hand to knock.

"Gasper, I left your lunch outside the door. If you're awake, rember to co get it and eat."

Bokue's voice wasn't loud—after all, he didn't know if Gasper was actually awake inside.

If she was awake, hearing the knock would probably make her open the door. But if she was sleeping, at least this wouldn't disturb her rest.

So after setting down the al, Bokue turned to leave.

However, just then—

Creeeak—

Before the young man's steps could advance, the door behind him suddenly opened a crack on its own.

Then a small head poked out from below the door's edge.

Eh?

Hearing the sound, Bokue reflexively turned to look—eting eyes with the blonde vampire girl peeking out. Their four eyes t, and he couldn't help but freeze slightly.

"Gasper, why'd you co out?"

"Mm... b-because you knocked saying you brought food..."

Gasper answered while prettily lifting her head from beside the door.

Right now, the blonde vampire girl was crawling on all fours from inside the room, poking out half her body. She wore the school swimsuit Bokue had bought her at Keystone Gate's shopping center earlier—the highly elastic fabric clearly outlining the girl's budding curves.

Though there was still almost no developnt to speak of.

And she still gripped a gaming handheld in her hands, its screen displaying a pause nu.

Clearly before Bokue arrived, she'd been lying on the room floor playing her handheld. Hearing soone bringing food, she was too lazy to even stand up—just crawled right out.

"Um... want to co sit inside for a bit?"

After brief pause, Gasper suddenly asked sothing even she found hard to believe.

But imdiately she added another line.

"I-I'll finish eating really fast!"

Mm... so hearing this, she wanted him to wait upstairs a bit? Then after finishing eating, help carry the dishes back down?

Bokue thought.

Though that wasn't unreasonable. After all, right now Rias and the others were washing dishes downstairs. Plus dayti temperatures weren't that cool—even with AC, the room temperature hovered around 26°C (79°F).

Given a certain ultimate social anxiety shut-in vampire girl's personality, if she left finished dishes sitting in her room all afternoon unwashed, by evening the leftover sauce on the plates would probably start fernting.

So as the door closed, Bokue entered the room.

Pretty much matching common stereotypes about vampires, Gasper's room was quite dim. All curtains were tightly drawn, lights not turned on.

Plus the cardboard box she used as a coffin substitute for sleeping sat right in the room's center.

Since she needed to eat, naturally she couldn't ga simultaneously. Gasper could only place her handheld on the bedside table against the wall, plugging in the charging cable. She herself returned to beside the cardboard box, picking up her lunch to eat.

Honestly, she really looked like a golden hamster desperately stuffing things into her mouth.

Bokue sat nearby propping up his chin, watching for a while.

"Speaking of which, Gasper, you stayed in your room all morning without coming out, right?"

"Mm, yeah..."

The blonde vampire girl battling her al couldn't spare ti to lift her head, only responding unclearly.

"Then why are you wearing a swimsuit?"

Bokue pointed at the school swimsuit on her body.

"Mm, about that..."

Gasper's eating movents paused slightly. She pulled her face from the food, mouth still holding half a chicken tender, thinking briefly.

"Actually, I originally wanted to go out and play. But there were way too many people outside."

"...This ti everyone ca out vacationing together. Of course there are lots of people."

Bokue explained.

"Right, that's exactly why!"

Gasper pouted slightly, looking sowhat aggrieved.

"Because there are so many people outside—many I don't even know—if I go out, I'd have to wear my cardboard box. But outside is right by the ocean. If I went out, the box might get wet from seawater. Even if not wet, it might get sand inside. Then sleeping would be really uncomfortable."

"...So you basically can't go out at all?"

Bokue's mouth twitched.

As long as other people remained outside, absolutely no going out? Truly a permanent shut-in?

"Not necessarily."

Gasper spoke while continuing to pick up food and send it to her mouth.

"When evening cos and everyone's resting, I can co out. Then I won't need the cardboard box and can wander the beach outside."

"How about I co keep you company tonight for a walk?"

Bokue suggested.

Eh?

Hearing these words, the blonde vampire girl first froze slightly, her gaze reflexively drifting elsewhere. Two faint blushes blood on her face—pale as a vampire's.

Finally, she obediently nodded her small head.

"Mm... mm, okay."

Just like that, Bokue waited until Gasper finished eating before taking the dishes to leave.

However, since they'd chatted upstairs for a while, by the ti he returned to the first floor with the dishes, the parlor stood completely empty.

Cleanup work had long finished. The girls had either gone back out to play or returned upstairs to their rooms for afternoon naps.

No choice—he'd have to wash them himself.

Yet just as Bokue turned on the faucet to place the dishes in the sink, soone from outside entered the parlor, coming to his side.

Along ca that familiar form of address and gentle, soft tone.

"Bokue-san, did you just co from Gasper-san's room?"

Soone polite enough to add honorifics after everyone's nas—obviously could only be Asia.

The nun sohow hadn't been dragged out to play by Shidou Irina and Xenovia at this hour. Instead, she'd returned ho from outside.

"Yeah."

Bokue quickly cleaned the grease off the dishes, then turned on the faucet to rinse away the foam.

"Gasper didn't want to co downstairs because there were too many people. I could only wait for her to finish eating before bringing the dishes down."

"I see. Bokue-san really is such a gentle person..."

Hearing this, Asia's upturned mouth corners curved upward several more degrees. Yet both small hands clasped tightly before her, seeming sowhat nervous.

"Um... actually, there's sothing I want to apologize to Bokue-san for."

"Apologize? Did sothing happen?"

Bokue had already finished washing the dishes and placed them on the rack.

He shook his hands to flick off remaining water droplets before wrapping an arm around the blonde nun's slender waist, directly lifting Asia up.

"That's... um..."

As if not expecting the young man to suddenly make such a bold move, Asia's cheeks flushed slightly red.

"This morning when we first arrived at the resort island, Irina-san and Xenovia-san originally wanted to invite to play beach volleyball together. But I was worried vigorous exercise might make my clothes co loose, so I used helping Bokue-san as an excuse to return to the villa. Then on the way upstairs looking for Bokue-san, I accidentally overheard Bokue-san and Lady Venelana..."

Of course doing that kind of thing.

Even without Asia saying it directly, Bokue could accurately guess.

After all, this entire morning he'd basically done nothing except wildly swimming dragons in a certain beautiful lady's belly.

"Oh, you an that, Asia."

Bokue made an understanding sound.

"Mm, it's fine. If you heard, you heard."

"Eh?"

Asia froze slightly at this answer completely contrary to her expectations.

"Wait, um... Bokue-san, you're not angry?"

"Not angry. Why would I be angry?"

Bokue gave the nun's bottom a light pat.

"It's just being overheard. Actually, this matter shouldn't have been hidden from you all anyway. It's just that mother-in-law hasn't prepared herself ntally to co clean with Rias yet, so we can only temporarily drag things out."

"Eh..."

Asia first couldn't help but exclaim in amazent, then imdiately reacted.

"Wait, but if that's the case and Rias-san actually finds out, wouldn't that be... Plus Lady Venelana is Rias-san's..."

"Right, which is precisely why mother-in-law is still hesitating."

Bokue shrugged.

"If we're really talking about moral issues... let put it this way—if truly starting from a moral standpoint, then from the very beginning I fundantally shouldn't have accepted Rias, shouldn't have accepted Akeno, shouldn't have accepted you, Asia. I shouldn't have even accepted Kuroka."

"Eh eh eh? Even Kuroka-san...?"

Asia was stunned.

If even Kuroka-san wasn't the first to be with Bokue-san, then who would be that first one?

Plus if she rembered correctly, Kuroka-san had said when she first t Bokue-san, he wasn't even ten years old yet. If there was soone before that, wouldn't that an... nnh, could it be with little Bokue-san...?

Just thinking about it made the nun's small head feel like it was smoking.

"Yeah, exactly."

Bokue spoke frankly.

"But if that's the case, let circle back—why should I sacrifice my own happiness and give up all of yours just to make my actions conform to so-called mainstream morality?"

"Besides, even if soone wanted to point fingers and gossip, they'd need the guts to do it."

Just... completely irrefutable.

Like how having multiple wives and concubines in ancient tis was at most used for behind-the-back gossip about local wealthy gentry's extravagant lifestyles. But to actually use it to criticize the emperor face-to-face at court... that person probably thought their nine generations had too many mbers.

For Bokue, it was the sa. With his power, setting aside becoming a nation's ruler—even if he beca an emperor annexing the entire human world under his possession, no one could stop him.

He simply had naturally weak ambition for authority. Matters like "waking to hold the world's power" really couldn't interest him—too troubleso. So even now he'd only casually picked a place by eye, claid so territory to settle down, and left the rest to chance. He was even too lazy to personally manage a tiny place like Itogami Island—still leaving it to the original Managent Corporation to handle.

But if soone really ca to nitpick before his face... that took serious courage.

"So that's how Bokue-san thinks..."

Head resting on the young man's shoulder, Asia could clearly feel her cheek temperature rapidly rising.

After all, what could be more heart-stirring than the man you love declaring he'd give you happiness?

"By the way, Bokue-san, could you help Asia with one more thing?"

"What is it?"

"I'd like Bokue-san to give so guidance. During the tripartite talks before, Lord Michael helped Asia reincarnate as an angel. After becoming an angel, Asia can clearly feel her power has increased, and I seem able to use so techniques I've never used before."

The nun paused here, blinking.

"But because Irina-san and Xenovia-san are Holy Sword wielders, and Rias-san and the others are all demons, I couldn't find anyone to instruct . Since Bokue-san is free right now, could you help check?"

"I can, though I can't guarantee I'll give valuable advice."

Bokue gave a preventative warning first.

After all, he was soone who could take a mage starting point and forcibly train it into a hexagonal warrior. If he really gave guidance... emmm... hard to say.

But in any case, let's try first.

So monts later, Bokue followed Asia to the beach outside.

The nun extended her pale, slender palm, lightly raising it toward the ocean before her.

"Apocalypse!"

As her words fell, a golden sun rose thunderously from beneath the ocean surface.

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