Chiba Prefecture, Nishi-Funabashi Station.
This is a railway station located at Nishifun4-chome, Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture. It is shared by East Japan Railway, Tokyo Metro and Toyo Rapid Railway. There are five railway lines in total. The route stop is one of the very important transfer points in the western part of Chiba Prefecture and even in the eastern suburbs of the entire Tokyo district. It is also the largest station with the largest flow of people in Chiba Prefecture.
When it started to get light that day, the station was already in operation, but the station gate had not yet been fully opened.
Under such circumstances, Leo and his group appeared here.
"Ha~~~"
As soon as they arrived at their destination, all the Eligos Peerages yawned in unison, looking like they had just woken up and were still very sleepy.
"No - is it necessary to leave so early?"
Utaha Kasumigaoka yawned and complained loudly, dragging a large suitcase in his hand, wearing a preppy dress, looking like a beautiful girl artist who went out to collect materials.
"It's not even bright yet."
Yukino Yukinoshita also rubbed his eyes. Like Utaha Kasumigaoka, he was dragging a huge suitcase in his hand. He was wearing a one-piece floral skirt and high-heeled sandals, as if he was about to go to the beach for vacation.
"It seems that everyone is very sleepy."
"I should have made a cup of tea first if I had known better."
Asuna Yuuki and Mahiru Shiina appear to be in better condition than Yukino Yukinoshita and Utaha Kasumigaoka, but they also look like they have just woken up, smiling wryly.
Of course, both of them were dragging suitcases in their hands. One was dressed more dashingly, looking like he could move easily, while the other was dressed more conservatively, with only the skin of her ankles exposed. But without exception, they were beautiful girls who impressed everyone at first sight.
On the other hand, Leo, although he was yawning, looked energetic.
"What?" Leo asked a little strangely, "Didn't you sleep last night?"
Hearing this, the girls all cast resentful glances at Leo.
"How is it possible that I can sleep?" Yukino Yukinoshita said bluntly, "Suddenly he said that he was going to take leave for special training, and he didn't explain clearly to us what to do. As a result, I thought about it all night long, and it was difficult to fall asleep at all."
Utaha Kasumigaoka, Asuna Yuuki and Mahiru Shiina nodded and agreed with Yukino Yukinoshita's words.
Because of Leo's speech yesterday, the four of them not only asked for a long leave from school, but also suspended operations of Devil's business. However, they could not sleep peacefully no matter what. They could only think wildly in bed and couldn't fall asleep no matter what.
It's all Leo's fault. He just said those words and left without saying anything about where he was going for special training or how he was going to be trained.
"You can't blame me, right?" Leo spread his hands and said, "For the next special training, I have to communicate with Underworld first and confirm the itinerary before making the next decision."
"So, it's not that I didn't tell you, it's just that I hadn't even written a word about it at that time, so I thought I'd tell you in detail after confirming the itinerary."
After hearing Leo's explanation, the girls' resentment dissipated a lot.
"Then you can tell us now where we are going, right?" Utaha Kasumigaoka looked at Nishi-Funabashi Station in front of him and said, "They ask us to pack our luggage as soon as possible and take us to the station. Do you want to go to a remote mountainous forest in some remote countryside?"
"Isn't that a school trip?" Asuna Yuuki tilted his head and said, "Or should we go to a small island overseas?"
"I traveled in such a hurry that I didn't even have time to make adequate preparations." Mahiru Shiina said worriedly, "It would be great if we could make travel plans in advance."
The girls were talking to each other, which broke the silence and made them seem a bit chattering and noisy.
It can be seen that they are now curious and uneasy, excited and confused, which makes them appear a little more restless than usual.
"Okay, stop guessing." Leo interrupted the conversation of the girls and said, "We are not going to a deep mountain or old forest somewhere, nor are we going to some uninhabited island overseas, but to Underworld."
As soon as these words came out, the girls were stunned.
"Underworld?"
Yukino Yukinoshita, Asuna Yuuki, and Utaha Kasumigaoka looked a little surprised.
"Ming, Underworld?"
Mahiru Shiina was the only one present who had never been to Underworld, so he seemed a little shocked.
"That's right." Leo stood in front of the girls with one hand on his waist and said, "Although I don't want to hide in Underworld, but judging from the current situation, if we want to train well for a period of time and prevent ourselves from being disturbed by anything from the outside world, it would be better to leave Human World and go to Underworld."
"You haven't been to Eligos Territory yet, have you?"
"This time I will take you back to have a good look at what our family's territory is like."
Hearing this, the girls looked at each other.
"Since we are going to Underworld, why don't we just use the magic square to teleport there like we did last time?"
Yukino Yukinoshita quickly calmed down and asked.
"As for the reason, I told you in Familiar Forest last time, right?" Leo glanced at Yukino Yukinoshita and said, "Newborn dependents like you Devil cannot directly use the magic square to jump to Underworld, otherwise it will be regarded as illegal intrusion. Last time, I just made a special request for an exception from above, so that you can directly use the magic square to jump to Underworld."
"If you want to use the Rubik's Cube to jump to Underworld, you must use the official channel of Human World to enter the country once. After completing the immigration procedures, you will not be regarded as a stowaway who entered the country illegally."
"This time, I plan to take you to Underworld through the official channel from Human World."
When Leo said this, the three people except Mahiru Shiina all remembered the last time they went to Familiar Forest.
"Then how to get to the official channel?" Utaha Kasumigaoka pointed at Nishi-Funabashi Station not far away and said, "Could it be by train?"
The other three people also looked at Nishi-Funabashi Station with subtle expressions.
Take the train to Underworld at the station?
Why does it sound so unreliable?
"It is true that we are taking the train." Leo ignored everyone's subtle looks and said to himself, "Don't worry, the tickets have been bought for you. We can just go to the platform and wait for the train to come."
With that said, Leo took the lead and walked forward towards Nishi-Funabashi Station.
The four girls looked at me, and I looked at you, and finally followed Leo and walked to the station together.
As they walked, everyone discovered that Leo did not enter the station through the gate, but came to a hidden corner.
There is a passage here that leads directly to the interior of the station, but the door is sealed and locked with a rusty lock, and it looks like it has been blocked.
Leo came to the door, took out a card from his pocket, and swiped it gently in front of the door.
"Crack----"
The sealed door lock opened with a sound, and the seal automatically fell off, allowing the passage door to slowly open.
"Come on, everyone, follow me."
Leo greeted the girls into the passage and walked all the way into the station, but did not enter the waiting hall, but came directly to an elevator.
This elevator didn't seem to be a frequently used type, and it seemed a bit small. Leo and his group of five people walked into it, and together with the large suitcases, it seemed a bit crowded. Asuna Yuuki and Mahiru Shiina almost squeezed into Leo's arms.
"Why do you bring so much luggage?" Leo said dumbfounded, "Don't we just ask you to bring a few sets of clothes to change?"
These words made the girls all give him a blank look.
"Since you are going on a long trip or a long vacation, how can you only bring a few sets of clothes?"
"It's hard for girls to even go out, let alone travel far away."
"I still have a lot of things I haven't brought with me."
"Me too. If this suitcase wasn't big enough, I would have brought another one."
The girls denounced Leo, even Asuna Yuuki and Mahiru Shiina, who seemed a little embarrassed to be squeezed into Leo's arms.
"Okay, okay."
Seeing that he seemed to have offended the public, Leo quickly skipped the topic, took out the card just now, and swiped it on the electronic panel next to the elevator button.
"Beep!"
With the sound of electronic sound effects, the elevator began to move, and it was not going up, but going down.
This descent lasted for several minutes, giving people the feeling of going deep underground.
When the elevator stopped and everyone walked out one after another, the girls were unsurprisingly shocked.
Just because, an extremely wide man-made space appeared in front of them.
The structure of the space is very similar to a station platform, but the furnishings and appearance are somewhat different from the style of the human world. The scale is also larger than the waiting hall of Nishi-Funabashi Station, and is several times larger, making the ceiling feel like it is far away.
It was such a big place, but there was no one inside, and the light seemed a little dim. Only the walls exuded a strange Demonic Power light, illuminating the entire space.
"W-what is this place?"
Utaha Kasumigaoka were all shocked.
"Is there such a large uninhabited area underground under Nishi-Funabashi Station?"
Yukino Yukinoshita As the daughter of a local wealthy family, she was surprised by the existence of this unknown space in front of her.
"Can feel the fluctuation of Demonic Power."
Asuna Yuuki looked at the surrounding walls.
"----Devil station?"
Mahiru Shiina even whispered such words.
Fortunately, she was right.
"This is a secret station that only local Devil will know and enter. It is a train route exclusively for Devil. Normal humans cannot enter even if they have a pass."
Leo raised the card in his hand and explained to the girls.
"We can take the train from Underworld from here and enter Underworld. Look at the time, the train should be arriving soon."
Leo had just finished speaking when a ferocious-looking train drove over from deep in the track next to it.
It was a train full of sharp angles, and the car body was engraved with patterns representing Devil, which made people think of the train from hell.
"Let's go, I'll take you to go through the immigration formalities first."
Leo walked towards the train with the stunned girls.