Tales of the dragon slayer

Chapter 2: Prequel Chapter 1

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I don't make any money off of it and only write this for my own enjoyment.

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April is the month of spring which brings new life, new flowers, and new students into Japan's schools; students who are ready to fill their minds with knowledge. So it was for the student council president of Kuoh Academy, Sona Sitri: high class devil and heiress to the Sitri clan, one of the remaining 33 devil families of the original 72 pillars of devil society.

Her fellow student council members, and devil peerage, hustled with today's assigned activities while she busied herself with more administrative work. It wasn't as if she publicly ran the school, but but she did closely observe how it was ran. Most students would go to school because it was required. They wasted and squandered their time, coasting through their classes as if they were moved by "educational inertia".

Sona had a purpose, and learning the administrative tasks of this school was one step to fulfill her ultimate goal; to create a school in the Underworld so that all devils, no matter their standing, could receive and benefit from an education and compete in Rating Games to increase their social standing. She believed that with hard work and determination an individual could find a hidden potential within themselves. After all, she had seen the opposite to be true. Growing up as a high class devil, she saw how lazy many devils had become. They relied too much on their natural given powers and couldn't motivate themselves to grow stronger, to become more, to actually work to achieve something greater than themselves. So when her childhood friend, Rias Gremory, suggested they study abroad in the human world Sona readily agreed, if only to study and learn how the human education system worked.

Sona didn't share Rias's love of 'All things Japanese', Sona agreed to come to Japan mainly due to the fact that Japanese education system was the highest rated in the human world. Sona Sitri valued knowledge, above all else, and always sought new knowledge and ways to apply it. She worked hard, and she worked her peerage hard so that they could stand above other high class devils. She believed that with hard work and dedication she and her carefully selected peerage could unite to fulfill their shared dream of a new education system in the Underworld.

Privately Sona felt that her childhood friend, Rias, relied too much on her own natural talents and the benefits that came with being a younger sibling to a Maō. Sure, Rias could be embarrassed by her brother's overly affectionate nature; hell, they both were extremely embarrassed by their older siblings' private behavior. But Rias was content to stay in her brother's shadow, and her goal was a short term one; to somehow escape her engagement to Riser Phenex. While Sona did, in fact, support Rias's goal; she felt that Rias didn't train herself or her peerage enough. In Sona's view, Rias seemed to do nothing to solve her engagement problem, that she wasted her time and coddle her peerage. Rias coasted through her time here, as if the answers to her problem would naturally come to her because she was a Gremory. It was why, when they both came to the this world, Rias decided to keep her family name.

While Sona was proud to be a Sitri and took her family responsibilities seriously, she held no illusions that the human world could be a dangerous place. Sona knew that as devils they did have enemies, they could not act with impunity, and that a little discretion goes a long way. It was why she adopted the name 'Souna Shitori' during her stay in the human world. While Kuoh was considered devil territory, it was merely a formality.