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A summary of one of the confirmed short stories for DX.5 done by Riku on Discord.

Spoiler for Flower Arrangement of the Princesses:

Flower Arrangement of the Princesses:
Rias, Sona, and Seekvaria are having a chat in an underworld cafe with their knights as bodyguards. Seekvaria’s Knight is Bafeel Fercas who is the younger sister of Sairaorg’s Knight Beruka Furcas. The topic was just teenage girls stuff and post war treatment, but changes to about bridal training. Rias remembers how Issei's mom talked about her training, so Rias wants to learn as well to be a proper wife, as she wants to be an educated Japanese wife with proper Japanese knowledge such as flower and tea ceremony, because she’s marrying a Japanese man, she wants to have enough knowledge so she doesn’t shame this land. Seekvaria misunderstands flower arrangement as for robots due to pronunciation issues. Sona ask Rias why not ask Akeno for lessons, but she says that Akeno doesn’t have any style as she just imitates or she herself is trying to find someplace to learn. Sona decides to take her to one and join her as they're friends, and Seekvaria decides to join as she spends too much to in her lab, so experience other cultures could be fun.

They invited all the girls from their peerage to join them, but they decline as this should be something for the kings to experience, but their knights will join them to act as bodyguards. Issei wasn’t told as this is for him and she’s training to be his future wife, as he is their future husband Kiba was embarrassed as he was the only guy there, decided to use the gender swapping ray on himself to join them even though he never planned on using it again as he must fulfill his duties as a knight. Everyone is wearing kimonos, including Kiba who is wearing one for the first time, so he’s unfamiliar in it. Tomoe took a picture of Yumi in a kimono on her smartphone. They arrived at a school that is willing to teach flower arrangement to even devils, knowing that they allowed devils gives Kiba a bad feeling. The door opens and a middle aged woman Bakusan Umeko wearing a kimono and a head vase and she releases an aura which Kiba says it’s a dense aura that a teacher shouldn’t give and he no longer sees this a teacher for a flower classroom. Their test is to release their aura, so she can evaluate it. They must show their auras as it’s needed to learn here. They do it, and their aura destroys the entrance and their surroundings. They pass the first test.

Inside the school appears to be a spacious wooden dojo room, where all the woman wearing kimonos are using flowers as swords and vases. Kiba sees lots of people doing fighting poses. The teacher says that every day the students train as if preparing for combat and flowers are the most important aspect of their training. The teacher allows the students to use props to help encourage their imaginations, which Kiba questions in his mind what is the actual meaning. Umeko asked if they know the origin of flower arrangement and Sona gives an in depth explanation. Kiba thinks to himself that he expected a normal Japanese class, where people simply sit and perform flower arrangement, what he’s seeing makes him think they're in a warrior and ninja school. Rias thinks this is all part of flower arrangement and Kiba is worried on how gullible Rias is with Japanese stuff and how she became like this. Umeko says that the old way of flower arrangement is dead and this school discovered a new way of training. Umeko gives a Japanese Linguistic lesson on how scent, handsome, and flowers are similar to each other. Rias thought this was a wonderful atmosphere, and Seek have prepared an army of prototype robots. Kiba thinks this is going to give bad memories.

Rias meets another student who is describe to be arrogant. Both Rias and she enter a stage where they will practice flower arrangement. Both are given flower-shaped swords and are given an explanation about the sword's origins. On a table there are flowers, fruits, and vegetables. And with those swords they must prepare them. Rias gets the first move and decides to use the sword to pierce a bamboo shoot. She gets 40 points. Kiba is shocked as the sight of piercing a bamboo shoot with a flower sword felt surreal and that there is a point system. The student then started sweating and used the sword to pierce a watermelon which caused to bloom like a flower and split into 8 equal pieces gaining 40 points too. Kiba is confused as they're using bamboo and watermelons to arrange flowers, and said that if Issei were here, he'd question all this aloud, and Kiba misses that Issei isn’t here to question all of this. Kiba sees Seekvaria has put one of her robots on the tip of her flower sword. Sona thinks she made a mistake bring them here. Kiba and the other knights dont know how to properly respond to this situation. During Rias' battle, apparently that bamboo shoot from the very beginning has grown thanks to the spiritual power of the sword plus bathing in her own aura has grown to become a miracle which causes Rias wins. The student mentions that who she fought was the weakest one of the 4 Heavenly Kings, the other 3 will now challenge her, which she accepts. Sona smiles seeing how happy Rias is and admits to being a little jealous on how so much in love she is. Kiba and the other knights decide to join her in this unconventional flower classroom.

Kiba is at Issei's house and sees the bamboo shoots that Rias pierced. Rias is happy of her work and has done the flower arrangement to the entrance of the house. Rias decides to challenge all the other schools. Kiba as her knight has to accompany her, Kiba remembers all that they were taught and questions as a man when will he ever used them.