Prologue Arc I: The World Ender.
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Prologue Arc I: The World Ender.
Destroyed World, 2 years before cannon.
Void
Emptiness
Coldness
Darkness
A destroyed world was a combination of all these factors into one. It was basically an empty shell in the Multiverse Plane, like a coconut without the water and pulp, a simple vacuum where nothing exists as the world prepares itself for a new start.
Or at least it should be...
Surrounded by darkness was an island, where there was a purely white mansion surrounded by beautiful gardens, statues and dry ponds. Should one force his vision, he'd be able to see an almost invisible magic barrier placed around it.
Sitting on a throne of marble inside an empty hall, the knight was lost in thoughts, a habit one acquires when he has to be absolutely alone in the entire world.
He wore an old, rusty black plate armor with a dark helmet which covered his entire head and a red cloak which simply served as a buffer between his body and the cold stone of his seat.
'*sigh*Being the only living being in the entire world kinda sucks.' He thought while sighing and resting his back against the throne. 'If only something interesting happened...'
He stood there, contemplative for a few minutes.
'But as expected, nothing happens so I have to create my own distractions.' he then got up, the armor surprisingly silent for its age. He walked to the throne room's center and raised his hand to the roof. Various magic circles appeared in response and warrior spirits of all realms or ages appeared from them, holding swords, spears, hammers...every kind of weapon which could be imagined.
He then extended his other hand to the side and a transmutation circle appeared on the marble ground under it, the stone quickly turning into a metallic league and forming a spear.
"Come." the knight ordered and the army of spirits jumped over him at full speed but he teleported out of their way on the last second before jumping back at them and striking at them with his spear. He then levitated and formed a huge ball of electricity over the palm of his free hand before sending it flying at high speed between the knights and watched as the sparks sent the warriors flying.
"Now then, just to finish." he said as his spear glowed with light magic he transferred into it."Piercing Rain!"
He then threw the spear and it divided into various others, until it really looked like a rain of spears sent against the warriors, defeating all of them with a single, lethal blow.
"*Tch*, easy." said him as he landed back on the ground."These spars aren't very entertaining."
He stretched before readying himself to return for his seat when suddenly, something made him halt.
He heard a hauntingly familiar sound long forgotten by him... a song.
It was weak, as of it was being sung from far away, and resembled a choral but it was still there. A chant!
'What?!' he thought in surprise.
The man then watched is fascination as a green portal appeared in front of him, its surface resembling that of a mirror.
"A portal huh, I wonder how destiny is such an unpredictable thing." said him playfully as he then touched the portal's surface and felt as it tried to suck him in.
"Well, at least I won't be bored." He said, shrugging his shoulders as he stopped resisting and let the portal pull him inside, a green light shining around him and enveloping his figure.
(On the other side.)
Rizevim Livan Lucifer, Super-Devil and rightful Maou Lucifer, watched the summoning rite with a serious expression on his face. Beside him stood his Devil servant Euclid Lucifuge, a young man with long platinum hair braided in a pigtail and platinum eyes wearing a butler attire.
Various mages from Khaos Brigade, the organization he worked with, were reunited around an old altar as they chanted and formed a huge magic circle over it.
"The chant seems to be ineffective, Rizevim-sama." commented Euclid seriously.
"That was expected, a mere group of magicians would never be able to summon 666 anyways." said the Devil lord shrugging."Let's stop the show."
"Very well, Rizevim-sama." said Euclid while readying to give the order to stop.
But then he felt it.
It was as if gravity has just increased over him, the air dense with magic power he only felt when his master or one of the Super-Devils released his power close to him and his eyes widened as a green portal formed right over the altar and a figure came stepping out of it.
It was a knight full glad in a rusty black armor, his face covered by a helmet of the same color and a long crimson cloak waving behind him as he moved.
The figure looked around for some seconds before finally laying his gaze at the duo and then Euclid really felt the power go up tenfold, as if he was really in front of a Satan-class Devil with full power released. His master just stood on the same position, but even he had a few signs of disturbance under the armored figure's mute stare.
Then it moved. As quick as lightning, it knocked all the mages out with a single punch to the ground, opening a hole and sending the men flying with immense strength. The figure then turned to them and Euclid could only stare with widened eyes as he came closer at an incredible speed, an un-dodgable armored fist ready to hit his face with full strength.
But then the knight stopped midair, for someone grabbed his fist with a bare hand. This someone was Rizevin Livan Lucifer.
"Impressive, it's been a time since I met someone able to block a punch of mine by holding me by the fist." commented the figure and both noticed a young masculine voice. The black knight then jumped backwards and stood in front of them.
"Who are you? Or, mind me say, What are you?"asked Rizevim seriously.
"How impolite of me, I'm a human mage-paladin, at least partly, and my name is Canopus." greeted the armored figure with a bow."Also known as World's End or Apocalypse Bringer."
Euclid blanched, not really expecting the ritual to actually succeed, Rizevim on the other hand, was quite excited at the prospect, albeit slightly suspicious.
"Huh, Apocalypse? Shouldn't you be a beast?" asked Rizevim with a smirk.
"I'm afraid I'm not the Apocalypse that you know." said Canopus as he then waved his hand at the portal."As you can see, I came from another world which I utterly destroyed."
"I see." said the Lucifer thoughtfully, a hand under his bearded chin."Will you destroy this world as well?"
"I'm afraid I cannot as my version Apocalypse is not bound to this world. Since I left my world, the majority of my powers are sealed and I return to my original race." explained Canopus. "That's why I'm this powerful while continuing to be a human"
"Anyways, are you interested in joining me? I'm sure you would have a lot of strong opponents in Khaos Brigade." said Rizevim invitingly but Canopus denied with a head shake.
"Sorry but I'm not interested."
Detecting Devil presences, Euclid alerted his master.
"Rizevim-sama, Devils are coming this way. I can sense Sirzechs and my older sister Grayfia!"
"Very well." answered the Lucifer as then a magic circle appeared under him."Farewell Canopus, I hope we meet again soon."
They both disappeared in a flash of light, taking all the defeated magicians with them as well.
"*sigh* "That was close, I almost let him discover how weakened I really am." commented Canopus with a relieved sigh."Travelling between worlds really drains you huh?"
He then felt two presences behind him and turned around to see a young man with long red hair and eyes wearing a silver armor and a dark blue cloak and a woman with long silver tied in twintails falling over her shoulders wearing a maid outfit. Both were staring at them, the man smiling and the woman serious. So he decided to do the most normal thing to do when you're summoned to another world full of supernatural beings...introduce yourself.
"Hey there, my name is Canopus. What do you want? A fight? A friendly talk? Or maybe both?"
(Small Time Skip)
Canopus rested his back relaxedly on the very comfortable stuffed chair. He was in a kind of office, as there were bookshelves and a large table by the large window, as well as a smaller one, which was where he sat by.
Sitting in front of him were two red-haired men. The one he met earlier, whose name was Sirzechs Lucifer, and another one called Zeoticus Gremory, who was Sirzechs' father. He could feel that both of had quite large amounts of power.
"So, Canopus-dono" started Sirzechs carefully as he sat down on a couch, waving for him to do the same. "Which race are you from? I can feel a huge power coming from you."
The knight thought for a short while before sinking further into the chair, looking curiously at his surroundings.
Sirzech's eyes narrowed slightly. 'He seems at ease, despite being in an unknown's territory… His entire posture screams confidence, which can only mean that he is either completely sure that he can defeat us. And for some reason, I feel that he can do so as well'.
"I can be considered a human, at least partly, but I'm officially a human/elf hybrid." answered the knight in a relaxed manner. On the surface, he seemed calm and friendly, but deep inside, he was preparing one of his more deadly spells for usage at a moment's notice. He did not trust these… Beings yet. Better safe than sorry.
"Half-elf? I see..." said Zeoticus thoughtfully. On the other hand, Sirzechs eyed Canopus warily, feeling a slight surge of power that was almost too miniscule to detect.
'Oh? He can feel it?' Canopus thought with interest as he looked at Sirzechs directly in the eye, making him sweat slightly. 'Then this one is rather powerful… I must be on my guard'
The tension between the two was broken when Grayfia came inside the room with a teapot and cups. She served tea for all three men before leaving the room. Her steps were a bit irregular, meaning that she also felt the power the Canopus had.
"My turn now." said Canopus, not touching his tea. "Taking your magic circles and power into account, I can safely assume that you're Devils right?"
"Very good." said Zeoticus clapping his hands. "Yes, we're all Devils here and this place is called Underworld."
Canopus fidgeted slightly, an action which did not go unnoticed by Sirzechs. 'I see...so there are Devils in this world as well... It was a good thing that I prepared the spell' he thought in the privacy of his mind.'
"I assure you, we mean no harm" Sirzechs said in a slightly nervous tone. "We only wish to talk, nothing more"
Canopus was awakened from his musing by Sirzech's voice. He stared at Sirzechs long and hard, making the devil in question fidget rather obviously. On the sidelines Zeoticus was also feeling nervous, he was desperately hoping that things wouldn't go sour. After all, in front of him was a unknown being of immense power.
"I can hear the truthfulness in your words" Canopus finally stated, letting the spell he was preparing disperse. He ignored the quiet sighs of relief, "In that case, I will also inflict no harm upon you"
His hands then went to the helmet and removed it slowly. As his face was revealed, both Devils gasped in surprise.
He was a handsome teenager, around 17 years-old and had fringed black hair stained with red and purple colors and pink skull patterns, eyes which had blue and pink scorpion tails forming Yin yang patterns on the irises,pale white skin which was almost vampiric and elven pointed ears (A/N:Basically Shaula Gorgon fused with Arata Kasuga.).There was also a yellow diamond-shaped jewel embedded in the middle of his forehead, a rather strange asset on his handsome face.
"I guess I should change my attire then." said Canopus as he snapped his fingers and his black armor instantly disappeared, leaving him on a checked black and red social shirt, jeans and sneakers. "Don't ask me how I know about this world's clothing, long story."
"Looks like someone has interesting tricks." said Sirzechs with a playful smile, completely forgetting the tension a few moments ago. He could feel the aura of power around the teenage figure growing even more, as if the armor kept some of it hidden from them.
"Excuse me, I need to grab something." said Zeoticus and the Duke walked out of the room.
Canopus took a sip of his tea and let a pleased sigh out.
"Delicious, Grayfia-san really knows how to make a great tea." He said with a pleased smile."It's been a long time since I last drank some."
"My wife is an excellent maid but don't underestimate her, even I am afraid of her wrath." answered Sirzechs playfully.
The two laughed before falling into silence. It wasn't a tense silence, more of a curious one. Canopus further surveyed his surroundings as he lifted his tea cup, he had to admit that these devils were far more hospitable than he expected. When he entered the room, he was expecting an ambush from the corners of the room.
"Anyways ,I suppose you have other business with me other than talking about myself." He finally spoke up, breaking the silence.
"Yes, we do." answered the red-haired man as Zeoticus returned with a wooden box in his hands.
"What is it?" asked Canopus curiously while placing his cup back on the table.
"Canopus-kun, have you ever heard of the Evil Piece System?" asked Sirzechs and his father opened the box, revealing 16 red chess pieces in it. He also noticed the King piece, as well as the Queen, one of the Rooks and three Pawns were golden.
"Unfortunately, such system never existed in my world, what is it about?"
"It's a system where a High-Class Devil acts as a Chess King while the other 15 pieces can be used to revive someone as a Devil servant of his." this time Zeoticus said.
"And you want me to be a Devil right?"asked Canopus seriously.
"You're really quick." said Sirzechs playfully. "Yes, we're offering you the opportunity to be a pure-blooded Devil but, not as a servant, as a King. Although it had never been done before I'm sure such a powerful individual wouldn't accept less as a position."
"And what do I gain with it?"
"You'll gain all the advantages of being a Devil while keeping your human and elven habilities, you also gain a boost to your own power, a nobility title and much more things..."said the crimson Satan seriously.
"I see...very well, I take your offer. It's not like a bad deal for me." He reasoned that since he is currently in a very weakened state after dimension hopping, he would need every power up he could get.
Canopus got up Sirzechs then picked the King piece up and a red magic circle appeared under them.
"I, Sirzechs Lucifer, command you to return as a Devil." he chanted."Rejoice and come back to life as a King!"
The golden King Piece then went inside Canopus' chest and he felt like his body was burning inside at first as his genetic was being turned into that of a Devil but it vanished after some seconds.
"How are you feeling now?" asked Zeoticus.
"Hmm, let's see." the boy focused his mind and black bat-like wings appeared from his back."I guess I can deal with it."
"Well then, now let's see your secret identity. It would be bad for me if the Devils knew another world's 666 has been revived as a Devil even though he has his powers sealed." said Sirzechs with a playful smile.
"How do you even kno-?" asked Canopus slightly surprised.
"Grayfia overheard your small conversation with Rizevim Lucifer."
"I see...very well, spill the beans already." said the boy relaxing slightly.
"Your new name will be Marshall Leviathan, Great King and a descendant of the original Leviathan who has lost his family lands due to joining the Old Satan faction but you regretted your deeds and were forgiven by me and returned your territory, that shall explain your huge demonic power as well as your absence in the Devil society until now." said Sirzechs while summoning a map of the Underworld and showing him a huge territory close to the center."This will be your new home, the Leviathan territory as well as your will-to-be peerage's base of operations."
"Marshall Leviathan...noble...peerage...I get it." muttered Canopus, no Marshall, seriously."Do you have anything more to say?"
"Actually yes, I'd like you to come here two months from now to report on how you're doing." said Sirzechs with a smile. "Now then, Leviathan-san must be tired from his return to the Devil world. I believe he wants to return to his mansion as soon as possible, Grayfia!"
As he called, the silver-haired maid came inside the room once more and gave them a respectful bow.
"Yes, Sirzechs-sama?" she asked.
"Would you please escort Marshall Leviathan-kun to his new househood?"
"Very well." said her with a bow and then turned to Marshall."Could you follow me, Leviathan-sama?"
"Right right~." said Marshall with a playful smirk."Until next time, Sirzechs, Zeoticus."
He then walked out of the room following the maid through the Gremory residence's corridors.
'It seems things will get interesting for me here.' was what he was thinking as he walked behind her, a slight hint of a smirk on his handsome face.
'Maybe I won't destroy this world after all.'
(Time-skip, two years later. Some days before cannon)
The Leviathan mansion was, at the very least, magnificent.
It was an enormous palace styled after Versailles in Paris but much bigger and had more than 2100 rooms,40 saloons and more than 6 square miles of gardens where all kinds of flowers grew under the light of a scarlet moon, being taken care by a legion of Devil, Beast-People, Yokai, Vampire, Elven or any other race maids and gardeners. It's walls were made of Hera plants and the gate was always open, as if the mansion's lord didn't fear any intruders.
Standing in front of huge golden door which gave access to the Great King's office, four Devils waited for the current Leviathan head, sounds of intense working heard from the other side.
One of them was Sirzechs Lucifer, also known as Maou Lucifer. The others were his wife, Grayfia Lucifuge, the Lord of Phenex and Milicas Gremory, the Maou Lucifer's young son who was very fond of the Leviathan head.
"Wait a little, Sirzechs-sama, Phenex-sama." said the old household butler."The young master is in one of his experiences right now. I'll see if I can contact him."
"Very well." said Sirzechs smiling calmly. "I wouldn't want to bother him either, I know how Marshall-kun gets when he is testing a new theory."
"Marshall-nii is really obsessed about research, isn't he?"said Milicas playfully.
"Indeed he is Milicas" Sirzechs said warmly, remembering how his best friend and fellow super devil, Ajuka was when he was in one of his "experiences". Literally, nothing short of a full-scale war breaking out would be able to distract him from his research.
"Young master Marshall, there are visitors for you." said the butler as he knocked on the massive golden door as he then heard an answer.
"Don't bother. I'm almost finishing my research, tell Sirzechs I don't have time for his games." answered a male teenager's voice from inside the room.
"The Lord Phenex also wants to talk to you, master Marshall!" the butler replied.
"About..." said the voice, seemingly uninterested.
"It's a matter of importance for the Devil's future."
"Not interested,tell the bird to come later."
This made the Lord sigh.
"I'm sorry for young master's behav-" started the old man but he was interrupted when a short, white-haired loli with blue pentagram-patterned eyes teleported inside the room with the Leviathan magic circle.
"Luciela-sama!" the man exclaimed in surprise but he was dismissed by a hand gesture from the girl.
"I see you're here,Sirzechs, Grayfia, Phenex and Milicas." greeted her politely, her voice revealing much more maturity than her body.
"Greetings, Luciela-chan." said Sirzechs while the others answered with a bow.
"Are you looking for my stupid brother?" she asked.
"Yes, Leviathan, we have some business with the Great King." said Lord Phenex politely.
"Very well, let me call my idiot nii-san from his lab." said her as she then knocked on the door with a huge armored fist she turned her hand into. "Marshall!"
"Yes Lucy." answered the male voice.
"Open the door and come talk to the visitors immediately."
"And if I don't..." teased the teenager from inside and, for a moment, silence was the only answer to the challenge. The Devils felt then as the gravity in the room grew stronger and realized it was caused by the scarily huge amounts of Demonic Power released from that small body, enough to even make their Sirzechs shiver a bit.
"Ok ok, I get it. Don't threaten to kill me Lucy!"answered the teenager from inside. "Lock off."
The Devils then heard a loud *clang* before the doors opened in front of them, revealing a huge room on the other side.
The place was basically a fusion between a mad scientist's lab, a giant library and a battlefield of W.W.2. As the six went inside the highly illuminated room, they noticed there were drawn magic circles and math calculations all over the walls, magic tomes and grimoires split everywhere, prototypes varying from a simple magical puppet to a magic-driven bronze dragon automater were leaned against the walls, on the ground or over tables, as were the tools and pieces.
Inside this whole mess, working in front of a 10ft long wooden table in the middle of the lab with his back turned to them, was a young man and he seemed to be working on something. He then turned to face them.
Marshall Leviathan was a boy on his mid-teens, probably 17 years-old. He had fringed black stained with red and purple hair with pink skull patterns, pointed ears and a delicate face which showed no trait of masculinity, only his hair and clothes would denounce him as male. However, what called for the most attention were his eyes, which had pink and blue scorpion tales forming Yin-yang patterns on the irises, and the golden diamond embedded in the middle of his forehead. He was wearing a black trench coat, jeans, shiny black boots and a pair of black fingerless gloves, as if he had just returned from a long trip.
"Marshall-nii!" said Milicas happily as he then ran towards the boy and gave him a big hug before being raised midair by him.
"Hey hey, looks like my favorite little Satan invaded my lab! I'm scared now!" said Marshall playfully, making Milicas laugh happily before placing him back into the ground.
"So you finally decide to show up, Marshall-kun." greeted Sirzechs. The boy answered with a smirk and a handshake.
"Hey Sirzechs." he greeted before turning to the others."Greetings, Lord Phenex, Grayfia-san."
"Greetings, Prince Leviathan." answered them and Luciela just hmpfed and muttered something about a "false nii-san."
"So Sirzechs, what do you want?"
"I just wanted to ask you for a small favor but" answered the Satan while looking over at the table. "now I want to know what your new toy is."
Marshall sighed before returning to the table and picking a strange object up, before returning with it in his hands.
It was a rather strange gauntlet. The color was red with golden details and it had a huge green gem over the hand's palm. For Milicas, it looked like a normal piece of armor, like many they had at the Phenex household, but for his father, his mother Grayfia and Lord Phenex it was very interesting.
"Boosted Gear..." muttered the Marquis after a few seconds.
"One of the Longinus?!" said Grayfia surprised.
"Yup." said Marshall casually."I found it back in the Human world during one of my trips,as well as the 1st member of my peerage."
He then clapped his hands and a magic circle with the sea monster Leviathan symbol appeared in front of him and from it came a young man with light brown hair brushed backwards and brown eyes wearing a high-school uniform.
"H-hello, my name is Issei Hyoudou, nice to meet you!"said him nervously while bowing in a Japanese gesture of respect which Sirzechs answered with a nod of his head.
"I reincarnated him as my Pawn after retrieving the Boosted Gear from his dead body." said Marshall playfully."Anyways, what did you want to ask me, Sirzechs?"
"Oh yes." said the Maou as he then summoned a map of Japan with a marking over a city named Kuoh.
"Hmmm...Japan, what do you want me to do there?" Marshall asked curiously
"You know I have a sister, right Marshall-kun?"asked Sirzechs while handing him a picture of a very beautiful red-haired girl with greenish blue eyes wearing a classical dress.
"Yup but, what's about her? Do you want me to marry her or something?"
"Unfortunately, she's already promised to Lord Phenex's third son, Riser, so I can't offer you her hand."
answered him with a smile."However, me and Lord Phenex can ask you to watch over my sister while she is studying in the Human World."
"You were going to be back there anyways Marshall-nii, so you should accept the offer." said Luciela seriously while leaning her back against a wall.
"I live in Kuoh, so you can live at my house, Marshall-san." said Issei while giving him a thumbs up.
Looking at all the hopeful faces surrounding him, he had no choice but to accept.
"*sigh* Very well,I take on your offer. What will you give me in exchange? More lands? Money? Free research rights?"
"We'll talk about it later." Said the Marquis smiling. "Now then, there is a ball at the Phenex household, would you like to come:"
"I'd really love but I have a lot of paperwork to do an-" he started to say but was cut off by his little sister.
"Don't worry about it nii-san, you can go have fun while me and the Vermin do the rest of the paperwork." Said Luciela seriously.
"Hey!" protested Issei comically.
"Are you sure?" asked him. The paperwork the lord of Leviathan had to do every day was enormous: Their territory was vast and, despite its low population, had heavily industrialized cities (the Leviathan state itself was located in the countryside) which produced from toys to magical items for the entire Devil world.
"Yes, I can handle it easily." Answered the girl while giving him a thumbs up.
"Ok then, let me change." Said Marshall and when he snapped his fingers, a blue magic circle appeared under him before an intense light surrounded his body. When it faded, he was wearing a black suit over a white social shirt, black social pants and black shoes. The diamond which usually appeared on his forehead wasn't there anymore.
"Let's go." Said the Marquis and a magic circle with the Phenex family crest appeared under them and all disappeared from the room in an explosion of fire.
(Small Time skip)
The ball room was crowded from members of the Devil noble society, many beautiful ladies, noblemen and Phenex vassals were present in there. Most of them were Mid-class Devils, like Barons and Counts, people who couldn't compare to Marshall's ranking as Great King but he still talked with all of them, polite conversation with the men and a flirtatious attitude with the ladies, something he learned back in his world, when nations paid him generous tributes in gold, women and other riches in exchange for his mercy and protection.
But the Devils knew how to do it ten times better…
He was now resting his back against the wall in one of the rare breaks when he could actually stay alone during the party, a glass of the finest Apple Cider from the Bael Territory in his right hand. He then started thinking about how quickly he adapted to his life as a High-Ranking Devil noble.
At the first moment it was somewhat difficult to him and he had to use the Akashic Gem, name given to the diamond in his forehead, more than once in order to learn everything about Devil's magic, history, culture and government. Some months ago he also created his younger sister Luciela, a clone of his that was forced to grow up through a method called parthenogenesis and whose appearance resembled his own before awakening his powers as Apocalypse. She was a Devil and had access to most of his abilities and he created her to fill out the gap of his lack of relatives and also because he needed an heir, should he be taken back to his ruined world.
As he was immersed in thoughts. He didn't notice the girl staring at him with her head tilted. She was a beautiful young girl with dark blue eyes, long blond hair tied into twintails with large drilled curls with blue ribbons, several bangs of her hair hanged over her forehead with a V-shaped fringed hanging over the bridge of her nose. She also wore a pink dress which looked cute on her.
"Good evening, my beautiful lady." Greeted him with his best smile. As always, it worked and made her blush lightly before giving him a bow.
"G-good evening, y-you must be the Great King Marshall Leviathan-sama." Said her stuttering in embarrassment. Marshall noticed she was very polite and his stare had the girl heat up even more.
"Please call me Marshall, for such a beautiful lady shouldn't call me by such formal titles. May I have the honor know your name?"
She blushed even more before answering.
"My name is Ravel ,Ravel Phenex. I'm Lord Phenex's daughter."
"Is that so, Ravel-chan~? Do you want to talk to me about something?" he asked playfully.
"Actually, outou-sama asked me to show you the household, Marshall-san." Said her happily this time.
'Huh, is Lord Phenex trying to indirectly offer his daughter as a bride candidate for me? She doesn't seem experienced though…' he thought while giving her a warm smile. "If that's the case I shall take on your offer, Ravel-chan~."
He then gave her his arm and she hesitantly took it as they walked outside the ball room and into the gardens of the enormous manor. He prepared to tease Ravel as much as possible during their entire walk.
(Small Time Skip.)
After a long but pleasing walk around the mansion with the Marquis' Tsundere daughter, during which he and Ravel talked about lots of things like her favorite foods, hobbies and gossiped about how some noble guests dressed really bad(much to his and Ravel's laughter), Marshall, Sirzechs and the own Lord went upside to the Phenex's office, where there were two couches, a bottle of icy Bael Apple Cider and glasses waiting for them as they seated.
"So, what do you exactly want to talk about, sirs?" asked Marshall as he poured some of the Cider into his glass and the other men did the same thing.
"Levi-kun, as you should be able to see after your return to the Underworld, the pureblood Devil population has diminished greatly due to the Great War, mainly the ones of noble clans." Said Sirzechs seriously. The new Leviathan head already knew of it from his studies during his first months as a Devil and also knew the Evil Piece system was created to replenish the incredibly drained Devil manpower. "Of the 72 Pillars, only 33 are still active and the only Satan clan who is still active is your own Leviathan."
"I'm conscious of the diminished noble population as well as I'm trying the best to administer my heavily depopulated territory as well. But…" he asked while taking a sip from his glass. "Why are we talking about it now?"
"You've already met my daughter Ravel right? I've seen you talking happily in the garden, I guess she has a soft spot for you despite her personality." Said Lord Phenex this time and Marshall instantly realized what was this meeting about.
'They want me to marry Ravel-chan, an union which would produce a powerful heir to the Leviathan clan as he would inherit my immense power and talent with magic, as well as the Phenex's famous immortality power.' He thought while smiling at the two other Devils. "Ravel-chan is a really nice person to talk to, the man who marries her will surely be lucky, should he be able to understand her Tsundere personality."
"Returning to the main topic, the Leviathan clan desperately needs a heir, should something happen to you or Luciela-chan and a marriage is also a way to prove the other Pillars you are really loyal to us, not to the Old Satan Faction." said Sirzechs with a warm smile.
'And here comes the bomb…' thought Marshall. "I agree with that, I hope I find a bride soon."
"Is that so? Then you don't need to look for one anymore." said the Lord Phenex. "How about you marry my daughter Ravel?"
'The bomb landed.' Canopus thought with try amusement
"The Phenex clan is very noble, prestigious and also has the Immortality power." Said Sirzechs. "So a daughter of them would make you a fine bride, don't you agree Levi-kun?"
"Since Ravel is still young, a betrothal should be enough for now, should you accept, obviously." Completed the Lord and Marshall raised his hands in surrender.
"Very well, you won." He said playfully. "I accept the proposal."
"Yes! Now the playboy is married." Sirzechs then fist pumped as if he had won a match.
"What is with that YES Sirzechs you bastard!" protested Marshall comically."You mean you planned this?!"
"Hey hey, calm down you two Sirzechs-san ,son-in-law to be." Said the Marquis tiredly and Marshall calmed down a bit before taking his seat.
"This is gonna be a long night." He said sighing, taking another sip from his glass.
(Small Time Skip)
After the ball Marshall returned to the mansion and laid on a huge king-sized bed with white sheets and red feather pillows. His clothe lying on the ground beside him and the room illuminated by crimson moonlight.
'Life in this world is getting more and more interesting…' thought him as he then called Sirzechs' sister's picture to his hand and looked at it. 'Rias Gremory huh? I hope you can entertain me as well.'
Chapter end.
A/N: Hey there minna! One more fic of , Wildfurion!
Marshall was supposed to be the original character of the first DxD fanfic but I deemed him too OP as he was supposed to be a Devil/Vampire hybrid with immense power but I thought back and decided to write it.
I hope you like him and will be publishing this fic every month.
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