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The room was tense; as tense one room can be. The only sound that can be heard was water being poured to cups. Rias was sitting on her armchair behind the desk while her peerage was behind her.

Sitting on the couch to her left was Raiser Phenex, the man she would be marrying if not for the other contract to appear. Said man was sitting with outstretched arms and his right leg over his left.

The man sitting on the couch to her right was Matthew Zagan, the next heir of an extinct clan with his queen, Conner Chase behind the couch. He was an unknown to Rias, sure she knew what House he was from but there was something about him that made her curiosity peak. He was sitting while looking at the room with curiosity. 'The room looks pretty tidy, well it is their clubroom. And is that a shower?' Matthew thought as he raised an eyebrow at the shower but didn't utter a word about it.

"Thanks" the Zagan heir said to Akeno as she handed him a cup of tea. She gave Conner a cup but he politely refused.

"Hmm… Delicious. As expected from Rias' queen." Raiser commented on the tea Akeno had made. You could hear the disgust in his voice when he said 'queen', it's like she was trash. This made the Gremory heiress angry, but quickly left when she saw Matthew raising an eyebrow at Raiser.

"Thank you very much." Akeno replied with a forced smile on her face, as to not piss Raiser off.

Matthew put the cup near his nose and smelled the oh so sweet aroma coming from the tea, He'd never really drink tea before but hey, it smells good, it definitely tastes good too. He took a sip from it and savored the tea's taste.

"Um, did you make this tea, miss? Cause it's really good, like you don't even know." He asked Akeno with a smile which made the queen blush a little.

"H-Hai." She replied with a slight stutter in her voice which surprised every member of Rias' peerage, including herself. Akeno Himejima does not stutter. Till this day. Issei was silently growling about pretty boys getting the chicks and how life was unfair. It always is.

"I gotta have more of this. Conner, you should've took some, man. It's like heaven but not really." He complimented further with a charming smile on his face which made her blush further.

"Maybe later, Matthew. But first we should discuss the marriage contracts." Conner said while Matthew nodded.

"Okay then, so Grayfia, what's going on with the contracts?" He asked the maid.

"Of course, Matthew-sama." She responded as she stepped forward.

"The Zagan's contract would normally be the first priority but with your Clan going extinct, we prioritized the Phenex's. But now that a Zagan had shown up once again, the contracts are on in conflict with each other." Gayfia explained.

"Because of this the Gremory Clan has come to two solutions, either Raiser-sama or Matthew-sama back down from the contract, or the two will have a Rating Game to decide which contract will become null and void." she finished and everyone had their eyebrows raised in surprise, except for Matthew and Conner, the former had one eyebrow raised in curiosity. Raiser however had a cocky smirk on his face as usual.

"Well I think it's pretty obvious who will win." He said and glanced at Matthew.

"So like Grayfia said, you'd better back off so I can marry my sweet Rias." He continued and everyone had looked at Matthew who was deep in thought.

"Hey, you even listening?!" Raiser yelled, getting irk at the Zagan heir's attitude to him.

"Hm? Oh, were you talking about me?" Matthew said and they looked at him dumbfounded while Conner chuckled. 'Typical Matthew' he thought.

Issei was laughing at what Matthew said, while the others slowly joined. Grayfia didn't laugh although there was a small smile on her face.

Raiser got pissed and stood up with anger in his face and started releasing his demonic power accompanied with killing intent. Flames appeared around him, increasing the temperature of the room.

Most of Rias' peerage were either sweating or on their knees from the power Raiser was displaying.

They managed to look at Matthew again, and he had a raised eyebrow on his face as he stood up, like the power and killer intent was nothing while Conner was still standing like nothing was happening.

Matthew smiled and closed his eyes. Once he opened them, a black aura with red outlines had appeared surrounding him which was even stronger than Raiser's which the blonde had not expected and had successfully put all of Rias' servants and herself to drop to their knees.

"Matthew-sama, Raiser-sama please calm down. If you continue, then I will not be quiet about it. For Lucifer-sama's honor, I will not hold back" Raiser had made a serious face after hearing Grayfia's words while Matthew had stopped releasing his aura and quietly nodded.

"…To be told by the 'Strongest Queen', even I would be scared… I definitely wouldn't want to fight the people from Lucifer-sama's group, which is known to be made up of monsters." Raiser said as he and Matthew had both sat down.

"Now due to one solution, does one of you wish to back down?" Grayfia asked both men.

"Of course not, there's no way I won't pass this opportunity up." Raiser said, his arrogance once again showing. Rias simply glared and frowns started appearing on the people in her peerage.

Matthew simply closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Don't say it, don't say it…" he began muttering but Conner heard him and simply smirked.

"Matthew-sama? Your answer please." Grayfia said as she looked at the Zagan heir. Matthew had stopped muttering and opened his eyes.

"Can I ask something first before I answer?" He answered and the maid nodded.

"Okay, so you pri-I mean Raiser, do you love Rias?" He asked the blonde which surprised most of the people in the room. Especially Rias, since she thought that political marriages are for the pull on politics. These kinds of contracts almost never put weight on the feelings of those contracted to it so why ask that question? Raiser just snorted at the question.

"Course I love her, she's hot as hell and the heiress of the Gremory Clan." Raiser answered cockily. "Do you love her?" he continued, smirking.

"Well, I don't really know her that much so, I don't know." he answered confusing Raiser and the rest.

"She's hot and a heiress to a powerful Family, what else is there to know?" Raiser responded which made most of Rias' peerage, including her, to glare at him, Asia was too kind to glare so she simply frowned. Even Grayfia had narrowed her eyes at him although it was gone just as fast as it came.

"I just wanna know who I'm marrying, is all." Matthew responded which shocked Raiser and Rias. "I mean, what if she was a bitch, you know? No offense to you Rias Gremory-san." He continued while Rias just shaked her head saying 'It's nothing'. "I just wanna know if I'm gonna marry someone who won't try to kill me 24/7. I'd rather have a normal wife that I could get to know." He finished which shocked Rias again. He wanted to know her? She had a small smile in her face when she had heard that. "Jeez, just how shitty is your view on love?" Matthew muttered which Raiser had heard.

"Shitty? ME? The third son of the House of Phenex? I won't stand for this, especially not from a heir of some bullshit extinct House. Enough of this shit, I'm ending you right here, right now!" Raiser yelled getting angry as he stood up and create a fireball in his hands and threw it to Matthew. Said guy was simply sitting there while Conner stepped back to avoid getting hit. Once the fireball reached the couch and exploded, Raiser smirked, thinking that he won. But he saw a red and black blur come at him and he saw Matthew near his face with a smirk. He pointed his head down and Raiser followed then getting shocked. Matthew's hand had gone inside Raiser's chest.

"I stop vibrating my hand for one second, your heart's crushed. But hey, you can get it back right? You are a Phenex after all." Matthew smirked. "But I ain't doing that, rather not get Grayfia over here get even more pissed than she already is." He took his hand out and with a flick of his wrist, the destroyed couch was gone, and a brand new one had taken its place. "Sorry for your old couch, bought you guys a new one."

Rias had just nodded at looked at Grayfia, who was releasing some of her aura around her.

"Raiser-sama, this is your last warning, one more act of aggression and I will take action." Grayfia coldly said which made Raiser, who became even more afraid. She took a deep breath and looked back at Matthew.

"Is there anything else, Matthew-sama?" She asked while slightly glaring, she didn't forget about what he was about to do of course.

"Just one more, Rias Gremory-san, do you want to marry Raiser?"

"No." her answer was so quick you almost didn't catch it.

Matthew blinked. "That was…fast. But okay." he had suspected it by the way she was glaring at the Phenex Clan member earlier.

Raiser frowned at what Rias had said, who the hell was she to say that? She should just obey like the good girl she was. Well as good as a devil can be.

"So yeah, that's pretty much all my questions." Matthew said but suddenly remembered something important. "Actually, are there any details about the contract between mine and Gremory-san's?" He asked Grayfia and said woman nodded, pulling out a scroll.

"Of course. Firstly this contract and its agreements are more for the individuals than the House themselves." She said.

"The agreements are as follows: Firstly, once the two children of the Houses meet for the first time the contract will come in effect. Second, there is a probation period for three years. Third, only they can annul their marriage. Fourth, they will be married after the probation period, this rule will be dependent on the third rule. Fifth, the female must give up their Clan name for the male's Clan name." she explained. "These are the agreements of the marriage contract, signed by Bruce Zagan-sama, Sirzech Lucifer-sama and Lord Gremory." Grayfia finished as she rolled the scroll and looked at the occupants of the room.

Suffice to say, Rias was shocked. Those ground rules on the contract are pretty rock solid. She would have to be a Zagan by the end of the probation period but she would worry about it later.

"So, Matthew-sama, will you be backing down?" Gryafia asked.

"You know me, Grayfia. I won't." Matthew smirked and the maid nodded.

"So it is decided, a Rating Game will take place in order to decide who will have Rias-ojou-sama's hand in marriage." Grayfia said and another cocky smirk had appeared on Raiser's face. 'Is that what he always looks like? Fucking prick.' Matthew thought.

"Ha, this'll be easy." Raiser said and clicked his fingers, causing a big magic circle on the floor to glow which had the same emblem of the Phenex Clan's. 15 shadows appears from the magic circle and Issei was speechless at Raiser's all female peerage.

"And these are my lovely servants." Raiser continued with the usual cocky smirk on his face. "We already fought in Rating Games, so its's impossible for an upstart like you could beat it." He finished which made Matthew laugh like someone punched Grayfia and got away with it.

"What!?" Raiser got angry.

"Oh, nothing, it's just… did you even bother to train them? I mean, betcha ten bucks that if I take those chainsaws from those two girls, they won't be able to do shit." Matthew laughed while Conner simply closed his eyes trying really hard not to smirk.

"You may say that my peerage isn't trained enough but what about yours? Do you even have a peerage other than your Queen who's a guy?" Raiser retorted which made Matthew smirk.

"Now why would I show you my peerage? It'd just give you some info on who they are. And you say I have a guy who's a queen but you have your little sister on your harem. Jeez, never thought you'd be a siscon." He came back with that. And when Raiser went to go retort, said sister spoke up.

"Onii-sama, what's going on? Didn't you say that we were coming here to convince Rias-san to marry her? Why are you even talking to some peasant?" Ravel asked his brother which he explained to his peerage. When he finished, they looked at Matthew differently. Ravel thought Matthew needed to be put in his place for badmouthing his brother's peerage, heir of a extinct clan or not.

"I am Ravel Phenex, fourth child of the Phenex Clan and Onii-sama's bishop." She introduced herself to the Zagan heir.

"I frankly don't care if your from an extinct House but no one badmouths the Phenex and gets away with it." She finished with superiority in her voice. Matthew simply smiled.

"Well, when I was fifteen, I badmouthed your dad and got away with it. Right, Conner?" Matthew said and the queen replied.

"Yep, funny as all hell too."

"Called him KFC and he went off."

"And he responded with you finishing fast during sex."

They all sweatdropped at what was happening while Raiser and his peerage had become increasingly angry.

Grayfia then cleared her throat and said.

"Since both parties refuse to back down, a Rating Game will take place in ten days now at midnight, is that acceptable to both parties?" She asked Matthew and Raiser. They both nodded.

"Better get ready brat, I'm kicking your ass soon!" Raiser said while Matthew and Conner predatorily smirked.

"We'd like to see you try." They both said which irked Raiser more and left with a burning flame leaving behind the magic circle.

Matthew and Conner was then left by Rias, her peerage, and Grayfia.

"Well, it's been a pleasure meeting all of you." Matthew said smiling.

…

"I actually don't know your names, so uhh, what are you names?" Matthew asked sheepishly.

Rias' Peerage then took a step forward and introduced themselves.

"Himejima Akeno, Rias-buchou's Queen."

"Yuuto Kiba, Buchou's Knight."

"…Toujou Koneko, Rook."

"Hyoudou Issei! Buchou's Pawn!"

"Argento Asia, Bu-Buchou's Bishop."

Matthew smiled and said "Well once again it's been nice meeting you all. We'll be taking our leave now. Taking you for the tea Akeno Himejima-san. And tell Milicas-san I said Hi Grayfia!"

They bowed and left the room.

"So, where'd you wanna eat?"

"I don't know, there's this new ramen place we could eat."

"Ohhh, haven't had ramen in a while. You're paying though. Already lost a damn bet…"

Kiba had said words that are possibly an understatement.

"Well, that was… something."

So I edited this a little bit, the edit's not too obvious to most, but it's there. Sorta.

I'll edit some other older chapters when I feel like it. Edits will not be too obvious because it focuses on grammar and some changes to conversations.