Chapter 10: The Deal and it's Dues

The Devils around me all did a unique raise of the eyebrow or narrow of the eyes at my declaration. Most humans are approached in the human realm. The cat twins giggled with small whispers trading between one another.

"Ah," Ravel stepped between the both of us and took to my side more than his. "Jäger this is my older brother Riser. Riser this is my…"

"I know who he is," Riser scoffed. "Why is he in my house prancing around and what's a human doing here?" I blinked at the fact he said I'm prancing even though I'm with an escort and walking normally. "You come into my home, poison my sister's mind against me, and you hit on my queen." He listed off three very grave crimes that I sort of did commit but not really follow through with fully. "You, a human with a little magical background dare, such a travesty. You got some nerve. Humph, I don't need or wish to deal with you human."

I stepped forward but the woman wielding that German sword drew and held it to my neck. "Please don't approach Riser-sama as such." The girl pressed the edge against my neck and I stayed standing without even an attempt to stop it. Her sword wasn't strong enough to cut into my hide unless I wished it to. "You have no business in the land of Devils human now begone and be thankful to leave with your life," the woman growled.

"I don't plan on leaving until I get what I want." I retorted back to the boy. Riser frowned and stepped closer towards me. "And what is it do you want that you would use my sister to get it?"

"Firstly the freedom of your sister from your peerage, the removal of her peerage piece which I will give back to you as long as I have your permission, and the same amnesty for your sorcerer," I listed off first. "I would appreciate if you didn't antagonize your sister without good reason as well as your word you won't ever try to control her livelihood again." Once I finished surprise on the faces of Riser and the women who, surrounded me was apparent. Some burst out laughing at me while one looked at me like I was an idiot among idiots. If I was a normal human without a plan that would be true but this isn't the case.

"You foolish little human." I felt the edge at my neck push against the skin. It was becoming a little annoying. I reached up and grasped the blade before twisting it, smacking the tip, and flipping it up and over towards me. I caught the blade in my waiting hands and tossed it behind me. The girl seemed to be confused for the most part until she saw me tossing her blade away. The clings of it hitting the stone floor repeatedly resounded in the room, then the room went silent before she screamed, "No! My sword!" The girl rushed past me to check on her blade like it was her baby. She was talking to it and caressing it, which is something I can understand, but she was taking it a little far when she cradled it. It's a decent blade as well and she takes good care of it. If I had a heart I'd feel guilty for throwing that.

"Oh, man that was fast," the Chun Li cosplayer awed with her fists up. "I barely saw you move. Hey, can you fight? Do you know martial arts?" The girl ran up to me with eyes glowing with excitement and her fists together under her chin. The question was innocent in nature so I responded with a nod. "What kind? I specialize in Chinese kung-fu. Are you a Kenpo expert or something because you seem to have the swiftness and strength for it?"

"I know that style well enough, but I have studied others as well. Chinese fist fighting is one of my personal favorites," I admitted openly. I didn't see a reason not to humor this girl a bit.

The girl's eyes shot open wide. "You know Chinese fist fighting!" The girl jumped away and took a stance. A smile was on her lips and a fierce fire in her eyes. "I really want to fight you so see how I stack." This girl's enthusiasm was a relief to see among this harem of women. She appeared to be strong and maybe I might take her up on this challenge. I have time on my side and I am wondering on how I stack against a devil as well without use of my powers. Against an angel I crushed her but that was a hunt instead of a straight fight. I see myself as a proficient enough fighter though. I don't need my more supernatural powers. I hide them for the most part against modern day monster or supernatural beings. Last being of the underworld I fought was a God apparently and I believe it to this day.

I reached up to the buckle on my chest but stopped. This wasn't a good idea after all I'm an intruder technically so I can't start beating up on the women in this place. "Maybe another time. I doubt your king would like that and I have business…"

"He won't mind, right Riser-sama?" The blond haired devil waved his head with a sneer on his face.

"If you can even survive against her human I might humor you." He waved me off and walked towards a table. He pulled out a chair and sat down with his arms crossed to watched me. The rest of his woman all took to different corners or spots surrounding me leaving Ms. Street Fighter and Ravel alone in the center with me.

Ravel tugged down on my sleeve and beckoned me down. "Are you sure about this?" She asked with a bit of nervousness in her eyes. I could only guess why because she knows I could stomp any one of these Devils into the ground so it's not for my well being. Maybe this is about what I wanted from Riser. That would make sense because a king losing not one but two pieces to a human can make things talk and rumors spread. If I'm not careful I'll get even more famous than I already am. Then again that Hold Up probably was missed by most of the people in his mansion if no one recognized the coat.

I pat her over the head and nodded. "You're my princess and you need your knight right?"

Ravel smiled up to me and nodded. "I need my prince more than a knight though."

"Beggars can be choosers," I said.

"Good thing I'm a princess and jot a beggar then," she retorted with a sly smile.

I scoffed then said, "Very well." Then I stood back up back with my hand on my buckle and pulled on it. The straps on my body loosened enough for me to slip out of my make shift weapon vest. Ravel held her hands out and I placed the vest in her hands. She walked away to the table that had none at it then sat everything down by the table. I removed my coat top from my body and Ravel quickly returned to take it away from me as well to which I gave her a grateful thank you. My arms are showing because of my use of magic to get to this world excited my brands and eroded the sleeves of my blouse all the way to the shoulders. I haven't fixed them yet. A couple of the women gazed at my arms and more open body with curiosity.

"You seem to be really familiar with Lady Ravel," the Chun-Li girl noted as I walked back to the center of the group.

"She's my princess," I summed it up. It's not difficult to grasp for she's been there since the first day and has been supportive of me since we discovered each other. Out of all the gifts I have given out hers is priceless and I went through literal hell to get it. Old Hell at that. "But that doesn't equate to our spar." I took a breath and a low stance favoring power attacks from my offside and swift kicks from my dominated side.

The woman smiled and tightened up her lax stance. "You ready?"

"I could ask you the same but we both know the answer don't we?"

The woman took a step and disappeared from my sight. I blinked and rose my hand and suffered a powerful blow to my hasty black. I stepped back with a grunt. Damn, I made a mistake. I was so focused that I didn't even notice my tunnel vision. She must have and took advantage, but lucky for me my body is conditioned to fight beings faster or stronger than myself. I leaned out of the way of a palm strike aimed for my head and rose my leg to block a mid level kick. I leaned back and flipped back from a high and changed stances with my fists out, the right over the left, and centered. She's Swift and strong. He's a rook that's for sure because Koneko hits about this hard when she's holding back. This might get a bit interesting.

I pushed away a punch and made a reversal to her flank. I breathed and lifted up my leg up for a basic kick. I didn't want to go all the way just yet. I have to test to see what she could take so in my kick I placed mostly pure muscle power with little ki to assist me. The woman used her hands to catch my kick, but I'm much stronger than most humans. That means I'm stronger than she first assumed. I could see the shock in her eyes as I followed through with the rest of my kick pushing her back and up off her feet. The woman was sent sailing up away from me. She righted herself in midair showing great finesse and hero acrobatic talent as landed in a stance with her leg out like a tensioned spring. Her hand closed but not as a fist but more like spear shape. I took changed stances again to the same stance just standing and one of my legs up until of the tip of my toes were on the floor.

The smile on her lips only seemed to grow at this. "You're stronger than I thought. You can eve keep up with me a bit," she giggled a bit before equipping a dangerous glint in her eye. "This might be fun after all." The woman sprang at me.

I rose my arm up and blocked a kick aimed for my head but was pushed back a little from it. I returned the kick as well only for her to mimic my own one armed block. We pushed back but we're on each other in seconds. I moved and evaded fast punches and returned them only for her to parry and block most of them. This girl was good I will admit and she was slowly growing faster the more we clashed, the more blows we traded, and the more stances we traded to counter each other.

I dodged an upper strike and caught her hand them returned a punch to her cheek. I suffered a knee to my stomach but I returned in kind with a side kick to her thigh and hook to the same cheek. She twisted around and I suffered a kick to my ribs. I coughed and grit my teeth but ate the kick and grabbed her leg. She smiled and climbed up smothering me with her large breast and looped her other leg around me. I fell back onto my shoulders before she could elbow drop me then snap my neck. Her head impacted the floor as we rolled leaving me on top. The woman grunted from the impact, but I wasn't finished. I kicked again and rolled back again the bucked my hips to send her flying away from me. The woman softened the fall with one arm and landed in a crouch. She looked up and saw me directly in front of her. She fired her body up to take me out but that punch was too obvious for me not to evade. I moved to deflect but she feign to my right then shot to the left. Before I knew it she was gone. I dropped down in a crouch and rolled back. The woman past by me in a high kick and twirled around once she landed. By then I was on my feet again, fighting the urge to divert to my neutral stance.

"You're too stronger and fast to be a normal human," the woman mused before walking to the side. I followed and we began to circle one another. "You're holding back as well," she remarked and pointed at me. "I know you can do better than that. You're hiding something aren't you?" She doesn't know the half of it but I kept that to myself. My silence seems to make her unhappy and she frowned at me. "You don't need to say anything. I'll force it out of you," she declared.

The woman was gone a moment later again and I felt an impact at my chest and grit my teeth as I shot back in a skid across the carpet. I felt an impact at my cheek and saw stars for a second then felt a sharp pain in my back the sent me forward. Before I could get far I felt someone grab me by wrapping their arms around my stomach. The woman gripped hard and leaned back, sending me flying back in a back thrown. I rolled and cushioned the fall with my hands and rolled back up to my feet. I caught her fist and brought it around and twisted. She did reversal and pulled be back to take me down. I reached down and grabbed her leg and brought her down with me. We hit the floor with me on my back and her on her face. I hammer fist down on her the back of her neck. She grunted and brought her leg around. I kicked up and rolled up to my feet and quickly back stepped around.

I hate to admit but she's right. I need to use something out of the ordinary of someone my size or she'll rip me apart. I thought on something then smiled a bit. The woman disappeared from my sight again but I knew where she's moving to. I stepped to the right and her foot past by my face. She attempted and upward cross kick. I shifted left and dropped my weight down for my next attack. It was just a simple punch just much more powerful than most others. It was akin to a karate punch but when it impacted her body there was only a loud boom. She didn't go flying or fall back but the force of impact could be seen behind me. The painting behind the woman tore up down the center before falling to the ground. I sighed and stepped back. The Chinese kung fu artist fell to the floor on her knees shivering from a mixture of damage sustained and fatigue.

"What did you do? I-I can't move... It didn't hurt so why can't I move?"

"It did hurt, your body just hasn't caught up to the fact yet." The woman blinked then coughed. She did it again and again until finally a little blood left her lips. The woman gasped and choked with her hand in her chest.

"W-what was that?" She asked once she recovered enough to lean back up from her knees.

I shook my head, "Now why would I give away my techniques?" I rubbed my shoulder and sides. "You hit hard I have to say."

The girl snickered then coughed again. "Those strikes were strong enough to knock a tree overage yet you're still standing." I rubbed my aching stomach but worse than the pain I felt in my stomach it was worse in the place below the belt for me as well. The longer I fought this woman the more I began to notice her lack of undergarments. She wore no bra and no panties meaning that every time she conducted a high kick I noticed that something wasn't at a certain pelvic area when my eyes fell down to it. There's also her chengson as well that shows me her breasts easily from every little bounce to the few times they popped in and out of place. "How did I lose? I was sure I had you there."

"You were holding back the entire time so maybe that's why I won."

The woman looked up to me and just shook her head. "No," she said with a depressed aura surrounding her. "I did at first but then I stopped holding back my strength or speed against you, and I still lost. You're really good but I don't understand your style at all."

I hummed and leaned down to her level. "What do you mean? What did you notice about my style?" The girl looked down to all the indents in my clothing where she landed a blow on me.

"You have holes in your stance but only ones you allow to be there and yet they're in areas that don't lead to severe damage or barely would affect you. The holes I do go for you took but met me back with fierce counter attacks. If I attack anything else you evade it with little to no energy wasted. You do all this and yet you don't really have a style you stick with. You kept changing from one to the other then stopped at this one confusing one. You kept your hands at your sides the entire time like you were holding a sword in each hand. What was that?" I shrugged at that question and the girl pouted in response. "Come on tell me, I promise not to tell a soul how you did that." I shook my head and again the girl frowned. "Well next time I won't hold back the fire and I'll force you to tell me."

"We'll see," I hummed in faint amusement. I felt her enthusiasm and her drive as well. I'm sure with the proper training she will be a great fighter. Greater than she is now even. I presented her my hand and waited. She took it on good faith and allowed me to help her up.

"I know you're holding something else. You can't be a normal human to attract Ravel-sama's attention. You have to have a sacred gear or something to do what you do. I can see it in you." The girl rose her hands then suddenly they ignited in a blaze of fire in the palms but concentrated at her fingers mostly. She's a pyrotelekinetic but only focused on her hands by the looks of it. The girl smirked at me. "I held this back," she gloated. "What about you?" I watched the fire completely surround her hands and grow with every passing second. "What's your special power?"

I bit my lip a bit at her desire. She's shown me her power, or rather one of them. I can see potential not yet realized but this is something. The code dictates I do the same. I could show her the same sort of power that she shown me, but then again what would be that point? I do have some level of arrogance in my abilities and pride as a human strong enough to fight against the very things that aren't. What do I show them that will appease them? I drew my eyes towards Ravel but she has nothing to give to me. No advice. This is all on me.

'Show them exactly what we can do.' I heard a honey sweet sing song voice in my mind. The eye on the palm of my right hand glowed a soft red same with the wings on the back of it too. I took a breath. It was a breath that I could see blow past my lips. The od in the atmosphere responded to my will, sucking the heat out of the air around me. Then both of my hands began to glow an icy blue as the cold spread out from my body taking the entire room by surprise. I rose my hands with them in fists and palms up. Slowly, I opened them causing frost to take hold of the windows around me. In the palm of my hands a sharp of revolving and spikey ice formed. This power wasn't my own but belonged to someone else. Something else.

'That's right, it belongs to me but to you too. My power is your power.' Of course it is. In the old days when the underworld had gods and the high heavens still had most of its archangels humans would sell their souls to the gods of the underworld, now entitled Hell and the Nether realm. 12 of the gods of the underworld, the Five the reined over that twelve, gave man eggs of sin and desire. The devil himself decided this and saw fit to show god just how easy it was for his toys to lose themselves to temptation. In time five became for and the incomplete circle lost the bulk of its power and influence.

Instead of angels protecting us from these eggs that could give man a wish at the expense of not only their humanity but someone close to them, they allowed these humans who took the eggs to receive their wishes at the expense of their humanity and will. These human's turned demons and took the shape of what grotesque beasts that rend reality. Even men aligned to the high heavens fell and became dark beastly angels as a taunt towards God and their angels. An insult to god himself and his angels to twist their heavenly design.

I have seen their true form since I was a boy that survived that fire. I ran until I finally stood fast and fought one of the monsters. I have fought them until it became an art form in the shape of a common hunt. I have hunted them at first because they hunted me for my powers, but then I learned about the power I can gain from them as well. Souls are power for those with the will and knowledge to manifest it without turning into a wraith. The first one I absorbed into my body is an ice apparition by the name of Liliana. She began as a human like me and was raised in a life of misery by her father and his friends. She lived far north of what is now called Russia in a frozen tundra. They abused and molested her while her mother did nothing to stop it. A little girl that felt she had nothing else to give killed her father, her mother, and his friends. She left but was hunted to be executed for her actions but escaped in a blizzard with her treasure. A small egg given to her by a traveling merchant. She left everything behind including a boy she loved even after it was all said and done.

Lost and freezing in a very slow and painful death with her god forsaking her the dark ones came with an offer through the use of the egg, but she needed a sacrifice. That became the boy who left his village to find her and find her he did. He died that day and she turned into a demon. One with a beautiful body, bird like legs, and wings. With a song so beautiful she could lure any man or woman into her domain to kill or maybe to torture them just like how she was tortured in her youth. One day, I wandered into her domain when I heard her song and followed it. By then I had already become one with a dragon and immunized to the wiles of a siren. Not so much the succubus for some powers are just that great but a siren wasn't difficult to resist.

She and I talked for a good amount of time. She wondered just who I was and what I was to resist her song. I truthfully answered her questions and told her a little of myself when she asked and we even ate together as well. I can't become aggressive without some sort of stimuli, and even though she was a demon she was still human as well on the inside. She was still that little girl even in her adult body. I don't judge and I have never judged someone for their actions because I have killed too many for so many of the wrong reasons to do so. We talked and then we became one. She was my first and out of the many I have I use her powers the most.

The vessel that's the human body can house powers that most believe impossible, including souls. The soul is like a nuclear reactor that can be harness for its power to strengthen your body and your spells but to take in the soul of a human eventually it will leave the vessel to the great wheel for reincarnation. A demon's soul on the other hand has only one place for it to go and that's the abyss or the void. Because of this when you take them within the body they stay forever tethered to your soul. I can use their powers when I want to and even take on their physical aspect as well if I wished it. It's easier when they are willing to give me their power that being one reason I talk to the demons in my body. Some I still have to fight everyday so they don't devour by mind and body but most accept me as the vessel of their bodies and souls.

I felt a pair of cold but strangely soothing arms wrap around my body. In the cold around me I could see an outlining of what could be seen as wings embracing me in their feathery cold touch. "W-what the…" I heard from one of the devils in the room but ignored it. I felt something above me smile at the devil around me. The wings rose up then slammed down. Ice grew around me and blew out the fire in front of me.

'I'm liking that attention,' I heard the voice chuckle in my mind. 'I think they got a good enough view of your amazing power.' The apparition scoffed when she gazed at the 'devils' around me. 'What happened to underwordly demons now a days? So weak and unsure of themselves and what they see. I wish to kill the man here. He looks yummy.'

I closed my hands and the cold aura around me faded and warmth filled the area again. The spike of temperature was so significant three of the peerage around me fell to a knee in shock. "I had to hold her back during the fight."

"H-her," the Chun li look alike gasped. "Was that the physical representation of your sacred gear?" The girl in the miko uniform questioned me. I nodded because why not? If I did have one you can say it's the truth but only half of it. All of this is natural to me; a bloodline I have bestowed upon me special powers for as long as I been alive. My eyes, my mind, and my body's ability to adapt to sudden changes quickly in the moments. My regression of age every time I took in another demon or some sort of power evaded my body was included in this. Having vampire in my family and my blood being awakened after being diluted for so long regressed me four to five years to grow up again to get used to it. Its normal to me.

I faced the man who gazed upon me with some interest. "A human like you… Why haven't I heard of you?" I'm sure he's heard of me but he just doesn't know who I am. That means I'm doing a good job with my own form of witness protection. I know many of the devils in hell call for my head after the catastrophe I caused after exiting the world door.

Riser looked at me with some interest as I faced him. "What is it that someone like you are doing here? You might end up in peerage whether you like it or not." He's right about that and I have a way to protect myself from devil pieces but I don't like taking a chance regardless. Though in this instance my little sister figure is in pain and I'd like to see her happy; even though I can't be.

"I have stated that I wish to deal with you as well as what I want from you Riser, and I..."

"That is Riser-sama!" The blue haired pony tailed woman roared at me.

Riser rose his hand when she stomped towards me. "Yes," he spoke hollowly. "You wish to take two of my peerage. You're foolish to ask for such a thing when you're not even a devil. You do know you can't have a peerage as a human? I'm assuming you didn't come here an idiot. My sister has tastes after all."

I nodded my head. "I came here knowing full well what the risk might be, and for her I'd take that chance any day." Riser narrowed his eyes at me but remained quiet for me to talk. I must have stroked his interest enough to not brush me off flat out. I did manifest an Ice Apparition and freeze an room full of fire based devils. "While I am human I happened to be knowledgeable in the Laws of the underworld. Only the King has the ability to dismiss peerage without the use of an extractor but that King must also be a High class demon. I know your above such and have such a power. Regardless of this I must be apart of the underworld before any of this can come into notion."

"And you are of the underworld? Prove it to me then," he challenge. Something of which he might regret later down the road.

I thought on a good show to give this man so I can somehow have a chance to do this trade the right way. I needed a demon's power to flow through and out of me for that to happen but all the souls within my body are Apostles of the Dark Gods. 'Not all of them handsome.' A dark and miasmic power broke thought the barrier of my mind and my right arm responded. All the markings from my hand to my elbow glowed a ghastly red that turned the moisture in the air into a red mist. Not just that but the energy of a very certain demon flowed outward from my body. Most of the peerage dropped to their hands and knees accept Ravel who stepped back away from me with shock filled eyes, the Kung fu fighter just barely hanging on, Yebelluna who turned a dark red from the power the surrounded her, and finally Riser himself.

"Well that proves it right Big brother," Ravel said with a smile. I took a breath and redness of my arm subsided and with it the red mist. "I'm of the underworld in a way that I have its blessing, as you felt. If that isn't good enough I have this as well." I reached into my pocket and pulled out my evil piece. The queen piece that Serafall handed me to use on myself if I ever saw myself dying and wanted to at least bring myself back on my own accord. I showed him the piece and the chain attached to it. The Leviathan Sigil hands with the piece as well. "My body belongs to that of one of the four satans and this is my pass."

"You!" Riser stepped back away from me. "Y-you're the up and coming queen of Serafall Leviathan-sama! The one that destroyed part of the Gremory estate, half of Satan City, and most of the Familiar forest!"

"Ah, I suppose?" I questioned. I suppose my reputation precedes me it seems and yet I still receive letters and love notes about joining peerages.

"You fought Lucifer-sama then escaped and then forced Leviathan-sama to a standstill. You can't be human. It's impossible."

I sighed and rubbed my head. "That's the thing about you Devils and the rest of you inhuman beings. You all underestimate the power of humans to the point that you see us as cannon fodder, slaves, or food more than people." It's the true too. Many monsters think that just because most of us don't have claws, rock hard skin, and tentacles they see us as just wastes of space.

Riser though seems to be treating me seriously now. The rest of his peerage all seemed to be backing away now taking respected fighting stances not like it matters. I don't feel like fighting right now after my spar with the Chun-Li girl so now I'm in a very passive aggressive mood as of now.

So much so that my filter is slowly breaking into two. "I know took your sister's brotherly love for myself and you don't like this fact, but I really think you should surrender her to me."

Riser narrowed his eyes, "What are you talking about my sister loves being with me. Right Ravel?" He looked expectantly towards his sister.

"Big brother, I love you, but no," Ravel shook her head. "I don't, not really. I want to be traded to Otieno and if you don't let me I'll tell daddy and you know how that will end." Riser winced at this. What was wrong with their dad or rather what is wrong with this family period?

"But you're my little sister so don't you…"

"Big brother, I love and I will always love you, but I am unhappy with being your bishop. I am unhappy with being treated like I'm just an accessory to your ego as well. I am unhappy the you get jealous and get hurt by you because of this. I want to make my own choices for once and if you really want to give me a true gift instead of this," Ravel reached for the necklace around her neck and yanked it off. She tossed it away at his feet and fire risen through her finger tips at its release. "Let me go, please."

Riser winced again. He frowned and squat down to his sister's level to pick up the necklace. "Do you know know how costly this was," he murmured then look her dead in the eyes. "You chose a human and dark signed queen instead of your king, your brother." Riser clenched his hand around the chain with a shaky fist. "You sure about this?" He said in a warning tone. "Have you thought this through little sister?"

Ravel met her brother's eyes with a smile. "Yes onii-chan."

Riser took a deep breath and sighed. He climbed back up to my level and regarded me with a dark glare. "Can I talk with you alone cold one?" Without giving me time to answer Riser turned around and left for a hall to the right. I looked around to the peerage and all had a mixture of grim expressions on their faces. Ravel's eyes widened and looked towards me with worry. I guess this private chat isn't going to be just a chat.

I walked on and followed close behind him. We walked for a better part of half an hour before I couldn't the waiting. I had to ask him where we were going but the only thing that responded was silence and that didn't tell me much. We walked to a fancy looking door made of a mixture of golden and red diamond and swirls designs. It's unlike the rest of the doors we have passed by being that most of them are kill me orange and dark red with a design akin to a bird or something with wings.

"This is an epichamber," he called it but I had no idea what it was. What sort of chamber was this? The door opened to a large chamber with a glass ceiling and tiled floors. In the center was a table and two chairs. "This chamber is used for private discussion that the occupants inside don't want to leave it." I looked around the chamber from the floor to the walls. I know the smell of devil blood having to hunt Devils in the old days and different demons that fell under those demons. This room reeked of it. I could see faint traces of blood around the table and on the walls. They attempted to clean the blood, I can tell; but once blood spills on a surface it never truly goes away. This room is used for discussions. Interesting.

Riser sat down on the chair opposite of me farthest from the door. I sat down a moment later after him just two feet away.

"Basically this chamber contains everything that takes place within it. Anything spoke doesn't leave these walls. Any power released is filtered through the special stone that surrounds us. It cannot be sensed or felt by anything outside this room." I looked around the chamber for a moment. It was one large circular room with a decent amount of empty space. Plenty of space for any disagreements that might arise during the discussion. Children like this boy are so predictable.

"I don't plan on giving my sister to you," Riser declared heatedly.

Sadly, I was expecting this after all Ravel told me, and in great detail, the inner workings of her older sibling. This boy reminded me of a slightly more in control Issei with his perverted fetishes and female collection of different tropes, but the fact he's arrogance personified with the way he acts towards those he sees as insignificant is the difference between them I can see. In truth the only reason he's not showing me that snarky smirk from before is because he knows who I am now. I have taken on a Satan and did not die. That says much. I can sense his uncertainty and his caution. He's unsure of what to make of me. I was a human in his eyes but if I contain enough power to almost bring him to his knees then that's something no man can ignore.

I closed my eyes, leaned back in my chair, crossed my arms over my chest, and let my head fall down at a little less than a 45 degree angle. This was my deep and long discussion stance I happened to develop somehow. I'm not sure when I did but it came regardless. "Dare I ask why?" I opened my eyes and saw a faint red hue in place of normal colors. I can see Riser clear as day with my high level of spiritual awareness. I could see every shift in his emotion state and right now he's but irresolute on top of that.

"She's my sister and my bishop."

"You can get another bishop easily and if you care for your sister you would let her go."

The anger grew within the Phenex at my words. "What she wants doesn't matter."

That was the wrong answer. I clenched my fists and sighed to calm down. "I can understand what you might be thinking. That I'm less of her brother than you are but what is an older brother if not at least supportive of his sister's choices? Riser, I care for her choices."

"She's my sister regardless and her choices are my choices."

I took another breath. "Then what do I need to do to get you to release her to me?" The boy's energy ran with red. "And your queen as well. As I said I want you to release her as well."

"Oh really," Riser laughed mockingly. "That's not going to happen. Even if you carry the seal of a Satan it doesn't make you one. You can't come in here and demand whatever you want?"

I crossed my arms at this. It smells of hypocrisy in here.

"If that's what you believe then why are we here? In this room? Alone?" I opened my arms and rested them limply to my sides. "Are you planning on hurting me? Are going to try to kill me?" I questioned and the red grew.

"This room does more than prevent the powers of Od and yoki from leaking out. It also restricts the power of its occupants." Ah, I see. So that explains why I can't call upon my magic right now or even feel it. Does he believe that I'm weak without powers? I hunt without them anyway. Many of my skills aren't magic based.

"So you kill me and then what? What will you tell your sister?"

"Simple. You attacked me and I was forced to defend myself from the weak human without his magic," he sneered at me. "Of course my sister will believe me same with my family and your death doesn't need to be known. It would be like you never existed."

I almost shook my head. This child knows nothing of his sister. She's smarter than he is but acts a certain way sometimes to get away. With me she doesn't need to act like a little girl but her mature princess self.

I tensed my arm and cupped my hand. I'm beginning to revert and feel different. A dark and cold nature is freezing my veins. This boy didn't think this through, sealing himself in here with me.

Riser grinned with his hands out and fire building within. "Of course my power is more than strong enough to resist the wards but you don't seem to have that luxury being human." He's right. I can't hear them. It's so quiet that it surprised see. My Od is sealed but I dare say I'm deadlier when I revert without it.

"Now, I will kill…gah!" I gripped the boy's throat hard and lifted him up overhead. The boy reached up to my hand with his own. His attempts to loosen my grip bared no fruit. The more he struggled the tighter my grip on his neck grew. Even with the fire that began to surround him my grip only grew tighter to the point I could feel something beginning to give just like that darkness grew to the point I began to feel pleasure from this.

"I want to tell you two very important pieces of information." I spoke words as sharp as razors and in a tone that literally froze the air around us. "One: if you threaten to kill me be ready at the moment's notice to follow through before it's too late." I loosened my grip and just when the boy started to suck in air my clenched fist found his solar plexus a nice temporary home. That air light gasp in his lungs along with what was still there fired out his mouth in the form of smoke. My grip instantly tightened back around his throat.

"And two: your kind become near human when you are suffering from asphyxiation. You didn't know that did you?" The boy's eyes turned blood shot and his attempt to create fire failed in every way. He did create a small flame but the wards in this room must have devoured his flames. He's not so strong without air it seems and creating that fire made his predicament that much worse. All the way until the point that his body began to shut down and his arms falling like limp noodles to his sides was proof enough of this. His immortality was the only thing keeping him alive. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a special taser and placed it at his neck. I sent a volt of electricity into his body every time he attempted to pass out keep him in a suspended state of Hell. I've tortured fire wraiths in this fashion before and I'm relieved it still works so well.

The underworld is spoiled compared to how demons were before and Hell was actually hell. I spent what felt like an eternity in the real hell twice and what I experienced there compared to my trips now like comparing a frolic through sunflower fields to a fall through a dark passage way with razor sharp walls slashing through every inch of your body with a fiery pit of fire awaiting you at the end. The difference is that drastic. This boy is just suffering a taste of what I went through and so far I don't think he likes it. Helplessness is a great tool to make an arrogant fool humble.

"I get what I want and if I don't get it willingly I take it. Do you know why?" The boy didn't answer. "Yes, because I can make life hell even in hell and if you were smart you would have noticed this right away." I brought the boy back down to my level until his eyes stopped at my own. "I am the second of Leviathan and you're a child that's annoyed me with juvenile tricks like this." The fear radiating off this boy was so great I could actually drink it. Tasted sour but also a little spicy. The demon within me reveled in the fear; I mean my own inner demon all Jäger have. The darkness of man is hard to comprehend even to this day. Mine wants to have some fun.

I noticed a ghastly aura surrounding my hand and spreading towards my shoulder. "Are you saying you don't what me to put your immorality to the test by ripping off your head?" I tilted my head in mocking confusion. "What? You rather I rip your balls off instead then give you just enough air to recover them then repeat?" I shook my head with chuckle. "You're one sick and kinky child you know that? But hey, I'm not one to judge." I placed my taser down then lowered my hand to waist level instead. "If that's what you want," I spoke calmly but the amusement I felt within me was easy to see and hear. I licked my lips at the thoughts and plans that formulated through the dark recesses of my mind. I figured I'd play doctor with this boy as my personal doll.

"Huh, what?" I looked into the boy's eyes. I pulled him in close until we were nearly face to face. "You agree to release your sister from your peerage." I grabbed a fist full of crotch and sucked in all the pain, remorse, fear, shame, and every other negative emotion my other side loved to see. The boy whimpered like a wounded puppy at this point. "And your queen as well? You're so generous you know that? Maybe your sister was wrong about you. Hope for your own sake and your manhood this is the case." I turned around and pulled the boy up overhead. I slammed him face first into the table forcing it to creak. I rose an eyebrow at the table's durability but let it go. I stepped back away from the boy who was upside down and still atop the table. After a second the boy fell over like a domino to the ground like a sack of potatoes shivering like a traumatized child which he probably is. I waited for the boy to suck in air and gasp with a series of coughs and pants betwixt the internal struggle in his mind.

I speared topped my hand and stopped it at his side with the sharp edge at his neck. "I may be human but like your queen I'm older than you and I know how make a brat like you squeal. If you think your position in this little family of yours will save you from me then you will soon be Dead wrong." I felt the influence of the darkness within fade little by little after having a little fun for a bit.

I let that threat loom overhead for a moment before sheathing my sword. Riser climbed up to his knees and barely managed to lift his eyes up towards me. He nodded dejectedly at me but didn't say a word. "Now about what we discussed?" Riser stood up to his feet and dusted himself off before I began. I opened my mouth and began to explain our "Deal" because I'm more than willing to take his sister "official" now but his queen is a different matter. With their history I need something of equal value to trade and I think I do. At the end he gave me on last look before walking past me to the door out. "I accept," he agreed. I followed close behind him to the door and we shook before we opened it.

"Riser-sama!" Most of his peerage tan to his side the moment he exited the door. They stopped just shy of touching him though. He rose his hands up putting it all to a halt. He said nothing to them as he past his peerage to his sister. He leaned over and knelt down.

"Onii-chan?" Ravel regarded her brother with shock.

"You're free to do whatever you want." He stretched out his hand and hovered it over her chest. He spared me a glance and I moved behind Ravel and placed my hand on the small of her back. Suddenly a red light came to life centered on her chest as Riser pulled his fire from her soul and I pushed mine in to shift the piece within. Ravel sighed in a way that seemed more like a moan as a red bishop piece extracted itself from her chest. The light died down and left Ravel panting from the whole ordeal. I stood back with a nod and crossed my arms.

Riser held the bishop piece up and sighed. "Thank you Onii-chan. You're the best!" Ravel's smile was so bright and sweet even the twins made an one cute "awwwww" sound from the cuteness.

"Yeah yuk!" Riser grunted when Ravel took her older brother by the neck in a tight hug. I couldn't tell since I was behind him but he was smiling as well. "Okay, okay I got it you're ruining my image right now." Ravel blinked and released her brother from his hug. His words where halfhearted at best and she noticed this. Ravel along with the rest of the peerage regarded Riser with bewilderment. Then Ravel turned her sights to me. The rest followed all with a mixture of different thoughts and emotions rolling through them.

"What did you do?" One of the peerage demanded from me.

"Negotiated."

My answer only served to infuriate a couple of them. One woman even drew a sword. "Leave him be!" Riser commanded strong enough to pierce into the hearts of his peerage.

"B-but Riser-sama…"

"I said," he walked to the center of his peerage. "Enough. We 'negotiated' and that's it." Riser looked from one of his girls to the next. When neither one challenged his orders he finally turned towards Yebelluna. "You are free of your position as queen in my peerage Yebelluna."

"But Riser-sama I…" Riser rose his hand up to her chest and like what happened with Ravel we repeated the same with Yebelluna. I forced much more energy into her to crack her being and separate the piece from her while Riser pulled. The sorcerer screamed in pain as she was freed but the price… I wonder it's worth what she's going to suffer. But she made choice on her own so she has to reap the consequences. The queen piece tore itself from her body and shot into the king's hands. Yebelluna fell down to her knees panting and seemingly in pain as well.

"Goddess above," she either prayed or cursed to the floor.

"It's done. You belong to him now." Riser turned towards me. "Take care of my sister or I will kill you." His eyes showed a fire. The fire an older brother gets when he wishes to protect his younger sister. I believed it for a moment that he would find some sort of inner power to use against me if I so much as made her sister sniffle.

"I understand."

"Wait Riser why are you giving this man your queen too? The Royal Sorcerous?"

"We negotiated," we both answered at the same time. I walked over towards Yebelluna and picked her up bridal style. I nodded and walked away down the hall.

"Bye bye big brother." Ravel ran up behind me and followed quietly.

The maid from before awaited me at the end of the hall in a bow. "I will escort you, Mistress Ravel, and Lady Yebelluna out."

"Yes please." The woman bowed once more and lead us back to the front door and out into the underworld.

Yebelluna cringed and shivered. She gripped her chest and convulsed a little in my arms. Her body was beginning to deteriorate it seems. That piece was the only thing keeping her alive. She's needs something to tether her soul towards her body. Luckily I thought about this a know a bit of the ways of a warlock. I took a breath felt a tether between the two of us from until we paired. I grit my teeth as soul shatter agony and pain shook my internals but this was nothing compared to when I accepted her.

"It hurts," she sniffled.

"Bear with it." I took a breath and let it out. "That piece was the only thing keeping you alive because it doubled as tether between your physical body and astral one." And grit my teeth against the pain. "But now I'm sustaining you but I have a limit. We have to hurry."

"Is she going to die," Ravel ran up to my side. Even though Ravel doesn't really like Yebelluna she still worries for her safety it seems. I wasn't one to lie so I nodded my head. "Then wouldn't it have been better if she had stayed?" Ravel spat at me and took my pants legs forcing me to a halt. "If she dies then what was the point!"

"Freedom." The answer came from a panting Yebelluna. Her beautiful skin was now a deathly pale and her bright purple eyes now are dulled like a flawed gemstone. "I'd rather be dead then a slave to that man and his evil pieces. Damned Devils," Yebelluna cursed then coughed.

"What do you mean a slave?" Ravel asked but Yebelluna shook her head. "Those pieces are a slave collar…they control you. Can only fight…for so long." She said between her harsh breathes.

"What's happening to her?"

"Her body is regressing to how it was before she became a devil," I answered.

Ravel's eyes widened. "But that means…" She didn't finish.

"It's okay sweetie," Yebelluna put on the best smile she could make before the pain wracked her body again.

"No it's not. You'll die again and this time won't come back." Yebelluna just smiled and sunk down into my arms. She accepted her fate but I haven't. "You can't keep me alive for long Hunter," she caressed my cheek with a sad smile on her lips. She knows what I'm trying to do and is resigning herself to her fact to die but I didn't go through that for nothing.

"Let's get home." I felt my body turn intangible as my recall spell did its job. We landed in my living room and quickly I rushed towards the back room.

"Hey wait!" I left behind Ravel voiced from the living room. I kicked open my own door to my own version of an emergency room and laid Yebelluna on the bed. I have only used this room a couple times for injuries too dangerous to allow my accelerated healing to handle. "Where…are…?"

"Relax," I rubbed the woman's cheek. Like magic she stopped shivering. "You're not going to die again. As you are now your body is regressing to how you were before you had the piece implanted into your body," I grabbed an IV and placed the needle into her arm. "Meaning you are becoming human again but your body is becoming progressively weaker because of the broken bond between the devil piece and your revived body."

I reached for her top and unfastened every button and cuff. Yebelluna stared at me silently but couldn't speak because of her pants become progressively hoarser. "I will have to strip you of all your clothes, nurse your wounds, and healing the fatal damage done to your body prior your death. I will also have to keep a steady stream of pure mana and life energy cycling through your body. You will lose blood as well by the looks of it and the only sort I have available is mine. It will either kill you or save you to the point that you can sustain yourself." I reached down to a shelf and pulled a glowing green bag and a blue one as well. "The process will be painful but by the end of it you will be human again and alive. You will also be kin to me. I hope you don't mind having my blood in you." I hung the bags and attached the needles at the end of the tubes.

"Do you understand what I will be doing?" The woman nodded. "Are you ready?" Again the woman nodded. Without saying a word I got to work with stripping her until she was fully naked. Then I took the IV of liquid mana into her jugular vein to no response from the prick. I added the second back of liquid life energy to her core between her stomach and chest. I placed an IV needle into my arm and did the same for hers. The sorcerous' body lunged forward when my blood entered her making blackened veins in her arm pop out. Eventually she calmed down enough to lift my hand from her abdomen. I rose my hands over her and focused.

Now for the fun part.

A/N: Creating an army with the right individuals isn't easy same with doing the impossible to certain party's in certain universes. Claiming two peerage pieces is a vast change same with taking those pieces out and turning a Devil back into a human when it's believed to be impossible. Once I'm finish building the team then the fun can begin.

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