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"Zest?!"

The white-haired young woman whipped around, and her golden eyes met Kenji's mismatched ones.

Ten full seconds passed, neither moving an inch.

"What are you doing here?" Kenji asked.

"What are you doing here?" Zest asked, at the same time.

"None of your business." Kenji replied.

"Looking for you." Zest replied, at the same time.

"What?" they both asked afterwards, at the same time. There was another uncomfortable silence.

"Why are you looking for me?" Kenji asked, without Zest saying something at the same time.

"Well…" Zest lingered for a moment, inwardly SHOCKED OUT OF HER FUCKING MIND that the ONE person she was looking for just turned up, out of the blue, right near her. "It was because Zeotifucks ordered it so."

"Zeotifucks…?" Kenji suddenly burst out laughing. "That's a real good name."

"Thanks." Zest blushed.

"So I guess Zeotifucks- I am so using that name from now on- is still going on sending guards and maids after me, seeing as you're out here?" Kenji asked, not letting his guard down.

"Actually, no." Zest replied. "He stopped, three weeks ago."

"Why?" Kenji asked. "Did the motherfucker give up?"

"Actually, no." Zest replied. "In the eyes of the Devils Territory of the Underworld, you're… presumed dead."

Kenji was silent for a full minute.

"Well I'm alive, aren't I?" he asked. "So there's no harm-" He was cut off as Zest ran into his arms and hugged him, tightly.

"I was… destroyed." She muttered, while silently sobbing into Kenji's shoulder. "I cried for about a week after I heard from Zeotifucks that you were apparently dead. I killed the group of guards I was put with, and I've been looking for you ever since!"

"I'm flattered." Was all Kenji could say. "You'd look for me for approximately a month, even when you thought I was dead?"

"Yes!" Zest said, looking up into Kenji's eyes. 'Damn, he's grown taller since four months ago.' She thought. 'A lot taller. He's developed some muscle as well.'

"Now I really am flattered." Kenji replied, holding Zest in his arms. "But why?"

"Why?" Zest repeated, and then gulped. This was it. Time to say the words she'd been wanting to say for the past four months, maybe more. "Because… I'm… in love with you, Kenji."

Silence. Zest looked up into Kenji's eyes, hoping against hope that he would reciprocate her feelings.

"Do you really mean that?" Kenji asked, softly. Zest slowly nodded.

"Yes, I do really mean that." Zest replied. "I've wanted to tell you for the past four months, maybe more. But when you ran away, I was so… broken. I cried for about two months after you ran away, and then Zeotifucks sent me out on a mission to find you, and then a month later he said you were dead, and I've been looking for you on my own, because if you really were dead, I'd-"

Her frantic words were stopped abruptly, when Kenji pressed his lips against hers, claiming her lips in a short kiss.

"Stop." He said, simply. "Stop right there, Zest." Zest calmed down enough to stay silent, and listen to what Kenji said next.

"I… I may have a girlfriend, Zest." He began, then paused. "But… I somehow managed to gain a harem along the way." Zest was silent for a second, before she hugged Kenji.

"I don't care." She whispered. "I'm willing to be a part of your harem, if I get to be with you." The pair shared a kiss again. This time around, the kiss lasted longer, and there was a lot more passion in the kiss than before. The former maid's hands made their way into Kenji's hair as the two continued to kiss for at least a minute, until they broke apart for air.

When they did, Kenji saw that Zest had tears running down her face. Gently placing his thumb on her face, he wiped them away.

"Wow, am I really that bad at kissing?" he asked, jokingly. That earned him a mock punch on the arm from Zest.

"Of course not." She grinned. "Now, what are you doing here?"

"I thought I should be building up my peerage." Kenji replied.

"So you have members in a peerage already?" Zest asked.

"More like 'member'." Kenji replied. "I think I should be going. You want to come?"

"Of course!" Zest replied.

"Alright then." Kenji headed off, walking quickly. Tobio had taught him, along with using swords, how to sense magical potential in beings. The stronger the magic, and the better the person was at sensing said magic, the better (and Kenji was extremely good at sensing magic from beings, maybe from his magic as a Devil, or to be more specific, a hybrid). Zest had a lot of magic inside her, and Kenji could feel that, but he could also feel some other magic gathered some way to the north-west. Stepping through trees, he came to what looked like a large beach, which was completely deserted.

"Why are we stopping?" Zest asked. "There's nobody here." One look from Kenji silenced her, and Kenji threw up a magic-circle. Pressing his fingers together and then separating them, as if he was zooming in on a touchscreen device, what he was looking through in the magic-circle came closer and closer, like a makeshift zoom-in camera. Kenji kept zooming in and zooming in until a tower came into view.

The tower had a twisted body and sporadically jutting sides, it appeared very chaotic and asymmetrical. The bottom and main body of the tower was comprised of what looked like intertwining lengths of metal tubes, which wound together from the ground and straight up into the sky. These giant pipes, Kenji assumed, were held together through a series of smaller tubes, which linked the main sections, as well as many differently sized and shaped golden decorations, which looped over and around the frame of the tower, adding to its unruly presentation. When Kenji zoomed in far enough, he saw that around the main form of the building, a twisted staircase wound, rising around the tower and leading to a room at the top.

"What is that place?" Zest asked. "And where did you learn how to do that with magic-circles?"

"I don't know, and that's my own business." Kenji replied. "Well, the magic I sensed seems to be coming from there. Wait-" Kenji zoomed in even further, and he saw, to his horror…

"Kids." He whispered. "Teenagers. Someone's having them build this tower!"

"What?" Zest whispered. She ran over to the magic-circle and had a look through. Kenji was right. There were teenagers, innocent-looking teenagers, building the tower. And they looked in pretty bad shape.

"This is sick." Kenji muttered. "That's fucking sick."

"You gonna stop them?" Zest asked.

"Yeah." Kenji replied, beginning to prepare a transportation-magic-circle. But before he could step into it, he looked into the circle and his eyes widened at what was going on in there.

A young girl, looking around the same age as Kenji, if just a year or so older, with shoulder-length scarlet hair and one brown left eye (her right eye was covered by an eyepatch) was working on the tower, and had put down her tool to wipe her brow.

"HEY!" a burly, muscular-looking man yelled, stomping over to the girl and backhanding her with so much force that Kenji and Zest both winced. "GET BACK TO WORK!"

"Okay, that's it." Kenji growled, more like a dragon than anything else. "Come on, Zest." Zest nodded, seeing what happened as well. She stepped into the magic-circle, and vanished along with Kenji.

A flash of light later, they appeared, in an area that Kenji presumed was in the middle. Turning around, and ignoring the shocked looks he got from everyone, he saw the muscular man continuing to punch the redheaded girl. His face hardening, Kenji sent a blast of his Power of Destruction at the man. He staggered forward and fell over. Once he got up, he stared at Kenji in horror.

"What?! Who are you?!" he asked.

"The person who kills you if you don't leave that girl alone!" Kenji yelled, drawing his sword. "Pick on someone your own size and age!" he ran forward, faster than anyone could see, and cut the man's head off without a second thought.

"Kenji!" Zest called. "When did you get a-"

"I'll explain later, Zest." Kenji called back. "You focus on freeing the kids, I'll focus on beating these other shits!" Zest nodded, and turned away, while Kenji ducked a blow from one of the guards, jumped onto the fist of another one attempting to punch him, and stabbed him in the neck. Jumping off, he sent a wave of Destruction at the next three, killing them where they were.

A large battle followed. Or rather, a large one-man massacre followed. Guard after guard after guard attempted to attack Kenji, and guard after guard after guard met their end.

Kenji attacked with grace and finesse, always moving, never stopping, keeping one eye on his surroundings, the other eye on who he was currently killing, remembering the signs (based on his opponent's movements) on when and how to block, and when and how to attack, all lessons that Tobio had taught him during his swordfighting lessons.

And man, oh man, were the lessons paying off.

All in all, Kenji thought that, for his first real fight (the sparring sessions with Valian, Penemue, Albedo and Tobio didn't count), he was doing amazingly. He hadn't been hit once, he was careful not to hurt any innocents, his head was level, his mind was focused…

It was the perfect battle mindset.

"And… that's… it!" Kenji muttered, punctuating each word with a slash to a different guard's neck. Once the final head hit the floor, Kenji turned around, and saw Zest, cradling something, or someone, in her hands.

"Hey Zest, I've cleared all the guards out." He said.

"And I've cleared all the kids out of here." She said. "And I'm also trying to heal this girl." When Kenji looked into Zest's arms, he saw that it was the red-headed teenager who he'd saved earlier.

"She's going fast." Zest whispered. "I don't think there's anything I can do. The damage is too severe."

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!" Kenji whispered, feeling guilty that an innocent would die, and he couldn't do fuck-all about it.

Or could he?

He turned to the girl in Zest's arms, getting an idea. Since he could sense some type of magic inside her, it was a win-win for him, and for her. "Can you hear me?" he asked. The girl nodded, unable to form words.

"I don't think you're going to make it, your injuries are far too severe. But if you want me to, I can give you another chance at life. Do you want to live?" he asked. "Nod if you do, but if you don't… I understand." The girl in Zest's arms looked like she was weakening by the second, but with the last ounce of strength she had, she nodded.

She then succumbed to her injures, and drew her last breath. The girl died in Zest's arms.

"What are you planning to do, Kenji?" Zest asked. For an answer, Kenji drew out one of his Evil Pieces: one of his eight Mutation Pawns. Zest nodded in understanding, and gently laid the girl down on the ground. Kenji knelt down beside the girl and gently placed the Pawn onto her chest. Slowly pushing it into her, the girl shuddered for a second, and lay still.

"Okay, it's done." Kenji said, standing up, and lifting the girl into a fireman's lift. Creating a magic-circle that he stepped into, with Zest following suit, they left.

Line Break

Kenji, Zest, and the newly-reincarnated girl appeared at the front of Kenji's mansion in the Grigori territory. Without a second word, Kenji walked forwards towards the mansion.

"Do you… do you LIVE there, Kenji?" Zest asked, staring, astounded, at the huge seven-story mansion standing in front of her.

"Yup." Kenji replied, shortly. "You gonna stand there or what?" Zest followed Kenji inside the mansion. She barely had time to look at her surroundings before.

"KENJI!" a voice unknown to Zest yelled, and a beautiful woman in her late teens ran out of the kitchen-looking area. She had dark silver hair tied into a ponytail that went down to her back, and a figure that made Zest really jealous. The woman and was about to hug him tightly, but stopped at the sight of the girl on Kenji's shoulder.

"Who is that?" she asked. "And who's she?" she looked at Zest.

"New peerage member, and someone I'll talk with you about later." Kenji replied. "I need a room for this girl, as she is my first Pawn." Valian nodded, and let Kenji place her gently in his arms. She headed over to a door, pressed a button, stepped into a lift-looking room, and the door shut behind her.

"Who was that, Kenji?" Zest asked.

"My half-dragon half-Devil girlfriend and Queen, Valian Lucifer." Kenji replied. At Zest's even-more-shocked face, he chuckled. "Yes, the one and only female blood descendent of Lucifer… is my girlfriend and Queen. A real 9.5 Richter Scale shocker, I know."

"KENJI!" another voice yelled out, and someone came careening down the stairs, and barrelled into Kenji's arms, almost knocking him over. Once Zest got a look at the woman, she saw that she was arguably as beautiful as Valian. She had long blue hair, golden eyes and seemed to be in her early twenties.

"Valian was right, you're back!" a third woman entered the room and smiled widely at Kenji. She had long, thigh-length black hair, the same golden eyes as the first woman, and an incredible figure. She walked over to Kenji and engulfed him in a hug as well.

"I'm glad to see you too." Kenji muttered.

"Kenji" the blue-haired woman asked Kenji, and looked over at Zest. "Who is she?"

"That" Kenji replied, "Is a question I plan to answer when Valian gets back." Right on cue, Valian entered through the lift, without the girl, this time.

"Okay." Kenji headed over to a sofa, and sat down upon it. "Everyone sit down. This is gonna take some time." Everyone took a seat, Zest noticing that Valian took a seat very close to Kenji.

"Okay, time for introductions." Kenji replied. "This is Valian Lucifer, my girlfriend and Queen."

"Hi." Valian smiled at Zest, who smiled back.

"Those two are Penemue and Albedo." Kenji said, gesturing to Penemue and Albedo. "They're Fallen Angel-succubus hybrids." Zest's eyes widened.

"Fallen Angels?!" she exclaimed. "You mean we're in the Fallen Angel's territory. This is where you've been all this time?!"

"Yes, it is. And I'll explain in a moment." Kenji replied, raising his voice over Zest's exclamations, and effectively stopping Zest's words. "Vali, Pen, Albedo, this is Zest." He introduced the maid. "She was a maid for the Gremory Household back when I was there." After hearing those words, all three women stiffened, and looked at Zest.

"Calm down." Kenji replied. "You know how I said that there was a maid that actually treated me as a person and not the Heir to a household? She is that maid." All three women relaxed.

"Zest." Valian said to Zest, looking at her carefully. "Thank you… for taking care of Kenji while he was still with his family. It's nice to see that someone cared for Kenji before he ended up in the Grigori."

"That's alright, Valian." Zest replied, smiling slightly. She looked at Kenji. "Are you going to tell me how you came to be in the Grigori in the first place?"

"Oh, right." Kenji nodded, and began to recount his tale.

It took him a whole half-hour to recount the whole story, and Zest gasped out loud when he revealed his sixteen Devil and Dragon wings, a product of Albion turning him into a half-dragon. She blushed as deep as Kenji's hair when he said that Penemue and Albedo 'fed' off of him at regular intervals.

Once he was finished, Zest was even more amazed than she was before.

"So… that's it?" she asked.

"Yup." Kenji replied.

"You were on the run for two months…"

"Yup."

"And you were found by Valian…"

"And Azazel." Kenji added.

"And taken in…"

"Yup."

"Now all the Fallen Angels recognise you as a member of the Grigori?"

"Eh, I'd say ninty-nine… point nine… percent of them do." Kenji replied, with a grin.

"Okay, now a good two months after that…"

"And three days." Kenji added.

"You've had sex with Valian, Penemue and Albedo… thirty-six times?"

"Thirty-seven." Kenji grinned.

"And you made Valian your Queen."

"To be fair, that was her own choice." Kenji replied. "Any other questions?"

"Well, there is one…" Zest mumbled.

"Yes?" Kenji asked, looking calmly at her.

"Can I… can I be in your peerage, too?" she blurted out, looking at Kenji.

"Huh?" Kenji was slightly taken aback. "Why?"

"You know when you first got your Evil Pieces?"

"Mmmhmm."

"Well…" Zest was nervous again. "I actually wanted to ask you if you would make me a part of your peerage when you got back from Ajuka's lab, but-"

"But I never did get back." Kenji finished. "Okay, I'll make you a part of my peerage." Zest's face split into the widest smile Kenji had ever seen.

"Thank you, Kenji!" she said, happily. "I'll willingly serve you as whatever piece you make me, my King." Kenji extracted a piece from his pocket, and inserted it into Zest's chest. After a few seconds of pushing it into her chest, eight wings, four Devil and four Dragon, sprouted from Zest's back.

"Welcome to my peerage, Zest... my second Pawn." Kenji whispered. Zest looked behind her, and jumped at the sight of the devil and dragon wings sprouting from her back. Her dragon wings, unlike Kenji's, were white, but faded into gold, instead of Kenji's, which were white, blue, silver and red.

"Kenji, why are there both Devil and Dragon wings? I thought the Evil Pieces only reincarnated people into Devils?" she asked.

"I'm not sure." Kenji said. "I think the Evil Pieces are synced to the owner's magic, so when I changed from a pure devil into a devil-dragon hybrid, I think the pieces must've changed with me." Zest nodded, and kissed Kenji deeply.

I'll admit." Valian said to Penemue. "Those two look so happy together."

"Yeah." Pen replied. "Their relationship must go way back, before Kenji met you, even." Valian pouted slightly at this, but stopped.

Her master, mate, King, and husband by dragon-law, was happy. And that meant that Valian was happy for him.

"Oh, Kenji?" Valian asked. Kenji broke away from Zest for a second and replied.

"Yeah?"

"That girl you brought in, she looked really sleep-deprived. I put a sleeping spell on her that'll wear off in 24 hours."

"Alright." Kenji replied. "I guess we've gotta wait for 24 hours then."

Line Break, 24 hours, 1 minute and 34 seconds later…

"Hey, Kenji?" Valian asked, poking her head into Kenji's room. Kenji was lying in his room, and Zest had her head lying gently on Kenji's chest, with Kenji gently rubbing her rabbit ears.

"Hmm?" Kenji replied, looking up.

"The girl you brought in yesterday… she's awake." She said. "Pen told me to tell you."

"I'm coming now." Kenji quickly replaced himself with a pillow, so Zest wouldn't wake up, and followed Valian out of his room. Down through the lift (where Kenji and Valian had a short make-out session to pass the time) and into a bedroom on the third floor. The girl was sat up in bed, eating some strawberry cake.

"Hey there." Kenji said, pulling up a chair and sitting down next to the girl. She finished her mouthfu of cake and looked at him.

"Hi..." she said, sounding slightly shy. Kenji had to say it: she looked really pretty. Then again, all of the women that he lived with were pretty.

"Are you feeling alright?" Kenji asked.

"Yeah, I'm feeling pretty good." The girl replied.

"That's good to hear." Kenji replied. "My name is Kenji Gremory, though you can just call me Kenji."

"Are you the person who saved my life?" the girl asked.

"Technically, no." Kenji replied. "Since you were already dead when I reincarnated you."

"Reincarnated me?" the girl asked, sounding confused.

"Yes." Kenji replied. "I brought you back, as my servant."

"Your... servant?" The girl's eye widened. One look in her eye told Kenji all that he needed to know.

"Don't worry." He said. "I promise that I won't be like those bastards who you were working for initially." The girl noticeably relaxed.

"So I'm back alive, and I'm your servant." The girl said. "Is there anything else?"

"Yes." Kenji replied. "When I reincarnated you, you were reborn as a Devil. Or maybe a Devil-Dragon, I'm not sure." He then sent a subtle spell at the girl. The spell was completely harmless; all it did was reveal a being's wings and other features, if they had any. Kenji saw that the girl, like Zest, had eight wings, four devil, and four dragon. Her dragon wings were scarlet and brown.

'It seems the dragon wings are different colours, depending on who the person is.' Kenji thought. 'I wonder why that is?'

"Hey, is it possible that I could know your name?" Kenji asked. "It'd be kind of awkward if you knew me as Kenji, yet I don't know your name."

"Oh, sure." The girl said, smiling at Kenji. "My name is... Erza Scarlet."

And there you have it! Kenji has his first two Pawns, and him and Zest have finally reconciled, and Zest has confessed her love for him, and Kenji accepted her feelings!

And yes, I know, I aged Erza and co. up a LOT for the scene where she appears, and yes. I know that Erza was a kid when she escaped the Tower of Heaven in canon, but do you REALLY want to see a sixteen-year-old Kenji screwing an nine-year-old Erza? Actually, don't answer that please…

Also, between the last chapter and this one, every single peerage member has been guessed! Well done, guys and girls.

Here's the full peerage:

King: Kenji Gremory

Queen: Valian Lucifer* (DxD)

Rook 1: Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

Rook 2: Tiamat (DxD)

Bishop 1: Seras Victoria (Hellsing)

Bishop 2: Kuroka (DxD)

Knight 1: Akame (Akame ga Kill!)

Knight 2: Xenovia (DxD)

Mutation Pawn 1: Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail)*

Mutation Pawn 2: Zest (Sister of New Devil)*

Mutation Pawn 3: Revy (Black Lagoon)

Mutation Pawn 4: Roberta (Black Lagoon)

Mutation Pawn 5: Ruby Rose (RWBY)

Mutation Pawn 6: Sayo Hitsugi (Triage X)

Mutation Pawn 7: Kaneki Ken (Tokyo Ghoul)

Mutation Pawn 8: Touka Kirishima (Tokyo Ghoul)

What did you think of this chapter (and the peerage)? Review, and let me know!

See you in the next chapter, where Kenji's next peerage member is a certain big-titted police girl... who loves cannons.