Before he was a dragon, before he was a hero... He was but a moody boy. The day prior the birth of the worst red dragon emperor.

In celebration for the 100th chapter. A special one-shot. DISCLAIMER: DxD doesn't belong to me~.

Just another boring day in my everyday life as Tsukino Ichijou...

Here I am, sitting on the sofa of my little house, idly staring at the tv like something midly interesting is going on, this new uniform loosely clenching on my body as a bored and tired sigh escapes my lips. Today was the first day in my life as a highschooler, yet as expected, I feel no difference. Nothing big happened aside from the entrance ceremony with headmistress Morimoto's overwhelming and scary aura and knowing the class I'll be staying for the rest of the year, and one moment to another, I'm back home in this state.

I think I should've expected as much. It's not like going from one school to another would change my life forever, and despite being a bunch of new people, everybody in my class are such strangers that it feels awkward to start any conversation with them, so no friends as for now, not even acquaintances. Well, I should start getting to know them a little, if we gonna be classmates for the rest of the year and maybe beyond. I kinda found that girl sitting next to the window cute, what was her name again? Kamiyama... Shiori? She was really a beauty, I bet she'll be popular in no time, unlike me.

It's not like I'm making any efforts to make friends, anyway. I had no friends back in middle school, I doubt being in highschool would change that, the aura of a gloomy lad like myself. But then again... I shift my gaze to my pinky finger, and purse my lips a little...

'Ichijou, please promise me: you'll at least try to make friends. You're still so young, I don't want you to be alone. Please, promise on your mom...'

...

I did make a promise, but I don't know if I will be able to keep it. I can make friends, that's for sure... But can I keep them? Tch, like that matters. If not because of me, something will happen that will make people avoid me, and I'll be all alone again... And that's fine by me.

That's fine by me.

"And we're home."

"Ah. Welcome back, Gou-nee, Shi-nee." And hearing the unlock of the door and the dry steps on the floor made me turn around and see the two young women entering the house; one wearing a formal shirt and pants carrying a suitcase and a doctor's coat, her hair pulled in a lazy ponytail, while the other wears a pretty dress and a formal suitcase while her wavy black hair descends from her shoulders. My older half-sisters, Satsuki and Shion, are back from their jobs, and once they notice me, they come closer.

"Oh, hey there, little brother. You're earlier than I expected." Gou-nee comments, putting her coat to rest on a chair and sitting next to me, dismissing the wrap on her brown hair. "I thought you would spend your first day as a highschooler exploring Kuoh academy. That place is so vast and full of history, anyway. Plus, it'd be a great opportunity to meet some people."

"I... Wasn't all that interested, really." I grimaced. Aside from the campus being pretty close to home, I have no real interest in exploring Kuoh academy. It is a very beautiful place and it has some pretty archtecture, but not all that eye-catching. Besides, like the rest of the male population, I might end up labeled as a pervert, and I rather avoid that.

"Truth be told, I was expecting you to stroll around that place and meet some pretty coleagues. That place used to be an all-girls school, after all." Shi-nee sits next to me and pokes my cheek with such force it started to hurt. I know her words are mild and soft, but the aura behind them can only scream 'murder'. I flinch, and she continues to poke my face while saying idle weightless words. "You little perv~, entering a school just to meet pretty girls~. If you get one pregnant, I'll surely make you regret everything..."

"C'mon, Shion-neechan, I'm not like that, you know what I think about girls." I lift a hand to uselessly defend myself against her assault. Being a boy in a former all-girls school, where the male population is barely 15% of the whole student body, sounds like a dream for a boy my age... Except for me.

Girls... Are moody, scary, demanding, cruel and can be very nasty, I have four living proofs for that, and being surrounded by them is like walking on a landmine field. I only chose Kuoh academy because it's a place closer to home, and I can at least stay grounded around in Kuoh, the place I was born and raised. Shi-nee stops on her attacks, and stretches herself on the sofa...

"Good. I'm glad you understand that. Aside from your face, you're nothing like him." Venom spits from her mouth, and myself frown hearing a mention. Satsuki-neechan however sighs and turns on the tv so that we can watch something, anything.

Nothing changed when I became a highschooler, therefore my chores in the Tsukino household also remains. Today is my day to do the laundry, and living with four sisters and a mother for as long as I remember, I kinda lost the romance of seeing female underwear, no matter how daring they are. On the same vein, my sisters stopped having fits whenever they see me holding their panties, and now this has become a recurrent event...

"Let's see... These are Satsuki's, these are Shion's..." I say as I remove their underwear from the laundry, hanging those colourful panties on their respective hangers to wait them to dry. I reach for the upper parts, and pull from inside the washing machine a bra so massive it can double as a hat, and then one that was basically a chest-strap. "Huh, these are definitely Minatsu's, and those are Futaba's..."

Sometimes I wonder if they're really siblings with such... Starking differences. And then I realize that's only a half-truth, literally. But mom's are not like that, maybe Futaba is just small.

Ah-ah~, I'm thinking naughty toughts again. I slap myself a few times to get rid of those. I don't want to have them anymore, I don't want to have them ever. Otherwise, I didn't learn a single thing since... That day.

"Dear family, the star of the show has arrived! Rejoice, retaste, relight, for tonight's a special day for yours truly, and I must share my sincerest joys with you all!" And when the evening comes to an end, Minatsu-neechan, the half-canadian middle child of our group bursts the entrance door open and almost smashes Futaba, the youngest sister, against a wall, carrying with herself a package of cakes.

"Oi, what the hell, Mi-nee! What gives you the right to make the door give me a frenchie?!" My full-blooded sister, the wild-haired youngest one, Futaba, screams at the blond actress-in-training, who didn't seem all that affected by all the rage coming her way. Once she lifts the small cakes though, Fu-nee groans and picks her share. "I'll forgive you just this once because I love these cakes. But next time, your ass is mine!"

"Such a salvage, this is why I love you, dear sister Futaba!" Mii-nee muses, tossing the small package on the table and picking a few silverwave for ourselves. I'm curious myself as to why she seems so energetic, well more than usual anyway, today; plus, put cake into the equation and you get my full attention. Once we're all sit on the sofas and seats of the living room, my half-sister turns on the TV and rapidly changes to a specific channel. "But enough about the background characters, for today is the day of my debut as a starring star in another wonderful episode! Rejoice, for the face of Tsukino Minatsu shall bless the screen of all japanese citizens and beyond!"

"Oh, so you did end up taking that role, that's nice." Satsuki-nee says taking a bite out of her cake. I remember my older half-sister saying she was picked to act in a crime show, and while a small role, she would act to her heart's content and that might be the stepping stone for bigger, more important ones in the future, at least according to her. We turn our attentions to the tv-screen and the flashy names of a criminal show starts to run across it. 'Tsukino Minatsu' was a name we particularly caught among other unknown ones during the opening credits. "Well, it might be a small one, but I'm surprised yet amused that a member of this family is appearing on tv."

"Didn't grandma Ichika appeared on tv once during a riot when she was younger? I think even grandpa Kazuki was there too..."

"Appearing on tv with reasonable, non-criminal reasons. That's what I meant, Shion." The eldest one sighs and Shion-nee chuckles to herself while the rest of us just feel the weight of those onto our heads. Who would've thought that kind, small young woman we call grandmother used to be quite a hooligan on her youth; she even met grandpa, who was a police officer, during one of her destructive strolls. This family is a nutcase. "Oh look, it's starting..."

'Detective Fujino, I'm afraid that we have no clues leading to the mastermind behind this crime. No leads, no witnesses, nothing. We might have our first lost case...'

'We shouldn't give up, dear Kyomoto. Surely, we haven't searched enough. There must be something, anything, that might lead us to the culprit! We just need to keep searching!'

'Seems you boys are in a pinch. My, oh my. I guess I can give you a hint... For the right price, that is~!'

'You're... Carminoille Noirsalles! The ultimate gambler of the cassino!'

"Oh my, that's me! Behold, my dear family, my image has graced the screens once more!" Minatsu practically jumped from her seat as we saw her character, whom I have the slightly thought that was written by someone who never met a foreign person, appear on the screen. Despite the amount of makeup plus the exaggerated french accent, there was no mistake that it was the middle child of Tsukino there.

"Huh, that's Minatsu's debut as a speaking role. Congratulations, sister. I'm proud." Shion-nee says with a light pat on her younger sister's head. No malice, no ill intentions, that's the rarest sight one can have of Tsukino Shion.

"But did they really need to put her in such skimpy outfit?" Gou-nee muses, munching on cake and staring accusingly at Minatsu-nee's gartments, a red dragon with a massive cleavage, a massive cut to show her thighs and again too much makeup. As expected for a femme fatale in a criminal drama, but that looks uncomfortable.

"Well, she doesn't look much japanese, and I doubt the director picked Mii-nee for her personality or charisma, that's for sure." I mused as well. Futaba-nee chuckles.

"I can see two big and round reasons as to why she was chosen, though. Heheh." She laughs, and I can't help but to think the same.

*BONK!*

*BONK!*

"Hush, my kin. Your rudeness breaks my heart, and I shall respond it in kind with violence." But then we shut up as she hit us on the head with her knuckles. She might look gracious and feminine, but she's as strong and short-fused as the others!

With that said, we did manage to watch the entire special starring our dearest sister, for some reason the camera focusing on her assets more than anything and we bracing ourselves against the forced french accent in her lines(Minatsu-nee actually speaks fluently in french considering she's half-canadian), all while laughing and sharing some ideas about the show, which despite being a typical criminal drama, was actually pretty entertaining. I might pick it up later.

"So, the man behind the crime was the janitor who had a daughter who had a daughter with the owner of the cassino who commited suicide after discovering that he was her half-brother from another mother and the incestuous relationship was found out by the uncle who works in a striptease club... Or something, I give up." Gou-nee tosses her hands in the air in pure exhasperation for the nonsensical plot, but actually it wasn't that hard to follow all things considered. That's a drama for you, I guess. "I guess we're reaching for the big climax or something. There's a lot of cuts between shots, I didn't know Steven Seagal was in this."

"Well, at least is fun in a way. A bad, but a way." Shion-nee jokes as we see he climax unravel and everybody shoots everybody. That's a lot of shots and dinamic camera angles, who pays for this stuff? In the end, Minatsu-nee's character does one final speech for the deceased character or something, wrapping up the plot. "Huh, not a bad ending. The mastermind was arrested, the female lead got some closure and Minatsu got redeemed by the end. What a nice shot."

"Yeah, I guess." I murmur. It was a fun episode. "Although, it's kinda strange how things wrap up so quickly. There's a few minutes left, I wonder will hap-..."

*BANG! BANG!*

"...!"

'NOOOOOOOOO...! CARMINOILLE...!'

'Oh no, my life essence... Is being drained... The curtains... Are closing... Is that you, grim reaper? If so, if it is my time... I shall embrace it... Farewell, cruel... Yet beautiful... World... BLEH.'

THE END(?)

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"Oh right. My character dies in this episode because the director said that he doesn't want to rely on fanservice all the time. A bombshell halfie can only gather so much..."

"At least fucking warns us when something like that were to happen! Goddamn it, I don't want to see my little sister get shot even if it's staged!" Satsuki-nee explodes and locks Minatsu-nee in a bearhug as the rest of us stare shocked at the credits rolling. I just saw my sister get shot on television, her guts pierced open and then blood going everywhere, and even if it's an act, I feel... Conflicted.

"Well, leave it to Minatsu to make even her death scene melodramatic. Her acting was really good though, so that might come in handy in a few years if not months." Shion says with a shrug, coming to us to shake us off from the daze of seeing our middle half-sibling die in front of our eyes. I snap back to reaity with Futaba-nee, and she smiles. "So... I know it's kinda messed-up, but I'm hungry. Let's eat some dinner."

"Oh yeah, about that: mom says she'll be staying at her artist's house for a day or so to give him some help with his manuscripts, so she won't eat with us. Just saying." Satsuki-nee finally lets go off the blond one with that warning. So, mother is busy as always, eh? I expected as much since I entered high-school, and honestly, I'm glad that she can work harder now, with no 'me' to hold her back. It also means we will be the one cooking tonight... Or maybe not. "Well, I'm not that hungry, not after seeing my sister's guts get spilled all over Roppongi anyway. So, you guys want to order some pizza or something?"

We all agreed that pizza was a good call, and finally ordering some, we ate it full and spent the rest of the night watching tv or sharing some idle thoughts with each other. Nothing much, nothing heartfelting, just some hollow ideas and words with each other.

The five Tsukino siblings who share only a father and our hatred for him altogether... We're different in appearance, personalities, traits and interests, and even with them, I always feel so... Alone. They got their own problems, trials, lectures and styles, yet I feel so... Lonely, even when they ask me something or try to pull me into their talk... But perhaps I shouldn't bother, they got their own problems too, they shouldn't bother with little old me...

The night comes, and we bid ourselves goodbye as we go to our separate rooms to sleep. Laying on my bed, looking at the ceiling and being illuminated only by the moonlight outside, I can only wonder. I toss my gaze to the hanged uniform on my door, and frown a little. I'm now a high-schooler, and I should be enjoying the spring of my youth... But I lost that naivety long ago. Life... Eh, I wouldn't mind having being this boring. I don't feel anything as a high-schooler, I will probably feel nothing as a college student nor as an adult. Memories will simply become memories, and everyone that I'll ever know, even if I call them my best friends, lovers, family... They'll eventually leave me, and I'll be all alone again.

I don't want that, I don't want that at all. I know it might be lonesome and pathetic, but I wouldn't mind a life like that. I just need to stay low, go on a simple, boring life, and I guess it'll be enough for me, an idle existence, a boring life. For someone like me, that's enough, that will be enough...

...

"Wakey-wakey, you bunch of lazy asses. I have duty back on the clinic, so pick your stuff and go." Gou-nee warns us as she clashes pans and utensils at the kitchen, four lunchboxes prepared for all of us for the rest of the day.

"Okay, okay. Gou-nee, no need to be so loud in the morning." Still a bit sleepy,so much so the ribbon on my collar is a bit messy, I yawn picking a sall tangerine to eat way school and my lunch. Everybody greets me and each other and we all pick the cutesy foodbox while sharing some goodbye kisses and pats, soon dissapearing through the door. I'm the only one left, and my eldest half-sister finally puts down her improvised music instruments and pick her stuff. "Well, I'm going now. See you at night or something, Gou-nee. I'll be back to make dinner, so don't worry about..."

"I actually won't mind if you come a little late." She interrupts me, and I give her a side-glance. What now? Isn't my time to make dinner tonight? I mean, mom might be back from work, but even so, if I mess up, I fear of what they might do to me. Satsuki-nee sighs, and stares. "... I mean, don't come home too late, but try to talk with some classmates, find some clubs, meet the place. This is your first week as a highschooler, do waste it."

"..." I frown, and she wants to lecture me again. I don't... Feel the need to do just that, and honestly, being here to make dinner feels a lot more productive than socialize with a bunch of strangers whom I'll share some classes for some years. "Whatever..."

"Ichijou, you promised." And those words made me stop on my tracks and turn to her, surprised. One, two seconds of silence, and she frowns, turning away and preparing her own stuff. "I know how you feel, and I know it must be hard for you, but please... For the sake of mom, try to make some friends or at least join a club. I'm not asking to have a two-digits phone number list, but do cheer up. Otherwise... You'll regret wasting your teenage years."

"..."

"I won't be here forever, neither will mom or the others. The least you can do to me is assure that you won't be alone when I move or get married or something. I'm your sister, after all." She sighs, picking her labcoat and putting it in her briefcase. When she was all done, she reached for me to give me a light headpat, and exited the house. "So do that much, put some effort, okay? If you can deal with us, you can deal and make friends with anybody..."

"Gou-nee..."

"See you later, little brother. Take care." She waves me a goodbye, but not before turning one last time and pointing a threatening finger at me, a serious stare on her features. "But don't go bringing girls to your room or something. If you do, I'll seriously hurt you."

"Fine~." I moan, picking my stuff and going to the opposite direction. 'Bringing girls to my room', like that will ever happen...

And thus resumed my life as a highschooler, a lonely walk towards Kuoh academy for another day of lectures and classes. 'To make friends'... Easier say than done, everybody there is either a pervert or a weirdo, and I don't want to be associated with those in any way. It's not like the girls will like someone like me either, and whenever I go close there, I feel a strange aura of dread, but it might be just my imagination or something.

Classmates, friends, little groups, all of them start to gather around me as Kuoh gets closer and closer, but still, my will to approach or do something is practically zero. They don't bother me, so I shouldn't bother with them either. But to not break my promise with mom, maybe I can get an 'acquaintance' or two, if just to show I'm fine. Maybe that classmate of mine, she looks cute...

But it's for the best, right? Eventually, everybody goes away, eventually, something happens and I'll just be alone again, and between that and be a lonely student, I'm fine with the latter. Just go to school, get passing grades and a few acquaintances, get into college, get passing grades with a few acquaintances, find a job, got to work and die. A life on autopilot like that doesn't sound so bad at all, and while I might regret that later, I think the regret of other actions and paths would be worse. I just need to lay down and wait for the winds to take me. I won't be a bad life, not at all, not at all...

And so starts another boring day in my everyday life in Kuoh academy...

*TAP! TAP! TAP! TAP!*

"Huh...?"

"Found you!"

"Wait, whaAAAAAAOOOH...!"

*TAP! TAP! TAP! TAP!TAP! TAP! TAP! TAP!TAP! TAP! TAP! TAP!*

"W-Wait, what the hell...!"

*SLIDE~...!*

*PUSH!*

"H-Hey, what's the big idea...!"

"You! Tsukino Ichijou! Be my Queen!"

...

"What...?"

Or so as I thought...

It all started with a girl with long red hair calling me the new host of a thing called Boosted Gear and the heir of the legacy left by Hyoudou Issei. And since then, things went downhill... Pretty fast.

But...

...

'[I LOOK FORWARD IN WORKING WITH YOU... PARTNER.]'.

'Good luck, Tsukino Ichijou. And remember to live for yourself... And the ones who love you.'

'I'll be there for you no matter, don't you ever forget that. So never forget this feeling either, never forget that.'

'No matter what I say or do. I'll always treasure what we have, so even If I blow up stuff in rage because of you, I want you to know, I'm glad that you're my friends.'

'You'll live longer, take it as a warning. Line-stealer Hong Long.'

'Whoa, Ichijou-san is truly amazing!'

'So... If you have any problems, let those go away for tonight and have a good night of sleep. After all, we have many tomorrows.'

'Tsukino-chin. Like family. Love.'

'I'm home, dragon.'

'Because I like you, Ichijou-kun.'

'Welcome home.'

'I love you too.'

I guess a life like that is not bad either.

Not bad at all.

From the past filled with scars...

To the future that is unknown...

We walk forward until we become like the stars.

Yay. A special one-shot to celebrate the 100th chapter. Nothing to big and we'll be back on schedule by next chapter, but I just want to write a special chapter just to celebrate such as well as to show that, during the halcyon days, the siblings are pretty chill... Most of the time Man, writing gloomy Ichijou feels so weird nowadays. Of course, this wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for the readers of this story, past and present, so more than to myself, this special thanks is for all of you who read, favourite and followed this story despite all the shortcomings of this lousy writer. No matter what the future holds, let's always try our very best, because I'll be doing this from now on as well.

So, a thanks for Houki Minami from the heart, stay safe and until next chapter...

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I'm being too sappy, so here's an omake to address something I might've forgotten to adress:

OMAKE 1

1- Hey, Noin-san, I've been wondering... Where the hell did you get all those bunny costumes?

Noin - Pardon...?

1- I mean, I can understand being a kink of a sorts and that you might have some experience in those... But from where those came from?

Noin- My,oh my. What a nosy little boy. Is this an idle question, or perhaps a way to get under my skin? Don't ask questions you might not want the answers of...

Faust - She used to work in a cassino to pay some of her debts...

Noin- FAUST-DONO...!

Faust- When we were kids until some decades ago, she had a raging gambling habit, and every time she reached rock bottom at the Mammon Cassino, she would work there as a bunny waiter to pay for her losses.

1- I... I see...

Noin- Don't look at me like that! You grow up with nothing in the gutters of the Underworld and try not to develop some addiction in earning money!

1- That is not helping your case...

Faust - Of course, Millicas-sama and I used to visit her all the time for... Academic purposes. We took some photos too, wanna see?

1- No, thank you.

Noin - Good, otherwise Milady would have to order a hefty of Phenex tears when I'm done with you otherwise.

OMAKE 2:

Annie - Huh? How I got my Gorgon eye?

Rina - Please don't tell me you poke a gorgon's eye to add it to your inventory. If so, we'll have to apology to her.

Annie - No need, I actually got it from the black web market. You can get all sorts of crazy stuff with that. I can even get you a new arm!

Rina - Y'know what? I think I would be more comfortable with you stealing the eye from a gorgon...

OMAKE 3:

Annie - Hey, Ryuubi-chan. One of the omakes said you didn't drink, but you drank some sake back in the coference when we met(Chapter 79). How come? Give me your best handwaving explanation.

Liu Bei - I drink... Occasionally. It was more of a way to put your guard down and maybe convince you to stop otherwise by offering you some closure, but I'm not a drinker. I tried once but I can't get drunk...

Annie - Ah, I see. That's the best you can do?

OMAKE 4:

Yagura - Hey, Ichijou, I know it's kinda inconvenient in the long run, but there's a plothole back in chapter 64 when you recognized Ophelia as Miyama Rei's mother... But you weren't present in the events that revealed that back in the Miyama Runaways arc. How come?

1- Hm... You see... I guess... Nemesis-san and Aria-san told me about Miyama Enma... And how that name came to mind in his rant... After the events of the Arc... I think...?

Yagura - Waving your hand like that must be tiring...

1- I know.

Yagura - Please, don't underestimate the readers' intelligence.

OMAKE 5:

1- I wish I could start using my Sub-species Balance Breaker: Chaos Bringer again, but now that I have the proper Balance Breaker and I can deal with weaker enemies on my own, they have become quite obsolete. Man, power-scaling can be a bitch sometimes...

Rina - Ichijou, you became too strong for your own good.

1- Hm... I know. Maybe I can incorporate some of them in my new CxC moves... If ever get to that point.

OMAKE 6:

1- The age of my sisters are the following: Satsuki and Shion are 25; Minatsu is 23 and Futaba is 19. Me, the youngest, am 16 years old. Plus, Satsuki and Shion are... Twins.

Rina - How come... Oh.

Annie - That's messed up.

1- Their mothers found out about the cheating because dad wanted to be in their birth at the same time. Kinda pathetic...

Rina - It is kinda cute, though.

1- Shut up.

OMAKE 7:

Tasha - Hm? Nationality, me? I'm irish.

Whiswain - And I'm part-german too.

Guan Yu - Chinese? I'm from Hong Kong, at least was born and raised there before being taken to the Jade palace.

Liu Bei - I'm from China properly.

Annie - And I'm half-romanian, half-japanese!

1- Our group is pretty diverse, no? Nemesis-san also have an italian(Nero); a half(Aria); a korean(Hwan Jin-Young) and a Indian(Nadja) in her ranks.

Rina - Miss Worldwide, baby~!

OMAKE 8:

1- I only knew about Sakisaka and his condition because mom shared that title with one of her artists for ideas and I gave a small search out of curiosity. I actually never played Song of Saya or any visual novel for that matter(But I do watch some anime based on them).

Annie - Is actually very well-written for what it is...

Tasha- Umu.

OMAKE 9:

Rina - I did mention that I stayed in a manga café while I was on the run, right? After getting my evil pieces back, I stayed in a café near Kuoh until I could find my very own red dragon emperor and start the whole stuff.

1 - Sounds like an awful experience.

Rina - It wasn't all that bad, but the smell... Wasn't the best.

Yoko - I lived in the shrine back at the top of Kuoh town before moving in with the Tsukinos. It's not a house, per se, but I could go home anytime I want.

Annie - While I was on the run, I used to be in an apartment not very far from school.

Whiswain - It took me a few tries, but I stayed in Kuoh haunting the place so much I became one of the seven mysteries. I didn't starve because my parents would give me so allowance...

1- What's with you, anyway?

Whiswain - That... I guess we will explain later in the story.

OMAKE 10:

Cohen - I only asked for Lucrezia-chan to grow within the Gremory manor so that Nemesis could have a friend growing up, but the Onoskelis unfortunately thought about marriage, probably to use her as a stepping stone to raise their ranking in devil society. It's not like she was raised to be just a bride for the clan or anything, I just wanted my daughter to have someone by her side. They think they can sneak up some ulterior motives in the shape of a trade under my sight, they're very wrong. Fortunately, she was born a girl, so that trade was post-poned...

1- That's actually a bit sad, all things considered.

Alice - It wasn't set in stone. We gave them land, they gave us their daughter to assure our lineage, but Cohen dear is not fond of those, so if Lucrezia finds herself a beau before a heir is born, we won't object.

1- I see.

Alice - Interested, red dragon?

1- Eh?