"Stop trying to stab the new heir Ajuka," Serzechs sighed as he looked over at him surrounded by his instruments. "We don't need a diplomatic incident again because of your enthusiasm."

"Just checking the boys reflexes and healing speed...fine," he grumbled at the end as he received a look from his fellow Maou. The instruments still trying their hardest to stab, poke, and scar the poor boy clattered to the ground as Issei sighed in relief. Slowly the glowing green tentacles on his back retracted as he took deep heavy breaths.

"Thank you...so much...Serzechs...," Issei panted out as his body calmed down from the rush of dodging around the fish bowl of a medical zone.

Rias rushed up to the glass quickly and put her hand out to it as she saw her Issei calming down and blushed a little as his new eyes focused on her and he came up to the glass, placing his hand opposite hers.

"What happened?," he asked clearly confused still. "Did I win? Are you free?" His eyes slowly returned to their deep brown shade as he stared at Rias hopefully. "And why can all I taste is fried chicken?"

Rias stared back and looked more downtrodden as he worried that he had lost. "You won Issei. Thank you for saving me."

He smiled wide as he looked around at everyone gathered behind the glass. "Why's everybody look like we lost then, this is great! We won guys. Now why am I in an aquarium? Let me out and get me some pants and we can go celebrate. No why are you crying? What's wrong Rias? You look beautiful in that dress and now you can find someone who deserves you."

She almost choked when he said the last part. He didn't even know what he did? He just wanted her to be able to choose and now...now he had deal with all this mess just so he could save her.

"Hentai didn't know he was getting hentai?" a confused little Koneko thought quietly as she felt maybe just a little more respect for the idiot behind the glass.

"We have a lot to catch you up on young man," said up until this moment the sadly smiling Yoshimura. "You may want to sit down for this."

--

Issei stared down at his hands as the information dump of a situation slowly entered his brain. They took down the glass when Yoshimura, the new guy, asked how hungry he was and he said he was feeling fine. He still took the 'sugar' in his coffee that the new guy said would help him keep his hunger in check just in case, as his hunger he said was the most dangerous thing right now. 'He's worried I'll be a danger to all of them,' he realized as he took another long sip from his coffee. It was good he had to admit but the understanding that this and...flesh...

"How do I control this?" he asked with serious look on his face as he looked at Yoshimura.

"How many kagune sacs does the boy have?" asked Yoshimura in response looking over at the still busily fiddling Maou Scientist.

"Four fully formed and one developing," stated Ajuka distractedly looking through his notes so far. "I'd say that one should be complete in the next few years maybe, it's hard to say. Your biology is something I haven't studied at length before today and I have little to compare it to."

"Hmm...," thought Yoshimura as he turned back to answer his soon to be Head of House. "You'll need to train in controlling your instincts and stay well fed on...strays and such...as we have to. Most likely your body weight at least once a week. We will see with time."

"Wait your like me?," asked Issei as he looked hopefully up at the man. "Can you help?"

"Well as the new head of house of the Ghoul family you would have to declare me and my young wards as reinstated in the family."

"Of course, Sure, You are all reinstated?," he asked/declared as he stared at Yoshimura in surprise when a dull green glow momentarily shrouded the man.

"That'll do just fine. Now let's get on the road to the old house, maybe the Kings Garden first, if theirs nothing else we need to do?," he said as he appreciated the quick response from Issei before he looked to Serzechs. Rias took that moment to step forward quickly.

"Well...," coughed Rias as she shook with nerves. Turning to Issei and sitting down on the end of the bed next to him she tried to think of what to say. It didn't help that he was still shirtless if at least now wearing some black sweat pants thanks to her Power of Imagination. She gulped as she looked at Issei and caught his eye on their way back up from her breasts. 'Well he still has the instincts of my Issei,' she thought to herself as she tried to find a way to explain to him that he was now her betrothed.

"Youdidntfreemefromaengagementyoutookoverthespot," she gushed out as he looked at her in confusion and growing horror. 'oh no he hates it he didn't know and now I'

"I'msosorryIdidntmeantotakeawayyourchoiceIknowyouprollydontwantmeand," he blurted out before she could finish that thought and she slowly blushed as she came to understand him with a crazy happy smile on her face.

"You idiot I love you," she blurted out without thinking and gasped as his eyes immediately turned black with those glowing green irisises and he kissed her roughly on the mouth. As she took a space to breath and she thought, 'my first kiss,' he pressed his cheek against her and rubbed it down her neck and across her chestbone and he slowly growled in delight.

"Well she will have to come along to now," Yoshimura sighed with a bemused smile on his face. "With his instincts running as high as they are right now we won't separate them easily right now. Just be careful not to touch her or he will likely attack you. Devil Instincts. Young Love. Please guide him this way Young Gremory. Can't be moving him ourselves now can we. First stop should be the Kings Garden. Gotta get the new Head of House registered and all."

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The group looked around in awe as they arrived at the Kings Garden. It was a beautiful patch of land hidden deep in Maou territory. Rolling grassland as far as the eye could see and in the center was a massive red statue of a King piece. As they walked up slowly Serzechz explained how they made this after their first test of the Evil Pieces were too unstable. They needed a powerful monument in the most magically dense area of the underworld that would allow the peerage system to draw power from the soul of their King. It was a powerful system that allowed reincarnation to bring back life to the dwindling devil population and provide more fruitful ways to compete in the Rating Games.

Of course this was slightly undermined by the continued clinging of Issei to Rias's side as he tried to bring his new instincts under control and not attack anyone for being to close to Rias. He eventually leveled some measure of control as Rias grabbed his hand gently and they walked hand in hand through the gate while everyone but Serzechs and Yoshimura stayed behind.

"Issei," coughed Serzechs as the young engaged attention was again trapped within Ria's breasts. "There you go now focus for a second ok? I need you to touch the statue and focus. Focus on your want to claim a Kingship."

Issei slowly lifted his free right hand and reached out as he focused on his need to be a king. He needed this to protect the people close to him and build his harem...he wanted people to surround him who he could work with and believed in him and didn't let him down like that fallen...who really cared for him unlike her...like Rias did...who could be with him even with his new hunger and needs and wants and...

He reached out and put his hand on the statue and watched in awe as a massive tower of green energy rocketed into the sky. He felt the piece connect to him and his connection to a small pile of green pieces floating in front of him before they gently floated down into a box Yoshimura held out for them lined with velvet. As Yoshimura snapped the lid shut he sighed and gestured in silence for them to head back to...his peerage...no...Rias peerage he thought...not his anymore. But as she squeezed his hand and smiled into his, unbeknownst to him brightly glowing, eyes he reminded himself they were still connected. She said she loved him and that was the happiest he ever felt before. He smiled back like a goof and tried not to think about the fact he was now a little hungry and what he would have to eat to get that to go away.