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Ameri sighed, pacing back and forth inside of the now fixed student council room. All she could do was wait and hope he would come, like he didn't yesterday. He would come right? She didn't just jump to conclusions, no, Quickelight was just spouting nonsense.
… Oh who was she kidding, this was an absolute nightmare situation! She had the perfect opportunity to secure the perfect boyfri..freshmen for the Student Council, and she blew it with her scary personality. Now she feared Izuku would find excuses to not come see her and completely blow off their readings entirely!
A knock on the door blew her out of her internal ramblings, causing her to stand straight and stoic. "Enter." The door opened to reveal Izuku, causing her facade to nearly crumble. "Izuku!" She shouted a bit too eagerly. "You finally came! I was worried for a second that I scared you off from me..I mean the Student Council! I'm so glad you reconsidered!"
"Haha, yeah, that's what I came to tell you…" Izuku trailed off. Wait, why was he shaking again? Oh no, did she raise her voice too loudly? Why did she have to be overly confident in everything! "I, really, thank you for your offer yesterday, it really was an honor to be considered after everything that's happened, but I kinda, sorta, already picked a Battler already, heh."
Ameri could feel something shatter inside, a bit of sparking hope dying off. "Oh, I see." She muttered, taking a seat. "Well then, I guess they have more of what you're looking for?" She asked without her usual energy.
"Of course!" Izuku shouted with a bright smile. "The Magical Apparatus Battler!" Really, that's the one he wanted to go with? She could understand if he was scared of her and chose to join something like the Library or Gaming Battler, maybe even the New Magic Battler, but the Magical Apparatus Battler, something so low on the totem pole?
"Oh really? I suppose you have a good reason for joining that as opposed to the Student Council?" She asked, making sure to hide a seeping anger at being rejected when she put so many hours into planning his initiation.
Luckily, Izuku seemed to miss it completely. "Yeah, I, well, I still have a lot of problems controlling my magic, so the idea of working with magical support items was really fascinating to me!" Huh, guess that made sense. He's a quirkless human, so items giving people power must've been appealing to him. "I ran into the upperclassmen incharge of it, and, well, when we met, I couldn't help but feel like I knew what he's been through."
Kiriwo Amy, if she remembered, was actually running out of time to find a member, so she supposed it worked out in the end. "I'm glad you could find something to suit your interests. I guess you'll go and head off to the Battler now, right?"
"Oh, but don't you want to have the readings right now?" Huh? "It's around the time we usually have them, and I sort of blew you off yesterday by not telling you about my decision. Again, really sorry about it!"
She did not expect this. He had the perfect opportunity to leave her side completely (not that she would ever actually let that happen, because he was still a human that needed to be observed constantly) and he actually felt bad about ignoring her? "Izuku, do you consider me a friend?"
"Ameri-san, wh-what, what brought this on?" He still shook, so he did still feel some fear being around her.
"Well, you're hu..weaker than most demons." She tried to be less insulting, but there was no other way to put it without mentioning 'IT'. "You're surrounded by a lot of people who could easily stomp on your, or possibly even get you killed in a complete accident. Honestly, I wouldn't blame you for being afraid of me."
"Ameri, I'm not afraid of you. N-nervous sure, but I'm not afraid." Her heart began fluttering, this was the first time he's said her name without honorifics! Only special people do that with each other, just like in the sacred texts! They pretty much confessed to each other already! "It's been pretty fun reading and just talking with you, even if it gets a little embarrassing at times." How was it embarrassing, they were just talking about relationships, dreams, dates … oh, now she was catching on.
Her face grew a bit flush as well. "So you don't mind hanging out and translating the forbidden text?" She asked him.
"Oh no. I'm way too invested now to not keep reading it." He admitted. "It's always more fun to read something you enjoy with friends."
Friends! From what she understood, Izuku held that term in high regard, so that meant she was special to him! Haha, yes! She's in the friend-zone now! "I'm glad. Now then, let's move onto the next volume, and figure out why the secret organization is chasing after Haru."
"It's always the small plots that blow up in your face." Izuku said as he let her grab the book.
Eiko stared at the door with wide eyes. Well, less at the door and more at the boy in front of it! Izuku Midoriya, she was going to be in the same Battler as him! It was a dream come true, even if she was exaggerating the skills she's gained. It would just mean she had to comprehend Magical Apparatus engineering before the Division Party, no problem! If she could gain a surprising talent for photography in such a short time, this shouldn't be an issue at all!
"Hey, Izuku-kins! Glad you're here! We're going to have a fun time! Who the hell is this?!" Valac-or, since she's now a part of Izuku's 'friend' squad, guessed she should start calling her Clara, yelled in a tone that was not her usual childish but oddly cute one.
"This is Eiko." Izuku smiled, even as the little girl blinked. "She goes to this school?" More blinking. "Saved her when fighting Azz on the first day?" Even more blinking in oblivion to that wonderful day. "Met her again after being launched from the tree?" The little girl smiled, but gave no recognition whatsoever. "You pulled her shirt off?"
"Oh yeah, Eistring!" She laughed, and Eiko had a feeling it wasn't out of fondness of the memory. "Well, Izuku-kins says you're his friend, so that means we're friends too!" Clara violently shook her arm in her own hands. "Just know, I can tangle with Lady Red hair." Who?
Asmodeus, for the first time since they met, showed more empathy and pity then he showed when he nearly killed her, or apologised to her. "I am sorry you have been dragged into this den of insanity." He spoke, before walking to the door. Rude, she was in Izuku's group now, that was perfect!
"Sorry about Azz, he's still adjusting to being friends with anybody." Izuku apologized. "He's trying, really, he doesn't call me out for being a danger-junkie anymore, well, at least not as much as he used to."
"What are you talking about, being a danger-junkie just means you're barely afraid of anything, and can fight off bad guys no problem." She smiled.
"Thanks. I wish I was as cool as you described me." Izuku laughed, and she laughed as well. He had such a great sense of humor too! "Well at least this place won't be as dangerous to our health." He smiled.
An explosion went off just a second later, the door falling to the ground as the group stared at it. Amy came out, coughing up some blood. "Sorry about them, got the wires mixed up." He smiled before hitting the ground.
Asmodeus looked at the body then at Izuku. "So did you already sign us up or is there a window of backing out of this?"
"It's either this, or we go back to the Battler with the killer plants, or the Battler with exploding books, or the Battler with the senpai that wants your fire." Asmodeus stared at Izuku for a solid five seconds.
"Alright, Eiko right? Grab the legs, I'll grab the upper half." She complied, half because of her still lingering fear of the pink haired student, the other half being because it was probably what Izuku would do, which meant it was the right thing to do.
After a few minutes they were now fanning the badly injured man. "I'm sorry about that, when I'm alone I don't really have anyone to double check my work, and it can end with more errors then it should." The senpai apologised as they placed him on a pillow Clara produced. "So embarrassing. I'm in charge, and it's you four that's already taking care of me."
"Don't think anything of it Amy-san. We're just happy you're not injured too badly." Ahh, still the same caring person she knew he was. Was there anybody here Izuku wouldn't be nice too? "Speaking of which, what exactly were you working on?"
"Oh, it's a magical enhancement device. It works on a perpetual motion theory that increases magic put into it a hundred fold, and places it into an object on top." He explained something that she could barely follow along with, but it looked like Izuku understood it, so she would write all of this down until knowing it was second nature! "Although, it won't work without the powersource, and well.." He pointed to what looked like scattered purple glass on the ground.
"Ooh, game time!" Clara eagerly started picking up the pieces and forcing them together. She did this with a few of them, and to her surprise, they were actually sticking together.
"Valac, would you cut it out?!" Asmodeus began to scold. "So sorry about this Senpai, Valac has a hard time reigning in her childish urges even at the most important of times.."
"Actually, she's doing it perfectly." Amy-senpai stated, causing everyone to gape in confusion.
"Yay! I won the puzzle game!" Valac shouted happily, now revealing a pink heart.
"Impressive! Let me show you it in action while I gather something." Amy-senpai got up slowly, grabbing a crystal ball and a paper doll. "First I'll show you all the basic applications of these objects." The paper doll started moving on it's own once a little magic was put in it. "It detects certain magical signatures."
"Oh, like a GPS." Izuku said out loud. GP-what now?
"Izuku-kins always has something funny to say!"
Amy continued as if he didn't hear the comment. "This is a glow up orb. Put magic into it and …" the orb started to glow like a candle.
"That's so impressive Amy-senpai, how did you-YOUR BLEEDING AGAIN!" The man was in fact, bleeding from the mouth again. "Are you sure there's nothing we can do about this?!"
"No, it's something I've dealt with my entire life. My body doesn't contain a whole lot of mana without my support item, so my body is weaker than a normal demon's." Eiko felt a tinge of pity. A near magicaless demon. Around here, that could be a fate worse than death to some.
"Trust me when I say, I know how you feel." Izuku placed a hand on the upperclassman's shoulder. "My ring and your collar have more in common than you think. It's really only thanks to it that I have any kind of power at all."
"Wait, you're saying your magic comes from the ring?" Asmodeus looked stunned, as did she and everyone else, looking at the honor student a bit worriedly. "Wait, no, at the fight you.."
"Didn't fight back." Izuku reminded him. "I … was born with a defect." He spoke slowly, as if figuring out how to word this. "My body doesn't have any magic, I can only use it externally. I haven't said anything because at my old school …" He let it hang because nothing else needed to be said.
A picture was formed, a very dark picture of a boy not even worth an Aleph(1), one that would become prey to all those around them for the mere fact he existed weak, because that was how their world functioned. She suddenly had the feeling that Izuku's lack of sense for safety stemmed from not-so-pleasant experiences.
Valac looked confused, but likely because she was just curious about the lack of magic. She probably didn't understand beating someone down because they were weak, since she just wanted people to play with. Asmodeus on the other hand had a dark look on him. He clenched his fist and grit his teeth in a hidden rage.
Amy-senpai was different, looking at Izuku with a sense of wonder and curiosity. "Wow. I didn't think it was possible. The grandson of Sullivan was born magicless." His glasses looked like they fogged up a little. "All this time I thought I was alone."
"Yeah, same here." Izuku only nodded his head slowly. "But, you don't have to be. We're all here right now, together, right?" He looked at the rest of them.
"Of course I am, Izuku-kins! I don't care about your magic, you're fun, with or without it!" Valac jumped on the boy's back. "You're stuck with me forever!"
"And I'll stay by your side, you're amazing-I mean cool-I mean of course this place seems like a good fit without it." Eiko laughed nervously
"It doesn't matter if you have magic or not, you beat me, you're my equal Izuku." Asmodeus said as he turned to the boy.
He began tearing up. "Oh, I've heard about your tears. Before you flood the room with very not waterproof equipment, do you mind putting the glass ball from before on top of the amplifier?" Izuku nodded and went to place it on top of a giant bronze machine. "If I calculated it correctly, this should gather all the mana and light up. Or it could explode and destroy everything in this room."
"Is it weird for me to say I'm desensitized to explosions of any kind by this point?" Izuku asked as he backed up.
"That's a question I don't think anyone should be asking themselves at any point in their lives." Asmodeus sighed.
"I love it when things go boom!" Clara cheered.
"Wow, it really is as lively here as I expected!" Eiko exclaimed. "I'm so glad you crashed into me!" She could get used to this lifestyle. Maybe they could try cliff diving tomorrow?
Kiriwo was in awe at not one, not two, but FOUR kohai that joined his Battler. Not only that, they were so creative and smart to boot! In just one day they managed to fix up his entire supply of failed parts. Either through Eiko's manuals, Valac's spatial awareness, Asmodeus' rationality, or Midoriya's massive input of magic interaction.
And the best part so far was they worked hard even with the lack of club space. It was amazing, so many capable students, all still fresh from the start of the new year, all stronger than him by a wide margin, and in spite of everything, they still chose his battler, and they put more than hundred percent into the very little they were given.
"Again, sorry about the lack of size, we don't usually get enough attention for anything bigger, it's actually shorter than last year." He showed off the little space their battler had approved for the festival. It barely had enough space to place a table, let alone big enough to show off anything he had laying around. "I was lucky enough to still have a room for the battler, the upperclassman started using it as a storage space."
"I'm more ashamed with the lack of decor than the lack of space. Did you really think placing it all together like this would be attractive?" Asmodeus asked while gesturing to the pile. "They might as well call it the junkpile battler."
"Which is why we're putting what's amazing in the front, what's okay in the back, and leaving the bad stuff in the room." Eiko said as she lifted some boxes. Surprisingly strong, she must be used to carrying a lot.
"Yeah, but … all of this stuff looks amazing." Midoriya complained as he picked through the pile of objects. "All of this could really be useful for almost anyone to have, not just demons with low magic. If only there was a way to show off the uses of magical apparatus in a big way for people to notice."
"We need something that goes boom!" Valac jumped around the clutter of apparati they placed down. "Boom's mean something loud, and loud gathers attention!"
"We need something that draws attention, something everyone can see." Eiko muttered as she looked for flashy and distracting objects.
"We need something dazzling with a sense of beauty, such as my fire." Asmodeus imputed, showing off a bit of colored fire, fascinating.
"Honestly, just anything we can use that works with our space would be fine enough." Kiriwo spoke, letting out a few coughs of blood. Jeeze, he needs to sit down after this, can't overwork himself so soon.
"Lots of space, fire, attractive, boom." Midoriya muttered as he tapped idly on the ground. "There has to be something that has all four, something that everyone in the school can love, something so amazing that they'd be forced to pay attention to it, something like..like.." He froze in place and slapped his head. "Duh! It's obvious! Fireworks!"
What the heck was he talking about? "Fireworks?" He spoke with the other club members. This was odd; when Midoriya mentioned these 'light bulbs', apparati that ran on lightning rather than magic, he had a hard time believing him. Honestly, it sounded weird and unnatural. Who would use dangerous lightning when magic was more sane and logical?
"I'm afraid we're lost, Izuku." Asmodeus spoke with a tired but accepting groan. "I'm assuming fireworks are something pretty common back where you're from?"
"Really? You guys don't have fireworks either?" Izuku looked at them as if they didn't have common sense here.
"No, sorry, I'm confused too." Eiko shyly admitted. "They sound amazing though! What do they do?"
"Oh, they're basically … big balls of fire flowers that go boom in the sky." And with that sentence he gathered the attention of everyone there. "We just need some gunpowder and Azz's fire, then we can launch it high without needing the space, because nobody is using the sky right?"
"Yeah yeah, big boom! Let's light up the sky!" Valac laughed happily as she began running around.
"That sounds like an amazing idea, except I'm not sure if I could make it with the supplies I have on me." Kiriwo spoke honestly. Also there was the slight problem of setting the fast aviation Battler on fire, but they were a couple of jerks regardless. It sounded like a creative and innovative idea nonetheless.
"Don't worry, I have a fair understanding when it comes to working with explosions." Izuku admitted, though he did it with a familiar face of pain he's seen way too many times on himself. It didn't take much to connect the dots when he told them the truth about his past.
Valac immediately quieted down, in an unusual display of calmness. "Izuku-kins, we don't need to bring up Bakugou if you-" She started off.
"No no, it's fine. Fireworks are actually pretty fun, I used to watch them as a kid with mom and … dad …" He muttered that last part bitterly. Interesting, did his parents have some problem with him? His magiclessness? Their bond seemed to be growing even deeper every second they interacted. "Wait, when did you learn about Kacha..you know what, never mind. Something for another time." He cut himself short.
"Kacha?" He heard Asmodeus mutter. "Regardless, working with gunpowder will be tricky, we'll need time to get the mixing and results right."
"Not to mention that aside from you, all of us are basically working on concepts alone." Eiko pointed out. "N-not to throw any doubts about the idea or anything, I just, do you think you can convey everything you know about it? How are they supposed to work and function?"
"Oh, I can draw some pictures." Midoriya said, reaching into one of his notebooks, this one labeled 'Apparatus Creation', and started to scribble with incredible speed. Did an image pop into his head so fast? Even he had to take about half the day to fully develop a concept on paper. "I've had a little practice sketching, mostly important figures I admire, but I hope having a little visual aid helps." He showed off the finished product, and it really was something to behold.
"Wow, Izuku, I didn't know you were such a great artist!" Eiko ran up to him in that lovey-dovey dance she seems to do when she thinks no one notices. "It really looks like something out of this world!"
"Izuku-kins is an awesome artist, Eistring! He draws really cool stuff for me to make all the time!" Valac spoke excitedly. That explains the weapons of mass destruction he's seen laying around from time to time.
"This 'firework' does seem quite interesting, it seems with this we really can set the skies on fire." Asmodeus stated plainly, but the tiny corners of his mouth lifted just a little.
"Yeah, and the best part, we can shape it however we want, so each explosion can be something unique!" Izuku gleamed so brightly it almost felt like stars were coming out of his eyes.
"We can make dino explosions!" Valac shouted with stars in her eyes.
"We can make rainbow explosions!" Asmodeus grinned ferally.
"We can make Izuku explosions!" Everyone stared at Eiko, who just blushed and whistled. "What, Izuku's face would look pretty in the sky."
"Huh, can't argue with logic." It actually scared him that Valac said that.
"Oh look at that, the Storage Battler's actually got some janitors this time around." Someone snickered as they walked by. "We'll stop by later when we have some trash to spare. Keep up the hard work!"
"Thank you." Kiriwo replied back on instinct, waving cheerfully, something that made everyone around him grimace.
"You know they're making fun of you, right?" Asmodeus stated the obvious. "I know Izuku has this idea that we shouldn't waste time using magic in pointless scuffles, but you are allowed to retaliate, you are their senior after all."
"Yeah, we can cut them up with some axes and swords, Sabro mountain has a bunch of them." Valac spoke with a small growl.
"I can try and sneak up on them and learn where they live, make it personal." Eiko offered the team.
"No." Midoriya spoke, but he wasn't frowning like he did whenever they did something bad. "We'll let them talk about us, call us weak, useless, pathetic. Then we'll light up the night sky as far as the eye can see, and when they least expect it, we'll take the spotlight. We'll show them that the pebbles they've been stepping on can be really sharp. We'll tell them all 'WE ARE HERE'." He smiled in a way that made Kiriwo's heart flutter. The way he worded that …
"You're surprisingly vindictive." Kiriwo smiled as Izuku, who sadly flinched a little at his wording and lost a bit of that angry spark.
"No-no, I'm not, at least, I don't try to be." Izuku explained himself, waving his hands a little. "I don't want to hurt anyone, but I don't want to just be another carpet for them to walk all over." He huffed, a bit exhausted. "I won't settle for the bottom when I can reach for the top. Never again."
"Yeah! Izuku-kins, we'll go Plus Ultra!" Valac shook him from behind.
"Plus Ultra?" Eiko asked.
"Apparently it means to give it your all, and then twice as much." Asmodeus explained. "I do see the logic of it, pushing past your limits is an exhilarating experience when done right." He smirked. "At least now, I won't be at the receiving end of another fireball. Okay, let's do this, Plus Ultra!"
"Plus Ultra!" Eiko compiled. The sight made Kiriwo smile. Izuku seemed to rally them all up easily and had them back him up with just as much vigor as him. He had a lot of potential. There were a lot of projects he had stored up, and someone like the honor student could possibly bring them to heights even he couldn't have imagined.
Yes, he could tell, this year's Division Party would soon be the best one yet.
Azazel Henri was a patient demon. As the head of border control, it was his duty to be constantly diligent of all crossings between the netherworld and the human world. Unsanctioned demons being summoned in contracts and the general illegal crossing over into the human world. Just one wrong move, one little slip, and both worlds would be sent into chaos.
Humans themselves were beginning to become more and more difficult to control and maintain as time went on. Within the last hundred years or so, they've gone under multiple mutations, resulting in powers not too dissimilar to bloodline abilities. 'Quirks', as they now call them, were abilities still strange and abnormal to humans and demons alike,
One good side to this was that it helped demons seem less supernatural, with anyone there claiming to be a demon to be called out as a nutjob and locked away for him to pick up later. Or that would be the case if they didn't keep vanishing.
Unfortunately, instead of investigating, he was stuck with something equally important, but somehow more tedious. "The food is the problem." Spoke Behemot, eating buckets of food like the pigious they are. "We keep overhunting and we're gonna run out of resources." The pink and fat demon spoke between gulps.
"Or you could stop eating it all and learn to starve yourself." Amayamon snarked, growling with their wolf head. "Besides, food is the least of our problems. Wicked Phases keep happening due to the conditions of the world, they're getting harder to prevent."
"That isn't to mention also the constant illegal trafficking that's been happening more and more. Demon's have become bolder and have started bringing items from the human world into the netherworld." Astaro mentioned, and that was news Henri was painfully aware of at the moment. Fruits and other various foods from the human world sold big on the black market, not to mention weapons and a few vials of human blood. "It would be better if Asmodeus and Gracia could bother to attend every one in a while." He pointed to two empty chairs at the table.
"That's also bringing up the illegal crossing high ranked demons have begun undergoing for various means." Henri brought up yet another issue. "If it ended there, it would be no problem to wrap up, but more and more demons have been disappearing by the day, and we barely have any leads on where they go, or who's taking them."
"It's a pretty shame we have to rest our hands on that little duo up there and nobody else shows up to help it out." Paimon spoke in her usual accent. "One human and demon could only do so much, you know."
"For the love of devi it's been years, haven't you dropped the country bunkin talk yet?" Ayamon growled.
"I talk fine, unlike you ya magin mut." Paimon countered. "And at least I'm talkin problems and not just on my light up little phone twiddlin thumbs." She spoke, pointing at the blond known as Baal.
"Hey, I report problems, such as the need to increase security in vital areas that need protection." He retorted. "And what's so bad about these illegal substances? Last I checked they help with the food problem."
Astaroth stood, glaring at the sitting man. "The problem is the lack of money fluctuating in the economy!"
Henri groaned internally, the crows were always like this, unable to decide what was most vital at the time and thus never acted. Simply arguing while eating dinner. Why couldn't he be able to do something better? Like hunting down anyone causing a panic, or looking after his sweet little princess.
"This would be so much better if we had a demon king on the throne." Belzebuth joined in on the conversation. "It's been empty for far too long, one of the three great heroes has to take up the task now before any more chaos stirs up."
"You know, we could do that if the geezers up there actually started to pick one instead of doing what they usually do and just chat over some tea." Baal pointed out, which sadly was true. He once tried to listen into one of their conversations due to suspicion, and was sadly hit with disappointment at the potential demon kings.
"Or we could all choose em now, and just agree Sullivan deary should be demon king." Paimon pointed out. "Out of all of them, he is practically the strongest and most powerful."
"The fuck you on about, the man's still a Tet(9). Obviously Belial is the most powerful and worthy." Ayamon growled out. "You just like the man cause he's a bleeding heart."
"If we're arguing over capability, then the title should go to Lord Levy. She's highly intelligent and a natural born leader." Astaroth nodded, as if he just gave an entire speech about why she was worthy.
Then they started throwing chairs, great, it was going to be all night with these people. He got a notification, looking down on his phone and seeing an anonymous tip about-he froze. Henri made sure to read and reread over and over. A serious accusation from one high up to another … "Excuse me, I must leave." He spoke to Belzebuth. "An important matter has come up."
Lord Belial stared at the fellow bastard and bitch in front of him. The time for games was over, as they glared, intense energy rolling off of them and filling the entirety of the six hundred and sixty sixth floor. They could never truly agree with one another, ideals and ambitions completely in the wrong. Enemies until death after all. Because there was a root problem they could never solve.
"Alright you two, let's get this shit settled once and for all …" Belial stated, the other two giving solem nods. No more playing around, the big arguments must be brought out for this confrontation of ideals. Both he and Lord Levi slammed their hands onto the table in front of them, removing the hands to reveal … "MY GRANDSON IS THE FUCKING CUTEST!" Pictures of their grandchildren of course. No global crisis or world war could compare.
"What the hell are you going on about!?" Lord Levi countered back at him."My Grandson has the most achievements! Obviously that makes him the best!"
"Achievements mean nothing if they have a heart of evil, he has your eyes obviously!" Lord Belial countered. "Look at mine and his smile with the whittle hands, clearly he's the best Grandchild of them all!" He scattered his pictures everywhere. "Come on, Sullivan. It's your turn to pick a side. Who here has the best Grandson?!" The amount of bodies they would go through just for the validation.
Their usual third party and tie-breaker looked at them with the most seriousness they've seen on him in decades. Huh, maybe he would figure out a way to keep a clear winner. "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't be an impartial judge anymore."
"Why the hell not, you're so good at not picking a side." Lord Levi spoke with the same confusion he felt.
"Yeah, you pretty much sat out the last time the thirteen crows blew up the lower floors." It was true, it took a while to sort out that little argument.
Lord Sullivan gave them both an ominous chuckle as his glasses seemed to sparkle. "Because you see, I'm no longer something as merely one of the great three lords. I have evolved from my past self and acquired …" The old coot started, slamming his own hands on the table. "A beloved grandson of my own!" The bastard states with a maniacal laugh as pictures of an adorable green haired boy were shown. What the hell!?
"How's that possible!? Last time I checked, you never had so much as a child, let alone a grandson. In fact, I don't even remember you ever dating anybody!" Levi accused suspiciously.
"Double check your facts my dear sister from another mister, because I achieved not only a grandson, but an adorable daughter as well!" He shouted, throwing down even more pictures.
"You son of a bitch." Belial growled, and why not, the mother was fuckin adorable. That wasn't fair in the slightest, this was purely a grandson contest, don't bring other family members into this! "How did you do it? They don't look much like you. Did you bribe them or something?"
"No comment." Well that was a dead end, and probably for the best. Good on him for finally getting some family in that lonely mansion. However, this brought forth another problem …
"We now don't have an impartial judge." Belial stated, sad they would have to find a FOURTH person to find, let alone divide their hell's gray tea budget between four people. The demanity.
"We could always just ask one of the crows." Levi offered. The witch had a point, if they could just get one of them to-the shouting downstairs seemed to have intensified.
"Nah, they seem busy, best we don't bother the work." Sullivan observed. True, it couldn't be that bad if nothing exploded yet.
"Though, since we don't have an impartial party anymore, maybe we should actually find someone to be the demon king this time around. It would lead to a lot less complaining from the crows if we did." He threw it out there. "Levi, are you interested?"
"No, Demon king has such a nice ring to it. Let's not ruin it by calling me the demon queen." Levi spoke, now sipping some tea she mixed wine with. Never taught him the recipe, but he would find out …
"And I just got a grandson, I'm not going to miss out on the opportunity to play with him all day." Sullivan added in. "Izuku's had a hard time in the past, so seeing him smile everyday is the greatest joy I've ever felt. I don't want to miss a moment of him growing up."
"Well, that's understandable. You're a Grandpa now." He said, completely understanding what the chair demon of Bablys was saying. "I guess none of us are ready yet to take the throne."
"Yeah, I guess it's-wait you never gave yourself an excuse." Levi complained.
"I'll take the throne when you two can pay back the money you owe me." Belial complained back.
"To no demon king!" The bastard Sullivan cheered. Yep, the netherworld would just have to wait a little bit longer.
The door slammed open with Henri and his guards. "Lord Sullivan, you're accused of illegal access to the human world, you will be taken in for questioning." Oh, so the daughter and grandson were human, well played you sly coot.
