I will not go through the entire two weeks because that would require another chapter or two, so for the sake of brevity when needed, I will omit it, I hope I can convey the results of the training by the rating game I will tell now.

The day finally came for the rating game to start, unsurprisingly the arena of choice would be the school since it somehow is a favourite in this universe. I had the Last Sword and my pistol with it and I was wearing the best body armour I could get from my possessions. Rias and the others were with me, just finished the planning stages of their strategy, which followed closely the cannon plan. I just looked at the school and the scenery in general, it was just like Kuoh Academy in all respects, save for one thing and that was the purple sky that indicated it was a pocket dimension.

"I'm going to be honest, Pres, I'm very nervous right now" said Issei, the poor man trembling like a shrimp, Rias smiled and approached him.

"It's alright Issei, I'm nervous as well, and I'm sorry there isn't much I can say to cheer you up, so I can only say, remember what you are here for, and remember the promise you made to me that night" she told him, cupping one of his cheeks with his hand, Issei stopped shaking as he looked into her eyes, I could not help but smile at it, it seemed like those two were just as close as I remembered them and their relationship wasn't as carnal as before. Suddenly the announcement came for the game to start, courtesy of Grafyia, Issei runs with Koneko over to the gymnasium and Kiba goes to the main building, my job was to support Kiba and force the queen to appear by killing off the more important pieces, the two knights and the bishop and the other rook, after which I would support Akeno in killing the queen, Rias would stay put in the base with Asia, waiting for Riser to appear. With that said I followed Kiba on a sprint to the school building, it did not take long for me to see the four girls, waiting for us with smug grins on their faces.

"Is this all your master could send?" asked one of the knights, I was already unsheathing the Last Sword, feeling the brambles coil and its spines digging into my skin, with the left hand I pulled out my pistol.

"It will be enough; you will find that the Gremory are very thorough in their training" I replied.

"Very well" replied the one with the zweihander, Karlamine, I think she was named, "I am Karlamine Phenex, knight of" she was cut off as I shot at her, she reacted quickly and blocked the shot with her sword, and had to block again as I surged forward intending to impale her, Kiba took the momentary distraction to charge at the other knight, Karlamine was understandably pissed "how dare you use such underhanded tactics against a knight! Has the mortal world lost all sense of honour?" I chuckled.

"Knights in the old days punched and grappled against each other, they even took nut shots, there is no shame in fighting to win, and if you are prideful enough to introduce yourself in a fight, you only have yourself to blame" I said as I pointed the gun to her gut, to the knights credit she kicked me to give herself some distance, letting her charge at me, even with my years of experience at competitive duels and also some actual combat, it would have been hard for me to defeat her, let alone her master, fortunately God is good and the Last Sword does enhance its user, I could see her running clearly enough for me to block her upwards strike, I didn't shoot this time, instead I hit her on the gut with the handle of the pistol, strong enough to dig into her and taking the air out of her lungs, I then kneed her on the side and grabbed the handle of her longsword, wrestling it away and effectively disarming her, I grinned as I pointed the gun to her, she looked at me in disgust.

"How dishonourable, to think a human defeated me using underhanded tactics".

"Consider this a lesson, always fight to win, not to appeal to a misplaced sense of honour, leave that for after the fight is over" I shot her right in the gut, remembering that a head shot could potentially kill her, and watched as she slowly glowed and disappeared, Grafyia announced her elimination soon enough, right before I was attacked by the rook, barely blocking a kick in time that would have sent me tumbling to the ground, I grunted as I strained against the kick, looking to the attacker I could see the rook, Xuelan I think she was, she tried another kick, this time to the gut, I blocked it with my right leg, it still hurt and I skidded until I was just outside the porch of the school.

"I can't believe Karla wasn't able to defeat a mere human".

"I will not give you any response other than shut up and fight, I'm not Japanese and I will not go through the tradition of introducing myself or let you do that" I pointed my gun at her "Be glad I am giving you this chance, next time you monologue I won't warn you again"

The girl screamed in rage as she charged right at me with a haymaker, it was then I decided to properly test the Last Sword, just as she got close I blocked the haymaker with my left hand and swiped at her chest, devils in general have a very resistant skin that has the hardness of steel, combined with the fact that it is usually enhanced by their magic just makes it one of the hardest materials in all of earth barring some alloys of titanium, and the stronger a devil gets, the stronger its own body gets. Considering this it was a big surprise when the Last Sword tore a gash going from one point of her shoulder to the other, the woman screamed in pain, putting an arm over her wound while trying not to bleed out, the wound at first sight wasn't really deep, but the fact that it was able to cut through a devil surprised me greatly.

"What magic is this?" she screamed "it felt like a lightsword!" I didn't respond as I used this distraction to my advantage, I charged and began to slash against the devil while she tried to block to the best of her ability, if her idea was to turn this into a battle of attrition, she was quickly mistaken, as her legs shaked until she collapsed after half a minute of me slashing her as if I tried to turn her into a sashimi, Grafyia announced her defeat shortly after, I looked to where Kiba was supposed to be, he was on guard, his clothes slightly torn but not looking to bad to wear, still he looked exhausted, the Phenex knight looked even worse even as she was slowly revitalized by the bishop, Ravel Phenex, I called out to Kiba.

"Kiba! It seems you have a pesky little girl interfering with your fight, do you want me to make her disappear?" I asked as I walked towards him, the boy looked at me with his trademark smile.

"Ah, Fernando-kun, yes, I would very much appreciate your help, though I do ask you to please restrict yourself to Ravel-sama, defeat her if you must but my duel with Siris-san must be free of any interference" the Phenex knight then but herself between me and Ravel.

"Stand back, I will not let you past Ravel-sama while I still draw breath" I sighed.

"That's your cue Kiba" and as I said that Kiba jumped over and crossed swords with the Phenex knight, forcing her to pay attention to him, I looked back at Ravel, to her credits she did not panic as I approached her.

"I don't like beating up on little girls, so I'll give you two options, I know for a fact your brother gave you Phenex Tears, hand them over and I won't send you to the infirmary, don't hand them over and your brother will have to hear about how a human defeated his little sister before being defeated by a reincarnated devil" I explained, the little girl gritted her teeth and glared.

"I do indeed have Phenex Tears; however, I choose your second option, I may not be that much of a fighter, but it would dishonour my family if I did not do any fighting in the slightest"

"Suit yourself" I simply replied.

She, indeed, was not much of a fighter, don't get me wrong, she most likely trained a lot in magic, but Raiser, as Ravel later told me, never had her fight any Rating Game she was in, she was always a good magician, don't get me wrong, but she never had been in an actual fight until I showed up, and it really showed, she did her best to keep me away from her using fire spells, but here is where one of my tricks during my training came up, ducking at one of her spells I planted the sword at the ground with a loud crack, suddenly a bright beam of blue light shot towards the magician and struck her dead in the chest, she almost keeled over at the impact, her hands twitching uncontrollably, no doubt the 'laser' had something to do with it, but I had no intention of missing this opportunity so I charged and slashed her on the gut, this time the damage was a bit more superficial but still debilitating, before she collapsed she dropped her vial of the very precious Phenex Tears, she widened her eyes and tried to take it, too bad I was there, another slash to the gut made sure she had to retire, and just in time because Akeno seemed to have done her job.

"The bishop, queen and one of the knights of Raiser Phenex have both retired" came the booming voice of Grafyia, I pocketed the vial and shortly after I heard another announcement that the pawns and remaining knight of Raiser had been retired, this put a smile on my face, because it meant that Koneko and Issei finished them off by themselves and there was now a full peerage against Raiser alone, things were going Rias's way so far. Akeno landed behind me shortly after the announcement, propping up another smile which she gave back.

"Did we change anything?" she asked.

"We have a full peerage, and you appear unharmed, I'd say everything is going perfect, too perfect if I'm being honest".

"Aww, don't say we jinxed it" she received then a call from Rias, when it finished her gaze turned more serious, "Issei and Koneko have finished their part, Rias is fighting Raiser now, we are moving towards the final part of the plan".

"Good, maybe we will finish earlier and we won't have to rely on Issei sacrificing an arm" Akeno then hugged my back and started to fly up and back to the clubroom, where Rias was fighting Raiser with Asia's support, when we reached the scene, with Koneko and Issei joining us shortly after I was treated to a scene outside of a Shonen anime, Rias was currently fighting the taller man in close quarters, and I mean, she was throwing punches at the man like he owed her money and putting him at his ropes, he would eventually win but it would cost him and at the moment he couldn't form a proper plan of attack due to Rias relentlessly throwing punches enhanced with her Power of Destruction and quite literally tearing chunks of flesh out of the man who was desperately trying to make some distance between the two. Seeing the surreal scene I went over to Issei, who was making his best impression of a fish out of the water and told him, "That's your future wife, have fun" which snapped him out of his stupor, "as amazing it is to see your master kick some serious behind we have to finish this for her, Issei, do you have our ace?" I asked, Issei grinned as he pulled a flask out of his pocket, "good, and I have our 'get out of jail' card" as I showed him the phenex tears flask I took from shanking Raiser's sister.

"I managed to take one from Raiser's queen as well, I will use it whenever either of you two gets too injured" It was then that Rias noticed us and flashed us a grin from her face caked in blood.

"Oh, you are finally here? Good, little Asia was getting a bit tired" she said as if she didn't try to perform a blood eagle out of her would be fiancé" she replied as she jogged over to Asia's side, taking the chance to do so while Raiser was busy healing up and recovering from his beating.

"How? How are you so strong? You never trained in the Underworld, I know it" Raiser demanded to know between gasps of breath, Rias directed to him a glare and a grin.

"I had a coach, and he was a real slavedriver, like I am with my subordinates, now, Raiser, I believe we dragged this for too long" and that was our cue, unsheathing my sword I started the first part of our final phase of the fight, a part only Rias knew, I rested the blade on my side as I learned in my training and slashed open my side, surprising everyone save for Rias and Asia, who only flinched, soaking my left hand in my blood I ran towards Raiser who immediately prepared for another close quarters duel, I quickly jerked my hand towards him as if I threw something at him, in three seconds blood danced around my hand and shot off in the shape of a sphere, he quickly blocked what he thought would be a projectile, he did not count for the sphere to explode in a splash of boiling blood that started to eat away at his arms at alarming speeds, faster than what his own regeneration could counter, it would not kill him but it would distract him long enough for the second and third counter, Kiba ran slashed him several times with a strong ice blade made to counter Raiser's flames and also to drain some of his magic and finally Issei ran towards the dazed man smashed the flash of holy water in his gut which sizzled, all of this was done to prepare for the final blow which Akeno was in charge off. Like the work of an angel Akeno conjured her Holy Lighting in a way that would become one of her main and most powerful attacks, the lighting shot towards the devil in the shape of an oriental dragon and smashed into him, creating a small explosion, a howl of pain was heard from the man that died out when the explosion subsided, we had a contingency where if Raiser had survived, Issei would use one last ace up our sleeve and use an incomplete Balance Breaker that did not give him all of the power of a full one but enough to where he alongside Akeno and me could take Raiser out of commission, but it was not to be because as the smoke faded he was on all fours with his shirt burned off and severe third degree burns showing, his regeneration barely keeping up as it was disrupted by Akeno's attack, I smiled, it would seem that we won easily.

Too easy if one asked me, which is why I still had my guard up and didn't celebrate as Issei was doing with Asia. I would be vindicated in the end as I saw Raiser stand up. My instincts started to scream at me that something was wrong, my hands started to reach instinctively for my rosary around my neck when Raiser, or someone else to be more accurate, looked at me with a grin from ear to ear. I didn't have enough time to react as I fumbled, trying to get my rosary out when 'Raiser' dashed, grabbed me by my neck and lifted me up, before I knew it I wasn't in the school's rooftop, I was inside the clubroom gasping for air.

"I am insulted, this is what He decided to bring? This is what he sent, this child?" it asked in a double tone, one of Raiser and the other of the devil possessing him "truly things must be very bad in your world when the best He can offer is a traumatized orphan that secretly desires his own death, wouldn't you agree?"

I said nothing, the demon shrugged.

"Not like I care, you're deemed a threat to my lord, someone who must be killed, someone who must disappear, traumatized shit-stain or not you bear the Last Sword, that in and of itself is enough to warrant your death, now I only need to check if you have the other thing, wait, where is it, where is the relic?" it demanded to know, I said nothing but I knew even in my pain and fear what he was talking about, the Robes, the demon roared in rage, slamming me against the floor and stomping on my chest several times, I coughed blood as I felt my ribs piercing my lungs

"No matter, even of you forgot it in your house, we just need to you dead for it not to work, I hope you confessed, you will need it" it said as it pointed a finger towards me, red fire coming out of it, I passed out due to the pain and the shock, but not before hearing the windows to my left being broken and a bright yellow beam racing towards 'Raiser'.

When I finally woke up, I was looking at a white ceiling with an equally white light shining on me, I was on a hospital, and it seemed I was really missed by my friends since I had some bouquets of flowers around me. The door to my room opened, it was a doctor, though I could tell he was no human doctor for he had his wings and the thin tail of a devil out in the open, he noticed I was awake right as he closed the door.

"Ah, Mr Fernando, I was just about to check on your state, to see if the Phoenix Tears healed your internal damage correctly, please stay where you are, it will take but a moment" the doctor stood above me performed some sort of spell, it lasted for about five seconds, "the Phenex tears have healed most of your internal damage, but you were dangerously close to dying of blood loss and you still haven't fully recovered, and your heart has also suffered scarring which will need another day of fixing, you also had to have bone transplants since half your ribs literally shattered into a million pieces like glass so that needs to be checked in case your body rejects it, that will take another day, frankly it's a miracle you even survived, while Phoenix Tears can cure humans its not as effective as it would be on even reincarnated devils now" the doctor explained.

"Doctor, I must ask, how long was I knocked out for" the doctor grimaced.

"Almost two weeks, it would have been fourteen days if you hadn't woken up now, you will have to stay for three more days but your recovery is now guaranteed and your friends can visit you now, shall I call them? They have been waiting for the whole morning" I sighed.

"Please do, doctor" the man nodded and exited the room, two weeks, I couldn't imagine how the even managed to repel the demonically possessed Raiser, the thought alone made me scared and anxious, what happened? What did they do to stop it? All these questions were answered when the peerage came, the first two people were Akeno and Issei, the former throwing herself to my bed, hugging me tightly while sobbing, the latter was more controlled but still took part in hugging me too, which I eventually returned the hug to my two friends, scared that they would disappear if I let go of them, I am not ashamed to say I shed a tear, how could I not? I almost thought I would die, and the fear that I never told Akeno my feelings, the fear that I once again failed to defend the ones I loved, this time against the Enemy, was a fear that overwhelmed me as much as when my parents back in Spain died and I was left alone to take care of my younger brother and sister, yet I still could not help but think that this event was because of an oversight I made, but for that moment I was only relieved that all my friends were safe and without any harm whatsoever. Akeno noticed that I also cried and giggled.

"This must be the first time I see you cry for a long time, Su-chan" she giggled, the fact she used my old nickname was not lost on me, "I almost thought you weren't able to"

"I never had good reason to, A-chan, now I do" I replied, and reasons to cry I had, she was almost taken away from me by what I perceived was an oversight, maybe now I have the advantage of retrospect but back then I had good reason to believe it was my fault, I should have known that if the Enemy was to attack, to make his fist move in this part of the story, it would have been logical and for that moment it was a severe oversight in my part regardless that day taught me one thing, that death was still a very real thing, and I tried to act accordingly from then on.

"Fernando-kun, I want to thank you for everything you have done for me until now, if it wasn't for you and Issei I would have ended in an unhappy marriage, thank you very much"

"Do I have to repeat myself, Rias?" I asked, she giggled.

"No, I can guess what you will say, and I will still reply with the same thing, in fact you don't get a say, I will pay you back for this, consider it an order from a noble to a commoner".

"What order? I'm not in your peerage" I replied.

"Seeing as my queen and, increasingly, my pawn are essentially attached at your hip, I'd say you are at least an honorary member" she replied. After having our fill with pleasantries and catching up I told them when I would be discharged from the hospital, Rias told me that her brother wanted a meeting with her, her peerage and myself when I was finally discharged, when I asked her what it would be about and, most importantly, how did they deal with Raiser once and for all, she only told me that it would be said in the meeting. So, for three days I was bedridden, with the peerage visiting me without fault during the afternoons, on the third day the doctors did my final check-up, and I was discharged, Rias and her peerage were there to receive me as I went outside the hospital and there was much fanfare and rejoicing, with the usual suspects being the first ones to hug me, the fact that Father Diego was there too didn't escape me at the time but I had another thing in mind, the fact that I got so close to death put things into a perspective I had forgotten, how close death was to me. That spectre has always been close and changing worlds was no exception, saving Shuri and my suicide attempt was an example of it, this lead to a clash of ideas, of desire and conviction so to speak.

I knew I loved Akeno, and I was reasonably sure she did too, if I was to confess to her I had almost no doubt she would enthusiastically accept it, but there was a problem, she was a pagan for all intents a purposes, I didn't talk about it much in this story but now it is relevant, she was a believer in Shinto, as a matter of fact Shuri was already training her to be a shrine maiden at least as an aside and even with the supernatural revealed to her she firmly believed in the Shinto gods and all the ritual, so as a Catholic I had no business entering a relationship with her, this I knew but my own feelings were tugging at my heart heavily towards her, they were practically screaming to pursue her, for who better to be my wife than a girl that has known me since I was a child, who shared my table, my food, my school and all my memories of her were at the least pleasant. One part were my own feelings of loneliness and lovesickness and the other was my rationality and devotion to the Lord, the only thing that occurred to me was to talk with Father Diego and my teacher for advice and pray for perseverance in the faith.

This was what I was thinking while Rias, her peerage and I made the trip over to where we would meet with her brother, we arrived actually at what seemed to be a train station, as Rias explained when we arrived it was station used by her family to come and go from and to the Overworld, as they call Earth proper, in a more inconspicuous manner, turns out her brother was waiting for us in the club room, the plan was to board the train and then teleport from the station to the clubroom, she still told us it would take almost two whole hours to reach it, when we boarded I sat next to Father Diego, we exchanged pleasantries and got up to date with each other, he told me he finally got some progress in his issue with Ajuka since Rias owed him a favour, turns out he was responsible for apprehending Raiser, though the devils did not allow him to perform an exorcism, Raiser's family was very against the idea of it and Sirzechs was forced to forbid him for the time being, because of that Rias put the good word for Father Diego and managed to get him an audience with Ajuka in the summer.

For his services in apprehending Raiser, Sirzechs offered him to stay in the Underworld while he waited for his audience, in the end he was coming with me because he would try to convince Sirzechs on trying to expedite the date with Ajuka since Father Diego wanted to do the exorcism as soon as possible or atleast make some measures to ensure Ajuka would not cause any trouble while he waited for his definitive audience. Then came my turn to ask.

"Father, can I have your counsel? I have a problem that could quite literally make or break my compromise with the Lord" I told him with sincerity and with a weary tone, which he noticed, he put a hand on my shoulder.

"Goodness, child, you sound horrible now, what happened in that hospital that has you looking like a kicked puppy?"

I explained to him what I thought, how being so close to death made me rethink many things in my life, specifically my relationship to Akeno, how I was of two minds, whether to confess my love for her, because who knows when I would ever get the chance to do so, or renounce my love for her, and that while knowing I should leave her would be right to do so I feared I would not be able to do so without possibly entering into a depression, seeing as I was out of sight and hearing from the rest of the peerage and especially Akeno I had no problem sobbing, but I did more than sob, I cried, because it couldn't be any other way, Father Diego pulled me to him and shushed me, like my father would if I injured myself during training. After crying my eyes out for three minutes he spoke.

"On principle I would tell you to forget about her, you are right, I would never accept to officiate a wedding between you two as it stands with her being a pagan, I knew you would have that problem, and you knew as well but I gather that you thought at first that you wouldn't fall in love with her, would you?"

I nodded; Father Diego smiled sadly.

"I figured, but knowing the girl a little bit more in the few times I got to know her in the hospital reception room, they only let me deliver flowers that they then delivered to you, I understand why you would fall in love, when I asked about you she talked not only as a concerned friend, but as a wife who found out her husband is in the hospital, that girl loves you as well, the only thing preventing her from actually making the first step is she doesn't want to ruin the friendship you have with her. But yes, I'm sorry that the only thing I can give you is the advice to let go of your feelings and a shoulder to cry on when the pain inevitably comes, I'm sorry"

"Don't be, Father, this was a long time coming, only thing I can do now is pray for my perseverance and that I can at least conserve the friendship I have with her, it will take time for me to let go of this, especially since I will be seeing her a lot"

"If it makes you feel any better I will pray for your perseverance and her conversion, perhaps the Lord will reward you greatly, and there is no shame in complaining about it and crying to Him about this, even a Saint like Saint Therese of Avila prayed during a very difficult moment for her 'My Lord, if this is how You treat your faithful, I understand why there are so few of your faithful"

"It is definitely how I feel, well, I guess I can start now"

"Don't let me stop you, as a matter of fact, I'll join you" and he did, for over thirty minutes we did nothing but prayer, prayer for my perseverance and that I would be able to let go of my feelings for Akeno, it did hurt, to pray for such a thing, so much that I could not help but feel tears run from my eyes and start to sob.

"Have mercy on me o, Lord my omnipotent Father, for the burden you placed on me is turning to be bigger than I thought, you are asking me to forsake the one person I hold close to my heart, she who ate my bread, whom I have shown my deepest weakness and whom I can't help but love as my lover. Why oh, my God, have I fallen for such a woman? It would have been better for my purpose here that I had never met her but now she is serving as a stumbling block, I plea that you convert her, that she sees the light and we can go to the Heavens together, but only through Your will and not mine"

I finished the prayer and opened my eyes once more, I thanked Father Diego for his prayer and we both went back to the car where the rest was at.

We reached Earth an hour later and teleported to the clubroom shortly after, there waited for us a man sitting on Rias's chair, a redheaded man with a regal aura wearing the clothes of a XIXth monarch, Sirzechs Gremory.

"Oh, you finally arrived, no need to bow, nobody is around us in any case" he saw then Father Diego, still rather queasy in his first time teleporting, "oh, Friar Diego, you came too?" he asked.

"Yes, that is because I want to ask for a favour, but that may wait for now".

"Very well, now, Rias, first let me congratulate you, you are officially not Raiser's fiancé" when that was said it seemed a weight was lifted from Rias as she sighed in relief, "second, we have to talk, about Raiser I mean" he said, his tone of voice now turning serious, Rias narrowed her eyes.

"Everyone, sit down, Akeno, please make us some tea" she ordered.

"Now, as you may know by now, Friar Diego's help has been invaluable in arresting Raiser, during his retention however he displayed several worrisome tendencies, it seemed he had a complete change in personality alongside an enhanced strength and magical power among other things, when his family came to him he insulted his mother and father and claimed he didn't want to see either of them, claiming they made a mistake in having him"

"I was not aware of this" replied Father Diego.

"You were no longer needed and even if I allowed you into his room, his family most certainly wouldn't"

"The boy is possessed, and you are worried more about the family?" Father Diego asked incredulously.

"You say he is possessed, Friar Diego, however this event has a more material cause, some months ago Ajuka received some engravings in a language we did not understand, when they were cross referenced with some ancient runes in ruins of the old city of Lilith we found that they bear resemblance to an ancient language not related to our current one, what's more he found out that those engravings could be used to enhance particular properties of objects and even people, the Old Satan faction used them in desperate times to create a sort of berserker that would take the effort of a whole company of mid class devils to defeat, as you might infer these engravings turn the user mad, sometimes it takes months, or even years while the user slowly has a deteriorating mental health, sometimes it happens almost instantly, Ajuka made sure to properly isolate the engravings in a special chamber in his house, but this does pose a problem"

It poses a problem, he says, the fool couldn't see demonic influence if it hit him in the face, and apparently Father Diego thought the same.

"Your Highness, I must reiterate, you were witnessing a possession, believe me, I saw the same thing happen to a girl from Fernando's school, she is now in fact a regular member of my parish"

"While I don't doubt her faith, I am sure she acquired those runes somehow".

Father Diego threw his arms in exasperation and sat down next to me, massaging his temple and mumbling something.

"Right, well, as I was saying, this poses a problem, currently there are a handful of people that know of those runes and know how to make them, which is why we suspect that the Old Satan faction is perhaps not as dead as we previously thought" it was then that I decided to intervene.

"Your Highness, before I say anything, has Rias told you who I really am?" I asked, Sirzechs smiled.

"Yes, and it seems you read my mind, you have information regarding them, yes?"

"Correct, though I do not know how accurate it is now" I replied.

"Do try regardless, anything can help".

And I told him everything I knew from the anime, how the Three Factions would try to sign a peace treaty which would be used by the Chaos Organization, I refuse to use their name, its grammatically incorrect, with the help of the Old Satan faction, I also told him the members of the faction as I could remember them, Sirzechs was quiet for the whole time, but he opened his eyes slightly as I related to him Kokabiel plan, making a special emphasis that he was working behind Azazel's back, it took Sirzechs five seconds to respond after I finished.

"That is a rather interesting thing you just told us, I was planning on meeting with Azazel and Michael to have a discussion over a possible peace treaty, I met with Azazel and he was rather eager to do so, I have not infact met with Michael just yet, though I gather he would want to turn the ceasefire into an official peace as well" he frowned "you are not lying, that much is certain, my spells confirmed it, Rias, for the period of two months I will stay in Kuoh, both for your protection and to perhaps coordinate with Michael and Azazel on defeating Kokabiel, while I hesitate to give the Angels two Excalibur-class swords I believe it will be a gesture of good faith, to show Michael I am genuine about my plans, thank you"

"Big brother, you can't just stop everything you are doing and stay here!" protested Rias.

"Au contraire, I can, Ria-chan, Grafyia and my peerage can act as my de facto regents, you would be surprised how good they are at it, so I can both look after your pretty little head and do diplomatic overtures"

"Isn't Serafall-sama supposed to do that?" asked Rias.

"Yes, did you think I was doing this alone?" making Rias gasp and take a step back in horror, I giggled, Rias hates how overbearing her brother can be, and one thing worse than that is her brother and her best friend's big sister coming together to torment her.

"No, you wouldn't"

"It is with great pleasure that I say that I have plans for you for parent's day, Ria-chan" replied Sirzechs with a smile "this day just keeps on getting better, thank you everyone for your time" and with that he teleported out.

AN: This took longer than it honestly had any right to be, for those of you who favourited, I do ask, comment, comment, comment, it's the only way I really possess to improve my writing skills without having to rely on discord servers. Point is, your criticism is appreciated and thank you for reading