It had been several months now since meeting Akeno and she didn't let up once on her teasing but thankfully this week, I had pushed back the visit myself as I had something else to do. Today was my little sister's 10th birthday so I was to spend the whole day at the Phoenix castle regardless even if the occasion was to last an hour or so for the standard fare. The past few weeks have also been strange for the day I went to see Rias, Ravel would be strangely cold with me. When I spoke to Guy about it, he said that she was jealous that I was spending time with another girl. Guy also said that one time when I left that he heard Ravel mumble about being left behind with the Idiotic, perverted twin.

Once he told me that I started to feel sympathy towards my younger sister, unluckily she is still a few years off being allowed out alone plus she isn't old enough for her Evil Pieces for some reason, devils that are born into high-class devils get at 13. As soon as I got my pieces I traded for Guy from my father, who turned him into a devil until I got my own and that's how he got his place as my attendant. Raiser on the other hand, didn't care as long as they only took a piece each and was a girl that matched his fantasies or in one part fetish. At times I feel like he bashed his head on the way out.

A problem I had for this birthday was that I had got her present made a week early and she by chance saw me when I arrived back from receiving the finished project. That week was spent up with her nagging me trying to find out what I had bought her. Thankfully being a devil means I have an alternate dimension for keeping some stuff meaning she could trawl through my room trying to find it. Plus, due to the gossip from Guy I had asked Haha-ue it it was ok to take Ravel into the capital for the day to which she agreed but insisted on coming along as just to be sure of Ravel's safety.

On the actual day however, I was the last person to give Ravel her presents. When I had arrived, Raiser had already been and gone, he was proving more and more by the day that he was a terrible person let alone a brother to which Ravel didn't actually care and from what I have seen she never saw him as her brother. Frankly, I'd do the same if it wasn't for the fact i'm his twin and have to do with looking like him. Thankfully, I can change my image to which I had years ago plus there is still the dark burn mark on the side of his face making us distinguishable. I had grew out my hair slightly so it was just past my shoulders at the back and I had two spiked bangs on either side to frame my face, the left two were completely blonde and held to the side by my black hair clips and the two bangs on the right had a few strands of black hair making them look darker than the rest.

The present that I had made for Ravel was a necklace of a bird with it's wings completely unfurled, the bird itself was designed after the phoenix plus I had a dark blue coloured opal placed into it as a small eye for the bird. For some reason I was drawn to the design, not like it was a necklace resembling the Phoenix clan in any way. Thankfully though, Ravel loved it so I took note to thank my manager for modelling as she suggested it otherwise I would have been stumped.

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An hour or so later and we ventured into the capital so she could spend the day with me and I could buy her anything else she wanted. Thankfully, birthdays are one day that the people of our territory give us breathing room but they still take the odd photo as to commemorate the day. Our birthdays are a big thing in our territories and have our own pages in the newspapers because of it. Frankly, it exploded here because Ravel's affection towards me is known but it hasn't been in the papers and for some reason it was a well sought after picture from the papers.

So once a few pictures had been taken we were relatively left alone but seen as we are the royalty of this area, its as close as we can get. We get a few metres of breathing room while the people around us 'quietly' gossip and whatnot, normally stuff like the women saying how great Haha-ue looks and being jealous. If anything was to happen, even if its just random chatter around us then Haha-ue was to deal with it as my job here this time was to keep an eye on Ravel and be next to her at all times. Because of this, we went through countless clothing stores with Ravel trying on clothes and me giving her my honest opinions as a model rather than a brother which I did only so I could see her cute pout as I said no to something she liked.

When we finally both came to an agreement on several outfits we had finished in that area so after paying for them I stopped her.

"Ra-chan, is there anything else you want?"

Ravel seemed to look past me briefly so I followed her gaze to see Haha-ue smiling gracefully behind us, I then turned back to Ravel who was looking me straight in the eyes with a serious expression.

"I want to be your servant."

"Like peerage servant?"

She nodded back to me childishly in reply. Her request shocked me a little, it wasn't something I minded especially because i'd have my cute little sister with me at all times. I turned to look at Haha-ue for her own thoughts but she looked as confused as I was, it seemed she didn't know a thing about it.

I looked back at Ravel as she stared up at me with pleading eyes. I knew my answer the moment she asked me, I don't think I have a bone in my body that would deny her this request especially on her birthday.

"Of course, Ra-chan but wait until we get back yeah?"

Ravel jumped onto me with an insanely happy expression and nodded her head rubbing it against my chest.

This seemed to spike the rest of the afternoon as Ravel went from just being happy to walking with a smile and a skip in her step, she also took to holding my hand causing my arm to swing and me to speed up my pace to match her happy speed.

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After we returned home we promptly had our dinner before Ravel became a member of my peerage. I waited specifically for after dinner so she could rest straight after as it would cause her a small amount of strain being a pure-blood and that she was still relatively young in becoming a servant. After making her into one of my bishops, I stayed with her until she fell asleep in her own bed. I carefully brushed her hair from her eyes and stood up to leave her room.

As I left the room I saw both Chichi-ue and Guy standing there waiting for me, albeit Guy was resting against the banister looking out onto the grounds at the flowers that he had planted and is tending to.

"Chichi-ue?"

"Your mother has told me about what Ravel wanted and while I know you will defend her and keep her safe, I feel compelled as a father to just say it anyway. Please keep Ravel safe."

"I will Chichi-ue, I won't let harm come to my adorable little sister."

Chichi-ue's somewhat stoic expression lightened and he wore a soft smile before rustling up my hair and walking away. When I turned back from watching him leave Guy was now standing by my side, he had a habit of moving only when no-one was watching.

Looking at him, I saw that he had both his family sword and one of his spare Katanas around his waist. He noticed me looking at it and took it from his belt and offered me the grip. I gingerly took it from his grip in my right hand and held it a little surprised at it's weight.

"There is your personal sword Reon-sama."

I looked down to it a little confused that I was getting it so early.

"Lord Phoenix said that you should get it now, probably because of Ravel-sama. You remember how to do it yes?"

"I do but I would like to sync the black flames with it to make the sword that much stronger."

"That would be better yes. How have you been with summoning it?"

As I started to ponder my answer, we had begun to walk through the castle making our way to the training room so I could do the transformation in peace and with little harm to anything other than possibly Guy and myself.

"Not much luck though I believe at the moment Raiser is the trigger."

"Do you think that it only seems that way because Raiser is the only one who can actually get you angry?"

Guy has a point there, it does seem that way now that he mentioned it. Maybe i'll grow into being able to use it or I have to be angered more for the power to fully awaken because I feel like it's a lot more than just a black flame to my hand. It feels deadlier and strangely not that sinister, it has an odd similarity to the two in my head. Efreet and Sylph, the two spirits of fire and wind that govern the Phoenix. Even they said that they can't quite pinpoint it in my body.

"Well, i'll leave it till a later date and get used to an actual sword first before having one with that ability."

I placed the sword through a loop in my belt and tightened it to my waist.

"Well then, shall we spar with your new sword?"

"You bet'cha!"

There's that chapter and i was planning for an extra chapter for today but my sister randomly visited earlier so i didn't have the time.
I'll make sure to do so for the next update here. I had also planned to show the transformed sword in this chapter but i feel like it's a bit too early for it.
The sword isn't an insanely strong one though and it's not unbreakable, it's more unruly than anything else.

I'll see you next time, Ciao.