And here is the second chapter!
I've almost outdone myself by having two chapters today. Well, they are relatively small so why not?
I doubt that this'll become a habit.

The day had finally come and it wasn't a day any of us here were looking forward problem being that only Gasper had a free pass to this whole debacle I'd rather not have the 'pleasure' of experiencing. My whole peerage was here along with the remainder of Rias' standing in the entrance hall of our mansion in the human world as I was taking my sweet time to become bothered to teleport us all into the Phoenix castle in the Underworld. Luckily I had already put Aika into the system as the damn train takes far too long for my patience.

Once I had brought myself so a decent amount of fucks to give I started up the process with a deep sigh and teleported us all away in flurry of flames which hits my childish side and never gets old. The 9 of us then reappeared in the entrance hall of the Phoenix mansion, once I opened my eyes I saw both Mother and Father there already along with Raiser who wore a strangely smug look. A look which fits the bastard.

"You finally arrived Reon, Ravel. It's great to see you again."

"I agree Chichi-ue. It's nice to see you and Haha-ue again."

My blatant dislike towards Raiser did not go unnoticed by my Mother and Father. Mother just took a neutral expression as she has never been good with dealing with Raiser, Father took his usual look of slight sadness towards it.

"Is this the new girl, Reon-kun?"

I gave my Mother a light nod as Aika gave a slight bow before introducing herself.

"My name is Kiryuu Aika. It's nice to meet you."

Father just gave a light nod to where my Mother adopted a warm smile that made me feel slightly better for being here. I get along with my mother a lot better than I do Father but I still get along with him pretty well, it's just that I don't see why he gives Raiser so many chances. My Mother has pretty much just given up with him and allows Father to just deal with whatever he does.

I cast a small gaze towards Raiser and saw that he was looking at Aika with the same look he gave all women, it was one that was both condescending and lust-filled. It was rather impressive how he makes it so weird.

"I see the 'Great Raiser' still hasn't healed from his burns."

Feeling some anger building up in me due to the look he was sending Aika's way, I decided to taunt him. One which normally works but not in this case as I was first to speak letting him know I was already annoyed.

"What's wrong Reon-chan? Can't I just look without annoying you?"

His smug attitude and voice just added to the hate that was already brewing inside of me.

"Keep your filthy gaze to what you have already been fortunate to taint. Keep away from her and you'll keep your life Raiser-chan."

I bit back at him as I could easily feel Gneaux waking itself up and slowly adding to the black hairs that try to mask itself between the blonde ones darkening it further. Raiser just gave a carefree shrug before turning and walking off to his side of the mansion. Once he had both my Mother and Father sighed at our interaction which had now became the norm.

"Reon-kun, can you please not threaten Raiser-kun like that."

"Why not dear? Let them both get it out of their system through a Rating Game, they both have perfect records after all."

Father interrupted before I could say anything but really, I liked what he said better than anything that was brewing in my mind.

"So what do you say Reon?"

"Sure. I'm happy to add to that prick's burn count."

I took all emotion from my voice before answering my Father who only nodded in response before leaving, Mother gave us all another warm smile before making her own departure to catch up with my father who presumably was going to talk to Raiser about it all.

Once they were just nearing the end of our sights, a trio of maids came into our vision to take us to our rooms during our stay. I was happy to see that they were maids from the more conservative half of the ones employed here. The other half were skimpy to an extent, 10% of the hundred belonged to Raiser and I really couldn't call what they wore a uniform of any kind any more. It was pretty non-existent.

Once in my wing to the mansion, everyone was shown to their own rooms while I left to check on the beacons put into place along the halls. The beacons were still intact and hadn't been messed with at all in the past few years I was gone. These beacons were to deal with Raiser and to stop him from intruding as I knew he would probably try something in my room at least and now that there were others here probably with them as well. The beacons created a mirror wall that prevented anyone to get passed and were invulnerable to magic, things which cost me a few days of fatigue to create a piece. Of course they shattered easily upon physical contact but I had made it so that the sound of the glass shattering would be amplified so I could easily hear it.

Now knowing that they were all in perfect condition I returned to my room here in the wing, the biggest one here in this wing. Upon entering my room I saw that every one was already here with only Rias and Ravel sitting on my bed and the others on chairs that had been brought out from one of my closets.

As I sat down on my bed between Rias and Ravel, Ravel moved herself and sat down on my lap while wearing a happy smile. It had been a while since Ravel had done this, the last time would be before we moved into the human world just over two years ago.

"Yuu-kun, if Raiser agrees to the Rating Game would you like to join in?"

Kiba wore a look of slight shock at my question but I could tell that behind the shock he was very happy, I could feel it.

"May I, Rias-sama?"

"Of course Yuuto but Reon, you are free to use Koneko and Akeno as well."

"And if they were to what I call fighting fit then I would have asked them too."

Rias and the two girls in question looked downcast at my comment as they knew what I meant by 'fighting fit'. They are not truly at one with themselves and to me that is a liability, if they cannot fight with their full strength then they have no right to fight by my side.

Seeing that the atmosphere had dampened, Aika spoke up and changed the direction slightly.

"What even is a Rating Game?"

"It's somewhat like a mock war, but it's more precise to say a battle within a war like the 'Battle of Waterloo' for instance. With the Great War over, there was still some battle-hungry devils about and the Evil Piece system actually worked in tandem to that. One peerage versus another, rather small scale though as the combatants can be anywhere between 12 to 32 in number equalling to 6 to 16 per side."

"Isn't that dangerous though?"

It would seem that I forgot one of the vital points to these Rating Games.

"No, not really. You can experience pain and loss of limbs but that's all artificial really in all honesty, though if any of that happens you'll be in a hell of a lot of pain once the Game is over. You can die though, very rare but possible."

It turns out that the way I answered didn't calm her nerves in the end. Probably the death thing.

"Don't worry about dying. You'll have no chance of dying, you haven't angered any of Raiser's servants so no need to worry about that. All we need really is to watch Guy and see if he kills anyone for getting too close."

I took on a small smirk as I glanced over to Guy who was sitting by himself next to the door of my room. He gave a light sigh at my prodding statement.

"Taichou … I won't kill, just maim."

And he said something creepy in response. I can't underestimate Guy in these types of conversations, he knows how to stop me from going further even though I know in my mind he is just saying these things to make me stop.

"Well … Yuu-kun, please get yourself acquainted with your 'Older Self' over there and get accustomed to his 'Holy Blades'. Doesn't bother me if you can't or won't as doing so isn't really necessary."

"How will your training go then?"

That question came from Rias, a hint of annoyance resounding in her voice due to lack of time with me.

"I won't be training at all. Honestly only Aika needs training just so she can get up to speed with the style of combat that entails in a Rating Game. Both Guy and I have participated before so Guy will just be getting to know Yuu-kun so they can co-ordinate well. Sabrea will need to meditate before hand. Ra-chan is a lot more competent than she looks after the training I have put her through. While I admit Raiser has the upper hand through power in numbers, really I don't expect to lose at all. His Queen and Isabella are the only problems I can foresee."

"Are you sure you don't want to borrow Akeno or even to take me up on my previous offer? I'd still love to be your Queen."

I just waved Rias off, I didn't need any of that.

"Nah, i'm good. I want a Queen that I can boss about happily and not pay for it later on. We both know Rias that I am the submissive one in this relationship and all because of your damn high libido, you damn exhibitionist."

I said it all playfully and finishing with a sigh, this was the same answer I gave her the last time she asked this and the times before that as well. The first few times I did not say the libido or exhibitionist part as I did not know about them before we were married.

That whole conversation died down from there and it was flung into random chatter for the next few hours until we were called for whatever we were needed for if we were that is.

…

And surely, a few hours later we were. Rias, Ravel and I were called by my Father for a family talk which I could only guess as catching up with everyone with the main pretense to talk about the Rating Game Raiser and I will have. I don't even have to hear Raiser's answer to know that it will happen. He is a smug bastard and always trying to beat me at every opportunity so he would take this up and probably do a prize for the winner on the off-chance he does actually win but probably one that'll mean he won't lose as much as he could potentially gain, in his eyes at least.

Upon entering the living area, I saw everyone was already here even Ruval-nii and Rynar-nii. I hadn't spoken to them since the wedding and I was happy to see them look at me with smiles on my entrance. As I sat down at the table with Rias on my right side away from Raiser, leaving Ravel to sit on my left side with a slight scowl.

"Reon, Raiser has agreed to the Rating Game between the two of you. It won't be a proper official one but Rynar has said he'll broadcast the battle on his station for some publicity."

Rynar-nii then let out a small smirk that was completely out of place on his usual stoic expression, he was never one for much emotion over than seriousness and tiredness.

"I can finally show everyone that I am Supreme. While we are at it why don't we make a wager? Piece for piece?"

"You do know that the person you are intending to try and take from me to spite me is worth four of your girls in the system?"

"And she is probably better than the four girls."

All I could really do was close my eyes in response to Raiser's point, not that it was really a decent one. I know i'm going to regret wagering Aika like this but I know I won't lose her and at least I can save one of the poor girls in his peerage.

"I will accept this wager then. So who are you offering in return for Aika?"

"You can have the two sets of twins, I guess. Who are you going to pick?"

He guesses? How much of a douche can he truly be? It's times like this that I question our relation to each other.

"Then I will take Ravel's attendant, Isabella, from you."

Isabella was one of Raiser's rooks. I don't know the story behind how he got her to joi his peerage but I do know that her past isn't a particularly great one and the promise that Raiser made was not one he intended to ever go through with as why should he? Her problem doesn't hamper her use to him so he doesn't have to take action. A whole load of bull to be brutally honest, the girl deserved to have the promise fulfilled and as his twin i'll hold up his end of the bargain. Whatever that is, i'll learn in time exactly but I can damn well guess and prepare.

With the finer details now sorted out the topic slowly changed to where I spoke with my brothers about how their lives were going and Rias would speak to Mother about how we were fairing together and if I was treating her properly as a man and her husband, of course the answer to that was a good one but like other men there were also bad points. Those being my tendency to sleep in random areas of the house, more often than not naked. Since sleeping in the same bed as an exhibitionist, I have somehow started to take my clothes off in my sleep.

At first I had thought the whole thing to be just Rias doing it when I was asleep but after my random naps I came to the true conclusion that I was doing it myself to be more comfortable when with Rias and it became a habit for my sleeping self. A strange habit but one nonetheless.

After that I returned to my room with Rias and let Zarroh out of my personal space to allow him to roam the halls freely and keep an eye on things.

Well there it all is folks. There is two more chapters left before we can begin the canon stuff from the story.
Even then the Canon stuff is going to be edited as Rias and Sona aren't the head of the area here, Reon is so things will change slightly.
The next chapter will be the Rating Game which has been done for a while, i've just been constantly making tweaks to it to see how it'll go.
Then the final chapter will deal with the aftermath of said Rating Game.

From the looks of my notes, the Rating Game is going to be considerably big in amount of words but it'll be in the sense of this story i guess.
I'm going to keep this story to having rather small chapters. Not through lack of anything but through simple choice.
The characters to each of my story are different but they all have a similar feel or inkling to them, one way i show the difference is the chapter lengths.
The reason for that is to show their takes on things. Some are quick to come to a decision while others taking everything in, and then there are the in between.

Hopefully you'll enjoy these two chapters as much as you can. Ciao.