I'm kinda wondering, am i the only guy who sees a sense of decency to Raiser?

The morning after my spar with Raiser's peerage I found myself in an odd situation as we stood in the front hall of Raiser's castle. Rias and her peerage stood off to the side in wait, both Rias and Koneko wore slight smiles at the moment that unravelled before their eyes. The sight that was in front of them was me with a completely deadpanned expression facing Ravel, who had quite literally blown her casket, fuming and puffing her cheeks out as she stood in between her, soon to be our I guess, mother and father. They had just told her that I would be given a week by myself to accustom myself because after that week I would have to live with her.

This all did come after having to do Raiser a favour, and in turn Rias one. The pulling out of the spare pawn pieces in Issei. Issei himself would only have taken up 1 and Ddraig was essentially the other 7 so without Ddraig Issei was only worth the one piece so I was asked to take out the other pieces using Senjutsuu. The problem there being that I couldn't pull out all 7, only 6. The reason for that being that Rias had undone a seal before the Rating Game with Raiser and thus had clung itself to Issei and was now a portion of his power. At the level I was at, there was no way I could pull it out safely. Worst case scenario he would die, best case scenario would be an eternal loss of some muscle. That was something Twilight Healing could not correct or heal.

"Gin-kun, surely you can hold a better appearance. She is your fiancée now."

Lady Phoenix spoke to me with a small sigh. I had only had a single meeting with them after all, they are still getting used to how I deal with things.

"Hmm … while that is true, I didn't think she would react to a simple week as a baby or perhaps even a toddler would when their favourite toy is taken away from then. Rather, with that thought in mind you should be happy that i'm not wearing a worse expression."

I just said it as it was back to Lady Phoenix, i'm not gonna hold anything back. If they are going to be counting me as family then they'll have to put up with how I treat family. Equals but not safe from my bluntness.

My bluntness though was able to quell Ravel's outburst even more than their restraining of her. She had now taken to a slightly sad look, not that i'd hurt her but in the point that she regretted what she had done. Taken it as she'd hurt me I suspect.

"No, actually, most of it is that I don't see why. Did Azazel really portray me as that great a person in the manga? I don't see how a simple attachment to a character could turn out like this on the person the character was based on. I'm cold and calculative."

While my point was rhetorical, it seemed that people still desired to answer it.

"Mou~~ Gin-nya, it's your cold exterior that makes it worth while. The smallest warmth from someone like you is amplified because of it. Don't forget that you are part-kitty."

"Gin-sama, don't forget that your character is the reason that Azazel-sama's manga became the most popular out there and the fact that agencies came at him left and right to get your personal info. Not just for Voice Acting but for many other things, the face of certain brands, good will things like visiting children in hospital, even those modelling jobs you dislike so much."

Tch … those modelling jobs can go to hell. Why should I be the face of western clothing in Japan?! Just get a bloody westerner to do it, I understand that it's for appealing to the Japanese public through using someone of Japanese descent to show how it looks but still. Use someone else or just take pictures of me when i'm out and about. Posing for pictures is just pointless. Paying me for standing in weird ways? You are just being paid to improve your balance and sensitivity to camera flashes.

"I still don't like any of that shit. Really though, I know I agreed due to my inability to care about the small print but he knew about my circumstances and to make a popular manga about a Nekoshou? Azazel is off his rocker. You get as much good as you do bad from the guy."

Azazel truly is an enigma to everyone in the world. I've heard that even Shemhaza, the Vice-Governor, understands Azazel about as much as everyone else does. They even practically fell together, two of the first to fall as well. It's a little incomprehensible how truly odd Azazel is and to think he just takes it all with a dumb smile on his face. So many times I have seen that smile and each and every time it makes me want to shave that dumb ass goatee.

"No … let's just leave it at that. Can we go now? I've already prepared myself for what my new home looks like. I wanna get my brief bout of depression over with and outta the way so I can start relishing on being a pure Nekoshou again. Asa-kun, how many bedrooms did you say there were again?"

"One!"

I hung my head in depression, strangely more so at his happy tone when he said the dreadful number. Though really I should have seen that coming. Turning round to Asahi I could see the large foxy grin on his face.

"And you are so happy about it being one why?"

"Because you'll sneak into my bed when you see the room's colour and what's on the bed."

I deadpanned again and yet again it was more towards Asahi and his interests here.

"Why the hell would I sneak into your bed? I'd either hit the sofa or sneak into Raynare's. Do I really need to bring up your engagement to the Kyuubi princess to get you off my back all the time?"

"Mou~~ Gin-nya, you told me you'd stop bringing that up."

"And I've asked you before to stop making our relationship into a Yaoi one. You ain't stopped that."

"..Kyuubi Princess?"

Ah … I forgot there were others here.

"As Asahi is one of the few male Kyuubis left in the world, he has a small obligation to the Kyoto Youkai faction. Couple that with the fact he is half Fallen Angel and you get a really strong piece to unite the Youkai and the Fallen Angels. On top of that he is also the descendant of Amaterasu, the Goddess who created the original Kyuubi Tamamo-no-mae. Put it all together and you get Asahi. An idiot who is worshipped by Kyoto meaning any child from him is bound to be immensely powerful even with him being as weak as he is. Additionally, the Kyuubi Queen has always been a family line much like Royalty normally is. They are all descendants of Tamamo-no-mae. The current Kyuubi Queen, Yasaka, is the strongest Kyuubi to date who is Ultimate-class level meaning the Kyuubi Princess also has that potential. A child from the Kyuubi Princess and the idiot has the potential to be as strong as Sirzechs Lucifer or Ajuka Beelzebub."

It's why I get annoyed at how Asahi acts at times but also why I appreciate it and respect him for it. He is making the most out of his life before he has to fulfil that responsibility, another reason why we will have to be very careful when we destroy the reincarnated portion of his body later on.

From birth he has had the Kyoto Youkai Faction behind him. A simple attempt on his life would spring them into action, they would start a war over it. He is a political time bomb in all honesty and much more important than you'd truly guess from how he acts.

That all started to hit home for everyone here, even the usually smug Raiser took on a surprised expression. Even though he is technically Ravel's bishop their hold over him is not one that's 100%, they can't afford to completely restrict him because it would mean a war between Youkai and Phoenix. Youkai and our Senjutsuu is the Phoenix clan's most fearful enemy, even surpassing Angels and Fallen Angels simply because we can destroy what makes them stand out and prosper.

"Mou~~ Gin-nya, you could have praised me a bit more."

"Why the heck would I do that? You are an impulsive idiot who is engaged to a girl 7 years younger than himself."

"I can't help that fact. What about you? Yours is younger too."

"By a single year Asa-kun, society nowadays sees that as a norm. Heck, 3 or 4 years aint that bad. Take solace in it though Asa-kun, our fiancées are both Blonde-haired Ojou-samas."

He seemed to be relieved by that fact, more than you'd guess. His infatuation with me, while joking on the most part is more than just typical friendship. It's definitely different from a brotherly relationship, it's kinda like we are partners and I don't mean the working kind because we already are that. We are the two Youkai of Grigori after all.

"Hmm hmm~~ You are right. Two beautiful blonde Ojou-samas. How could I have forgotten that fact? Oh woe is me. I truly am ashamed of myself."

Yep. He's just an idiot.

…

Once Asahi had finished spewing nonsense, we had finally teleported back into the human world and it's fresh air. While modern society and it's Global Warming sauntered about, the air was still much, much fresher than the pungent and vile air that the Underworld possesses.

We arrived in the lobby of the hotel rather than in a particular room of it. The reason for that was so I could accustom myself to it while Asahi and Raynare went to see Azazel in the basement which was multiple floors for just him. The top basement floor was his actual room which had a loop effect to a door on the fourth floor. Then the next floor was a purely research based floor with books and then however many beneath it was for his experiments to take place, according to Raynare and the map there was 3 floors but I had a distinct feeling that there was more.

After signing in and getting my key from the Fallen attendant of the hotel, I took a look at the small map that was here. Looking at it I could tell that typical names for suites and whatnot would not fit here, merely because it was all messed about with by magic. Originally this hotel had been lobby plus ten floors but now it had a floating effect at the tenth floor through illusion magic and now actually had five floors above the original ten.

The first 9 floors would be for whatever humans wanted to stay here. The tenth floor was completely changed so it was a whole floor for just me and Ravel. While that actually has a name, I don't know of it but I do know they have a huge balcony and window to see out on the surrounding area. This didn't have that, the walls and construct had stayed the same. The floor had just been changed somewhat to accommodate. Floors 11-15 would be for Ravel's future peerage, each member getting half a floor to themselves with the rooms that remained being for whatever supernatural being that stayed in the area. We only needed four floors max for the remainder of Ravel's peerage anyway.

Riding the elevator up to the floor that would be my new home, my brain started to bring Asahi's reaction back when I asked him about how many bedrooms there were and when the door opened I understood why. It wasn't that there was one bedroom, it was that it was just one big room. No walls or partitions to differentiate anything, only four thin pillars for construction sake.

The description of the room was pretty simple. It was the room of a young princess who had a liking for the colour, light pink. The room, as lavishly noble as it was, was full with things that were pink in colour even if it was infused with or overshadowed by things that were silver, obviously in response to me living here too. With nobles, you'd usually see a deep purple with gold trim as it was the metal of nobles but here it was a light pink with a silver trim. While the silver actually gave quite a cool look to the room, it was obviously downplayed by the light pink which was scattered around the room. Not that I thought it was bad, it wasn't. Whoever had decorated the room did it pretty damn well but the pink itself just implied the other tenant of this floor.

Looking through the apartment, I could see that absolutely nothing was skimped out on. The pantry though was the best in my opinion along with the rest of the kitchen area in fact. As long as it could be used in cooking it was there, that was done through having small containers that acted like portals to external dimensions where the ingredients were kept fresh. Each container had a small stamp or label to say what it lead to. There was even a fresh line of different kinds of milkshake for me, there was even all kinds of sweets and cream to go with my hot chocolate. I was pretty happy with this outcome and from the note that I found on top of one of the counters, they'd be restocked every week so I wouldn't have to worry about having to restock it myself. Plus we'd never run out in that week unless we went insane on something.

In my opinion, that more than made up for the array of pink throughout the room. Then the rest of the room is kinda what you'd expect, just the everyday things that have kinda become essentials. Tv, Computer, Books, board games, chess table. You know, all the things normal people enjoy.

This all leads me to the bed itself. Backed into the far right corner of the room, it just sat there with a thin oak canopy over the top of it. Small pink curtains just fell off the top creating wave-like arcs to run around the top. 4 white cushions and a white duvet lay spread over the top of the bed. Finally on top of the bed was an array of stuffed animals, one in particular stood out. Rather than a typical stuffed animal, this was a plushy. What stood out about it though was that it was a cat with silver fur, icy blue tufts on it's ears and tail. Around it's neck was a small orange collar with the phoenix crest dangling from it. Everything on it was too precise to be just picked out from a store, aside from that I had seen one identical to it except that it had an ice blue collar on it. That sat on Azazel's desk in the family restaurant next to a nine-tailed fox with 9 auburn tails. This one was either a replica or the real thing. I'm not sure that I actually want to know which one it is.

The rest of the day passed by very smoothly. The reason being that the bed was impeccable, it was even softer than the sofa Rias got me for the clubroom. I fell asleep instantly curled up in a ball.

…

First proper day back and it was one I didn't have to work, supposedly for reasons keeping me close to Rias. I do have an inkling that my free days from work is to stay in the Occult club room, i'll take it as Raiser being a little paranoid that Rias might try to do something of some sort. The only thing that could differ is her virginity so I guess that would be it. Not that she'd lose it unless through being pretty desperate.

And so to kick off the first day in this life back as a pure Nekoshou I got to the clubroom first after being forced into a hug by Asahi in front of the class. Damn his blood as an Amaterasu meaning he is always warm and radiates it too. Upon entering the clubroom I could see that it was altered, that mainly being it doubled in size with some for furniture lying around. With 6 pawns back to Rias she'll have to get much more members than the remaining Knight and Rook so there'd have to be more chairs.

Luckily though, my sofa was still there in the corner with the mini-fridge right next to it. With everything that I cared for still in the room, I lay myself down on the sofa and waited for everyone else as today was gonna be a day to welcome more people. From what I knew, 3 of the remaining pawns would be taken up today but I had a feeling that there would be more today and that feeling wasn't a very good one.

The others then filtered into the room quietly, the silence turning a little odd as they noticed me lying there in the corner. While they didn't hate me, their was still a bit of animosity because of how everything went down. I was completely entitled to do what I did after all. The two members who didn't arrive with the rest was Issei and Asia, their arrival came a few minutes after everyone had settled down into their usual habits. Koneko eating some sweets, Akeno passing out some tea, Rias doing whatever she normally does and Kiba stood off to the side thinking about Bishounen things I guess.

Knock Knock

"Come in!"

When the door opened I saw 7 people enter. Issei and Asia came in first, going straight to one of the spare sofas and sitting down next to each other. The remaining 5 took a few steps in closing the door after themselves and instantly I learned why I had a strange feeling.

The remaining two thirds of the perverted trio were here along with the lone female perv, Kiriyuu Aika and the Kendo duo Murayama and Katase. Putting it simply, some people I didn't care about from my class. Happily, on my part, they didn't notice me lying around in the corner.

Still though, why is she just going for numbers and why the pervs? I know the female perv is Asia's friend but the other two are widely hated. The beatings they get for peeping is gonna be so much worse if they accept to join. Thinking about it, I remember seeing in the contract that Raiser signed with Azazel that all the girls aren't to be touched by Raiser, only Rias was for him to do sexual things unless the other girls wanted to join in for some reason. Bringing that up, Azazel left me a recording of the meeting itself and Raiser looked pretty pasty for the most of it, all up until they started to talk about harems and that talk was nearly double the length of the meeting and drawing a mock-up of the contract. I'm disappointed with myself for actually watching all the way through it.

"You five, I asked for you to come here as I have a proposition for you. Boys, I know from Issei that you have already accepted so it's up to the remaining three girls."

I saw the perverted grins that came up on the boys faces as they stood just behind the girls. It seems that Issei's goals were exactly the same for these guys. Poor virgins.

"Will you join my peerage? As my servants and as devils?"

The three girls widened their eyes and from what I could tell of the amused look on Akeno's face, all three did so at the same time. The Kendo duo then turned to Kiba as Aika put her hand on her chin. Kiba waved to the two girls but pointing towards me in the corner, something which the two pervs caught onto as well. I just lazily waved back in response.

Those two replied pretty damn quickly after seeing the combination of me and Kiba in the room, they both gave a very strong 'Yes'.

That left just Aika, who turned straight to me. While she was a perv, she was actually the only human girl who didn't fawn over Kiba. I don't know the exact reason why but according to her supposed ability to see the size of a guy's dick that might be the reason why. If that's the case though then all Kiba has is looks. From the looks of things, her only reasons to join would be Asia and me. If I am a reason then it would be best for her to wait for Ravel but I can definitely see Ravel denying that chance, still though i'm not gonna bother mentioning.

"Yes."

Aika's yes wasn't anywhere near as strong as the Kendo duo's but it did have a sense of not being conflicted. It was a safe yes but not completely confident i'd guess.

The reincarnation all went as expected, the five of them all cost 1 Pawn each. They were all knocked out by the process too, the sudden change from human to trash must have been horrifying. This in all left Rias with a simple pawn left and a sense of relaxation. The Kendo duo both have sword training already so they'll be better than Issei even with the training he had for the Rating Game. All in all though, they aren't numbers that can rival Raiser's numbers. Discounting a few of them, some of his pawns were undoubtedly battle-ready before they joined.

Thinking about it, how strong could they possibly get by the summer for the Rating Games? How strong would their teamwork be? It'll be fun to watch their failed attempts at progress. Hopefully I can make the most of this free week.

Another pure info chapter, not to this story alone though.
I thought i should bring in quite a few more characters while leaving out Sacred Gears.
Honestly, they are too finicky at times and i'm already coming up with ideas.

The three girls have all been used before, I know as I've used the three myself but not the guys.
That though is for obvious reasons, they are just pure perverts but perverts with the same goal as Issei.
With that in mind, tell them that and they'll say yes. Well, they also get to be in the ORC so they won't complain.
Plus Matsuda is a loli lover so he gets to see Koneko everyday, that's bound to also be about Ravel as well in time.
Heck, i can even think of the possibility with him fawning over Ophis when she appears.

This is in turn to make up for the loss of Issei's power because even with it he'll still treasure his comrades, he just can't really do much about it this time.
So to keep his exposure up, his perverted gallivanting will be there.
Not too sure how I will do them to try and improve on what's already there but i'll try.

Ciao-nya.