Paracelsus von Hohenheim, nowadays simply known as Paul, woke up with a familiar headache. It was the kind he would get whenever he pulled an all nighter using magic almost constantly. He hadn't had one since that day he had to perform a rather extensive surgery on one of his students who thought that swallowing a gem imbued with curse magecraft made specifically to cause laceration was a good idea.

Kids were dumb.

"Not bad for a first try."

"It's literally falling apart." And the voices of his new master and the girl who was likely his paramour didn't help his headache at all.

And neither did the sight of a zombie that was literally falling apart being the first thing he saw after opening his eyes.

"Master, do excuse my french, but why the fuck is there a zombie in our living room?"

"Aika is learning necromancy. She has talent for it."

"The why is miss Aika learning necromancy in our living room?" He asked once more, not sure how to deal with the situation.

"Cause if she learned it outside, people would have seen it and panicked." His master replied cheekily while Aika laughed from beside him.

Vinci had been right. Some days, it just wasn't worth getting up from the bed. Or from the couch.

Seems Paul decided to go back to sleep. I did have him work far too hard yesterday so I guess he deserves it.

Aika was making pretty damn good progress. Sure the zombie was falling apart but this was literally her first undead minion. Not to mention it was made out of zombie flesh rather than an actual corpse so it being less than perfect wasn't that much of stretch.

As far as I could see Aika's magic worked kinda like the magic from Overlord. Rather than simply the pieces of meat coming together, a blackish purple sludge gathered up the parts and turned into an undead monster. It was kinda gross but also pretty damn cool. They even came with weapons somehow even though there weren't materials to make a weapon among the flesh.

"Is it really ok for me to learn this though?"

"Aika we talked about this, it's cool and it does not make you a villain to have magic like this."

"No, I mean, we will be getting a roommate who is a nun aren't we? Wouldn't this make her uncomfortable?" Aika… actually asked a pretty good question. A question I couldn't answer with certainty.

From what I knew of Asia she definitely would be scared of undead monsters at the start but she could keep being afraid of them or start treating them like pets, making them accessories and other similar stuff. Both options seemed possible.

"I think… I think the problem most people have against necromancy is that bringing back the dead is unnatural and shouldn't be done kind of a thing. What you are doing is somewhat closer to flesh craft, still a bit disturbing but it shouldn't be much of a problem." I hoped.

"I swear on Father's dead body if you leave me with your paperwork again, I will start a coup!" Azazel's trusty sidekick Shemhazai joked.

"And I am not joking!"

Gosh, if he knew his old friend would have gotten this mad he would have skipped out on work far earlier. He always looked funny when his face turned angry red. It contrasted with his white hair and purple beret.

Oh boy he forgot that he was supposed to convince Shem to stop wearing that thing. He promised his old friend's wife.

"Are you listening to me?" Shemhazai asked, looking too tired to even scream anymore.

"Yeah yeah, no more skipping out on the work." Azazel waved his friend's worries away. Honestly they all knew him, they should have known he would skip out on work before they put him in charge.

"Why did you leave anyway? Other than for lazing around."

"I met Samson's descendant."

"Donkey Jaw Bone Samson, huh. Didn't know he had any."

"He does, he is in Kuoh."

"Do we have any agents near there?"

"We had four, but turns out they were dumbasses who attack humans randomly and got beaten up by Cyrus. He is the Samson's descendant by the way."

"WHAT?! Why is this the first time I'm hearing this?!"

"We learned it from Serafall yesterday when she called to inform us."

"You mean 'gloat'."

"Yeah, and you had a day off yesterday so I didn't want to trouble you."

"Well that's nice of you." Shemhazai said, happy to see that the Governor General could think of his subordinates sometimes.

"Also because I knew your reaction would be hilarious if you learned it like this."

"AZAZEL!"

"So, do you see any loopholes we can use in order to cancel this engagement or at least help Rias when things go wrong?" I asked Paul who had finally decided to wake up and get off the couch.

"Well, nothing that can cancel the engagement, not even a virginity clause. I guess they are devils alright." The genius magus muttered as he kept reading through the document.

"Still can't believe that Gremory-senpai is engaged. And to someone she hates." Aika said while trying to create a stronger variety of undead monster. She was kinda distraught that her first creations got one shotted by me.

"She probably doesn't really hate the guy but hates the situation and is projecting it all on the guy." I said with a shrug. Sure the fanfic writers tended to make Riser Phenex out to be a real douche but honestly as far as an average devil goes, he wasn't that bad.

Honestly out of all the pure blooded devil boys we were shown he was the best choice when it came to personality except for Sairaorg but the muscular devil was not only Rias' cousin but also didn't have his clan's power so they probably saw him as 'defective' as far as a contract that's purpose was for an offspring that would have ridiculous powers.

"Hmm, I think I may have found something. But I'm not sure." Paul said before explaining it to me.