Chapter IV: Threat

There was an incredible dark hallway, magnificently built, also highlighting decorations belonging to an upper class.

Although it looked like antique objects, its first-class quality was evident at a glance.

On the way down this hallway, an older important person was walking to go to his respective office, which was at the end of this gloomy dark hallway where there was nothing that illuminated.

Lord Astaroth for some reason was confused.

He even had a shiver running through his body.

He continued walking straight to his office without caring about the chill.

Once he reached the door of his office, he slowly brought his hand to the handle to enter his own office.

For some reason his hand was reluctant to turn the handle to enter.

As if he was afraid that something bad was going to happen to him when he opened the door.

He began to breathe slowly as he thought to himself that nothing bad was going to happen.

Until he decided to bravely move forward opening the door to see that there is nothing to fear inside his own office.

It was like another normal office highlighting its top quality decorations.

Looking around at the furniture, tables, coat rack, chairs, lamps, sofa, his desk, and his favorite armchair.

Where a dark silhouette with luminous red eyes sat.

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He had a sudden scare; he had not realized the presence of that mysterious being.

But he remembered forcibly again and seeing his memories at no time was that mysterious being located in his chair.

...Then he appeared just now while checking the surroundings of his office.

—Who the hell are you?!

He asked excitedly without hiding his fright at the mysterious being.

I end up surprising myself in return.

The mysterious being had disappeared.

—What the hell was that?

He tried to calm down while keeping an eye on his surroundings in case the dark silhouette magically appeared.

Killing Intent!

Lord Astaroth was frozen.

His body did not obey his mind. Even his mind went blank from the sudden pressure falling on his body.

He felt the edges of blades running through his entire body, he felt that if he took one step he would die instantly.

Right now, his life was in the hand of his predator.

I couldn't compete with him.

He began to get goosebumps as he looked askance to his right, seeing how the dark silhouette was slowly advancing in front of him.

He saw perfectly all that darkness in his "body" where he began to feel nauseous. That darkness gave off destructive emotions, bloodlust, murder, death, embezzlement madness, and more disgusting emotions that came from a monster that only likes to kill and see blood around him.

And his red eyes that glowed with a desire to fight and kill, looked with a repulsive desire to kill him.

It seemed like his life had come to an end today.

Right now, I can't kill you, but don't worry, I will surely come for your life; after all. You have clairvoyance magic that will be annoying in the future, for now enjoy your life that has already been told Lord Astaroth.

Without warning, a deep, monotonous voice was heard coming from the dark silhouette.

Just as it appeared it had immediately disappeared.

For now, his life was not in danger... or maybe not.

It seems that there is no escape and that his life will come to an end sooner than he had imagined...

Suddenly he felt like his body was being rocked by someone until he began to regain consciousness.

He was sitting in his chair and his upper body was lying on the desk on top of several documents that had information about his territory.

He realized very quickly that he had slept in his office.

He saw his son Diodora on his left side as he looked at him confused.

—Father, did something happen?

His son asked with a strange concern in his voice.

—Not because?

He calmly responded to his son.

—You look pale and also sweating.

His son said as he gave him a small mirror to see his face.

Where he was right.

He was pale and sweating profusely.

Until he remembered the "nightmare."

—Ha, ha, ha. —I laughed nervously as I adjusted my body on the couch. —It's nothing to worry about, I had a little nightmare, you can leave calmly.

Still with a worried look, Diodora agreed to his request and began to leave the office.

—Haa ~. What a strange nightmare I had...

Now he was in limbo, whether what he saw was a nightmare or something that happened in real life.

But seeing how he was sleeping in his office until he was woken up by his son.

I come to the correct conclusion that it was a nightmare.

But still a mystery remained.

How the hell do I get to him?

—At least it gave me an important clue. My clairvoyance is something that will bother him, and he will want to kill me... But who will it be?... I don't know anyone in my circles who will be bothered by my clairvoyance, haa ~ there are too many demons that maybe it will bother him, finding him is like a needle in a haystack.

He also began to leave his office to try to find help from someone else, he couldn't do this job alone.

His life was in a delicate balance, suspended between the threat of death and the uncertainty of tomorrow.

Several months later. —

He had spent the months where he had already turned 11 with Rias.

I had also already met my fiancee Ravel Phenex .

I can only say that she will become a beautiful woman in the future.

Phenex's mother.

He has an elegant way of acting. A woman who would attract a lot of attention from several men and even women.

Well, leaving that topic aside. I was training with Esdeath and even Rias.

I am happy that you have agreed to train with us.

After all... she didn't train much, she has great confidence in the destruction magic of the Bael lineage.

Hmm ...what can I say...is she stupid?

Although I feel bad for calling her that after all she is my precious sister, but she should learn things the hard way.

I entrusted Esdeath to fight Rias and destroy that confidence she had through destruction magic so that she would then take rigorous training to become strong.

The result of the combat?

A Rias trauma.

I had to be with her all the time and help her recover mentally and emotionally.

He didn't want to be near Esdeath for the world.

Something that drilled a lot of guilt into my head.

After all... I chose the wrong person to destroy Rias' trust.

Esdeath was a lover of fights and especially of playing with her enemy as if it were a scared mouse escaping from its predator.

Something that excited her.

I saw the fight that clearly wasn't a fight when you watched as Esdeath played with Rias destroying her psyche and heart. Esdeath's face showed a delighted amusement. And Rias 's face was the complete opposite...

Her eyes no longer showed life, it was just a face of terror and horror for the person in front of her who was having fun playing where she was clearly a scared little mouse escaping from her predator, which was Esdeath.

Rias screamed barely one word: "Stay away."

As if his life depended on a thread.

The whole fight was like that.

Where she hid and then screamed in fear: "Stay away."

After all, Esdeath found her easily as she approached her side very close to her ear to whisper: " Jijiji, I found you my little mouse."

With a gloomy voice.

It didn't help that it was night and a dark forest all empty where you could barely hear some sounds like the Owl and the wind in the human world.

...

It was a perfect place to shoot a horror movie, to be honest...

Yes... I think it was not a smart decision...

Next time I better decide the location and time for a fight.

I spent 3 months helping Rias in her recovery.

I was fighting with Mikoto-nii.

It was a 2 vs 1 fight, where Esdeath was my partner.

Where I have bad memories of her.

I still have nightmares about that night in the forest.

But it wasn't all bad, sometimes I go to Mikoto-nii's room to sleep because of the "nightmares" I have from time to time.

Sleeping with Mikoto-nii is very comforting and pleasant, I can feel tranquility and peace sleeping next to him, snuggling in his arm.

It was the best thing in the world for me.

Even though I was traumatized for 3 months.

Also, sometimes I hear that creepy laugh " Jijiji " tormenting my mind.

I get chills just remembering it.

Esdeath ultimately became the [Queen] of the Mikoto-nii peerage.

My father also told me that I had to start building my own peerage.

By fate or maybe my luck when I was walking with Mikoto-nii in the human world, I met the right person for my peerage where she ended up being my [Queen] and best friend.

Akeno Himejima.

A Fallen Angel hybridizes, with human blood from a Priestess.

Right now, she was at home doing... honestly, she had no idea, maybe receiving etiquette lessons on how a [Queen] of the Gremory Clan should behave.

I better stop thinking about anything else and focus on my confrontation.

¡Hahaha!

I find myself very excited.

Mikoto had become stronger, where I ended up becoming the [Queen] of her peerage.

Right now, we are in a 2 vs 1 fight where we are even losing.

Awesome!

I end up using some fighting techniques that I don't know, where I end up getting interested; I'll ask him later what his name is so I can train him too.

Rias 's wrist to throw her into the air and give her a spinning kick in the air with force and burying her in a gigantic rock where she was stuck like a pin.

I approached Mikoto to have the hand-to-hand confrontation.

All the fights we have are almost always hand-to-hand, leaving aside magic.

This type of fight is interesting, really.

Feeling the enemy's blood dripping onto my skin fills me with a euphoric emotion.

¡Crack!

I received a strong punch from Mikoto in the face with my body falling to the rocky ground hard where it began to crack behind my head.

I could feel blood coming out of my nose, I think I received a strong stimulus to my head causing a nosebleed.

Mikoto hadn't stopped, she grabbed the ankles of my legs to raise me up and lower myself down hard to hit my body with the rocky ground.

Now I felt the blood rushing to my head from the frenetic movements up and down to end up hitting the ground.

Aaahhh, I feel like I'm going to faint.

Mikoto kept using my body like a rag hitting the ground until she stopped and threw my body into the air.

Oh shit.

As I fell, I looked at Mikoto making a stance to prepare her right leg to hit me... this will be painful.

Contrary to what I had thought, Mikoto did not attack me with her leg; He advanced with his left elbow where it connected with my solar plexus.

This was just as painful.

It's the last thing I thought until I passed out.

Ufff...

It was a good fight.

I thought that while looking at the fainted bodies of Rias and Esdeath.

Well maybe for them it wasn't a good fight.

I grabbed the body of each one and began to carry them like a sack of potatoes, it's time to return home; In addition, they will need a good rest to recover.

I began to open a portal to get home quickly and leave them in the care of the servants.

After that I started heading towards the bathroom, my body needed a refreshing shower.

"You seriously have a drastic growth."

Said a voice in my head.

—I suppose you're right, but it's still not enough; I have bruises and small wounds all over my body, so metaphorically speaking I still need to grow.

I answered him while I looked in the bathroom mirror at my entire bruised body, I still needed more training if I don't want to have difficulties in a fight to the death.

I started to undress and went to a shower to wet my entire bruised body to clean my body.

After that I headed to the large bathtub that looks like a thermal bath to finally bathe in the hot water.

As I relaxed from bathing I spoke with the voice in my head.

He appeared before me last month in a dream, he introduced himself as: Sengo Muramasa.

He also said something chilling that made my blood run cold.

The katana that I had obtained from killing the demon that almost killed Elisa-san was in the possession of my older brother Sirzechs.

But for some strange reason he had been easily stolen by that demon and then escaped.

Something in my head was alarmed about imminent danger.

As if everything had been meticulously planned by someone. For the katana to fall into my possession, I even thought that my brother was the mastermind until I discarded that idea, I remembered his surprised face at how the hell I had the katana in my hand.

... Or maybe he's really good at acting and I ate his show...

Put those thoughts aside, I don't need to worry about the smallest details forever.

Remembering the time, he showed up, my head had made a clip, as if I was already one step away from remembering who I am. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't remember anything, so I got the idea that Sengo Muramasa was not the name I was looking for, but it was the closest to my past, something incredibly rare, it was like seeing something, but at the same time not seeing it.

As if my psyche was playing a trick on me to screw me.

I put those thoughts aside for now and focused on relaxing in the bath while chatting with Sengo Muramasa.

Some days after. —

I was in Elisa-san's dining room having... a date?... I think so, with my fiancee Ravel Phenex.

—She is a girl.

I said that to Elisa-san while furrowing my scolding brows so that she doesn't make the same mistake from the past again.

—I know... don't worry, I won't throw the glass of juice on his precious clothes.

She said with an unheard of low tone as she headed to the kitchen, the first time I brought Ravel Phenex to Elisa-san's dining room, I had been harassed? by Elisa-san's actions; Her emotions took over her, causing her to lose her morality, where she pretended to fall on purpose so that the glass of juice fell on Ravel, obstructing our meeting, where she ended up leaving.

I had gotten angry at her for her actions.

He only answered that his jealousy worked against him.

I was blank at that moment, but I still responded: "Are you jealous of a girl?"

"You don't understand because you're not in love!" That's what he answered me.

Maybe you're right. I am not in love with anyone and not with Elisa-san, she is dear to me as a friend and my caregiver.

So, she couldn't be jealous even if some man wanted to make a move on her, she just let it go; It wasn't my problem anyway.

But it also worked against me, receiving an angry look from Elisa-san.

Had he already said that he wasn't in love with Elisa-san?

—It's been a while since we met Mikoto-sama.

Ravel said, interrupting my monologue.

She behaved like a refined young lady with elegant movements.

He sure got a lot of etiquette training.

The truth is I didn't care about the labels, but I still behaved politely.

It was already ingrained into my being.

—Two months passed; I don't think it's a long time really; but still thank you for accepting my invitation to come to a place of an unfortunate incident in the past.

I began to speak in a moderate tone.

—Don't worry Mikoto-sama, maybe it was a small mistake caused by Lady Elisa.

I wish you hadn't said that word with venom at the end to Elisa-san, I really don't want to be caught in a women's fight.

Elisa-san had heard what Ravel said, a small vein could be seen on her forehead while she was preparing the plates of food.

—Mikoto -sama, you must know about the upcoming meeting of all the heirs of the important clans. Is Mikoto-sama going to attend the meeting?

Ravel asked for an important meeting to formalize a presentation of all the important heirs of each Clan. The truth is that I was thinking of not going, but for obvious reasons of being the next heir of the Gremory Clan, I had an obligation to attend said meeting.

—Haah ~. I think so, I am obliged to participate in this meeting, well; I will not be able to see you at that meeting. I would seriously like to talk to you because I am sure that I would be bored without your precious presence. You are like a beautiful relaxing and calm lotus flower in a lake where you will always attract my attention even on such a tragic day for me.

I ended up smiling at the end of saying my words, being with Ravel was relaxing.

It seems that my words affected something in her, you could see small blushes on her delicate cheeks.

—There is no need to worry Mikoto-sama, we non-inheritors are also going to participate in the meeting to also socialize with the children of other clans and perhaps formalize a friendship. —he said while looking away a little so as not to look at me.

She was embarrassed.

I should be more careful with my words, the truth is I don't want her to fall in love with me, I would like to have a great friendship with her.

¡Shhhhhhh!

I received a chill on my back where Elisa-san had brought the plates of food.

You could see a solemn darkness in his features as he looked at me.

You never said those types of phrases to me.

Elisa-san said with severe anger and hatred.

—For me Elisa-san is a very funny person.

That doesn't make me happy.

He left once, leaving our plates of food.

I think I'll need to calm her down and see how I can improve her mood.

I thought nervously.

—Ha, ha, ha. I think it will be better to eat before the food gets cold because of the icy atmosphere that Elisa-san gives off.

—Understood Mikoto-sama.

We proceeded to eat while feeling the icy atmosphere of Elisa-san.

I think if she is too angry.

I'll see how I handle it later.

I regret my decision.

The next day after the date with Ravel.

Elisa-san ended up making me wear a waiter's outfit... but that wasn't the only thing...

I had cat ears and also a strap on my hip that had a cat tail.

Now I find myself working in the dining room attracting the attention of many people which includes more women, they seemed hungry for some strange reason; my body felt many chills as if my purity had been desecrated again and again.

A very strange request to make Elisa-san happy.

I'll be more careful next time.

I don't want to know what Elisa-san can ask for as a reward to improve her mood because of me.

I better continue doing my job, I don't want to crush my mind with possibilities that I wouldn't like to think about from Elisa-san.

Sirzechs Office. —

A strange panorama was observed inside Sirzechs' office, as if a hurricane had devastated the entire room.

A kneeling Sirzechs was on the floor, but he was not injured.

But I was sweating cold.

In that you can see a beautiful albino teenager with blood red eyes dressed elegantly with: a loose white blouse, a black lace skirt placed under her chest that reached to her knees, a small plain black cape on her shoulders held by a small hook, it has a black tie bow adorned with a golden chain in the shape of a bat where the tips of the wings at the bottom had a cross in each corner, this was on the second button of her blouse; in her left ear she also has a cross earring.

This beautiful albino looked down on Sirzechs as if he were not someone important in the underworld.

But he showed a cocky smile and near his thin lips was a stain of blood.

Looking closely at Sirzechs, who had his left hand covering something on his neck, where you could see a small trail of blood coming out of two small holes as if someone had made them with small needles.

But looking back at the albino teenager on her lips, it was most likely that she was the culprit of making those holes in Sirzechs' neck.

Smiling slightly, he could see his fangs.

A vampire in the underworld?

And he finds himself in front of Sirzechs who was in a bad state emotionally.

Without warning the albino woman began to speak.

—What I just did is give you a little extra to make you stronger, right now you must make an effort to control it for your benefit if you want to get stronger.

—Why do you do it?! —Screamed a hysterical Sirzechs.

— Fufufu, very easy; Much to my father's amusement, he is a battle maniac, but he also likes to make his opponents stronger; It would be boring for him to have a battle where it would be easy for him to win. So, I'm giving a little help, he will surely make his own moves later, he likes to be a puppeteer while looking for enemies with greater potential.

—Your father?!

—Fufufu, you don't need to know who he is; he will surely introduce himself in the future.

Sirzechs did not understand anything, he could not visualize what she was thinking since he met her; She only knew that she was afraid of him, even a Maou like him who is considered the strongest in the Underworld, could not stand up to her.

—Oh, by the way, I recommend that you stabilize that extra power quickly, or you will become a monster without thinking, you may kill your own family; I'm pretty sure you don't want to do that. Remember that this little gift was for "that".

As she finished saying that the albino made a small turn, showing her back, revealing something written on the back of the small cape where she had a print written 「恶」 (Evil), she had instantly disappeared from Sirzechs' sight as if she had never been there. In front of him, there was no trace of magic in the air.

His abilities are to be feared, thought Sirzechs.

Then he quickly remembered what the albino said about "that."

He collapsed to the ground feeling desperate.

Now he was fearing for his family's future.

He knew perfectly well what he was talking about since he was the one who had let that demon escape so that the katana could reach his little brother, Mikoto.

Now the katana was a bad omen.

Mikoto 's hands, his life is also at the albino's mercy, one wrong move and his heart could be crushed.

He could only cry out of helplessness, that she had met him was a bad move of fate.

For now, he must obey her order, he needed to stabilize the extra that she had given him, he was dying inside and losing his sanity, as she had told him he will become a monster.

It was a tragic night for Sirzechs as he struggled to control himself and take control of a new force for him, and the uncertainty of what could happen in the future.

As a strange transparent dome slowly faded from his office, he began to hear the noises coming from outside the place he was enclosed.

He began to leave while he was in bad condition, he needed to warn the other Maous, the girl did not forbid him from doing so, she only had the order that she would not take Mikoto 's katana; but he also feared why he so wanted Mikoto to get the katana, an answer that he will have to look for another time.

For now he needed to become stronger together with the Maous and explain the entire situation to them for what may come in the future, he no longer had an enemy like the old faction; there was another monster that could easily wipe out the underworld and he needed more forces to counter it or even if he is lucky to kill her so that the underworld would be at peace.

She was a very big threat.

Hello, finally the long-promised chapter that I had said in Restarting that I was going to do, for now I think I'm going to finally advance the first part that I had in mind, but the girl you saw at the end hadn't really thought about it, well, well If he were a vampire, I really didn't have it in mind, but if I had planned for him to appear in a future chapter, I'll see how I can finish the first part that I want to get to with young Mikoto (Muramasa).

Well, I say goodbye, one day I will release another chapter, bye.