Story 8: The Red Head System
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Chapter 3: The Bully Returns.
- Flinn -
I looked at the four in the room and noticed a chessboard in between the two kings.
Really, some things never change.
"Yes, Mr. Uzumaki. How can I help you?" Sona asked, straightening her glasses… which she didn't need.
Fetish?
I looked at her Queen… who was also wearing glasses. Yeah maybe.
"I am here to submit my application for a new Club." I handed her the form.
She looked at the form and took a few moments to read.
"A Games Club. But we already have clubs for all kinds of games in Kuoh Academy." She asked, confused.
"I am talking about a Video Games Club." I clarified.
Her eyes sharpened. "Video Games? Are you really asking me for permission for a club which serves no use or gives no advantage to the students? I am afraid I will have to decline."
… Useless?
Did this bitc…*cough* just call Video Games useless?
I'll have to say that even with my infinite patience and wisdom, I was caught off guard. But… this heresy cannot be tolerated. Not even when heresy is kinda our thing… being a devil and all.
"How can you say that, Miss President? Video Games are not useless. The benefits of video games include improved powers of concentration, creativity, memory, languages and teamwork. Each of these qualities is extremely beneficial for a student or even an adult. Not to mention, it motivates students to go into different fields like game designing, script writing and even voice acting later on in their lives. Many games might not seem like it but they teach us extremely useful skills which give us a much more overall development than any other indoor games like say… chess." Suck on that.
As expected, her eyes sharpened at the mention of her favourite game.
"Mr. Uzumaki, are you comparing Video Games to something age old and refined like chess?"
"Old doesn't necessarily mean better. If that was true, we would be using stone tablets for writing and not electronic ones. We must change and adapt with time so we don't get left behind." I countered back.
She tried looking menacing. It didn't work. I had too many memories of the same face crying after losing to me. Using that look just didn't have the same effect.
"In that case, how about a game of chess? If you can beat me in a game, I will agree to your request." She adjusted her glasses for the second time in the last five minutes. Really, get one of the right size.
She looked back at Rias. "I'm going to have to continue this game in a while. It won't take much time."
….
Oh, I am so going to crush you. And since it was her who started this, I won't feel bad about it either.
So I turned towards Rias and smiled. "Yes. Five minutes will be enough."
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….
The room descended into a pin drop silence and I was sure I felt a bit of demonic power fluctuate from Sona. Akeno on the other hand giggled openly.
"Excuse me." She asked, frigidly. Ah. Hurts doesn't it.
"What I meant was, let's make it a timed game. I am sure as a Student Council President, you have better things to do than play chess with any student who comes to you for help. A five minute game should be good enough to decide who wins. After all, I wouldn't want to keep Gremory-senpai waiting."
She looked a bit assuaged by it.
Her Queen placed a clock on the side of the table.
I went for the white piece as I made myself comfortable in the chair. "So, when I win, I can open the Games Club, right?" I asked as I arranged the pieces.
"If you win." The stress that she put on the word 'if' would have crushed it into diamonds had it been carbon.
Really, this girl needs to chill out a little. Go out and actually play for fun sometimes.
"Hmm sure."
- A Few Minutes Later -
I looked at the board, a bit surprised. "Huh, it took 4 minutes and 39 seconds. Longer than I expected." I whispered.
I quickly tried to correct my words but looked at Sona who was looking at the board as if in shock.
Really, was it that surprising to lose in a game?
That Magical Girl Menace was really over protective of her. She needed to experience more if she was this shocked with just a simple loss.
"H-how." She whispered. Then as if she thought of something, she looked up again. "A rematch."
"Huh?"
"I want a rematch."
….
"I think we agreed to one game and I won. Am I getting to start the Games' Club or not?" I asked.
Like hell I was going to sit here and play with her because she wanted to.
I mean sure being here would give me the chance to be together with the younger self of Onee-chan and see how she was when she was young but not like this.
She picked up the papers with the request for the Games Club and signed it. "Here. now, rematch."
….
This girl was too rude.
"Why?"
"Excuse me?"
"I mean why should I play you. I don't want to?" I asked.
She seemed genuinely confused by this. Was it that strange?
So I put things into words for her to understand. "You see, Miss President, my Onee-chan has taught me that if I am good at something, I shouldn't do it for free." My eyes flickered at the crimson haired girl sitting beside me before returning back to Sona. "I was getting something a while ago so I played with you. Why should I play with you again? What's in it for me?" I smiled.
She gritted her teeth. "What do you want?"
Hook, line and sinker.
"A game. I will play you in a game of your choice so you do the same. Play and defeat me in a video game of my choice." I smiled. "Only seems fair, right? I mean it will even give you a chance to see how much we can learn from video games."
Her expressions relaxed a little at my demand. "Agreed." She nodded.
And so we dove into another round of chess… this time without a time limit.
- Rias(P) -
She watched as for the second time, this boy was crushing Sona in a game of chess. She wasn't the only one who was shocked by this.
Akeno and Tsubaki were shocked too.
Nagato Uzumaki, a half Japanese from Europe and the younger brother to Kushina Uzumaki. They had been a bit suspicious of the new teachers, with so many teachers suddenly joining so they had conducted an investigation and found them with a clean past record.
She had heard of the transfer student who had single handedly defeated the entire Kendo Club and even Yuuto was praising his skill with the sword. She wanted to see his personality and if possible, invite him to her peerage. It was rare for Yuuto to take a liking to someone and she could use a skilled Knight.
From what she had observed, he was almost detached from everyone else in the school except for Yuuto with whom he was developing a good friendship.
Although, she didn't know why but he felt quite familiar for some reason. Just a gut feeling she had that she could trust him.
Another Pawn down on Sona's side.
Sona was visibly sweating now.
"H-how?"
"I learned from the video games." He replied nonchalantly and Rias almost crackled. This junior of hers was quite feisty, wasn't he?
Sona bristled as he continued.
"Why do you find this so surprising? Chess is a two person, zero sum, perfect information game. Luck plays no part in this game. Theoretically, there is a perfect solution that will never lose. But… only if you understand all the 10^120 possible states of the board. But if you can do so… chess is no different from… tic-tac-toe."
He looked at the look on her face and sighed. "You seem to be underestimating the game of tic-tac-toe an awful lot. Did you know that there are 255,168 possible games of Tic-tac-toe excluding symmetry. The first player wins 131,184 of these, the second player wins 77,904 games and the remaining 46,080 are drawn. As has been pointed out, with best play all games should result in a draw. Hence although there are 209,088 winning games, many of these would almost never occur in practice. It's the same in chess. As long as you remember all the states of the board, you will not lose."
And with that said, he took his Queen piece and moved it forward. "Checkmate. Hmm. 3 minutes and 58 seconds."
"Obviously people are different as they don't always make the perfect moves and sometimes use bad moves to lure you in but still… the best they can pull is a draw. This is why I don't like chess. Actually, I like Rock-Paper-Scissors more because there, not everything is a game of calculations."
….
By this time, the entire room had descended into an uncomfortable silence.
"Now, for my reward." he looked at Sona with a smile on his face.
Yes, his reward.
She snickered in her mind when she thought about Sona playing video games in her mind.
He then looked at her and gave her a smile. "Sorry for taking more of your time."
"No. It's fine. I got to see something amazing today." She smiled back.
Akeno took this opportunity to say something. "By the way, you shouldn't accept challenges like this from anyone. What if someday you defeat someone who has sworn to marry someone who could defeat them in a game, say chess for example."
She looked at Sona and hid a giggle as the girl was glaring at her.
"Huh?" Nagato looked at her confused. Then he smiled and offered his hand forward. "Would you like to play a game of Rock Paper Scissors with me, senpai?"
"Eh, okay." She nodded lightly.
"Rock. Papers. Scissors."
She threw a paper and he threw a rock. She won. Sona looked even more incensed.
"Rias-Senpai!" He exclaimed, surprised.
"Yes." She almost yelled at the sudden outburst.
"Since I was born, I have only lost a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors against you. So please ," He kneeled and asked very seriously. "Marry me."
"Eh!" She yelped, caught totally off guard, a little dusting of crimson appearing on her cheeks at the sudden proposal.
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He didn't give her any chance to reply and got up. "See. That's stupid right? Why would anyone do that? I mean, what if a sixty year old retired grandmaster decided to come and defeat them, would they marry an old man? That's dumb. On the other hand, I was totally serious about my proposal."
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….
He was joking.
"You said it yourself that a game of Rock Paper Scissors is based on luck. Would you put all your life on the line just based on luck rather than on a game of skill like chess?" Sona defended.
- Flinn -
"Of course." Not. "I really meant it when I said that she was the first and only person who defeated me in Rock-Paper-Scissors." Which was technically true. It was a habit. Onee-chan always pouted whenever she lost and got too handsy with me so I learned how to throw games to avoid those.
"If you don't believe it, you can try. A game of twenty rounds. If you are ahead of me at any point, I will accept my defeat and give up on the video game reward."
No way, I was gonna do that.
She insulted video games. She needed to understand the greatness of them.
I walked out of the Student Council Room, feeling quite refreshed. I had forgotten how great it felt to bull… I mean playing against Sona.
The game of Rock Paper Scissors was obviously won by me. I had my Observation Hacki.
Teasing a younger version of Onee-chan was fun too.
I got an invitation to the Occult Research Club too.
At this moment, I heard a voice from behind. "Wait for me, Nagato-kun."
Akeno was walking towards me from the Student's Council Room.
"Can you please walk me to the Occult Research Club, Nagato-kun? I don't like walking alone."
… what?
"Sure." I shrugged.
"That was quite a game you played there. Do you enjoy chess?"
"I like all kinds of games, although playing with Sona-senpai was not that fun."
"Oh?"
"It's because she doesn't enjoy the game itself. Games are supposed to be enjoyed. That's why they are games. She gets waaayyyy too serious. So as a result it's no fun."
"Ufufufufu Sona would be very sad to hear this." She giggled which greatly reminded me of Shuri's giggle. They are really similar.
"Then it's better if you don't tell her." I smiled.
"A deal then….but you will have to do something for me too."
"Oh, what?"
"Tell me something about yourself." She smiled back.
Collecting information?
Sure.
"Like what?"
"Like your life. I have heard that you lived in Russia. How was life there? I am very interested in life in different countries other than Japan."
So I went on and told her about the story we had set up for ourselves.
"So you were raised by Uzumaki-sensei. And she is friends with Tokisaki-sensei, Izayoi-sensei and Ford-sensei."
"Mostly because we live in the same shared house together. Helps with the rent." A cover to avoid any problems if it was discovered that we lived together.
"Living with four teachers must be tough, right?"
"Of course not. I enjoy it a lot. Living with four beautiful ladies, a dream come true for most boys."
"Ufufufufu even if one of them is your own sister?"
"Umu. My Onee-chan is the most beautiful after all."
"Onee-chan? Yes, you did call Uzumaki-sensei, Onee-chan. Not -san. So cute." She covered her mouth with a hand and laughed.
The two of us walked by the nurse's office and encountered Shuri.
She smiled when she looked at me but her eyes widened a light bit when she saw the one on my side.
"Here for your lunch, Nagato-kun?" Shuri asked. "Ara Ara who is she, your girlfriend?" She laughed but that laugh gave me severe mixed signals. Warning, curiosity and even a hint of lust.
Honestly you could never say with these types.
"Yes I am here for lunch, Kurumi-sensei. This is Akeno Himejima Senpai, a second year student. I was just talking to her about Russia. By the way, Akeno-senpai, would you like to join us? Kurumi-sensei makes really amazing food." I asked
She tried to deny it but I almost dragged the girl to join us. If she wants information from me, then she better help me by spending some time with Shuri.
_x_
We were back at home. Onee-chan and the other two had to stay back for a teacher's meeting but Shuri was not required to go there, so she followed me back.
Shuri was quite happy today because of the time we spent during lunch.
As soon as I closed the door, she hugged me. "Thank you."
"... it's the least I could do." Which was true. I don't know what kind of person the one in the last world was but this Akeno was someone who respected her mother.
In fact, they got along very well. Although, being the target of their teasing was not fun.
She kissed me on the cheek but I was not letting this opportunity slip.
"You know Shuri-san, I repeatedly told you not to tease me too much or one day I might do something."
"Oh, is Flinn-kun going to ravage me now?" She smirked.
I slid my hand from her back to the base of her hips and picked her up, making her yelp.
"Yes."
Her reply was her legs wrapping around me as our lips met.
Shuri was not one to back down. She pushed her tongue in my mouth and I met her with my own.
Our lips separated after a full minute with a strand of saliva forming a bridge between our lips.
I carried her to the living room and she pushed me down onto the couch, her skirt lifting as her panty clad slit moved up and down my length. I took the opportunity to tear the buttons of her shirt and then her bra, freeing her breasts.
Onee-chan may be perkier but Shuri won in sheer size and softness.
"Ohh~ so rough."
"You wanted to be ravaged. So I am just obliging to your request." I replied and took one of her breasts in my mouth as my hands worked on the other one, twisting her nipple, making her moan loudly.
A few minutes of heavy making out later, she slid down between my legs and unbuckled my belt.
Knowling what was to come, I assisted her as my cock sprung up, after being suppressed so long by my underwear.
"Ara ara, so excited. Now how should I reward you, Flinn-kun. Oh, I know just how." She kissed the tip before enveloping my length between her soft breasts while she took the tip in her mouth and worked her tongue around it.
"Oh damn." My hands clenched her hair and pulled her in.
She lubricated the entire length with her saliva and moved her breasts up and down slowly at first, then gaining speed. I assisted her by guiding her head with my hand.
I didn't hold back and let out my first load in a few minutes.
And Shuri didn't back down either. She took in every last drop, not letting even a single one fall.
In fact, she even made a show of slowly and sensually gulping down till there was nothing left and then opening her mouth to show me.
The scene was enough to get me up and ready in an instant.
She used a spell to clean herself as she jumped on me for another sloppy kiss.
I used my Dismantle to chop off her now drenched panties and they fell to the ground.
She giggled at my actions but didn't stop hers as she positioned me at her entrance and slowly dropped herself on me… and boy was she hot.
Fire lit around us as my Phenex Djinn resonated with her household vessel, which was actually an earring which I had gifted her.
The fire didn't harm anything. It was pure life energy of the Phenex. Instead the flower plants around us bloomed into full bloom.
If Onee-chan was soft and accepting, Shuri was completely the opposite. She was aggressive and competitive. Her dominant personality came out but was met with my own. The result was the wildest sex I had ever experienced.
The sounds of flesh meeting flesh sounded throughout the room as we were basically like wild beasts trying to get more of each other.
Her strength did give up earlier and I took control of the situation from then on. But I didn't go easy on her either.
She needed to be taught who the boss is around here, so I turned her over and placed the tip of my cock at her entrance from behind as I began pounding into her.
I pulled her hair back and leaned in for a kiss while my other hand grabbed her breasts, squeezing them.
"Mmmhhh ahhhhhhh yes, harder harder Harder!" She growled as her hips moved as she tried matching my movements despite her tired state.
I came inside for a second time, completely flooding her insides as she came for who knows how many times, collapsing on the couch.
Finally, I picked her up in my lap , into a hug and placed a soft kiss on her lips.
"You look absolutely enchanting, Shuri-chan." And she did. Sweat covering her entire body, hair sticking to her face and her skin had taken a reddish tint from the exertion. She was looking like the girls from those hentai manga and the only things remaining were probably a rolling tongue and heart shaped eyes. The complete ahegao look.
She didn't reply, being too tired to even speak but just snuggled into me.
I caressed her hair softly and let her sleep on my body.
She regained her senses in an hour or so.
"That was really something, Shuri-chan."
"Oh, using -chan with my name now?"
"I thought you'd like it."
"I never said I didn't."
I smirked. "Were you thoroughly ravaged?"
She let out a giggle which reminded me of the one I had heard from Akeno this morning. They really were mother and daughter.
"But still, it took you almost four years to reach this point. Too slow if you ask me. Not many girls will take the initiative, you know. You have to grab the opportunity yourself lest it slips away."
….
I pulled her on top of me. She lay on top of me, facing me and I spoke seriously.
"I didn't want to hurry and mess up our relationship. You… had been through a lot. And while I knew that you might not have resisted, I wanted you to take your own time to get comfortable enough."
"Thank you. And that's what makes you… you. But sometimes you have to be a bit dominant… more forceful."
"Is this about…?"
"Grayfia, yes."
*Sigh*
I let out an audible sigh.
Grayfia was really not showing any signs of improvement.
"She's… I don't know what to do with her. I tried to include her in the normal day to day activities. Even the teaching job at the academy was decided by Onee-chan so that she could get a change in environment and recover but there are no signs of improvement. She just… follows orders. I think she is afraid of trusting anyone anymore. She just follows orders without any kind of emotional attachment. I am sure that she would follow any order I give and not even blink an eye, like a machine. It's painful to even watch. It's like she doesn't even want to."
"And that's why you need to drag her out forcibly." She got a devilish smile on her face at this moment. "Did you know that she has had a dry spell for over four hundred years."
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"... Bullshit!"
She just smiled.
"You're joking, right?"
Her smile widened.
"You're being serious? There is no freaking way that's true."
"I can assure you. So, as you said before, she would follow all your orders…"
… this woman is a devil… oh wait… yeah.
"I think the best way is to shock her out of her uncaring state and to do so, the best solution would be… to put a baby in her."
I won't lie but despite my own imaginations, I was still caught off guard by this.
"Motherhood changes people. At this point, I think she needs something of that level to shock her back to reality." She explained. "And it's not like you don't want her or want to have a baby with us. You already made it clear enough for everyone already. We too won't mind a cute baby in the house."
"You are being serious about this?"
"Actually, even Rias and Griselda agreed to this. They were just waiting for me to take the step first. Can't break the queue. I was second in line."
"Onee-chan, I can understand but Griselda?"
"Ufufufufu Griselda-chan likes children the most and wants one for herself too. You should spend some time with her."
Yes. Griselda could be quite straightforward when she wanted to be. Onee-chan told me that Xenovia Quarta in her time was quite similar.
"I will." I really haven't been able to give her much time lately.
We laid there on the couch and talked about several things while enjoying this private time together.
_x_
A few hours later, the rest of the members returned from work.
Shuri had taken her time to rest and was now cooking in the kitchen while humming a song while I cleaned everything up and was watching an anime.
Onee-chan looked at us, specifically at Shuri for a few moments. "You had sex, didn't you?"
Shuri turned back and gave her that smug smile which I had grown too accustomed to while I thought of how she found out. I made sure to clean up all the evidence. There was nothing left, not even the smell.
"How?" Finally, not being able to comprehend how she had deduced this, I asked.
"Women's Intuition."
Bullshit.
"Also, just look at her. That glow only belongs to someone who comes out of a long dry spell."
I looked at Shuri and she did look happier but that didn't prove anything.
"Anyways, what took you all this long? I thought you were going to come back two hours ago?"
"We got the location of Valerie. There were rumours of Damphir being declared as the new Queen of the Tepes Faction. So they are probably still planning and not there yet."
I sat up on the couch. "I see. We can bring her out then."
She nodded.
"What's the plan?"
All of us got around to plan the retrieval of Valerie Tepes.
We had been holding back because it was hard to know her exact location.
She was someone we didn't want to risk so there was no room for any mistakes. First of all, she and her friend Gasper were the ones who sent Onee-chan back. Just for this alone, I owe them a lot.
The spies we left there finally gave us some results. We had an estimated location and could begin our search.
- Serafall Leviathan -
She teleported quietly to give her So-tan a surprise. It had been three months since she had met. Three months were too long.
Very slowly, she sneaked near her room's door only to hear her shouts.
"Who does he think he is?! Tic-tac-toe?! Rock-Paper-Scissors?! This… this Pokemon. Arghhhhh!"
Sona was angry?
That was rare.
So she decided against going inside and chose to find out what happened from somewhere else, which meant talking to Tsubaki, her Queen.
Tsubaki lived a floor below Sona and that's where she went. The girl was doing her homework like an honour student.
She noticed her and stood up quickly. "Lady Serafall."
"Shushh! Tsu-chan or So-tan will hear us." Seeing the girl becoming quiet, she asked. "So, what's up with So-tan? Who made her mad? Who is this 'He'?"
"That's…."
Tusbaki hesitated a bit before explaining everything to her.
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"So he won in chess against So-tan."
"Yes."
"Twice."
"Yes."
"And then asked her to play video games as a reward."
"...yes."
"Pfft… hahahahaha." She finally couldn't hold it back and burst out in a mad laugh. So is that why she is so mad, because he said Rock-Paper-Scissors is better than chess?"
"Actually… he went on to beat her in Rock-Paper- Scissors, twenty times in a row after that too."
….
A human was bullying Sona.
No.
A boy was bullying Sona.
While funny, it was not allowed. The only one who can bully Sona was her.
No one else.
Still it was just a human. She would have gotten serious if it was a Devil and her parents started hounding Sona again but this was not a problem now.
"What did you say this boy's name was?"
"Nagato Uzumaki."
"Hmm, Uzumaki. Is this one of those from Russia?"
"Yes."
They were clean. She had had Behemoth check into it herself.
It's fine as long as they are not dangerous.
Still, someone able to match Sona or rather so completely outclass Sona was actually a good candidate for a peerage member.
"Did Sona say something about inviting him into her peerage?"
"That… Rias was already looking into him and he is a good friend of Yuuto-kun. She had already stated her desire to recruit him."
"Ah… Ria-tan called dibs eh? Well, that's too bad. Someone like that could have been a good candidate for a bishop."
Tsubaki nodded.
Still, this trip was not a waste. She got one more thing to tease her with.
"Oh, Tsu-chan. Just in case, can you send me a file about the boy?"
"Yes Serafall-sama."
She was sure that Sirzechs would want the file when she returned and told him about the guy Ria-tan was planning to recruit. Really… he was too overprotective.
- Flinn -
Kamui is a massive cheat when it comes to infiltration.
Currently Griselda and I were sitting in the Kamui Dimension as we kept an eye on the Vampire, Marius Tepes who was said to be the one to have hidden Valerie.
What made the fact that much scarier was that both of us were sitting in an alternate dimension, just beside him and he could sense nothing.
We kept an eye on Marius himself while some insects made by Griselda using her Annihilation Maker were keeping an eye on all the possible targets.
She has been training her Sacred Gear very religiously since she got it. And she focused on precision rather than power which most of the Annihilation maker users of the past did.
For example, she could make a swarm of locust to attack the enemy and explode while poisoning them.
It was her way of recreating one of the Ten Plagues of God.
This was not all because all her insects were the evolving kind. They could adapt to damage and the next batch would adapt, making them even more dangerous.
Add this to her already existing abilities and she becomes a fearsome enemy for most people in this world.
It's just that currently, this fearsome woman didn't look that fearsome. She slowly shook her bottom in my lap to get into a more comfortable position which only resulted in my shaft getting lodged deep in her asscrack.
She had the most firm body among all my girls. Probably due to the amount of physical exercises she put in.
We have made out many times before. Let's just say the life in church had repressed her desires a lot and when she became a devil, she decided to wholeheartedly indulge in them. I, as a good Master, was more than happy to show her how.
My hands were inside her clothes as I teased her nipples and left hickeys on her neck. "Is this what you wanted, Griselda?"
"Mmhh, yes. Shuri got her turn. And you will be going after Grayfia but… I came before her. I will not be the last." She growled lightly, only for it to turn into a moan as I pinched her nipples hard.
"Say Griselda, why did you join my peerage? You could have joined the church in this world, pretended to be the sister of this world's Griselda, twin or something and could have easily gotten a place in this world. I know, Onee-chan gave you this option" I asked.
She stopped suddenly, then let out a sigh. I too sensed the abrupt change in atmosphere and pulled my hands out from her clothes and sat up a little straighter.
"Do you know what we valued the most in the church? What we were taught as an exorcist?" She asked.
"To believe in the father of Angels?"
"Yes."
"To believe. It might sound easy but believing is a very complicated thing. It's easy to believe, even things we haven't seen. Not just the church people, who believe in God," She winced lightly while I shrugged off the headache. "We believe in many things, ghosts, angels, monsters, omens, most of the time without ever seeing them all throughout our lives. That said, it's hard to believe in things when the truth is thrown directly at our face. For example, Yuki-Onna are believed to be women with enchanting looks whereas in reality they are yeti-like beasts. Would you believe in fairy tales if you knew the truth?"
I shook my head. "No."
"Exactly. That's why I cannot go back… because I have lost the one thing needed to be a believer… I have lost the ability to believe."
There was sadness and pain in her voice but she was not broken, nothing like Grayfia. She was in control.
"I am a devil so my words would be the furthest away from this but… I think what it means to be a believer is not to believe in the existence of God." I said the name and the headache came once more but was swept by my powers simply. "But rather in his teachings."
She looked to be in though for a moment.
I remembered the words from my memories. "Do you know when a person truly dies?"
She just stared at me.
"One truly dies when they are forgotten, when they disappear from the hearts of everyone. That's when… A man truly and finally dies."
I patted her head, which might have looked comical with our ages but hey, she was my lover. "I don't mind if you pray. In fact, Onee-chan told me that after the Peace Agreement, we could figure out a way for you to pray."
She gave me her most dazzling smile and then rested her head on my chest. "Thank you."
"Umm."
We didn't get to enjoy this moment more because Marius Tepes had started to move and we followed him closely.
The location was a small isolated dimension a little distance away from the Tepes Castle, whose entrance was in the basement of a shoddy looking inn.
I got to say that they were good at hiding it.
The size of the dimension itself wasn't big, just enough to house a lab and in the middle of the lab, on a table laid the body of a blonde girl.
She was breathing which was the only reason for anyone to believe she was alive.
"It's her." Griselda whispered softly.
She was about to go in and save her but I stopped. There were cameras and surveillance circles all around the place.
"Wait for a while. I have a plan."
So we waited. Somehow, looking at the girl who saved my sister's life, laying there, almost dead, took out any thoughts of engaging in our former actions.
Marius Tepes left the lab a few hours later and I followed him.
He was followed by two guards but they were high class level at best.
I unsheathed my sword and took a stance. "Sun Breathing First Form: Dance."
I flashed behind them and chopped Marius in two with a straight vertical strike using my Astaroth Sword.
Not giving his two lackeys any chance to react, I continued. "Second Form: Clear Blue Sky." Spinning 360 degrees around, I took out both vampires before anyone could react.
Sun Breathing and the Flames from the Astaroth Sword are strong enough to destroy the enemies like Vampires who are weak against the sun and fire.
All three bodies crumbled into dust soon after.
I looked at Griselda and nodded and she cleaned off the dust and I created three Shadow Clones, each transforming into the three vampires and we returned to the lab. The rest was easy. No one stopped us.
Getting Valerie out with us was an easy job.
"What now?" Griselda asked me as she checked Valerie's condition.
"Now, we cause some distractions and have Marius Tepes die in an accident."
The plan was carried out with Griselda creating a horde of bats and monsters. I sent some shadow clones transformed into vampires and on the same day, Prince of the Tepes Faction, led a rebellion against his father and was killed in battle.
The Tepes Faction also suffered a lot of damage while the Dhampir daughter of the King of the Tepes Faction went missing, taken away and killed by the rebels.
My Sukuna Template was boosted a lot by this and was almost near completion because the Carmila Faction decided to take advantage of this and attacked the Tepes, resulting in a small war between the two factions.
We returned back to Kuoh soon after with Valerie.
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"How is she?" Onee-chan asked as soon as they returned.
Gasper and Valerie had sacrificed their lives to give her this chance and she would be damned if she let them suffer this time around.
"Bad. She is injured. Spiritual injuries. I cannot do anything about them. I can only heal physical injuries."
She quickly checked them and found the details.
Then we came to the next part of the problem.
Onee-chan could heal Spiritual Injuries to a certain degree with her Graal and over time get her to recover totally but there was an exception to this rule and that exception was sleeping in front of us right now.
Technically, the Graal inside Rias comes from Valerie in the future which means it's the same as the ones inside Valerie and both these Graals can resonate causing more stress on her soul and exacerbate the damage instead of healing.
So we were forced to use the bare few techniques Shuri could use for patching up Valerie and preventing her situation from getting worse.
"What's the plan?" I asked.
She was the most knowledgeable about souls among us and I would rather not poke my nose in things I had no idea about.
"I can think of a few ways but most are inaccessible to us right now. We would need the support of the three factions for those. Until then, I can only think of one thing - Senjutsu. We need an advanced Senjutsu user. I am planning to disclose my identity to Onii-sama during the Parents-Teachers meeting in two month when he comes to visit the Academy. It would be the safest time for us to make contact."
"Umm, sounds good."
"By the way, how was your day today? I heard you brought Akeno to Shuri's office today. How'd you two meet?"
"Ah, about that. It was in the Student's Council room, and some things happened." I went on and explained everything briefly.
"So you… oh Flinn you…"
"What?" I asked, looking at her exasperated expression.
"Didn't I tell you about Sona before?"
"Tell me what?"
A look of realisation came on her face. "I didn't?"
"What?"
"Sona had broken her engagement by defeating her betrothed in a Chess game and stated that she would only marry someone who defeats her in a chess game."
… so that's what Akeno was teasing her about. That girl was actually that dumb.
"Don't worry. It won't be counted because you are a human. But still. As for Akeno, I think she was scouting you for the Peerage. I did expect something like that. I know I would do so."
Ah, so that's why. I thought she was just fishing for information.
"Do you want me to join the peerage?"
"No. It won't be necessary. Actually, she wouldn't be able to reincarnate you regardless. Although if you want to, you can spend time and meet the other members of the peerage. I think you will get along with Koneko and even Gasper. *Sigh* I miss them." She whispered looking in the distance, quite nostalgically.
It was a bit confusing for us when mentioning Rias so I decided to call the younger one Rias and the older one as Onee-chan. She vehemently insisted that I do so.
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We cleaned up and got ready for bed when I remembered the conversation with Shuri earlier and decided to act on it. "Grayfia." I called the woman who was getting ready to go to her room. "Sleep with us today."
A second of silence settled over the room. Onee-chan and Griselda looked at me, a bit surprised while the instigator and the target of this action looked unbothered entirely. Grayfia didn't even look phased and nodded, following me and Onee-chan back to our room.
The other two looked at each other and went to Valerie's room. They will be keeping an eye on her today.
I might need a bigger bed in future.
When inside our room, both Onee-chan and I did our usual routine, getting naked.
"We have a 'no clothes when sleeping rule' in our room, Grayfia. Undress." I ordered, while I returned to my own clothes while keeping an eye on her through the Observation Haki to see her expressions. It didn't change. She just took off her clothes without any hesitation.
This was the first time I was looking at her naked and man was she hot. A perfect figure with long silver hair framing her enchanting face, red eyes and lips, going down below, a neatly trimmed bush above her pink lips which looked completely untouched and those legs…. She had the best legs among all the girls I had seen. Even better than Griselda.
Then again, Grayfia trained till she dropped every day. Getting this shape was a given.
I suddenly remembered something. Could Shuri really be right that she hasn't had sex in the last four hundred years or so?
The Sirzechs in the past world was an idiot.
And due to his idiocy, this nigh perfect scene was ruined by the emotionless look on her face.
"You know Grayfia, if you don't like any orders, you can always tell me. Following everything I say like this sometimes makes me feel as if I am Sirzechs. That feeling is quite disgusting."
It actually was.
There was a very light twitch in her emotionless facade but she quickly schooled herself. "I made a deal to follow all your orders and do everything you ask of me. I am only keeping my side of the bargain."
At this time, Onee-chan joined the conversation. "You can do both. Nowhere in the deal did it say that you cannot state if you like the order or not. We will not force you to do anything you don't want to." She said or rather almost pleaded.
"It won't change anything."
"It will. I know what it feels to lose everything. I have experienced it too." She said, the sadness that she always kept hidden showing. I hugged her lightly to my side and she held my hand before continuing. "But just like me, you have also received a second chance. Don't give up on it."
Both the women remained insistent in their own thoughts and it was getting nowhere.
In all this, I was getting frustrated so I resolved myself to do what Shuri had suggested. I walked in front of her and both the women stopped to look at me. "You said that you will follow anything I say, right?"
"Yes."
I looked at her directly in the eyes and took a deep breath. "Remember, you are the one who said this. I order you… to be my lover."
….
….
Both were not expecting this and were stunned enough to not be able to say anything. But I wasn't done yet. "And I don't want you to act like my lover, or just sex. I want you to become my lover. You said that you will follow all my orders, then this is my order to you. I am going to overwrite every memory you have of Sirzechs of that world, with one of my own. I give you my word Grayfia Lucifuge that I will make you fall in love with me. If you get into our bed today, I will accept it as a yes."
They still hadn't recovered from my words but I was done for today. If she was not going to walk out of her sadness and self-pity on her own then I am going to drag her out of it.
I got into the bed and waited for them. Both of them regained their bearing in a while and got up on the bed on either side of me. I pulled them both into a hug and decided to retire for the day.
"If you want this to stop, just tell me. I will do so." I told her while I pulled her tighter into my side, her breasts completely smashing into my side.
She didn't reply but she didn't pull back from me either.
I knew she wouldn't back down. She is too stubborn that way.
Today was tiring and I still needed to go to the Occult Research Club tomorrow and make my own Video Games Club.
- Akeno -
"So anything new about him?" She heard Rias asking as soon as she entered the club.
"Hmm, yes. Nagato-kun is clean. He is very enthusiastic about anime and games. He is especially close to his elder sister, Uzumaki-sensei as she is the one who practically raised him. They live in a shared house with Izayoi-sensei, Ford-sensei and… Tokisaki-sensei." She paused lightly on the last name.
She didn't know why but the time she spent with the new school nurse, Kurumi Tokisaki, she felt very nostalgic and somehow peaceful.
Kurumi-sensei just felt very familiar, as if she had known her for a long time but she knew for sure that she didn't know the woman. At one point, she even checked for any kind of magic but there was nothing odd.
She was broken from her thoughts by Rias' voice. "What are you carrying Akeno?"
"Oh these? These are rice balls. I was invited to have lunch with Nagato-kun and Tokisaki-sensei and she gave me some. They are delicious."
Koneko heard this and eyed the bag in her hand making her giggle. "I will make some for you Koneko-chan but these ones are mine." She replied as she hugged the bag close to her chest, making the adorable junior of her surprised.
"Really, are they that good that you are not even sharing?" Rias got up, suddenly interested.
"Okay, only one." She reluctantly gave one each to her and Koneko. She could have more tomorrow. "So how was Sona after he left?"
Rias took a bite of the rice ball and smirked at the question "She was incensed but couldn't vent it anywhere because she lost fair and square. It was truly something to see her getting so riled up. Especially at the engagement comment and his reply to it. Poor Sona got rejected even without actually proposing. I am pretty sure that she will be hounding him for chess matches in the near future too. Sona is just too stubborn that way."
"Ufufufufu that is going to be hard for her. Nagato-kun doesn't want to play against her."
"Oh did he say that?"
"According to him, she is too serious and needs to loosen up a bit. Games are supposed to be fun but she doesn't have any fun while playing and he finds that boring."
"Ouch. Double rejection. I have to recruit him soon lest Lady Serafall finds out about it and decides to pay him a visit."
"That would be something, wouldn't it? Especially if he becomes a Devil. Sona wouldn't be able to challenge him so easily then."
Both of them giggled at the thought of teasing Sona.
"Still, I have never seen someone outright destroying Sona in a chess game like that."
"Or Rock Paper Scissors." She smirked, recalling what happened in the twenty matches but noticed something interesting. Rias had a dusting of red on her cheeks.
Oh, it seems like the proposal did hit the mark.
"Someone with this level of intelligence would make for a very good Bishop. Then again, with his sword skills, he would be a perfect knight. Yuuto said that in terms of skills and talent, he was even beyond him."
"Calm down, Rias. talk to him first and see if he wants to even join the peerage."
"Yes." She took a deep breath. "I am just excited to find a good candidate. Sona recruited two new members and is keeping a watch on two more. I don't want to fall behind."
"Her requirements for a peerage are different from yours. She wants people who can help her with the job of making and running her Rating Game School. You on the other hand cannot recruit members without carefully selecting them if you want to become the Rating Game Champion. Anyway, he is going to come to the Occult Research Club tomorrow. You can ask him yourself. Introducing him to the supernatural world would be a good start."
"Right. Just introducing him to the Supernatural first would be a good idea."
- Sirzechs -
Finally signing the last paper, he dropped his pen and heaved a sigh of relief. Today's work was finished.
"Can I go back home now, Grayfia? I am done for the day. There is no more paperwork, meetings or anything else.
She reviewed all the documents before agreeing.
"Lady Serafall has sent a file with information about a member Lady Rias is planning to recruit." Grayfia handed him a file and he opened it almost instantly.
A while later, he finished the file and kept it aside.
Nagato Uzumaki, a prodigious swordsman and smart enough to overwhelm Sona in chess.
"See this Grayfia, some boy is trying to trick my Ria-tan. I need to go there right now… aghh." He couldn't even complete his sentence before his cheeks got pinched.
Getting serious, he finally asked.
"Serafall confirmed that his background was clean, right?"
"Yes. She also said that you owe her one for not going after him for bullying her So-tan." Grayfia deadpanned and he smiled at the comment.
"Then there is nothing to worry about. Still, you should go and meet him once before Rias accepts him. Check his character just in case. Actually send Souji to Yuuto and see how talented he is. I can meet him myself when I go there for her school's meeting."
"Okay. To be honest I am surprised she didn't make too much of a fuss over a boy beating Sona."
"She won't. At least, not until he becomes a Devil." He smiled.
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Author's Note:
I am back with another chapter of the Redhead System.
Many things happened in this chapter.
Sona got destroyed… as expected and will have to play against Flinn in a game of Pokemon.
Akeno and Rias are having weird feelings regarding Kurumi-sensei and Nagato Uzumaki.
Shuri finally got boned well.
Griselda is in line and Grayfia just walked into the Dragon's Mouth of her own will.
On the other hand, Valerie is safe now and the Tepes Faction is burning. (Sharingan OP. Tbh, Obito could have easily conquered the world if he had some brain.)
She needs a Senjutsu user. If only there was a buxom cat girl or a foxy milf somewhere to help.
Meanwhile, Flinn is finally enjoying his life.
Enjoy the new chapter.
Good Day, Peace Out.