a new beg

by thejarl7166

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6. The Abyssal Lord

The Abyssal Lord

Lilith, Underworld Capital

In a meeting room reserved in the main Lucifer castle in the capital of the underworld, there is a meeting between the four Satans in place.

The topic of said meeting is about the upcoming negotiations for peace, or at least the thought of.

"So any progress about the peace negotiations Sirzechs? I believe you often keep contact with Azazel"

Said Ajuka Beelzebub, one of the four Satans of the underworld and the current Beelzebub.

"Me, Serafall, Azazel and Micheal have been working on trying to make a peace treaty for a while Ajuka, but as you know it's not always as easy as it sounds"

Sirzechs Lucifer, current Lucifer and rumoured to be the strongest devil in eons replied calmly to his long time friend

"As Sirzechs-chan said Ajuka-chan, it's realllly hard you know~ those pesky pigeons and crows are like realllllly annoying, like why do they want to keep fighting forever when their stupid God died a long time ago"

The Current Leviathan, also known as Serafall Leviathan said while leaning in the meeting table, promoting the only non Satan in the room, a lone maid standing behind the current Lucifer, to lightly glare at her.

"Ooh? Grayfia-chan why are glaring at me like that, it's super scary"

Serafall smirks as she notices the light glare the maid, now named Grayfia turn into an icy one

"It's not fit for a Satan to act in this manner, Serafall-sama"

Said Grayfia with a monotone voice that has a hint of subtle annoyance that will go unnoticed by a lot of people, but certainly not anyone in this room

"It's good to see Grayfia and Serafall still getting along"

Said Falbium Asmodeus, the current Asmodeus and the oldest of the three, and while not being involved with them very much, because all four other devils grew up during the great war together, he was like an older brother figure to all of them, even if he wasn't the strongest or the weakest.

"I guess you're right Falbium, because I believe under all that ice is a sweet and lovely little g-"

The current Lucifer didn't finish speaking before wincing audibly in pain, and it appears it was because of Grayfia pinching him quite hard

"Grayfia-chan sure is merciless"

Serafall said will still smirking

"On another note, Sirzechs and Serafall how are your two little sisters, they are in the same school in the human world, correct? In Kuoh town, Japan I believe?"

Ajuka said while gathering the all the documents from the meeting table with magic and organizing them

"Rias is very well Ajuka, thank you for asking, and she is in her last year there as well"

"My Sona-tan is also very well her, she and her peerage are running the student council, so basically running the school, and she's safe because I sp- check on her every day"

A collective exparated sigh left all the devils in the room, except Sirzechs who gave Serafall a double thumbs up and she returned it

"Rias's peerage is also doing fine, but she's been telling me about a human boy in her class named Issei, that has some magical signatures, we did a check on him and his family and all of them aren't a part of the super natural, so my guess is he has a sacred gear"

"Are the magical readings high?"

"For a seemingly normal human it is, so we suspected it's a powerful sacred gear, possiblity a Longinus, so Rias decided to recruit him to her peerage"

"Interesting, tell me how that transpires later Sirzechs"

"Very well, now anything anyone wants to add?"

No one replied, signalling the ending of the meeting

"Then the meeting is officially annul-"

A sudden surge of magic power, strong enough to kill a regular High class devil instantly assaulted all five devils in the meeting room, accompanied by a the sounds of tearing and clawing of fabric

"Grayfia behind me, now!"

Yelled Sirzechs as he shot up from the chair and faced the end of the giant room as his hand glowed with the power of destruction he's so famous for, with the other three Satans in the room doing the same, they awaited to see the source of this phenomenon.

Facing them is a seemingly empty room, unless you notice the strange pumps that occasionally shifts the space, at the end of the room, if one has to describe it, it's like someone is poking his hands in a piece of clothing and looking from the other side.

And if this wasn't bizarre enough the occasional tearing and scratching noises coming from there is certainly not pleasant

"Anyone have an idea what this is? an attack from heaven maybe? Grigori?"

Asked Sirzechs, while still being in gaurd

"Since when can Angels and Fallen Angels claw through space, no this isn't them"

Losing her playful nature, Serafall responds in a tone similar to Grayfia, and as she was about to reply with her theories, she felt two more presences in the room

What appeared next to them are two people, one looks like a child with black hair and a gothic dress with no mana signature whatsoever, and the other is a tall man with red hair, and the strongest magical signature she's seen in her life, they both stand next to them while looking at the space at the end of the room

"Ophis? and Great Red? why are you here, in the underworld? And what is that?"

Sirzechs asks in a loud voice for all to hear, this promotes the three Satans and Grayfia to look at the two new individuals in shock.

And why wouldn't they, the now named Ophis and Great Red are the two strongest entities in the world.

Ophis doesn't reply and keeps staring at the space being raptured, but Red replies

"Devils, do you know of demons?"

The devils look at each other in for a moment and then Ajuka replies

"Great Red, aren't demons what the humans call us devils?"

"No, young devil. Demons aren't devils, while devils live in the underworld, demons live in a domain called the abyss. A domain outside our world"

Great Red sighs seemingly tired and stops speaking to the dismay of the devils, fortunately Ophis continues

"And while devils are mostly human with some differences, demons are not, they are chaos incarnate, with an unquenchable thirst for murder and power, and packed up by a nearly infinite amount, makes them a very very big threat to our world"

The moment those worlds left the mouth of the Dragon God of infinity, the Satans began to feel dread.

How big of a threat this is to make the Ouroboros Dragon and the Great Red to come here personally to confront it

But before they delve further into their thoughts Great Red's words snap them back to reality

"Before the 'Great War' between all of your factions, there was a war for survival between our world and the Abyss, which spanned more than a five hundred years and was led by Me, Ophis and The Heavenly Father from our side and the Four Demon Kings from the Abyss"

A bigger wave of shock adorned on the five devils, the existence of a war before the great war is practically unknown to the current supernatural world, and by looking at the leading sides one can assume the scale of such war

"But you two being here and The Father's survival in that war as well, I can assume you won right? That means whoever is trying to cross to this world right now shouldn't be as strong"

Falbium asked, hoping the thoughts in his headbe proven wrong, but before Red can reply Ophis answer

"We tried to kill at least one King, but we failedz each one of them is as powerful as me and we were outnumbered in both powerhouses and troops, the only saving grace we had is their nature working against them"

Ophis falls silent as Red continues

"While devils make contacts with the other supernatural and can turn them into reincarnated devils, demons consume souls to get stronger, so while they hate each other, they have to protect each other so that no one consumes the others soul and overpower the rest"

Grayfia that's been silently listening all this while decided to ask a question

"So that means they protected each other but didn't work together resulting in a stalemate between the two sides not including the troops, then what happened to end the war?"

Chuckling weakly the Great Red replied

"Each one of us sacrificed half of his power to seal the our world from the Abyss, and while I and Ophis slept and healed, the Heavenly Father was caught in another war and perished"

Understanding dawned on the devils, followed by a look of horror, that prompted Sirzechs to speak

"Wait you said that all of you sealed our world with half your powers, that means the seal is stronger than the strongest entity in both here and the Abyss, then that means that whoever is trying to come her is-"

Sirzechs not so inner monologue was interrupted with a loud shattering noise, the space that was convulsing exploded reveling a jet black human sized hand, but with the skin of a dragon, decorated by silver claws that apparently can tear apart space.

Red replies to Sirzechs one last time before focusing on the man heading out from the portal

"Yes Young Lucifer, that means whoever came here is stronger than me and Ophis"

"And you would be correct Dragon of Dreams"

The man coming out of the portal doesn't resemble the description of demons in the slightest, as they were just descriped as awful creatures that crave chaos and destruction, with forms mirroring their inner selfs.

The man was the most handsome man ever in Sirzechs's opinion, and coming from a devil that's arguably the most good looking in a species known for being desire personified tells you a lot about the man's looks.

The man was tall, about 190cm, his hair was jet black with blood red eyes with a golden iris, he was wearing a jet black armour that covers his whole body except his head, with a flaming greatsword floating by his side, stepping through the raptured space, the man throws something inside and waves his hand over it, closing the space, then he walks forward towards the devils and dragons and stops about 3m away and summons a chair and sits in it.

"How do you do Ouroboros and Dreams?"

The man says while gesturing for all of them to sit, which after a moment of hesitation they do.

"Xeron, Prince of Despair, what brings you to this world? You must know that talking won't change anything as we're not going to surrender"

Ophis snarls at the now named Xeron and he smiles back at her, not minding her earlier action

"Ophis, I'm now called The Abyssal Lord"

Xeron smiled a distorted smiles that showed the two rows of his pointy sharp teeth and imitated a bit of pressure using his aura.

"Ghh" x7

Instantly the Four Satans fall face down to the ground while shivering in fear, while Grayfia fainted and the two Dragons kneeled on the ground.

After an amount of hellish torture for all of them, the pressure disappears like it never was there and the nightmare ends

"Now that I made my point clear, get up and listen to what I have to say"

The two kneeling dragons stand up and look at Xeron, and for the first time ever since the dawn of time their gazes contain fear.

Fear of a being strong enough to end their world if he so wished and they'd be powerless against it.

But after a moment of thinking the two ancient dragons arrived at the same conclusion, the demon didn't want them dead, because they won't be alive right now if he so wished, so that begs the question, what does he desire?

Chapter 2: A Contract

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The two dragons get up from the ground and sit back on their respective chairs, meanwhile the four Satans compose themselves and also stand up from the ground and sit on their respective chairs.

The only one that's not sitting is Grayfia which is still unconscious and currently is in the grasp of her king Sirzechs.

The demon still doesn't speak, so Red concludes that he doesn't want to start speaking without all people present listening, so he sends a healing spell to Grayfia to wake her up from her dream, as he is the dragon of dreams.

"Wh- What happened? Where a-"

The poor maid doesn't get a chance to speak as everyone in the room is staring at her, including the hateful man she both hates and fears.

A few seconds pass and the maid understands what she has to do, she gets up from her king's embrace and walks behind him to resume her regular duties.

"Now, I assume introductions are in order, I'll start myself, I'm called Xeron Kezgenoth, Ruler of the Abyss, and Master of all that burns"

Xeron speaks, breaking the silent tension that's taking a hold in the room, and introduces himself and gesturing for Ophis to do the same.

"Ophis, the Infinite Dragon God"

Speaks Ophis, which produces a chuckle from Xeron.

"Interesting choice of form there Ophis, may I ask why that of a little girl?"

The infinite dragon stares at the demon for a few seconds without a change of expression, and seemingly coming to a conclusion she answers.

"I choose it on a whim, there's no deeper meaning behind it"

"Very well, then your turn Dreams"

The Dragon of Dragons clears his throat and answers introduces himself

"I have no name but some call Red, and as all know I'm the Dragon of Dreams"

Red turns his head to the devils, which prompts Sirzechs to introduce himself in turn.

"My name is Sirzechs Lucifer, the current Lucifer, and one of the four Satans"

This results in the demon raising and eye in bewilderment, which makes him ask

"Lucifer? Are you a descendant of the angel Lucifer? because you certainly don't look like him"

This makes Sirzechs smile wryly, and proceeds to explain

"No your majesty Xeron, I hail from the house Gremory, but after the great war and the death of the four old Satans there was another civil war between devils that resulted in a new government structure which 'we' the four new Satans are now the head of"

The demon nods, and then asks another question

"So in short Lucifer turned on his father and became a 'devil' and then spawned other devils and fought his father in a war that resulted in him, his father and his four strongest death?"

"That's correct your majesty"

"Stop with the majesty it's annoying, just call me 'Xeron' Sirzechs you look like a nice kid, now tell me, what about the Angels? Did they perish along with their father?"

Sirzechs, inwardly and outwardly smiles, despite being called a kid, which is true really, as he was only about 700 years old at best and the being in front of him is as ancient as the two oldest beings in their world

"No Xeron, the Angels still live along with their four Great Serafs and it's their helm is Micheal, the new 'God', but some angels fell and became fallen angels which led to them forming an organization named 'Grigori' with the governor of fallen angels Azazel leading it"

Xeron nods again, and doesn't ask any more, but still speaks nonetheless.

"We'll continue this discussion after the main business is over"

Sirzechs nods and waits for Ajuka to introduce himself, which he does immediately.

"My name is Ajuka Beelzebub, the current Beelzebub"

Ajuka speaks in a serious tone, but not too rude for obvious reasons.

"My name is Serafall Leviathan, previous Sitri and the Satan in charge of foreign affairs"

Surprisingly, or not, Serafall speaks without a hint of playfulness in her voice, but if one takes a look at her hands, you'll see them clenched hard enough to shake, and as that happens when one is either angry or afraid, we can deduce which one this case belongs to.

"Serafall calm down, I won't bite you"

Xeron speaks in a loud voice while looking at the Satan, which surprised everyone.

Certainly, no one expected the domineering demon, that's been stoic since his arrival to calm down the agitated Satan, but what's more surprising is the mischievous smirk dawned on his face, that's for some reason making Serafall really nervous.

"Your precious Sona-tan will be sad if she saw her sister like this. I was watching the planet to look for a location to break into and stumbled upon your little meeting"

…silence

It took everyone a second to process what just happened, and when they did everyone had different reactions.

Serafall was looking at the ground and her face wasn't visible, but one can see her ears are bright red, and if one listened to her thoughts right now, it would no doubt be 'I wanna die' a thousand times.

Sirzechs, for some reason, has a troubled smile on his face, which looks equally shocked and nervous.

Shocked because of the sudden revelation that Xeron has been listening to them the entire time, and nervous because that means he knows about Rias too.

Which is confirmed by the evil smirk he flashed at him, and wait a minute, why is he opening his mouth, Oh Shi-

"I'll go tell Rias and Sona that their older siblings are both sis-cons"

"Pah" x2

Both the Satans in question received critical damage, which no-one seemed to mind, especially the once cold maid that's smirking really hard in the back of the fallen Lucifer.

Xeron then turns his head to the last Satan, which prompts him to introduce himself, albeit in a relaxed manner this time

"My name Falbium Asmodeus, current Asmodeus"

The bald devil introduces himself, which marks the end of the main figures, except for the maid, which Xeron is currently staring at.

"...My name is Grayfia Lucifuge, a servant of the house Gremory, and lord Sirzechs queen"

"Queen? Are you both married?"

"No Lord Xeron, I'm the holder of his queen piece in the evil pieces system, that's designed by Lord Ajuka"

The maid finishes talking and both her and the demon turn to stare at Ajuka in question, which he happily answers.

"The Evil Pieces, also known as the Devil's Pieces are a set of 15 chess pieces given to High-class Devils to increase their ranks by reincarnating other beings into Devils, and as you can tell, there is no king piece"

"Reincarnate? Devils don't reproduce?"

"They do but the birth rate is abysmally low, it ranges from 500-5000 years for a devil child to be conceived"

This makes all devils in the room smile wryly, including the two now revived Sirzechs and Serafall, it's well known that the pure blood devils are near extinction because of their low birth rates.

"I see, interesting we'll continue this conversation later, I don't want to drag this for too long, so I'll get straight to the point"

The demon stops talking and then turns to the two dragons, who have been silently listening to the previous discussions.

"Let's make a deal"

The two dragons don't look surprised as this was within expectations, then they look at each other and silently decide that Red should be the one talking

"What kind of deal Xeron"

Suddenly, a flash of flames appear in front of Great Red and out from it appears an ancient looking piece of paper with what can only be described as demonic writing.

"A demonic contact"

Red stares at the contract for a few seconds and then looks back at the demon and then asks.

"And if I don't sign this contract?"

The second the question left Red's mouth Xeron lost his relaxed demeanor, and out came the demon.

A savage, hideous smile spread across his lips with a look that promised the most atrocities imaginable, he replied.

"Then I'll get to see what the Dragon of Dragons tastes like"

A chill ran down everyone's spine and they remembered what the man was. And one word was on the thought of everyone present 'demon'. How accurate.

"V-very well"

The Great Red quickly composed himself and grabbed the floating contract which is admirable considering he was just threatened to get eaten, and then he proceeded to read it out loud.

"The demons are allowed access to the Dragonic Deus but aren't allowed to harm the world or its inhabitants unless harmed or provoked.

The individual named 'Xeron Kezgenoth' is left to his own devices.

The people of The Dragonic Deus may employ the help of Demons if they offer their king the proper compensation

The individual named 'Grayfia Lucifuge' is to be sent to the individual named 'Xeron Kezgenoth' act as his maid until he says otherwise and she will be subjected to no harm, she may choose to accept or decline"

"Wait what?"

The aforementioned maid asks in bewilderment, only to be met with a mischievous grin from Xeron.

"I like you"

This causes her to sigh and look at her lord, which was currently smiling at her.

"I accept Xeron, and Ophis also agrees now how do we sign"

"Wait a second until Grayfia decides"

This makes the maid turn to her King for answers.

"My Lord, I'm yours and you shall decide"

This makes Sirzechs smile kindly and turn to look at the demon seriously

"Xeron, can you guarantee that Grayfia will be completely safe?"

This makes the demon smile himself and answer

"It's stated in the contract that she will be done not harm, and demonic contracts binds the souls with the penalty of death if preached"

The crimson Satan nods in understanding and then turns to Grayfia.

"Then it's your choice Grayfia, but I suggest you agree for the betterment of the whole devil species"

Grayfia closes her eyes and a few seconds later opens them again and answers.

"Very well"

The smile on Xeron's face widens and he gestures for her to come closer

After she arrives in front of the contract next to the dragons, they stare at Xeron waiting for him to speak

"Now we four will pour a drop of blood on the contract and it will be done"

The devil maid and two dragon gods nod and pour a drop of blood from their fingers on the contract, which is followed by Xeron doing the same.

Then the contract breaks into four pieces and each one enters into one contractor, signaling the sealing of the deal.

Chapter 3: A Loophole

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The contract was sealed and it can never be undone unless the party concerned doesn't value his/her life.

The Abyssal Lord is here to stay, and whatever he does in this world is anyone's business no longer.

"The contract has been made, and demonic contracts can't be broken unless you value your lifes"

Xeron spoke to Ophis, Red and Grayfia after the contract bound all four of them, and seemingly remembering something begins walking towards Grayfia.

The maid sees this and doesn't react, she doesn't feel the need to, now that they're both bound to a contract that states he won't hurt her while she's his maid.

"Ajuka, can you remove this 'queen piece' from her, I don't share"

This causes Sirzechs mouth to twitch, but he doesn't protest as he knows it's impossible,and surely enough Ajuka confirms it.

"No, evil pieces can't be removed from devils while they are alive or they die"

And then silence, the devils didn't speak a word after Ajuka finished, to those who are familiar with the evil peices system knows that a servant can't go against their master without paying a price and Grayfia certainly won't betray Sirzechs.

That means this was a setup, the devils true to their name let Grayfia be taken to monitor the demon, without the need for violence and what's even better is that he made it even easier by stating in the contract that he won't hurt her.

…But after finding all this out the demon was calm, really calm, and the vicious smile creeping up his face holds no well intent

"Ahhhhhhhhh"

A vicious scream from Grayfia followed by her clutching her head and dropping to the ground on her knees

"Garyfia!"

Sirzechs hurries to her side, while the other Satans open their mouths agape at this.

"How are you still alive!, Isn't this a breach of contract, you're clearly hurting her!"

Ajuka practicaly screams as the sound of Grayfia's screaming nearly drowns out his voice.

"Oh No I'm not hurting her"

The demon moves his head left and right calmly while still smiling.

"I'm just injecting something in her mind, that's completely non harmful to demons don't know about devils though, didn't know it'd be this painful"

Xeron face nearly spilts vertically from his smile, and to the horror of the devils, it seems that not only them deal with contacts.

"A bunch of children playing house, think they can fool me"

The sarcasm is practically dripping from each word as the demon speaks while he makes his way to Grayfia.

As he reaches her she stops screaming and he points at her and she floats in front of him.

"It's funny you thought that I wouldn't have expected this from you, hell I even from a scheme coming my way from the Dragons, but it clearly wasn't them that schemed against us all these wears ago"

He reaches his hand that's still adorned in armour and plunges it into her stomach, but unexpectedly it passes right through, swirling inside what seems to be a void as if looking for something, and a second later he pulls out a queen chess piece from inside her and hands it to Sirzechs.

"Here, take your queen"

He turns around and walks toward the Satans, leaving Grayfia to fall to the ground.

While walking his face morphs, his once milky white skin turns into dark scales, his golden red eyes turn into pure a pure black eye with blood red irises, two jet black horns grow out from his head and his teeth multiply by the thousands, lining up side by side in his mouth.

When he reaches in front of the devils, he towers over them by nearly a meter, and as he looks down at them and smiles, they find themselves staring at the ground, not daring to meet his gaze.

"As this is the first time we interact I'll forgive your little mistake"

His voice transforms with every word growing ever lower and lower, and by the end of the sentence it becomes akin to a monster from the depths of the underworld.

"But if you think ever you can pull something similar a second time"

Xeron walks to Serafall and holds her chin and force her to look into his eyes

"I'll personally rip and tear your little realm until nothing is left behind"

The Satan devils, including Sirzechs who is still standing next to Grayfia shiver visibly, while Serafall, the one he's personality holding shiver uncontrollably while tears and snot are streaming down her face and seeing this the monster smiles even wider.

"Will I believe the lesson has been delivered"

Xeron lets go of Serafall and walks away while reverting his transformation, and when he reaches back to his original position he turns to the devils again and stands there in silence seemingly waiting for the group of devils to compose themselves.

And when they're done he begins to speak

"I'll be going back to the Abyss for now, once I finish my business I'll go to where my is currently to collect her"

The four Satans, now semi-collected, processed the information, and after a second Sirzechs was the first to speak.

"Xeron, would you kindly tell me when you'll be back, I'll have someone fetch you to the Gremory household"

"No need I'll be teleporting directly next to her life signature, we're bound by souls now, I can sense her wherever she may be"

The demon's body begins to ignite in flames and before he completely disappears he announces to everyone in the room

"Then this is farewell, for now"

And after a whirlwind of flame he vanishes, like he was never there before.

And another silence follows, and it continues on for about a minute with no-one moving, including poor Grayfia who'll still on the ground, and seemingly cured from the trance Sirzechs was the first to react.

"Grayfia are you alright? What happened to you?"

The crimson devil speaks with care in his voice, albeit the care of a master towards his servant, but still care nonetheless, and offers his hand for Grayfia to get up from the ground.

"...I-I'm fine Lord Sirzechs, the excruciating pain is gone"

Grayfia takes her 'Lord' hand and gets up, still clutching her head in the pain's aftereffects she speaks again.

"...I-I was fine a second and a second after that I felt something probe my mind and forcefully inject a spell into it, and after that my head felt like it was going to be split in half"

The four Satans fell silent in front of this revelation, mind spells are not uncommon, especially among the succubi and incubi, which aren't under the rule of the four Satans but still devils nonetheless.

Then that implies that the demon used a mind spell on Grayfia to harm her in someway, then why wasn't he died like the so-called contact entailed he would, the only answer to this question is that the contract is fake.

"I can practically see it in your eyes young devils, the contract isn't fake."

Only when the rough voice of the old Great Red resounded again did they remember that they two strongest beings in their world are still here.

"And what you did wasn't very smart, schemes are meaningless in front of absolute power, and that's not counting your inability to scheme against your adversary in the first place, simply due to differences in wit"

Red speaks again as he and Ophis make their way to the devils, and while Ophis went to Grayfia to heal her Red spoke to the Satans.

"Then if the contract is a real thing, why didn't it affect him when he harmed Grayfia, while It clearly stated that he can't harm her while she's still his maid."

Ajuka seriously speaks while tapping his right foot on the floor, which he tends to do while thinking about something, to which Great Red replies while smiling pityingly.

"Not all demons are bloodthirsty barbarians, some of them are quite scheming with Xeron the Prince of Despair being the most scheming of them all"

He stops for a second to collect his thoughts and speaks again.

"You devils also do contracts correct? Mostly with humans, but you still do, well the difference between both contracts is that demonic contracts binds the parties involved to a some of clauses that must be followed absolutely, while devils contracts offer a service for a price"

The devils nod in acknowledgment, and wait for Red to continue.

"And here's the catch, the contract doesn't care about the methods employed to follow said contracts clauses, it only checks single mindedly if the parties bound follows them"

"For example what Xeron just do, the contract said to never hurt the individual named Grayfia Lucifuge while she's still his maid, well he most likely did something that's not considered hurting her from his perspective and as the contract binds him to not hurt her and he sees this as not hurting it wouldn't punish him"

"But now that he knows that what he did is hurting her he shouldn't be able to do it again, but he'll probably use a different method next time"

The devils looked tense, while the Great Red shrugged and continued speaking

"Anyhow, you should probably compensate him to avoid his wrath or at least apologize to him"

A magic circle started glowing at his feet.

"Until we meet again"

And he teleports away, and they turn to Ophis and Grayfia to find Grayfia on her feet seemingly unharmed and perfectly healthy, while a teleportation magic circle glows under Ophis's feet.

"Farewell devils, and good luck"

And she departs, leaving behind a band of troubled devils.

Chapter 4: Decisions and a Visit

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Gremory Estate, Underworld

"Hmm, I see"

Zeoticus Gremory, father of the current Satan Lucifer, said after his son Sirzechs Lucifer told him about the events that had transpired yesterday at the underworld capital.

It has to be said that the reaction of the patriarch was certainly unique, which is particularly evident by the reactions of the fellow Gremory devils currently sitting in this hall.

From the top and sitting on the table's head seat is the current Patriarch of the Gremory household Zeoticus Gremory, followed by his wife and mother to Sirzechs Venelana Gremory and next to them to the left is the Satan Lucifer himself followed by his wife Astrei Baal, or more recently called Astrei Gremory and next to her and Sirzechs's son Millicas Gremory, and standing behind them is their former maid Grayfia Lucifuge.

And to the left of the clan head sits his and Venelana's only daughter and Sirzechs's little sister Rias Gremory and occupying the seat next to her is her Queen Akeno Himejima.

"Brother Sirzechs, Grayfia are you both alright!? Are you going to hand her away without fighting? How can there be something like demons for ages and nobody has heard about it?"

Rias, being the hot blooded princess she is, stood up from her seat and fired off a barrage of questions at her brother, who sported a wry smile, the same smile that's being shared by everyone in the room except for Millicas, who's looking at Grayfia silently with concern.

"Ria calm down, and speak slowly ok?"

And of course being the sisc- big brother he is, Sirzechs comforted his little sister.

"That's correct Rias, calm yourself little lady this isn't a behavior befitting of a noble devil"

Rias eventually calmed down after being reprimanded by her mother and brother, and sat down and kept silent, didn't mean she was done with this though.

"As I was saying father, you're surprisingly calm about all this"

The fairly young by devil standard Lucifer was actually admiring his father a little, I mean if someone came to you someday and said that a worldwide threat have come knocking at your doorsteps, demanding some kind of compensation or he will destroy your world and everything in it, isn't something anyone can take without even raising a brow.

And from the varying reactions he got from his family that ranged from gasping in shock to outright yelling, spoke volumes of his fathers mental discipline.

"I mean the issue has basically solved itself has it not? The demon came not for war or conquest and as proof to his claims he signed a contract with the Great Red and Ouroboros Dragon even while having the ability to completely overwhelm them both, or so you claim, then what is there to be worried about?"

And after saying this his brow twitched, which indicates that he remembered something.

"But what worries me is that you tried to trick him and it backfired, I can only hope he doesn't hold a grudge over that, but something tells me it should be fine"

"But Father! He wanted to take away Grayfia!"

The same scene from a moment ago repeated itself, but with a different dialogue and this time it was her father who answered her.

"Rias, first of all it was Grayfia herself that took the last discussion and sealed the contract, and second of all even if she didn't have a say in this, it was and still is her duty as a devil to look for the betterment of her species as a whole, and lastly you shouldn't interrupt the discussion in this rude manner"

Zeoticus spoke calmly but with a serious voice to his daughter, as it was partially his and his son's fault that she grew up spoiled, it stands to reason he has to tolerate and eventually correct her behaviour.

And seeing that her father is supporting this decision and her brother is the one who negotiated it in the first place she turned to her mother.

"Mother, please say something, how can we abandon Grayfia like it's nothing, aren't we all a family"

Seeing her daughter on the verge of tears greatly hurt the heart of the Lady of Gremory, but at the same time, she has to understand.

"Rias, you don't seem to understand, we aren't here to debate this decision, we are here to discuss the consequences of it. Meaning it's already set in stone"

The Gremory Heiress couldn't take it any longer and she cracked.

"But why?! Aren't we powerful!? Aren't we pure blood devils with the support of the entire underworld?! How can we not force a single person to obey our terms"

And in the face of the furious Heiress stood the maid that's the root of the problem.

"Lady Rias calm yourself"

Grayfia spoke with a tone that allowed no opposition, a look that promised pain if the words spoken are not being followed.

Which swiftly prompted the devil Heiress to sit down at her seat and stare at the maid with the eyes of an abandoned puppy.

"B-B-But Grayfia, a-aren't you at least mad? How can they do this to you?"

This made the strict maid's eyes turn from frozen and stoic to warm and motherly.

"Lady Rias the decision was one that I made on my own, and as Master Zeoticus has said it has taken into account the benefit of the entire underworld secondary and House Gremory firstly which every devil regardless of affiliation should do"

This made Rias calm down a little, but she was still very emotional.

"Well said Grayfia, it's important for a devil to act on the basis of benefit of their Household, as it's not only their root, but also their backing in our cruel world unless you're strong enough to handle your own, which not many people are"

"Master Zeoticus, may I ask a question?"

Speaking for the first time since the meeting first started, Akeno decided to ask a question, which Zeoticus certainly didn't mind as he gestured for her to go ahead.

"It's clearly apparent that this so-called Xeron isn't fond of sharing, so will Grayfia continue being the head maid of house Gremory?"

A valid question, it suggests that Akeno here, wasn't all looks but had a decent brain to back it up.

"Yes, a valid question indeed, which I have no answer for yet, because as it stands Grayfia is nearly irreplaceable, so I would like to keep her here, but that clearly isn't and option considering the lengths Xeron went to, to rid Grayfia of any affiliation with the Satan Lucifer, so I decided I will end up negotiating for Grayfia to still be head maid while also being his maid"

Certainly, it spoke volumes when the man in question, nearly killed four Satans and the maid he wanted in the first place just to make a point, so it stands to reason he wouldn't agree to keep her being a head maid here, maybe even interrupt it as an act of rebellion, but that certainly won't come to pass with Zeoticus being the one speaking.

"I have a proposition father"

Astrei spoke to her father-in-law which made him turn to look at her as if waiting for her to continue.

"How about you offer him to stay here, in House Gremory, this way we can avoid the issue with Grayfia altogether"

Astrei wasn't a very powerful devil, but for someone to marry the current Satan Lucifer, that someone had to be special, and in addition to her being childhood friends and sweethearts with Sirzechs, she was also very clever and scheming when she needed to be.

That doesn't mean she's malicious in any way, quite the opposite actually, as he usually only uses her brains to better her family's circumstances.

"Certainly that's a valid proposal, I suppose I'll find the right moment to ask him that, so Sirzechs, did Xeron tell you when he'll arrive?"

And to that Sirzechs only had a strained smile, which didn't bode well for the Gremory Patriarch.

"He said and I quote 'I'll be going back to the Abyss for now, once I finish my business I'll go to where my is currently to collect her' and then he left and we haven't heard from him in a day, not even Grayfia"

"Hmm… that's certainly quite -"

"Arrogant!"

The feisty Gremory Heiress is back at it again, and with more sass than ever, now that she can't do anything about it may as well make her displeasure clear.

"...I was going to say brazen, but you're not wrong, but I assume he has more than enough ability to back up his arrogance, I guess we'll wait and see"

And as if remembering something the Father asked his daughter something.

"That reminds me, how is your peerage now?"

This causes Rias's features to soften a little bit, as evident by the hint of excitement in her voice when she replies.

"They're all fine father, Akeno, Kiba and Koneko are all doing well, Gasper is still in his room locked in, as I have to say on controlling him yet, but recently I seem to have found a new potential member"

She says with stars practically shining in her eyes.

"Oh? By your excitement I assume he/she is quite powerful? Are they devils?"

"No, he isn't a devil. He's a normal human named Issei Hyoudou, but he seems to possess some kind of Sacred Gear, Possibly a Longinus, but he doesn't seem to be aware of it yet"

This causes Zeoticus to smile at his daughter, he knows her dream is to be a rating dream champion, so it's understandable that she's excited about a new potential powerful peerage member.

"Then all is well, now everyone this meeting is officially dismis-"

"Now, now what's the rush. Let us chat for a bit"

A slash in the void and out from it came someone who can only be considered as Xeron, but this time he wasn't wearing armour like when he first arrived, he was wearing a French suit with a new relaxed smile, that seemingly looks like he just went out on vacation.

And with that exact same smile he pulls a chair at the end of the table opposite to Zeoticus, and sits on it while looking very relaxed, then he turns to everyone in the room and says.

"You certainly look like a lively bunch."

Chapter 5: A Guest at the Gremory Household

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Safe to say that the devils present had a wide array of reactions, that ranged from apprehension and tension like with Astrei and Venelana, tiredness and worry like with Sirzechs and Grayfia, anger and resentment like with Rias and finally but weirdly enough fascination and lust with Akeno for some off reason.

Everyone had a reaction to show except for the Patriarch who just smiled like he expected it all to happen.

"I presume you are Sir Xeron?"

The patriarch didn't move form hiss seat as he looked the newcomer in the eye as he said so, which resulted in Xeron smiling amusedly.

"Indeed, I'm the one called Xeron Kezgenoth, I presume you are the head of this so-called Gremory clan? Maybe the father of Zechs here"

Xeron, just kept smiling as he gestured at the Satan Lucifer while he talked, which was certainly something.

"Yes and yes, and it seems to me that the words spoken about you by my son 'Zechs' certainly held some merit"

Zeoticus replied calmly while snickering a little, it appears he was trying to deepen the conversation between them and get the demon comfortable.

"But where are my manners at?, my name is Zeoticus Gremory, Head of the Gremory clan, and next to me is my wife Venelana Gremory"

The patriarch introduced his wife, who was smiling a very seductive smile. Gone was all the apprehension she showed when he first showed up, which didn't go unnoticed by the demon, but he didn't comment on it.

"I believe you are acquainted with my son and his maid so no introductions are needed there. The woman next to my son is his wife Astrei Gremory, while the little kid is their son Millicas Gremory"

Sirzechs didn't react much except the little nod of acknowledgment he gave to the Demon, which Xeron just smiled at, but his wife smiled and bowed a little in greeting, the same with their son.

"And lastly my youngest daughter, Rias Gremory and next to her is her queen Akeno Himejima"

Rias was glaring daggers at Xeron from the very start, and she didn't back down even when his attention was focused on her, which confused the demon, but he deduced that she was connected to the maid Grayfia somehow and didn't like what he did to her.

But what truly confused him is the queen called Akeno, from what he could tell by the age of her soul she was fairly young, about 18-20 years of age.

So how is it that she's not only interested in him which he could somehow understand, but also lustful towards him.

Don't get him wrong, he knew his appearance was very attractive, but the same could be said for all the people present and the entire underworld regardless of age.

So this young devil sure was interesting, maybe he'll play with her a bit to see where this ends.

"A pleasure to meet all of you, sorry for my sudden intrusion here Zeoticus, the only reason I did so was to prove a point, so please don't let it sour our relationship in the future"

The demon said with surprising friendliness that but a smile on Zeoticus's face and a frown on Sirzechs's one

"Haha I understand, I shan't hold it against you, but only if you also don't hold what Sirzechs did against you"

The demon smiled a little and stopped talking for a few seconds to look like he was thinking and finally he replied.

"Well, he's still young so I'll overlook what he tried to pull off, but only under a condition and a request of my own, if you don't mind."

Zeoticus nodded a little to indicate he expected this and proceeded to ask

"And what would those be? I certainly will try my best to fulfill them"

The demon began to like the guy, well who wouldn't?

From the looks of things it appears he cares greatly for his people, and is smart enough to know when to advance and when to retreat, and by the looking at his wife who from the start hasn't spoken yet, but was just seductively smiling at him while observing, it appears they make a great team.

It certainly was a change of pace, different from the bloodthirsty and ruthless environment he grew up and fought in for an eternity, their scheming was kind of refreshing in a way.

"Well, nothing to major really, my condition is that you free Grayfia from any obligation here, in this house because I'll be taking her with me, not to the Abyss mind you, but here in this world and she's free to come here whenever she wishes, but only with my permission"

Zeoticus fell silent and appeared to be thinking on the outside, but on the inside he was again expecting this demand, because from what his son told him, Xeron was quite possessive, and upon knowing that Grayfia was tied here as the head maid, he'll want her to resign.

So he fell silent to purposely make Xeron think that this decision weighed heavily on him, but in truth it didn't, all of this was deliberate to make Xeron view him in a good light.

"That certainly is something significant, but not impossible. Then Grayfia you are fired from being the head maid in the Gremory household, but you are free to visit us anytime"

To this Grayfia wasn't surprised and bowed to Zeoticus in acknowledgment, and when she saw Xeron gesturing for her to come to him, she moved from behind Sirzechs and stood behind Xeron, signaling the start of their relationship.

"Then what is the request?"

After securing his hard earned maid without resorting to violence, the demon was in a good mood, so he replied cheerfully to Zeoticus.

"Nothing serious really, It's just that I want a house in the Human World while I have no money as you now, and I happened to knew that the Gremory household is particularly rich among devils, so I was hoping you can provide me an accomodation for myself and my maid there"

Of all the things the patriarch tried to predict, this wasn't one of them, and it kind of shocked him.

Why would the rumored bloodthirsty demon king want to live among the humans, which is arguably the weakest race there is, but at the same time it didn't really concern him, and the demand as he said wasn't a big deal so he decided to agree.

"My daughter goes to a high school in the human world that's located in Kuoh, Japan. I can arrange a house for you there"

The moment young Rias heard this she scowled visibly, it's as if she swallowed a liter of raw sugar-less lemonade, but ultimately she stayed silent while glaring at Xeron, she knows nothing she says here will change this, and she wasn't blind, she knows her father wanted to make a connection with the one called Xeron.

"I see, the you have my thanks and in addition I'll look after your daughter when I'm there if I have the time"

Zeoticus just smiled and thought that his son falsely accused the guy of being lustful and arrogant.

"Then I'm sorry in advance Sir Xeron, I know my daughter is quite the handful sometimes"

The patriarch stood up and went to shake hands with the demon, which the demon gladly reciprocated.

"I don't mind Zeoticus, and please just call me Xeron, I really don't like titles"

And to that the Patriarch laughed lightly, and asked.

"Buying the house will take some hours and it's currently late at night, would you like to stay here today and head out tomorrow?"

The patriarch offered to the demon, to which Xeron thought about for a minute until ultimately accepting.

"Alright, I'll stay here then but can you please make someone guide me to my room, I'm currently very tired"

"Certainly"

Zeoticus then summoned a bell and rang it, and after a few seconds a red haired mature devil woman strolled into the room and bowed in front of Zeoticus.

"Lapis, please guide our guest Xeron here, to the guest bedroom"

"At once master Zeoticus, please sir Xeron follow me"

The demon nodded and started walking after the maid followed by his own maid, but didn't forget to say his goodbyes.

"Goodnight Zeoticus and his family, I certainly didn't get the chance to talk to all of you today, so I'll do so tomorrow"

And after that he exited the room, with the door closing on its own after he left.

…

[Sirzechs POV]

I'll never get used to that demon, he just came waltzing in here without anyone detecting him and did whatever he wanted, and despite not being overly rude or arrogant this time around, it still kind of pisses me off.

But, part of me can't help but admire Xeron's attitude, as it's per course to the supernatural world's first and only rule, which is 'might makes right'.

Being the very powerful being that he is gives him a lot of privileges, and being a powerful and known being gives you more privileges, which leads me to believe he's going to make himself known to the world sooner or later.

'I have to prepare for when the time comes for that, and there's still the three main powers alliance coming up. *uhh* this is exhausting'

The Satan Lucifer sensed that there will be a lot of headaches coming his way in the future.

"*sigh* Well, that certainly was…. something"

His thoughts were cut buy the voice of his wife speaking to no-one in particular beside him.

"Indeed, what a troublesome fellow he is, but I kind of like his overall bearing, it resembles the attitude of the progenitor of our clan, but more… kingly"

Father told us his observations and I certainly agree with them, Xeron seems to have three different personas he chooses to adopt based on his current circumstances.

The first one being that of a king which he showed me and the other Satans when he signed the contract.

The second one is a personality of mischief, he seems more relaxed and interacts with everyone around him.

The last one I observed today was what can only be called the 'business' persona, which he seems to have adopted in response to my father's attitude towards him.

None of them so far seem to be destructive in any way like what Red and Ophis described to us about all demons, but I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to find out why.

"Good work dear. But, it's kind of sad he didn't even glance my way, didn't Sirzechs say he wanted Grayfia the moment he saw her? aren't I beautiful enough?"

'Mother….'

I mean, I get what she meant by saying that, and everybody here also knew she was trying to ensnare Xeron, so it makes sense she was disappointed when he didn't even give her a second glance.

"No, he was interested in you, but he also instantly knew what you were up to and sneered at me with his gaze"

Well, that's not surprising, considering we already established that he wasn't stupid.

"He didn't talk, but I could feel him telling me with his gaze 'Tell your little wife that it won't work', it was in a way disturbing that I could understand him without speaking"

And in front of this revelation mother was just stunned, it's kind of funny seeing her opening and closing her mouth like a fish.

"W-Wait, did he say LITTLE WIFE? I'm already more than 3000 years old!"

…I don't think that's something you should be boasting about, I mean I'm about 700 years old and feel like a living foss-

Oh shit, I feel her glaring at me, mother I'm sorry but you have to know this.

"Mother, I believe Xeron is older than the Dragon God of infinity, which means that in front of him, we're all children"

My mother just pouted at me like a wronged maiden, and huffed while muttering 'My little Sirzechs isn't cute anymore', which makes me a little sad.

I was about to reply to her when my father cut us off.

"Then Venelana please keep your actions in mind when interacting with Xeron in the future, we wouldn't want him to hold a bad opinion of us"

My mother instantly lost her pouty look and looked at Zeoticus seriously.

"Yes Dear"

And then he turned to all of us.

"Then, this meeting is over. Go ahead and get some sleep and rest well, because I have a feeling we'll all need it tomorrow"

…what a coincidence, I was just thinking that.

Chapter 6: Shocking Revelation

Notes:

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The following day at 7am - [Grayfia POV]

I was walking through the halls of the Gremory Castle in the underworld, when I was suddenly reminded of the events that have taken place in the last two days.

On a normal day like any other and as I was serving Lord Sirzechs as his maid and secretary in a seemingly normal meeting between Satans, as was our dynamic for the last 200 or so years.

When suddenly someone or something came barging in the meeting hall and threatened to destroy our world in its entirety, unless we agreed to his terms without defying him.

And to top it all off, he took one look at me and decided I'm to be his, and demanded it in his so-called 'contract'.

And while I admit he ultimately gave me a choice on the matter, It certainly wouldn't have been wise to refuse, not only for the benefit of the devils as a whole but also to help forge a bond between this new force and the devils, even if it's a bond built on servitude.

Despite what it may seem like, I don't find my current situation a predicament in a way, I mean it clearly states that he won't hurt me willingly while I'm still his maid.

'...or so I would've liked to think'

My head still throbs remembering what happened, it was pure hell, as ironic it may be coming from a literal devil.

While I admit I was partially to blame for this admittedly stupid mishap of trying to trick the unsuspecting 'newcomer' and make him take me in and for me to turn around and report his whereabouts.

We seemingly forget that at the end of the day, there's always someone bigger than you in the world.

Perhaps all these years in power made the four Satans… forget the way of the world.

'Well, no use crying over spilled milk, let us see what the future holds'

After shaking the unnecessary thoughts off, I made my way to the guest bedroom, which currently houses Xeron as a guest of the Gremorys, and as his maid I shall assume the role of tending to him, and that includes walking him up.

After a while of idle walking, I arrive in front of the bedroom's door, it's a large door about twice my size with two giant handles, that leads to the guest room that's about the size of a regular house in the human world.

I open the door and look inside to see the seemingly all powerful Abyssal Lord Xeron sprawled out on the bed only in his boxers, with one leg dangling down the bed.

A stark contrast to the dominant and overbearing demon king he usually seems to be since I have met him two days ago.

'How uncouth'

I approach the bed and prepare to call out to him, but seemingly freeze.

While I'm not innocent and am no stranger to a male's body, I haven't seen one this attractive before.

Seemingly rock hard muscles adorned all over his slim yet muscular form with a gorgeous looking six pack abs that only serves to define his chest muscles more and to top it all off, his hands and leg muscles look so perfected it seems like they were trained for hundreds of years.

And from the bulge in his boxers he seems to be well endowed too, I kind of don't want him to wake him up now and keep looking at him, but I have a duty to uphold.

"Master Xeron, it's time for breakfast, please wake up"

And to my horror I watch his mouth in real time as it curves up slowly forming a grin that I've come to know fairly well, despite our brief time together.

'Damn it all'

"Garyfia have you looked enough, or should I do some poses for you"

Satan damn it, I should've known he was watching me even if it seems like he was asleep.

Maybe he even woke up the moment I entered his room, and that stupid grin on his face that clearly says 'You pervert' is irritating me.

"Lord Zeoticus is calling you for breakfast my lord, he and the madam are currently waiting for you at the dinner hall"

"So, you're just going to ignore what I said, well no matter I'll have plenty of opportunities in the future, for now prepare me something to drink, I heard the humans made something called 'coffee' and I would like to try it"

I keep my stoic demeanor on and bow to him in acknowledgment.

"As you wish master, should I get you the cup here?"

He gets up and snaps his fingers, and with a flash of flames that reminds me of the Phenex clan's magic, he emerges fully clothed.

But this time he wears a hoodie with a pair of sweatpants and a pair of slippers.

'A weird choice of clothes but it certainly him as he has the body of a young human male in his mid twenties'

"Get me my coffee at the dinner table Grayfia, I'll head there myself. You can go now"

He says while walking towards the exit of the room.

It looks like my life as his maid has already started.

…

[Third Person POV]

The dinner hall of the Gremory household is as vast and spacious as the rest of the mainson, and at the center of it was a large table that typically has food served on it.

Xeron strolls through the hall's open doors and comes inside to find the Gremory lord and lady already seated next to each other and eating.

"Good morning Xeron, I take it you had a good rest?"

Zeoticus greeted the demon as he made his way to the table and after the maid responsible for serving the food pulled a chair for him to sit on he replied.

"Good morning to you too Zeoticus, and yes I slept well, it's very comfortable here despite the seemingly large mainson, but where are your children?"

"Rias and Akeno went to their school in the human world, and Sirzechs went to attend to his duties as Satan, joined by his family"

The demon nodded in acknowledgment and then turned his head and stared at the Gremory lady with a knowing smirk and greeted her too.

"Good day to you too Venelana, and I find you gorgeous by the way. I'm just not someone that's swayed by my genitals"

The Gremory lady just huffed and continued eating in silence, while her husband just had a wry smile on his face.

"Please pardon my wife Xeron, that was just something that we do on instinct when negotiating something, as we tend to do for most of the time in devil society"

Xeron then grabbed the eating utensils and started eating quite elegantly, and then he replied.

"I really don't mind it Zeoticus, if find that beings should always pursue power despite the circumstances, and in this case you pursued the negotiating power"

The demon kept eating while taking, and when the couple found that he really didn't mind they also resumed eating.

"But I have to say, you devils built quite a civilization for yourselves"

He then turned to look at the couple and continued speaking.

"I read about your history yesterday before sleeping in what you call the internet and I must say that it's really impressive"

This grabbed the interest of the two devils and they decided to take the opportunity to interact with the demon more.

"What do mean by impressive Xeron? I personally don't find a history of wars to be interesting"

Zeoticus asked the demon while being genuinely interested.

"I mean it literally, from what I understand Lucifer had daddy issues and decided to repel on his father then grabbed Eve, which later became Lilith, and went to the underworld to make a new race"

He stopped for a second to take a bite of the food and after swallowing it to not appear mannerless, he continued talking.

"Then some angels decided they also had enough of the old man's choke hold on them, and instantly their wings went black and they fell, then ran away to make a faction in the human world"

"Then Bam! a three way war of conquest began, that promptly ended the lifes of the leaders of each faction, and nearly crippled the fallen angels"

"And after the 'Great War' the pleasure devils announced independence, then straight after that the remaining devils split into two factions and fought in a a civil war! That ended up nearly annihilating the direct descendants of the devils old leaders"

"And so the formally subordinates now find themselves leading the devil race, which is admirable considering the discrepancy of power the held true until the death if the four original Satans"

The two devils now understood what the demon meant, and not that they thought about it this way they also found it amusing, because at the time all they had in mind was their own survival and the continuation of their respective bloodline, which is understandable.

"I see, it certainly seems impressive if you think about it this way, but if I may sir Xeron, I have a question to ask"

Venelana spoke directly to Xeron for the first time since he came here, which made him pause what he was doing and reply to her.

"Please no titles Venelana, and yes you may ask whatever you have in mind"

Venelana smiled a bright smile and decided to go for it.

"Then Xeron, our son Sirzechs told us that your kind, the demons were at war with the residents of our world before Lucifer even became a devil, can you please tell us more about that because as you may know, not many people are aware of this, the devils included because Lucifer never talked about it"

The demon then stopped eating and put down his fork and knife, then wiped his mouth with a napkin.

"Very well, put wait for Grayfia to come and bring me my coffee, as I don't like to repeat myself."

Venelana and Zeoticus just nodded and resumed eating, and after about two minutes Grayfia came with a cup of coffee and put it in front of Xeron, then she stood behind him.

"Perfect timing Grayfia, I was just asked to talk about the demon war on this world from Venelana and decided to wait for you to arrive"

Grayfia didn't reply, but from the look in her eyes she seemed interested, so Xeron just chuckled and started to speak.

"As you may know, demons hail from a place called the Abyss that not only spawns demons without an end in sight, but also drives them mad with an insatiable power lust and hunger for destruction and chaos"

In contrast to the words coming from his mouth, the demon is drinking the cup of coffee with elegance that rivals that of a devil noble trained for etiquette for a hundred years.

"And some circumstances I won't get into today, I was crowned as the fourth demon king and became known as the Prince of Despair"

The devils wondered what kind of things the demon did in a civilization full of bloodthirsty savages for him to be associated with despair, it makes the skin crawl.

"After that some time passed and we came across the dimensional gap which was gaurded by a huge red dragon with power similar to our own at the time, and as the race that fuels chaos we are, we preached the dimensional gap and forced the Great Red to retreat to this world, then we followed him here"

The devils wondered how powerful were the four demon kings for them to force the Great Red to retreat.

"And after coming to the Dragonic Deus we started killing it's inhabitants which were at the time mostly gods, angels, spirits and dragons"

"The three strongest beings and closest to the demon kings were the Heavenly Father, Great Red and the infinite dragon Ophis. They took command of the existing gods at the time and fought us in a war that spanned about five hundred years, that ended in your world sealed and each commander from your side losing a significant portion of his power to make the seal"

He calmly put down the empty cup of coffee and continued reminiscing about the past.

"Then from what I heard from Red, after our war the heavenly father engaged in your Great War while not fully at his peak, that resulted in him losing his life, which is kind of sad if I'm being honest because I wanted to kill him myself"

Despite the horrifying statement made by Xeron, there was something still missing in the story.

If the strongest beings of out world didn't kill the demon kings and just sealed the world, then where are they now? And why haven't they attacked when Xeron forcefully removed the seal from our world.

"Then why aren't you and the other three kings attaching our world Xeron, don't get me wrong I don't want to die, but it seems to me that it's a prime opportunity now that the Angel Leader is dead"

Zeoticus asked the unspoken question, which led to a very unsettling smile creeping up on Xeron's face.

"Simple, because the other three kings are dead".

Notes:

Please do tell me, what do you think of my little story so far?

But, please keep in mind that this is the first time I wrote anything really.

And have a nice day :)

Chapter 7: Unanswered Questions and Kuoh Town

Notes:

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Some may have expected this outcome, and some may have not, but the question still stands nonetheless.

How would the three demon kings just 'die', those same beings that each possess an amount of power that competes with the powerhouses of this world.

Maybe and internal conflict? But why? Didn't they band together to fight in the war?

After what felt like a long time of silence, Xeron decided to speak.

"I can practically read the question floating on your minds, so I'll give you the answer"

He moved back his chair and directly looked at everyone in the room, including Grayfia.

"Demons are the embodiment of chaos, we don't abide by rules, hierarchies and certainly not friendships with each other unless out of necessity, hell lesser demons can't even be communicated with, only forced to serve by a higher power"

"So, that makes that the little collaboration we did when we invaded this world a necessity to produce results"

The devils now understood, it seems that the demons are more chaotic and uncivilized than they thought.

"The three other kings and I gathered an army each and marshed here with the intent of conquest, and as we all had basically the same amount of power, we decided to share major decisions amongst each other and make them collectively"

Xeron's mood visibly soured when he said that, it seems that he doesn't remember that time fondly.

"And that directly contradicts our nature as demons. Demons don't share, if a demon wants something, it'll take it or die trying. So as you may imagine, we didn't play nice with each other"

"And after this world was sealed and we were repelled back to the Abyss, we fought and I came out the victor in the end"

After Xeron finished speaking he pushed the chair he was sitting on back to its original position and waited for them to process the information.

And after some time Venelana decided to speak.

"In summary, the demons don't like working with anyone, not even their own 'leaders' and that amplifies when it's the leaders themselves. Then you were not only forced to work together, but you were also forced to protect each other, as to not allow one of you to fall and ruin the power balance, correct?"

Xeron stared at her and smirked, seemingly intrigued.

"Interesting, you figured it out yourself, very praiseworthy, and as expected you're a scheming little wife aren't you?"

Venelana's eyes widened for a bit, before just huffing and turning her head in mild annoyance, but it kind of felt good to be acknowledged sometimes.

"Yes, that is correct. And as you may or may not know, demons can absorb the power of a dead soul and make it their own. That means we were stuck babying each other, as to not make one of us betray the other and spike in power basically dooming us all"

…Wait, so him being the only standing here, and the other kings dead. That means.

Grayfia looked at her lord from behind while trembling a little, and as she was being swallowed in her own thoughts, a hand was placed on her head.

She looked up and there was Xeron smiling at her while ruffling her hair and shaking her maid's headpiece.

"I take you all figured it out? But don't worry, especially you my maid. I signed a contract with the protectors of your world. Big bad Xeron won't be doing any conquering any time soon"

Grayfia hated that she was being comforted in the same manner as that of a child….but It kind of felt good.

"Humph"

She flicked his hand away from her head, and tidied her disheveled hair while glaring at him, which made him chuckle in response.

"May I ask a question Xeron"

Xeron then turned around to face Zeoticus, who looked like he had a very serious question in mind.

"You are a demon, 'a being of chaos' as you put it yourself, then why? Why aren't you using the ultimate power you acquired to then finish the war that you all ultimately started"

The demon just smiled at the question dispelling the tense atmosphere, and after what seemed to be a staring contest with Zeoticus, he replied.

"I won't be revealing everything about myself now, would I? What's the fun in that?! You might just have to answer those two questions for yourselves in the future"

And as to signal the end of the topic he asked another question entirely.

"So? Did you finish with the arrangements of my residence in the human world?"

The devils looked at the demon who was still smiling weirdly, but ultimately just shrugged, as it seems that he has no plans of answering any more questions.

"It has been done, I have purchased you a mainson in Kuoh as we discussed, and I also took the liberty to expand it from the inside using magic, so it's currently about the size of a quarter of this mainson"

The demon didn't particularly react to this development since he expected it, but there was something he had to make clear.

"Just expanded the mainson correct?"

Xeron said while smiling innocently, which is certainly very threatening, but didn't sway the Gremory Lord, and he replied with a calm smile.

"Don't worry Xeron, I'm not stupid. I won't try to pull anything on you like my son did"

The demon just snorted in amusement, but didn't pursue the topic anymore, and as Zeoticus called the maids to clean the dinner table Venelana asked a question.

"I'm curious what will you do in the human world Xeron?"

Xeron then thought for a couple of seconds and replied.

"I don't know really, but I was thinking of being a teacher in Kuoh academy, it seems to be interesting"

Another shock to the devils, it seems that they may never understand this so-called demon.

"Very well, put please keep an eye on Rias, because the little girl is really spoiled, and may do very rash decisions if left alone"

And to that, the demon just nodded, he agreed to do so after all.

Zeoticus then summoned a set of keys and a real estate contract and handed them to Xeron.

"These are the keys and the papers of the property, and Grayfia knows its location she can take you there"

Xeron took the keys and documents and turned around and walked to the exit, and on his way there heard Venelana speaking to him one last time for now.

"Kuoh town is jointly governed by the Sitri and Gremory Heiresses, Rias knows about you since yesterday, but Sona Sitri is the younger sister of the Satan Leviathan and hasn't left the human world in a while"

The demon stopped and turned around while smiling.

"Sona-tan? Well, yes I've heard of her before from Serafall's mouth"

The two devil lords felt a little sad for the future of the young devil heiress, but nonetheless Venelana continued talking.

"Though I suspect she already knows that you'll arrive by now, as dear already told Serafall you'll be staying there"

He nodded, and resumed accompanied by his maid, and just before leaving the room his voice echoed in their ears.

"Let us meet again Zeoticus and Venelana, it was a pleasure getting to speak with you both"

Notes:

Sorry for the smaller chapter.

I wanted to wrap up the conversation in this chapter, so I can start the plot fresh on the next one.

Chapter 8: New House

Chapter Text

Arriving at the human world, Xeron and Grayfia floated above the sky of Kuoh town, invisible to the human eyes.

Xeron was wearing his typical black french suit and was floating in the air without wings behind his back, while Grayfia was in her working maid outfit and was floating in the air with her devil wings, which she has 10 pairs of.

"Fascinating, the humans sure are an interesting race to be able to build something of this scale without a power to be mentioned"

Xeron spoke to no-one in particular while scanning the town with his eyes.

To which Grayfia just nodded quietly, as she also shared the same opinion to a degree despite not interacting with the humans much.

"Lead the way Grayfia"

Grayfia then started flying towards a location followed by Xeron, and as she floated in the sky she couldn't help but grumble internally and then after she couldn't take it anymore she finally asked.

"Master Xeron, I could directly teleport us to our destination then why do you insist on us flying there"

Before they departed from the Gremory mainson Grayfia had started creating a magic circle for them to teleport to the mainson directly.

But Xeron immediately refused and instead insisted that they travel there while flying. To which Grayfia can only comply.

"Grayfia…only teleporting around is boring you now? You have to appreciate the fine details in life"

The demon has a philosophical reason to his actions. Preposterous, maybe next time he'll tell her that she shouldn't hurt anima-

Grayfia got flicked on the back of the head, cutting off her train of thought, she then turned around glaring at him.

"I heard you"

What? Heard her? But she wasn't talking, can he read minds?

"No, I can't read minds"

What the hell?! Then how?

"I simply read it on your face, you're quite expressive for a seemingly 'stoic' maid"

Grayfia reflected, she always heard people say that she was 'always serious' or 'should loosen up a bit' but being called 'expressive' was brand new to her.

But wait, how can he see me while I was walking ahead of him? And when she looked back at him for answers, he was smiling.

"Who told you I can only see in front of me"

She didn't speak, she just turned around and continued walking in silence, this man was terrifying, she was officially scared. And when she heard him laughing quietly behind her she got even more scared and annoyed because he was making fun of her.

…..

"We have arrived Master Xeron"

The duo landed on the ground and stood in front of a mansion.

It looked quite big, about 400 meters in size and had a private garden and also a swimming pool, which was really extravagant to be honest.

And as they approached the entrance and man that looked to be in his 30s approached them and bowed.

"Good day to you sir Xeron and lady Grayfia"

Xeron stared at the man for a couple of seconds and then returned the greeting.

"Good day to you too unknown Gremory servant"

The now identified Gremory devil just straightened his back and then replied.

"My name is Zedekiah, I'm the one in charge of the Gremorys' real estate business in the Human World, please come to me whenever if you have anything you require in the future"

Xeron just nodded and then told the devil he can leave.

"Very well, it has been a pleasure sir Xeron"

The devil teleported out if the mainson with the signature Gremory magic circle.

The duo entered the gate and started exploring the mainson, it was a typical one, with multiple rooms, multiple bathrooms, a large kitchen, a large living room and a large master bedroom.

After exploring the mainson Xeron sat on the sofa in the living room with Grayfia standing behind the sofa.

"Grayfia, come sit beside me so we can talk"

Grayfia just raised a brow, but complied nonetheless.

She walked to the front of the sofa and sat next to him while awaiting to see what he's going to say.

"You require more servants, correct?"

Grayfia thought about the large mainson, and the thought of cleaning it alone makes her skin crawl, so she nodded unconsciously.

"Very well"

Then part of the demon's shadow that was cast the ground split from him and rushed across the floor ahead of them and from it emerged five beings.

This surprised Grayfia and she was about to attack Xeron's hand was stretched in front of her signalling her to back down, so she complied and looked at the new beings in interest.

The five beings were humanoid in form, but what can one only call demonic in appearance.

There were two men, they had large bodies and two straight horns coming out of their foreheads, that was about have the size of Xeron's when he transformers, they had charred black skin that spanned across their entire body, and were nearly naked except for the cloths covering their privates.

They other three were female, but different from the males they had smaller sized horns, but their body wasn't black-skinned, quite the opposite actually, they resembled and attractive human model, with varying body shapes and skin tones, they would honestly pass as humans if not for the horns sprouting out of their foreheads, and them being covered in only cloths that hide their privates.

All five of the new additions shared one thing in common, they were standing in complete submission, some of them even shaking slightly.

"Identify yourselves in order"

Xeron commanded seriously, with the presence of a king, which made the demons tremblingly answer.

"I'm Zeya"

The demoness on the far left first spoke, she was white-skinned with blonde hair and about 180cm in height with a killer body.

"I'm Zora"

The next demoness spoke next, she had Asian features with a petite body with black hair, she could even pass for a boy if not for her extremely feminine face.

"I'm Zeld"

The last demoness was brown-skinned with a tall slim figure, and the best looking legs one can have, she had tall brown hair that was tied in a ponytail.

"I'm Zenovur"

The first of two demons introduced himself, and as he looked nearly identical to his other kin, there was no need to look any further.

"I'm Zeldrac"

The last demon introduced himself, signalling the end of their introductions, and after hearing all of them Grayfia had many questions.

"One at a time Grayfia"

She nodded and then started asking.

"Are they demons? Like you?"

Xeron just nodded and snapped his fingers, then the five demons' attire changed and each was dressed in maid and butler outfits accordingly.

"They are indeed demons, my kin to be precise and they shall me under your lead and care from this day onwards"

Grayfia just nodded absentmindedly, but suddenly a thought popped in her head.

"Will they follow my orders"

Xeron then turned to look at the demons and said seriously.

"Naturally they well, unless they can face the consequences"

The demons just nodded repeatedly like a broken toy, and seeing that Xeron turned back to Grayfia.

"Then how are they here without you using magic?"

"I have all my kin in my shadow at all times, they are but five beings I picked randomly"

Grayfia marvelled at the ability to store your own personal army in your shadow at all times, but didn't dwell on it too much for the safety of her sanity.

"May I ask more personal questions?"

Xeron found it cute that she asked such a question and responded by pulling her and seating her on his lap.

"Of course, my cute maid can ask anything she wants"

Grayfia was surprised at the sudden pulling, and when she found herself seated on his lap she was a little annoyed, but didn't protest nonetheless.

Simply because she found that he had no intention of taking advantage of her, and also because she simply can not fight him, so why do anything.

And to her amusement, she found that the three demonesses were seething in jealousy, which stroked her own female instinct quite a bit.

Then after shaking her body a bit to adjust, she looked at him and asked.

"Why do the female demons look like humans, while the male demons look like your demon transformation?"

Xeron just chuckled but still answered truthfully.

"I made them that way, every demon king can shape his kin however they wish, and when I first arrived here in this world and saw Adam and Eve I decided to steal the design"

Grayfia can't help but question her new lord true nature, are you really a demon? And how in the hells did you copy the Leader of Angels design?

"Don't worry about it"

Xeron replied to her thoughts again, and this time while patting her head, Lucifer-dammit.

"Grayfia, you can go do your work now and after you're done prepare lunch, and take the new servants, if you find them lacking do as you see fit"

Grayfia then stood up from his lap and straightened her clothes and bowed.

"Very well, then all of you follow me, we have a duty to attend to"

Grayfia then stood up and left with the five new servants, leaving Xeron sitting on the sofa alone.

Chapter 9: Welcome Party

Chapter Text

A while later - 4pm - Xeron's Mansion

Xeron was currently relaxing on the couch in his new mainson's living room while reading a book.

He was reading a book about mathematics, which he found interesting and was planning on teaching it to the Kuoh academy students.

Behind him was his kin and new maid Zeya, she was assigned to him by Grayfia to tend to his needs.

"The subject of explaining everything with numbers sure is interesting, don't you think Zeya?"

Xeron asked poor Zeya, and she immediately started trembling. She was both excited and fearful at the same time.

Xeron saw this and gave her a moment to compose herself, and after a minute she calmed down and replied.

"It's….new master Xeron, and I certainly don't understand a lot of things the humans do"

Xeron just chuckled and continued reading his book.

"I myself don't understand some things due to how it was in the Abyss, but we'll get it eventually"

The maid just lowered her head and nodded.

Xeron was about to resume reading but something made him stop and put the book down.

"Interesting"

He then gestured with his hands and a communication magic circle was drawn on his ear.

"Grayfia"

An audible crashing sound was heard and after a while the person on the other side, or Grayfia was heard speaking.

...How may I assist you lord Xeron?

Xeron chuckled in amusement at the hint of a grudge in her voice and continued talking.

"We have guests coming to our doorstep in a few minutes, and as you are familiar with them, I'll have to trouble you with welcoming them in and getting them to me"

He paused a little for the maid to process what he said and then continued.

"Also prepare extra portions of food for lunch, I'll have them join us"

He then cut the magic circle and continued reading.

…

[Grayfia POV]

I was in the kitchen preparing lunch with the two new maids, when suddenly I heard the voice of my new lord Xeron.

He said that we're expecting guests and that I should go and receive them myself.

And after the magic circle was cut off, I thought for a while about who was going to come here, and then it hit me.

'If it's someone I know, and if it's a devil and we are currently in Kuoh then it can only be one person or in this case people'

"You two keep going, I'll go and receive our guests"

The two maids looked up from what they were doing and answered in unison.

""Yes! Lady Grayfia""

I then nodded and left them and started walking through the halls.

'Lady Grayfia Huh, I haven't been called that in a long while'

Shaking the stupid thoughts of my head, I arrived at the mainson's entrance and began sensing different auras at the outside gate.

'Sona Sitri, Tsubaki Shinra, Rias Gremory and Akeno Himejima'

I see, they were informed by their families and we're here to welcome lord Xeron.

Which made sense really, devils can't just ignore someone as powerful as Xeron living in their territory, they have to at least build connections with him.

I then open the mansion doors and walk to the gate and wait for them to enter through the mansion gates.

…..

[Rias's POV]

Arriving at the demon's mainson, I stand in front of the outer gate along with my friend and fellow devil Sona and my and her queen Akeno and Tsubaki.

After the school ended, my father contacted me and informed me that he bought Xeron a mansion near our school, and I should go and greet him along with my queen.

I wasn't exactly thrilled about it and tried to protest, but as it was an order from the family head, I ultimately had no way of refusing.

I was warned not to act impulsively and to match the decorum of a noble devil and I should be fine, but looking at this place, it seems to be the same as any human mansion.

"I expected it to stink or something, isn't he supposed to be evil?"

I said that out loud and Sona looked at me like I was dumb, Hey!

"Rias please behave yourself, this is very important and should be treated as such"

I huffed and turned to Akeno who was laughing at me, damn you Akeno!

Sona then walked up to the gate and was about to knock when suddenly they opened on their own slowly, revealing Grayfia standing far ahead near the mansion's front door.

"Good afternoon lady Sona, lady Tsubaki, lady Rias Gremory and lady Akeno. Master Xeron is waiting for you"

She said while bowing politely in greeting, she didn't get the chance to rise again when I dashed to her and hugged her.

"Grayfia! Are you alright? Did the demon hurt you in any way?"

She smiled warmly and embraced me back, with the same warm smile she had since my childhood, and after a while she pulled me away.

"I'm fine lady Rias, in fact lord Xeron is really reasonable and haven't done anything malicious towards me or anyone for that matter"

I looked at her a second time to try to confirm her words, but as always I couldn't read her expressions even if I tried.

"Now then follow me"

She started walking ahead of us and we followed her through the mainson.

It was mostly empty except for the furniture as it's still brand new, until we arrived at the door to the living room which had Xeron inside.

Grayfia knocked a couple of times and then pushed the door open, revealing a kneeling male in a butler uniform.

The male in question looked like a human, but with charred skin and two horns, and as we looked at him with interest, Grayfia explained to us who he was.

"That's one of the lord's kin, basically another demon that's his servant. What Lord Xeron said to me about them makes them nearly like the reincarnated devils we make"

I see, demons also have a servitude system in place, I wonder If it's like ours?

As we spoke amongst ourselves we heard Xeron dismiss the demon and he vanished in a flaming spiral. Then he turned to us and then frowned.

He stood up from the sofa he was sitting on and then vanished, and as soon as we were about to look for him, I heard his voice beside me which made my skin crawl.

"What is this?"

I turned around to see what he was referring to and I saw him thrusting his hand into Sona's abdomen to the horror of the girl mentioned.

As I was about to fire a ball of destruction at him, Grayfia stopped me.

I was about to yell at her, when I saw him pulling his hand back from her through a void of sorts, almost like a magic tunnel, and when he pulled his hand out Sona was perfectly fine which relieved me.

I turned to look at him and found that in his grasp there was a demonic familiar in the shape of a bat, which was thrashing around as he quietly observed it.

"Hmm? I recognize this magical signature from somewhere, who was it? ...Oh! Serafall! *laughs* I guess I should've known"

…It was Sona's sister, the Satan Serafall bound the familiar on her, this explains how she was able to observe her movements everywhere, Sona complained to me about it a lot.

"Sister *sigh*"

Looking at Sona she seems tired, and why wouldn't she? Having your older sibling know your every move is certainly something don't envy.

I'm always grateful that my brother isn't like that, right?

"Serafall, I'm sorry but this is a private meeting"

Xeron then speaks to the bat in the eye and covers it in magic and then it vanishes, he seems to have teleported it somewhere.

He then looks at us while smiling and speaks.

"Why don't you join me here as we wait for lunch?"

He gestures to us to sit on the different sofas facing him and after we sit he turns to the maid behind him.

"Prepare us some tea Zeya, and Grayfia, thank you for bringing them here, you may go now"

Grayfia then bows slightly and walks away, accompanied by the maid named Zeya, who seems to be also a demon.

After sitting comfortably on his sofa, he leans back and greets us.

"Good afternoon young ladies, and sorry for the rude introduction a second ago, I had the worst in mind, but it seems it wasn't necessary"

He then turns his head to Sona and speaks to her directly while smiling slightly.

"Sorry little Sona, I didn't mean to scare you"

Sona brow twitched a little at the way he was addressing her, but she quickly calms down and answers politely.

"It's fine sir Xeron in fact, I should be the one apologizing for my sister's behaviour"

He just laughs slightly and waves his hands around.

"It's fine. Serafall's attitude towards you is certainly fun to watch"

And to that Sona sighed, it seems she's destined to be made fun of for her sister's antics.

The maid called Zeya comes in with a plate that has five cups of tea, and puts it on the table in the middle of the room, and after each one of us takes a cup, Xeron resumes talking.

"I'm familiar with the brat and Akeno, but I believe I haven't been introduced to you two, my name is Xeron Kezgenoth, a demon and soon to be math teacher in your little school"

Hey! I'm not a brat! I'm 19! I'm considered an adult in the human world!

"Ufufufufu"

I turn to Akeno and see her laughing at me! Damn you Akeno!

"I'm Sona Sitri and this is my queen Tsubaki Shinra, a pleasure to meet you sir Xeron"

The hateful demon just smiles politely and shakes his head.

"No titles please Sona, if you must then call me teacher Xeron, as I'll be one starting tomorrow"

Sona nodded without saying anything, and he turned to look at Tsubaki.

"Hello little miss Tsubaki, it seems to me that you're quite a well mannered young lady"

The hateful demon is seducing Sona's queen! Look! She's blushing! Damn you too!

"...Thank you teacher Xeron, I was once from a noble clan in the human world, so they taught me etiquette since childhood"

He nodded at her and turned to Akeno.

"Good afternoon Akeno, we didn't get a chance to speak in our last meeting, but I certainly noticed you ogling me while I talked"

"Ufufufufu"

…Akeno, and looking at the woman, she was smiling! She wasn't embarrassed at all!

"Good afternoon to you too teacher Xeron, but you can't blame me for staring, you're just too handsome"

And they're now openly flirting! Sometimes, I wonder how Akeno is still a virgin with all that sexual energy she's carrying around.

"It's good to be young, so stare as much as you want. But don't do something I won't"

He winked at her and she responded with Ufufufufu'ing.

…My queen has been taken by a demon.

Chapter 10: Silly Little Game

Chapter Text

[Third Person POV]

The living room of the mainson was lively at this time of the day.

There were about 4 large sofas in the middle of the living room facing each other with a large table in the middle.

Xeron was currently sitting on the one near the end of the room by the large fireplace with the maid Zeya standing behind him.

On the sofas on either side of him were the two young devil ladies, accompanied by their respective queens.

And as they were all calmly drinking the tea served Xeron interrupted the silence.

"Now that introductions have been made, am I inclined to believe that your little visit was the work of your families?"

The demon asked while not expecting a reply backThe two devil Heiresses didn't reply, but eventually Sona just nodded.

"It's fine, I don't really mind. And I have nothing to do for now, so I'll indulge you for a while"

He said while crossing his legs and putting one over the other, as he sank back into the sofa.

He seemingly treats this as a field trip, any normal human would be horrified with the implications of two noble devils visiting them personally. But he wasn't exactly a normal human.

The two devil Heiresses' brow twitched in unison, but they also expected this, they were informed by their respective sibling the very little they knew about Xeron, and from that very little they knew that the man didn't exactly comply with the norm.

Taking charge and being the first to speak up, Sona decided to ask him directly and ease her lingering worries.

"Teacher Xeron, as you may know I along with Rias were assigned here in Kuoh as rulers and proxies of the devil race"

Xeron turned to look at her without any change in his seemingly friendly demeanor, she tried to read his expression but couldn't, so she sighed internally and continued.

"I was wondering if you'd take part in managing the town or frankly demand ownership. My sister didn't mention anything about the topic so I decided to ask you personally"

Sona then stopped as tension filled the air making the company of devils present nervous, except for the person responsible herself, she just stared at Xeron, seemingly waiting for a response.

"Heh, quite the straightforward little girl aren't you. You certainly are different from that sly sister of ours"

Xeron just scoffed playfully at the foursome, instantly dispelling the tense atmosphere, which in turn relieved the young Sona, even if she wasn't showing it on the outside.

"And you don't need to worry about me wanting a piece of your little pie, you can keep doing whatever you were doing, treat me like a friendly nextdoor demonically handsome oldman"

He flashed a bright smile and continued lazing on the sofa, at which Sona just sighed and slumped back at her seat.

"But keep in mind that while I don't want to take part in governing this town, it's still my chosen domain, so if I find a threat imposed on it, I'll take the action I deem necessary"

Sona just nodded without saying anything, it may even benefit her in the long run, having someone so powerful a couple of blocks away from her is certainly a plus.

But she had to tell him one last thing.

"Please call us if the matter involved regular humans, as it requires clean up"

He just waved at her dismissively, while laughing a little.

"I'll take care of it myself Sona, don't worry about it"

She just sighed again, if she took a penny for every time she sighed today she'll have enough to mortgage a house.

"Now then, with that out of the way, let's move onto another topic"

He took the last sip from the tea cup he was holding and straightened himself to put it down on the table.

"Let's play a game"

This startled the devils present, they came here expecting a gloomy demon with an overbearing presence, not a cheerful handsome looking young game that wanted to play.

"Ara~ Ara~ and what would that game be, teacher Xeron~?"

The sultry voice of Akeno echoed in their ears, and that made the smile on Xeron's face get wider.

"I'll ask each one of you a question and each one of you may ask me a question in return, anyone may refuse to answer the question he/she was asked, but he has to be asked another question until he answers"

The devils thought about for a little bit and then nodded eagerly, they were still young after all, and being young people like to pursue excitement.

"Then the brat my start first"

He gestured to Rias to speak first, and she just snapped back at him.

"I'm not a brat!"

And faced with her sudden outburst only made the smile hanging on Xeron's face to get wider.

"Brats tend to whine a lot, which seems to fit your image very much, what are you, 5?"

The combination of the words he spoke and the gloating smile he now had even made Sona, as cold and serious as she is get a little irritated. Let alone the young and impulsive Rias.

"I'm NOT!"

"Heh, tomato head"

*Pppft* x3

Sounds of stifled laughter echoed around, and combined with the stupid new title, made the red head visibly shake in anger.

Thankfully, the crimson haired princess seemed to still have some reason in her, as she didn't attack him yet, and Sona certainly didn't want to wait long enough to find out when that patience will end, so she and Akeno stood up to appease the irritated Rias.

"Rias, calm down. It's obvious he was she missing with you"

"Ufufufufu Rias, you sure are spicy today"

Sona patted her in the shoulder and gestured her to sit down, while Akeno was laughing at her friend's misery.

And after she sat on her seat near Akeno and calmed down, she looked at Xeron with irritation still visible on her face and spoke.

" 'Teacher' Xeron, are you even qualified to teach at our school? I'm fairly certain that the place you hail from is fairly backward in technology in comparison to our own"

She spoke with a clearly mocking tone in her voice, and instead of being irritated Xeron looked amused, and he replied her with the same mocking tone she directed at him, minus the slight malice of course, as he considered her a rebellious little girl and didn't hold grudges over her attitude.

"I have a PhD in Mathematics kid, tell me what do you have? Aren't you just a little girl with slightly rich parents?"

Rias first looked confused and then she sneered, it was simply impossible that he had a PhD when he just arrived here in this world a few days ago, but her face paled when he summoned the certificate out, which also had his name on it.

"I studied and got it in the day I was away after I arrived to this world"

He handed the certificate to Sona, which checked it thoroughly while also being amazed, and after a while she handed it back to him.

"It's real, which is certainly amazing"

He looked at her smugly while replying.

"You can also check with Kuoh Academy about its authenticity, if you're not yet convinced"

Rias was mortified, the demon was lying in wait for her and waiting for the chance to embarras her! She'll never forgive him.

….She conveniently ignored that she was the one who did this to herself.

"Now then it's time for me to ask. Do you know what sacred gear Issei Hyoudou holds?"

….Silence

The absolute disparity between topics is quite baffling, one moment he is making fun of Rias and the other he confirms that the young man she was interested in indeed possesses a sacred gear, which in turn made the girl in question smile widely.

"I knew it! But wait! How did you know Issei? And why do you ask about his sacred gear? He's going to be in my peerage, I'm not handing him over to you!"

She celebrates her knew discovery then she turns to him and scowls, she made him snicker.

"Don't worry I won't take him, but I have my own personal reasons for asking, and judging by your reaction you don't seem to know what his sacred gear is, a shame"

Leaving her still scowling at him like he owed her money, he then turned to Akeno who was quietly thinking of something, and seemingly nervous but still determined she decides to ask.

"Can you revive the dead?"

The question forced the still overjoyed Rias to stop and look at her friend with concern, and seeing this made the demon answer more truthfully than he typically would.

"It depends Akeno, who do you want to be revived?"

"My mother. Please I'll do anything!"

The girl wailed with a broken heart which made the demon's heart soften.

"Was your mother human Akeno? I feel a trace of humanity coming from you along with devil and fallen bloodlines"

Hearing the word 'fallen' made Akeno recoil in disgust, but she forced it down and continued talking.

"Yes, my mother Shuri Himejima, was a shrine maiden in service of the Shinto Gods, but she was branded a heretic by them after she fell in love with my father, a fallen angel"

She muttered the word 'father' grudgingly, which made Xeron sigh sadly and continue talking.

"I see. Well you're in luck, I have a certain relationship with the Shinto Gods and can certainly revive her, but you have to wait until tomorrow"

Her face turned from being sad to being overjoyed and she shot up and rushed toward Xeron and clutched his hands.

"Really?! Are you certain!"

He smiled and removed a hand from her grasp and patted her head with it.

"Really, tomorrow in school I'll come to you to and we can start, but I have to do some preparations first"

She smiled brightly with no hint of the regular mischief and blobbed back to her seat, with a smiling Rias looking over her.

"My question then, Akeno what are the color of your panties"

Xeron asked seriously and that made the girls looked stunned, except for Akeno who was laughing.

"They're black~~ wanna see them~?"

He just chuckled while shaking his head and then turned to Sona.

"Sona your turn, ask away"

Sona shook her head and cleared her mind of her friend's queen affairs, she loved them both and was happy for Akeno, but as the talk was settled she would have to see for herself the results of his claims tomorrow.

Not that she didn't believe him, it's just that she was simply excited, it's her first time seeing someone be revived after all.

"*cough* Then teacher Xeron, does the individual named Genshirou Saji pocess a sacred gear?"

The demon blinked for a moment and then asked a question in amusement.

"And what makes you think I know about this Saji?"

Sona just smiled good naturally at him, while answering his query.

"I have a feeling that you would be aware of him"

He just grinned at her, seemingly proud of her deduction skills.

"Wonderful skills little Sona! I'm sure Serafall is proud of you, and to answer your question. Yes, Saji has a sacred gear and with a similar nature to Issei at that, but I won't divulge more information than what I already did, you have to work hard to better yourselves, I can't just spoon feed you information forever"

She nods and waits for his question, which he thinks about for a couple of seconds.

"What is your lifelong dream?"

Sona looked stunned for a couple of seconds but then she replied.

"I want to make a school in the underworld that teaches not only High-Class devils, but Low and Middle class devils as well"

Xeron just chuckled while shaking his head.

"A noble goal, do invite me when you achieve that dream of yours Sona, I have a feeling it'll happen in the near future"

She just nodded thankfully at him, and then sat down and stayed quiet, seemingly lost in thought.

"Tsubaki, you're up. what's your question?"

Tsubaki then looked at Xeron and thought for a question to ask and she eventually found one.

"Is the barrier surrounding this mainson made with magic? Or something else? I only felt it now, and we've been here for a while"

The demon nodded while looking impressed.

"It's honestly impressive that you even noticed it, and as for what it was made of, it's made with the energy demons use, with is called 'miasma' not magic"

"I see"

Xeron then looked at her with interest and asked the last question of their little game.

"Are you also related to the Shinto pantheon? I can feel that your magic has Shinto divine origin"

She just nodded while calmly stating.

"I was once a member of the Shinra clan which, like Himejima clan is one of the master clans under the Shinto pantheon here in Japan, but I was cast aside"

Seeing that the girl had no leftover emotions for her origin, Xeron didn't comment any further.

"I see, then all of you get ready, it's time for lunch"

Before they had a chance to say anything, they sensed Grayfia entering the room calmly.

"Master Xeron and everyone, the food is ready"

Chapter 11: Izanami and Shuri

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After the group finished eating Xeron and Grayfia accompanied them to the gates of the mainson to say goodbye.

"We shall see eachother again soon little devils"

"Goodbye Lady Rias, Akeno, Tsubaki and Lady Sona"

The master and maid duo said after each other, and the devil group returned their goodbyes while walking away.

And after the devil group disappeard from site Xeron walks back to the mainson, followed closely by his maid.

And when he enters the mainson doors again, they close on their own, startling Grayfia and as she was about to say something she notices her master biting his fingers, drawing black blood.

Startled by the sudden sight, she froze in place. But what truly disoriented her was the next sight.

Xeron dropped a drop of black blood on the ground and chanted something in an unknown language that sounded like someone was screeching.

And when the drop of blood hit the ground, a black magic circle with ominous red flashes glowed on the ground and after a while it summoned someone.

The figure appeared to be a woman seemingly in her thirties, she had snow pale skin and snow white hair with contrasting sharp blue eyes and full red lips, she also had a slim figure that further enhanced her overall looks and brought out her feminine appeal.

She was dressed in a long black traditional kimono adorned with streaks of gold and silver that seemed to belong to only the elite of the elite.

The woman in question was breathtakingly beautiful, and had the aura of an empress, which even Grayfia who's called the 'Silver Haired Queen of Annihilation' found herself a little suppressed by which spoke volumes of the woman's power, which makes the next scene more mind-blowing.

"Izanami"

The woman first looked around confused and after Xeron spoke she flinched and turned her body around like a rusted gear, and when her eyes fell of on Xeron, she instantly trembled violently and kneeled on the ground slightly tearing her expensive looking kimono.

"M-M-M-M-Master!"

…Grayfia was stunned, not only was the now identified Izanami a Goddess from the divine energy emanating from her, but also she was a Primordial Goddess at that! A Goddamn PRIMORDIAL!

The woman in front of Xeron was the Shinto pantheon's Goddess of death known as Izanami-no-Mikoto, the woman rumored to be all powerful and also all hating.

She was rumored to be ruthless to all, including her own pantheon's fellow gods, the only one who's fame and power rivals her own in their pantheon is her own daughter and chief goddess of the Shinto pantheon Amaterasu.

And said woman now was currently kneeling in front of Xeron, while trembling like a deer caught in headlights.

"Izanami-no-Mikoto, It seems that you have grown up since the last time I saw you"

The woman flinched again while staring at the ground and she answered weakly.

"I-It's natural master, It has been a few eons since you graced this realm"

Xeron just nodded while continuing to speak.

"I know, but I'm here now and I won't be leaving anytime soon"

Izanami didn't say anything, but judging by the small blash visible on her snow white skin, she seems to be happy.

"Rise and follow me Izanami"

Xeron spoke lightly while walking ahead towards the mainson's living room.

Izanami rose from the ground and looked at Grayfia for a moment while showing no reaction whatsoever, and after looking at her up and down she turned around and swiftly dashed after Xeron.

The maid just sighed and shook her head then proceeded to follow them.

…

After sitting in the living room, which seems to be very busy since their arrival in mainson, Xeron held up his cup of tea that Grayfia had prepared and looked at the two ladies present.

"I believe introductions need to be made"

Izanami, who was seated in front of him on a different sofa, just quietly took the tea cup and sipped slightly, but still nodded in acknowledgement.

Grayfia, who was standing behind her new master, didn't say anything. But she was certainly waiting for his follow-up.

"Grayfia, this is Izanami, also known as Izanami-no-Mikoto the primordial goddess of both creation and death. And she seems to have started a pantheon while I was away"

Xeron said lightly while pointing at Izanami who seems to have composed herself significantly since her arrival.

"She is also my servant, after she signed a contract with me in exchange for power. She became a Goddess and by extension my servant for eternity."

The woman in question didn't react much, but she still looked at Grayfia with a silent stare.

'Not a word!'

The stare seemed to mean this Grayfia, which is certainly very amusing. Someone has to be either very desperate or very stupid to sign a contract with that man.

…Which ironically contains herself. But Grayfia was a very professional maid, so she didn't make fun of the Goddess, at least outwardly.

"Izanami, this is Grayfia Lucifuge. A pureblood devil and a quiet well known one at that. I basically demanded for her to be my maid as one of my contract clauses to stay in this world"

He didn't elaborate much, but the goddess just nodded seemingly understanding. She seems to be very much familiar with Xeron. But the slight snicker she let out was very annoying in Grayfia's opinion.

"Now for what I summoned you here for Izanami, I want a soul in your possession"

Izanami looked at her Master and quickly answered.

"At once master Xeron, which one?"

"A human woman known as Shuri Himejima, who a couple of years back was branded a heretic for loving a fallen"

Izanami just nodded while opening a magic circle under her, the magic circle glowed in divine energy and from it emerged a transparent floating body in the shape of a woman wearing a shrine.

The woman had light brown eyes and a black hair similar to Akeno's, she also looked as equally curvy as Akeno, which confirmed that the secret lies in the Himejima genes.

Shuri opened her eyes and looked at the goddess, and lowered her head in reverence.

"Shuri Himejima, My master ordered me to hand your soul over. So you have been pardoned for your transgressions"

The she-phantom looked surprised but just bowed silently and stood in place without speaking.

"Shuri Himejima, I'm known as Xeron Kezgenoth. Now come here"

Xeron introduced himself to Shuri politely and gestured for her to approach him. Which she quickly complied by floating over to his direction.

When she arrived beside him, she took a deep look at his face which was smiling slightly at her then bowed in silence. And while the sight would normally stun her due to the man's overwhelmingly good looks, she didn't get the luxury to do so.

This unknown man was the master of the mother goddess. Even the chief goddess Amaterasu herself has to consider her opinions and needs.

Shuri remembers when she died and was brought to the Shinto death realm for judgment, she arrived in front of Izanami's domain, and the woman coldly discarded her faith and punished her for her betrayal by sentencing her for an eternity of punishment.

And now that same woman just pardoned her for all her sins and handed her like an object she didn't stand, to her 'master'.

But surprisingly, Shuri didn't find herself caring much.

As far as she was concerned, she was already dead, and dead men tell no tales, and whatever the man known as Xeron had planned for her, would probably be better than the punishments she endured at the Shinto Hell.

"Shuri, your daughter Akeno Himejima asked me if I can revive you and I shall. But your soul shall be mine for an eternity as per a contract, if you choose agree"

The moment he ended his words, the now fimiliar demonic contract appeared in a flash of flame infront of Shuri.

"How do I sign this?"

The woman didn't even read the clauses, not like she even knows how to read them considering it's in demonic language, but still.

She didn't even consider for a second, the moment she heard her daughter's name she rushed in front of the contract that was floating in front of her.

"As you don't have blood, a soul imprint will do. Just focus and cut a small part of your soul. Just a fingernail sized one, and give it to me"

The woman closed her eyes, and a small glowing orb rushed out of her floating body and arrived in front of Xeron, who in turn dropped a drop of his black blood on it and fused it with the contract.

The contract flared up in flames shortly after and then vanished, signaling that it has been signed.

"Lord Xeron, where is my precious Akeno? Can I see her? Is she alright? "

Shuri showered the demon with question after question, and in contrast to the visibly annoyed Izanami, he was perfectly calm.

"Shuri calm down, your daughter is fine and you'll see her in a bit, but you can't go to her in your soul form, or you'll be purified by any exorcist or magician that finds you"

Shuri snapped her mouth shut and lowerd her head. It seems that hearing the name of her daughter after so long made her lose her composure.

Thankfully, her new lord seems kind, or she was afraid of what would have happened if he was not.

"You require a new body first, I won't make Izanami make you a body as you'll be a yokai, I shall make you one of my kin"

He then snapped his fingers and a portal appeard in front of him, and after pulling something from it, he placed it flat on the ground.

It was a naked woman's body, who's quite tall, about 5'7'' with a very voluptuous figure, Asian features, a long black hair and two black horns sprouting out of her forehead, the woman was laying on her back seemingly dead, but that didn't do much to undermine her gorgeous figure.

Shuri just stared at all of this in silent bewilderment, and sensing her confusion, Xeron gestured for her to come in front of him.

He then touched her forehead and a couple of thoughts flashed in her head, explaining not only his existence, but also the events that led him here and the reason for them all.

"Now that you understand, get into the body. Possess it and you will find no resistance, and when you're done I'll bind both of you, and this shall be your body"

Shuri just nodded and sinked into the body waiting on the floor, and after a while the body twitched and opened its eyes, revealing a pair of red golden eyes, similar to Xeron's own.

"Can you move?"

Asked Xeron, which the body lying on the floor responded to by trying to lift her hands off the floor, but ultimately achieved no success.

"Sorry"

She apologized, which Xeron chuckled to.

"No need for apologies, higher order demonic bodies are stronger by nature, so it's no wonder you can't command them, even if it's just a vessel"

He then threw a ball of black energy into the body's abdomen and it just jerked.

After a couple of seconds, Shuri stood up from the ground and bowed to her new lord.

Chapter 12: Rage

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When Shuri's soul first possesed the demon's body, it didn't do much.

But when Xeron fused them permanently the body underwent some physical changes.

The hair stayed and horns stayed the same but the eyes changed from golden red to golden brown, and her face completely changed to resemble a more mature Akeno, which is Shuri's original look. Her body however, retained its curvy allure.

It didn't mean she wasn't attractive before dying, but that simply doesn't compare to her current looks.

With a huge set of boobs, about the size a small melon each, followed by a small waist that perfectly compliments her wide hips, that sports a pair of mouth watering milky white legs, that end with her two feet standing bare on the ground.

It's safe to say the Shuri now may compete for the title of the most beautiful woman there is…or well demoness there is.

"Shuri, get up"

Xeron says lightly while snapping his fingers and dressing the naked demoness in a long black robe that perfectly hugs her curves in all the right places.

Shuri didn't seem bothered by her nakedness and doesn't seem surprised when he seemingly dressed her out of thin air.

She just does as he commands and gets up from kneeling slowly, albeit while swaying in place a bit.

"You are dizzy, it's probably because you haven't adapted to it yet"

He goes silent and continues again.

"You should sleep and let your soul assimilate completely with the body, and tomorrow come with me to the school and I'll let you meet Akeno"

Shuri nods slowly while looking both joyed and saddened. The former because of eventually meeting her daughter and the latter because she first has to wait.

But as she has waited for who knows how long already, a day more won't make a difference.

Xeron nods slowly and turns to Grayfia.

"Grayfia, prepare Shuri a small meal and then guide her to a room to sleep in"

The maid bows then goes outside the room, accompanied by an awkwardly walking Shuri.

"Master"

While watching Shuri and Grayfia leave, a voice pulls the attention of Xeron, and he turns his head to his servant goddess while waiting for her to speak.

"May you permit me to ask two questions?"

Xeron just nodded and Izanami lowerd her head while speaking.

"...Master, do you intend to conquer this world? I can sense your immeasurable strength through our bond and it eclipses the energy of this whole world combined"

He doesn't respond but extends his hands to her forehead and touches it, and as he did to Shuri, he transfers all the events that transpired since his arrival directly to her brain.

The goddess doesn't move for a while, seemingly processing the information given to her, and after about five minutes she speaks again.

"I see, but that brings me to my next question"

She lowers her head even lower and speaks quietly and with no hint of malice or disrespect.

"My master, please tell me. What changed you so much?"

The small that Xeron always has on his face instantly vanishes, replaced by a deep emotionless look.

A look that the goddess didn't see, but she felt it. It made her body tremble like never before, it remained her of the time she first met Xeron all these years ago when she was still a young spirit.

But she didn't back down, and pressed on despite the silent warning.

"...You were cruel, dominating and cunning. You seeked destruction wherever you went, brought despare to whoever you met and spread chaos and conquest on whatever you picked"

"Master, I can not disobey you and won't pursue if you refuse to answer me. But I ask of you to please, clear up my confusion"

The woman stares at the ground while muttering to herself.

"How can the cruelest being there is, born to the cruelest race their is, come to help a maiden, just he finds her situation pitiable"

She then gets on her knees and bows in front of him on the ground, and with her face still pointed at the ground she continues speaking.

"...Why? How can this be? Didn't this world reject your kind? Didn't that arrogant god and the two dragonic gods deny your race the chance to even speak? Didn't they slaughter your population in a war that spanned over a century? Then WHY?"

She asks every question with maddening intensity while still slumped on the ground, and by the end of it all, she was literally screaming but it didn't seem to be the end as she lifts her head, and reveals her crying face.

She suddenly grins savagely and while the tears are streaming down her face she almost growls.

"Didn't this world take who you love most? Your precious Zeedeus was fatally wounded that you were forced to r-"

She didn't get to finish her little monologue when Xeron flashed in front of her kneeling form and stomped her head to the ground.

*BAM*

The woman groaned in pain but still looked up to him with her eyes, just to find Xeron with his horns out and his hair turned into black flame while glaring with silent rage at her.

His eyes turned pitch black with blood red irises, glaring at her soul.

But instead of looking scared as one should normally, the goddess instead looked ecstatic, as her body trembles slightly while she screamed frantically.

"Y-YES, THIS IS WHO YOU REALLY ARE MASTER. A RUTHLESS DEMONIC TYRANT! THE WORLD THAT ROPPED YOU OF YOUR BELOVED DOESN'T DESERVE TO EXIST!"

He kicks in the stomach, and she flies across the room slamming into the fireplace and destroying the bricks.

*BOOOM*

She then drops to the ground and lays on her knees while clutching her stomach and coughing.

She turns her head slowly to the now approaching Xeron whose body now completely covered in dark scales, and radiates a smell of burning sulphur.

The goddess smiles again and speaks to her master, who now could kill a being by just looking at him.

"*cough* *cough* We should destroy the world the denied us our happiness my master, now that you have the power we can finally d-"

She didn't get to continue speaking because suddenly Xeron spoke, and out from his mouth came incomprehensible screeching that shook the goddess to her core.

She instantly stopped talking and stayed silent, not daring to look at her master.

And seeing her not speaking anymore, Xeron breathed out a sigh to try to calm himself down and after a while he succeeded and reverted back to his human form again.

He then seated himself back on his sofa, while massaging his forehead and sighing.

"Izanami, I know that this world has wronged you a lot in the past that you wish to extinguish it whole. But do not, I repeat DO NOT try to manipulate me into doing your bidding again, am I understood?"

The woman who was still sprawled on the ground beside the fireplace, just nodded repeatedly while trembling, it seems that what just happened truly scared the life out of her.

"The heavenly father, the one who wounded Zeedeus is dead. And I have no need for a dead world, so I shan't pursue it"

The woman looks down to the ground and silently shakes, upon closer looking at her figure, you can see tear drops dripping down at the floor beneath her. Which Xeron sees which makes him sigh sadly.

He then snaps his fingers healing Izanami instantly, and teleporting her in front of him.

"Izanami, as your Master and a person who went through something similar to what you went through, you should move on. One can't let themselves wallow in misery for eternity"

The goddess doesn't look at his face and just keeps silently crying, to which the demon just sighs while adding sadly.

"You may go and be alone, I shall call for you when I need you again or you can come at anytime my doors are always open for you"

"Also say hello to little Amaterasu for me, you have to introduce her to me sometime. She's your daughter after all"

Izanami nods weakly, while getting up and after she wipes the tears off her face, she then teleports out, leaving Xeron alone in room with bricks all over it due to a destroyed fireplace.

He then turns his head towards the room's doors and stares directly through it, while his signature smile is back on his face.

"Grayfia, spying isn't polite. Didn't they teach you that in maid school?"

The door suddenly bursts open, revealing a leaning Grayfia, that was apparently spying on Xeron's previous encounter.

With a sigh, Xeron massages his head again while speaking tiredly.

"Come here"

The maid just shudders, then approaches her master slowly while trembling. and when she arrives next to him he holds her shoulders and calms her down with magic.

"I am called the Prince of Despair for a reason. My true presence induces unconfrontable despair, that only spirals out of control if your mind isn't strong enough, you should be more careful next time"

The maid, seemingly restored to her previous confident demeanor nodded while bowing in apology, which Xeron just chuckled at while responding.

"As for the other things that you've heard, I'll leave them to time. Which will eventually have you discover more things about me"

'Meaning he won't explain, Huh'

Grayfia thought to herself as she bowed again, it seems her new master is someone she didn't even scratch the surface of yet.

Xeron looks at the clock that hangs on the wall and finds it to be one o'clock past midnight.

"Grayfia, I'm heading to sleep. You sleep as well, we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow"

Nodding slightly she looks up to find her master already leaving the room.

Chapter 13: Black Haired Incubus

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[7.55 AM - Kuoh Academy]

It was a regular morning in Kuoh academy, the school's atmosphere is soothing, with the lush trees and the lack of other buildings around except for said school gave it a serene feeling.

Not many students enjoy going to their schools, but that isn't a sentiment that is shared by the students of Kuoh Academy.

The young men and women here genuinely love their school, and that backed by the fact that rarely there is a single student absent in the entire student body as a whole, unless of course an emergency arises.

But, watching the students flock to the school, one can't help but be drawn to the fact that 80% of said students are young women.

The school was formally an all girls school, which for some is a drawback, but for others, mainly young men going through puberty it is a blessing.

And so our focus shifts to a young man running across the street holding a student's bag and wearing the uniform of Kuoh Academy.

After finally arriving in front of the school gates, he was greeted by the sight of two female students.

The first is a beautiful girl with black hair and violet eyes wearing glasses while the other also had black hair, but with heterochromia, her left eye was violet while her right one was light brown.

The young man couldn't resist peeking at their legs, even while being extremely exhausted. Which is certainly something, but not really sure if it's commendable or not.

"Issei Hyoudou, what do you think you're doing by arriving only 5 minutes early, and stop staring at our legs, or I'll punish you"

Miss Sona Sitri, or Sitri Sona as she is called in the human world, who was being accompanied by her queen, reprimanded the young man called Issei with no mercy, while also completely ignoring his panting and breathless figure.

The young man stiffened slightly when he got caught, but also smiled perversely, which granted him an irritated eye roll from both beauties and an ear pull from Sona.

"O-ow ow ow, President. I'm sorry. I won't do it again!"

Sona let go of his ear, and signed. Then she stepped back and let him compose himself.

The young man named Issei was a high school student of average height with short spiky brown hair, with two short locks of hair behind his head, and light brown eyes, he was also average in terms of looks, but looking at his current appearance, one would be forgiven for doubting that claim.

"*breath* P-President S-Sona *breath* I'm s-sorry *breath* I ov-ver slept"

The young man blurted out between his panting, he straightened himself but was loudly breathing due to exhaustion.

"*sigh* No matter, you arrived before the bell anyway. Go ahead now, or you'll miss your class"

The young devil sighed while massaging her forehead, and watched as the young man sprinted through the gate, and into the building.

"So he is the Red Dragon Emperor?"

Sona's attention was drawn by her queen's words and she shifts her head and looks at her.

"Indeed, or at least that was what teacher Xeron confirmed yesterday. But I'm inclined to believe so, based on my intuition"

Tsubaki's mouth curls up in a grin and she decides to tease her king who is also her friend.

"Oh? So the great Sona Sitri judges people based on feelings now? Where did the calculating she-devil go I wonder?"

Sona just scoffs at her queen's comment while walking ahead of her to the school, she should start her preparations, because he will arrive today.

….

[Issei POV]

I arrived at my class, which is 2-B and I greeted my classmates but didn't forget to sneak a glance at their breasts which they just rolled their eyes at and went to my seat next to the window at the end of the class.

I always liked reading manga and watching anime so on my first day of school in high school I chose the so-called 'protagonist' seat and decided to sit there.

After sitting down and unpacking my notebooks for the coming lecture, I see my two best friends Motohama and Matsuda, approaching me with a grin on their faces.

"Issei Good morning, did you see the new doujin that was released this morning? It is divine work!"

Motohama speaks excitedly with a loud voice to me, while earning a couple of odd looks from the girls, but that doesn't matter now. What is that about a new doujin?

"A new doujin? Does it have big boobs in it?"

Motohama and Matsuda look at each other silently while sighing, sometimes they worry about their friend. His obsession with breasts will someday be the doom of him.

"It does, the main girl has a nice looking body. But it pales in comparison to all the girls in our school. Have you seen Akeno-senpai this morning? She was rushing around the entire school not caring for her assets bouncing about. I swore my soul left my body and came back to me in an instant"

Matsuda, recalls while looking like a monk that has seen heaven, and that feeling is amplified by his half head.

Wait What! Akeno-san did! And I wasn't there! Dammit all! Damn my sleeping habits as well!

But wait, Akeno-san wasn't ever this clumsy, what's happening to her?

"Hey Motohama, Matsuda, what's happening to Akeno-san, do any of you know why she was doing that?"

"Humph, at least not all your brain power is in your lower half Hyoudou, despite it's miniscule size"

What! I'm not miniscule. I'm average! And I'm still 17 damnit!

"Shut up glasses, and what the hell do you mean miniscule. I'm considered average!"

The young woman called glasses, is known as Aika Kiryuu. She wears spectacles, has gold-colored eyes and lightly messy brunette hair tied into braids on each side.

The young woman can be considered beautiful if not for her perverted nature, and her ability to seemingly determine the length of a man's manhood by just looking at him.

Shivering slightly at the implications of her earlier words. Issei sees her smirking at his comment but she decides not to pursue it further, instead she answers his earlier question.

"Akeno-san was rushing all over the place this morning, which as you pointed out is unusual. The current running theory suggests that she is waiting for something to happen and is getting impatient, but we could be wrong"

Waiting for something to happen? And what could that be? She doesn't usually do anything when in school, just spending her day accompanied by her best friend Rias. And spending time in the Occult Research Club.

….Wait is it possible that. No, please god no

"Aika, is it possible that Akeno-san is waiting for her b-b-b-boyfriend?"

The moment the word left my mouth I felt my two friends slump to the ground while they wail in misery.

"What! No! I refuse to acknowledge this cruel world!" x2

The two idiots I call friends start weeping while screaming that it's a sad day for all men of culture. I feel you my brothers, I really do.

"Hmm? It certainly is an interesting theory Hyoudou. But I don't think that's the case, because she didn't look happy or joyous, Akeno-san instead looked worried and stressed. Which leads me to believe that she is awaiting something that's out of her control"

….Phew, that was close. But I feel kind of bad for Akeno-san. I wonder what's stressing her so much.

*Rinnnnnnng*

"That's the bell, what is the first subject today again?"

I mutter to myself while Aika walks back to her desk while my friends also move to theirs and as I'm recalling the first subject of the day, the teacher walks into the classroom.

'Drop Dead'

Was the first thought that popped in my head the moment the teacher arrived into the classroom.

He was a handsome man in his mid twenties with black hair and sharp golden red eyes, wearing well-fitted tailored trousers paired with a crisp, button-up shirt, complemented by a stylish belt and polished shoes.

His face looked so divinely handsome that even I found myself captivated by it.

…NO! I shall not switch sides even if it means the death of me!

The man arrived in front of the teacher's desk and smiled slightly, and I watched in real time as the girls in our class almost fainted in shock!

Heck! Even Aika let out two streams of blood from her nostrils while fainting in shock!

"Medic!"

"Our comrade has fallen!"

"Stay strong girls! Together we can overcome this hurdle!"

"I can't hold on anymore sister!"

The girls kept shouting at each other while holding their fallen comrades in their arms, it would have been a comical sight if not for what the men were doing.

"All handsome men must perish!"

"This is so unfair!"

"Goodbye cruel world!"

"...he looks so sexy"

….Who said that last one? The moment those words were heard, all the men including me shot each other with strange looks, but the culprit was unidentified in the end.

….I'll get you one day.

"*cough* Quiet down class"

The hateful man coughed slightly and demanded silence, which made the class instantly shut up.

We may be an eccentric bunch, but he was a teacher and we have to respect him.

"Good morning class, my name is Xeron. I'll be your mathematics teacher starting from today"

All of us nod in acknowledgment while I inwardly wonder the nature of the strange name.

'Xeron? What a strange name. And why do I feel that he is dangerous?'

Shaking the strange thoughts out of my head, I start focusing on the lecture ahead, this Xeron seems like a nice guy.

…

[Third Person POV]

After the class ended Issei was about to go to the cafeteria to get something to eat when he was stopped by the new teacher.

"Issei-kun correct?"

The young man stopped and turned around to find Xeron standing beside the entrance to the classroom, seemingly waiting for him.

Walking slightly he arrives in front of him and looks up. It makes it seem like Issei is short, but that's not the case.

His height of 5'7'' (170cm) is considered the perfect average for twenty year old Japanese men, which leaves him more room to grow, considering he is still seventeen.

But he certainly looks like a dwarf in front of the 6'2'' (190cm) Xeron. Who seems to always have that annoying smile on his face.

"Yes, teacher Xeron?"

Xeron just smiled while patting Issei on the shoulder and pushing him along.

"Come, accompany me to the cafeteria, I have something to discuss with you. I'll treat you"

Not wanting to appear rude, and certainly not denying a free meal, Issei instantly agrees, while wondering what the math teacher wants from him, a simple young man.

…

While walking beside him through the school halls, we both witness the carnage that has been set amok, countless young women of varying shapes and sizes, succumb to the now dubbed 'black haired incubus' charms.

Issei only known the man for a couple of hours and even he heard his moniker thrown about a couple of times while walking with him, and he was sure that Xeron heard it too.

But what was the most amusing of all (from Xeron's point of view) was the young women's varying reactions.

The young girls reactions varies between sharp breathing, flushing and straight up sexual harassment.

Some girls didn't make it obvious, but their intense stare at Xeron then the shift at Issei, made Issei shudder. Their eyes demanded confessions when Xeron leaves him alone.

Issei was sure that he'll be dragged to a cold and far off place and questioned thoroughly about the reason for their little meeting.

And while Issei was wondering about his certain doom, the teacher in question was still smiling while walking confidentiality, and after what seems to have been an eternity to Issei, they arrived at the cafeteria.

"Go sit at any table, I'll pick up something for both of us and we can start"

Nodding slightly, Issei walks to the table furthest away from the entrance and sits down, and after about five minutes, Xeron comes with two french patisseries for breakfast and a two cups of coffee for both of them.

Handing Issei his coffee and the patisserie, Xeron sits down in front of him and starts speaking.

"I just wanted to ask you a couple of questions, Issei-kun, may I?"

Xeron spoke politely while sipping his coffee with Issei nodding along while doing the same.

"Of course, teacher Xeron. Go ahead"

"Very well, then Issei-kun. Do you believe in the supernatural?"

The question certainly took the young man by surprise. He didn't expect this seemingly mature teacher to ask such a question all of a sudden, but he quickly composed himself and replied.

"Do you mean ghosts and such, teacher? I can't say I do. I've never seen one after all"

Xeron just chuckles while taking a bite of the croissant, and nods slightly.

"Right? You striked me as a sensible lad, so I wanted to check. But moving to the main reason I called you here, there something I must tell you"

Issei rolls his eyes at his teacher, while grumbling in his head. Who the hell pulls someone along for the sole reason of messing with them?

Xeron seems to have read his thoughts and laughs slightly, but he eventually starts speaking again.

"I must warn you of a future hurdle ahead of you, I have a feeling that your quiet life will have its ending soon"

And after saying that he stands up while speaking one last time.

"Young man, you'll have to make a choice soon, I shall wait and see what you have in store"

And without leaving Issei to speak further, Xeron leaves ahead of him. Forsaking the confused young man wondering what he meant.

…

[Issei POV]

Returning to the class, the words that teacher Xeron said kept popping in my head, and I can't shake the feeling of nervousness inside me.

'A choice? My quiet life is ending? What did he mean?'

While I was lost I thought I felt someone approach me, and when I looked at them, I found a girl from our class walking silently towards me.

"I-Issei-kun w-would you p-please go on a date with me!"

...She confessed to me, but wait, I believe I have seen her before, her name should be Yuuma Amano.

Chapter 14: Certainly an Experience

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[Issei POV - 4.50 PM]

I was currently standing just outside the Kuoh train station in my best outfit available.

Why do you ask? It's because I have a date planned, which I still couldn't believe.

Yes a date, which I couldn't believe to be honest. I mean who would?

If me from 5 years said that a girl I barely know, would one day approach me and confess her long love for me, I would've slapped myself in the face.

Over the years I've come to acknowledge the fact that I'm attractive nor am I ugly, I am perfectly average, a fact that I've come to accept.

And while I do hold some occasional resentment to the naturally handsome like Kiba, or that new teacher Xeron. The resentment I hold is really superficial and holds no deep malice.

It's like shouting that the world is unfair, which it certainly is, but it isn't only obstacles and hardships, there is some good in it too.

What is that good you say? Well, there's only one answer to this question, and it's the only logical and obvious answer.

And that answer is boobs.

…Yes, you heard me right, I said boobs. Breasts can cure everything.

What do you mean I'm stupid?! You're the idiot, you're so far out of the light, that you can't see the beauty that female breasts hold.

Every pair of boobs, tells a story, it resonates with it's holder creating the perfect creature to exist.

The size doesn't matter, the phrase is heard everywhere, and can mean different things, but in this particular case, it truly is correct.

Every pair is perfect in it's own way, and as the admirer of all breasts, I must resume my duties, and depart my knowledge upon the ignorant.

"Issei-kun!"

Pulling me away from my thoughts was the voice of Yuuma Amano, my date.

She was beautiful, she wore a pink dress that highlighted her medium sized breasts and the rest of her equally charming figure.

She had black hair and beautiful violet eyes, and on her mouth hanged a kind smile, that I could feel melting my insides.

"Good evening Yuuma-san, how have you been?"

I greeted her politely while staring at her boobs, I can't help it, they're really quite catching.

I glance at her and see her smirking…oh shit did I stare too much? I hope she doesn't think I'm a pervert.

"I have been well Issei-kun, did you wait for long?"

She asked me while laughing lightly, even her laugh is beautiful, I can feel it soothing my heart.

"I just arrived Yuuma-san, shall we get going?"

I waited for her to reply and she just nodded, I guess that markes the start of my date then?

….

[Random Restaurant - 5.15 PM - Yuuma POV]

This human boy is quite thoughtful, who would've thought that he would reserve a table in a restaurant a few hours after the sudden confession.

He sure is unlucky though, shouldn't have been born with a sacred gear.

But I have to play along with this stupid date, I can't just kill him in the middle of the day in devil territory, I have to drag him alone first.

So, where're currently eating in a restaurant together as the first stop of our date, I actually feel kind of grateful for the boy. I haven't eaten lunch after all.

….

[Kuoh Cinemas - 6.30 PM - Issei POV]

I always wanted to take my potential girlfriend to the cinema so we can watch a movie together, and when I was planning for the date, the idea returned to me.

So, I booked to tickets for a romance movie and took her there, I didn't find romance movies particularly appealing, as every is human male on the face of the planet, but I have to at least make it enjoyable.

We both sat on our seats, and I ordered to bowls of popcorn for both of us.

And after the movie started, I glanced at her to see if she's enjoying it, and I find her focused on it.

'*sigh* Thank god, I didn't think planning dates would be this stressful'

…..

[Kuoh Park - 8 PM - Yuuma POV]

The kid sure is lustful.

When we were watching the movie, I could feel his eyes were glued to my breasts, the only reason I didn't gouge them out was because I was engrossed in the movie.

…What? I'm also a woman you know?

Anyway, we were currently sitting on a bench in the park and eating ice cream, the boy seemed to have planned out the entire date, and I hate to admit, I kind of enjoyed it.

Don't get me wrong, I'll still kill him. But I have to at least acknowledge that the date he planned out was memorable.

Looking at him he seemed to have finished his ice-cream so this should be the last stop on our little escapade.

…..

[Random Street - 8.30 PM - Issei POV]

It's done, the date is finished.

I say this as I'm walking with Yuuma back to the train station, signalling the end of our day.

It was certainly enjoyable, who wouldn't enjoy hanging out with a beautiful girl, I know I certainly did.

But as all good things, it must come to an end, but that doesn't mean it can't happen again, so I was currently walking with a light smile on my face.

I suddenly see Yuuma-san turn around while smiling at me, I look around the street and I find no one around.

…Will she kiss me?

'I have a feeling that your quiet life will have its ending soon'

Then, from out of nowhere, I was suddenly reminded by the words teacher Xeron said to me this morning.

"Issei-kun, the date was very pleasent, but can I have on last thing to ask?"

I shake teacher Xeron's words out of my head, and return the kind smile Yuuma-san was directing at me.

"Of course Yuuma-san, what do you have in mind?"

I watch her kind smile turn into a sneer of distain in real time, and as I was about to ask her what is happening, the words get stuck in my throat.

'Fallen Angel'

The word instinctively appeared in my mind the moment I saw the mature woman that have seemingly took Yuuma-san's place.

She was taller than me, with an amazing pair of breasts, her body was divine looking. It's as if she was a work of God.

Adding to that the very obscene outfit she's wearing and you have a literal bombshell, which she was.

My thoughts seemed to have been read by her as her sneer got wider.

"You very much are a pervert, stating at young at innocent Yuuma like that can is inappropriate you know?"

She asked sarcastically while walking towards me, I couldn't answer her back. I couldn't answer, I can't. I feel that the moment I try to do anything, she's going to kill me.

"All humans are pitiful in my opinion, and you're certainly one of them, but I have to commend you on the date, it was certainly enjoyable"

She says while lightly smiling, then she arrives in front of me and holds my head up with her finger. I haven't moved an inch, but I could finally mutter out a word.

"Why?"

I ask and I watch her smile down at me, and with an unconcerned face she replies.

"Because you have a sacred gear, I certainly don't have a choice in the matter, but you won't catch me caring an time soon"

I see, It was just an everyday occurrence for her, it certainly is sad. It was my first time on a date too.

I don't know what a 'sacred gear' is, it should be something good enough, that they want to kill me for it, but I couldn't care less.

I should at least try to do s-

*Zap*

"Aaaaaah!"

"Now now, there is no use resisting boy. But don't worry, I'll finish this fast and painless because you gave me a nice date"

I was about to push her away from me and run, but I immediately feel a burning sensation on my right leg, followed by a piercing pain, I couldn't handle it so I screamed and feel to yeh ground, I shouldn't have tried to fight back, I should've listened to the warnings my body sent me, but alas.

I look up to her to find a golden spear of light in her hand, it seems like that was what hurt me, I look down to my leg and find that she has blown a hole through it, with my blood spilling all over the street floor.

"Issei-kun, can you please die for me?"

I saw her throwing the spear in my direction and I closed my eyes and prayed. Prayed to whichever god out there to help me, I don't want to die!

'Please Help!'

…But, the dreaded pain didn't arrive, nothing did, even the quiet laughter of Yuuma-san didn't echo anymore, I couldn't handle it so I looked up.

I found nothing.

No Yuuma, no fallen angel, nothing. Even the light spear she held, wasn't there. It's as if she wasn't even there to begin with.

But she was, the pain I felt due to her was still there, so what the hell happened?

I couldn't think anymore as I felt my conscious slip away from me.

Chapter 15: Azazel

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[Xeron's Mainson - Xeron POV - 9 PM]

My day was pretty eventual. I first started teaching math at Kuoh Academy, I got to know the students in his class, met a human boy that seems to be targeted and met the fallen angel that seems to target said human boy.

At first I was a little bewildered, why would a fallen angel want to target a human boy that's not even an adult yet, but then it hit me.

I remembered that the human holds a sacred gear, an unawakened one but a sacred gear nonetheless. The Fallen Angels seem to be hunting down potential sacred gear holders and uprooting them before they even awaken them. Which is quite funny in my opinion.

The humans are being punished for something they didn't even get a hand in, and remembering the reason why the sacred gear system was made made it even funnier, it seems that God od Heaven made said system for humans specifically to be able to 'defend themselves against the supernatural'

In my own opinion gifted power won't get you anywhere, it will only drag you further down. The humans need to find a way to strengthen themselves without relying on a clutch, and in fact some already did, the human magic, or just 'magic' as they call it, does certainly hold potential to fight even the strongest entities if trained properly, but the is not our issue for now.

Back to the topic at hand, When I stumbled upon the boy and noticed the fallen angel called 'Yuuma' observing him and releasing some killing intent, I took the boy out to the cafeteria and discovered for myself the reason for his inevitable demise.

And low and behold, and as I said to Rias, he does in fact possess a sacred gear, which holds Draconic Energy.

There are only a couple of gears that have draconic energy, but from my observations this seems to be one of the 'heavenly dragons'

I'm not very familiar with the dragons of this world, but I at least have heard of the two heavenly dragons.

Two idiots that like to play supremes fought it out at the wrong time and refused to back down and stomped on anybody that interfered between them, which led to their inevitable demise at the hands of literally every supernatural being alive.

Quite ironic if you ask me, but again back to the topic at hand.

The boy called Issei most likely has the 'Boosted Gear' which houses the Welsh dragon 'Ddraig Goch', I dismissed the probability of it being 'Divine Dividing' because someone called 'Vali Lucifer' has it.

Now, for the ultimate question. Should I let him die, or no?

…Of course, I won't let him die. But I need something in return for saving his sorry ass, and what better compensation to get than his very own sacred gear.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want the toy itself, it is simply worthless to someone like me. What I want is Draig himself.

As for what I would do, let's keep it a secret for now.

I looked at Grayfia, who was standing behind me as I was relaxing by the fireplace, as I tend to do everyday since I arrived here.

"Grayfia, prepare three cups of tea for our guests"

I said to the maid, and she immediately bowed and exited the room, it seems she's used to my behavior by now.

Nodding silently in approval, I snap my fingers and two figures appear out of thin air in front of me, and they both land on the floor.

One of them is a mature and sexy fallen angel, which is holding something that I will not tolerate.

I throw a string of demonic energy at the bolt of light magic she's holding and disperse it entirely.

"Wha…"

She zooms her head in my direction, finally registering her change of scenery and in conjunction, her current situation.

She tries to create another bolt of energy, but fails to even materialize it and looks towards my direction horrified.

*Fwoosh*

She quickly unfurled her 4 wings and prepared to leave, I have to commend her quick thinking, but that also won't work.

"Aaaah!"

I throw at her a restraining spell, instantly binding her to the ground. It didn't mean to hurt her, but it seems her holy nature, while mostly gone, still form her being, which makes her naturally susceptible to my own Abyssal magic or Demonic, whatever suits your fancy.

I change the restraints into a cage instead, to avoid burning the poor little crow alive, and throw a small healing spell at the bleeding boy on the ground.

"...Who are you? Don't you know that I'm the direct subordinate of lord Azazel himself. Release me this instant!"

After struggling for a couple of seconds, the little crow seemed to have accepted the situation, and directed her hostility at me. It seems she's trying to scare me into releasing her, Adorable.

"What's your name, little girl? You certainly don't look like a 'Yuuma' to me"

The fallen in question stopped blabbering for a second, and looked at my face silently and after a minute, realization seemed to have dawned on her.

"...You're the new teacher that arrived this morning"

Impressive, she knows about me, even when I didn't enter her class this morning. It seems she has her own way to obtain news in the academy. It seems that the devils still have a few holes in their defenses, but again not my problem.

"My name is Xeron Kezgenoth. Little girl, what's your name?"

Besides being a little visibly annoyed about being called a little girl, she replied.

"My name is Raynare. Sir Xeron, release me, so I can continue my duties, or I'll have to call my superior"

A smirk appeard on my face, the little girl sure is brave. Despite being at a huge disadvantage and knowing it herself, she didn't forget to threaten me with Azazel.

"Little Raynare, you think I can't just kill you with a snap of a finger, like I did to bring you both here, across the city"

Again, she seems to be aware of her situation, evident by the way her features tensed a little when I said what I said, but not too much. It seems she just hated being reminded of her situation.

"...If you kill me right here, you'll have to face all of Grigori"

"I won't blame you for trying, because you are unaware of my identity. But, all I have to say is that all the things you've said and more, won't prevent me from killing you, if I wanted"

Staring at me for a while, she finally looked down and dropped to the ground beneath her, then she sat down and hugged her knees while looking at me in silence.

"...I ask you to please end it quickly, I deserve at least that much for offering it to all my victims"

She says while her voice is completely monotone, the girl may appear brave, but I sensed her fear since the moment I first diffused her second light spear. I like her.

"I didn't say I'll kill you little Raynare"

Stil hugging her knees on the ground, she looks up to me with hope flashing in her eyes once again.

"Call Azazel"

"...Huh?"

She froze, and looked at me like I was messed up in the head. I waited for her to do something, but she didn't move an inch, so I told her again.

"Call Azazel, and tell him that Xeron Kezgenoth is holding you in Kuoh, and tell him to teleport to town. I'll pull him here"

She twitched back to life again, and while still looking at me silently, a telecommunication magic spell glowed near her ear.

She stayed silent for a couple of minutes, seemingly communicating with Azazel, but while doing so, I saw her tremble a little while looking at me like I'm the worst being to ever exist, so I did what every being should do in this situation.

I flashed her the most beautiful smile I could muster, she blushed a little while still looking horrified….cute.

She then nodded violently a couple of times then stood up and bowed a beautiful 90 degrees in my direction.

"Sir Xeron, I apologize for my earlier rudeness. Lord Azazel said he will arrive immediately"

I wave my hand at her cage, instantly dispelling it and then I point at the sofa behind her and she instantly went towards it and sat down silently while looking at the ground, she looks like a little girl that's been caught doing something wrong.

"Here is the tea Lord Xeron"

"Perfect timing Grayfia, now come here and look pretty, because our final guest is going to arrive soon"

Grayfia arrives with the tea and puts the tray on the table, she glances at Issei then back at me, seemingly asking if she should do something about him.

"No, leave him be, he's one of the topics for today after all"

She nodded and came to stand behind me like it's the most natural thing to do, this maid sure takes her job seriously.

Picking up on a powerful energy signature arriving in Kuoh Town, I instantly locate his position and teleport Azazel in the middle of the room.

"...So it's true"

The first thing the fallen angel did was look at me in complete seriousness, I just smiled at him while waving. Haven't seen the guy in a long time after all.

"Good evening Azazel, long time no see. It seems that Lucifer wasn't the only one with daddy issues"

He just scowled at me, it seems he really didn't like his old man.

He also seems to be very wary of me, which is fair, but ultimately annoying.

"Sit down beside your daughter Azazel, we have a lot to discuss"

Chapter 16: Too Many Deals

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[Xeron's Mainson - Third Person POV]

The mansion didn't seem to get a rest since Xeron got it a couple of days ago.

First, there were the devils, then demons, now fallen angels, going down this route, Xeron's house will slowly but surely house all races, judging by the way things are going at the moment.

But, let's leave that topic for later, and get back to the one currently at hand.

Azazel, the first fallen angel and leader to the entire fallen angel organisation called Grigori, was currently sitting next to another fallen angel, they were both drinking tea and relaxing. Well, at least they should have, if not for the visibly tense Raynare and the less visibly tense Azazel.

The first fallen was particularly unnerved by how easily the demon unraveled the blood ties between him and Raynare. But after a couple of seconds thinking, he found it fairly logical.

How do you ask? Simple, it is simply because of their souls. Any living being powerful enough can sense or even interact with souls at a certain level, and a being as powerful as Xeron will surely since the similarities between Azazel and Raynare.

So, he grabbed his teacup and gestured for Raynare to do the same, and they both sat down on the sofa directly in front of the demon.

And after sensing that the demon didn't have any I'll intentions in his actions, and that he just wanted to talk, the first fallen relaxed a little, which allowed him to look around and see explore a little, and imagine his surprise when he saw the goddamn 'Silver Queen of Annihilation' next to the demon.

Seemingly noticing that, Xeron smiled slightly but didn't make any comments, it seems he doesn't want to say anything for now.

"Before we begin our talk, there is someone else that is yet to join us"

Xeron said, which somewhat confused the Azazel, but he didn't say anything.

Don't underestimate him, he saw it coming based on the presence of an extra teacup on the table, but it still made him wonder who the guest was.

For a moment, his eye darted towards the still unconscious boy that was now moved towards the end of the room, but being sprawled on the ground away from the main seats meant that it wasn't him, so who was it?

"Ddraig Goch, would you like to join us in this lovely conversation we're about to have?"

Xeron turned his face towards Issei and spoke to the dragon inside him, which after a second made a red gauntlet with a green orb in the middle appear on the boy's hand.

"Xeron Kezgenoth, it is a pleasure meeting the Abyssal Prince of Despair himself"

The moment the gauntlet appeared, and the voice of the dragon was heard around, Azazel's face snapped towards the voice's direction and he was grinning widely. It seems that the man didn't expect that the seemingly ordinary boy was the holder of the Boosted Gear Longinus.

"The Welsh Dragon? I certainly didn't expect that after you practically threatened me to come here"

Despite the words that he was speaking, Azazel didn't seem to actually hold a grudge, the opposite actually. He was excited, and knowing his love and fascination with sacred gears made it all make sense.

And at the complete opposite of the spectrum was Raynare, who was shivering slightly at the sudden revelation, the boy she was about to murder was the holder of a Longinus, it seems that death surrounded her from every angle, but nobody in the room seemed to care much.

"Oh? You actually know about me? Interesting, I have been led to believe that most of this world's denizens are unaware of my or my species existence"

Xeron commented slightly in an unconcerned tone, but that only received an eye roll from Azazel.

"Please, how can we forget the single most dangerous war that ever happened. A war so devastating that even our asshole of a father, only let the elite of the angles participate in"

He then continued while shivering slightly.

"I still have some not so pleasent memories of that by the way, as I believe every one old enough to have witnessed that war"

It seems that only those who preceded humanity are aware of the demons as a whole, and those who did, chose to not reveal about their existence, which was to avoid panic by Xeron's guess.

Of course, knowing that at any moment some otherworldly monstrous race, can invade your world and conquer it can put a strain on anyone's mind, even the most resilient of the bunch.

So, they choose to hide it, hoping that the demon race remains banished from their world for as long as possible. Which unfortunately ended at the hand of the demon currently present.

"Tiamat, or the 'Chaos Karma Dragon' as they call her, made sure that all dragons conceived during her lifetime were aware of the existence of demons, and especially aware of your existence, but we never knew why that was the case"

The statement drew question marks at the head of each on le present, but the man concerned himself, didn't have any particular reaction. He just laughed a little and stayed silent.

"As for the request to join you all, I would've loved to, but as I currently possess no physical body, I cannot participate, but no worries I can still converse from here"

"Heh, that won't do. Come here so we can have a proper conversation"

"Wha!" x3

Xeron, just chuckled slightly and snapped his fingers, and what happened had every one in the room dangle their mouth half open. Yes, even Grayfia, who was only silently observing up until now.

Above Issei's unconscious body there was something or someone floating, it was a soul of a man in his late twenties, he had white skin, crimson eyes and crimson starightend hair that went all the way down to his shoulders.

He was wearing a long black robe, with crimson patterns splattered across it, and a black pants accompanied by matching black shoes.

The man's eyes widened slightly and he snapped them down to his body and ran his hands all over it, but the moment his hands were about to touch the rest of his body, they went through it like it was a mirage.

This deflated the man and he appeared visibly irritated, but he appeared to have noticed something and his eyes sprung to life again. He then floated towards an empty sofa and sat on it while crossing his legs.

"Let me introduce myself again, my name is Ddraig Goch, an I am the being known as the Red Dragon Of Domination"

…..

"...I see, so you made a contract with the major two powers governing the world huh"

Azazel was the first to speak, after that was Ddraig who just nodded silently in his soul form and lastly there was Raynare, who looked like a little kid being taken to her father's work, which funnily enough wasn't inaccurate.

"...T-Then you mean to say that, there is a world that's full of bloodthirsty demons and they are all under the command of single being which is you?"

Xeron smiled an innocent smile, full of sunshine and rainbows….Which didn't fit the two rows of point teeth in his mouth, but the expression as a whole was quite welcoming and said in the most friendly voice he can muster.

"Indeed, but don't fret little girl! They won't bite you unless you bite them first!"

"S-Stop c-calling me little girl! I have been alive even before God created humans!"

It's unknown whether Raynare snapped because of being called little girl, or because of Xeron's attitude but, one thing is for certain, she couldn't win a verbal skirmish with the demon himself.

"And? I don't even know how old I am? Maybe even before your entire world came to be, so to me you're still a little girl. Heck, even your father is a little boy in front of me but calling him that disgusts me, so I don't do it"

Azazel rolled his eyes again, and Raynare just huffed. It seems that they really are father and daughter.

*Clap*

A clapping sound was heard, gathering the attention of everyone present on Xeron, and after they were all silent, he started speaking again.

"Now that the boring stuff was over, let's move onto the juicy bits, starting with Azazel, because it's a pretty simple topic"

Azazel, now completely relaxed due to Xeron having explained to him about the contract and it's implications was all ears, and based on the personality of this demon that he both knew from before and now, he can say with certainty that whatever he has in store is sure to be interesting.

"After coming to this world again and researching a bit, I discovered what you call 'sacred gears' which were created by your father, and where designed for humans. And they seem to be interesting, don't you agree Azazel?"

Xeron said with a grin, which the fallen returned to him before he spoke himself.

"I agree, I didn't like that shitty father of mine much, but he was sure talented, I'll give him that"

The fallen spoke with a scowl but it carried a hint of respect in it, which brought a nod from all present, except for the dragon.

"That Goddamn bastard was a thief! He went around collecting souls like it's fuckin christmas and shoved it all in his so-called 'humanity's ultimate weapons' and called it a day! If I knew at the time I would end up as a tool I would've killed him myself!"

The dragon growled out the words making his displeasure with the heavenly father clear, which no-one blamed him for, but no-one commented on it either.

"Continuing, after further research. I discovered that he didn't just make the gears and called it a day, he chose 13 and empowered them with powerful souls thus crowning them as 'Longinus', restricted access of sacred gears' to only humans and finally made a system for said gears to manage and circulate themselves automatically"

He stopped a minute for the people present to process what he said and then continued again.

"When I first heard about this, it drew my attention and following my tradition of stealing ideas from the heavenly father, I decided to make a similar system of my own. I have more than four times the power of a prime time Heavenly Father, so energy isn't an issue, but knowledge however is another story"

The reactions varied, Grayfia just raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything, Ddraig was a little interested and was paying attention, Azazel was practically drooling and Raynare's face was as pale as a snow.

"And that's when you come in Azazel. You have a great deal of expertise on the topic, from what I've heard, and you seem like a nice guy so I thought why not? Let's have him aboard, demons aren't good creators after all, so it's always good to have someone more knowledgeable on the subject"

Azazel toned down the excitement levels a bit and spoke lightly to Xeron.

"I agree!...is what I would've liked to say but, I'm sure the all great demon king won't just give us free lunch, so what's the catch?"

Xeron nodded at the fallen, seemingly pleased.

"It seems that time has matured you Azazel, the young Azazel I knew at the war, would've accepted immediately, then delt with the consequences afterwards"

Azazel at least had the decency to look away, while mumbling something about being a faction leader.

"Bfffftt!"

Raynare, for her part was seeing her father treated like child for the first time in her life, and she's not ashamed to say it was really funny.

But, after Azazel glared at her, she snapped her mouth shut and looked straight at the ground.

"And you are correct there is a catch, more specifically a few things you have to agree on before working with me"

"Alright, get it out. I'll read it over and decide if i should sign it or not"

Xeron smiled at the man, he begin to like him more and more….not in a romantic way of course, fuck that.

He then snapped his fingers and a flash of flames appeared in front of Azazel, revealing an old piece of paper, which we know is a Demonic Contract.

And it seems that the fallen was used to this from god knows where, he immediately grabbed the paper out of the air and started reading it loudly.

"Firstly, the individual known as 'Azazel' agrees not to share the research specific data to anyone, without the consent of the individual known as 'Xeron Kezgenoth'.

Secondly, the system and artifacts that resulted from the corporation would be accessed by only the individuals that 'Xeron Kezgenoth' agrees upon, which include the entirety of Grigori

Lastly, upon any breaking of the above rules, the the system will restrict the individual responsible and he will be held accountable by the individual known as 'Xeron Kezgenoth'"

After he finished reading the contract, Azazel just nodded to himself and poured a drop of blood on the paper, sealing the contract and after it vanished in flames he held his hand up for the demon to handshake.

"A pleasure working with you Xeron"

He smiled a handsome smile, which Xeron returned while shaking his hand.

"Likewise Azazel"

Then after they both sat down again, Xeron turned to Ddraig, who was silently wondering what Xeron had in store for him.

"You however are another story, I'll tell you what I want from you but first I need you to answer a question"

Ddraig didn't say anything and just waited, he'll see what the demon wants of himself first then decide what shall be done.

"How does it work, this boosted gear of yours?"

The dragon just raised an eyebrow at the question, he guessed the demon would have probably asked about something more impactful, but it seems that he was after something, so the dragon contemplated if he should answer him or not.

But in the end, he chose to answer him. Mostly because Ddraig was curious about what will happen after.

"The boosted gear draws upon my authority as the Red Dragon Of Domination to draw raw power equivalent to mine in quantity from the dimensional gap then I lend it to the boosted gear user in the form of my very own powers, but not all at once of course. Only an amount the user's body can handle"

The words made Xeron nod his head a couple of times in acknowledgment, he seems to have known this but wanted to confirm it.

Azazel however, was scribbling madly at a notebook he got from god knows where, his grin that was from ear to ear was somewhat creepy looking.

"So it doesn't get the power from your soul? That's certainly interesting. I always thought the the heavenly dragons where the source of power"

Azazel asked Ddraig, which made the latter scoff and reply bluntly.

"How can it draw power from me if I don't possess a body anymore? Power needs a vessel to hold it, while the soul shapes said power. That is the way of every living being there is"

The room then becomes silent with only the sound of notes being scribbled echoing around.

And after a minute or two, Xeron's voice was heard again.

"Then I have an offer for you, Ddraig Goch, would you become my familiar?"

"I accept"

…What?

A mind-boggling question followed by an equally immediate mind-blowing response.

Words alone cannot express the consequences of this decision, the famous unyielding and arrogant Red Dragon Of Domination is a familiar to someone is unheard of, news like this will shake the entire supernatural world!

"That quickly? I assumed that you'll think about it at least"

Xeron said what's on everyone's mind, but the dragon shakes his head left and right lightly while sighing.

"I am not fond of living my entire life as a tool, if I am to be a familiar, then so be it"

It seems that the dragon was expecting a similar offer, so he didn't hesitate when presented with the chance.

Azazel shuddered slightly. Honestly, the only saving grace is that the Red Dragon Of Domination doesn't have a bod-...wait a minute!

"It is settled then, no need for a contract because a familiar bond is already in place. You verbally confirmed it after all"

He says lightly then with the dreaded snapping sound he always does, a body manifests on the ground.

The body is that of a male demon, but without the charred black skin, it looks mostly human, if you ignore the horns and the massive 7foot figure.

"But I ask you to leave a small part of your soul in the boosted gear, I'll make it work as an anchor and allow the boosted gear to keep working as intended. It'll just require the wielder to work extra hard that's all"

Ddraig narrowed his eyes in contemplation and didn't outright refuse, and after seemingly coming to a decision he speaks.

"Will this weaken me in any way?"

Xeron just shakes his head while gesturing towards Issei and making the boy's body float in the middle of the room.

"No, the small part of your soul will only be there as an imprint of sorts, and I'll leave a part of my power to do the actual process of fetching raw power from the dimensional gap to the gear"

"Then I agree"

Ddraig ethereal body spits out a small crimson glowing orb, much larger than the one Shuri's body made and much more potent. It was about the size of a ten-pin bowling ball.

Then the orb floats towards the gear that has appeared in Issei's hand and enters inside.

Xeron raises his hand and a similar orb glows above it, but the one that Xeron made is pitch black and two times the size of the one Ddraig made.

It didn't carry the ethereal feeling of Ddraig's soul fragment, because it wasn't a soul. It was a semi sentient spell of sorts, that Xeron casted for the single task of gathering power from the dimensional gap and channeling it to the gear while sustaining itself.

After the two orbs were absorbed by the gauntlet it disappeared, and Xeron casted a spell on Ddraig's soul and unbinded him from the gear.

The moment the dragon found himself unshackled, his soul rushed into the demon's body that's lying on the floor.

Xeron layed Issei's body down on the far away sofa, and cast a binding spell on Ddraig's new body.

The body's shape slowly morphed into what Ddraig's soul form looked like and after a few minutes the Red Dragon Of Domination opened his eyes again after a very long time.

Chapter 17: Mother and Daughter

Notes:

The chapter has some scenes that may be uncomfortable for some people out there

Chapter Text

[Xeron's Mainson - Azazel POV]

The Welsh Dragon has been revived.

That's something I would have never even thought would happen today when I woke up this morning.

When Raynare, my daughter called me and said that she has been captured, I was first furious, even if she hasn't been announced as my daughter publicly, she's still a fallen and by extension, affiliated with Grigori.

So, I planned to go myself and make it a political hell for whoever dared to do such a foolish thing, but fate, she's a fuckin bitch I'll tell you that.

When I asked my daughter what faction captured her, and she said it was someone who called himself Xeron, I nearly fainted on the spot.

…I should've known, I mean, who lets their supposed prisoners make phone calls? So it was a given that the one capturing Raynare was either stupid or didn't care.

And low and behold, it was the latter. The one that captured her was the mother fucking Prince of Despair, and as if the guy's title wasn't telling enough, that guy was terrifying.

I didn't lie when I said that I still have nightmares to this day, heck, to my knowledge even Michael doesn't like him and he's the literal definition of 'goody two shoes'.

I don't like to reminisce about the past, but I especially don't like to remember the days of the demon war.

Not because of the fighting, I'll tell you that, but it didn't matter to us angels much, mainly because we were still young and our father originally made us without very developed emotions. Added with the fact that we were literally fighting the common tropes of the demons tells you that we were relatively laid back.

What was mortifying was Xeron himself. I remember one time when we were fighting against another demon invasion, it was a daily occurrence, so we mostly got used to it, but there were always people who let their emotions get the best of them.

A yokai insulted him to his face, it was an insult of poor taste, aimed at his current lover at the time, which he had many of to my knowledge, but that didn't seem to matter much.

He stopped 'fighting' and all of the troops in the vicinity were immediately frozen in place.

A fuckin SPACE spell! And that was AGES AGO! I shudder to think what he is capable of now, but let's keep going.

How do I know it was a space spell? Simple, I was there and I still remember the moment as it was yesterday. I was fighting a second and the next second I was frozen in place, couldn't even open my mouth to breathe, but my mind and senses were still working. It was as if the world itself didn't allow me to move, and that tends to happen when a space master commands his controlled space.

Xeron then proceeded to walk calmly towards the poor yokai and then when he arrived, the yokai was suddenly slammed face down into the ground.

The yokai was understandably terrified and didn't speak, but after a bit of mocking from Xeron, it seems that he got bored.

He didn't speak anymore, just summoned five male demons and pointed at the poor yokai…..and well, I believe you can guess what happens next.

Then and there, in front of all that was present, they ravaged him. Without any form of decency or mercy they continued to defile him in front of all of us, and we were forced to watch that brutal display.

The male demons didn't slow down as time went on, No, in fact they kept getting more brutal, more savage and as the yokai's plea for mercy were echoing around, they seemed to only fuel the demons to be more inhumane.

It wasn't only until the yokai was physically decapitated, did they stop. And then, proceeded to cut him off limb by limb and feed it to demonic beasts as he watches, until there was nothing left of him anymore.

And we were all still binded the entire time, forced to watch this brutal slaughter, forced to acknowledge that we were ants in comparison to the demon in front of us.

And at the time I was devastated. Distraught. Mortified.

'How can someone be this cruel'

I imagined in my head, I refused to believe there is someone this vile in the world, it must be demons, I said. It was demons that brought destruction to our world, they were the vile ones not us.….how foolish I was.

It wasn't much after the war that I got to personally wetness the grueling fact, people are selfish by nature, and they will do all manner of normally frowned upon actions to achieve what they want, and if not in public then in secret.

Demons by contrast, were true to their desires. I have never in my long life met a demon that lies, yes even Xeron himself. They either take what they want, or die trying. No plans, no schemes and no overcomplicated plots.

They march forward with a single goal in mind, that's certainly stupid, but admirable in a way.

Except of course for the scary fucker that is Xeron, he didn't just stop at being stupidly overpowered! The fucker is also a cunning piece of shit!

He in fact was very cunning, to the point that he was the sole planner on the demon's side for a war that spanned a hundred years.

And now that I've seen him again, I'm fairly certain that he was the one who ended it too!

He planned to be pushed back, and also planned for the leading figures of our side to seal our world. Heck, he might even have done something to give them the idea!

'The idea alone is giving me the creeps'

"Azazel, what's the matter? You seem lost in thought"

It turns to the voice and finds Xeron smiling eerily in my direction.

And from his expression it seems he knows what I'm thinking about, and is just making fun of my misery.

….now that was unsettling.

I'll stop thinking about him from now onwards. I don't want to go mad this young.

…..

[Third Person POV]

"How do you feel Ddraig?"

Xeron asks the now revived Welsh Dragon, which turns towards him and smiles, a smile full of razor sharp teeth.

"Full of energy and a little power hungry, the feeling is nearly identical to my old dragon body but stronger, how curious"

Nodding slightly, Xeron walks back to his sofa and sits down, followed by Ddraig doing the same but on his own sofa.

"It is because demons, dragons and gods all have a similar statuses, with demons and gods being polar opposites and dragons being the literal neutral"

It was always believed that the strongest gods were draconic gods, but it seems that the universe functioned in a more orderly fashion.

Azazel in particular, was interested in the prospect of balance that the universe seems to hold in all of its aspects.

"So, as you are a dragon. A true neutral entity, you can become a demonic dragon or a dragon god, and you are now the former"

'The Demonic Dragon of Domination, it has a nice ring to it'

Ddraig thought to himself with amusement as he sat down and closed his eyes, which was quite unexpected, considering that he was recently revived.

"Ddraig, you can go out and do whatever you want for now if you'd like, I can call you via magic at anytime, so don't worry about it"

The dragon's eye shot wide open and he instantly teleported away, it seems he was being respectful. How unusual.

Xeron then turned to Grayfia and gestured towards Issei.

"Grayfia, wake the boy up and make him take a shower because he stinks. I also sense Rias and Akeno coming here so wake Shuri up, she needs to see her daughter"

"At once my Lord"

Grayfia bowed and walked to Issei and carried him like a sack of potatoes, she then calmly walked out of the room, leaving Xeron alone with the two fallen.

'Shuri? It can't be her right?'

Thought Azazel idly to himself, and as he was about to ask Xeron, he cut him off.

"Would you like to stay with Azazel, Raynare? I certainly won't mind if you do"

Xeron said to the duo, which made them look at one another, and after a while it was Azazel who ultimately replied.

"I'll have to thank you for the offer Xeron, but I would like to take my leave. I still have a ton of work to finish after all"

He seemed to be telling the truth, mostly, but there was also something else that was keeping the first fallen from staying a little longer.

Xeron seems to have noticed, but didn't comment on it, either because it wasn't important or he just didn't care. Not that anyone would know which of the two it was.

"I see, then a word of advice before you leave. Do not leave Kokabiel run amok anymore, his orders nearly go your daughter killed and I have come to like the little girl"

Azazel, being the cunning and wise oldman he was, caught on to the hidden meaning in Xeron's message, but it seems that Raynare didn't inherit her father's brain.

She was a blushing mess, fidgeting left and right while twirling her hair locks and staring at the ground. One would question where the mature couple thousand year old fallen angel went to, but you'd be pressed to find an answer to that question.

"...I'll see what I can do about it"

Azazel said while grabbing his daughter's hand and casting a teleportation spell under both their feet.

"Fine, but be quick or it won't end well for him"

Xeron said dismissively, which made Azazel both relieved and concerned.

'It seems that he's fated to suffer anyway huh, if not by Xeron's hands, then it must be the devils'

Those were the last thoughts on Azazel's mind before he left Xeron's Mainson.

Opening his eyes in Grigori's base, the first thing that greets him was a wall of flaming text, floating in the air.

'Also, tell Baraqiel that I revived his wife'

And after Azazel read the entire sentence it vanished into the air.

'I need a drink'

…It seems that the day was too much for our favourite fallen angel.

….

"Good evening Rias, Akeno. Please have a seat"

Xeron greeted the two lovely devil ladies at the mainson's garden, he chose to meet them out here as a change of scenery, nothing more.

"Good evening Xeron" x2

The two devils sat on the garden chairs prepared by the butlers; it was a tea set that consisted of four chairs and a small table. A very classy choice of furniture, one that certainly wasn't expected from a demon.

Which it indeed wasn't, because the whole mainson décor was premade by the devils, so the entire design carried that Victorian Era elegance, Xeron merely lived here, which he had certainly come to appreciate.

"I'm sorry little Akeno that I didn't come to school with your mother today, she needed more time to adapt than I expected, so I let her rest fully"

Xeron spoke with a slight apologetic smile to the visibly tense Akeno, and the words made her body twitch and then her violet eyes snapped to Xeron's golden red ones.

"M-My m-mother i-is here?"

Xeron didn't answer, and as Akeno was about to ask again she heard a voice she thought she would never hear again in her lifetime.

"Akeno! My daughter!"

Akeno's head snapped backwards, and she was met with the sight of her own mother that she knew was dead, so she immediately rushed towards her in a flash of lightning, which she didn't notice that she was subconsciously using.

"Mother!"

"Akeno!"

The pair of mother and daughter were embracing each other tightly, it was as if they both were afraid that the other would disappear. And after a moment of silence and the smirks of both Xeron and Rias, they both separated a little and Akeno got to see her mother's new look.

"Mother, you look so beautiful. And what are these horns! They're so black, I don't even see light reflected in them!"

"My~ my~ Ufufufufu~"

Shuri just smiled beautifully and giggled….a very seductive giggle I'll tell you that much, it seems we now know were Akeno got here attitude from.

Heck, even Rias was blushing a little and she wasn't into girls okay! She could appreciate their looks but didn't think of them as a romantic interest. It's just that Shuri seemed to miss with her brain a little, that's all!

….Xeron was just smiling at the three women like an old man talking his family out for an outing, the women noticed it, but didn't say anything for different reasons.

Akeno wasn't really concerned about anything other than her mother for now.

Rias thought that there was something wrong with Xeron's manhood because he didn't react to their looks, which got her a glare from him, and she immediately removed the thought from her mind.

Finally, Shuri didn't say much, because it was true. He is literally her father now, he created her after all. He even has the mindset for it, so why fight the inevitable?

"I believe that I have fulfilled my part of the deal now little Akeno, but I can see that you have a question on your mind, what is it that you want answered?"

Akeno got out of her mother's embrace and stood up in front of Xeron's seat and bowed a 90 degree bow.

"Thank you Xeron! I will remember this debt until I die!"

The young girl's words were full of sincerity which Xeron could practically taste, and while he did revive her mother for his own selfish reason, he did also pity her situation a little, so he wasn't all that bad.

"Don't worry about it little Akeno, it may be true that I literally revived your mother from death, to me, it wasn't really much"

Akeno shook her head left and right in denial while bowing again.

"Even so, you returned my mother to me, and for that I'll be always grateful"

"Again, it's fine. I really didn't do much. But, on another note, she is now a pure-blood demon, she wouldn't get the destructive tendencies because I disallowed it, but she's still a demon and demons are both powerful and enjoy flaunting their power. We're a lot like you devils in that regard except of course the appearance"

Akeno, nodded her hair while turning her head back at her mother, who flashed her a smile full of sharp teeth.

*Gulp*

"C-can she turn into a human form?"

Xeron snapped his fingers and Shuri horns disappeared and teeth turned completely into human teeth.

The woman herself didn't seem that surprised, considering she instinctively knows she can transform, she just wasn't evolved enough to do so alone.

"I have forcibly morphed her appearance into that of a human, she will be able to shift alone when she becomes strong enough"

Akeno nodded thoughtfully, and fell deep in thoughts. So deep in fact, she didn't notice her mother sneaking up on her and ultimately lunging on her back and hugging her from behind.

"Mah~Mah~ You're such a worrywart my daughter! I'm sure everything will be fine with my father here!"

"Y-Your F-Father?!" x2

Akeno and Rias were understandably shocked, and who wouldn't be when such a mature and sexy woman suddenly calls a young looking man her 'father'.

"Your father? Well, you wouldn't be incorrect. But, it's the first time, I heard such words from the demons I personally created, but you may suit yourself"

Xeron nodded once and waved his hand at her, and she immediately bowed at his direction while speaking sensually.

"Yes, father~~"

That only earned a smirk from an amused Xeron.

"Lord Xeron, I have brought the boy here as you commanded"

The voice of Grayfia was heard from the far side of the garden, and looking towards her, one can find Grayfia in her usual maid dress, but now she was accompanied by a young boy in his teenage years, Issei Hyoudou.

"Teacher Xeron? Rias-san?! Akeno-san?! And who's that smoking hot babe besides Akeno-san?!"

The boys voice kept rising in pitch with every passing word, along with his increasingly ogling gaze, which made The pair of mother and daughter giggle and made Rias sigh in exasperation, she nearly forgot about her potential new pawn's extreme perversion.

"She is Shuri, Akeno's mother, but I must say Issei. You're certainly taking your near death experience like a champ. I didn't expect you would even have the balls to come and meet us, now that you know about the supernatural"

Xeron spoke with a hint of curiosity in his voice, the boy may be a pervert and thinks with his lower half, but he wasn't a coward. He was almost tricked and killed by a fallen, and even after knowing that all the beings here were of the supernatural, he chose to come anyway.

'At least you have some backbone on you kid'

Xeron thought lightly as he watched his maid walk to him until she reached behind his chair and she just stood there…..menacingly. [couldn't help it]

"I dislike pleasantries, so I'll cut to the chase"

Xeron clapped once and drew the attention of all people present. Then he looked at Issei and spoke with no visible emotions on his face.

"Issei, now that you're a little more familiar with the supernatural, Rias here has come to you with a proposal. She wants you to join her 'peerage', which basically means you'll be her slave for life or until you become high-class which is incredibly difficult. She controls your freedom and you can't oppose her or risk being hunted down, and in return she offers you 'immortality' which in this case means a devil's life span of around ten thousand years, power in term of 'demonic energy' that's basically the devil's unique energy, she offers you protection, so that what happened to you is unlikely to ever repeat again, and also the resources behind her house, in this case being the Gremorys' which is famous for being extra loaded"

Xeron just basically listed all the pros and cons of the devils' pyramid scheme, he didn't mind it if the boy was scammed, but it would leave a bad taste in his mouth if it happened in his house.

"Issei-kun! You must know that I don't treat my peerage members as slaves! They are my precious family!"

The young Heiress says while glaring at Xeron, and he just shrugged. He didn't care that much about her succeeding in recruiting him or not.

"It's true, she doesn't seem to treat her current peerage as slaves, but you must know that the devil society itself views low-level reincarnated devils as slaves. So, you should consider your decision carefully before ultimately deciding"

Another glare was shot in Xeron's way, and he brushed it off just as swiftly as the last one.

And after about ten minutes Issei asked Rias the question that will ultimately change his future forever.

"Will your house protect my parents if I join?"

The Heiress didn't waste a second, she immediately put her hand on her chest in with a sincere voice she started speaking.

"I swear on the name of the Gremorys' that we will always protect both Issei Hyoudou's parents as if they were our own"

Issei stared at her for a while and as if seeing her sincerity, he nodded gratefully.

"Then, I accept. President Rias"

Chapter 18: The Only Way

Chapter Text

[Next day - Kuoh Academy - Third Person POV]

"That's it for today class, also don't forget about the report and see you next week"

Xeron in his work clothes had just finished today's lecture to the students of second year at Kuoh Academy.

The young ladies and gentlemen were plenty diligent and seemee to focus extra hard whenever it's time for his mathematics lecture.

….Of course, he knew the reason why. If him having the feeling of being undressed by the numerous woman in the class was any distinction.

But, he didn't care much honestly, it was better than them trying to ignore him, which he admits that he wouldn't like it very much.

After taking his teaching material and leaving the class, he stops outside the classroom and turns his head at the direction of the Occult Research Club.

Honestly, he found the idea of them having a whole building for themselves a little amusing, but after he found out that the Gremory household runs this school, he wasn't really that surprised.

'It seems that someone came here uninvited, and that energy signature. Sirzechs? I see'

The demon thought to himself as he spotted the young brown haired pawn strolling out of the classroom behind him.

It also seems that Issei noticed him as well, so we approached him and asked curiously.

"Teacher Xeron? Didn't you go out of the classroom five minutes ago? What's the matter?"

The brown haired young dragon asked curiously, after having been accidentally pulled into to the supernatural. He seems to have adapted quite fast, it's like what happened to him was fate, which is in a way is true considering he is the holder of the boosted gear.

"Is Rias expecting someone today?"

The pawn thinks for a few seconds and answers the demon.

"Not that I'm aware of, no. But, I'm still new to this devil business, so maybe they didn't tell me?"

"Or maybe she didn't even know she will be receiving guests. Come, let us greet our guest properly"

Xeron casts an illusion spell on him and Issei and then he de-summons his teaching stuff.

….

[Ten minutes ago - ORC room]

The ORC was going about as usual. Rias was sitting at the president's seat lazing about as always, a questionable way to spend your time, but she was so spoiled growing up that no-one reprimanded her on her behaviour.

Standing behind Rias was Akeno, who now after finally uniting with her mother, was as bright as a sunshine. The young woman was ecstatic, knowing that she'll be able to live together again with her mother after all this time apart.

Kiba is a handsome young man with short blond hair, blue eyes with a mole underneath his left eye, he was currently sitting on one of the two couches reviewing some of the devil contracts he'll be doing later this evening, and in front of him was Koneko.

Koneko, formally known as Shirone, she was a petite girl with white hair and gold eyes. The front of her hair has two long bangs going past her shoulders and several loose bangs hanging over her forehead, while the back has a short bob cut. She also wears a black cat-shaped hair clip on both sides of her hair.

She was currently sitting or more accurately sprawled on the sofa that was facing Kiba's. The young cat girl was truly catlike, she liked to sit idly all day and reserve her energy for the night.

"Akeno, what do you think I should do about Riser? He's honestly quite disgusting, I have no idea what my father was thinking when he engaged me to him"

Rias spoke out of nowhere, snapping her queen of her own thoughts. Akeno thought for a second until an idea was born in her head.

"How about you ask help from teacher Xeron, surely he can stop a marriage between two young devils"

Rias just face palmed and sighed at her queen, it seems that Akeno was infatuated with the demon more than she thought.

"Honestly Akeno? You think I can just ask a non-devil to cancel a marriage between two major devil clan without causing a war to happen? And my brother seems to have foresaw this idea coming eventually, and he absolutely forbade me from ever signing a contract with Xeron. I honestly don't know why he agreed to revive your mother without a price. He seems to have a hidden motive and it worries me"

Akeno, fell silent and thought about what her king said. Indeed, from what little they knew about Xeron, he won't agree to make a contract without him benefiting from it, so why did he revive her mother for free?

She thought for a bit until finally giving up, her mother was alive and that's all that mattered.

"I should probably go and ask my broth-"

Rias's words were interrupted by the Gremorys' signature magical circle appearing at the floor, and out from it came the strongest devil currently alive, Sirzechs Lucifer.

The handsome man looked at his sister and smiled kindly.

"Good morning lord Lucifer" x3

All Rias's servants shot up and bowed towards the new arrival, which made Sirzechs smile lightly at them and gestured them to calm down.

"Good morning everyone and sorry for my sudden visit, and good morning to you too my little Rias"

"Good morning brother"

Rias just huffed at her brother's overly affectionate tone, but still returned his greeting. It would be awfully impolite if she didn't do so.

"Sit down brother, and Akeno prepare tea for us please"

"Right away Rias"

Rias accompanied her brother of the sofas in the middle of the room with her peerage standing behind her, and she waited for Sirzechs to tell her about the reason he was here.

After a few minutes of silence, Akeno came back with the tea and put down the cup in front of Sirzechs, which he took a sip from and finally started speaking with a slightly serious face.

"Let us get straight to the point Rias, I'm here to talk about your engagement to the young boy at the Phenex's house"

Rias just scowled at the mention of Riser, but decided to swallow down her hatred and listen to her brother. She knows that he loves her, but can't help her with the engagement because it might lead to a civil war.

But, that didn't mean he can't help her in the shadow, which she guessed that is what he was here for.

"In your report to your family you said that you have acquired a new pawn, and an 8 pawn piece one at that. Which means he is significantly powerful, or at least has the potential to be so"

Rias just nodded and thought about her new cute servant Issei, and while he's a little preverted, he is her family and she'll treat him well.

"Indeed, but why are you mentioning my servants brother?"

Sirzechs but down his tea cup and looked straight into his sister's eyes.

"It has been decided that you'll be competing with Riser in a rating game to decide the fate of your marriage"

The new stunned Rias a significant bit, mostly because it was her first time competing in a rating game and it was against Riser, who was a renowned rating game champion.

"Brother! That's simply unfair! How can I compete against Riser if he has a track record while it's still my first time?!"

The young girl was visibly upset, but her brother simply shook his head while sighing sadly.

"Rias, you must know this was the best I can do without causing a civil war, and besides you certainly have a chance, considering your peerage in comparison with Riser's who's only real threat are himself and his sister who's his bishop"

Rias fell silent and thought about her options, but the sound of the door opening pulled her out of her thoughts.

"Interesting conversation, you don't mind if I join in do you?"

And there was Xeron, who was smiling his usual unconcerned smile, being accompanied by a slightly sorry Issei.

….

Sirzechs's attention was grabbed by the new arrival, he was shocked by his being unable to sense both Xeron and Issei arriving, but he remembered who the demon was, so he shook his head and stood up to greet them.

"Good morning Xeron, and no, I don't mind you joining our conversation"

"Good to see you too Sirzechs, Iid I'd have known you had it this rough, I would've offered to get you a maid after I took Grayfia"

Xeron spoke with Sirzechs with slight sympathy, it didn't look obvious because devils don't feel ill, but to Xeron who can see directly into the soul. It looks like Sirzechs is mentally exhausted, probably due to his position as the Satan of internal affairs.

"Thank you for your concern, but I'm fine. If I see that I'm unable to handle my work alone, I'll ask my wife to hire me a new maid"

Xeron nodded and looked for a place to sit, and when he didn't find one he walked to the sofa Sirzechs is sitting on and casually sat down beside him. Sirzechs didn't say anything, but Koneko and Kiba nearly had their eyes pop out of their eye sockets.

Akeno giggled slightly and went to prepare tea for Xeron, while Issei saw his fellow servants standing behind Rias and went to accompany them.

On his way towards Rias's sofa, Sirzechs notices him and calls out to him.

"Oh? You must Hyoudou Issei? It is nice to meet you, my name is Sirzechs Lucifer, I'm Rias's brother"

Issei stops in his tracks and look towards the red haired devil, and seeing him smiling towards him, he gulps slightly, feeling the difference in strength between the two of them, but still answers the greeting.

"Good morning to you too, Lord Lucifer. I'm sorry for my impolite greeting"

Sirzechs waved his hand and spoke lightly towards the nervous Issei.

"Don't worry about that, you're a new devil after all, but please do take care of Rias for me, I'll be sad to see her get hurt"

Issei straightened up and saluted Sirzechs like he was military trained, to the amusement of those present.

"Yes lord Sirzechs! I'll protect the president's breasts until my last breath!"

Sirzechs and Kiba just smile, Koneko mutters 'pervert' quietly while Rias sees all of this and just sighs tiredly. And when she sees Akeno serving tea to Xeron and smiling like a fool, she sighed more tiredly.

"Ahem, as I said Rias. The rating game will be held exactly in a month, so you should get prepared"

Rias was once again hit with the reality of the situation, and was forced to contemplate on her future actions.

And after making sure that his sister took his words seriously, Sirzechs stands up, seemingly ready to leave.

"Brother, are you leaving?"

"Yes Rias, the underworld still has a lot work for me to do, and I can't stay here for too long"

Sirzechs then turns his head towards Xeron and speaks with a slightly pleading tone.

"Xeron, can you please accompany me for a while, I have something to discuss with you"

Xeron, seeing the look in Sirzechs's eyes, nods slightly and stands up and together they teleport with the magic circle that Sirzechs casted.

Chapter 19: Honorary Devil

Chapter Text

Lilith (Underworld Capital) - Third Person POV]

Going out of the portal was Sirzechs Lucifer, the current strongest devil and the face of the devil race in general, and accompanying him was Xeron Kezgenoth, who unlike how one would expect was still wearing his teaching outfit.

"If you would, please come with me to the meeting room"

Sirzechs said, and after seeing Xeron confirmation, they both entered the large castle that signifies the underworld capital.

"Lord Lucifer" x8

As they entered the castle's large garden, they were greeted by the guards stationed there, and upon seeing Sirzechs all guards saluted in union, which shows how much they admire their lord.

They also saw Xeron, but they didn't care much. He was a guest of their lord after all.

"At ease, and as always thank you for your service"

Sirzechs, wearing his usual business smile, gestured for the guards to calm down and remain in position, which they did so in an instant.

And as they entered the castle and passed through the castle corridors, the same scene kept on replaying itself, a couple of servants pass by, greet Sirzechs respectfully and then go on about their day.

Honestly, Xeron was getting pretty bored. If not for the obvious powerful energy signatures just a couple of rooms away from him, he would've just made Sirzechs spill out what he wanted without all this time wasting shenanigans.

He can see four energy signatures. One of them is probably Serafall, the other one is Ajuka, Azazel and another unknown fallen angel, but from the energy shape it looks like a woman.

If he didn't know better, he would've guessed that they were trying to ambush him.

And as exciting as the thought was, it didn't linger in his thoughts for too long.

Them naturally letting their presence run wild means that they want him to know that they were here, not hiding and trying to attack him.

The presence of Azazel also backs up this fact considering he just signed a deal with the man, he wouldn't just turn around and attack him, that would be stupid.

'Well, I'll at least have to treat this as a serious gathering'

Snapping his fingers, the demon was enveloped by flames, and out of it he came wearing his signature black Victorian suit.

Sirzechs raised an eyebrow at the erupt change of clothes, but he didn't comment on it. He knows that Xeron noticed the other three and thought that his current clothes weren't suitable enough for such a gathering.

….Little did he know that Xeron just did this on a whim.

Finally arriving at the meeting room, which was more like a meeting hall, Sirzechs takes the lead and opens the door for Xeron to enter and after they both do enter they were greeted by the sight of the three other powerful leaders present.

Serafall was in her business suit, which signifies that she's taking this incredibly seriously, and Ajuka was visibly excited he had the same crazed look that Azazel had when anyone mentions sacred gears so it wasn't hard for Xeron to know what this meeting was about.

Azazel, for his part, was incredibly relaxed and with a small smile on his face.

In contrast to his fallen companion who Xeron immediately identified despite her being significantly weaker than Azazel.

"Good day to you all, and what an interesting gathering this is"

Xeron grinned and spoke to all present, then he turned his head to the female fallen and spoke with curiosity.

"Penemue, long time no see. Didn't expect to see you here"

The woman called Penemue had purple hair and purple eyes, decorated by an incredibly mature and voluptuous body.

Xeron knew of her because of the war, she was an original pure angel with 8 pairs of wings, and as such she didn't participate in the demon war, which required ten or twelve pairs, she was still a valuable asset considering her incredibly smart constitution.

She excelled in planning and development, which made her one of the primary tacticians of heaven. And the right hand woman to Azazel himself, who was the lead of research at fifth heaven and possesed twelve pairs of wings.

But now she seems to have fallen, which is a very interesting prospect and a story Xeron would very much like to hear.

Sadly, this will have to wait for now.

"Parging in my school and requesting me to attend a meeting between yourselves, I hope you have a compelling argument or I'll kick all your asses at the middle of the city"

Everyone in the room shivered slightly, all for the same reason except Serafall. Who seems to have discovered a new fetish since the appearance of the demon king.

But, she was the Satan in charge of foreign affairs and as such she had to take charge of the negotiations, so she cleared her throat to calm down and spoke with a respectful tone.

"Of course Xeron, we wouldn't want to waste your time after all"

Xeron nodded and sat down at his seat, and when all present saw that he sat down, they calmed down slightly and Serafall began speaking again.

"We heard from our fellow race leader Azazel that you plan to make a similar system to that of sacred gears but without the race restrictions, is that true?"

Serafall spoke slowly and with a steady tone, with Sirzechs being similar to her, the odd one out being Ajuka who was visibly excited.

Xeron leaned back into his chair and crossed his arms over his chest.

"And I assume you would like to participate in our little pet project?"

Serafall nodded lightly, and spoke with a helpless smile.

"Calling a new system that will definitely change the power balance of the world a 'pet project' is certainly a little self deprecating, but you are correct. We, the devil race, would like to be included in the project's development as well"

Xeron didn't speak and just looked at Azazel, who raised his hand to defend himself.

"Hey! You knew the moment I left that room, I'll be bragging about it! Don't pretend to be innocent when you aren't"

*Sigh* 'That fucking man child'

But he is correct. In fact one of the reasons Xeron decided to make such a system was to make every major power pay up to be included.

So, it wasn't like Xeron didn't expect this. But he didn't think the devils had anything to offer him in return.

"I don't mind, but what can you offer me in return?"

Serafall smiled courteously and with a flash of magic, adorned by the signature of the Sitri's magic circle, a stack of papers appeard beside her.

Xeron looked dryly at her and didn't speak, surely she didn't expect him to read some paperwork, didn't she?

Serafall looked like she understood his concern and smiled lightly at him while explaining.

"Don't worry Xeron, the paper work is meant to show you that we're being serious about what we're about to offer you"

Indeed, the demon could feel four distinct magical signatures from each paper in the stack. Most likely being each signed by all the Satans.

As if on queue, Ajuka summoned something of his own and put it in front of him on the table, and out from the Astaroth magic circle came a sealed box of chess pieces.

"Lord Xeron, as the representatives of the devil race we humbly offer you the position of an honorary devil along with the title 'duke' and if you shall accept, you'll have your own territory to do with as you see fit and nobody shall question your rule"

She stood up from her chair and grabbed the chess pieces box, and with a seductive sway, she started making her way to Xeron's seat.

"And as a noble devil, you'll naturally have the right to possess your own evil pieces set and also take parts in the rating games the devil population competes in"

Arriving in front of his seat the black haired devilish beauty smiled seductively at him and held out the evil piece box, while looking at him in the eye.

"Last but not least, we offer you the Satan Leviathan which is me! as your first peerage member"

….Silence

The two other Satans didn't speak a word and they all three held their breathe in, they did so because this was something they stayed up nights to discuss since they discovered Xeron's agreement with Grigori.

Coupled with the fact that he most likely didn't harbour good thoughts towards them due to what they tried to pull of on their first meeting made them desperate.

They didn't know what he desired, so it was quite a gruelling experience to come with an enticing offer for him. Until Serafall herself came up with a plan.

She would sell herself to secure a future for her race. A hard decision to others, but to her it was to be expected, she was one of the four Satans for a reason, all she and her colleagues cared about was the survival and flourishing of their race.

As for why her specifically, it was simply because they didn't know Xeron's preferences, they just knew that he once desired Grayfia, so it was safe to assume that he fancies woman. In short, it was a safe bet.

As for the titles and land they offered him, it was all ceremonial. After all, they knew he wasn't interested in riches, or he would have actively seeked them out by now.

The tension in the room was so thick, it could be cut with a knife. They only ones that seem remotely relaxed are Xeron, who's face was expressionless, and Azazel, who was seemingly in deep thought.

And after what felt like forever, Xeron moved.

He didn't grab the chess box, which made the devils' hearts' collectively fall to their knees, he instead stood up and towerd over Serafall, who was shorter than him by a feet and a half.

He grabbed her chin and forced her to look upwards, and then when her blue eyes met his now blood red ones, she froze.

She was terrified, incredibly so. It was a mins numbing sensation, similar to feeling that any living being feels when they feel their lifes being threatened.

It felt like she was little fish in a little pond all her life, and suddenly she was in front of a Kraken, a feeling she honestly didn't think she'd ever feel in her entire life.

*Shiver*

A shiver run down her spine, a skin crawling sensation like no other, it felt like something just tried and succeeded in throughly scanning her entire body, she even felt her thoughts being probed.

*Shiver*

She didn't have time to think about what just happened and she shivered again, this time due to his hands, which have moved from her chin towards her face.

He lowers his head and stares into her eyes that have now returned to their golden red colour.

"Interesting choice little devil, but are you sure? Do you truly wish to become mine?"

Feeling his hands leaving her face and along them left the existential dread that occupied her senses, Serafall mind was spinning at full gears.

Did she truly desire this? They didn't exactly offer her to become his servant, but they both know that her being in his servant, basically meant that she'll be his slave.

The treatment differs between noble devils and reincarnated ones but the principle still stands, she'll be his servant, and that's for sure.

But, what choice did they have. They had a bad first meeting, didn't have anything else to offer and they couldn't afford to be left out.

Their only hope now was to offer their sincerity and 'cling to his thigh' for lack of a better word.

Accompanied by the fact that all devils naturally desired and respected power made it a more accepted descision from the devils perspective.

But, not all devils will accept this descision, despite their better judgement, and attempt to retaliate.

Of course, Serafall and her colleagues don't want their race to go extinct so soon, so they planned to negotiate with Xeron to keep the Serafall matter a secret to the public.

Which he wouldn't likely refuse, considering their brief observations of his personality.

That was of course, if he agreed to take the deal in the first place.

…..

[ORC room - Immediately after Sirzechs and Xeron left]

Despite Xeron's and Sirzechs's departure, the red haired princess and her peerage didn't immediately return to their own devices, instead they where all lost in thought and after a minute or so of silence, it was their newest member, Issei the 8-peice pawn that broke the silence.

"President, I'm aware of mister Sirzechs. He was in the books you forced me to read this morning, but isn't teacher Xeron also a devil? Why wasn't he being respectful?"

Rias looked at her new servant absent mindedly untill she remembered that none of her servants know about Xeron, except Akeno.

Deciding that it was her duty to educate her servants, she returned to the club president's seat and waited for her servants to each take a seat as well.

"Before I answer any questions, tell me what each one of you feels about Xeron. Is there something that comes to mind when you think if him now?"

They all fell silent and thought about their mistress's words. What are their thoughts about the being called Xeron? What emotions does these thoughts evoke?

The first one to answer was Akeno, who out of all of them was arguably the most influenced by the arrival of Xeron into their lifes.

"...Despite my mind telling me not to, I can't find it in myself to feel negative thoughts towards the man….H-He literally brought my mother back to me. So part of my heart will always feel gratitude towards him"

'Understandable'. They all thought

It wasn't a secret that Akeno's mother has sadly long passed away. But it was yesterday that she was revived again by their new teacher Xeron, they two other peerage members naturally thought that he was an ancient and powerful devil, but it turns out that wasn't the case.

….Issei was clueless as always, but he could more or less string the situation together in his head.

"What about you Koneko? What do you think about Xeron?"

Rias said to her rook, and she was honestly curious about her opinion, considering that she was a Nekomata. A race famous for being good judges of character.

The white haired, soft spoken and petite girl didn't talk much. But when she did, she had a habit of saying as little and as impactful as possible.

"...It was scary. Everytime I meet someone for the first time, I could somewhat determine if they're good or bad. But, when I first saw him and looked a him….I-I f-felt scared, so I didn't try again"

The little girl shiverd slightly while looking at the ground as she spoke, and suffice to say that the sight broke everyone's hearts. Issei swore to teach his scary teacher a god- *Aaaah*

Everyone turned their heads to Issei, who was clutching his head in pain and didn't make a comment. They knew he said the forbidden word and suffered for it.

"And you Kiba?"

The handsome boy took a deep breathe and spoke lightly.

"I don't have Koneko's sensing ability. So, he appeared to be a normal gentleman in my opinion. I also saw him teach my class and he appeared to be very educated too"

Rias shook her head slightly but didn't blame her knight. She would've honestly thought the same too if she was in his position.

She then turned her attention to her newest member, who stopped clutching his head in pain and was in turn looking at her.

"And you Issei? What do you think about Xeron?"

Issei thought for a couple of seconds and spoke seriously, it seems he has some deep thoughts on the matter.

"...Yesterday in school, just a few hours before Raynare ambushed me, he invited me to the cafeteria and asked me if I'm ready to make a choice"

The words grabbed the attention of everyone in the room and soon they were all calmly listening to Issei in silence.

"He said that my life is going to change and that I must be prepared….at the time I didn't understand and I thought he was just passing time…but I do now"

"He clearly knew and didn't warn me, he just stood at the sidelines and watched as I was tricked by a fallen and was about to quite possibly be murdered"

Issei's words weren't being spoken with malice or resentment….It was more appropriate to describe them as the cold, hard truth.

"But now it's clear…now I know why he didn't do anything….it's simply because he doesn't care. After all, the only thing that truly matters is his own amusement"

Chapter 20: First Peerage Member

Notes:

Sorry for the delay, I have finals at my university

Chapter Text

[Lilith (Underworld Capital) - Third Person POV]

"Interesting choice little devil, but are you sure? Do you truly wish to become mine?"

Xeron's cold and flat voice echoed throughout the room they were in, and the sound of it brought Serafall to her senses.

She had already made her choice so she wouldn't back down from the deal, even if it meant that she had to sell herself to the demon.

"Yes, I'm sure"

"Then so be it"

And just like that, the tension that was surrounding the room shattered like glass, and all the devils, along with Penemue breathed a sigh of relief.

…. Azazel didn't care tho, he was just having fun.

Xeron walked back to his seat and sat down again, and with renewed vigor, Serafall smiled and continued speaking.

"Thank you Xeron! And It's an absolute pleasure to welcome you as if you were one of our own!"

Xeron just nodded at the overly excited Serafall, and watched as she happily sat back down in her seat, and his gaze shifted towards Ajuka. It was time for the second part of the deal.

Ajuka approached Xeron and pushed the evil chess set in his direction, it was still closed, signaling that no-one has claimed it yet.

"Lord Xeron, just insert some of your energy into the chess set and it'll be recognised as your own"

Ajuka Beelzebub spoke to the demon in a friendly but excited manner, and as it was an opportunity to discover how his creation will react to a foreign entity for the first time, the excitement part was somewhat understandable.

You must know that originally, the evil chess set wasn't in possession of any race other than the devils. So when Serafall suggested the idea, he got to work and designed a specific set of evil pieces that worked with any form of energy, not only devil mana.

And so, under the eyes of Ajuka and everyone present, Xeron raised his eyebrow and…didn't do anything.

When Ajuka was about to ask what was the problem, Xeron's flat voice was heard, he spoke as if he was stating a well known fact.

"Your creation won't be able to handle my power"

Ajuka's brain short circuited, out of all the things he was prepared to hear, he didn't expect it to be this.

'How preposterous! The evil set is my brightest creation yet!'

But as much as he would've liked to deny this claim, he knew it was true.

It was understandable if you think about it really. How would something that Ajuka created be able to handle the power output of someone significantly more powerful than him.

…..But part of him still wanted to see what would happen, which is why he specifically made this special chess set and brought it here.

"I am aware, but please try to claim it regardless. It will help me to someday make you one that's more suitable"

Xeron shrugged and accepted in the end. It didn't matter to him what the devils did if they didn't have any I'll intentions.

He then reached out to the chess set and pushed some his demonic energy into it, and while a normal evil set would've opened and revealed the pieces by now.

*BOOOM*

….This one just exploded.

The explosion was minor and didn't cause a scene, but it looked Ajuka was devastated to see the remains of his beloved creation scattered across the room.

The devils where somewhat stunned by what happened, not always will they be able to witness something that the smartest devil in existence made, failing after all.

"Hahahaha"

…..of course Azazel was laughing his ass off, it wasn't everyday that he saw Ajuka this frustrated.

Ajuka sighed sadly, but still used magic to collect the shattered chess pieces that was scattered around the room, they would serve to fuel his research after all.

And while the Beelzebub was thinking to himself quietly, Xeron's words pulled him out of his thoughts again.

"I've seen your magic a few times, devils, and while it isn't particularly interesting to me. There's something in mind that I want to check for myself"

The devils in the room were drawn to what Xeron said. They knew that he didn't use devil magic, in fact, he has a power of his own. Something that they have never seen before, so they didn't know what he had in mind, but if it involved their power they wanted to see it for themselves.

"Ajuka, do you have another evil set?"

Ajuka was surprised by the request, but complied nonetheless. He pulled out another evil set and put it on the table in place of the previous one, but this time it was a normal one, like the one all noble devils use.

Xeron then hovered his hand above the set and in a similar fashion to his previous display he pushed some energy into it.

Ajuka was prepared for an explosion….but it didn't happen, and instead of an explosion the evil set was bound to Xeron, revealing a complete set of jet black MUTATED evil piece.

'What?!' x3

The devils were extremely bewildered, because not only did the set not explode, it even recognized Xeron as the master and became a full set of mutated pieces, making it the strongest one since the creation of the devil reincarnation system, significantly stronger than the strongest set, which was Sirzechs's set with three mutated pieces.

So with their mouths hanging open and thier eyes staring at Xeron looking for answers, he collected his chess set and leaned back into his seat and stayed silent.

The devils understood that he wanted them to calm down and sit, so they did. And what happened after that made them even more startled.

Behind Xeron was three magic circles, not any magic circles mind you, it was the Sitri's, Gremorys' and Astaroth's magic circles. They were all swirling behind him in the air and after each one released a small magic spell into the air they vanished again.

…..The devils were really tired due to the constant surprises, but it didn't lessen their bewilderment, and finally after a few seconds of silence, Sirzechs was the first to speak.

"Xeron, would you be kind enough to explain to us what you just did?. If not it's totally understandable"

The demon smirked slightly at the appearance of the devil Satans, it may seem like they were calm, but from what he understands, what he just did would have had very high consequences if he were weaker than any of them.

Imagine what would've happened if he were to commit a crime, and leave traces of Gremory magic in the scene. This would spill trouble to the Gremory household, and by extension Sirzechs Lucifer, even if he didn't associate with the household anymore, he still supports them.

Same as the other houses, so they just couldn't let anyone do the same as what Xeron did, so they have to understand how he did for them to be able to prepare countermeasures for it.

"I'm not so kind as to outright tell you how I did it, but I'll give you a small hint"

Sirzechs sighed but still nodded his head, they couldn't force him to speak in any way, so frankly even a hint would be appreciated.

"In our universe, the only two energies that can be freely manipulated are mana and aura which this world calls touki. So by extension, and my senses tell me that all of our powers have something in common, they all use mana as fuel"

Everyone nodded at the words Xeron just said, as if it was common knowledge. Which it was, it was a well known fact that everyone in the supernatural either uses mana in some way or doesn't possess any and just uses touki, which is called the one's inner energy.

But the mystery still hadn't been solved. It was common knowledge that no-one can use another species' powers if you weren't born with it, even if the source of said power is the same.

The same thought popped into everyone's mind at the same time, and Xeron saw that, so he just scoffed lightly.

"That's where you're all wrong"

He raised his two hands and from the right hand came light magic which the angels use, and the other hand glowed with devil magic which was self explanatory.

This time, it was Azazel's time to be amazed. But he didn't react much, it was expected in a way, if he replicated devil magic then angel magic should be easy enough.

"As I said, all powers have the same source. So, someone who can understands the process of how the soul uses mana to form devil magic for example, he could theoretically replicate it"

He closed both hands, and the spell in each hand vanished.

"Of course, this isn't all there is to it, so you'll have to figure out the rest for yourselves"

The research team that consists of Azazel, Penemue and Ajuka were incredibly intrigued and looked like they wanted to hear more. While Sirzechs and Serafall just shrugged and visibly relaxed, as long as it was a complicated procedure to copy some other race's power, then all is good.

Xeron stayed silent for a while, then he suddenly summoned his evil set, and after inspecting it for a while, he seemingly thought of something.

"Serafall, do you have a piece in mind?"

Xeron spoke to the devil, and she looked at him with a little appreciation, she didn't want to be a queen after all, or she would have to announce herself and she would like to avoid that for now.

"A bishop will do just fine~"

She hopped to his direction and arrived in front of him while pushing her bountiful breasts in his direction.

"Hehe~"

Xeron raised an eyebrow at her antics but didn't say anything, he just grabbed a bishop piece and pushed it towards her chest.

"Aaah~"

….He didn't forget to cop a feel though.

Her features didn't change much but that can't be said about her appearance.

Her eyes that changed from blue to golden red, they were identical to Xeron's eyes in his human form, and similarly, her hair gained that abyssal back colour that resembled Xeron's hair.

She also grew in height, she grew from 5'2'' to 5'6'' and her hips became more full and curvey.

And with the addition of her already large breasts made her really sexy looking, and she noticed it right away, so she struck a sexy pose and spoke seductively to Xeron.

"Wow! Levi-tan looks really sexy~ Would you like to be the first to have a tas-"

Xeron gaze lingered a bit on Serafall and after smiling lightly, he looked back towards the chess set and retrieved it back into his space storage.

And after Xeron's gaze left her body, Serafall just shiverd slightly, and walked back into her seat. She felt his gaze on her body, and while it was brief, she felt like it was devouring her whole. It seems that her new master, wasn't going to play along with her teasing.

…..But, she couldn't help but be excited.

Sirzechs and Ajuka saw the exchange between Xeron and Serafall but didn't comment on it. It was Serafall's actions that resulted in this so it wasn't there place to comment in anyway.

And after Serafall sat down again, a flash of flame appeared in front of the devils, revealing a demonic contract.

They couldn't read demonic language, so Azazel was the one to read the contract out loud for them.

It was basically the same contract as the one between Azazel and Xeron, but with this one had clauses centerd around the devils instead of fallen angels. And when they saw that there wasn't any problem with it, each one signed with a drop of blood, signalling the start of their cooperation.

"Aaaah! Finally! This was incredibly stressful!"

As expected, Serafall was the first to rise and she did so by stretching her body and complaining loudly.

The other Satans agreed with her but didn't voice the thought out like she did, it was incredibly rude after all.

But it didn't look like Xeron was offended, so it was all well in the end.

"As a representative of the devil race, I thank you again Xeron"

Sirzechs smiled slightly while thanking Xeron again, to which the demon just shook his head and said plainly.

"It's fine, I benefited too in the end"

Sirzechs smiled again and didn't say anything, and as he was about to excuse himself out, he sensed a devil running through the corridors towards their room.

He wasn't the only one to do so, as everyone in the room, except for Xeron, frowned slightly while looking at the door.

*Baaam*

The door slammed open revealing a visibly tired devil knight that was panting heavily, it looked like he came here running.

"State your business knight, if it isn't something important, I'll have you executed personally"

Sirzechs spoke with authority that can't be questioned, resulting in the devil in question immediately bowing 90 degrees and speaking in urgency.

"Lord Lucifer, lady Lilith is currently at the castle's hall, and she requested to join this meeting"

….Lilith?

Chapter 21: Troubled Succubus

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"Lady Lilith, it's a pleasure to see you again"

Sirzechs, as the current Satan Lucifer, was the first to welcome Lilith into the meeting room, followed by Ajuka and Serafall, who also welcomed the mother of devils in a similar way.

As they should be, even if she isn't the queen of all devils anymore, she's still the mother of all devils. And also the queen of pleasure devils, so they have to at least show some respect.

"Lilith, you're as lovely as ever"

Next was Azazel, who smiled handsomely and complimented the devilishly beautiful succubus queen. You can even see a small look of desire in Azazel's eyes, which was understandable really, considering how truly beautiful Lilith was.

The succubi and incubi queen was quite tall, about 6 feet tall, she was wearing a long black dress that ends with a slit that showcased her snow white legs as they end with a pair of black high heels that further compliment her beauty, her long black hair flows freely down her waist, and sways slightly from side to side as she walks with a seductive sway.

Penemue looked at the succubus with a look of annoyance and snorted lightly. It wasn't due to hatred or anything of that magnitude, it was a more simple reason, jealousy.

Penumue's own body was considered incredibly sexy looking, but in front of this woman, both in looks and demeanor, she may as well be called a cockroach.

'Look at those breasts! Are they even real!'

But, despite her own personal grievances, Penemue knew that she must show proper etiquette when dealing with some of Lilith's stature, or even she won't be able to handle the consequences.

"Good day to you Lady Lilith"

Lilith smiled a polite smile and returned the greeting of all of them, despite their past grievances, they can all be considered family, a little distorted family, but still family nonetheless.

But soon enough, her eyes fell on the last individual in the room, and the reason she was here in Lilith, the underworld capital in the first place.

"Lord Xeron Kezgenoth, it is pleasure meeting you in person"

Lilith, the incredibly prideful and cold mother of devils, took the initiative to welcome someone. The scene was a foreign one to all those present, but understandable nonetheless.

It has to be known that Lilith, after the death of all first generation devils, alongside the Heavenly Father's own, split from the rest of the devils, and assumed herself the ruler of her own people, which consists of the pleasure devils.

It didn't mean that they had a bad relationship with the 72 pillars in any way, quite the opposite in fact, they often maintained a friendly relationship with each other. It's just that Lilith didn't want her people to participate in the civil war that followed Lucifer's death, the pleasure demons weren't natural fighters after all.

Which begs the question, why is she here? She hasn't personally visited this side of the underworld for quite a lot of centuries after all.

"Good to see you too Eve, you sure look different from the last I saw you in Eden"

The idle thoughts of those present were cut by the words that Xeron said, and boy oh boy were they surprised.

"...Eve huh, the name sure is nostalgic"

Either it was Lilith, Azazel or Penemue, they all remember the silly and cheerful young woman that Lilith was in the past, before she was turned into a succubus and before she fell from Eden.

The memories, while mostly hurtful, looked like they at least held some significance to the first succubus, evident by the small sad smile hanging from her lips, but as if showcasing how much she has changed, the sad smile was gone and was replaced by a charming expression, then she looked at the demon again.

"I'm now called Lilith, the woman called Eve is long gone"

Xeron's eyes glowed slightly, he wondered how the timid and clueless woman of the past could ever turn into this seductress currently standing in front of him, but he didn't show it outwardly and didn't make a comment, just nodded in confirmation of her words.

"Then Lilith, what do you want from me exactly? And what's this dense divine energy emitting from you?"

The words he so casually spoke not only put a stunned expression on the devil and fallen gorups, but also put a helpless smile on Lilith's own.

She shook her head lightly in resignation and directly pulled out the object of his query.

"As excepted, it seems I can't hide anything from you"

"!"

Lilith's small muttering went unheard due to the significance of the object she just let out and was currently floating above her palm.

"...How curious, this is clearly the soul of a god, quite a strong one at that…..should be your father, he's the only one that fits the description, but the question is...how did you get it? And why is it shackled by four other devil souls?"

Yes, the bright white sphere with streaks of red that was shining brightly above Lilith's hand was a soul, the heavenly father's one at that. It wasn't an exaggeration to describe this small white ball as a priceless treasure. One that could tear the whole world apart if even a word of its existence got out.

"...So this is my old man huh….it's quite ironic"

Azazel spoke with unhidden disdain, it went without saying that the first fallen was quite resentful towards his creator after all.

"...But how did you get this? Isn't he supposed to have been reincarnated by now? And why do I feel the old Satan's faction's demonic power coming from it?"

Sirzechs was the second to speak, and being the strongest devil currently, he was more than qualified to sense demonic energy from the orb, it wasn't that it was particularly difficult to do so, considering that about half the aura coming from the orb is devilish in nature.

"...More importantly, why are you bringing it here?"

Ajuka's words were like a sharp knife, the instant he muttered them everyone stopped talking and was wondering.

Indeed, if she had the orb since the Great War ended, why is she bringing it out only now? Did she make a deal with Xeron before the war started? But that was ages ago, and what did he promise in return?

"...I see, it's the primals"

….Primals?

In face of an unfamiliar word, the devils and the fallen turned to look at the speaker, which was in deep thought, and when they turned to look at Lilith, the woman's face didn't change much, but it feels like she's more on edge somehow.

"That explains the the situation quite a bit, they interfered and helped the four Original Satan's defeat the Heavenly Father, and knowing them, it was some stupid reason like order or balance or some other bullshit"

His quiet words didn't satisfy the curiosity of anyone present, but Lilith's look of displeasure was increasingly getting clearer and clearer.

"But, they probably didn't do it for free….I see"

Xeron nodded his head and looked up to meet the now troubled succubus queen, she prepared herself for a lengthy explanation and the chain of events that will eventually follow, but it looked like it was unnecessary.

"Tell me Lilith, what was the deal?"

It was time, the reason she came here running in the first place. The only guiding light in the ocean of despair she has been swimming in since she got pulled into this mess.

"Lucifer made a deal with one of the eight Primals, he promised to spread the influence of the four main Primus in this world in exchange for power"

Xeron didn't speak or react, but inwardly, he scoffed at Lucifer's stupid decision. Because like the demons, a pact with a primal, even if it was one of the eight lesser Primals, was something a normal mortal shouldn't attempt to do.

These eight Primals are known throughout the universe as the regulators of existence, they manage the state of the universe and ensure balance between the forces dwelling in each of its vast corners.

And above the eight Primals, there are the four Primus, who each embody a major concept of the universe and ensure its sustenance.

The four Primus are Negatively, Positivity, Space and Time.

Together, the twelve are the so called protectors of the universe and the heralds of order.

….Or they should be

Reality is of course a different matter altogether, and after eons upon eons of order, the primals questioned themselves.

Why are they here? Why do they have to keep working when the mortals keep breaking the rules? Are we destined to pursue balance for eternity?

And over time, the Primals focus shifted, and in the name of balance and order, they began to conquer the worlds they previously maintained, turning whatever was in there way into mindless worshipers to their great cause.

Until eventually, their stupid actions led the universe itself to take action, and what can it do in front of those who impersonate order? it birthed chaos, the Abyss.

The demons of the Abyss began spawning across the universe and spreading chaos and destruction in their wake, and all those who mindlessly worshipped the primals were slaughtered along with those who didn't.

And in the face of total annihilation, the primals were forced to tend to their work once more. They were forced to ensure that the demons were being kept in check across the universe to prevent chaos from swallowing the world whole.

But, it seems that the disappearance of demons in this world have allowed them to run rent free.

"...and, he wagered both his soul and mine in return if he fell during the final war"

Chapter 22: Counter Offer

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"Wait! Wait! Wait! Who are those Primals?! How powerful are they?! And why did my stupid brother wager his own goddamn soul?!"

The silence that was the result of Lilith's sudden revelation didn't last very long, and was rudely interrupted by the screaming of Azazel, who was quite honestly baffled at both, the sudden turn of events and at his deceased brother's stupidity.

Sirzechs smiled tensely and like Azazel, he wished to know about those so-called Primals, who were apparently the reason behind this world's arguably greatest turn of events and possibly a lot more if they didn't do anything about it.

So after taking a deep breath, which he needed, he looked back at his fellow Satans, and after seeing them nodding at him positively, he decided to start asking some questions, nobody likes being in the dark after all.

"Lady Lilith, can you please elaborate more about those Primals more?"

Lilith, who was staring at Xeron with an incredibly tense and irritated expression, and after hearing Sirzechs call out to her, she snapped at his direction and frowned more, but after seeing the not so amused look on devils and fallen alike, she took a deep breath herself, and started to calm down.

She honestly didn't have a good time these last few centuries, and despite the fact that she separated her people from the devils to protect them, she didn't get her deserved peace of mind.

Imagine her surprise, when one day a foreign being arrives at her doorstep, and announces that she must willingly hand her soul over in ten years or she and her whole race will face the consequences.

Of course, she was furious. How dare they demand her soul! She was Lilith, the mother of all devils! But as soon as the thought came to her, it vanished.

The unknown being announced himself as a Primal, and let out a pressure so powerful she fell to her knees, and after announcing his deal with Lucifer and reminding her of the ten year time limit, he vanished like he never was there in the first place, leaving her both resentful and in despair.

"I don't know much about the Primals, I only knew about their existence when one of them came to my castle eight years ago and demanded I hand over my soul in ten years time or they will take it by force"

Sirzechs eyebrows visibly twitched, and internally grumbled about the awful chain of events that have been happening since the start of this month.

"I tried to refuse of course, but he was so far above my power level that I couldn't do anything"

Lilith said so while gritting her teeth in visible anger. She was a prideful woman who was used to being one of the more powerful beings currently alive, and having been faced with the reality that there was a being who could squash her like a bug didn't sit well with her.

"Then can you describe this Primal to us Lady Lilith? You've seen it, right?"

Penemue asked the annoyed succubus, who calmed herself down once more, and tried to remember the being she had come to hate the most besides her father.

"He was about 8 feet tall, had a single pair of giant white angel wings, wore full body armor along with a helmet that hid his face, he also had divine energy, so it's safe to say that he's a god, but I'm not sure of what rank"

A God that's abnormally tall, has full body armor and a single pair of angel wings? What kind of blend is that?

And to be capable of suppressing Lilith, who is one of the strongest beings currently alive. How terrifying.

"A pact with a Primal, if it's one of the lesser eight, requires the consent of all parties involved and like the demonic pacts, it requires blood to seal it"

Xeron, after having come to a decision, spoke suddenly to the succubus. His words were not the ones she would've liked to hear, she wasn't in the mood for chatter after all, but as soon as he finished his sentence, a memory popped up in her head.

…..

[Lilith POV - 388 years ago - Underworld Capital - Main Bedroom]

"Lilith! I'm going to cum!"

The obvious sound of love making resounded throughout the room, as the arguably most handsome mortal man alive made love to his wife, who is without a doubt, the most beautiful woman alive.

The scene is simply heart throbbing. A handsome man, holding a beautiful woman tightly as they both climax in pleasure. Their bodies glowing in the dark due to the sweat that accumulated on their skin. A beautiful ending to the well-known romance story, that is Lucifer and Lilith.

"Aaah! Lucifer! Why did you bite me!"

….Or it would've been, if not for the man, Lucifer, biting his own wife as they made love.

The bite drew blood, which Lucifer quickly wiped off, as he held his wife tightly in a hug as he apologized to her.

"I'm sorry baby, I got too excited"

"Humph"

Lilith spent the night sulking, not noticing the glint in Lucifer's uncaring eyes.

….

[Present Time - Third Person POV]

"THAT FUCKING BASTARD!"

The sudden outburst of Lilith understandably startled everyone present. The woman's wings and tail sprung out as her red eyes glowed redder with fury.

"Lady Lilith, calm down! What happened?!"

Sirzechs's body glowed crimson, a symbol of the power of destruction that he's so famous for. But Lilith wasn't really in the mood to play games, and as she was about to unleash a spell in the young Lucifer's face, a cold deep voice stopped her dead in her tracks.

Enough

The frankly disturbing voice came from Xeron, who was not only unamused, but also not in the mood for watching petty post divorce squabbles.

The succubus undid her transformation while huffing at the demon's direction, she didn't like being ordered, but she also didn't like losing her life, so she had no choice.

After a minute or two, Lilith spoke again but this time, instead of slight agitation and annoyance, her voice carried venom.

"He tricked me! The bastard took my blood and fucking made a pact with it, while I spent the rest of the night non-the-fucking-wiser! AHH!"

He expected it, but confirming the truth for himself helped him finalize his decision. Xeron will help her.

Not because of the goodness of his heart of course, but because of the soul she holds.

The soul of the heavenly father, who was the third strongest god to exist in this world, completely fused with the souls of the four most powerful devils to exist.

Even for himself, who is the most powerful demon there is, this soul holds immense value.

He can feel it, his own hunger. He hasn't felt it in eons, but the moment Lilith let out the soul, he had to actively suppress himself to not lunge at it like an animal.

But is fighting the Primals who are arguably as powerful as the four demon lords, is it worth it?

….Of course it is, who do you think he is? Xeron may be cunning and tactical, but he's a demon first and foremost, and demons rush towards their desires with no regards to anything.

"I don't mind helping you Lilith, but the question is, do you?"

The demon stood up for the first time since Lilith arrived, and after Lilith suddenly found herself standing in front of him, she stiffened, not because of the sudden force that pulled her, but because of the hands she suddenly felt groping her chest

She looked down at her chest, to find the demon's hands groping and kneading her breasts. Her eyes turned deep red again and she literally trembled in anger, but unexpectedly, she didn't do anything. Just grabbed his hands and moved them away silently.

And seeing this, Xeron smirked and waited for her to answer. He made his offer clear after all.

Unknowingly or not, she practically sold her soul away, so if she wants him to cancel the deal, she has to offer something of the same value to him. And what's something more valuable than her own soul?

"...I accept"

Exactly, nothing.

"Wonderful! Now give me that other soul you're carrying, that's the main reason I accepted after all"

Annoyed, Humiliated and most importantly Out of Options, the succubus grudgingly lets out the god's soul again, she didn't even get the chance to hand it to him, when she felt it being snatched from the air in a split second.

"Eeeeeh!"

And as she was about to complain to him, she heard a shrill cry of fear echoing behind her, and the moment she looked up to the demon's face, she felt her body tense up in fear.

The demon's mouth was opened so wide, his face nearly split in half, the crazed smile that hung on his lips as he lowered the soul into his jaws was nauseating, his snow white skin was becoming darker and darker, until it became pitch black, his hair grew in length and transformed into pure miasma that was visibly damaging the surrounding space and a pair of wings made of pure miasma sprouted from his back, along with two pair of large horns on his head, that decorated it like a crown.

The soul tried to fight, unconscious or not. It's still the soul of a god and it won't let itself be swallowed.

*Snap* *Crunch*

Facing the futile resistance, using very pleasing to the demon so, he opened his mouth wider, if that's even possible. And he swallowed the soul whole while snapping his mouth shut.

And after the sickening snapping and crunching sounds, the demon's face began to reform and he slowly gained back his human form.

"Sorry for the unsavory display everyone, demons can be quite….extreme when it comes to their desires, and I'm not an exception"

Just like that, a moment there was a bloodthirsty demon and the next there was and elegant and sophisticated human-looking male, the sharp contrast was quite eye opening to everyone currently present.

"Open your mouth Lilith"

Snapped out of her revere, Lilith's eyes stare at the eyes of the demon standing just a couple of inches away from her and does as she's told.

Xeron then raises a finger above her open mouth and cuts it with his nails, dropping a single black drop of blood down her throat then he withdraws his hand again.

Her eyes changed from red to golden red, but besides that, she didn't change much. Seems like her looks were perfect before.

After nodding his head and looking very content, Xeron lunges his hand forward into her abdomen, his hand not damaging her but phasing through her. And when he pulls it back, there is a piece of paper in his hands.

"It looks like the demonic contracts, unoriginal fuckers"

He says while casually burning it, no ceremonies, no sacrifices and just like that. The source of all Lilith's worries was catching flames above Xeron's palm.

"...Is it ove-"

*Boom*

Before Lilith got the chance to even speak, a sonic boom was heard followed by a bright light forming near the room's roof, and when the light faded, a gaint figure was present. A Primal.

Lilith Morning Star, how dare you break the pact that was signed. Now face the consequences

The Primal's cold and disdainful eyes that were shining through his helmet, stared at Lilith while he summoned a giant white halberd.

The Primal grabbed his weapon and instantly vanished, and after appearing above the clueless Lilith, he swung his weapon with the intent to decapitate her. Just to be stopped by an invisible barrier accompanied by an amused voice

Your kind never changes, does it

The Primal mechanically turns his head, and finds a demon smiling in his direction. Not just any demon mind you, but the lord of all demons.

Demon, what is the meaning of this?

The smile hanging on Xeron's lips grows wider, and with an expression full of disdain, he replies back.

It means that the Lilith you made a contract with is dead, this one is a demon

The Primal doesn't react, he only turns to Lilith and stares at her silently. His eyes widen, and he snaps at Xeron in retaliation.

How dare you, demon!

The Primal showed emotions for the first time since his arrival, and with a look of pure fury, he pointed his weapon towards the demon while growling loudly at him.

That's Lord Xeron for you worm!

Xeron's voice turns into unbearable growls, and in a few seconds the Primal that was proudly floating in the air plummets to the ground and sticks to it like a used bubblegum.

Go and tell your friends to not mess with my vacation, or I'll personally come and end your little group of misfits myself

*KICK*

The demon speaks coldly to the struggling Primal, and with a kick he lunges him toward a portal he already opened, and then he turns around to the group of slightly terrified fallen and devils behind him

Chapter 23: The Calm Before the Storm

Notes:

I'm sorry if the quality of the chapters appear to have been deteriorating, my finals are still going on, so it's still quite hard for me to focus on both at the same time

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*sigh*

Xeron Kezgenoth, the immensely terrifying and powerful demon lord of despair, simply sighed to a quite startled crowd that was not quite prepared for the events that had just taken place a few moments ago.

No-one of them spoke a word, they didn't even make a sound, not even Lilith, who's arguably the whole reason for this whole little episode in the first place, she just stood there staring at Xeron like he was some kind of divine statue.

And honestly, no one would blame her. The world only recognises strength, and Xeron who may as well be the strongest of them all, would at least have to be respected for his unparalleled might.

They all felt it when the Primal arrived and let out his presence. A great sense of oppression like no other, even Sirzechs who is considered the strongest in the room behind Xeron, found himself quite helpless in the face of the Primal's oppression.

Then came the moment when the Primal moved with the intent to harm Lilith, he spoke a few words and instantly vanished, only to appear above the woman in question. He moved so fast it looked like he teleported, and no-one present had the reaction speed nor the power to stop him, and so he swung his weapon.

…But, he didn't succeed. The demon blocked him. Which made the Primal enraged, and he demanded the demon to hand over Lilith, because she is his right by a contract.

The demon refused, claiming that Lilith Morning Star is dead, and this one is demon and by extension, she's his….Only then did the devils understand. It seems that Xeron foresaw this scene coming, and in preparation made Lilith drink some of his blood, possibly making her into part demon, and thus coming under Xeron's jurisdiction.

A really clever scheme, one that both Sirzechs and Azazel swore to secretly try out in the future.

The Primal seemed to also understand the scheme that he fell for, resulting in a 'battle' between the two powerful individuals to take place.

Or more accurately, a one-sided beatdown, the Primal didn't stand a chance and was instantly beaten by the demon, and instantly sent back from where he came from.

It was both jarring and humbling at the same time, to witness at first hand the powerful existence known as a Primal, get instantly beaten by an even stronger existence.

"I have fulfilled my end of the deal, and thus have no real reason to stay here any longer"

Xeron said to no-one in particular, as he started opening a portal behind him that probably led back to his residence in the human world.

"I also have no real desire to sit down and chat, so if you have any questions, ask Lilith"

The woman heard her voice being called and snapped out of her revere, but as she was about to say something, the demon had already teleported away.

'Go back to your castle, I'll come to you when I have time'

She heard his voice in her head, and what he said cemented the reality she was in further. She escaped becoming a slave for the Primals by becoming a slave to the demon. Quite ironic actually, and a little sad, but it was at least something she chose herself, even if she doesn't like it very much.

*sigh~*

Her quiet sigh was the first sound that came out of her after officially becoming the demon's slave.

…..

[The Primal's Domain - Third Person POV]

The Primal's Domain is considered the ultimate sanctuary for those who worship the Primals across the universe, and it is said to be incredibly divine in nature, and a mere glance at it will blind the mind of any being, even if it's a god king.

Naturally, such a precious place won't be accessible by any individual, and even those who can locate it would think a million times before barging into the residence of the universe's literal protectors.

*BOOOM!*

Go and tell your friends to not mess with my vacation, or I'll personally come and end your little group of misfits myself

….That's of course, not something that'll stop the Demon Lord of Despair himself

The Primal that was utterly humiliated by the hands of Xeron was spectacularly thrown out of the portal and straight into the Primal's Domain, which not only serves as a lesson for his arrogance, but also a threat to him and his fellow Primals.

Eighth Primal, would you kindly explain to us what happened

The now identified Eighth Primal instantly feels himself being teleported and chained to the ground, and finds himself in the presence of the four Primus, who don't seem very pleased from the tone of the Second Primus's tone of voice.

I greet the Almighty Primus

Swallowing his pride and instantly bowing down to his leaders, the eighth Primal looks at the ground in submission as he waits for the Primus council to allow him to speak.

You may speak Eighth Primal, what's the identity of the man that brought you to such a wretched state?

The Third Primus spoke plainly to his chained kin, and from his grave tone of voice, it's plainly clear that he's very much not pleased with the events that just transpired.

...I sought to collect the souls that I personally contracted in the world known as the Draconic Deus…but, I was denied my right by the demon lord called Xeron Kezgenoth

The silence multiplied tenfold in the face of the revelation, and while the Primus didn't have their faces visible due to the armor they always wear, one can sense their palpable sense of annoyance at the mere mention of demons.

Explain

The Eighth Primal shivered slightly in fear, it wasn't common for the first Primus to speak, and when he did, it wasn't something to be taken lightly.

...It went like this

….

[Human world - Xeron's Residence - Third Person POV]

"Welcome back Lord Xeron"

After arriving at his mansion, Xeron was greeted with the sight of his head maid Grayfia, who was bowing slightly in his direction; she probably felt mana fluctuation and assumed that he's arriving.

"Good evening Grayfia, I take it that Zeld has informed you of what happened by this morning?"

Grayfia nodded while confirming silently, it was quite a shock to her when she was suddenly approached by the demoness servant Zeld, claiming that her master wanted to show her something and offering her a small magic orb.

Grayfia didn't say much and just accepted the orb without thinking much, and the moment she touched the small orb, scenes of what Xeron witnessed today at the underworld started filling her memory. It was quite a surreal experience, it felt like she was there to witness all of it happening, but in reality she wasn't.

She also knew that Xeron was now an honorary devil and he possessed an evil pieces set, with Serafall as his first servant, which she wasn't sure how she should feel about it.

Her an Serafall were long time rivals since they first knew of each other, and while she didn't particularly enjoy the antics of the Satan Leviathan, she can't deny her position or more importantly, her power.

So seeing such a being willing become a servant to another was slightly overwhelming the her, but since becoming the demon's maid, she has seen far more shocking things, and comparing them to Serafall becoming his servant wasn't too much for her.

But the question is, why did he show her all this?

That's what she was about to ask him, but she was silenced when Xeron pulled out his evil set and waved the queen piece in front of her face.

'I see'

Grayfia now understood, he probably showed her the events to avoid leaving her blind, and she was honestly quite faltered. Not only because he chose to tell her about what happened personally, but also because he picked her to be his queen instead of Serafall.

The thought brought a grateful smile on the devil queen's lips, and with a smile that wasn't befitting of her reputation as the ice devil queen she accepted

"It would be my honor, Lord Xeron"

And so she took the queen piece, and similar to Serafall, she grew taller in height, and became even more attractive then she already is, with her silver locks gaining an intense glow of white, while her red eyes became slightly golden.

"You look dashing my head maid"

The devil queen wasn't new to compliments, and normally she wouldn't be moved by them, but this time, she couldn't shake the feeling of happiness from herself, despite her better judgment.

…

[The Primal's Domain - Third Person POV]

I see

The first Primus, after having been informed of what happened, spoke plainly. And to the horror of all other Primus he stood up from his seat.

The First Primus wasn't a regular existence in the slightest, he was a giant in height, standing over 14 feet tall, he didn't have a specific weapon like the other of his kin, instead he is said to be able to wield all 12 weapons of his kin and is capable of leveling an entire galaxy without ever as lifting a finger.

Call all the Primals, we have something important to discuss

So, it stands to reason that when such a being demands something, all others mustn't fail to follow his will.

Chapter 24: Exiled Nun

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

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[Kuoh Academy - Next Day - Third Person POV]

The sounds of students chattering and muttering among themselves were heard all around in the classroom as usual, it certainly wasn't a place for someone who wants to some peace and quiet, nor was it a place for young Issei who couldn't sleep these last few days due to the new life, he found himself in.

"Everyone, get back to your seats"

Thankfully, the sound of the teacher was soon heard, and the class now is completely silent.

And soon enough, the teacher entered the classroom, he came in his usual black french suit, while strolling through the door like he owned the whole place.

"You guys sure are rowdy in the morning"

He puts down two books on the desk, and sets down while adjusting his suit, Xeron wasn't known to be a strict teacher, so that encourages the students to speak to him more.

"Oh? You don't like to wake up in the morning, teacher Xeron?"

Aika Kiryuu, unanimously known as the fourth of the perverted trio, speaks up with a lewd glint in her eyes, it is no secret to everyone here that she can uncover the size of a man's manhood with just a glance, so the look in her eyes now was reminding all the boys present about some unpleasant experience.

"No Kiryuu, I don't hate mornings, you're all just too energetic, and stop looking at me like I'm some kind of delicious meal, you're too green to face the consequences"

*Pfft*

Xeron replied flatly as he finished fixing his suit, but Aika just glared at the student who laughed at her. She wasn't actually prepared for Xeron to notice what she was doing and make fun of her for it…but she'll forgive him because he's handsome.

"Know that this little episode is out of the way. Let's start today's lecture"

…..

*Riiiiing*

After about two hours, the school bell rang, signifying that the lecture ended and it was time for Xeron to leave the classroom, and as he tried to do so, he was stopped by the young Red Dragon Emperor.

"Teacher! Can I have a minute?"

The demon stopped and silently looked at the boy, he knew it was something semi-important because the boy wouldn't approach him without a real reason.

"Can you please come with me to the club room? President Rias wants to ask for a favour"

The demon didn't answer, but instead looked at his watch. It was 12 in the afternoon, so he had some time to kill before the next lecture.

And it was Rias who told him…then it's probably something minor, shouldn't take too much time.

"Alright I'll listen to what she had to say, but warn her that my favors aren't always for free"

The young dragon nods, and then scurries along. Leaving the demon to his own thoughts.

'Despite his infamous perverted nature, the kid is quite easy to get along with, not sure why some people hate him so much'

Maybe he has a bias towards dragons? Xeron didn't know, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care. In the end, he always does what he wants, he worked quite hard to make it that way after all.

'For now, let's see what the little missy has to offer for me'

The demon turned around and started walking towards the Occult Research club room and at the same time, Rias felt goosebumps all over body for some reason.

…

[Vatican - Third Person POV]

"Devils? But why? A-Am I that irredeemable?"

The young exiled nun known as Aisa Argento, couldn't take it anymore and immediately broke down crying, and honestly, who would blame her.

She was raised all her life in the church, she fought for their cause and believed in their beliefs, only to be cast out in the blink of an eye due to her healing a devil with the gift that, as the church claims, was from god himself.

But, she didn't shout, scream or even try to blame them. No, the fact was that she blamed herself, she believed that God hated her for her crimes, and decided to punish her for her treason by casting her out.

But fate was cruel, and now after they exiled her, the church was sending her to Kuoh Japan, to live under the custody of devils, the same species that condemned her future and brought God's wrath onto her.

Griselda Quarta, the exorcist in charge of Asia, brought the news to the young nun, which resulted in Asia breaking down and crying, further wounding the heart of the mature woman.

So after making sure that no-one was around, the older nun squatted down near Aisa, and grabbed her in a warm hug, akin to a mother embracing her child.

"Little Asia, don't cry. I contacted an acquaintance of mine, and we the reason we sent you to be with the devils in Kuoh was to protect you"

*sniff* *sniff*

The sound of crying stifled crying further broke the older nun's heart. It wasn't easy to see someone you cared for all your life and considered like your own child, break down crying like this while you were powerless to do anything.

The best Griselda could hope to do was explain the situation to Asia in hopes that the younger nun understands, both for herself and the little girl's sake.

"Asia, I know that the world may seem either black or white….but, the reality is different"

Finally, after she heard Griselda speaking, Asia stopped crying and listened to her attentively, being in her embrace seemed to help the younger nun calm down significantly.

"So, In order to protect you in this harsh world we call home, you must see people for who they really are"

Griselda's hands lowered down to Asia's head and patted it gently, and all the worries and grievances in Asia's little heart melted like snow.

"I know that you're a very kind girl Asia, so in order to protect you, I have to send you to Kuoh, there are kind people there that will do what I failed to do"

A sad, regretful smile was drawn on the woman's lips, so to avoid saddening the younger nun further, she embraced her tighter into her chest, for arguably the last time in a long time.

"Asia, I just want you to know that I love you, and will continue to do so forever"

The younger nun flinched slightly in Griselda's hug, but she didn't let go, instead she hugged her tighter and spoke while pouring out all her bottled up emotions and controlling herself from crying.

"I-I love you too, mother"

…

[ORC room - Rias POV]

I was currently sitting in my usual seat in the clubroom, and was silently twirling my fingers, why are they late?

I look back at the clock that was hanging on the wall behind me and see that it was about 12.30 in the afternoon. They should have finished the lecture by now, did Issei forget to tell him? I swear I'll punish him if he does.

"Ufufufufu"

Akeno…she's making fun of me isn't she?

I turn around to look at my sadistic queen behind me, she's holding a hand near her mouth, while stifling her laughter. I swear she's even more sadistic now that her mother is back with her.

"Akeno….what's so funny?"

Akeno smirk widens slightly, and a second later, she's back to her usual graceful expression, I swear the bitch is bipolar.

"Nothing~~ I'm sure that Issei will come back any minute now"

And she has the gall to wink at me! Damn you Akeno!

*BAAAM*

"President!"

Speak of the devil and he shall be here!

No, Literally. Issei is here, and after barging through the door, he leaned down and started breathing heavily, he seemed to have come here running.

"Issei! What took you so long?! And where is Teacher Xeron?"

I was first relieved to see that Issei arrived like I told him to, but where is Xeron? Did he refuse? What should I do?

"P-President *panting* wait a s-second *panting* I feel like I'm going to die"

Oh…he looks tired, maybe I should calm down a little.

"Issei-kun, sit down on the couch and catch your breath, I'm sure Rias here can wait just a little bit for you"

Akeno says while looking at me funny, I get it woman! I'll calm down!

Akeno then pours a cup of water and hands it to him, and after drinking it like he just came from the desert, he finally starts talking.

"After the lecture ended, I told to teacher Xeron what you said to me, he told me to tell you that his favors are not always free, and that I should go ahead and he'll come here later"

The moment I heard Issei confirm that Xeron is coming, I could feel my entire body relaxing instantly. I know I may appear desperate, but I really have no choice.

But, if he spoke to Xeron right after class, why didn't he say anything until now, half an hour later?

"Thank you Issei, I know that facing Teacher Xeron is not something you particularly enjoy doing"

I know, he feels a little apprehension when dealing with Xeron, and he isn't alone, we all do.

But, at least we know that he won't harm us, without provoking him first, so as long as we're on good terms, then all is good.

Issei, hearing my concern, shakes his head lightly. He's quite dependable when you get to know him.

"It's fine president, I know he isn't that bad"

….I don't know about that, but we all can at least hope.

"I have a question Issei-kun"

…That look in Akeno's eyes…I guess this will help him to get to know Akeno better.

"What is it, Akeno-senpai?"

A sadistic smirk crawls on Akeno's lips and with a small smile, she asks him in a gentle tone, despite her less than gentle intentions.

"What did you do after talking to Teacher Xeron, I wonder?"

"I went to the cafeteria of course! They were serving chicken wings today! I didn't want to miss out on them"

Akeno's sadistic smile broadened on her face, but I was too busy to notice her afterwards.

"...I was sitting here while the worry was eating me alive….and you were eating chicken wings?"

Issei, now having understood that he had just been played, was filled with dread, he looked at me apologetically….but I won't spare him

"C-Calm down, president I-I'm s-sorry, I-I was hungry!"

"No excuse shall save you, my cute servant"

I started approaching him slowly, and while normally he would start ogling me with his preverted eyes, he doesn't seem to have the luxury to do so now, and he started backing away

"W-Wait wait WAAAAAIT!"

And just like that, the club room was filled with the sounds of a wailing Issei for the next half an hour or so.

Notes:

As evident by the scene with Lilith in the previous chapter, the novel does in fact contain sexual content. So, the question is, should I try to include sexual scenes or should I just skim over them?

Keep in mind that this is literally my first ever novel.

Chapter 25: How Is This Possible?

Chapter Text

[OCR room - 5PM -Third Person POV]

At the occult research club the atmosphere was always peaceful, and while that's mostly because they have an entire separate building for themselves, that's isolated from the main school buildings, it's also because Rias herself doesn't like noise, especially when she's here in Japan playing human. She much prefers to keep to herself and her peerage, with the exception of her best friend Sona of course.

And today, it's no different. Schools all over Japan as a whole make club activities after school hours for some reason, and thus all club members are to stay at school until approximately 5, maybe 5.30 in the afternoon.

Rias has her club and they are naturally not an exception, so here they all are, scattered across the club room, each one doing something different to keep himself/herself from getting bored.

Issei, who was literally sprawled across the room floor due to some not so kind stuff that he was subjected to by his club president and vice president, moaned aloud in annoyance.

No, not because he was dissatisfied about something, quite the contrary in fact, he enjoyed his new life as a devil, of course minus the fact that he had yet to get a familiar and was doing the flyer handouts by himself, but that's just a minor detail.

But now Issei was in fact bored, he wasn't used to staying at the school until early in the evening, hell, that's exactly the reason why he avoided clubs all together in the first place, at least until he was forced to enter one after becoming a devil.

*tap* *tap*

But suddenly with the distinct sound of leather shoes tapping across the floor and making their way over to the club room, the boring atmosphere was instantly dispersed, and all devils present straightened their backs, it seems that their guest has finally arrived.

They were indeed correct, and the door opened revealing Xeron, who took one look at all of them and calmly walked towards one of two sofas in the middle of the room.

And after sitting down and crossing his legs like he owned the place, he turned his eyes to the reason he was here in the first place.

"I'm quite curious about the reason that made the spoiled princess Gremory ask me for a favor, tell me little girl, does your brother know about this?"

He asked with a palpable amusement and a hint of ridicule, it wasn't like he had anything against the little girl, he just found her spoiled attitude a little pathetic for such an important figure in the supernatural world, but he won't be the one to complain if it brings him more benefits in the end.

And so, no-one spoke a word, and their individual reactions differed significantly in the face of Xeron's plainly disrespectful words.

Kiba and Koneko, as Rias's knight and rook respectively, didn't like when their own king was insulted, but like it or not, they couldn't do anything about it, so they just stayed silent.

Issei, was also annoyed but he wasn't stupid and also knew that Xeron wasn't telling his king that just to insult her, and because he didn't know much about Rias to judge if she was indeed spoiled or not, he also stayed silent.

Akeno however was a different story, she was always by her king's side and they were both considered childhood friends, and she can say with certainty that Rias in indeed very spoiled, in fact, it was her laziness and spoiled attitude that got her in this situation in the first place, but Akenk can't ultimately say anything because Rias is her king and she can't be disrespectful to her.

And lastly Rias was to no one's surprise, quite annoyed by the jab at her pride, and she was about to verbally lash out at him, and demand that he apologizes to her instantly, she wasn't used to being ridiculed and when in fact someone dare to do so, he/she was simply annihilated no questions asked, no-one can afford to insult the House Gremory, and by extension their Heiress.

But...she didn't do anything, and the fact very much angered her to no end, coupled with the fact that she wasn't a fan of Xeron in the first place was honestly quite nerve racking to the young and naïve Gremory Heiress.

'I…*sigh* I have no choice'

So, after mentally reminding herself to be in check, she finally asked the question that plagued her mind since her brother told her the news he found out about.

"Teacher Xeron, can you tell me what happened to Issei's sacred gear, and how come my brother told me that the literal Red Dragon Emperor himself has revived and was sighted in Sweden this morning?"

As predicted, the dragon emperor didn't like being imprisoned for long, and when he got the chance to be free and instantly grasped it, it's no wonder that news about his revival spread far and wide, Xeron was honestly impressed it took this long to do so.

"He's in Sweden? He sure is having fun, I wonder what he's doing there"

Contrary to what someone does when he hears that there is a literal Heavenly Dragon currently roaming free in another country, Xeron here was wondering about what said dragon was doing there instead, and that annoyed the young heiress even more, if that was even possible.

"Can you please tell me what will happen to Issei's gear? I asked my brother and he had no idea"

She's basically making sure that Issei is still indeed the Red Dragon Emperor, despite him not possessing the Ddraig anymore, the gear was still functioning perfectly, which not only puzzled her, but also was an enigma to both her brother and also the smartest devil alive, Satan Ajuka Beelzebub.

But instead of answering her question, Xeron instead showed a bored face, while calmly sipping the tea that Akeno prepared for him after he arrived into the clubroom.

"Thank you for the delicious tea little Akeno, how is your mother by the way"

After being suddenly addressed, Akeno found herself replying truthfully while blushing slightly, she was used to lustful and arrogant looks being directed her way, and being looked at with such gentleness and sweetness from such a dangerous individual was a new experience to the devil fallen hybrid.

So, she bowed slightly to hide her blush, and answered while smiling brightly, she was happy her mother was finally home after all.

"Thank you for the compliment Teacher, and my mother is doing perfectly fine, thank you again for bringing her back to me again"

He just shook his hand in the air, to both get her to straighten her back, and to say that helping her wasn't something difficult.

So she complied and straightened her back, but there was a question that was stuck at the back of her throat that she couldn't bring herself to mutter.

….Why me? What was the reason that made him help me without something in return? What's so special about a worthless servant that has him treating her with such gentleness?

It may be harsh, but it was undoubtedly the truth.

Compared to him, she was less than an ant, and she had nothing to offer when she asked him to revive her mother and she knew it. It was basically just a last ditch effort in the hopes of being reunited by her mother, so why?

…She couldn't bring herself to ask, and like the weak woman she always was, she'll just live her life in the hopeful facade, praying that her new life along with her revived mother wasn't just a cruel dream all along.

"...Can you please answer my question?"

Akeno couldn't think for long, and she was immediately pulled back to reality when her king asked yet again, which brought out an irritated sigh from the demon in question.

"There's nothing to say, I had Ddraig revived in exchange of him being my familiar and for the sacred gear to continue working as intended, just with him not guiding the user that's all"

He said plainly while putting down the finished tea cup while he himself stood up, preparing to leave.

"W-Wait! Is the Red Dragon Emperor now your familiar?! And how will Issei train without Ddraig helping him to do so?!"

Seeing the demon get up in preparation for leaving, she also stood up and asked pleadingly, Issei was her only hope in the Rating game that will decide her marriage after all, so she can't afford to let him be crippled even before the match even started.

But reality was often cruel, and the demon didn't stop to listen to her rambling.

"He just has to train harder, maybe even ask Ddraig himself for advice, I don't know"

He said dismissively while going towards the door, and after opening it and going half way out, he looked back towards them and spoke while smirking.

"What I do know is that you all should get prepared, because it's about to get more interesting"

He shut the door behind him and left, and as Rias was about to sit down again to contemplate the situation, the door was suddenly slammed open.

"Rias! there's multiple stray devils wreaking havoc at the edge of the town, come quickly!"

Sona Sitri, adorning a stone cold face along with an urgent voice, came in and dropped another bomb onto the honestly despairing Rias.

Chapter 26: Fighting Starys

Chapter Text

"Kiba, go and assist Tomoe-san. Issei and Koneko, you go with Saji-kun. Akeno come with me!"

Fortunately, they were currently fighting at the edge of Kuoh, or the constant sounds of shouting and fighting would have alerted the humans and produced even more work for the devils than necessary.

"Yes president!" x2

The Gremory knight and pawn immediately follow their president's orders and shout in acknowledgment, while the ever silent rook just hums but follows the orders nonetheless.

*Fooosh!*

Kiba, being a knight, rushed with incredible speed towards the Sitri's knight Tomoe Meguri, who was fighting a stray devil that had a large 8 foot tall snake tail in place of his legs, with two long arms that each end with a pair of hands with hideous animal like claws.

The beast facing the dame was locked in combat, and thus didn't see the knight rushing towards their location with a sword that promised no mercy.

*Aaaaaargh!*

The sound of wind being cut was heard immediately being followed by an inhumane scream as the knight's sword found its place at the side of the stray devil's ribcage.

"Meguri-san, how have you been?"

Kiba's voice rang calmly despite the circumstances they were in, and as the beast turned around to unclog the blade that was buried in its flesh, the blade vanished as if it didn't exist, then it appeared again in the knight's hand.

"I have been well Kiba-kun! Your sacred gear sure is cool! I'm kinda jealous honestly~"

The dame's hardened features instantly softened when she heard the voice of the knight, and her bubbly personality soon surfaced back up again.

But that didn't do anything to hinder her in the slightest, as he instantly readied her katana and launched a flurry of slashes aimed at the stray devil's back, but of course, the stray won't just sit down and take the beating for granted.

*screeching*

The large tail that was anchored to the floor whipped its way towards the non suspecting dame, and accompanied by the sound of the air cracking, was the sound of a body being flung across the floor.

*BAAAM!*

She crashed into an abandoned building a couple of meters away, but wasn't overly hurt or injured, which made the knight sigh in relief and focus back on the task at hand.

He didn't have time to care about his comrade being launched in the air like a ball, because the beast, now wounded and enraged, slithered towards him with surprising speed, with his claws and fangs bared and ready for vengeance.

The Gremory knight held the sword in his hand with the other, and as multiple swords came into beings around him, he glared at the stray and announced solemnly.

"Stary, as a member of the Gremory household and as a devil. I sentence you to death"

…

[Issei POV]

When Sitri-san came to the club room and shouted about stary devils, I was honestly excited.

I honestly shouldn't be excited because this is no laughing matter. I was told by the president and Akeno-san that the devils who turn on their kings turn into these hideous looking things that go out of control and soon lose all their senses and delve into madness, feeding on the flesh of not only humans, but devils and yokai as well.

So it's kill on sight for every stray devil you find, that goes for not only devils, but also every other fraction as well.

And as a devil, despite me being only a novice I have to accompany my comrades in the stray devil subjugation as well.

'But I still don't know how to fight well'

"Dragon Shot!"

I fired of the only move I know how to use at the stray that looked like a monkey but with sharp teeth and four legs, it wasn't that large in size, but it's explosive speed made it hard for Saji to trap it with adsorption line.

*Screeching*

I hit it! I actually did! I guess all the training that I did with the handsome bastard Kiba is finally worth it-Ahhhh

*BOOOM*

"Issei-senpai Get out of the way"

The stupid monkey rushed at me after recovering from the shot, if Koneko-chan wasn't here it would have clawed my face off.

"Issei! Are you alright?"

I look at the side and find Saji approaching me, he looked haggard and spent, but he didn't have visible injures, even after fighting alone against the stray for a while, it's honestly impressive considering that we were both turned into devils at almost the same time.

"I'm fine Saji, Koneko-chan punched it away before it reached me"

He nodded once and idly called back the absorption line again into his sacred gear. I look back to Koneko, and find that every time she launches a punch in the monkey's direction, it evades it seemingly with ease.

I can't launch dragon shot at it without hitting Koneko, and Saji can't catch it with the line, what should we do?

"Hey Koneko! Can you corner it until it gets here! I have a plan"

I shout to Koneko-chan and she just nods, then I turn to Saji who looks at me curiously like I've been possessed by a ghost.

"What?"

I can't help but ask him, and he just scratches his head and answers awkwardly

"I didn't think your head had anything other than boobs in it"

Hey! Boobs are life! And this and that are different things!

"Anyway, Saji! Can you launch that line faster?"

He looks at me one last time, then just shakes his head lightly.

"I can't unless I train harder, which I don't exactly have the time for now"

'Perfect!'

I say internally, and hold up my left hand, and the Red Dragon Emperor gauntlet gem shines green, and with the mighty roar of the red dragon that's apparently absent, it clearly resoundes.

"BOOST"

This gains the attention of Saji, and he understood my plan, so he smiles fearlessly and holds out his hand towards me.

"BOOST"

Unfortunately, this is all I can do for now, but it should be enough and I touch the sacred gear on Saji's hand as I feel my own powers being multipled four-fold

"TRANSFER"

I feel my power being deflated like a balloon, but that didn't matter, and as soon as we both hear Koneko and the stray approaching, Saji readies his sacred gear.

"Koneko! Get out of the away!"

As soon as the words leave my mouth, Koneko does as I say and jumps out of the flight, leaving the stray where it was in the air, but not for long.

"Dragon shot!"

I hurl a dragon shot at it, and while it doesn't damage it much due to it being just a ball of demonic energy, it should be enough to destabilise it.

"Now Saji"

A single, long blue line snaked it's way towards the stray, and when it reaches it, it wraps around the devil fully and drops it to the ground. It tries to struggle of course, but the line not only bound it but also saps away at its strength, and soon enough it was laying there unconscious.

*Splat!*

….Koneko-chan, you're way too cute looking to just crash someone's skull like that

…

[Rias POV]

"This is their leader, right Sona?"

With Koneko, Kiba and Issei taking care of the other two, this should be the last stray, but I turn to my friend to confirm anyway, better safe than sorry.

"Yes, it's indeed the last stray, I don't exactly know how they entered Kuoh in the first place, we should search for the reason after taking care of it"

I nod at her and turn to Akeno, who is now wearing her miko attire, that he always wears when she fights.

"Akeno, restrain it with ice magic"

"No problem Rias"

She unfurles her devil wings and flies into the air, and with the combination of Sona's water magic and Akeno ice magic, the stray freezes instantly. Now should be my turn.

"Sona! Tsubaki! Get out of the way!"

I prepare my bloodline power, the power of destruction that the Baal family is so famous for, and after the magic circle is constructed I single beam of reddish black rushes out towards the stray, shattering the ice statue instantly, and disintegrating it into pieces.

*Sigh*

As proud as I am with my power, I honestly wonder how my brother uses it so easily, while I have to prepare the magic circle for atleast 3 minutes in advance.

"Good work Rias, now we just have to repair the damages and that's all for now"

Sona comes back with her queen, and with them came back all the other devils, they seem to have finished handling their respective strays without too much injury.

"Akeno, can you help Tsubaki? You're the only one that knows magic out of us"

She just nods and goes to Tsubaki, and soon they both start hiding the aftermath of the battle, which is honestly quite much.

"Sona, do you why these three strays are here in Kuoh of all places? Strays don't usually end up in here out of the blue"

I say to Sona and she silently contemplates, she's smart, so if anyone will know about the reason they were here, it should be her.

"I don't know Rias, I'll contact my sister, she should know more about this than I do"

Sona said, and turned to walk away from us, presumably contact her sister.

And as I was about to relax, a magic circle flashes near my ear, and I hear the sound of my brother's voice echo in my head.

"Rias, Riser Phenex wishes to visit you, so he will came to your school tomorrow morning"

…What have I done to deserve this I wonder?

Chapter 27: What Are Those Things?

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

"...Brother, isn't there anything you can do to make Riser not come?"

Rias's tired voice was heard by her peerage members, who slowly gathered around her after they all finished handling the strays.

"Riser? Who's that?"

Issei, noticing the sour look on his president's face, combined with the halted breath that Kiba and Koneko seemed to be holding in, made him quite curious.

"Hey, Koneko-chan" *muttering*

So, to avoid being the only one that's out of the loop, he decided to ask his quite junior, what? You think he'll ask Kiba instead? Dream on!

The white haired devil slowly turned towards him with a flat look, her golden eyes peered into his with mild annoyance visible in their depth, but it didn't step into pure malice, so Issei concludes that she's being shy, that's all.

"Who's that Riser Koneko-chan? And why did the president seem so annoyed about him?"

The young girl just sighed, she didn't blame him for his ignorance, considering that he's just recently turned into a devil.

"Didn't Akeno-san make you study about the noble devil houses and their members?"

She spoke flatter than usual while shooting him a cold look, to which he just smiled tensely while scratching his head.

She held her gaze for a short while, but eventually dropped it. She knew he was a decent enough guy, but being a perverted idiot didn't help his case much.

"...Riser Phenex is the president's fiance"

"WH-!?….What!?"

He raised his voice initially, but he seemed to remember where he was, and he dropped his voice down.

Koneko stared at him flatly while remaining silent, his reaction wasn't something she saw coming, and she's not sure she wants to know the reason for it either.

After a minute or two, Issei calmed down a little and looked back at his silent junior, and after taking a deep breath, he decided to ask her more.

"Then why does the president hate him so much?"

"She says it's because he's a pervert that only thinks with his lower half"

….Issei felt that her voice was colder than usual, and for some reason, he felt that those words weren't just being directed at Riser.

He didn't dwell on his thoughts too much, because Koneko apparently had more to say.

"He also is really arrogant, vain and finally, he doesn't treat his peerage with at least some respect, which displeases her"

'…So he was a jerk, but why was the president going to marry someone she doesn't like anyway? Is she being forced?'

He decided to ask, maybe he's just jumping to conclusions on his own.

"...Is….she being forced into the marriage?"

Koneko didn't reply, but the small nod she gave back in response confirmed Issei's thoughts.

He didn't say anything and just walked away, but Koneko can feel him being annoyed. Honestly, it hasn't even been a full week since he became a devil, and now he's worrying about the president? Koneko can't tell if he's a simple idiot or a compassionate one.

….

"Akeno-san"

Akeno was still working with Tsubaki on repairing the damages they caused during the fight, when she suddenly heard Issei's voice calling out to her from behind her, forcing her and Tsubaki to halt their work and look back to meet the owner of the voice.

She turned back to him and was momentarily stunned, he didn't have the usual perverted smile he always does, instead his face looked sour somehow. It's as if he was displeased by something.

"Issei-kun, what's with the long face I wonder~?"

He usually stutters while talking to her, but not this time. Now he speaks with a clear and concise voice that carries displeasure and resentment.

"Why is the president being forced to marry someone she doesn't like?"

Akeno was somewhat stunned and her head was blank for a little while, but after a few moments she recovered and casted a glance towards Koneko's direction, and when she saw the younger devil not meeting her eyes, she understood everything.

She smiled kindly at Issei, and with the most gentle and kind voice she could muster, she tried to calm him down.

"Calm down now, Issei-kun~ Rias won't want to see you sad now, would she~?"

He seemed to have calmed down a little with her words, and judging by the small blush on his cheeks. He's extra calm.

Seeing that her junior had calmed down, she wondered where she should start explaining from, and after a few seconds of pondering, she decided to start from the beginning.

"The Gremory Patriarch, Rias's father, decided to arrange a marriage between his friend's son, Riser Phenex and his daughter Rias Gremory. And as this is a matter between two noble houses, nobody can interfere between them expect the two patriarchs"

Issei's forehead shriveled a little in annoyance, but he held it inside himself, getting mad now won't solve anything and he knows it.

Then suddenly he remembered the handsome crimson haired man that was just visiting them a few days ago, surely he will be able to help.

"But what about Lord Lucifer?! Isn't he the president's older brother!"

Akeno didn't reply to him immediately, and stopped to think of what to say to him, and as she was about to speak, Tsubaki, who had been silently listening until now, replied to him.

"Lord Lucifer won't be able to help, interfering between two great families directly will instead cause a civil war between devils"

Her voice was flat and cold, and as much as Issei didn't like what he heard, he couldn't say anything in turn, so he just stayed silent.

Akeno looked at him with slight sadness, of course she's also sad for her friend Rias, but honestly Rias's situation wasn't that bad.

Like or not, Rias is a noble devil and a direct relative to Satan Lucifer, so even if Riser marries her, she'll have a higher standing, considering that she's the Gremory Heiress.

Meaning that Riser will have to marry into the Gremory household, and as the future Gremory Matriarch, Rias will have the higher standing.

But in this case, Rias didn't want to marry Riser, so of course, her older brother who loves her so much, will do everything in his power to make it so Rias doesn't marry Riser.

Akeno was even willing to bet that even the rating game that Lord Lucifer arranged between Rias and Riser is full of schemes and conspiracies behind the scenes to make it so that his precious little sister isn't sad.

….Little did Akeno know that there was marginally more pressing matters that by far encompasses that of a little spoiled heiress for the Satan Lucifer to attend to at the moment

But anyway, Akeno wasn't that concerned about Rias's matter, what she was concerned about was her junior Issei.

The others, including Rias herself, didn't notice it, but she did. Issei, despite not being a week-old devil, was beginning to have feelings for his king.

Are these feelings legit? Akeno didn't know, if she had to guess, they were only lustful thoughts that manifested into appreciation and care for the goodwill she showed him in these last few days.

But judging by the sad looks in his eyes now, it seems that these feelings, doesn't matter if they're real or not, affected him nonetheless, so it's her duty as his senior to console him.

"Don't worry Issei-kun they're is a way!"

She tried to act cheerful to appease her irritated and heartbroken junior, and it immediately worked.

He was instantly revived and was hanging on her every word like his life depended on it.

Akeno honestly found him kind of cute, and wanted to tease him, but she ultimately resisted the urge because it wasn't the time to do so.

"There will be a rating game between us and Riser's peerage in a couple of days! If Rias wins, she'll be forever freed from the marriage! So train hard, Issei-kun~"

He immediately summoned his crimson gauntlet and held it in front of his chest.

"Yes, Akeno-san! I'll train hard for the sake of the president!"

"Ufufufufu~"

Tsubaki just rolled her eyes at the duo, if she didn't know better, she would've thought that Akeno was playing around with the poor boy.

"Tsubaki!"

Fortunately, Sona came just in time to liberate Tsubaki from these two, which Tsubaki was thankful for.

"Yes, Sona-san"

Sona took one look around, possibly looking for Rias, and when she found her talking through a magic circle in the distance, she concluded that she was contacting her brother or someone from her family.

"Go call Saji, Tsubaki and Hyoudou-kun, can you call Kiba-san and Koneko-san here?"

"Yes! Sitri-san!"

He scurried along to call his comrades with Tsubaki doing the same and after they all eventually got together, including Rias who finished her call, Sona started reporting on what she heard from her sister.

"My sister said that she doesn't know about the identity of the stray devils that we fought today"

"What?" x3

Tsubaki, Rias and Akeno were visibly stunned, and after a few moments of silence until the words sunk in, Rias was the one who asked the unspoken question.

"But how? Wasn't the identity of every stray devil recorded in the underworld?"

Sona calmly agreed with her best friend, she was honestly as surprised as each one of them when she first heard her sister say that a few moments ago.

"Exactly, and that's why I sent a piece of every one of these things to my sister, she said she'll get back to me when she finds out exactly what they are, and why is their energy so much like stray devils"

"...But, this is a huge problem"

Sona looked at her queen thoughtfully, she obviously knew why this might pose an issue to devils as a whole, but she was too busy thinking to comment on the discussion.

"How so Tsubaki-san?"

Saji asked his senior with a little embarrassment, he wasn't that smart to begin with, but he didn't let that discourage him, not before and not now.

Tsubaki looked to the young man she's beginning to grow appreciation towards and answered flatly.

"If these things are not stray devils, this means that there is someone out there who wants to cause chaos in the name of devils, it obviously wouldn't be a coincidence"

Having now understood, Saji fell silent, so Tsubaki continued to speak her mind about the matter.

"My personal thoughts are that those things are yokai, they didn't have any magic, and they appear to have been physically enchanted, what's your opinion Toujou-san?"

The white haired devil lowered her head, seemingly pondering silently, but after a while, she raised her head and shook it from side to side in denial.

"I didn't feel Senjutsu, so they shouldn't be yokai"

Again they all fell into silence, until it was eventually broken by Sona who looked like she arrived at a conclusion.

"I think I have an idea about what those things are, but I'll confirm it for myself when my sister replies back to me"

She didn't look sure, but she seems to be somewhat convinced, and seeing that she wouldn't be speaking about her hypothesis, no-one decided to pursue it further.

Deciding to change the subject, Sona turned to her friend and decided to ask about the subject of her sudden call.

"Rias, what was the reason for your brother's sudden call?"

Rias was first stunned about how Sona knew that it was her brother that called her, but she chalked it up to Sona being too smart and she answered the question with a helpless smile.

"Riser is coming to school tomorrow"

Sona has to admit, the news was shocking even to her, it wasn't everyday that a noble devil decided to come up to the human world, especially someone as prideful as Riser.

"And what will you do?"

Rias just huffed slightly and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Nothing, I'll see what he has to say, then let him see himself out"

She spoke with apparent scorn in her voice about her fiance, which normally would elicit concern from anyone, but Sona was quite accustomed to her friend's….antics.

*Sigh*

She sighed to herself, but didn't say anything either, it wasn't her place to comment on her friend's love life. She'll just support her on whatever she's doing.

"Just keep yourself and your peerage in check, we don't want a civil war to happen after all"

And to that, Rias gave her another snort but eventually nodded slightly. Which did nothing to calm the Sitri's Heiress concerns.

Notes:

If you see some stupid shit in the story...don't worry about it and trust in the process.

Chapter 28: The Phenexs Arrival and a Lonely Nun

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[Next Day - ORC room - Mid-School day]

Today was the dreaded day, it was finally time for the hated Riser to arrive and boy oh boy, was Rias very much not looking forward to this one.

The annoying worm was sticking to her like a leech, and him being a leecher didn't do much to help his image, and Rias being quite prideful didn't enjoy the idea of being binded by such an imbecile.

But….she has no choice but to fight for it, because her father was quite insistent on this marriage, and her brother and mother can't do much to help her, so she must take matters into her own hands.

*Fwoosh*

A teleportation circle with the crest of the Phenex's family was suddenly materialized in the middle of the club room, and with a flash of bright yellow flame, came out the two Phenex family scions, Ravel Phenex and Riser Phenex.

Riser is a tall and handsome young man in his early 20's with short blond hair and dark blue eyes.

His outfit consists of a burgundy blazer with gold embroidery on the right with matching pants and black dress shoes.

Ravel is a beautiful young girl with dark blue eyes. She has long blonde hair tied into twintails with large, drill-like curls and blue ribbons keeping them in place.

"It has been a while since I was in the human world, it's as unpleasant as ever"

As soon as the magic circles faded, Riser wasted no time to voice his displeasure and followed by his voice came the humming of his younger sister Ravel Phenex, who also announced her displeasure.

"Indeed brother, the mana in this world is so pathetically little, it's a wonder how can a pure blood devil even function in this place"

She said while casting a glance towards Rias's direction, which Rias promptly ignored. It was well known that Ravel was quite the spoiled princess, being the only daughter to the Phenex family and all.

"Isn't it rude to not greet someone when you first arrive at their place?"

Rias said flatly while staring coldly at sibling pair, fortunately, they seem to have some decency coughed slightly.

"Good afternoon my fiance, It's good to see you again after so long"

Riser bowed a little while smiling politely, and as all devils, he was quite looking, so the gesture made him look like a charming prince, greeting an equally charming princes.

"I'm sorry for my rudeness miss Rias, and like my brother said, it's good to see you again"

Ravel, like her brother bowed a little and greeted Rias warmly, and no matter how Rias was displeased, she couldn't bring herself to ignore the two devils greetings, so to not tarnish her family's reputation, she was forced to return their greetings with her own.

"Good afternoon to you both, please have a seat"

After returning the low bow they offered her, she straightened up and walked back to the sofa opposite to their own and sat their with her entire peerage standing behind her as in custom.

Similarly, the two young Phenexs sat down, and was offered tea by Akeno, who prepared it before hand for their arrival, of course she didn't fail to notice the lustful look that Riser was pointing at her, but she didn't say anything to avoid making trouble for her King.

"So? What's your purpose in coming here Riser? I'm certain that you know about the rating game between us in a few days"

Riser didn't respond, instead he picked up his tea cup and calmy took a sip, his eyes brightened momentarily, and he put down the cup and directed his gaze at Akeno.

"The tea is very good, you have quite the talent Akeno Himejima"

Akeno was a little stunned at being suddenly addressed, and she absentmindedly nodded her head and hesitantly thanked him back for his praise.

"...Thank you for the compliment, sir Phenex"

Riser didn't notice her hesitation, and nodded contently then looked back at Rias, Ravel however, noticed the hesitation on Rias's servant, but chalked it up to her being nervous, so she didn't pursue it much.

"I'm here exactly for that reason my fiance"

Veins started bulging on Rias's beautiful face, she hated Riser and hearing him calling her his fiance irritated him to no-end, but she took a deep breathe and calmly crossed her legs while speaking.

"And what is that reason I wonder?"

Riser, with the most friendly smile he can muster, spoke what he thought was inevitable in hope of educating his rebellious fiance.

"In the following rating game, you'll undoubtedly lose, so avoid yourself the embarrassment and surrender willingly my fiance"

*Snap*

And followed by a crisp clacking sound, a flash of flames was seen behind Riser, and out from it emerged his entire peerage.

"I have an undefeated record in addition to a full peerage, I honestly find it somewhat insulting that you think that you can defeat me in your first ever rating game"

Rias fell silent, don't get her wrong, she was undoubtedly annoyed, furious even. But…she couldn't bring herself to deny his claims because she herself knew that they were true.

She knew she was doomed, she wasted so much time playing student in the human world, until she was eventually faced with the consequences of her actions…or her in-actions in this case.

But….she couldn't fall here, she couldn't bring herself to lay over and surrender to her fate, and as she was searching her mind for something to counter Riser's words with, A voice filled with fury brought her out of her thoughts.

"The president will win! just you wait and see grilled chicken!"

….For a moment no-one said anything, and the words didn't register in their brains, but after Riser shot up and glared angrily at Issei, everyone finally realised what had just happened.

"You! How dare you servant insult me! It seems your master as failed to teach you manners!"

Riser's flames flared on his back and four flaming wings shot out form his back, signifying not only his sour mode, but also his superior strength compared to all low level devils present, including Rias.

But Issei didn't seem swayed and instead of backing down, his sneer widened slightly and with a voice of pure mockery he replied.

"We'll defeat you anyday of the week, chicken, stop clucking uselessly, if you have something of importance say it!"

"You!"

His flames flared brighter, and his wings glowed brighter, but after a couple of seconds, he took a deep breathe and retracted his wings. He then turned towards Rias, who has been silent until now and spoke flatly.

"I will not be taking it easy on you my fiance"

And with that he vanished, along with his entire peerage and his sister, because he wasn't known to hold his anger very well, and couldn't risk killing someone else's servant.

Rias stared at the magic circle for quite a while, and when it finally vanished she turned back to her peerage to find Akeno and Koneko pinching Issei's either ears, and by extension, Issei who looked like his ears were being peeled off his head, while Kiba was smiling helplessly at the side.

*Sigh*

She felt quite mentally drained, and found herself exhaling a breathe she herself didn't know she was holding in, and while she didn't deny that what Issei was quite stupid, she couldn't help but bring herself to appreciate it, even a little.

…..

[Japan's Kuoh Airport - Third Person POV]

The sound of the plane's tires colliding with the ground roared in the plane's launching lane, and along with it arrived the young unfortunate nun named Asia Argento.

Following a chain of rather unfortunate events, and due to the young nun's inherit kind-heartedness, she has been exiled from the church and had been deemed a heretic of no renown.

So to avoid bringing the young nun to harm, her foster mother, an older nun with a considerable amount of standing in the church, offered to help take care of matters regarding the exiled nun, and with that pretense, she helped her foster daughter out, and made way for her to escape.

So yesterday, during the veil of night, Griselda Quarta accompanied her foster daughter Asia Argento to the airport and in a last farewell between the two nuns, that ended with Asia finally boarding the airplane and taking off to Japan, to her new and hopefully more forgiving life.

And fasting forward to now, with Asia finally only a few minutes away from setting foot onto Kuoh's grounds.

"Everybody, The plane successfully landed, so let me formally welcome you all to Japan!"

Asia's attention was caught by the flight attendant's beautiful melodic voice as she lightly bowed towards their direction. And that seemed to startle her, so she hurriedly looked towards the window at her side, to only find that the plane truly landed and she was finally in Japan

She was obviously quite shaken, not by arriving to Japan obviously, but by all the events that happened to her prior, she, who was once a pure girl raised all her life in the church and thus devoted her entire life to the church, to be suddenly cast aside at a heart beat, and exiled to a foreign land without any mercy or remorse.

"Miss Asia Argento, is their something that's bothering you?"

Having been distracted again, she was similarly awoken by the beautiful attendant's voice, only to notice that she is the only one remaining on her seat.

"N…No, thank you for asking"

She managed to reply without issue, and proceed to calm herself down and to recall her mother's instructions while she descended from the airplane.

'Mother said that someone named Azazel will help me go to the devils, she said he was a man in a trench coat with dirty blonde hair, but I don't see anyone with these characteristics'

She took a look towards the crowd of people that was waiting for their acquaintances at the airport, and no matter how much she looked, she couldn't find the man named Azazel anywhere.

She didn't get the chance to do anything, when a tall man with black hair and black eyes, wearing a wired looking suit approached her and smiled.

"Asia Argento, correct? Welcome to Japan"

He held out his hand for a handshake, which the blonde nun took nervously, and after she took a deep breath, she asked hesitantly.

"T-Thank Y-You, A-Are you mister Azazel?"

The main shook the nun's hand and smiled kindly, then he let go of her hands and lightly shook his head.

"No miss Asia, but I'm his subordinate, my name is Kokabiel"

He smiled kindly again, but Asia didn't notice the shadow forming behind that seemingly bright smile.

Chapter 29: Training? And a Letter

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[Somewhere Near The Mountains in Kouh - Next Day - 8AM]

The mountains near Kuoh were the epitome of serenity and calmness, known as the ideal spots for those who want a place away from the busy city life and its constant buzzing.

"P-President! C-Can I please rest for a while! I can't feel my legs anymore!"

"Come on Issei! Or I won't show you my boobs like I promised!"

"What?! No! I won't fall! Dragon shot!"

….And it was all ruined by a pair of master and servant, who despite their best attempts to deny it, are both entirely perverted to the core.

Following Riser's not so friendly departure along with the impending threat of the rating game drawing ever so closely, Rias decided to increase the training regimen for her peerage and brought them all here to 'get past their limits' as she puts it.

"Stop dodging Issei! Face me like a man!"

And turns out that getting them past their limits means blasting poor Issei with the power of destruction until he finds out a way to respond back because dragon shots aren't working.

"How the hell am I going to do anything when your power keeps disintegrating mine?! Ahhhh!"

"Ufufufufu~ Issei-kun~ don't forget about me~"

So, as he is the only one here capable of combating the Phenexs' regeneration flames, Rias and Akeno have been double teaming the unfortunate soul, to help him hone his powers and to gain some experience in fighting humanoid enemies.

"Boost" x2

A crimson glow surrounded Issei, then it concentrated into his gauntlet and swirled

"Dragon Shot!"

And shot out into a blast that hurled it's way towards Akeno, at exactly quadruple the power of the previous ones so far.

"Ufufufu~"

But Akeno was undeterred, and erected a two layer barrier in front of her that absorbed the brunt of the blast, but without knocking her a little far back, which was honestly impressive, but still lacking nonetheless.

"Can't you make it three boosts Issei? This doesn't even tickle you know?"

Akeno said with a slight mocking tone, as she raised her hands to launch a set of ice spikes towards his direction.

*Whosh*

"Dragon shot!"

Thankfully, the spikes were all practically bunched up in one place so he was safely able to smash them all with one blast, but that made a huge cloud of ice form, and when it cleared out, Issei was a little horrified by what he saw

"That hurt Issei-kun~ Akeno-san here is a little sad~ now you have to be punished~"

"W-Wait! Akeno-san I'm sorry!"

His eyes widened when he found her forming a gaint streak of lightning above her head, and in one moment he was on the ground, and in the next he was flying through the air.

The powerful streak of lightning shot at Issei, and he didn't have time to avoid and was thus sent flying towards Rias, which she welcomed quite readily.

She spread her arms wide in a hug and with the friendliest smile she could muster she welcomed her one and only pawn.

"Come and give me a big hug, my cute servant!"

….The scene would have been heartwarming if not for Rias's entire body being coated with the power of destruction.

"P-President! No! Nooooooo!"

"Come here Issei! Aren't these the boobs you love so much?"

She moved her hands down a little to emphasize her bust, which would have been a magnificent sight, but again, the embedding threat of being fried alive was too much to bear for Issei.

But alas, he couldn't do anything while being literally flying through the air, so he surrendered himself to his fate, and waited for the sweet embrace of the president's breasts to cure his wounds.

*Baam*

"Hmm?"

But the pain never came, and instead he found himself laying on the ground which made him a little disappointed to be honest.

*Sigh* "This isn't working as I thought it would be"

Rias massaged her forehead while helping Issei get up from the ground, she wasn't honestly going to trap him with the power of destruction, she was just trying to scare him a little as a part of training.

How is that training you ask? Well, She was hoping that he would find a way to overcome the situation like those anime protagonists always do, but he didn't, and as a result he fell face first into the ground.

"President! What happend?"

Hearing the massive blunt sound of Issei being hurled into the ground, Koneko and Kiba, who were both sparring together a few meters away got alerted and came here to discover what had happened.

"The plan work and Issei wasn't able to strengthen his sacred gear"

Akeno was the one who replied after she finished checking on Issei, she didn't want to actually hurt him after all.

And after hearing the reason and seeing Issei's battered appearance, they understood and Koneko nodded without any particular reactions, while Kiba had a strained smile, and he couldn't help but speak.

"President, may I suggest asking your brother to send someone to train Issei, I'm sure he has a way to help him awaken more of his gear"

Rias looked away from Issei for a second and turned towards Kiba with a small smile.

"I did Kiba, and he said to me that their isn't anyone available to train us at the moment, but he'll try to do something about it"

Kiba nodded a little in acknowledgment and didn't say anything else, he wasn't one to speak much in the first place, but seeing his friend being thrown around this much made him feel a little sorry for Issei.

Rias then pated her clothes a little, and straightned up her posture.

"Issei, you can rest for a while. Akeno, come with me to soar. Kiba and Koneko, you can resume your training"

"Yes President!/Rias" x3

…..

[Grigori Institute - The Governor's Office]

*Knock* x3

"Enter"

A knocking sound was heard, and when Azazel's voice was heard to whoever was there on the other side, the door was opened, revealing his biological daughter Raynare, who along with her team stopped working under Kokabiel and was instead assigned under Azazel himself.

Which admittedly was quite much, considering the man's own peculiar nature and his complete lack of responsibility, it's obvious that he would avoid the more tedious work and push it on his subordinates.

But it's not like Grigori was doing anything these past few days, so the work wasn't that much in the end.

"A letter from the Vatican has arrived to you father"

Azazel looked up from his desk and looked at his daughter curiously, it wasn't everyday that the headquarters of the church contacted Grigori, they hate us too much to do that, even more than the devils and for obvious reasons.

"Interesting, Did an angel send this Raynare?"

He asked as he took the letter from Raynare, while the younger fallen shook her head in denial.

"No, it was send by a familiar, it had some light energy in it, so I assume it was a human's familiar"

Azazel stopped for a second in pondered to himself silently, it wasn't a secret that the human exorcists disliked fallen angels more than the angels themselves, so it was quite shocking that they took the initiative to send him a letter personally.

So, unable to contain his curiosity any longer, he opened the letter, and slowly read the contents inside.

And as he did so, his face got noticeably harder and harder and by the end of the letter, the always cheerful governor of fallen was even scowling.

*BAAAM*

"Hiiii!"

He slammed the letter on the desk, shaking it a little, and startling poor Raynare, then he shot up from the chair and started walking out of the room.

And as Raynare was about to ask about what was in the letter, a magic circle formed near Azazel's ear, and her voice was cut off by his.

"Penemue we have a problem, gather all fallen with twleve pairs of wings and meet me at the meeting room immediately!"

His voice sounded too irritated for Raynare, and she didn't have the guts to ask anything in the end.

….

[Unknown Location - Third Person POV]

"Please! Why are you doing this?! I don't understand?!"

In what looks like a cell of some sorts, inside and underground bunker, sits a lone nun whose eyes have swollen from crying as she clutches the bars of the cell that holds her captive.

*Boom!*

A slam was heard on the cells door and it was flung open, revealing a man in his early twenties that was clad in the church's clothes.

He calmly walked towards Asia who was curled down on the ground and knelt down beside her then he grabbed her tall blonde hair and held her up to his eye level.

"Agh!? M-My h-hair! I-It h-hurts *sob*"

*Slap!*

She cried and whimpered but to no avail, and when he seemingly got tired of her squirming he mercilessly slapped her on the cheek, which she held down with tears already spilling from her eyes.

"Can you please shut up! Your voice is annoying! You're lucky that Master Kokabiel ordered that no-one hurts you or I would've plugged that mouth of yours myself!"

The man scowled at her with hatred and disgust visible in his eyes, then when she finally quieted down, he shoved her across the floor and stood up while patting his robe.

"Don't ever scream like that again! Or I swear to god! I'll make your remaining life more torturous than hell itself"

He said while staring at her body lustfully, which made Asia flench violently and curl down on the ground while shaking in horror.

She may be shelterd and innocent, but she knew what he meant by his words and the thought was enough to bring her to despair. She didn't want to imagine such things, so she ended up nearly paralyzed by fear.

"Heh"

And with a final smirk, the man exited out of the room, leaving poor Asia on the ground, both sorry for herself, and resentful for whoever was the reason for her suffering.

"P-please God help me. W-Why aren't you answering my prayers, I'm sorry for healing that devil, I'll never do it again I swear!"

So, quietly she resumed her prayers, and like always, her prayers weren't being heard by anyone.

Chapter 30: Is This What You Really Are?

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[Somewhere in Kuoh - Penemue POV]

We knew that Kokabiel was going rouge, in fact, it was painfully obvious when he started disregarding us and directly disobeyed orders issued by Azazel himself, but even so, nobody paid much attention to it.

Why do you ask? Simply because we are fallen, and like it or not we all have a deep rooted hatred for command chains due to our father, so it's a given that our faction is maybe a little loser than it's perhaps needed to be, and the most lose of them all is Azazel our leader.

But even if Azazel is the worst of us all, he still makes an active effort to fight for our sake, and it's an unwritten rule that all fallen are to stick with each other, so Kokabiel's move to hurt Raynare, which is the biological daughter of the acting Governor of Fallen Angels himself, it wasn't something that was going to pass by anymore.

So it was announced that he was a criminal, and from that day on, he never got back to Grigori anymore, which confirmed that he has reflected, which didn't make us any happier, and we were forced to actively utilize a portion of our already lacking personnel to look for him and arrest him.

But wait...there's more. The bastard wasn't just some no name fallen angel, he was one of the original ones and had twelve pairs of wings, thus he held a significant position in Grigori and not only did he have a sway in matters concerning the entire organisation, he also had a significant portion of followers, who apparently had been altering documents and actively controlling what does and doesn't enter Azazels radar as well!

Which forced us to imprison 500+ defected fallen angels which nearly crippled our internal governing structure! We also have to fucking search for the fucker, with an entire fuckin squad of powerful fallen at that! AHHHHH!

'I SWEAR I'll fuckin tear his wings off when I lay my hands on him!'

*SIZZLING*

"Penemue! Calm yourself!"

…..Oh….I almost let my fire out, it seems this habit of mine never left me after all, huh.

"I'm sorry Baraqiel, but just thinking about the fucker is enough to trigger me immensely, I always hated the smug son of a bitch"

Baraqiel just stares at me silently then nods and turns away….Honestly, I know you're trying to comfort me, but would it kill you to say it out loud, and what's with the stone face? I honestly wonder what Shuri thought about you, mister stone faced Baraqiel.

"...Did you say something rude about me?"

"...No, you're just imagining it"

What the hell? Are you an empath? What kind of bullshit is that?

"Ara~Ara~ Penemue, didn't you say that you've been reformed, and you're not the hot-headed, impulsive, kill first and ask questions later kind of woman anymore~?"

….I almost forgot about her, honestly, I hate that I find her voice pleasant despite her insufferable personality.

"...Kristiel, don't you have better things to do? Why are you even here anyway?"

Fiery red hair that extends until her buttocks accompanied by the most perfect form a woman can have, her breasts are not too big as to hinder her movement, and not too small as to be unnoticeable, just the perfect size, I believe she told me once that they were H-cup, her hips are very streamlined which end with a pair of legs that I'm honestly pretty jealous of, coupled with that seductive personality she always carries herself with…..sometimes, even I find myself a little dazed, despite my inner dissatisfaction.

Don't get me wrong, I like men, and I'm objectively considered very beautiful, so are all fallen angels, but when someone like Kristiel, who is considered the most beautiful fallen angel, and one of the most beautiful women to ever exist comes around, even a rock would find itself captivated.

'I still think that she's annoyi-!'

"Ooh~ my little sister hates me! I'm sorry Penemue! I won't make fun of you anymore!"

It suddenly turned dark! What happened?!l And what are those two soft cushions I feel surrounding my head?!...Wait! Dammit Kristiel Let Go Of Me!

"G't Aw'y 'oM 'E Y' B'tch!"

I try to get away from the wicked witch's grasp, but behind those soft snow white arms, there lays a grip strength of a thousand gorillas! Stupid fucking macho woman, I couldn't move an inch! I hate you!

"Do we have any intel on the little girl called Asia?"

Both me and Kristiel suddenly fall silent, and she lets go of me, and we both look at Baraqiel who now looks noticeably sadder…. I'm honestly a little sad too, but there's absolutely nothing we can do about it.

I try to muster a reply for Baraqiel's question, but Kristiel beat me to it

"...Sorry Baraqiel, I know you feel guilty about the little girl, we all do, and Azazel even more so, but all we know is that she vanished the moment she entered Kuoh, and when we asked the devils about her, they said that they never even heard about her, so our best bet is to track Kokabiel and confront him about it"

She looked visibly saddened, which is quite like her, despite her seductive and overly sexual outward personality, she's quite kindhearted on the inside.

"...I see…then let us keep searching"

…..

[Student Council Room in Kuoh Academy - Third Person POV]

It was currently the weekend and all students were mostly absent from the schools, I say most, because there were still some clubs that have their more dedicated members even on the weekends, and that naturally includes the most dedicated of them all, Sona Sitri, accompanied by her peerage of course. To the dismay of some of them.

But their normal day of handling paperwork and scheduling tasks abruptly came to an end, when the literal Satan Leviathan suddenly popped in unannounced and invited herself to the president's seat.

Sona was understandably quite upset, and was just about to complain to her sister, when she noticed her sister's serious expression, which was quite terrifying to Sona, simply because of how utterly rare it is, and everytime she saw her sister looking at to her seriously, Sona knew that things weren't going very well.

So, after making Tsubaki serve Serafall tea and taking a seat opposite to her, while Sona's remaining peerage stood behind her, she decided the important things first

"...Sister, is there something happening that you should tell me about?"

Serafall didn't reply, and instead picked up the tea cup calmly and started drinking. She took a sip, and then looked down to put the cup back on the table and sighed heavily in annoyance, which was quite honest terrifying, and was drawing out goosebumps from all devils here, even Sona herself, but she held back, and like always, kept that ice cold look she always has on her face without flinching.

When Serafall looked back up again, and both sisters were eye-to-eye again, Sona didn't see her sister's usual blue eyes. Instead there were these unfamiliar sets of golden red eyes she didn't recognize.

They still held the love and obsession Sona recognizes from her sister, so she was undoubtedly still Serafall, but instead of the usual comforting blue eyes, these eyes were quite creepy. Not in the disgusting way of course, in fact they look quite captivating on her, but they felt terrifying in some way, Sona feels that she saw them somewhere before.

"You know I don't usually like to involve my little Sona-tan in grown-up devil business, but it seems that I have no choice but to tell you"

She sighs again, this time in resignation, and slumps her shoulders a little.

Sona of course, feels a little annoyed at not only her sister specifically calling her 'Sona-tan' which she quite dislikes, but also her specifically calling her a child, she was considered an adult in human years you know!

But, she swallowed all the hard feelings down, she was a smart girl after all, it was honestly quite surprising that something forced even the mighty Satan Leviathan to do something that she actively disliked doing.

So to say that Sona was merely curious was an understatement, she was quite literally hungry to know, and it seems that Serafall knew what her sister was thinking from just looking at her and that drew out a sigh from her again.

*Sigh*

"...Long story short, Grigori announced that Kokabiel, which has twelve pairs of wings by the way, has defected from the faction, and is actively partaking in sabotage attacks here in Kuoh, and has requested assistance to aid in his capture, which is currently going on at this very second"

…..It's safe to say that Sona was quite surprised about the news, evident by the sudden tense atmosphere that surrounded her and her peerage in a matter of seconds.

It should be noted that Sona and Rias, along with both their peerages combined, they all didn't have a single individual that had more than a single pair of wings, and suddenly there was a threat that could practically squish them all like ants, and it was hiding here? In the same city they live in? It was quite nerve-wracking for the young devils.

Especially Ruruko and Saji, who had their human families here in Kuoh and didn't want to risk Kokabiel destroying the town and threatening the lives of their loved ones.

Of course, Serafall noticed their distress, and just shook her hands dismissively in the air.

"Don't worry Ruru and Saji-kun, you don't need to worry about your families being hurt. In fact, you don't need to worry about anything happening to this town at all, it might be even safer here than in the middle of the underworld capital"

After being addressed directly, both Saji and Ruruko were a little stunned, and after processing what they just heard, they were even more so.

And naturally, being the hot-headed muscle brain she is, Ruruko was the first to speak, quickly voicing her bewilderment to the Satan, with a particularly wired title one might add.

"...Miss Satan, how can Kuoh be even more safe, wasn't the underworld supposed to be guarded by the Satans themselves?"

"...I see, it's because of him, right?"

It wasn't Serafall that answered, instead, the voice belonged to Sona, who had a look of understanding on her face as she nodded to herself a few times.

Which is why she didn't notice Serafall worming her way into her direction, and when she noticed, it was too late.

"Mmmmph!"

A bear hug that rivaled that of a 14-year old girl hugging her stuffed teddy bear was revealed to the world, and poor Sona was stuck between two very bountiful obstacles, with no known way of getting free.

"As expected of my Sona-tan! She's very smart!"

Her smile was shining brightly on her face, as she was basically grinning from ear to ear, but as if suddenly remembering something, she pouted a little.

"...But the big bad demon won't protect my Sona-tan if she's in danger….But worry not! For I! You're sister, shall protect you with all my power! Just keep an eye out and call me when you feel something amiss, and magical Levia-tan will come to the rescue!"

Her dazzling smile was soon gracing her face once again, and after letting go of Sona, she gets up and a magic circle glows under her feet, but before she teleported, she didn't forget to drop a bomb on poor Sona, which didn't even recover from the previous assault.

"Oh! And Sona-tan! I forgot to tell you that Lord Xeron is now an honorary high-class devil with a custom evil piece set, but also has me! As his first peerage member and also a bishop!"

She looked up proudly and slammed her chest a few times, but her dignified image was entirely ruined by her breasts jiggling left and right due to the sudden motion, but no-one got to make a comment about anything, because Serafall was soon teleported out, leaving a very confused Sona along with her entire peerage, except of Saji, whose face was red for some reason.

….

[Unknown Location - Third Person POV]

The cell was getting eerily silent, at first there was screaming, then there was praying, and now there was nothing, just silence.

So silent in fact, that when the warden priest came in to check of she was even alive or not, he found her balled up on the ground while shivering slightly, and after confirming that she's at least still alive, he threw the piece of bread she always eats towards her direction and shut off the cell's door again.

Asia of course, didn't even move, she didn't even look up when she felt something being thrown at her, she instead kept looking down at the floor, silently wailing at her misery, and her seemingly unending stream of horrible events befell upon her since she was first born.

She didn't even know her biological parents, she was told that she was found abandoned in front of the church's doors, without even a note that states her name or origin.

So, she was adopted by the church and raised as Asia Argento with the other orphaned kids of the church.

She doesn't recall much of the events, but she can vaguely remember the innocent happy feelings she felt when she and the other kids played together when they were still children, it could be said that these were honestly the happiest moments of her entire wretched life, and like any form of happiness that was ever present in the life of Asia Argento, it was cruelly stripped away when she turned 10 years old.

She awakened twilight healing, a sacred gear that can heal all physical wounds, regardless of their severity or affliction date.

So naturally, the main exorcists headquarters in the Vatican took note of this, and she was immediately transferred to the Vatican to officially start her life as the main healer of the church.

Well, main healer was the term they used, the more appropriate term would be healing slave.

Yes, healing slave, at the tender age of 10 years old, young Asia was not only tasked to tend to the wounds of various exorcists regardless of her mental or physical comfort, she was also being kept strictly 'guarded' and was not allowed to leave under any circumstances.

But even then, young Asia found happiness, happiness in being able to help the injured, happiness in meeting her now foster-mother Griselda Quarta, but also her two best friends and basically sisters Xenovia Quarta and Irina Shidou.

And just as it looked like fate was being kind to her, she was again reminded of how vile, this place called life truly is, she was branded a heretic, and was about to be executed if not for the intervention of her foster mother, and instead they settled on exiling her from the church, leaving her entirely on her own, and knowing for certain that after being sheltered for so long, she will ultimately die.

…..The reason for her exile? She healed someone she shouldn't have. A devil, who she found injured one day, presumably by an exorcist of the church. She of course didn't know that, and only wanted to heal the injured like they taught her at the very same church.

'It was a gift of God! Thus, you should use it in his name!' they said, they fed her honeyed words to make her do their bidding with no questions asked, and like the foolish little girl she was, she followed them blindly without questions.

And like the foolish little girl she still is, she'a now here, tricked by someone she met for the first time that day, and brought here to be confined in a cell until god knows how long. Maybe until they find a use for her, then they'll probably dispose of her, it's the rule of the world after all.

She prayed….again and again and again and again, until her throat hurt and the words couldn't even leave her mouth, then she silently prayed again, this time in her mind, in her soul, but again, like lady time, and like all the times before that. Nothing happened.

And she was quietly wallowing in her sorrows by herself, she heard something.

A voice, in the back of her mind, a quiet low voice that seemed to speak to her very soul.

At first, she thought herself insane, she's probably hallucinating, she convinced herself. But, she heard it again.

'Is this what you really are, Asia Argento?'