Kei-Kei Yuki: New chapter! Yay! By the way, just in case some of you are wondering. Riser female counterpart looks similar to his mother, except she leaves her hair hanging down, rather than pigtails or a ponytail. Okay, so for the next chapter I'm thinking of doing a smut chapter, featuring either: 1.) Hot threesome with Richard/Issei/Akihito; 2.) Issei/Aster; 3.) Issei/Reader choice

A/N: Names of Raina male-peerage that appears in this chapter: Yubelluna=(Yubel); Karlamine=(Karl); Isabela=(Idris); Xuelan=(Xueqin); Marion=(Marlon); Burent=(Buiron); Mihae=(Mikoto)

Karma

"Wow, so you did move out of the Phenex castle and into your own," said Issei after taking a sip of her iced peach tea that was served to her by Marlon. Just like every member of Raina's all-male peerage, the man was handsome, standing beside him, serving his mistress a slice of french cake, was Buiron. His attractive and flirty features were the opposite of Marlon who always appeared professional and calm.

"Yes, I thought it was about time for me to move out on my own, though... my parents were not too happy with my decision." Raina showed a strained smile, remembering how both her mother and father begged their only daughter to rethink her decision and tried to talk their darling princess into staying home with them just a little bit longer, which was just another way of them telling her to stay with them indefinitely.

"Lord Phenex and Lady Phenex are very protective of ojou-sama; they love her very much and hate to see her move out of the Phenex castle," explained the extremely handsome man who was sitting beside Raina. Those long wavy purple locks fell all the way down his back, tied in a low ponytail.

Piercing seductive eyes landed solely on Raina as he fed her a piece of the cake. His attire reminded Issei of a hot Persian prince, who was never seen far from Raina's side. Opening her mouth, Raina allowed Yubel to feed her, earning a slight smile from the man who only had Raina in his heart. The guy was completely smitten with his dear ojou-sama, then again...

Sweeping her gaze throughout the garden, the brunette spotted Karl training with his sword. The cute swordsman was shirtless, nicely toned abs on display, sweat running down his muscles. He picked up a towel to wipe his face. Not that far from him, viewing the flowers, was a cute kimono wearing boy who Issei believed was named Mikoto?

The two adorable shota twins were playing tag; Idris was teasing Xueqin, getting on the boy's nerves. Even though there were a few other members who were currently missing, the one thing they all had in common was that they were all loyal and deeply infatuated with their beautiful blonde ojou-sama. When Raina's reputation hit rock bottom, instead of leaving her, they all stayed at her side. Showing that no matter what, nothing would ever trump their feelings towards Raina, something which Issei respected them for.

"Oh, I heard that you're having a rating match coming up against some snobbish noble," Issei recalled the information that she got from Richard. Once those words were uttered, Raina's, along with her peerage's, emotions did a complete one-eighty for some odd reason.

"Yeah, he is the heir of the Sallos Marquess family and is known for his very unsavory ways... I met him the other day and let's just say he proposed a bet with me. If I lose, I must marry him," Raina confessed; the gloom in her eyes said how much she was not liking the idea of becoming this guy's wife.

"He is an arrogant womanizer snob, who already has over thirty concubines in his castle. Not to mention I also heard that he can sometimes be... aggressive towards his concubines." Yubel clenched his hands into a fist as Issei realized what he just hinted at and immediately became upset.

"This guy is horrible! Raina, you can't lose to this jerk! You gotta kick his ass!" exclaimed Issei, deeply worried for Raina. While the two in the past were each other's enemy, they have come a long way since that time, as Issei now saw Raina as an older sister-figure. Besides no one deserved to be abused; that was just sick and wrong!

"I would love to call the whole thing off, but he announced it publicly, putting me in a tough spot, and I was unable to back down from the bet. Ha, life is just full of karma. First, it was me who tried to force Richard into marriage with me, and now this time it's someone else who is trying to force me into a marriage," Raina sarcastically remarked. Her own situation was really heart-breaking. No one deserved to go through what she was going through.

"Raina..." For the first time ever, Issei heard Yubel call out to his mistress by name. Cupping the blonde's cheeks, staring deeply into those beautiful dark blue sparing eyes, Yubel recalled how he first met Raina. In the past, Yubel was the prince of a powerful empire, only to be betrayed by his own younger brother who was greedy for the throne. Lying in a puddle of his own blood, Yubel did not wish to die and prayed to be saved.

Eyes gazing into the scorching hot flames that consumed his chambers, suddenly the flames turned into a phoenix, piercing the sky with its cry, before transforming right before his very eyes into a beautiful young girl with golden blonde hair that pooled down her back, beautiful dark blue eyes that stared at him as if she was piercing his very soul. Calmly walking through the fire as Yubel couldn't help but think of her as a goddess, she bent down beside him and placed her warm hand gently against his cheek.

"You poor thing... You have truly been wronged, but I can gift you with a new life. The only thing that I ask of you is that you serve me for the rest of eternity." In the past, if someone had dared to make such an offer to him, Yubel would have had their head cut off. But he was dying and the woman before him was so beautiful and graceful just like a phoenix that soared proudly through the skies, that Yubel didn't mind selling his body, mind, and soul to her.

"I'll faithfully serve you for the rest of eternity, my mistress," he said to her as that was how Yubel was reincarnated into a Devil. Back in the present, Yubel wanted nothing more than to ease away all of Raina's fears.

"I will never let anything happen to you. I refuse to let that man steal you away from me," he swore, those amethyst eyes glittering with a hint of possessiveness that was there the day Raina first brought him into her peerage. Yubel devoted everything to her; she was his goddess and it was his duty to love, cherish, and protect her. It had been a long time since Raina could gain this type of happiness which was all thanks to Issei, and no way was Yubel going to allow anything to ruin it.

Hearing such words from Yubel, the very first to be recruited into her peerage, Raina couldn't help but become a bit emotional. "Aww, you two are so adorable~!" cooed Issei, earning a smile from Yubel and a glare from Raina.

"Shut up!"

"But real talk, I really hope you beat that bastard into the ground, " encouraged Issei, bumping fists with the proud ojou-sama who arrogantly replied back by saying,

"Of course I'll win. I'm Raina Phenex, my dear. I never lose." She flipped her hair and shot Issei a wink. The brunette was happy to see Raina acting like her usual self as the two girls enjoyed the rest of their time together.

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