Ch16
Third Person POV
In the room of the Lucifer, one can see a silver-haired maid standing in front of a young man sitting on the chair with a stern look on his face.
"So, Grayfia care to tell me why did you ask me to save Euclid's life knowing that it could cause problems in the plan."
No reply came back from Grayfia; she just kept standing there silently accepting her mistake.
Cain continued.
"I had to reveal my identity as a devil in order to kill the pope just because you wanted Euclid alive. It had already been decided that I wouldn't be helping Rizevim and Euclid if they got caught, yet I had to due to your request."
"Now don't stand like a deaf person and answer."
This time the tone of Cain's voice was higher than usual. Grayfia still stood like a statue and didn't answer. Seeing that she wasn't going to answer his questions, Cain decided that further questioning was useless.
After that Cain opened a drawer in his desk and took out a bracelet. It was a jet-black bracelet with ancient runes written on it in molten silver. The bracelet gave off an eerie feeling.
"This is one of the toys I found in the basement during one of my little expeditions. This bracelet will be your punishment, Grayfia."
Cain continued.
"I know that Euclid is your brother but for a Lucifuge the first thing should be his/her Lucifer. But you still have some problems understanding that."
Cain didn't stop.
"This bracelet cuts off the wearer's senses one by one every week and then returns it one by one following every week. You will do your daily maid work while wearing this bracelet for the next 3 months to understand that I, your Lucifer and master, come above your brother who has way too much interest in you besides the interest he should have."
Hearing that there was a slight change in Grayfia's expression but it returned back to her stoic look quickly. With that being said Cain stood up, and walked near Grayfia who was still standing silently like a doll. He put the bracelet on her left wrist and said
"Seeing that you are not talking I will take your silence as accepting your punishment. As along with the taste of sense the bracelet also takes away the wearer's ability to talk, whoever crafted this was a super sadist."
"Because this was your first mistake and I don't want to seriously punish you. I hope you understand and make this your last mistake, Grayfia. It hurts me to do this to you."
After putting on the bracelet, Grayfia lost her ability to taste and speak. Next week her ability to see will be sealed and so on. In the sixth week the magic sense will be sealed and from then one by one every week the senses will start to come back.
...
On the sixth floor of Heaven 'Zebel' is an angel with the appearance of a handsome-looking man with long blond hair reaching till his neck and green eyes.
Could be seen walking; he has twelve wings growing from his back, and unlike other Angels whose wings are white, his wings are colored gold, further symbolizing his position as the current leader of the angels.
This angel was Michael, he had just heard from the other angels that there had been an attack on the Vatican in which the Pope died.
He was told that Archangel Uriel handled the situation, but Michael was not informed, he was on his way to ask why he was not informed about such a big event from Uriel.
Reaching near Uriel, Michael asked
"Why wasn't I informed about the attack on the Vatican brother."
Uriel turned towards Michael and replied
"It wasn't a big deal brother, the ones who attacked were some rogue magicians from Graubauzer."
"It wasn't a small deal either brother the Pope died, even if the situation did not need immediate attention you should have informed me."
"Come on brother, the pope was a corrupt guy. If anything, we should thank the rogue magicians for getting rid of him for us."
"Uriel"
Michael said with his voice raising a little
"Don't say that all life is equal and nobody has the right to decide who is wrong and right."
"Tell me even when you knew about the attack why did you not go there personally or inform another seraph about it? If you or any other seraph went, maybe the Pope will still be alive."
"Brother I sent two ultimate class angels, that's already more than enough."
"Looks like you don't understand Uriel, don't let a thing like this repeat itself or else I will have to punish you."
"Yeah, sure brother."
The reply was half-hearted and it was not serious as Uriel knew that Michael was a softie for his brothers and sisters he would never punish any of them seriously, all they would ever get was a light slap on the wrist.
Unknowingly Uriel's hate for the corrupt Pope led to him not informing any other seraph and delaying the ultimate class angels going to the Vatican which led to Rizevim surviving.
Ironically an archangel saved a devil due to his own radical views. If Uriel knew about the attackers being devils or worse heirs of clan Lucifer he would have personally gone there.
In the future, after knowing about what he did to Uriel and what it entails he will get quite angry which will lead to him engaging in a fight with Cain.
...
Back at the Vatican, the personnel were busy rebuilding the church and counting their losses. On a rough estimate about 83 priests were dead with 4 sacred gear holders and the Pope himself.
There may still be some bodies underneath the rubble or there may not be a body left at all, so about a 100-man loss just because of 4 rogue magicians. The Vatican has done a great job at hiding this as nobody except the involved parties knows about it yet.
The Pope will be announced dead after the rebuilding is completed along with all the stuff. He died of a disease, that's what they will be telling the world about.
However those having connections to the supernatural will sooner or later find out the truth.
...
8 months later
In the Lucifer castle, the relationship between the two heirs has gone from bad to worse. After healing from the injuries suffered due to the ultimate class angels Rizevim has cut all contact from Cain even Euclid isn't allowed to talk to Grayfia.
On the other hand, Cain, although miffed by the fact that he wasn't able to kill Rizz, was still in a good mood as after her punishment Grayfia has become even more loyal and subservient to him.
'Looks like losing all of your senses can be pretty terrifying' and with him being the only one who helped her in that period with some more hot and cold treatment he managed to make her fall in love with him 'looks like stockholm syndrome can affect even devils.'
Cain's relationship with Melissa and Vanessa has also improved accordingly as now Vanessa also sometimes responds back to his teachings in her own cold manner.
With all this going Cain leaves the thing about his brother being evil back and puts that on hold as only when he gets another chance he will be able to kill Rizz.
With that, everything went back to normal and Cain again dove into training himself and his maids.
...
In a darkly lit room, 4 devils can be seen sitting across a circular table, three of them have grave expressions on their faces while the other has a smile.
These 4 are Percival Paimon, Zenophilus Zagan, Hana Haaganeti and Valak. All four are very old devils, especially Valak; he is a 1st gen devil.
Lord Paimon starts speaking
"What were you thinking of Valak going to the Lucifer heir's party like that and openly provoking them."
"Hmph unlike you cowards I have the guts to stand in front of them even after planning for their deaths."
Seeing that these too were going to fight Hana said
"Now calm down both of you, what happened is in the past, we should live in the present and plan for the future. Fighting over something that happened will not change it."
Both of them calmed down but still, Paimon was looking a bit angry seeing that Zagan spoke
"Anyways what do we do now the plan to kill them failed when they were still small. And we had to lay down due to The Lucifuge is investigating stuff now that the matter has finally calmed down. What do we do next?"
Hearing that Valak spoke that fearless smile still on his face
"Increase your connections with the other devil pillars and become close to them enough to change or affect their decisions. When we reach that stage I will tell you the next phase. You three get close to some devil pillars. I will get close to one of the satans and try to influence them."
"But all the devil lords are quite old; it will take time to build that level of trust." Hana's sweet voice rang after Valak finished speaking.
"Indeed this is a long-term plan. It may even take a long time, even decades. But if it succeeds we may become the next rulers of the underworld."
Hearing that all of them become excited after all devils lust after authority and strength the most.
So after that, the 4 of them went to their own ways to plan for the things they would have to do.
With this meeting, the circumstances that will lead to the devil civil war have been initiated. Which will cause a lot of mayhem in the underworld in the future.
