The house was silent when I arrived. I decided to take this time to look around to see who was up and what was left behind. On the coffee table, there was a little thank you note with some money and what looks like a very vintage necklace. After taking a seat on the couch to transfer the necklace to the Gremory account, the living room door suddenly opened.

"I'm home!" A middle school male student walked inside. "...not that there's anyone here…" he said as he walked through the hallway as he made his way into the living room. "...hopefully they left me something that I can order…something…" he trailed off as the both of us made eye contact. "Wait, are you…" he began to ask. I simply smiled at him.

"Hey there, boy. Got rid of that flu?"

It was a quiet evening in Sirzechs's home inside the Gremory Territory. After the many meetings with other superpowers of the Underworld, fellow Devil Kings, and doing some stuff as Satan Red, he spends the rest of the time inside of his study doing some work when a small magic circle appears on his desk. What came out of it was a small projection of Grayfia in her usual maid attire.

["Evening Sirzechs,"] the hologram Grayfia said.

"Evening Grayfia," he replied. "Since you are here, that means you have something important to tell me right?"

["Yes. We have gained some intel on the Fallen Angel Leader Azazel. Apparently he's been gathering sacred gear users, including Longinus wielders. He already has the likes of Canis Lykaon and Divide Dividing." ]

"I see… having both the Dog God and White Dragon Emperor does seem like an issue."

["By chance, do you think that he might be wanting to start another war?"]

"Azazel starting another war?" Sirzechs asked himself. He thought about it for a second before waving his hand aside. "Nah, that doesn't sounds like him. Plus I doubt he doesn't want to put any more of his kind in danger again." Sirzechs would lean back in his chair, looking upward. "Maybe it's for something else…"

["Like what?"]

"Well, it's…" before he could answer her, another circle appeared next to Grayfia. A man with a mix of blonde and black hair wearing a crimson robe appears right next to her, bowing towards Sirzechs.

["Evening Lord Sirzechs. Ah, and you too Lady Grayfia,"] he said.

"MacGregor, what brings you to show up?" Sirzechs asked the robed man.

["Well, I was doing some investigation around the town your and Devil King Leviathan's look over when I spotted something?"] He answered.

"Something? Like what?" Sirzechs asked.

["Weirdly enough, there's quite a bit of fallen angels walking in and out of the city,"] MacGregor explained.

"Fallen angels?"

["Ah, I also noticed that as well,"] Grayfia said.

["And apparently, there's a group of four stalking around the home of the Red Dragon Emperor,"] MacGregor followed.

"... I have a bad feeling about this…"

"So both of your folk had to work late tonight, huh?" I asked the boy. If my memory serves me right, I'm pretty sure that his name was Issei. We were both sitting in the living room right after he got home from a friend's house. "Surprised that they would need me to watch over someone who is only a few years younger than me."

"Yeah, it's somewhat ridiculous," he said. "Ever since I've recovered from that weird illness, they wouldn't let me out of their sight. They even get the neighbors involved…"

"Seems like they're very protected of you,"

"Yeah, a bit too overprotective if you asked me," he sighed. "But I guess that it makes somewhat sense. I'm basically their only child, even though I wasn't their first."

"Ah, so you heard us that night?"

"I may have been sick, but I could still hear. After I managed to recover I've decided to ask them about it. They said that they were trying for a while before they had me, but they died. They even showed me their ultrasound pictures. If they didn't die, I would've had an older brother and sister. They'll be either in college or highschool by now," he said with a bit of sadness in his voice.

"Sounds like you wished to have older siblings," I told him.

"Well, I'm not saying that I didn't mind being a single child, but yeah. I wouldn't mind having an older sibling to hang around with," he said. "Anyways, I was wondering about something that I wanted to ask my parents about, but I guess I can ask you,"

"Oh really? What do you want to ask about?" He then readjusted himself on the couch to point his attention towards me.

"What are you? And what has possessed me?"

["Lord Azazel, there is someone who wants to see you,"] A male voice transmitted through the living room in a luxurious apartment in Kuoh. A man with a mix of blond and black hair was sitting on the couch swirling a glass of brown alcohol in his hand, listening to the ice clinking against the walls of the cup.

"Ah, Shemazai, how is it my friend?" Azazel said, weirdly slurring his words together.

["Haa… have you been drinking again?"] Shemazai's voice rang in the room.

"Just a little bit, don't worry your little head off…"

["Well I hope you get sober soon. Lucifer would like to speak with you soon,"]

"Lucifer…didn't Vali go out to do his research or whatever…?" Azazel asked while taking another sip out of his glass.

["I'm talking about Sirzechs. Apparently they've found out that some of our unit stalking around the town your in."]

"They just found us? I expected them to find us sooner."

["We made sure to stay away from both his and Leviathan's sisters along with any of their peerage members, despite Baraquiel's protest,"]

"Hmm…could they be after the Red Dragon?"

["The Red Dragon? They know that he lives in this town?"]

"It's a hunch. Wouldn't be weird if they didn't. This place has a dark history with supernatural beings." Azazel then gets up from his seat, placing the cup on one of the end tables before walking towards a door. "Send him the address to Ikuse bar. As for now, tell the group near the Red Dragon to not do anything drastic. Do not interact with him or anyone else in the house."

["Yes sir."]

"...I hope you know what you're doing, boy…"

Author's note:

Yo, its been a while. In a bit of a writer's block for a minute so I've decide to post half of the chapter here. It'll probably gonna take me till new years to finish it, so do be patient.

Update: Finally out of the block, so expect some more stuff from me. Next one is going to be Koto, Saiyan Raised in Hell