High School DxD: Reborn as a noble devil

"Hello, my name is Grayfia Lucifuge, and I will be your guardian for the time been. Actually I was your mother best-friend and she asked me to be the adult responsible for you if there was anyone able to do this. Its nice to meet you, Nero."

"Hello, its a pleasure to meet you aunt Grayfia. You are welcomed in the Lucifer territory as long as I am still the lord of the house. Let's get along well in the future while you are here as my responsible." Says Nero smiling. "Well, let me show you territory that you might not remember well, after all, it's been a long time since you last came here."

He briefly familiarized himself and at the same time showed Grayfia the current situation of the Lucifer family with her to explain his condition to her and maybe receive some advices.

"After Rizevim and Vali left the Lucifer family, I became the only member of the family remaining in the territory... And because Vali runned away he killed some of the family retainers to escape, Rivezim also took away all the retainers with enough loyalty and streght with him when he left. About the the retainers remaining here, there are only low-level devils who do odd jobs, let alone a ultimate-class, there isnt any high-level class devils in the territoty. The family territory is very large, and most places are managed by servants, although the family is not as strong as it used to be, it still manages to keep the territory running with only minimal operations."

Devil noble families are like ancient nobles, they control all the territory, but their members don't need to work or get involved in any business to earn money, they are used to make pacts or deals with humans to gain something they find interesting . Most of its income comes from taxes collected from the people living in the territory, and labor is also easily recruited from the people of its territory.

If there is no external forces causing trouble, it will not make the lord uncomfortable to run his territory even if he have a big area like the Lucifer family, but the problem is the insufficient combat force to defend the are in the case of a external force appears to cause problems, then there will be no resistance against that force. Grayfia understood the current situation of the Lucifer family and nodded to Nero.

"Ok, now I understand the situation, thank you for the information Nero."

Before she came, the Lucifer was lacking in combat powers and was in direct danger. But, now with her presence, the situation is much safer.

"Fine, thats all I wanted to show you for the moment. If there's anything else you want to be familiar with the just go take a look yourself. There's no place in the Lucifer family that you are not allowed to see, afterall you are my mother closest and most trusted friend." Saying that Nero turns around and star to leave, but talk a last time with his back to her "And... thank you very much to come here to help me in this situation, I heard about your previous problems with the old satan faction and about your recent childbirth, by the way congratulation for your child."

Nero who said such a sentence, just disappeared at the end of the corridor from Grayfia's vision. Looking at her distant figure, her eyes softened at the memory of her old friend, at first she believed that she would definitely be excluded coming to the Lucifer house and planned to do something or even use her power to change it, but it seemed that there was no need to do that. How could her friend's child be as crazy as Rizevim, she decided to protect him until he is able to protect himself.

When Nero reached his room, he started training again with his skills, he is just a mid-class devil and he needs to get more powers quickly to stay alive and get rid of Rizevim. He again uses his shadows which he is starting to get used to with the process of manipulating them to attack targets or move through them.

After training the shadows he begins to test and create new powers based on darkness, he tries to use only the darkness that makes up his shadow to use it as the source of his powers instead of simple shadows. He practices the grueling process of mastering just a single patch of darkness multiple times, and in the end manages to use this skill in a very primitive way. He manages to cover his hand in darkness as if it were a sharp sword and also manages to shape a small sphere of pure darkness to attack something that is far away, causing great damage and consuming all the light that is in the way as if it were a primitive black hole. After use those powers he start to get tired just like when he used his shadow teleport and decide to rest and train more later.

"Well, after I rest, there are some things that need to be taken care of quite urgently."

When he wakes up, he goes to Grayfia and asks her to take him to the Gremory family's territory.

"Are you going to visit the Gremory family?"

Grayfia was surprised by Nero sudden decision because the Gremory family is unquestionably a very important family in the new satan faction. The current devil with the title of Lucifer is a member of that family and he is also her master, one of the 3 transcendental devil Sirzechs Lucifer. As a descendent of the original devil kings he normaly would not be interested in someone who took his family title.

"Yes, I hope we can go now to come back earlier. This is also one opportunity to you see your husband and son." Say Nero with a calm face.

Nero may know the Gremory family even better than some peoples, so he decided to make this travel with two objectives. The first being to create problems for his grandfather and the second to create a peaceful cooperation with one of the strongest families in the underworld.

"Don't worry, Grayfia, I am not planning to do anything problematic, but I have some very important information to share with the current his majesty Lucifer, and this kind of information need to be talked in person because is very private. If I want to secretly communicate with his majesty Lucifer without alerting all the demons, the best way is to head straight to the Gremory house."

Hearing Nero logic, Grayfia nodded. Nero thought that he would need to explain the things he would talk with Sirzechs first, but Grayfia directly spoke before he started to talk.

"If thats the case then I can teleport you with my magic to go to the Gremory family's residence in a more secret way. If you need to contact my master secretly this metod is better than just visiting the family."

Nero was stunned when he heard what she said.

"Why didn't you ask what subject I want to discuss with your king?"

"You have your thoughts, and you are the current lord of Lucifer family. As long as you don't put yourself in a troublesome situation, I won't interfere with your decisions, after all I'm only your temporary guardian."

Looking to the woman in maid dress in front of him who was with a serious expression as if all her words were true, Nero was a little confused. Before, he just believed that Grayfia was sent here to monitor his action, but now it seems diferent... it looks like she really just came to take care of him like his mother asked, however he would not let go of his guard so easily. After the brief silence caused by the shock, he regained his social and polite smile he only show when dealing with outsiders that he do not trust completely.

"Alright, since you said so, let's go there with your magic."

"I will summon my teleport circle, let's go young master Lucifer."

They enter the portal created by Grayfia and go to Gremory house.