36 Scapegoat no-jutsu!

"I refuse!" Julian simply said with a smile. The second option was better in his opinion.

Rias stayed silent for a moment before she asked. "Is there anything I can do to make you change your mind?"

"No, because not only you do not have enough free pieces left in your peerage for me. But I also think any benefits you could possibly give are useless to me." Julian shrugged.

Rias, for the first time since the beginning of this meeting, tensed. "What do you mean?"

Julian eyed everyone in the room as he demanded. "What I will next say is personal. So, I would ask for everybody but you and Issei to leave the room. I hope you understand." As much as he doubted any persons in her peerage would go run their mouth about it. It was better to be on the safer side.

"What! That's absurd! Kaichou, we can't possibly leave you alone with him! What if he is in cahoot with the fallen angels! We know that he didn't kill her even after she tried to kill them both after all!" Yuuto stood up and protested in a bout of anxiousness.

Julian didn't mind and only smirked at Yuuto. "Oh, I can assure you that the fallen angel Raynare is no more. So you don't have to worry."

"You're words alone are not enough! Think about it Kaichou! He cou-"

"It's okay Yuuto, Issei is still here. And your accusations are as baseless as his words. So, as your king. I order you all to leave the room." Rias cut Yuuto off with a dry tone.

Reluctantly, Yuuto could only swallow his words as he with Akeno and Koneko left the room. Leaving him pondering why they both weren't as worried as he was about Rias.

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"Well, now that we're alone. What was it that you wanted to tell me personally?"

"Well, did you explain to Issei the magic of house Baël?"

Rias nodded. "We went on a rogue devil hunt last night. What about it?"

Issei, who was accustomed to Julian's sheneanigans, added. "Yeah, what about it?"

"What's the name of their bloodline magic, do you remember?"

Issei waved his hand. "Of course I remember, I'm not that dumb. It's called the Power Of Destruction, or otherwise called destruction ma..."

Issei.exe has stopped working.

Satisfied with the result, Julian skipped Issei and turned himself toward a confused Rias. "I always was quite the abnormal child. As I rapidly found myself becoming superior in all points to the other around me, I also found out that I could use a power that other couldn't. But it was only recently that I learned of other like me, and of a clan of devils who supposedly could use a magic having a heavy resemblance than the one I instinctly knew the name of since I as long as I could remember."

"Destruction magic." Julian smiled as he summoned a burning wisp of the black and red magic that was with him since the beginning of his second life. Making his own shadow enlarge as far as the wall behind him because of the low lightning of the room.

As much as seeing Rias mimicking a fish out of water was amusing. Julian hadn't finished yet as he unfolded his wings and brought out a ball of raw holy energy in his other hand. "You know, as I think every orphans or adopted childs do. I always wondered who my biological parents may be and asked myself who I was."

Suddenly retracting all his supernatural traits, and casting away his magic. Julian became no different from a ordinary student again both in the eyes of supernatural people and normal one and stated. "Perhaps you could help with that?"

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~Sirzechs POV

Sirzechs had been rather stressed recently. As Rias's arranged marriage with Riser was coming soon. It didn't help that Riser was becoming more and more impatient with it. He had the feeling that it wouldn't be long before the boy ran out of patience.

He had told them old fools back at the clan that sacrificying Rias' future happiness for a political mariage wasn't worth it. But no, they absolutely wanted to reproduce another possible true demon like him or something even stronger by trying to mix the blood of the Baël, Gremory and Phenex clans together.

It was purely a move fueled by greed. No matter how much they covered it with flowers and sweet words, as if they were truly doing it for the prosperity of the devil race as they claimed.

In the end, he had no real say in the domestic affairs of the clan, It had been like so since he went on becoming a satan and endorsed the title of Lucifer.

But if they really thought he would let them do as they please with his little sister's future. They better be prepared for him making them recall why he still was in the top ten of the strongest being in the world despite the advent of the Void Dragon God fifty years ago.

But it wasn't the time to do something yet, he also couldn't be too flagrant about it when he did. It was best to wait and see how Rias' plan would go first.

Sirzechs snapped out of his thoughts as he felt a tug in his mind. It was from a complex spell matrice that Ajuka designed and gave to all of his close friend. It served the purpose of a private phone line that they would have access in all time.

He inspected who was the caller and was surprised to see that it came from his dear little sister.

It was surprising because nobody was supposed to use this communication method for anything but critical informations and emergency.

But from what he could sense, nothing special was happening around Kuoh.

So, a small magic circle appearing besides his ear. Sirzechs paused the paperwork he was doing halfmindedly and answered the call. "Rias-Chan? What is it?"

As it went on, you could see his eyes widen more and more. He even began to tremble a bit from the multitude of emotions passing through his being at this moment.

"A-are you sure that's it's him?"

Upon confirmation, Sirzechs took a deep breath and calmed his tumultuous mind.

"Okay... Ok. Stay there, I'm coming with Grayfia this instant."

Closing the call, he turned himself to a curious Grayfia that as always was supervising him during his work.

"What is it, Sirzechs-Sama?"

He gazed deeply in her eyes before he answered. "Rias. She found him. Or rather, he found us."

"Who?" Grayfia took upon a confused expression as she didn't immediatly links the dots.

"The lost child. Millicas' elder sibling." Sirzech answered as he stood up and took her hands in his own.

Grayfia looked surprised and thoughtful for a bit before she smiled. "Then, what are we waiting for? I can't wait to know if he led a good live until now. If not, I'm sure we can rectify that."

Sirzechs almost fainted from happiness before his composure came back. And as such, he teleported both of them to the ORC building.

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~Back to Julian

'Theatrics are not that bad after all. They are quite fun.' Julian thought as he finished his show.

Rias took quite a bit of time to calm herself before she answered to him. "I-I think we can indeed help with that. Just let me make a call to my brother, I think he is the one who have all yours answers."

He watched as Rias exited the room in hurry. Flustered by the situation and maybe a bit shaken.

He had no idea how the next encounter would go. But he had to remind himself that he was not meeting some kind of enemy. But family, even if he had never actually seen Sirzechs before. It wasn't as if he was abandonned by him or anything of the sort, it was his own wish to be adopted after all.

He was sure that he would be receive warmly at least from his biological father. His only worry was about Grayfia, his stepmother. He wouldn't want to become a stain on their marriage. For obvious reasons.

"So, you're family with the president? Also you were never an human, huh." Issei asked and stated with a weird expression after his brain rebooted successfully.

"I think I may very well have a relation to the Baël and Gremory clan. As for me not being an human. I thought it was obvious as I was way too handsome to be one." Julian joked (or not) as Issei grumbled under his breath.

"I think I will go with the other as well. You were right that's it's something personal." Issei stood up as he made for the exit.

"Oh, you can stay if you want. Our title as best bro isn't for nothing you know." Julian let out semi seriously.

Issei laughed and shook his head. "No, it's alright. I prefer to be in the presence of cute girls rather than yours anyway."

"Don't forget Kiba is there too."

"Shut up."

Julian smiled and sighed afterward. The more he was acting normally. The more something screamed at him that something was wrong. It was a recurant thing since his escapade to the re-zero world.

He didn't have time to dwell on the feeling more as Rias came back, paused for a moment as she noticed that issei was gone, and took back her place on the couch.

She seemed way more stable than before as she proceed to tell him directly about what she knew of the circumstances surrounding his birth. And that technically, she was supposed to be his aunt.

Julian stayed silent as he listened with a seemingly pondering expression to her every words. Only to interrupt her to say that he wasn't calling her aunty.

"Why not?" She asked, feeling that it would be quite fun to have someone her age calling her that.

"Let me ask you that. Would you have the face to have someone who berated you like a child calling you aunty? Your entire peerage is witness to that by the way." Julian asked instead, chuckling.

Rias blushed in shame as she decided to drop the matter.

It was at this time that a teleportation circle appeared at the opposite end of the room from Julian and two very unsubtle people came out of it.

Julian of course who both of them were, but beside that. He remarked that he couldn't sense anything from either of them. Like they were normal human to his perception, same thing he appeared to be to other supernatural people he knew from Melissa.

As Grayfia and Sirzechs caught sight Julian and him of them, the atmosphere became a bit ankward as the former two didn't really know how to begin the interaction.

But as ankwardness didn't exist for Julian, he took the initiative as he pointed to Rias. "So, if she's supposed to be my aunt. Who are you supposed to be?"

Sirzechs scratched his head as he chuckled. "Well, I guess that make me your dad. Eheh."

He was promptly slapped behind the head by Grayfia as she rolled her eyes and smiled warmly. "I am Grayfia Lucifuge. And this fool right here is my husband Sirzechs Lucifer, as well as your biological father. So that would make me your mother-in-law."

Some sadness spread across her face. "I hope I did not disappoint you too much as unfortunately I am not your true mother."

Julian, at that, didn't hesitate as he made a surprised face. "Is that so? It's truly strange. As I would have thought the opposite to be true."

Sirzechs had a bad premonition as Grayfia asked. "What do you mean?"

Julian smiled as he decided to throw Sirzechs under the bus for the greater good. A gorgeous stepmom. "Well, you are by far beautiful enough to be my mother. But I expected my father to be more dashing."

Julian found his mission to be accomplished as Grayfia and even Rias smiled and Sirzechs' mouth twitched.

At least the ice was broken.

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A/N: Go check the auxilliary chapter for more info about the story as well as for some images about the appearance of Julian, his haircut and his type of physic. It's for imagery prupose mainly but also for fun as you can come and say which pic is better suited for him.