Chapter 45

Mingling here and there Rias couldn't stop herself from glancing at the door every few minutes or so. She had invited him, however, it seems like he didn't come again this time either. Letting out a sigh her shoulders dropped slightly.

"Not this time either huh?" Akeno Himejima, Rias' Queen, asked lightly while looking over the event. It was a fairly small thing, just the usual annual party the clans were obligated to hold but as she had been for the last eight years Rias was waiting for somebody.

"Afraid not. It seems he's still avoiding me like the plague." Rias spoke with a deep sigh of exhaustion. Her fiancée still went to various parties but if she were to be in attendance he'd make excuses to leave. She hadn't seen him since the day he officially became her betrothed.

Staying silent Akeno merely took a sip of the drink she had nabbed at some point. There was nothing she could say to Rias, not without sounding like she was insulting her somehow. Rias tended to think that the tragedy that befell the Thaumiel clan was somehow her fault.

To make it worse, she wasn't exactly wrong. Sirzechs hadn't talked much about it but Ajuka had gone out of his way to talk about how Moris had intended to test and study Damian's clan trait, a trait that had only been revealed because of her and Riser Phenex.

Sure they were registered in the same school however Damian had gone to extreme lengths to ensure he wasn't required to attend. The most they talked about over the last eight years was determining how much school he had to attend and that was over letter.

"Rias, Lady Grayfia requests that you dress up nicely." Rias' Knight Kiba Yuuto explained with an awkward look on his face. Despite what Grayfia may think, Rias was dressed up nicely and it had taken multiple maids quite some time to do.

"What? I can't just leave." Rias whined slightly before sighing once again and disappearing from her position. As much as she was a vital part of this party she didn't want to face the wrath of Grayfia Lucifuge herself.

"Fufu. Rias really is cute isn't she?" Akeno asked the young girl beside her who practically didn't exist, her presence merged with everything around her. The girl was the one and only Tojou Shirone, the first and currently only Rook of Rias.

"Mhm." Shirone grunted in response, not even bothering to speak to her senior. She was a naturally taciturn individual who didn't engage in pointless conversations and generally had a sharp tongue and that applied to her peerage, her family, as well. 

"Uhm, s-should I really be here?" Gasper Vladi, user of the fifteenth Longinus asked hesitantly, cowering behind the back of Shirone. He was a dhampir, a race of half vampires who had coincidentally been born with a powerful sacred gear, he didn't deserve to be somewhere so grand!

"You'll be fine Ga-kun, nobody will make fun of you here." Akeno comforted the small boy with an amused smile on her face. Really, who would insult the family of the Gremory clan inside their own home? Perhaps the only one would be the famous idiot Diodora, even Riser knew not to do something so foolish.

"R-Really?" Gasper asked Shirone quietly, his voice hardly above a whisper. He only received a nod in response but it was enough for Gasper to be assured. Despite being a member of the peerage for over four years he hadn't attended many gatherings like this so he was nervous.

After a few dozen minutes, Rias had returned. Her dress was the same striking scarlet however her hair was now decorated lightly with small yet beautiful ornaments and her face was enhanced by makeup, her beauty soaring to new heights.

She wasn't sure why Grayfia had gone to such lengths to prepare her nor why she was suddenly busying herself around the estate to make it better despite already being more than enough for a gathering of this size.

However, her question was soon answered when the door was opened by an extremely famous face. Long lavender hair, beautiful amber eyes, and a large figure hidden behind the dress that compared even to Rias' own. Ingvild Leviathan had entered the party meaning…

Moving to the side Ingvild held the door open as the most famous youth peerage entered the scene. The second to pass through the door was an androgynous boy with short white hair reminiscent of snow with one long bang stretching past his shoulder in the front on his right.

The boy was short, just over 138 centimeters tall, however, nobody could underestimate the young boy. With ice blue eyes that glared at anyone who so much as looked at him, the Blue Dragon Emperor of Eternity Ordes had entered the scene.

Third was a pompous girl with blond hair that seemed to have been crafted from gold wearing a luxurious and old fashioned puffy crimson dress that reached well past her knees. The girl was only 149 cm tall and yet held her head up high as if she was trying to look down on everyone with a smirk on her face. Nero Claudius, the Emperor of Roses had arrived.

Next came a tall man with pinkish skin. He was large and muscular however his main trait was the polite grin on his face and the Hawaiian shirt and shorts that didn't fit the atmosphere of the gathering. He was Soyama Hakuji, the Divine Thief who stole the Blue Spider Lily from the Shinto Goddess of the Sun Amaterasu.

Next came in the wielder of the Sephiroth Graal, Valerie Tepes who just so happened to be a close friend of Gasper. Sticking his head out from behind Shirone, Gasper gave her a large wave with a bright smile. 

The next person to enter was a young adult with short navy blue hair that spiked as if electricity was running through it at all times with his eyes containing the same appeal. He wore a tight dark blue turtleneck that tightly hugged his muscular figure and judging by his womanizing grin and reputation it was clear he knew what he was doing.

The man was Marco Aciano, a normal human from Brazil who had made a name for himself after being revived as a devil, cleaving a path to success with his expert spear skills and silver tongue until he was dubbed the Spear Saint.

Next came a man with long dark green hair tied up behind his back. Like his comrade the Divine Thief his clothing, or lack thereof, was extremely revealing. He wore simple pants and lacked a shirt which clearly showed his muscles and the tattoos covering his figure.

The man was actually famous even before becoming a devil despite being a 'mere human' as he was once called. With sheer skill and technique, he rose to the level of rivaling even minor gods with his bare hands. He was Yan Qing, the Technique God hailing from China.

Finally, the king entered the room with his last bishop and two children. The bishop was a young girl around eighteen years old with dark black hair that glistened in the light. Her striking violet eyes possessed pure white stars within them revealing her origin. 

Beside her walked two beautiful children despite their young age, each with short golden hair of differing lengths and a strange oddity. The young girl had red eyes like ruby while the boy had blue eyes reminiscent of the ocean floor. In their right and left eyes respectively stood a single star. They were Hoshino Ai, Hoshino Ruby, and Hoshino Aqua, the descendants of Oriax.

However, Rias had her eyes locked on the man standing in the mire of them all. Striking pink hair, an impassive face reminiscent of ice, and empty golden eyes that represented the very idea of nothingness.

The Mad Dog had finally shown himself before his betrothed.

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