41 A man's dream

*CLAP*

Alexander : "Alright ladies and gentlemen, there's nothing more to be said. Don't let this little event sour your night, and try the food, I heard the fig and honey pastry were to die for. Oh and Celina, please take out the trash."

And without anyone really understanding what was happening she walked toward Diodora who was slowly regaining his wits, lifted him by the scruff of his clothes and threw him though the window making a loud sonic boom. All of this done completely naturally.

At that, several devil in the vicinity panicked while screaming "young master !" and went running out of the estate as if their lives depended on it, and to be honest, there was a chance they did.

It also led to the devil starting to mingle amongst themselves again, talking about the recent situation I had no doubt.

Sairaorg : "Well, it seems you really didn't need help. Weren't you a bit too heavy handed though ?"

Alexander : "I don't believe I was. The information I just gave about him is not faked. Furthermore I'm pretty sure he framed and captured two nuns working for the church last month. He's the very kind of devil that gives us all a bad rep."

At that point I could see Sona, Rias, and another girl approaching me.

Sona : "Good evening Alexander-kun. I just saw your little show and I have to say it was impressive. The fact that it worked even more."

Alexander : "A pleasure to see you again heiress Sitri. And I'm not so sure about it working. It may look like it for the moment but there are several point to take into account.

First of all, the big players in the political field weren't there. If someone like lord Bael were here tonight he would have put me in my place quickly and efficiently. I'm not stupid enough to think I could best him or his equals in the field of politics.

The second point is that my dual citizenship is something new and important. You need to understand I'm the only one in the entire underworld with it. It's a great boon to improve our relationship with Asgard, and potentially gain a trading agreement for their metalwork. The fact that a Valkyrie put foot in the underworld for the first time in 678 years thought Valkyrie Göndul is also to take into account.

And lastly, this is considered a youth gathering. It's the whole point of these party, seeing the future generation interact and to see what kind of adults we will grow into. Whatever I said tonight might be forgotten tomorrow because of that, even if I guess the satans will try to keep the hype to have an excuse to banish the tribute law. As for Diodora ? Aside from a wounded pride and some bruises, I don't think lord Astaroth will do anything to him aside maybe a wrist slap for shaming his house."

Sona : "That's... Sensible. I hadn't though about all of this."

Kuisha : "Whatever the result, I thank you for helping Lord Sairaorg."

Alexander : "No need for thank, lady Abaddon. It was my pleasure."

Rias : "Humph, did you have to make trouble the first time you meet high society ? No wonder you're not the future heir."

Alexander : "Whatever, it was fun. Why don't you introduce me to your friend while we're at it Rias ?"

Seekvaira : "Hello Alexander Gremory, my name is Seekvaira Agares, heiress of the Agares Clan."

Alexander : "Well met heiress Agares. If I'm not wrong you're the devil that has been making inquiry of the possibility of creating a functioning mecha am I right ?" I asked her interested

Seekvaira : "How do you know about that ?" She asked me surprised.

Alexander : "While it isn't widely known, I'm a fan of mecha myself. It IS a man's romance after all." I said with a light smile. "As thus, I tried looking for ways to obtain three years ago and ended up looking though various forum on devilnet where I noticed your questions. To be honest with you I have a prototype I created but... It's just a piece of metal that moves though devil magic. It's not the same as a TRUE mecha that would move thank to a powerful generator." I said a bit disappointed.

And it was true. I did try making one but at that time I didn't know runes, and lacked materials. At the time of this discussion it was still beyond me to make the generator using science only. I would need more knowledge about a lot of fields in science and about theory of time and space magic. It would be a necessity to generate the huge amount of energy needed for some of the moves showed in various anime and manga.

Seekvaira : "Really !? You have a life size mecha ? It's still better than nothing but you're right. It needs to be done with science otherwise it's just a golem, I get your meaning. Not to mention ..."

And just like that we started to ignore our surroundings and discussed about the necessary parts and features needed to create the best mecha ever. We also started to talk about meeting in the future to see if we could start creating an exoskeleton or at least schematics. She also told me she was looking into using her time magic to create a loop to make the generator produce infinite energy. Her problem was about the output that wasn't enough, and about the fact that her spell would need to be fuelled by something too.

At some point Sona and Rossweisse seemed to have enough of being ignored and intruded forcefully in the conversation, changing the topic to the differences between Asgard and the underworld.

I also talked a lot more with Sairaorg and his queen. He also 'realized' using his touki senses that I was someone who trained very hard like him, and asked me if I was interested in sparring with him at some point. Which I completely declined, I knew the kind of combat junky he was, no need to ignite his fire with me.

Now that the party had regained a nice atmosphere, my father asked for our attention since he had an announcement to make.