13 chapter 13

Castiel P.O.V.

"… and then we went to an ice cream shop. It was super interesting. It truly surprised me, the Tower is like a mix of a research institute, school, and city." Finally, he shut up. Okuyasu has been talking none stop since we left the Tower, which means about two fucking straight hours. He got all excited about his 'date but not a date' with Asia.

For one side I am happy for them as their relationship is cute in many ways; on the other side, he CAN be in a simple relationship with someone he likes and is innocent and especially GENTLE. My case in the other hand 'Let's go hunt strays in the name of JUSTICE' or 'Cas-kun I saw you talking to that woman on the store, would you like to explain yourself?' or even 'Hey, who is prettier Castiel? Me or my sister?'. Yep, I truly represent my origin VERY WELL.

"*sigh* Can we please stay quiet just for the next hour? I am beat, figuratively AND realistically and I want to rest a bit as after we get back we will need to go straight for school." I asked, feeling the sleepiness trying to take over me. I did not sleep at all since Friday night and it is Sunday night approaching Monday. I need to sleep.

"Fine, fine let's rest them." And he did stay quiet… "But honestly Asia-chan is an angel I tell you." For like 5 minutes. He just doesn't stop, does he? You know what? I will cast a basic curse of sleepiness AND mute on him. Sometimes my curses are so useful.

One-minute latter and after the curse took effect I finally could go to take a decent nap; I will need all the energy I can if I want my plan to make an alliance to actually work out.

Riser P.O.V.

This is the day. After meeting Castiel yesterday we made the best plan to fix OUR situation. Honestly, without his help, I doubt I'd get a better result.

"… so this is the plan, do you girls agree?" I finished explaining the pan to my peerage, the ones I truly want to spend the rest of my life with.

"Understood, Riser-sama!" all agreed. It will not be pleasant to them but it is the best way. We can either follow this plan and get a bad image, small as it may be, or I marry with Lucifer's little sister and we will live under the shadow of that siscon.

Now, I just need to inform Lucifer of my decision and the game may start.

3° person P.O.V.

A tense silence covered the occult research club room. A message was just received that Rias fiancé was coming to visit. The tension was high as it was a well-established fact that Rias had no desire for this engagement contract to be fulfilled as she desired romance and to choose her partner, her species be damned (devil pun intended).

KNOCK KNOCK

"Kaichou, did we had a guest planned for today?" Akeno asked in doubt.

"No, no we did not Akeno." Rias answered. "Well, see who it is them." she hushed Akeno. Riser may arrive at any minute and she wants to deal with whoever it was before he got here.

"…Rias, it is Castiel." Akeno said and the mood got quite… well, strange one the room. Issei got even more annoyed, Kiba started to emit a battle thirst as he wanted to prove himself and Koneko just started sniffing around trying to sense if he had food.

"Tell him I will meet him again another day." She said dismissively.

"He said that it is official matters form the Tohsaka Tower."

That picked Rias interest. The Tower had state of the art magic research and training facilities, all that could be useful for her and her peerage. Unfortunately, the Tower and the Gremory clan are not allied anymore (mostly Syrzechs peerage fault). This is an important matter as it may mean a powerful ally or an enemy.

"Ask him to enter." Rias said.

Castiel entered in a different clothe than his school uniform (his fighting clothe that can also dub as formal wear, it is official matters after all) and immediately decided to give a polite bow and talk.

"I am sorry for coming unannounced but I come with an official proposal from my organization." Castiel said in a respectful but non-servile tone.

"Hoh, interesting. Please sit." Rias said pointing to the chair in front of her. After he sat down she asked. "Would you accept some tea?"

"That'd be lovely." He said with a smile.

After he took a slip he decided that he might as well start.

"I come here with a proposal of forming an alliance between our organizations." he said.

"That may be good, but what are the terms exactly?" Rias said. It was the wish of the rest of her clan to reestablish their old connection.

"Share of information." Good. "Military help in case of need." That is also good, the Tower may be a new organization but they are expanding fast and have capable fighters. With the tension between the three factions rising as they have a powerful ally is more than welcome. "BUT, some of the members of your brother's peerage must agree in signing a geass to not enter the Tower except if invited and they must make a public apology for their transgressions."

That is a problem.

"Sorry, but that is unacceptable. We of the Gremory house treat our servants as family and forcing our members to sign this sort of contracts is degrading to them." She negated the contract. "And what would be the reason for you to decide that they need to sign this geass of yours?"

"Because they are not, let's say, appreciated in the Tower."

"And for what reason?"

"Let's see. Okita comes to challenge Assassin almost every week, even when he is on a date with his girlfriend. I even heard that he once entered his room when he was, let's say busy, with his girlfriend. That got him pissed. Surtr came once to fight Lancer just to see who is stronger and ended up destroying half of the witchcraft division and Lancer's secret stash of booze, which made Lancer cry manly tears and pissed of the leader of the witchcraft division, Caster. Enku came and ate all the divine level food for Rider mounts that she took almost a full year to prepare. MacGregor decided to try and court Rin AND Luvia THREE DAYS after MY DAD DIED."

Rias was sweating after hearing this. To be honest, they may be abused it a bit too much, but it wasn't that bad.

"But even then we can't just…"

"And last but not least" he continued not allowing her to interrupt. "Beowulf came and tried to steal one of my father last gifts to me because, and I quote, 'it is my own by right anyway so why not'."

That made the room enter a pregnant silence. No matter how much the Gremory family loved their servants there are limits that should not be trespassed and try to steal a father's memento 'just because' was too much.

But never underestimate a devil's pride.

"… I apologize for the inappropriate actions of my brother's peerage members but I still can't do what you request of me. Putting all members of his peerage on the black list by or own hand is not something I can or will do." She said firmly.

"First, it is not all members, and second, are you sure that there is no room for negotiations?" he asked in a still very polite and calm tone as if it did not make much of a difference anyway.

Just as Rias was about to answer two teleportation circles appeared in the room with the symbols of the Phoenix house and Gremory house.

"My beloved Rias I have come to see you again." A pompous person said stepping out of the Phoenix circle.

"I thought you were due to arrive in five minutes Riser, is this a demonstration that you have no intention of following the rules?" a woman dressed as a typical French maid with silver hair in a long braid, big bust, and a pretty face with red eyes (Writer's Note: I decided to go with red as it is the color in the novel, insted of using silver as in the anime. No real reason, I just preffer it this way) said as soon as she came out of the Gremory circle.

"Please do not misunderstand me. I came a bit earlier as I was a bit overly eager to see my wife." Riser said, completely ignoring the ugly face Rias did when she heard the 'my wife' comment. "I mean no disrespect to your house or you, Miss Grayfia Lucifuge the strongest queen." He said in a respectful bow… or the closest to respectful that someone using clothes that seem straight out of a 70's documentary about pimps and fashion.

The two arrivals then looked around the room, a cursory look… until they noticed Castiel.

The maid gave a polite bow and said.

"It is a pleasure meeting you again, Castiel-sama heir of the Tohsaka Tower. For what do we have the pleasure of your presence?" Grayfia may not have seen him in many years (since his father's funeral) but she could recognize his energy signature quite easily as he did not bother to hide his power.

"He came to propose terms for an alliance between the Tower and our family." Rias said without giving the chance of Castiel talk for himself.

"And the terms?"

"The same condition as to when the LIVING BLADE was alive, but blocking by GEASS the entry of most of Onii-sama's peerage and a public apology."

Grayfia heard it and frowned.

"I am sorry but this terms cannot be followed as it would tarnish my husband Lucifer-sama name. Please leave." She said decisively.

"Oh well, I was even going to sweeten the deal by offering to train Rias peerage, thing that she obviously needs as anyone can see." Castiel said, no emotions in his voice but a slight disappointment.

"I need no help. It is not like you are that much stronger and my brother and his peerage can help in a much better way." Rias said with absolute confidence.

With a voice that most definitely did not have ridicule laced all over it (even though it had), Castiel said.

"Yeah… keep on doing that, it is working SO well. I mean it is not like most of you are wasting their talent. That everyone, excluding you and your queen, is still mid-class with that one ogling the wife of fucking Lucifer still being low-class." At that Issei looked the other way when the others turned to him. "I can't see why my offer would be good after all the world is peaceful and nothing can EVER go wrong. Let's not forget that your brother REALLY doesn't have any obligations for his race so he can spend ALL his precious time to help train you." a mocking smile adorning Castiel face. "Yeah no reason at all." *chuckles*

"Stop mocking my king, you bastard with no mother." Kiba said creating a sword on his hand. His knightly ways would not allow any form of offense to his king.

As soon as his words came out of his mouth Castiel appeared in front of him and put a finger to the middle of Kiba's forehead right between his eyes.

"I will tell you three things Knight-kun. First, mind your position, I came with an alliance proposal and YOUR answer was rising your sword to me, a fact that could be base for a war. Second, mind your abilities, you are too weak as, if I wanted to, I could kill you quite easily as you obviously only know frontal combats and do not have the necessary instincts for survival in the real world outside of this town." After that an aura of power that, while much weaker than Rias in absolute magic capacity, obviously was many times more threatening due to the killing intent mixed on it. "Third, NEVER talk about me or my family like that again or I WILL kill you. Lucifer protecting you or not."

After that little demonstration of speed that only Grayfia and Riser could follow Castiel turned his back and left the room with one last message.

"Think about my proposal Rias, it seems that you will need my help for the future if this is how your peerage react to danger." He then turned to Riser and said. "Oh, and Riser nice seeing you, but honestly… pimp much?"

"Ha, I am amazing like this and you know it." Riser said in a haughty voice with a short laugh at the end.

Castiel just gave a short laugh at his Riser's answer as well and left the room.

Castiel P.O.V.

That was exhausting. The more I interact with Rias the more I see how sheltered and self-centered she is, I mean, she obviously isn't training herself OR her peerage to decent standards considering their potential. And she obviously is not trained in how to act in a political setting, I mean I just entered and displayed the wish to make an alliance and all I truly requested was an apology and a small compromise but she refused without even trying to negotiate. I would fear for her house a lot more if I didn't know that she will probably not even touch the position of head of the household until she is a few thousand years old.

Now I can either wait for Riser message about how his part of the deal went down OR go to Sona make a proposition of alliance with her house. To be blunt the only reason we are not in any sort of alliance, besides the non-aggression pact, is that Rin and Luvia do not want to deal with the self-proclaimed magical girl Serafall Leviathan. I mean, we are not even at this level of the alliance now and she already invades their rooms once just to put Rin and Luvia in embarrassing Mahou Shoujo outfits.

Those pictures are still on the internet, thank god(s) that neither understand how the internet works or we may have started a war already.

Oh well, I may as well go home and take a bath. It would not be good if I am called by either Riser or Rias while in the middle of talks with Sona so I will let to talk with her after this whole thing is concluded.

Castiel Home

"Why are you here?" I asked trying to not kick this idiot out of my home.

"What, we are buddies so why not?" Okuyasu said playing on MINE PS4.

"I get it but I was talking to him." I glared at the other idiot.

"I needed to recharge after having to deal with Rias and all those political talks." Riser said without even turning to me. He was playing with Okuyasu a fighting game and getting his ass kicked, I never really understood how someone from the Phoenix house likes to use just sub-zero. Riser could at least be good but honestly, he is far FAR from pro-level, at best he is a good casual.

"Ha, got you there. Achachachacha." Okuyasu laughed as he got a bicycle kick with his Liu Kang and killed Riser.

"Tch, one more time. I refuse to leave the game as the loser." Riser said with losers-rage. He has always been a sore loser when in games.

"So you will be staying here for a long time hahaha." Okuyasu said with a laugh. Playing games do have this effect, after all, a bit gloating when you win is normal.

"Can we please come back to the important matter at hand? I still need to know how the meeting went down after I left." I said getting tired of these two ignoring me (not that I can say much, last time I decided to play 'a bit' of dark souls I went 20 hours straight and did not even notice my hunger).

"Fine." Riser said turning to me with a tired sigh. "It was almost like we planned. I acted like the biggest jerk I could think of, even sprouting all that shit about pure-blood. All her peerage was wanting to kill me and did not restrain in their killing intent at all, which means jack shit for me as I did have to train once with Lancer in one of my visits. He still scares me like all hells." He said with a shiver running down his spine. "She started spouting nonsense about she being her own woman and she is mature enough to decide what is best for her and her house" at that I rolled my eyes, idiots will be idiots and Rias will be Rias… if there is a difference it remains to be seen. She really has a lot to learn. "she told me to cancel the contract. I refused as it would tarnish the honor of my house. We glared at each other. Grayfia came and proposed we do a rating game in two weeks to decide what will happen. I showed my peerage just to put pressure on her and her pawn started drooling at them. I provoked Rias a bit saying as I will win and am anxious for our wedding where I will make her mine. The pervert" I glared at him. ", that was not me this time, shouted that he will not allow it to happen as he will take Rias for his harem." At that, the three of us rolled our eyes. "I asked Mira to give him a lesson and she kicked his ass."

"And the more important part?" I asked as this is the more important.

"Of course it went just as planned. I requested that during this period for Rias to not be allowed to enter in contact with her brother or his peerage after today, as it would be Syrzechs that will prepare the stage and it would be an unfair arrangement if she received any more help from him." He smirked just as well as me. We both knew that it was a load of bullshit and that Syrzechs could not really give her more advantages, but calling it out like that guarantees that she will not be capable of requesting his help for training.

Now all I need to do is wait. Nothing motivates people quite like their freedom, after all.

"After this match lets go with Super Mario Cart. I want to play too!" I said

""You going to lose."" They both said at the same time with cocky smiles, I could only smile back.

Omake

Asia's day in the Tower

Asia's P.O.V.

Thank you lord for all your blessings. I am so happy here. There is always something to do and everyone is so nice.

RRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMBBBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEE

"What happened? Why did the whole tower shaken a bit just now?" I asked nervously to one of the Sisters. I mean the whole Tower started shaking, that cannot be normal.

"Oh, that? It is just that Sairaorg-sama came a bit earlier than expected and Illya-sama asked Berserker to accompany him out. Misaka explained as if it was just like any other day."

"B-but why is the Tower trembling?" I asked nervously

"Because Sairaorg-sama decided to bring his pet with him this time. Misaka explained tired of being asked silly questions."

"What pet?"

On the outside

"KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Was all Berserker was roaring while trampling everything on his personal mission of getting the kit cat that he saw.

"Stop it Berserker-sensei! The Nemea Lion is not a kitty" Sairaorg screamed trying to stop his 'sensei' that completely disregarded him.

And so a Longinus that reincarnated as a devil learned the meaning of fear, and it was-

"KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Berserker after you. That is pure terror.

"It is just his pet, Berserker-sama just wants to play catch with him. Misaka says trying not to laugh at what is happening."

Oh, it is just Berserker-san trying to play with a pet. Then it is fine, after all, how violent can he be?