Coming clean

When Alex returned to Asora he felt bitter at Grendel and Euclid escaping, but when he recalled that they would most likely use the holy grail to revive either one once more, he decided not to worry about it. He then dispelled his transformations and looked at those gathered.

Due to the severity of the situation Alex had brought the rest of those who didn't know about it to Asora, now he had to answer to the more than a dozen people present who wanted an explanation. He looked at them all, Rias's peerage minus Kiba, Irina, Sona and her peerage including the two new members Bennia and Loup Garou, and sighed while Yasaka and Ravel watched him with interest from the background, before he started talking.

"First thing first," and from there he explained his whole story. Through some had looks of disbelief, especially Sona, they eventually settled with just glaring at him slightly. Alex felt awkward as they seemed to take it hard that he kept something so big from them, but he said,

"I was planning to tell you all in a couple weeks at the most. I wanted to wait until this place was more settled." As he said that they looked around at the new settlement around them. It had been roughly two weeks since Barakiel, Yasaka, Serafall, and Gabriel started immigrating their people here. There were only about a hundred of each race so far, but with the technology available to each faction there was already a decent sized settlement with modern homes. From what Alex understood, the four made a system where one stays in Asora for a week to watch over its progress, and the other three scout new additions. He then turned to Sona and Akeno,

"Barakiel and Serafall already know by the way, they represent their faction here and run things in my place." Everyone looked even more shocked at his words, and both of them felt a sense of being wronged. Then Akeno spoke up,

"Does Rias know?" Alex nodded and said,

"I told her the night I saved her from raiser, and Kuroka our first night together, because they were both added to my peerage. But because there is a rule about secrecy, that for some reason is very loose, I couldn't tell the rest of you until I brought you here." Once he explained that they felt a little better, but then Sona asked,

"Are you planning on trying to take us with you?" Alex nodded and said,

"Yes, I want to bring everyone with me." Sona frowned as her dream was to open a rating game school in the underworld. If she went with Alex then her dream would be over, and despite how she tried denying it she did end up falling for him. Knowing what she was thinking Alex said,

"I plan to add rating games to Asora since it's a good way to simulate war games, plus it's very entertaining. Since I'll be going to worlds that don't know about it, then won't I need some kind of school to teach them?" At his words she started beaming, and looked thrilled that she could follow her dream even if it wasn't in the underworld. But she said,

"I'll still try to create one here to start though, it'll be good practice and if it gets traction in the underworld then it'll help here as well." Alex nodded, pleased she was happy. He then turned to Rosswiesse,

"There's also many people I plan to invite to Asora in the future, maybe they could receive training to become Valkyries?" At his words she also became bright eyed, as one of her dreams was to train Valkyries in the underworld. Suddenly Koneko asked with suspicion in her eyes,

"And how many more women do you plan to add to your harem from these other worlds?" The other girls were suddenly quiet at her question, and realized they were mad at him for the wrong thing. He suddenly realized what was happening, and after a brief awkward moment said,

"Well let's take a look around shall we? I haven't looked to see some of the progress they've made for a while." They knew he was avoiding the subject, but didn't pursue it, while making a mental note to interrogate him later. He then led the girls around while also making notes to send the lab equipment he brought back to the Phoenix family. He knew what was there, clones of the members of Phoenix family.

The place they decided to start building was next to a river, and was only a few miles away from the ocean. Alex was excited about this, as they were able to go to the beach and since there were animals in Asora, fish. The town was also at the base of a mountain, that evened out to a plateau. What caught Alex's eye was that there was something being built up there.

"What's going up there?" He asked Yasaka, who joined them. She smiled and said,

"That's your future manor, it's also being built to house up to at least a hundred people, or women." At her words almost all the girls looked excited, as they thought about moving into such a place in the future. Yasaka then continued,

"All the planning is being taken care of by Ravel though, as she wants us to focus on the immigration and building the town." At her words Alex sent an appreciative look at Ravel, who looked away with red cheeks. They continued walking around Asora, with the girls throwing out suggestions for it, which Alex accepted with gratitude. After a while Sona seems to realize something and turned to Alex with a serious expression.

"I got distracted by all of this, but we need to discuss what happened earlier." Alex's smile faded. She was right, they got distracted by Asora and needed to discuss the current situation.