Chapter 3: The Birthday Awakening

"Mother, please stop molesting my friend's face. You are acting like big sister, sigh."

"Ufufu, Hello Grayfia, my husband and I will go see Venelana, so please look after Sona for us, thanks~!"

And Sona and I watched her parents just abandon her to her own devices with me. Sona said.

"First Happy Birthday Ray. And second... Why do I think you and I are more mature than our parents at times?"

I shrug at her and simply say.

"Don't look at me, I am only 4 years old. You are smarter than me anyway, so I will leave the intellectual stuff to you."

"Sigh, Why are we friends again? You are so not serious Ray. Oh, it is your other friend..."

"My mother and Grayfia said I had to be extra nice to Kuisha Abaddon, she is my friend of the family or something. Well it is just like you I think?"

I could not see Grayfia have upturned lips hearing me not understand my betrothed status, but it is not her place to correct and teach me.

Three people disembarked from a rented Demon-Horse and carriage, then slowly came to the three of us. With my hand in-front, I slightly bow and greet.

"Greetings Lord and Lady Abaddon, and you as well Lady Kuisha Abaddon. Thank you for coming to my party, please come in the back and we can get started."

"Kuisha dear, please play with Ray and Sona Sitri, while we go and find the Duke and Duchess, come husband."

Kuisha wearing a black dress looked cute with her blonde hair in a ponytail and her green eyes looked everywhere but at my face. She stuttered quietly.

"G-Greetings Prince Gremory, h-happy b-birthday."

I see my last guest walking up with his mother, and I bow to the pair.

"Greetings Auntie and cousin Bael, I am glad you came to my birthday, please let us all go to the back."

Both Misla and Sairaorg Bael are happy that I do not treat them like outcast trash. I do not understand why the two have to live at the edge of their Bael clan territory, but I was told to not mention it by my mother, so I do not.

After we all finished introductions, we all went to the rear of the home, where the party was being held. It was now noon and the purple sky was pleasant to the soul.

- In Dark-Mode, this is harder to see... If this story is on any-other site than Scribble Hub, then it was stolen without permission!

Once the group of us made it to the back, I convinced all three kids to follow me to the camel pen to play with them.

I point with pride at the 3 hump massive camel and tell Sairaorg, Sona, and Kuisha about my Gremory family animal.

"This camel's name is Gautama, and he is really old. We sometimes for fun will have a camel race around the grounds. Well I cannot make Gautama do what I want yet, but one day I will make this stubborn camel listen."

While my friends and I were looking at all the camels, we failed to see a Demonic Mouse run in-front of Gautama, startling him, and out of instinct, the back of my head received a kick and my body went flying like a cannonball about 20 feet away! Whack Whoosh Thud!

"""""RAY!"""""

All I heard before blacking-out mid-flight, was a collective group of yells, then nothing...

RAY!

All I heard before blacking-out mid-flight, was a collective group of yells, then nothing...

I had a strange dream while I slept.

I was flooded with broken memories of a life lived long ago on a strange Earth. The main takeaway from this bizarre dream was the fact I was a Human and not the proud noble Devil I currently am.

I was a half American-Japanese young man who lived an ordinary life.

My father was a native of the United States, and my mother was born and raised in Kyoto Japan. We lived in a place known as San Diego, California.

My life was passing quickly like a time skip film that jumped and missed many parts, so I could not understand everything of that life. It seemed my name was Saji Ray. Odd that my last name was Ray like my first name of my life?

My life was a happy and fair one. I was not abused, neglected, or bothered more than the average Human. Both of my parents loved me and raised me well.

I seem to have made a few friends, had a few relationships that ended in different ways. One was, my childhood girlfriend had to move away. Another girlfriend and I had just drifted apart. And finally my 3rd and final girlfriend was the reason I died.

But before I think of my death, I have discovered something reality-shaking that made my mentality question if my existence is real or fictional...

In my myriad memories, I had recalled in my vast wealth of anime watching, one particular anime that I had only seen one time and have mostly forgotten. This series was popularized as a fan-service boob-powered underdog harem anime, starring Issei Hyoudou and Rias Gremory. The series focused on pervert mechanics where boobs made stupid sound effects as the girl just walked and breathed.

The worst part of the story was the fact, all could be overcome with hard work and Rias's tits?!

Why did I watch this childish pervert anime? Simply for a handful of characters and the story background. If you took a step back and saw the world hidden from view full of Youkai, Devils, Youkai, Dragons, Youkai, Angels, and Fallen Angels just to name a few, It was a compelling story world, just that the boob powers were... Cringe as fuck.

Why did I mention Youkai so much? Well I was a bit of a nerd and some of the hottest draws in the D×D Anime were animal eared sexiness. And let us not forget the real heroine of the entire series for me, the woman who reminded me of my mother in many ways, Akeno Himejima. Yes, this one character was the reason I even watched this tragedy of a comedy.