Chapter 95 : The Fallen Angel

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I decided to let her humor me about it.

"Truly? And what would be the 'next step' of such a 'friendly interaction'?" I inquired with a degree of fascination and minor annoyance.

"Why, since we're both good friends, there shouldn't be a reason for the two of us to not share the same shower and-"

"Pass," I sighed tiredly. "'Basa, I know that you're really meaning well… but I hope you understand you can get quite creepy when your mind is just too much into a sport-related topic."

She frowned. "I- I can't be that bad."

"Tsubasa, you were hugging him quite intensely," Sona joined in the conversation, with Tsubaki keeping herself from offering an opinion just yet. "And it's not the first time you've behaved like this with someone… especially since you've done the same with others."

"I'm just… overly-affectionate?" The blue-haired young woman guessed, getting three dry looks from us. "Maybe I'm a little crazy about it, but I can assure you that I can restrain myself. And I will start doing so right now."

I blinked at the genuinely serious tone she had adopted, making my guard a little at ease as I sighed and nodded at her before looking at Sona.

"Then I will be going to get ready to go back home, I suppose you will arrive a little later, Sona-taichou-"

"Are we still sharing a shower?" Tsubasa inquired quietly, drawing me to a stop, a glance and… a facepalm.

"I will take my leave now..."

After this I ended up going through a quick cold shower, making my way back home so that I could prepare for writing the letter I had to send to Ruval Phenex.

Sona ended up passing by fairly late in the afternoon, just in time to avoid the leaving Akeno and Koneko as both girl blissfully ignored that I was going to be present in the match against their club.

I was surprised to see only Sona coming to visit for the occasion, and the young heiress explained that Tsubaki was finalizing some details for the event for tomorrow, this activity taking a drain in her spare time.

Once we were both inside the house, we waited for Baraqiel return before styling down anything that could be seen as a proper message.

The Fallen Angel had plenty of experience regarding diplomatic efforts, thus his input was well-accepted as we went through the various tasks of creating a convincing letter to send to the current heir of the Phenex Clan.

The family wasn't as prideful as it was initially shown because of how Raiser had strutted around when he was first shown in the show.

Ravel was the first member that was presented as someone that knew the limits of her own bloodline trait, something that came from her parents and her oldest sibling.

Raiser was a complicated character, not only because he got away in getting himself a harem out of his peerage, but that he had just started getting some wins in Rating Games.

Two victories right now, all that were won because of… his little sister.

While many would easily frown at this detail, Ravel was an observant individual that had plenty of opportunities to show her acumen in certain circumstances.

Her family's web of connections made it possible for her to study, understand, and then counter any threats to the peerage of her brother, giving him the chance to rise at the expense of having to listen to her for advices.

While she had yet to outright join his peerage, the girl had been helping him around as a mean to gain some experiences over Rating Games without having to make hasty decisions once she would be allowed to get her own peerage.

This very detail became one of the few topics being brought up in the letter, as we presented the issue created by the fact that the girl was hanging around someone that shared multiple overly-inappropriate interactions with his peerage.

While there was nothing that would've created a general issue, especially with how old Ravel was, the real instinct I was trying to bring up with this consideration was the brotherly instinct that I knew was there in Ruval's mind.

He was introduced in the light novel version, barely mentioned in both Manga and Anime versions, and yet his importance within this context was as much needed as necessary to avoid a fair degree of ugly endings.

Albeit Raiser himself ended up proving himself to be someone that wasn't as terrible as Rias had painted him as such or how his early encounters presented him like, the real issue here was what would've happened to Rias' peerage.

The rules among Devils weren't much clear over the proper procedure to take when a woman with a peerage ended up getting married, most of the cases having some clauses within the contract to deal with this predicament.

While some were keen to accept peerages, some weren't.

I was sure that Raiser would just keep the women, ditch Issei despite his potential (perhaps leaving him to be used by Ravel in her future peerage) and… try to obtain the same results he got from his current group.

Which was bad as that would be a forced relationship. No matter how bossy Rias might be sounding like, she had all the rights to decide whom to marry.

There was no issue for both families to allow this arranged affair, especially since both were well-stable in their respective successions.

If they wanted to improve relations with each other, they could've done it by organizing some proper dinner, sparing some friendly bantering and… nothing else.

It was frustrating how backward the society ruling the underworld was and, while the Four Maous were the ones that 'ruled', the implicit truth was that the Baels were the top dogs because of their influence over Hell itself.

The letter itself didn't provide any baseless accusations as we were wary of instigating some emotion that could be seen far stronger than needed.

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