It's time

"Eiji-sama."

"Yes Ravel."

"Aren't we going to the person who made the fake Phoenix Tears? Why instead of going there, are we going to my house? O-Of course I don't mind! It just so happens that Eiji-sama hasn't met my family yet. Ravel can introduce you to his father, mother and brothers."

They were now in the Underworld, precisely in front of the Phenex Residence.

It was a castle with the Phenex clan flag that was no less large than Gremory and Sitri's castle. Or rather it was bigger and more luxurious.

Seeing them, the gate guards naturally recognized the young lady Ravel and opened the gate for them.

The guards also glanced at Eiji with a familiar look even though it was his first time coming here, they looked at him respectfully.

"I already have a guess as to who is behind the fake Phoenix Tears, but Ravel I still have to confirm— that's why we have to talk to your parents first."

In fact not really, Eiji came here just because it was a good opportunity.

From the original work, he knew who made the fake Phoenix Tears. The plot might be a little different because of the many changes he had made, but Eiji was sure the person who was able to make the fake Phoenix Tears was the same person he knew from the original work.

That was the silver haired one who doted on his sister.

It was time to get rid of that person.

But before that—

Ravel did not doubt what Eiji said. Hugging the man's arm, after walking down the long white road, they entered the castle.

Decorated with a long red carpet, many servants lined up and welcomed their arrival. It seemed that before they came, Ravel had told her family that her future husband would come to visit.

"Ravel, you came back so soon and now you're bringing... My future son-in-law?"

"Yes mom, this is..."

Before Ravel introduced himself, Eiji did it first. He looked at the woman whose appearance was similar to Ravel. Drill-style blonde hair that was set slightly high and blue eyes. But unlike that girl, the woman in front of him had a more mature and curvaceous figure.

She was wearing a lacy red dress and her breasts were prominent. Smiling softly, she was undoubtedly a beautiful woman.

She was not inferior to Venelana even though she was not the heroine.

[Now I understand why you bothered to come here, host.]

'Miss System, don't misunderstand. I'm just using this opportunity to meet my women's family. What's wrong?'

[Leme felt a lot of Phenex aura in this place. There are many of them. By the way Our King, are you interested in your mother-in-law? As the King of the Harem, there is indeed no limit to accepting your own mother-in-law in your harem.]

'Leme, you'd better shut up. You and that woman both misunderstood me."

[Who?]

Although Leme and Miss System were both mentally communicating with him. It seemed like the girl didn't know of Miss System's existence.

Eiji ignored Leme and extended his hand to Ravel's mother with a smile.

"Hello miss, it might be a bit late since I just came here after receiving your daughter. I'm Eiji Seiya, nice to meet you."

"Ah hello to you too. This is our first time meeting, isn't it Eiji Seiya?" Lady Phenex shook her future son-in-law's hand and somehow she looked a little surprised.

"Call me Eiji, miss."

"Fufu then Eiji you can call me, mother or mother-in-law. At this point, we have actually completely handed over Ravel to you. Thank you for taking care of her."

They were still shaking hands, Eiji still holding Lady Phenex's hand whose skin was well-groomed and smooth.

She squeezed his hand slightly, and he did the same.

"...." Ravel didn't see anything wrong — yet.

She actually blushed because this situation was like a girl bringing her boyfriend home and introducing him to her parents.

Although in her case her family traded her to Eiji after owing him for saving the Phenex Clan which was almost destroyed by the Evil Dragon troops two months ago.

Ravel had no problem with this, she didn't feel forced and was happy to be Eiji's woman and servant. And in her family, this was not the first time she had been traded.

Previously she had been told to become a peerage member of her older brother, Riser. After Riser failed to marry Rias, and was considered a failure. She was traded to her own mother, becoming a member of her peerage who assisted her in managing some of their clan's lands before it was transferred to Eiji.

The Phenex family was like this, they did not hesitate to use their own children for profit. Eiji was a figure renowned for his power in the underworld, her family gave her to the man not only out of returning the favor, but also because they wanted to hug his thighs.

Even so, her mother truly loved her children.

"Mother-in-law, that's for sure. Ravel is my woman, I will definitely take care of her."

"It's good to hear it directly from you, Eiji."

"This is a normal thing that I have to do."

"Fufu. What a good son-in-law~"

Hearing that her son-in-law was not only strong but so kind. At least compared to other men with harems out there, Lady Phenex let out a sigh of relief.

This was her first time seeing Eiji and she had to admit he was very handsome. More handsome than her husband and Sirzechs who was known as the Handsomest Devil in the Underworld.

Just from holding his hand, she knew he was very strong. Even so, Lady Phenex felt something strangely similar to her, or rather the people of their Clan, Phenex.

Of course not all of them, it was like a female Phenex seeing a strong and handsome male Phenex. Their instincts could not help but react, Lady Phenex felt her body heat up.

She was aroused by her own son-in-law!

T-This was not good!

Although her face was still smiling gracefully, there was a blush on her cheeks. Lady Phenex felt guilty for her daughter, but she seemed to have forgotten to let go of Eiji's hand and was still squeezing it.

"Cough!"

At this moment, a coughing sound was heard from behind. Lady Phenex gasped, she hurriedly let go of Eiji's hand and her face returned to normal.

The person pretending to cough was her husband, Lord Phenex who had been sitting on the living room sofa.

That man of course saw everything. Even so, he smiled and said: "Eiji Seiya, nice to meet you. I'm Ravel's father, may I call you Eiji?"

"Father-in-law, sure. It's our first time meeting but there's no need to be too polite."

Eiji took Ravel's hand, he pretended not to see the strange look the girl was giving him. The two sat on one of the sofas facing Lady Phenex and Lord Phenex.

Called father-in-law, Lord Phenex simply nodded. He glanced at his wife, the woman averting her gaze from him awkwardly.

This woman... From such a close distance, how could he not see her blushing and overheating while shaking hands with her son-in-law?

Usually she wasn't like this, but glancing at Eiji's appearance... Alright. Lord Phenex remembered besides having his daughter, Ravel. This young man actually managed to get Sirzechs' wife, Grayfia and one of the Maou, Serafall as his women. There were also two heirs from the Gremory and Sitri clans.

As a fellow male, even Lord Phenex felt a little envious of his son-in-law for monopolizing so many beautiful women of that level.

But that was it, he knew Eiji's power and would not antagonize him because his wife seemed to be tempted by him.

"Would you like some tea, Eiji? You might be a little hungry, how about eating before talking?" Lord Phenex asked kindly.

Ravel was dumbfounded because this was the first time she had seen her father so friendly. The key to that smile was never even shown to his children and wife.

Unlike her mother, her father was actually quite a cold person to his own family.

Lady Phenex was not surprised, although it had been a long time since she had seen her husband in sycophantic mode after the man became the head of the powerful and successful Phenex Clan so far. Even when talking to Sirzechs, her husband never lowered himself to that extent and only spoke as an equal.

But now? Seeing that man offering his son-in-law food and drink which he never did to his wife and children.

Lady Phenex rolled her eyes.

Eiji waved his hand and said, "No need for a father-in-law. It's just a short talk. Other than getting acquainted with my father-in-law and mother-in-law. I heard that the Phenex Clan has been having trouble lately."

"Did Ravel tell you about the fake Phoenix Tears being sold on the black market?"

"Yes, she did."

"Well, forgive my daughter. She had to ask for your help about this."

Lord Phenex said with a regretful expression. Even so, he glanced at his daughter with a complimentary look as if to say 'Good job Ravel. You really managed to persuade Eiji to help our family? You did what I asked!'

"...." Ravel certainly noticed her father's gaze.

But instead of being happy, she was annoyed because she definitely did not persuade Eiji as her father told her to. In fact a few days ago, her father asked her to ask Eiji for help with this matter.

But she refused, Ravel didn't want to trouble Eiji which made her father upset.

The relationship between her and her father was actually not as good as the relationship between her and her mother.

{"Bad father."}

Oh?

As a veteran, just from a few clues Eiji immediately knew Ravel and her father's relationship was not very good.

He also noticed that Lord Phenex was licking himself.

The man didn't even feel angry seeing his wife being seduced by his son-in-law. He was the kind of man who didn't have much affection for his family and put profit above all else.

Eiji wasn't sure if Lord Phenex in the original work was like this, but whatever...

[This makes things easier, right?]

Miss System... He didn't understand what the woman was saying.

"It's alright, I saw Ravel often going back and forth between the underworld and the human world because of this matter. She must be having a hard time, so I decided to help."

"I happen to have a clue about who and why the other party made the fake Phoenix Tears."

While Ravel looked at Eiji with affection because he cared about her so much, which made her positive points rise again to 110 and unlocked level 6 magic. Leme did not say anything about this, she was getting used to the speed her new contactor was showing.

Lady Phenex looked at her daughter with a hint of envy in her eyes. Her daughter must be very happy to have a man who was so caring and affectionate towards her.

Although she knew Eiji had many women, he seemed to treat those women well.

That was unlike her husband who...

Lady Phenex shook her head. What was she thinking?

She was a married woman! Although the way she looked at her son-in-law was getting softer.

Lord Phenex did not notice the way his wife looked at his son-in-law. He was currently excited and said, "Eiji thank you. Not only did you order your subordinates to help our clan when we were almost destroyed by the evil dragon troops."

"You're also willing to help our clan again in this matter... By the way who is the person you are referring to?"

Lord Phenex sincerely thanked Eiji. What father-in-law wouldn't be happy to have a son-in-law willing to help him? Although Lord Phenex knew he was not a good father and husband, he was definitely not stupid enough to antagonize Eiji who had helped him so far.

There was also that young man's power that could easily destroy him and his entire clan because he was able to kill Gods like Poseidon and defeat Thor. Not long ago he also received news from Asgard that the famous Evil God, Loki died at the hands of Eiji.

Lord Phenex did not dare offend Eiji even though he was utilizing his daughter to gain the young man's favor. He did so subtly without any malicious intent.

Now who was the person who dared to make fake Phoenix Tears and sell them? Eiji knew who the other party was, once he knew who and why. The Phenex Clan would definitely not stay silent...!

They would hunt down those people!

"This is ...."

Eiji told father-in-law, mother-in-law and Ravel about the person who created the fake Phoenix Tears. Other details were not mentioned, but he mentioned that some of the missing Phenex clan members had something to do with this matter.

...

Meanwhile.

In a laboratory. Each person was put into a tube filled with green liquid. Those people were devils from the Phenex Clan who were used as experimental subjects.

And from a machine that looked like a tube with a door. Just like the process of producing evil spirits, one by one other evil spirits appeared.

But unlike the previous version of evil spirits that only consisted of the genes of the two protagonists and a loose soul, this time the form was more humanoid.

Their size also shrank to human-like but with devilish power emanating from them.

These were the clones of the Phenex Clan members! And each of them certainly had abilities possessed by the Phenex Clan including making Phoenix Tears!

"How is the quality?"

"The clones of subjects number 20 to 30 have the quality of the Phoenix Tears they produce increased by 76%."

"Only increased by 1%?"

"Yes. I think we should have those creatures kidnap the devils with the purest blood from the Phenex Clan to improve the quality of the clones that can produce the original Phoenix Tears."

The scientists said to each other before looking at a silver-haired young man who was supervising the production process.

"Euclid-sama, what do you think?"

"You think I never thought of something like that?"

"S-Sorry!" The scientist who was being a smartass hurriedly apologized to Euclid.

The silver hair who loved the sister Eiji was referring to was none other than Euclid.

After his plan was thwarted many times by Eiji, he had moved his laboratory to a safer place to continue research.

What are they doing now? .... In fact, they wouldn't have bothered cloning Phenex Clan members and producing fake Phoenix Tears if it weren't for the fact that Qlippoth was short of funds to continue their terrorism.

Rizevim only knew how to drink and come up with crazy ideas, so the task of making money was usually given to Euclid.

Euclid was used to making money for Rizevim, he didn't complain and said indifferently to the scientists who were actually remnants of Nilrem, his own organization.

"If it's about kidnapping a Phenex Clan member with the purest blood, the best target for that would be Ravel Phenex. With her as a test subject, we can create a clone of a Phenex member capable of producing the original Phoenix Tears."

"Then..." One of the scientists babbled again, but he immediately shut his mouth because of Euclid's cold gaze.

"Then why didn't I give the order to do it? It's because that girl has something to do with that bastard!"

The scientists didn't know why, their leader's usually calm face looked ugly. They vaguely saw the green hat on top of his head.

As for the bastard their leader was referring to? That...

"That's Eiji Seiya. That guy definitely won't stay quiet if we kidnap his woman. Why do you think we went to the trouble of moving Nilrem's laboratory to an unexpected place and conducting the kidnapping operation of the Phenex Clan members carefully even though we could kidnap all of them with an army of evil spirits?"

The scientists looked at each other, they looked at him and shook their heads.

"Fool! It's because of Eiji! We have to be careful not to let that bastard find us. Although kidnapping some members of the Phenex clan is still dangerous and potentially offensive to him, we have no choice to do it for the sake of obtaining funds!"

"For now, we can only be satisfied with the Phoenix Tears that 76% have the same effect as the real thing. Continue production! We still have to sell more fake Phoenix Tears to every faction or anyone who has enough money to buy them!"

""Yes Euclid-sama!""

The people shouted in unison and continued their work.

Euclid nodded in satisfaction. By the way in the background of them was the banner of the Phenex Clan.

Some of the tools that helped them collect Phoenix Tears in the room were also branded by the Phenex Clan.

For example, the cup that each Phenex member clone used to shed their tears...

It was branded by the Phenex Clan. It was said that those people had special cups that increased the purity of their Phoenix Tears.

Although after research it was just an ordinary cup, Euclid used them because it happened to be there.

"...."

Where are they now anyway? They moved Nilrem's laboratory to an unexpected place.

At least for Eiji and the people hunting him.

They must not have expected that he was now producing fake Phoenix Tears in one of the Phenex Clan branches that were usually used to produce real Phoenix Tears!

Euclid believed in the saying that the safest hiding place is the place or territory belonging to your own enemy.

That way his enemies including the Phenex Clan would surely never think he was hiding here and have trouble finding the person behind the fake Phoenix Tears, right?

Euclid smiled softly, he felt better because this would be fine.

That bastard, Eiji would also definitely not find him here.

He had taken into account that person's inverted scale, he did not touch his woman even though he still planned to take his sister back someday.

At least staying here for a few more days was safe... He had even ordered his own subordinates to pretend to be members of the Phenex Clan running this branch.

"Hey did any of you turn off the air conditioner? Hurry up and turn it on!"

Still, was it just him or was this laboratory getting hotter?

"Euclid-sama, we never turn off the air conditioning in this room."

"Huh? Then why..."

Euclid's instincts as a sensitive pureblood devil suddenly screamed to escape from this place.

Something wrong was happening!

There was danger approaching!

His pupils shrank, he naturally looked at the ceiling.

He vaguely heard someone's familiar voice.

"Phenex Judgment."

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