Chapter 87

N/A: ''Laziness is not a disease.''

I already had the chapter ready, all that was left was to release it. Tee-he!

------------------------------

''How are you feeling, Buchou?'' Yuuto Kiba, the knight of Rias Gremory, asked softly as he approached his king along with the king's rook, Koneko Toujou, and the bishop, Asia Argento.

"... I am somewhat well now. It's much harder for Issei, he lost his Sacred Gear. From what Ajuka-sama told us, for some reason Issei is not physically affected by the loss of his Sacred Gear.'' Rias Gremory said while shaking his head.

''He is still making an angry face, but the loss of his Sacred Gear or hurt. He remembers what happened to Asia and it is affecting him.'' Rias said grumpily and gave Asia a sympathetic smile. Yesterday was a day tested for his nobility.

''May I see him?'' Asia asked slowly, her voice full of concern. Rias nodded and Asia left the room to find Issei.

"What about Akeno-Senpai?" Yuuto asked and Rias doesn't know how to answer that question. The whole incident strongly affected her queen, Akeno Himejima. Her queen did not speak to her after she returned.

Akeno blamed herself for opening her mouth. If she had silently digested Azathoth's words, then everything would be fine, but who could blame Akeno.

She is young and no one could imagine such a reaction from Azathoth and above all, Akeno's reaction was completely understandable and obvious, but she was still wrong only because of one single thing, Power...

( A/N? Is it true? )

''She's not talking to anyone, I've tried, but she just keeps looking at her own feet... let's give her some time while we show her that we're there for her.'' Rias said softly and Koneko Toujou nodded slowly.

That was the best they could do for now. Rias Gremory clenched her fists tightly. This incident showed her the need for power... she knew that power was important, but up to this point, she thought that her brother, the strongest devil, Sirzechs Lucifer would solve everything for her.

Now she understood the difference in power, with power you can do anything and get away with it...that's why Azathoth was able to take Sacred Gear away from Issei without any opposition and that wasn't the end.

After waking up, Rias found out what happened. Apparently, Azathoth had given their race a deadline... if the demons could not pay the remunerations for their efforts, then he would eradicate their race.... What a joke!

Azathoth was clearly the villain here, but you can't do anything because of the power difference...

-xXx-

While Rias was throwing all the blame for what happened bad to her and her peerage on Azathoth, Sirzechs Lucifer, Grayfia, Zeoticus and Venelana found themselves inside Sirzechs Lucifer's office.

''Mother, Father...'' Sirzechs gave them a short greeting with a wry smile on his face.

''Son, have you decided anything?'' Zeoticus asked carefully, as he did not want to appear to be a minion of the Devil's Council. His son gave him an inspecting look and then let out a defeated sigh.

''I haven't decided anything yet... but some kind of marriage arrangement or something along those lines would be better for this kind of situation... but I can't do that with Rias.'' Sirzechs said.

( A/N: Not that he was going to accept. )

''... She won't be happy at all if you make that decision.'' Zeoticus said carefully while his wife still held him responsible for their daughter's last arranged marriage. Fortunately, Venelana ignored him for the time being.

''But is my sister's happiness more important than the survival of the entire Devil's Race?'' Sirzechs asked as he shook his head. He knew that he would never be able to make that decision... he would never prepare his sister for such a fate... the Devil's Race might be doomed

''Did Serafall talk to you after the meeting?'' Venelana asked and Sirzechs gave them a small nod.

''She was not happy with the Council's decision, she felt betrayed and she was not wrong. After doing so much for our Race, they still treat us in such a way...'' Sirzechs spoke with a lot of venom in his voice.

''Did she decide something?'' Zeoticus questioned and poured himself a drink. Again, Sirzechs nodded.

''She's going to offer herself...she thinks she would be helping her family that way and would be gaining a lot of power if her plan worked.'' Sirzechs said and both Zeoticus and Venelana nodded. They could also see the calls of Serafall's plans.

-xXx-

[ Pov: Azathoth ]

I don't know whether to laugh or groan. Do they really think I will accept a marriage arranged by them?

I already have to deal with MY girls and their hormones and the devils want me to deal with some demons for them?

No, thank you!

Now, besides MY girls, there was a dragon showing off for me and making strange possessions that I refused to give a second glance.

Thank goodness my angel named Luna put the dragoness in her place.

Too bad Luna liked any kind of animal so much that she quickly got along with Ddraig.

Now I had Ddraig trying to get permission from my wives to stalk me.

It wasn't enough they sold me into two arranged marriages, one with Luna and one with Bonnie.

That happened a long time ago, because.... Because Luna was Luna. She couldn't get any boyfriends and 'magically' the girls decided that Luna should marry me... but they didn't even ask if I would say yes!

Like. They were super friendly to Luna. But it was a serious marriage. I spoke with Luna a few times to say that we had little contact with each other...

I tried to reason with them... in the end ( Sniff ) those monsters sold me like a commodity.

Women are demonic beings!

Who made them like this anyway?

Ahh... it was me...

''...''

Cof!

Cof!

As a knight, I agreed to marry Luna and refused to go beyond that.... The result of six months together. It ended with me really starting to like her. I had everything to contribute to all this. Luna was fun, beautiful, gorgeous and a well of joy - She also loved Pudding!!!!

-xXx-

I think Kuckbiel has finally reached the age of going senile. I understand that Kokabiel stole the Excaliburs, but why on earth is he trying to pull me into his cute little agenda?

Kokabiel is simply at the height of stupidity. I simply cannot understand why someone stupid like Kokabiel was able to survive long enough to become a Cadre.... He's pathetic. Oh well... he'd be dead anyway. No big deal then.

There is also that kid, Vali Lucifer, who is all the time threatening me with death inside his head. Since he wants to die so badly, I can grant him that.

In all this destruction that awaited them - Eloah became interested in this fight - Devil's Annihilation and decided to watch from the VIP box.

I didn't deny it. She had enough power to flatten all the gods of this world, so letting her watch the devils die would not be a problem.

There were those two Nekoshou... Maybe Luna likes cats?