Chapter 43: Promotion test - Mid class Devils

Because Masaru and the rest of the girls busy with their respective things, Akeno, Igvild, Ichika, Shirone and Angelica was sitting at the back of the Limousine alone with Diana.

Because of their young age, their Mid Rank Examination was postponed till today, the council originally wanted to find an excuse to cancel it but ever since that King Piece scandal everything within the council changed.

"Don't look so glum, you girls will soon be promoted to Mid Rank Devils meaning you will have a higher status!"

Diana was trying to console the girls who felt a bit down because Masaru was not here with them, apparently, Ajuka received a report of a possible Ancient One creature has been detected in Petria, South Africa. Because the distance is quite far to travel which is why Masaru is not here at this moment,

"Or should I tell Masaru to cancel his gifts?"

The girls hearing this all showed a variety of reactions, Diana who noticed this nodded feeling that her trick worked.

"I know you girls want Masaru to be here, but you will have to put up with it for now. I will ensure that Masaru will be here to attend your High-Class promotion, speaking of High class are you girls going independent from Masaru when the time comes?"

Ingvild was the first time to shake her head,

"I will not be moving from his peerage, I will decline the evil pieces"

Shirone nodded indicating she too will not be left independent.

Angelica thought for a moment,

"Since we will be marrying him in the future... Although I wonder when since he is a bit of a lovable coward when it comes to things like this. But I intend to form a peerage of my own to travel around the worlds since I will be married to him in the future, I will always be his pawn in Rating games"

Diana who heard this nodded, each person has their preferences but all of them were considering Masaru first. Akeno and Ichika were the only two who did not have a decision about that yet and Diana did not push them for it, at least this topic turned the gloomy atmosphere into a more comfortable atmosphere.

The test centre for the Mid Rank Examination was held in the Astaroth lands, it is originally a high-rank devil school institution but today they are using it for the promotion examination.

"Will we be fine with the examination?"

Ingvild felt a bit worried about the thought of failing because she still could not believe the materials they were made to study,

'Why would they ask questions about Lady Serafall's magical girl tv show!?'

Is what she thought at that time. Diana smiled bitterly

"You will be fine, you girls already wrote your essays, the written test might be a little challenging but you girls are smart so there will be no problem. As for practicals? Don't worry about it at all"

"HUH?"

Seeing Ingvild trouble face made Diana want to tease her a bit but held back,

"Remember the training you girls have been receiving under the guidance of me and the rest of Diehauser's peerage?"

The girls nodded

"That kind of training is something even High-Class devils can't even hope to receive, not to mention many would give up halfway due to the intensity... Which is why I said don't worry about practicals. Just go with the flow, if you break anything just put it on Masaru's tab then he can work it off by working for Ajuka some more"

"NO!!! Then he will have less time to spend with us"

Ichika this time reacted causing the ex-maid to blush, but the surrounding girls did not laugh but had serious looks all nodding.

"Yes, we already barely have time with Masaru who is travelling to a variety of places and only a few girls at a time can travel with him which makes it hard to endure. So NO! We can't lose the time we will be spending together with him in high school"

Akeno asserted to Diana who began to giggle when she heard it

'These girls truly are interesting. I will look over them, my family that is'

Shortly they arrived at the institution that had quite the resemblance to standard University layouts, three stories wide building painted in white with the school name written large and in bold above the entrance doors.

"Well then Good Luck Girls I will be waiting for you here"

Diana went inside with the girls but then left to chat with some acquaintances from the Military, walking towards the Reception area where a girl was awaiting their arrival.

"Identity please?"

Akeno and the rest presented their ID cards Diehauser arranged for them specifically, when the receptionist saw the identity of the ladies she looked several times from Card to the girls before asking

"Are you, girls, perhaps Wonder Child's peerage?"

Akeno and the girls wanted to burst out laughing as they knew Masaru is fighting even now to get rid of this title, but Akeno held control over her desire to laugh nodding her head. The Receptionist's eyes began to gleam with excitement

"Could you perhaps help me arrange a time I could meet him over a cup of tea?"

Hearing this all the girls at the same time felt the desire to laugh was gone but instead a desire to beat up the girl in front of them, even Akeno had an illusionary black aura around her body as she smiles

"Can you process our things please?"

The Receptionist was scared silly at this sudden change and processed their application at lightning speed

'Why!? Why are they suddenly so angry at me? The black-haired girl even had killing intent!?'

Meanwhile, Akeno and the girls were talking,

"Akeno you should have zapped her once"

Ingvild who rarely gets angry felt angry at that girl who thinks getting a date with Masaru in front of them while they have a difficult time to arrange a date will concede? Akeno laughed but it was quite scary for passerby's her face was smiling but the eyes had a dangerous glint,

"Only girls we approve is allowed to be near Ma-kun, otherwise our time with him will become even shorter"

The girls all nodded while they entered the classroom which was quite empty, their respective seating numbers were 1 - 5 since their applications were approved a long time ago but only postponed.

"Hey who are those beautiful girls?"

"I sure like that Black hair big bust girl, I dig her"

"Ptui! I like that little girl with white hair, she looks delicious"

"Dear satan please call the FBI! AH! We don't even have one"

The Devil felt defeated with no way to deal with this lolicon that was dangerous. Akeno and them naturally heard it but did not pay any attention to it, there was however a selective few who recognized these girls and they all looked at the perverted fools with pity

'Speak out your thoughts is fine, but I pity you fools if any of you touch any of those girls then even you families will gladly offer you up to avoid their king's wrath'

Soon the instructor came in the classroom when it was time for the exam to start, he starts to walk up and down between the desks placing the exam paper upside down on each desk someone was sitting at

"Alright, this written test will be for one hour. No Peeking, if you need the toilet then go now because once it starts you can't leave the room unless you are finished or willing to concede the test"

Nobody stood up to which the Instructor nodded,

"Very well, it is 09:55 so the test will end at 11:00. You may begin"

Soon everyone turned the exam papers, Ingvild reading the questions felt like her expectations of the Devil World has been thrown in chaos.

'Why, just what is the use of knowing magical girl's characters, voice actors...'

While Shirone who was answering a question came across one she could not help but slam her head on the table scaring everyone,

'What is the probability the next peerage member of the Wonder Child is a Female? A- 100% B-50% C- It will be a Male'

Thanks to studying under the guidance of Diana the girls finished the test within 30 minutes and left for the cafeteria where the meeting point is for the practical test.

"Pfft! To think they would enter questions about Masaru-sama"

Ichika was laughing together with Shirone who slammed her head on the table to stop herself from laughing, this was truly unexpected. To think they will add such questions in the test. Ingvild looked at Akeno and them

"What is the point of those questions? I feel stupid for taking this test seriously"

Diana approached them when they left the classroom since she was waiting for them to finish the written exam,

"Well it is only to test your common knowledge of the Devil World according to the Rumours that circulate, the true test is the practicals... But don't be serious about it, please don't"

Diana said that last part more seriously.

"Geez!"

Ingvild pouted,

"If that was the case we could have gone to the sea yesterday"

Shortly the rest of the participants came from the classrooms, ever since the girls left the classroom the instructor who knew of the perverted acts gave the other participants a warning and told them just who those girls were which completely changed the way the boys viewed the girls.

"Alright, for those who managed to complete the written Test congratulations, we will now be moving onto the sports field for the Practical test."

Everyone was led to a massive track field where the school sports and activities take place since they can't use the same numbers for the written examination everyone was called forward to pull a new number ball. Akeno was 10, Shirone was 24, Ingvild was 1, Ichika got 19 and Angelica was 30,

"Alright everyone got their numbers! Then let us begin with number 1 and 2 as well as 3 and 4 please come forward"

The devil that was number three had an average look, it appears he was a reincarnated devil from the Human side. He was wearing formal black pants and black shoes, but a sleeveless shirt.

His opponent was a reincarnated Merman that was currently in its human form to undertake the examination, he had quite handsome features due to his merman lineage, his body, however, was quite bulky with muscles.

Akeno who saw this shook her head

"I prefer Master, after all, his lean muscles that are not too bulky but so well defined that I could trace it for hours and never get bored of it"

Ichika took out a napkin to wipe the slight drool that appeared on Akeno's lip who was daydreaming of Masaru's naked torso for an instant before Akeno could wipe it off herself, she looked at Ichika

"Your way too professional as a Maid"

Ichika puffed her chest with pride

"My mother made me train to wipe a drop of water within a second it appears to the bone so naturally I am a professional maid"

Akeno who saw this thought

'Is such a skill for a maid really required? It appears the path to become a real maid is a tough one'

The battle between the two devils was considered Mediocre for the girls which irritated the male participants as they did want to show their cool side to beautiful girls even if they could not touch them.

But neither side could be blamed since the girls were too used to training against Ulitmate Ranked people while participating in high-rank battles that the sight of mid-rank battles appear to be too slow, inefficient and boring. But the battle the girls were looking at was Ingvild.

Ingvild who stood in front of her opponent appears to be timid as she was nervous,

'What is considered a pass? Must I use a large scale attack or use technique with minimal moves as possible?'

Ingvild felt in a dilemma trying to figure out how she should move with this, her opponent which was a male that appears to look like he was in his 14th year but was, in fact, several decades-old was quite irritated at this girl which appears to be nonchalant about this practicals.

'Is this girl thinking I will give up just because she is a girl? She looks so weak, is she the queen of the wonder child? Or did he feel sorry for her when he made her his queen'

Ingvild was quite sharp when things are related to Masaru, whether she hears or knows it, her instincts will cry out when someone near her has unpleasant thoughts about him. And right now the man in front of her that was approaching her was giving such a feeling, the opponent no longer regarded her a threat because of misunderstanding her stance as being afraid.

"Such a delightful girl, if you give up I will not hurt you. I might even treat you better than that guy who is not even here to support you"

"He's dead"

Akeno stated,

"He's dead nyaa"

Shirone nodded,

"He's dead if Lady Ingvild does not do this properly"

""""Then we will kill him instead""".

When the surrounding people heard what the girls said they looked at Ingvild and her opponent seriously, just as the opponent leaned closer to flirt with her he was smacked by her right hand which was trained by Diana herself with enough force for the poor sod to fly across the training field before crash rolling a bit further away.

The slap movement was flawless with no ounce of wasted movements, Akeno and the girls cast illusion magic to materialize boards with each of them "10" on it.

It was only later Ingvild realized what happened that she ran to check the man was still alive did she sigh a relief walking away as if everything else did not matter, the people who saw this thought

'Is it okay to leave him there?'

'Did she just went to check if his alive? Scary'

'Better not mess with those girls'

Everyone collectively agreed not to piss off these girls. The rest of the practicals went as planned while the battles of the girls were too anti-climatic, the instructors arranged for the participants who lost against the girls to restart their practicals the next day as they can't evaluate them because the girls were simply too monstrous.

When the tests were over the girls left the facility together with Diana who arranged them to eat at a Hotel, the girls were naturally not that hyped about it since it was only them after all.

"How was the exam?"

Diana thought of asking, Akeno smirked

"Too easy, Ingvild smacked a man hard enough to send him for several months in the hospital"

Diana who heard this looked at Ingvild with a glare but Ingvild puffed her cheeks

"That man deserved it, he insulted young master Masaru"

Diana who heard this smiled warmly nodding while caressing Ingvild's head

"Good Girl, did you make sure to slap him the way I taught you?"

Ingvild nodded her head leaving the rest of the girls shocked at Diana's way of changing her opinions in a flash is truly masterful.

When they entered the Hotel what awaited them was Masaru with five extra-large plushies behind him, the girls did not even care about the plushies but instead went to tackle Masaru.

"hehe, sorry for being late. The expedition in South Africa was quite a time consuming after all, so how was it? Did you all pass?"

Everyone stood up and took their seats at the booked table, the girls began retelling the experience especially the slap, Masaru felt happy but he still reprimanded Ingvild to learn to hold back her attacks they are simply mid ranks after all.

"So the school will be starting next month?"

Diana asked when the drinks they ordered arrived, Masaru nodded

"Yes, the registration for everyone has been completed. Rias and Sona along with their peerage will also be studying at a human school called Kuoh Academy, however, for our first year we will spend it at Kobe Academy before transferring to Kuoh Academy"

Diana looked at Masaru,

"Didn't you choose this school because of them?"

Masaru shook his head

"I never knew they were going there, I chose Kobe Academy for my first year and Kuoh for my second year, since their second-year senior high school has a trip to Kyoto which is required for me since I need a meeting with the Yokai. But at the same time, I don't want to skip my school just for a short trip, which was why I chose it"

"Why are you looking for the Yokai?"

Hearing Diana's question Masaru answered

"It's for Shirone, she is experienced in Senjutsu to the point I can assume she is a master at this point. But her natural talent in Youjutsu is far better compared to what the yokai we have at the household can teach her, it will not be favourable if we don't find a method to teach and train her in youjutsu properly since big sis Kuroka never taught us this before, probably because of me I suppose"

"That's wrong, elder sister would not hide it because of you"

Shirone was quieted down when Masaru caress her head,

"It's because I was there and I was young too, we were struggling to survive so we seek strength. I who had a half-devil half-human body at that time would have not been able to handle the youjutsu of the nekoshou so for me not to get curious over this power elder sis Kuroka only taught Senjutsu mainly since the both of us could train together after all"

Shirone nodded reluctantly.

"I see, well I guess it will be fine to continue as you planned but remember you will not be in charge of the town you were supposed to take over during your high school years. Instead one of our members will manage it in your place while you will only be responsible for the devil business when people summon you all and such but some will be taken over but that member when you get a request to hunt strays"

This is another thing that only a few knew about since it was confidential, Masaru and his peerage similar to Sairaorg and his peerage were part of a small secret group specialized in combat that will be hunting down strays and small scale battles so the Devil Kings and higher-ups can focus on the bigger battle scales or more important things.

"Yeah, but anyway I am proud of you girls. I am sorry I could not be there from the start but I will surely make it up for you all"

The girls smiled brightly, once again they thought their master was truly the best even when he was far away he still remembered their test and even rushed to finish early to surprise them.