Chapitre 85: Returning home
The Pendragons naturally gave conditions for Masaru to fulfil them in the future through a magic contract for the scabbard, Masaru naturally agreed under his own condition it did not affect his interest, Family or principles.
Since he was already tired dealing with these old foxes who were trying to hook him into another situation, he bade his farewell towards them and left before they could even move to stop him from leaving since they wanted to talk with him some more.
Masaru felt that his mission in the United Kingdom was finally over, however, with a casual glance he looks in the direction of Peru thinking that he might have to personally someday head over there. Although he had trusted subordinates there, he needed to personally go there at least once. Masaru left the UK instantly to his home through teleportation.
When he came back home he could see the girls were busy training their controls with the Balls and Puppets downstairs, it appears Everest was busy playing whack a Riser to train her reflexes to aid her weakness in her speed that was not up to par with her natural strength and defence.
"I'm home!" Masaru called out the moment he entered the house, he could hear the sound of something made out of metal dropping on the floor in the kitchen before footsteps came towards the hall.
Shortly he saw his mother standing in the hallway looking at him quite a surprised expression before she sprinted towards him, gripping him in a tight hug he could swear he would have died if his body was not resilient.
Diana did not ask any questions but only held her son tightly, it was difficult for her to hold her urge to go to where Masaru was this past month, but seeing her son was still fine she felt relieved and happy.
Masaru gently caresses Diana's back while looking at Julia who smiled warmly at the mother hugging her son so tightly, "Yo Big sis Julia, how was things while I was gone?"
Julia snickered as she slyly glanced at Diana before giving out the information Diana forbid her to, "Other than holding back your mother everything went quite normal back here"
Masaru nodded, he knew his mother was quite, overprotective. But a faint smile appears on his face, just as much as Diana loved him as her son, he too loved her as his mother.
"Ma-kun?" Akeno came out first,
"Master?" Stephani followed by,
"Onii-sama" Shirone after,
Soon each girl came from the underground making sure it was Masaru who was standing in the hallway, it was probably because the hallway was too small or the girls were giving this moment to Diana who still held Masaru which they did not come over to hug him.
"M-Mom... It's getting embarrassing" Masaru spoke feeling this was indeed getting a bit embarrassing being stared at while he was being hugged by his mother,
"Shush! You made me so worried, It was a month! a Month!!! Need to recharge my Masanium energy right now" Diana grumbled showing no signs of letting him go anytime.
The girls all nodded at Diana's words as they too needed to recharge, only Masaru thought to himself 'What the heck is Masanium? Sounds like I am some kind of Metal'
The dinner was quite lively and chatty but later than night, Masaru felt like he could die, literately die from a massive nosebleed if he were to get more girls than this. Because they all were wearing negligee as sleepwear, however, despite his complaints he had thoroughly allowed himself to enjoy the feeling while he fell asleep in Akeno's bosom.
Why not touch? a Promise is more important than lust if what he kept reminding himself. While holding himself back, he felt much more appreciating such gestures and cherished it dearly.
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The students who noticed they're most beloved and hated Demon King came back to school.
The first thing that was noticeable by everyone was the sheer number of casualties among the perverts went in and out of the building, as they were escorted to the infirmary after getting beaten up by girls.
The reason for this was because Masaru installed several gimmicks that alarmed the girls ahead of time that peepers were nearby, with the girls knowing and the boys unknowing it was easy to guess just how it went.
Naturally, the second noticeable thing was the number of complaints that were sent to the Student Council and Disciplinary Committee, the two offices did not even glance at the complaints as such sights reminded them that school was back to normal.
Masaru was currently reading the complaints with a big smile feeling quite relaxed. Compared to his little adventure of lowering his head because he had to, here he could simply laugh in the faces of these useless complaints that is ignored as baseless. Since the perverts could not find any evidence as proof of his involvement and the girls who were saved by the gimmicks kept silent, to aid their saviour.
"You haven't come to greet me huh?" Sona came together holding a chess set in her hands before taking her seat in front of Masaru setting up the game, this was something she wanted to do since it has been a month she last played against Masaru and her current opponents were simply too boring for her.
"Well this is a surprise Sona Kaichou, I am glad to see your just a beautiful as I last saw you"Masaru complimented her since he wanted to calm this childhood friend of his who appear to be frustrated.
Sona looked at Masaru with questioning eyes before continuing to set up the board game, "Well I too am glad you came back safe, it is boring not having a decent opponent"
Masaru chuckled knowing Sona was not honest with her emotions and always the straight-A Student who wants to lead an example for others because of her dream.
Soon the two of them began playing their game, "How have things been here while I was gone?"
Sona adjusted her glasses before countering Masaru's knight move, "It has been hectic, since you were gone the number of pervert complaints from female students reverted back to before you came first to school, however, now the female complaints have dropped to almost non-existent and instead the perverts are complaining about you"
Masaru rubbed his chin thinking quite hard how Sona managed to trap him in this kind of complicated situation on the chessboard, 'Maybe I have gotten rusty' Masaru thought.
"Well I can imagine they would complain but there is no proof I was involved after all" Masaru said as he grinned when he figured out something and moved his queen piece.
"Well considering how you are using our students are your guinea pigs to test your prank toys, please be sure to hold back. There was one student who really cried when he turned into a female yesterday but luckily he came back as a male again"
"Oh, That one! That was my sister, Elizabeth latest Eunuch Bombs, it was quite scary to see the transformation as a Male watching a male turning into a woman... But it really is ingenious though" Masaru said while he had to hide the fact his crotch felt a bit breezy when reminded of that man-killing bomb.
Sona placed the last piece, "Checkmate, and really you need to control your urge to test her creations on kids!"
Masaru chuckled nodding his head to show her he would consider it, yes consider it but the two of them knew there was no way in hell Masaru will stop trying new items on such strong-willed kids.
That was the fun thing about being a devil because the moment people start to question you can simply manipulate their memories and at times they simply think the kids are delusional. 'Schools in this human world sure is fun' Masaru thought
He watches Sona leave the Disciplinary Committee office after having her daily dosage of a chess game, and shortly he began to play another round with Akeno. It appears this Bishop of his really was a skilled player.
Timepass by with the school days remains the same with only a few pranks here and there, till finally the time for a vacation has arrived.
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Before Masaru went home for the school vacation he was invited to visit Sirzech which is ultimately related to the talks Masaru had with Azazel.
Masaru was quite relaxed during his trip to meet the Demon King, he was even considering of doing Rias a little favour as a afterthought for her problem. However, the results will have to depend on her own power.
When he arrives, he began to feel quite a bit annoyed when he thought of Rias's problem. Although he could understand certain things, he was really wondering what those heads are thinking of simply looking at situation of the related people and totally ignoring the consequences if anything goes wrong.
Not to mention, there are already the rumours about Rias and Riser's engagement despite the public hatred Rias displayed. People had begun to question the two families although, in secret, the worse part was that they also discussed about Masaru. Although he was not related to this, it was due to his Masaru's company being partnered with the Gremories and Phenex.
Although he could ignore this since such scandals could affect his business, however, he has the means to deal with it. He decided to make use of this opportunity to make his move, that way he could force the two houses in a direct to resolve this matter. Whether Rias becomes free or not? It depends on all herself.
From the looks of it the Gremories truly lived up to their name as a Duke family, their villages transformed into towns and their towns into cities. It could be said their power has grown and it will not be farfetched to say they may soon raise up to an Archduke like Belial Family, which makes the excuse Masaru could use even more effective.
'Getting Lord Gremory to realize his stupidity will work but it will still be impossible to cancel the engagement with the Phenex Family, at least with this when Rias plans to use the Rating Game as a means to break off the engagement her family will stand behind her 100% while Phenex will be forced to deal with their son that is bringing shame to them... Although the real reason is that I kind of feel pissed being compared with that man just because my peerage is full of women' Masaru thought
'However, this issue is truly getting out of hand since Rias is being way too open in public about her rejection to this arranged marraige, now the newspapers are writing any story they can find while writing the most exaggerated nonsense that I would have believed they could write novels...'
Masaru reasoned with himself, although his reason was for his revenge on Riser and helping his childhood friend. he had to have a reason politically to get involved in this matter, that way the families can't use other excuses to isolate him from it.
Soon Masaru arrived at the Manor where Grayfia awaited for him alone, "Welcome Young lord Masaru"
Masaru nodded looking at the Stoic faced Grayfia, he truly wondered if this woman was happy with how she presents herself all this time "It's been a while Grayfia, how is Millicas?"
Grayfia walked next to Masaru, she was surprised at his question but thanks to her years of experience working as a maid in the Gremory house she answered him fluently, "He is doing quite well, he is smart and has his father's dignity"
Masaru squinted his eyes as he noticed this professional maid really left no opening, she did not even twitch! "What about his mother? Bet he inherits her looks"
Grayfia said nothing but secretly she felt happy.
"Masaru! You finally arrive" Sirzech was currently still dressed formally but without his jacket, his appearance which is close to borderline semi-formal.
"Good day Lord Sirzech" Masaru said as he bowed slightly to show his respect.
Sirzech sighed feeling a bit depressed at this boy who is doing the same thing his sister is doing,
"Don't be so grumpy, you will get grey hair faster that way..." Masaru muttered with a smirk allowing Sirzech to laugh when he realizes Masaru was teasing him.
"I can see your paperwork shows no sign of getting finished" Masaru looked at the papers Sirzech been signing off, the latter was feeling tired of paperwork so he sat on the opposite of Masaru on the couches.
The two of them first chatting about how things went, especially Masaru's latest Mission made Sirzech sighed with relief that the final gate location was found and the current one was sealed so they could relax a bit now that the creatures will not easily be coming out again.
"Masaru, Azazel told me about your wish to infiltrate the Old Satan group?" Sirzech asked straightforwardly, Masaru was slightly surprised however he did indeed expect this demon lord to hear about this from Azazel eventually.
Masaru nodded since there was nothing to hide about this fact, "Yes, right now our enemies are mixed together and working as one organisation. Because currently our three factions are sort of in peace because we signed a non-aggression pact to allow each force to recoup their losses"
Masaru sighed, "So it's only natural that there will be people not happy with this, but just as we saw there are groups of them working together in hopes to spark a war, we have no information about them or their locations other than the fact they are traitors. So I intend to only infiltrate them gather their information, research reports, every information they got I will take it"
"Why only the information?" Sirzech asked feeling quite surprised that Masaru only wanted to take information instead of dealing with them from within.
Masaru smiled as he took the cup of tea Grayfia presented to him when she made it while they were talking, "There is a possibility they have researched great deal things, especially things we can't do 'morally' because it is against the law. We can use the information and learn from it as it could contain information that could help us, we can naturally leave it in the hands of Ajuka whom we can trust"
Sirzech nodded, before he could ask a question Masaru continued, "The other reason is, for example, what if they already have stolen the recipe of the phoenix tears which is the Devil's greatest source of healing supplements? They could have already researched an alternative production method or something entirely different with similar effects... You see, I want to steal their information and make them work hard for us... So we can entertain them"
'Well my men already have the Phoenix Tears recipe and already researching it to make similar products which I can sell at a later stage' Masaru thought,
Sirzech cracked up laughing at how Masaru mentioned making the enemies working for them, it was so ironic and funny that he could not help but laugh, "But then Masaru, why must it be you?"
Masaru took a sip of his tea complimenting it was delicious to Grayfia before answering, "I have the support of Bael, Gremory, Phenex, Sitri along with the four Devil Kings... But I am still quite hated by many others, I can simply fake how I am feeling annoyed that someone like you is a devil king being useless and simply complement the old satan descendants to the skies"
Sirzech nodded but Grayfia asked, "How can you convince them?"
Masaru smirked as he liked that question, "Simple, I just have to insult the devil kings and say they are the real satans. The reason I am certain it will work is that if the descendants of the old satans were smart enough then they would realize their dreams is simply futile in the current Devil's state"
Sirzech thought for a moment before coming to a conclusion, "Very well, I will notify the other Devil Kings we will give you a secret position as an Agent of ours sent to infiltrate the enemies, this title is only for formalities sake in case the other families find you in that group... This is only to prevent them from calling for your head as a traitor"
Masaru nodded, he could understand. Infiltrating an enemy group is all well and good but there are people who use this as an excuse to get rid of people especially their enemies. With the secret agent position under Sirzech and him being a disciple of Ajuka he was at least guaranteed to not have such problems when he gets caught, soon they concluded this topic and Masaru gestured to Grayfia to take her seat.
"Now I wish to speak with you two as family members of the Gremory family" Masaru said with a serious expression, this made both Grayfia and Sirzech surprised.
"I know the two of you are not happy about Rias Engagement" Hearing the subject the two of them became quite serious, Masaru continued "The reason I am getting involved is that the rumours about this engagement are reflecting badly on the businesses I have with the Phenex and Gremories"
Masaru chuckled before carrying on, "The current rumours for the Gremories are quite harsh... I mean they are calling the Gremory a Ranch for piggies under the name of pure blood"
Sirzech was not angry at this since he waited for Masaru to continue, because this rumour was real after all. "The reason they used the term piggies, apparently it was because the family does not care to sent their Heir to become the wife of a man who will use her only as a breeding bag to give birth to pureblood kids, the worst part is the fact the husband has many girls in his peerage he treats as his toys which he will keep with him that will also give birth to more kids, the heiress of the Gremory Family will have to look after kids that are not even her thus turning her into a housewife with no chance of pursuing her own dreams"
"This rumour is not because of the children but because of the parents, so I hope you can shed light to your father about this situation and also tell him I am not happy, unlike my father who hates to get involved in other families I hate it when things reflect on my family..." Masaru took another sip of his last remaining tea,
He placed down the cup of tea before he said with a cold voice, "I know you won't be able to stop the engagement, but you can step up as the son and scold your father to make him realize his stupidity. At least when Rias fights Riser to break off the engagement the Gremory Family will be entirely behind her, and the Phenex family will be forced to reform their child... So I will have to ask you to become an unfilial son and scold him"
"Your quite harsh to say that rumour upfront without filtering the insults, but you are indeed correct I should have made my moves. Since you requested it of me I can use it as an excuse to make my move, thanks Masaru" Sirzech smiled brightly as if he regained some energy, what Masaru said was hurtful but he has gotten a chance to make some movements for his sister.
Masaru sighed and said with a complicated gaze, "But your even more Harsh Sirzech"
Sirzech rubs his forehead while listening to Masaru as he continues, "I don't want to complain or anything, but you need to reevaluate your love for your sister. From my perspective your love is nothing more than a cage and Rias is the bird, you kept spoiling her to the point she neglected training, her judgement as a king is horrible and she has no sense of danger..."
Sirzech felt his heart being pricked, he could understand why Masaru was pointing these facts out for him, "The reason I am pointing this out is the Fact her Best friend had to become something she was not to actually wake her up and during the Kyoto Event she almost gotten herself killed by a stray witch. Rias is my Friend, you are my friend as well. So I could no longer sit back, so I hope you can forgive my harsh words"
Sirzech shook his head, he could accept this criticism as a brother and because he could only accept it since it was the truth. "No, I had it coming... I knew it but by the time things were the way they were I could no longer stop it... Guess I really was scared to be hated by my own sister"
Masaru smiled, "Well at least things are better right now, so can I ask your help to keep it that way?"
Sirzech nodded, without Masaru realizing it Grayfia was questioning her manner of bringing up Millicas and decided to be less strict on him to allow him to call her mother but she will still train him hard and teach him proper manners. The three of them continued to chat happily before Masaru left.
"It was about time someone lecture you" Grayfia spoke with a harsh cold tone, because she was the maid of Gremory Family she could not do anything about the manner how Rias was brought up but she still made sure to prevent it with Millicas at least.
"Aiya! I guess I really was in the wrong to have a child point at my mistakes, it hurts my pride"
Grayfia looked at him, "Your siscon pride?"
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