บท 346: Reunion (DxD Side)

"S-Sarah!?" Diehauser exclaimed.

"The one and only~!" Sarah laughed at his reaction before realizing what she had just done, 'Crap... My son's antics are already infecting me... But I guess that's not bad since it's fun?'

Diehauser, a big man with a graceful face who has grey hair and grey eyes, similar to Sakura, started shaking, "A-are you really Sarah?"

"Yep~."

Ignoring the other person, Diehauser gave Sarah a big hug, "Thank goodness... You're alright and came back."

Diehauser separated for a bit to take a closer look at his cousin's face with a gentle smile. Although her demeanor is opposite of that of the past it's indeed the face he recalls, "It's been so long... And during that time, it seems that you became more cheerful. Although I miss your former apathetic expression, this suits you a lot better. It seems that Ryouta took great care of you."

Hearing her late husband's name, Sakura could only let out a sad smile, "Indeed... He took great care of me... Until the very end."

Diehauser's eyes widened but his expression became disappointed as he gave Sakura another hug, "I see... I at least wanted to talk and thank him for taking you away all those years."

Sighing at the missed opportunity, Diehause continued, "Now... If only Cleria is still with us..."

Hearing her name, Cleria finally interrupted them, "Ehem... Please don't go killing me off, big brother~."

Diehauser looked towards the other person present and became confused again when another one called him big brother. But when he saw Sakura tittering and noticed the same bracelet that she removed from her wrist, a possibility emerged from his mind as he started shaking again in delight, wishing that he's correct, "Y-you..."

With a large grin, Cleria removed her disguising artifact and she returned to her former appearance, "It's been a while, big brother Diehauser~."

"Cleria!!!" With a shout of delight, Diehauser ran towards her and gave her a big hug while tearing up, "You're alive!!!"

Cleria also teared up a little as she returns his hug, "Yes, big brother... I'm alive. I'm sorry for not telling you sooner."

"It's fine... As long as you're alive... It's fine."

After letting them hug for a few seconds more, Sakura finally interrupted them, "Let's go inside first. We don't want someone recognizing you here. You also have to meet two more people."

Diehauser agreed and entered the house with the sisters. Sakura then started preparing another set of utensils for Diehauser for him to join them in their dinner. While Cleria called back the duo, who're playing in their room.

Coming out, Claire noticed that there's a new person and immediately hid behind her father. Masaomi, on the other hand, immediately recognized the newcomer and after seeing the smiling faces of the sisters, Masaomi also removed his disguising bracelet, revealing his true appearance and putting his hand forward, "It's very nice to finally meet you, cousin-in-law. I'm Masaomi Yaegaki. I hope you can bless mine and Cleria's relationship and get along in the future."

Diehauser didn't immediately reply and only stared at Masaomi silently with a blank face.

However, that didn't last as Diehauser can feel an intense glare from behind him coming from Cleria. Smiling, he accepted his hand and introduced himself, "Diehauser Belial. Thank you for taking care of my cousin. I too hope that we can get along in the future." He doesn't really care that he's a human as his own late aunt, his uncle's second wife, and Sakura's mother is a human.

Diehauser then finally transferred his sights towards the little girl behind Masaomi. Seeing this, Claire hid her body completely from the stranger.

Sakura, Cleria, and Masaomi could only smile gently after seeing this. Masaomi then turned around and kneeled in front of his daughter to match her sight and gently told her, "Claire, it's your uncle, a new family member so you don't have to be afraid. Greet him and introduce yourself."

Despite being nervous and shy, with just a pat to her head from her father, Claire nodded with a determined expression. Moving in front of Diehauser with small steps, Claire introduced herself, "Good evening, U-uncle D-Dieh-hauser! I'm C-Claire Yaegaki, 7 years old. N-nice to meet you." Even with some stuttering, Claire managed to do it.

Diehauser started laughing at her adorable figure and also kneeled down to match her gaze and patter her head, "Nice to meet you too, Claire. Let's get along~."

Claire then smiled happily and looked back at her parents with a proud expression.

Seeing this, Diehauser is liking this niece of his more. He then grabbed Claire and carried her, letting her sit on his arm, "My dear niece, I'm sorry that uncle doesn't have any gift, so how about this? We go around the town tomorrow and browse some toy stores and I'll buy any toys for you."

Thanks to the gentle aura he's emitting, most of Claire's anxiety also disappeared and when she heard that they'd be strolling around tomorrow, she became excited. However, she also remembered that she still hasn't gotten her parents' permission so she looked towards her mother, Cleria, and asked, "Mom, Can I go with uncle?"

With a smile, Cleria approached them and pinched Claire's chubby face, "Of course, honey. You can have fun tomorrow, but first, we have to finish our dinner."

Cheering loudly, Claire asked her uncle to put her down and sat back down to her chair to finish her food.

Cleria then signaled her husband and Masaomi understood what they want to do so he went to Claire's side and said, "Claire, why do we go watch some TV shows while you eat. Mommy, aunt, and uncle have something to talk about so I'll be joining you."

Successfully luring Claire away, Diehauser sat on the dining table with the sisters while food also served in front of him, "Thanks." After eating some of it, Diehauser immediately went directly to the topic he wanted, "Can you please tell me everything that happened and how you came to this place?"

The sisters then started talking about what happened, starting from the day that Kisuke saved both Cleria and Masaomi from the exorcists of the Church and Rizevim's apparent participation.

Half an hour later, Diehauser drank the warm tea served to him and sighed, "I see... So Kisuke Urahara is my nephew. And he coincidentally saved his aunt and her husband and also managed to fool everyone that you two really died. On top of that, years later, he brought back your family after he and his lover made a mess in Mount Olympus' territory."

For some strange reason, Sakura didn't want to talk about her time when she and Ryouta just escaped and how her husband died. However, if she didn't want to talk about it, Diehauser won't ask.

"So the claim of Ares from the Mount Olympus has some truth to it. That Kisuke Urahara helped a heinous criminal escape." Diehauser continued to mutter.

"What!? No! Ana could never be a heinous criminal! In fact, she just escaped their eternal torment! Kisuke saved her! She's a good girl!" Cleria immediately refuted his words.

"Calm down, Cleria. There's nothing we can do regarding that. Especially now that he's missing and everyone wants to find him. By the way, do you know what happened?"

Sakura tapped her sister's shoulder prompting her to calm down. Although she's also angry, she really can't do anything right now, "We have some idea, but since we've been staying here for the last two weeks, we don't really know what's happening and we don't dare venture out for news as some might find us."

Diehauser nodded and told her what happened on the day of the Three Great Faction Alliance Conference.