Sirzech didn't think much of it at first, he thought it was just because of Serafall's cheerful personality and love of acting like a little girl that made her so close to Eiji.
But he did not expect that the reason why she could be that close to Eiji was because she was in love with him!
She was in love with the man who was her younger sister's fiancé?! No, wait. Eiji was also the fiancé of his younger sister, Rias!
Even if devils like them had a long history and it was not unusual for a male devil to marry his own younger sister and such that was no less unique.
Sirzechs was actually seeing this type of thing for the first time with his own eyes. He had no problem with Serafall also being one of Eiji's women, after all in the end it was still a harem because later Eiji would marry Rias, Sona, Grayfia, and probably other women as well.
He was just surprised, but in this situation...
Not just Sirzechs, but the others were actually interested in seeing Poseidon's reaction because so far they knew the god of the sea seemed to have pursued Serafall many times in the past. But alas, the man was cruelly rejected and witnessed the woman he liked proclaiming herself as another man's woman in front of his eyes.
To be honest, some people were holding back laughter at this moment because the sea god's expression was very interesting!
"Serafall... Are you serious? You're with this human?"
There was no need to say that Poseidon's expression at this moment was very ugly, I don't know how many times I said it, but different from before the sea god clenched his fists and divine power exploded from his body. It didn't really explode, but it was enough to deflect the power of the cold devil Serafall and make the air in the conference room heavy as if everyone there was at the bottom of the sea.
This was characteristic of Poseidon's sea-related divine power!
Even so, for powerhouses like the leaders of the five Factions in the room and beings above the ultimate class withstanding the pressure from Poseidon's power was not a problem. However, Rossweisse was different, she felt a little short of breath as the pressure of Poseidon's divine power filled the conference room. Fortunately, she was so close to Odin that the old man also took the initiative to cover the pressure on the woman with his own power.
After all, Rossweisse was still his subordinate. As a boss, I cannot bear to see my subordinates being bullied by others. Only I, the boss, could do that and make that woman cry.
If Rossweisse knew what Odin was thinking right now, she would throw her little gratitude to her current boss into the gutter. What a lousy boss, her salary as a bodyguard was not even so great as to keep her following him around all day every time he went out.
"I'm serious. So Poseidon, stop chasing me because it's futile. You shouldn't bother Eiji either. Otherwise..." Serafall was still emitting her devil power that collided with Poseidon's divine power. "Otherwise, even with this alliance, I will not hesitate to fight you to the death."
"Um... Serafall..." Sirzechs was now getting anxious, he certainly did not want Serafall to actually fight with Poseidon to the death. Not only because she was his best friend, but it would also affect their alliance with Greek Mythology!
But before he wanted to stop the two, Poseidon laughed, his laughter echoing in the conference room and the pressure from his divine power also increased.
"Heh... I did not expect you to go this crazy over a human, Serafall. You fell in love with your own sister's fiancé? Isn't that disgusting? What would the people in the underworld think if they found out a Maou like you lowered yourself to share a man with her younger sister?"
"And that man is still a human?! Compared to this boy, a sea god like me is definitely better!"
Serafall's expression looked even more disgusted at Poseidon which made the man himself even more annoyed.
"I don't want to hear that from a god who is known for stealing his own children's wives and various women with his brother. Compared to me, you are more disgusting and I would never want to be your woman. Also, where is this? In the underworld, as long as you have power, who cares what people think? I Serafall Leviathan am not a woman who is ashamed to pursue her own love just because of other people's opinions."
People who knew Serafall knew what the woman said was true. After all, before this who in the underworld did not know Serafall's love for her younger sister? And none of the devils in the underworld dared to set the woman straight.
[Damn... That's so cool. Serafall, do you know what? You look so beautiful now! Speaking of stealing wives, does what I did to Sirzechs count?]
Of course not, I heard that Grayfia herself offered herself to you, Eiji-chan. But even if you did, I would still like you.
The brain of love... Serafall looked at Eiji with a filter and she was not ashamed to admit it if anyone asked. Eiji didn't know Serafall's mental activity, but judging from her action of rubbing her cheek against his face like a cat in front of everyone.
I know, whatever it is, it's not bad.
Meanwhile, Zeus who was busy watching while drinking wine choked up at the sentence Serafall said at the beginning. Actually... What that woman said was not wrong, when doing it in Olympus which was his territory, he didn't even bother to hide it from the people of other Factions. It was no longer a rumor, but a legend passed down from generation to generation.
So what was the problem? The problem was that he felt a little awkward feeling the gazes of Sirzechs, Michael, and Odin. There was also the Valkyrie who was Odin's bodyguard who was now looking at him with disdain. If it wasn't for them being together like now, Zeus wanted to teach a lesson to the woman who dared to look at him like that in bed.
And Poseidon! Should he stop him before the situation escalated and exploded?
He was also troubled if this conflict got their Faction kicked out of the alliance and made them enemies of the four Great Factions! After all, this conflict clearly started from his brother, Poseidon who was jealous and could not accept the woman he was interested in belonging to another man.
"...." Poseidon was stunned for a moment, he had trouble refuting what Serafall said. So instead of talking to the woman, he changed his target to Eiji! That human, from earlier he was silent and did not speak. Heh, is he incapable of speaking under the pressure of his divine power? Sirzechs boasted, this boy was clearly not as strong as he said.
This made the sea god even more confident of course, even if Serafall still rejected him, he should at least humiliate the man who dared to steal his woman! The woman he liked like Serafall, in Poseidon's eyes she already belonged to him.
"Boy, you've been silent all this time. Are you going to continue relying on women to protect you? Pathetic. You can't even speak under my divine power."
"I don't know why Serafall and other women like Rias, Sona and Grayfia can like you. Other than your appearance which I admit is not inferior to a god like me, you are very weak."
When Poseidon said this, excluding Serafall who was getting angry at the sea god. The other people in the room finally remembered about Eiji, they had been too focused on watching Poseidon's ugly expression to ignore whether Eiji was really unable to speak because he was intimidated by the power of the god?
They looked at Eiji's face, especially Rossweisse who was a little nervous because she was somehow worried about the man. Women's hearts were hard to understand, even though Rossweisse had never spoken directly to Eiji, but after hearing that man's voice in her head all this time... Sometimes she enjoyed that man's voice like hearing a radio voice that gave her a lot of information that surprised her and things that sometimes made her laugh and feel other emotions.
But to their surprise, they saw Eiji smiling and actually he looked very relaxed even though he was carrying a woman as big as Serafall in his arms.
That man, Eiji stared at Poseidon with a comical look as if the other party was a clown that made the god of the sea feel humiliated for the umpteenth time today.
"Human, how dare you stare at a god with such eyes!"
"What's wrong? Sea god, are you angry? Yare-yare, are you jealous that I have many super beautiful women in my harem? The gods are in fact almost the same as humans, they can also be jealous..."
"How cute."
"Boy..." If gaze could kill, Poseidon would have already killed the human in front of him.
"By the way, who said I didn't speak under this pressure? This is the divine power that the gods possess, right? Kinda similar to holy power, but..."
With Serafall in his hand, Eiji walked leisurely to the other side of the room under the pressure of divine power that even a Valkyrie like Rossweisse was unable to do.
This sight left Poseidon, Zeus and Odin who had never seen Eiji's power dumbfounded of course. Actually if it was an ordinary human, unless they had Sacred Gear Longinus or strength enough to withstand the oppression of the divine power of the gods. Before the power of the gods, all humans will bow down.
But here they saw Eiji walking leisurely as if the divine power of a god who could make gravity as heavy as a mountain was nothing to him. Whereas they could not feel any magic or energy enveloping Eiji which meant what he was doing now was purely his physical power!
Except for the three gods in the room, the others were not surprised as this was not the first time they had seen Eiji's physical power. Especially Michael, when fighting Diodora in the past, he himself saw that Eiji's physical power was actually not inferior to the Dragon King or even more than that.
Eiji was definitely not an ordinary human, Michael even suspected that he was a cross between a human and another supernatural race that he did not know about.
Eiji somehow created a soft chair and placed Serafall whose legs were weak there. Serafall had long since reclaimed her devil powers, she was now a little girl who had her head rubbed and seemed to enjoy it very much.
As the scene unfolded, Odin reacted the most because he thought what Eiji had just done to create an object out of thin air was Creation Magic and without any magic circle at all! Although it wasn't a powerful type of offensive magic, it was quite useful in some situations. In this world, Creation Magic was an ancient magic that had long been lost since the God of Creation himself died. Of course there were also other first-class gods capable of it, but it was a complicated magic, even Odin's mastery of it was very shallow compared to other types of magic.
And to be sure, humans could not possibly master this magic! Even if that human had high magical talent, could he do it without a magic circle and without any fluctuations like Eiji did?
Odin suddenly remembered what Rossweisse said, it seemed that the pitiful Valkyrie knew a lot about this boy named Eiji Seiya.
As proof, Rossweisse didn't even react much, she actually looked proud as if Eiji was her boyfriend and looked at Poseidon with a mocking gaze.
"This is weak. Are you sure this is divine power? I know you haven't expended it all, but judging from your constipated expression."
"You've already expended 50% of your power just to suppress a human like me, right? It's a pity you didn't even tickle me."
"As a sea god, aren't you too weak? My fiancée, Sona can do it better than you."
Eiji looked at the man in question, he walked again towards him with both hands in his pockets. His expression was calm and Poseidon who saw him smiled with a snapping sound of teeth. Clearly at this moment, Poseidon increased his divine power output to make Eiji kneel!
Unfortunately this human whom he underestimated did not budge and was still staring at him calmly.
Damn!
What about...
"Enough Poseidon. If you go any further, I won't allow it. Didn't we just agree on an alliance? Although Eiji is human, he is my younger sister's fiancé. He can be considered someone from the Devil Faction, do you want to attack someone from my faction?"
Although Sirzechs desperately wanted peace, he would not remain silent when he saw his younger sister's fiancé being bullied further than this by the god. He wasn't worried about Eiji because he knew the boy wasn't weak, but what would he say to Rias if he kept quiet at a time like this?
In the end Maou Lucifer was worried that his younger sister was angry at him for not defending his fiancée.
"Sirzechs, you also dare to stop me from telling this human his place?"
Poseidon frowned, but he calmed his emotions again and drew back his divine power. Rossweisse breathed a sigh of relief, even with Odin by her side, she was still a little uncomfortable when the room was filled with the divine power of the gods.
This time, Zeus also opened his mouth to his brother.
"Poseidon, you should stop. It's not good if you make this conflict bigger."
Zeus didn't say it, but Poseidon knew his younger brother must be worried about the alliance. He knew Sirzechs would also definitely not stay silent if he really attacked Eiji with murderous intent.
However, seeing the human in front of him who looked at him with a mocking gaze as if laughing at him for being scolded like a child.
Poseidon is angry!
I really want to kill this human!
Suddenly he got an idea and grinned.
"I see. Don't worry, it's not like I want to kill him. Boy, do you dare to compete with a god?"
"Compete?" Not Eiji, but Sirzechs, Zeus, and even the others stared at Poseidon. This guy has a hard time swallowing his anger, right? Still not giving up?
Serafall who was sitting on the chair rolled her eyes, she was really fed up with Poseidon. If it wasn't for him, she definitely wouldn't have stayed here for so long and would have gone to see her younger sister with Eiji!
Eiji understood what Poseidon wanted to do, this sea god really wanted to be slapped.
"Are you talking about the Rating Game?"
Azazel got a nod and a faint smile from Poseidon. At first glance, they seemed to have a good relationship. The fallen angel governor instantly regretted opening his mouth, he glanced at Eiji who was also staring at him and the memories of the past made him tremble slightly.
No! I definitely don't have such a good relationship with this crazy sea god who seeks death! Eiji won't misunderstand and put hatred on me because of this, right? I already sent Lavinia to him! At least he'll have some tolerance and not kill me again mysteriously like before, right?
"That's right. It's just a match between men and not killing each other. I just want to borrow the Rating Game arena to fight and bet with this boy."
"If he loses, I want him to break up with Serafall and give her to me."
"Poseidon, you dare!" Serafall stood up from her chair, her devil power exploded again and crashed into Poseidon. Actually her legs had recovered, it was just that before she wanted Eiji to carry her.
Poseidon did not flinch, his body was enveloped in divine power and Serafall's devil power did not affect him much. He smiled at the woman.
"Of course. What is it, Serafall? Don't you have confidence in your man? If he dares not accept my challenge it proves that he is weak and afraid of the gods!"
"The things he showed me before were just bluster. I can't believe I'm inferior to this human! Once you see my power, you will know your choice was wrong and will fall in love with me!"
Serafall was enraged, she was already preparing to create a magic circle to shoot the sea god in the head. But at this moment, as everyone panicked at the sight of Serafall wanting to shoot, a small laugh sounded.
They fell silent because it was Eiji who was laughing but his eyes didn't look like they were smiling at all. Azazel who saw this shuddered, it's done... Poseidon, you're done! Even if Eiji doesn't kill you after this, it's only a matter of time before you die mysteriously in the near future. A fallen angel governor had experienced it in the past.
They fell silent and turned their heads only to see Eiji who was laughing but his eyes did not look smiling at all. Azazel who saw this shuddered, it's done... Poseidon, you're done! Even if Eiji doesn't kill you after this, it's only a matter of time before you die mysteriously in the near future. A fallen angel governor had experienced it in the past.
"What? Boy, are you laughing to hide your fear of--"
"Noisy."
When Eiji said that, it wasn't just Poseidon. Everyone in the room suddenly found themselves in the Rating Game arena that Ajuka and Falbium had just finished repairing. The two people themselves were actually still there and they were surprised at their appearance.
"I-It's..." Odin was again surprised, he and the others were now suddenly sitting in the audience seats.
They saw Eiji and Poseidon already standing facing each other in the vast arena.
But that was not the problem! The problem was... Was it Eiji? That boy teleported everyone including him without them being able to resist at all! As for Odin, he no longer underestimated Eiji's power and only wondered how strong that boy was!
Now he somewhat understood why Azazel and Michael were looking at Poseidon as if he was pitiful.
However, he quickly calmed down. Perhaps Eiji was indeed strong, but would he be able to defeat a god like Poseidon? Just like him, Poseidon was also a first-class god! There are three classes to divide god power among the gods, not in specifics of course, but the order of lowest to highest divine power class is third, second, and first.
First-class gods were already equivalent to Satan-class devils in the underworld such as Sirzechs and other Maou.
Odin thought of this without remembering Rias and Sona who he thought were as strong as Maou was Eiji's fiancée. If his fiancée was that strong, was Eiji himself weaker than his woman?
Unfortunately he did not ask this to Rossweisse who was sitting beside him. If he did...
"Are all gods like you? If you can't get a woman the right way, you resort to betting tricks with the woman's boyfriend."
Eiji shook his head, indifferently he looked at Poseidon who was confused and angry with his words.
"Even so, I'll do it, I accept your challenge. But remember... I will not risk my woman. My women are not things I can give away to anyone."
"They belong only to me, whoever wants them, even the gods... They must step over my corpse first and be ready to die on the spot." Eiji's voice was clearly heard all the way to the audience seats which made Serafall relieved and moved by his words.
Who was the woman whose panties weren't wet when her lover said that?
Ajuka and Falbium were confused. What was going on? How did the situation become like this? You know, it's a bit tiring repairing the Rating Game arena with magic and rare materials that can only be found in the underworld. Would it be destroyed again worse like during Rias and Sona's match?
They saw Sirzechs in one of the spectator seats and naturally they teleported next to him and asked what was going on.
Sirzechs sighed, even the strongest devil like himself was a little mentally exhausted because of the things happening right now.
"Ajuka, Falbium. I know it's too much trouble to invite back the spectators who have just returned to their homes. So just activate the Rating Game arena and do a live online broadcast to the entire underworld."
Actually, the latter was unnecessary. Wouldn't it be fine if only they were watching? But Sirzechs thought, isn't this a good opportunity to embarrass arrogant gods like Poseidon and Zeus in front of everyone?
As Poseidon said, this was just a competition.
It was only natural for the competition to have many spectators.
Everyone had to see how powerful the famous Greek gods were in front of his future brother-in-law, right?
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