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Chapter 29 : Death comes for all.
- Shin –
I was enjoying my well-deserved rest after the debacle of this morning. Serafall and Sirzechs had come over after the meeting had ended and given me a rundown of the meeting as I was also closely involved this time.
Ajuka joined them too but stayed a while even after Serafall left with Sona and Sirzechs had to leave to report this matter to the underworld.
Ajuka wanted to see the Room of Requirement to help him in the development of his new game called Beelzebuth which was also designed based on the Longinus Innovate Clear. I showed him the room while he and Merlin discussed the matter all the while exchanging points.
I shiver in fright thinking of what will happen if those two mad scientists work on something together.
I did get a decent boost in Affection from the Goddess Amaterasu though. It did put me in the positive.
Right now I am waiting for my supposed newest addition to my peerage to arrive. I was called and said that she will be joining us soon.
I had Rias accompanying me. She hadn't left my side since last night except during the meeting. She is probably still worried about my behavior after the battle yesterday. We also have Suzaku and Shuri with us and surprisingly Luna who had taken her seat without saying anything and was humming a tune all along.
"So what do you think Luna?" I asked, trying to have a conversation until our new member arrives.
"I think that I will be very close friends with Lavinia. I really like her." she said in her usual dreamy voice.
"That's reassuring to hear."
"Are you regretting it Shin?" asked Shuri. "Are you worried that she will resent you?" she continued.
"Hmm, it will not be a surprise if she resented me a bit for this. On the other hand I will be surprised if he did not resent me even a bit. As for regretting it….no I don't regret it. A life for a life is the deal I made. I did give up a life….my life for it. I am far beyond the point of regretting it right now. I could let her go but that would be breaking a vow I made to myself." Yes, now I had to bullshit to keep them happy or at least….understanding. "I vowed to myself that I will not let anyone take advantage of me if I can help it." And I left it hanging at that.
We sat in silence as Shuri and Suzaku pondered over my words. I wonder if Akeno had told her mother about my past in this world though.
It did not take us very long before our new member arrived. She was not alone though. The members of the Slash Dog team arrived as well.
I did notice a glaring peculiarity though.
Tobio Ikuse was missing.
I am pretty sure that I did revive him properly when I was using the spell.
I also looked at the determined look on Lavinia's face.
"I have come as I had promised." she said, her voice normal.
I nodded and brought out my pawn piece from my inventory.
"Lavinia, are you sure about this?" asked the girl, which I think was Natsume Minagawa. She then looked towards me and asked, "I am sure we can agree to some other arrangement right?"
"No Natsume. I made this deal and I am fine with it. I have already asked him more than I had any rights to. He has done too much for me already by fixing the problems I had although unknowingly caused. I don't think Shin will treat me badly and I feel like I can trust him on this one." she interrupted.
I could see that others were still doubtful. I mean yeah, I did act like an ass but in my defense, I DID give up a free life for it. I won't let anyone take advantage of me if I can do anything about it though.
"Suzaku, are you alright?" asked Natsume as she again walked up to her other friend and now a member of my peerage and hugged her. They are speaking in whispers which I can't hear.
I got up and walked up to Lavinia. She had a hesitant look on her face for a moment after which a steely and determined look appeared on her face and she gave me a nod. I pushed the Mutated Pawn Piece inside her chest as a reddish black light covered her and at the end of it all, eight wings burst out of her back. Her magic power will continue to rise slowly over the week as she gets adjusted. It was instantaneous for me because I am a Gamer and Gamer's….cheat. She takes a few moments to collect herself.
+20 Obedience with Lavinia Reni(60/100) for being her King.
"Lord Mephisto has requested to have a talk with you after the process is completed." she said and stood to my side.
"Very well, I will talk to him." I replied as she simply stood still there.
This is probably going to take some time getting used to for all of us.
The rest of the members talk to Suzaku while Luna drags Lavinia to the side where she drawls on about something. I did notice that her Affection for me didn't fall even after I made her my peerage member.
I can hazard a guess from her expressions and observe that something must have happened. She is quite sad and is showing signs of depression but none of those thoughts are about me.
So it is evident that something had happened before coming here.
I think it is probably something to do with Tobio's absence in this meeting. I had half a thought that he would come here to get me to let her be. Not that I would have changed it anyways. I did make a fair deal. I offered her something and I got her in return. As simple as that.
I am not treating her like a sex slave or anything but she does have to work for me.
I have my lust sated by my beautiful Rias and Sakuya, Kuroka is just waiting for a chance. Not to mention the other girls. I have no intention to force myself on her even though I can't deny that she is quite a beauty herself.
In the meanwhile away from the other members of his team, Kouki Samejima came to me. I could see his struggle but he still spoke quiet enough to let it remain among the two of us, "I don't like you." I merely nodded my head at it. I don't expect him to. "But please take care of Lavinia." He bowed his head a little. "She has been our friend for a long time and these last few days have been too hard for her. You did save her life and that is the only reason I haven't attacked you right now and am trusting you with her. The rest are of the same opinion as me, so if you hurt her…."
"She is now a member of my family. I sent The Greek God of the Dead running just this morning because he attacked my family and I intend to do the same to others who intend to harm my family as well. You do not need to worry. She is safe here with us." I replied as he opened his mouth but closed it again.
"Thank you." he whispered as he got up
I suddenly have the feeling as if I just got the shovel talk. I know that it's not even remotely close but hey….
I just sat there and watched as the girls talked to each other.
Luna is still continuing to talk to Lavinia who still looks listless but when has that ever stopped Luna from something.
They talked for some time and then slowly left one by one.
Finally there were only the members of our house remaining there.
I turned to Lavinia and spoke to her. "Lavinia." She stared towards me showing that she acknowledged it. "I might not be in the place to say this but regardless of the situation, you are now a member of my family. If you have any trouble, any problems at all, please say that to me. While this was a deal, I don't intend to force you to do anything that you don't want. Take your time and get settled here. I am pretty sure the girls will help you with it. Sakuya."
"Yes Master." Sakuya replied from beside me.
"Please show her the room or if she wants to share a room with anyone, help her out as well. Please see that she has her needs taken care of." I relayed while I sunk back into the couch, caressing Rias' hair. It always helps me relax in stressful situations.
"I will ask Sona to get a job for her at the academy. It will help keep her mind occupied until she can get used to the situation." Rias whispered from beside me.
That would be for the best right now.
"I think it will work well. She seemed as if something happened back there. I don't know what but it seems that it might have been something big."
"Okay. We will talk to her."
I can only hope that Luna knows what she is doing.
….but then again Luna always knows something.
It was around night that we were almost done with all the work that needed to be done.
I did talk to Mephisto. He wanted to arrange a meeting between us but didn't show any indication of it being about Lavinia and only talked about an alliance.
The Extra Demons were not as appreciated as the pillar Devils but that didn't mean they didn't hold much power. While not as much as the pillar Devils, they did hold a considerable military might.
Tannin is Mephisto's Queen as well as one of the top ten Rating Game players.
Rudiger Rosenkreutz was ranked seventh among the top ten Rating Game players and he was the servant of a Mamon Devil who are also an extra Devil house.
I do not count the second and third place players even though they are from the extra Demon houses because they are using King pieces and are basically lackeys of the old pillar Devils.
I think that an alliance with someone as resourceful and well connected as Mephisto can only help me because of his command over the Grauzauberer Magician Association and his own network in the human world are truly invaluable help to me.
I already had a deal with Tannin and his connection to Mephisto reassures me in making this deal.
Putting those thoughts aside, I looked around me and spoke.
"Is everyone ready?" I asked looking around at the people gathered here.
"Yes." Rias answers as she too looks around at everyone.
"Okay then let's do this." I activated the magic circle to teleport us to 12, Grimmauld Place. It is time to tie up the loose ends.
We arrived at the door of the house. Fleur had already been here in advance and had cleaned up the place. Moreover the spells and curses are mostly ineffective on people of our peerages due to our power levels.
"Kreacher." I spoke quietly.
A pop sounded beside me as Kreacher appeared in his ragged clothes. It was however evident by the shine in his eyes that he was much more cheerful now that he had completed Regulus' task.
"Has the house been cleaned?"
"Yes Lord Black."
"Very well. We will be staying here for a while. You are forbidden from relaying this information to anyone, not even Narcissa, Bellatrix or Andromeda. If they call for you, DO NOT respond to them."
Kreacher looked a bit conflicted but nodded still.
"Yes Lord Black."
"I am saying this because I have disowned Narcissa from the family and Andromeda's house has been compromised, while Sirius already disowned Bellatrix. Narcissa's husband and son work for the Dark Lord who was responsible for Regulus' death. I WILL NOT HAVE TRAITORS LIKE THEM IN MY HOME ANYMORE."
His eyes widen at that and he answers with a louder voice.
"YES LORD BLACK."
Manipulating a house elf with technically correct facts is not something that I will regret doing.
"I had heard of House Elves but it is my first time seeing one of them. I think Japan has Zashiki Warashi instead to take care of the houses." Akeno informs from the side.
"Yes but at least they are treated better than the House Elves. I have seen how horrible the people here treat House Elves." Hermione said. I have to give it to her that she didn't outright promote the House Elves rights. Maybe becoming a part of the peerage system and training under Merlin has done a lot for her thinking processes as well. I wouldn't discount the fact that the trauma from her memories and the treatment she has received in the wizarding world has any less part in it as well.
Fleur met us at the door. She had already taken care of all the things inside the house.
And by taken care of I mean completely renovated the interior. One would be surprised how easy magic can be for an Eight Winged Devil with the amount of power that they possess.
"Did you have any problems with the house Fleur?" asked Rias as she looked around the place.
The last time we came here, we didn't have enough time to look around.
"Not really. There were some rough spots that took a little more effort to clean, probably due to being part of the Devil Magic that the Blacks had contracted with before but nothing too much of a problem. That portrait was repaired by me though because I didn't know what it did. Now I wish I didn't do that. I did find a nice way to keep her busy though." she smirked.
"Oh, and what would that be." I asked intrigued.
Well let's face it. Walburga Black was a bitch. Enough said.
"I locked her in a room filled with animated pictures of Non Magical bikini Models in portraits and put a silencing charm around the room."
….
Wow.
That is a hell suitable for Walburga in its own way.
Sirius didn't stay in this house only because of this bitch. Even as a portrait, she was more than enough to put him off of the house.
I guess the only reason Kreacher hasn't attacked is because he knew it would be useless and probably because of his newfound devotion towards me.
"Nice job." I commented.
Sirius probably would have been happy if he knew about it.
I know I could talk to Sirius with the stone but I somehow didn't have any reason to do so. I was overcoming Harry's part in my memories and bringing back one of the only few people who has ever been good to him is not a good way to do that.
"I take it the rooms are ready then?" Rias asked with a smile at Walburga's portrait's predicament. Last time she had outright blasted the wall off. I guess the new Rias liked this punishment much more just like I did.
Then again who knew that Fleur had such a vindictive side to her as well?
"What do we have in the schedule for tomorrow?" I asked as we all took seats in the room.
"I need you to come with me to Gringotts. I have bought some land that we can use for plantations of herbs for our potion business. I have also contracted the Goblins to purchase as much land as we can during this war. Land prices fall quite a bit during these times." Rias patiently explains.
"Really? I thought that the purebloods didn't sell land or priced it at exorbitant prices so that non magicals couldn't afford them easily." Hermione chirps in.
"Normally that would be true. But in the case of wars, many people try to flee the country. They can't take the land with them so they sell it for lower prices to gather funds to move. On the other hand families that die have their lands auctioned between people if they are unable to take care of them. Magical land is quite scarce so they use this to keep the land in use most of the time. A usable piece of land cannot be wasted. It was also done to bring the land of the long dead families back into circulation. This however leads to many problems. If settled backdoor, the auction can easily be done at dirt cheap prices and leave the original owner's family if any with next to nothing. This however doesn't apply to the money in the bank. In the last war, many landowners were specifically targeted and their lands were bought easily by the DE families later on due to having no competition because most of the times there were no people left of even if there were, they were not of age and that is not considering the law of conquest being applied in these cases. The laws of the place are excessively twisted to support the purebloods. I recon that if Shin hadn't been of age within three years of his Godfather passing away, he would have lost the properties as well. Funny thing is that as long as there are adult relatives alive, the land cannot be auctioned even if they are being kept useless as has been the case with the Peverell lands." Rias explains to us all.
I have to say I had no fucking idea about these stupid laws. It is utterly retarded how much of a backwater place they live in.
"So people are selling land as if they were hot potatoes right now. Let me guess, they keep the money out of the bank to prevent the Right of Conquest affecting it." Hermione concluded.
"Exactly."
"So how much land are we looking at right now?" I asked a little intrigued. I had no idea what Rias was planning on doing here.
"A little over half of the Light Side and around a quarter of the Dark Families." She gave me a beautiful smile at this.
….
"That's like a quarter of the entire lands of Magical Britain." I spoke in sheer disbelief.
"It is and I intend to make it more than half. The lands will be under your Houses' names so no other supernatural faction can do anything about it. It is toeing on the lines of legality but it is not as if it hasn't been done before." She replied.
"Are you sure that the other supernatural factions will not interfere with this? I don't think that blatantly taking over half of the land of magical Britain will make other pantheons happy."
"And that is where you would be wrong. Wizards are isolated from the outside world. Why do you think that even with branches of other Magical Associations in London and Britain, people still don't come in touch with the wizarding world? It is simply because due to the means of their creation, they are ostracized by the three factions. Heaven and Church find them heretical, the Fallen are hostile to them due to being related to devils and the devils themselves have various opinions of them none of which is good. One half specifically the Old Satan Faction find them as a reminder of their failure and don't associate with them and the new Satans try to avoid them so as to not give the feeling of planning something similar again. Other Pantheons stay away from these controversial lands due to this." Rias explained again.
This is pretty fucked up to be honest though.
"That is …." Akeno trails of.
"Dumb" Kuroka finished.
"Stupid" Merlin offered her two cents.
"Wrackspurt infestation." Two guesses who said that one.
"Very well, I will get ready to go to Gringotts tomorrow by 10 am if that is alright."
"That will be fine. Now what about your plans Shin" Rias asked me.
The others looked up to me as well.
"I don't intend to toy around with them. I have a prophecy in my name that has to be completed. I only have two Horcruxes to take care of now. One is Nagini, the familiar of Riddle and the other one is….Alex Potter."
Crash.
The vase at the corner of the room blasted off from Hermione releasing her power.
"I will get the soul piece out of Alex Potter and he will be yours to do as you please Hermione. I have no intention to kill him at all. Nagini will mostly be with Riddle himself so I have to find an opportunity to catch the two of them together. Any information about it?" I asked, looking at Fleur.
I know that she has been spying on the people here but I just don't know who and by how much.
"He is still at the Malfoy Manor. The place is under Fidelius but I have the location of the place courtesy of a….friend." she smiled.
"Oh, a friend?"
"Monika, Just Monika." Smiled again however this time it had a sinister edge to it.
"Oh. Now that's a story I have to hear." I returned with a smile of my own.
"We can listen to stories later. I have something else to inform you Shin." I looked at Rias who then continued, "For the time that we are in Britain, in public you have to use a different name. Harry has bad memories associated with it so let's call you Harrison Black. I would like it if you kept your other House names hidden for now. It will give us an edge when we use different House names to buy different properties. The gold from the different accounts will help us as well not to mention the Philosopher's Stone is always a nice backup to have."
"Is this the same Philosopher's Stone that is used in Alchemy?" asked Merlin.
Ah, that reminds me that I never told her about the stone. She might have heard about it from Hermione.
"Yes, the very same."
"I thought the stone was destroyed in the first year….fucking Dumbledore." whispered Hermione. Well would you look at that. She has learned to cuss.
"My first target here will be Alex Potter. I will get him when he is alone and remove the soul shard from him and then move on to Nagini. Any suggestions?" I asked.
"I would recommend doing that after him being a Horcrux is revealed to the Order of Fried Turkeys. It will be a solid hit to the morale of the Light Faction to have their Golden Boy being the puppet of Riddle. If possible make it so that he runs off and joins Riddle and reveals that you were the one in the prophecy and then take him out. I want you to place a shadow servant inside his shadow before that. Having him on the other side will be a great mental blow to the light faction and Riddle will probably protect him to save himself as well. You can then easily jump to your shadow servant and do the job. Once Riddle checks that he really is a Horcrux, he won't bother doing it a second time. We can use it as an advantage to make him think that his soul is still anchored and make him less aware of Nagini. Kidnapping Alex Potter after Riddle is finished is easy enough after this." Rias explains to me.
She wants to play mind games with them. Make them come to me and beg. It doesn't matter if Riddle is alive by then, they will still do the same.
"What about the other side." I asked.
"We will pass on the information about the Order meeting to the DEs. The Weasleys will be taken care of. Ronald Billus will be arrested and handed over to Hermione to do as she pleased with. Luna has asked to help the youngest child Ginny Weasley from this."
I raised an eyebrow at this.
Luna asked for Ginny to be left out?
Then again Ginny never directly did anything to Harry either. Not that I would have cared if she did. She is only 15 right now from what I remember and has always been after Alex to have really bothered Harry anywhere.
I mean killing someone just because they hate you and were brainwashed to do it is stupidity.
"We will need alliances as well. As much as I want to take over all the properties in Magical Britain, I can't do that. We will need a few other houses behind us as well. Original or new houses need to rise up and join us. We can always do it after the war is over though." Rias brought forward another point.
I had this in mind as well. A pie as big as Magical Britain cannot be eaten by only us. It will cause problems later down the line. People will not let it stand and I am not going to murder all who oppose me anyway. So alliances are needed even if only for show.
"Okay. I will leave that to you. Let's discuss the rest tomorrow. I am pretty sure everyone has to take some rest. Meredith, Merlin please put up the wards around the house. I am pretty sure that Hermione's Fidelius will work just fine but it never hurts to take some other precautions too."
"Okay Boss." and with that Meredith left to take care of the warding around the house.
"We will go and meet Luna's father tomorrow too." Rias added as well all left for our rooms.
Tomorrow will be a busy day for us all.
I headed inside the house to the room that was allocated to me.
The room's door however locked behind me and turning back, I caught the sight of a smiling Akeno.
It seems someone has plans for tonight.
"Want company tonight too?" I asked as a smile tugged at my lips.
She stepped towards me and before I could say anything else, her lips smashed into my own.
My hands crept around her waist as her lips opened and allowed my tongue passage inside her mouth.
She tastes quite a lot like the tea she makes, just a little milder and absolutely delicious. My hands slid down her waist to her hips as I hugged her tighter into my embrace.
I licked the top of her mouth and she moaned into me as a response, making me tighten my grasp over her hips and pull her so that my hardness was pressed directly on her belly.
I slipped a hand under her skirt which I lifted and slowly caressed her thighs upwards till I reached her hips and gave it a nice hard squeeze. "Ahhhh Shin"
I lifted her up as she wrapped her legs around my waist making my cock rub against her core above our clothes and carried her to the bed.
"We are finally alone without anyone to interrupt us this time. What are you going to do with me, Shin-kun? Are you going to force me to obey your whims and degrade myself and punish me if I don't or are you going to have your wicked ways with me while I try to resist?" she whispered all the while grinding hard into my crotch with her own core and I could feel the heat rising at the place we were joined at. I didn't reply, instead I grabbed her hair and pulled it back hard enough to cause pain but not hard to really hurt her and planted my lips on her neck and sucked at it. "Ummahhhh Shin-kun harder." I bit the place lightly and then sucked at it again and repeated it until a bruise was formed as I marked her as mine.
"You know, I did promise Shuri-san that I won't take your virginity till our marriage." I said as her hazed eyes cleared a bit and I saw a trace of disappointment in them but I continued without giving her a chance to say anything, "but there are many things that I can do without touching your vaginal virginity at all….and believe me I am going to do each and every one of those things." I whispered huskily in her ear earning a full blown blush from her as her eyes glazed over totally once more. "You agree with me, right?"
"Yes." She barely whispers for me to hear.
"Yes what?" I ask.
Her blush increases even more.
"Yes, Master." she all but moans this.
I smile.
I take the collars of the shirt and tug them slowly, increasing the force as the buttons tear and fall one at a time until her black lace bra is visible in front of me covering her milk while breasts. I think I have said this already but these things are huge and soft.
I tore the bra from the middle to reveal her breasts. The pure white balls of soft flesh with pink cherry like nipples on the top standing up completely erect.
I latched onto the pink bud on one side as my fingers took a hold of the other and pinch and twisted it. "Mmhh ahhhh Master ahhh yahhhh."
The moans sounding like music to my ears, I increase my pace and my hips pick up a motion of their own as her legs latch onto me tighter, pressing me against her crotch. I could feel her wetness as it soaked her panties and was even making my own pants wet now.
"Ahh Sh..Shin mmhh harderrrr" her voice echoed throughout the room as I enthusiastically continued my ministrations.
"I think that wet clothes are not good for our health, so let me take care of those for the two of us." I said and raised her legs while my thumbs then slipped inside of the elastic of her panties. She raised her hips to help me do the needed and I slowly dragged her panties along her shapely thighs to the milky white soft and white calves and finally off of her feet.
It was then that I parted her legs and saw the beauty hidden in between the two squeezable thighs of hers. There was a tiny neatly trimmed patch of black hair on top of the mound. The rest was neatly shaved with a pretty pink colour and the bud hidden under the folds of her skin. I looked up and saw her blushing face.
She was actually embarrassed at this which was honestly quite adorable.
I traced her slit till her clit and lightly pinched it. Her body shivered and an enchanting moan escaped her.
I lifted my fingers and showed her the strings that her juices were making. "While this hole is forbidden for now, the others are a fair game, right." I smiled at her as her blush became explosive.
I gently caressed the pink rosebud, making small circles around it. Using her own juices to slowly massage her backdoor and make her relax, I gave her slit a lick from the bottom right to the clit which I sucked, using my tongue to bring out the flesh from under the folds of the skin.
Her hands took hold of my hair drawing me harder against her sodden quim as she mewled in ecstasy. My fingers continued working on the bottom hole, slowly massaging her. "Ahhhh cu-cumm-cumminggggggahh" I pushed my finger inside, slowly casting a cleaning spell to clear the hole and man is it tight.
One joint at a time, her breath hitched everytime I did it. Two knots in, I spoke, "Akeno, relax. Ease yourself or this will hurt."
Anal takes much more preparation than is normally shown.
I will need to work this hole properly even with her Fallen Angel/Devil Physique making her an ideal person for sex, being rough like this can hurt her bad.
It took a few minutes until she came down from the orgasm high and slowly relaxed a little, prompting me to slide the final part of the finger inside. It was like a burning furnace gripped my finger in a vice-like grip. The saying that Devils and Fallen Angels are made for sex was not too far off because damn, she is….exquisite. I let her adjust to it for a while then slid out my finger and slowly increased the pace till she became used to it. Her juices dripping from her pussy to the lower hole lubricated the process more.
It went on for a few minutes till I added another finger into it making her soft groans now quite vocal.
My own cock seemed like it would burst from the blood pumping into it.
I turned around so that my crotch was near her face, a sixty nine position as I continued to work on her backdoor. She seemed to have gotten the idea as I felt her hands caress my crotch and then pulling my pants down and releasing my cock to the open air.
Her hands soon took hold of my cock, gently caressing and stroking it.
"Lick." I commanded and felt her lips place a kiss on my cock.
She started with slow kisses all over the length of my shaft and then gave it a long lick starting from the base to the tip of the cock.
I concentrated on her backdoor and returned the favour with my tongue on her clit. She has a musky scent to her that only made me harder. Her licks got all over my length and soon enough I felt the tip of my cock being enveloped in the warmth of her mouth.
"Ahhh, just like that. Keep working your tongue." I groaned in pleasure as she took my length inside her mouth a little at a time until I felt her gag a little on it.
I increased one more finger inside her asshole and felt her breath hitch a little as she paused her actions on my shaft but after a few seconds continued with her ministrations, lathering the whole length with her saliva. Akeno is a natural at this. She was actually trying to deep throat me on her first try.
I however noticed that her efforts were working as a couple minutes later, I found myself feeling a release. My free hand took a hold of her hair and pulled her harder against my crotch as I shoved my length inside her throat. The sheer tightness of her throat pushed me over the edge as I released my seed inside her.
She for herself held tight to me and gripped my thighs and pulled me inside her even more. The rough treatment seemed to have done work for the masochist that she was and she squirted right on my face the moment I was done with my own release. The two of us basked in the afterglow of the intense orgasm.
She released my cock from her mouth as she heaved for a breath. "Cough cough t-that was cough ama-amazing."
"That it sure was." I breathed out as well.
I brought out a piece of metal from my inventory and changed its shape into a buttplug. Alchemy for the win.
"Here is my gift for tonight." I said as I lubricated the plug with her own juices and slowly shoved it inside her now slightly gaping asshole till everything was inside.
"I want you to get used to it till the next time." I said smacking her butt softly and then placing a soft kiss on it.
"Yes Master, I will."
She mewled still basking in the afterglow.
I picked her up and hugged her to my side. While I could have taken her right now and she wouldn't have minded it at all, it is better to be safe to not hurt her.
Too big orgasms were enough to knock her off on the first day. Rias had lasted more to be honest. But then again I didn't start with the backdoor with her either.
As she hugged me, pressing her soft breasts on the side of my chest, I heard her whisper, "I love you Shin."
"Hmm, I love you too Akeno." I breathed into her ears softly as I felt sleep take over me.
- Scene Change –
I woke up to an unfamiliar ceiling and it took me a second to remember exactly where I was. Looking to my sides, I found the usual patch of crimson sprawled all over my chest as Rias lay in her position on my side. Akeno was still on my other side, hugging me tight.
It seems that the two had an agreement yesterday and Rias decided to give the two of us a little time alone. She is really observant like that. Much more than me at least. I like this part of her a lot. She cares a lot for her loved ones, and while she did coddle them a bit earlier, she didn't miss any chance to help them either.
It is one of the things that had drawn me to her so much. I have powers that would make me strong without almost any limits. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Someone with that much power needs something to anchor them to their sanity. Rias' kindness is that anchor for me.[1/B:N]
I know that it is too early to think about these things but then again better now than too late. After all, Gamers Mind can only help me so much.
Akeno on the other hand was too guarded to put her trust in me due to her own fears of rejection. She however will become extremely dedicated if she falls in love. Her dedication for her mother and then her savior, Rias is proof of this. I am not letting go of such a cute and dedicated one at all.
As I was lost in my thoughts, Rias perhaps felt the change in my breath and my movement as she slowly opened her eyes as well.
"Morning Beautiful." I softly greeted her with a kiss on her lips earning a smile that made my day.
"Did you have fun last night? She looks so happy in her sleep." she said smiling back and eying Akeno who still has a happy smile on her lips.
"I did. As for Akeno, she is the only one I know that can smile like that with a buttplug inside her." I smirked earning a wide-eyed look from Rias at me.
"A b-buttplug!" she blushed bright crimson almost matching the colour of her hair.
"I did promise that I won't take her vaginal virginity till we marry each other. It however didn't have any agreements on the backdoor." My grin got bigger with how much she blushed at my words.
We have had sex almost every night for the last two months or so but she can still blush like this. I really love this girl. She is totally worth it.
"So today we have plans for Gringotts, correct? When do we leave?" I asked. I still need to deal with the Horcrux in Alex's head but now I am being told to use that differently according to Rias' plan. It's not that I don't appreciate how she is planning to break the morale of the people on the light side before breaking the people themselves. I am actually quite proud of her. It's just that it makes the plan to deal with Riddle a bit longer than necessary. I think I will level up a little till then. It doesn't sit well to have only eight wings for me while all the girls that I sleep with have ten or more wings. Petty male ego.
"Around ten. I still need to find the current locations of the targets before starting our final plan. I would like to polish the details a bit till then. We can simply have them all gather at the same place and you can finish the lot together. Searching for cockroaches is bothersome." she said the last part in an almost apathetic tone.
Man….she does hate them more than I do. A part of that makes me happy and proud that she feels so strongly for me. Well for that alone I'll indulge her.
"Sure. I will go and train a little. Just let me know when everyone is gathered. I need to summon someone too."
"Oh. You got a new servant?" she asked, a little surprised.
"I did. I was actually waiting for her because I found out that I will be able to summon her soon enough." I said remembering the incident from a month ago.
"What kind of person is she?" Rias asked now intrigued.
"Hmm. She is as loyal as Jibril and probably as strong as a High Satan to low Super Devil because of her ridiculous skills. It is quite similar to Merlin's ability, in a way that it can make people cry cheating." I say remembering the ability of the newest summoning gem that I have acquired.
"Really? I honestly can't even imagine abilities similar to Merlin. She is like a living breathing hack. Can I watch you summoning her?" she asks me in excitement.
"Hmm sure. I already know what to expect from this so it is not dangerous at all for us. I will still have Merlin and Sakuya with me just in case."
We talked like this for a while when Akeno seemed like she would sleep for a while longer, I got up and got ready for some training.
Rias decided to do some work too. Her plans needed some more polishing and changes according to the enemies' movements.
It might have been so easy to just go and crush them but that would make the whole thing meaningless for all of us.
The ID runs always help me vent out. I rarely have a chance to go in alone because of training everyone. It took two hours of grinding to help me level up four times.
The ID's at the higher levels change so that if I try to spam AoE attacks on low level monsters, a Variant appears which is almost always stronger than me.
I can't have that normally but this time, I needed venting and vent I did.
A magic type enemy was honestly the easiest because my Mirror Alice is basically a cheat. It was only that I had to dodge the special attacks because they surpassed the limit of my reflection or even storage but I could easily handle the load because it was a fire type monster.
Upgrade Quest
[I am all fired up](Master)
Let the fires of your youth burn and turn your enemies into cinders.
Kill (9/10) Champion Tier enemies.
Kill (100/100) Elite Tier enemies.
Kill (1000/1000) Veteran Tier enemies.
Kill (10000/100000) Regular Tier enemies.
Reward : Fire God Slayer Magic(Master).
It was fortunately the last one of the Champion Tier enemies that I had to kill.
Skill Upgraded
[Fire God Slayer Magic (Master)] (Passive)
The ability to use black flames that can hurt even Gods. God Slayer Magic is an ancient lost magic that gives its users an extreme control of and resistance to fire.
User gains the ability to eat fire and convert it into MP, SP however cannot be restored.
MP cost varies.
Deal [{(MP cost)/2} + (INT * 7)]
+125% extra damage to beings possessing Divinity.
Skill Upgraded
[Fire Affinity (Legendary)] (Passive)
80% extra damage to any fire based magic.
-40% cost to any fire based magic.
Skill Upgraded
[Fire Resistance (Legendary)] (Passive)
Immunity to any fire up to Expert rank.
+80% resistance to any fire above Legendary rank.
The reason why the Fire God Slayer Magic was so hard to level up was because of the two attached skills. It took around ten times more grinding than the normal ones. If I didn't have Sakuya, Merlin and Jibril helping me with the Champion Class monsters, I would never have gotten this far in such a little time.
The further upgrade quest shows that I will need 100 Ultimate Champion Tier monsters for it.
I don't even know where to get all of them from. All in all this morning was quite productive.
Now for the summoning part.
I got out of the ID for a few minutes and invited Rias, Sakuya and Merlin inside the ID. I have an idea about what to expect but still it is better to be safe here.
"So what kind of person are you summoning this time?" Merlin asked curiously.
"Hmm. You can classify her as a Youkai in this world. She is very strong and although I have a pretty good idea what to expect from her, beware that your Perfect Cube will NOT work against her. I will signal you all in case there is a problem but before that do not attack." I informed as I took out the Companion Gem from my inventory.
I took a deep breath and crushed the Companion Gem which then turned into motes of light and formed the figure of a girl. She had a decent height that put her a little taller than me, purple hair and a curvy figure but the most defining feature was probably the horn on her forehead. She had a broadsword on her back as she looked around and our eyes met.
I barely had the time to twitch my muscle before I found her right before me and before Sakuya could 'Za Waruldo' her to stop, I was crushed into the valley of her breasts. "Shin-samaaaaaa. I was waiting for so long since you told me that you will call me to serve you personally. Ah, to finally be with you. Take that Shauna-hime, I win. I will serve Great Shin on my own now."
The blabbering continued as I began to find it difficult to breathe.
I think that the others are probably confused and forgot to intervene and I pushed myself with great effort and got out of the admittedly soft and warm mountains.
"S-Shion, I can't breathe."
"Oh, Shin-sama, I am extremely sorry but I couldn't help myself. The younger Shin-sam is so cute that I just needed to hug you immediately."
….cute. I'd rather prefer Handsome but I am not complaining.
I used a quick Observe on her when I finally escaped the embrace.
Shion
Race : Evil Oni
Rank : Champion
Level : 125
Affection : 80
Obedience : 90
Fuck….she is already at Super Class.
Then again knowing her ability, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
"Shin, would you introduce us?" I heard Rias' voice breaking me out of my musings.
"Ah yes. Shion, I think I already know the information, still can you explain what happened before you were summoned hereafter I introduce everyone. They are my companions. This is Sakuya, my maid." Sakuya bowed while Shion's eyes got a glint of competitiveness in them. This is going to be troublesome. I am glad I didn't bring Jibril here. "This is Merlin, my Bishop." Merlin merely nodded her head and smiled in amusement at my situation. She is an utter sadist from what I know.
I however continued the introductions, "and this is Rias, my love, my fiancé."
BOOMMMM
I almost flew off from the sudden burst of demonic energy from her. Sakuya summoned her knives and Merlin invoked her spells while Rias defended herself with an aura of the Power of Destruction.
I hurriedly looked towards Shion to see….her biting her nails looking at Rias with a dark look of jealousy. "Ughh, Love, Fiancé….I am so jealous." Seeing no intention to attack, I relaxed myself and signaled the others to do the same.
I did realize a simple fact though.
If Shion did want to kill any of us, I think she would easily succeed.
"Shion, would you introduce yourself?" I asked as I stood beside Rias and caressed her back asking her to relax.
The pressure around her settled as she took a deep breath and answered with a smile which made it seem that her outburst a few moments earlier had been all but a lie if not for the 20 meter crater around us, "I am Shion. Shin-sama's bodyguard and cook. Nice to meet you." Was it just my imagination or did she look towards Sakuya with a challenging look when she said the cook part?
I looked at Sakuya and was relieved to see that she still had a calm look on her face only to look down and see clenched fingers.
Fuck….this is going to be extremely troublesome.
I asked her to continue as we took seats on the conjured chairs. Rias was still a little tense so I kept caressing her back. I don't blame her. Shion is a low Superclass being in terms of power and that is not considering her special ability.
"I was asked to help Shin-sama after the Harvest festival along with one of the other servants. He wanted to see how it all started and I wanted to serve Shin-sama so we both agreed. That is all I remember before I was summoned here."
"What is this Harvest Festival?" Rias asked, her curiosity getting over her shaken state of mind.
"It is the ascension ritual where a being ascends to a higher level. In Shin-sama's case, he ascended to the position of a Demon Lord when he defeated the armies attacking our city. I and many others who were connected to him also gained the blessing of the world and evolved." She explained with adoration and worship in her eyes.
"Demon Lord!?"
"It is a title given to those who have ascended to the rank and are independent. There are other Demon Lord level beings but they serve under the Eight Star Demon Lords and thus they cannot have the title. Shin-sama was one of those Eight Demon Lords."
So I was playing Rimuru? The other one didn't tell me the details. I am glad that Shion is so forthcoming.
I shook off the thoughts from my head. This is for the future. I will think about it when I go to that world.
"Let's go and get ready. It is almost 10 and we need to get ready for today's work as well." I said.
The others albeit reluctantly agreed to it as well.
We left the ID and reappeared in the living room of Grimmauld Place.
Sakuya left to prepare the breakfast while I decided to reincarnate Shion as my peerage member.
"Shion, I want you to be a part of my peerage. It is a group that serves me and is based on a game of chess. I only have pawn, knight and rook pieces left. Pawn will give you a slight increase in overall stats but can be temporarily promoted to any other pieces except King which means in the Queen Piece evolution, you will get a high increase in overall stats although temporary, Knight will increase your speed and proficiency with weapons and Rook will increase your defense and strength. Which piece do you want for yourself?" I asked as I took a seat.
"Hmm. I am interested in the Rook piece because it can increase my strength and defense. I can protect Shin-sama with my body then." She gushed, making me sweatdrop.
"Very well, then so be it." I took out the Mutated Rook Piece from my inventory and pressed it on Shion's chest. So soft.
A reddish black light enveloped her and finally 12 devil wings sprouted from her back.
In the meanwhile everyone went around the room to meet the new member.
The light finally died down a few moments later when the transformation was completed and there stood Shion in all her glory. Her strength and defence stats increased by 500 points and that is a lot considering she was already at a low Super Devil Class.
She kneeled in front of me. "I thank you with all my heart Great Shin for bestowing me with your blessing once more. I shall do my best to bring success to you."
+10 Affection with Shion(90/100) for granting her wings.
+10 Obedience with Shion(100/100) for granting her wings.
Perk Gained [Shion – 50]
[Horny Love]
Easier increase in Affection, Reputation and Obedience gains with beings with horns.
"Rise Shion. I think you already know that this is a different world. I will let Meredith teach you about this world till you are ready. We will be staying in this house for a while till I complete my work in this country. I hope you will cooperate with all the members of our household as well."
"I will my King." She replied solemnly.
I nodded in return.
"May I know where the kitchen is Shin-sama?" she asked, making me sweat a little.
"It's down the hallway. Let me show you there." Meredith took her away before I could stop her.
"Well, that was something. Demon Lord Shin, I like the sound of that." Rias chuckled as she snuggled into me.
I scratched my head while Merlin laughed as well.
"So, what is her ability? I mean apart from that strength. I think she can equal Escanor with that amount of strength."
"Hmm. Maybe but in a fight, Escanor is more likely to die against Shion. Her ability is just that broken. You will see soon, when we face her cooking." I shivered a little.
"Face her cooking? That is an unusual use of words." Rias asked, confused.
"You will see soon." I replied mysteriously.
We discussed the meeting and topics that we were going to have at Gringotts today right after this.
Meanwhile, Sakuya returned back with food and informed me that Shion was cooking in secret to impress me. I shivered yet again.
The food was arranged and everyone took their seats around the dinner table and finally Shion came up with her dish.
"Great Shin. I have prepared food for you. Please enjoy." She smiled pushing the pot in front of me and the dread in my heart increased.
"H-hmm." I nodded and picked up the lid of the pot while others looked intrigued.
And then it was revealed.
If organic weapons were made through cooking, this would be the prototype. Raw vegetables floating in the gravy that looked purplish in colour, black miasma floated around it. I took out a Detoxification Potion under the table just in case. I looked towards others who had pale faces.
Even the ever calm and composed Sakuya looked white in the face.
"Enjoy your meal Shin-sama." Shion chimed again.
I gulped a mouthful of saliva and took a spoon to take the food.
No one spoke a word.
I picked up a spoonful of the soup….is it just me or did the spoon bend?
….fuck.
And I finally brought the soup to my lips and with closed eyes gulped it all inside in one big mouthful.
"….it tastes….wonderful." Even if I had known the result of the act, I was still amazed.
"This food tastes amazing Shion." I smiled at her getting a content smile in return.
"Seriously!" Meredith all but shouted.
I merely nodded and took another spoonful of soup.
It did taste amazing.
The others also maybe gained a little bit of courage seeing me eat and took a bit for themselves.
"This does taste nice."
"How?"
Even Sakuya was appalled.
"This is my ability "The Cook". I gained it from the world due to my wish to make the best food for Shin-sama." She said in a dedicated voice.
"What does this ability do?" Merlin asked to get a hold of herself. She has a lot of weirdness resistance.
"It changes the outcome to whatever I want no matter the steps taken. I always get the result that I desire." She replied, getting open jawed looks from everyone.
I kept on eating the food though.
I already knew it.
"Pardon me for the crude language," Merlin started in a low and calm tone, "but WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?."
"That is completely absurd. Every action and result needs a series of steps. That is what science is for. Even in case of magic, some rules need to be followed. What you are saying is absurd." Hermione started her rant.
"It's magic." I simply replied, still concentrating on the food.
Sakuya is the only one who didn't look like she'd cry at the absurdity of the ability but that was probably because she was from Gensokyo. That world itself is hax.
I continued, "Well, there are many abilities with similar effects. The effect of Gáe Bolg or Gungnir has similar function though not to this extent of versatility. Also, while this ability is powerful, I know of many others that can easily trump it. It is not even comparable to 'All Fiction' and some other abilities that I know of."
"True. I was not even close to the strongest beings of my world." Shion nodded her head, not at all insulted from the statement. She knows that it is a fact.
"I am not even going to ask what that 'All Fiction' thing is but do you have any other abilities." Merlin asked.
"Hmm, I have this sword that Shin-sama gifted me. It has the ability to ignore defense and attack the soul." She said pointing towards her broadsword.
I remember that now.
There actually was something like that too.
"Wow." I think that was Meredith's voice.
The breakfast went on for a while and everyone was content with the new member after a few more questions though.
- Scene Change –
We arrived before the gates of the bank by 10 am in the morning. Gringotts was still guarded by the goblins and seemed unaffected by the subtle sense of unease in Diagon Alley. The war is picking up the pace and with the reveal of Voldemort, it was easy to feel the impalpable atmosphere of fear in the people.
Rias and I arrived there while Merlin and Sakuya came in another group. Hermione followed Merlin in a disguise while Fleur came with us to show us around the bank and lead us through the processes.
Eyes turned towards us. Rias is just that eye catching and that was not to mention the beauty of the other girls. I would not brag but with my current CHA stat, I looked quite handsome myself. Sakuya and Ciel, who was now posing as my scarf, were keeping an eye on the surroundings. We entered the bank completely uninterrupted.
Fleur lead us to the Branch Manager of the establishment and remembering my previous visit, it seems that Ragnok had ordered the other goblins in not so severe words to not fuck with us. A goblin outside his office ran inside as soon as he saw us and then came out a few moments later escorting us in.
Ragnok looked tense and if I had been my previous self, I would have not noticed the beads of sweat on his forehead due to my presence.
"I come for business Branch Manager." I greeted in a polite tone.
No need to kick the one who is already down.
"I was informed about the offer. I have here a list of properties that are up for sale. Gringotts will take a 20% brokerage on the properties that are sold through us to ensure that there are no legal problems later on. We can also check the properties for curses and offer wards for the properties," he then eyed Rias and back to me, "but I don't think you will need that anyways. Please select the properties that you wish to purchase. As already discussed with your representative, Miss Delacour, we will keep the information about you anonymous."
Rias took the file to take a look at the properties while I took a peek out of curiosity. I saw a few names that I recognized, the Diggory, Brown, Abbot and even neutral families like Greengrass. One name however stuck to my eyes, two plantations of potion materials and two plots of lands for rearing magical animals owned by the Potter House.
I nudged Rias towards the names and caught a smile on her face.
She knew about it.
She marked the names of the properties that she intended to buy….which was all of them.
I swear to all that is unholy….shopping with women is something I won't understand even with infinite INT stats.
"This property," she pointed towards the Potter properties, "I will let you keep the difference in money that you can haggle and bring it down. It shows that the price for the properties is 3,24,000 Galleons. Bring it down as much as you can when haggling with the sellers and you can keep the difference." Her smile was predatory. It almost got me hard.
Ragnok, although tensed knowing who he was dealing with, couldn't help his exact nature and smirked back. "I like your way of thinking Miss Gremory. It will be done."
I kinda feel sorry for the Potters now….kinda….maybe a little….nah, it's alright now.
The two of us marked any and every property to be bought and finalized the deal by placing the budget for each one. The goblins will get money for each successful bill and double commission on the amount of money they save from haggling. I have to say that Rias really shines in deals like these. Exploiting the greed of the goblins to make profitable deals. As much as they hate us, it is still lower than their love for money so the chance that they try to screw us over by using all the provided budget for buying the land is clearly out the window now. Screwing over the enemies and saving money with the same move, truly a master class move now.
A deal of 22 million Galleons was made today. I walked out of the bank with 22 million Galleons less in my account but at the same time much richer instead.
As I was waiting outside the gates of Gringotts as Rias had to take a round of the vaults to inspect the contents, I used observe on the people in the alley.
I did spot some Aurors disguised as normal people. Who was the current Minister of Magic? Yes, whoever they are, are doing their jobs quite well, for the leader of dumb people that is. I did spot some spies of the DEs among them as well. The masked ones do conduct raids but never attack with only one or two people in a place like Diagon Alley.
As I was looking around I did spot something interesting as well.
Is that?
It is. Well who would have thought?
"HARRY!"
I used observe on the two most obvious people approaching me.
Lily Marrie Potter
Race : Human(Magical)
Rank : Veteran
Level : 22
Affection : 95
Obedience : 95
Thoughts About You : Massive guilt, Unconditional Love.
Status Effects : Mild Hysteria, Love Potioned, Loyalty Potioned, Long Term Potion poisoning, Magical drain.
Massive guilt and Unconditional love? Long Term Potion poisoning.
Magical drain probably fighting the effects of potion.
I did know that she was under the effects of potions from Serafall's file but I didn't know the extent of it. To develop poisoning though, she must have been under an extremely heavy dose.
….and the other douche is not someone I have to observe to know what he is feeling about me. The look in his eyes says it all. Indecisive about me although I do sense a tone of disgust and finally reluctant acceptance.
I did however observe him after learning from my previous hindsight in the last battle.
James Charlus Potter
Race : Human(Magical)
Rank : Veteran
Level : 24
Reputation : -10
Obedience : -50
Thoughts About You : Indecisive, Mild Disgust, Reluctant acceptance.
Nailed It.
Fuck you too. Reluctant acceptance? As if I need his approval for anything at all now.
My thoughts were broken when I was hugged by the arms around me.
"My baby. My little baby. I am so sorry." she sobbed into my chest.
I let out a sigh. Rather not get involved in this drama now. I removed Lily's arms from around me and stepped back.
"I would prefer it if you didn't do that. What do you need me for Lady Potter?" I asked in an indifferent tone.
She looked as if she had been physically slapped. The pained look in her eyes would have hurt but it didn't for a very simple reason….I was not Harry.
I had no intention to become one either.
I had my own mother. She is someone I have loved despite my petty heart even in my last life and I am not giving that up for someone just because they cry for neglecting their child.
Lily Potter's potion regime started from 1986, a whole five years after Harry had been sent to the Dursleys.
In all that time, not even once did she make time to check on the poor kid. Even if I had been in Harry's place, I would have found it hard to completely forget and forgive it. Her willpower however is admirable that she had fought this for eleven years but that still doesn't erase the fact that she DID give up her child once.
I don't have anything against her though. While James and Alex will die, not by my hands but whatever Rias has planned from what I know is not pleasant at all, doesn't involve Lily. What her exact plans about Lily are is not known to me either. I did tell her about my thoughts but she didn't tell me anything about her plan's about Lily after it.
"W-what are you saying Harry? You are my son." she stuttered incoherently.
"I am afraid you made a mistake there, Lady Potter. I am not your son. I was disowned from the House of Potter two months ago by your husband. We don't currently share any familial bonds at all. My name is Lord Harrison Sirius Black, The Lord of The Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Black as named by my Godfather."
Oh, the practice at poker face was not enough for me to suppress that smirk towards James Potter. The bastard had the gall to think I would need his acceptance at all.
"Come on Harry. Stop being so dramatic now. Get back home, everyone is worried. How are you even here and how did you get the Lordship?" spoke the douche in a dismissive tone of voice.
Hot damn, he is annoying.
I can only imagine the pain of Harry having to deal with this piece of crap father all this time.
I however have to keep up that role, so I spoke in a cold tone, copying Sakuya when she was angry, "That would be Lord Black to you Auror Potter." The subtle bite by refusing to call him Lord while still using something to keep it respectable enough to not cause any unnecessary problems for me.
"Harrison, did you meet an acquaintance of yours?" I heard Rias' voice from behind me.
I turned back to see her smiling as she came to me and hugged my arm. The eyes of the people who were probably waiting to see the drama with the Potters were now watching me and Rias. She is more beautiful than a Veela and her crimson hair is just that eye-catching.
Hell it's annoying because even that idiotic ass, James is staring.
Oh….I just realized something.
Lily has red hair and green eyes too.
Fuck, I hope people don't think I have Oedipus complex. I just like redheads.
"W-who are you?" Lily asked in a shaken voice.
"Hello..." I cut her off at this point, "She is my wife." and hugged her closer to me.
"WIFE?"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT BOY? STOP SPEAKING NONSENSE AND ANSWER ME, WHO IS THIS TRAMP?" shouted James Potter, completely blowing his head off in anger.
I would later pat my back in praise remembering the effort I used to control myself from not erasing the idiotic piece of crap from the face of this world right at that instant.
Rias' grip on me grew harder as she helped me reign in my temper.
"James Charlus Potter. Your past friendship between my Godfather Sirius Black is the only reason I am excusing your insult towards my wife. If and I repeat IF you ever, ever dare insult her in front of me, I'd declare a Blood Feud between the House of Black and House of Potter and use every bloody resource I have to utterly ruin you."
He for his part looked as if I had physically banished him. I didn't realize it but I did leak quite an amount of magic but with my bracelet, it was still contained and that only made a reddish aura appear around me as the ground beneath my shoes cracked from my magic. Wizards are almost never able to manifest this aura at all. Must have scared the crap out of the douchebag. He quickly took a few steps back.
"H-Harry, it's not like that...please. How….when did you get married?" Lily asked, not at all worried about my magic.
I do have to give her praise for her courage. Also a plus point is that she didn't try to lecture me about Rias. A big plus point.
"I found the betrothal contract within the Vault when I took the Lordship." I answered, which is technically not a lie. "I met her soon after and we got along and married just recently." I answered in a calm voice not giving out a hint of emotion.
I was helped by Rias who then joined the conversation. "Are they your ex-family, Harrison?" she asked and I could feel the stress on the ex-family part.
Oh, she most definitely planned this meeting.
No fucking way this was all coincidental.
I did however say that I will let her do what she wants this time so I merely replied, "Yes."
"In that case we are done here. Let's go back home." she replied curtly.
"Wait. What do you mean let's go home? He will be going with us, his family. Don't you want him to live with his family?" James tried to use the guild route to convince the two of us this time.
"Family you say. You are lucky that I couldn't collect the material evidence for all the abuse that my husband has suffered over the years or I would have you in Azkaban or even thrown through the Veil. I have seen all his memories, read the health reports that would have made full-grown soldiers shiver, so trust me when I say this, after what you have done to my husband, I wouldn't trust you with my pet let alone my family or children that we will have in the future." she took a deep breath to reign in her aura. The power of destruction, although being controlled by my bracelet, was still exerting pressure on the ones she wanted to. She continued, "Oh, I understand what this is about. Why my husband has suddenly become a family again to you all. You people realized that your other son is a fake after my husband left. Starting from the very first day, he has been nothing but a fake. We watched Harrison's memories so we know who it was that reflected the Killing Curse but now that you understand that you kicked the real one out, you come back groveling and pretending to be a family. No way in the nine hells are you going to have your way this time around. Now, if you will excuse us, we have to return back to our home." she was quite loud and while she was genuinely angry, I can say with complete surety that she had all this planned.
I couldn't help but let a small smile pull at the edge of my lips. My Rias has matured so much. I am really proud.
"W-what do you mean a-a-abused?" asked Lily while James looked completely stunned. Rias was loud enough in her rant that every passerby had heard the speech. I could already hear them whispering right now. Oh, this is going to be on the next day's paper.
"Your sister and her family were extremely loving towards my husband. Starving him for not being able to cook them a meal and then hitting him with a belt was a common thing and this was when he was barely 5. I would not go into details and bring back those unpleasant memories and this is not even considering what has happened at Hogwarts. The memories are too painful for us. Now, please excuse us." She held my hand and almost dragged me away, pushing Lily slightly to the side. The other party was too stunned to do anything.
A little distance away, when we were near the floo point of the Leaky Cauldron, I asked her in a low voice, "Why all this planning?"
She took a deep breath in. It really shows that she was angry, well apart from her tight grip on my arm. Then she smiled at me, "I was planting a bomb."
She didn't explain anything further and we walked inside the floo with the entire Leaky Cauldron watching us and the entirety of the Diagon Alley in an uproar.
Rias truly knows how to cause some chaos.
- Lily Potter –
Lily was desperately trying to figure out what had happened just then. One minute she had found her baby, her sweet child in front of her and the very next she found out that not only had her child gotten married; he didn't even consider them as his family.
Could she blame him though?
Everything that the girl said was true.
The girl, Rias, if she had recalled it correctly, was her daughter-in-law. Her words had hurt. Every word was like a red hot knife being stabbed in her heart.
Her poor baby was being abused. She knew that Petunia had hated her for having magic and had hated her after that but to think she would take that anger out on her child. Then again what had she expected from others. She herself couldn't keep her baby with her, so how could she blame others.
'I wouldn't trust you with my pet, let alone with my children.'
Those words had been a hard slap on her face.
The girl was right again though. Even she wouldn't trust someone like her with their child and now because of this she lost her child.
The girl reminded her of herself, in her youth. Quick tempered but never standing for anything bad. At least her baby had found a loving wife. Maybe he will be happy from now on.
James on the other hand had been ballistic. Dumbledore had been unavailable when he had tried to call the floo to Hogwarts. He had been ready to floo over and fight Severus when he had sneered at him. He was currently scrambling around throwing things and venting his anger.
She however had locked herself inside her room. She couldn't face anyone right now.
Suddenly she remembered something and took out a small vial from her pocket with a piece of paper wrapped around it.
She opened the piece of paper and saw the words written on it.
A chance to repent.
Your last chance.
Inside it was a vial containing a potion. She smelled the content to find out that it was a….Flushing Potion.
Thousand thoughts raced through her mind. What did it mean?
When the girl, her now daughter-in-law, Rias had passed her, she had secretly passed this into her hands. Even she knew that something was going on and that she needed to hide it right then, that was exactly what she did using whatever semblance of reasoning she had back then.
A chance to repent.
….
Did she even deserve it?
….
Maybe she could just leave it be. Harry was happy now as it was.
….
no.
No.
NO.
NO.
She had done that the last time as well. Let it be and it had resulted in her baby being….abused by those monsters.
Not anymore.
Never again will she allow that to happen.
If her baby needed her, then he would have her. If he didn't need her then she would just remain in the shadows and help him as much as she could.
She needed to repent.
To be able to see herself in the mirror at the very least and call herself a mother to her child.
With those thoughts in mind, she tightened her hold over the vial, removed the cork and chugged the potion in one gulp.
And right then, darkness claimed her consciousness.
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Beta Reader: LuluViBritania(FF.N, SB and QQ)/-LuluViB|99th Britannian Emperor(Discord)
Author's Note :
Well would you look at that. This chapter took longer than any other.
It was because of the schedules and well Lulu was having some IRL work. I kept writing the chapter but when he was busy, I just wrote more and he had to correct those as well. We were stuck in this vicious cycle until I decided to drop it and take a nap.
I didn't want to post the unedited version and torture you all with my horrible English. You can read chapters 3-11 for that. They still haven't been edited yet.
Anyway, a lot happened in this chapter.
Something had happened with Lavinia but she has joined Shin. What happened with her, I will explain in the next chapter in her own pov maybe.
Rias is totally intent on wrecking the crap out of the wizarding world. Shin just wants to kill Voldemort and be done with it but has decided to let her do what she wants this time.
Akeno finally got some love. I will continue it in the next chapter and maybe add some Kuroka parts as well.
I suck at writing lemons and they take almost twice as much time as normal for me. I am always amazed by the ones who write it so effortlessly. In Shiro's server, Shiro, Shifty and many others write really awesome smut. I am still learning so I hope you will hold back on the flames there.
We got Shion as well and a few hints about 'him' have been thrown around. As for the identity of 'him', Daga Kotowaru. I refuse to disclose it right now.
Shion is one of my favourite characters in the Slime Tensei world. I have many things planned for her and it is not because of a mere thought that she was summoned. Some might complain about Shin having strong peerage members one after another but trust me when I say that by the end of it all, it will make sense.
And finally the visit to the bank. I truly hope that you all like my take on this Rias that I have tried to make.
Rias had planned the visit at Gringotts and the subsequent 'coincidental' meeting with the Potters. It was actually giving me the flashes of her smiling while saying 'All according to Keikaku' when I was writing the scene. It was truly fun to write that scene.
Enjoy the story.
Good Day, Peace out.