Sirzechs Lucifer held back a chuckle as he saw through the window several of the younger demons running around with somewhat harassed expressions and messy hairstyles. The past couple of days have been really funny to him, but downright insanity for his assistants.
He was currently in the main office of the Maou government building, seating behind his desk doing some paperwork for the everyday matters. The room was very impressive in its looks; roughly the dimensions of two king-sized bedrooms, the room was supported with white marble columns that go all the way to the ceiling, pictures of some of the most known Devils in the government adorning the walls of light oak and the floor was paved with dark marble. The desk he was currently doing his work on was a big dark oak table with silver trimmings and a few magic circles etched into it for a makeshift protection barrier if he were attacked in his office.
Truthfully, he felt it to be a little too lavish for his tastes. All he ever needed was a small room and a small desk to do his duties, he did not like the idea that there was so much wealth around him that could be used to help the poorer groups in the area. Still he was a Maou, and the old goats in the government were pretty adamant that the office should reflect the status.
Not that it ever stopped him to occasionally 'miss' an item that would be converted into cash and be given to a poor community to help them through the year.
He paused for a moment to look at the assistant through the room window, then with a fair amount of curiosity, he pressed the button on the intercom to hear the conversations going on privately.
"Good Afternoon, no he is not available, please call again later!"
"No, he is not going to give a press conference about this!"
"I have said it once and I will not say it again! It was a Rating Game and Raiser lost! Plain Simple Answer! Got that?!"
'Oh boy, they are really going at it, huh?' Sirzechs thought cheerfully as he thought to the Rating Game.
Normally for Rating Games, there would be a large number of people to witness the fights, but since this was meant to be a private battle between two clans, they were only limited to him, witnesses from the Gremory Clan and the Phenex Clan, and a couple of selected others. However, it seemed that the Phenex were counting their chickens before they hatched, as they had brought in a reporter to help spread the news of their evident marriage.
What they got was a total ass-whooping of Raiser and the revealing of the Dragon Emperor.
Quite honestly, he was really impressed with how far Rias had gone with her training. He had at one point considered using his authority to try and stop the marriage, but that would mean he was abusing his power as a Mau to help his sister and he knew that Rias would rather die than to endanger his career. So he had conspired with Grayfia to try something out if Raiser won the match by having the Dragon Emperor appear during the wedding.
Shame that plan did not come to play, he would really like to have that performance.
Still, he would admit that he was taken back by the sheer improvement Rias's Peerage has gotten. If he had to use a scale to rank them, in the beginning they were roughly in the lower D ranking, able to handle normal demons and slightly weaker Incarnated Devils, but now they were in the upper B ranking, able to handle a fair number of higher grade demons.
And it was thanks to this Shirou Emiya who trained them.
It was Rias's request that the human's name was not to be known as he was just a regular person, and that she was attempting to bring him over to her group. Unfortunately the reporter in the room managed to record the game and sent it to his agency before they could completely silence the witnesses' tongues.
Thus, the current situation.
Needless to say, the news spread like wild fire and people wanted to know more about the game, thus the phone calls to the office from those of high positions or the news companies in the Underworld. Mostly people called in to confirm the news of either the defeat of Raiser or the possibility of the Red Dragon Emperor now in the ranks of the Devils.
But the ones that were a little concerning to him were the minority, mainly the higher clans and older generation of Devils who immediately set loose their network of information to find the person who supposedly trained the Gremory Peerage to be this strong.
He would need to have a quick with Grayfia and considered the next course of action...
'Well, speak of the devil.' Sirzechs thought to himself as a magic circle of the Gremory lit up next to him, followed shortly by the appearance of the silver-haired maid.
"Sirzech-sama, I have returned." She bowed lightly before coming over to assume her position by his side.
"Ah Grayfia, perfect timing." Sirzechs turned the device off and faced her. "It seems that the hunters of the Higher Clans have yet to find their mark it seems."
"Indeed, it is rather fortunate that with the area under the jurisdiction of both Rias-sama and Sona-sama, by default they cannot enter without having us alerted." Grayfia replied as she looked at the stacks of paperwork with a disapproving eye. "At the very least, those seeking official reasons to investigate the Dragon Emperor and other matters would be delayed enough for this matter to roll over."
"The ones we need to worry are those who don't need official reasons." Sirzechs frowned at he few he knew would have zero qualms about their tactics. "Still there will be some bit of leeway for Rias, not to mention Sona-chan is there to help her."
"It is fortunate that Leviathan sama was also watching from her side." Grayfia took a small stack and placed it in front of Sirzechs, who sighed and lethargically picked up the pen to sign the documents. "It seemed that she had heard a little of the human in question from Sona-sama, so she is actively helping her in secret."
"Well if she is involved, they definitely have quite a hurdle to get past." Sirzechs chuckled slightly about that bit of information. It was a well-known fact by all that Serafall was a major sis-con for Sona, and that she would go to great lengths just to make sure that she was safe and happy. Even if Sona asked her to leave her alone at the academy (not an easy feat, if half the stories he heard were true), she was still keeping tabs on her.
"Indeed, and since she had heard about Sona-sama's attempts in trying to bring him over, she has been giving her support by tightening the security around the area and telling her some tips to try and get him. Though I hear it was not quite what she wanted."
'Knowing Serafall, she probably asked Sona and her Peerage to do something embarrassing to get the human's attention.' Sirzechs thought wryly while dealing with another stack of papers that Grayfia dumped in front of him.
"So how is Rias?"
"She is doing well, though I do have reservations regarding her decision to stay alongside her Pawn." Grayfia replied as she looked at the photograph on the table, featuring Sirzechs carrying a younger Rias on his shoulders. "I think she is not yet ready to move into the house of a young man, even if he is a member of her Peerage."
"Oh well, Rias is very stubborn for matters like this. There is no way I can stop her, and even my parents would have trouble to convince her." Sirzechs shrugged in the face of Grayfia's disapproval. "How about Raiser?"
"He is incapacitated and unless I am much mistaken, he may have developed a slight fear of dragons." Hidden within the scorn and ruthless disappointment towards the individual, there were notable tones of satisfaction. Guess she was happier than she let on about Raiser's despairing situation.
"Oh yes, there is one thing I want to know." Sirzechs turned to Grayfia with a raised eyebrow. "You have met this Shirou Emiya before right? What is your impression of him?"
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