As it turned out, no matter the setting, it was always awkward when someone met their ex together with their new partner. Right now, I was experiencing exactly that, with Grayfia and Sirzechs both present in the same conference room.
Aside from Sirzechs, there was also Azazel, who looked like he was thoroughly enjoying the situation, as if he were expecting some kind of drama to happen. Standing behind him was a tall, muscular middle-aged man with a black beard and mustache. Judging by his position, he appeared to be Azazel's bodyguard.
His eyes were fixed on Yusuke, staring at him from the moment he stepped into the room. He appeared hesitant, as though he wanted to say something but ultimately held himself back.
The other person was a man who looked to be in his late twenties. He wore traditional Japanese clothing and carried a sword at his waist. He was Sirzechs's Knight.
Finally, there was Serafall. She was the only person without a bodyguard and was now clinging to me.
"Yu-tan, I missed you~" With her arms wrapped around me, Serafall rubbed her face against my shoulder while speaking in a sweet, cheerful voice. "Did you miss me too?"
"... You have been with Yusuke this entire morning. Stop being dramatic, Serafall," Grayfia stood behind me. She rolled her eyes at the dramatic Serafall and spoke in a quiet tone.
"Hmph! Of course, I'll miss Yu-tan even if I were separated from him for a single minute!" Serafall pouted at Grayfia before kissing my cheek. "Did you have dinner before coming?"
"No."
"Me too. I couldn't eat without you. I didn't have a single bite." She broke into a wide smile before asking with sparkling eyes, "You felt the same way, right?"
"Hmm, you can say that." I stared into her eyes for a long moment and not wanting to shatter her fantasy. I forced a smile and nodded.
I hadn't eaten because I never got the chance to, but why would I ruin a woman's mood by saying that? It was better to tell her what she wanted to hear.
"Yu-tan, you really can't do without me!" Serafall shrieked happily and started showering my face with kisses. "I love you! Yu-tan! You are so cute! I love you! I love you!"
Watching the interaction between them, Azazel stroked his goatee in awe. Every time he witnessed Yusuke's rizz, it made him want to kneel in reverence! This guy was flirting with Serafall while Grayfia massaged his scalp. He had somehow gotten two of the strongest women to fall for him and willingly share him.
The most outrageous part was that he seemed to be doing it all without any effort!
'How envious,' Azazel thought, a hint of envy in his expression as he watched them. The three of them looked so happy together, which made him feel somewhat lonely. At one point in his life, he, too, had women flocking around him. He even had a massive harem back then.
Still, even with that envy, he did not truly want to be like Yusuke. Azazel never wanted to settle down. He was the type who preferred staying single, or perhaps he simply had not found someone he genuinely loved.
"Yu-tan, I have a shooting next week. Do you want to come with me?"
"Is it another magical girl show?"
"Hmm! It's the live-action film adaptation of Magical Girl Milky! You can act as the villainous tentacle alien monster and assault Magical Girl Ria! Hehehe~!"
"He won't. Yusuke isn't a perverted villain."
"I only want him to play the role."
"Hmph! Don't think I don't know what you are thinking!"
"Both of you, stop."
"Okay, Yu-tan! How about it? Will you come with me?"
"Nah, I'll pass. But we can do any play you want when we are alone."
"Really?! Yu-tan, I love you so, so much! You are the best! Yaay!"
Even Baraqiel, who had been itching to talk to Yusuke about his relationship with Akeno, forgot about everything for a moment. He simply watched as Grayfia, the supposed wife of the strongest Maou, acted like another man's wife, while the only female Maou clung to a young man as if she were a teenager experiencing her first love.
"Sirzechs-sama," Souji Okita cautiously glanced at his master. To his surprise, he saw that Sirzechs was sitting completely expressionless, with no emotion visible on his features.
The Knight sighed once again.
Even at this moment, he still could not understand what had happened between Sirzechs, Grayfia, and Yusuke. Things had changed so incredibly fast that the entire peerage still did not quite understand how it had all come to this. And that was without even mentioning the Gremory House and Venelana.
The door of the room suddenly opened, and four people walked in. The first was Ajuka. Walking by his side was a tall, bald man with a goatee. He was the fourth Maou, Falbium Asmodeus.
Following behind the two was Odin, walking with his cane, and behind him was Rosseweiss, dressed in a light blue vest and matching pants. Her head hung slightly low, perhaps because Odin had once again poked at her scars, making fun of her for being single.
"You guys finally came. With this, only Michael is missing," Azazel said as he stood up alongside Sirzechs. The former spoke with a grin.
"Sorry, I am late, everyone." Just as he finished speaking, Michael walked through the door with Griselda.
Sirzechs invited everyone to take their seats with a smile, despite his attempt to ignore Grayfia and Yusuke.
As everyone began to take their seats, Rosseweiss, who followed behind Odin, looked up to observe the big shots attending this meeting. And as if struck by lightning, the moment her eyes landed on the black haired, robust looking young man sitting on the sofa with two women by his side, everything inside her froze.
Her eyes locked onto Yusuke. In an instant, they widened dramatically. Her pupils dilated, and her heart suddenly stopped!
Ba dum! Ba dum! Ba dum!
As if her heart had been revived after it died once, it started beating frantically, like when you're in the shower and suddenly remember you left the stove on with milk boiling.
All the sounds of the people speaking in the room suddenly faded away. Rossweisse stared at him with intense, unblinking focus. It felt like time had come to a halt, and the noise disappeared. The world went completely quiet!
For a moment, it felt like her soul had left her body.
No... she really was feeling as if her soul was leaving her body.
'Haah! Haah! Haah!'
Staring deeply into his eyes, Rossweisse felt something overwhelming stir violently inside her chest!
Something important... Something life-changing. It was as if she had finally discovered the true meaning of her entire existence in this single moment.
And the longer she stared at him, the deeper that obsessive thought burned itself into her heart, branding her soul with his name.
In that instant, something inside Rossweisse cracked open. A burning, all-consuming, obsessive thought flooded her veins like molten lava.
She did not know who this person was, but his presence in this room meant he was someone important and powerful. Still, that did not matter to her at all, because she had finally understood.
She finally understood why she had never been in a relationship before.
It was not because she was a lonely workaholic, exploited by her blackhearted, perverted boss.
It was because she had not met her destined one. The man she was fated to be with. The one she would live with and love forever and ever.
A massive flood of thoughts and intense chaotic emotions crashed into her soul and heart with overwhelming force. Countless fantasies erupted wildly inside her mind like fireworks. Blood rushed violently through her veins with every thunderous beat of her heart. The sheer amount of emotion, something she never thought a person could experience in a single instant, flooded her completely.
And then suddenly blood began trailing from her nose. Her eyes rolled upward, and faint wisps of steam seemed to puff from her head.
Thud!
Without any warning, the Valkyrie bodyguard collapsed to the ground and passed out completely!
"Rosseweiss!"
"What is wrong with her?!"
...
Rip!
The space was torn open, forming what looked like a swirling portal. Four people walked out of it.
"For a trickster and the God of Mischief, Loki sure is easy to trick, Bikou said with his hands crossed behind his back and a wide grin. "He looks like a stupid guy to me."
"He is not stupid. However, he was tricked by us this time because of his arrogance," Arthur replied calmly as he placed his sword back at his waist. "Gods still have their foolish pride and their sense of superiority, which makes them look down on us."
The sword he held was the strongest Holy Sword, Caliburn. It surpassed both Excalibur and Durandal, possessing the ability to tear through space itself. Arthur had used that power to teleport the four of them close to the capital city, bypassing every magical barrier that surrounded the area as if they were nothing more than thin glass.
The other two were Kuroka and Vali. The four of them stood atop a mountain, gazing toward the tall building where the gathering was currently being held.
"Yusuke... sniff, sniff... I can sense him. He is here too!"
Kuroka crouched low to the ground, sniffing the air. Her golden eyes glowed with intense delight as she spoke in a burst of excitement. She looked like an addict going through withdrawal who had just gotten a small dose of what she craved. Her mood spiked so sharply that she began trembling, overwhelmed by joy and happiness.
She closed her eyes and took another deep breath, inhaling the air around her, "Huuufff! Yusuke's scent... subarashi!"
"What the hell? Why are you acting like a dog?" Bikou stared at her with a confused look.
"Shut up, stupid monkey. You will never understand!" Kuroka snapped, turning toward him with an expression full of utter disgust.
"What am I supposed to understand? A stupid cat acting like a dog!"
Vali glanced at the two of them, then exchanged a look with Arthur. It seemed that even if Kuroka had become obsessed with the man called Yusuke Aoki, some things never changed. She and Bikou still could not stop arguing.
On the other side, at the Vali team's base.
"Ophis, are you going somewhere?"
Only Le Fay and Ophis remained in the base. The blond witch noticed Ophis suddenly floating and tearing open space, and she asked her curiously.
"Somewhere," Ophis stated simply.
-x-X-x-
In the conference room, the atmosphere gradually returned to normal after the commotion Rosseweisse had caused by suddenly falling unconscious for no apparent reason.
After taking Rosseweisse to another room to rest, Grayfia returned and silently took her place beside her Darling once more.
The two exchanged a glance, but neither of them said anything.
'2B, that woman is also a yandere, right?' I tried to keep my face neutral.
This was getting ridiculous!
He just wanted to go somewhere without attracting yet another yandere, and someone had the face to keep telling him that yanderes were rare!
The only consolation he had was that, unlike before, he was now strong enough to protect himself.
[Of course, she is.] 2B answered nonchalantly.
'Issue the quest.'
[New Quest!]
[The Real Modern Woman: Rosseweisse is a professional woman who has prioritized work and study above all else since her youth. She is extremely bitter about missing out on romance and is very frugal. If she were to fall in love with someone, she would become obsessive very quickly. Tame her before she ruins both herself and you, dragging the two of you down together.]
[Task: Raise Rossweisse's submission value to at least 80]
[Rewards: 6 Skill points, 1 Random Skill, 1 Random Item.]
[Penalty: Lose Observation Haki.]
I stared at the quest for a long time and did not know where to start.
"Ehem, Yusuke-san," Michael said.
With Michael calling out to me, I had no choice but to put the matter aside and turn my attention to the faction leaders.
"We know almost nothing about you."
"Can you tell us more about yourself?"
All the factions had investigated Yusuke after the last meeting at Kuoh Academy, but all they discovered was that he had been an ordinary young man until recently. Then, almost overnight, he had become incredibly powerful.
What worried them even more was that, according to their observations, his strength continued to grow at an astonishing rate.
He was nearly as strong as a serious Sirzechs, which in itself was already incomprehensible. How could someone like him suddenly appear out of nowhere?
The strangest part was that he was still a human!
Even Sirzechs, who ironically was the closest person to him among all the leaders, knew very little about his background.
"What do you want to know?" I glanced at the gentle looking angel and replied in a rather nonchalant tone.
"We want to know where your power came from. Azazel was the one who spoke this time." His expression was rather serious. "I have seen many things throughout my long life, but this is the first time I have encountered someone like you."
"You can copy other people's abilities and permanently grant abilities to others. On top of that, you are extremely powerful as well. No matter how we look at it, your existence is very strange. It cannot be explained by a mere Sacred Gear."
Azazel and Sirzechs had become somewhat close recently, and the two exchanged the limited information they had on Yusuke while continuing to observe him. It was not difficult to deduce some of his abilities after seeing Rias, Sona, and others possess skills they should not have, such as Immortality, which they had used extensively during the last Rating Game.
Sirzechs had also fought Yusuke personally, and during their battle, the latter had used Lævateinn, which Sirzechs had mistaken for a Sacred Gear.
"I prefer not to answer," I stood up and said with an indifferent look. "You don't see me digging into your little secrets either. I only agreed to come to this meeting because of reasons you are clear about."
...
After the incident, the reception hall was restored by the staff members who rushed over, their magic repairing the damage until the room was mostly back to normal.
The young people had gathered again in small groups, exchanging greetings as if nothing had happened. The yandere girls were seated around a table, watching the room. Sairaorg had gone off to speak with the other young devils.
"You two have been doing well recently. Many people have been talking about you," Seekvaira Agares said as she walked toward them, her servants following behind her. She looked at Sona and Rias and spoke with a slight smile on her usually cool face.
"I am Seekvaira Agares, the next head of the Agares family, rank Archduke." She then turned to the other girls, including Murayama, Xenovia, and Aika, and greeted them.
The Archduke rank is an extremely high position among the 72 Pillars, second only to the Great King title, which is exclusively held by the Bael House. The Agares House itself is also the second highest ranking clan among the 72 Pillars; even the Gremory House holds only a Duke rank.
Since ancient times, the Archduke has served as the Maou's agent, passing judgment on the lives of devils.
As a result, they hold not only immense noble status but also extremely high authority.
"The Glaysa-Labolas family seems to have run into some family trouble recently. The person who was supposed to become the next head of the family suffered an unfortunate accidental death. Zephyrdor, whom you saw earlier, is said to have become the new candidate for the position."
She casually took a seat beside Rias and Sona as she spoke. Then she turned toward Sona and said, "You surprised me earlier. You have always been the cautious type. I did not expect you to do something like that. Honestly, I would not have expected even Rias, with her reckless temperament, to act that way."
Seekvaira spoke to the two girls in a very familiar manner because the three of them had been childhood friends. When she was younger, she used to play with Rias and later became friends with Sona as well through her. The three of them had once been very close.
However, after Rias and Sona enrolled in school in the Human World, they no longer had the opportunity to meet as often as before.
There were six young devils gathered at this meeting along with their servants.
There were the Gremory that has Lucifer, the Sitri that has Leviathan, the Astaroth that has Beelzebub, the Glaysa-Labolas that has Asmodeus, and also the Great King and Archduke as well. These were the six families.
"People change," Sona replied as she swirled her glass.
From time to time, her gaze wandered around the room. She had already started to miss Yusuke. Even though they had been apart for only a couple of hours, her vitamin levels were already running low.
"Indeed, I can sense that both of you have changed. Aren't you going to introduce your new servants?" Seekvaira asked, genuinely curious about what her two friends had experienced in the Human World.
She had heard that the two of them were in a relationship with a man, but aside from his name, she knew almost nothing about him. Everything else regarding him was hidden.
Just then, the door opening interrupted their conversation.
"Sorry for making you all wait for so long." A door opened over there, and an employee came in.
The atmosphere in the room changed, and it fell silent. All the chatter came to an abrupt stop.
The empty seats positioned high above the hall were soon occupied by the people who had just entered.
Sirzechs, Serafall, Ajuka, Falbium Asmodeus, Michael, Azazel, Yusuke, and Odin all took their seats above, looking down at the young devils gathered below.
In the end, the meeting still continued smoothly. When Yusuke had been about to leave earlier, all of them had tried to stop him, apologizing for being insensitive enough to ask him such a question.
Since the beginning, it had been normal for people to be curious and even wary of Yusuke's power.
However, he had no intention of telling anyone about it. Even now, none of his yanderes knew the source of his power, so why would he tell anyone else?
He had honestly been wanting to leave that boring meeting. In the first place, he had no interest in politics.
Despite that, he still wanted to help them deal with the terrorists and maintain peace, because he did not want to be bothered by endless trouble either.
The meeting lasted for over three hours. It mostly consisted of discussions and negotiations between the Three Factions and the Norse Mythology faction represented by Odin.
I didn't spoke throughout the meeting, spending most of the time listening. There were only a few occasions when he chose to interject or voice an objection to something being discussed.
"Eh?" Seekvaira stood up from her seat to show respect to the higher-ups. Her eyes first landed on Sirzechs and the other Maou, then she glanced at the other figures seated on the elevated platform.
Michael and Azazel, once considered mortal enemies.
When her gaze moved further to the side, it landed on a black haired young man, and her expression froze.
-x-X-x-
"Kyaah! I don't want to!"
"No! No! Stay away from me!!"
"Someone, please save me!"
Rosseweisse's screams echoed through the dark, twisted space around her as she desperately crawled backward across the cold floor. Her heart hammered violently in her chest, each beat so powerful it felt like it would burst through her ribs.
An ugly man loomed over her.
He was old, with long, unkempt grey hair and a filthy, tangled beard that reached the floor, flailing with the wind. A gold and white monocle covered one eye, while the other gleamed with a sick, perverted look.
His wrinkled face twisted into a grotesque, lecherous grin, yellowed teeth exposed as drool dripped from the corner of his mouth. His gnarled hands reached out with crooked fingers, and from his lower body, dozens of thick, slimy tentacles writhed and squirmed like living serpents, glistening with foul mucus.
"Little Valkyrie~ Come here, my dear. Let this old man have a taste of that pure, untouched body of yours," he croaked in a raspy voice, his lone eye roaming across her body with undisguised depravity. His gaze was so filthy that it made her skin crawl.
"No! Stay back! Don't come any closer!!" Rosseweisse screamed, tears streaming down her face.
She tried to stand, but her legs shook too violently to support her. One of the tentacles suddenly shot forward and wrapped around her ankle, yanking her backward. She crashed onto her stomach and cried out in pain.
"Please! Someone! Anyone! Save me!!" Her voice rang out, filled with despair, as another tentacle slithered slowly up her thigh, slipping beneath the fabric of her skirt and brushing against her skin. She kicked and thrashed wildly in a frantic struggle for freedom, but more tentacles wrapped firmly around her wrists and spread her legs apart, completely exposing her most private areas.
"Hehehe," The old man chuckled, his perverted grin widening as he crawled closer. "Such a pure, beautiful Valkyrie. I will enjoy breaking you in completely. I will make you scream my name over and over until you forget everything else and only my touch remains burned into your mind forever."
Rossweisse sobbed hysterically, her body trembling in terror. "No... please... I don't want this... I've never... I've never been with anyone... Please stop!!"
She felt the thick, slimy tentacle pressing against her entrance, ready to violate her. Her mind was breaking from the humiliation and fear. This was her worst nightmare, being defiled by this disgusting, perverted old monster while completely helpless.
Just as the tentacle was about to push inside her, an intense flash of light erupted and blinded the entire world around them in an instant!
A majestic figure in radiant silver armor descended from above like a divine savior sent from the heavens themselves. He was a tall, black haired man holding a glowing divine sword in his powerful grip, and his presence radiated overwhelming power and absolute protection for all who stood in his light. With one powerful swing of his blade, he severed the tentacles holding her in a single motion.
"Who are you?! Noo!!" The old man let out a blood curdling scream as his appendages were cut apart, black blood spraying everywhere. He glared at Yusuke with hatred before dissolving into shadows with a final, hateful screech.
"My knight...! I know you'll come to save me!!" She clung to him desperately, burying her face in his chest while sobbing. She started caressing his face with both hands, looking at him with glowing eyes, her heart overflowing with unending love.
She looked at him with tear-filled eyes, then pulled him into a deep, desperate kiss. Their lips moved against each other as clothes were dissolved into white light. They fell together onto the soft grass, bodies entwining passionately under the open sky.
"Haahn! Hahn~!" Rossweisse's eyes suddenly snapped open as she began breathing heavily.
"Where am I?" She sat upright in bed, gasping for breath and sweating profusely from every pore of her body. Her face was flushed red as she frantically looked around, only to realize that she was lying in a large, luxurious bed inside an unfamiliar room.
"Ah!" Hurriedly, she lifted the blanket, and the moment she did, her already red face became even redder with overwhelming shame.
She covered her face with both hands as smoke gushed out of her head from sheer embarrassment. Her underwear was completely soaked through, and a large wet patch had formed on the sheets beneath her.
She had just experienced an incredibly vivid and intense wet dream.
Her hands trembled as they brushed against the damp fabric between her legs, her mind still trapped in the dream, replaying every moment clearly.
"So this is love... I am in love. That man... my Knight...' she whispered breathlessly, her voice filled with obsessive longing, her eyes glazed as she clung to the lingering feelings the dream had left behind.
...
What is love?
Despite Seekvaira's cool and serious exterior, she was just like most young noble ladies. Beneath that composed facade, she held a deep interest in love. It was a question she had wondered about for a long time.
More than once, she had fantasized about the day she would finally fall in love with a man worthy of her, someone capable of stealing her heart and leaving a lasting mark on her life.
When she heard that her two childhood friends were in love and had found a man they loved, she honestly felt very envious. However, as the heiress of the Agares House, she could not act willfully.
Unlike Sona and Rias, who had managed to break free from their engagements, Seekvaira was not as fortunate.
However, today the answer to that question has finally been answered in the most unexpected way possible.
The moment her eyes landed on him, something inside her stirred violently like an apocalyptic hurricane violently storming through her heart and shaking her soul.
'What... is this?' A strange suffocating warmth flooded her chest, spreading rapidly through her body and igniting every nerve ending with an overwhelming intensity she could barely comprehend.
Her fingers tightened around the fabric of her dress as she tried desperately to steady herself against the turbulent emotions surging within. This was not normal in any sense.
This was not how she had ever felt when she looked at powerful men before. She had seen and met countless important figures before, but none of them had ever made her heart race with such uncontrollable intensity as this one did.
Why is my heart beating so fast?'
It pounded violently, like a wild beast trying to break free from its cage. Each beat sent strange, dizzying sensations coursing through her entire body. Her cheeks grew hot, and her thoughts, which were usually so calm and composed, descended into complete chaos.
'Who is he? Why do I feel like this?' She tried to look away, but her gaze kept drifting back to him against her will, drawn by an irresistible magnetic pull. The longer she stared at him, the stronger the feeling became. It was an intoxicating feeling that consumed her completely. It felt like her soul had suddenly recognized something it had been searching for its entire life without ever knowing it was missing until this very moment.
This man, who is he?!' A deep, obsessive pull took root inside her heart, wrapping around it like vines and refusing to let go. She absolutely knew nothing about this strange man, but a strong feeling of longing was filling her heart and soul completely as she wanted to know everything about him, and she wanted to be near him more than anything.
She did not know what the fuck was wrong with her, but at least she knew one thing for certain.
She needed this man.
She wanted him!
She must have him!!
She will have him!!!
Pressing a hand against her chest and feeling the frantic rhythm beneath her palm, Seekvaira realized that, for the first time in her life, she felt truly alive.
For the first time, she had a real goal beyond following the blueprint her family had laid out for her. A goal she could call her own.
And that goal was him!
Seekvaira's emotional state did not go unnoticed by the yanderes around her. She was surrounded by 13 yanderes, and every single one of them had gone through the same state she was experiencing right now.
As such, they immediately understood what was happening.
Another one would soon be joining their ranks.
"Another one bites the dust!" Aika said sarcastically.
She was already reaching for her phone, ready to "Knock some Sense", if Tsubaki had not stopped her with a cold glare.
"Rias, Sona," Seekvaira spoke without taking her eyes off Yusuke. "Do you know the identity of that man?"
For someone to be seated alongside the Maous and the other big shots present, his status had to be on the same level as theirs. The possibility of him even being a God was not out of the question.
"Of course we do," Rias said, tucking a strand of crimson hair behind her ear before leaning closer to Seekvaira. Then, in a low voice, she added, "He is my Husband."
As she spoke, Rias carefully observed Seekvaira's expression.
For a moment, her face froze completely, then it twisted through a whirlwind of emotions. Loss, anger, helplessness, and determination.
It was a cocktail of feelings twisting across her face in such a short time that it revealed the intense inner turmoil consuming her completely.
"N... no way!" Her face turned deathly pale. Seekvaira muttered helplessly as the color drained completely from her features.
"He is also my Husband," Sona said as well.
As if another arrow had pierced her heart, she twisted her head mechanically to look at Sona and exclaimed, "How could this be?! How is that even possible?!"
"He is also my Husband," Tsubaki added calmly.
"He is my Husband as well!"
The other girls, like Ravel, Yubelluna, and Murayama, also spoke up one after another, and each time one of them declared it another piece of Seekvaira's heart was crushed.
This made her heart, which had just been beating with such intense passion, sink deeper and deeper into a painful abyss of despair and heartbreak.
The only person who had not joined in the fun of bullying Seekveira was Akeno.
Her gaze was fixed on the man standing beside Azazel. Her hands were clenched tightly into fists; for the first time in many years, she had seen her father.
-x-X-x-
Gaze detection is a phenomenon in which the brain continuously uses information gathered from the eyes and ears to subconsciously monitor the surrounding environment. This can create the illusion of a sixth sense, allowing a person to feel when someone is looking at them, even from behind.
And Seekvaira's gaze was so obvious that when I looked in the direction of Rias and the others, I immediately spotted her staring back at me with that all too familiar look in her eyes.
In the span of just a few hours, two yanderes had appeared out of nowhere. I still had not fully processed Rossweisse, and I had not even dealt with Griselda yet, who was currently staring at me with such an intense gaze that it felt as though she were trying to drill holes into the back of my skull.
Since earlier, when she arrived alongside Michael, she had been silently staring at me.
'I need to talk to her later,' I thought.
This was really starting to drain me mentally. It felt like I was constantly thinking about how to deal with yanderes.
'How am I supposed to deal with him?'
There was also the father-in-law, Barakiel. The Fallen Angel had been glaring at me since earlier, not even bothering to hide his hostility.
[Bitch slap him, tear his head off his shoulders, and shove it up his ass!] 2B answered in her usual casual tone.
'I would like that too but let's not be haste', I replied.
If every problem could be solved with violence, life would be a lot simpler.
Out of the corner of my eye, I glanced at Barakiel before looking at my lovely, sexy girlfriend. 'Still, how the hell did this guy manage to give birth to a baddie like Akeno?"
The difference between this grumpy, hairy, middle-aged man and Akeno was far too great. If I had not learned about my identity from Akeno beforehand, I would never have thought the two had anything to do with each other.
[Of course, she took after her mother.] 2B said sarcastically. [If she had inherited her father's looks, she'd be manlier looking than you.]
'Yea Yea! Hurry up and issue the goddamn quest, and quiet!' Without even realizing it, I had started bickering with her. The two of them spent most of their time talking shit to each other, and by now, I was already getting used to it.
2B snorted coldly.
[Ding!]
[New Quest!]
[The Time Stop Yandere!: Seekvaira Agares is seriously becoming obsessed with you faster than any other yandere. Her clan's ability is 'Time'. Tame her quickly before she becomes strong enough to stop time.]
[Task: Raise Seekvaira Agares's submission value to at least 81.]
[Rewards: Random Item, 3 Skill Points.]
[Penalty: None.]
'Time? Wait, someone other than that Gasper has time related abilities?!' I reread the quest, my attention immediately drawn to its description. Without wasting another second, I used Analysis on Seekvaira.
[Name: Seekvaira Agares
Age: 18.
Race: Devil.
Rank: High Class.
Personality: Serious, Short-tempered, Strict, Sharp-tongued, Responsible, Determined.
Hidden Personality: Has strong respect for those stronger than her, Cruel, Possessive, Insecure, Obsessive.
Skills: Time, Leadership, Management.
Likes: YUSUKE AOKI, YUSUKE-SAN, YUSUKE-SAMA, Mecha.
Affection Toward You: 6767.
Submission Value: 46.
Evaluation: New yandere with high potential.]
[Seekvaira Agares's submission: 46 (Devoted)]
I had not known her identity at first, but now that I had learned she was from the Agares Clan, I felt somewhat consoled. At least her ability was amazing.
She was also a beauty; she looked especially cute with glasses.
'A time control ability. It must be very difficult to use, otherwise the Agares Clan would have long since become the strongest clan in the Underworld instead of remaining subordinate to the Maous,' I thought to myself.
This might be a problem for normal people, but it could easily be solved by me. All I had to do was dump enough skill points into it.
As for demonic power, that was the one thing I lacked the least.
Devils, Angels, and Fallen Angels have reflected on their past and allied together, but there are still those who wish to start another war.
The new alliance with the Norse Gods of Asgard is truly heartening.
'Still, I need a plan. I need to think this through,'
I completely ignored Sirzechs's speech.
Making plans to tame Rossweisse, Seekvaira, and the blonde nun Griselda was going to be a bit complicated.
When Sirzechs finished my speech, I glanced upward and frowned slightly.
"Odin-dono, if you have no objections, please sign the pact monument," Sirzechs said as he turned toward Odin.
"Alright." Odin nodded and solemnly walked over to the white monument before placing his hand on it.
"I have an objection!"
Just then, like the main character in a cliché drama bursting into a wedding at the last second, a loud voice interrupted the ceremony.
"So you came after all." Odin retracted his hand and looked up, frowning. "How foolish!"
A blue magic circle lit up high above, and from it a tall young man appeared with a sinister smile. He had long light blue hair and wore white clothes. He spread his arms wide and said with a grin, "I am the Norse God, Loki!"
"Well, this is a rare guest." Azazel stepped forward with his hands in his pockets and spoke. "Did you perhaps come to join in the fun?"
"Loki, although you are a Norse God, you have no right to wreak havoc here," Michael also stepped forward, speaking in a loud, firm tone.
"Seeing our great father mingling with other mythologies brings me intolerable pain," Loki said, glancing disdainfully at the people below.
"Loki, if you return now to Valhalla, I shall forgive you," Odin tapped his walking stick and spoke in a low, deep voice.
He knew that many people in Asgard were opposed to his move to ally with the three factions. They disapproved of him breaking the old rules and contacting the outside world. He had expected that someone would come to cause trouble, and Loki, the most rebellious among them, was near the top of the list.
"Forgive me? Hahaha! You are making me laugh, you old fart!" Loki threw his head back and laughed loudly. "I will never allow this alliance. If you start cozying up to other mythologies, how am I supposed to have my Ragnarök?!"
"Hmm, where did I hear this stupid argument before? Could it be that you have connections with the Khaos Brigade?" Azazel scratched his chin as he asked.
"Indeed, I've partnered with them," Loki answered. Then he waved his hand, and a magic circle burst forth. "Come forth, my beloved son!"
From the magic circle, a ten meter tall gigantic wolf burst into existence. Its fur was greyish blue, and two large yellow horns protruded from its shoulders.
"Awoooo!" It lifted its head and let out a deafening howl. The sound was so powerful that it sent the guards rushing toward it, flying back like broken dolls.
'Ho? Is this the legendary God-Devouring Wolf, Fenrir, the beast said to have the ability to kill gods?' I stood from my seat and walked closer, gazing at the giant wolf emitting an intense bloodlust.
"Awoo!"
At Loki's signal, the wolf rushed forward. It jumped into the air and swatted with its paw, sending the weak guards crashing into the walls and pillars of the hall.
Bang!
BOOM!
BOOM!
"Beast, cease your havoc!" Sairaorg shouted as he rushed toward the wolf, engaging it directly.
Rumble!
A lightning bolt descended from above and struck directly on top of the gigantic wolf, engulfing it in dense yellow plasma light.
When the light faded, the wolf was completely unharmed. It turned its gaze toward Akeno and howled.
Ignoring the "pesky worms", it rushed forward toward Akeno and the other girls.
'What the fuck are these people doing?' I frowned when I saw none of the leaders actually making any move.
Without hesitation, I stepped forward into the air. My figure blurred, and I reappeared above the wolf.
Bang!
I swung my fist down with all my strength, punching the wolf in the head. A loud rumbling sound echoed as a shockwave spread in every direction.
The wolf's eyes bulged wide, its body crashing into the floor. The impact shook the entire hall, sending walls and pieces of rock collapsing from above.
"Are you okay?" I turned around, glancing at Akeno as I asked her in a gentle tone.
"Hmm!" Akeno held her hands together and nodded firmly, blushing slightly, "Ara, ara~! Yusuke-kun looks so cool right now! I want to take a picture of him!"
Click!
Just then, the clicking sound of a camera came from behind her. When she turned around, she saw Sona holding an extremely advanced and expensive-looking camera. She lowered it and gave Akeno a thumbs-up.
"Sona, nice one!" Akeno wiped an imaginary tear from the corner of her eye and gave Sona a thumbs up, looking at her with gratitude as if she had just done her the greatest favor in her life.
"Don't worry, I am always ready." Sona nodded proudly and snapped a couple more images.
"...Seriously, guys, move away. I'll take care of this mute and his father. I don't want you to get hurt." I held my forehead, speechless at their antics.
"Hmm, roger that! Give them a good beating. We will record everything for you, Yusuke!" Sona took out another camera out of nowhere and threw it to Akeno, giving me a thumbs up while acting like a director filming an action movie.
"Count on us, Yusuke-kun! I'll certainly record your cool side!" Akeno also gave me a thumbs up, speaking with a professional look. The two girls exchanged a glance and stepped back.
"Really now? Well.. I don't care as long as you're happy."
My mouth was left hanging open for a moment before I gave up trying to say anything. Shaking my head, I rushed toward the wolf, which had just stood up from the huge pit it had been embedded in, shaking its head.
I appeared before the wolf. Standing in front of it, I looked tiny in comparison.
Bang!
BOOM!
My punch looked like an ant striking its face. But the moment the fist connected, the wolf's entire body was sent flying like a cannonball toward Loki.
"..."
Baraqiel watched the scene, clenching his fist tightly. He was gratified that his daughter was this happy; it showed just how well Yusuke treated her for Akeno to be so relaxed and cheerful even in a situation like this.
But he was still furious.
This man had ruined his chance to make a good impression in front of his daughter. He had been about to step in and save her, but Yusuke moved faster than him.
'Damn it! It should have been me, not him!'
-x-X-x-
Compared to Loki, his son, Fenrir, was actually far stronger. Legend had it that Fenrir at his peak could almost rival the Two Heavenly Dragons, Ddraig and Albion, though the validity of that claim was questionable.
Fenrir's strongest and most infamous attribute was his God Slaying ability, a forbidden power contained within his fangs and claws. It allowed him to deal devastating damage to powerful beings such as Gods, Satans, and even legendary dragons.
The wolf was also ranked among the Top 10 Strongest Beings in the World, seemingly occupying the tenth position.
So despite me using nearly all my physical strength in that punch to the head, it did not deal any serious damage.
The powerful punch sent Fenrir flying backward at a speed that surpassed the speed of sound while producing devastating shock waves that swept through the entire hall with immense force.
Many of the young devils' faces turned deathly pale as they hurriedly and in complete panic created magic circles around themselves to protect their bodies from the overwhelming shock waves
Bang!
Loki hurriedly flew to the side in order to dodge the huge figure of the flying wolf and glared furiously at me while shouting, "You!"
Swoosh!
However, in an instant before the Evil God could finish his sentence, multiple green magic circles suddenly surrounded both him and Fenrir. "Beelzebub?!"
"You have too many openings." Ajuka was raising both of his hands while saying it calmly with absolute confidence.
The next instant, green light flashed brightly, and the figures of Loki and Fenrir were no longer present in the hall, having been transported away completely.
"Ajuka," Sirzechs glanced at him with a knowing look.
"I sent him somewhere far away," Ajuka answered calmly.
The green haired handsome man, Beelzebub Ajuka, was one of the most powerful Devils to ever exist. He was one of only three natural born Super Devils, alongside Sirzechs and Rizevim, though the latter was much weaker than Sirzechs and Ajuka.
Due to his interest in calculations and inventions, he was an extremely difficult opponent to fight and could sometimes use unpredictable abilities. Just now, he had caught Loki and Fenrir off guard with one of those abilities, sending them far away while sealing them at the same time. The seal would last for a day.
"Why did you do that?!" I landed in front of him and glared at the leaders. "Why did none of you make any move?!"
He was furious with these useless bastards. Back in Kuoh Town, Azazel, Sirzechs, and Michael had deliberately let Vali escape, acting as if they could not stop him.
I had not bothered to interfere since I had no real enmity with Vali and thought they might have been planning something.
But this time was different.
Loki and Fenrir had clearly been trying to kill everyone. They had even targeted the young devils and, more importantly, his women.
Yet not a single one of these people had lifted a hand to stop them.
"Calm down, Yusuke." Azazel stepped forward, placing himself between him and Ajuka as he tried to calm the situation.
"If a real fight had broken out, and every Satan Class combatant from the Three Factions got involved, there was a chance another war could have started. Do you want that to happen?"
"Indeed. This is exactly what Loki is after with his so called Ragnarok," Michael also added with a serious tone. "It is also what the Khaos Brigade are after as well."
"Besides, this is a matter that concerns the Norse Mythology. We cannot just kill their God, right Odin?"
Azazel gave the old man standing behind them a quick glance while speaking.
"Indeed, I am ashamed of this, but even if Loki has gone too far, I cannot allow him to die," Odin answered in a low voice, lowering his head. "I hope everyone will work together to stop him. After this, I will personally make sure he is punished. He will never walk freely upon this world again."
If these people had given him any different reason, even a cowardly one, like they were afraid of Fenrir's god-killing ability, he would not have judged them too harshly. But hearing their high sounding excuses caused veins to pop out on his forehead.
I was so angry that he actually laughed out loud. "What kind of utter rubbish are all of you spouting?!!"
"So it is okay for others to attack us, but we cannot retaliate?! If any of you were worried about the consequences, I could have dealt with him on my own!" I pointed at them while shouting in fury. I then turned directly to Odin.
"And you what the fuck do you mean by we cannot kill him? Is his life more precious than ours?! Unruly bastards like him should be killed to make an example out of them! It is because of this kind of attitude that even a worthless trash like him has the courage to challenge you, their so-called God King!"
Azazel opened his mouth to speak, but I immediately shut him up. "Do not give me that passive bullshit talk! If we do not show our tough side and punish those who attack us, how could others take us seriously? You have lived hundreds, if not thousands, of times my age. How could you not even realize such a simple truth?"
"Yu-tan," Serafall called softly. She walked over to me and held my hand, looking at me with concern.
She had never seen him this angry before. Even when she had tried to turn him into a woman, he had not been this furious.
"Enough, Yusuke," Sirzechs finally spoke.
If possible, he did not want to speak to the man who had taken his wife. But in this tense situation with the intense atmosphere building up, if he did not interfere, something bad was bound to happen.
"You are still young. You don't understand how complicated things are. There are too many factors we have to take into consideration before making a move."
"Sirzechs, just keep your mouth shut," I shot him a cold glare.
"My problem wasn't that you didn't even try to protect your younger sister. I am more than capable of dealing with Loki and Fenrir. What pisses me off is that instead of helping me, you saved him."
"I could've dealt with him and even lured out the Khaos Brigade as well!"
[What's your deal?] 2B suddenly asked.
'Shh! I am working on something here?' I replied calmly, different from the angry expression that my face carried.
In reality, he was upset that these people had acted this way and had even started losing faith in them, but he would not have been this angry over that alone.
The real reason he was acting like this was that he wanted to use the incident as an excuse to get one thing from Sirzechs.
"Sigh, Yusuke, I understand your frustration. You have every right to be disappointed in us. However, we cannot recklessly fight Loki and Fenrir. If any one of us were to die, the consequences would be severe."
Azazel let out a helpless sigh. He was not someone who would cower before stronger enemies, but there were too many things he had to take into consideration. Before he was the Satan Class Azazel, he was Azazel, the Governor of the Fallen Angels. If he, Sirzechs, or any of the other leaders died, the fragile alliance they were trying to build would surely collapse.
"Yusuke," Grayfia came to my side and hugged my waist from behind while saying, "Calm down. It is not worth it for you to get angry at this."
"..." Ajuka, Michael, Odin, and the others all stared at the scene in complete shock. Ajuka, in particular, could not help but turn to look at Sirzechs, who appeared to be completely unbothered by this intimate display.
'Holy shit!' Sairaorg exclaimed inwardly the moment he saw the scene. His eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.
And it was not just him. The other young devils were just as stunned.
What in the freaking hell had happened?
Why was Grayfia, the wife of the strongest Maou, hugging another man so intimately and acting as if she were his lover right in front of everyone?!
"Her? Why?! Get away from him!"
However, among the young devils, one person's reaction was completely different.
Seekvaira's hands were clenched so tightly that her nails dug into her palms. She gritted her teeth with such force that one of them cracked.
Her eyes were locked onto Grayfia with terrifying intensity, filled with murderous hatred.
She wanted to tear away the arms wrapped around Yusuke, rip Grayfia's limbs from her body, then throw her into acid and watch her disgusting body melt away until not even a trace of her existence remained.!
"Alright, I'll drop this matter. However..." I placed my hand over the hands wrapped around my waist.
He looked straight at Sirzechs and declared, "I'll only do it if you publicly announce that you and Grayfia are no longer together."
"Yusuke..." Grayfia called softly.
Although her actions at this moment were her way of telling the world that she was no longer Sirzechs's wife, but Yusuke's woman, and would remain so forever, she had not expected Yusuke to confront Sirzechs so directly.
"What do you mean?" Sirzechs asked with a frown.
"Exactly what I said. I want you to divorce her. The two of you have nothing to do with each other anymore. I don't want people to keep associating my woman with another man." Yusuke's voice was not loud, but his words echoed clearly throughout the hall, which had fallen completely silent.
Crack!
A crackling sound faintly echoed, as it was the sound of bones from the sheer force with which Seekvaira was tightly gripping her own hands. The feeling of powerlessly watching the man she loved so passionately declare another woman as his was incredibly painful and tore at her heart.
Sirzechs was also not feeling any better at all.
This man had taken his wife, his mother, and his sister, and he still had to talk to him as if none of that had ever happened.
Even if Yusuke did not take the initiative to seduce his wife, and even if it was his wife who chose to leave him for another man of her own accord, it did not make the situation any less painful.
What was even more painful was that he could not do anything about it, no matter how much it hurt.
'Because I am fucking your girlfriend and there is nothing you can do about it.' In his deep thoughts, Sirzechs wondered where exactly he had heard this line before.
-x-X-x-
Although the passive skill Acting Skill was still only Lv1, its effect when I started acting was incredibly convincing. Coupled with the fact that I was genuinely angry, my performance looked completely real.
In the end, Sirzechs was someone willing to shoulder the burden of making every decision for the Devil Race. Unlike me, he didn't have the luxury of acting however he pleased, "Very well, as you wish."
In reality, Sirzechs was already anticipating that something like this would happen and had decided to propose a divorce with Grayfia. It was just that he did not want it to be in this particular fashion, and definitely not in this kind of public situation.
Although he loved Grayfia, after everything she had gone through just to leave him and be with another man, no matter how much it pained him, he wasn't a simp. He was man enough to accept it and move on, even if the process was far more difficult than he wanted it to be.
"[Beta!]" 2B said.
"Thanks." I ignored 2B's tactless comment and gave him a long look. In the end, he said his thanks and turned to Ajuka and Odin.
"What are your plans now?"
Although I still disagreed with the way they were trying to solve this problem, since Grayfia's issue had been resolved, I wouldn't make thing difficult to them. Next time, I would never stay for matters like this again, even if they came begging me. They could solve their own shit in their own way.
"Ahem! Let's find somewhere else to discuss this first," Ajuka coughed before speaking. Even with his exceptional mental fortitude, he was deeply shocked. This man called Yusuke Aoki had actually seduced Sirzechs's wife, and not only that, but he had also seduced Serafall!
Was this the reason Serafall had asked him to make that gender change pen back then? If that was the case, then why was she clinging to him right now? Had he actually managed to straighten her out?!
"Indeed, this isn't the best place to talk," Azazel agreed to his suggestion.
Although Yusuke and Fenrir had exchanged only a couple of blows, the destruction they caused was immense. Half of the large hall had been reduced to ruins. Furthermore, this discussion was far too important to hold out in the open in front of the young devils and the guards. Who knew if there was a spy among them?
Under the lead of Sirzechs, the owner of the building, everyone headed to a large conference room. Once inside, they all took their seats and began the discussion.
"Loki and Fenrir have been sent to a place far away and shouldn't be able to do anything for at least a day. Sorry, everyone, but that's the most I can do," Ajuka said, resting his elbows on the table with his fingers interlocked.
"So we only have a single day before he attacks us again. That is troublesome," Azazel said with a deep frown and a troubled look on his face.
Although Yusuke had displayed tremendous strength and might even be able to defeat Loki and Fenrir, Ajuka and Sirzechs could also deal with them if they fought seriously. But there were risks that had been mentioned before, especially Fenrir's God Slaying ability.
Once any of them were injured, they could truly die.
I might be confident in defeating Fenrir because of my own skills and abilities, but Azazel and the others didn't know the full extent of his power, so they weren't willing to take that risk.
Yusuke was an indispensable ally to them. Risking his life and potentially losing him would be a tremendous loss for the entire alliance.
"I shall make a trip to Asgard to bring back a replica of Mjolnir to deal with Loki," Odin said in a solemn voice. "This is entirely my fault for not properly dealing with Loki. It allowed something like this to happen in the first place."
Mjolnir was the hammer of Thor, the Norse God of Thunder. Thor himself was an extremely powerful figure, likely the strongest in Norse Mythology and one of the Top 10 strongest beings.
Although the Mjolnir Odin spoke of was only a replica, it was still a Divine Weapon and immensely powerful. The cost of forging it was extraordinarily high, which was why they possessed only a single replica. As for the original, it naturally remained in Thor's hands.
"What's already happened has already happened," Sirzechs said, agreeing with Odin. "I just hope you can return quickly."
Traveling to retrieve Mjolnir would already take time. On top of that, Odin would likely have to convince the other Gods, many of whom might oppose his decision. The entire process could take far longer than expected, and there was even a chance he might not make it back before Loki was free again.
"Now the issue is who is going to fight Loki and Fenrir." He rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache coming on, before turning his gaze toward Yusuke and Grayfia, "What do you think?"
I glanced at him but didn't answer. Instead, Grayfia, who was standing behind me, frowned and replied, "You already have something in mind, so just say it clearly."
She had been with this monkey...man's wife for hundreds of years. How could she not see through him?
"Very well. I am planning to send the young devils to delay him until Odin returns," Sirzechs said after a long silence.
"Which ones?" Grayfia asked.
"Rias and Sairaorg," Sirzechs replied simply.
From his assessment, Rias and her peerage had grown very strong recently. Even though it was somewhat risky, it shouldn't be a problem for them to hold Loki off for a while, especially since the majority of them possessed the impressive strength. It would also serve as valuable experience that would help them grow stronger in the future.
As for Sairaorg, he had long been proclaimed the strongest of the younger generation. He was already stronger than many High Class adult devils and could even rival Ultimate Class Devils at times.
Bang!
"Impossible! Do you have a death wish?!" I stood up and slammed my hand on the table, "You want to sit here while sending youngsters to fight in your place?! Then what's the point of having people like you?!"
My acting skill still activated.
"Yes, she is my sister and the next heir of the Gremory House. That is precisely why she has to contribute more than the others," Sirzechs replied, seemingly unfazed by the outburst. He might be a siscon, but that didn't mean he would become overprotective and hinder her growth.
"Bullshit! I won't allow that to happen!"
"I will do it."
At that moment, the door opened and Rias and Sona, along with their peerage, walked inside.
"Rias, Sona?" Sirzechs turned toward the door. "You heard everything?"
"Yes, Onii-sama," Rias nodded. She then smiled at me. "Yusuke, we are not as fragile as you think. Don't worry, nothing is going to happen to us. Besides, everyone else and I want to test our abilities against someone strong."
"Isn't that right?" She turned to her peerage and asked with a confident look.
"Of course!"
"I will roast that stupid guy!"
"Beating a god sounds like something I can brag about."
Rias might not be as sharp or smart as Sona, but she has strong charisma and a natural sense of leadership. She could easily make people follow her. Not to mention, all the girls were yanderes, and they wanted to show their best in front of their man.
They were yanderes, and yanderes were anything but fragile or weak. If anything, it was others who should be afraid of them when facing them. Just ask anyone who had fallen into their hands, like Katerea.
"We will go as well," Sona adjusted her glasses and spoke.
"So-tan," Serafall stood up from her seat.
"Yusuke-kun, Onee-sama, I also want to try fighting a god. You don't have to worry about us," Sona said as she looked at the two with a gentle smile before adding, "I am confident that nothing bad is going to happen. And even if something does happen to any of us..."
She smiled warmly at him, "You'll save us, right, Yusuke?"
[What is with this stupid drama? You could've just gone yourself and finished that trash off. Why make such a big deal out of this?!]
'You think I don't know that? Why do you think I was using acting skill for.'
"...Haah, alright, do what you want." I let out a long sigh.
I already knew that they would want to prove themselves even after being Yandere and I had Instant Transmission and could teleport to them at any moment to save them if something happened.
I turned around and silently walked out of the room without bothering to say another word to any of them.
I still had 17 free Skill Points that I hadn't used yet.
I had been saving them, trying to raise my skills through training instead. But if I used them to push some of my skills to their limit, my strength would certainly surge, and dealing with Fenrir and Loki would become even more easier for me.
'I'll let them be for now.'
-x-X-x-
Watching him leave, Rias, Sona, and the others didn't follow him. Instead, they remained in the conference hall to discuss the details with the leaders alongside Grayfia.
-x-X-x-
I wandered around the building for a while before finding a quiet, empty spot with a balcony. I leaned against the railing and stared into the distance, thinking about everything that had happened.
Honestly, I wasn't really upset, only disappointed. I felt that these leaders were far too conservative and, at times, even useless. They seemed to enjoy making things far more complicated than they needed to be.
Even though they were genuinely trying to make the right decisions, he couldn't help feeling disappointed by their approach. Most of them had lived through long wars and should have understood that sometimes being passive and soft wasn't going to solve anything.
Tap! Tap!
The sound of high heels echoed across the floor, pulling him out of his thoughts. When I turned around, I saw the beautiful blonde nun dressed in a fashionable black dress with a high slit, a pearl necklace around her neck, and fishnet stockings covering her long legs.
"Yusuke..." Griselda bit her lip as she clutched the hem of her dress.
-x-X-x-
Since the talk with Xenovia back then, Griselda, who had been originally happy and smug about her plan working, fell into a dark mood. She holed herself up in her hotel room this entire time, thinking. What Xenovia told her had thrown all her assumptions and thoughts into the trash and shaken her completely.
The thing about women is that when they are sad, they usually look for someone to vent to. If they can't find anyone, they tend to shut themselves away and drown in negative thoughts. The more those thoughts pile up, the more they start believing that no one can understand them, that they are completely alone, and that nobody will help them. It becomes a vicious cycle that is difficult to break.
However, although Griselda had fallen into that cycle, she still had Yusuke. So when it was time for her to accompany Michael as his guard and she realized she would get to see Yusuke again, she finally left her room. Even so, her mental state was far more unstable than before.
When she walked into the conference room, the dark shadow that had hung over her life these past few days vanished. The moment her eyes fell on his face, her heart began to race. An overwhelming wave of love swept through her, completely dominating both her body and mind.
He was like an addictive substance to her. Simply seeing him and sharing the same space and air with him filled her with an intoxicating sensation, one far sweeter, more dangerous, and more dizzying than any drug. It reached the point where her mind was overwhelmed by ecstasy, leaving her almost unable to think.
She was so happy, but at the same time, so sad. Why hadn't she met him earlier? Why was he already in a relationship with so many other women? And more importantly, why wasn't he as happy to see her as she was to see him? Why did he still wear that indifferent expression even though their eyes had met?
Does he really not love her at all? Was it really as Xenovia said? Did he not care about her, and was he only playing along with her plan?! Was her love and devotion nothing more than one sided feelings?!!
The more she thought about it, the more bitter she felt and the more heartbroken she became. Especially watching him flirt so openly with Grayfia and even confront Sirzechs for her. This reinforced her thoughts more and broke her heart even further.
However, Griselda was a yandere now, and a desperate one at that. There was no way she would give up so easily. She was determined to try one more time. So after leaving the conference room, she changed into an outfit she thought he would like before searching the building until she finally found Yusuke.
She was going to confess her feelings and confront him once and for all. If things were really as she thought, if he truly didn't love her, then she would make him regret it!
She would kill herself in the most grotesque way possible, right in front of him!
She would make absolutely sure that her existence would be etched into his mind forever! Never to be forgotten!
If he wasn't going to love her forever, then she would make him regret losing her forever!
As a yandere, Griselda normally would not just give up and choose this method so easily, but she really could not think of any other way. Yusuke was so strong it was impossible for her to force her love on him. He was also nearly impossible to ambush. He had extensive experience in dealing with yanderes as well. It was just nearly impossible to harm him, ambush him, poison him, or even threaten him when all his women were strong. He had no clear weakness at all!
This drove Griselda into absolute despair. She had only just begun to dream when reality slapped her so hard that she was forced to wake up to its cruelty. Nothing ever went as planned in this accursed world.
Walking through the corridor, she spotted him leaning alone against the balcony. Even from the side, his profile looked just as perfect as always. She placed one hand over her chest to suppress her wildly beating heart while clutching the hem of her dress with the other. Then she slowly walked toward him, her high heels making soft clacking sounds with every step.
"Yusuke," when he turned to look in her direction, Griselda whispered his name, biting her lip. Her steps unconsciously quickened, but when she was only a few steps away from him, she hesitated.
Now that he was finally standing alone in front of her, she fell into hesitation and dilemma once again.
"Griselda," I smiled at her and moved closer to close the distance.
, touched her face with one hand, caressing her cheek gently. "How have you been? I did not hear from you for a few days."
As if a dam had burst inside her heart, every negative and positive emotion mixed together and erupted all at once. Griselda threw herself into his arms and hugged him tightly. Her hands clutched his shirt as her arms wrapped around his back. Her body began to shake, and between broken sobs, she started crying.
"Yusuke, Yusuke, Yusuke," Griselda buried her face in his chest, inhaling his scent. She did not know why, even after all the things she had been thinking about earlier, when he touched her face ever so gently and smiled at her like that, speaking to her in such a gentle tone, she felt her heart melt. At the same time, it pained her more that she could not be entirely entitled to such treatment.
She wanted his smile all to herself, to indulge in his gentleness, his embrace, his voice, even his roughness. She wanted all of him, completely and without sharing. She didn't want to share him with anyone else!
"What's wrong? Did something happen?" Yusuke hugged her back, gently rubbing her back as he asked in a concerned voice.
"Yusuke," Griselda lifted her face, tears sliding down her cheeks, her perfect makeup which she put a great deal of effort into making was marred by her tears, her reddened eyes only had the reflection of him in them, she smiled, her smile was both beautiful and heartbreaking, "Did you know that the image you have left in my eyes and heart is something that I can never get rid of... my heart and my soul are filled with you, and I..."
"I cannot contain anyone else anymore, making me live every second, every minute, and every day with your image in my head. No matter what I do, see, or experience, all I can think of is you."
In the end, she blamed herself for not having the courage that Irina and Xenovia had to directly express their love to him. Instead, she had chosen to take things slowly, but that had been a mistake. Now she wanted to convey her unending love to him, to tell him directly that she was the woman he should be with.
[This bitch!] 2B cursed coldly.
"Griselda..." I stared down at her, meeting her gaze.
He opened his lips to speak, but was interrupted by her.
"You know, when I met you for the first time, I knew you were the only person I would ever love. Even if there were future lives, I would still only love you, Griselda said as she lifted one hand and caressed his face. Her fingers traced his features, his nose, his lips, as if trying to memorize every detail of him. "I didn't say it properly last time."
"Yusuke, I love you."
Although she had implicitly shown her feelings before, now that she had truly confessed her love to him, she strangely felt as if a rock had fallen from her heart. At the same time, her heart began to beat extremely fast, so fast she could hear it. She was afraid, or rather, it was more accurate to say she was in dread, deeply afraid that he would turn her down.
[Griselda Quarta's submission + 1!]
[Griselda Quarta's submission + 1!]
[Griselda Quarta's submission + 1!]
[Griselda Quarta's submission + 1!]
"..." Listening to the mature, beautiful nun's confession, I didn't speak immediately, because a series of notifications appeared in his vision, showing her submission value rising.
[Griselda Quarta's submission: 60 (Possessive)]
It stopped just shy of 61, only one point away from the Dependent threshold. When Yusuke went on a date with her a few days ago, her submission hadn't risen so quickly. Perhaps it was because she still held the illusion that she could make him fall for her, or maybe she had not yet fully realized her feelings, that they were not only love but also a deeply obsessive attachment toward him. It was all thanks to Xenovia that she had received that early wake-up call.
Still, the job wasn't finished yet. Only when she reached the Dependent level could Yusuke say he had completed it. That single point alone was harder to raise than the previous 60 combined.
Who knows if the reason for her increase in submission was only because of Xenovia, or if she had undergone some change herself, given the way she was acting right now.
-x-X-x-
No matter how many times it happened to me, I always felt an indescribable feeling when he received the love confessions of any yandere.
But, I never once want to understand it.
Griselda's confession was intense, and the feelings she was conveying with all her being were as if they were tangible, however despite this, with the experience in dealing with yanderes, my instinct told me that there was something wrong about her.
Yanderes, no matter how high their submission value might reach, would evertime do fucked up things. Even the relatively rational ones like Sona and Tsubaki were no exception. Sometimes a single word could rile them up and push them toward some extreme actions.
He had many times needed to act quickly to stop them.
Honestly, dealing with a single yandere was already exhausting enough, and dealing with twenty of them felt utterly nightmarish.
"Why are you not speaking? Say something." As the seconds dragged on without any reply from him, Griselda felt her entire body turning cold. A sharp pain twisted deep inside her stomach, while her heart ached as if countless needles were slowly piercing into it. The hands that rested on his face tightened desperately. "You really do not love me? So I was right after all!"
"Hahaha... Why... Why... Hahaha..." The expressions on her face began to twist unnaturally. The tears that had stopped earlier when she poured out her confession began to flow down once more. She started to laugh and cry at the same time, an ugly broken smile forming on her lips. "Why can't you love me?!"
Before talking with Xenovia, Griselda believed that her feelings for Yusuke were the work of destiny, that he loved her as well, even if he hadn't realized it yet. However, her conversation with Xenovia shattered that fragile illusion.
After locking herself away in her own little world and repeatedly dwelling on the same negative thoughts over and over again, Griselda came here with the firm belief that Yusuke did not share the same feelings.
Yanderes were inherently not sound in the head, and there was no telling what they might do. Since Griselda couldn't find a way to hurt Yusuke directly, she decided to hurt herself in order to hurt him!
'What is she saying?' Her intense reaction stunned me.
He was just thinking about what would be the best thing to say to make Griselda feel good and feel valued, but he did not expect her to break down after dozens of seconds of her confession.
'This can not go on.'
Although I had break Asia's and Serafall's spirits last time to make them abandon their stupid delusions.
In the state Griselda was in, even if he showered her with the most poetic words of love, she wouldn't listen. Fortunately, he always had a set of bullet points he followed whenever he found himself in circumstances like this.
"Yusu..." Griselda bit her lip. Since he truly didn't love her, she would make him regret not loving her for the rest of his life! If there was a next life, she would hunt him down and make him hers! Hopefully, that time he wouldn't be stronger than her.
"Eh?!" However, all her thoughts were stopped abruptly, because suddenly her vision became entirely filled with his face, and before she could react, her lips were sealed by his. His strong arms wrapped around her waist, roughly pulling her even closer than she was to him, and he roughly French kissed her. His tongue aggressively slithered into her mouth and began to explore her mouth, entangling with her tongue and dominating her mouth until all that was in her thoughts was white.
'Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!' That was the only thing she could think of right now.
Rule number 5 when dealing with a yandere. If head pats don't work, a kiss is the best way to shut down an overloaded yandere brain.
Their hot breaths mingled as they exchanged each other's saliva. Their lips and tongues intertwined, sucking and kissing one another. When their lips finally parted, a thick, lewd strand of saliva stretched between them before snapping apart. Griselda's eyes turned hazy, and her mind had yet to recover enough to form a single coherent thought.
"Is this enough?" Yusuke smiled at her as he gently patted her head, his fingers running through her smooth blond hair. He wanted to calm her down first, then figure out what was going on with her, though he already had a rough idea.
"Yu... Yusuke, is this... real?" The warm, intoxicating feeling enveloping Griselda's entire body was so overwhelming, so addictive, that she felt completely boneless. Her knees turned to jelly, and she could barely remain standing without his strong arms supporting her. This was not the first time he had kissed her, but the impact of this kiss was far greater than the one they had shared before.
'He loves me! He loves me! Yusuke loves me! He wants me!' The thought echoed through her mind louder and louder.
She looked up at him. The dullness in her blue eyes vanished, replaced by a dangerous gleam.
"You love me, right? Say it! Say that you love me!"
She clutched his shirt tightly, her fingers ripping the fabric of his shirt as she glanced at him with such a dangerous, obsessive gaze that could scare the likes of Issei into developing gynophobia or changing his orientation.
[Crazy bitch! Delusional slut!] B2 cursed aloud. He had only met her a few times. There was no way he was already in love with her!
"Griselda, I love you," Yusuke said tenderly. Acting was as natural as breathing.
[...] B2
"Hehehe, fufufu." Hearing his declaration, Griselda squinted her eyes in pure delight. Her body shivered violently as if she was experiencing some sort of brain melting orgasm. "Say it again, please say it again."
"I love you, Griselda," Once again Yusuke spoke while caressing her hair softly.
"Hmm~!" Griselda shivered even more, a soft, sensual moan escaping her lips. Love juice dripped from between her thick thighs onto the floor. She had just climaxed. Clutching her thighs together, she completely leaned into him, clinging to his body.
She had been wrong all this time. It was all Xenovia's fault for making her doubt her conviction! She and Yusuke were fated to be together! She had fallen for him at first sight, and he had fallen for her as well.
It was all the work of fate!
It was perfectly balanced, as all things should be!
A yandere pushed to the extreme would do anything to justify her own actions, and Yusuke's as well. Earlier, she had justified her intention to traumatize him as the ultimate proof of her love. Now that Yusuke had told her he loved her, she was already starting to come up with countless reasons to explain his actions.
A normal woman, even if the man she loved told her he loved her, wouldn't completely believe it. A yandere, however, wasn't a normal woman to begin with. It would never cross her mind that someone who had only met her a few times and knew almost nothing about her beyond her name would lie about loving her.
"Yusuke, you love me, and I love you! This is great! We love each other! This is great! It is really great!" Hot breath like steam escaped her mouth as she clung to him, laughing creepily. The overflowing happiness and ecstasy flooding her mind made her feel like she was in a place countless times better than Heaven itself.
She was so happy that she did not bother cursing at Xenovia.
Keeping her eyes fixed on Yusuke, she suddenly asked, "If you love me, then why are you still with these women?"
[The audacity of this bitch! Lock her up and torture the shit out of her!] Even B2 felt that this bitch was far too delusional. She clearly came last, yet she was actually questioning him about the relationships he had before she even met him!
Even she, who had been with him from the very beginning, had never dared to say something so outrageous!
'I knew it!'
I now pretty much understood what was going on in Griselda's mind. It was classic yandere behavior.
Suddenly, my brows twitched.
With his Observation Haki, he sensed someone approaching. It was a familiar aura he had sensed earlier.
It was Seekvaira Agares, walking with hurried steps. It seemed she was looking for someone, and most likely that someone was me.
"Want to go somewhere else?" I asked.
However, he did not wait for her answer. With her still clinging tightly to him in his arms, Yusuke used the Instant Transmission technique, and both of them vanished instantly from their spot.
A few short moments later, Seekvaira walked over to the area. She had an anxious look on her face, accompanied by a deep frown. She glanced around cautiously, her nose twitching as if she was sniffing something in the air. "Was I wrong?"
...
A cold wind blew fiercely, sending snow swirling through the air. A vast white blanket stretched as far as the eye could see. Although it was summer across most of the world, Antarctica was an entirely different story.
"Where are we?" Griselda looked around and saw nothing but a world of white. She blinked in astonishment. She was only wearing a dress that exposed much of her skin, so she felt a little cold. However, being in Yusuke's arms kept her warm, both inside and out. The feeling was incredibly addictive.
"Antarctica," Yusuke answered with a smile before asking, "Do you like the scenery?"
"Hmm." Griselda nodded with a soft hum. She no longer bothered looking at the scenery, nor did she bother asking how they had teleported there so quickly. Instead, she looked at him and said, "You didn't answer my question."
"Because I love them too. I love Xenovia, Irina, Asia, Rias, Sona, and all the others equally," Yusuke said seriously. He gently caressed her face and added, "I love them just as much as I love you."