"Christel-chan~ I came to help with the cleaning~" A beautiful and youthful girl full of vivacity trotted hopping up like a cheerful little rabbit.
"Huh, Ruruko?"
"Hello little Celine, let Aunt Ruruko carry you"
"Be careful, don't let her go..." A girl with a sweet and soft temperament and with long wavy silver hair said to the side with a smile.
"Woaaa~ little Celine has grown bigger"
"Mm! She has the temperament of a gentleman."
"Tsubasa don't teach weird things to little Celine...
"What is everyone doing here?" Christel asked puzzled to see the entire Kuoh Academy Student Council at home.
Momo Hanakai, Tsubasa Yura, Tomoe Meguri, Reya Kusaka and Ruruko Nimura who holds Celine in her arms
"Kaichou-sama asked us for help on the cleansing day to welcome the new year" A girl with an older sister's temperament said while she couldn't help but smile at seeing Celine grabbing her by her soft, brown-colored braids.
Mio and the others entered the house while greeting the classmates from Kuoh Academy.
But Mio, seeing that the girls hold cleaning tools in their hands, felt that they were taking away her place in the home, so she was about to take a broom and a flannel when they called her from the kitchen.
"Mio, Christel? Can you help me in the kitchen?"
Christel, hearing Lluvia and watching Celine playing with the girls now in Reya's arms, whose braids hair were now a mess in Celine's hands, could only shrug her shoulders. Christel suspects that the girls are using Celine as an excuse not to clean up, but since she has already been called to the kitchen, she just had to agree to cook for everyone.
Christel won't even ask if any of the girls have to spend New Year's Day with their respective families.
"Araaa~ Christel's food, I want to try it again~" A seductive voice with a hint of desire entered from the door.
More girls came in carrying bags and boxes.
"Where have you been?" Christel, who was already heading towards the kitchen, turned around and asked.
Seeing that the girls are carrying shopping, Christel stepped forward and helped carry by taking the bags that seem to have ingredients.
In the other bags and boxes Christel noticed that there are things like ornaments and other objects.
"We went shopping and got some things for the New Year's celebration. What do you do play with Celine. Didn't I order you to help with the Osoji?" Sona tell Student Council members.
'Just shopping?' Christel raised an eyebrow as she looked at Ria, Sona, Tsubaki, Koneko and Ravel who without saying hello just ran over and hugged Christel on her right arm.
Also behind the girls is Yuuto Kiba carrying many bags and boxes. But unlike Koneko and Yuuto, the others bring a demonic and spacey aura.
"Yuuto, don't stay at the door, put the boxes aside"
"Thx, Christel-sama" Yuuto always with a smile bowed slightly thanking the little girl with golden eyes.
"Feel at home~" Christel replied with a smile, then seeing the other girls picking up the things Rias bring and the others went to do their work. Leaving Celine in the hands of Akeno, who only changes her black-bellied form to a mother's heart when she plays with Christel's (fake) little daughter.
Although Gasper does not count as a boy, Yuuto is not the first boy to enter the Ourada Velky house, Basara has already had breakfast on a few occasions.
Although, unlike Issei and the other boys who always look at Basara with envy and jealousy, Basara always steps calmly and nervously when being at Christel and the others' home as if he were actually walking in a minefield.
Basara feels that one misstep will fall into hell now that she knows that everyone living in this house is supernatural beings of a very high level, not only in power level but also in the social level. They are all literally members of noble and powerful families among supernatural beings.
As a hero, diagonal, demon-hunting, Basara has no deep hatred for supernatural creatures, whether of darkness or nature.
Although Basara may have been trained as a warrior of light who must face dark creatures, Basara feels more discontent and enmity against the hero camp from which he and his father were expelled.
Perhaps because Basara has not had time to relate to Mio and Maria, then his opportunities to contact the demonic world have been nil and he did not confront Zolgear who was killed by Christel and her Earth Golems.
As Sona began to command her subordinates from the student council, Christel carried the bags of ingredients purchased by Rias and Sona to the kitchen.
Lluvia was washing some vegetables while a large aluminum pot was cooking on the stove with what looks like a pair of chicken feet sticking out of it.
The custom in many countries is to eat turkey at Christmas, but it seems that it is time to cook a turkey for New Year's.
"Mom, here is....
Herring roe.
Sardines.
Prawns.
Surimi.
Daikon.
Taro...
… among other vegetables, as well as meats..."
"Daughter... Mom only knows how to make turkey~"
"And Mom's Turkey is burned on the outside and frozen on the inside..."
"Mooo~
Stop laughing at Mom and think about what to do... I don't know half of the ingredients you mentioned and the other half I don't know how to prepare!"
The kitchen island is filled with ingredients such as tomatoes, onion, carrot, potatoes, etc. And Christel started doing the math in her head about the amount of food and the mouth number.
After a quick count, Christel was thankful that a large number of girls don't live in Kuoh City and many are from Tokyo's capital.
While Christel began to organize and direct Mio and Lluvia to start preparing the New Year's dinner. Andariel's voice sounded in the mind of the little golden-haired girl.
"It stinks of those hypocritical beings of light-shht!"
"My love~ I came back~ did you love me?~ I missed you ~ so much~" a warm body and a pair of hands hugged Christel from behind.
"Yuuma, I thought you would spend New Year's at home?"
"Well, here I am, rub~, rub~" Yuuma, formerly known as Raynare, replied with a smile as she rubbed her cheeks against the soft, fluffy cheeks of the golden-haired little girl.
"I mean your house, won't your dad be angry that you're outside at someone else's house on New Year's Day?"
"BAAAH! Forget about that old man, besides I've already completed a lot of missions, coughs, tasks so you can't tell me anything where I spend New Year~"
Although Yuuma has told Christel that she is an "angel", she has not explained it properly, so Yuuma believes that Christel thinks her is an angel incarnated with her own father and not a fallen angel who has done many bad things in the past and killed many humans and other intelligent creatures.
"Ray... Yuuma..."
"What?" Yuuma turned her head towards the kitchen door and glared angrily at two girls, a mature tall girl with an hourglass crow and a short girl with blonde hair in two pigtails wearing gothic loli clothes.
"Ah~ Big Sister Calawana, Mitelt. It's good that you're here! You can help me cook~" Christel ignored Yuuma and Calawana's speech errors.
"AH! Christel, why do you call her big sister and you just call me by my name..." The little angel with blonde pigtails and dark gothic dress-Loli puffed out her cheeks and complained.
Another person also claimed the girl she holds in her arms.
"Mooo~ Christel, why are you happier to see these two than me? ~"
Calawana and Mitelt have a background in herbology, potions, and other arts where they involve ingredients and fire. Which makes them very appropriate for the kitchen.
They also know how to use the various knives to cut ingredients such as vegetables and meats and make it easier to cook the dishes and leave them appetizing.
Christel loves these two fallen angels unlike Yuuma who is only good for eating and lazing around...
Christel doesn't ask what these three fallen angels were doing. And as they watch as Calawana, Mitelt and Yuuma greet Lluvia with respect and begin to help with the preparation of the ingredients, a smile appears on the lips of the little girl with blonde hair.
"'Little girl, I thought you smelled like those disgusting angels, but there is something different about them from the angels I know. and now I realize that you have friendships with dark angels, I like them~
Although I have to admit that I am a little envious of seeing you surrounded by so many beings with infinite and unique talents.
If they were under my command, I could defeat my stupid brothers and be the sole ruler of the three kingdoms!'"
Although Christel smiled when she heard Andariel and her delusions. The little golden-haired girl knows that the world of Sanctuary is not as simple as it seems.
Not even Andariel, with her existence practically since the beginning of the world of Sanctuary, knows of the hidden powers and creatures that exist in her universe.
Even though Christel will take the girls when they are grown up and they all have the powers of the Demon Kings level, she knows that she will not be able to conquer the world of Andariel easily.
But despite that, Christel won't give up, her heart pounding at the thought of the future and her brain working at full steam to think about every step she'll take to get to that future.
Time passes quickly while cooking as a family. The Student Council of Kuoh Academy cleaned the Ourada Velky house from top to bottom. Christel had to order Gasper to help clean up starting with his own room unless he wants someone into his bedroom.
Gasper thinking of the "Treasures" that he has hidden in his room agrees to help clean up. At least no one treats this vampire as a man, and he didn't help clean the outside of the house like the front garden or the back garden like Yuuto and Basara who came later with his aunt Chisato Hasegawa did.
Yuuto and Basara are not ordinary men, so put them to work cleaning the gardens and the outside of the house did not worry anyone. In addition, they received help from Mea and Yami who, apart from helping with the cleaning by transforming their golden and pink hair into tools such as shovels, scissors and even hands, also played with a little girl with green hair and pink eyes along with two beautiful pink-haired girls.
Christel watched everything from the kitchen window.
And so, after an afternoon of working on cleaning the house and cooking New Year's dinner, the girls went in groups to bathe and change into party clothes. Thanks to the large room that Lala created for Christel and the others to sleep next to a large bathroom it was easy for all the girls to get ready for the end of the year celebration and welcome the new year.
Yuuto and Basara were sent to Chisato's house to take a shower.
Then late at night, in a large dining room prepared for the celebration there was a group of beautiful women, from a little girl of less than a year old to schoolgirls to mature and elegant women.
Although Lluvia, as Christel's mother seems to be the one who is the oldest in this group of girls, the oldest person in this group of women is a beautiful girl who wears a softly colored magical girl outfit with a touch of elegance.
"We celebrate, happy new year everyone! ~" Serafall took out a bottle of Wine from somewhere.
"Sera-san, everyone here is a child." Lluvia smiled and said to this good friend and boss.
"But Lluvia-chan can't despise me, let's have a few drinks~" Although Lluvia tried to refuse in the end she was convinced by Serafall.
"Can I have a drink?" Calawana once said.
"Sure, the more, the better~" Serafall happily filled a red wine glass and handed it to the fallen angel Calawana.
"Me too!" Mitelt stretched out her arm with a glass waiting for wine to be served as well.
"Mitelt, aren't you too small to drink alcohol?"
"What!? I'm almost the same age as Calawana, plus I work in the same company as Serafall-sama!" Mitelt puffed out her cheeks tenderly and complained.
Unlike Yuuma's identity as a high school student, Calawana is a graduate of a university as well as Mitelt.
Yuuma sometimes regrets her falsified identity but can no longer do anything. All because Azazel ordered her to go investigate a possible -Sacred Gear- and recommended that she enter Kuoh Academy as a student so that she would not discover herself as a fallen angel by the demons that protect the city of Kuoh.
And so, four people -Adults- began to drink wine, but Serafall also brought a couple of bottles of sweet fruit wine suitable for young people to drink a little.
"Christel, don't drink too much fruit wine," Lluvia said with a serious look at her golden-haired little daughter.
"Mom, it's just a little bit~ 'You don't let me drink the wine, at least let me drink some more of this fruit wine!'"
"NO, you know what happens when you drink alcohol"
"EH? Christel has drunk alcohol?"
"Mom!" Christel wanted Lluvia to say nothing about her dark story, but it is obvious that she failed.
"Christel has stolen a few beers. This daughter of mine is an alcoholic who does crazy things when she drinks, the first time at a Christmas dinner..."
Lluvia began to bring out all the black history with references to Christel's drink, perhaps partly because of Serafall's wine that it is definitely not a wine of the human world, and partly because she was happy to have a house full of people and, perhaps for the most part, to vent her life as a single mother of a little demon.
Although it seems that Lluvia complains about the care of a precocious little girl and the headaches it has brought her, she does so with a smile.
Listening to the tales of life from Lluvia, Christel observes everyone at the large and long table that just entered the dining room with all the girls enjoying the pleasant family atmosphere and eating food from various dishes placed on the table, from Turkey and other recipes from Christel and Lluvia's native country, as well as traditional local dishes and recipes that are eaten in the celebration of New Year's Eve -Osechi Ryōri-.
'Maybe I should ask Lala to increase the size of the rooms and enlarge the house... but it's a pity that there is no free land around the house anymore...
There's a street off to the side, but...
On the other side is the house acquired by Chisato... maybe if Lala fused the two houses... But in that case where will Basara live...
Yuuto seems to now live alone taking care of the Gremory family house since Rias moved here. Perhaps it will be a great help to Yuuto to have a roommate. It's not a bad idea to move Basara with Yuuto so we can enlarge the house...
….'
Christel's eyes went from Chisato to Basara to Yuuto as she planned how to convince them to donate their own homes for the well-being of the world...
And so, a great celebration happened. With a little girl who starts a new life and little by little forgets her, not so lived, past life. Looking forward to the new year.
"5~"
"4~"
"3~"
"2~"
"1~"
"Happy New Year!! . . . ~ "
Lluvia hugged her daughter, happiness imprinted on her face adorned with a pair of water pearls in the corner of her eyes that do not fall.