[ Harry Potter]
Opening my eyes, I found myself staring at the familiar ceiling of Yasaka's bedroom. I blinked, willing my magic to clean my face without so much as moving, not to wake up the sleeping mILF beside me.
Slowly, the memories of how I ended up here came back—and yeah, it went as you'd expect from a young, healthy, and vigorous young man. All it took was her shaking that perfectly shaped booty of hers and I was there.
What else would one expect? Some high-tier seduction? Nah, it went like this;
As soon as I confirmed that Valerie was going to stay with her friend back in the Underworld, I teleported myself and my over-excited daughter to Kyoto—specifically—Yasaka's backyard where I found her sitting there watching as her daughter meditated.
Our arrival wasn't much of a surprise to her as she already knew I can teleport to her home any time I wanted—I was tied to pretty much every warding bank I ever sold around the world, but that little information did not need to be known—She just thinks I tied myself to the ward scheme when I installed her new warding bank.
Our arrival wasn't a quiet affair, as Elizabeth always squeals in excitement—like a kid on a joy ride with too much sugar in their system—every time we teleport, so of course the noise broke Kunou's meditation session. So after a quick catch-up, she took my daughter's hand and dragged her inside to play in her room, leaving me alone with Yasaka.
It didn't take much time after that. We just started a casual talk and she stood up and started going inside the house while talking, shaking her hips and swaying her tails.
That's all it took for me to understand what she wants—nay, needs—and I like to believe, at the risk of sounding arrogant, that I delivered, scoring a full mark.
It's not like it's a hard thing to do either. Yasaka is a very expressive woman in bed, and her tails are pretty much a scale of how much she enjoyed the carnal act of pleasure. If all her nine tails started moving like they have minds of their own and they don't know what to do with it, then you succeed in your mission of fucking her senseless—which, to be honest, was not that hard of a mission for me to accomplish—at least not after the first couple of times…
I liked the woman, a lot. She was fun, didn't pry into my business like young women tend to do. She was a strong—hot—supportive—hot—and very attractive mature woman. She didn't believe that she's entitled to all my secrets just because we have sex, and that's pretty much all I needed in a woman.
Now if only she didn't pester me for a baby every time we have sex, she'd be the perfect woman.
Turning my head from the awkward angle it was in, I tried to think of a way to untangle myself from this messy position, but I couldn't find a way.
That's not true; I just didn't want to get up—it's so comfortable here.
'Let's just get back to sleep,' I decided as I stuffed my head between her huge and perfect breasts. Oh, what a magnificent marvel of creation those things were.
You'd expect them to be at least a little saggy with how big they are, but no. They were as perky and firm as they could get. Honestly, I thought she was using some kind of magic or technique back when we first started this affair, but nope. All natural. Like it's one of the rules of the world.
Inhale~
Taking a semi-deep breath, smelling the flowery scent, I found myself at ease. Mind drifting slow~ly… back… to… slee… p.
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[ Underworld. Devil Capital, Lilith. New Lucifer Castle Meeting Room]
While Harry was lazily drifting back to sleep, the atmosphere in the Satans' meeting room was charged with a different kind of atmosphere.
"Ugh~ I am going to freeze anyone who mentions the name Harry Potter to me again for the next week," Serafall said in the whiniest tone she could muster.
She believed she had every right to do so, because for the past two years and a half she had been more busy trying to keep devils from doing something stupid—like trying to force that monster into their peerage—than she had been in doing her actual job.
Did they not learn their lesson when he erased the Astrothe heir from existence for so much as breathing near his newly adopted sister? Sure the idiot was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but that didn't make what happened to him any less scary.
"… our race is doomed," she groaned into her hands as her head once again hit the table. She wasn't alone in here, Fal-tan was here too but of course he was sleeping—or at least trying to. She heard him sigh just now.
"Hey hey, Fal-tan. What do you think the chances are that we won't be discussing Harry Potter in today's meeting?" she asked, her voice muffled by the table she was using to rest her face on. No, she wasn't trying to emulate those anime characters who rest their heads face first on the table to signify their exhaustion—no sir…
"… less than the chance of a new civil war…" Fal-tan grunted, making her grimace. Yeah, there's that too, wasn't there? Ugh, it's all because of that Harry Potter guy…
The political tension was at an all-time high nowadays thanks to his potions, wards, warding banks, and artifacts. He made better potions than Phenex tears, better wards than a Dantalion, better warding stones than a Berith, and better artifacts than a Marbas, all while he's human, and these houses have some of the best clan traits in the Underworld.
Lucifer forbid they try and improve their own shortcomings; no, they start getting antsy and try to assassinate the only person they shouldn't. When their people get caught, studied, experimented on, and pretty much have a fate worse than death… then they begin to whine and play the victim.
"I can't recall my Evil Pieces" … "I demand an answer"… "we can't have a non-devil holding so much power" etc…
They start pulling excuses out of their asses, and when they don't get what they want they start siding with either the Great King faction or with the Old Satan faction.
She was tempted to freeze a few of them to death, but Sirzechs was a softie and stopped her every time.
The door of the meeting room opened and the last two of the four friends finally arrived. Sirzechs looked like he hadn't slept in days and Ajuka had his crazy scientist vibe on full blast, walking behind his best friend while muttering to himself about rules and formulas.
They sat down in their designated seats. The quiet atmosphere didn't last long as Zech-tan joined her in brooding land as he too rested his head on the table, face first, with a thud and a low groan.
"Hey, can't we just sleep for an hour before we start this meeting?" Zech-tan's muffled voice—courtesy of his current position—still bounced through their ears.
"No," came the fast refusal of Aj-tan. "I have to get back to the lab as soon as possible. I have new data to review so I can't spare the time. Not when I am this close to figuring out how the warding bank functions…" he explained his reasons, which she found to be too Ajuka for her taste.
"You're still on that?" Zech-tan sighed tiredly. This hadn't been the first time Aj-tan mentioned this particular subject. They had all learned to tone him out since he started going crazy scientist the past two years.
"You don't understand, Sirzechs. I am far too deep into this research to abandon it. I have created more than seven hundred thirty-four scanning spells, circles, and rituals just for this project alone. They are all connected together, optimized to maximize proficiency just to get past Harry's anti-scanning function. I need to know how his ward banking and spell-to-ward conversion functions actually and truly work.
I have created so many failed imitations by now that this started to become a matter of pride to me. Not being able to figure out how his creations work is grating on my pride as a scientist. I can't let it go or else it will be like admitting failure—and I do not fail…" His rambling aside, she had to admit that there were more emotions packed in behind that last sentence than she had witnessed from him in all the years she'd known him, and they'd known each other since they were kids.
"Okay…" Sirzechs said placatingly, "you can go back and do all that, but could you please tell us what you figured out so far? You haven't attended any of the meetings for the past year and only came today because I was there to fetch you myself."
"Hmm, about what? His potions? Those things can't be replicated by anyone, not even gods of alchemy could replicate them. My scanning showed that he was the first one to open this path to alchemy, thus depriving the rest of the world from the chance of replicating his creation. Nothing I could do about that…
This doesn't mean we can't create potions with similar effects though, but doing so requires too much in-depth studying than most people care to do, hence why the majority of the people gave up halfway.
I did manage to create some healing and stamina concoctions with similar effects, but they were still kind of inferior and production costs too much to be of any value, so I stopped and shifted focus to the warding bank project.
Because, unlike the potions, the only thing that isn't replicable is the process of how he made the stones themselves and not the functions…" Ajuka was going to continue rambling about this for hours, but they had caught something interesting, which is why she and Zech-tan interrupted him again…
She would have done it herself but she was too tired for this, and Fal-tan was too lazy…
"Wait, wait, hold on for a second…" the now fully alert Sirzechs said, making Aj-tan pause and look at him with confusion. "You said you were able to create something that rivals Harry's potions? Which ones exactly? Is it the high healing potions?.." Zech-tan stopped mid-sentence and looked at her. She could feel it, but she decided since she can't freeze them to death she's going to ignore them and rest for a while.
Call her petty all you want, but she truly came to hate the name Harry Potter.
"… As I already said, I can replicate the effects of pretty much every potion of his aside from the fertility one—don't ask why—but the cost of producing such a potion is too high to be of any value. Only the richest of the devils would be able to afford one, and even they wouldn't buy it when the alternative is cheaper and better…" Ajuka explained again, making her groan, reminded of how the magical girl lavia-tan was defeated by the hands of the villain Harry Potter.
Yeah, the fertility potions were his way of shutting all the old devils up without starting a war—though she had a feeling he wouldn't mind a war with them.
It's crazy how nonchalant he was about the whole thing back then, though that's a flashback for another time. She still has to get herself together first so that they could actually begin the meeting.
"…You don't understand, Sirzechs, his anti-scanning security layer feels and acts like an anti-magic sphere encasing the ward stone itself, but that's not possible. Magic doesn't work like that. Not when the stone itself is absorbing & generating magic simultaneously. It's like the world itself is making an excep…tion…" Ajuka suddenly stopped talking, looking like he just achieved an enlightenment. She might have used her most prized skill to filter out most of what he said, but she still caught the important parts.
She wasn't a rookie; she has had centuries of practice to perfect the skill of filtering out most of what people said and only focusing on the important parts. Otherwise, she would have quit her post long ago. Do you have any idea just how much nonsense gods and long-lived races in general talk?
"…It…he did it… he actually did it… how? How did he achieve this? I need to get back to the lab to test this theory… now…" Ajuka started to mutter to himself as he walked in circles before summoning his magical circle and teleporting away.
She looked at the rest of her friends and found them too looking at her. This was a concerning development. She could already guess what the mumbling is all about, and so did the other two…
"Okay, we'll revisit this later when Ajuka summons us, so let's not jump to conclusions for now," Sirzechs said as he sighed and slumped back into his chair, his hands going through his hair.
Falbium too was wide awake, tapping his fingers on the wooden table. Clearly deep in thought.
"Sigh, let's just get this over with. What do we have on the agenda today?" she said, snapping both of them back to their still-ongoing meeting, because she knew they would just sit there deep in thought if she didn't.
"Well, we have Harry Potter's new game to talk about, the latest council meeting demands, and whatever you two have on your end," Sirzechs said, making her scowl.
"What do they want now?" Falbium's question was accompanied with a tired sigh. Yeah, she knew the feeling…
"Well, they want me or Ajuka to try and coerce Harry into being a devil, only this time they want us to offer him a King piece," Sirzechs informed them, making them frown. Did these people have no sense of self-preservation?
"And how did they think you'd accomplish that? Did they forget the guy has two dragon gods working for him and Living inside his shop?" Falbium asked.
"Sigh, I don't know what they are thinking. Neither Zekram Bael nor most of the old devils were there. I just got stuck with the young and stupid this time." Clearly he didn't take the meeting seriously in the first place.
"Then why did you bring it up?" she whined a little, but she was justified. Here she was planning how to go about trimming the heads of those standing too tall, and yet he didn't seem to take it seriously in the first place.
"Ah, I just wanted to see the looks on your faces and share with you our race's recent stupidity."
"Sigh, I was already taking stock of how many fertility potions we have and how to go about distributing them between the houses that were about to 'mysteriously' lose some members," Falbium said as he shook his head. For once, she couldn't blame him not for taking their job seriously at least.
"Ah, my bad…" Sirzechs halfheartedly apologized… He might be soft with his approach to handling things, but that didn't mean he wouldn't do what's necessary for the survival of their race. If that means getting rid of some of them, then so be it. They had fertility potions now; they could afford to lose one or two pillar devils.
"Anyway, what about you, Falbium? Anything interesting lately?" she asked her slothful friend.
"Nothing out of the ordinary. The unrest is still somewhat subdued and no one actually dares to make a move. Not after what happened last time. What about you?" he replied as he put his head down on the table again. Clearly he was done for one day.
"Eh, same old same old. Yokais are at their strongest, the Greek pantheon have been getting antsy lately and we still don't know why. The Japanese pantheon is strutting around Japan. The Chinese are complaining about the energy of heaven and earth being too pure for them to refine. Etc. etc." she replied with a shrug.
"So we only have to talk about Harry Potter's new game and then go through notes and paperwork before leaving, right?" Falbium asked, sounding a little excited about leaving…
"Yeah, and going to Ajuka's lab to check…" she snuffed his excitement pretty quickly, making him groan.
"So does this whole game thing give you a bad feeling too?" Sirzechs asked, making her perk up. So it wasn't only her, huh…
"Yeah, I don't know why, but with how fast this whole game thing is spreading… I don't know, I feel like this is going to be a very bad thing for devils in general," she said. "I mean, I get the appeal. It's a full-dive VR game, but I just can't shake this feeling."
"Yeah. We'll just have to get Ajuka to check it first and see what happens," Sirzechs said, forgetting that by the time Ajuka has finished his examination, most of the Underworld would already be playing the stupid game…
"Ok, so let's start with going over the notes now…"
Yeah, this day was not going to be over any time soon…
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