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"Even before he rescued Mom, I was fond of Millicas and was considering joining his Peerage,"
Ruby explained to her enraptured audience. "So, when he finally granted my wish after so long how couldn't I follow up with my part of the deal?
Even if the big dork insisted that there was no need for it as we never ended up signing a proper contract in the first place."
While listening to the conclusion of Ruby's story the majority of the room felt happy for her and her family.
There was however one individual that couldn't help but feel bitterness and jealousy at how the tale ended.
Trying her best to not let Rias and the others see how upset she was, Akeno could not help but rage internally at the injustice of it all, not out of malice but out of longing and heartbreak.
'Why Her?' she asked to no one in the privacy of her mind, barely keeping the resentful look out of her face when seeing Ruby's carefree smile.
When the younger devil had explained how her mother had died and that she was willing to sell herself body and soul into the service of a devil to get her back Akeno felt that she was looking at her younger self.
She would give up everything to see her mother again, both now and back then.
When she had first met Rias, she had asked her king if she had a way to bring her mother back only to learn that the resurrection granted by the devils had many limits.
Two of them in particular stopped her from reviving her mother.
Devils couldn't resurrect someone without a body and the resurrection of the dead only worked during the first hour of death.
So, hearing that Ruby experienced a similar situation, Akeno couldn't help but feel sorry for the girl at first.
That feeling of sympathy however had changed when she learned that Millicas had miraculously found Summer alive after so long and reunited the missing mother with her loving family.
'Why does she get a happy ending while I don't.'
Even knowing that it was neither Ruby's nor Millicas' fault but a twist of fate that decided the different outcomes of their similar stories, Akeno could stop the ugly feelings from growing like a poisonous infection in her heart.
And neither could she stop herself from deep in her heart resenting Ruby and Millicas for it.
Ever since she had seen them in those pictures that her husband had acquired from their spies and showed to the family during dinner last night Grayfia had been judging Millicas' Peerage members.
The strongest queen wasn't as delusional as to think that every fault she had found in the 3 younger girls since then up to the moment she met them was not her overprotective nature imaging reasons for her to dislike them.
Whether her overprotective nature was simply reacting to their position as Millicas' servants or at the fact that her son had apparently in some way chosen to move out of their home to be alone with his 3 pretty female servants was a question that Grayfia ignored with consummated ease.
So as much as it irritated her to do so considering how much she disliked the idea the silver-haired maid chose to hold herself back and let Lady Venelana do the questioning while she observed the group, their reactions and interactions.
While Grayfia would, momentarily, hold her judgement of the other two for later, especially the blond one dressed like a maid, she was certain that she had a proper understanding of the youngest one at the very least.
The one presented as her son's Pawn, Ruby Rose, was a pretty and innocent girl who had chosen to join her son's Peerage after knowing him for some time and as payment for bringing the girl's mother back home from the dead.
Grayfia's opinion of the girl was heightened by the knowledge that she ignored Millicas' forgiveness of the debt owed from the miraculous save by properly repaying him with her servitude.
It was also obvious to the silver-haired maid that the young pawn had a considerable crush on Millicas, a crush that had most likely only grown larger by his incredible rescue of her mother.
"Millicas," she said to get her son's attention. Considering the story that she had heard there was still one thing that stood out to Grayfia.
"Miss Rose said that you approached her at first with the offer of joining your Peerage, correct?"
She asked for confirmation. Seeing her son's confused stare before he nodded in agreement to her statement Grayfia asked about the one thing she didn't understand about the encounter.
"Why did you approach Miss Rose with the offer in the first place?"
Some may not see the issue as important but to Grayfia the reason why her boy chose his Peerage pieces was as important if not more so than who those pieces were, more so taking into account his current choices.
He will need strong allies he could rely on in the future as any young devil would in their society and this important fact was even more so for Millicas himself,
whose status as a son of one of the new Satan, the only one in fact, had put a target on his back from even before his birth.
While other devils could afford to be frivolous with whom they chose and their reasons as to why,
Millicas himself could not afford to waste his pieces as those same servants were not only meant to be his companions but also his allies and defenders in combat.
Seeing the three attractive girls that had joined her son and hearing the comments made by Chysis last night forced.
Grayfia to wonder if her little boy had fallen prey to the misgivings that so many young devils seem to fall into these days that led to them seeing their Peerage as nothing more than some fancy way to collect and show off their personal harems of pretty little toys to their contemporaries.
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