Under the clear sky, a boy with demon wings on his back looked down from above, dark flowing fire seemed to flash in his eyes, and a faint smile always hung on his lips.
"It still looks better from this angle, looking at the school." xd
Leo muttered to himself, quite content.
Chiba Municipal Sobu High School, located in Chiba City, is the most prestigious key school in Chiba City.
The school building has a somewhat peculiar shape; when viewed from above, it looks a bit like the character "mouth" (mouth), and with another building added below it, it forms the entire school's aerial view.
Next to the road are the teaching buildings, opposite are the special buildings, and on the second floor, corridors connect them, forming a square. The space enclosed by these four school buildings is Sobu High School's central courtyard.
It was afternoon, and many students in school uniforms were walking back and forth in the courtyard. Some sat on the lawn or benches chatting happily, while others chased and played with each other. The whole scene looked very harmonious, forming a comfortable everyday landscape painting.
However, Leo himself was the most discordant embellishment in this everyday scene.
"Do you believe in the existence of demons?"
The question he had recently posed to Yukinoshita Yukino, the second daughter of the Yukinoshita Family and a celebrity at Sobu High School, was now being answered in the most direct way.
Leo Erigid, a third-year student at Sobu High School, was actually a Demon.
Once, he was also one of the most ordinary people, but after coming to this world eighteen years ago, his life began to become extraordinary.
He didn't know until he was three years old that his father in this life was an Exorcist and his mother was a Demon. The two met in this Chiba City about nineteen years ago, then fell in love in a very dramatic way, starting an unblessed romance.
This relationship was destined to be a tragedy, because the two were once mortal enemies. Even if their hatred later turned into love, the wounds left by the past still accompanied them.
Thus, Leo, the crystallization of their love, lost his heavily injured and deceased parents one after another when he was three years old, becoming a solitary orphan.
Although he was a Demon, what could a three-year-old Demon do?
Anyway, Leo fifteen years ago felt that he was very likely to die by the roadside.
Until… Leo met another Demon.
"Long, long ago, Demons, Angels, and Fallen Angels were constantly at war, causing extremely heavy casualties to each other."
"That was a very terrible war, lasting for thousands of years, almost bringing all three factions to the brink of extinction."
"To this day, although the three factions still harbor hostility and enmity towards each other, and the fighting between them has never stopped, they have all fallen to the point where they cannot survive without humans."
"The Angel faction needs the power of the church established by humans to crusade against Demons and Fallen Angels. Fallen Angels have also been trying to manipulate humans to fight against Angels and Demons. Demons accumulate power by making contracts with humans and extracting a price. This is the current situation."
"But even so, we still haven't given up on finding our former compatriots."
The other party told Leo that in ancient times, Demons not only had the Four Great Demon Lords, but also seventy-two Demon families with noble titles, which are the legendary Seventy-Two Pillars of Demon Gods.
Each of these seventy-two families was once the leader of dozens of Demon legions, the earliest and purest Demons, but in the war that lasted for thousands of years, many of the seventy-two families had become extinct.
However, some descendants of these extinct noble families fortunately survived in some way and were scattered around the world, even living in seclusion in the human world, unknown to others. For this, the Demon side has been continuously investigating and searching for the descendants of these extinct noble families, and entrusting High-Class Devils living in the human world to protect and even cultivate them.
And whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, Leo was the descendant of one of these extinct pure-blood Demon families.
"Erigor, the fifteenth-ranked Demon lineage among the Seventy-Two Pillars, also known as Eligor, is an ancient Demon family with the rank of Duke, which once commanded sixty Demon legions."
"Your mother was one of the Erigor Family's bloodlines scattered in the human world, and the only remaining bloodline of this family, but unfortunately she also passed away."
"Although you are a hybrid of a pure-blood Demon and a human Exorcist, you are still qualified to inherit the surname 'Erigor.' If one day you can become a High-Class Devil, we will restore the Erigor Family's status and return everything that once belonged to the Erigor Family to you, including the noble title and territory."
Thus, Leo received aid from the Underworld. Under the official arrangement of the Demon government, he was protected by pure-blood Demons living in the human world and also obtained methods to train his power.
Leo, who knew what kind of world he had come to, also worked exceptionally hard, constantly delving into his power as a Demon and improving himself. He ultimately spent a full fifteen years to be promoted to a High-Class Devil and was granted a treasure in the Underworld that could be used to recruit Retainers—the devil chess piece (Evil Piece).
Therefore, Leo set his sights on Yukinoshita Yukino, a celebrity at the same school as him.
"What choice will you make?"
Looking down at the school building below, Leo played with a chess piece, blood-red all over, in his hand, and the smile on his lips grew wider.
"I hope the result won't disappoint me."
As a hybrid Demon who had just recently managed to advance to a High-Class Devil, Leo was still very much looking forward to his first Retainer.
This not only concerned whether he would gain an attractive and capable Retainer, but also his future development.
Recalling his unique characteristics, which were completely different from other Demons, Leo smiled slightly and put away the devil chess piece in his hand.
Immediately, his Demon wings flapped, and he swiftly flew towards another direction of the school building… Chiba Prefecture is a place surrounded by the sea on three sides, with warm winters and cool summers.
The prefecture is embraced by the magnificent Pacific Ocean, boasting a lush, vast, and rich natural environment. It is also adjacent to the capital, Tokyo, enjoying a superior geographical location and extremely convenient transportation, making it one of the top prefectures in the country.
Leo currently resides in a corner of Chiba City's Chuo Ward.
It is an estate that looks somewhat retro from the outside, like a small castle.
The estate is not particularly large, but it has a mansion-like villa. In front of the mansion is a garden, where many flowers and plants are cultivated. Many men and women dressed as servants can be seen moving through it, either trimming vegetation or maintaining the flowers and plants, exuding the aura of a wealthy family.
Leo suddenly descended from the sky, landing directly in the garden in front of everyone present. As his toes touched the ground, he retracted the Demon wings on his back, causing the surrounding servants to turn and bow to him.
Leo, however, had no intention of greeting these servants. He walked directly into the Western-style mansion.
His destination was the dining room. Although it was a bit too luxurious for an individual, he had grown accustomed to it.
Compared to eating bento at Sobu High School or fast food in the cafeteria, Leo undoubtedly preferred the delicious meals prepared by the chef at home, at least they wouldn't contain seasonings and ingredients he wasn't used to.
"Give me a Chinese meal, the same as the day before yesterday will do."
Leo, sitting in the dining room, casually instructed. The chef, who had appeared beside him at some point, respectfully bowed and then retreated to prepare his lunch.
A girl dressed as a maid silently appeared, pushing a tea cart, making tea and pouring water for him, and serving him as he washed his hands and wiped his face, doing it quite impeccably, yet never speaking to Leo.
There was no other way. Neither the chef nor the maid, including all the servants outside, were actually human. They were familiars, given to Leo along with the estate.
The purpose of these familiars was to maintain the operation of the estate and cater to Leo's daily needs, with no other functions. Therefore, they basically had no dialogue function. They would faithfully fulfill their duties until they disappeared.
The estate even had a dedicated chauffeur responsible for taking Leo to and from school, but Leo usually preferred to fly back himself, so it was rarely used.
Of course, such a luxurious estate and its configuration could not have been earned and bought by Leo himself.
It wasn't that he couldn't do it, but he had been diligently striving to become a High-Class Devil, and had not focused on making money. Therefore, before this, he had actually lived in a private house, until he became a High-Class Devil. The Demon responsible for liaising with him then presented this estate to him as a gift.
Speak of the devil and he appears. While Leo was still waiting for his lunch, a palm-sized Magic Array suddenly appeared by his hand.
"Good afternoon, Leo."
On the Magic Array, a girl's figure emerged, speaking in a cool voice.
Seeing this, Leo also smiled.
"Good afternoon, Sona."
Sona Sitri, true name Sona Sidy, the next head of the Sitri Family, the twelfth-ranked among the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons, and the younger sister of the current Demon Lord Leviathan.
Yes, the Demon who had always been assisting Leo was a Demon from the Sitri Family.
Although Sona Sitri was a young Demon who only came to the human world a few years ago, since her arrival, she had taken over some of the Sitri Family's work in the human world, including the responsibility of assisting and protecting Leo, the descendant of an extinct pure-blood Demon family.
Not long ago, when Leo was promoted to a High-Class Devil, she was the one who sent him to the Underworld and gave him this estate as a gift.
Therefore, the smile on Leo's face was not as playful as when he faced Yukinoshita Yukino, but much more genuine.
Under the clear sky, a boy with demon wings on his back looked down from above, dark flowing fire seemed to flash in his eyes, and a faint smile always hung on his lips.
"It still looks better from this angle, looking at the school."
Leo muttered to himself, quite content.
Chiba Municipal Sobu High School, located in Chiba City, is the most prestigious key school in Chiba City.
The school building has a somewhat peculiar shape; when viewed from above, it looks a bit like the character "mouth" (mouth), and with another building added below it, it forms the entire school's aerial view.
Next to the road are the teaching buildings, opposite are the special buildings, and on the second floor, corridors connect them, forming a square. The space enclosed by these four school buildings is Sobu High School's central courtyard.
It was afternoon, and many students in school uniforms were walking back and forth in the courtyard. Some sat on the lawn or benches chatting happily, while others chased and played with each other. The whole scene looked very harmonious, forming a comfortable everyday landscape painting.
However, Leo himself was the most discordant embellishment in this everyday scene.
"Do you believe in the existence of demons?"
The question he had recently posed to Yukinoshita Yukino, the second daughter of the Yukinoshita Family and a celebrity at Sobu High School, was now being answered in the most direct way.
Leo Erigid, a third-year student at Sobu High School, was actually a Demon.
Once, he was also one of the most ordinary people, but after coming to this world eighteen years ago, his life began to become extraordinary.
He didn't know until he was three years old that his father in this life was an Exorcist and his mother was a Demon. The two met in this Chiba City about nineteen years ago, then fell in love in a very dramatic way, starting an unblessed romance.
This relationship was destined to be a tragedy, because the two were once mortal enemies. Even if their hatred later turned into love, the wounds left by the past still accompanied them.
Thus, Leo, the crystallization of their love, lost his heavily injured and deceased parents one after another when he was three years old, becoming a solitary orphan.
Although he was a Demon, what could a three-year-old Demon do?
Anyway, Leo fifteen years ago felt that he was very likely to die by the roadside.
Until… Leo met another Demon.
"Long, long ago, Demons, Angels, and Fallen Angels were constantly at war, causing extremely heavy casualties to each other."
"That was a very terrible war, lasting for thousands of years, almost bringing all three factions to the brink of extinction."
"To this day, although the three factions still harbor hostility and enmity towards each other, and the fighting between them has never stopped, they have all fallen to the point where they cannot survive without humans."
"The Angel faction needs the power of the church established by humans to crusade against Demons and Fallen Angels. Fallen Angels have also been trying to manipulate humans to fight against Angels and Demons. Demons accumulate power by making contracts with humans and extracting a price. This is the current situation."
"But even so, we still haven't given up on finding our former compatriots."
The other party told Leo that in ancient times, Demons not only had the Four Great Demon Lords, but also seventy-two Demon families with noble titles, which are the legendary Seventy-Two Pillars of Demon Gods.
Each of these seventy-two families was once the leader of dozens of Demon legions, the earliest and purest Demons, but in the war that lasted for thousands of years, many of the seventy-two families had become extinct.
However, some descendants of these extinct noble families fortunately survived in some way and were scattered around the world, even living in seclusion in the human world, unknown to others. For this, the Demon side has been continuously investigating and searching for the descendants of these extinct noble families, and entrusting High-Class Devils living in the human world to protect and even cultivate them.
And whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, Leo was the descendant of one of these extinct pure-blood Demon families.
"Erigor, the fifteenth-ranked Demon lineage among the Seventy-Two Pillars, also known as Eligor, is an ancient Demon family with the rank of Duke, which once commanded sixty Demon legions."
"Your mother was one of the Erigor Family's bloodlines scattered in the human world, and the only remaining bloodline of this family, but unfortunately she also passed away."
"Although you are a hybrid of a pure-blood Demon and a human Exorcist, you are still qualified to inherit the surname 'Erigor.' If one day you can become a High-Class Devil, we will restore the Erigor Family's status and return everything that once belonged to the Erigor Family to you, including the noble title and territory."
Thus, Leo received aid from the Underworld. Under the official arrangement of the Demon government, he was protected by pure-blood Demons living in the human world and also obtained methods to train his power.
Leo, who knew what kind of world he had come to, also worked exceptionally hard, constantly delving into his power as a Demon and improving himself. He ultimately spent a full fifteen years to be promoted to a High-Class Devil and was granted a treasure in the Underworld that could be used to recruit Retainers—the devil chess piece (Evil Piece).
Therefore, Leo set his sights on Yukinoshita Yukino, a celebrity at the same school as him.
"What choice will you make?"
Looking down at the school building below, Leo played with a chess piece, blood-red all over, in his hand, and the smile on his lips grew wider.
"I hope the result won't disappoint me."
As a hybrid Demon who had just recently managed to advance to a High-Class Devil, Leo was still very much looking forward to his first Retainer.
This not only concerned whether he would gain an attractive and capable Retainer, but also his future development.
Recalling his unique characteristics, which were completely different from other Demons, Leo smiled slightly and put away the devil chess piece in his hand.
Immediately, his Demon wings flapped, and he swiftly flew towards another direction of the school building… Chiba Prefecture is a place surrounded by the sea on three sides, with warm winters and cool summers.
The prefecture is embraced by the magnificent Pacific Ocean, boasting a lush, vast, and rich natural environment. It is also adjacent to the capital, Tokyo, enjoying a superior geographical location and extremely convenient transportation, making it one of the top prefectures in the country.
Leo currently resides in a corner of Chiba City's Chuo Ward.
It is an estate that looks somewhat retro from the outside, like a small castle.
The estate is not particularly large, but it has a mansion-like villa. In front of the mansion is a garden, where many flowers and plants are cultivated. Many men and women dressed as servants can be seen moving through it, either trimming vegetation or maintaining the flowers and plants, exuding the aura of a wealthy family.
Leo suddenly descended from the sky, landing directly in the garden in front of everyone present. As his toes touched the ground, he retracted the Demon wings on his back, causing the surrounding servants to turn and bow to him.
Leo, however, had no intention of greeting these servants. He walked directly into the Western-style mansion.
His destination was the dining room. Although it was a bit too luxurious for an individual, he had grown accustomed to it.
Compared to eating bento at Sobu High School or fast food in the cafeteria, Leo undoubtedly preferred the delicious meals prepared by the chef at home, at least they wouldn't contain seasonings and ingredients he wasn't used to.
"Give me a Chinese meal, the same as the day before yesterday will do."
Leo, sitting in the dining room, casually instructed. The chef, who had appeared beside him at some point, respectfully bowed and then retreated to prepare his lunch.
A girl dressed as a maid silently appeared, pushing a tea cart, making tea and pouring water for him, and serving him as he washed his hands and wiped his face, doing it quite impeccably, yet never speaking to Leo.
There was no other way. Neither the chef nor the maid, including all the servants outside, were actually human. They were familiars, given to Leo along with the estate.
The purpose of these familiars was to maintain the operation of the estate and cater to Leo's daily needs, with no other functions. Therefore, they basically had no dialogue function. They would faithfully fulfill their duties until they disappeared.
The estate even had a dedicated chauffeur responsible for taking Leo to and from school, but Leo usually preferred to fly back himself, so it was rarely used.
Of course, such a luxurious estate and its configuration could not have been earned and bought by Leo himself.
It wasn't that he couldn't do it, but he had been diligently striving to become a High-Class Devil, and had not focused on making money. Therefore, before this, he had actually lived in a private house, until he became a High-Class Devil. The Demon responsible for liaising with him then presented this estate to him as a gift.
Speak of the devil and he appears. While Leo was still waiting for his lunch, a palm-sized Magic Array suddenly appeared by his hand.
"Good afternoon, Leo."
On the Magic Array, a girl's figure emerged, speaking in a cool voice.
Seeing this, Leo also smiled.
"Good afternoon, Sona."
Sona Sitri, true name Sona Sidy, the next head of the Sitri Family, the twelfth-ranked among the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons, and the younger sister of the current Demon Lord Leviathan.
Yes, the Demon who had always been assisting Leo was a Demon from the Sitri Family.
Although Sona Sitri was a young Demon who only came to the human world a few years ago, since her arrival, she had taken over some of the Sitri Family's work in the human world, including the responsibility of assisting and protecting Leo, the descendant of an extinct pure-blood Demon family.
Not long ago, when Leo was promoted to a High-Class Devil, she was the one who sent him to the Underworld and gave him this estate as a gift.
Therefore, the smile on Leo's face was not as playful as when he faced Yukinoshita Yukino, but much more genuine.