I'm surrounded by devil sisters!

"Speaking of the artifact—"

Asia tapped her index finger at the corner of her mouth, a thoughtful expression on her face.

"Mr. Fogui, don't you have any magical tools?"

"As for him... I remember he seemed to say he had one, but it seemed like he didn't want to use it or didn't like it. Anyway, we never saw him use it."

Rias paused here.

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention something important. The school just sent me a message saying that Asia's enrollment procedures have been completed. She'll be in the same class as Fogui. We can just wait until the official classes start..."

"That's great!"

Before Rias could finish her words, the blonde girl, upon learning that she would be in the same class as Hanakaiin Bhukui, immediately raised her arms and fists, cheering heartily.

"That means starting tomorrow, I can be with Mr. Fogui not just in the afternoon, but also in the afternoon and at noon. That's great..."

"Oh, I'm sorry, not tomorrow."

"Eh? Why?"

"Because tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are weekends, the school is closed. Fogui won't be coming to school. You won't be able to see him until Monday."

"Pity……"

"Well, that's what's going on. I'll be going upstairs now. Akeno, Koneko, Asia, if you want to take a shower, go ahead."

Rias said the last sentence lightly and went upstairs.

……

The view shifts to the bedroom.

"Huh~ Done and done."

At the desk by the window, as she finished the last stroke on the notebook, Rias let out a long sigh, threw away the ballpoint pen in her hand, leaned back, raised her arms high, and stretched lazily.

She has just finished writing in her diary for today.

A quick glance reveals that not much is recorded every day, and several days' worth of content can be recorded on one page.

[On April 25th, Fogui said he found something during yesterday's operation and wanted to show it to us. It turned out to be just a finger, ugly and a bit disgusting. It was said to be an important monster sealed by the Curse Association. They came and took it away in the middle of the club activity. I don't know what happened next... Seriously, stop picking up weird things.]

April 26th. This Fogui guy is really prone to all sorts of weird things. He bumped into nuns every morning when he went downstairs. He even encountered a fallen angel on his way home from school that evening. He dragged us to a church in the middle of the night to save someone, but the person he saved was a nun. How did he do such a coincidence? Could he have installed a tracking device on the nun?

...But it's kind of cool to see you saying you'll save me when I'm in danger. 】

[April 27th, Akeno has been acting weird these past two days. She started picking on me about the seating issue for no apparent reason, and even said she liked Fogui so she had to sit with him. Fogui, really? Why didn't he let her sit up straight when he was hugged? What's the point of pulling and tugging in public? I didn't even realize how close they used to be...]

Just like punching in for work, other names come and go in the diary for several consecutive days, but there is always one name that appears.

And I didn’t think there was anything special when I wrote these diaries, but when I looked back at them, the more I read, the more they sounded like the little complaints of a girl in love.

Feeling a slight burning sensation on her face, Rias hummed softly with a hint of pride, and pressed the backs of her slightly cool hands against her cheeks in an attempt to cool them down.

However, at this moment, a magic circle suddenly appeared on the floor behind the girl, emitting a soft red light along with the fluctuations of magic power.

Ok?

Sensing the fluctuation of power behind her, Rias quickly closed her diary and turned to look.

In the red teleportation magic circle, the figure of a mature woman wearing a maid outfit who looked very similar to Sakuya Izayoi in Toushi no Satoshi gradually became clear.

The girl was slightly startled and murmured.

"Grefia...sister."

"Good evening, Miss Rias."

Chapter 31 The Gremory Family in Turbulence

In the bedroom on the second floor of the school building, the red-haired girl sitting at the desk turned around and saw the silver-haired maid who arrived with the teleportation magic circle. Her originally gentle expression instantly became a little stiff.

"I'm sorry to bother you so late, Miss Rias."

The silver-haired maid took a step out of the magic circle and bowed slightly, and the red teleportation magic circle dissipated behind her.

Rias bit her lower lip lightly.

"Sister Gurefia, why did you come here suddenly..."

Although she used questioning words, the expression on her face betrayed the fact that she obviously knew why the other party came.

Without the magic circle's light effect, the desk lamp on the desk once again became the only light source in the room.

The dim warm light was diffused in the not-so-spacious interior space, vaguely outlining the proud body curves of the silver-haired maid under her seemingly conservative attire.

"Although it may be a little late, Miss Rias, your elder brother, Sirzechs Lucifer-sama, still wants me to bring you this year's birthday wishes."

"Birthday...that was at the beginning of the month, and now it's almost the end of April." The red-haired girl complained while pretending to be calm.

"I'm very sorry, but there is a reason for this. After all, Lord Lucifer has only been the Demon King for a short time, and many things still require Lord Lucifer's personal approval."

Gurefia's tone was calm and neither humble nor arrogant.

"Actually, Lucifer-sama originally wanted to come and celebrate your birthday in person, Miss Rias-sama. He's been trying very hard to finish his work ahead of time these days, but unfortunately, he's been too busy, so he had to ask me to convey it on his behalf."

"It's okay, actually~"

Seeing the silver-haired maid apologize so sincerely, Rias, who was still complaining a second ago, felt a little embarrassed.

"I know my brother is very busy, and I'm not a child anymore. I'm not childish enough to cry loudly because I didn't receive birthday wishes, am I?... Well~ But thank you, Sister Gurefia, for helping to bring my brother's wishes."

"So that's all, there shouldn't be anything else important, right?"

There was a hint of eager anticipation in Rias's tone when she asked this question.

It would be great if...it was really just like this.

But life often goes against one's wishes.

"And one more thing."

The words that came out of Gurefia's red lips extinguished the red-haired girl's last hope.

"It's about your engagement, Miss Rias. Since you're already eighteen years old, the Phoenix Family hopes you can return to the Demon Realm as soon as possible to hold your wedding."

"..."

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became silent.

The girl remained motionless sitting on the chair with half of her body turned sideways. The light from the desk lamp shone from behind her, illuminating her long red hair that cascaded down her shoulders, casting large shadows on her face and blurring her expression.

"Engagement...huh?"

"Yes, this is what the Phoenix Family asked me to bring to you, Miss Rias, before I came from the Demon Realm."

The Phoenix family, like the Gremory family, belongs to the 72 noble families of the Demon Realm and is one of the few pure-blooded demon families left after the Three-Party War.

The marriage between the two families had no emotional basis. Rather than being a marriage, it was more like a political mission to revive the pure-blooded demon clan.

In fact, the marriage contract would not have fallen on Rias originally, after all, she had an older brother, Sirzechs, and in addition to the three sons, the eldest, second and third, the Phoenix family also had a little daughter.

However, since Sirzechs Gremory inherited the throne of Demon King Lucifer and became Sirzechs Lucifer, the successor of the Gremory family was automatically changed to Rias herself.

As the saying goes, he who wears the crown must bear its weight, but the reality is often that you don’t even have a choice whether to wear the crown or not.

The only difference is whether one wears the crown voluntarily or is forced to wear it.

Rias currently belongs to the latter category.

She could naturally choose to refuse firmly, but that would inevitably lead to a lot of disputes and criticisms for the Gremory family.

Being a pure-blooded demon noble, he is unwilling to contribute to the revival of the demon world. Once this big hat is put on him, not only the Gremory family, but even his brother Sirzechs, who has now become the Demon King, will be implicated.

This was something Rias could never accept.

In addition, her father Geoticus Gremory passed away at an early age, so objectively speaking, the Gremory family now only has her and her mother Venelana Gremory.

It is no exaggeration to describe this situation as precarious. If disputes arise again, it is not impossible for him to be directly expelled from the Seventy-Two Pillars of Nobility.

In this way...

Ah--

The red-haired girl sighed softly with a slight tremor in her voice.

"I...I understand. Thank you, Sister Gurefia, for taking the trouble to come here."

The words fell, but this time Gurefia did not respond immediately. She paused briefly before speaking again calmly.

"Actually, if you, Miss Rias, really don't want to accept this engagement, there is another solution..."

"I know that too. All we have to do is let my brother handle it, right?"

Before the silver-haired maid could finish her words, Rias gave a helpless but slightly bitter smile.

Admittedly, with his brother Sirzechs' current status as the Demon King, mediating a marriage contract is just a matter of a word, but in the end it still comes down to the same words.

Due to the special nature of this engagement, if he were to forcefully mediate as the Demon King, it would inevitably arouse the suspicion of the nobles of the Seventy-two Pillars, which would deal a huge blow to his brother's prestige.

Rias could never accept that her brother, who had worked so hard to reach his current high position, would be implicated because of her momentary willfulness.

"Anyway... I already know. Thank you, Sister Gurefia, for making this trip. Please also tell my brother about this for me. I... I'll think about it myself."

There was no need to say more at this point, and the silver-haired maid nodded in understanding.

She glanced at the notebook on the desk behind the girl, then took a step back and bowed again. The red teleportation magic circle with the Gremory family crest printed on it under her feet lit up again. After a flash of red light, her figure instantly disappeared from the spot.

The power fluctuations of the teleportation magic quickly dissipated into the air without alarming anyone else in the old school building.

In the room, Rias didn't come back to her senses until she saw the magic circle on the ground completely disappear. She sat back in the chair, leaned back, looked up at the ceiling, and raised her fingertips to touch her lips.

"You said...you would come to save me...right?"

……

At the same time, at Hua Kaiyuan's home.

"Come on, Huahua~ We've already had dinner, so it's time to eat sister~ And since tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are both days off, we don't have to go anywhere, so let's make love for two days and two nights!"

"Do you want to be broken?"

Chapter 32 The flower is too big, Asia can't handle it

The busy and fulfilling weekend passed in the blink of an eye, and Monday came in a flash.

It's a new week again, and a new weekend to recharge and read.

Hua Kaiyuan Fogui arrived at class at about the same time as usual. When he walked into the classroom, most of the students had already arrived and were sitting in their seats in groups of three or four, chatting with people around them.

Even though he was basically one of the last few to arrive at school, it was still early if you really counted the time.

After all, there are still at least twenty minutes before the first class, and the morning class meeting is entirely controlled by the head teacher.

Under normal circumstances, if there is something to talk about, just talk about it. If there is nothing to worry about, just ignore it. Everyone should just do what they need to do and wait for the first class in the morning to be over.

Plus, it's been almost a month since school started, and if there were any new changes, everything that needed to be covered would have already been covered in that month, so it's basically impossible for there to be more...

Clap clap clap!

As the atmosphere of the morning tea party in the classroom became more and more intense, the head teacher suddenly walked in from outside in high heels, clapping her hands as she walked all the way to the podium.

"Alright, alright, everyone return to your seats, it's time for morning class."

Well...it's quite unexpected.

I was thinking that there would be no morning class just a second ago, but the head teacher came in the next second.

But there was nothing we could do. Since the teacher was already here, we couldn't just continue chatting as if no one was around, so everyone returned to their seats and sat up straight.

"Well, first of all, let me tell you a good news. Our class will be welcoming a new student today."

The head teacher clapped his hands together beside his cheeks with a smile on his face.

"By the way, she's a pretty cute foreign girl~"

Ok?

Huakaiyuan Fogui raised his eyebrows when he heard this description.

First of all, she is a foreign girl, and secondly, she is very cute. Well... based on this description, he seems to have known who she is.

"Now let's welcome the new students with warm applause~!"