"Hah you give me options yet you know of what I'll choose, Nii-san."
'But, say something like that again and I'll rip out your throat... Behave yourself!'
Hearing such domineering words from the young man in front of them the two couldn't help but wonder where this unwavering confidence came from, they couldn't believe a mere low level devil could exhibit such charisma and strength.
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"I'm heartened by the fact that you have such confidence in your strength, and I hope you'll retain such manners in front of the Phenex Clan, little brother, but you'll have to win the rating games and take first place within the tournament."
"Hahahaha!"
Exclaimed Issei as he laughed hearing the stupidity coming out of his 'Nii-san's' mouth.
"Of course I'll win Nii-san there's no one that can match me on that team, so tell me how could I possibly lose!?"
Recounting everything Sirzech Lucifer said Issei knew that if it was just Red's team without yours truly they would never get first place much less second, as the top ranking was held by the Belial Clan, more specifically the Clan Head Diehauser Belial, the 'Kōtei' of the game, considered an Emperor and he has so much power in fact his strength rivals that of a Satan.
Consuming what Issei said, Sirzech Lucifer and his wife Grayfia merely nodded and with a quick bow the conversation was over, seeing this Issei snapped his fingers as "THWACK!!"
The whole realm began to dissipate as if vapour until they were back into the school territory as Issei resumed lying against the Sakura tree, with a face as cool as a cucumber his eyes were shut, witnessing this Sirzech Lucifer made his way home with a quick portal and the matter was over. With a single glare Issei could demolish the little snot nosed brat named Riser, he knew it and so he continued acting aloof and indifferent.
At this point Students from the school were moving about talking, socialising in general with one another as they gossiped about the latest couples and how a young beautiful teacher is going out with some kid called Fuji-kun.
You know the usual but when they saw that behind the Sakura tree was Issei the handsome and cool freshman that had been talked about recently with Rias Gremory they became instantly excited as if pumped by adrenaline instantly the news of the two dating was sent to all the online forums on Line as soon everyone knew the two were dating.
This caused a multitude of emotions from jealousy to happiness, as countless suitors of Rias were disappointed as they felt their purpose in life was lost for some reason. But the girls felt happy that she was taken off the market as it meant that the boys would finally start pursuing them now.
With this one move by Issei countless maidens were heart broken and countless white knights fell to the dark side, but Issei in question didn't give two sh*ts about this and so he went on his merry way back into school.
The next lesson was just a free period, or more rather personal study as most people just skipped and went out into the field with music blasting out of their speakers, while the weebs went onto WeebSpace and began discussing the latest anime episode.
And even the studious students like Sakamoto weren't studying just messing on their phones due to boredom.
Seeing this Issei knew it was perfect time to go to the Occult Club and talk about the condition given to him by 'Nii-san' thinking about it made him feel lazy as he couldn't be bothered to take part in such a crappy tournament.
But as he was heading to the Occult Club Room, Red appeared out of nowhere, and leaped onto him grabbing his arm as she rested her head on his shoulders.
"Red what are you doing here, aren't you in the club training your teammates?"
Hearing this she shook her head saying no, as she pulled me along, seeing this I just went with the flow as she flew home with me.
But when I saw my house I was a bit unsettled as the house looked brand new, moreover it was a completely different house and looked like a castle of sorts with its own fence surrounding it and the pond in the front with thick trees surrounding the area.
"Red what's happened?"
Hearing this she turned to me with a smile and said, "It seems brothers really fast at work he's completely renovated our home, also darling Otou-san and Okaa-san aren't here, because they won the lottery and are now in Guam enjoying their time together."
"Wait, that fast... Oh right he's a devil this is pretty normal I guess, well at least we have a bigger house right."
After this we descended to the ground as we both got into the large and empty house. After this Red suddenly looked to me and said with a red face that, "Darling I'm a bit sticky in these clothes so I'm going to change, is there anything I should get you by any chance?"
Shaking my head I said, "No but thank you for the offer."
With that she made her way to our room while I began looking through each room trying to find the living room to rest and watch some TV for a chance to kill some time and just overall chill.
Watching TV, I was watching something called Dokkaebi and it was pretty interesting, with the concept of essentially an immortal looking for the right person and it was hilarious as well sometimes.
Each episode was 45 minutes long and 15 minutes in Red had come down in her casual wear as we leaned against each other on the sofa while she leaned on my chest with a blanket over us we began watching TV together.
I didn't know if she liked this, so I nudged her gently and I saw that her eyelids were heavy as I asked her, "Red are you alright you seem so sleepy?"
And every time she blinked her eyes shut for longer as she said, "No... I'm... Aaahh...Wake"
As she yawned through her sentence her eyes began to get watery as she tried resisting her sleep.
"No... I'm not sleepy... darling it's like you want to get rid of me... Mou I can stay another 'huned days... wake!"
Clearly she couldn't as she cuddled tighter against me. It was so easy to read from her expression as I merely gave her a hug back to help her sleep.
"Your tired from training and dealing with all this stress of being the Gremory Clan Heir right. Red don't worry about it I'm here for you every step of the way. Remember I'm here for you so when you feel sleepy I'm here for you to rest your head upon."
I said this while intensely looking into her beautiful teary eyes, and with a kiss to the forehead she gained a smile.
"But, I never have time with you dear and today we have all the time in the world but because of me training for that stupid tournament I can't even enjoy myself with you, its stressing me out so much. I don't want to leave you. It's... *Sob *Sob not fair."
Hearing this I hugged her even tighter as I could feel the emotions within her voice, "You don't know, but I was looking so forward to having a date with you today, but I'm so sleepy I'm so sorry dear."
I started comforting her as I gently smoothed over her back with the gentlest of touches as I said, "It's okay, Red I know your trying your best but it's alright I'm here to carry that burden with you too."
"And I'm a bit sleepy too Red, I think we should just go to sleep what about it."
"It's fine Red you don't have to force yourself to keep watching TV we can just go bed."
And before she could say a thing a quick peck on the lips stopped her complaints, though it seems it evolved into a French kiss but I didn't back down, afterwards a crystal line separated us as we both moved back, with one hand I placed her on top of me as I went to sleep in the living rooms sofa.
With her on my chest, soon only a "Zzz..." noise was heard as gradually we both fell asleep. The peaceful sound of our sleeping breaths could be heard as it became nights out for us both.