A Devil Jinchuuriki – 20

"Leviathan, please don't stare like that, it's rude," Grayfia lectured as the said girl looked elsewhere for a bit before returning back to staring.

Every now and then, she averted her eyes, but reverted back quickly enough.

It was very strange to Serafall.

"Thank you," Serafall thanked as Lucifer put away the glass.

"No need. It's my fault you're in this. I'm sorry for hurting you Sera-chan, I didn't meant to," Lucifer apologized as the crimson-haired girl nodded slowly, accepting the apology.

"It's not Nii-chan's fault if she couldn't block it! If she was strong then Nii-chan wouldn't be punished!"

The silver-haired girl spoke up with both her hands in the air.

'So that was it,' Serafall thought.

"Leviathan!" Grayfia snapped, narrowing her eyes at her daughter and hinting something.

The said child huffed and fumed, but complied with her mother's wishes, nonetheless.

Grayfia exhaled a little afterward, calming herself.

She knew her children and they meant well.

The problem was that Leviathan always defending her older brother, Lucifer, regardless of whatever he did, including those that clearly in the wrongs.

Lucifer, on the other hand, was prideful and believed everything he did was right.

He wasn't a bad child per se.

There were great qualities in him as he followed one of the greatest examples.

A child, he still was, only wanted to grow up and become like his father; a hero who fought against all odds and overcame it.

Naruto, her husband, seemed to be infallible in the child's eyes, but Grayfia knew him the best.

"I'm sorry that I'm not strong enough to defend myself," Serafall apologized with genuine feeling after the girl's outburst.

Leviathan was right.

The heiress of Sitri Clan was also too proud of her own ability to evade before it was too late.

Serafall understood more of her own ability now.

"See!" Leviathan gloated.

"Levi-chan," Lucifer called out, "Sera-chan is hurt right now! It was my fault that she's injured so stop it! Dad said…"

Lucifer trailed off as there was no pride in defeating someone weaker.

Most of his father's opponents were much different.

They were far more powerful.

Leviathan pouted but didn't give any more input as Serafall asked about what had happened.

Grayfia relayed what she knew to the girl while Lucifer filled in the blank.

After he had critically injured her, he brought her back to his home, so she could be healed as he didn't know what to do in his panic.

In the hospital, they all waited for her to regain consciousness after the operation.

"Thank you," Serafall said after hearing the story. She then faced Leviathan and added, "you too, Levi-chan."

"Huh? I didn't do anything?"

"You waited here for me to wake up, that's something," Serafall answered with a wide smile on her face.

Leviathan's silver eyes glared at the red-eyed and wondered if there was something wrong with her head.

Maybe, her brother, Lucifer, banged the girl's head somewhere along the way.

Leviathan was only here to accompany her brother and couldn't care less about the girl.

However, Leviathan sighed afterward and nodded, accepting the compliment for what it was.

"Hey! What about us? We helped too!" Someone in the room called out as Serafall leaned a bit to the side of the bed to see.

There were two more people in the room that she didn't notice before.

It was a boy and a girl.

The girl was sitting down on the floor to one side as she rolled up the boy in bandages, turning him into a mummy.

Serafall then noticed her bandages as it was the same and was about to ask.

"No, they did not," Lucifer deadpanned, knowing exactly what she was going to query from her expression.

Grayfia sighed, also understanding where this was going.

She wished her husband was here to help her with this.

Unfortunately, he was busy right now for some reason.

"But… but… Nii-sama, we tried, that has to count for something right?" The twin-tailed girl called out, looking up at her oldest brother.

The other brother nodded as his mouth was clumsily obstructed by certain wrappings.

"You two didn't help! You made it worst!" Lucifer shouted at them as Leviathan nodded in complete agreement.

The twins didn't help at all as they painted over the bandage as well as adding a few extra layers after they made mistakes in their drawing.

They managed to do accomplish the task without any hospital staff noticing it.

That was frightening.

In contrast, the ANBU, didn't seem to be that surprise at all since they had to deal with these two on a daily basis.

Their pranking – or generosity, they called – was legendary across the Elemental Nations.

"But white is so dull! We thought Sera-chan would cheer up if we add more colors like rainbows!"

"PAINT INFECTED THE WOUNDS YOU DUMMY!" Lucifer roared.

They both blinked at him.

"WAHHHH… Nii-sama yelled at us, and Sera-chan didn't thank us. We worked so hard on it too!"

Both of them started to cry and throwing a tantrum.

The mummy was rolling around the floor as Serafall watched with shock and interest.

Grayfia rubbed her temple at the childish nature of the two.

They weren't really crying. It was only an act, and she was not falling for it again.

"Asmodeus and Beelzebub, please stop. Mummy can't deal with you two right now," Grayfia beseeched sincerely.

The two stopped crying and sniffed but their eyes were still watery.

It looked very genuine.

Serafall couldn't help but giggled a little at them.

She wanted to hug them but could not at the moment.

"Don't cry, I'm glad you did, it's really nice," Serafall complimented, nodding at the colours on her bandages.

"Thank you. I really liked it," she added.

With that, they immediately blinked once, clearing the water from their eyes in an instant.

"Hah! See, Sera-chan liked it! We helped! Yay!"