Little world building in your face :D Bunny Girl Senpai this is a date.

"Reporting to the Maou Sirzechs Lucifer!"

A black haired devil reverently said as he bowed towards the red haired gremory sitting behind his desk with a lot of papers on it.

"Speak."

One could feel fatigue from his voice as well as that there was something else on his mind.

"We have confirmed that a complete branch family of the House of Naberius was wiped out. The main house seemed to have been totally eradicated, no house, no ruins, no bodies, no blood, no signs of battle, not even a speck of them was left. In our search we have also found a place with over one hundred dead bodies belonging to Devils from the same house. Everything was drenched in blood and corpses were lying everywhere. Also, there were opened cages as well as opened or broken shackles. It appeared that whoever was responsible for this was there to save those prisoners and killed all the Devils there in the process. However… there are two really important things which are the reason why I came to you personally…"

Sirzechs nodded. He could already guess what one of them was.

"You mean the holy energy, right?"

"Indeed. It is safe to assume that whoever destroyed the mansion used an attack with ridiculously powerful holy energy. My lord, do you think that heaven has attacked us?"

Sirzechs touched his forehead with his right hand. It seemed that something suddenly caused him a migrene. However, he still confidently answered his subject's concern.

"No, it is highly unlikely that this was heaven. What was used was an attack at a level above Excalibur Destruction, it would have to be a high ranking angel who did this or another very powerful person. If it was a Seraph, they could easily do it, but even though they detest us after the incident with Yami, especially Gabriel and Uriel, they would never do something like that. Except if he had come back and wanted revenge… Are these shitty prophecies really true… No, no! If he had returned and heaven had found him, there would be bigger movement from all sides. Especially that terrifying woman and the Gods since their prophecy is even worse than ours… Yes, yes. Everything is fine… Just in case, send someone to watch over Grayfia, if he returned, Mamako would know, and thus Grayfia would know as well. Although she has abandoned us Devils after what we have done, we should be able to find her…"

As he talked a myriad of expressions crossed his face, even though he was trying his hardest to suppress them. Very, very complicated expressions. Helplessness, grief, sorrow, guilt, fear, regret. The devil who saw the person whom he admired from all his heart have such expressions, he decided to speak up and say what was on his mind to ease his lord's guilt.

"You have done what had to be done! It is for the safety of all us devils, no, for the whole world! All the prophecies which the different factions got on the day of the birth of 'that person' were definitely directed towards 'that person'. Although every one of them was different, it was obvious that 'that person' was the greatest threat there was to peace!"

As Sirzechs listened to these words he first closed his eyes to concentrate on keeping his emotions in check, before turning his seat around, turning away from his loyal servant.

"It isn't 'that person', his name is Yami. Even if we did the "right thing" we have still wronged an innocent child. Grayfia was right… Although we publicly said that "we did it for the peace of the world", in the end, we were all driven by our own selfishness, our emotions … By fear… And by envy…"

The black haired devil didn't know what to say. Although he wasn't sure what he meant, as he was with Sirzechs for a long time, he knew that the Maou had chased after Grayfia Lucifuge for a long time, however, she had rejected her every time. She herself had pledged herself to serve her "Lord", Mamako. And after her "child" appeared, she had pledged herself to serve Yami, her "Young Lord".

Although nobody knew this, she had even promised to become Yami's "Queen" when he was very young, but this information was only known by Sirzechs after he had asked her why she didn't accept to become part of his peerage, becoming his "Queen" piece.

"Let's not talk about that anymore. You mentioned that there were two things, what is the second?"

"We assume that the person behind the attack was someone called 'Luzifer Morningstar'."

The person with Lucifer in his name of course reacted to this name. Also because he had already heard of that person. From what he had heard, this person had killed quite a lot of ghouls and saved girls from being auctioned into a life of misery. He didn't seem to be a particularly bad person. And if someone dared to take such a name, that person either had to have the power to back it up, or was going to get killed by people who didn't like it. But the question now was; why would this person suddenly appear in the Underworld and destroy a branch from the Naberius house? Also, if that person took a similar name to a devil, why was his attack full of overwhelming Holy power?

"Why do you assume this?"

The expression of the devil got a bit weird, as he took out a big folder.

"For one, the way most of the devils who died at the place with the cages was killed the same way as the ghouls whom this 'Luzifer' murdered. A projectile right through the head, instantly killing the target…"

"Just because of that?"

Sirzechs interrupted since this wasn't really a decent clue but rather a wild guess. In response, the expression on the devils face got even stranger, a bit helpess even as he stepped forward and placed the folder in his hands on the desk.

"Well, we have a rather strange confession…"

The red haired Maou got more serious as he picked up the folder. However, the moment he read the words on the front page he almost dropped it again:

Luzifer Morningstar was here :D

This was what stood on the top page and it was so random and strange that Sirzechs didn't even know how to react at the moment.

After a moment he decided to open it and take a look inside.

…

Sirzechs expression instantly got serious. So serious in fact that the devil didn't dare to move or speak for a whole five minutes as the Maou went through several pages. Gathering all his courage, he asked:

"My lord, what is in this folder?"

Without looking up, but with a grim expression the handsome redhead replied in a slow and grave manner.

"Now we know what this was all about… This folder contains evidence about how this Devil House conducted unspeakable experiments on a Nekoshu named Kuroka and how they wanted to use her little sister as well… This is without doubt about the SS-class Stray Devil named Kuroka… She is the big sister of my little sister's rook Koneko Toujou… And there is also evidence about what those cages contained; Nekomata…"

"My lord, what do we do?"

Sirzechs turned around once again as his brows knit.

"... If this were to be made public, it may start another war, a war with the Yokai especially since Yasaka and Mamako are still very good friends… This is really bad… However, it seems that this Luzifer Morningstar isn't hostile towards us devils, he just rescued the Nekomata and even gave us the evidence needed…"

His brows knit even deeper. He also thought about his little sister and her rook. He couldn't let a war happen, he would never let a war happen! Just for the safety of his little sister, Rias!

"Everything that was said within this room is highly confidential. This mustn't spread! We will keep this evidence back for now and if anyone asks, we tell him that I have done it after finding out about their evil schemes. Now, leave and forget about everything!"

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[STATUS - AFFECTION

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Mai: Deep Romantic feelings (60)

Valina: You will be my partner! (55)

Kuroka You WILL be MY Mate! Nya~ (80)

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(Hmm, hmm. Good, very good… Wait, wut? Why did Mai-san's feelings suddenly skyrocket? I Bullshit no Jutsu-ed her into "Mai-san.exe has stopped working"... Wait… Is she a masochist? Wasn't he the one to be stepped on? She had shut herself in her room ever since I talked with her. What happened? I should probably check on her.)

Yami was currently back in his room after Kuroka had teleported them back. For some reason she had instantly transformed into a cat and thus hadn't spoken a word. He had expected her to ask him all kinds of questions, but she didn't. He guessed that she had witnessed the sight of the place where she was experimented on and where she and her sister had been separated after she killed her "master" to save her cute little sister. It probably brought back bad memories and she was probably thinking about "Shirone" at the moment.

Well, Yami was sure that he would be implicated in the DxD storyline soon anyways.

He stood up. Kuroka meowed for a moment in discontent since he had been scratching her ears until now, but just laid down again, looking at the wall, or rather, somewhere completely different.

Yami exited the room and went over to the one where Mai was staying and knocked on the door twice.

"..."

After thirty minutes, the door opened by a slit and their eyes met. At first her eyes were squirming a bit, but then they turned resolute.

"Yami, I need to talk with you."

She opened the door and Yami readily stepped inside. He smiled at the bunny girl. She gestured towards the table and two chairs in the room. The two took a seat and looked into each others eyes again.

"What is it, Mai?"

She reacted a bit as Yami just called her by her name directly, but she took a deep breath and opened her mouth.

"Yami, I have thought about your words… And realized that you were right."

Her eyes were strong and this made her even more attractive as well.

"Then, what are you planning to do now?"

She bit her lip, but then she seemed to have steeled herself.

"The reason behind my Puberty-syndrom was that I wanted to vanish because of the incident with my mother. This means that to overcome it, I will need to vanquish all thoughts of disappearing and have to make everyone else acknowledge my existence again… I - I may have an idea how to do it, at least the first part… But I will need your help!"

Yami just nodded at her with a gentle and reaffirming smile. Seeing this, Mai-san relaxed visibly.

"And I think I also know how to make everyone acknowledge your existence again. You are an actress, aren't you? How about being part of a film, that way if they see you on screen, the people will have to acknowledge that you are indeed there."

Although she wasn't 100% convinced, the bunny girl could at least follow the logic, however, there were a few problems.

"And how the hell do you think this could work? I mean, how do I become part of a movie? If nobody can see me, I can't go to an interview so how do you expect this to work? It's not like you are a producer or anything like that."

"Well, actually…"

Yami proceeded to explain to her how he actually had a lot of ideas for movies, books and other stuff. And that there was also an influential person who was going to support him.

"There is only one thing left to do; The interview. Mrs. Mai Sakurajima, do you think you can do the job."

The bunny girl tilted her head for a moment, but then got serious. She had done such interviews a lot of times and was prepared for everything.

"Yes!"

Her voice was full of confidence as she answered. And she waited for the next question to come to show Yami how prepared she was.

"Okay, you have the job."

She almost fell to the ground after the shortest interview she ever had. She could practically hear the deep trust Yami had in her. Next, he took out his phone and called Gakuho Asano, telling him that he had found a talented young, beautiful, kind actress who was willing to do a film with them. Mai turned her head away as she heard the flattery which Yami said, whether she was happy or not, only she could tell. And literally everyone else who could see the raised corners of her mouth on her turned face.

He also told the chair-man to open a side where one could read web-novels and call it, very originally, Webnovel. For some reason, apps, websites, social media and the internet as a whole wasn't developed that well, for now. On this newly created website, several of the different books would be published, for free. Yami first needed people to even read it and become fans of it, after that he could make even greater profits since the popularity of the books would be a LOT bigger.

A few books would also be chargeable, they were the ones which deserved it, like 50 Shades of a very boring color…

And to get a bit of money out of it, a certain website called Patreon would be advertised in the free web-books as well.

After he was finished, Yami looked at the bunny girl in the bunny girl suit and noticed something at that moment.

"Mai… could it be that you have been wearing the same costume for several days now?"

Actually, she had hoped that he would be oblivious to it. Where should she have gotten clean clothes from? Of course she had no way of going home since she was invisible. And shopping for clothes was even more impossible. And stealing clothes was out of the question anyways.

"Okay, let's go buy you a few clothes."

…

It was going to be very strange since he, as a boy, would buy girls' clothing, but he couldn't just steal clothing from Valina or Touka, right? That would be a Really Bad idea. Of course, he could just create one in Paradise, but that way he would have to explain where he suddenly got it from and he wouldn't let go of this opportunity to take her out on a date.

Although he actually didn't want to lose the sight of Mai-san wearing a bunny girl outfit, it would be good for them to spend some more time together. He already had an idea why her affection suddenly increased, but just like it suddenly increased, it could suddenly decrease again as well. Thus it would be best if he brought her out for a date to solidify her idea in her head.

Mai-san nodded slowly, but her head was turned thus Yami couldn't see her face. The two stood up, went downstairs and out of the cafe.

Yoshimura was on the counter, but didn't say anything and just waved at him a bit as he left. He had visibly relaxed since the incident with Kuroka was taken care of. At some point he would likely need to talk with Yami or the black cat about it. But since his "godson" hadn't told him out of his own volition and he wouldn't force the matter if it was already taken care of, Yoshimura was just curious what Yami was going to do now since he had already left the cafe in the morning and now, in the afternoon, he was leaving again. Maybe he could ask him when they had dinner in the evening.

As Mai and Yami walked through the buzzling streets, they didn't really talk. From an outsider's perspective he would be talking to himself, knowing this, Mai was considerate. On the other hand, Yami was looking around since he found the city very interesting as he was thinking about why Mai-san's affection probably skyrocketed.

There were streets, sidewalks, cars, shops, humans, houses, everything was just like a normal big city, but it was still totally different. Different races and people were walking besides each other, lizardmen who had scales all over their body or a few elves with long ears who were known for living long and being quite beautiful. None of them could reach even close to Esdeath or Raphtalia however. Many of them carried weapons, some walked around with a sword on their hip, while others had pistols in a holster, others carried wands to cast magic with while some also had CAD's to cast magic. There was a big variety on what could be seen.

(My guess right now is that Mai-san tried to overcome things by herself as I said, but probably noticed that the best way to "Not want to disappear" would be if there was someone who she didn't want to disappear from. And since I'm practically her only choice, her mind chose me. Something along these lines, right Eve?)

{Humans, and especially woman are a lot more complex as you know, but yes, that should be the gist of it. Master, you are quite good at understanding human psychology, why is that?}

(Dunno. I was interested in it and tried to understand why people acted as they did, but in the end, even with psychology and science, the behavior of people is still a mystery.)

The most people they came across were human, or at least looked like one. Humans were the widest spread race and races like devils and fallen angels would rather walk around in the form of a human. Actually, even though everything looked fine, the three biblical factions weren't as peaceful as one might think at the moment. The situation was pretty bad. The same for the other factions and especially the Gods.

{Hubby, you have reached it. Women's paradise and men's hell. Good luck~}

Before him lay a giant shopping-centre, it was at least twelve stories high and would probably be the biggest there was in Yami's old world, meaning it was ridiculously big.

Since Yami already knew what was going to come, he didn't have any facial expression, like a death convict, he had resigned himself to fate.

"You don't have to make a face like that. Look on the bright side, you get to go on a date with a beautiful bunny girl, don't you?"

Mai jumped in front of him and said with a slight smile, trying to tease Yami.

"Did you just admit that this is a date?"

"Maybe."

"Wooow, this is the greatest day of my whole day, being able to accompany the great Mai-sama."

"You should consider yourself honored."

Neither of the two were willing to back down and they continued like this while walking deeper into this maze of a shopping-centre.

"Aren't you just talking with air, don't you feel embarrassed?"

The bunny girl looked around, but nobody really seemed to pay attention to Yami seemingly talking to himself.

"Wow, my first date in the city is with an invisible girl who nobody but me can see, yeah, this isn't what one would consider ideal, is it?"

"But you are still happy, right?"

"Very happy. Or something like that if you stopped stepping on my toe."

"Does it turn you on?"

"To make that clear, I'm not going to be at the bottom in this relationship. Better make your choice."

"Baka."

"Hehe, I have a feeling that I'm going to hear that a lot."

The two strolled as they talked, both of them had their fun in a way that none of them were expecting.

Suddenly Mai-san stopped and stared at a shop. Yami could see emotions building up in her eyes as well as tears.

"Mai?"

"... My mom used to take me here whenever I needed new clothes… Let's go in."

Without waiting for Yami, the bunny girl went inside. Without waiting he followed her. However, he was a bit distracted by the name "Yu Lei International".

(My Wife is a Beautiful CEO is in this world as well? This totally excruciating "love-story" is here as well? Wait, how does this shit with the gods work then… Oh fuck this, I'm already getting worked up for nothing because I'm thinking about this shit… Mai is all that is currently important. If I get into the business world I will come into contact sooner or later anyways…)

Meanwhile Mai had been looking around, the tears in her eyes weren't flowing but she had a hard time suppressing her emotions. The relationship she had with her mother was very complicated after all, but she was still her mother and she had a lot of good memories in this place.

"How about wearing this?"

As she turned around, there was an apron held out to her.

"I don't wear aprons when I cook, we are searching for clothing here."

[The constellation "God-father" is applauding your supreme choice of clothing.]

"Hey, this is the greatest clothing there is. Naked apron is a sacred thing, even god approves of it, thus blaspheming it is heresy!"

Mai-san looked at him as if he had a mental disease, but the tears in her eyes were already vanishing without her noticing.

"If I cook, maybe I will lance the food with laxatives."

"Try me, I have a very good stomach."

With his special abilities, even if he consumed radioactive material, he would probably not have any problems, but there might be some problems if he suddenly gained the ability of glowing and literally killing everything within his surroundings because of radiation.

"Then, let's look for something else to wear, I have seen a panda costume and a yukata somewhere inside here as well, I think you would look really good in those as well."

"You are having lewd thoughts, aren't you?"

"My thoughts are a thousand times more lewd than what you're imagining."

A very small blush could be seen on her cheeks, the next moment she turned around and went to another part of the shop to look at the clothes there.

"Fine. I'll do it alone."

[The constellation "Villain in Glasses" appreciates the plans of his junior.]

Yami had managed to get out of having to help her pick out clothes. He wasn't good at it and this was a trap, IT'S A TRAAAAP!

He spent his time thinking how good Mai-san would look in a naked apron and compared her to the naked apron queen herself, Saeko. It was a hard battle, but in his opinion Saeko would win in her home field of Apron while she would lose in terms of wearing a bunny girl suit.

While he said 1000 times more lewd, he was just imagining how she would look without any ulterior motives or anything like that, he was totally wholesome!

Mai was running around, picking up stuff she liked, went to the cabin, tried it on and repeated. For some reason, nobody cared that some clothes just disappeared and reappeared. The power of her invisibility seemed to really bend reality itself or something like that.

[The constellation "Narrator" is quoting Spongebob; "One Eternity Later."]

Yami really didn't know how long it had been, but it was most certainly past afternoon.

"Here."

This was all Mai-san said as she stretched out a bag full of clothing to him then she walked past him and through the entrance.

(... Okay, is she still mad at me or not? Or is it something else? Women are complicated…)

Actually, the reason wasn't because she was still mad, but that she had noticed that through Yami's words, all her melancholy had been yeeted out of the window. But she didn't know how to express it.

At that moment he noticed something. Just now, Mai-san was still wearing her Bunny girl outfit.

Was she just sensible enough not to wear something that she hasn't even paid for yet, or was there another reason, Yami didn't know, but he chose to just let it be, that was the best course of action.

Actually, in this case, Mai kept it because she knew that Yami liked it. She couldn't put it in the bag since no bunny girl costumes were sold here. And she wore it because of the aforementioned reason of the other clothing not being paid for yet.

As the female clerk was doing her job, she looked at Yami with a questioning gaze.

"Is this for your girlfriend?"

With a straight face and small smile Yami replied.

"Yes."

The clerk just nodded. It was her job to sell things, not pry into other people's lives.

As Yami went outside, Mai-san grabbed the bag.

"Thanks."

Was all she said, turned around and walked away.

"... That's the wrong way…"

Yami muttered with a wry smile. It was likely that Mai had heared his answer and needed some more time for herself. And his smile couldn't help but widen as he thought about how long she was going to walk through this whole mall since it was this ginormous. That should be a lesson for her not to walk away from him.

[The constellation "God-father" is manipulating Probability.]

[The constellation "God-father" is recommending you to be on your way. This message is totally not fishy btw.]

Okay, Yami had to chuckle. And since God had said so, he turned towards the right exit and

walked out of the ridiculous shopping mall.

He looked around once again, but this time he was more interested in what God had planned this time. But he had a very certain hunch.

A bit of Probability could be seen, it was flying right above him. As he looked up, he saw the setting sun. Shopping had really taken a long time, it was already pretty much evening.

The Probability was getting more and more. It was still a very small amount, but it told Yami that whatever it was, was about to happen.

And not even one minute later…

Someone bumped into him.

(I think we all know where this is going.)

"Are you hurt milady?"

[The constellation "Abridged'' is yelling at the cute blonde girl to stop staring at his godson, it's creepy.]

Yami stretched out his hand to the petite young girl in white nun-robes who fell to the ground.

"Oh yeah, I'm alright, really."

A soft and melodious voice flew into Yami's ears. THe nun put her hand into his and just as Yami pulled her up, a strong wind blew. The sparkling green eyes, the waving blue hair, the innocent and cute face.

(And the big, not really, reveal: It's Asia! Wooow, who would have thought. Big plot twist right there.)