Dinner

"If you need anything, please ring the bell, my lord."

"Of course."

I give the servant that escorts me to my room one last smile before I close the door. After closing the door, I tiredly walk toward the bed and throw myself on it. Argh. Today is really tiring even though I had just arrived here for five hours.

When I arrived here, the servant immediately escorted me to my room and began to undress me. After undressing me, they started to clean me up and dress me up with noble clothing.

Clothes decorated with too many jewels—the kind of suit that makes Rin throw her hands in frustration.

After dressing me, the servant led me to the dining room, where Lord Gremory prepared a massive feast for me. A feast that can feed a few dozen adults, and we need to consume it. I know that I don't need to eat all of them, but I did not like not eating all the food that was cooked for me.

Sadly, the food is too much, and I cannot eat it all.

Anyway, after the feast, a painter painted both Rias and me together. Why not use a camera, you ask? Well, the painter uses a special kind of ink that lets the drawing be lifelike. I don't know how to say this, but the picture looks like a photo taken by a camera but more… real? Argh. I don't know how to describe it.

Do you know how long it takes? Two hours. I need to stand still for two hours. I can see Rias wants to run away but decides to stay. I think that she already learned about this meeting from her parents and already practiced it at home.

She did not like it, but she did her best. I will reward her with cookies tomorrow.

After that drawing season, we spend a few hours at a tea party and have a pleasant conversation. After that tea party, I have three hours of rest before dinner, and another feast will be thrown at me.

"Haaaa… I guess I can take a nap for a little bit."

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|3rd POV|

Rias looks at Riser with a frustrated expression. She wants to tell him how her training is going, she wants him to pat her on the head, and more importantly, she wants to play with him.

Sadly, she cannot do that at the moment. They are in the middle of a ceremony called the acceptance of one son. As the name suggests, this ceremony is where Riser gets accepted into the Gremory household as one of their own.

The Gremory family needs to treat Riser as their own heir. This is the reason why the servant goes all out in serving him.

Lucky for her, Venelana told her that she would spend the rest of the night with her inside her room. Rias did not know what her mother was implying, but to her, it was a playing time with her beloved Riser.

In the past, this stage was called the bedding of the two beloved. This is the stage where the couple will lock their relationship by making love with each other. However, because of the different era, that practice has been abolished.

Well, not all of them.

If the couple wants to make love with each other? Then sure, but their parents will not force them to do it like in the past. This stage is more of a sleepover than a bedding ritual where they need to make love.

"So, Riser. How is your training doing?"

"My training is doing fine, my lord. "

"Good. Good. Rias over here just finished your paper training method. She can now make the paper as her throwing weapon."

"Oh, really? Good job, Rias."

Rias blushed a little when she heard Riser's praise. Unlike her canon counterpart, Rias in this universe wants to prove herself to Riser by training hard. She still watches anime and plays games all day, but she will spend her time training every morning.

"Yes. She does a great job, and I must thank you for that."

"Oh? I did not do anything, though."

"Oh, you did. If not for you, Rias will spend most of her day lazing around, but after she meets you, she wants to train."

"I see."

Riser looks at Rias and gives her a warm smile. Riser is really proud of her. Every devil has a different trait coming from seven deadly sins. Riser is a greedy devil, and his treasure is his family.

If someone threatens his treasure, he will deal with them with all his power.

Just like Riser, Rias also has a deadly sin trait. She is a lazy devil. She did not want to work and only wanted to laze around doing nothing. In the canon story, Sirzechs change this trait by telling Rias to go around the world with his peerage member.

And with the attention she gets as the strongest young devil in her generation, Rias gets a trait of a proud devil with a hint of laziness.

Here, Riser changes Rias' lazy trait into an efficient lazy. A lazy devil is divided into two categories: an efficient devil or a chronic lazy devil. An efficient devil is like Falbium Asmodeus. He will finish his work as fast and as efficiently as possible, then spend the rest of the time lazing around.

Rias slowly gets into this category. She will train first then spend the rest of her day cuddling and playing with Riser or Kuroka.

To see Rias change for the better is something that makes Riser proud.

"Then I'm really glad and proud of her."

Venelana decided to change the subject by saying.

"I hear you open up a company in the human world. Is it true, dear?"

"Yes. An entertainment company. Right now, we only publish a Visual Novel game and will publish an anime in the future."

"Anime? Ah, it was the animation that Rias really liked, right?"

"Yes."

Rias widens her eyes when she hears that Riser has a company that makes anime. She is really excited to see the anime Riser's company makes.

"Hmmm, if you need anything for your company, don't hesitate to get in touch with us, okay?"

"Of course."

Riser will not reject her offer as the Gremory family is one of the wealthiest families in the underworld. They own many companies in the human world, and all of those companies are big companies.

So when the lady of the Gremory clan offers Riser her help, he will not reject that offer.

The feast lasts for another half an hour before both Rias and Riser get escorted to a massive room. This is Rias' room. When both of them get inside the room, Riser closes the door, Rias tackles him and hugs him tightly.

"Woah there. Rias? Are you okay? Should I call the servant back?"

"No. Stay."

Riser looks at her in confusion but decides to comply. He sat down on the ground and let Rias sit on his lap, and hugged him. After a minute of comfortable silence, Rias released him.

"Better?"

"En"

"Good. Now, Rias. Can you tell me what happened?"

"Nothing."

Riser looks at Rias in confusion while Rias makes a small smile. Rias just learned that she would marry him when she learns noble etiquette with her mother. Venelana decides to say that Rias needs to hug Riser tightly for a minute to tie the marriage contract.

And Rias decides to trust her mother.

She wants to marry Riser when she learns what that word means. She likes him, and Riser is willing to cook her cookies. That is the indication that Riser wants to marry her as well. Her logic is flawless as ever.