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Chapter 9

Sona internally smiled, after seeing how Alex and Julis reacted to her simple taunt.

'So, both of them are prideful, and it seems Riessfeld-san got angry with me for 'jabbing' at Komnenos-san.' The Sitri Heiress though with interest.

The prideful ones are always easy to rile up. But, this is where Sona has to be careful if she wants them to join her, she should not overdo it.

"Very well let's play, you can have the first move." Sona motioned for Alex to begin.

Julis next to Alex only gazed at the Sitri Heiress, the sheer gall of the Devil girl is something very annoying and unsettling for her.

Alex only nodded and started with the pawn. Soon enough, the game of chess was on its way.

At first, there was no barely any thinking between their turns, as it was only the pawns which moved on the battlefield.

But, soon enough the other pieces joined the fray and this is where thinking started to kick in.

At least in Sona's case, as Alex barely planned his moves, or at least the Student Council President thought so.

Something the Sitri Heiress picked up…

As Alex behaviour started to frustrate her, first and at most, he is not falling for her traps and set-up.

Instead, he moves a piece that is not related to any sort of her grand scheme!

As if he is doing things randomly!

Still, as time has passed, she realised that she was winning. But then, she realised what was going on!

Her pieces were ganged up on!

Alex mostly ignored her pawns and focused on the more important pieces.

Eventually leaving her with pawns mostly.

He then moved one of his Knights towards her King.

"That would be check, Shitori Kaichou," Alex said with a fake smile.

The whole Student Council room turned deadly silent, most of Sona's Peerage was looking at the match with extreme fascination and most of all disbelieve.

The Sitri Heiress fixed her glasses and had to move her King.

Alex used this opportunity instead of pursuing the King he took another one of her pieces out.

Sona frowned at that, realising what was going on.

She started to think, should she move her King to save distance or should she retaliate?

In the end, she decided to retaliate. But, once again Alex checked her King next turn.

She then saw his smile increase when she moved her King to save distance.

"You focused too much on my Knight, Sona Kaichou…." Alex moved his last remaining Bishop.

"That would be another check…" He said with a bright smile, and the Sitri Heiress started to sweat.

Another several moves later three pieces joined the encirclement around her King, making her less able to move other pieces and focus on saving up her King, while Alex had much more breathing space to take out her pieces which are ignored.

Eventually leaving her King alone, while Alex still has five pieces left without his King.

And so, he moved in for a kill…

"And this Shitori Kaichou is checkmate." His Knight piece pushed her King piece, making it fall, he looked quite satisfied with this, still he knows that he is in deep shit right now.

His Pink Haired Princess was giving him a piercing glare, promising pain...

"T-This… I…" The Devil Heiress was out of words and her glasses nearly have fallen from her nose.

"I want a rematch!' She then realised that she lost and the very first thing which popped into her mind was… rematch!

"Sorry to break this to you Shitori Kaichou, but…" Alex pointed at the windows, the sky was orange… they were playing for around an hour and a half…

"I am not here to play chess, I was expecting a tour of the school." His words made the Student Council President embarrassed…

Her whole plan was thrown out of the window, the Sitri Heiress has not even thought about a possibility that Alex would beat her in chess!

To her, the match was already in the bag, and she only offered the chess to find out more about his personality!

Yet, she got tables turned on her, Sona has no doubt her older sister already knows that she lost this match…

This mean there will be a shitstorm going their way, Serafall will start digging all about the new transfer student.

How did a simple test turned upside down like this!?

How she suppose to tell to Alex that she technically is his fiance?

After all, she is a Devil and she had a deal with her parents…

And the deal is not THAT specified to begin with!

As in, if anyone beats her in Chess she will have to marry that person!

Only now after losing the match did the Heiress realised how bad her wording was at the moment she made the promise with her parents!

Sona took a deep breath and looked at Alex, she messed up, still, she wants that rematch!

"I understand, my apologies, I got carried away, Momo if you would, can show them the school grounds?" Sona asked her Bishop.

The silver-haired girl slowly nodded absent-mindedly.

Sona's peerage still can't believe she lost!

~~~

Around an hour later when Momo has finished showing the school grounds Alex and Julis started walking back home.

The moment she saw that they were out of the school perimeter, she pulled him into the alley and pushed him to a wall.

The pink-haired girl was pissed…

"Do you know what you did?" She asked with a chilly voice.

"You said that, this Devil Heiress sister is a Satan and that she is very much infatuated with her little sister! And yet… you decided to beat her and get even more attention on us both!" She poked his chest with her index finger multiple times, it was quite painful since she has some nails…

Alex sighed hearing that, he knows quite well what he did…

"I know, but we already are on their radar, and Sona already wants us in her peerage, and if the people we saw are all her members, that means there are multiple empty spots there."

Same time he can guess that canon is still some distance away…

Not that he can trust canon in the first place, since his existence should have already caused a butterfly effect.

For example… he already has full Sona's attention who should by this point would be working in recruiting Saji.

Julis only groaned hearing that, no matter what they are already on Devil list.

"Even so, now you are on Leviathan's radar too…" Julis said with an annoyed look.

"I was on her list the moment Sona found interest in me." Alex defended himself, but Julis was not buying it.

"Yes, and now you moved up in that list since you beaten Sitri in a chess match!" The Pink head pointed that out.

"Yes, yes I get it, I think we should go home already…" He just raised his hands in defeat.

Julis rolled her eyes, but she agreed. There is no point in pointlessly argue when she should start practising her Pyromancy and get stronger.

"Yes, let's go."

~~~~~~Later~~~~~~

After returning from school, there was not much time left, after making dinner, and doing homework, there was only a few hours left before they had to call the day.

Neither Julis or Alex want to lose their school marks, it's something that has to do with their pride.

While for the remaining hours both of them spend practising their respective elements.

It's a good thing that their backyard has high fences, otherwise they would need to find a place to practise their powers.

Even so, it won't work for a long time, once Julis can make fireballs and Alex can generate enough power which, in turn, create a lot of flashy lights, they will need to start practising somewhere else.

After two hours of practice, Julis felt like she has run a marathon and Alex felt a splitting headache they had to stop with their training.

"So, how can I check my progress?" Julis asked Alex as they were resting in the living room.

"Only I can upgrade your Falna Julis." He answered back from his side of the couch.

"Does this mean you going need to see my back, again?" She asked with narrowed eyes.

"Hey! It was not me who invented that spell!" Alex countered back after hearing that borderline accusation coming from her.

"I know, but still… fine! Just, do it!" The Pink head caved in and decided just to do it.

While her… boyfriend just groaned from his side.

"Can we do it after my migraine is over?" He asked her with closed eyes while holding his head.

*Sigh*

"Fine, I will get the empty papers." The Pinkhead lazily went up and walked to his room.

Few moments later Alex remembered that Julis probably has no idea where he is keeping empty papers...

So, with a groan, he got up and walked over to his room, where he found the girl exploring his room, her tiredness was nowhere in sight anymore.

"Why are you checking under my bed?" He asked with a deadpan look.

That moment Julis stiffed, and Alex sighed.

'Is she looking for my porn magazines?'

"I-I-I didn't knew where to check… So, I thought they maybe are there…" The Pink head got up, she didn't look at him directly, instead she found one of the Map on the wall to be more interested than looking at her boyfriend.

"I see…" He did not buy that at all, instead Alex decided to change the theme.

"The empty papers are in the first draw." He walked over and pulled out two papers and started walking back to the living room.

"Come let's get this done, I want to sleep." He motioned for her to follow him.

Julis nodded and decided for now to forget about the incident in his room, instead she remembered about this morning how Alex woke up!

"Wait! Does that mean you will go back to that Dungeon!?" She asked with realisation.

"Yes, I will return there." He only nodded back as if it was a natural thing.

"B-But, you might die again!" She said with a somewhat fearful voice.

"Probably will, but now I have Electrokinesis," Alex said with a barely hidden excited voice.

He is not going to lie, he wants to cave in the skulls of those wolves, he wants revenge!

Julis saw his reaction, she could not believe this! Is he is not afraid? Or, he just knows even if the wolves going to kill him he will return to his bed in the morning?

In the end, she sighed, there is nothing she can do to stop him, after all, he still needs to sleep…

"Just… promise me you will be careful…" She said that with a small embarrassed blush, it's a good thing that he didn't saw her blush, as she very quickly hide it.

"Yes I will, I have no interest in collecting more scars like that." He said in matter of fact voice.

Julis decided to lighten the mood after she heard him said that.

"And here I thought men like scars…" The Pinkhead questioned him with a joking voice.

"It depends on a guy you know, I don't mind having one or two. But knowing THE dungeon, I will have much more in future."

The Pink Princess grimaced for a second, she wanted to lighten the theme of conversation, yet it returned to his dungeon crawling...

Few moments later they arrived back in the living room.

"Update my first, please! I want to see how much it improved and same time I want to start understanding how the progression works!" Julis said that to him while getting back on the couch, she then started to lift her sweater and showed her back.

She was about to say not to stare too much, but instead, she holds her tongue, as the pink-haired girl remembered the Devils, more specifically Sona, and that he won against her in the stupid chess game.

The Princess does not doubt that Devils are more liberal with their actions and that they would use seduction if needed since she realised that Sona's peerage is full of girls.

And besides, Alex is her boyfriend and he has his boyfriend rights…

"I am done, here is your stats sheet."

Julis snapped out from her thoughts, he was done already!?