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"...By Satan Leviathan?" Rias asked, she had a very bad feeling about this…
"Yes by Lady Leviathan herself! Do you know how embarrassing it was?" Lady Gremory walked over and dropped a file on top of Rias's table, before taking a seat.
"Read this! This is the summary of what you did in the past 9 weeks as an overseer of Kuoh!"
At that moment Rias quickly realised that she might actually be in trouble. She didn't need to read this; she could easily see that she was in a deep mess just by looking at her mother's facial expression.
So, without wasting any more time she picked up the file and started reading it…
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A few minutes later, she put the file down and realised that... yes, she was in a very big mess…
"You want this to end up in the devil council? You are an overseer of Kuoh city. Worst of all you are under a contract, the very same contract Lady Leviathan is. She was scolded by Marcus Goldman for trusting you to test the Diamond Core Heart abilities."
"B-B-But mother...I did…"
"You were only spying on people! You never tested the magic reader. You never tested the other capacities of it! He was even interested in how you were going to train for your inevitable Rating Game against Riser Phenex.
You were contracted to do it! He even left secrets for you to figure out! Sona already figured out half of the capacity on her own!"
Rias looked down, not daring to meet her mother's eyes.
"To make it worse, this revealed that you were doing nothing in that period. Neither were you studying to be the Heiress of Gremory house nor were you training your Peerage in any way.
It even stated that your greatest achievement in this period was doing human homework!" Venelana finished her rant as she started staring daggers at her daughter.
Venelana was already frustrated, the brown-haired devil lady was scolded
by Marcus himself. It was humiliating for a person who is much much older to receive a scolding from a 16-year-old. She doesn't want that to ever happen again... period!
"Lady Leviathan positioned Sona and you for the perfect opportunity to be close to a one in millenia genius inventor. To test his tools and inventions! He could have even helped you with making pseudo-Sacred Gears to fight against Riser Phenex! He already has those according to Lady Leviathan!"
Rias's eyes widened, so did the rest of the girl's peerage who were forced to listen to Lady Gremory rant.
"Well?"
"...I…"
"This is what is going to happen from now on. If I receive another complaint from Serafall Leviathan again about this. You will be returning to the Underworld, permanently. Until your marriage to Riser Phenix… since you don't care about this at all it would seem."
"I CARE!" Rias snapped when Venelana mentioned Riser Phenex.
"No, you don't. The past 9 weeks you haven't even used your demonic energy once. You didn't practise Power of Destruction. You didn't practise teamwork with your peerage. Sona does a weekly teamwork training. Weekly magic training. Weekly tactics training.
This is your last chance, daughter. Mess it up again. And the next time it won't be me who will be scolding you but Lady Leviathan. She mentioned something about sticking out her neck for you. You don't want her to be angry at you." Lady Gremory finished, this time for real, as she got up from the couch.
"I hope the next time we will have a happier meeting than this. I will see you later." With a flash of red, she disappeared from the room.
The moment her mother was gone Rias collapsed into her chair. She looked like her soul had been sucked out.
This didn't last for long as she quickly opened one of the drawers and pulled out a contract, she started rapidly reading through it properly this time. Going page by page.
Then she groaned loudly after finishing it.
"Rias?" Her Queen asked with some concern.
"The contract… it's not a regular one! I thought it was just a regular summoning with the 'doing it and then being done with'! But, this one is a long term one one where you have to follow the contractor for over several years!" The Red-haired devil heiress exclaimed loudly as she realised that she was being dumb.
It didn't just last for the 2 weeks that Marcus was here. Instead it lasted until he decided to reveal himself at large.
Thankfully she didn't tell anyone what kind of technology he has developed… otherwise, she would already be packing her things by now and going back to the Underworld.
Still, although she was on thin ice at this point she still can get it back into the game!
"...I thought you read through it properly before signing it! That's the basics among the basics in devil society!" Her Queen exclaimed loudly, she can't believe her King just slipped at the basics like that! Especially on such an important contract!
"Like you could read this properly when Leviathan was breathing down your back! You could not imagine how serious Sona's older sister was!" Rias said with a flustered look.
Akeno rolled her eyes and sighed with a resigned tone.
"Of course she was serious, it's important to the whole Devil Race. And you just showed an important contractor how lazy devils can be." The black-haired Queen said with a resigned tone.
"M-Maybe so! But he didn't cancel the contract! We can still fix it!" Rias pumped herself up. Although, there still was some cold sweat on her forehead.
"I hope so, just don't… provoke Lady Leviathan more… I doubt even Lucifer can save you from her wrath. Especially when it's related to this contract she is so seriously safeguarding."
Rias nodded at her Queen's words. From what she had seen between Serafall and Marcus, she knows that something deeper is going on between those two. Especially for Leviathan to suddenly contact her mother like that.
Meaning that the Leviathan is probably infuriated with the fellow teen. And the redhead is not going to lie, he is eye candy.
Pity that Marcus found her in a very awkward situation, probably dropping his opinion about the Gremory Heiress considerably.
Nonetheless, she still has one chance. Well, it's not a chance by this point as a lot is hanging on this. So, she can't be lazy anymore…
"I won't. I didn't realise that I was still contracted to him… this means we need to draft a training schedule for everyone and start training…" Rias said as she had a thoughtful look.
Her Queen nodded, she was, in a way, happy that they could start training and her King can finally stop with that silly idea of playing a human school girl especially when her marriage with that Phenex is so close.
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After giving Rias a piece of her mind Venelana returned to Marcus' garage. Now she needs to rebuild trust with her Master.
Especially since she doesn't want that Phenex brat for a son-in-law. Well, that and she doesn't want to force her daughter into a marriage. Since Venelana knows quite well that Rias wants to choose who she wants to marry.
Then… the brown-haired devil lady mind derailed…. When she saw her Master sitting lazily on the couch with his tablet in hand, assuming he is going through some details with his new invention.
But, what truly made her brain stop was that her son's Queen was sitting on his lap with quite a flushed expression. The silver-haired maid was feeding him very...seductively…
It doesn't take a genius to understand what is going on with the Lucifuge.
"G-Grayfia… y-you… when did you…" Nonetheless, this discovery pulled the earth from underneath her feet…
Underworld's two most powerful females serving the same man… this is quite bad…
"Oh… Lady Gremory… I am quite busy at the moment…Master requested me to feed him." Grayfia only looked at Venelana for a bit before returning to feeding Marcus.
This looked quite similar to how lovers behave on a date…
Not even her son was able to make this woman behave like this.
'I won't be able to get anything from him like this… do I truly need to take the next step if I wish for him to help Rias with her arranged marriage issue?' Internally Venelana frowned, realising that she won't be getting anything when both Serafall and Grayfia by this point are probably getting railed quite often by him.
Before long Serafall herself returned with a bored look on her face. Assuming she had to attend another boring meeting with the council.
Then her eyes widened seeing Grayfia taking 'her' place.
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