Chapter 40: Masaru's girls are not weaklings!
Another several month flew over the Devil Country, after the fast movements of the Bael Family and the Devil Kings most of the traitors in the background was removed. Well, the known traitors, the Belial family that was quite famous for their Decline and now their sudden uprise has finally regained almost all of their past prestige and glory as well as the fastest rising Family who regained their Duke Rank along with the expansion of their territory.
It was only mainly thanks to the Bael Family who was a shield against other Devil Families who wanted to impede the Belial Family's fast pace progress that it was made possible.
But last month the progress of the Belial Family has begun to slow down somewhat as imitating businesses around the Devil world, Travel Agencies were starting to erect. Some of them could not survive long due to the strong foundation the Masaru Travel & Security Agency held for being the first, and not to mention the Wonder Child was quite famous along with his beautiful peerage members.
The girls of Masaru's peerage members have been catching up in their school subjects to study since the time to go to the Human world to study in High school was fast approaching leaving Masaru alone for several months studying together with Ajuka who began to train him in earnest to inherit his knowledge and skills mostly related to his research.
it was thanks to Masaru's spellbook that managed to start to record all these magic and alchemy techniques which require demonic energy to work so he could review most of the things at night before sleeping. Ajuka did consider teaching his student his own magic and combat skills but chose not to, this boy kept surprising him one after the other so he will leave this for the boy to discover himself so he could surprise him even more instead. Even Ajuka felt envious that the spellbook was simply too convenient after all.
If there was good news to share in these few months then it will be the Marriage of Diehauser Belial and Diana Marbas, even Masaru thought it took these two old partners a long time to marry. With this Masaru became the son of Diana in reality, although she always took him as her son anyway.
Cleria and Masaomi have officially retired from Managing Kuoh Town since they found the lifestyle in the Belial Family territory to be more meaningful, so they were given a town to manage in the territory as their source of income. Other than that? Honestly, there was nothing else that was exciting unless training could be counted.
"Masaru!!! Get moving! The party is going to start in a few hours but you have to meet up before then!"
Diana called out to Masaru who was currently getting dressed in a silver formal attire, his body has grown larger and his muscles became more defined but because of his father's side of the family being on the lean side, he did not buff up like Sairaorg. His silver hair was neatly combed with gel to the left away from his handsome face and grey eyes.
"I'm coming, mom!!!"
Just as he was about to walk down the stairs the first one to appear in his view was wearing a black dress, her black hair hanging loosely almost touching her ankles, purple eyes and standard but beautiful Japanese features but let's not mention her large breast standing out even behind the dress.
Her name is Akeno Himejima, one of the girls Masaru saved. Like Masaru, she is almost 14 years old and is his bishop.
The small yet cute lovable loli girl with developed breasts, her white hair neatly combed wearing a cute white dress that fitted her small and sweet figure, was Koneko.
"urk!"
Masaru felt her kick his shin, although it was not incredibly painful but it was still hurting.
"What was that for?"
"Just felt I should".
Anyway, she is the youngest peerage member and the mascot, although it will be best never to talk about her short stature not to mention the subject around the body above.
Standing near Akeno with her blonde hair hanging loosely yet curly, her blue amber eyes making her stand out but appear just as beautiful like any girl was Stephani, she too has shown some growth similar to Akeno.
'Could it be Akeno rubbed them? She rubbed them hasn't she?'
Masaru felt slightly jealous about that thought but he naturally did not go that far with the girls just yet, there were several rules after all.
a Wild girl with flaming red hair stood behind them wearing a different red dress that was slightly more revealing than the other dresses,
'This girl...'
Masaru smiled helplessly at this Dragon girl, she looks weak from the outside having soft skin, no muscles but a nice tight ass and her large bust which makes her stand out ever since he met her four years ago. She is Masaru's rook and daughter of Tannin. Everest Tannin.
Near Everest was Angelica, the pawn of the team and a dark elf with Silver hair tied in a ponytail. Unlike her lean feminine body without an ounce of muscles stood out like a sculpture, similar to the dragon she really grew up to be on the large side.
She was wearing a silver dress tonight unlike the times she tends to wear her favourite colour which is green to parties, so this change was quite refreshing but still suited her style nonetheless.
Next, we have our beloved Queen of the team, she who had suffered from a sleeping disease has finally been confirmed to have been recovered after all this time of body inspects, testings, etc. Her purple hair was ironed straight behind her back and she chose to wear a purple dress which Akeno wanted to wear tonight but found that black dress to seduce Masaru later tonight.
The past few months Ingvild has trained hard especially in her physical training to the point she could accompany Shirone in a warm-up match by giving it her all for 10 minutes at best. Which was a good sign of progress she had displayed so far.
Behind the Queen was the ex-maid Ichika Seere, and now Pawn similar to Angelica in the team, with looks similar to that of Grayfia which was not confirmed yet if they are distant relative yet.
She is still working as a Maid but tonight she was wearing a light blue dress. She originally wanted to tie her silver hair but it was stopped by the girls and Masaru could only thank the girls for winning that battle which was hard-fought.
Among the girls was one of the newest Pawns to join the team was Yui Asaka, with a curvaceous body and seductive womanly charm, shoulder-length curly brown hair, Violet eyes were wearing a light purple dress to which she was naturally not used to since she was a researcher through and through.
The last but definitely not the least was the only current knight of the Peerage, Jeanne. Saved from a tough battle in the Vatican she already made her vow towards Masaru to stay at his side as his sword, as for the other thing it was not made known yet out of embarrassment. She was wearing a white dress with her hair tied braided neatly towards the back.
"Are you guys trying to start an apocalypse in the party or something? You all are simply too beautiful that I will not be surprised that even the gods will turn to look at you"
Masaru complimented them,
"Honestly I wish I could create clones of myself to escort each of you tonight"
Akeno giggled before making a suggestion,
"Fufu, then perhaps you can take each of us out on a date?"
The other girls did not say a thing, some even blushed but the idea of having a date was welcoming for them.
"I will arrange a few days for that"
Akeno's jaw almost dropped to the ground before she covers it up with a fan in her hand.
Soon the girls and Masaru got in the Belial family privately owned Limousine, inside the seats were comfortable and the temperature was just perfect. They chatted about their plans to visit the school.
Since only Akeno, Everest, Jeanne, Ichika, Stephani, Angelica and Yui were the only ones turning 14 this year they will be going to the Senior high school section while the rest will be going to the Junior High school, luckily Ingvild will enter the Senior High school after the following year and Shirone will be the year after her.
Tonight's party was arranged to introduce the younger generation to one another once again, but with the newest Heirs that joined the circle such as the heir of Astaroth Family, Agares Family and Bael Family.
If Masaru was not interested to meet the new heir of the Astaroth Family who was a relative of Ajuka his sensei he would not have come, he already met the Bael Family Heir but his focus was the Heirs of Astaroth and Agares to determine whether he could reach out to them for cooperation.
"I understand you want to reach out to him because of your sensei, but I haven't heard any good rumours about that heir"
Akeno spoke when she heard Masaru's plan to meet them, Stephani nodded
"I heard he collects Nuns only, and the method he employed for some of them could be considered garbage"
Shirone looked at Jeanne
"Won't he aim for Jeanne because of her being an inheritor?"
Jeanne shook her head
"I'm not a nun!"
Everyone began to laugh.
"While it's true, I need to meet him myself. What if he is using such a method to get something or lose something he does not want? There are selfish devils who would sacrifice others for their happiness, after all, this is something we can't change and because his targets are not devils the higher-ups can't say anything... We are not allies with the church yet"
Masaru explained to Akeno's worries, but he himself is vigilant as well. Which is why he will see it for himself and decide there if he will try to form a business relationship.
Soon they arrived near the entrance of the party location, there was a long red carpet laid from the sidewalk all the way till the entrance door.
At either side, Reporters were especially crowded the moment the Belial crest was spotted when Masaru stepped out he stood at the door taking the hand of each of his peerage members leading them out one by one.
Some reporters thought he was simply showing off his beautiful girls but the others who knew Masaru ever since he first became known as the Wonder child that he was a gentleman, just as Masaru began to walk one of the Reporters began asking questions.
"Young master Masaru, what is your goal for the incoming Rating Game for the younger generation?"
Masaru smiled and answered
"I will naturally take the top, since the day I promised my father I will surpass him I will take on each and every foe on seriously. However, it is my foes who will need to come at me with the intent to kill because I will not hesitate to crush them if they come at me with half-hearted attitudes"
"Do you have intentions to destroy your competitors before they officially debut in their rating game?"
Masaru laughed but shook his head,
"The devil world is cruel after all, to reach the top it can't be reached without having stepping stones to step on. We all have to fight for what we seek, nothing is going to fall from the skies. This is the same for both rich and poor, weak and strong.
"In order to reach the top, I trust in my relentless effort and comrades than my bloodline power. What is the use of bloodline power if that is all your good for? a Devil who trained nothing but his body has already proved to us that even low-class devils can reach the top with nothing but their body, the question, however, lies in their resolve to train their body beyond their limit"
After that Masaru answered a few more questions before leading Akeno and the girls into the party hall, what Masaru did not expect was Sairaorg who grinned at him at the entrance.
"To think you would use me in your speech, you owe me one"
Masaru gave him a smile while slapping Sairaorg's shoulder,
"Make sure the spar will not to be too harsh on me..."
Masaru naturally knew Sairaorg meant to have a battle with him since the two of them would occasionally spar one another from time to time when they can.
"But to think you will issue a declaration of war on every participant of the Rating Game including the younger generation... You got balls"
Masaru laughed Sairaorg words off as if it never bothered him to begin with,
"The pressure is needed, by maintaining a good balance of pressure it will aid our growth. Since after all, knowing there are stronger opponents out there will spur your fighting spirit on after all... You like it too right? The thought of fighting those devils who have been to cosy in their top spots"
Sairaorg was flabbergasted at this friend of his but soon laughed heartily,
"Yes yes! The idea of facing off against them for the sake of our dreams it sure does make one's blood boil with anticipation"
Soon they reached Sairaorg Peerage members who waited for their King, they introduce each other while chatting. The sight of Masaru and Sairaorg friendship has influenced the two peerages to get to know each other more since they will be meeting one another more often in the future.
The party hall this time was several times larger compared to the others, including the participants were even more numerous as the number of peerage members each high-class devil held was more than before.
Masaru and Sairaorg split up there starting to greet each of the devils, Masaru, however, had to take all the girls together with him since they are going to tie a bond with him in the future so it was necessary to introduce them to each of the noble family heirs.
"Long time no see Masaru"
Sona smiled while pushing her glasses back in its place, she was wearing a beautiful one-piece dress that exposed little skin as usual which was slightly regretful for Masaru. Behind her was Tsubaki who grew up taller and her feminine side became more prominent, unlike her stoic face that rarely smiles.
"I would prefer to see a beautiful smile when you greet me, So-Tan"
Masaru teased Sona causing the girl to blush, over the past few months Masaru visited Sona's family while making visits to Misla to treat her however he could not get her to wake up but at least he was able to prevent the chaotic elements within her body to continue their rampage as he nullified her ancient one bloodline that was thin already destroying it in the process.
The only thing that was needed was something to stimulate her soul, but the spells the spellbook contained were too powerful and he still hasn't finished creating a lower grade soul force technique since his understanding of the soul was still scratching the surface.
"Wha- Don't... Don't call me by that name!"
Sona blushed while Masaru could only think she is quite cute this way,
"Didn't you tell me it's okay?"
Sona shook her head and glared at Masaru
"PRI-VA-TE"
Akeno who usually enjoys joining in at such instances came forward whispering in Sona's ear
"So you want to be alone in the bedroom with Master?"
Masaru could swear he heard an explosion goes off in Sona's head while Tusbaki came forward to support her master,
"Nice to meet you Masaru-sama, but please keep the teasing to a minimal. It is a party after all"
"Oh yeah... Sorry got to into it than I expected"
Masaru smiled awkwardly but thankfully their discussion was not heard by others thanks to the loud noise of chattering around them, shortly a crimson-haired princess appeared with Sara her queen and Yuuto Kiba behind her.
"Good evening Miss Gremory, it's a pleasure to meet you after so long"
Rias gave Masaru a look feeling this boy surely have changed
"Hmpf! Don't think I don't know you went and teased my best friend. You better be careful that I don't teach you a lesson myself"
Masaru chuckled raising his hands up to display his surrender, this caused Rias to giggle. The two of them became closer friends after knowing each other for a long time.
"Well I will let you off because of Akeno and the girls"
Rias went to greet Sona and the girls, well at times when the girls were not busy with training or work they would normally visit Rias which was something Masaru allowed since he felt the girls need to make more friends of their own.
"Good Evening Senior Brother"
Yuuto came greeting Masaru respectfully but Masaru gave him a chop on the head
"Urk!"
"I told you honorifics is not needed! How is your training coming along?"
Yuuto rubbed his head a bit before answering
"I am progressing"
Masaru naturally felt this brat progressed too slow, he could only sigh since even if he says something to this junior of his he will not take it seriously.
'Well it's his problem, I can only do so much'
Masaru chose to stop worrying about Yuuto's problem and let him handle it himself.
Leaving the girls behind Masaru walked over to meet the Heiress of the Agares Family, her name is Seekvaira. She is a beautiful young woman in her teens, with long green-tint blonde hair and pink eyes wearing glasses.
Unlike some girls, she is part of the minority like Sona who wears Noble attires that shows little skin. When Seekvaira saw Masaru approaching her eyes turned sharp, she had difficulty dealing with Noble Devil boys who form Harems with their peerage.
"Good Evening, it's an honour to meet the Heiress of Agares Family. My name is Masaru Belial"
"So it's the wonder child of Belial huh? It's an honour to meet you as well, I'm Seekvaira Agares, current Heiress to the Agares Family"
She curtsied towards Masaru and soon the two of them entered a casual discussion,
"Your peerage are full of girls, do you have any intentions to have a male in it?"
Hearing Seekvaira Masaru had a helpless face which shocked Seekvaira as she did not expect to see this, she thought he was similar to Riser who created a Harem with his peerage.
"Honestly it ended up like this, it was several years ago my Grandfather also pointed this out and gave me a path to follow. Bringing in a male member right now will complicate the harmony which is why I went all out with the current set up"
Seekvaira felt more comfortable when she heard this, she naturally investigated Masaru before this after all but hearing it in person gave her reassurance.
'So he is someone worthy of befriending'
Seekvaira even proposed a business deal between the Belial and Agares Family to which Masaru naturally agreed as he too felt this heiress was worth having a cooperative relationship with. But will there ever be a devil party without party poopers?
Zephyrdor Glasya-Labolas along with Doidra Astaroth and their peerage were approaching Masaru and Seekvaira,
"So the two virgins have become friends! How delightful! When are you both trading your virginities?"
Zephyrdor spoke tauntingly towards Seekvaira and Masaru, the former was about to lash out to him but was stopped by Masaru who walked in front of him with a smile.
"I want to ask, have I ever offended you?"
Zephyrdor who heard this flinched then complained
"Just because your peerage is full of hot women but you did not dare touch them you act so cocky!? How about giving them to me for a night and I will teach them the pleasure of being women"
"I have no interest in those girls, I only have interest in Nuns"
Doidra turned and left together with Zephyrdor, he originally wanted to talk with the renowned Wonder child but he was disappointed by what he saw, what it was no one would know.
Masaru was about to make a move but a flash of red come from his right and the next moment the sound of bone cracking followed by an air explosion, Zephyrdor was punched by an Angry Everest marking him into the wall.
The peerage members of Zephyrdor wanted to move but Masaru's peerage already surrounded them while releasing a strong pressure on them, it took a moment for Zephyrdor to shake his head to regain his sense before he yelled.
'You do realize I wanted to hit him myself' Masaru thought
"Who hit me!?"
Everest walked over him, her dragon aura was leaking out violently as she took each step.
"I have. And what are you going to do about it huh?"
Seeing Everest Tannin Zephyrdor was shocked out of his mind, he could not help but curse himself for looking for trouble with this girl. He forgot about her while he was fantasizing about having his way with Masaru's peerage,
"I heard you were going to teach us about how to be a woman?"
Zephyrdor yelped as he jumped back avoiding Everest's stomp that was aimed at his family jewels.
"I am different from my master, he is kind and rarely lashes out. But for me? I will beat you up and leave the troublesome work to my father"
Masaru who heard this thought
'No, I am no way kind. I only rarely move when politics get involved in certain events but my family is a Duke so I can at least beat up this scum to relieve some stress'
"Sorry! I'm sorry! It was a mistake"
Zephyrdor apologize before scrambling onto his feet leaving the venue along with his peerage members, Sairaorg could only laugh but he felt excited to catch a glimpse of Masaru's peerage.
'So he really was serious about entering the official Rating Game at an early stage huh?'
Seekvaira, however, looked at Masaru with scorn but Masaru shook his head looking at her.
"I was really about to make my move, even I am shocked at how fast my peerage members move"
Seekvaira looked at his members
"Do you have any control over them?"
"Yes I do, but like me who has a short temper when things are related to my family and peerage. They too seem to have been influenced by this from me, but then again I think that Zephyrdor was kind of too overboard there even if he is of the Glasya-Labolas family who is relative to Lord Falbium.
"If Everest did not make a move I would have done this myself just now. I can say this was an appropriate discipline, well if you excuse me"
Masaru bowed and left while taking away his girls to where Sona is.
"You girls went and cause trouble for me"
Masaru spoke faking his seriousness to Akeno and Ingvild who was in charge when he was not nearby.
"We made a move before Master did since after all if master move then it will surely be flashy"
Akeno stated to which every girl nodded their heads.
"Hell, what do you all think of me? God of Destruction? There is already a god like that so there is no more needed"
Masaru protested at the way his peerage was viewing him but the girls only giggled it off, because Masaru would have destroyed the future descendants of the Zephurdor if Everest did not move after all.
"Not only you but your peerage sure know how to cause trouble!"
Sona began to scold Masaru while Rias was snickering thinking it was only right this bastard get scolded,
"But then again Zephyrdor has been a problem for a while now so this will not be too much of a problem"
Masaru stood proud with a broad smile
"My peerage members are talented girls who take after me their master"
The girls began to boo at him.
The party continued but Masaru found out two things tonight, was that Agares is his ally but Doidra's demeanour was strange. He could not put a finger on it, but he felt something was simply off about Doidra especially his obsession with Nuns has become even more prominent compared to the rumours.
'I will keep my distance from him, I am not sure what or why but that guy makes me feel like he is simply trouble' Masaru thought.
The surrounding nobles all kept their distance from Masaru's peerage ever since the power display, but the girls all swarmed around them asking for advises and gossips which proved the girls were not aggressive nor madwomen but were only furious about the words Zephyrdor uttered.
"Master Sairaorg, his peerage is truly abnormal"
Kuisha Abaddon, Sairaorg's Queen spoke after witnessing that swift attack and flawless teamwork it could only be achieved with close bonds and familiarity with one another.
"It's good, only having such strong opponents will it make it more meaningful for my journey to reach my dreams"
Sairaorg felt excited, he was a bit disappointed at the younger devils that were simply too weak since they only thought about their bloodline power but refused to train but thankfully there was a strong opponent and dear friend for him.
"Milady Rias, we will have to find strong peerage members soon if we are going to have a rating game amongst our younger generation group"
Sara who was Rias's queen spoke out, Rias nodded
"Yes, I never expected Masaru's peerage to be this strong since most of our information only have detailed explanation of Masaru and some basic information about his peerage since his performance outshines them after all"
Yuuto thought deeply he needs to train harder if he wishes to realize Rias's dream and his revenge.
"Sona-sama...."
Tsubaki spoke with Sona who had a helpless smile,
"He and his peerage are monster's after all, but when it comes to tactics I am still stronger than him after all"
Sona still felt confident she can come up with a counter-attack plan against Masaru and his team as long as she gets the correct peerage members. This was proven when Masaru and she kept playing Chess but their current score was 16 Masaru 44 Sona, Masaru was naturally improving at a fast rate but Sona was a natural genius in Strategies and Tactics so even if he improves he still loses in the end. For now, that is...
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"Do you think that incident is going to cause trouble for Masa-tan?"
Serafall who was grateful towards Masaru's endeavour by visiting the hospital regularly held a strong favourable impression of this boy, she even accepted him being close to Sona her sister but whether she approve a relationship is still yet to remain unknown since the two are still but just friends.
"No, the family will send him a gift including to Tannin and other families since some of the girls in his peerage are from big families after all"
Falbium spoke as if this matter was simply a small case.
"With the pressure of both Masaru and Sairaorg, the families will start to push their heirs to train or their reputation will simply fall"
Sirzech spoke happily, ever since he managed to clean the Devil Country of traitors most of his reforms were no longer being suppressed.
"As Masaru said, the devil world for the nobles and kings of peerages is cruel... Only the strong will rise while the rest will be food, but it will be naturally our jobs to make sure the food will not become food for our enemies naturally"
He spoke lightly about this matter since he already began to formulate a plan for the future generation's growth from this point forward.
"Your Disciple's peerage is just as crazy as he is"
Ajuka looked at Sirzech,
"You should know those devils will apply restrictions on their powers to make it more 'fair' for the lazy bunch who does not train"
Sirzech who heard this laughed helplessly
"True...."
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