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"My, my~ What a thrilling developnt."
Akeno smiled as she looked at Anos.
Sure enough.
Anos was still Anos.
It really did make her heart stir a little.
"Anos, are you planning to..."
A bad feeling suddenly rose in Koneko's heart.
Surely Anos was not planning to...
"What am I going to do? Sothing very simple, since they destroyed our old school building, we have to regain so face elsewhere, don't we?"
"After all, I am still the student council president of Kuoh Academy."
Anos narrowed his eyes and stretched his hand forward.
"Conveniently, the Phenex family's villa was built on excellent land as well. That saves quite a lot of trouble."
Anos observed the surroundings of the Phenex estate and nodded.
Then he raised his hand toward the sky.
Countless symbols and strange letters flew from his palm and scattered in every direction.
...
Phenex Household.
Riser had just finished receiving treatnt from the doctor.
"Ah! Ow, ow, ow, ow."
He held his aching waist, feeling as though every part of his body was in pain.
"Honestly, Brother, who told you to go and provoke Lady Rias for no reason?"
Ravel scolded her brother with a displeased expression.
That was what he got for acting so arrogantly. He had even burned down soone else's old school building.
Had he not expected to be beaten into such a miserable half-crippled state afterward?
"How was I supposed to know they could fight that well? I only wanted to make Rias give up those unrealistic ideas of hers."
Riser imdiately argued back.
"Which is why burning things down like that was wrong, Did you not see how angry they were?"
Smack!
As Ravel spoke, she slapped the ointnt left behind by the doctor heavily onto Riser's arm.
"What the hell?"
Riser, whose whole body was already in pain, jumped straight up, only to be struck by an even more intense wave of pain and collapse back down.
That was right.
He was injured too.
Unlike Koneko's surface wounds, his injuries had reached the level of his source. The senjutsu aura that had invaded his body was continuously stripping away his vitality and essence.
If he were not a mber of the Phenex family, with a powerful source and trendous life force, he would already have collapsed completely.
The one who gave him such injuries was naturally Koneko.
If it had been a prolonged battle, Koneko would not have been his match. But when it ca to secretly leaving sothing nasty inside an opponent, senjutsu was still superior.
While Koneko had been healing herself, Riser had also invited a specialized Underworld physician to treat the damage to his source.
"Hm?"
Just as Riser was enduring the pain and itching brought by the treatnt, he suddenly frowned.
He sensed an abnormal spiritual fluctuation.
It seed to be coming from beneath his own ho.
A few seconds later, his expression changed drastically.
"Ravel, get out first."
Riser finally seed to understand what was happening. He directly threw his younger sister out of the mansion, sofa and all.
Although he was a playboy and a scumbag, he was indeed a good older brother.
Enduring the intense pain throughout his body, he hurriedly spread his wings of fla and escaped from the place.
"I knew it."
After leaving the Phenex villa, he finally saw clearly what had happened.
The leylines seed to have been activated.
A massive amount of energy was gathering around the Phenex mansion. That terrifying power made Riser feel as though it could kill him instantly.
"Father, is there no way to stop this?"
Riser frowned fiercely.
If this continued, the mansion would be destroyed.
"No... I have already tried."
Duke Phenex shook his head.
He had naturally sensed the changes in the leylines earlier than his son, but he had found no way to break those strange formation patterns other than brute force.
Choose brute force?
Would that not be the sa as destroying his own ho himself?
"Just as Duke Phenex said, it is useless."
While they were growing anxious, a young man's voice ca from the ground.
No.
More accurately, the voice ca through the resonance of the formation patterns on the ground.
"You are the one behind this? Who exactly are you?"
Riser roared at the formation patterns beneath him.
He did not know whether doing that would have any effect, but the other side should be able to hear him, right?
"I have clearly been standing right in front of you all this ti. Why can none of you notice ?"
Such a response ca from the formation patterns on the ground.
"What?"
The mont they heard that, everyone began searching their surroundings.
The other party said he was right in front of them?
But they had clearly sensed nothing nearby.
Not only Riser, but even Duke Phenex had not detected the slightest trace of him.
"No need to search. I never intended to hide my presence."
Anos's playful voice rang out.
Unlike before, when it had been transmitted through the formation patterns, this ti the source of the voice was clear.
In midair, several figures shifted from illusion into reality, appearing before the Phenex family.
Just as Anos had said, he had indeed been right in front of them the whole ti.
They simply had not noticed him.
Snap!
With a snap of the young man's fingers, the leyline power condensed to its limit and erupted instantly.
Hiss~
The Phenex mansion, along with everything around it, turned into pale smoke and vanished from the world.
However, Duke Phenex did not pay too much attention to that.
What he cared about was the identity of the young man who had suddenly appeared before them.
"Rias? Why are you here too? And your retainers... Don't tell this man is your newly reincarnated servant?"
Naturally, the first person Riser noticed was Rias, with her vivid crimson hair.
Aside from that man, everyone present was part of Rias's peerage. That made it highly likely that the man was also Rias's servant, or at the very least, soone closely connected to her.
But still.
This was infuriating.
He was not only angry that Anos had destroyed the Phenex mansion in a single move.
He was even angrier that the other man seed to be more handso than him.
He had already seen it. After this man appeared, his own little sister stared at him for more than ten full seconds without coming back to her senses.
Damn it!
He was a handso playboy himself, all right?
Ravel, pay a little attention to the situation. Could you not focus on your brother and your family mansion for once?
"May I ask what relationship you have with the princess of House Gremory?"
The head of House Phenex asked after a mont of thought.
He was an experienced old fox, so he did not imdiately act just because Anos had destroyed the Phenex mansion.
The reason was simple.
This person possessed the ability to hide right in front of him even while he searched with all his strength.
He was absolutely not simple.
"Anos Kanzaki, student council president of Kuoh Academy. As for now, I am temporarily Rias's boyfriend."
Anos said with a smile.
"I see... Then, Mr. Kanzaki, may I ask why you destroyed the Phenex family's property?"
Lady Phenex stopped Riser, who seed about to say sothing, and asked with a smile.
Although the answer to that question would not decide everything, it would determine part of their attitude.
The Phenex family might not be one of the Satan families, but they were still a famous and powerful devil clan. An action that so blatantly slapped the Phenex family in the face was not sothing they could easily let go of.
"The reason is simple. Our school's old building was destroyed because of your son. There should be so kind of explanation for that, shouldn't there?"
Anos replied with a smile.
"Hm?"
Lady Phenex cast an inquiring look at Riser.
When she saw Riser suddenly choke on his words, she knew that this young man nad Anos Kanzaki was telling the truth.
"Although your thods were extre, you did this for Rias, the girl beside you?"
Lady Phenex gave him an appreciative look.
A young man who acted impulsively for a girl, who possessed the explosive power to destroy the mansion in an instant, and who could conceal himself even in front of her.
She admired him quite a bit.
"That is one way to understand it. After all, I am not the kind of person who stays indifferent while my girlfriend is forced to beco soone else's pawn."
Anos naturally took Rias's hand.
Seeing Anos's action, Koneko behind Anos and Rias, Ravel beside Lady Phenex, and Riser beside Duke Phenex all stared wide-eyed.
"So you, a guy whose whole body reeks of disgusting holy power, just ca into the Underworld like this?"
Breaking free from his mother's restraint, Riser flew in front of Anos.
Like repelled like. Beautiful won beca jealous when they saw won more beautiful than themselves, and n were the sa when they saw n more handso than themselves.
Especially when the other party had just declared that his fiancée was his girlfriend.
"Lord Kanzaki has already received Lord Sirzechs's recognition. He can be considered to have entered the Underworld through a special channel."
An extrely calm voice rang out.
"Oh?"
Anos raised his brow.
Grayfia had arrived this quickly?
He had thought she would only co to clean up the aftermath after he had finished handling things.
"Queen of the Underworld..."
Duke Phenex narrowed his eyes.
The Queen of the Underworld had actually co as well?
In that case, did this an that the Lucifer side had already acknowledged Rias Gremory's boyfriend?
Then why, when they had arranged the marriage alliance before, had no one told them that Princess Rias already had a boyfriend?
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