The Okura Hotel was an internationally renowned brand, with a branch in Chiba City. It offered plenty of rooms and excellent facilities, making it one of the top choices for business travelers.
The eting between Leo and the Yuuki family had been arranged here—inside a luxury suite on the top floor.
When Leo arrived with a visibly nervous Asuna, he found not only her parents waiting, but also the older brother who had accompanied her to Chiba.
The three of them looked at Leo the mont he stepped inside, their expressions extrely serious.
They still had no idea what had happened. All they saw was a boy about their daughter's age standing in front of them, and they had no clue who he was.
At first, when Asuna went missing, they feared she had been in so kind of accident. Then the mont a powerful family from Chiba Prefecture contacted them—claiming soone wanted to speak with them about Asuna—they even suspected that these people planned to use their daughter as leverage.
It wasn't impossible. The business world was a battlefield. Modern "warlords" weren't nobles of old, but the financial predators who moved like sharks through the marketplace.
Such people would use any ans necessary to get what they wanted. So had even co from the criminal underworld and continued to operate freely on both sides of the line. There was no reason to assu they'd suddenly beco law-abiding citizens.
The Yuuki family was wealthy and influential. They had faced similar threats before, so they had every reason to be suspicious.
But once they mobilized their own resources and started investigating, they imdiately realized sothing was off.
The biggest issue was that the influential families contacting them weren't interested in negotiating with the Yuuki family at all.
They were simply acting on behalf of a single teenager—soone who had commissioned them to smooth the way as interdiaries.
And no matter how deeply they tried to investigate this boy, they could only confirm that he was a third-year student at Sobu High—bright enough to stand out among his peers, but with no verifiable family background. Anything they did find appeared deliberately falsified, as though soone had tampered with the records.
Yet this very sa boy owned an estate in central Chiba City that was even more extravagant than their own ho. He could also mobilize nurous Chiba elites at will—and even had politicians making calls on his behalf, warning the Yuuki family in no uncertain terms…
That was when the Yuukis realized they had stepped into sothing far beyond the ordinary.
They had to take this seriously.
So the entire family ca in person.
Leo didn't waste any ti. He imdiately had Asuna reveal her devil wings, leaving the three of them completely stunned.
He didn't give them a mont to react. He got straight to the point.
"Don't be surprised yet. After you've received these mories, we'll talk."
With that, Leo spread out a magic circle, enveloping the three mbers of the Yuuki family and flooding them with the mories they needed.
Those mories covered everything—the existence of devils, common knowledge of the Underworld, what had happened to Asuna, what her situation was now. All of it poured into their minds at once, leaving them dazed and disoriented.
Leo had found this Magic Formula in his study just today. It allowed him to directly instill a certain amount of knowledge into others, skipping any unnecessary explanations.
He'd been explaining things nonstop these last few days—first to his servants, then to their families—and he was tired of repeating himself. So he sought out this spell specifically to avoid having to deal with the sa situation again.
It saved ti, and it made everything he said harder to doubt. Two birds with one stone.
So he learned it imdiately and used it here without hesitation.
By the ti the three mbers of the Yuuki family recovered from their groggy state, Leo was already placing a stack of docunts in front of them, ignoring their bewildered expressions.
"You should understand the situation now. Take a look at this." Leo smiled at them. "These are the benefits Asuna will receive as my servant—things like lifeti coverage of personal expenses, the managent and ownership of a territory in the Underworld, no fewer than three vacations per year, and help acquiring any legal docunts or identities needed in the human world. Honestly, it's far better than the life plan you arranged for her."
"Of course, your family will also benefit. Tokyo isn't my territory, and my influence doesn't extend that far, but if necessary, I can ask the people supporting to lend your family a hand."
"And as for the two of you, if you want to extend your lifespan or ensure a life free of illness and pain, I have the ans to provide that too."
"Look over everything carefully. But don't misunderstand—this isn't asking you to sell your daughter."
"After all… your daughter already belongs to . Even if you object, it won't change anything. This is simply preferential treatnt I'm giving to the family of my servant. In other words, everything depends solely on my own intentions. If I feel like giving, you'll get it. If I don't, you won't. That's all there is to it."
Leo's attitude was far more forceful than when he'd visited the Yukinoshita household earlier in the day. He needed to firmly suppress the Yuuki family.
The Yuukis were not like the Yukinoshitas. The latter had imdiately recognized their disadvantage after witnessing supernatural power with their own eyes. But the Yuukis—coming from a Tokyo elite family—might still rely on their status and attempt sothing foolish or ti-wasting, even after seeing the impossible.
Thus, Leo had no choice but to be tougher here, forcing them to think before acting.
"This…"
The three Yuukis still looked dazed. Hearing Leo's explanations and seeing the benefits listed on the docunts, they felt as though they were dreaming—everything too surreal, too unbelievable.
"…Asuna, is all of this true?"
Yuuki Shouzou—whose ntal fortitude was clearly stronger than the others—was the first to regain so composure, though disbelief still colored his face.
Yuuki Shouzou, CEO of RECT Inc., was unlike the father from the Yukinoshita family who had married into his wife's household. He wasn't the absolute ruler of the Yuuki family, but he was certainly soone who had weathered countless storms. Almost nothing could shake him to this extent.
But today's revelations were simply too outrageous.
Asuna, still sitting with her devil wings out, lowered her eyes and answered quietly after a mont of silence.
"It's true, Father. I really did beco a devil."
To prove it, she created a short sword in her hand—one emanating a sacred aura that instantly sharpened everyone's senses.
This power didn't co from becoming a devil. It was the ability of Asuna's Sacred Gear. But unlike Yukino, Asuna hadn't properly learned how to handle demonic power yet, so she could only rely on her Sacred Gear to show proof.
And she really had awakened this ability after becoming a devil, so she wasn't exactly lying.
"It's actually real…"
Yuuki Shouzou still looked stunned, but the truth was right before him. He couldn't deny it even if he wanted to.
"How… how could sothing like this exist?"
Yuuki Kyouko, Asuna's mother, sounded completely lost.
A university professor from Tokyo, she had a very traditional high-achiever's ntality. She had always imposed strict control over her children's lives, expecting them to follow the path she'd laid out—soone even more imposing than their father.
Yet this normally rigid and stern woman, who had looked at Leo like he was a threat the whole ti, had now lost her usual composure. Her shock was visible.
"…It's my fault. If I hadn't brought Asuna here, none of this would've happened."
Yuuki Kouichirou—Asuna's brother—looked deeply guilty.
Unlike their strict parents, he seed approachable and easygoing. He was also the first to fully grasp the weight of everything that had happened, and from the way he reacted, he might actually be the most reliable family mber of the three.
In a different situation, Leo wouldn't have minded chatting with Kouichirou, but now was not the ti.
He let them process everything in silence.
Eventually, the three finally accepted the reality of the situation. When they turned back to Leo, their expressions were no longer stern—just complicated and a little fearful.
"Please allow to thank you first." Yuuki Shouzou bowed deeply. "No matter what the circumstances were, thank you for saving my daughter."
"No need to be polite. I did it for myself." Leo accepted the gratitude without hesitation. "If Asuna didn't have the potential to beco an exceptional servant, I wouldn't have wasted a precious spot to save soone I didn't know."
Harsh, but it reassured Yuuki Shouzou—a man who lived in the business world—more than any polite lie could have.
"I understand what you're telling us now. And I understand that this has already happened—there's no undoing it." Yuuki Shouzou looked straight at Leo, his gaze serious. "So I'll ask just one thing. Will my daughter live well?"
"Who knows?" Leo glanced at Yuuki Kyouko before adding with a faint smile, "But she'll probably be better off than she would've been as your wife's puppet, don't you think?"
At that, Yuuki Shouzou froze awkwardly, while Yuuki Kyouko's expression darkened instantly.
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