(A/N: This chapter is a long one)
I'm honestly glad that Terra both didn't care about the recruitment and is incredibly stupid. Despite being over 700 years old, she has the mentality and naïveté of a child. Why? Fuck if I know. The hardest thing I've dealt with was getting her to wear actual clothes and not an extremely lewd Sling bikini that covers basically nothing. While I don't care if she wears that around the house, I do not want to have to clean up the mess of someone dying because they are stupid enough to hit on a dragon of the heavenly dragon class. Strangely, she knows if someone is hitting on her and does not take kindly to it.
"Alright, everyone here? No one missing?
"We are here, brother."
"Terra, are you wearing proper clothes?"
"Yes, I'm wearing the stupid, uncomfortable clothes."
"Good, stay near me for the party, you too, Jackie. This is my future brother-in-law's birthday, and I will not be embarrassed by you killing someone because they hit on you, or insulted me, in your case, Jackie."
"Okay, mommy!"
"*mrmrghrrr*"
Jackie agreed, and Terra just grumbled.
*sigh*
"Please don't embarrass me or yourselves. I know this is the first time at a devil high society party. If anyone tries to harass you, just use my name. The Flauros family is feared to some extent because they have everyone's search history. Like Gragg Forneus and his fetishistic obsession with pirates."
(A/N: Gragg is actually a canon minor character. He makes his peerage call him Captain Gragg, and his peerage is all pirates, if I remember. He looks like a fish person.)
No one knew how to respond to that.
"Anyway, let's get going. Big sis, Runey, hold the house till we get back!"
"No problem."
"Have fun, Nae-kun."
Runeas did end up making her own competing magical girl show, and it's actually doing better than Leviathans, so that's a thing. She even incorporated her love of camels by making her magical girl mascot a camel. But for some reason, she still decides to crash at my place.
We arrived at the Belphegor estate. As awful as it is, we were in formal wear. I was wearing a white shirt and a loose black vest with black slacks. Aina was wearing a black maxi dress. Jackie was wearing her usual gothic Lolita outfit because it looked formal enough. Seras ended up wearing a suit designed for women. And Yomihana and Kuroka were wearing kimonos. Terra was in casual wear. I had already warned Roygun and complained about how hard it was to get her into regular clothes to begin with. To which Roygun, my love, just laughed.
We saw one of Roygun's servants greeting guests at the door. I think his name was Jonathan? I don't bother to remember her peerage.
"Greetings, Lord Nae. This servant, Jonathery, will guide you to the hall. Your mother and father are here as well."
Meh, close enough. We started following him to the hall.
"Apologies for the delay. I had a dragon that refused to wear proper clothes. This was the best I could do."
Glaring at Terra. Who had a particular no thought head empty look on her face.
"I trust there are no bananas amongst the food."
"Yes, although we are unsure why you and Lady Roygun requested such a thing."
"I'm afraid I can't tell you that. Secrets and all that."
The last thing we need at a party is a moronic dragon high on dragon nip.
"Ah, we are here, sir."
We arrived at a large open room, where various devil families and heirs were present. I spotted my parents, cousins, and the Sitri talking before my mother, Maevoir Flauros, waved me over. I gestured to my peerage to follow me.
As I walked over, I noticed several devils that Roygun and I nor Roygun liked, but were invited for political reasons.
"Hello, mother. I see both of you got off work for the party. As did Sirzechs and Lady Serafall."
My father was a tall, thin, androgynous looking man with long purple hair. He's told me he was embarrassingly hit on more than a few times in his youth. Even big sis and Odin had hit on him when drunk enough.
"Yes, my son, I have Kondō handling the paperwork for me right now."
He gave me his usual polite and elegant smile.
The fact that my father had Kondō Isami as his knight really helps sometimes. Unlike Hijikata Toshizo, his rook, lazy bastard, sits around all day eating pickles.
"Is any of your peerage, besides mother, here?"
He gave me a wry smile.
"No, besides Kondō, none of my peerage are interested in that sort of thing. Besides, most of them would cause a problem."
"Ah, yeah, that's true."
Sirzechs and Lady Serafall approached me. While Rias and Sona were talking. I finally decided to, while not forgiving Sona, be less antagonistic towards her. It was getting boring anyway.
"Cousin, Lady Serafall."
Sirzechs looked unhappy at the way I greeted him. Serafall looked cheerful, but not as much as usual.
"*sigh*, can't you be more respectful towards me in formal events, Nae?"
"No."
"*sigh*"
"Nae-kun… how do I recover my show's ratings? Please, I'm desperate here!"
Sona looked over at us with exasperation.
She's really asking that here?
"I don't know, but unlike my cousin, I actually respect you, so I will offer a suggestion."
Sirzechs looked further downcast.
"What is it!?"
"Approach Runeas with intent to collaborate after all, she only made the show because your agent turned her away like a moron. She's lucky Runeas planned to do this just in case she was rejected because it didn't matter if she worked with you or not in her mind."
"Uggghhh, that Moron. She didn't recognize a devil Ancestor, and now I have to deal with this. Thanks, Nae."
Leviathan gave me a platonic hug and ran off to glom onto her sister.
"*sigh* Why don't you respect me, cousin?"
"Stop being a siscon, and the just the devil factions beat stick, and I'll consider it."
He grumbled unhappily. I looked over my shoulder and noticed the members of my peerage were feeling awkward. Except Aina, for obvious reasons, and Jackie, who was looking around with wonder.
"Enough of this talk, Nae aren't you going to introduce us to your peerage?"
"Of course, mother."
"Well, first, you probably heard that Kuroka, my bishop, took two of the pieces."
"Hi, nya! Glad to meet Nae's parents, nya!"
My mother smirked at me. She's going to want details later.
"Next, we have Yomihana, whom you also probably heard of; she took my mutated rook."
"Greetings."
She gave them a polite bow.
"Ah, yes, I heard about the Marchosias incident. I had to pull up relevant files for it."
My father mused.
"And now the people you don't know, this is Seras Victoria, my first rook. I kinda picked her up because she was turned by the old bat, and he called in a favor. I can never understand what's going on in his head. But I called in my favors in turn."
"Ah, so that's why he decided to get his children to stop fighting. I heard he brutally murdered King Tepes after he moronically declared himself the greatest vampire in existence."
"Yeah, that sounds like him."
"Who's this cutie Nae?"
"Ah, right, Mom, this is Jackie… she's unique. She calls me mommy because of her unique nature… she took 4 pawns by the way."
My mother and father looked confused. Before my mother smiled brightly, realizing it meant a second adopted granddaughter. While Sirzechs just tried not to laugh.
"What is she? She feels weird."
"Ah, well, she's a wraith, specifically she's Jack the Ripper."
Mother didn't hear me, Father looked concerned, and Sirzechs looked like he was dreading the paperwork involved with that.
"Nae…"
"I know, but she's fine. I'll explain more later, and she's a lot more stable due to the reincarnation.
"Jackie is a good girl!"
"You're so cute, my!" Mom basically squealed. "You can call me Grandma Mae or Grandmother Mae! whichever you prefer, Jackie."
"Grandma Mae!"
She smiled brightly. Adorable murder muffin is adorable.
"And finally, we have my latest peerage member, who joined a week ago."
My parents and Sirzechs looked very interested. Rias, Sona, and Serafall were also making their way over Terra, finally snapping out of her brain-dead daze of boredom, realizing I was addressing her. I actually kept her secret as much as I could, besides Roygun and the people connected to me; no one else knew.
"And this one here in the casual clothes. Is Terra, my other rook. She took my other Mutated piece."
"Hey! Introduce me properly!"
My family and the two Sitri looked confused at her outburst.
"Oh, fine, this is Terra. She's better known as Terrasque, the Dragon of endurance and the Daughter of Ddraig, the Red Dragon Emperor, and Drac the Dragon of Rivers."
I introduced. The group, and a few people who were close enough to hear my introduction, were stunned. Rias and Sirzechs were about to say something when Tera cut in.
"It's Heavenly Dragon of Endurance."
She grumbled just loud enough that only my family and the two Sitri heard it. That made their brains crash, and their eyes widen. After a few minutes, Rias broke the silence.
"…How!?"
"Rias, honestly, I have no clue. Some of them I stumbled upon. Some are through connections. And in Terra's case, she kidnapped me, fought me, and joined me because I actually managed to hurt her."
"You beat a heavenly dragon…"
She whispered just enough for us to hear.
"Oh hell no, this idiot kicked my ass. She just passed out because she hadn't slept for a long ass time. So no, I didn't win, cause a few cuts, yes, win absolutely not."
Rias sighed at the absurdity. Sirzech had a thousand-yard stare because I had the supernatural equivalent of an ICBM, my parents looked extremely proud, and Terra looked smug. She still hadn't realized idiot is an insult yet. Though she didn't think it was a compliment either.
"Nae help me!"
Our conversation was interrupted by Roygun, who I knew was more than capable of handling herself, running over and hiding behind me. I did notice my peerage gasping at Roygun's beauty, though, as they finally put a face to the name.
"What's going on?"
"Nae Flauros! Unhand the lovely Lady Belphegor!"
Who the fuck? Is there some moron who doesn't know we've been engaged for a while now?
I turned to look toward the idiot who was causing a scene and had probably hit on Roygun. He was a lanky teen with black hair and wearing a black and Dark purple striped suit. I think he was from the Gusion clan.
"And you are?"
My voice filled with utter distance, but he must be truly stupid. Since he didn't react.
"I'm Alasandros Gusion, and I challenge you to a rating game for the hand of the Lady Roygun."
I looked at Roygun and realized what was going on. Some moron tried hitting on her. She sic'd him on me because she knows he has no chance of winning. I keep her updated on my peerage after all. Plus, the dude is high-class and the peerage following him, while a full 17 are all low and mid-class devils. And he clearly can't tell how staring we are. The onlookers were looking at him like he was suicidal, but he's not even the Gusion heir. Otherwise, I'd would've recognized him."
"Alright, fine. I'll make you regret ever thinking of standing against my family."
My voice was calm and even until shifting to a dangerous tone.
"Ha, a devil with no record on the rating games dare."
He sneered. Holy, this man is dumb.
"I think you have overstayed your welcome. Go set up the match, I'll crush you tomorrow."
"HMMPHH."
He stormed out of the hall.
*CLAP*
Roygun clapped to get everyone's attention.
"Sorry for the interruption, everyone. Please go back to partying."
Everyone went back to their own business.
"Nae, Judar would like to see you and Aina if that's alright.
"That's fine, mother, father mind watching my peerage."
They Nodded.
A/n Cutting it here, keyboard acting funky due to coffee spilled on it.