"What's taking them so long?" Sirzechs muttered with a frown. He had asked Rias to fetch them an hour ago, yet not a shadow of her could be seen in the living room. He doesn't believe his sister would makes him wait like this, there must be something that's keeping her occupied. Unconsciously, he tapped on his thigh repeatedly as if to showcase his slight displeasure. This didn't go unnoticed to the maid standing by his side.
"Let me get them," Grayfia said before bowing to him and preparing to head to the guest room, but was stopped by the Leviathan Satan.
"Hold on, I'll go as well, I have a feeling I might miss something good if I just wait here," Serafall muttered and stood up to follow. She didn't know how, but her instinct alerted her that the reasons they're taking so long might be something fun. Sirzechs raised his brows at that, but choose to stay behind. If Serafall decides to tag along, then surely they will arrive here sooner or later, or so thought Crimson Satan, not knowing he had just triggered a flag. Watching their departing figures, he let out a sigh before taking a cup of hot tea brewed by his maid and sip.
But after 10 minutes, none of them returns. At this point, Sirzechs was starting to get suspicious. Are they pulling a prank on him? Is that the reason why Serafall followed Grayfia? Crimson Satan could senses all of them in the guests room, so they're definitely doing something there. In the end, he decides to get to them himself as he stood up.
In the blink of an eye, he arrives in front of the door. He was about twisted the knob to enter when he overheard the voices from the inside.
"So when do you think this project will be complete? I couldn't get enough playing it!"
That familiar tone was none other than his little sister, Rias. Her voice however sounds slightly more elevated than how she usually speaks, that usually happens when she was obsessed with something, like japanese cultures.
"Hmm, maybe two weeks if things goes well and a month at latest, so you'll have to wait until then."
"A month?! That's too long! I need this finish this week! No, the game needs to be out next Friday!"
When he opened the door, he saw Rias pulling Kousuke by his collar. The latter has a wry smile and a distant look in his eyes. He had regretted revealing his project to Rias and the rest, now they won't pestering him to complete it as quickly as he can.
Even now, the three capsules are still active despite most of them are out and resting. Akeno however was still inside the game, guiding and teaching Serafall and Grayfia on how the game works. Morgan seems satisfied for now, so she was sitting on the bed watching Rias pestering Kousuke like it was an amusing show. It was her who noticed Crimson Satan appearance first.
"What's going on here? What is this three machinery doing in the guest room?"
His voice came out low, but it was loud enough for Rias to trembles when she realized her brother had came. She suddenly remembered the task he had entrusted to her, fetching Kousuke but because the game was so much fun, she had completely forgotten about it.
"B-Brother! I'm sorry, I was a little preoccupied with something and it slipped out of my mind!"
"Really? From what I garnered, is this something related to these machine?" Sirzechs asked as he pointed at the capsule with Grayfia lay inside. She seems comfortable but he could senses her mind appears much more active than usual. The same goes to other capsules.
Before Rias could make up some excuses, Kousuke intervened with a smile as he pulled her hands away from his collar.
"Ah I was waiting for you Sirzechs, you see I was only planning on showing these to my girlfriends but your sister gets so hooked into the game that I wasn't even allow to leave this room," he said with faked sympathy look on his face. He was implying if it wasn't for Rias, he would've left the guest room—in short, he was throwing her under the bus.
"N-No! Brother, he's lying! I was simply asking him about the game, cough, I mean this technology that even Ajuka couldn't replicate! It's true!"
Sirzechs eyed at his little sister feeble attempts with suspicion before sighing.
"So what can this thing really do? What got them so hooked?"
"It's the wonder of modern day!" Kousuke exclaimed with his arms spread open. Then he chuckles at the irony, after all, the capsule wouldn't exists without the countless runes compressed into a black cube that he now called game engine stored within it. "You can temporary implant your consciousness into the virtual avatar and control them in the virtual world where you can be almost anything~"
"This thing can do something that risky?" Crimson Satan said with a frown. Even to him, consciousness, more specifically souls wasn't something to be mess with. Looking at her brother's expression, Rias reassured him that it wasn't as dangerous as it sounds. It only connected their mind to the capsule and can be cut off anytime they wanted by simply thinking about exiting the game, of course when the game truly come out later down the line, then player will need to open the menu and click logout.
"Well you can give it a try yourself," just as Kousuke said that, the hatch on Serafall's capsule pulled open and the Leviathan Satan comes out with spark in her eyes. "Speaking of Satan, heh, look, an open capsule just on time."
When Serafall saw Kousuke, she ran up to him and immediately throw all kind of questions at him like he was the answer to everything in the universe. But there's one important question that prevails above all.
"Can you turn my virtual avatar into magical girl, pretty please?!"
"That's nothing difficult, I have your data now so I can make something up. What kind of outfit do you prefer? the fluffy one that covered just enough? Or the one that didn't cover anything at all but still looks modest? What weapon do you want to wield? A normal staff? Or a talking weapon that has sassy personality?" He casually responded. The more he goes, the more Serafall looks like a girl who was confessed by her crush. She completely tossed aside the important part he mentioned in the beginning as if that was trivial.
With her outstanding power as Satan, a single magical spell from her could result in a catastrophic event. So she couldn't become a proper magical girl in reality, at best a cosplayer. But this capsule had awakened that inner self that she thought had died, if she can't become a magical girl in real life, then she can just be one in a virtual world!
"Where can I sign the marriage certificate?" Serafall asked with a serious look on her face.
"...Huh?"
Hearing her bombshell question, Kousuke was stunned. Even Morgan narrowed her eyes. Her mind immediately went overdrive, she was thinking whether it was worth the risk of picking a fight with Satan. And unfortunately, her logical side was starting to be overpowered by her craziness. But before she could do anything, Kousuke gives an apologetic smile and refused her there and then.
"Oh well, I was just shooting my shot! It's a shame I've been rejected, but nothing to cry about wahahaha!"