"I've spent the last five hundred years being trained to serve you, so..."
Grayfia stood up and adopted the posture of a loyal maid before bowing.
"I will be at your service. Tell me any need you have and I will do my best to fulfill it as best as I can"
'System'
[Available Summons: Grayfia Lucifuge: 90% - The person I dedicated my life to]
'This is too easy' Kaito thought as he looked at the numbers. 'If this were a novel, I can already see the readers complaining'
"Then you're my new sister" Koneko said upon realizing it. "I'm sorry about beating you up earlier"
"It's fine" Grayfia said without giving it much importance in a monotonous tone. "Your reaction to my attack only proves your loyalty to Lord Kaito, and I would have done the same"
"But you would have lost" Koneko added with a smile.
"..." Grayfia remained silent and did not respond, although her poker face faltered for a second.
"Are you becoming too cheeky?" Kaito asked, somewhat surprised by her sudden change in personality.
"In the future, everyone is more mature and extremely serious because of the state of the world" Koneko explained before smiling, her gaze wandering over everyone there and stopping especially on Rias. "Now everyone seems like immature children, it's fun to tease them"
"Kaitoooo! I brought everyone!"
While everyone looked at Koneko, mentally deciding whether they should feel sorry for the life she had lived or get angry with her for her assessment, Kuroka passed through the portal in the air that Kaito had opened earlier, bringing all the girls who were at the base.
Since almost none of them knew each other beforehand, there was almost no reaction from either side.
The exceptions were Asia, who saw Issei unconscious and went to check on him worriedly, relieved to see that he was fine but still wisely deciding that it was not the time to ask what had happened.
And Hitori, who barely entered and saw Sona, basically hid behind Chika, feeling that she was going to be scolded.
But Sona, for her part, ignored Hitori, knowing that she was now Kaito's person and that it was not her duty to judge her actions. Instead, she looked at Kaguya with curiosity, alternating her gaze between Kaito and her.
"Is she your sister?" she asked upon noticing the similarity between them.
"Of course not!" Kaguya immediately denied. "I'm his girlfriend, okay? There is absolutely no familial relationship between us"
"I-I'm sorry" Sona apologized, realizing that she had touched a nerve. "You just seemed quite similar, you know? The extremely dark black hair, the deep red eyes, you even give off the same kind of dangerous feeling.
Above all, you have the same kind of beauty, perfect, as if instead of being beautiful from the beginning, someone had designed a person and then perfected every one of their features to the limit."
"W-well, I can forgive you" Kaguya said happily upon hearing the compliments.
"That's because we're the same race" Kaito explained with a smile. "And thank you for the compliment"
"Mmm" Sona observed Kaito's face with interest.
"What is it?"
"It's strange, I can recognize that you're the most handsome person I know, but somehow, I don't feel any kind of attraction"
"What?"
"Seriously?"
Akeno and Rias reacted at the same time before realizing it and blushing as they looked away.
"I feel the same. You even remind me a little of my younger sister" Kaito agreed, curious about the situation. "Although she's more playful"
"'Playful'?"
"She's the kind of person who is very intelligent, but her personality is just about pursuing what she likes to do and having fun instead of taking things seriously" Kaito explained. "It feels like a waste of her intelligence, but as long as she's having fun, I'm happy for her"
"My sister is the same!" Sona immediately said as she began complaining about the crazy things her sister did and how they were a waste of her mind and strength.
For some reason, Kaito found himself agreeing with everything.
After a while, seeing that she had no intention of stopping, Kaguya interrupted her.
"Excuse me, but what are we doing here?"
"Right" Kaito once again paid attention to his surroundings, remembering that he had not explained it to them. "In short, Grayfia, the silver-haired maid over there..."
"The one looking at you as if she were looking at a god?" Kaguya asked sarcastically.
"That one. She discovered us and Koneko neutralized her, but because of the possibility of us being discovered, I froze time here using the Chronosapien Time Bomb, leaving only those present conscious.
I've already managed to convince everyone to help us continue the plan as decided. Only Riser and his peerage remain. I need Bocchi to erase their recent memories so they don't remember what happened"
"What?! You wasted the bomb just to freeze time?!" Kaguya reacted even worse than Kaito.
"Yes, I already know what a waste it was" Kaito sighed helplessly.
"Is it that bad?" Sona asked.
"To explain it better..." Kaito said before turning his gaze toward Bocchi. "Bocchi, can you do it? And Chika, help her enter their minds."
"Y-yes!"
"Right away!"
Both redheads responded with opposite moods.
Bocchi and Chika approached Riser on the floor and placed their hands on his head. The chaos magic quickly entered him while Chika helped her guide it.
"When Bocchi was in your group, she couldn't do this, right?"
"No" Sona shook her head. "By the way, isn't it a little cruel to call Hitori Bocchi? It sounds more like a mockery than a nickname."
"I didn't give her the nickname, and she likes it.
Leaving that aside, she's been training for less than a week and is a complete novice at entering other people's minds, even more so at manipulating them, but that doesn't matter. Do you know why?"
"...Because she has a lot of time?"
"Almost" Kaito nodded with a smile. "Not 'a lot', she has all the time she wants. There is no limit to the freezing, the bomb's only limit is the number of uses, just one"
"I see" Sona didn't need any further explanation to understand. "Even without knowing what else it can do, something capable of freezing time indefinitely must have absolute control over this concept. Using something like that for something as basic as freezing time is really a waste"
"Exactly" Kaguya nodded. "We even had plans to use it."
"Plans?"
"In another world, there is a clan of very powerful ninjas that will be exterminated in the future as a result of their own decisions" Kaito explained. "Our plan was to use the bomb to offer them the chance to subordinate themselves to me and then create a sort of point in time.
With their personalities, they would reject us immediately, but once they died, they would all return to that point at the same time with their memories, and it would be easier to convince them."
"It was a good plan. But even so, with time now frozen so absolutely, couldn't they take advantage of it to kill their enemies instead of waiting for Rias's Rating Game?"
"No" Kaguya denied. "The goal of killing them when they're all together isn't just for them to be together, but to cause fear by defeating the most powerful ones in front of everyone, making it easier for them to surrender to us"
"And you can do that?"
"Of course" Kaito nodded. "Although my overall strength barely reaches the Supreme level, I have special abilities that make it an easy task.
And not just me, with Kaguya and Koneko on my side, it's impossible to lose. They're both stronger than me, after all"
Although Sona knew about Koneko's strength, even more so now that she had the Boosted Gear, she couldn't help but look at Kaguya with curiosity.
While talking with her, she had already realized that they were quite similar, probably being the part of the group responsible for intelligence in general, whether it was thinking, analyzing, or managing, among other things, so discovering that Kaito placed her among the three strongest members of his group surprised her.
Kaguya looked at her with a smile, knowing exactly what surprised her, and extended one finger toward the forehead of the short-haired girl.
"Ahhhh" Sona gasped upon feeling the finger on her forehead, her eyes opening wide as cold sweat flooded her body and a continuous shiver ran through her entire being. Although she didn't understand how, she felt like she could die at any moment if Kaguya decided it.
"Hehe" With a small laugh, Kaguya removed her finger from her forehead, and Sona collapsed onto the sofa in relief, feeling as if she had just gone through the most horrible crisis of her life.
"Ahhh... ahhhh..." Sona breathed heavily before looking at Kaguya as if she were a monster and asking, "What are you?"
"Kaguya Shinomiya. Original Demon: Death. You can understand it as the personification of the concept of death" Kaguya explained with a smile that reminded Sona of another one she had seen recently.
"You two are monsters" Sona said, alternating her gaze between Kaito and Kaguya.
"Kaito, I already tried it and I can multiply my strength up to 1024 times my current level."
Seeing that they had finished talking, Koneko wanted to show Kaito her results. After frowning slightly upon seeing that Mashiro had somehow stolen her place on Kaito's lap, she told him what she had discovered.
"1024, that's only ten times, right? Why so little?"
"It's not about the number of times, but the power. If my power increased beyond that, my body would explode because it wouldn't be able to withstand it."
"I see" Kaito nodded, understanding the situation. "Even so, you should be at the peak of power in this world"
"Yes, except for Ophis, Ddraig, and Trihexa, no one in this world can defeat me, not even you" Koneko nodded.
"Seriously? Can you live without a heart?"
"...Yes. With my control over Yoki, I can survive without vital organs and even regenerate them"
"And without a head?"
"Wh..."
"And how long can you resist like that? Because I can do it over and over again."
"..."
"You're a cheater, you know? You're supposed to have a harder time using your telekinesis the stronger someone is, that's how it works in games" Koneko complained under her breath.
"If it helps, I think you could kill me before I could even think about attacking you" Kaito comforted her.
"I wouldn't do that" Koneko refused.
"And I wouldn't take your heart, so it doesn't matter"
"There's no need. My heart already belongs to you"
"..." Kaito remained silent for a second before reacting. "Pffft"
"I'll never say something like that again" Koneko immediately blushed and hid her face.
"Hahaha... no, please do it again, haha" Kaito replied, unable to stop laughing.
'...The three of them are monsters.' Meanwhile, Sona watched Koneko and Kaito say insane things like multiplying a Maou's power a thousand times before starting to flirt and joke with each other as if it were normal, and for a second she didn't know how to react.
...
More than two days later in stopped time, Bocchi finally finished erasing all the relevant memories.
With only the group that had originally been there, Riser didn't notice anything and continued mocking the idea of the duel before finally accepting because of Issei.
Although he offered them a week to train and prepare, Rias refused, saying they didn't need it, something Riser attributed to Rias's confidence in the Boosted Gear and accepted.
Thus, the Rating Game was immediately scheduled for the following day.
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