THEN BE HIS KING AND MAKE HIM LISTEN!" Serafal yelled at her, her powers flaring and Rias being moved back gasping due to the sheer pressure of it. "You are the KING, he has to listen to you and not the other way around.
You can listen to his advice, but you must not be led by a dumb kid who was reincarnated less than a month ago and knows nothing of the supernatural world. But that is not the worst, of far from it.
"
Rias did not know if she wanted to know what the 'worst' was then.
"You left in a hurry and did not communicate with me, Sirzechs, or any other adult for HOURS regarding what happened and we only found out something happened because Sona told me about it. These hours without anyone of us knowing meant that the police found the battle area and they found over 30 humans dead in terrible manners all around the church with bodies destroyed.
News reporters are already on the scene and making this event 'vanish' is already impossible. It went viral, all over the world people are seeing the small massacre your peerage made, with several people dressed as priests butchered in a church with the symbols of the religion broken everywhere, panic has already started in an international level.
"You may have forgotten, but we only managed to rent, not buy or took by force but RENT, the town from the Shinto Pantheon after a lot of concessions and the promise we wouldn't create any unrest in their lands. Guess what, unrest is made and the Shinto Pantheon, which already hates us after the Nekoshou Massacre, is trying to take back the town.
And it is not only them, all other towns we rented from other Pantheons throughout the world are being put into question since said pantheons are fearful that this disaster happen in their lands as well considering the religious innuendo it took and our race's current state of cold war with Heaven and Grigory. Every other race is afraid of something that would disturb their territory and they fear we are about to reignite the war and bring them into it again.
"Even IF we manage to keep Kuoh we will need to pay a hefty price and our entire race will bleed for YOUR mistake. We are under threat of war on ALL fronts thanks to YOUR lack of thinking!"
"It wasn't my fault, I had to make sure Kiba was healed. " Rias said in a slight panic, understanding how bad things were getting but more worried about her knight who she did not know if or when he would be waking up.
Her mind was a mess and she was not thinking straight at all at the moment.
"It does not matter, as one of the two owners of the town, even under such circumstances, you should have entered in contact with others that would be able to handle this sort of situation instead of ignoring the problem. Regardless, your punishment has already been decided for your actions this time.
You lost the rights to the town entirely, you cannot enter any contract in the city of Kuoh or Japan as a whole and you will only return to the town with your 'handler', an older devil who will be responsible for ensuring that you and your Peerage will not cause any more damage for the town. Your rook, Koneko, has to remain in the Underworld since she is part Yokai and the Japanese Pantheon doesn't want a 'traitor' to step foot in their land again and you will be considered on probation, any other activity that could endanger the race will be judged as you being unfit to inherit the house of gremory and be a High-Class devil with you having your rights as King and having a Peerage stripped from you permanently.
"
As Rias heard this she felt as if the world was crashing down at her, as if things could not get any worse.
In truth things could have gotten much, much worse. Sirzechs had to push for leniency and exercise his power quite a bit to reach only this degree of punishment, Rias really fucked up with leaving so many dead bodies and carnage just laying around in town and forgetting to do even the most basic actions she should have when in such a situation.
Rias was one of the ones responsible for this one town, and she fucked up their entire race due to her stupidity.
Normally about 10% of all funds obtained by the devil government were spent in the renting of towns for devils to obtain their contracts. It was an inevitable but necessary expenditure that they accepted to avoid provoking anyone more than what they normally did by recruiting members of other Pantheons and races, but with what happened in Kuoh the other groups the devils negotiated rent with started to stir and the value the race had to pay to avoid being kicked out went up to 17% of their total revenue.
This seven percent difference meant the loss of a LOT of money for the devils as a whole with many industries and public projects that would work to help their race having to be put on hold. If you consider how many humans with contracts with devils got frightened by the images and news and terminated their contracts things just made things worse, with now devils having to pay more and receive less money from the contracts.
Serafal was pissed, to say the least. She would have to spend weeks, if not months, just to try and eliminate this damage and it wouldn't be strange if the value would only decrease to 13 or 14% and the devils would be permanently affected by this huge fiasco.
So yeah, Serafal was not happy.
Rias, after recomposing herself as best she could, spoke.
"And who exactly is my 'handler' as you said?" As this question hanging in the air Serafal gave a mirthful smile, loving what would come next.
"Well, who else but me of course, my beloved fiancee. " Riser Phenex said, opening the doors while making sure to make as big an entrance as possible to impress.