So, regarding Rias and her being even more offended at me.
Because Shirone is forced to look after me, since Zeoticus didn't remove this responsibility from them, she can't play with Rias and Sona, who sometimes visits her friend, all day.
She can't dump her work on Kuroka since she's intensively training with House Gremory's guards.
When I was testing "Slackolin", I visited training halls, and to check the effect, competed with a couple guards.
The progress by the way was gorgeous!
Just a couple weeks of not too burdensome training using "Slackolin" and muscles pack on like crazy!
And regression decreases by two hundred percent!
And the main thing is no harmful side effects!
Well, so what if facial muscle paralysis sets in for twelve hours after training ends!
That's not a harmful side effect, you just need to know how to keep a straight face or time it right and you can go play poker right after training!
With this face, nobody will figure anything out for sure, so this can even be recorded as a plus!
Though Kuroka and the guards didn't appreciate it... and somehow it happened that Kuroka wiped the floor in the hall with the guards, which had witnesses.
Basically, many realized Kuroka's potential as a VERY strong piece and started training her hard.
I thought I was rid of her then, but Kuroka's hang-ups about kittens from someone mega strong turned out to be with her.
And this suicide didn't think of anything better than to start making eyes at Sirzechs who stopped by to visit Rias under the pretext of showing the grandparents their grandson.
No, Sirzechs himself didn't do anything to Kuroka and was all courtesy and kept suggesting she'd look great as a piece in Rias's peerage.
But how Kuroka wagged her tail and what it's attached to in front of Sirzechs didn't please Grayfia, who had a talk with Kuroka on this topic.
After that conversation, I killed two hours getting Kuroka down from a tree!
And yeah, two hours, couldn't do it faster, the tree was thick, sawed poorly!
Then I had to give traumatized Kuroka... and no, it wasn't the trunk that shell-shocked her, whatever anyone says on this topic... valerian tincture!
Well yeah, remembered distillation principles, whipped up a couple tinctures, purely for medicinal purposes!
But as they say—no good deed goes unpunished!
This drunk instead of one shot to calm her nerves sucked down the whole flask!
And if only that, she passed out after this while grabbing me in a hold I couldn't escape from without causing her grievous bodily harm!
So I had to spend the night on this gigantic bed rather than in my cozy closet where I'd organized a normal sleeping and living space.
No, in the morning I of course got terrible revenge... meaning I was concerned about the health and moral character of my ward and loudly read Kuroka a lecture on female alcoholism specifically and the harm of alcoholism in general!
As revenge, which this sneaky cat girl masked as gratitude, she took on the duty of training me to sleep in a normal bed!
And what she said then...
"Rejoice, little pervert! You'll get to spend the night in one bed with a beauty!"
Of course, I didn't keep quiet!
"A beauty? Where?! Where?!"
And I even let facial changes out and started actively turning my head... well, as much as the hold allowed... as if looking out for where this very beauty is.
"Why are you lying? There's no beauty here, there's only you!"
"Grrr!" I was almost for real choked.
Getting back to all sorts of canon characters in the person of Akeno—she registered at Rias's place and now they're best buddies, thick as thieves!
So here I could breathe a sigh of relief since at least here my can-can on Boeing-sized butterflies didn't affect things!
Of course, I got information on how it happened, otherwise the information I remembered myself wasn't very accurate, and clearly I mixed up fanon with canon there or generally everything remembered was fanon.
Though now I was getting information from my agent!
Well, agent—one young maid caught me behind that counter and from fright broke that vase, which by the way is Venelana's favorite, and rumors about the "mistress" among servants are such that church propaganda about how demons are evil villains looks like children's bedtime stories compared to it.
I covered for the maid then, obviously extracting a debt from her since I understood the hideout was now compromised, but getting information about what's happening in House Gremory and beyond is vitally important for me!
So I took the blame!
And if Zeoticus hearing from me—sorry, I accidentally broke it playing hide and seek with Shirone... if you don't nitpick details, I really was hiding from that feline-breed Cerberus who followed me everywhere except the toilet, monitoring so I wouldn't pop suspicious substances... was ready to forgive me everything, he even shed a tear, then Venelana was ready to quarter me on the spot with her own hands for the vase!
She practically beat out of Zeoticus that I'd get punishment.
As I later learned, they had a pretty serious argument where she pushed that if you want to make an heir out of a bastard, you need to raise him properly!
Basically, I was prescribed the rod!
Pff! Naive!
Before getting the rod on my ass, I took "Screwittol", and it even blocks the effect of "Readomitin" after which your head splits so it seems like red-hot nails are being hammered into it!
The guard who was assigned to carry out the punishment was perplexed and kept glancing between my ass, the rod, and my mug which didn't express a gram of discomfort from receiving blows.
And the rod was soaked in diluted but holy water at Venelana's request!
I should've been howling after the first blow received so they'd hear me in heaven, but instead I just counted off the received blows, which due to the guard's confusion became stronger each time.
After the last one, they did hear a scream, but it was the guard's scream who tested it on himself.
So, returning to my informant—Miranda, who under the guise of cleaning in the library, in its farthest and darkest corner at a table where I set up shop requisitioning cake from the cat girls... otherwise with such a diet they'll really soon be getting chunky real fast... told me how Akeno ended up with us and generally her whole tragic story!
Well, that certain enemies killed her mother when her dad, a fallen angel, was off somewhere—I knew that and this moment matched in all versions I remembered, and as it turned out matched this reality too.
But then some weird stuff started!
Should start with the fact that for some time Akeno was with her mother's clan, then for some reason they decided to destroy the family disgrace, and she ran away and bummed around Japan for a year and a half, doing exorcisms on the side and hiding from relatives.
But recently she helped some guy who made a deal with someone from Gremory and decided to run, but her relatives caught up, grabbed her, and started killing her.
And then Rias appeared, whom a Sirzechs piece brought along just to get some air, and he was responsible for this territory.
And Rias decided to save Akeno and stood up for her and made an offer—if Akeno's clan doesn't kill her, she'll never set foot on that clan's territory and will always be with Rias!
Akeno's relatives accepted all this and she was saved, and moved with her savior-friend to the main nest of Pillar Gremory!
Happy ending!