Highschool DxD: Dragon's Ascent

Chapter 68: Aftermath

~3rd Person~

After Takumi had handled the assassin him and Serafall had moved into the meeting room in his auction house temporarily since his mansion had gotten wrecked. Serafall had left Takumi by his lonesome after giving him conflicted expressions and taking the assassin with her for more extensive questioning, and because this type of affair was not under her jurisdiction.

That was Sirzecs' job, and she would leave it to him, not before giving him a very stern talking to and borderline threatening him with more paperwork before letting him meet Takumi which led to...

"Hello Sirzechs ."

A dull voice cut through. Not even a hint of playfulness or even emotion slipped through a crack in his voice as Sirzechs sat down. They were both in Takumi's meeting room in his auction room sitting on two couches facing toward each other with a coffee table in the middle.

Sirzechs felt a twinge of nervousness at the sheer scale of shitshow that had occurred. It was truly a disaster of unprecedented scale. The only the saving grace was that wasn't fully public yet .

Things were already difficult for Sirzechs lately thanks to the appearance of Takumi shaking up things, but things were getting better too, Takumi had already proved his worth 10 times over.

Even Ajuka of all people were speaking praises about him, and that spoke volumes, he was an even more talented Ajuka with a different specialization who was also the Red Dragon Emperor.

Even Falbium, as slothful as he was, had hopes for him, Falbium was in charge of the military and military affairs and he was very expectant of Takumi and his potions as more on-demand healing meant less Devil's dead on operations and that was something Falbium valued very much.

And then there was Serafall who Sirzechs didn't know what was wrong with her. She apparently decided that Takumi was her younger brother for no discernable reason and the worst part was that Sirzechs could see how serious she was from her eyes.

Takumi was liked and wanted by all of the Satans, and even Sirzechs gave his approval. So what happened was basically catastrophic. The Phenex decided to do literally the most stupid things possible and try to kidnap Takumi.

Now, at this point, even Sirzechs was at least a little pissed.

The Phenex were already hounding him for days about Takumi and asking him to force or convince Takumi to unseal their son while not understanding "That is not something I can do, please talk about this with him yourselves." he made it explicitly clear that he had no control Takumi, that he was his own entity but apparently, that was completely unbelievable for the Lord and heir of the Phenex family.

He already disliked the family for arranging a marriage with his sister which his sister was against. Then he had to deal with them badgering him about things outside of his control. Now, they basically spat on the face of the sacrifice and effort he made to bring Takumi to the side of the Devils.

He was a little angry . Because it was now his job to take care of the mess.

"Hello to you too Takumi. I am sorry about the attack you have suffered. I am here to talk to you about the situation." Takumi's face did not change, still looking impassively.

"A bit bold to come here after I was assaulted right in the smack dab middle capital of the Devil Territory? Also, what do you mean talk to me about what happened? Is there much to talk about just how big of a fuckup this entire race is?" Sirzechs tightened his lips into a narrow line.

He couldn't even judge Takumi for his words right now. He knew about his deals with the Grigori, Takumi had options and for him, the Devil race must have seemed like the worst one.