The Red Hope (Highschool DxD AU)

The other? Well...

When I first met Pierre I had been glad that there was, at last, the possibility of getting a decent friend. Now? Well... not so sure.

I had wished to befriend someone with the experience of living outside the limits of a palace, so that he might share with me things I might never see. Turned out I got the plain--I would even say basic--deal: good-looking kid, true, but rather unpolished in sayings and manners. In Pierre I saw the results of someone living a bit too long away from civilization.

*putting my hand on my head, with a long sigh...

However... because I had happily proclaimed to everyone in the palace that here was my first friend, and because Grandmom had allowed for it, Pierre enjoyed at least some extra classes in manners, and some other Devil-ish learning. Couldn't be said all went well; at the very least he got something to do to keep him from blabbing about Davin or whoever this other guy was.

Also, this way, I couldn't help but notice that Grandpa's advice about staying away from anything other than our own kind might just be true. Well, I managed to keep my own level of manners so far, but from seeing him everyday? It might go down by bits...

In that case, the two women with the most say in Gremory household might be displeased...

I just hope that the other guy would turn out not to be anything like this; or I'd likely be doomed for lengthy confinements, just to keep my 'manner-level' where they are now.

And... I tried in my way to be helpful to him, you know? Through plays, that is. Catching twigs or something... For cats, well, maybe he'll get along with balls better.

I just hope this Davin would be here, sooner, to put some things right before anything nastier could happen to us.