001 - What Makes it Hard to Go Home ?

"Akeno! Why are you speaking like that!? Rei came here because I asked him to accompany me to tell everyone that I am training so that I can be proud to become King of all of you!" Suddenly Rias shouted at Akeno cutting her off.

Akeno felt surprised not expecting her childhood friend to yell at her like that. Even in the past Rias had never spoken to her like that.

"Rias? Don't you suspect why someone as strong as him would train someone without any ulterior motives? I'm sure he's training you because he wants something from you too," Akeno said to Rias while staring at Rias' body.

Rias seemed to understand what Akeno meant when she said that i want something from her, but Rias still responded, not wanting to give up. "Akeno... I have been living with him for a few weeks now, and besides the times I see him playing with his fiancee he never touches me."

Huh? So Rias saw me when I was playing with Sturm's body??? How could I not feel Rias' presence!? ...maybe I should put up a barrier when I want to do something to Sturm.

"What about that mark on your neck? I can see a hickey there?" Akeno pointed to Rias' neck.

Rias after hearing that immediately touched her neck to cover up the hickey that i put on her neck... I mean she's kinda hot with that so I decided not to tell her about it, but I never thought it would end up like this.

"That's because it's not him that touched me but I'm the one that touched him. Besides my relationship with him is none of your business! I can have a relationship with anyone," Rias replied to Akeno again.

Koneko and I were still standing side by side, watching the two of them debate like that.

They both continued to argue with each other for who knows how long... until finally I felt something like my shirt being pulled, making me look to the side.

I saw Koneko pulling my shirt, looking at me as if she was saying, "Please stop this."

I could only sigh as I thought their argument would only take a short time... and not this long.

I then looked back at Rias and Akeno who were still arguing, and I released my aura, forcing them both to stop. Rias and Akeno suddenly felt my aura and reflexively knelt because I was using my Lucifer Aura on them.

But since Akeno is only half-devil and not a Pure Devil like Rias, I needed to press Akeno more with my aura so that her Half-devil side could react to me.

Koneko looked confused at what was happening as suddenly they both knelt towards me. "Both of you, stop your argument... you are part of the same peerage so fighting like this is bad, especially since you are King and Queen."

I could see Rias just listening to my words without any resistance, but it was different for Akeno. I saw her body trembling as if she was trying to get up.

"Do you hear me?" I said to them again, this time adding my energy.

"I understand," they both answered me simultaneously.

Since they both agreed, I then released them both, and they were able to stand back up slowly.

"Rias, I will return to my dimension taking Koneko. If you are done with your business, you can call me with the ring I gave you before," I said to Rias.

Akeno seemed like she wanted to say something after hearing that I would take Koneko, but because of my previous order, she couldn't speak at all. If she did, they would argue again.

Rias is seen caressing a red ruby ring on the middle finger of her right hand which is similar in color to her hair. Initially, I wanted to give her a necklace like the ones I gave to Grisella and Ophis.

But suddenly she said she wanted a ring instead of a necklace, so I changed the necklace into a ring which she placed on her middle finger. The ring was useful for her to communicate with me and for me to know her location so I could open a portal near her.

"Alright, when I'm done, I will let you know," Rias said to me, sounding like she was reluctant to part ways for now.

I just nodded at Rias and then turned back to Koneko. "Are you ready? Or do you want to stay here and join when Rias is done talking?"

But Koneko just shook her head. "I want to leave now."

Hearing that, I began to raise my right hand and opened a portal to my dimension, then I walked through the portal followed by Koneko.

After the two of us entered the portal, I immediately closed it so that no one else could enter suddenly.

But what I didn't know was that when I had closed the portal, suddenly the door of the club room opened and two girls appeared.

One of the girls had a slim figure, black hair styled in a short bob cut, and violet eyes, while the other girl had long straight black hair that reached all the way down to her knees, with split bangs and heterochromic eyes - a violet left eye and a light brown right eye.

They both seemed in a hurry to the occult club room, but when they looked inside, they only saw Rias and Akeno.

"Rias? You're back already!? Could it be the energy I felt earlier was from that person?" one of the girls named Sona Sitri asked Rias.

Rias then turned to the voice calling her, and after seeing that it was her childhood friend, she smiled. "Sona, we haven't met in a few weeks," while waving her hand.

But as Sona looked at Rias more closely, she could feel that Rias' power had increased. Rias didn't realize it because every time she trained Rei always said that her power is still weak.

But what Rei didn't know was that weak to him might not necessarily be weak in the eyes of others.

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After I exited the portal, I turned around to wait for Koneko to come out and follow me. Soon, Koneko emerged and looked around her.

But as Koneko stepped out and entered my dimension, suddenly I could see her cat ears and two tails appear, and she stumbled into the grass.

"Koneko!?" I approached her and tried to figure out why she suddenly became like this.

"This...? Why is the mana here so dense, Nyaa....!?" Koneko tried to tell me.

I could see that Koneko's face was slightly red at the moment, her cat ears were back, and one tail was moving, while the other was circling around my leg.

Huh, what happened? Is this that cat heat thing I read about a long time ago!? Is it because of the mana in this place that she's suddenly like this?

But Rias never became like this when she came here? Is it because Koneko is a Nekoshu or whatever it is that makes her more sensitive to mana?

I decided to heal Koneko and calm her desires so she wouldn't do something she would regret later. Koneko's body began to be enveloped in a blue light as I healed her.

I used the power of the Primal Beast Leviathan to assist me in doing this, although Leviathan's healing abilities are not as good as Europa's, it should be enough for this.

Not long I could see Koneko's face returning to normal, but her cat ears and tail were still there. Then Koneko opened her eyes and looked around.

"Oh, you're back, Koneko." I reached out my hand to help her stand up.

Koneko slowly accepted my hand, and I began to pull her up. "I'm sorry, Koneko, I didn't expect you to be sensitive to the mana in this dimension."

"It's okay, Nyaa.... Besides, you've healed me so the problem is solved, Nyaa..." Koneko replied but still ended her sentence with "Nyaa~".

She's so cute.

She's so cute that I couldn't resist patting her head. Hmm, her hair is so soft, just like a cat's.

Koneko looked surprised when I did that and remained silent for a moment... but eventually, she wakes up and moved her head away from my hand while saying, "Stop treating me like a kid, Nyaa."

"You're really cute so I couldn't help myself from doing it."

"Cute...?" Koneko mumbled when she heard me say that, then she seemed to looking at her small body and small breasts... then she sighed.

I turned around to continue the reason why we are here in the first place. "Alright, Koneko, I will call your instructor," I told her, then raised my left hand forward.

"Come to me, Grace."

After I said that, a large magic circle began to appear in front of both of us. Koneko seemed to hide behind me because the mana she felt from the magic circle was too strong for her.

Not long a white light began to emanate from the magic circle, and the shadow of a large creature began to slowly appear.

"Did you call me, Rei?" The being began to speak as she materialized in this place.

After a while, she finally fully appeared, and I could see a large nine-tailed fox in front of us. The fox's face would make one think it was a fierce creature ready to destroy anyone in its path.

[GRACE]

Even when I first met her, she was a fierce fox wanting to destroy everything because she could sense the emotions of those around her, and the emotions she sensed from others is so disgusting for her.

But she couldn't sense emotions from me because I am an Astral and Supreme Primarch which making her get interested in me, I then tried to work on improving her abilities so she wouldn't sense multiple emotions at once.

And when I succeeded, she no longer became a fierce beast but turned into a lazy fox that wanted to sleep all the time...

After Grace fully appeared, I could feel Koneko holding onto my shirt more tightly, and her two tails were circling around my legs as if she afraid of the aura coming from Grace.

Grace sensing someone behind me began to move one of her tail to pick up Koneko who was clinging behind me.

Koneko then get enveloped by Grace's large tails get lifted up and then moved so she was now in front of Grace. "You? I can sense mana that is very familiar from you. Are you an Erune?" Grace asked.

Koneko could only shake her head in fear of Grace while saying, "I... am a Nekoshu..."

"Nekoshu?" Grace feels unfamiliar with the race that Koneko mentioned them she's turned towards me.

I then explained to Grace why I called her and about the Nekoshu race that Koneko mentioned and revealed our current whereabouts.

"Ah, I see, you want me to train this cat?" Grace smiled broadly as she said this, and I could even see her large teeth when she smiled.

"Yes, I want to see if the techniques you taught Yuel and Societte will work on Koneko or not," I replied to Grace with a nod.

Grace seemed to be thinking about something as she observed the frightened Koneko on her tail. She kept thinking for a few moments before releasing her tail, causing Koneko to fall onto the grass.

Soon Grace began to be enveloped in white light, causing Koneko to close her eyes due to the brightness.

"Oh, it looks like she's going to transform into her human form," I said to Koneko as I saw Grace appearing to be shrinking within the light.

Grace continued to shrink until she was at the same height as me, and then the light dimmed and disappeared. Now, there was a white-haired woman with two large Erune ears on top of her head and nine tails behind her.

She was wearing a white Yukata and held a red folding fan in her hand that she often carried everywhere.

"In that case, I will first test this cat's abilities," Grace said to both of us while covering her face with her folding fan.