NOVEL NEXT Chapter 31: Chapter 33
When she saw the exhausted form of Naruto lying on his bed with a sleepy look on his face, she wanted nothing than make him stand on his knees and scold Naruto about overworking. However, Grayfia had quickly stopped herself before doing anything that would embarrass herself in front of him and that would be the last thing she wanted to do. Grayfia had tried to talk to him as calmly as possible but whenever she was near him, she always felt this weird feeling inside her chest and always felt another ugly feeling when she knew Naruto was going to crash this wedding to save his 'more than childhood friend'.
Sirzechs looked at Grayfia and smiled, his queen was strong yet was strongly falling for the youngest Pawn. Good for her, when they broke up, he was the first one to find true happiness, his other half and wished Grayfia that she could also find her happiness and really surprised when his surrogate little brother was the reason why his maid was acting weird lately. Damn that kid, truly a chick magnet, first his sister then her Queen and Rook, now the Maid…What next? A Maou?
Unknown to Sirzechs, Serafall was looking at Grayfia without her usual childish or happy look on her face. In fact, the black haired Maou was looking at his maid with very dangerous eyes.
Serafall scowled quietly, she didn't like the way Grayfia called the name of her 'Naru-chan'. Call it a woman's intuition but she smelled something really fishy here and that wasn't just because they passed a maid who was carrying a completely burned chicken. She could accept the fact she wouldn't be the first one in Naruto's heart, considered that Rias had already caught his interest but she won't lose to any other girl, especially not her former rival forthe title of 'Leviathan'.
Trying to act like her usual self as much as possible, Serafall jumped right in front of Grayfia and said cheerfully.
"You're right Grayfia-chan~After all~I know Naru-chan well too~So he would come home before we know it~!" In truth, Serafall only met Naruto when he came to deliver that message to her father but when you're the Maou of foreign affairs, you could understand other people with just a single meeting and Naruto didn't really have a hard to understand personality anyway. She smirked when she saw a tick mark appeared on Grayfia's forehead, someone was jealous and really pissed.
"Of course Serafall-sama, as the head maid of the Gremory Clan, I would probably take really good care of him when he comes back. After all, Naruto would be really tired if he came back from a dangerous mission like this!" The strongest Queen said calmly.
"Well~You do have your duty as head maid at Lucifer Castle, don't you? So you're probably really busy, so don't worry I could take care of him for you!"
"Naruto probably won't enjoy a Maou taking care of him. He would be really uncomfortable with you. And by the way..." Grayfia looked at Serafall's body up and down in an unusual 'Grayfia Lucifuge way', "Naruto probably wouldn't want to be taken care by a childish girl who is always dressed in a magical girl's uniform."
Serafall scowled, just a few more words and Grayfia would become as annoying as that bitch Gabriel.
But then, Serafall smirked.
"Really Grayfia-chan?" Serafall tiptoed and said quietly in a very seductive tone, unlike her usual childish tone "Grayfia, you should remember that before I turned into this form, I was the most beautiful devil in the underworld that could even rival that Gabriel!"
Grayfia's eyes turned sharp immediately and looked straight into Serafall's purple eyes without fear in her eyes. The two glared at each other while sparks were flying everywhere. Sirzechs looked at the two and quickly went somewhere, not wanting to feel their wrath at the moment.
'Damn Naruto-kun…You really are one of a kind!"
"DAMN IT, WHY CAN'T WE SAVE BUCHOU!"
Issei slammed his hand to the table, drawing a lot of attention from the devils standing near them and looked around to his friends, who currently have a solemn look on their face.
"That's it, I'm going to save her!" Issei made up his mind and turned to the door.
He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around, only to meet with the sad face of Kiba.
"Don't Issei-kun, we can't do anything for her now."
"Kiba, what are you saying? You're her Knight right? A Knight has to protect her King no matter what happens right? So why won't you do anything?"
While Issei continuing to shout out that they must save their King, Akeno looked at the scene in front of her sadly. Rias had surrendered the Game and accepted marrying Riser, for the sake of her peerage, her family and her friends. Akeno cursed herself for her weakness, if that day she had seen Riser's queen use Phoenix Tears and hit her with fire magic when she turned around, she could have defeated Yubelluna again and helped Rias in her fight against Riser, everything would have been different right now.
Grayfia had come to the fallen peerage when they finally recovered from all their injuries, especially Issei, whose body was the most seriously injured and who had reached his limit and said that they could attend the engagement party if their want to, with one condition that is they don't do anything stupid or else their would be exiled from devil society for disturbing an honorable engagement party between two of the most power powerful Clans in devil society. However Issei was the most stubborn member, who wanted to save Rias from this engagement no matter what happened to him, even though he knew he didn't have the power to do that.
Akeno and the rest of Rias's peerage were standing in the ballroom dressed in the most elegant clothing they had. The Queen of Rias looked around the room and saw most of the devils who have assembled were young devils but their parents and some adult devils were also here too. Akeno could see most of them were high-class devils with also a few servants that came from their household to serve the devils.