( Yuuki's POV )
When Ravel and I were alone, before I said anything she started to blush, I stroked her head to try to calm her down but that didn't help much.
Yuuki: You know, the first time we met you had no problem talking to me.
Ravel: things were different before.
Yuuki: Yes, before, I didn't care about you this much.
Ravel: Do you really care about me, or do you feel responsible for my family?
Yuuki: I don't want to be with you just because of that and you know that the girls would kill me if they found out that I took the situation to tie you to me.
Ravel: yes, they have been too good to me, even Mittelt accepted me after our bad first encounter.
Yuuki: well you are family now.
I took Ravel's hands and gave her a big smile, she was still blushing but she was able to smile back and when she closed her eyes I leaned in to give her a quick kiss, after that some wings of light appeared on her back, I knew that she had already talked to the girls about this but I didn't think that she had already gone through the Sekirei process, After the Sekirei number 47 appeared on her shoulder we went to join the others and all the way we were holding hands.
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When we entered the room where they were, I saw my mother with a huge smile showing everyone the photo album of our family, and Karen was very close to her, matching her energy, it surprised me that she always had that album close to her.
Yuna: look at that, have you ever seen such a cute baby?
Karen: aww mini Yuuki is adorable mother.
Yuuki: why are you calling her mother?
Yuna: Yuuki, Karen told us that she has never had a family so I offered to be her mother.
Karen: Yep, now you'll have to call me neesan.
Yuuki: We'll see about that.
When my mother turned her attention to me she saw Ravel holding my hand, and she stood up excitedly and pulled Ravel towards her, lifting her off the ground with a tight hug.
Yuna: Oh my cute Ravel, you are so welcome to our family.
Ravel: t-thank you mother.
While she was busy with that I took a look at the photo album, especially the last pages which were the photos of when I met my first Sekireis, It was already a little more than a year since that day, although there are a few months difference because of those times that we live in separate worlds, but I think I should do something to celebrate those days But I'll think about that later.
I told my mother that we had important things to discuss and my Sekireis and I left her alone with the young devils, We went to the war room because Hilda had already finished the "key" that would lead to the domain of our first enemy god, That object was not a physical key but Hilda decided to create it in the classic shape of a key.
Yuuki: With this, we are ready to go.
Miu: Great, what are we waiting for?
Yuuki: well before that I want to leave our affairs with the devils in a good place.
All the girls agreed with me and nodded but I knew that what I was going to say next wasn't going to go down well with many of them.
Yuuki: and about the main fight, I'm going to go to that alone.
Mitsuki: what!? That's not how we do things.
Yumina: Yuuki, I know that you are at a different level than most of us, but is that not the reason we are training, why are you pushing us back now?
Yuuki: That's not it, this is not a normal enemy and he will be even more dangerous because we will be in his domain, just being close to him will be dangerous, The only one strong enough to accompany me is Eu, and she is not a combatant.
Hilda: Girls, Yuuki is right, you are not strong enough right now, but there is a way to fix that quickly remember.
Tsukiumi: That is correct, if we pass that test you will have no objection to our accompanying you.
Yuuki: wait, it wasn't you who said that's dangerous.
Miu: that was that and this is this, completely different situation.
Yuuki: how?
Rei: What are you talking about?
True, Rei and Ravel didn't know about my fight that cost me an arm and left me out of action for several days, The reason I hadn't told her about that is because I knew she was going to get upset with me and I was right.
Rei: unheard of, and now you want to go into another dangerous fight alone, that's not going to happen.
Yuuki: ok I get the message, but first we have to make that test a little safer.
Regina: No problem, we can work something out.
After deciding that, Tsubaki, our Kunoichi royal guard, came to inform us of the results of her investigation into the failed assassination attempt, the culprit being the Yuuron kingdom, They were known for their hostility and conquest of territories with overwhelming power, the main objective of the attack was our frame gears, Tsubaki also informed us that Yuuron had declared war on the kingdom of Hanok, this small kingdom was close to the Regulus empire, They were not allies but they were not hostiles either, and Hanok has enjoyed a lot of prosperity thanks to his mines of rare ores, obtaining that must be Yuuron's objective, Either way Yuuron is our enemy so we couldn't just sit back and do nothing.
With an order our flying ship, New Horizon, and our flying base, Kouten flew at full speed to the Hanok kingdom taking with us half of the military power of the Babylon kingdom.
The Yuuron army was marching towards a small town called Quint and that is where our forces took base, The kingdom of Hanok was also moving their army but no they wouldn't arrive in time, instead, I teleported to their capital to discuss with their king and reach an agreement.