Chapter: 82
"Thank you so much for this opportunity, Miss Yasaka! I promise you won't regret making me the head of development for your new string of apartment complexes," Gorou Hyoudou, an older human man and father, said to the currently disguised Fox Woman. Yasaka had her ears and tails hidden and was wearing a VERY tight businesswoman suit. Her shirt's seams were holding on for dear life, doing everything to not tear and cause her shirt to bust open from her impressive bust. No pun intended.
[That pun was absolutely intended, you liar…]
Yasaka and I were sitting in the Hyoudou family's new home in Kyoto. It had been about a week since she sent out the anonymous job offer to the Hyoudou family to try and snatch the Red Dragon Emperor away from the Devils. There was just one small caveat—
"Care for some tea, Miss Layla?" Miki Hyoudou, the mother of the current Red Dragon, asked me. She held out a teeming cup for me to take.
"Thank you," I smiled at her and took a small sip. It was hand-brewed and not instant, which I appreciated.
"Wow, DAD! These are your new bosses. Both of them are so beautiful! And their Oppai are amazing! I hope mine grow that big someday!" And there was our current problem speaking now…
"Isane Hyoudou! That is no way to talk to guests, let alone your father's new bosses! Apologize now!" Miki scolded her daughter—yes, daughter. There was no Red Dragon Emperor. There was, however, a Red Dragon Empress this generation. Issei had been gender-bent. That wasn't exactly a big problem per se, but it did throw all of my meta knowledge into question now.
The teenage girl apologized to me. "I'm sorry. Sometimes my mouth just gets ahead of me, and I say stuff before I know what I'm saying!" Isane explained.
Yasaka giggled nearby. I could tell she found the situation hilarious. She had also laughed at me earlier for trusting whoever my "information broker" was, considering he was so unreliable. Yasaka was under the impression that I had a terrible broker who gave me the information about Isane being a boy and not a girl. I found it was easiest to run with stories that people came up with on their own, so I just went with it and told her I would fire the nonexistent guy.
"Well, at least he was correct about her actually being the Red Dragon Empress," Yasaka said a few days ago. "Otherwise, all of this would have been for naught."
"It's fine, Miss Hyoudou. Just know that most women will not be comfortable with a young girl like you talking about their chests so openly," I explained.
Isane pouted. "I'm not young! I'm 17, I'll have you know!"
"Talk to me in another year then," I muttered.
The girl heard me, though, and perked up. "Is that an invitation!?" She asked with excitement.
"Isane! No flirting with older women until you're 18, we've talked about this!" Her mother scolded her again. She then apologized to Yasaka and us and explained that Isane was very much into girls…
We had noticed... Isane couldn't take her eyes off of either Yasaka or myself for hardly a few seconds. Isane was cute, I'd give her that. She had short brown hair and a heart-shaped face. But she was currently jailbait, and I wasn't going anywhere near that.
Isane quieted down after that, and Yasaka started hammering out the details of Gorou's new position with him. The job did, in fact, exist. The apartments were just being built to house yokai and not humans. Gorou didn't need to know that, as he was just the construction general manager. It was the same as his job in Kuoh, except Yasaka had offered him twice as much money to move to Kyoto and start immediately.
She had initially done this as a 'favor' to me, but I could tell she was ecstatic to have the Red Dragon Empress in Kyoto. With some real training—and not whatever the hell Rias had Issei doing in canon—Isane could reach Ultimate Class in strength in only a few years. That was one of the reasons why the Longinus Sacred Gear holders were always so coveted. They got really strong really quickly!
We left the Hyoudou household an hour later. "I'm surprised how well that went!" Yasaka said. "Usually, anything involving the devils goes to shit immediately, but this time everything worked out. We spirited the Hyoudou family away, and I don't think they even noticed!" Yasaka laughed. We had shared a few conversations together the past week. One thing we had in common was that she really hated the devils as well—well, most supernatural beings, actually did but still. Yasaka had apparently lost quite a few friends in the Nekoshou massacre and had refused to do business with the devils since. The only reason Rias and Sona were allowed in Japan at all was that the contract back from when Cleria Belial was the 'owner' of Kuoh town had not yet expired. When it did in a few years, Yasaka was going to demand the devils leave Japan forever.
That would actually be a more significant blow to the devil race than someone would suspect. The devils, because they were so hated, didn't actually have very many footholds in the human world. Kuoh was the only one in the East at all, in fact. They had a few smaller towns in America, such as Salem, and a few scattered throughout Europe, but that was it. If the devils lost Kuoh, they lost pretty much all contact with the East. Rias and Sona would have never gotten such an important location if they weren't basically devil princesses...
We discussed what Yasaka would do with Isane from here on out. She told me that she would wait to finish her business with the Khaos Brigade before she took the girl aside and exposed her to the supernatural world. We were expecting them to show sometime in the next few days to offer an antidote for "Kunous Poison." Yasaka would capture and interrogate them. I asked her to spare all the Fallen Angels and let them face justice from Azazel. She begrudgingly agreed. Even if they had gone rogue, they were still my siblings and i didnt want anymore Fallen Angel or Angel blood being shed for such a pointless thing as Khaos Brigade.
Afterwards, Yasaka would take Isane as her apprentice and train her up to be a protector of Japan of sorts. I thought that was a novel idea.
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