(This week release. 3/3)
When Ray returned home. The wreckage of the mansion had been repaired back to pristine condition. Most definitely the work of Sakuya, reverting time prior to its destruction.
With him are Sirin and Sakura, who tagged along with him returning from the Danmachi world.
He remembers that Rias and her Peerage were visiting with Asia. But they were nowhere to be seen right now. Instead, they were gathered at the garden with another guest.
"Welcome home, Master. Mistresses." Sakuya appeared and greeted us.
"Who is visiting?" Ray reverts into his feline form and walks into the hallway heading to where everyone gathered.
"An unknown guest. She introduced herself to be your mother, Master." Sakuya answered while tagging along beside him.
"Huh?" Ray stopped and stared at Sakuya with a ridiculous look.
"My mother?" Ray mutters as the being that he met upon his death as a human immediately appeared in his mind.
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A while ago, when Asia and the Gremory Heiress with her Peerage visited the mansion. Some arguments occured between the Devils and Grayfia.
Issei is unhappy with how coldly Grayfia shoves away any attempt of Rias trying to communicate. Grayfia didn't even bother to acknowledge her existence.
Issei being the hot blooded guy with poor ability to read the situation, lashed out when he couldn't bear to see Rias saddened with grief. However, the moment he did. Issei was sent flying and crashing into the wall surrounding the garden in a critical state. Even when he activated his Scale Mail to dampen the crash, his Scale Mail shattered into pieces instead.
Currently, everyone excluding the Devils who already left, are gathered in the living room with the guest who claimed to be Ray's mother.
Thought, calling herself Ray's mother. The woman hardly presents any proof of her claim yet unconsciously, everyone believes her simply from the way their body reacted to her.
Those who received parts of Ray's power, could faintly feel the invisible bond with the woman like they were attracted to her presence. That alone is enough to remove their doubt to her claim.
Besides, the way she acts around his wives and daughters speaks louder than the invisible bond they could feel.
"That little rascal. I left him to his whim for just a short moment and he already got half a dozen wives and many daughters." She sighed helplessly. But the way she eagerly cuddles her granddaughters tells that she isn't even slightly unhappy. In fact, it's the opposite.
But like any mother would, she interrogated each of his wives. Wanted to know how their relationship started.
Kuroka was the first to share her first encounter with Ray which the other wives are actually quite curious about and listened very carefully as Kuroka recounts her encounter with Ray on a fateful night where she meets him while she is stalking Koneko.
The woman immediately laughed hard and clapped her thigh, a very unladylike attitude despite her appearance when Kuroka recounted the words of confessions Ray used.
Wiping her tears while trying to stop laughing and wheezing, she asked.
"I thought he would stay a hopeless virgin for life. Who would have thought he could swipe himself a lover." She said while resisting to laugh again due to his cringy confession.
"Oh, speaking of the devil." The woman reached her hand out and caught something across space which bent to her whim.
The door swung open as Sakuya was about to present Ray. But her mouth came to a sudden shut when she saw Ray caught by his neck by the woman before he was brought into a rather intense cuddle, basically smothering her face on his furry belly.
"It's really you!" Ray exclaimed but the woman didn't really care and continued to cuddle him aggressively.
It's a rather comical sight to behold. Ray, who is usually unrestrained and powerful, is reduced to such a helpless state no different than a plushie.
"Alright. Alright. I'll stop." The woman put him down on the sofa's cushion before lifting her hands up to surrender with a mischievous smile when Ray bare his claws ready to protect himself.
Most of the crowd watched with amused grins at the mother-son antics.
Ray looks at the woman with some distrust. Mainly due to the smirk on her face. But he decided to drop the matter and retreated to another sofa before asking his questions.
"So, why are you here? Also, do you have a name?" Ray asked as he didn't remember ever hearing her name.
"Do you really want me to say my name?" She gave him a knowing glance.
Ray didn't even need to ask what she meant by that as he quickly shook his head. Beings like him and her possess a true name. Name that is best left unheard for obvious reasons.
"Not even an alias? Like a normal name to use? You can't tell me you never thought of one?" Ray was baffled that someone could live this long without a name. Well, aside from the unusable name.
The woman shook her head.
"I never need to use a name as I rarely interact with mortals." She replied before brilliance suddenly flashed over her eyes. "Oh, why don't you give me one? As my sole true kin, you are the most befitting to give me a name!" She proposed before giving him her full attention, expecting a name.
"Uh… I don't know. Maybe Serina?" Ray wracked his mind to come up with a name and went for a random name that popped up in his mind.
"Hmn, Serina… sure. Not the most creative or best. But since it's from my dear son. How could I refuse?" She made the 'ufufu' sound although she does look genuinely happy with the name.
"So…" Ray said. "What's the real reason you are here? I doubt it's as simple as getting bored and suddenly wanting to visit me all of the sudden." He hinted at his suspicion of her motive.
As for his mother or the now Serina, she made a faux hurted expression from his words.
"Why can't I come visit my dear son when I am missing you dearly?" She said but Ray didn't buy her words at all and shot him a look of suspicion and deadpan.
"Alright, I do have another purpose. But I am really missing you and eager to meet your family." Serina finally caved in and confessed when Ray kept his deadpan stare.
"So, what is it that you need? I doubt there's anything I can do but you can't, considering you are far stronger than myself." Ray shows a curious expression.
Serina nodded and prepared herself before she answered. Her expression is incredibly serious which made everyone in the room including Ray to adopt a much serious stance to hear her trouble.
"Actually… I… I also wanted to get pregnant." Serina said while caressing her belly longingly.
"Huh!" Ray blink his eyes uncertain if he heard it correctly.
"Of course, I am just joking." Serina added later. But she swore she heard one of her grandchildren say she wanted too.
"My real request is your assistance to deal with a certain blunder of mine that got out of hand." She finally revealed.
(To be continued.)
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