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'First it was getting your fourth pair of wings.' Palutena thought. 'Then becoming a Nephalem and training in your Angelic abilities. Then it was your fifth pair of wings.' She wiped a tear away. 'You've come so far, Rex.'
However, in the stands several rows up, a certain blue-haired woman was trying extremely hard to orgasm in her seat.
Esdeath Partas, one of the most eligible bachelorettes in the Underworld, who had taken interest in Rex ever since she'd felt his power for the first time, felt herself more interested than ever, given the power he'd shown during this Rating Game.
Being a Nephalem with ten wings would've already been enough to make Esdeath take notice, but defeating the two Strongest Young Devils in the Underworld, one after the other?
That was just further reason for Esdeath to take interest in Rex Gremory. As well as a good enough reason for the sole remaining Partas Clan member to think about trying to taste that power for herself.
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It was a couple of hours later. Everyone in Rex', Imogen's and Sairaorg peerages including Rex, Imogen and Sairaorg themselves had been transferred to the nearest Sitri Medical Facility, which was barely a couple of miles away, and were receiving treatement.
In the ward that housed Rex' peerage, Valian, Akasha, Akeno, Asia and Kuroka were sat in their own beds, propped up and chatting to each other. They all looked well apart from some bruises on Akeno, Kuroka and Neo who was silently eating some neapolitan ice-cream, and were all in good spirits.
As they were referring to Akeno, Kuroka, Neo, Akasha and Valian had been informed by one of the doctors that they had emerged as the winners of the Game. Asia and Rias were the only ones who came before the end of the Game.
The only one who didn't look happy was Rias. She sat, silently looking at the sheets of her bed, looking rather despondent.
The doors to the ward opened, and everyone sans Neo and Rias looked up, and saw Rex Gremory himself, looking as cool as ever, walking into the room.
"Rex!" Valian spoke up. "Hey."
Everyone else in Rex' peerage, sans Rias, greeted him in similarly high spirits. Neo also silently greeted Rex by waving her spoon at him and smiling, before returning to her ice-cream.
"Hey, everyone." Rex walked over to Valian and delivered a gentle kiss to his first-cousin once removed. "You all did great. Seriously, I'm proud of all of you."
"That's nice of you to say, nya~" Kuroka replied, smiling at Rex. She, along with Akeno and Neo, had some magical cream on her face to treat the bruises that had been caused from Sairaorg going all Saitama on them.
"It's only true, Kuroka." Rex replied, looking over everyone in his peerage, before his eyes rested on the sole temporary member of his peerage.
"Rias." Rex spoke, walking over to his aunt. "What's wrong?"
Rias looked up at Rex, but for some inexplicable reason, couldn't bring herself to meet his gaze.
"Rex..." she whispered. "I'm sorry..."
Rex blinked.
"What for?" he asked, waving his hand to create a barrier around the bed, giving him and Rias some privacy. "What reason do you have to apologize to me?"
Rias looked at Rex again, and felt herself tearing up.
"I couldn't make any impact during the Rating Game!" she whispered. "I could've beaten Misteeta and Himari, I know I could've, but-" she took a breath in an attempt to calm herself, but that attempt was in vain.
"But I couldn't." she whispered. "I couldn't do it. Everyone else managed to knock out at least one person during the Game, and I couldn't even do that." she looked down, and whispered.
"I'm useless. I couldn't make any sort of impact. I might as well have not been in the Game at all."
Rex let Rias talk, and once she was done, he said one word, one word that made Rias look up.
"Nope."
"...No?" Rias repeated.
"Nope." Rex reinforced, squatting down so he was on a level with Rias. "You weren't useless, Rias. Everyone makes an impact in some sort of way. Whether big, small, good or bad. And you did the first and third things."
"But..." Rias paused. "How did I make an impact? Aren't you-?"
"Nope." Rex cut her off before she could finish the question he knew she was going to ask he didn't know the exact wording, but he was pretty sure it would have been something along the lines of questioning his sanity. "Stop. Rias. Let me tell you exactly why what you said was wrong."
The tone that Rex spoke with was enough to make Rias stop talking.
"You said you were useless, Rias? That you didn't make an impact? That you might as well have not been there?" Rex chuckled.
"Rias, you simply being in the Game, volunteering to temporarily join my peerage as my second Bishop, when you had absolutely no obligation to, that was more than enough of an impact. Maybe not on the Rating Game, but in another way. A far more important way. You want to guess on what? Or, to be more exact, on whom?"
"Uh..." Rias blinked. She closed her mouth and licked her lips for a moment. Rex chuckled.
"Rhetorical question, Rias… the answer was me. You being here and fighting alongside me and my peerage, doing what you could, that was a damn good thing to do. What I'm trying to say is... it made me happy. Thank you, Rias."
As Rias listened to everything Rex said, it dawned on her that Rex was absolutely right. And after that fact set in, the crimson-haired beauty felt herself tearing up more than she had done before. She looked over at Rex, who had his arms open, and a gentle smile on his face.
"Come here, Rias."
Rias didn't need telling twice. She leaned forward and wrapped her arms around her nephew in a hug, and, purely on impulse, pressed her lips against his.
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