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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.
Rex, fully prepared for the kiss, softly returned, and he and his aunt continued to kiss for a full minute, before coming up for air.
"You better?" Rex asked, dispelling the barrier around him and Rias. "You calmed down?"
"Y-yeah." Rias replied. "I'm much better."
"Good." Rex replied. "Anything else you want to ask?"
"Yeah." Rias replied. "What was that power you used against Imogen? I've never seen anyone use that power before, but it looked kinda similar to the Abaddon Clan's Power of Hole."
"You wouldn't have been the first person to make that comparison, Rias."
Everyone looked up, and saw Sirzechs, followed by Grayfia, Palutena and Millicas, walking into the hospital room. All four individuals, including Grayfia, had a smile on her face.
"Hey, Dad." Rex replied. "Oof. Hello, you." he added, as Millicas hurried towards his big brother, and hugged him.
"Hey, big bro." Millicas replied. "You were amazing!"
"You certainly were, Rex." Sirzechs replied. "I must admit, I was sceptical to the idea of you facing down one of the, physically, strongest Devils, period, and a Satan-Class Devil/Dragon Hybrid, who is also the first being in history to unite all seven portions of Vritra's soul. You were phenomenal."
"Heh." Rex grinned. "Thanks."
"You using the Amalgamation power was awesome as well!" Millicas piped up. "I can do it too. I can create four Amalgamation holes."
"Good for you." Rex replied. "I'll admit I've been focusing on my Dark and Light powers a lot, while I trained away from everyone. Maybe I should start focusing on the Amalgamation power.
"I'm sorry, but can someone explain what Amalgamation is?" Rias asked. "I've never heard of it. Ever."
"It's the Clan Power of the Gremory family." Sirzechs replied. "Allows the user to combine special abilities together and expel the result as a single attack. It was given to the original Gremory by Lucifer when he created the original 72 Pillars, but popularised by our very own grandmother, Rias: Alice Gremory."
"Grandma?" Rias blinked, in surprise
"Indeed." Sirzechs replied. "Anyway, I should get back to the Underworld. Millicas, come on."
"Bye, brother." Millicas left Rex, and left the room with his father and mother, leaving only Palutena in the room with Rex, his peerage, and Rias.
"Well. Rex." Palutena sat down beside Rex and kissed him on the cheek. "That's gotta be one of the most intense fights you've had in years. Since your battle with the original Avengers, I bet."
Everyone except Asia and Neo tensed up when they heard that word.
"The… Avengers?" Rias asked. "I've heard of them. The superpowered team of humans? The Heroes of New York? Those Avengers?"
"The very same." Palutena replied, looking cheekily at Rex. "My husband here had a bit of a run-in with Earth's so-called Mightiest Heroes a few years ago."
"Really?" Rias widened her eyes, looking at Rex. "What happened?"
"I'll tell you later." Rex replied. "It's a long-ass story, and I don't have the energy to tell it right now. Plus, someone's coming, and I don't like being interupted."
"Wha-?" Rias began, but right as she spoke, the door opened... and Zeoticus Gremory walked in, looking very slightly awkward.
Everyone including Asia and Neo this time tensed up when they saw Zeoticus walking in.
They'd all heard about what had transpired between him and Rex, either from Sirzechs in Neo's case, Palutena in Asia's case or Rex himself in the case of everyone else, sans Rex, Palutena and Rias, who had all seen first-hand.
"...Father?" Rias greeted Zeoticus slightly cautiously, as she was worried that he was going to go off on her like he did on her and Rex at the celebration party.
"Hello, Rias." Zeoticus replied, nodding to his daughter. "I want to speak with Rex."
Everyone in Rex' peerage traded looks with one another.
"...Why?" Valian asked, standing up out of her bed. Her legs trembled slightly, as she was still feeling slightly dizzy from the ass-kicking Imogen delivered her.
"What do you want, Zeoticus?" Rex asked, bluntly. "Have you come to try and rage at me in a foolish attempt to convince me into submitting to your will to marry Seekvaira, someone who, though I think she'll find someone who likes her eventually, I have no personal interest in?"
"Well, no, but-" Zeoticus spoke, but Rex interupted him again.
"Ooh, ooh. Don't tell me. Is it... you want to try and drag me to Ajuka and have him rip my Angelic side right out of me?"
"No!" Zeoticus replied, a bit more insistently. "Rex, I-"
"Well, what is it then?" Rex replied. As he opened his mouth to take another guess, Zeoticus cut him off, this time.
"Rex, I wanted to apologize."
Rex' words, which were on the tip of his tongue, died as he heard Zeoticus' declaration. Or rather... he thought he heard it.
Maybe he'd gone slightly deaf from all the heavy metal music he'd been listening to over the years.
"What?" the silver-haired Nephalem replied.
"I..." Zeoticus looked even more uncomfortable. "wanted to apologize to you, Rex." he repeated.
"For everything that I did. Sticking you into an engagement with someone you barely knew, I'm sorry. Threatening to take you to Ajuka so he could try to take the Angelic side out of you, I'm sorry, and... I acknowledge that you're a Nephalem."
"Where the hell is this coming from?" Rex asked, now confident that he wasn't hearing things, and now not sure just WHAT the FUCK could have caused Zeoticus to pull such a Heel-Face turn like this.
"Well, during the Rating Game, Venelana suggested that I apologize to you." The current Gremory Head replied.
"And after the game, she explained exactly why, and after thinking it over, I find that I agree with what she said. I am genuinely sorry. To both you..." he turned to Palutena. "And your wife." he bowed.
"Apology accepted." Palutena replied, having an inkling that somehow, Venelana giving Zeoticus a big 'Reason you Suck' speech wasn't all that got him to consider apologizing to his grandson.
"Somehow, I think that apologizing wasn't the only reason you came here, Lord Zeoticus."
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