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"That is precisely why I won't be going today" Sona sighed. While Sona truly loved her sister, her antics truly drove Sona nuts.
"So you would be going tomorrow with me then for the pillar meeting?" Rias asked innocently.
"No, I am busy with this school. Tanaka-sensei still hasn't completed the formalities for the upcoming Kyoto trip.
When the adults are so incompetent, then it is people like us who need to take the charge" Sona sighed.
She was a workaholic and seeing simple tasks not being done was irked her to no end.
"Well then I will be leaving tomorrow for Lilith. I will say Hi to Marid on your behalf. I assume he is going to appreciate that" Rias smirked mischievously.
To her disappointment she only got a deadpan glare from her childhood friend.
"Well I need to check with Akeno about the stray Devil" Rias stood up, having decided she had done enough teasing for one night.
"Before you go Rias, with the new year coming in, do you have prospective peerage members in sight?" Sona asked the fellow King.
"Yea I have one in mind" Rias replied thoughtfully.
"Please don't tell me it is not one of the perverted idiots" Sona sighed.
"OK, I wont tell you" Rias smirked at her friends.
"I guess I walked straight into that one"
"Yep"
"Rias are you sure Issie is the one you want in your peerage?" Sona asked her friend seriously. Both Sona and Rias had agreed to a deal when they arrived in Kuoh years ago.
They would scout the prospective peerage members together and decide if there is anyone if they wanted to convert to their peerage.
A deal which benefitted Sona greatly since she was able to recruit more than half of her peerage in the first two years.
"I hope so, he had a strong sacred gear reaction when I looked at him a few weeks ago. Plus, he is cute too" Rias chuckled at the end.
"Are you sure about it Rias that he can help you with your problem? I have been hearing some rumors" Sona asked her friend seriously.
"What sorts of rumors" Rias asked curiously.
"Riser is pushing for a early marriage" Sona ripped the bandage right off. Believing this is not the time to take care of someone's feelings.
However, after uttering those words, Sona wished she would have been nicer when relaying the news to Rias since now Rias had gone pale white and her body stiffened.
"But how, I still have time till I graduate from college" Rias reasoned with her best friend.
"He is getting desperate. He maybe thinks you can beat him if given enough time, after he saw Millicas progress as a Devil considering he is barely a barely a decade old" Sona replied somberly.
Sona truly wished she could do something to help out her friend but given the fact Rias was from a completely different House and Lord Phoenix's made not so subtle threats to her father about cutting of the Phoenix tears from her family's hospitals had tied her up.
Which is why none of the other friends including Sairaorg could help Rias out. While Sairaorg was the heir to the prestigious Bael clan, he was still a heir and not a Lord.
And Lord Bael had no desire to help Rias or Sairaorg out considering Bael family was the one who came up with the marriage contract between Rias and Riser.
"Unfortunately for you, now with Marid back, the others might push for the marriage even more," Sona added much to Rias horror.
"What does this have to Marid? It's not like he will help me" Rias tried to make sense of the situation that was dawning on her.
"He is your brother's eldest son Rias, so it is not far fetched that Lord Sirzechs will ask him to help you out.
That is not even putting in account the power he has inherited from both of his parents who truly are considered among the most powerful in our kind" Sona softly explained to her friend.
"Along with this, nobody truly knows anything about Marid, his peerage members, his magical power and capabilities.
They only remember a fight he had with his own aunt years ago. Considering he is almost old enough to be considered a mature adult, it is not farfetched to believe he might have gotten more powerful.
After all, Marid right now is only a few years younger than when the last generation took arms against the old Satan faction a few centuries ago.
If they were approximately Satan class level around 18 years old, it is not a farfetched theory that Marid can be that far behind. Right now the very aura of illusion he likes to keep around him is working against you.
He can literally be placed anywhere between ultimate class to an average high class devil"
"My own nephew is putting me in more and more trouble. Maybe, they are right I don't really have a choice" Rias said dejectedly.
"If you are truly serious about recruiting Hyoudou, then I would suggest you turn in him quickly, so that you have more time for preparations should Riser come knocking" Sona advised her best friend.
"I don't know Sona" Rias admitted after a moment, "I need a game changer; something Riser doesn't expect and takes him off guard. Just any random person wouldn't be able to help"
"Members of the phoenix family have been defeated before Rias" Sona spoke softly.
"Usually when the Rating game isn't about pure power" Rias pointed out, "I may be getting a Rating game, but it will be skewed in favor of Riser's superior strength and experience.
It wont be a game where we have to steal something from the opposition or hold a territory for a certain amount of time; it will be one where I have to defeat Riser and his peerage down to the last man"
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