Rias keeps her determination in mind, and even though she discusses her thoughts with her friends, and even though they are –Demon Pieces, 悪魔の駒 (Akuma no Koma)-, Rias takes them as part of her family and talks to them when a decision needs to be made.
Despite Akeno's objections, Yuuto's silence, and Koneko's dry gaze, Rias can't push aside her feelings of greed at the moment, especially when her family is pressuring her to return home to the demon dimension and choose a marriage date.
And it is more for this reason that, even though the club members have objections, they cannot say anything else. They are also concerned about Rias' arranged marriage with the Phenex family forced upon them by her Gremory family.
Rias has been under pressure ever since she entered Kuoh Academy, and has always looked for ways to break off the engagement. And perhaps she would have no problem accepting, things like this are common in her type of family since ancient times. Humans also often use these methods of marriages between families to consolidate their power or achieve short or long term goals.
But her choice of marriage is a bastard who harms women and it is public knowledge of the bad things he has done. Even his demon piece retainers could not escape his clutches if it were not for his relatives' ultimatum to him, to protect his team and not do them any kind of physical or spiritual harm. But, although his demon pieces are safe, he has let out his dissatisfaction on innocents.
Rias would rather be dead first than marry such an individual. But Rias also knows that what she's doing isn't entirely right, and in a way she's doing the same thing as Riser Phenex.
But the temptation is too much, and he has vowed to protect and never let the little girl with pure white skin, golden hair like the sun's rays, and bright pink eyes like a flower illuminated by the day, get hurt.
Rias bit her lip as she felt Christel's soft and warm hand. Perhaps what she does could bring danger and pull her into the pit, which goes against her wishes of protection. But to protect someone, she knows she has to be stronger.
Since he met Christel about three months ago, he has seen his Demonic cultivation grow by leaps and bounds. In this time, his strength has grown as if he had trained tirelessly for a year.
Just being close to her, or like now holding her hand, he feels his strength grow automatically. But ever since they accidentally kissed, he found that his strength would grow even faster.
But he can't just be kissing Christel all day every day, and even if he wanted to pack her up and have her in his bed forever, it's just impossible and illogical to do so. And that would make her just as much of a jerk as the one who wants to marry her!
As these days, weeks, months go by, more and more girls come to live at Christel's house. And Rias wants, needs, to find an excuse to spend more time with her, like living in her house, that way she will be within the influence of Christel's natural magical vitality and GROW!
But, although there are times when she has spent the day at the Ourada Velky family home, and has stayed overnight, those moments can be counted on the fingers of one hand (of healthy human hands), they are not enough, and the feeling of wanting to be greedy increases day by day.
Just thinking about how Lala is always glued to Christel and the smallest contact is: holding hands, and they are only separated when they are in classes or Christel goes to Sona's older sister's company, has given Rias the idea that, if she is in a relationship with Christel, she can have the perfect excuse to always be with her like a normal loving couple, and even be able to live in her house.
But there is one truth that Akeno mentioned that Rias still can't answer in a better way. And that is, what will happen next? If you manage to break off the engagement, what are you going to do with Christel and the relationship between the two at that time? And her answer was.
"Christel, if you accept me, I promise to be with you forever." Rias looked into Christel's eyes and while holding her hand she said firmly.
'Ara, ara, ara, ara~, What's going on here?' An electric crow appeared in Christel's mind (Akeno), as he stood paralyzed by Rias's sudden confession.
"Rias I..." 'Is this a honey trap? I remember Rias using beauty tricks to attract Issei and make him help her. Although she may do it unconsciously, it is normal for a woman to expect help from a man, to feel protected and supported by a strong and unbreakable wall.
But I can't give him any of that, well yes I can, but I don't see myself as being able to offer him that security, I mean, I'm a girl born! Upon discovering that Issei is a container of a sacred gear, and not just any one, but a -Longinus-, one of the two emperor dragons, was that he had enough appeal to attract Rias and the others. Look at him now, in his first year he can only be chased by the Tennis girls or the Kendo girls when he is caught spying and beaten.
But me? Is it because of my attribute of being able to raise his strength by having intimate contact with me?'
"You don't like me? Christel?..."
"Mm, Rias is very beautiful, I like you a lot, but if it's because... You don't have to feel obligated to be responsible and commit to me just because we kissed (?) Sona doesn't ask me to be her girlfriend too, or Akeno, or Tsubaki, or..."
"Okay, stop! We have to talk about that later, about everyone wanting to kiss you. Don't you know that a girl has to take care of herself and not let random people touch her!?"
"Usually it's by accident. But it's strange today, Sona asked me to play a Chess match..."
"Okay, this is wrong, it's not going as planned, the conversation is going in the wrong direction, let's stop talking about... You played a game of Chess with Sona? Why did you play a game of Chess against Sona?!"
Rias first felt strange about the direction his confession was taking. But hearing about facing Sona in a game of Chess and the meaning that it represents. It's something she just can't let go of.
Stopping being gentle, I simply take Christel by the shoulders and push her onto the bed.
'Wait! Why do I have a déjà vu from this...' Christel just felt herself being pushed down, and saw Rias's eyes as if they were suddenly going to shoot fire.
"Christel! What happened just now at the student union? Why did Sona ask you to play chess with her? And she answers without omitting anything"
'Rias... sama. Sona just suddenly asked me?... but don't worry, she doesn't actually know that I'm really good at chess, I defeated her in 5 minutes...' 'Although I know what it means to Sona to lose a game of Chess, the mere act of boasting about defeating her, raises my self-esteem levels beyond the limit. It is certainly a great achievement to defeat Sona, but I still have to introduce her to the chess Artificial Intelligence...'
"...What?" Rias suddenly shut down, it's like Windows gave a blue screen or the internet failed keeping the video-stream frozen.
But it didn't take long for him to get back online and reboot the system. He instantly felt like a bandit was about to steal his most precious treasure, and even the feeling of a father seeing his beloved and beautiful daughter come home with a boy.
And that's something Rias can't allow. And even though Sona is her childhood friend, she saw Christel first (technically it was Koneko, but Rias ignores those details), and she won't let her take her without a fight.
"Sona already broke off her unwanted engagement, why would she do that to you!"
"Engagement? ..."
"Cough, ignore that. Let's get back to the main thing. Christel, will you become my girlfriend?"
Christel, at the bottom, looks up into the eyes of Rias, who had him pressed against the bed, and who is already practically on top of him full body.
He could feel her breath, the scent of her skin, as well as her temperature, Rias's hair, which was in a ponytail, fell down the side of their faces.
And Rias placed a knee between Christel's legs, but since she was wearing jeans, Rias ended up being the one who was more defenseless. But in the northernmost territory, Christel lost the battle directly, since Rias's bust pressed against Christel's bust, covering everything.
"But what about Lala, and...?" 'Why do I feel under such great pressure now?'
"I know, I'll reluctantly accept Lala, but with Akeno and the others, you'll only be able to give each other simple kisses and nothing more."
"Rias, actually, on the trip to Kyoto, Yuuma and I..."
"I know, the common-human girl... cough, Yuuto-san already informed me, but I don't care, I will also reluctantly accept"
"I imagine... But Rias, there is also something with Maria..." Christel had to tell everything, she doesn't want to have secrets, but only in the area of feelings, the secret of being able to go to another world at 3:33 in the morning she will tell later, but the secret of having a past life he will never tell.
"I know that too, and it's not something your sister seems to want to hide... But in the world of... Cough, where I'm from it's common for those kinds of relationships to arise. So I'll also reluctantly accept your relationship with your sisters."
"Where are you from? Aren't you from here, from the city of Kuoh?"
"Ahem, yes, but, I mean, my ancestors are from another place, a far, far away place..."
"hehe~ like Fiona"
"Who's Fiona? Christel, is there any other new girl living in your house?"
"No, he's a character from a movie"
"Chris, I feel like you don't want to answer me, don't you actually want to be in a relationship with me?" Rias's eyes changed, dimming slightly and then starting to become moist.
Christel has just been watching Rias's reactions all this time. In his previous life he admired these girls and it's obvious if he had the chance, he would take her for himself and take care of her.
But Christel also wants to be loved sincerely, it is true that Rias is doing this because she is under pressure. But she has to observe if there is a hint within Rias that shows that the false can become real. Although in the story of High School DxD, Rias comes to have feelings for Issei, although at first she only wanted to use him for her purposes. But this is a world of series with the tag of Harem, all these girls are heterosexual.
And now, seeing that there is a little pain in Rias, Christel can feel safe.
"Yes, Rias-Kaichousama, Now you are my girlfriend, please take care of me... Muack~" Christel crossed her hands around Rias's neck and hugged her, after finishing the phrase –please take care of me- she gave her a soft and long kiss.
" *Mmmock* If you accept my proposal?"
"Of course, I wouldn't be much of a man if I didn't accept the feelings of a beautiful woman!"
"But what are you talking about, Christel! I'm the one who's promising to take care of you, you don't have to worry about anything."
"Rias, I'm the man, I'm already working and earning money for the family, so if you have any problems, you can come to me, I'll take care of you and you don't have to worry about anything."
"Why are you throwing my words back at me!! Yes!!! Did you say you would take care of my truth?"
"Sure, leave it all to me," Christel nodded, not thinking he was digging a hole for himself.
"Excellent! Then today I will move to your house, I don't think Lluvia-sama will have any problems, she has always invited me to stay at her house when she found out I lived alone" Rias said with a happy look and her head held high, it seems that all her plans have been fulfilled and she has accomplished most of her goals.
"Eh? Move into my house? But what about your house? Will you let Koneko and Akeno live alone?"
"Meh, they can manage around the house on their own, don't worry about them..." Rias said without thinking about her friends and retinue of demon pieces.
*Boom*
"Rias! You're wrong if you think you're the only one who can move in with Christel!"
"Mm!" Koneko firmly replied to Akeno's prayer, who opened the door forcefully and entered Rias's room.