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Closing the system interface, Chiba Akira began the process of "collecting subordinates." However, just as he took out a piece, a loud knocking echoed from the door.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!!!"
"Open the door!"
"Chiba! I know you're in there! Open up!"
"Boom!!!"
Before Chiba could respond, the door was forcefully smashed open! A young demon with a twisted expression rushed in.
Chiba narrowed his eyes, looking at the young demon who had broken in.
"Diodora, hasn't the Astaroth family taught you the etiquette of high-level demons?"
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The young demon was named Diodora Astaroth. In the original plot, he became the next head of the Astaroth family. At this moment, although he had joined the Circle of Misfortune and obtained a "Serpent" that could enhance himself, he had not yet attained the position of head of the family.
In today's Underworld, aside from those long-established families with unique abilities, there were some families with even more special statuses. These were... the original families of the current Four Great Demon Kings.
The current Four Great Demon Kings did not originally bear surnames like "Lucifer," "Leviathan," "Beelzebub," or "Asmodeus"; they had their own original surnames and family backgrounds.
The Gremory family is originally associated with Demon King Sajaex Lucifer.
The Sitri family is originally associated with Demon King Serafall Leviathan.
And the Astaroth family is originally associated with Demon King Ajuka Beelzebub.
Thus, Diodora could be considered a blood relative of a demon king and held a special status in the Underworld.
Usually, Diodora was a cultured and charming individual. Even when his expression and heart twisted to extremes, he wouldn't easily get angry. But today... he simply couldn't hold it in anymore!
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"What nonsense etiquette! Get lost!"
"Chiba! Are you determined to interfere with everything I do?!"
"I've already found out! I finally managed to get my hands on a saintess from the church, only for you to intercept her!"
Chiba was known as the King of Interception. While some events that had already occurred couldn't be changed, there were certainly things that could be altered, such as intercepting information, artifacts, and beautiful girls.
Diodora was the biggest victim of Chiba intercepting beautiful girls. In the original plot, he had harmed over ten saintesses! Now those women had all become Chiba's personal possessions! How could he not be furious?
But it was also true. Chiba had been at Asia's place for an hour before Diodora arrived; with such speed, it was only right that he got intercepted!
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Diodora was a perverse demon. His greatest interest lay in hunting down saintesses from the church. What he enjoyed most was causing them to fall from grace.
His method involved making contact with saintesses and then leaking information about their interactions with demons back to the church. Once it was known that a saintess had interacted with demons, most churches would expel her. This way, he could take over those saintesses while revealing to them the truth and violating those tearful girls.
Causing saintesses to fall because of him would undoubtedly bring him immense pleasure both physically and spiritually!
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Unfortunately, fantasies are beautiful while reality is cruel. Every time he painstakingly managed to extract a saintess from the church, someone always got there first and intercepted her before he could reel her in!
There was nothing he could do; as a demon in the Underworld, he needed to live there and couldn't always remain in the human world to monitor things—thus allowing others to exploit his gaps.
However, after being exploited so many times, Diodora had also gained some experience.
After losing his third saintess, Diodora confirmed that someone must be in the human world.
After losing his seventh saintess, Diodora determined that this person had the ability to use fallen angels and angelic forces to hinder him.
After losing his thirteenth saintess, Diodora confirmed that this person was indeed in Kuoh Town!
And Asia was his sixteenth intercepted saintess!
Asia had just informed him that it was Chiba—the King of Interception!
In fact, if it weren't for Chiba awakening his golden finger and no longer hiding his intentions, Diodora would never have found him. Because he had traded for much reconnaissance information and artifacts for hiding his tracks from fallen angels and could mobilize some low-level fallen angels as well.
Although they were all low-level artifacts, they were more than enough to deal with Diodora!
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Half an hour ago, Diodora received intel about Chiba meeting Asia. After checking his sources, he learned that Chiba obtained a demon piece two days ago. Having secured a demon piece yesterday and then seeking out Asia today—it couldn't be more obvious what his intentions were!
Thus, he dropped everything and rushed to the human world at once!
"Mr. Diodora..."
Asia recognized this effeminate young demon.
"Indeed! It's me! Asia! It's so good that you remember me!"
Diodora's expression instantly changed when Asia greeted him; he transformed into that hypocritically gentle young demon once again.
"Mr. Diodora! Akira told me that it was you who leaked information on purpose; you intentionally caused me to be expelled by the church... is that true?"
Tears filled Asia's eyes as she looked at Diodora with no trace of her previous gentleness.
"No, no! It wasn't like that! Asia! That was just an accident..."
"You're lying! It wasn't an accident at all! Akira let me meet those expelled saintesses!"
"They all said they met you; their expulsion from the church was all due to their contact with demons! How could there be so many coincidences in this world?!"
Although Asia was naive, she wasn't foolish!
"Chiba Leviathan!"
Diodora no longer looked at Asia but cast a fierce glare at Chiba instead.
It's because of him!
All because of him!
Otherwise, he wouldn't know how many times he could have enjoyed himself by now!
Having intercepted so many saintesses made Diodora hate this mastermind behind it all deeply!
"It's you! It's you! It's definitely you!"
"If it weren't for you!..."
"Die for me!!!"
A powerful surge of magical energy erupted as several magical bullets shot toward Chiba.
"Agumon! Go!"
[Understood! Akira!]
Agumon extended its claws as crimson-golden fireballs began to gather in its mouth. Diodora's strength was comparable to Issei, merely an upper B-class demon; even if Agumon didn't evolve into Beelzebub, it would still handle him easily!
[Mini Flame!]
After releasing a mini flame attack, Agumon charged forward alongside it.
"Zing zing zing~"
Agumon used its claws to pop each magical bullet in mid-air one by one.
"Boom!!!"
The mini flame struck home as Diodora was violently knocked back by the explosion.
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As smoke cleared, the effeminate young demon lay on the ground with Agumon's claws poised dangerously at his throat.
In terms of mental fortitude and combat ability, Diodora clearly fell short compared to Issei. This might be due to differences between becoming head of a family through one's own efforts versus using "the Serpent" to attain such status.
"Diodora! You're going to pay for damaging my house!"
Chiba narrowed his eyes and stomped down hard on Diodora's body.
Diodora broke protocol! High-level demons shouldn't attack each other directly without any greeting beforehand. Thus, Chiba had every right to do so!
"Chiba!!!"
Diodora clutched Chiba's legs with both hands while his gaze turned venomous.
[Agumon! Make him shut up!]
"Boom!!!"
Agumon closed its claws together and struck down sharply with its blunt side right into Diodora's chest.
"Puff!!!"
With his heart and source of magic struck hard, Diodora spat out a mouthful of blood.
Seizing this moment of vulnerability, Chiba pressed his hand against Diodora's head.
Memory Erasure Technique—Activate!
Chiba aimed to erase part of Diodora's memories. If Diodora could find out Asia's residence, he could deduce certain connections between him and fallen angels.
Although it wouldn't lead him directly to discovering his cooperation with other factions yet; Chiba still felt uneasy about it. Given Diodora's nature—even without evidence—he would definitely report this intel just out of spite!
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"Agumon! Let him go~"
After erasing memories from Diodora's mind, Chiba lost interest in him entirely and walked straight towards Asia.
"Asia! Actually, I came here this time to reincarnate you as my subordinate."
Chiba took out a white "soldier" piece.
As a saintess, Asia naturally wasn't suitable for a black piece. Staring at the white piece in Chiba's hand, Asia froze for several seconds before coming back to her senses.
"Yes! I'm willing—Akira-san."
With tears shimmering in her emerald-green eyes like jewels, she truly believed that Akira was a good person deep down inside her heart.
Even if he was a demon; he was still one of the good ones among demons. If he weren't good-hearted; why would he take in so many saintesses? If only interested in church saintesses; wouldn't one or two suffice?
Asia... was an innocent girl who didn't realize men were often greedy nor understood concepts like "collecting them all."
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