Chapter 7

Ah, arranged marriage. How thankful Starrk is to not experience those. It's troublesome enough to just be friends with a woman, he can't imagine being married to one.

Unfortunately, Sona wasn't spared.

"WHHYYYYY!!!??" Serafall screamed in anger as she struggled out of Starrk's grasp while glaring fiercely at her parents. "Answer me father!!"

Saul Sitri, sighed and calmly fixed the tie of his suit, "Please don't act like you don't know Sera. Pure blooded devils are endangered, we need to do this to keep our bloodline and species."

"Then you and mom can fuck each other!" Serafall retorted, "You don't have to get Sona a marriage partner! She can choose who she wants to marry!"

"She can…or she could be like you." Said Saul, staring at her daughter calmly, "You are more than five hundred years old already, yet you haven't even found a partner yet. Not even lovers—"

"I have Starrk!" Serafall glared at him.

Saul blinked, before alternating his gazes at Serafall and Starrk, "Wait, you two…?"

"No."

"Yes!" Serafall pouted at Starrk, who can only sigh at his king. He was already used to her shenanigans.

"I…see. But my point still stands." Said Saul, "You can't expect Sona to be like you. She's the heiress of Sitri family, and therefore must bear the burden of making sure we maintain our bloodline."

He then whispered, "I don't want us to end up like the Gremory."

Gremory has a bloodline magic of 'precognition', unfortunately when they married to the Bael, none of their current generation inherited their bloodline traits. All of them have the power of 'destruction' by the Bael.

Saul predicted that it won't be long before Gremory became a complete vassal of Bael.

It is why Saul married his sister, to keep the Sitri blood pure. Unfortunately, there are currently no young male devils that were born in Sitri house, and with the council urging them they decided to search for other male heirs from other houses to marry to their daughter.

"Besides, just like you, I gave Sona a chance to break her engagement." Said Saul, staring at Serafall who paused after hearing his words.

That's right, hundreds of years ago, when Serafall was still a young devil, she also got engaged. But she broke the engagement after 'talking' with her would be partner.

The other party was so scared he asked to end the engagement.

And that was the chance that Saul gave her; 'f he can convince her partner to back off, then it's fine to end the engagement.'

"If Sona can convince her fiancé to back off, then it is possible to break the engagement. I am not so cruel after all. Let Sona have a chance." Saul then looked at the watch on his wrist, "With that being said, I have a meeting with Lord Amon within twenty minutes, I shall be going now."

With that, Saul took his leave.

Starrk stared at his disappearing back, before sighing. Politics of a noble family is really something he doesn't want to deal with. It is also this reason why he doesn't bother attending parties …there would surely be a lot of flies wanting to pull him to their supposed faction.

Isn't sleep much better than that?

"You can let me go now Star-tan," said Serafall.

Starrk nodded and let her go, and Serafall immediately took a deep breath and exhaled loudly, with her breast jiggling as she did so.

Really, for such a child like girl, her breasts are really something.

"Hmph," Serafall pouted, "and this is one of the worst thing of being a devil of noble birth. Star-tan, if we have a daughter in the future, I surely won't put her through an arrange marriage."

"You don't have to worry, because we won't be having a child."

"Mou~, of course we will! Unless of course, your thing down there doesn't work." Serafall shot him a teasing smile.

Starrk sighed. This is his life now. And for the record, his thing down there works perfectly fine. He had done it once or twice before …only because Serafall and most girls in her peerage were really pushing his willpower to the limit.

When he confided it with Saul, he just told him to the girls, or find another to release all that pent up frustration.

His choice was obvious …he slept in a fortified room and doze off his frustrations.

Unfortunately, some 'incident' still happened between him and some of the girls in Serafall's peerage which he could no longer take back.

Since it happened, it happened. There's no use worrying about it.

"I wonder what strategy So-tan will use to make the guy back off?" Serafall sat down on the sofa, waving her staff and changing her magical girl outfit to something more casual.

A white baggy shirt and blue hotpants. Her twintails were also undone, letting her long silky black hair flow down.

"Chess …probably." Said Starrk, his eyes staring at Serafall's shirt …or rather, HIS shirt. The one she was wearing was his! "And how'd you get your hands on my shirt?"

"Hm? This?" Serafall grinned while pinching the hem of the shirt, "Silly Star-tan, our relationship is already on the stage where we can wear each other's clothing."

"We're not in a relationship."

"Don't be shy~, though if you're worried if other people think you're a lolicon then I can just return to my true form."

"Please no." He probably won't be able to hold himself if she did.

There is a reason why Serafall was called the 'Lilith of New Devils', it is because of her devilish charm and soul-sucking beauty in her true form.

Once, during the Devil Civil War, in her true form, Serafall went to a battlefield and the two sides just stopped fighting just to stare at her beauty.

She charmed the whole Underworld with her true form.

It was that reason why she chose to remain in her child form —unfortunately, or rather fortunately, depending on your fetish, her breast couldn't be fully suppressed.

Serafall was still one of the most beautiful devil in underworld in her child form, but compared to her true form, it is lacking. She would completely overshadow even some Goddess of Beauty.

Perhaps, only Gabriel with her 'Aspect of Charm' can rival Serafall's beauty in her true form.

"Hehehe~," Serafall laughed at him. Of course, she knew that if she used her true form, she'd have Starrk under her skirt in no time. But she doesn't want that …after all, she wanted Starrk to fall for her naturally.

"By the way, I had Merlin and Irene make a seal to suppress your power during your stay in Kouh." Said Serafall, her face now completely serious. "That seal can only make you exert the power of an Ultimate Class at best, that is the limit of power an ordinary human can remain unaffected after long period of time."

If a Devil King class devil were to stay in human world for too long, even without him using his demonic energy, it would still negatively affect the life of ordinary human.

Such as, but not limited to; suffering some bad luck, getting sick, being even more lazy, feeling sore and muscle ache after waking, low energy, etc.

Those are just some of the results of humans being exposed to a presence of a King class devil in long periods of time. So devils at that level rarely even go to the human world.

Ultimate class level is the limit a human can handle without suffering from negative effects.

"Ultimate class? Well, I doubt I need my true strength in this training mission, so that's fine." Said Starrk with a shrug.

"Unless of course some idiot and bored old man decided to awaken an ancient creature and plan to start a war against another universe." Said Serafall.

"That's …very imaginative."

"I know right? I mean, I am no Scheherazade, but I can make a story myself!"

"…How troublesome."