"To be honest, the reason I came here this time is also to inquire with Mr. Wang Xiaoming on behalf of my sister. What is your true identity?"
"My true identity?"
Wang Xiaoming grinned and smiled.
"I'm just an ordinary knight. Didn't I already say that before?"
"If you really want a more detailed explanation, then I'm just a fallen knight who was disappointed with the church and wants to form his own knight order to do what he wants to do."
Continuing to say 'ordinary knight' would be disrespectful, especially since the Devil King had already asked. So, Wang Xiaoming threw out a new persona.
"A fallen knight?"
Sazex would certainly not take Wang Xiaoming's words at face value, but he could use this as a starting point to guess Wang Xiaoming's identity.
"That's right, a fallen knight who wants to do something."
"It seems that Mr. Xiaoming has some unknown experiences."
Sazex understood that Wang Xiaoming wouldn't tell the truth.
"That's pretty much it. However, Mr. Lucifer doesn't need to worry. My coming to Kuoh Town isn't for the sake of Miss Gremory. I'm here for future matters."
"Future matters?"
Sazex was a bit curious.
"Could you tell me about it? After all, Kuoh Town is managed by the Gremory family. As a former Gremory, I might be able to help if something is happening."
"If it's Mr. Lucifer, then it's possible. After all, Mr. Lucifer's reputation is quite good, even in Heaven."
"Oh? Is that so?"
Sazex felt that he had gained another clue. The man before him had a connection to Heaven.
"Then, could you tell me about what future matters you're referring to?"
"These future matters are related to my eyes."
Wang Xiaoming pointed to his eyes, reinforcing them with spell power, causing golden dragon eyes to appear.
"Dragon?"
Sazex looked at Wang Xiaoming's eyes in surprise. Dragons are common in this world. There are many powerful dragon races, and even the strongest, the Infinite Dragon Ophis, is a dragon.
He didn't expect the person before him to also be a dragon!
"No, that's not the point. The point is the ability of my eyes."
Wang Xiaoming slowly raised his head, looking towards the sky.
"These eyes can see the future!"
572. Going Home to Get Married
"Foresight?"
"That's right. They can see short-term and specific futures. This is the ability of my eyes. And through these eyes, I can see many things, make judgments based on the future I see, and then act."
Wang Xiaoming immediately threw out the future vision from Type-Moon. This setting of future vision greatly surprised Sazex.
"And my coming to Kuoh Town was a choice I made after seeing the future. This place will be the most important place in the future."
"Here? Kuoh Town?"
Sazex was very surprised. Although Kuoh Town wasn't small, it was still just a town. According to Japan's classification system, it was just a city, not even a prefecture. Moreover, Kuoh Town wasn't a large place like Tokyo. Would this kind of place become the most central place in the future?
"That's right. It should be evident within these two months."
"These two months?"
Sazex frowned. He was very curious about what Wang Xiaoming was talking about, but Wang Xiaoming's demeanor clearly indicated that he didn't want to reveal it, which gave him a headache.
When he met Wang Xiaoming, he could tell that this was a guy who wasn't weaker than himself, a guy who appeared to be human on the surface, but was as strong as him. No wonder Rias initially thought he was Michael, but in reality, this person was still a dragon.
A light-attribute dragon, and a Devil King-level dragon at that. The other party came to Kuoh Town for some purpose. Regardless of whether what he said about being able to see the future was true or not, Kuoh Town definitely had something the other party wanted or a goal they wanted to achieve.
In this situation, he was very worried, because Kuoh Town was the territory managed by his sister. If something happened in Kuoh Town, it would mean that his sister would encounter something, and something that could attract a Devil King-level guy to come here. Could his sister handle it?
Although he had already taken the initiative to leave the Gremory family, Sazex cherished his sister very much.
According to the storyline that Wang Xiaoming knew, Asia Argento came to Kuoh Town, and the next plot should have been to retrieve Asia from the Fallen Angels. However, now Asia was already Wang Xiaoming's person, and the Fallen Angel had been directly killed by Wang Xiaoming with a sword beam. Freed Sellzen was even destroyed by Sazex, so this part of the plot had already passed.
Then, after this plot passed, the following plot should be the Phoenix forced marriage plot.
The Phenex family was also one of the pure-blooded devil families in the Underworld. Like the Bael family's magic characteristic, the Power of Destruction, the Phenex family's magic characteristic was rebirth. Before being subjected to damage exceeding the upper limit, pure-blooded Phenexes would not die. Even if they died, they could directly be reborn from the ashes. They even had the tears of the Phenex, which could allow others to be reborn as well.
The attack power of the entire Phenex family might not be the strongest, but their ability to survive was definitely the highest level.
As the heiress of the Gremory family, Rias had a marriage contract with the third young master of the Phenex family, but the other party was a man who liked to build a harem and had a frivolous personality. Therefore, Rias didn't like him, so the next plot was about Rias leading her subordinates to defeat the other party and escape her original fate.
It was also because of the battle with the Phenex that Issei Hyoudou began to master his God-Slaying Gear, the [Red Dragon Emperor]'s Gauntlet.
"It seems that within these two months, I need to pay more attention to Kuoh Town."
"From the current perspective, Mr. Lucifer, you do need to pay more attention, but from the future perspective, Mr. Lucifer, you don't need to pay special attention, because the future here already has your participation, so even if you don't pay attention, when the time comes, you will naturally join in."
"My participation?"
Sazex was surprised again. As Lucifer, the head of the Four Great Devil Kings, his participation meant that something big was about to happen.
What exactly was going on? What would make him participate? He was even more confused now.
Wang Xiaoming certainly wouldn't tell him that it was about the Fallen Angels and Angels gathering together to sign a peace treaty, but they were ganked by the Vali Team halfway through the signing.
But the impact was not significant, because the leaders of the three major factions had come, and the Vali Team couldn't cause any trouble and was directly beaten back.
"It's okay, Mr. Lucifer, don't worry. In the future I saw, Miss Gremory didn't have any problems. She's doing very well."
"Is that so?"
Sazex was slightly relieved, but he wasn't completely relieved. After all, this was just what Wang Xiaoming said. Today was the first time he had met Wang Xiaoming. If he completely trusted someone he met for the first time, then he would be a fool.
"Thank you for your information."
Although he didn't believe what Wang Xiaoming said, Sazex was still very polite in expressing his gratitude to Wang Xiaoming.
"Speaking of which, I haven't asked yet. Mr. Xiaoming, you said you want to form a knight order. Does your knight order have a name?"
"Yes, I plan to use the name of the knight order I'm most familiar with as the name of this new knight order."
"Oh? Could you tell me about it?"
"The knight order I plan to form is called the Knights of the Round Table!"
Wang Xiaoming said the name of the knight order he had already thought of.
"How is it? Isn't it a very good name?"
No, this is not a very good thing. The name of this knight order has great symbolic significance. You call this knight order that, could it be that...?
Sazex couldn't help but carefully examine Wang Xiaoming again. He hadn't looked closely before, but now that he looked closely, he found that Wang Xiaoming's clothes were full of Celtic symbols. All kinds of patterns and decorations were Celtic-style.
The Knights of the Round Table are the knights from Celtic mythology. Wang Xiaoming said the Knights of the Round Table were a knightly order he was familiar with. Could it be…
“In short, for the next period of time, I will be active in Kuoh Town, so I will be relying on Mr. Lucifer and Miss Gremory to take care of me.”
“I should be the one saying that. We should be the ones relying on Mr. Xiaoming to take care of us.”
Sirzechs extended his right hand towards Wang Xiaoming, and Wang Xiaoming also extended his right hand. The two shook hands, reaching a consensus on certain matters.
As Lucifer, Sirzechs couldn't leave the Underworld for an extended period of time under uncertain circumstances. The Underworld was the demons' base camp, so Sirzechs would definitely spend most of his time there. And if he stayed in the Underworld for too long, he wouldn't know what was happening in the human world, unless he had his sister return to the Underworld and stop staying in the human world.
Thinking of this, Sirzechs suddenly thought of something.
It seemed like the time for his sister's engagement with the third son of the Phenex family was approaching. Perhaps he should have her return to the Underworld to get married.
What Wang Xiaoming didn't expect was that his plan to lie in wait here would instead make Sirzechs want to change the plot and have Rias return home to get married.
573. Rejection of Marriage, Slapping the Female Lead's Face
“Rias, take your peerage back to the Underworld.”
“Why!”
“Two Maou-class individuals have come to Kuoh Town. Regardless of their purpose, it definitely won't be a small matter. Although you are a Super Devil, you can't fight against Maou-class individuals.”
“But didn't you reach a consensus with the other party, brother?”
“That was just talk. I can't make a move first unless the other party actively attacks. The other party claims to have no connection with the Church on the surface, but who knows if that's true or not. Even if he has no connection with the Church, he must have some connection with Heaven. I strongly suspect he is a Light Sacred Dragon with Maou-class power.”
Sirzechs outwardly reached a consensus with Wang Xiaoming, but inwardly he was constantly suspicious of Wang Xiaoming, questioning his true purpose.
But as a Maou, he couldn't drive away a Maou-class individual who came to reside in Kuoh Town. To put it bluntly, the entire Kuoh Town was only managed by the Gremory family, and didn't completely belong to the Gremory family. Even if Rias used the power of the head of the family, she couldn't drive Wang Xiaoming out of Kuoh Town.
What's wrong with someone just staying here for a while? You're a Super Devil, are you going to drive away a Maou-class individual? Did they attack you? Since they didn't attack you, why aren't you letting them stay? Could it be that you have some ulterior motive?
“I'm not going!”
As the next head of the Gremory family, Rias understood Sirzechs' intentions, but she was unwilling to return.
“Why? As long as you go back, you will definitely be safe. Even if the guys from Heaven are powerful, they won't be that powerful in the Underworld. It's not their home turf.”
“It's also the perfect time for your engagement with the Phenex family to arrive, so you can safely stay at home while preparing for the wedding.”
“That's exactly why I don't want to go back!”
Rias retorted loudly, causing Sirzechs to be stunned.
“Brother, I've told you many times, I don't want to marry that guy from the Phenex family! That guy is just a frivolous man, and I won't like a frivolous man!”
Well said! When Kotonoha was building a harem, you didn't say that.
The only difference between the third son of the Phenex family and Kotonoha is probably that Kotonoha is stronger. Kotonoha possesses the Boosted Gear, so his upper limit is extremely high. As for the third son of the Phenex family, demons are not born with Sacred Gears, so his upper limit is Maou-class, and the higher upper limit is Overlord-class like Sirzechs.
And because the third son of the Phenex family was born into a large family, his personality is completely that of a playboy. All of the peerage he gathers are beautiful girls, but this guy is not inherently bad, just a little frivolous, as Rias said.
In the original plot, after being defeated and having his engagement annulled, he woke up and even became good friends with the protagonists, even teaching Kotonoha how to play ranked games.
It can only be said that he was unlucky.
“You're unwilling, but this is an engagement set by the family, which concerns the pure-blooded families of the Underworld. It's not something that can be resolved with just your unwillingness.”
Sirzechs was a man who loved his sister very much. If Rias was unwilling, he definitely wouldn't want Rias to marry him, but this kind of thing couldn't be resolved with just Rias' unwillingness.
“The direct descendants of pure-blooded families maintain intermarriage to ensure the purity of their bloodline. This is the foundation of the demon families in the Underworld.”
After the three-way war between demons, fallen angels, and Heaven, an internal war also occurred within the demon ranks. This internal war has caused some divisions within the demon forces to this day.
Although Sirzechs had ascended to the position of Maou Lucifer, there were still many demon families below him who were dissatisfied with him, because he was not a true member of the Lucifer family, but came from the Gremory family.
Therefore, Sirzechs also made some compromises after becoming Maou, such as abandoning the Gremory surname. Even if he still had connections with the Gremory family, he severed ties with the Gremory family on the surface. Moreover, as a price, he could not excessively interfere with those demon families, and had to compromise with the demon families on certain matters.
The intermarriage between the direct descendants of pure-blooded demon families was the result of him, as Maou, compromising with the demon families.
Moreover, pure-blooded demon families did indeed need this kind of relationship to maintain the continuation of pure-blooded families, because a large number of pure-blooded demons died in the previous demon internal war. The reason why they have been able to develop to this extent now is all thanks to the Evil Pieces developed by Vepar, but many of the transformed demons brought about by the Evil Pieces were not originally demons. Even if they were transformed, most of their upper limits were average, and they were basically not pure-blooded demons, and were disliked by those pure-blooded demon families.
Pure-blooded demon families, with good talents, can basically become Ultimate-class demons, but many of these transformed demons, at most, are High-class demons, not reaching Ultimate-class.
“I don't care, anyway, I don't want to marry that guy. I can pay any price, I want to control my own destiny!”
In essence, Sirzechs supported Rias, but it was useless for him to support her. He couldn't say it. If he said the engagement was canceled, then he, the Maou Lucifer, would instantly lose prestige among those pure-blooded demon families in the Underworld. Interfering in matters between pure-blooded families was not something he should do.
“Then, what reason are you going to use to refuse?”
Sirzechs sighed and asked in a low voice.
“I can't think of one for the time being.”
“Then go back and think slowly. No matter what, even if you can think of a way, at least you have to go back.”
“No! If I go back, that would be really troublesome. At least here is still my territory.”
Rias firmly opposed, whether it was marriage or returning to the Underworld.
“But it's no longer safe here.”
“Brother, I've grown up, I have my own choices!”
