After teleporting out of the barrier, Austin walked calmly to his car in the parking area beside the school, put the cute little girl at the back seat in a comfortable position before securing her with the seat`s safety belt, then went into the car and started to drive back home.
The school from an outsider`s point of view looked so normal with no hint of the crazy damage that Austin caused and that was due to the barrier that fortunately didn`t collapse, thanks to our golden dragon.
Anyway, the drive was calm and quiet as Austin was in deep thought about the little girl that had came out of that strange rift. He couldn`t analyze it with his dragon eye or senses as if there was something preventing him from doing that which made him confused and feel that there was something big that he didn`t know about was about to be revealed.
It made him feel a tingling feeling at the back of his mind and it increased more with how he felt familiar yet unfamiliar with that cute little girl to the point of driving him crazy. There were feelings overflowing his heart that he didn`t understand, emotions of longing, sadness, anger, nostalgia, love, adoration, depression and many more tangled together like a knot in his heart.
'Just what is happening to me?! Why am I feeling like that toward a girl that I didn`t meet before?!' Austin thought, feeling so inconsistent.
It gnawed at him. And the more he looked at the back mirror to see the sleeping little girl, he clutched his hands tightly that they turned white over the car steering wheel that it nearly broke if not for his control over his strength.
After a while of thinking, he decided to wait until she woke up and try to know who she was and maybe understand why he was feeling like that toward her.
Meanwhile, back at the ruined school.
The atmosphere was heavy and tense as Rias, who received a very harsh word from Austin was standing in front of her brother with quite fury in her crimson eyes.
She didn`t say anything and just stood in front of him, looking at his own blue eyes that looked so calm like water. So, irritating!
After everything had happened, Micheal suggested to meet another day and finalize the peace treaty as clearly the situation wasn`t suitable for that. So, he left along with Gabriel while Azazel said he was going to his bar to have a drink to calm his mind after what had happened today.
Then Sona and her peerage decided to leave as well, she still had some work to do like repairing the school and making sure that everything was all right. Besides, she felt it was inappropriate to stay and hear what was going to happen as she knew that Rias, her friend, took a heavy blow today.
So, with that, she excused herself and left along with her peerage leaving only Sirzechs, Grayfia, Rias and her peerage.
"I didn`t care about what that dude said to me but why didn`t you stand up for the president, Sirzechs – sama?" Issei said as he looked straight at Sirzechs with eyes that contained fury and indignation.
The others also looked at the devil king, waiting for his answer too.
After a while of silence, Sirzechs spoke.
"Because he was right about what he said." His voice was calm touching the indifference which sent shivers down the spine to Issei and the rest except Grayfia who stood straight like the perfect maid she was.
"A-Are you kidding, Sirzechs – sama? Because if you are, then it`s not a good joke at all." Issei replied with indignation but was respectful to the person in front of him.
Sirzechs looked straight at his eyes with calmness that it sent shivers down the spine.
They couldn`t believe it, even Grayfia who had accompanied him all these years as the queen of his peerage. Was that the same Sirzechs who doted on his little sister, the same person who was even referred to as a bro-con due to his deep familial love for his sister?
This made Rias shiver and feel cold suddenly.
Was that her brother?
"Do you think I`m kidding boy?" As Sirzechs said so, Issei felt so cold and terrified. The way he addressed wasn`t the same when they first met at that time after defeating Raizer Phenex.
It made him remember that the person he was talking to was the strongest devil king in the underworld, a person with devastating power that defeated the old faction.
Even Rias felt the same.
"What the dragon from before said was all right, about you and about her, my little sister." The crimson devil king said before he continued. "You, as the bearer of the boosted gear, one of the 13 Longinus, are so weak, unfit, and lack the brain to think ahead. Totally underserved of carrying it. You didn`t even think about communicating with the dragon sealed inside it to better understand and utilize its powers.
Although you awakened it late due to my sister, you should have started training to get stronger especially after knowing the kind of world we were living in." Issei felt as if multiple arrows hit his heart from all directions when he heard that.
It made him feel damaged spiritually.
"Your dream of becoming a harem king won`t come true at all with you being like that. In addition to being talentless, yeah you can never make it come true."
It was another heavy blow for Issei that made him so angry and annoyed. He couldn`t speak, couldn`t utter a word in defense for himself because he felt that Sirzechs was right.
"But you still got the chance, use the fire and anger inside you to push yourself harder, train more than anyone and prove to the world and everyone that you are not weak." These words were what Issei wanted to hear the most, the words he needed to motivate him and make the fire inside burn harder.
Then Sirzechs shifted his gaze to his little sister, and it was filled with...…. Disdain.
"And you, my little sister, are not fit to be a king and lead a peerage, you are selfish and fool unable to plan, understand tactics, or even think of a way to make your peerage stronger. You even got a user of one of the 13 Longinus, a powerful addition and couldn`t even think of ways to make him stronger except making him touch your breasts and embarrass our family in front of your enemy believing that it was the way to power him up. How laughable." Sirzechs snorted with his eyes burning with fury toward himself first before his little sister as he was the one who spoiled her and made her like that.
No one said a word, they couldn`t say a word even Issei who wanted to defend her couldn`t find the right words to respond.
Rias herself wanted to scream and shout that he was wrong, but nothing came out of her mouth that could only be used for blowjobs to power up our red dragon emperor. [she didn`t do it, but it was a way to describe her foolishness. Mind you.]
"I don`t want to see your face again until you prove me wrong, my pathetic little sister." These were the final words before Sirzechs teleported back to the underworld.
Grayfia looked at Rias for a moment before she sighed and teleported back as well leaving the rest alone.
At the same time.
Austin had arrived and parked the car before getting out, took the sleeping little girl in his arms then locked it before going inside the house.
Once he opened the door and took off his shoes, he was met by the voice of his sister standing in the hallway.
"You are finally back, what took you so loــــــــ" before she could continue, she noticed a cute little girl sleeping in her brother`s arms soundly while clutching onto his shirt as if it was her lifeline.
. . . .
It took a moment before Anabelle ran back to the living room quickly not giving Austin any time to prepare for what was coming.
"Mom, your son brought a little girl with him, it seems his illegitimate child!"
"WHAT?!"
'Here we go.'