The entire dining room was very awkward as I sat beside Serafall, who was busy mung the meat oe.

  Whh awkward you might ask? You see, there’s a gruff man staring daggers at me from across the table. If looks could indeed kill, no doubt I’d be dead on the floor.

  This man is Ms. Emilea’s husband and stly, Serafall’s father, Gideon Sitri, the current head of the house Sitri.

  “Ehem! My dear, this is Serafall’s friend, Chamber, he took a magic bullet to the chest to save Serafall, you should be thanking him instead at him like that, you’ll scare him.” Thankfully, Lady Emilea noticed my predit and gave a hand.

  Serafall also chimed in with an ‘Umu’ as she nodded her head. Her mouth is currently full of food, hence.

  “….I see. If that’s the case then you have my gratitude, Chamber.” Gideon nodded his head, the gre in his eyes ging and turning into gratitude.

  “It’s my pleasure to help Lady Serafall during such a situation.” Smiling at him, I noticed the pyful smirk on Serafall’s face by my side.

  I see, so she likes this kind of thing huh? Lying to her parents and messing with me?

  Although it feels childish, I couldn’t help but want to py along with her.

  As we resume eating but this time, minus the awkwardness, I heard Gideon speak.

  “So Chamber. Where are you from? I heard you’re an orphan, right? Where exactly?” Hearing his question made me think he was iigating me, perhaps assuming that I might be a spy sent to go to extreme measures to get their trust.

  I uand him. siderihe head of one of the biggest pilrs in the Underworld, it’s pretty normal to have that kind of thinking when there’s a stranger intruding their home.

  ‘Do I look like a bad person?’ I mused to myself, w whether there’s a magic that could make people calm and trusting around me.

  “I’m from…” Still that doesn’t mean I know the ao his question. I have no idea what the names of the cities in the Underworld are.

  “He’s from Lucifaad, dad, you know, the city ruled by Lord Lucifer himself.” Thankfully, a savior in the form of a busty devil came to his rescue. Serafall’s words made Gideon raise an eyebrow, it seems like whatever this Lucifaad city is, it caught Gideon’s attention.

  “Hmm, this is the first time I’ve heard an orphan hailing from Lucifaad itself, are you sure you don’t remember who your parents are, boy?” Gideon shifted his attention bae and asked again.

  I shook my head and replied.

  “I apologize, Lord Sitri if it offends you, but I truly have no idea who my parents are. They died a few months after I was born.”

  “Is that so? Do you want to know who they are? Since you saved my daughter, this is the least I do for you.” His words might sound like he’s pensating me for what I did, but knowing the truth, his words are like sharp daggers slowly ing towards my heart, making me gulp my saliva nervously.

  “Y-You don’t have to, Lord Sitri, although they’re my biological parents, I don’t feel any sort of attat towards them.” Shaking my head, I tried my best to calmly reply, making sure there are no holes on my fake story.

  “Are you sure? I insist.” Gideon pressed on.

  I only replied with a nod of my head.

  It seems like Gideon noticed that I really don’t bother with my ‘parents’ so he didn’t press further.

  The rest of the time ent oing with peace, sometimes asking me questions such as my likes, dislikes, what do I think about the Sitri family and the others and finally, he asked me o question.

  “What do you think about the Great War? Do you think us devils will win?”

  “The Great War….” I muttered to myself, I could see Serafall perk up at the question from my peripheral vision, clearly she’s ied on my answer.

  Now, I have two choices. Answer with what I truly feel ive him a fake ahat will only serve to ftter the devils, praising them and such stuff.

  I trusted my instincts and answered truthfully.

  “I think this Great War is useless.” My answer made both the Lord and Lady Sitri shift their eyes at me in surprise. Lady Emilea looks like she wao hear more of my words, and so I did.

  “You see, war brings nothing but devastating sequences on each party involved, not to mention those who doesn’t want to be.” Now that I even got Serafall’s attention, I tinued.

  “It also drains our resources, the same resources that we could’ve used for more useful projects such as improving the daily lives of the devils both inside and outside the Underworld. If the war goes on for a few more years, I won’t be surprised if the ey of devils will be crippled.” My words seemed to have struck directly iheir heads, as I saw the ption of my words fshing in Lord Sitri’s eyes.

  Of course, these weren’t enough as I kept tinuing, listing problems upon problems towards the Great War to the point that Lord Sitri was now frowning heavily.

  It seems like my words are influeng him. Is this a good thing?

  “But if we win the Great War, not only we’ll gain the reition and honor that we deserve, but we’ll also gaiher pantheon’s respects. Clearly they look down on us due to rebelling against our creator, something that is frowned upon by everyone.” Gideon spoke, making me almost leak out a chuckle.

  “Honnition? Respect? With all due respect but those things won’t bring back the lives that are lost. I feed my children honor? Will they be satisfied with that? No, they won’t, instead it would just form a very long instability to the devils.”

  “Respect? More like fear, and fear births to future flict, every living bei devils ods, will do whatever it takes to remove their fears. I’m sure, Lord Sitri uand what I’m trying to imply here.”

  Lord Sitri looks like he wao say something against my words and I was already ready to apologize when Lady Sitri beat him to it.

  “Your perspective is quite…intriguing, Chamber. Say, I sehat you’re a Mid-css devil, not bad for ye. What do you think of joining Sitri family?” As soon as those words dropped from her mouth, both Lord Sitri and Serafall stared at her in shock, as if they couldn’t believe the words she just said.

  As a matter of fact, I was also surprised by it. Being asked to join them, its almost too hard to refuse.

  Not because its tempting but refusing it would be rude, I won’t eveion the excited grin that stered on Serafall’s face.

  “I… I refuse?” I cleared my throat and stated my answer, hoping she wouldn’t take offense of my refusal.

  I was already expeg too head either Lady Sitri or Lord Sitri for refusing su offer but trary to my expectations, Lady Sitri simply nodded her head and replied.

  “May I know the reason why?” She asked.

  “…I have been living on the human world for almost my entire life now after my parent’s death, I made many human friends and it would be hard for me to part with them.”

  “I see…I uand, so let me ge my offer. How would you like to work as Serafall’s advisor?”

  “Huh?” I was shocked. Not only me but also Serafall, who stared at her mother, not expeg to hear her name from the discussion.

  “Mom? Advisor? Do I need one?” Her question were also mine, so I looked at Lady Sitri, anticipating a logical expnation.

  “Oh Sera, you’ll be the future head of our Sitri family and yonna need an advisor to help you bee fit for the head position. I’m sorry that I have to tell you this but what me and your father noticed about you is that you’re not…quite right in the head when it es to family matters.” As soon as I heard her st sentence, I almost howled in ughter.

  “Eh?! M-mom what are you talking about.” Instead of getting angry, Serafall was simply embarrassed, especially when she saw me holding myself from ughing out loud.

  “It is what it is, Sera. So how about it, Chamber? If you work as her advisor, sidering how she’ll always visit the human world a few times and as her advisor, you’d be joining her during those visits. So it’s a win for the both of us, right?” Hearing her expnation, I thought about it for a few minutes before finally nodding my head in agreement.

  As for Serafall? After seeing that she ’t exactly fight her mother’s words, she simply went silent and resumed eating.

  Now that everything was settled, the dinner resumed and finished a few mier whereas Serafall immediately grabbed by arm and dragged me out of the dining room uhe amused stares ing from her parents.

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  “Why did you agree with her?” Upon arriving at an unknown room, Serafall pushed me against the wall and gred at me.

  Since she’s a few inches shorter than me, I was rather looking down at her eyes while she’s on the opposite.

  “What do you mean? Being your advisor isn't that bad right? Or are you pnning to make me suffer and treat me like a sve as soon as I start w as your advisor?” I teased her slightly, making twitch her mouth in annoyance.

  “You know that’s not what I meant! I was talking about the other thing. Do you think I’m nht in the head?” She crossed her arms under her rge bosom, trying to mag my eyes to it.

  Thankfully, I was a strong warrior with an unyielding will, so I mao resist after a short millised of glimpse.

  ’t help it.

  “Well, I’m not sure, we just met a month ago and we barely i with each other soon after. So I don’t know you that well yet.” My answer seemed to have soothed her a bit.

  “Good. Then mom’s wrong and I’m right in the head.” She smiled in satisfa.

  That’s far from my answer. I just said I have not yet gotten to know you better and you’re already assuming I don’t agree with your mom.

  “You’re lucky you know.” She sighed.

  “Hm? Why?” I asked, why the sudden ge in topic?

  “When you said you were friends with humans.”

  “Is there something wrong with that?”

  “If you said the same exact words to other devils, they would skin you and kill you on the spot.” She dryly chuckled, as if her words didn't just made my blood run cold.

  “W-Why?”

  “Well, let’s just say, our Sitri family is among the 90% of the devil’s popution that doesn’t resent the humans as much as they resent the Angels.” She said, then tinuing.

  “Our family are uhose devils who hate the humans to the bone, so sider yourself lucky.”

  Wow, from the looks of it, I seemed to have just dodged a bullet.

  “Where are we by the way?” I asked, notig that the room we’re in was quite beautiful and spacious. Although it cked design, but the furnitures are enough to be sidered as designs. A fancy big bed, windows as rge as the room’s door and a shelf taining….nothing. Not even a single book. Seriously, why even bother buying a shelf if you have no books?

  Is this the master bedroom of the manor?

  Serafall, the moment she heard my words, immediately blushed as she pushed me towards the exit.

  “Wait what?”

  “Get out of my room!”

  “Weren’t you the one whht me here in the first pce!?”

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