Chapter 4: Before point 2.
Before point 2.
When I woke up in the morning, I found out that my blanket had been stolen. I'm always ready to fight for blankets! It's my sacred gear, without it, Alfia Lucifuge doesn't work.
I wake up and shiver with cold. Where is Leina, she was supposed to take the blanket from Grayfia. I asked for it! Why isn't she on my side?
How can I communicate with her later if she can't help me with basic things? Okay, she knows that I love my sister too much. That's why I'll never take the blanket.
If Leina did that, I'd be offended by her. Hmm, in my past life, would I have been called a tsundere? Shivering with cold, I get out of bed and quickly run to the bathroom.
On the way, Leina meets me. She is dressed as always in a maid outfit. By the way, I forgot to say that the maids of the Lucifuge house are considered the best in the underworld.
Many houses send their servants here to study. As far as I remember, in canon, this title was taken over by the Gremory house.
It pisses me off that they took away my Grayfia and that wasn't enough for them!
"You're up early, mistress." Leina pulled me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah, I can't sleep without a blanket." I say, looking at her meaningfully.
"But I've been offering you 2 blankets for you for a long time and..."
"No way!" I interrupt her. How can I sleep without Grayfia? It's the same as non-alcoholic beer. That's bullshit.
"That's exactly it, mistress. You constantly complain, but then when I suggest something, you categorically refuse."
"You're suggesting that we break off our relationship with my beloved sister! I won't do that!" Leina looked at me with a blank expression.
"Okay, what time is this ball? And what should I do at it? I hope the devils gather to tell jokes about angels and the fallen."
After finishing my monologue, I imagined the scene in my head and immediately laughed.
"Madam, what's so funny here?"
"I imagined Zerkam Bael and 5 Satanists coming and telling jokes, and everyone around sitting and listening."
"Madam, you can't say that."
Leina said, but after these words, I heard her giggle, which she tried to hide behind a cough.
I looked at her so that she would understand that I knew that she was laughing, not coughing. Because of this, she blushed all over.
How cute! Leina pulled herself together and began her usual duties. Lying in the bath, I thought about one problem.
Do devils have periods? Before that, I hadn't thought about it, but now, remembering one feature of the female body, I had an urgent question.
If my fears are confirmed, then what should I do? This is incredibly bad. And when do they end in 7000 years?
Is this really Lucifer's devilish joke? I will idolize Lucifer if he thought of this feature of the female body.
Although it is possible that he did not think of it and that is why devils have such a low birth rate.
Looking at the devil society, I can fully accept that Lucifer did not give a damn about what he was creating, he just wanted to take revenge on his father, and his assistants and descendants forced him to work as a faction.
The society in which I now live can destroy itself at any moment. Seriously, this is an extremely explosive mixture. Where the strongest is right. Laws are not written and everyone can do what they want. If you want to cut out a village in the human world.
Okay, go and they will wish you luck, but only on the condition that you have strength. Without it, your own will kill you.
Even before Sairaorg Bael, devils were born to devils with little or no magical reserves, but what do they do with them at that time?
It's right to kill so as not to disgrace the family name. And it will be very difficult for them to live in this time.
Of course, Sairaorg also had a hard time. But he was born in a different time and the mentality of the devils changed a little.
Well, maybe they just stopped showing their true selves. By the time we got out of the bath, breakfast was approaching.
I never eat at breakfast and even if I eat, I eat little because I don't want to. I had this habit in my past life.
No matter how much my grandmother scolded me, I always just didn't want to eat in the morning. With age, the situation changed, but only after 20 years.
Got older, probably? This time, probably because I got up earlier, I still ate. At the table sat me, my still slightly sleepy sister, my mother, as always, looked beautiful and well-groomed.
She is very kind, which is strange for a devil. Initially, I thought that she was an angel that my father took for his evil purposes.
As it turned out, no. She is just a very rare devil in this era. I remember from the canon that Grayfia's mother was not in it.
Well, she wasn't in any fanfics either. So we can conclude that she died of something.
If it's in my power, I'll definitely try to help her. It's just possible that she has an illness or something like that.
And then I'd look like the main character of a shonen who couldn't keep his promise.
After which I'll be grieving and sitting on my knees in the rain, my mentor will come up to me and say a phrase that I'll remember for the rest of my life.
Seriously, I didn't watch season 7 of My Hero Academia because the main character cried during the first few episodes.
Like, ah, my friends support me, I'll go cry, they've also become stronger, I'll go I'll cry, etc.
It doesn't really work out that one peace symbol was smiling all the time, and the other was crying all the time. My father was sitting with a serious face like I'm the boss here and this is all mine.
I've met people with that face at the entrance to a club. Everyone was silent at the table for some stupid tradition, but I think my father considers it an important attribute of a devilish society.
He generally believes that everything devils do is right. And he's fixated on the fact that devils are a superior race.
I've never met people like that in my past life. I wouldn't call him stupid. He's more arrogant, I guess.
But there were moments when his mask fell off and you could see a good person. I think his father taught him how to behave since childhood. And he just follows it.
And it was hammered into him so hard that he thinks that this mask is him. Yes, I know that I'm not a psychologist and maybe my thoughts are wrong, but can I dream?
Maybe I just want to whitewash him in my eyes?
Breakfast was served with a lot of meat and high-calorie dishes.
This is another reason why I don't want to eat it. No one here has heard of healthy eating.
As soon as we finished breakfast, Father announced.
"Today is an important day for you, my dear daughters. You will be introduced to the highest society in this world. I hope that you will prove yourselves worthy of the House of Lucifuge and will not disgrace the name of our House. A House with a centuries-old history. A House that raises you to become the best versions of yourselves. Today, I want to see myself and my pride in you."
He announced after which his tone softened.
"I hope that everything goes well and you will not disappoint me."
After which he looked us in the eyes.
"Am I right?" It seems incredibly theatrical to me, but I will have to answer.
"Yes, Father!" Grayfia and I said in unison. Father smiled.
"Well done, now go get ready." With this, our consultation of shame ended. And we went to our dressing rooms with my sister.
We have two different rooms in the castle. With their own dressing rooms. And these rooms are huge. I think an elephant would feel and live in them just fine.
And yes, usually medieval castles don't have large spaces. Well, maybe only in the most important parts of the castle. Otherwise, it's very narrow everywhere.
Here, it's incredibly spacious everywhere. That's good.
And my entire dressing room is filled with dresses. One time, I decided to count them. Of course, I didn't count them. Of course, I had nothing better to do.
But Leina took on the job. The final figure was 15,000. And my mother bought me everything. I didn't choose a single dress!
Where's the freedom? There's nothing much to describe at the time of packing. And so we got ready and stood with Grayfia in front of the door.
Since we are the main stars of the evening, we will enter as soon as all the guests arrive. I see how nervous she is.
I don't have such a problem because I rehearsed carefully in front of the mirror. From the outside, my face looks arrogantly indifferent. I rehearsed for a very long time.
So I think everything will be ok. And now the door opens in front of us and we enter the high society of devils.