Chapter 128: Her boyfriend was Saint who embraces darkness
With resentment and even a hint of despair in their eyes, Sona and Rias along with their peerages were led into the dimensional passage leading to the Underworld.
Returning to the Underworld, Sona knew she had no other choice.
Even if she tried to resist, her family and the Four Great Maou would cut off every path of retreat.
She could easily imagine how fiercely Yasuhiro would react once he learned about her marriage.
Inside the Kuoh Academy student council room, only Odsch remained, quietly waiting for Gabriel to arrive.
No sooner had Sona and Rias departed than Gabriel appeared in the room.
"It has been many years, Lady Gabriel. The last time we crossed paths must have been on the battlefields of the Great War."
When Odsch saw Gabriel appear before him, his voice remained calm, though an undercurrent of hatred ran through his words.
"You are... the guard who served the previous head of the Sitri Clan back then..."
Gabriel still held a vivid memory of the former head of the Sitri Clan, who had fought during the Great War.
"It is an honor to be remembered by Lady Gabriel, one of Heaven's Great Seraphs."
"It is merely a pity for my late lord."
Hearing his remark, Gabriel fell silent.
The previous head of the Sitri Clan had indeed fallen by her hand, remaining one of the irreconcilable grudges between Serafall and herself.
Yet, when dredging up the bitter hatreds of the Great War, everything became a tangled mess.
While the former head of the Sitri Clan had met his end through her, his own hands were stained with the blood of countless angels.
Who was truly left to balance such hatred?
Odsch understood the grander reality as well.
Hatred only bred further hatred, offering no true resolution.
"Lady Gabriel, your student secretly obtained the Underworld's devil reincarnation system, crossing a line."
"Although I don't know why the Underworld leadership let the matter rest, whether Heaven and the Underworld forged a secret pact or because of the young lady's ties to your side, I have no desire to interfere in political games."
"However, your student played with her feelings. Even at great personal cost, I will demand a proper explanation from Heaven."
Odsch spoke with unwavering resolve.
"Hmph. An explanation? That should be my line."
A voice thick with suppressed fury rang out in the student council room without the slightest warning.
Odsch had sensed nothing prior to the sound.
With his Maou Class strength, he had detected Gabriel's presence well before she manifested, yet this newcomer seemed to condense straight out of thin air.
Such a feat pointed to a single truth: the intruder's power vastly outstripped his own and even Gabriel's, reaching the level of a Super Devil.
Suppressing his shock, Odsch looked at Yasuhiro standing before him.
Piecing together the context, he immediately realized this man was Sona's lover from the church.
The young lady had truly found a lover capable of shaking the entire Underworld.
This was no mere holy knight or swordsman, this was the Saint Who Embraces Darkness, whose mere presence silenced devils across the Underworld.
Having lived through countless eras, Odsch had vast experience and identified Yasuhiro almost immediately.
He was no blind servant ignorant of the wider world, caring only for the clan he served.
Such people were loyal tools, unfit for true responsibility.
Among the recent figures to attain the power of a Super Devil, only that madman from church fit the description.
"The Underworld took my girlfriend without reason. I should be the one demanding an explanation from the Underworld, not the other way around."
A crushing aura weighed upon Odsch's chest, subjecting him to a suffocating pressure he had never experienced in his life.
He could not even muster the breath to speak, let alone formulate a counterargument.
Yasuhiro had never displayed this overbearing side of himself around Sona and Rias.
Only Kuroka and Asia had witnessed it before.
"Yasuhiro, what happened?"
Odsch felt a wave of cold terror wash over him.
A petite, childlike figure with an impassive expression appeared out of thin air, matching the Saint in presence.
He had no idea who she was, only that she was another Super Devil level entity he had never laid eyes on.
The entire Underworld counted only two Super Devils among its ranks. He had never imagined this matter would drag two beings of such supreme might into the fold.
The newly arrived girl was Ophis.
Ever since being driven from the Dimensional Gap by Great Red, she had wandered the world as a phantom.
Barely anyone across the Underworld had ever seen Ophis's true form, not even the ancient steward of the Sitri Clan.
[A/N: Aura farming arc soon!]
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