『Yuta Yukimura - 3 Days Later - Lilith, the Underworld Capital』
"I am proud to promote Sir Yuta Leviathan officially to the rank of a High-Class Devil."
Cheers erupted in the cheers and claps from the hundreds, and I ant hundreds, of the most influential nobles of the Underworld gathered in this Banquet Hall right in the heart of Lilith, the capital of the underworld. All for my High Class promotion. It was kind of baffling in scale, but I kept my composure just as Grayfia trained , and my instincts as a Demon Lord guided . I held myself tall and gave a nod as I shook Sirzechs' hand.
"It is my honour, Lord Lucifer."
He laughed and patted my shoulder.
"Hahaha, you can call Sirzech's Yuta, we are friends after all."
"I'll do so. Thank you for the honour, Sirzechs."
With that, the ceremony itself was over, but unfortunately for poor old Yuta, that was the least of it. Now it was ti for the hard part, I would have to shudder socialize with nobles.
The horror.
I am a natural recluse; while I may have a lot of girlfriends, I'll be honest, almost none of them were out of my own initiative. Even putting aside the Gacha Shenanigans ssing with reality and probability to make more likely to be liked, won just seed to see sothing in that I did not see in myself.
Plenty of people seed eager to approach , from the dozens of interested gazes thrown my way as I stepped down and grabbed myself a drink of cherry juice. No drinking wine and making a fool of myself for , no sir.
But before anyone could really approach, the way parted for a woman to approach , carrying an air of importance and regality as she did so, holding a glass of wine in her hands. She had darker tanned skin with yellowish brown hair with blue eyes, donned in various jewelries and dressed in a revealing dark blue dress.
I sniffed the air; she slled sowhat like my Sea Serpent of the End, only way more muted, like slling a flower and a flower extract. She was followed by several people behind her, all won dressed in skimpy dresses who parted away from her when she reached. I already knew who she was of course, Sera had shown a picture of her and warned about her extensively.
Katerea Leviathan, my not really but actually in legal terms my relative.
"Hello there, Yuta, it is great to finally et you, it is such a sha that Serafall kept us from eting for so long."
The tone she spoke with was light, but her narrowed eyes and her posture spoke more than her words. There was bitterness underneath that forced polite deanour. She did not like . And I shared the sentint, I knew what she wanted and what her views were.
Just because she was hot did not an I liked her.
As I had learned from Venelana, I stood for a few seconds in silence just staring at her, making the room tense.
"...Likewise, Katerea."
Her eye twitched, but she rapidly composed herself; she likely expected to treat her with reverence or respect, as she was several hundred years my senior. But I showed I had no intent on playing buddy-buddy with her. I was the more likely heir to the Leviathan family, and treating her like that would lower people's opinion of .
And it would lower my opinion of if I gave a bitch who wanted war a goddamn inch. Especially after that snide remark towards Serafall.
"Now now, my dear nephew-"
"Not Nephew."
She gave a stern glare that I t head-on; she was not going to downplay at my own ceremony.
What was a half-baked granddaughter of a Leviathan against a Demon Lord?
Just as sparks were flying.
"Guess who~"
I was nearly knocked off my feet when Serafall jumped on my back and covered my eyes with her hands. Feeling a light smirk tug at my lips, I took her hands off of my face as Katerea's glare deepened.
"It's obviously you, Sera, kinda hard to mistake you for anyone else."
She let go of and sauntered in front of next to the furious Katerea, wearing a similar dress, except that she wore it way better. A moss green dress with plenty of cleavage and so sheer black gloves that made her look sexy as hell.
"Right answer! So, Yuta, how do I look?"
She did a little spin as I smiled, much to the further chagrin of Katerea.
"You look great Sera, I'm glad you could attend."
"Of course I'd attend for you Yuta~! Wouldn't miss it for the world!"
Now, this was obviously a power play too, showing the closeness of the heir of the Leviathan family and the reigning Leviathan, but talking to Serafall did bring so levity to the situation.
"Ahem! Serfall, if you wouldn't be so rude as to interrupt my first eting with my relative, it would be appreciated. The Leviathan House does not view this very kindly."
Serfall rubbed her head, pretending to be embarrassed.
"Oh sorry, was I interrupting sothing?"
I shook my head.
"Not really."
Before the situation could escalate, Sona made her way through the crowd and grabbed Serafall's hand. She was wearing a very pretty dark blue dress with light blue accents in contrast to Serafall's dress. She also gave a nod when she saw , sporting a light smile.
"Hello there, Yuta, I'll be taking my sister away for so... matters now."
I gave a curt nod.
"I'll catch you two later."
"Bye bye, Yuta!"
Serafall was dragged off by Sona as she blew out so kisses, no doubt a pre-planned event. I turned back to Katerea who seed to lose all of her mood if that deathgrip on her wine glass was any indication.
"So, you were saying sothing?"
Katrea levelled a glare towards , this ti not bothering to hide her displeasure with , but not to the level of outright murderous intent.
"No, I suppose we can continue our conversation in a more private entertainnt. I rember I had a matter to deal with. We can talk when you co to your new ho, the Leviathan Estate."
"Uh huh."
I walked away from the woman with a bitter taste in my mouth, I should have probably treated her more cordially but I loathed playing politics any more than I had to. She was like the opposite of Serafall so she was basically everything I disliked in a person. Manipulative, bloodthirsty, dishonest, biased, oppressive and much more.
She turned on her heel and all but marched out of the hall as I watched.
Defeated Female leaves.
"Well, hello there, Lord Leviathan, what a pleasure it is to et you..."
As I was thinking to myself, a noble approached and started talking to , a lower-ranking pillar noble from the Old Satan Faction. I put on a polite smile and started talking with the man.
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『Yuta Yukimura』
Fuck this is exhausting...
I was basically like a robot as dozens of nobles approached , and I kept answering like a broken machine saying "I see" "Really?" "Is that so?" "Interesting." "That makes sense." "That tracks." on repeat. And I also now had the number of over a dozen nobles registered on my phone, doing nothing other than cluttering my contact list.
I almost wished I had just produced so Void Clones to relax right now, but I didn't want to risk having clones active when so many people were around to potentially realise what kind of foolery I was pulling.
As I rested against a table and took a breather from all of the populace around, I saw a familiar figure and a sowhat familiar figure approach , a tall man with deep red hair and a red beard that had a deep resemblance to Rias and Sirzechs. The other person was Venelana, dressed in a stunning black and white black off-the-shoulder dress that almost certainly didn't have a bra.
"Oh, hello there Lord Yuta."
"Why hello! It is nice to et the lover of my daughter and future lord of the Leviathan Family."
Zeoticus, Venelana's husband and Rias' ineffectual father approached and extended a hand that I shook. There was not much to sll on him; he didn't seem awfully strong, nor did he possess any unique abilities.
"Likewise, Lord Gremory."
He let go of my hand, but then Venelana tapped him on the shoulder.
"Zeoticus, you should probably go find your friends. I'll handle talking with Lord Leviathan."
He blinked in confusion and was slightly offended at the words.
"But Ve-"
She narrowed her eyes, but her smile did not drop. I could feel the threat of her cold wrath looming over him.
"Zeo, do you rember what happened last ti you handled negotiations? Or should I remind you?"
"R-right. Sorry to cut this short, Lord Leviathan. Feel free to visit our Estate anyti. I'd love to host you anyti."
Whipped.
Zeoticus quickly scampered, and Venelana wasted no ti approaching as I sweated; there was still attention on us. She closed the distance between us before grabbing my tie and adjusting it for with a smile. Giving an extre view of her cleavage.
"It's not good to neglect your appearance, you know that Yuta. How is high society treating you?"
I wiped the sweat off my brow and let out a large sigh now that she took a step back to put so distance between us to not seem too suspicious.
"It's treating like a punching bag, that's what. I didn't think it would be this boring."
She softly giggled and rubbed my back comfortingly.
"I imagine it is for soone who was uninvolved as you were before this whole charade. You are handling yourself remarkably well; you are a natural at this."
Well, Demon Lord traits don't lie. I wish they did, but unfortunately, they do not.
As I was venting my frustrations to Venelena, 2 won approached us. A sll of fire and ash tickled my nose at their appearance, making turn to them at the recognition of a familiar sll.
"Hello there, Venelana, may I interject on your conversation? I simply wanted to et the new Lord Leviathan, my Ravel is around the sa age as him after all."
And then she turned to and seed to freeze, as did the girl next to her. And I knew why. After all, if I couldn't recognise their similarity to Riser, I may as well give up my eyes.
A rather busy and mature woman with thick and long luscious golden hair with deep captivating blue eyes, wearing a red dress with considerable cleavage, who was now sweating buckets after locking eyes with .
And a smaller, younger girl I had already t with face to face, wearing a cute pink dress as she bowed according to noble etiquette, but could not hide her very apparent fear towards in doing so.
Feeling just slightly affronted, I glanced at Venelana, who went to make the introductions.
"Greeting Rayne, Ravel. et Lord Yuta Leviathan. And Yuta, this is Rayne, the Lady of the Phenex clan, and her daughter Ravel."
I nodded.
"Yes, I believe I t your son before, Riser right?"
That just made them even more nervous as I fought hard to resist the urge to sigh hard.
This night was going to be long and hard, wasn't it?
A/N: A little tiskip into the Ceremony because I did not feel like dragging it out any longer. Yuta Yukimura is officially Yuta Yukimura Leviathan now. And that cos with a lot of hardships and misadventures. Also, you should keep in mind that just because Yuta has traits that make people like him, it doesn't an it will work on everyone. So people will still not like him regardless; this is not mind control. And Katerea certainly doesn't. What did you guys think about her introduction scene? I'd love to know.
Yuta gets his taste of high society and he wants to go back to the low society. Thankfully, he has friends and lovers to help him navigate the world of nobility. Speaking of nobility, it sure is awkward having the boy your so n threatened to kill and maim beco the prince of the Leviathan family, huh? Almost reads like a Wattpad plot. Would love to hear your thoughts as to what could happen with the Phenex girls.
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