When Issei is relaxing in his house along with his wives, Barro cos in.
Barro - Hi, everyone. I'm back from Humpty.
Barro just got back from Humpty to check so things over there for Croix ritual.
Riche - Oh, Barro?
Barro - Sorry to barge in, but I'd like to talk about your next mission.
Issei - Sure, it's fine.
Barro - Great, great. Glad I'm not interrupting anything. I have to say, it's gotten lovely in here.
Barro looked over the living room packed with all the wives and offered Issei an impressed smile.
Riche - Geez, it's still early and you're already on the job. You clearly overwork yourself, Barro.
Barro - Hmm, leaving too much to Acheval would only an more work for later, though.
Kathryn - I bet, ahahahaha!
Ramius - You're a too, Kath. You should at least help a little...
Barro - Anyway, Issei-kun, as you might know, Princess Croix wanted you to help her with her wedding ritual.
Issei - Sure.
Issei thought why not because he thought of Croix as his family mber after all since she's Riche Big sister and all.
Barro - Um, you may already know this, but Princess Croix is known for being a remarkable saint.
Issei - Saints being won who've strongly inherited Mother Eve's blood, right?
Barro - Her magic power far exceeds the average human, such that just standing near her can make you feel like you prayed to Mother Eve... She's like a living church.
Issei - Ah, I know.
He can feel her holy power quite well after all, and just by standing near her it's quite soothing. The sa goes for Croix when she's near Issei though, he just doesn't know it yet.
Barro - The Church of Mother Eve say they want to use Princess Croix's wedding to recreate Mother Eve's wedding ritual. The prince of Central and, of course, Princess Croix have agreed to participate.
The ritual will involve using a ship to travel around to Humpty's Islands, and we'd like you to transport Princess Croix using your ship.
Ramius - Then all we have to do is transport her?
Barro - I've taken a look at that ship. It's both fast and maneuverable, much safer than any other ship we could get our hands on. And also to have Issei-kun to guard her personally it will be perfectly safe.
Kathryn - Heheheh, no doubt it is. Our ship's loaded with next-generation energy, conceived of by yours truly.
Riche - Well, it's an uppy nad Mr. Edison, but yeah...
Barro - You're supposed to go from Humpty to the State of Hamlet City. Given that's your next destination, I assu there aren't any problems with that.
Riche - Sure, we have to go to Hamlet one way or another. Besides, this is my sister's wedding, so I want to help out sohow.
Issei - Um, I agree with Riche. We'll deliver Princess Croix safely to Hamlet.
Kyou - Hmmm, a wedding ritual, huh?
Kinou - and the destination is Hamlet. Perfect.
Issei - Hm? What is it?
Kyou - Oh, nothing... Nothing at all.
Issei - ...I see.
Issei still felt sothing was off as the two twins shook their heads, but forgot about it and told Barro they would take the job.
Barro - I'm glad you're interested. Eden's vessels are at the bottom of the ocean, and I'd feel pretty restless on a ship borrowed from Humpty.
Ramius - You seem pretty restless right this second, Barro. There was no need to visit so early in the morning.
Barro - Yes, that's true. But I can't help it, I'm personally invested in Princess Croix's marriage.
Riche - What a loyal Knight.
Barro - Hahaha, well, co to the castle when you're ready. I can tell you the details about the ritual then.
Issei - Got it.
Then Barro went back to castle ahead of them.
Kathryn - Hamlet, huh? It's so far north that I don't have much concept of what it's like up there.
Issei - What kind of place is it supposed to be?
Gurigura - Hamlet's where the Church of Mother Eve's headquarters is located.
Ramius - Have you been there, Gurigura?
Gurigura - Y-Yeah... A few tis.
As the party gets their new mission, they turned their thoughts toward the State of Hamlet City.
...
In the darkness, a faint light illuminated a wrinkly old man. The water tank before him contained Jabber, still in his monster form after his defeat by Issei.
SC - Now this is gluttony...
The man, ...
Within the windowless room unchanged by the ti of day, Bolonius closely analyzed a drug of his creation.
Bolonius - The desire to attack, kill, ****, and eat humans... I had doubts that monster blood itself contains those instincts, but now...
Despite his doubts, Bolonius had made monster blood into all different varieties of is the key to reviving Mother Eve, nothing else matters.
Bolonius took up the could even resurrect Mother Eve, then theoretically, it should have no trouble bringing a human back to life.
Bolonius pricked the hard, cold skin with the syringe in his hand.
Bolonius - Now, open your eyes... My beloved daughter... Ophelia...!
The corpse of the girl he'd called Ophelia violently jerked upright.
Ophelia - Ah... Nngh, aaaah...
Bolonius - Ophelia! Do you recognize ?
Ophelia - Ah... Uuuhn, guh... Aaah...
Bolonius - Hrm, what is this massive flow of magic energy? It's like it's flooding into her from all around the world!
Ophelia - AAAAAAAAAH!
Bolonius - Ophe-
*WOOOSH!*
Coincidentally, on the sa day Issei decided to depart for Hamlet... One of its towns was consud by death.
...
The family was gathered in the living room, getting ready for the journey.
Tio - I'm putting all your spare clothes here. You don't want to get sick, so rember to change clothes whenever you sweat too much.
Issei - Um, thanks for everything, Tio.
The clothes Tio handed over was all neatly folded and soft to the touch.
Gurigura - Wooow, my panties sll like outside.
Riche - Don't you typically want to dry underwear away from the sun?
Tio - I made shade out of so washed sheets. It gives them the sa sll as a fluffy blanket.
Gurigura - Sniff sniff, eheheh, slls nice...
Riche - Quit rubbing panties on your face, you look like a weirdo.
Ramius - Yes, you shouldn't rub your own underwear on your face. Use Ise's instead.
Issei - ...
Kathryn - That's even weirder!
Tio - Also, Kinou and Kyou left packed lunches to give to all of you.
Issei - Hm? Are both of them not here?
Tio - No, they said they had so business to attend to and left rather early.
Issei - Oh... Well, knowing them. I doubt there's anything to worry about.
Issei doesn't really have to worry about them both in danger on this world unless the "Naughty" Dragon decided to fight them that is. But if they're in danger he will know right away and vice versa from the mark they share together now. And Issei could just teleport to their location instantly.
While Issei is thinking about the twins, his wives appeared to have finished preparing as well.
Kathryn - Alright, ti to go help with Princess Croix's ritual.
Riche - It goes from Humpty to Hamlet, before ending in the Central Empire.
Issei - So, the northern continent...
Kathryn - Anyway, let's go to Eden Castle first and see how this whole ritual's going down.
Issei gives Tio a kiss and Tilt a pat on the head which makes the latter blushed deeply, then both of them saw off the party as they headed to Eden Castle. He already taught the how to use teleportation so they could be Tio's taxi basically.
On a side note, it seems all of the Kalars already have elent inside them. Which is not surprising because they're one with nature in the first place.
The trained so of the Kalars to be Issei's Elite Guards, although he already told them he doesn't need one. But they insisted, so Issei could only relent to their request. He's about to say no once again but the entire Kalar race gave him a "Puppy eyes" and he's defeated straight away after seeing their pleading look...
The Kalars are linked with Issei's divinity as the True Red Dragon King of Dominance, he doesn't realize he's basically already on par with Gods at this point. He could be called the True Dragon God of Dominance now basically. If Ophis represents , Great Red represents , then Issei represents but he also has a part of the first two divinity as well because of what happened in the past when Ophis and Great Red helped to rebuild his body before.
The Kalars souls are imbued with his divinity and it amplify their bloodlines, strength, comprehension, etc.
That's also why the Kalars bloodlines becoming so strong in the first place because they're affected with his divinity. Even though the Kalars underwent a process of they are not supposed to be this strong from the get-go.
The Kalars already told Issei about this but he doesn't really care about it since for him as long as they're safe then it's okay. He doesn't care if they beco strong or not and for him, every single Kalars are his won and he won't abandon them even if they're weak.
After the Kalars heard his words they are overco with love and blissful feeling for having a King like Issei and they all sward towards him and they all had a very passionate orgy sex soon after that.
The Kalars now has an undying loyalty towards Issei more than ever and if they're asked to kill themselves for him then they would gladly do it, but it's basically impossible to happen because Issei would never ask them to do that, obviously.
The Kalars are also protected by his divinity. The mont they "Died", their soul will automatically go to Issei and start healing themselves until they're back to their top condition.
Issei won't be affected by this in any way since he basically has unlimited now. So in the future, Issei's army will be called because they can't die unless Issei dies first.
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Food Stand Man - We're celebrating Princess Croix's wedding with red and white pakapuku mochi, on sale now!
Sales Girl - The Princess Croix Wedding Sale is currently ongoing! Visit as a couple for 30% off on all products!
Issei's party arrived at the capital of Eden to be t with bustling streets.
Ramius - Princess Croix's wedding has gotten everyone in a celebratory mood already.
Riche - People really loves Onee-chan. She's a saint, she's nice to everyone, she's gorgeous... It makes sense.
Issei - Um.
Gurigura - I haven't been to church very much. What do saints do?
Kathryn - If we're being honest, they're walking advertisents for the church. And I guess they inherited a lot of Mother Eve's blood, so they're supposed to have a lot of magic power.
Riche - Onee-chan's magic power is high, that much is true. Thing is, she has no talent for casting magic, so she can't really fight or anything.
Kathryn - Huh, fascinating...'Might not be that she's bad at magic, so much as the kind of magic saints typically use... Or wait, maybe she's just hiding her talent.'
Issei also thought the sa thing as Kath because he could feel she indeed has a massive magic power for a human, she's practically way ahead of Rias who's a high-class devil in terms of magic power while Croix is just a human.
If he's about to compare Croix in magic power then as of right now her magic power is on par with Sirzechs. And he doubts that Croix has no talent at all using magic, he could feel just how much holy power she has that even put Michael in the dust. If she were to cast an Offensive Holy Magic then she probably could kill thousands of devil in just one magic cast.
He felt like she's hiding her talent on purpose because she doesn't want to eclipses her little sister, Riche that far ahead. So that's why she doesn't learn any offensive magic spell most likely.
Issei's guess is right. Croix indeed doesn't learn any offensive magic spell because she doesn't want to take all the lilight from Riche and her little brother Philip.
She's already a saint for one and the strongest saint in history at that, so if she were to show the world her magic talent then people will forget Riche and Philip ever existed because of how outstanding she is. And that's still the best scenario... What if people started comparing her with her little sister and brother? That will only make them suffer, so she chooses to feint ignorance about magic by acting she has no talent at all on it.
She always put her family above all else and that's what makes Issei attracted to her very existence because they are so alike. She agreed to marry the Prince of Central just to solidify their kingdom alliance and she also agrees to be the Saint to lessen her father's burden.
Even if soone else were to have the sa amount of holy power as Croix but her personality isn't like Croix then they won't attract Issei that much.
Ramius - Those designated as saints by the church travel around to churches to serve as nuns and speak with the church-goers, from what I know.
Riche - Onee-chan says she really just wants to travel and help people in need, but you know...
Kathryn - Yeah, not so easy when she's a princess. And unlike a certain prodigal daughter I know, she actually does her royal duties.
Riche - Yeah...
Issei - Riche?
Riche - Look, there's a beef and honey bun stand here! Let's get so as a gift for Onee-chan.
Issei - Oh, sure.
The party enjoyed the sights of the vibrant city as they headed to the castle where Louin was waiting.
Louin - Is that you, Issei?
Issei - Yes.
Croix - Otouto~
Once again Croix glued herself to Issei but the latter already got used to it so he let her be.
Louin - So you actually ca... Haaah...
Issei - Hm?
King Louin slumped his shoulders, lacking his usual sense of majesty.
Riche - Oooh, I see. Father, you're not so happy Onee-chan's getting married, are you?
Louin - Naturally. Were the groom not the son of Emperor Viaries of Central, I would never think of giving my precious Croix away.
Kathryn - ...Was he like this when Riche got married?
Ramius - No, he was a bit shaken up, but mostly acted as he always does.
Louin - I had been deeply concerned that nobody would ever marry Riche, you see.
Riche - Ugh... You were that worried?
Acheval - He was so worried, in fact, that Barro and I were ordered to train up so Knights that you'd approve of.
Barro - But many Knights are so faithful to Mother Eve that they aren't too motivated by lust.
Acheval - Tons of our Knights are really beta, yeah.
Gurigura - What's "Beta" an?
Croix - It follows alpha and proceeds gamma, I believe.
Kathryn - Nah, it's what you call a submissive guy who doesn't go for girls, as opposed to an alpha male. When it cos to this type of really devout guy, they'd go straight to church to pray after one glance at Ramius.
Ramius - I'd rather not be used as an example...
Barro - It's fine to follow Mother Eve's teachings, but their lack of interest in the competition is rather concerning.
Louin - But Felton's a good-hearted youth, even if he's easily distracted.
Issei - Um... We were told to help with the wedding ritual. What about that? Like, this is one of Mother Eve's rituals, right?
Riche - One of those rituals... Hmmm...
Riche thought back to the various rituals they had seen and frowned.
While Issei's party exploring so Mother Eve's ruins they found out about the rituals that needed to be carried out and they're all beco speechless after knowing what rituals it is. But Ramius nodded to herself and noted inside her mind to try it out with Issei when they have another lovey-dovey night.
Louin - That's a look that tells you know sothing about these rituals.
Issei - Yeah... We found out about it when we were exploring the ruins we co upon you see...
Gurigura - They're like, y'know... You have to do sex stuff...
Riche - Yeah, but most people wouldn't know what they actually entail.
Louin - The rituals involve recreating actions taken by Mother Eve, as described by the holy scripture in the church's possession called the .
Issei - Towa talked about that...
Barro - In general, the hands, it would be a disaster...
Kathryn - What about the wedding ritual? Is that one safe?
Riche - The three towers are supposed to glow and fill the world with joy... Isn't that how the story goes?
Gurigura - Sounds like change on a global scale to ...
Croix - Don't worry, I've been assured that all the rituals involved in this are harmless.
Kathryn - ...Wait, sothing doesn't make sense. If they want to keep the rituals a secret, why do this wedding ritual?
Issei is also wondering about that.
Louin - There's a good reason, of course... Issei, you've seen the world with your own eyes now. How does it look to you?
Issei - Hmm? I think this world is quite beautiful... But I've noticed the shadow of the Arthur Tragedy lingering everywhere we go.
Louin - Yes, the whole world remains enshrouded by its darkness.
Barro - Many are even forgetting to pray to Mother Eve. If this goes on, the world will inevitably go down an unfortunate path.
Louin - In order to prevent any such dark turns, we need a miracle that the entire world can see.
Acheval - Croix's marriage to the prince of Central is a decent opportunity, so the church insisted we go through with this.
Croix - Of course, being that I'm as much a saint as I am the princess of Eden, I was happy to oblige.
Louin - And so, I have a request of you, Issei. Help protect Croix until her marriage to Prince Felton is complete. provokes people's hatred and desire in an attempt to cause the tragedy known as war.
Barro - If this ritual's supposed to cause a miracle that'll fill the world with love, do you expect them to sit back and ignore it?
Kathryn - ...Probably not.
Issei - Sure, I will protect her with my life on the line. I give you my word.
Issei solemnly agrees to Louin's request and the latter nodded in satisfaction. While Croix felt her heart thumped loudly hearing his promise.
She tightened her grasp on his arm and when Issei look at her, she gave him the best smile she had.
Issei becos a little captivated by her smile but soon snap out of it and smile at her back. This ti it's Croix turn to beco captivated by his smile. But she returns back to her sense when she heard Louin's voice once more.
Louin - Um, I couldn't be happier to have you as her guardian... Thanks to your hard work, Eden, Lancelot, El Quixote, and Humpty have been saved from
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