The large and luxurious hall was filled with many people, the lights there were bright and beautiful, these people had come to participate in the birthday party of the daughter of the Gremory family, one of the seven great families.
So this birthday party invited many rich and famous people in Japan. The birthday party hasn't started yet, although many people have come, but that's not all.
The people who had arrived early didn't mind waiting, they even had fun chatting with others at the banquet while eating and drinking.
"Hey look who's here, isn't that the young lady of the Sitri family, Sona Sitri?"
"I heard she has graduated as the number one student at Harvard university. She must be a genius!"
"Um, you're right. And if I'm not mistaken, the beautiful woman who was chatting with her is the young lady of the Shinra family."
"Those two are the famous Kuoh beauties. In addition to the two of them, there is also Miss Grayfia from the Lucifige family who is also very beautiful!"
"Oh, you're right! But isn't the Lucifuge family in a bit of decline now because of lord Lucifuge's case?"
"Fool! So what? The old man is at fault, don't blame Miss Grayfia either!
"That's right! I heard that Miss Grayfia is single. I wouldn't mind being her boyfriend."
"Bah! Are you worthy of being the Lucifuge family's son-in-law?"
"You... My background isn't bad."
"Instead of talking about this, aren't there also other very beautiful women at this banquet? Look over there, the two women who are together are, if I'm not mistaken, young ladies from the Quarta and Shido families."
"Oh... You're right. I want to try to get along with them."
"Just stop it. Don't you see people who approach them get rejected right away? Don't waste your time."
"...."
Ignoring the people whispering in the distance.
Sona was chatting with her friend while waiting for the show to start. She was wearing a beautiful light blue dress tonight, adding a point to her beauty.
"Tsubaki, how are uncle and aunt?" f(r)eewebn(o)vel.com
Sona asked about Tsubaki's mom and dad, as she and Tsubaki often played together as children. She had a pretty good relationship with Tsubaki's parents.
"They're both good."
Tsubaki Shinra answered Sona with a faint smile. With her dark blue dress and slim and sexy figure, she was no less beautiful than Sona. Just like Sona, she also wore glasses as her fashion, but that didn't detract from her beauty of course.
Tsubaki came from the Shinra family, this family did not belong to the seven great families, only slightly lower but the top among other ordinary wealthy families in Japan. So in terms of status, she was actually not too inferior to Sona.
Sona nodded with a smile on her face, she then looked around for someone.
Tsubaki noticed Sona's actions and asked. "Who are you looking for, Sona? Could it be another friend of yours?"
"Ah... This, yes, we can probably be considered friend. I was just wondering if he had come or not."
Sona answered hesitantly.
Tsubaki's lips twitched.
You're not even sure what relationship you have with the person you're looking for?
Who the hell is the person Sona is looking for?
Wait, could it be...
As if realizing something, she asked Sona again.
"Are you looking for young master Phenex?"
Sona widened her eyes in surprise.
"Y-You, Tsubaki, how do you know?"
"I found out from..."
Tsubaki had just wanted to say honestly that she knew from Riser's inner voice which meant confessing to Sona that she could also hear inner voices.
But the words caught in her throat as if something was holding her back from speaking.
Tsubaki was dumbfounded by this discovery, but he quickly calmed down and said, "I accidentally saw you and your grandfather visiting the villa that Riser was staying at back then."
After saying that, she panicked inwardly.
Fool!
Why can't I make a more reasonable excuse!
What if Sona asks why you were around Riser's villa at that time? Unless you have a residence nearby, it doesn't make much sense to walk around in Riser's private compound.
But Sona nodded after hearing her reason. "Oh, I see."
Do you believe it?!
Tsubaki breathed a sigh of relief, I don't know why this very smart Sona even believes in my nonsense, but that's good.
But what she didn't realize was that Sona was staring at her with a slightly narrowed gaze.
Grayfia who was wearing a silver dress on the other side of the hall was talking to officials about business, these people who wanted to curry favor with her, but she refused them because she did not come here to do business.
There were also those who came to tease her for her beauty. She also rejected those people coldly.
After the people left her alone, she looked around.
"Where is that man? He haven't come until now."
The man she was referring to was of course Riser, if not for today's plot and Riser's arrival, she was too lazy to attend the red-haired woman's birthday party.
Why should I even participate in my rival's birthday party?
What others didn't know was that she came here just because of a man and wanted to watch a drama.
Just like Grayfia, the two beauties who were chatting away also had the same ulterior motive.
One of them was a blue-haired woman in a blue dress, although she didn't like wearing dresses, she was forced to wear them by her best friend.
Her name was Xenovia Quarta, she was a young lady who came from the famous Quarta family.
Standing next to Xenovia was the brown-haired woman, Irina Shido. She was a young lady from the Shido family who was no less famous than the Quarta family.
Well actually these two women also come from seven big families in Japan.
When the two of them came together, of course there were many flies that wanted to get close to them, but they refused all of them.
The men at the banquet could only be sad that the women from these big families were really hard to get close to.
Either the other party's standards were too high or they might not like men.
"Why are they taking so long. I want to watch a drama right away!"
Irina complained incoherently.
"Maybe they got stuck in traffic on the way?"
Xenovia also said incoherently who the people she was referring to were.
This was actually a trick the two of them had invented in order to talk about inner voices without being blocked by mysterious forces.
After discovering that they could both hear the same inner voice, they had a vague guess about something.
By the way the people the two of them are talking about are of course Riser and Issei.
That villain and protagonist still hasn't come, is today's plot canceled?
Rias who had just come out of her room walked anxiously towards the hall. When she came down the stairs, everyone naturally saw her.
As the host of this event, Rias was also dressed up of course. She wore a red tube top dress specially prepared for her birthday party. Her red hair and outfit matched perfectly, making her look as beautiful as a goddess.
With her sexy curves and large breasts, she naturally attracted a lot of stares from the opposite sex on her. Even so, people naturally did not dare to stare at Rias for too long, due to her identity as the daughter of the Gremory family, and the woman who was already engaged to the young lord of the Phenex family.
Many people didn't dare, but the two men who had just arrived were exceptions.
One was a dark blue-haired young man, from his clothes alone people could see that he was not an ordinary rich man as he dared to wear a luxurious white robe and a black suit that slightly distinguished him from others.
His gaze glanced at the beautiful women in the hall with greed hidden in his amber eyes, especially when he looked at Rias who had just come down from the stairs.
"Dragon King, you have good taste in women. Rias Gremory is indeed very beautiful, no wonder you like her."
"But besides her, there seems to be others who are no less beautiful than Rias Gremory. Look, there's Grayfia Lucifuge, Tsubaki Shinra, Sona Sitri, Xenovia Quarta, and Irina Shido. All the beautiful women of this big family are present."
"This is a good opportunity for you, Dragon King."
Who is the Dragon King? Well who else if not Issei who currently came wearing his favorite outfit.
A floral shirt, shorts, and flip-flops.
This combination naturally drew a lot of attention to her when he just came through the door.
Issei ignored what the young man beside him was saying, it was just one of his connections helping him to join in Rias' birthday party.
Right now, his mouth was drooling at the sight of Rias who was so beautiful in her red dress. Then his gaze also glanced alternately at every beautiful woman in the hall.
His heart was screaming with excitement.
[Rias, I'm coming! You are so beautiful and sexy in that dress. As expected of my woman!]
[My Grayfia concubine is also here! Ahh! Maybe after we get home from here we can have a threesome? Hehehe. Oh wait! There are other beauties too!]
[According to the information I got, they are Sona Sitri, Tsubaki Shinra, Xenovia Quarta, and Irina Shido. It's decided, all of you are also worthy of being my woman!]
[I will make you all fall in love with the Dragon King's charm and good looks.]
The heroines felt sick at the wolfish words of Issei's inner voice in their heads.
Rias stared at the Issei who had just come in horror and disgust.
This man really came!
Grayfia wanted to hide when seeing Issei, she felt Issei was an evil spirit who liked to chase many beautiful women.
Sona looked at Issei with hatred in her eyes, clearly she still had a grudge against the man who almost killed her grandfather.
Tsubaki, Irina, and Xenovia who were seeing Issei for the first time, had dignified expressions on their faces.
So this is what the protagonist look like?
Wait, are you sure this is the protagonist?
Well but they remember Riser once said that protagonists like to pretend and want to be different from others.
But, man, you came to a birthday party with a lot of rich people while dressed like that?
You purposely disgust people!
Even Tsubaki, Irina, and Xenovia who didn't look at people in terms of appearance couldn't help but stare in disgust.
Especially when they knew that Issei deliberately wore such clothes to pretend and his intention was clearly to get women.
And those women were them!
"By the way villain, where are you? Hurry up and slap this disgusting protagonist!"
The three of them felt in danger, regretted coming, and subconsciously began to expect Riser to come immediately to keep them safe.
Rias couldn't bear to see Issei's presence, she wondered why the security guards let Issei in?
Didn't I order them to block Issei if he comes!
Issei walked over with the young man behind him, he looked at Rias gently.
"Rias, happy birthday. This is a gift from--"
Before Issei could speak, Rias had already taken a few steps back and shouted.
"Issei! How could you come here? I didn't invite you. Please leave right now!"
Issei was dumbfounded at what Rias said.
Shouldn't you be happy that the man you love came?
Even though you didn't invite me, I know you're actually just worried that it will harm me and make people in your family suspicious about the love between us.
Issei's brain works in a different way to ordinary people. So instead of getting angry at being kicked out by Rias, he looked at her with a softer, more loving gaze.
It's just that he didn't realize his face made Rias can't stand it and retreat further.
"Rias... I know you were under pressure from your family to marry that incompetent rich second generation. So besides giving you a gift, I also came to save you!"
"With me around, you don't have to worry about being forced by your family to get married. We can be together--"
"I said get out of here right now! And who is being forced into marriage? Please don't talk nonsense! Security, hurry up and get rid of this man!"
Rias contacted the security guards to come and forcibly evict Issei.
She was really upset with this disgusting man.
Especially when he called her fiancé incompetent in front of many people.
The people who saw Issei laughed and mocked him.
"At first I thought this man was a humble important person. So I refrained from speaking ill of him, even after seeing his inappropriate attire. But now I just want to say that this man named Issei is crazy! He seems to covet Miss Rias!"
"Hahaha the frog wants to eat goose meat! I didn't think that one day I would actually see something like this."
"Desiring young master Phenex's fiancée and even daring to call young master Phenex incompetent. Has this guy gone crazy?"
"Pfft! I wonder what young master Phenex will do when he finds out that a frog wants his fiancée? Hehe this should be fun!"
Hearing the people laughing and mocking him, Issei's face gloomed, especially when he remembered that those the beautiful womens were also watching him right now.
The Dragon King must not lose face!
And Rias? I don't understand why you still don't understand that I can actually save you!
Seeing that the security guard ordered by Rias came and started to surround him. Issei was of course ready to fight back and use his power to show off in front of many beautiful women.
But the young man who came with him, his tapped him on the shoulder and looked at Rias with a smile.
"Wait a minute Miss Rias, please don't drive my friend away. He was just admiring your beauty and kinda couldn't hold his mouth. Can you forgive him for me? For my face at least."
The young man spoke calmly and softly, but people could hear the arrogance in his words.
Even so, people didn't seem to dare say anything about the young man's attitude.
Because he was the heir of the Astaroth family, Diodora Astaroth!
One of the seven great families!
Aside from his background, this young man is also famous for his strong talent in business.
He is also dubbed as the number one young master in Kuoh!
With such a status, many people dare not offend him.
Rias of course knew who the man who stopped her to drive Issei away was, she didn't expect this man to be friends with Issei.
Although she did not have a good impression of Diodora Astaroth, especially when she saw the kind of look he gave her.
The other party's background made her doubt, although her background was also no less powerful than the other party's, but if the two went to war over this matter.
It would be troublesome.
Was she really not going to expel Issei just because of Diodora's words?
The other heroines on the scene looked worried at this moment. They stared at Diodora in annoyance as this man seemed to be eager to make Issei stay longer.
As Rias hesitated to answer, and Diodora smiled as if he had won.
Suddenly the sound of footsteps could be heard from the direction of the door. There was also an unexplained pressure that made people glance at who the person who had just arrived was.
"I heard someone talking about his face to make my fiancé not chase away a dog."
"Is that true?"
The voice was said low and magnetic, but everyone could somehow hear it clearly.
Seeing who it was, everyone's eyes widened.
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Author note
The sun explodes, the earth burns, and all humans become extinct. I had no idea that I, a dog author, was just asking for power stones, reviews, and patreon subscribers to be able to motivate my life more and more!
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