Chapter 22: My wife-to-be

Whether it was his parents or Sona's, they all quickly went out and prepared for their marriage right away.

Sona had promised that she would marry Riser if he was able to win against her in the chess game, and he was able to crush her with overwhelming power. She didn't have any reasons to fight this marriage anymore, and from now on, she would be his wife.

While he was speechless by this development, Riser also couldn't stop it. He also knew that since he had all the privileges given by his family, he needed to pay a certain price for it, so he didn't mind this marriage, especially when her fiancee was beautiful.

Nevertheless, when their parents left, only he, Sona, and Tsubaki were left.

Leaving Tsubaki, who didn't know what to do and just stayed in silence as she knew this wasn't her place to talk or get involved, Sona was quite nervous.

Married...

She was going to marry the man in front of her.

While she didn't really have a rejection towards him as he was capable and good enough to be her husband, she felt conflicted with his identity as he was the former fiance of her best friend.

"Sona, can I call you that?"

"Yes." Sona nodded as she pushed the frame of her glasses. "You can call me that, so what should I call you?"

"How about you call me Husband?" Riser, who had given up, felt that it was too stupid to overthink, so he just let loose himself. Moreover, he also wanted to break this strange atmosphere between them.

As expected, Sona was stunned and blushed for a moment before she nodded with a relaxed face. "Yes, Husband."

"..." Riser.

"What's wrong, Husband? Are you okay?"

Riser felt that this woman was teasing him. He felt helpless, then asked, "By the way, can you give me a tour? It's my first time here, after all."

"Sure, Husband."

"..." Riser.

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"What's wrong, Husband? Are you okay?"

The two walked out into the garden within Sitri Castle, leaving Tsubaki behind.

For the head of Sitri, luxury was something normal. Moreover, Sitri House wasn't a house that lacked money, especially when this clan had the most advanced medical treatment and the eldest daughter of the Sitri House was Serafall Leviathan.

Riser could see many rare beautiful plants along with some deer, beautiful birds, and butterflies fluttering within this garden, yet even if this garden might not be able to be seen by the majority of devils in their life, he didn't have much interest as he was more cornered with the problem he faced currently.

"...do you have fun teasing me?"

Sona chuckled when she saw his dead-like eyes. "Weren't you the one who asked me to call you that?"

"Though, I never thought you would call me so easily."

"I have promised you after all."

"You won't challenge me again on "Rating Game" or summon a Longinus user to break away from this marriage?"

"...who do you compare me with?"

Sona was speechless, but she had to say Riser's life was rather hard, and somehow she didn't feel surprised by his decision to divorce Rias.

"I have decided to marry you, so I will become your wife and accept everything."

Riser stared at Sona and understood that it was her silent acquiescence to his harem, so asking more than this was unethical of him. He stopped and looked into his wife-to-be. It might be his first time observing her closely like this. While before they sat face to face, their attention was all on the duel before them. It would also be rude of him if he observed her obsessively like a certain idiotic pervert did.

Sona also stopped and stared into him.

They stared into each other and fell into silence.

[Just kiss and push her on the bush. There is no one around, and everything will be okay]

"........"

Was it really okay?

Still, when he thought of his previous kiss with Rias, he knew he didn't lack guts. Instead, he was lively, burning like a blazing flame.

In front of him, Sona was like a tranquil lake, untarnished.

It might be his impulse, but slowly, he moved closer, trying to reach her lips.

Her eyes widened, startled for a moment, but she had made up her mind, especially when she had decided to become his wife. She closed her eyes, waiting for the kiss, but somehow that kiss didn't come.

"Hmm?"

She opened her eyes slightly then, and then her cute, pointy nose was tapped lightly before she saw him laughing childishly.

"........"

She took a deep breath and had the urge to blast him with a flood of water.

"I was just kidding."

"...I can see that."

Her voice was frosty, clearly annoyed and angry by being teased.

Was it his way of revenge since she had teased him?

If so, then she realized that he might be a little too petty.

She pouted and showed a cute expression.

"I liked this expression more."

"........" Sona.

"However, don't get impatient, okay? We're the devil, and we will live a long life. You are going to be my wife, so I want to treasure you until we marry."

"Well..."

She suddenly got embarrassed.

With the excitement of their parents, they knew that it wouldn't take a long time for them to marry, but then her attention was all on him again, especially when he held her hand.

"Can we continue our walk?"

"Sure."

The two continued their walk intimately as their relationship became closer.

While the two spent time together, they underestimated the time their parents spent preparing for their wedding. They wanted to tie them as soon as possible, so no one hesitated and immediately threw the invitation.

In that short moment, almost all the devils knew that Riser Phenex and Sona Sitri were going to marry.

Naturally, this surprised everyone.

News of his act to divorce his former fiancee was still spreading and being talked to by everyone, yet suddenly news of his wedding to Sona Sitri, the heir of the Sitri Clan, and the little sister of Serafall Leviathan, was heard.

Unfortunately, Serafall, Sona's older sister, didn't hear it as she was still outside as she was in charge of Foreign Affairs on the devil.

However, the rest heard all of that, especially those Devils with high positions.

Whether it was the Great King Faction or the Maou Faction were in strange moods as this wedding was unexpected for them.

When the Great King Faction thought the Phenex House was going to break away from the Maou Faction due to Rias and Riser, they suddenly heard Riser was going to marry Sona Sitri.

Meanwhile, Sirzech Lucifer felt the most complicated as he was the one who had been helping Rias behind the back as he doted on his little sister so much. Unfortunately, his support brought nothing but trouble to his little sister, and he also didn't expect Riser to divorce Rias.

Sirzech sighed and felt exhausted while thinking that Serafall's little sister was more capable than her little sister.

Yet, he knew that Riser's act of marrying someone so fast after divorcing his former fiancee was like throwing mud into Rias. While he was angry, he was also helpless, and he could also do nothing unless he wanted to force Serafall to become his enemy.

By now, he knew he could do nothing and only congratulated their happiness.

As someone in a high position, he could control his emotion, or rather he shouldn't let his emotion cloud his judgment since one mistake would lead to the crumble of the peace he longed for.

Yet, while Sirzech could control his emotions, Rias, who heard about the marriage between Riser and Sona, couldn't control her emotion as it was the first time that someone dared to shame her like this.

"How dare you, Riser?!"

Rias couldn't control her emotions and broke all the things within her room.

As for her Servants? They could do nothing and could only watch their Master helplessly and in pain since they knew everything had become like this was partly because of them.

Yet, nothing could be done, and the wedding between Riser and Sona was about to take place.