Chapter 269: Tenacity

How cold.

Riser didn't mean the temperature of the Underworld was cold. Instead, he felt Ajuka was too cold toward his little brother. Even if they weren't close to each other, they were still a family, yet Ajuka treated Diodora Astaroth like a mere stranger who had nothing to do with him.

The fact that Diodora Astaroth was related to the Khaos Brigade and also the death of the heir of the previous Glaslya-Labolas was something that no one expected, yet they never expected this fact would come out from Ajuka's mouth himself.

Was this the reason why Ajuka was together with Falbium?

Knowing this fact, Ajuka tried to make up Falbium with something.

Riser decided to abandon his thought as he knew making an assumption had never been a good thing. Facing someone like Ajuka, he had to clear his mind. Moreover, he knew he needed to say something as no one talked, waiting for him to talk. Being above everyone was good and all, but he had to say, it was quite troublesome in this type of situation as he needed to move forward, especially facing a troublesome matter.

"Does this matter has been verified?"

"Yes and no."

"What do you mean, Ajuka?" Riser was confused.

"For now, there isn't any proof that my little brother colluded with the Khaos Brigade."

"Even so, do you think he is involved with the Khaos Brigade?" Riser wondered what the meaning of family was on Ajuka's head.

"Yes." Ajuka nodded. "His power had increased dramatically during his fight with the heiress of the Agares House, Seekvaira Agares. Moreover, I noticed a strange transaction with a large amount of money in his account. I thought it was weird, and when I checked on him, I realized he had involved himself with dangerous individuals."

"But there is no proof of that?"

"Currently, yes."

Riser took a deep breath and asked, "Since you have mentioned this matter, you must have some thoughts about this matter, right? Let's hear what you plan to do." When he finished his words, he glanced at Falbium and couldn't notice a strangeness in his expression as if Falbium had expected this.

Was Falbium never thought to have revenge against Ajuka?

Riser felt helpless, but he could tell that Falbium didn't even have any intention to make this problem bigger, especially when Ajuka had admitted the problem to his little brother in front of everyone.

At the same time, Riser realizes the treatment of the male sibling among the devils is so bad that no one cares about their death or life. Meanwhile, the little sister was being doted upon.

"Thank you." Ajuka stood up and faced everyone who was waiting for what he was going to say. "Everyone knows how dangerous the Khaos Brigade is. They have become more brutal than before, and they have attacked many myths, and even many humans have been harmed by them."

Everyone somehow puts their attention to Riser.

While Riser might do it for his family, everything started with him as he was the one who eliminated all the elements that were related to the Fake Phenex Tears. Due to the lack of funds, as they were unable to sell the Fake Phenex Tears, the Khaos Brigade and those who were associates with them robbed the wealth for many to gather their wealth.

In other words, if Riser hadn't stopped the Khaos Brigade from selling the Fake Phenex Tears, nothing like that would have happened.

However, could they blame Riser?

In the end, the one who could be blamed was the Khaos Brigade, and they would do everything to eliminate this cancer from the earth!

"However, even if we want to eliminate them, we don't know where they are. They are good at hiding, and they attack us all of a sudden when we are not prepared, so here I propose to use my little brother as bait."

Riser frowned and asked, "You want to sacrifice your little brother?"

"Yes and no."

"Stop with the riddle."

During this conversation, except for Riser and Ajuka, no one said anything, as everything would be decided by the two of them.

"If possible, I don't want my little brother to die since even if he is sinful, he is still my little brother, but I know that my little brother can't be forgiven, especially for what he had done."

Ajuka then bowed his head to Michael and apologized. "Michael, I apologized to my little brother. I know that you might not be able to forgive me and my little brother, but I will do my best to make up for it."

Riser felt weird by this scene and then asked Serafall, who sat by his side. "Why did Ajuka apoligize to Michael?"

"You didn't know, Riser-chan?" Serafall was surprised, then whispered, but her voice was rather loud, so everyone could hear it. "Ajuka-chan's little brother forced many pitiful sisters on the church as his women."

"Then, his peerage members?"

"Um." Serafall nodded. "Ajuka-chan's little brother should have forced all of those girls."

"What scum."

Riser sighed helplessly. Even if he was a playboy, he had never forced anyone to become his woman. He was a gentleman, after all.

"Scum~! Trash of the Underworld~!"

"...." Everyone."

Michael sighed, feeling helpless, and then stared at Ajuka. "I hope something like this won't happen next time, Ajuka."

"When everything is over, I will educate my little brother thoroughly." Ajuka apologized once again.

So, in the end, they would use Diodora Astaroth, Ajuka's little brother, as bait so the leaders and the members of the Khaos Brigade would come out. By then, they would use their everything to eliminate these dangerous elements from this world.

"Using him as bait is good and all, but how do you know that he will call the Khaos Brigade?"

Diodora Astaroth definitely wasn't stupid, as he was the heir of Astaroth House.

"I got the information that Diodora seemed to have an interest in Rias Gremory's Bishop."

"Bishop?"

Then, on the hologram screen, a picture of Asia was shown in front of everyone.

Still, by this point, everyone understood Diodora's fetish.

However, for one thing, they knew Ajuka was going to use Rias on this plan by making Diodora summon the Khaos Brigade during his match with Rias next time.

"So you are also going to use Rias-chan, Ajuka-chan?" Serafall was frowning.

"It can't be helped, and this is our only chance, Serafall. If we lose the Khaos Brigade again, they might cause more mayhem in this world. I know that this plan might endanger Rias and her peerage members, but as long as we react faster, they should be okay."

"That's..."

"I believe that Sirzech will also understand this plan." Still, Ajuka didn't focus on Serafall. Instead, he focused on Riser's reaction, but since he couldn't see anything from Riser's expression, he asked, "What do you think, Riser-kun?"

"They might die, you know?"

"I will make up for the Gremory House." Ajuka's eyes became firm. "I want to erase this cancer from this world as soon as possible."

"Do you need my help?" Odin suddenly asked.

"No, this time, you should see the power of our alliance so you will see that the power of our three factions isn't something that you can't underestimate." Ajuka shook his head firmly.

Riser narrowed his eyes.

What was this guy planning?

"Riser-kun, what do you think?"

Watching Ajuka's firm expression, Riser wondered whether his connection with the killing of Sirzech was found out. Even with "Perfect Crime," it didn't mean that everything was perfect, as sometimes one's heart wasn't something that could be predicted. Ajuka had more or less a prejudice toward him, so he knew that Ajuka must be planning to do something.

Yet, in the end, what determined everything was the power of individuals.

While Ajuka was strong, Riser didn't think that Ajuka could defeat him, especially the current him.

"You will be responsible for everything, Ajuka."

"Leave it to me."

With that, everything was settled, and they needed to wait until the day Rias would face Diodora in their second "Rating Game" match.