So while the coup d’état happened, nothing much happened to Rias huh. I look at Kiba.
“Looks like nothing happened to you guys, Kiba.”
Kiba shrugs his shoulders.
“We didn’t even get dragged into it so it let me down. I guess they aren’t bored enough to lay their hands on us while they were having a war within their faction. At least till now, that is.”
Kiba looks at the double door while saying that.
……I see, so they are planning to meet us at once since everyone has gathered here.
The soldiers that are standing on both sides of the door who are equipped with armour and swords from an old era say after seeing us.
“Now then, please come in to have your meeting with our new King—”
While saying that, they open the giant double door—. The door opens while making a heavy sound.
Sensei walks inside first and Rias walks in after him. We walk in after them.
A spacious room. There is a huge red carpet placed on the floor, and there’s a relief of the same beast that was on the double door threaded into it which is shining in gold.
At the end of the carpet—there is a throne placed on the highest floor of this room.
The one sitting on the throne is a young woman. There is a young man present a bit away from the throne. The man has a beautiful face like that of a doll, but the reason why he doesn’t feel as if he’s alive must be because he’s a pure-blood.
Within the spacious throne room, there are unexpectedly few numbers of Vampires besides the woman on the throne and the man near the throne, such as several soldiers and several of those wearing noble attires. —And like I imagined, the nobles here also have an appearance of those from mediaeval times.
……I was preparing for there to be more Vampires here and then they would surround us……however it’s unexpectedly quiet in here.
I see, so that’s why the coup d’état went smoothly. They had dug deep within the government. It means that they were prepared in overthrowing the throne.
……The Khaos Brigade probably helped them, but I never thought that they were doing things like this at places where we can’t check.
No, since this is the base of Vampires that distanced themselves from the other forces, they were able to progress this far with their plan without any interference.
I’m already feeling disgusted at the act of the terrorist organisations, but I fix my posture due to being in front of the throne.
The one sitting on the throne is a woman with a strong trait of sand colour in her blonde hair and has her hair tied—. She’s wearing a dress which isn’t luxurious at all and she has a gentle smile on her face.
She appears to be three or four years older than me. A shapely face. You may call her a beauty. Instead of having a crafted beauty of that of a complete doll like Elmenhilde, she has a beauty of a human appearance.
……She probably carries both the beauty of a Vampire and a human since she’s a half-blood.
Except—. I may have shown a lecherous face in joy if she was simply a beautiful woman. However……
Her two red eyes—are shallow. Eyes that lost light……
The woman with shallow eyes greets us.
“How do you do, everyone. My name is Valerie Tepes.”
Her smile—carries emptiness and pitifulness.
“Ah, umm, it’s been decided that I would be the current Head of the House of Tepes as well as the Queen. Pleased to make your acquaintance from now on.”
……Her voice is very light. However……Her gaze isn’t so clear that she’s not looking at a particular person properly. She then catches the sight of someone she knows and directs her gaze at him.
“Gasper, you have grown bigger.”
Valerie who gives her words to Gasper. Gasper……puts on a sad expression seeing her like that. But Gasper forcefully puts on a smile.
“Valerie…… I wanted to see you.”
“Me too. I really wanted to see you. Please come a bit closer to me.”
Valerie makes him come closer to her. Gasper approaches her. The soldiers and Vampires around her aren’t even trying to stop Gasper coming close to her.
Valerie mutters while hugging Gasper.
“……I’m glad you are doing okay.”
“Yup, even though I became a Devil……I’m doing fine.”
“Yes, I have heard. It seems like they are taking good care of you over there.”
“Yup, I also made friends and seniors. I’m not alone anymore.”
Gasper looks towards us. Valerie also smiles when she looks at us.
“Oh my……so all of you are Gasper’s friends. ……Ara?”
When Valerie looks towards a different direction,