high school dxd · rias gremory · demon queen · harem · kuoh academy · supernatural · maternal · seductive · peerage · anime
Father watched me with solemn gravity. *—Rias, this is the Eternal Guardian. Pour your blood into the statue's mouth to awaken it.* I made a sharp cut across my palm; crimson drops fell into the stone's crevice. A pulse of demonic energy shuddered through the rock, then faded into silence. *—It is done,* I said, a thread of curiosity winding through me. Months later, at Kuoh Academy, my arrogant fiancé Riser Phenex arrived. During the Rating Game, he kissed and groped one of my chimera servants right in front of the assembled crowd, laughing with contemptuous ease. *—Ha! Rias will be mine—this marriage will seal the Phenex dynasty's power!* he boasted. Issei Hyoudou, furious and protective, charged forward. *—Let her go, you bastard! No one touches Rias like that!* he shouted,…