Chapter 125 - Desire and? (1/2)

”Lavinia?” questioned the young man, looking at the long blond-haired girl.

”Ahh! Asgorath's smell...” the young girl seemed to ignore his inquiring as she kept rubbing her face with Wang Lei.

Grayfia was standing behind him with her stoic expression with Kuroka, Koneko, Rias, and Akeno. They were looking at the girl and were wondering what kind of relationship does Wang Lei has with this girl.

A moment later, the girl finally calmed down and looked at Wang Lei with an expression, as if she was wronged, though it only made her look cuter.

”Why did you not come back to meet me, Asgorath?” she demanded of Wang Lei, who was still surprised that she found out where he lived. But then he remembered that he left her with a device to find him and smiled.

”Sorry. I had some other things to take care of and, kind of, forgot to visit you.”

Her cheeks swelled cutely, ”How can you forget about me?”

”I am sorry. Anyway, let's go in first.” said the young fox, gently ċȧrėssing her head.

Lavinia nodded happily and ran to get her bags before going in with them.

Feeling the stare, Wang Lei looked his behind and saw girls staring at him with question evident on their face about who she is.

”I will explain. Let's go in first.”

Grayfia and others nodded before following after him. After going into Wang Lei's room, everyone sat together and looked at him, who was hugged by Lavinia with her ċhėst pressing on his arm.

Suzaku and Shuri were also present inside the room, looking at him. Though he called for Suzaku, Shuri was also present and followed after her.

Seeing as everyone was waiting for him to start, Wang Lei coughed before opening his mouth, ”Hmm, where should I start...” tailed him as he thought of where to start.

”Hmm, long story short, I met Lavinia when she was a kid and lost her parents. Since she was left alone in this world and was cute, I started to spend my time with her before leaving her with a device that notifies her if my memories have come back or not. That device also told her about my general location. I had told her not to find me If I had not gained memories, and once I did, I will go back to her - the end.”

Finishing his whole past in two lines, Wang Lei started to pat Lavinia's head, who seems to be sad after remembering her parents.

Seeing that everyone understood, Wang Lei nodded, ”Then I should go to sleep, I am sleepy after all.”

KNOCK KNOCK

Just as he finished speaking, someone knocked at the door garnering everyone's attention.

”What is it?” Suzaku asked. With her question, the door opened, and a man came in. Leaning to Suzaku, he whispered something. But with their enhanced senses, pretty much everyone heard it except Akeno, Rias, Shuri.

”Young Miss, regarding the information about the person called Baraqiel... It seems that he has died in one of his missions.”

Suzaku's eyes opened wide, hearing him.

”What you said, is it true?!” her voice increased higher as she inquired of the man, who started to sweat.

”It is indeed true, Young Miss! We have found the information directly from the Governer-General of Grigori! According to him, he could not come due to certain circumstances and had us know about it!” he said it all in one breath, holding nothing.

With her fist tightens, she looked towards Shuri, who had a frown on her face when she heard about Governer-General; suddenly, she had a bad premonition.

Looking at the scrunched face of Suzaku, Shuri asked worriedly, ”S- what happened Suzaku? Why are you making that face? D- did something happened at Fallen Angel's side?” her shaky voice echos inside the room, asking her niece question that she did not know how to answer.

”... We have got information about Baraqiel...” after some time, she opened her quivered lips, ”... Baraqiel... he has died on a mission.”

SILENCE

”Eh?” a dumbfound voice left Shuri's mouth. Her brain could not process what she heard. Baraqiel... her husband, who was supposed to come back after he completed his mission... is dead?

”It can't be...”

THUD

”AUNT! (MOTHER!)” Akeno and Suzaku shouted, at the same time, as Shuri fell on the ground, losing her consciousness due to shock.

Before her head hit the ground, Wang Lei caught her. His eyes narrow as he used <Analyze> on her. Sighing as he felt nothing wrong with her body except that she received a great shock.

”Don't worry. She is alright. Just a little shock on her mind; she would be alright after she rests a little.” reassured the dragon after seeing the worried sick face of both Akeno - who was already crying - and Suzaku.

Gently rubbing Akeno's head, Wang Lei looked towards Grayfia, ”Grayfia, take her to her room. She needs some rest.”

'Sigh... fuċkɨnġ Baraqiel... destroyed my whole night... did he have to die today? Can you not die sometime later?' Wang Lei thought.

By no means he was cold - no, maybe he was. Just that he did not care about some stranger's death. He was just irked that it made Akeno sad... and possibly may leave a scar in Shuri's mind. Since he liked Akeno and not her father.

”Rias, take Akeno to bed.” gently saying to the worried little redhead, Wang Lei put Akeno to sleep, who was still crying, hugging him tightly.

Nodding, Rias took Akeno with Koneko and Kuro following after. They could tell that Wang Lei was not in the mood to talk with anyone right now.

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A full moon hung in the sky, showering the night world with 'its' light. Himejima Clan was in eerily silence. One would be able to hear a drop of a needle; that much silence was enveloping the whole clan currently.

In one of its roofs, a young man with long silver hair was sitting there gazing at the night sky, with a frown evident on his face... as if he was bothered by something.

Gazing at the moon, Wang Lei was feeling an emotion unknown to him. When he heard Baraqiel's death and seeing Shuri's expression, he could not help but think that he has seen such a thing happened before - no! He had experienced something like that before, but he was sure that such a thing never happened.

'Dammit!... such an annoying feeling this is!' he cursed in his mind as he felt it growing with each passing second. It felt like someone was crunching and wringing his stomach over and over. At the same time, he felt like he wanted to become stronger, stronger than anything. He wanted to reach the apex of every multiverse. It annoyed him. It felt like he was being controlled by his dėsɨrės.