You really are stingy, Rias!”
She picked up the fallen pillow and nailed Buchou in the face with it! Uwaa! A direct hit! Buchou brushed the pillow away from her face! Her eyes were a bit watery! “This house was just renovated, so I won’t let you do as you please, Akeno!”
Finally, she threw away all of her appearance and words which had brimmed with elegance, and threw the pillow again with the voice and face of a girl her age! Akeno-san dodged the pillow and then threw my own pillow at Buchou! “Sirzechs-sama said that we should live together and get along with each other!”
“This is my and Ise’s house! Both you and onii-sama are in the way of Ise and me! I can’t stand it anymore!”
Those words make me extremely happy, Buchou! Tears full of emotion came out! I’m more blessed than I deserve as her servant! But those words just now are all just the selfishness of an ojou-sama, aren’t they? “You intend to ignore Sirzechs-sama’s wishes!? So you value Ise-kun more than Maou-sama then! —Lend me Ise-kun for a bit as well!”
“No! Absolutely not!”
The two onee-samas were having a quarrel appropriate for girls their age. H-Hmmm. Since we started living together, I had gotten to see Buchou’s and Akeno-san’s true faces, but…The two great onee-samas who gave off a noble atmosphere. Everyone admired them. I admired them as well. However, in reality, they were ordinary girls who also showed faces appropriate for their age. I wasn’t particularly shocked about that. Rather, I was happy. The “noble” them were good, but them acting as girls was also cute. Rather, I think I like them like this even more. Hmm? Then, I felt doubts about some of the details of their quarrel since a while ago. …The house was just renovated…? Now that I think about it, the bed looked excessively big…Since there was plenty of space left on the bed even though Buchou and Akeno-san were having a pillow fight. Arerere!? Was my bed always this big!? So big that there was still enough space even with four people on it!? Rather, there was even a canopy as well! When I looked around the room carefully…I realised that it was more spacious than before! Huh!? It was this spacious!? Even though my room was only 8 tatami-matswide! Isn’t it twice as big now!? The television had also changed from a small cathode-ray tube type to a huge new-model flat screen TV! Aaaaah! There were even all the latest kinds of game consoles! Things that I couldn’t buy with just my allowance and part-time earnings were in my room! I quickly left my room! Strange! It was just my normal house until last night! The corridor was twice as spacious as before! There were also staircases leading both up and down!? My house, as a two-story building, was only supposed to have two floors here! There is a third floor now!? When I took a peek at the staircase, somehow, it looked like the levels didn’t stop at a third floor! When I ran down the stairs, an amazingly spacious entry hall appeared before me! I let out a wheezing breath, and when I looked at my entire house from the outside—. How can this be!? My house was!? By the work of a carpenteeeeeer!? “W-What the hell is thiiiiiiiiiiiiis! ?”
My scream echoed throughout the neighbourhood. Naturally. My house—in addition to having more than twice the plot area, had become a six-story building. “No, it was renovated. I was also shocked when I got up this morning. The house was renovated while we were sleeping.”
Breakfast set. At the table that had become five times wider than before, my father said that while wearing a smile all over his face. Gathered around the table were all the members of my new family, including myself, my parents, Buchou, Asia, Akeno-san and Xenovia. I had questioned my father after we began eating. The short question, “What’s going on?”
My mother brought in the breakfast miso soup from the kitchen which had also become five times wider. “Apparently Rias’s father does work related to construction as well and he said that he’d renovate this place free of charge as part of a model house.”
There’s no way that kind of story could be true! No, I could understand it if Buchou’s parents did it. It was because she knew all this that Buchou was eating her meal calmly and silently. Rather, let alone renovating, didn’t our lot area also expand? Haven't the neighbouring houses completely disappeared and been turned into the grounds of our new house…? “Now that you mention it, it seems that Suzuki-san and Tamura-san next door have moved away. I hear that they suddenly obtained some favourable plots of land and then moved there.”
So said my father. —! Buchou’s family was definitely involved with that! There was no mistake! “It’s all right. It was a peaceful settlement. So that everyone could be happy.”
Next to me, Buchou smiled widely while whispering. So this is the negotiation technique of Devils!? Since Buchou said so, the neighbours had surely ended up happy as well, but… How dreadful they are, the Gremory family! My mother held out the house blueprints. It looked to be the room assignment chart. “On the first floor are the guest rooms, living room, kitchen, and Japanese-style rooms. On the second floor are the rooms of Ise, Rias-san and Asia-chan. The arrangement has the other two adjacent to Ise’s room. It seems to be structured so that you can go between the rooms next to each other from inside.”
I see, so the second floor was entirely for Buchou’s selfishness. Uwah, my room seems to be more than four times bigger than before…Was the installation of furniture also from the Gremory’s possessions? Amazing…There was a huge television I’d never seen before in the living room. There was also a chandelier on the ceiling…
“On the third floor are your father’s and my room, the study, and the storeroom. On the fourth floor are Akeno-san’s and Xenovia’s rooms. There’s also the room for Koneko-chan, who will be coming later.”
When my eyes met with Akeno-san’s, she gave me a full-blown smile. For some reason, that smiling face looked more genuine than the smiles she usually wore…Recently, Akeno-san has had a wonderfully nice smiling face when with me. It was different than her smiling face from before. It was difficult to explain, but could I call it her true smiling face? Akeno-san would show that face to me now. I felt closer to Akeno-san now, with her having a much gentler atmosphere compared to before. I felt like she wasn’t an existence outside of reach anymore—. Though, for me, she was still someone far beyond my grasp…
As my heart was pounding, Buchou lightly pulled my cheek. Auu, Buchou has steadily become more severe too…I have no intention of having any master besides Buchou, though. She worries too much. My mother continued her explanation of the room assignments. “The fifth and sixth floors are entirely made of just vacant rooms. For the time being we intend to use them as guest rooms.