Valerie’s Holy Grail is a masterpiece that I can never get bored of, so I did many experiments with it. Yes, that’s actually the only reason behind it. For that reason, the previous King who happens to be my father and my older brothers were a nuisance so I had them leave. And by that “bastard” you mentioned, are you referring to that person……? But this action was something we started.”
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…..What the. So this country turned into a mess only for someone like him……! Valerie simply puts on a smile even though she heard that. ……So he’s even controlling her feelings……! Even the noble Vampires that are present here panic at his words. “Your Highness, Marius! This is not something you should be saying here!”
“T-This is the audience room! E-Even if you are the temporal mayor of this country, we would need you to restrain yourself from saying anything more than that!”
“The ones you are talking to are the former governor of the Grigori and the heiress of the House of Gremory, so we will lose our place if they take your words as our whole standing!”
Those Vampires wearing noble attire start to panic and try to take back Marius’s bold words. Marius simply smirks and says this sarcastically, “I’m very sorry for that. I sure would love to have the role as a mayor taken away from me”. What an attitude. And the situation where those around him can’t do anything after he showed that attitude isn’t normal either. Seems like this Marius is the one who has all the authority here after all. I’m starting to burn inside due to my rage. Even my comrades are building hatred towards Marius and are glaring right at him. “……This is horrible. This is too horrible.”
The kind hearted Asia starts to cry at this reality. “……So you can’t release Valerie Tepes then?”
Rias asks, but Marius simply replies back by saying, “Obviously”. “Trying to talk to him is useless, Rias-buchou.”
Xenovia puts on a cold expression she has never shown before and is trying to draw out Durandal from the different dimension. Xenovia is pissed! “Let’s get rid of this guy and go home. This Vampire will only cause harm if we let him live.”
Xenovia doesn’t have a good impression towards Vampires. Her feelings must have exploded after seeing Marius’s true personality. “Stop, Xenovia! ……He is a mayor after all.”
Rias calms her down. Marius simply smiles naturally even though he is seeing Xenovia draw out her holy sword. “I’m terrified. Then let me introduce all of you to my bodyguard. It’s also one of the reasons I can act so mighty.”
Marius clicks his finger. Then chills pass through my body! ——!? It feels as though the pores on my skin opened, and I can feel the cold feeling running through my body. The feeling of having something very powerful targeting me. The pressure I’m feeling is telling me the danger of the situation I’m currently in. Not just me, but all of the ORC members look at one point with a serious expression. When I look there—there is a single tall man wearing a black coat leaning on the pillar. His hair that is a mixture of black and blond hairs. His unique heterochromia where his right eye is gold and his left eye is black. The man clad in black looks down on the floor after glancing towards us once. Kiba says it with a stern look while sweating. “……One of them clearly has a power in a different league. Judging from his presence, he doesn’t seem like a Vampire……”
So Kiba also feels the same huh. Yeah, me too. He is dangerous. If we have to pick the most dangerous person within this throne room, then that will be him. His quiet aura around his body is condensed with an unreal amount of dense aura. ……Even I can tell since I have been fighting with only strong foes. —He is a strong opponent who is among the monster class. Even Xenovia says while wiping off her sweat from her cheek. “If that man was involved in the coup d’état, then of course they would succeed. It even makes me wonder if there is someone who can even withstand that thing among the current Vampires.”
While everyone is feeling pressured by the man clad in black, Ddraig speaks to me from within me. [Of course he’s on a different level to all of you. He is someone that none of you can currently handle.] ……Ddraig, you know him? [Yeah, I knew it the moment I saw him even though he has the form of a human. —The Crescent Circle Dragon, Crom Cruach. The Dragon that was said to be the strongest among all the Evil Dragons.] —!? ……For real? So that is……one of the strongest Evil Dragons, Crom Cruach……! I gasp. Since I fought the Evil Dragon Grendel, I can tell that the aura around that man is even more dangerous than that crazy Dragon……! [Do not fight him at all costs. Even I thought you could fight the majority of enemies since you are still growing……but he’s a different story.] ……By the way, I want to ask but has he realised about us? [Yeah, he must have understood that you are the Sekiryuutei.] ……I’m terrified. I need to hope that he won’t say “Let’s battle” afterwards. How am I supposed to tell this to everyone else……? Marius claps his hand once again. “Let’s end here for today. We have your rooms prepared. Please stay here for a while everyone. Oh, that’s right. The current Head of the House of Vladi is also present at the basement of this castle, so all of you may want to meet him.”
The meeting ended there with those words of his, so we have no choice but to exit this room. Marius Tepes—. I realised very well that he’s the ringleader of this coup d’état and that he’s a dangerous fellow within a few minutes of seeing him. We left the throne room while having the man clad in black—Crom Cruach, within our sight—. We are taken to the room they prepared for us after we left the throne room. Sensei who is feeling unpleasant from his discussion with Marius mutters. “……He’s a man that I find hard to believe is a Vampire.”
Rias also nods. “Yes, you won’t find that many Vampires that will take action to satisfy his own greed over his blood and pride.”
Certainly that man called Marius is clearly different from Elmenhilde. I only heard him talk for a bit, but I did feel that he’s honest about his ambition. Sensei narrows his eyes. “That’s why fellows like him are dangerous. Since he can easily break the rules made by his clan after all. The coup d’état must also have started from there. And the one who went along with him were those nobles. Marius needed the cooperation of politicians for his own ambition. The politicians that agreed to his actions fulfilled the two desires of being strengthened by the Holy Grail and to get rid of the dissatisfaction they had towards the current government. It must have been easy for them to defeat the King’s side if they had the Evil Dragons that were revived by the Holy Grail with them.