A Mutual Pursuit (4K)

"Miss Moonlit, stop joking. The famous Blood Moon Princess came to study in a place like this? Do you believe that yourself?"

Chapter 54: A Mutual Pursuit (4K)

"What Blood Moon Princess? You must have mistaken me for someone else!"

Miss Moonlit was slightly stunned, her face full of confusion.

She truly had no idea about that title. It was the first time she had heard it.

It just sounded so embarrassingly edgy!

"..."

Looking at Miss Moonlit's expression, Rias briefly wondered if she had really made a mistake, if the girl before her was not the vampire girl they had assumed she was.

But she quickly dismissed that thought. The girl before her was that Super Chainsaw Person.

"Miss Moonlit, there's no need to deliberately hide it at this point. After everything you did in Europe and America, do you really think you can keep it hidden?"

"Want to take a look?"

As she spoke, Rias took out a dossier and handed it to the vampire girl before her.

Rias was being so frank with this dangerous vampire girl, even directly revealing her identity without beating around the bush, because she had confidence.

Beside her, a Demon King Class existence was keeping watch at all times.

"..."

Miss Moonlit took the information Rias handed her, gave it a rough scan, and then her expression turned strange.

It was almost entirely intelligence about her, mainly her past exploits and speculation about her abilities. What made her unable to keep a straight face—and embarrassed enough to curl her toes—were the names they had given her.

Because no one knew her name, they had come up with all kinds of bizarre, cringeworthy titles that made her scalp tingle.

Blood Moon Princess was definitely one of the better-sounding ones. There were others like Chainsaw Person, Chainsaw Corpse Ripper, Blood Demon...

Just looking at them made Miss Moonlit want to chop someone up.

"Are all you devils really this bored, or have you become obsessed with the Island Nation's chuunibyou culture? What the hell are these titles?"

"Can you tell me who came up with these ridiculous names? Don't worry, I just want to have a friendly chat with them!"

Unable to stop herself, she crumpled the dossier in her hands. Miss Moonlit's crimson eyes stared at Rias before her as she maintained a deadly smile.

"Uh! I don't know who specifically came up with them either. It was all a long time ago. No one ever paid attention to that..."

Rias had not expected Miss Moonlit to care so much about such things. But she truly did not know who had coined those titles. Everyone simply thought they fit, so they had started calling her that.

Setting the others aside, Blood Moon Princess sounded pretty good, didn't it?

"I understand. So, Rias, you brought me here just to find out why I came to Kuoh Academy?"

At this, Miss Moonlit understood that finding the people who had randomly given her those titles would not be easy, and even finding them would not change anything.

Unless she found that future Sacred Gear and directly altered the course of history, changing what had happened before she appeared.

But there was no way to deal with that Sacred Gear for now. Like Gasper's Sacred Gear, it had not fully come into existence yet.

"That is only one reason. I merely wanted to make sure you would not endanger Kuoh Academy. Your purpose is not actually that important."

"Besides, I wanted to ask... Miss Moonlit, would you consider becoming my servant? As long as you agree, I will do my best to satisfy whatever you need!"

"I haven't introduced myself yet. I am..."

Rias introduced her true identity to Miss Moonlit, making no effort to conceal her intentions.

After learning that Miss Moonlit had fought a Fallen Angel Cadre and remained unharmed, she wanted even more to bring her into her team.

With the Blood Moon Princess joining her, once the Rating Games began, what the hell would that turkey amount to?

"!!!"

Listening to Rias, Miss Moonlit looked exceptionally surprised.

Well, damn. Rias had the same idea as she did.

Miss Moonlit wanted to turn Rias into her servant, while Rias wanted to take her as a servant. This was practically a mutual pursuit!

Except both of them wanted to be the other's master.

"What do you say? Miss Moonlit, you can take your time and think it over!"

Rias looked sincerely at Miss Moonlit. She truly wanted her to join her and was even willing to pay a certain price. But she also understood that such a matter could not be decided in a moment.

Becoming a servant, reincarnating as a devil...

This was something that required careful consideration. After all, Miss Moonlit was not like Rias's other servants, who had no worries holding them back.

However, Miss Moonlit immediately said, "No need to consider it."

"Huh?"

The moment she heard that, Rias became incredibly uneasy. Had she been rejected? Or had she agreed?

"Rias, didn't you want to know why I came here? It's actually very simple. My goal is you."

"What do you mean? Me?"

Rias froze. She had not expected such an answer.

Could it be that this Blood Moon Princess liked girls?

She liked her?!!

This...

If that was the case, Rias felt a little conflicted. She did not have that sort of preference.

Yet as she looked at the girl before her, whose looks and figure were no worse than hers and perhaps even more charming, she found that she was not quite so resistant to the idea.

If Miss Moonlit agreed to become her servant, perhaps it would not hurt to give it a try.

But Miss Moonlit's words in the next second shattered all those thoughts.

"What I want is the same as you, Rias... Become my servant!"

The corners of Miss Moonlit's lips curved slightly upward, revealing her adorable vampire fangs.

Only then did Rias finally realize that this vampire girl wanted her to become her servant.

"Impossible!!"

Rias took a step back and rejected her without hesitation.

As the younger sister of a Demon King, a high-ranking pure-blooded devil, how could she possibly become someone else's servant? That would disgrace the Gremory Family.

Even if Rias herself agreed, her family—her parents and brother—would definitely never allow it.

"What a shame!"

"I'm different from those so-called vampires. If you become my servant, you'll gain the power of being Ageless and Undying."

Miss Moonlit continued.

She had already completely fused with the Sacred Gear Sephiroths Cup. Combined with Miss Moonlit's original power system, as long as her servants were not killed by several specific types of power, they could immediately resurrect even after death.

"Ageless and Undying..."

Rias thought once more of her fiancé from the Phoenix Family. So-called immortality was only revival to a certain extent; it was not true deathlessness or indestructibility.

Still, for a vampire to possess such a trait was indeed surprising! Unfortunately, no matter what, she could not become someone else's servant.

The two of them argued back and forth for quite a while afterward, but neither Rias nor Miss Moonlit was willing to become the other's servant. Instead, each wanted the other to become hers.

In the end, nothing was settled.

Yet it seemed that neither Rias nor Miss Moonlit had given up because of that. Miss Moonlit especially did not seem worried that she would fail. Before long, Rias would surely agree.

Watching Miss Moonlit's departing figure, Rias finally asked into the empty space, "Grayfia, what do you think?"

A magic circle appeared beside Rias, and then a silver-haired woman emerged from thin air.

Although the woman wore a maid uniform, her presence was powerful. She was clearly no ordinary person.

And indeed, that was the case. Though she usually appeared as a maid of the Gremory Family, most people who knew of her feared her greatly.

She was Grayfia Lucifugus, known as the Underworld's strongest queen, the Silver-Haired Annihilation Queen.

She came from the Lucifugus, an unaffiliated noble devil house that had served the Demon King Lucifer for generations.

As a member of the Old Demon King faction, she had fought the reformists and competed with Demon King Serafall for the title of strongest female devil. Yet on the battlefield, she had fallen in love with the reformist hero Sirzechs Gremory, the current Demon King Lucifer.

After overcoming countless trials, the two finally came together, and their love story became a legend in the Underworld.

"She is very strong..."

Grayfia's expression was solemn after appearing. She had not expected to encounter such a person here.

"Could she be stronger than you?"

Rias frowned at that. Even Grayfia thought she was strong? Her sister-in-law possessed the strength of a top-tier Demon King and was not much weaker than her brother...

"Hard to say, but she definitely possesses strength beyond that of an ordinary Demon King Class."

Without fighting her, Grayfia could not be certain.

But she could be sure that this vampire could threaten most Demon King Class beings.

"Lady Rias, if you want to make her your servant, I'm afraid it won't be easy!"

Looking at her husband's younger sister, Grayfia treated Rias as her own younger sister. It was only the matter of the engagement that had left Rias deeply resentful toward both her brother and Grayfia.

Grayfia understood Rias's thoughts, but subduing that vampire would be too dangerous.

"Not easy doesn't mean impossible, right? By the way, was what she said about being Ageless and Undying true? Do vampires have such power?"

Rias was somewhat curious.

"...I don't know. I suspect that she may not actually be a vampire."

After several seconds of silence, Grayfia spoke. Even with her discernment, she could not determine that vampire girl's race. She did look like a vampire, but she also seemed not to be one.

After thinking about it, Grayfia added, "Also, she possesses more than one Sacred Gear."

"She actually possesses more than one Sacred Gear?"

As expected of someone she had taken a liking to, Rias wanted her even more now!

"The one hiding beside Rias was probably her sister-in-law, Grayfia Lucifugus! As expected of a queen comparable to that Demon King, her strength really is formidable."

After leaving Rias, Miss Moonlit recalled the person she had sensed beside her earlier.

That woman definitely possessed Demon King Class strength, perhaps even beyond Demon King Class. No wonder Rias had dared to call her aside alone despite considering her dangerous.

Faced with such an existence, Miss Moonlit did not dare guarantee that she could win. But with her methods, she could fight and safely escape, so she was naturally not too afraid.

Come to think of it, Grayfia was also one of her bounty targets.

An S-rank bounty. Turning her into a vampire would also earn a considerable number of Crystals.

Unfortunately, she did not have absolute confidence right now.

If she were SS-rank now, it would not be a problem at all. Or she could develop more servants; a vast number of servants could bring her a tremendous increase in power.

But that brought her back to the original problem. She did not want to casually develop servants!

"Huh!"

Before she knew it, Miss Moonlit realized she had arrived at the tennis club's area on campus.

"Classmate, is there something you need?"

"Classmate, are you here to join the tennis club?"

Noticing Miss Moonlit's arrival, several tennis club students approached and asked curiously. Some who recognized her even warmly asked whether she wanted to join the club.

Since Kuoh Academy had once been a girls' school, some outstanding girls were extremely popular among other girls. Quite a few people were especially enthusiastic toward Miss Moonlit, a beautiful girl capable of rivaling Rias.

"Sorry for disturbing you! May I ask if President Abe is here?"

Miss Moonlit was very polite toward the girls from the tennis club. The girls here all had pretty good figures! Especially in their tennis outfits, which perfectly showed off their slim waists.

Perhaps joining a club like this would not be so bad.