How To Survive In The World DxD With Fragment Memories

"This is Ichika Seere, she is the daughter of Himari Seere who was the personal Maid of Ingvild" Serafall finally had a chance to talk after her father and Mother finished, behind her a was a young maid with twin style black hair and black eyes. From her features Masaru could deduce that she was of a Japanese Human, to think he would get a chance to see a true maid. "Pleased to meet you, I am Icika Seere, personal Maid to Ingvild Leviathan-sama. I wish to express my gratitude for fulfilling my deceased mother's life long wish"

Masaru smiled "It's a honor to fulfill your mother's wish, my name is Masaru Belial. Look forward working together with you for many years to come" Ichika smiled brightly "Yeah!" Serafall who saw this could not help but twitch her lips 'This.... womanizer! He flirting so naturally as if he does not realize it himself, can I really entrust So-tan to him?' Masaru spoke for a while longer with the Sitri Head and his wife.

"Apologies but I will have to leave, I still have many things to deal with now that the results came out" Lord Sitri said his good bye and left together with his wife, Serafall naturally left shortly afterwards as well even if she is willful and loved her family as a Devil King she had many responsibilities. "Shall we go meet Ingvild? It will be your first meeting her awake right?" Masaru walk in the direction towards the Hospital, "Ye-Yeah!" Seeing how she was nervious Masaru could not help but chuckle.

Seeing how Masaru was laughing at her she could not help but feeling embarrassed but wanted to pout, "No need to be nervous, although saying that will make you even more nervous so well just go with the Flow" Ichika almost fell on the ground when she heard how he was treating her nervousness so lightly 'Please be mindful of how you speak of a girl!!!' Is what she wished to say but she kept it in her heart since he status was that of a servant, thanks to her mother's training she took her status and responsibility seriously.

Just as Masaru was about to open the door he heard Akeno still in the middle of her sentence ".....Masaru is so unreasonable, I even seduced him but he does not respond to me... I even followed my mother's advice to wear some naughty maid clothes when his grandparents and father was not home but it still failed" Masaru wanted to interrupted but felt conflicted and ashamed, even Ichika who blushed she looked at Masaru with contempt "To think a lady would go so far and you still won't respond?"

"ehehe... Honestly it's not that I want to respond but it's still too soon..." Masaru opened the door at the moment Akeno was just about to continue, when the girls saw him all of them blushed since they were not sure for how long he was there because they were talking about him. Shirone skipped forward "Welcome back Onii-sama" Masaru smiled helpless at these girls while ċȧrėssing Shirone's head.

"Well since everyone is here, this is Ichika Seere. She is Ingvild's personal maid, so treat her as a part of the family" Akeno looked at the girl then to Masaru "She is not a peerage member like Ingvild?" Masaru shook his head but before he could answer Ichika felt anxious "Ingvild-sama is in your peerage!? But I never head anything about this?" "Ah..." Masaru forgot to explain this part to the girl, so he took this time to explain how he "cured" Ingvild along with the condition he gave to Serafall to protect her, but what he did not expect was "Allow me to join as well, I can't allow Ingvild-sama to face dangers alone I have to be at her side!"

Akeno and Stepahni walked in front of the girl looking at her sternly enough to make her flinch, "We will personally test you first before you join the peerage... Ingvild was a special case but the way as you are now is a no no" Stephani nodded "Yes, we can't have you take advantage of Masaru-sama's kindness otherwise you too will have to face a great trial of being close to death if his sisters catch wind of this and I will be included if I did not stop you"

"I--- But..." Ichika wanted to say something in returned but Akeno cut her off, "You can still be at Ingvild's side all the time, it will only be on Rating Game moments you will be separated but the rest of the time will be fine... If you are serious about joining the peerage you need to readjust your loyalty, unlike Ingvild who only learnt about the Evil Pieces and how it works you already know"

"I'm sorry that I worried you...." Ingvild naturally knew the story of her personal maid, it was sad but she felt that Himari would have been proud of her daughter who kept her promise to her even if it was only for a decade. "I know your mother trained you to be my personal maid, but I only want you to know if there is ever a time you wish to do something else you don't have to worry about m--" Ichika shook her head smiling warmly "No, I am happy my mother trained me to be my lady's personal maid. You are after all, someone she saw as her little sister. And my wish is to stand by your side like my mother did before and watch over you in her place"

Ingvild pulled Ichika with the little strength she could muster in her body, Ichika who felt her pull moved her body towards her so she will not be burdened to pull her. "I'm glad Himari neesan managed to have such a lovely daughter like you, I'm sure she is truly proud of you as I am" Ichika choked on her tears while nodding as she listened to Ingvild's words. "But Ichika, I know you wanted to join the peerage to fulfill your mother's task, but like Akeno nee-san said you will have to put Masaru-sama as your first priority..."

Ichika wanted to say something but Stephani who was in a similar situation was more presuasive than the others "Ingvild is not telling you to throw away your loyalty towards her, only that you will put Masaru first... If you can't tolerate the thought of putting Ingvild in danger to save Masaru, then become strong enough to prevent it then there should be no trouble"

"That's enough" Masary sighed... The way how his team was gathering too fast with limited time of cooperation, getting to know each other, not to mention too short to develop loyalty. He could not allow his peerage to be short lived, he already made up his mind that the knight he intends to get from Vatican will be the last member he will take and from then on he will be training his peerage members while taking them out on missions to develop the stronger sense of comradie and also to change the way how Stephani was acting towards him.

What he did not know was the training the girls underwent well for Akeno, Shirone, Stephani and Angelica it already resolved most of the issues he thought off and as for Everest it appears he will not have much trouble with her as he naturally fought her for a week. Ingvild is a special case so he can take his time with her while she recuperate he can allow his team to form a bond with her and such.

Hearing Masaru's order the girls stopped talking about having Ichika join the peerage, but Akeno and a few others like Ingvild knew this girl will push to enter someday. "Anyway, since the Sitri family resolved the problems regarding the people who wanted to sell Ingvild. We can finally go home"

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"Ma-kun....." Diana was looking at Masaru with a slightly irritated look, they just managed to extinguished a fire in the back of his team's courtyard which was Stepahni and now he brought another girl. "Hold on!" Masaru began to scream as Diana dragged him out on the reason being "For Training", mournful cries could be heard with explosions occuring form time to time again.

Meanwhile Ingvild bowed towards everyone, "Uh---Uhm.... My name is Ingvild Leviathan, by fate I have become Masaru-sama's Queen and will endeavor to work hard towards the expectations he have of me. So please take care of me from now on" Every word Ingvild said was from her heart but it was also advice she got from Akeno to prevent another Stephani situation, "Pleased to meet the members of the Belial Family, I'm Ichika Seere, I'm Ingvild-sama's personal Maid"

"Such cute girl" Calfa walked closer pulling Ingvild into a warm hug "I'm Masaru's grandmother so you can call me Grandmother as well" Ingvild began to silently tear up in Calfa's embrace, unlike the embrace with Masaru the embrace with Calfa penetrated her heart deeply since nothing can replace a mother's love. "Oh my, there... there" It took a few minutes for Ingvild to calm down and only then Diehauser came closer "I'm Masaru's father, Diehauser Belial" Ingvild who looked at Diehauser could not help but smile "He truly is your son...." She muttered softly which only Calfa heard.

It was only after two hours after the everyone introduced themselves to Ingvild and Ichika, but the ladies were more vigilant towards Ichika after they heard from Stephani who thought it will be better they knew before hand. They did not deem her as a threat but instead were already planning her trial she will face before they approve of her, since she was a maid trained to be loyal to only one master made the trial she will face be several levels above Stephani's... Well that is IF she does intend to join.

Diana came back into the room and pulled Ingvild into a hug, "I'm happy to meet you Ingvild, I'm Masaru's kaa-san. I don't mind if you call me Kaa-san as well" "Ye-Yeah Ka----Kaa-sama" Diana spinned Ingvild in circles going "Kyaa kyaa" out of excitement for gaining another adoptive daughter, in the two hours she was beating Masaru up she naturally learned about everything about this girl from Masaru including his reason for making her his queen. From a Political view she believe he made the smartest move and from a personal view, if this girl's personality was not the way it was it would have been troublesome.

Damian just arrived after working the fields entered the room seeing that the number of girls in the manor increased he could not speak out loud "I know I told him to create a Harem team in my place but I did not think he would rush it this --- BWahhhaaaaa!" Before he could finish his words Calfa threw her shoe into his face, "You shut it! You old pervert!" She dragged Damian away to lecture him.

Ingvild giggled "Who was that?" Diana smiled "That is Damian, Masaru's Great Grandfather. His frank, bold and honest. But he is truly kind above all" Ingvild smiled "I can understand why I could feel such a large amount of warmth and kindness when Masaru remained at my side while I was sleeping" Diana's interest was piqued "Oh, care to tell me more about that?" Thus Ingvild told her tale of how she met Masaru which sounded similar to a snow white movie, when Dominic and Diehauser heard this they turned to look at each other thinking 'From who did this boy inherent such a natural lady killing talent'

"Urg..." Masaru limped into the room before collapsing on the couch, his body was sore. The amount of fierce beating he suffered under Diana was equivalent to a full day's training, it was torturous. "You deserve that! For making us all worry about your future" Masaru said nothing and only nodded, just as Diana learnt about Ingvild from him, he learnt about what they did the week he was not at home. He never realized his own actions were giving his family such a high degree of stress so he once again resolved himself only to get the knight and after he will consolidate the bond with the members then before taking any more members.

"Are you taking everyone with you to the Vatican?" Dominic thought it was too early to leave for the Vatican if Masaru intends to take Ingvild with him even if she had a personal maid, Masaru shook his head "No, I will only be taking Shirone and Everest with me. The rest will remain here and train" Diana nodded "I will personally train Akeno and Ingvild while your away" Masaru looked at Diana sternly "Ingvild's body is stable but don't push her too hard" Diana stick her tongue out "Naturally I won't be hard on my daughters but your a different case"

"How unfair!"

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Ichika however was having the hardest time as she was continuously harassed by Shuri and Akeno who began to turn her maid uniform more naughty every other day, but she still fitted in but on the second day after their arrival she mysteriously disappeared and came back exhausted to her bones with a Refreshed Julia and Circe who felt reassured about a few things.

"Are you sure?" Stephani felt a bit nervous about this plan but Diana smiled at her reassured, "Go, I will make sure no one will disturb your time but be sure to tell him... Remember he is leaving for Vatican and when he will be coming back is not confirmed" 'Although it will probably not be longer than a week but this girl sure is tough to push'

Stephani finally accepted it moving towards Masaru who was currently swinging his sword to finish up his night practice since tomorrow morning will be the day of his flight, "Uh--uhm... Masaru-sama" Masaru stopped looking towards Stephani whose attitude was completely different from how he knew her. "Something the matter?" Stephani shook her head "Could we speak a bit alone?" Masaru nodded while walking with her towards the bench where his towel and water bottle was placed, wiping the sweat away he took his seat and Stephani next to him.

"I wanted to talk to you for a while now... Ever since the day after I became your bishop" Stephani looked at the stars, "I always looked at the stars whenever me and my mother were relaxing outside. She was a strong mother but her kindness was her only weakness she had, we never knew why the family suddenly decided to kill me and my mother but I only remember it being a night like this looking at the stars. My father came ahead of the family to warn my mother...."

Stephani began to tell her tale how she witnessed her father fight with his life on the line against his own family to protect his daughter and wife to run, how they had to move from one town to the next while even taking risks to be near other faction's territory in hopes they could use the other faction as a deterrence from their ȧssailants. They kept running day after day until her mother came in contact with her brother who told her that it will be safe to hide with him, but never did it cross their mind that the brother was a traitor who set up a trap for them.

"My mother died while killing her own brother to give me enough time to run away, ever since then I have been bullied by boys and men while I was running away while keeping the hatred in my heart swearing I will destroy the family who took everything from me... And then I finally met you, I really thought I was sleeping when I saw you saved me like a hero from the swordsmen who wanted to do more than just harm me.." Stephani's tears began to flow while she was choking on it, Masaru gently ċȧrėss her back. Not saying a word as he listened to her story.

"I feared my own saviour... You were far stronger than those who bullied me... I thought you were the same as my mother's brother who is nice in the open but shady in private.... I feared you that's why I thought I should cling onto Akeno-sama acting like a lesbian in hopes you might lose interest in me..." Masaru who heard this almost wanted to scream 'Great holy Satan! Am i really being seen as a beast that wants to ravage girls!?' He understood this girl but he still felt perplexed if the way he acted was wrong or something.

"After staying with you and your family, I realized I mistook you for someone who you were not. I felt ashamed and had no idea how I should fix it. I could only carry on my act while thinking how I should fix it.... Well that was until Circe nee-sama and Julia nee-sama trained me" Masaru flinched "Ehe, I am sorry about their way of dealing with things. My family is a bit over protective of me because of my past" Stephani looked at Masaru thinking this boy was simply too kind, he never blamed her... even now he apologized to her while she should be the one to apologize to him. "That's unfair.... Masaru-sama" Masaru did not hear clearly so he tilted his head but Stephani shook her head as if it was nothing important.