"Was it a success?" Venelana muttered unsurely.

"This place is..." Grayfia who's beside her started to survey her surroundings.

They seem to be near an arena of some sort and there's quite a lot of people surrounding them.

"...Grayfia, Venelana?" Both of them heard the voice belonging to the man they have been searching for.

Venelana and Grayfia's gaze immediately turned towards the voice source and they saw Issei looking at them in a surprised expression.

Even though his current situation is a little weird, him gripping an unknown woman by the neck, but that doesn't matter right now.

""Issei-sama!"" Both of them shouted happily before they run to his side.

"How did you two get here?" Issei asked in amazement. He unconsciously let go of his hold over Qianye Ying'er's neck.

The latter dropped to the ground while coughing violently.

"That's not important right now! Are you hurt anywhere, Issei-sama?" Grayfia started to thoroughly inspect Issei's body while slightly blushing. Venelana soon joined her in their little "inspection".

This is not the first time for Grayfia to touch his body but back then she was drunk and his last body figure is nowhere close to the current him...

"...Wait, 'Issei-sama'?" Issei said. Then he finally notices their outfit which looks similar to your standard company maid dress.

Ah... Now that he thinks about it, he remembered about Semiramis 'deal' with them... Is the deal having them work for their company?

"Ise!" Jasmine fumingly flew towards him before pointing her finger at the two newcomers: "Who are they?!" She's acting exactly like a cat whose tail has been stepped on.

"Oh? Well... They're my acquaintances?" Issei replied unsurely.

If he was still in a relationship with Rias then he could just say that they're his sister-in-law and mother-in-law but now...

"If they're only your acquaintances then why are they t-touching your body all over!?" She pointed out once more.

Only after Jasmine pointed that out Issei realized his current situation.

"You two... I'm fine, so stop it already." Issei said while lightly slapping their hands off of him.

Why do they even need to use their hands to see if he's hurt or not? They're magical beings so using their magic should be enough alright...

Issei doesn't have a single clue of Grayfia and Venelana's true feelings since he obviously never thought of them that way. And he also thought that they don't have feelings for him.

Both of them already married and also have children of their own after all.

He's still not informed of Grayfia's fake relationship with Sirzechs and he also didn't know about Venelana's marriage life.

"Ah..." Both of them sighed in pity.

"Since they're obviously not speaking in our native language then it's safe to assume that both of them are from your original world, Ise?" Jasmine said while she stationed herself beside him acting like his personal bodyguard...

"Indeed." Issei nodded.

"This girl is..." Venelana said while tilting her head: "Your new wife?"

"?" Jasmine who can't understand Venelana words obviously didn't react to her words.

"No, she's not... She's more like a little sister." Issei said with a twitch on his face.

"Little sister?" Venelana and Grayfia look at Jasmine's hostile gaze and then they look at each other.

"That's not a gaze what 'little sister' should have though?" Venelana muttered in a low voice and Grayfia also nodded at her statement.

"Setting that aside... How did you two arrive here again?" Issei asked once more.

"Well..." Then Grayfia started her explanation...

She doesn't keep Rias's group being a 'fuel' secret either.

They started their next experiment with the help of Princess Lala of Deviluke invention and one thing led to another, they manage to roughly locate his location.

But since they're still not sure whether it will be a success or not, they are debating who to use as a trial run.

Okita Alter and the other heroic spirits who were present volunteered themselves but the same goes for Grayfia and Venelana.

After a short discussion, Venelana and Grayfia are finally chosen... since they're the weakest there making their odds of success bigger.

"And you two okay with them being energy source like that?" Issei asked.

"They're the ones who volunteered themselves... As her mother, I wanted to object but Rias herself wanted to do it..." Venelana said with a sigh.

"..." Issei frowned slightly at her words.

It's not that he couldn't understand why Rias Gremory and the others are volunteered themselves like that... but the damage has already been done and things won't go back like they used to anymore.

Perhaps they could be friends sometime in the future but to ask him to accept them once again is impossible...

Jasmine who's beside Issei could sense the tense atmosphere surrounding him so she doesn't try to butt into their conversation.

After a while, Issei finally sighed to himself and he glanced at Qianye Ying'er who's glaring at Qianye Fantian with a gaze filled with hatred.

Qianye Fantian himself felt tense being glared like that by his own daughter but he couldn't do anything as thing stands... Even though he doesn't know the content of Issei's conversation with these two newly arrived women, just like Jasmine, he could sense something off from his expression alone.

"Ah, that's right. We need to inform Semiramis-sama and the others of t