"Tea, coffee or Cola ?" Rin asked the two women sitting before him in an amiable tone.
Sona and Rias speechlessly gazed at the three cans of cola before them.
'Is there even a choice?!'
Sona's lips twitched a little as she didn't know what to say, while Rias tried to suppress her smile as she couldn't help but find this situation amusing.
Before both of them could say anything, Rin continued his words.
"Cola it is!" Rin smiled gently at them as he put down the drinks and got comfortable on the sofa. He made sure to ignore the two young women's speechless expressions.
"....." ( Rias )
"....." ( Sona )
Sona Sitri and Rias Gremory.
Of course, he knew who these two were, after all he had been an avid consumer of ACG. ( Anime comics and games )
But he was still confused when they suddenly approached him. He had no prior contact with these two.
Why did they come to him now?
He was just a half-devil banished from his clan for being a half-blood.
"So what are you two here for, Miss Gremory and Shitori " ( Sona calls herself Shitori in the human world. I kind of giggled when I read it as Shit-ori )
"Rias, just call me Rias. " Rias smiled at Rin amicably, then gave a subtle glance to Sona before turning her attention to the can of coke in her hands, wondering if she should take a sip.
She had been recently trying to go on a diet because of her addiction to junk food.
"Sona Sitri," Sona introduced herself calmly in her real identity as she placed a parchment that looked like a demonic contract on the table.
"This..." Rin was a bit surprised as he gazed at the parchment before him. The texts on the parchment weren't written in any human language but in demonic text, which he hadn't seen for such a long time.
Rin was a bit dazed as he felt nostalgic. He didn't feel sad, or any other emotion because his mom was already dead, and his father or his family treated him like shit until he was kicked out at the age of 8.
He was very content with his life in the human world, as no one looked at him with disdain or as if he were a lower life form.
"The family Crest of Valefor clan..." Rin said in a slightly surprised tone as he gazed at the parchment.
To think, even if he didn't want anything to do with the Valefor family, trouble would still come, and he couldn't escape the Valefor surname.
This parchment in front of him was a marriage contract, and the two parties on the contract were the Sitri family and the Valefor family.
As a half-blood, even if such a contract existed, it wouldn't be related to him. Sona only came to him because something must have happened to the Valefor family.
'Are they all dead ? ... Meh, not my problem' Rin shrugged inside his mind as he felt nothing hearing about the genocide of the whole clan.
It was like hearing about a stranger's death, and in this case, his family bullied him when he was young.
So, as the last remaining bloodline of the Valefor clan, Rin became the candidate for the marriage contract.
Rin could guess some things. He knew a little bit about Sona Sitri's character; from what he knew, he could infer that she must have come to break off the engagement.
Thinking about this, his lips twitched as he thought about the situation's absurdity.
Heir to a fallen clan, and his fiancé has came to break off the engagement.
When did he become the protagonist of a cheap Chinese novel?
Should he say those iconic lines for a power-up?
....
"I don't remember agreeing to an engagement?" Rin asked with a frown as he gazed at Sona and Rias, who were stumped by his answer.
Their reactions satisfied the inner troll in him.
"I refuse!" Rin said with a stoic face, making Sona dumbfounded, while Rias's eyes widened as she got the reference.
"W-What?" Son stuttered as Rin's reactions left her stumped for words.
She expected the other party to lash out at her and refuse to comply with her wishes. She had a backup plan for that. She would request that a rating game be conducted to decide the outcome. Rin's lack of proper peerage would put him at a disadvantage and although it sounded like she was bullying him, it wasn't her intention.
She just didn't want to marry him, and she expected him to be offended by it. Still, all of her planning and preparation were for nought, as it seemed her Fiancé didn't want her at all.
....
"I said I do not agree to be your fiancé. I don't even know you, and I have no interest in matters relating to the underworld or the Valefor clan." Rin said in a slightly amicable tone as if he was trying to break the negative news to Sona in a way that wouldn't make her sad.
Sona felt speechless. She felt like the roles were reversed, and her pride was hurt.
Did he dislike being her Fiancé that much?
Was she that unattractive?
The matter of her engagement was solved so easily, but why did she feel annoyed that it was this easy?
.....
[ Sona ]
[ Rias ]