Grayfia's reaction was the same as the other women. Once she confirmed that she was neither dreaming nor hallucinating, she threw herself at him and hugged him tightly while sobbing.
Her tears and even snot smeared across his new shirt, soaking it completely. Yusuke waited for more than half an hour for her to finally calm down before speaking.
"Let's leave this place first."
This place was far too close to the headquarters of the Church. If they were discovered by coincidence, it could easily cause a misunderstanding and might even start a major fight.
Yusuke was not afraid of fighting. He had full confidence in his strength. Still, he had no desire to get involved in a meaningless conflict or become further entangled in political struggles.
He only wanted some peace of mind.
Everything he did was meant to secure a quiet and peaceful life, but with every passing day, he could feel that dream slowly slipping farther away.
"Hmm." Grayfia looked up at him, her familiar crimson eyes overflowing with love and obsessive light as she hummed softly with a wide, stupid grin. She had many questions. Why was he alive? How did he survive? Why was he here? How did he find her?
But she did not want to ask any of that right now. She only wanted to hold him like this for a long while. Maybe holding him forever would not be so bad either.
Yusuke used Instant Transmission and teleported away. When they appeared again, they stood in a very familiar place. It was the very spot where he had "died," the place where Grayfia and the other yanderes had fought.
"Grayfia, do you know what I feel right now?" He gently caressed her cheek with one hand and asked in a light tone.
Pa!
Before Grayfia could answer, she suddenly received a strong slap across the face. The hand that had been gently caressing her cheek hit the very same spot it had just been touching. Grayfia stiffened, her eyes widening as she stared in utter disbelief, her mouth opening as if to speak.
Pa!
But another slap shut her up. Yusuke placed his hand on her burning red cheek and said, "Shh, don't speak, I don't want to hear your voice right now, so shut up please... okay?"
"..." Grayfia nodded softly and stood still watching him as he raised his hand high once again and slapped her across the face.
Pa! Pa! Pa!
"You crazy bitch! I can tolerate you calling me yours, tolerate being confined in one place, even tolerate you forcing me to declare that you own me," Yusuke slapped her again and again across the face. His palm struck her cheek, then the back of his hand followed when he drew it away, the blows landing one after another while he spoke. "But what the fuck do you mean when you say you will make sure I never even have dangerous thoughts?!"
[Slap! Bitch slap! Yeah! Harder! Slap her harder, daddy!] B2 yelled in his mind. From her tone, she sounded like she was having a great time watching Grayfia get slapped.
Pa!
"Am I some toy for you to mold however you please?!" His voice rose into a furious roar, and the force behind his hits grew even stronger. When one of his slaps landed, blood ran from the corner of Grayfia's lips.
But the woman in question did not utter a single word or even budge. Her eyes remained fixed on Yusuke's face, though at times they moved to stare at his hand with worry. She was not concerned about herself, but about him. If he kept slapping her like this, he might end up hurting his palm.
When Yusuke finished slapping her, he cupped her face with both hands as a green light glowed from his palms. Slowly, the red and bluish bruises faded away. This time, he asked with a gentle smile, "Did it hurt?"
"No." Grayfia shook her head. This amount of pain meant very little to her. She had experienced far worse during the civil war, and it certainly was not even a fraction of the pain she had endured over the past few hours.
"What do you mean by no? It's supposed to hurt!" Yusuke squeezed her face and glared at her. "Do you want me to slap you more?!"
"...If you want to, I won't resist." Grayfia blinked, then gave a faint smile as she replied.
If getting beaten was all it took for her to repent for all her mistakes, then she would not mind it, even if Yusuke were to break every bone in her body.
"Tsk!" Yusuke clicked his tongue and let go of her after healing her face. "I'll let it slide this time, but if you try to pull the same shit again, I'll kill you, understood?"
It had been a long while since Yusuke last hit a yandere. Even so, he still felt he had gone easy on Grayfia. If it were the past him, he would have done far more to her than what he once did to Kalawarna and Raynare.
He mainly forgave her so quickly because, thanks to her, he had managed to complete all his quests. On top of that, her submission was already very high, which reassured him that she would not try something like this again in the future.
[Grayfia Lucifuge's submission: 92 (Devoted)]
"You really forgave mommy?! Thank you, sweetie! I won't ever do anything bad to you," Grayfia laughed in pure joy. Her smile was so radiant that it almost blinded B2, who sulked because Yusuke had stopped slapping her.
Just like Rias, Grayfia had also been wallowing in endless regret during this time. Just before the other yanderes found them, Yusuke had tried to convince her to speak with them. Instead of listening to him, she grew angry and tried to hypnotize him into forgetting everyone and devoting himself only to her.
Holding his only hand, she made a promise to herself. Once she resurrected him, she would never again try to restrict him, force her will on him, hold him back with demands, bind him with possessiveness, or attempt to control his life. She would do anything he wanted, even if he wished to destroy the world, rule over it, or take every single woman in existence as his!
"That's not all. From now on, until I say otherwise, no sex for you!" Yusuke spoke while watching her face turn pale with fright, as if he had just pronounced the most horrible sentence possible. He grabbed her ass and added, "You are not allowed to masturbate as well."
"Wait! What?" Tears began to well up in Grayfia's eyes. She gripped his shirt and stuttered, "Sweetie, you... You can't do this to me! That's too cruel!"
Did he even realize just how strong her attraction toward Yusuke was? Just standing beside him made her pussy flood like a waterfall. The mere closeness of his body drove her insane with desire. She could spend every hour of the day lost in masturbation and still never feel satisfied.
After tasting that heavenly, otherworldly pleasure with him, being told she could no longer have sex with him felt like the cruelest torture imaginable. Even worse, she was not even allowed to relieve herself through masturbation.
This was a living hell for her.
"Not my business," Yusuke shrugged casually. "I..."
Just then, a crimson magic circle suddenly lit up a couple of meters away from them, and from it the figure of a crimson-haired man appeared.
"You really are here." The man glanced at the two of them cuddling close together, his calm face twitching slightly as he spoke.
"Sirzechs? What are you doing here?!" The gentle, spoiled look on Grayfia's face vanished instantly, replaced by a frosty, glacial expression so cold that Yusuke could feel the temperature around them drop.
"Grayfia..." Sirzechs stared at his wife, the woman who had gone through thick and thin with him, who had stood by his side through hardship and bloody war. The woman he believed loved him as much as he loved her now glared at him as if he were lower than an insect. He looked away from her and turned to face Yusuke. "I didn't expect you were still alive... Good!"
"Come with me, I think we have something to settle."
Before leaving the battlefield earlier, he had set up a few magic circles to alert him if anyone came. This precaution was not aimed at Grayfia, Venelana, or the other girls, but at rival factions and other organizations that might try to investigate the area, such as the terrorist group Khaos Brigade.
He had not expected that the ones who would trigger this arrangement would be Yusuke and Grayfia.
"Indeed," Yusuke pushed Grayfia away and strode forward. Before, when he had just been kidnapped, Sirzechs's retaliation was one of the things that worried him the most. Being hated by the strongest Devil was not something pleasant.
"No! Sweetie, you don't have anything to talk about or settle with him. I was the one who pulled you into this mess. I'll settle it with this monkey... this person," Grayfia said.
How could she allow Yusuke to face Sirzechs alone? She had just gotten Yusuke back. There was no way she would let him risk his life again.
'Did she just call me a monkey?' Sirzechs suffered an invisible blow to the heart.
"Shh, everything will be alright. Go back," Yusuke patted her head as he spoke in a firm tone. "Wait for me at home, alright? By the way, it is a bit broken. Why don't you work together with the others and repair it while I am away?"
"But!" Grayfia was still worried.
"No but! Go back now!" Yusuke interrupted her and glared at her. "Or do you want your punishment to be extended even further?!"
"...A-alright, but remember to be careful," Grayfia shuddered in fright. She shot Sirzechs a glare as if warning him that if he dared hurt Yusuke, she would hang him by his balls and skin him alive.
A magic circle appeared beneath her, and the next moment her figure faded as she teleported to Kuoh Town.
"Follow me," Sirzechs said, glancing one last time at the spot where Grayfia had disappeared.
Yusuke followed behind him in silence.
...
The two of them teleported several times until they arrived in an empty place. An endless desert stretched as far as the eye could see, with countless tall sand dunes rising and falling across the landscape. The figures of the two men stood facing each other.
"This is a special dimension I set up a long time ago. Even if I fight with all my strength, it will hold for a good amount of time," Sirzechs explained as he removed his coat and threw it down.
"Good to hear that," Yusuke said, clenching his fist. A faint, almost imperceptible glossy sheen enveloped his entire arm as he thrust a punch forward into empty air.
BOOOM!
Since Sirzechs clearly intended to settle this with fists, Yusuke was no longer the type to stand passively and wait for his opponent to strike first. He instantly activated his Armament Haki.
The sheer force of the punch erupted like an air cannon, violently displacing the surrounding atmosphere. A powerful shockwave tore across the desert floor, carving deep fissures into the sand before the invisible pressure slammed straight into Sirzechs' body!
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