Chapter 3 Villain Claims Reward, System Meows About Next Plot
Riser did not understand why this heroine did not fall in love with protagonist.
When she saw protagonist's action to save her from the engagement, Rias' reaction did not fit the plot.
The plot is wrong!
There is clearly something wrong here.
I even received the first kiss from heroine, and protagonist who saw that scene must have felt green. The protagonist's hatred for the villain intensified, the countdown to death became faster and faster.
And it's all this woman's fault!
Riser looked at Rias who was standing beside him complicatedly, he wondered what was wrong with this girl's brain?
Rias smiled at the deflated-looking Riser, this man was clearly distressed that things weren't going as he expected.
Want to force me to go with the protagonist because I'm the heroine?
Then I won't make it easy, I'll maintain this fiance status.
Besides being interested in seeing the other side of Riser, she was also actually curious about other novel plots. After all, if this world was a novel world, there must be many plots waiting for her as the heroine.
To avoid bad things like getting involved with the protagonist Hyudou Issei and becoming his woman, Rias naturally had to be vigilant.
Basically Rias just doesn't want her life to be controlled by others, the same goes for the plot of the novel. So being around Riser will probably help her, especially when she can hear his inner voice which sometimes reveals things that will happen in the future due to the existence of the plot.
To be honest now Rias felt not so much against Riser as before, she felt this man was cute enough and not bad to be her fiancé. Of course she had no romantic feelings for him, at least not yet as her feelings were still stuck at the childhood friend level.
Putting aside the complicated things about human feelings, for now Rias just wanted to keep listening to Riser's inner voice, waiting for him to spill out all the secrets in his heart. She found this more interesting than her hobby of watching anime or TV dramas.
When Riser complained in his heart, he didn't know that his inner voice could be heard by her. This situation alone was enough to make Rias want to laugh.
"You... What are you laughing at?" Riser asked in confusion.
Rias stopped laughing and just smiled at him. "Nothing, just happy to see someone not getting what he want."
Rias' blue eyes stared with the meaning that the person she was talking about was Riser, but the man seemed to misunderstand.
"...?"
[Do you enjoy seeing the protagonist saddened by being rejected by you?]
[Crazy, this heroine really doesn't know what she's missing.]
[Not only did she drive away the protagonist who wanted to save her, but she also ruthlessly rejected the protagonist's confession of love.]
Who's crazy? You're the crazy one!
Rias sneered, sure enough, the man misunderstood.
But it was also true that she was happy to see the protagonist sad, she didn't regret rejecting Issei ruthlessly.
Imagining herself accepting Issei's confession and going with him...
It made her shudder and disgusted because it really didn't make sense that she would accept a confession of love from Issei who was basically a stranger to her.
Was she a cheap woman who was easy to get just because "The hero save beauty?".
In the plot that Riser said, she, Rias Gremory seemed to be a heroine with a love brain who was willing to leave her family to be with Issei.
Euww~ who is that? It's not her, it's just Rias Gremory written by a dog author.
Riser looked at Rias strangely.
If the system said there was nothing wrong with the plot, he wouldn't believe it.
The plot in this chapter was clearly misguided.
Riser began to think of various things in his mind as he resignedly continued the engagement process with Rias.
He initially wanted to persuade his family again to cancel the engagement, but he was unsuccessful in doing so as people in the family did not take him seriously.
Especially when Rias always showed a smile as if she was happy to be engaged to him, their parents naturally took this as a positive response to the engagement.
Riser desire to cancel the engagement was just considered a joke or he was just tsundere.
Riser wanted to explode on the spot for being called a tsundere, but in the end he gave in.
After all, it would be bad for the faces of both families to suddenly cancel the engagement when preparations were already complete. So to cancel the engagement there was no need to rush, he could do it later.
...
After the engagement was successful and the news spread throughout Kuoh and other cities in Japan. The news became hot because basically the relationship of big families like Phenex and Gremory became even closer after their son and daughter got engaged.
Riser had currently returned to his home, a private villa that he owned. His parents had already returned to the Phenex family's main residence.
Riser and his family lived separately, not because he and his family had a bad relationship. But before transmigrating, Riser had previously separated himself from his parents' house since graduating from high school.
He wanted to be more free by separating his residence from his parents, something like that.
Sitting in the living room, Riser stared at the system interface in annoyance.
He was already in a bad mood after failing to cancel the engagement and getting strong hostility from the protagonist. Now instead of cheering him up with something nice because he managed to survive one of the plots, his system just...
[Ding! You successfully survived the plot, you get 10 charm points. Your charm increased, you became more and more handsome!]
See.
This is the reward?
I'm so dissatisfied!
Is there any point in being more handsome looking when fighting a protagonist who can blow my head off with a single punch?
The answer is no!
"System, can you reward me with combat power or something that can help me fight the protagonist? Things like charm points are useless!"
"At least replace them with strength points, hey can you do it, System?"
Riser asked in a voice filled with complaints to his system.
The system replied with a rather mechanical female voice.
[The rewards from the system are random, the host also can't exchange his rewards with other reward because there is no such feature in the system.]
[If the host is dissatisfied, the host only needs to go through the plot and survive the protagonist's various schemes that are not in the host's favor. Only then will the host get another random reward.]
[Please work hard to survive in this world, host.]
Riser's lips twitched, he was starting to be skeptical of the system.
Although the system was not too evil to enslave the host, but in order to get the rewards of the system, he had to be involved in the plot and keep his life from being killed by the protagonist.
From the system's explanation, he also had to keep his face from being slapped by the protagonist, which wasn't really questionable because without the system telling him, he definitely didn't want his face slapped by the protagonist and he also didn't want to be killed by the protagonist.
So he is not really forced by the system, it's just that the mechanism to get the reward is quite difficult because he has to risk his life to go through the plot.
This is actually quite fair because there is no free lunch in any world, Riser understands this but it also depends on the system, right?
If it's a daily check-in system, it should be more relaxing and easy.
But he wasn't so lucky because after transmigrating he got this kind of stingy system, there wasn't even such a thing as a starter pack at the beginning.
System: "...."
The system might take offense at what he thought, but Riser didn't care.
"By the way, why can I hear Issei's inner voice? Is this also one of your abilities, System?"
"If that's true, can I hear other people's inner voices like the heroine? Something is wrong with that woman. I wonder what she's thinking."
The woman he was referring to was of course the heroine Rias.
Judging by her actions during the previous engagement, that woman had inexplicably changed her personality.
The woman who originally rebelled to cancel the engagement suddenly became obedient to getting engaged to him.
After figuring out the plot, Riser felt that this development made no sense.
Is the plot still running?
[The system does not have the ability to read other people's inner voices. The reason why the host can hear other people's inner voices, it's related to the ability of the unknown entity that makes the system unable to do anything about the inner voices the host hears.]
[And actually the host doesn't need to worry about that. Isn't it beneficial when the host can hear the protagonist's inner voice? If the protagonist thinks of an assassination plan for the host, the host can know about it earlier from his inner voice. That could increase the host's chances of survival in this world.]
Hearing what the system said, Riser sighed.
What the system said was quite reasonable.
It was true that being able to hear the protagonist's inner voice was beneficial for villains like him.
But the problem was that Riser was somewhat disgusted by hearing a man's voice in his head, especially when that man was the protagonist Issei whose voice was thick and high.
Why not hear the gentle voice of the heroine instead of the voice of the male protagonist?
Riser sighed again, feeling his luck was worse than the villains of the novels he had read in his previous life.
Thinking of the life he would lead in this world, that night Riser drank so much and got so drunk that he fell asleep in the living room.
The next day.
Riser woke up with a slightly dizzy head, without lingering he quickly showered and dressed.
Seeing a very handsome man's face in the mirror, Riser admired his own appearance.
"Damn, this is so handsome."
"Although it was already handsome before, but with an additional 10 points of charm it becomes even more handsome. Gosh wouldn't it be easy to pick up pretty girls with this face?"
System: "...."
System wondered if the question was directed at her?
[Cough, host don't forget there's a plot today.]
Riser was wearing a black suit with a white shirt without a tie, his blonde hair deliberately arranged with slightly messy bangs. But instead of displaying an untidy impression, his appearance now exuded a cool and domineering aura of handsome nobility
This is even more handsome than the OG Riser in canon Highschool DxD.
Speaking of Highschool DxD, the characters in the anime he had watched in his previous life were indeed similar to people in this world, although the plot in this world was different from that work.
It seems that this novel itself is a fanfic and he is a kind of MC in this fanfic.
It's a pity that unlike the anime version, this fanfic version doesn't have any supernatural power settings such as magic. At least not in the early stages, but in the middle of the story there will be such things as supernatural people appearing one by one.
This Riser is just an ordinary human, unlike the version of Riser in the original work which became a devil race and has quite strong magic powers as a villain character.
"Why don't I just transmigrate in Highschool DxD? Damn, this urban novel is stupid..."
[Host, today's plot...]
Riser sighed, it was a bright morning to start.
"Alright. Today there is indeed a plot, but there is no me in it. Do I still have to participate?"
In the original plot, after the engagement failed. Riser was hospitalized for a few days due to injuries he had after receiving a beating from Issei who escaped with Rias.
But since he didn't perform his role as in the plot and the heroine herself was crazy for obediently getting engaged to him. Now he should be free and can go play driving his sports car.
That's how it should be, too bad his beautiful plans for today were ruined by the system meowing about the plot.
It says it's not an evil system with a bondage fetish, but now, what does this mean?
[Cough, the host misunderstood. The system is not forcing the host to follow the plot, just reminding the host that this is an opportunity to get a reward from the system.]
[The host only needs to destroy the plot to prevent the protagonist from getting his chance. This routine is like a villain the host has read about in a previous life where the villain cuts off the protagonist's chance to prevent him from rising.]
[Doing this will be useful for increasing the host's chance of survival in this world.]
"What? Do you want me to become that destiny villain? Now that I think about it, since I'm still weak, why would I do nothing when I know the protagonist will get stronger? That would be bad for a villain who wants to survive like me"
"For the sake of survival, the villain must not let the protagonist get stronger."
"Alright, let's do it like the destiny villain."
Riser was enlightened, the system was also happy that the host was not the kind of cowardly MC who was afraid to get involved with the plot.
System: "As expected of my host, you're very good!"
Riser then went to the garage, saw many sports cars lined up, his eyes lit up.
Being the second generation super rich was very comfortable. If it wasn't for the arrangement that he was a villain, living in this world would be very beautiful as he had no shortage of money.
In the previous world he was not very rich, he was sometimes burdened with financial problems in his life. But now things were different, he was now extremely rich, the kind of rich person who could eat, drink, and sleep to death.
There was no need to worry about lack of money, his parents had never even reprimanded Riser before when he spent hundreds of millions in a month.
That's excessive spending, even if you're a second generation rich.
But who made him the young master of Phenex? The Phenex family is very rich with a total wealth that reaches hundreds of billions of dollars.
Okay enough.
Riser didn't want to think about it any further, it would make him uncomfortable because in his previous life he was not a rich man.
If it wasn't for having Riser's previous memories, he would definitely have a hard time adapting to luxury goods.
For example, the sports car in front of him.
BMW I8 Coupe.
Of the many sports cars, Riser chose this car because it was black, a common color for cars because he didn't want to have many gazes on him while driving.
Despite the fact that he will still get a lot of stares due to the cool design of the car.
But yeah... Whatever.
On the way, Riser drives towards the location of the plot that will happen today.
[Speaking of today's plot, at this moment the second heroine, the cold CEO beauty type and financial genius, Grayfia Lucifuge is in a bad mood because last night her grandfather told her that she has a fiancé.]
[Bah~ The cliché routine in urban novels, the heroine being forced into marriage and not willing so the heroine wants to rebel. Actually this is similar to the case of the brain-dead Rias, but the difference is that this Grayfia is more difficult to conquer.]
[As her fiancé, protagonist Issei has a hard time conquering Grayfia. It takes dozens of times of the hero saving the beauty and helping the company's problems for an iceberg like Grayfia to melt and fall in love with the protagonist.]
[In a moment, Issei should have arrived in front door of Grayfia's company. In questionable attire, he shouted at the security guards who stopped him that he was Grayfia Lucifuge's fiancé. Those people naturally didn't believe him and doubted him.]
[Because Issei was so pushy and difficult to evict, the security guards had no choice but to use force. A fight ensues between the protagonist and the company's security guards. Issei, who pretended to be a pig and ate tiger, naturally won against a dozen security guards.]
[Grayfia who was busy in her office heard the news about the trouble in front door of her company, naturally she was angry so she went down to take a look. This will be the first meeting moment between Grayfia and the protagonist.]
[Oops I have to go to the scene right away! Can't miss the moment of the protagonist pretending, I want to make a fool of him and see if I can mess with him?]
Riser grinned, he accelerated his car so as not to miss the drama!
At the same time.
At the majestic and famous Lucfige Company as one of the largest housing associations in Japan. More than 54,000 houses in Japan are made by this company.
Sitting in the CEO's office, a very beautiful silver-haired woman with a cold temperament was examining various documents on her desk.
But her eyebrows twitched several times, proving that she was not focused at all.
She was actually distracted by the voices she heard inside her head.
Hearing that the content of the voices was related to her, she naturally could not be indifferent like yesterday when she first heard the voices.
"So I'm also heroine? And the fiancé my grandfather was talking about is actually that Hyudou Issei? The man who made trouble at Phenex and Gremory's engagement ceremony... That disgusting, narcissistic man is my fiancé?"
Grayfia shook her head, feeling dizzy with her grandfather who wanted to match her with such a man.
Although she did not fully believe Riser Phenex's inner voice, but after she checked what happened at Phenex and Gremory's engagement ceremony yesterday.
Some things seemed to match what Riser's inner voice said, even she could also hear Issei's inner voice so she could hear from two points of view.
Hearing Riser find out that last night her grandfather was talking about her fiancée, it's certain that Riser seems to know the future since he knows the plot.
Although Grayfia didn't know why she could hear other people's inner voices, but for now, after knowing what would happen in front of her company.
Grayfia had to make preparations just in case, she called her little secretary and said: "Organize all the security guards to stand guard at the company's door. If they see a man who comes to the company and forces his way in while saying crazy things. Tell them to kick him out immediately, even if they have to use force to do so."
"Oh, and don't forget to use an iron rod to beat that man up. That man isn't an ordinary person, so he won't die easily just from a blow from an iron rod."
The little secretary shivered at her boss's cold gaze, which man would dare to offend this iceberg beauty?
And that man would probably come to the company's door to make trouble so her boss made brutal preparations before the poor man came.
"Okay boss, I'll notify all the security guards immediately!"