It seemed that no matter how many years had passed, her husband would probably never grow from his delinquent-like behavior. That was one of the remaining and non-changing constants that seemed to be for eternity.
Since Vali was basically free of any governmental positions, he had a lot of free time already and did not have much to do. One of their descendants was taking the position of the Lord Marshall Militant, while Vali was right now playing Lord of their territory.
As one of the Imperial Elders, his sole responsibility was the protection of the Higher Dimensional World of Baator, the Chthonian Empire of Baator, and right now, even that of the Kadath Universe as a whole.
"You should really find something better to do than just lazing around for whole years."
Contrary to her, as she was responsible for the entire Ecclesiarchy, which was an enormous colossus of the administration and countless departments, each charged with a different purpose and goal, Vali was...
Free, one could say.
He wasn't doing much for most of the time, aside from the time he was tasked with the subjugation of some very powerful monsters that tended to appear near the Kadath Universe or within the Kadath Universe.
However, lately, he was spending more and more time lazing around together with some of his other wives. It wasn't very helpful that Kuroka and Bellatrix were almost as lazy as he was for the past few centuries and were content with doing nothing.
However, lately, her newest sister-wife was more and more interested in researching some really nasty forbidden dark magic. It even caught the interest of the Magister of the Arcane and Magic and some of the old coots that had been researching secrets of the Arcane for the past ten millennia.
Kuroka, on the other hand, was a special case because she was a Nine-Tailed Nekoshou Goddess, so she got stronger just by existing and absorbing Lifeforce, Magic, and Refined Divine Energy.
The only one responsible among them was Latia, who was working with her uncle at the Magisterium of the Arcanotek and Mechanicum, developing splendid Machines of War and a new generation of the Arcane Mechanical Automatons.
"Who would have thought that little rebellious Rias would become so uptight..."
Her husband muttered, sitting down on the sofa as she visibly pouted at him in a more cute manner. This would be an almost unbelievable scene for anyone watching who knew Rias in her teenage years, because she always used to be so rebellious.
Or the times when she was still a spoiled brat, that was already so long ago, and yet it felt like it was all yesterday for both of them.
She didn't have it easy; that was common knowledge after she was stripped of her Imperial Princess status and thrown into the Execution Temple as an initiate. Something that was done by her father to discipline her and also to show to the vast Imperial Nobiltiy that nobody was above the rules that the Father of All Devils made.
And it was something that helped her rise beyond the meager limits and to become what she was today. Even Rias herself would admit that if not for the punishment, then she would probably never strive actively to get better.
She was very lazy by nature, and it required a lot of self-discipline for her to adhere to her duties properly.
"So, where are you heading?"
Vali meant that while he was getting more and more bored because there was nothing to do within the Baator. There were no conflicts, and while the entire Kadath Universe was preparing for the Universal Wars, that would be in the distant future.
Not right now.
"We discovered a suitable world where we can start preaching, but because the world is enormous, while technically being only the Lower World, I decided to personally take a look. It is possible that it is an anomaly happening there."
Anomalies were rather common within the newly created Universe and especially in the special ones like the Kadath Universe. Usually, when an anomaly happened, it resulted in something great happening there, possibly the birth of a very unusual and powerful treasure.
"Ts... at least there could be someone worthy to fight against..."
Rias rolled her eyes when she heard her husband, but what did she expect from a battle maniac like him?
"Maybe... I don't know... do you wish to go or just brood here?"
She asked as he, in the end, agreed before he started staring at the roof and thinking about something.
"We should also invite Kuroka, Latia, and Bella... it would be nice to have a family trip without anyone bothering us."
As Rias thought about it, she smiled because she could make use of some vacation from her duties, and checking up on the Lower World, especially if it was an anomalous one, would be worthy of a vacation.
"We can certainly do that. I will send them a message, and you can go and order for the Capital Ship to arrive at Anor Londo to pick us up."
She knew that it was rare for all of them to go on a trip like this because usually, everyone was attending their duties. In most cases, it was Rias and Latia who were most busy, though when the situation called for it, Vali was called to combat against threats.
"As you wish... Bellatrix now has some free time until Magister Grindewald finishes his experiment."
She recognized that name, because Gellert Grindelwald was one of the humans that her husband brought from one of the god-forsaken realms of parallel Earth, somewhere in the time vortex cycle.
He quickly rose into the Tiers, and with his mastery over the Magic and Arcane, especially those foul ones, Dark Magic, and Forbidden Spells, he became one of the most respected Magisters within the entire Chthonian Empire of the Baator.
The title of Magister was not solely for the leaders of the Magisterium as it was in the times of old, but nowadays, it was also reserved for those who achieved unprecedented accomplishments in the field of Magic, Arcane, or Arcanotek.