Although it is not a very expensive thing, all the gifts Tenraku gives to Ravel are carefully selected or hand-made. Just like when they were young, the girl who received the gift also showed a happy smile and embraced Tenraku’s with a look of intimacy.
“Ravel, how is Riser?”
Thinking of something, Tenraku suddenly asked but the expression on Ravel’s face became stiff when she heard the question and spoke with a hesitant look on her face:
“Onii-chan, Riser Onii-San… Riser Onii-San…”
…
Tenraku and Ravel came to a door, which was the room where Riser was.
It has been more than half a year since Tenraku returned from his outworld experience and had his battle with Riser. A lot of things have happened afterward, but according to Ravel, Riser has been in a slump since that time and he had not recovered.
He had locked himself in the room all day long, and if this continued, the former genius of the Phenex family would almost become a cripple.
No, the current Riser is already a useless person!
“Onii-chan, the Riser Onii-Chan will definitely become angry when he sees you, should we come again next time?”
Ravel still hesitated. It is not difficult for the girl to imagine the scene after Riser meets Tenraku after a while.
“Riser is my responsibility and it was because of me that Riser became like this, don’t worry, Ravel, nothing will happen.” Tenraku comforted while stroking the girl’s forehead.
Although he had never complained to him but Riser had become the way he was now because of him, and both Ravel and Okaa-Sama should be worried, right?
Taking advantage of this return, Tenraku also wanted to completely solve this matter.
Seeing that Tenraku had decided, Ravel stopped saying anything and she bit her lips before knocking on the door:
“Onii-Sama, please open the door, a guest wants to see you.” The smart girl didn’t say that it was Tenraku because Riser would never open the door if he knows that Tenraku had come to meet him.
They didn’t know if Riser was sleeping but they heard Riser’s sleepy voice after a long time—
“Ravel, I don’t want to see anyone today. I dreamed of something annoying, and I didn’t feel like seeing a guest at all.” Ravel had a helpless expression on her face while Tenraku frowned and said:
“Riser, it’s me.”
Klang Klang Klang… Something in the room fell to the ground, and then Riser’s voice sounded out from the room:
“Kam, Kamiya Tenraku, what are you doing here?!” There was a tremor in Riser’s voice and one could imagine that Riser in the room was frightened at this time.
“Open the door, let me come in and talk.”
“Don’t open the door, don’t come in, don’t come in!”
Riser exclaimed while Tenraku shook his head with a helpless expression on his face and then—
He kicked open the door!
……
“Ahhhhh…”
Seeing Tenraku and Ravel walking in, Riser turned around and fled, then hid behind the cabinet.
The whole room was messy and Tenraku frowned when he saw this and Ravel quickly covered her nose due to the smell.
How long has it been since this room has been cleaned!
“Riser, how much longer do you want to hide?” Tenraku said as he looked in the direction of the cabinet.
“I don’t want to see you! I don’t want to see you!”
“Kamiya Tenraku, you just came to mock me, didn’t you?”
“Yeah, I’m just a maggot, I’m just trash. If you want to laugh, just laugh and leave my room as soon as you finish laughing!”
Riser’s frightened voice came out from behind the cabinet.
The once arrogant Riser Phenex had turned into such self-hatred and depraved fellow. Tenraku was so speechless that he directly walked to the back of the cabinet and grabbed Riser before pulling him out.
“Ahhhhh…”
“Let go of me! You let me go!”
Riser struggled and screamed while Tenraku and Ravel finally got a good look at Riser’s current appearance-
His hair was unkempt and dirty and forget about the appearance of a nobleman, he completely looked like a beggar on the roadside!
Seeing such a Riser, Ravel covered her lips with her hands and tears were about to flow out from her eyes.
Although Riser always used to have an arrogant look, he was still her Elder Brother, but now he looks like this……
“Are you willing to fall because you lost to me once, Riser? You look really ugly now.” Tenraku was also a little surprised by Riser’s current appearance and he spoke in an angry tone.
“What the hell do you even know? I’m a genius from the Phenex family, but I was defeated by a trash that couldn’t even awaken his Bloodline.”
“They are laughing at me, everyone is laughing at me, my pride is all lost!” Riser shouted while holding Tenraku’s arm.
“Hmph, I was able to defeat you because I worked thousands of times harder than you. If you are so unwilling, then work hard to become stronger and defeat me and regain everything you have lost!”
“You put it so nicely, but Yubelluna and the others have become your Peerage, Rias Gremory has also entered a marriage contract with you, my Peerage, my woman, my dignity, I can never take back what I have lost!”
“How do you know you can’t do it without even trying?”
“How much longer do you want to lie to me! You have such a powerful Sacred Gear but you keep pretending to be a loser, you’ve been laughing at me all along, right? Laughing at me like I’m a fool.”
“I have already heard that you defeated the Fallen Angel cadre Kokabiel, and you even defeated the White Dragon Sovereign and captured the power of the Second Heavenly Dragon. I am afraid that your current strength has surpassed Otou-Sama, right? No matter how hard I try, I won’t be able to catch up with you!”
“Let me go, let me go! How long do you want to humiliate me? Why don’t you just kill me?”
Looking at Riser who kept struggling and screaming, Tenraku suddenly understood that Riser had become like this not only because he had lost to himself at the beginning, but more because of the kind of despair that had arisen after seeing his constant rise.
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