Chapter 1268 - An Unexpected Development ----- "At the very least… I can count on you, right? You won't… go away from me, right?" asked Lucifer, as he held the System Master's hand tightly… His aquamarine eyes shone brightly with sorrow. This was… Lucifer's most honest emotions. There was no trickster-like smile. No teasing… There was… Just… an endless sorrow on his eyes. The prideful king of hell… was showing what he truly was to the System Master. He held his hand tightly, showing his emotional weakness. Despite how powerful he could be… all this power was confined inside his own Dimension. Outside, he only depended in Avatars, which were not even as strong as his true body, that was trapped and jailed in the Dimension of Hell, exclusively made to put him there forever. "What… why are you asking this? Of course… I won't leave your side…." Said the System Master. As he blushed a bit and averted his gaze from Lucifer. Lucifer smiled adorably and sweetly. "Thank you… I love you… You know?" asked Lucifer. "E-Eh?!" asked the System Master. "I might like Kireina a lot but… you hold a special space in my heart…" sighed Lucifer, confessing his love. "Y-You're just messing with me at this point, aren't you?" sighed the System Master. "No… I-I am not…" said Lucifer. "Y-You're… really… saying such a thing? You? The trickster? The one that misguides souls into sinful acts? Lucifer himself?" asked the System Master. "You know that we had been together as friends for eons now, you think I wouldn't develop anything for you?" sighed Lucifer. "I-I… I am just surprised… I always thought you were just having fun teasing me… A lot of things had happened since the day I joined Kireina… it has already been over a week now… My daughter… my change of appearance… and now you… I… I don't know how to react yet… I am quite overwhelmed." Said the System Master. Lucifer smiled and kissed his cheek. "Chuu~ Don't worry, dear, I am happy as we are now…" he said, his feminine looks didn't even had a hair of masculinity… as of now he was in the shape of a genderless being, but he really just looked like a beautiful and slender girl. "L-Lucifer… What… what gender are you?" wondered the System Master. "Oh? Worried about that again?" sighed Lucifer. "I am… I don't know… if I could be with a man…" sighed the System Master. "I am not really a man…" said Lucifer. "Eh? You… aren't?" asked the System Master. "No… nor a woman." Said Lucifer. "Huh?" asked the System Master. Despite his appearance, the System Master had always identified himself as a man, although he was mostly asexual, he has recently discovered he liked women rather than men, so he was heterosexual… being with Lucifer, even as cute as he was, was something that felt wrong to him. However, the words that Lucifer said shocked him. "You're… neither?" asked the System Master. "Such concepts are only a way for me to wear a mask… a suit, perhaps, to be more approachable to people… I and all the Fallen Archangels are entities without true shape… We are entities… Well, want to see how I really look?" asked Lucifer. "Okay…" said the System Master. Lucifer suddenly generated an immense projection out of magic, and showed him his true body in hell. He waved his hand. "Huh? You kind of look like both a woman and a man... I can't really tell- eh?!" The System Master suddenly opened his eyes wide open. A mass of pure blazing red emerged, distorting space and time, reality itself. A single eye emerged in the middle of this endless distorting crimson as darkness spiraled around. This was… Lucifer's true form. An abstract entity. "A-Ah… I guess I could become something like a very bright mass of light if I tried hard enough…" said the System Master. "No… This is your real shape; you've taken it since you were an adorable little baby boy." Said Lucifer. The projection was cut-off as Lucifer sighed in relief and looked back at the System Master again. "So? Did I scared you?" asked Lucifer. "I… No… I've seen the true form of Kireina… I don't think I can really be scared by anything…" sighed the System Master. "Ah… Hahaha! Yeah, I guess she's even more scary, isn't she?" laughed Lucifer. "So you're neither a man or a woman? I guess you're a true genderless being, and what gender do you identify the most?" asked the System Master. "You're very stubborn… Well, anything goes, I usually just use both to confuse everyone… but they, most of the time, portray me as a man. A handsome one at that… But I you want to… F-For you… I can become a woman forever." Said Lucifer, as his appearance slightly changed, his hips grew larger, and large and bouncy breasts grew on his chest. "Is this… more appealing to you?" he asked. He seemed to be a bit desperate… he was willing to change his very being… for him. He wanted to simply be embraced in tender love… the love of someone he loved a lot. The System Master blushed a bit as he saw Lucifer as a beautiful and charming motherly woman now… "Ah… T-This is… Ahhh… Y-You're so pretty..." he sighed, as he facepalmed, feeling all the embarrassment pouring over him like a cold waterfall. Lucifer smiled adorable as she reached the System Master. "Hehe… You don't have to be embarrassed… I am happy with whatever form… I know you don't want to decide anything yet… So how about I show you I can be a good housewife, huh? Let's do it! I am going to show you off that the Queen of Hell can also cook tasty food!" said Lucifer. "Eh? What?" asked the System Master, as he saw Lucifer suddenly summoning a whole kitchen floating in the middle of the air where the tow was floating, and he began to summon various ingredients as well. "Wait a bit dear, I will be done in a bit." said Lucifer with a charming smile. The System Master's heart began to beat faster and faster, as he swallowed saliva. As Lucifer cooked, he couldn't really get his eyes off her… -----