Editing Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha:Volume 7 Chapter 2 (section)

===Part 7===

As soon as Lucia received a notice from the Current Demon Lord Faction about the change in the format of the decisive battle, she went to report it immediately to her master Ramsas. Afterwards, she did not return to her own office, but instead went straight to her mother, Sheera’s room, and quickly conveyed that message to her in the room.

“They’ve changed the team battle into one on one duels…”

“—Indeed. What does mother think?”

Because this was a private location away from the eyes of any maids, Lucia used a more familiar manner when she asked for Sheera’s opinion.

“Hmm…I see, you could say that it’s a change that was within expectations. Right, Jin-kun?”

“Yeah. It’s mostly due to those old guys on the Council who forced this.”

Although Sheera’s appearance had regressed to her innocent childlike appearance, she was still inherently experienced and talented, and she calmly accepted the change in rules by the Current Demon Lord Faction like Jin. But Lucia was unable to lightly accept the truth like that, and she furrowed her brow.

“You two aren’t worried? In a one on one duel, it is clearly disadvantageous to our side which has fundamentally weaker combat strength.”

The ones who were actually going to be fighting weren’t Sheera or Jin — but Basara and the others. Regardless of whether it was as an aide to Ramsas who was the leader of the Moderates Faction, or from a personal standpoint, Lucia hoped that they would be able to win, and even more than that, she sincerely hoped that they would return safely. But in contrast, Sheera’s and Jin’s response seemed overly optimistic, causing Lucia to feel slightly unhappy.

“Don’t look so worried, Lucia-chan…what did Basara and the others say?”

While smoking a cigarette, Jin seemed to have seen through her emotions, and smiled wryly as he asked. Normally, no one would address Lucia with ‘chan’ aside from Sheera, and Lucia would not allow them to do so either. After all, she shouldered the responsibility of being the second in charge of the Moderates Faction, so she couldn’t always allow the powerful and influential seniors like Klaus treat her like a child. Perhaps in the eyes of the God of War that everyone dreaded, Jin, Lucia was still just a cute little girl.

“They have no objections to the change in the format of the battle…but after it was changed into seven against seven, Basara-san’s side only has six people, so there is the issue of insufficient personnel.”

After saying that, Lucia paused for a while, and then continued

“Even if all six of them who arrived beforehand enter the battle, we still need to add one more representative. Therefore, this shortage will be filled by the leader of the Moderates Faction, Ramsas-sama, or me, as his aide.”

“The final decision will be based on seeing what the situation is like on that side…there’s no other way, this is all we can do. Ah~”

After Sheera replied—

“No — you have to prevent Ramsas from heading entering.”

Jin adamantly retorted.

“If he participates, then it will only leave behind a lot of troublesome problems…about this new rule, what did that old man say?”

“Master simply said…[I understand].”

Lucia thought back to when she gave her report to Ramsas, and said

“As you said, it is possible that master’s participation will present many problems, however, I believe that he is well aware of that himself.”

''Hence—''

“If master insists on participating, as his subordinate, I am in no position to stop him…”

After Lucia indicated that she put her position as his aide first, Jin replied

“Lucia-chan…I understand that all of your heart is with that guy. After all, you and I are the same as Sheera, one of the very few people who know of his secret.”

''But—''

“You should also know — what kind of agreement Wilbert and I eventually made after that Great War, right? And now we’ve finally come to this point again. For what reason do you think Wilbert’s wife fought to give birth to Mio, why did Wilbert have to let go of that girl, and for what reason did Wilbert choose to die…you would be putting the hard work of these past sixteen years to waste in vain.”

“This…of course I understand that.”

“Then you should do what you need to do. Because you think for your master more than anyone else, from time to time you need to reproach him…isn’t that the role of an aide?”

“…………”

Jin’s words made Lucia silent, and all she could do was reply with silence.

“Don’t worry…it’s fine as long as that guy doesn’t fight against Leohart, I don’t think there’ll be any problems at any other time.”

Jin dabbed his cigarette into an ashtray to extinguish it. And with a strongly firm tone, he said

“I can guarantee you, at that time, that it will definitely become a situation that gets out of hand…just wait and see.”