After promising that the proposals would come into motion within three years, Azzy ends the hidden clan meeting.
And, of course, the Sun and Dragon Clans received their pardon, and the new tri-state hidden country will be responsible for keeping them in check.
The news reached the Blood Clan, and Francis put forth his scheme into motion behind Azzy's back.
Meanwhile, Azzy called for a private meeting with the two clan heads that put up rather an interesting but same demand, as if they had discussed it beforehand. Coincidentally, these two are the same ones who personally attended his ascension ceremony and both of them wanted a marriage alliance with the Death Clan.
He didn't have a one-on-one meeting with either of them but instead had a direct meeting with two of them with their respective clan heirs involved too.
As the room was covered by the noise cancellation barrier and everyone sat down with the Elf clan heir, Neymeryn's cousin seemed to be the one who looked disinterested, Azzy brought up the topic right away.
The first thing that came out of his mouth as soon as they were seated was, "Alright, be honest, those demands you brought up. Was it done on a whim or a carefully planned thought?"
A brief silence filled the room before Neymeryn opened his mouth, "To be honest, we were having thoughts about mingling with human society for a while but never knew how to proceed until you claimed that you could actually move the pocket dimensions and even merge them." He then took a pause for a moment and then asked, "Are you sure that you can do it?"
Azzy gave a subtle nod, "Yes. However, I'm not sure whether it hurt the people if they were inside. So, I recommend that everyone residing in your pocket dimension stay in the material world before I proceed with it. The process will take just as much time as traveling."
Shuichi then spoke, "Fine, Azrael, since you are hellbent on being straightforward, we'll do your way. First, I took the decision on the spot after listening to Neymeryn here. Secondly, we actually had another demand but I couldn't say it aloud in front of other clan heads and shame our clan's reputation. To be honest, we aren't interested in those cores at all."
"Not cores? Then, what is it that you want?" Azzy was curious, although worried about his assumption.
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Later on;
After finishing his meetings with the two clan heads without giving any sort of promise to their marriage proposals either, Azzy had another private meeting with the Moon Clan representatives.
The guests were changed but the topic remained the same.
Like others, the Moon Clan is also interested in forming a marriage alliance with the Death Clan. The only difference was that previously, they wanted Estella to marry off to his father. He argued with Qridus and got some time to resolve it. He went to Gideon and intended to unite him and Estella.
How in the world could he expect that Gideon would go on his own and Estella would break up with him for good and she was actually interested in marrying him instead?
It was quite difficult for Azzy to wrap his head around this matter. Hence, he asked for Elyssa to give him some time alone to talk with Estella.
After requesting him to knock some sense into her clan heir, Elyssa left the room, leaving the two of them alone.
Before Estella opened her mouth, Azzy quickly brought up the topic of Gideon.
Estella was neither perplexed nor flustered about her former love. Instead, she calmly told him the truth that she told Gideon and her family members.
"So, that is the whole truth, Rael... Azrael."