Better than he thought! Still not great though!

"What!? Azazel actually has a house in my turf!? And he talked with one of my Peerage!?" Rias huffed when Issei finished his report. He winced. At least she wasn't storming over, or shouting about it at the top of her lungs. She was still mad, but at not outright raging, so she was taking it better than Issei thought. Probably helped that Azazel had more or less started to establish cordial relationships with the group.

"Of course he does," Raynare smirked, delivering the drinks from the vending machine Rias had sent her to retrieve. "Where do you think he was staying while I was reporting to him stuff I didn't want to risk saying over the phone?"

Rias's eye twitched at missing something so obvious, and Issei turned a frantic gaze to her. "You're not helping!" he hissed to Raynare, who quirked an eyebrow at his comment.

"Funny. What have you the impression that I was trying to?" she asked mischievously. "I got a get some entertainment value out of this shitty assignment..."

"Ugh..." Issei groaned as Rias muttered about how she would be informing her brother about this, **** to internally concede that they had struggled with Kokabiel, who had made the mistake of underestimating them, that being one of the only reasons they had won, and that wouldn't fly against Azazel, so they wouldn't be able to oust Azazel without that kind of help. "...actually... According to Azazel, Sirzechs already knows," Issei told Rias. He immediately wished he could sew his mouth shut as her temper flared.

"He knew and didn't tell me about it!?" she growled. "Oh, I will definitely be having words with my brother about this..."

"Now who's not helping?" Raynare quipped to Issei, who was face palming. All she needed right now was a bucket of popcorn, and maybe a soda.

"What did he even want with you anyway?" Rias finally asked Issei, still seething a bit at the intrusion. Sending scrubs like Raynare into her turf was one thing, Azazel coming into it personally was another entirely.

"Erm, well... He wanted to give me some life advice, regarding... Recent events," Issei replied sheepishly, poking his index fingers together.

Rias's expression softened, and she face palmed. "...ugh, can't even be mad about that much..." Issei had clearly needed a bit of help regarding that. She was still miffed about the intrusion though. "I am still going to start requiring notice from Azazel whenever he wants to reside there," she finally said.

Raynare snorted. "HA! Good luck enforcing that, Princess!" she laughed.

"That's enough out of you!" Rias huffed. Before a fight could break out, there was a knock on the door, and the three turned to look.

"... who's that? One of the others coming back from a contract?" Issei questioned.

"Not likely," Rias noted. "They would have warped right back in if that was the case."

Raynare shrugged and went to get the door.