Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I own none of the characters that appear in PoT. Perhaps, this story is from inspirations, from everywhere and anywhere, above and beyond. This story is strictly fictional, no insults intended on any insulted party.

"Que Dieu vous bénisse," Ryoma ended the session with those words 'May God bless you'. The lady-in-question sat in the chair, with her head bowed, hands still tied to the chair. Ryoma bowed to her before moving out of the room. He turned around for one last look around the room. He caught a scent of peppermint and thought it a little weird but being in this line of work is abnormal. Ryoma shrugged; he's up for anything.

"Ryoma-chan, you are back!" Eiji glomps Ryoma as the little boy trudged into the chapel; Tezuka was on the altar. Eiji was the altar assistant with Oishi but between them, Oishi seemed more like the one to rely on. Sometimes, (from Ryoma's point of view) Eiji comforted the believers of the Church, making them smile, listening to their sorrows because he was so hyper and joyful all the time. Tezuka was the Archbishop in charge of the Church, Ryoma's Church.

There were churches all around the city and the world, but there were 3 unique Churches in Domain 6. For some reason, these Churches resided only in Domain 6 but were needed in all 13 Domains. These Churches specialized in exorcism of demons and devils, or whatever they were called in each Domain. Ryoma, for example, just returned from a local demon exorcism. In each Church, there will be an Archbishop, altar assistants, the Staff members, Sisters, who were the female counterparts of the Bishops, Bishops and Mistress, who is the overall in charge of the Sisters.

Ryoma felt like hell, it's not because of the last exorcism but in fact, Inui, the manager in the Staff member had arranged exorcism straight for 4 days for Ryoma. He had visited Domain 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 13 for the past 4 days. He was beat. He headed straight for the tall white building behind the chapel that held rooms for the people who were staying in the Church. His dear Karupin was waiting by the door, knowing full well that her owner has finally returned and purred at him.

"I'm back, Karupin." Ryoma gave the white cat a pet on the head before collapsing on top of his white bed. He didn't even bothered to take off his Bishop robes, which was what Oishi, the mother hen, was 'screaming' about when he went to clear their rooms the next day and realized that the youngest Bishop of the century had slept in his work clothes. Now he has to send them to the Sisters to iron it.

Ryoma woke up the next morning in his undergarments, which was normal, considering the fact that Oishi tend to check their rooms every night and he probably freaked out when he saw Ryoma in his work clothes. Ryoma wore a long white dress shirt and light brown trousers that were a little loose. He had left the top 2 buttons undone and used his hand to comb down his green tinged black hair. Ryoma was a little lazy when he's just in the Church.

In his free time, Ryoma liked to play with Karupin, catch up on sleep, read on exorcism and head down to the infirmary to help out. Today, he's heading down to the infirmary.

Ryoma stepped into the sun-lit infirmary; the Sisters were all busying around, looking after the sick. One Sister, maybe she's called Sakuno; Ryoma can't remember girls' names that well, ran up to him in her pigtails.

"Ryoma-sama," she blushed, "Welcome back!"

All the other Sisters stopped what they are doing to turn to Ryoma and bow to him before turning back to their jobs.

"Uhm thanks, where's Nanako?" Ryoma looked past Sakuno to look for the Mistress of the Sisters.

"Ryoma!" A tall woman with long straight black hair walked towards Ryoma. Ryoma smiled; he treats her as his close sister.

"Nanako! I'm back! Anything I can help you with?"

"Ryoma," chided Nanako, "You were just back yesterday! You should take time off to rest properly before that Inui sends you off on some mad job that last 4 days! I should really talk to him about this…"

Ryoma smiled weakly, when Nanako 'talks' to someone, Ryoma wasn't sure the person would survive that long. He suddenly hugged Nanako tightly.

"Thanks for worrying," he whispered in her ears, only for her ears.

He immediately broke contact and bustled into the infirmary, "Now, what can I do?"

"Ryoma...!"

After 3 hours of busying around, Ryoma was tired. He never actually told anyone but his exorcism skills, which they call a Gift, were drained because he used it to help the ones who were deathly sick and hurt. Most exorcists around the Domains knew the technicalities of exorcism and does regular ones. But the unique 3 Churches actually had Bishops who held the Gift that is a natural exorcism tool used to help those who are caught in the webs of demons. In Domain 6, the Church headed by Tezuka had Tezuka, Oishi, Inui, Kaido, Momoshiro and Ryoma. In Domain 7, the Church headed by Atobe, self-claimed 'King', had Atobe, Mukahi, Oshitari, Kabaji and Otori. In Domain 13, the Church headed by Yukimura, rumors of whom he's called Child of God, had Yukimura, Sanda, Yanagi, Niou, Marui, Jackal and Yagyu.

Ryoma had secretly been using his Gift to heal the people in the infirmary. Most exorcists would find it a waste of a Gift to be helping these people when he should be using them for exorcism. But ever since Ryoma felt a certain connection with these people with his Gift, he had secretly been using them to heal them. It was a little draining but to see the Sisters' joyful faces whenever one of the people there heal, it was worth it.

Ryoma didn't want to let anyone see him so exhausted just by wiping and cleaning the sick people (in their eyes) so he crept away behind the infirmary in the herb garden to rest for a while. He laid down on the grass patches to look at the clouds float by, slowing closing his eyes…

Suddenly, his eyes snapped open, the smell of peppermint.