Poetry of a Scientist
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Chapter 2 – Don't doubt a Scientist at work
In the midst of the forest, a glowing blood blemished eye watched as a crimson haired girl flashed away in a light of red with the barely functional body of Alvis. Its mechanical parts shifted as the tension loosened from its joints. It had lagged behind and failed what it was supposed to do, protect and rescue Alvis. Its one glowing red eye scanned over the park trying to pinpoint down where the girl could have vanished too, maybe it could rectify this and secure Alvis' protection.
Its brain hacked the town's social media stream and looked for detail on this girl, it's brain flicking numbers and codes and computing quicker than any computer on earth could process. It scanned and broke down the town's social media while trying to block out that annoying junk. It honestly didn't know why humans had the need for this number of media websites. Its eye flashed brightly as it found the girl.
Rias Gremory.
Its metal plating started to overlap its joints as it tightened compartments and joints as it reinforced its metal being jittery the whole time. It didn't know what that girl wanted from Alvis but it was sure as hell wasn't going to let her do anything to him while he was unconscious.
Before it could launch itself into the air, it stopped at the command of a disappointed voice and greatly tired one at that too. "Mecha, halt."
The machine froze on the spot as steam realised unwanted tension in its joints, its metal plating retracted in a relaxed matter as all the highly-tightened bolts and nuts loosened to allow free movement. It stood straight as steam realised from hidden joints in its frame as it turned to face its creator, its red eye beaming right on the man.
Ivo.
The man sighed tiredly as he let out air that was visible in the frost of the night. His dark blue eyes showed nothing but deep annoyance and inconvenience at the scene, he honestly didn't believe this would happen or at least so soon, he ran a hand through his hair showing his frustration, he knew he should have taken in Lucifer's little sister in for account, but he thought that Alvis would be off that level of interest for supernatural beings.
How wrong he was.
"When I said get out of the lab, I didn't mean to go and get yourself reincarnated…" The older scientist sighed as he walked towards his creation.
He knew something was off when Alvis said he had a date, he knew it but he let his son go on that date. He let that one slip by and it indeed up in his son being turned into a devil, he had realised that one too late and thus Mecha was late to arrive to stop the process from happening.
Walking along side with his creation, he saw the pool of blood stained on the stone path. His eyes narrowed darkly, he didn't know if this Rias killed his son or was it a fallen angel, knowing how they were when it came to humans. The only reason he could see why his son would be subject to any of the factions, would be if he possessed a Sacred Gear.
He had discovered that the original God of the Bible created the Sacred Gears as part of His system to enact miracles on Earth. It has been stated that certain individuals with Sacred Gears have grown to become very powerful and influential and that a large number of the people who have had their names etched into history, were most likely Sacred Gear possessors.
The types of Sacred Gears Ivo came across was the common Twice Critical. And when he was in Italy for two months he heard that the Vatican had a girl with a rare Sacred Gear.
Only humans or human hybrids can be born with Sacred Gears. Thus, angels and devils can obtain them by resurrecting a human or human hybrid as one of their own. The fallen angels have devised a ceremony to extract and possess a Sacred Gear from the original user and if they do extract the Sacred Gear, the user dies.
It is possible for an individual to own more than one Sacred Gear at a time. As to why angels and devils are never born with them, yet when a human is reincarnated into a devil or angel they keep their Sacred Gear.
Ivo had a theory that God never foresaw the new systems of reincarnating humans with Sacred Gears into devils and angels.
Ivo had known about the mythological world from his numerous travels around the world and when you have travelled many places like Ivo had, you start to notice when things are out of place or just plain unknown. He was surprised by the existence of the mythological world and its knowledge, it really did change his view on the world and science and it was the main key to why many of his and Alvis' creations worked.
But the older scientist hoped to whatever God that wanted to listen, was that his son didn't have one of the Thirteen Longinus'. This class of Sacred Gears is specifically named after the True Longinus, the first and most powerful, and unlike other Sacred Gears that have more than one of the same type, the Longinus are utterly and completely unique, and only one of each may exist at a time.
Especially the Boosted Gear or Divine Dividing, knowing how a battle between those two always end.
The older scientist sighed as he turned to stare at his oldest creation and oldest friend. He stared directly into Mecha's one glowing red eye and rose an eyebrow, upon seeing the eye glitch. Cupping the robot's face, he gently pulled Mecha's head down to have a clearer view and narrowed his eyes when he saw a split in the visor.
"How did this happen….?" He whispered in wonder. "Come on pal, let's get you patched up." He smacked the shoulder of the defensive robot.
Ivo was going to have a long talk with his son, he didn't want his son out there fighting knowing how thin the peace was between the three factions, his son's safety was all that he cared about now.
The defensive robot watched the slumped scientist walk away, it looked down at the blood and its eye glitched as if it was a blink of uncertainty before it walked back into the forest with its creator, staying hidden within the darkness of the night and forest to stay hidden from prying eyes.
A long time ago Ivo made a terrible mistake and he did not see anything wrong with that...
But... he was wrong.
He never makes stupid mistakes... never... and he wasn't going to make another.
Poetry of a Scientist
His head felt like it just got whacked by his replica of Cloud Strife's Buster Sword (That thing was heavy!).
With that pleasing image in his head, Alvis slowly flickered his eyes open, just to close them again as fast as the sun rays bypassed his window and caused him to roll over to the side and bury his head into the pillow. The wonderfully big ball of hydrogen and helium gas, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, iron, silicon, magnesium and…. I think you get the point. The damn ball of gas was like an alkali chemical to his eyes most of the time.
Wrapping his arms around the blanket and burying his head into the pillow, both of which were surprisingly warmer and softer than usual, the whole bed was warmer than normal. He threw that away for now and tried to calm the pounding pain in his head.
No, there was something either wrong with him, the bed or the way he was laying but the texture of the sheets were smoother and softer and he slept with the lightest of blankets. He moved around believing it was the way he was laying.
While pulling, stretching and rolling around, Alvis felt something brush past his check. He knew, like butter going over toast, that zippers were located at the back of the pillow and he had covers over the pillow and zippers were made of metal not a smooth and soft texture. There was only one way he could confirm this theory.
He slowly and easily hooved two fingers over it…. And gently pinched down on this so-called zipper.
The soft but surprised, sounding female moan echoed in Alvis' ear instantly letting him put two and two together.
He opened his eyes, ignoring one part of his mind that told him to go back to sleep, he moved back an inch or four to focuses his sight a bit better. As anyone as his witness, this would be chiselled into his memory for as long as he lives.
Rias Gremory laying down on his bed naked as the day she was born, her red crimson hair was sprawled across the mattress, her green-blue eyes staring wide into his own dark-blue ones and her face flushed with her mouth gaping in shock.
'Rias Gremory is naked in my bed- What!?'
Alvis looked down to see that one of his arms were still wrapped around her upper back and his other one was on her shoulder. He didn't know if this was a bad situation or not but thank God -He cringed at that- he had high levels of self-control.
Deciding this was a good time to break the silence, Alvis ironed his nerves and smiled to less the awkwardness.
"Morning Rias."
"Morning…"
Alvis lifted the hand that was on her shoulder to move some hair that was covering his eyes. "Look, I don't know how I got home last night and not that I mind but could you please explain why you are in my house and my bed, how did you even get in here?" Truly baffled he was, he couldn't remember what he did last night, hopefully, nothing stupid.
Rias shook the sleep from her head to clear her thoughts and calmed down. This was just a bit surprising to her. She was expecting him to scream and jump out of the bed, but it would seem she was wrong, he had nerves of steel.
"Well, um…. Could you please move your hand?" She asked her cheeks going red.
Alvis looked down again to see that his arm was still wrapped around her upper back. "Ah. My apologies." He slipped his arm away, deciding this was a good time to get up. "Take no notice of me, just getting dressed. Do continue." He said, walking to the closet.
Rias got out of bed and got dressed as well. As she dressed, she watched him put on a turtleneck shirt on, the redhead couldn't help but appreciate his form, she was surprised he hide all that under a turtleneck, she quickly turned away with a small tint of red on her cheeks when she noticed that she was staring.
"Tell me, Alvis." She looked back at the silver heard boy.
Alvis hummed as a reply as he fixed the collar of his turtleneck and then fixed the sleeves of his blazer.
Rias smiled and nodded. "Very Well." Her eyes took a sharp look and her face took a serious turn. "Do you remember anything about being killed last night?"
The question made Alvis stopped what he was doing and go eye wide in shock. The memories of what transpired last night started to flood in, his date with Yuu- no, Raynare and all the places they went together.
And his death by Raynare. He slammed his hand against his chest where the spear had ploughed through him but nothing was to be found. No blood, no hole, nothing.
Alvis looked back at Rias to see that she was fully dressed in her school uniform. He nervously chuckled and spoke. His words cracked.
"I… I died?"
That had to be a dream or a joke Rias was pulling.
Correct?
Rias nodded "Yes," she walked up to him and placed a gentle hand on his chest, and looked at his confused and conflicted eyes. "You were killed by a Fallen Angel. So, I took it as my responsibility to resurrect you. As a Devil." She smiled at him. "Since I'm the one that brought you back to the living, that makes me your master and you my servant."
There was a long pause.
Alvis stared down at her with blank and unreadable eyes. "Nice joke Rias." He chuckled as Rias looked at him with surprise. "I mean I find it hard to believe you would be a Devil and me having a dream about going on a date with a nice girl and only to find out she was a part of a group that were out to murder me. Did I knock myself out in science with chemicals due to boredom?"
After a few brief seconds of silence, Rias smiled. "Well… aren't you a sceptical one?"
Alvis gave her a deadpanned look. "What I see is a girl that might have accidently sniffed chemicals in chemistry class, no offence."
Rias dismissed it with her hand. "None taken. I do believe this is hard to understand and come to terms with." She looked at him curiously. "What are you doing?"
Alvis smiled nervously at her. "Well uh, I sort of forgot to do my science homework." He hung his head to the side in defeat of mentioning it. But there was one thing that was certain, he had to keep Rias far from his and his Dad's lab. He wasn't going to take any chances.
"For someone who is considered the best when it comes to science, you do cause a lot of trouble when it comes to it." Rias playfully smiled at him as they walked down the stairs.
Rias took notice how sparsely decorated the hallway was, sure it had a few pictures here and there but it was mostly thin on decorations. But perhaps it was just the hallway? She did not know.
"Help yourself to whatever you want" Alvis offered as he plotted himself down on a chair and retrieved a copy from his schoolbag.
Blinking at the boy, Rias didn't know if he was a troublemaker or that he was quite an intelligent boy. Only time would tell.
Poetry of a Scientist
Rias had a small tint of red on her face as she and Alvis walked to Kuoh Academy. "So… did you really pinch my…?" They were currently talking about what Alvis had called the 'Theory of Zippers.'
"Why are you still thinking about it?... Yes, I did pinch your nipple." Alvis deadpanned, it was her own fault for being in his bed without him knowing. He looked back to see Rias was now the colour of her hair. "It was your own doing, I thought your pillows were my pillows and that your nip was my zipper. To further it more, I always have covers over my pillow so I never feel the zipper…."
Rias looked at Alvis, her face the same colour as her hair while he had a chill look on his face. The fact that he was calm and about the situation seriously confused her!
"If you want, just never think of the situation again. I'll forget it and you'll forget it, it's not that you got-!"
"C-can we just… talk about something else!?" Rias asked, cutting Alvis off, of what he was going to say that would have furthered her embarrassment. She shook her head and calmed herself down.
Alvis pinched the bridge of his nose. "Very well." His eyes closed in thought, trying not to think of anything science related. "I could talk about the novel I'm reading, based on World War Two, it's quite interesting really. It's from the diary of a woman that was in Germany during the fall of Berlin. She talks about how the final days were chaos for the German people and how the Generals were fleeing…."
Alvis stopped to look at Rias and saw that she was baffled at what he had said. "Basically, the end of World War Two." He reworded to make it easier for Rias.
Rias looked at him with a mix of curiosity and confusion. "Um, okay...?" She had understood it clearly as Kiba was reading the exact same novel but confused to why he had brought up such a topic.
Alvis smiled and shook his head and looked forward. "Oh well, we've arrived."
The millisecond they walked through the gates everyone's eyes were on them like a magnet to an alloy.
Seeing two titled people walking into the school and both being the opposite gender, you knew there was going to be some trouble.
"We've taken the spotlight." Alvis grinned as he looked towards Rias.
"What did Kagaku do to get Gremory?!"
"Shame…. I was going to ask him out."
"How could this happen?! Rias Gremory and Alvis Kagaku are walking into school together!"
"Fucking lucky bastard!"
Alvis sighed, not in annoyance or anything this was amusing to him at how the students could react to this instantly and assume he and Rias were dating. He let a chuckle escape as he and Rias walked towards the main building. He observed Rias as they walked through the gossiping students. She wasn't bothered at all by the way people talked about them, she just kept on walking with graceful steps and a smile.
She was just like him, not one bit bothered by the fact that students were talking about them. She obviously didn't care for what the students thought of her or did she? He wasn't going to pry but Alvis personally, he didn't give a damn.
The thoughtful scientist was drawn out of his thoughts when he felt someone touch his shoulder. He looked down to see Rias with a slightly worried look. "You alright Alvis?"
He gave her a gentle smile. "I'm fine, just lost in thought. I do apologise, did you say something?"
Seeing that he was alright Rias gave him a pleasant smile. "Yes, I was saying that I'll send someone to collect you later." She started walking away to get ready for class.
Alvis smiled as he was left to his own thoughts, he started walking into the school building. He had to go prepare for his first class, which wasn't science and which many students were glad for.
Alvis yawned and gave a stretch, what was his first class again? Oh maths, that wasn't too bad in a way. He would have preferred it be geography, but he wasn't going to complain.
Poetry of a Scientist
Another day of learning was almost over for Alvis. And for students who were his science partner, they got out alive to tell the tale. With a stack of books neatly lined up and homework completed and ten minutes before the final bell, he decided to use that time wisely by….
By reading his novel in peace.
Alvis thoroughly enjoyed this novel and read it whenever he could. Alvis had a fascination when it came to World War books or history, he didn't know why he was interested in such a topic but he just was, he enjoyed reading from point of views in the wars, through the eyes of Soldiers, be it Russians, British, German or Americans. He was engrossed with enjoying his novel he didn't notice someone walking towards him and tapping his shoulder.
"Hmm?" Alvis hummed as he turned around to face a boy with short blonde hair, grey eyes and a mole under his left eye. "I suppose you're the one Rias sent?"
The blonde boy chuckled and nodded. "I am." The boy gave out his hand to shake Alvis', to which Alvis complied and shook the boy's hand. "I'm Kiba Yuuto. Pleasure to meet you, Alvis."
Letting go of the handshake Alvis smiled as he closed his novel and slid it in his pocket. "And the same to you Kiba." Alvis could tell that this boy was a gentleman, he could tell from his handshake, you can figure out a lot from a man from just their handshake.
"I do apologise for interrupting your reading, it is a splendid novel," Kiba commented, he was interested when he saw that Alvis was reading the exact novel he was.
"Don't worry about it." he waved it off. "Are you reading it as well?" The young scientist asked as he stood up from his seat.
Smiling towards him. "Perhaps I am." The Prince of Kuoh chuckled as he gestured Alvis to follow.
Walking out of the classroom the two walked down the hallways and Alvis just looked around, his dark blue eyes seeing students walking in and out of their respective classrooms getting ready to leave and talking to their fellow classmates. Nothing seemed out of the norm yet.
Once outside the main building, the duo made their way across the school grounds, the two hadn't said anything since. Alvis merely let Kiba lead the way and said nothing to the boy as…. well he hadn't anything to say to the boy.
A bunch of squealing girls broke Alvis' line of thought as he looked over to them, they blushed like crazy when he turned to face them as if they had been caught trying to peek at something. This made Alvis raise an eyebrow in alarm as he looked back between the girls and Kiba, a dread feeling in the pit of his stomach.
'Let me be wrong, oh please.' The feeling in his stomach got worse when he heard them talking among themselves.
"Why are Alvis and Kiba going to such a secluded place?"
"Ah! Do you think they have a secret relationship?!"
"Who do you think is the dominate one?"
"Ah! Such lewd thoughts! Do you think Alvis is bisexual?"
'OKAY NOPE!' He couldn't believe the minds of teenage girls. What was wrong with them?! STAY OFF THE INTERNET!
Looking back and seeing the pale expression on Alvis' he rose an eyebrow. "Are you alright?"
"We accidently created an unwanted group of fan girls."
"Wha-!"
Alvis shoved Kiba along to get away from the newly created group of girls. "Just run and don't look back!"
"Alvis what's wrong? What did we do?!" Kiba was confused, he didn't know what just happened with Alvis to make him panic just like that.
But he would soon find out.
Poetry of a Scientist
Alvis looked up to see they were standing in front of an old-school building, completely surrounded by trees like it was long forgotten in the woods. Despite it being in good condition, it still was alarming to him. It gave off this unnatural aura that basically told outsiders to leave immediately or suffer the consequences, well to be fair, it was the same with his Dad if he entered the lab on a brilliant day.
"Inviting…" Alvis said with sarcasm as clear as day in his voice.
"You still don't believe you're a Devil?" Kiba asked with raised eyebrow.
Alvis thought deeply for a brief moment. "Give me one good piece of evidence and I'll believe you and if you cannot then it's a simple as me calling you out." The scientist sighed.
"I see." Kiba nodded his head as he opened the door. "You shall see that evidence then."
The inside was clean. Cleaner than what an abandoned school building should be and it was defiantly livelier than he expected. They ascended the stairs to the second floor of the building, the consequences feeling in the air grow tenfold the further they went into the building. The duo travelled down a carpeted laid hallway until they stopped at a door with a sign that read:
Occult Research Club.
"So, this is the club Rias is in charge of…." Alvis hummed with a small smile slightly interested now. He watched Kiba knock on the door.
"Buchou I've brought him." After a few brief seconds, there was a reply.
"Excellent, come in."
Kiba turned the door handle and pushed the door inward, leading Alvis in. Once Alvis was in Kiba shut the door behind them as Alvis whistled as he looked around the main room. The room was a wood-panelled room with Victorian-styled couches and a small table between them.
There was little light invading the room due to the windows being closed, leaving candles to light the room giving it more of an eerie aura. 'What have I walked into?'
Alvis looked over to see a First-Year, Koneko Toujou; the school's unofficial mascot. Koneko is a petite girl with white hair and hazel eyes. The front of her hair has two long bangs going past her shoulders and several loose bangs hanging over her forehead, while the back has a short bob cut. She also wears black cat-shaped hair clip on both sides of her hair. She is wearing the Kuoh Academy girls' school uniform, without the shoulder cape.
She stopped munching on her sweets and stared at him, piercing his eyes as if she was looking for something. "Hi…" She simply said as she went back to eating her bag of sweets.
"Hello." Alvis greeted back, he wondered if she found what she was looking for within his eyes. The only thing he could think of was that she was seeing if he was a pervert. Which is totally understandable knowing the school's reputation with perverts and especially a certain duo.
Alvis watched as Kiba took a seat and take out a novel from his pocket and begin reading it. Alvis could only smile at him, he did have the novel he was reading. He could see himself getting along with Kiba just fine, what could he say? The man had taste.
"Ara, Ara, it sure is a pleasure to meet you, Alvis." Alvis followed the unfamiliar voice and his eyes laid upon…... a shower? In a clubhouse? What?
Well to be fair, he has a lab under his house so a shower in a clubhouse isn't really anything...
"Your clothes are laid out for you when are ready Buchou." That same unfamiliar voice said.
"Thank you, Akeno." Rias thanked from behind the curtain. She turned off the water.
Alvis merely smiled and shook his head, what did he expect? "I'm not going to say anything about a shower in a club as I've stranger." He was dead serious, he couldn't say he had a lab under his house but he had seen stranger things than a shower in clubroom.
"Ara, what's stranger than this~?" A figure stepped out from the shower curtain. There she was, Akeno, the other Great Lady of Kuoh. Akeno is a beautiful young woman with a voluptuous figure around the same age as Rias with very long black hair and violet eyes. Her hair is tied in a long ponytail, reaching all the way down to her legs with two strands sticking out from the top and sloping backwards, with an orange ribbon keeping it in place. Like most of the girls at Kuoh Academy, she wears the customary Kuoh Academy girls' school uniform, along with black knee-high socks.
Apparently, students said that Akeno's breast size was only a fraction bigger than Rias'. Staring into those violet eyes of hers, he wasn't going to ask such a question. Her smile made Alvis slightly uncomfortable, slightly, she smiled just like Kiba with a mixture in it and that seriously made him wonder about her. She walked up to him until they were very close.
Too damn close for his liking.
He had to look down at her to were their eyes made contact. 'Is that lavender?' He could smell the scent radiating from her hair.
While the smell of lavender was pleasant, something was off with her. "Mind explaining why your face is so up and close, not that I mind seeing a beautiful face such as yours." He asked with a smile. Bless Ivo on teaching Alvis everything he needed to know about how to interact with a girl and how to read them to a degree.
What the scientist had just said caught Akeno off guard, she was honestly wasn't expecting that. Her stunned form wore off quickly and changed back to that beautiful smile. "Never took you for the charmer type~." She said with a hand on her face with a slight blush.
Alvis shrugged as he folded his arms over his chest. "My mom once said honesty is key; how could I not compliment a fair maiden on her stunning looks? I would have to be blind not see your beauty." He wasn't flirting, definitely not, just being honest and that was all.
'hmmm, I wonder how he reacts to sexual situations, how red will his face go~?' The girl licked her lips, somehow it went unnoticed by Alvis as she took a few steps back. "I'm finally glad that we could meet," She gave him a sultry smile. "Let's hope we can talk again, just the two of us~." What the girls said about him was to no exaggeration; tall, handsome, hidden muscle and very intelligent. This delivery was very nice indeed~.
"That's quite enough, Akeno." Rias playfully said, coming out of the shower fully dressed and drying wet hair with a towel. "We don't need you teasing our newest member." Rias' playfully smiled to Akeno as she sat down at her desk.
With a pout, Akeno walked over to her King to stand by her side. She crossed her arms under her bust. "Don't worry Rias, I'll be gentle with him first." She chuckled.
'Is that foreshadowing?' Alvis sighed as he stood in front of everyone in the room and observed them all and took them all into account.
For what they didn't know, Alvis was analysing them all.
Rias Gremory, the president of the Occult Research Group and one of the two Great Ladies of Kuoh Academy. The others seemed to look up to her and follow her, her crimson hair stood out from the rest in this Academy. She held the aura of kindness, leadership, and deadliness as if she could just remove someone for existence.
Akeno Himejima the other Great Lady of this Academy. Alvis could feel that there was something off with her, that's she in pain or something or she has a hard time coming to terms with something from her past. Another note that he made sure to keep, was not to stay in the same room with her alone. The aura she had was a mix of what Rias had, but it was more the aura of corrupted holiness, he didn't have words for that term, not yet at least.
Koneko Toujou, he didn't really have anything to say about her, other than her name, he realised that her name had 'Neko' in it and she had cat hair clips, he didn't have a conclusion for that yet. It was obvious that she was some type of sweet tooth, though she seemed to have an unnatural amount of strength imitating off her.
Lastly was Kiba Yuuto; he was kind to girls and which most wanted to get into his pants, was hated amongst the male population of the school for his looks. Alvis felt the honour he held and that chivalry was definitely present in him, he was also the only male member of the Occult Research Club.
Alvis smiled after that brief analyses, he fixed his turtleneck collar and fixated a small smile. "Don't you know it's rude to have a shower before a meeting?"
Rias sweat dropped and it was hard not to admit that he did have a point. The redhead let out a sigh, smiling softly. "Sorry to keep you waiting, I do know you are busy. I know it's terribly rude, but I didn't have the time after leaving your home."
Alvis facepalmed. "You were in my house and I was doing my science homework and I said you could do anything while I was occupied. So, what were you doing within that time? Watching me do my science homework, you could have used my shower..."
Rias poked two fingers together. "Well, you…. I….um-"
Alvis shook his head to dismiss it, that was a bit rude of him. "Sorry, that was a bit rude of me. Anyways, let's get to the point of why I'm here."
Rias was thankful for the change of topic, the girl regained her composure. "First of all, Alvis Kagaku, we would like to officially welcome you to our humble group." She announced happily.
There was brief silence before Alvis chuckled.
"I didn't come here to join a club Rias as I have no intention of joining any club in this school, they're all rather boring, no offence to you all." Before another word was muttered out, Alvis continued. "I have some things to sort out at home, so unless you have something that can pull my interest, you better do it fast."
His words of annoyance didn't faze Rias in the slightest. "Well, you should know that the name of the club is a mere illusion. Its job is supposed to make this look like it's a hobby of sorts." Rias acted as if such a thing was not already to known to Alvis. She expected him to find it strange that a bunch of students were studying the supernatural world, she thought that Alvis would find it more than just that and find it unusual that they weren't letting more people into the group. That it was more than students investigating misleading claims of supernatural creatures. "I will be honest with you, for I'm not the only Devil here, Alvis. Everyone in this room is."
Alvis sighed and tilted his head. "You find that rope to pull my interest?"
Koneko looked to him and gave him a deadpanned look and spoke with her monotone voice. "… Rude..."
Alvis looked down to the small girl and shrugged. "I'm sorry if I'm rubbing off that way. I feel like you lot sniffed one too many chemicals."
He started to turn around. "Oh well, I guess I'll see you around." Alvis didn't really mean to be rude as he was now. He was usually great at taking huge amounts of bullshit but it seemed today was not a day for taking it.
Understanding his frustration at the lack of answers, Rias shot up from her desk, making Alvis look back with a curious tint in his eyes. "Everyone." She announced. "Show him" All at once they revealed…
Wings, black, bat-like wings that appeared from behind their backs.
Alvis was staring completely…. Shocked? He looked neutral enough.
There was more silence.
He just stared into empty space, standing perfectly still his hand still on the handle of the door. He did not flinch, speak or move and his breathing looked like it stopped.
For the now fully confirmed devils that were the Occult Club, the sight was a bit unsettling.
Koneko pinched the bridge of her nose. "We broke him."
Kiba went over and snapped a finger in front of him and looked back at the girl with an amused smile. "Well, it is a lot to take in."
"Fufufufu, he's like a statue." Akeno giggled walking up and poking his cheek.
Rias walked up the mute scientist and shook his shoulder. "Nothing…" Rias sighed.
Akeno looked over to Rias "What do you think we should-!"
"NGAHHHHHH!" Everyone jumped as the gears jerked Alvis back into life while laughing as if he was fighting an invisible opponent, his face full of life and a grin on his face.
"How are you feeling, Alvis?" Rias asked her newest servant with concern.
Alvis titled his head upward while clenching his fists tightly. "Honestly?" He looked down with the same funny look on his face. "Fucking terrified, I was getting annoyed with the lack of answers and started to think this was bullshit, so I could go home and sleep! But it seems that life is siding with my Dad now. But howdy, howdy, where are you going to hide my body?"
Rias looked down to see that his hands were trembling.
Smiling softly, she gently took his hand and led him to one of the couches. She sat him down next him. "Hey, it's alright, there no's reason to be scared." She said softly while rubbing his back to give him reassurance.
Alvis closed his eyes to calm himself down, collecting his thoughts he spoke up. "Alright, I have some questions." He opened his eyes and looked to Rias.
"Of course, say anything that comes to mind." The redhead encouraged, motioning for Alvis to speak.
"When I died…. there was a woman. She said she was a Fallen Angel, are they real too?"
"Yes." Rias nodded. "Anything from the Bible is real, that includes Fallen Angels and ordinary Angels." She explained.
Alvis seemed to understand and nodded his head. "I suppose Devils and Fallen Angels are different? Would I be correct?"
Rias looked and smiled at him. "Yes, you would be correct. People often do mistake us for the same being, Fallen Angels however still wish to serve God but cannot due to their corrupted thoughts forcing them to the underworld. The confusion is understandable because they too, walk among the Earth, misguiding humans. But they wish to please God. So, their main goal is to wipe us Devils out and go on a conquest over our realm, which humans call Hell. Of course, there are the most recognisable Angels who were sent down to defeat us by God as well, so were under constantly defending ourselves from both sides."
Alvis pinched the bridge of his nose as he took in the newly found information. "By the sounds of it, I wouldn't be surprised if there was War between the three," Alvis asked as he put his hand under chin.
"Oh, there was. For us, it ended not so long ago but by human lifespans, it was a very, very long time ago." Rias answered with a smile.
"I see…" He tapped a finger on his chin in thought. "So, what's the purpose of the human world to you guys?"
"Well both Devils and Fallen Angels need the human world too, it is how we can reproduce our numbers in each faction, though you can't just turn anyone into a Fallen Angel like we Devils can turn a human into a Devil. The Fallen Angels have to wait for normal Angels to fall from Heaven." Rias smirked, she came prepared for his questions.
Alvis nodded his head in understanding. "There's also this." Rias placed a photo on the small table in front of Alvis. It displayed a familiar dark-haired girl walking side by side with Alvis and the scientist flinched at seeing it. "Originally I was going to show you this to prove that Raynare existed and was not a mere dream along with the date. I got to the point quickly as I could sense your growing frustration at the lack of answers."
Alvis picked up the photo and looked at the image of Raynare, his expression neutral. His memory gates opening as the information of the date started to flood back in. Alvis had to say so far, this shattered everything he knew about the world and science.
Alvis' voice was solid and serious. "Yes, I remember. There was a reason she killed me, do you know why she killed me?" He needed to hear Rias answer this as there was another thought dwelling in his mind.
Rias thought for a brief moment. "It could be that you possess a power that's either extremely dangerous or extremely powerful to put you on their radar. She was most likely sent to extinguish you, so you wouldn't become a threat to them in the future."
"What would that power be?"
"A Sacred Gear?" She answered.
"Yes, she did mention something along the lines of that." Alvis narrowed his eyes. 'Did you tend to reap the spoils of my death for your own use? You better not play me as puppet, you better have a good reason for bringing me back to the living.'
"She only said I had one, she didn't say what they did or were. Would you care to elaborate on them?" Alvis asked, studying what the red-haired girl was saying very, very closely.
Before Rias could say, Akeno continued for her. "Sacred Gears are an immense and unique power that's found in a rare few," Akeno said putting a tray of tea on the table. He didn't even notice her slip into the kitchen to make tea for everyone while he was talking with Rias. She sat down on the opposite side to Rias and crossed her leg over the other. "Sacred Gears have grown to become very powerful and influential and that many people who have had their names etched into history, were most likely Sacred Gear possessors. To this present day, I'm sure there are a few that you would recognise if you were to open a history book."
Alvis picked up a cup of tea and took a sip of it. 'That's an enjoyable taste.' He processed what the blacked haired beauty said. "So, Sacred Gears are basically powerful tools that are given out to a select few and apparently, I have an extremely powerful one within me." He smiled and let his serious tone cool down.
'Or there's someone who's a bitch and you want me to get rid of said person… I do believe I can live with that if that's the case.' He thought for a moment. 'Maybe this experience will further the development of my creations…'
"Yes," Rias answered. "And I'm going to help you reveal your Sacred Gear."
"Fair enough, how do we do that?" The scientist asked eagerly, he was what he was and something new always excited him.
Smiling at his enthusiasm Rias stood up and lead him to a more spacious part of the room.
"What I want you to do is focus on a part of your body where you feel that you can draw your Sacred Gear from."
"Alright." His upper back felt tingly lately. "I do feel an odd sensation on my upper back." He hid away his disappointment, if the cursed thing was going to be stuck to his back it was going to be difficult to analyse it.
Rias nodded. "Now, close your eyes and imagine the strongest thing that comes to your mind."
Alvis nodded and shut his eyes and concentrated. The strongest thing he knew was his Dad, he tightened a fist, his Dad was always strong, Ivo was better at many things than him. He was in the shadow of his father most of the time but his father wasn't mean, he was kind but he didn't have his strength. He wanted to prove to Ivo that he was capable, that he could protect things he wanted to protect.
He wanted to prove he was stronger than him!
There was a blindingly bright light that illuminated the entire room.
When the light cleared, Alvis didn't feel any different. He only realised something had changed when he looked back, strapped to his back was the form of a pair of white dragon wings with eight blue energy 'feathers.'
"Interesting." Alvis hummed, he was slightly disappointed.
"Interesting indeed." Rias hummed along with him as she walked over and reached out to him, caressing the pair of wings. "While I cannot say for sure what it is or its ability is, this tool is something that can prove very useful to both you personally and as my servant."
"I think it goes with my look." Alvis bluntly said.
"W-what?"
"Silver hair," He pointed to his hair and then the white wings. "Blue eyes." He then pointed to the blue energy and his dark blue eyes.
"… I agree." Koneko acknowledged, she agreed that it was very fitting for Alvis.
"Anyways, how do you turn this-" His Sacred Gear suddenly flashed white and vanished. "That's rather simple."
Returning to his spot on the couch between Rias and Akeno, Alvis leant back into the seat and hooked one arm over the couch and crossed one leg over the other. "So, from what I have gathered in this short time; is that Devils can turn anyone into a Devil. I suppose the question I'm asking, what's the point of it?"
Rias hesitated, but she eventually decided to calm his curious mind. "It was because of the Great War, the conflict I mentioned earlier." Rias crossed her hands under her breast, sighing. "It was a brutal war for Devils and both factions alike. We lost many of our pure-bloods and may of our numbers and our leaders, even the original Satan Kings or Maous as they are called now. After the war ended, it had already gotten to the point where we were almost on the brim of extinction."
"But what about reproduction?" Alvis questioned as he drank his tea.
Again, the redhead sighed. "Unfortunately, restoring our numbers naturally was ruled out. You see, Devils have a naturally low birth rates to the point where it's actually freighting." Alvis took notice on how uncomfortable she was on explaining the next part. "While we would arrange our remaining Pure-Bloods into marriages with one another, it wouldn't prove to be enough to produce more Pure-bloods to properly restore our numbers. So, we created a system to deal with the issue. We created a system that would allow us to reincarnate those with potential as our Devil servants. While it was unlikely that our houses would have, legions liked it used to have, our extinction started to decay."
"I see, I see indeed." Alvis closed his eyes and let out a chuckle. "There's one slight problem I have with this."
Alvis' eyes opened with them slightly glowing blue with a smile that promised death in the most brutal way, it was disturbing for everyone in the room.
"I don't like the idea of being someone's slave. Just because you have been straight with me so far doesn't mean I'm going to be one of your puppets, pulling the strings and telling me what to do because I will clash back with no draw backs and I ain't going to let you mess with my source of morality."
Everyone in the room was frozen in surprise at the change of attitude; Even Koneko stopped eating her chocolate to stare at Alvis.
Rias then registered what he said. "You will not be a slave." She firmly said. "While some Devils do treat their peerage's poorly, I'm not one of them!" She gestured to everyone in the room. "They may be called my servants, but I treat every single one of them as if they were my family and that now includes you." She placed her hand on her chest to where her heart was. "I would never make you a puppet and never pull you by strings."
After she removed her hand, Alvis thought of what she just said and then looked to everyone else in the room they all seemed happy, even if some didn't show it. He could sense that she wasn't lying. Rias was being honest, he could even feel it, perhaps he was thinking too deep into this? No, he wasn't an idiot, Rias had been nothing but honest, he had no reason to think ill of her. Ivo had thought him to detect if someone was being deceptive, it was in the way they act, how their body moves and how they spoke.
Alvis' aura died down and he put on a gentle smile and his eyes returned to their normal dark-blue colour. It was a bit nerve-racking that he could switch on and off attitudes like that.
"Well, then we have no problems then."
"I'm glad to hear it." Rias let out a relieved sigh. "Also, Devils don't mess with morality anymore that practice was abandoned and outlawed after the cease-fire. That's a common misconception of what Devils do generally."
Alvis hummed and closed his eyes as he thought deeply. "I'm curious, is there a way for one to get out of being a servant?"
"Actually, yes." Rias started to explain. "It's not overly complicated, but it does take time and effort. As I said before, we developed a way to increase our population, but not the number of Devils with power."
"Ah! The 72 Pillars of Hell." Alvis smiled, he remembered reading on that. "I remember reading about that, Phoenix, Vepar, Vapula and the list goes on, even your house, the Gremory's whose name is also listed. And since you said you lost leaders, which would be the kings and other houses, I can only assume that means some of those houses were killed or destroyed in the Great War." Alvis smiled as he took a sip of his tea, he loved making correct theories.
The satisfaction was enjoyable.
Rias had a smile on her face. "You seem to be quite capable of making surprisingly correct theories."
Alvis' eyes flashed. "If you give me time to think, you won't ever doubt me at work. Plus, one day my Dad kicked me out of the house and I had only one option; read the Bible."
Now that got everyone's attention. "You read the Bible?" Rias asked. "All of it?!" She didn't expect that not at all.
Alvis chuckled at her reaction. "It was all I had to read as I was locked out of my house and couldn't get another novel. Some of those stories were interesting, me personally, I enjoyed reading about the story of the healing of Bartimaeus."
"Why did your Dad kick you out in the first place?" Rias asked.
Alvis tried to hold back his grin. "I told him I was making holy water."
Rias rose an eyebrow at him. "How did you make holy water?"
Alvis let a mischievous grin creep across his face. "I boiled the hell out of it."
"That was bad and you should feel bad." Koneko deadpanned as she stared at the young scientist.
Kiba, on the other hand, rose his novel up to cover his face to hide his struggle to not laugh at the horrible pun.
Both Akeno and Rias had neutral expressions on their faces as they couldn't comprehend what they had just heard. Did he really make that joke? And did he really boil water in front of his father and say he was making holy water by boiling the hell out of it?
Yes, yes, he did.
"Long story short, my Dad threw me out of the house and threw the Bible at me." Alvis chuckled, it was a funny memory he had.
"…. And good on him." Koneko complemented Ivo for throwing Alvis out for such a horrible joke.
Seeing how long this was dragging on longer than needed Rias coughed to restore everything back to normality. The red head decided to continue with their original topic. "Back to the matter at hand. To fix our population crises, they decided to give Reincarnated Devils a chance to gain and receive more power along with their peerage, which are the Devils servants like how you, Kiba, Akeno and Koneko are a part of my peerage."
"So, how do you gain more power?" Alvis questioned.
"Good question," Rias smirked. Alvis watched as Rias held out her hand and from the air, popped a familiar looking flyer with the same familiar circle on it bearing match to the circle on the floor of the room. "There is a total of three methods that a Reincarnated Devils can do to gain more power." She handed Alvis the flyer. "The first and most common method is referred to as Contracting. It's mostly straight forward but a slow method at that. Devils make contracts with people who have a high level of desire, upon using a flyer like the one in hand, it can summon a Devil."
Alvis hummed in understanding and remembered that girl that had handed it to him. Alvis scanned the flyer, it was identical to the one he got…... the night he died. It was a bit unsettling knowing that he died.
"The second method is through Military Accomplishments," Rias stated. "These are achievements gained in times of a crisis or deadly situations. A Devil who performs to the highest standard and is able to defeat a high-ranking enemy from the other side will possess a far greater chance of being promoted. This has always been considered the fastest method but due to the unstable peace between the other factions, this method is entirely out of the question without starting a full-scale war."
"That wouldn't be too bright to do, start a war between the factions again would cripple you Devils. You'd have to have some type of tactical genius to pull something like that off." Alvis hummed as he tapped his finger on his chin.
Rias nodded and agreed with him. "It wouldn't be in your best interest to try something like that as you're at a low level of strength."
"Gotcha. What's this third method then?" Alvis yawned, checking his watch for the time. He needed to do maintenance.
"A Rating Game."
"Rating Game?" Alvis question with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes, The Rating Game method." She repeated. "As I told you before, the Devils developed a system of reincarnating people as their-"
"It's just a sport to show off your servants to see who has the better peerage, is my assumption correct?" Alvis cut her off and explained it to himself. He mentally groaned as he would most likely have to compete in these Rating Games and quite frankly he didn't even like sport that much.
Rias wanted to say it wasn't a sport but she decided to leave as it was and nodded to the scientist. "It was designed to promote and train powerful Devils. The Rating Game allows reincarnated Devils to show and hone their skills and abilities against others in a non-lethal environment. Performing outstandingly in the Rating Games raises reputation and leads to promotion."
"Well, it's defiantly different to the norm but I suppose you got to settle heated arguments somehow and entertain people." Alvis chuckled.
Rias nodded. "Unfortunately, I'm not a matured Devil yet so I can't engage in official tournaments. Even if I was, there are still a few things I need to go through. In the short, you and my other servants won't be participating for a little while."
"So, the only method I can do without consequence's is Contracts." Rias nodded at the scientist, to which he groaned. "Damn… I had a lot of stuff planned."
"Fufufu, if you need an assistance perhaps I can help~?" Akeno said with a sultry smile.
Alvis turned his head and looked to beauty setting next to him on the couch, with a faked thoughtful expression. "How about…. No"
Akeno pouted. "Why?"
"You defy the norm."
"So mean~."
"Now, now, children no name calling." Rias playfully teased. "If you work hard and put in the effort, the rewards will be worth it, I guarantee you that. And when you obtain High-Class ranking, you will also obtain your own servants who will aid you in any task. They will listen to anything you request and fulfil any desire you might have."
The thought of having his own servants did slightly interest him but in reality, he'd spend more time down in his lab with them making them more lab assistants more than anything. In truth Alvis was a simple person, his only dream was to beat Ivo in the art of science. To find new meanings within science and to explore them to the fullest and with this new mythology world, his scientific mind could expand on more knowledge.
"So, how does this contract business work?" Alvis stood up and stretched his arms and legs.
"Normally, I would have you hand out flyers, but you see Kiba here," She gestured to the boy who was still reading. "Is double-booked for tonight, so was I thinking along the lines of that you could take one he has for your first contract," Rias said pulling out two flyers.
"Fair enough then," Alvis said as he plucked one flyer from her hand, sooner he'd get this done, the sooner he could go home.
"Could you please step over to the circle over there," Rias asked, pointing over to the large circle on the other side of the room.
Alvis nodded and walked into the circle and stood in the centre. "How does this work?"
Rias smiled at Alvis' thoughtful expression. "This is a magic circle used for teleportation," Rias said as she walked up to him. "Give me your left hand."
Alvis put out his left hand to Rias, she did a circle like pattern on his palm and a red circle glowed. "This is a carved Seal." She stated. "It serves as proof that you belong to the Gremory household. Do as I've told you to do when you're with the client." She smiled at him. "Do you think you can do it?"
Alvis lazily grinned. "I made it through this, didn't I? So surely I can put up with someone's desires."
"Akeno will you do the honours?" Rias playfully asked to the black-haired beauty.
"Gladly Rias." Akeno smiled, walking towards Alvis. "Magic is all about the power and intent. You need the magical strength to power your spell, the will to guide it to your bidding. If you can sense it within you must guide it, think if it as light first and then let it free. Or you can think of it as a bunch of numbers" Akeno explained as she looked at the scientist.
'Think of it as numbers? That I believe I can do.' Alvis smiled, due to numerous amount of coding he had numbers on lock down.
"Alright, I think I get it." He nodded, closing his eyes he could feel the mark of Gremory reacting to the circle underneath him, it was a tingly type of feeling.
"Oh, and do take note of this," Akeno said, stopping Alvis. "If you scratch at the equation drawn for the circle or try stepping out you'll…. Be either violently ripped to pieces by the magic current or transported to another part of the world."
"The former sounds lovely…."
"Good luck," Kiba said as he looked up from his book.
Setting himself in place being sure not to touch anything, he concentrated as the red colour under him started to get brighter and brighter until a flash of brilliant red happened.
And he was gone.
Poetry of a Scientist
When Alvis opened his eyes, he was no longer in the ORC clubroom instead he appeared to be at home? He looked around his living room wondering if he had done something wrong and accidently teleported home.
"Sit down boy, we have a lot to discuss."
Alvis turned and gulped when he saw Ivo slumped forward in an arm-chair with his elbows resting on his legs and his chin resting on his laced together hands with his eyes holding a look that could cut steel and Alvis saw one of the flyers on the small table. Mecha was standing beside Ivo with its arms crossed over its chest as its beating red eye stayed locked onto Alvis.
The younger scientist knew he was in deep shit when his father addressed him as boy, all Alvis could do was sit on the arm-chair opposite to Ivo. "Hey, Dad..." He smiled wearily at Ivo but he knew that was a bad wording to say to him as...
Ivo Kagaku was pissed.
Don't doubt a Scientist at work
Huzzah! What is this? Alvis has Divine Dividing? That's not cannon!
Yes, I have given Alvis Divine Dividing as I want it to be different and I did say I would be twisting cannon events. I didn't want to write about the Boosted Gear as every story nearly has Ddraig and that's perfectly fine as people can write what they want, I just wanted to write about Albion and Divine Dividing instead. Y'know switch it up a bit.
As far as Alvis' reincarnation goes, he knows that Rias set up to let him die after the events of this chapter but he isn't going to down right hate her as he'll soon see why she did what she did. I know a lot of people dislike Rias and I can honestly see why but she's a cool character for me. So, TheMysteriousOtaku my good gent, I hope this satisfies you. But there will be conflict of this again in the future (Ivo).
One thing to note is that Alvis will be using a few of his creations and with the mythological world and it's knowledge you can imagine how much better his work will become. I wanted to show what the mind of a scientist can come up with this type of knowledge and how frightening it can be.
And I'm glad that people are enjoying this so far! And that's pretty much it for now. Have a nice day/night.
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