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Chapter 4: Where canon finally starts
"Kyah! There is one of the princes" I heard a loud female voice shriek. Oh, by Gabriel´s saggy tits, the fan girls found me. I began to move faster and started to sprint as soon as I reached another corridor. Fangirls are scary I tell you! Why do I even have fangirls you ask? Well, it all started shortly after I began my first year at Kuoh Academy. I found Issei and his two friends peeping by the showers of the Kendo team and decided to disabuse them of the idea that they could simply spy on naked girls. I have accepted that Issei is a pervert and I know he means no harm, but some things go simply too far.
So, I decided to teach them a little lesson. Isn´t it a happy coincidence that I know exactly where I can hit the human body to cause pain without really hurting it permanently? After that, I dragged them to the teachers, who reprimanded them and gave them detention for two weeks. Issei didn´t talk to me for days and the girls decided that I was now one of the princes of Kuoh, together with Kiba.
I am sure that my looks played a role in that. I stand at a height of 1,76 meters and have developed quite a muscular body thanks to Arthit-sensei´s ridiculous training. Combine that with my mismatching eyes and my shoulder length dark brown hair and I think it is safe to say that I am attractive. Or, like Issei´s friends would say, I am one of those damn pretty boys.
As you might have guessed, I am currently a second-year student at Kuoh Academy and I can only say, this place is like a heaven for perverts. Really, have you seen the uniforms those girls wear? Or how short their skirts are? And don´t even get me started on their sports outfits. Who decided on those uniforms?
I managed to evade the attention of the occult research club for the most part. Still, the first time I met Rias Gremory she stopped in the hallway to stare at me. I think she saw a bit of the family resemblance. I was nervous when I realized that I was followed that evening, by members of her little group, but that stopped after a few days. She was probably trying to find out if I was a devil in disguise. Maybe she thought I was a relative of her mother that was sent to look after her? I look a bit like Venelana with my brown hair. They stopped after two weeks of observation, probably because they couldn´t sense anything from me. I was very careful to conceal my magical power after all.
While I am on the topic of magic, I have finally learned how to fly! Yes, I can fly and it is one of the most amazing feelings I have ever experienced. To soar through the air, feeling the wind in your hair and to be in total control of the whole thing is simply amazing. How did I manage to fly? I first tried it with a magic circle, but that let me simply stay in the air. After much experimenting, I got the circle to move around, which was cool and all but simply not the free flight I had imagined. To solve my problem, I looked at devil wings. With that, I mean that I asked Sera to show me hers and then started to study them.
The wings of a devil are a fascinating subject. They not only give them the ability to fly but also represent their strength. That gives you a simple tool to examine how dangerous your opponent is. One pair of wings is considered to be a sign of a lower-class devil, two pairs show you are a mid-class devil and three pairs are normally high-class devils. Devils with four pairs are the top percent of high-class devils while five pairs of wings are normally a signal of the ultimate-class. And if you meet one with six pairs? Then you run because a Satan-class devil stands before you. That is, of course, no absolute ranking. New wings grow when a devil reaches a certain amount of demonic energy in their body. Someone like Sairaorg Bael, who doesn´t really use his demonic energy, doesn´t have ten wings, but he is still firmly in the ultimate-class category, at least strength wise. I don´t think that the wings work like that in the anime, or Rias would have more of them. Vali Lucifer also has only four pairs of wings and we all know that he belongs in the ultimate-class.
No matter the number of wings, they all work on the same principle. They redirect the energy of their bearer and uses that to get them off the ground. It allows the devils to fly and maneuver in the air per instinct because the wings change the magic to move the devil around like he desires. I was pretty down when I discovered that. To design a magical circle that could mimic that process would be nearly impossible and I was out of ideas. It was more of a control exercise when I tried to form my demonic energy in the form of wings behind my back. Imagine my surprise when 4 pairs of large, black-red wings, made from my power of destruction, formed on my back as soon as I started to gather my magic. Even better, they functioned exactly like standard wings, which gave me the ability to fly freely.
Now I have a theory why that happened. Since demonic energy changes a baby while it is still in the womb it also must have the ability to grow wings on the baby´s body. I had stopped it from corrupting me, which makes me a human. I have the body of a human, albeit strengthened to a ridiculous level through the use of my demonic energy. It can´t change my body to that of a typical devil because my soul wasn´t corrupted, but that doesn´t mean it lost its other effects. So, my demonic energy couldn´t grow wings out of my flesh, but it still had the basic ability to make wings. Which means, when it tried to make wings appear, it simply formed them out of pure energy.
What is going on with that ridiculous power level? Excuse me, but I trained myself to the bone in the last years, thank you very much! And it isn´t like I will reach ultimate class tomorrow. The energy requirement for getting more wings grows exceptionally with each pair. At least that is what Sera told me after she had hugged and congratulated me, of course.
"Whaaa, that´s amazing Kazu-tan. You already got eight wings and they are so pretty too." Were her exact words. Why did I not panic when she saw my power of destruction? Well, that goes back to the time I started at Kuoh Academy.
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"You are holding back Kazu-tan."
I looked at Sera and then at the field that laid before me. We were on Serafall´s personal training grounds in the underworld. Miles and miles of wasteland that were far from any civilization, protected by powerful magical wards, specifically designed to allow a Satan-level devil to train, without disturbing the rest of devil kind. It was also the place for my monthly battle training and you could see that. My immediate surroundings were devastated. Craters littered the ground wherever I had missed my magic attacks. You could see a giant snake, skewered by dozens of stone spears, in the distance and part of the field was completely charred because I was getting attacked and nearly overwhelmed by an army of spiders and decided to destroy them by creating a giant firestorm. Stop laughing! That weren't just normal spiders, that were gigantic mutated monster spiders from hell. Literally! What would you do when you come face to face with a spider the size of a car, huh?
"Looks pretty impressive to me." I replied with a raised eyebrow.
"Mohhh, don´t be like that Kazu-tan, you never use all your power. And don´t you dare lie to your beloved Sera-chan!".
I winced, of course, I knew what she was talking about. First, let's get the terminology right. I am human, but I have inherited the demonic energy of my ancestors. Now we must ask the question what is demonic energy? I have defined it as the sum of my total available power. You can think of it as a gigantic see that exists inside of me. The water is the demonic energy and that energy has a distinctive trait. That trait is devouring. That is the basis of the famed power of destruction, the ability to devour everything it encounters.
Since my magic naturally tries to devour everything it doesn´t recognize as part of me, it is not possible to make a stable magical circle with it. My circles are modified to filter the ability to devour things out and the end product is what I call my magical energy. It´s basically my demonic power without the power of destruction. The problem here is, the more demonic energy I use, the more trouble it is to filter that power out. Ergo, I can only use spells with a certain power level, or the whole thing blows up into my face.
"Kazu-tan, you meanie. Stop ignoring me!" Sera pouted while stamping on the ground. Damn, I forgot all about her during my mental ranting. What do I say now?
"It´s a secret." Yes, great job Kazuto. Best answer of the year, I can go and get my Oscar now. And Serafall suddenly looks serious. Why does she look serious?
"Kazuto" And she is using my full name, that can´t be good. "You know that you can trust me, right?" Could I really? Because she was damn close to Sirzechs. But then again, she became pretty close to me and she isn´t the airhead she was portrayed as in the anime. And I really need the opportunity to train the power of destruction, or I will never reach my full potential. It will come out eventually anyway and I don´t want to hurt Sera by keeping that secret from her. Damn, down hormones, that is a topic for the brain and I don´t need your input.
Ah, fuck it. I closed my eyes and held out my arm, forming a sphere made of the power of destruction above my hand. I could feel my hair starting to whip around and I knew it returned to its normal crimson color. That always happens when I start to use my power of destruction and it's a pain in the ass. Curiously, my hair color stays the same if I just reinforce my body, anime hair is weird like that.
"You have beautiful hair Kazuto, you shouldn´t hide it." I heard Serafall say. When I opened my eyes again I saw her smiling at me. It wasn´t one of her normal smiles, this one seemed brighter and it made her look even more beautiful. Wait, no, I meant it made her more … yeah, I have nothing. I hate puberty! Wait a moment, why isn´t she surprised? Oh no, don´t tell me.
"You knew, you knew I had the power of destruction." I accused her, my eyes narrowing.
"Let me tell you a story Kazuto." She answered while sitting down next to me. "When I was younger, I met a boy with green-blue eyes, a young boy who would later become a good friend. He was powerful, everybody could see that, but he had terrible control over his powers. It was so bad that he was nearly incapable of using anything but his personal magic, which he had inherited from his mother." She told me, her eyes looking through me, obviously lost in her memories.
"I helped him back then, I helped him craft his own circles, capable of handling his magic. It was difficult, really difficult, to work around the problem, but after nearly three years of experimenting we finally developed a filter that allowed him to use normal spells."
Oh, I see where that is going.
"Years passed and my friend grew into a man. He got married to the silver eyed woman of his dreams and she became pregnant. I have never seen him happier than at the day he told me they would get a child. But there were problems, the child was born dead, killed by the immense power of its parents. Their magic had crushed its very soul."
So that was the official story, that my soul was too weak to handle their power? Ironic, since the strength of my soul allowed me to resist the corruption and led to my abandonment.
"They were nearly destroyed by the death of their firstborn, but time went on and my friend´s wife became pregnant again. She gave birth to a healthy son, while the rest of the underworld began to forget their poor, dead kid. Imagine my surprise when I saw a young boy while wandering through Kuoh town, a young boy with the most interesting pair of eyes. One was green-blue so much like my friends, the other silver, a reminder of his wife. But the boy was human and my friend´s firstborn was dead, so it couldn´t be him, even if he had their eyes. Still, the boy´s eyes intrigued me, so it started to follow him."
She was stalking me? Damnation, I didn´t even notice her! How can you hide with that ridiculous costume she is so fond of?
"At first he looked like a normal kid. He went to school, he played with his brother and helped his parents. I was planning to leave him alone, after all, he was only a human child that looked like my friends, nothing more. But then, I found him practicing magic and for the first time I could sense the boy's power. It was hidden so deep inside of him that I didn´t notice his magic until he called it forth. But when he called upon it I could sense it, so much power for one his age. Too much for a normal human, indeed he had more power than any devil his age should have. But he was untrained, that I could see, so I approached him." She turned her head and looked directly into my eyes.
"He surprised me that day. I could see in his eyes that he knew who and what I was, he recognized how dangerous I could be. I was prepared for him to run away, to start groveling or do something similarly stupid. Instead, he introduced himself and told me he would call me Sera." She looked up into the air, a sad smile on her lips.
"He was the second person that had ever called me by that name. I decided to watch this intriguing boy further and offered to help him with his magic. I found out that he had problems with his control, much the same as the boy I had known. I had a growing suspicion, but I needed proof. So, I showed the boy how to change magical circles and I showed him the filter my friend and I had developed so long ago. Like I thought, his control began to grow by leaps and bounds and I knew that I was right. My friend´s child had never died, it had been hidden away in the human world."
I slumped down next to Sera, feeling like a complete idiot. She knew she had known this whole time. How naïve of me to think I could hide my power of destruction right in front of my magic teacher.
"But what should I do, now that I knew my friend´s firstborn stood before me? And why was he struggling alone with his magic, when he should have been taught by the finest teachers the underworld has to offer? So, I asked my student about his parents. He told me that he wasn´t what they had expected and left him in front of an orphanage shortly after his birth. It became clear to me; the boy was truly human. I had thought it a clever disguise, made to hide him from his enemies. But no, the boy was human, his soul not touched by the corruption of our kind and my friend had given him up because of that. I felt hot furry course through my veins. How could he abandon his family, his only son? I would have burned heaven and hell had someone tried to take my beloved sister from me, why couldn´t he do the same?" She told me, her fists clenched.
"Still, I had promised my student to never tell anybody about him and I wouldn't break his trust by storming into my friend´s house and confronting him. He knew who his parents were, that was clear from his words and I would respect his decision to hide from them. But, if my friend wouldn´t take care of him, I would do it and so I decided to become not only his teacher but also his friend. He grew under my tutelage and wormed his way into my heart like few before. We became close, but he never told me about his unique powers or his real parents. Didn´t he trust me, even after all the time we spent together? The question gnawed at me and I decided to test him."
A test, the whole thing had been a test. I could have brushed it off, found some kind of excuse but that would have shown Sera that I didn´t want to tell her anything. I suddenly was engulfed in a hug.
"I am happy that you trust me Kazuto, thank you for believing in me."
I wasn´t sure of what to say, so I simply hugged her back. It felt really nice to be held like that and I found myself wishing to stay in that position forever. Wait, that were my hormones talking again, I simply liked to be hugged. Yes, that´s it. I really hope puberty is over soon.
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It felt like a weight was lifted from my shoulder. I didn´t even know how much my secret burdened me until I had told Sera. I felt much better and I could finally go all out in my training sessions. We soon began to concentrate on using my power of destruction in battle scenarios. It was difficult to control, but the sheer firepower my unique bloodline brought to the field was totally worth it.
I looked carefully around before I stepped outside the school building. The entrance was the usual hunting ground for the fan girls, but it seems that I managed to get lucky since nobody was there. Where was Issei? Mom asked me to get him home on time so he could go shopping for her. The swimming club isn´t meeting today, so that's out. No volleyball and the track club was running outside of school, which leaves the Kendo club. Sighing, I made my way to the back of their changing rooms.
I was met by Matsuda and Motohama when I was halfway there. They were running, probably from a horde of angry females with wooden swords. I grabbed them by their jackets, while they passed me and started to drag them back towards the now audible cries of pain.
"Let us go, you damn pretty boy!" Matsuda cried out.
"Yes, you have no right to drag us around like that." Motohama agreed.
I came to a halt and raised them both off the ground.
"Since I am feeling generous today, I will let you decide your own punishment. Option one, you come with me and I give you to the kendo girls." Both shivered at that. "Or option two, I will take over your punishment, personally." I told them and then I smiled. I was very proud of my dangerous smile, I had practiced it on Issei a long time after all. It was now on a level that most people didn´t even dare to move when I smiled at them like that. Both went stiff in my grip.
"Uhm, I take the kendo club." Motohama told me. Matsuda began nodding in a haste when he heard his friend´s decision. I nodded once and started to drag them along again. I found the whole kendo club viciously beating Issei right outside their building.
"Ladies, I bring you a peace offering in exchange for my brother." I declared while holding the two perverts in their direction. As one they turned around and most of them started to go red, a few even hid their swords behind their backs.
"I am really sorry Hyoudou-san, but your brother was peeping on us again and we have to punish him" One of the red-faced girls, I believe her name is Katase, told me.
"I understand that and I will take over his punishment when we get home, but I need him and I have two other peeping toms who you can educate." I answered.
Katase still looked conflicted, so I decided to use my killer technique. I began to smile at the kendo club. Not my threatening smile, no this is a much more charming smile, specifically designed to control mass attacks by fangirls. The young woman grew even redder and nodded with a dreamy look on her face. I am simply that good.
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"That was really mean of you Nii-san, my friends will be pissed." Issei said while we were walking back home.
"Should I leave you next time?" I asked, with a raised eyebrow.
His eyes grew wide and he started to shake his head.
"Thought so, you know that peeping is wrong, right?"
"Bah, you are not allowed to talk. You have a girlfriend and all the girls in school are after you. You could already have your very own harem if you just tried. A pretty boy like you doesn´t understand my pain!"
I sighed and started to rub my nose. There simply was no possibility that I could persuade him that his own actions were making him unpopular. And yes, he still believes Sera is my girlfriend. I had given up telling him she was only a friend and simply forced him to promise me he wouldn´t talk about her to anyone.
"Of course not Nii-san, I will not stop you from gathering your harem." He told me. What is wrong with that boy?
"You know that I still have to punish you right?" I questioned him.
"Does that mean you will beat me up again and call it a spar?" He asked me with fearful eyes.
I simply smiled.
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I was watching some … quality videos on my personal laptop a few days later when I heard Issei opening my door. By Michael´s dusty private parts, I forgot to lock it! I slammed my laptop shut, pulled up my pants and used an air freshening spell. I am thankful for my superhuman speed right now!
"Nii-san, I need to borrow some money from you." Issei declared while storming into my room.
I blinked at that. I had lent him money only once before when he wanted to buy a new game and he had come to regret it deeply. I am not very generous about giving out my money and he hadn´t repaid me back on time. So, I asked for interest. It took him months to pay me back and I had doubled my investment by that time.
"I have a date tomorrow and I want to buy her a few things."
And now it begins!
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I stood in the park, waiting. This was the place where Raynare had killed Issei in the show and I was here to stop her should that happen again. Why not take her out before that? I can´t be sure that she is the same as in the anime and if there is a chance that she is innocent I won´t attack her. I couldn´t risk tailing them or using tracking magic. If the fallen discovered it they could kill Issei before I would be able to intervene. To let him die and watch as he gets reincarnated as a devil? Are you fuckers' crazy? I won´t let my brother die! I am sure he will become a devil, but that choice will be his.
So, I waited and waited until sunset. And still no sign of Issei. FUCK!
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I found Issei in his bed, sleeping, but he wasn´t a human anymore. His soul was tainted, I could feel it. Something had gone wrong, he must have taken her somewhere else, or she simply acted sooner. Fuck, I should have thought about it. I felt too secure with my foreknowledge. It had cost me the life of my little brother. Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that he had the summoning circle with him. If he hadn´t managed to summon the Gremory girl I would have found the fallen and slaughtered them to the last. Still, I will ask Rias some uncomfortable questions when I meet her. She still let my brother die after all.
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I was walking home with Issei the next evening and listened to his ranting.
"Nobody remembers Yuma-chan, not even Motohama or Matsuda. I thought I went crazy until you told me that you know about her." He exclaimed.
I simply nodded while scanning our surroundings. Today was the day Dohnaseek was supposed to show up, but with my fuck up yesterday I wouldn´t take anything for granted.
"I took her to our usual fishing spot to watch the sunset and suddenly the chick sprouts wings and throws spears at me." Issei continued his rant.
That's right, he took her to our usual fishing spot. He thought the place was romantic and went there to watch the sunset with the fallen bitch. I had already changed things by visiting that place with him and my dad.
I suddenly tensed, feeling a magic barrier springing up around us. At the same time, I heard Koneko move from her position on top of the nearest house. Yes, Koneko was stalking Issei, probably to keep an eye on him.
"How unfortunate."
There was the bastard. He looked exactly like in the anime with his fedora and trench coat.
"To think I would meet one of your kind today and in the company of a human."
I saw Issei backing up, his new devil instincts screaming danger, no doubt.
"Nii-san we should get away from here." He said, eyes wide and tucked on my sleeve.
"Oh, you want to run away? Tell me, who is your master filthy devil!" Dohnaseek ordered and advanced toward us.
I began to ready myself, demonic energy pumping through my body and reinforcing every aspect of it.
"I have no idea what you are talking about, you are crazy! Come on Nii-san, let's go." Issei nearly screamed and tried to drag me away.
"Ah, so you are a stray. Very well, then I can just kill you!"
He formed a spear of light and threw it right at Issei. I grabbed my brother and dragged him out of the way. The spear passed us harmlessly and hit the ground behind us.
"Now that wasn´t nice. You haven´t even introduced yourself and you are already trying to kill us." I said calmly.
Dohnaseek narrowed his eyes and looked at me.
"My, you are right, how rude of me. My name is Dohnaseek of the Grigori. Now tell me why is a human protecting this devil filth." He answered while he started to circle us.
"He is my little brother, so I can´t let you kill him. Sorry about that."
I also started to move, keeping myself between him and Issei. My brother stared at the scene wide-eyed, with no clue what to do.
"Then" Dohnaseek started to sprout a feral grin. "you can just die with him!"
I was ready for the light spear that followed. I pushed Issei out of the way again and dodged to the left avoiding the attack. As soon as the spear passed I started moving forward. Dohnaseek eyes grew wide when he saw my speed, but it was too late for him to dodge me. My knee found its way between his legs at the same time as I heard a voice behind me speak up.
"Don´t lay a finger on … that … kid."
My elbow came crashing down on Dohnaseek´s neck and knocked him out in the progress. I turned around and smiled at a stunned looking Rias Gremory.
"Good day, Gremory-senpai. Would you like to explain what is going on here?"
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I sat in the occult research club and drank my tea, silently watching the devils that surrounded me. Koneko was sitting on the couch, eating a cake. She was also between us and the windows. Kiba stood right by the door, covering that escape route. Behind a grand desk, that had probably cost more than my parents' house, sat Rias Gremory. Her queen stood by her side, a tea set before her. Yes, they had us surrounded.
"How is your tea Kazuto-kun?" Akeno asked me.
"Kazuto-kun?" I raised my eyebrow. "I didn´t know we were close enough to use first names Himejima-senpai."
"Ara" She blushed slightly. "I am very sorry if I was too forward."
"No, no, Kazuto-kun is fine, I was just surprised" I waved my hand in a dismissing manner while answering her. "What about you Issei, given names a problem for you?"
"Ah, no problem for me." He answered while rubbing the backside of his head. I´m sure I just interrupted one of his perverted fantasies.
"Well," Rias Gremory spoke up. "I think we should clear Issei´s situation first."
"My situation?" Issei asked confused.
What followed was the standard introduction of the anime with the whole three faction thing. I must say I ignored most of it. The light novels had given me enough information about the three factions and I didn´t notice any differences.
"Issei you´ve been reborn in the household of Rias Gremory, daughter of Duke Gremory, a high-class devil, as my servant." Ah, we were finished and I think it´s time to ask a few questions.
"So, you have made my brother your slave, do I see that correct?"
All eyes turned to me. They looked startled, have they forgotten that I am in the room or what?
"Of course not! Issei is my servant, not a slave. He is practically part of my family." Rias exclaimed, bristling.
"Ah, then he can leave you service whenever he wants and is able to ignore orders from you he doesn´t like?" I asked her while taking another sip of my tea.
"The reincarnation of a human is regarded much like a contract. The devil provides a new life for the human and the newborn devil serves his new king to repay him. To leave the service of the king is considered a breach of contract. Those who break their contracts are called stray devils. They often go mad after they leave their master and begin to prey on humans, so they are hunted down. Also, since the action of a subordinate reflects on his king, they are bound to follow his commands." She lectured me.
Wow, I didn´t think she was this prepared to defend the whole system. I am impressed, but that doesn´t change the fact that Issei is bound to follow her orders or he could be hunted down.
"Funny, you tell me that my brother is not allowed to disobey you and that he can´t leave your service, but you still insist that he isn´t a slave. It does sound a lot like slavery to me."
She began to glare at me and I had to suppress a smirk. Seems like I ruined her perfect introduction.
"Ara, Ara, Kazuto-kun, don´t be so mean to Buchou. We are all quite happy serving her, I assure you." Akeno interfered into our conversation with a smile.
"I am not doubting that Gremory-san cares for you guys, Akeno-san. But a happy slave is still a slave, no matter how you dress it up. I am not blaming her for the system, but she shouldn´t try to hide it." I answered with a sigh.
My, now they are all glaring at me. It´s interesting how much loyalty she managed to inspire in them.
"But I still have another question." I said, turning back to Rias. "If you knew about the fallen and her interest in Issei, why did you let her kill him?"
Yes, that´s my main problem with the whole thing. She could have stopped Raynare without a problem, but she chose to let my brother die. And I want to know why.
"I am sorry, but I couldn´t act on suspicions alone. We have a fragile peace between devils and fallen and if I attack every fallen angel who comes into my town it could soon lead to war." She apologized to me.
"You still could have approached Issei before his date, or at least as soon as you noticed a fallen getting close to him. Why didn´t you?" It was now my turn to glare at her.
"I was still not sure if I should offer him a place at this point and I have saved his life, isn´t that worth something in your eyes Kazuto-san?" She asked, clearly frustrated by my continued questions.
"Nii-san, it´s okay. I am sure Gremory-senpai did what she could." Issei spoke up, for the first time.
"Issei, do you know what you get into here? I am simply not sure if I can trust her to protect you if something like today happens again."
Rias looked at me, eyebrows furrowed and clearly angry with me. I prepared for a tirade from her, but then she suddenly began to smile.
"Why don´t you join my peerage then?" She asked.
"Excuse me?" Didn´t we just talk about the whole slavery thing?
"It´s perfect. You can see for yourself that my servants are like family and you can continue to look after your brother. After I have seen what you did to that fallen, I am sure you would be a perfect rook, or maybe a knight." She exclaimed triumphantly.
She really believes she can manage to recruit me. Did she even listen to my concerns, or is she that arrogant?
"What are you even going to do about that fedora-guy?" I asked, mostly to get time to think about how to reject her offer.
"I will give him a warning about attacking my subordinates as soon as he wakes up and order him to leave my town." She told me.
"So, he will simply get away with it?" I didn´t like that.
"He can claim that he didn´t know that Issei was my subordinate and hunting strays isn´t considered a crime. I am sorry, but he won´t try again, I will make sure of that."
I simply nodded. I understood that she couldn´t risk war over the attack on Issei. Doesn´t mean I have to like it.
"And what about my offer?" She continued.
"I am sorry, but I like my humanity, I will have to decline."
I am sure her evil pieces wouldn´t even have worked, but that would have made her more curious and I really didn´t need her to go to her brother about the boy she couldn´t turn.
"That´s a real shame Kazuto-san. You know, normally it is required of me to erase the knowledge of humans who managed to discover the truth about us without signing a contract."
I grew still when I heard that. She wanted to erase my memory? Over my dead body!
"You can certainly try." I growled while leaning forward.
Suddenly, I felt cold metal on my neck. When I turned my head, I saw Kiba, wearing an apologetic smile, holding a European-style sword at my throat.
"Oi, you damn pretty boy! What do you think you are doing to my brother?" Issei exclaimed as he stood up from his chair, his fists clenched.
"I am really sorry about that, Hyoudou-san and I promise that I won´t hurt your brother. I just wanted to stop him from doing anything rash." He told Issei.
He won´t hurt me? I nearly snorted at that. I think it is time to show these devils that they can´t just walk over me.
"Do you really think" I said and trapped his sword between my shoulder and head. "that you can hurt me" I began to twist my shoulder "with this little toy of yours?" and watched as his sword broke into two pieces.
Issei´s mouth fell open while the ORC members began to ready themselves for combat. Koneko had stopped eating and was crouching on the couch, ready to jump at me any moment. Kiba already had a new sword in his hand, this one surely stronger than the last. And I could feel the magic gathering between Akeno´s hands, hidden behind the desk. I had to act fast, or I would be forced to battle my way out of here.
"Gremory-san" I looked into her eyes. "I do not plan to fight you, but be advised that it isn´t wise to threaten me."
"That wasn´t my intention Kazuto-san!" She threw both of her hands up. "I simply wanted to make it clear to you how important it is to keep the supernatural world hidden. I never planned to erase your memory, I just wanted you to promise me not to talk about us."
I watched her for a moment longer, before I let myself fall back into the chair. The rest of the devils visible relaxed. Koneko began eating again, the magic Akeno had readied dispersed and Kiba let his sword disappear. Issei was still glaring at him.
"Well, as long as that is clear, I have no problem to keep the whole supernatural stuff secret. Who would believe me anyway?"
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"I really don´t think that they are bad people Nii-san." Issei told me on the way back home.
"I know, but they didn´t even give you a choice Issei, and that's not right."
"Oh don´t be like that, Buchou saved me and now I have taken the first step on the road to become a Harem King!" He told me, a dreamy look on his face.
I pinched my nose. Of course, the harem thing was the most important part for him. Not dying, not being a devil. Everything unimportant because he could get a harem now. No wonder he became known as the Oppai-dragon in the light novel.
"Ne, did you notice? Buchou has the exact hair color as you."
"Yes, I did indeed notice." I answered.
I don´t need that right now. Hopefully, he doesn´t talk about it to her.
"Maybe she is a long-lost relative of yours." He said, jokingly.
I simply hit him over the head.
Author´s note: Dear readers, thank you for your patience! Here is chapter 4 of my story.
We have finally arrived at the canon and the devils noticed that Kazuto is more than he appears to be at first glance. Kazuto also got a wake-up call. Things don´t simply stay the same as in the anime.
Next chapter we will meet Asia and get to fight a few more fallen angels. And then begins the Phenex-debacle (most likely in chapter 6). Will Kazuto get dragged into it? Of course, he will. Do you think he lets Riser beat up his brother without consequences?
To Kazuto´s current strength level. His demonic power is already at a level above most high-class devils (what do you expect with Sirzechs and Grayfia as his parents). But he is still a long way off from ultimate class. So no, he can´t take on someone like Kokabiel at the moment.
Why did he beat Dohnaseek in only two moves? He surprised him, it´s that simple. Dohnaseek was never a danger for him (he is a grunt with only two wings) and he couldn´t fight back because he badly underestimated Kazuto.
And to the pairings again. I personally tend to a small harem, but I have been asked about single pairing because there are so few in the genre (Why there are so much harem fanfics for the ultimate harem anime I will never understand *wink*). So, I have decided to let my beloved readers decide. You will find a poll on that topic on my profile (or at least you should).
Beware though, if you decide on the harem it can happen that some members will only join it in later works.
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Until next time!