"Fa-tan, would you like to play with me?" Gabriel said with a huge smile on her face as Fabio was trying to master the use of the swords.

His forehead was covered in sweat and he looked focused but when he heard Gabriel's request he smiled and nodded.

"Sure, this seems like fun." Fabio said.

"Good, now come on. I want to show you something before we play cards"

The two moved into Gabriel's room as she had taken for him to live with her until they finished the bare minimum preparations that they wanted to, meaning the escort that would be attached to Fabio as much as possible.

After the last failure in which, during the end of the Great War and while the Archangels were coping with God's death and dealing with Heaven, they failed to protect the saint Joana D'Arc that was executed by fake accusations. It was simply terrible and when the Four Archangels found out they swore they would NEVER allow for such a thing to happen again, a True Saint was simply far too important and pure to die like that.

Besides, Gabriel wanted Fabio to be fine because he is cute.

As the two approached the house they went to the side where Gabriel had brought a flower for Fabio to see.

"Fa-tan, this is my latest creation. Using my holy water I managed to change this rose and now it can ward evil away slightly! Cool, right?" Gabriel said with a big goofy smile. She was fond of gardening and wanted to see if she could create some plants that would make stray devils and other dark beings stay away so as to plant these plants she creates into as many places she can if only to be sure that there would be as few humans suffering from the actions of those evil beings as possible.

It was, however, difficult to do but a great hobby nonetheless.

"It is very cool and pretty. Would you mind if I tried to do the same?" Fabio asked, he had heard of the concept a while ago and he wanted to help Gabriel, making the Archangel even happier at him. Normally everyone considered her hobby as just a hobby instead of something he was putting effort into, Fabio didn't and that made Gabriel happy.

Nodding Gabriel gave Fabio a seed already planted into a pot.

"Could I first touch yours?" Fabio asked. As Gabriel agreed he sensed for its life and identified what made it 'tick' so to say.

Nodding he took out the Grail's projection and started purring some of the water into the seed. He focused on getting the same result, but it was a spectacular failure.

"*SIGH* I guess that without Holy Water like yours I can't do what you did." Fabio said dejectedly.

PAT PAT

Gabriel patted Fabio's head and smiled.

"Don't worry, if the reincarnation project works I will turn you into an angel like me and you will be able to use Holy Water too." Gabriel said in which Fabio nodded with a smile returning into his face.

"Cool, and then we can go on adventures together and go save others." Fabio said happily, but his mood soured a bit. "I wish I could go and save others already, or at least see father and mother again, maybe even be able to talk to Akeno-chan, Suzaku-chan, and Seryu-kun. When will they finish preparing this escort?" Fabio asked the end with expectation.

He liked here in Heaven, it was nice, the food is good, Gabriel is already a very close friend, the other Archangels are good to him, and everything seemed perfect. But, he missed his family and friends.

"Actually, we just finished." Michael said as he approached the house. He had a calm smile on his face as he approached and certain deep care for Fabio due to his status as Saint and the happiness he brought to Gabriel, his beloved sister. She was much more cheerful since Fabio's awakening and this was clear to Michael's eyes, and that is an excellent thing.

"You mean you got it, Michael-sama?! I can go down again?" Fabio asked excitedly, not noticing Gabriel's face drop a bit. Despite being a bit greedy she did not really want Fabio to go to his family just yet, she was quite lonely most of the time so any chance to be with someone who would entertain her was a blessing for her.

Her brothers mean well, but they were almost always busy and had many responsibilities while not sharing her hobbies. Her best friend Serafall would usually be mean to her every once in a while, and the others from the church treated her with respect, not friendship or companionship (even if she did detect some lust from some of them, mostly males but also a few females, she wasn't stupid). Fabio, however, was an exception. He was someone who liked to spend time with her and liked her hobbies, if she wanted a story she could ask for him and he would have as many as she could want considering he had so many spirits inside the Grail to chose and his aura was soothing.

It was especially this 'aura' of his that had some of her father's miracle, the power of a True Saint, that made him even more perfect in her eyes, it was only second to the fact that his skin smelled like baby powder and she loved how cute and pretty his everything is.

"Yes, Fabio-kun. We managed to find a suitable escort for you. It will be a team of three as anything below that would not be acceptable to ensure your survival, will be arriving in the Vatican in about two more days as they are returning, one from the Orthodox Church, one for the Protestant Church, and one from the Vatican as well for this assignment. Also, one of them will be in the possession of one blade I want you to have as well, Excalibur Transparency. It will help you in escaping in case there are enemies as it can mask your presence and make you invisible so it should help, I will even talk with one of our specialists about it to see if they can fuse this Excalibur to Ascalon." Michael explained and Fabio almost jumped out of joy. This was exactly what he wanted to hear the most.

This was the best news for him, he would be going to see his father and possibly mother again!

"Oh, so you are leaving soon." Gabriel said sadly by the side.

Fabio turned to her and said.

"If you want we could go sightseeing again now before I go, and also, it is not like this is a goodbye or anything. It is just a 'see you later' as you did promise to reincarnate me as your angel when the system is complete." Fabio said and the sadness in Gabriel's eyes vanished quickly. For her, this only meant a few more years and considering she had more than a thousand years just ten or so more would be no problem.

Then the two went sightseeing again, fully ignoring the amused glances they received as they walked hand in hand and the mischievous eyes of a certain black and white-haired girl who was heavily sedated due to a pure necessity of the scientists around her. Since the operation where she survived when she should have died one important aspect of her personality changed if before she had the ability to be patient now she was more... let's say she is energetic and leave it at that.


On the Vatican a commotion has started, the reason being the news about the birth of a new saint.

There was not a single person in the whole Vatican that wasn't looking forward to meeting this new saint, such as the importance of a saint to the church.

"Sensei, do you think this saint would want to spar with me?" A young Xenovia asked her teacher who was not even looking in her direction.

Her teacher, Griselda, was actually looking at a location inside a ceremonial room where it was agreed that the saint would come down on. It was a bit too theatrical but it was a good thing to help raise morale and faith.

Not that Griselda could care for that, she just wanted to see and make sure her baby is safe, especially after her husband has failed so miserably as he did. If anyone were to see the cloud of depression over Vasco's head after the tongue lashing Griselda gave him they would not be able to say that he was the strongest exorcist ever in the church.

As this was happening here other people were also in this ceremonial room including many bishops and exorcists. One of these bishops was Balba Galilei, he was present to see the new saint and also because he was around after pulling some strings to get the two newest test subjects for his Holy Sword project.

"Father Balba, is it true that a saint is coming?" A young boy with blond hair and a beauty spot underneath his eye asked as he looked at the old bishop with his green eyes.

"Sure is Isaiah-san." Balba said as he patted the head of the younger twin. The girl, however, wasn't interested in talking or even looking much with the bishop, she has been feeling weird with the stares the old man had towards her since he found out about her sacred gear and, if not for her brother's insistence, she would never even think about being part of the Holy Sword Project.

In other corners, more talks were being made but they all quieted as a warm light washed over them all. It was not that strong at first but as time passed it grew in strength until it completely blinded everyone. When the light diminished again they all turned to see Fabio.

He was dressed in a simple and unadorned tunic of white fabric but even so, people were mesmerized by him. Since he woke from his coma he had changed slightly, the full formation of the Life spirit inside the Grail had allowed the said spirit to silently make subtle changes to his body and as he has started his 'awakening' as a True Saint his presence and baring made others feel comfortable and trust towards him.

His big green eyes looked around the room and he could see that most everyone seemed to blush a bit when looking at him, his appearance was such that if you said he was a boy he was a handsome and beautiful boy and if you said he was a girl then he would be the cutest and prettiest girl they had ever seen.

"I, I think I am in love." One of the priests commented upon seeing Fabio.

"Man, he is a boy." A friend said.

"… Do you honestly think that matters so much?" The first one said.

"… I don't know."

Such talks were not that uncommon and Fabio, upon hearing some of those words, felt a shiver down his spine and wanted to get out of this place as soon as he possibly could. He was beginning to fear for his innocence.

Suddenly, a divine and melodious voice echoed inside the hall.

"This boy is the new saint chosen by God, Saint Fabio. Watch over him and protect him, that is the will of the Lord."

Fabio recognized this voice as Michael's voice but he couldn't sense him anywhere, this was just a message he sent to Earth for the church to hear.

After that it was a flurry of small and unimportant events, lots of handshakes and people wanting to receive his favor, there were even many who offered their help if he wanted to train or anything really. He heard, more than once, about how with his help they would finally eliminate the plague that is devil kind and the traitorous fallen.

However, Fabio wanted nothing to do with it, he had seen on his animes how not everyone on the enemy side is bad and how everyone deserved a chance. He didn't hate someone just because of their race, he has interacted with Baraquiel and despite being stern he was a good person and Akeno-chan is cute and his best friend.

Not too long after he was finally saved by one of his new guards who made everyone take a step back. He had black hair and pink eyes and as Fabio looked at him he recognized him as someone from Japanese heritage.

"Please, everyone step back as Fabio-sama is tired at this moment and needs to rest." As the man said that he silently pushed the others out of the way as he moved to bring Fabio out of this place using a backdoor.

Griselda, seeing her son well, put a hand on her husband's shoulder and squeezed it.

"For now you are forgiven, if you do anything else that is stupid I WILL find a way to punish you, strongest exorcist or not." She said with a sweet tone that only made it worst somehow before moving to her assignment.

On the back of the place, Fabio was seeing the two new faces around himself.

One was the man who had just basically saved him from that situation, the other was a male as well but with short brown hair and looked a bit older being middle aged as in about 40 or so years old, his eyes were of violet color and he could notice the cross on his chest.

"It is nice meeting you, Saint-sama. My name is Kyotaka Shinra and I will watch over you as a member of the Orthodox church. If you have any request don't hesitate to speak them." The man who had saved him from the crowd said.

"Oh, you are from the Shinra family. Hey, do you think you could arrange for me to be able to talk to Suzaku-chan and Ouryuu-kun? I want to talk to them and see if they are okay." Fabio asked with some hope. He might try and act like everything was alright but he was inwardly a bit worried over the safety of his friends, after seeing the attack he was worried that they might be injured or perhaps even hate him due to how he injured those Enforcers. Not that he regretted doing it, he just wished there was no need for the conflict in the first place and that everyone could get along.

"I will see what I can do, maybe I could work something out. However, I want to ask, have you seen my niece while you were there? I am a bit worried about her since the last incident that you almost died there." Kyotaka said.

"Sorry, I don't know who your niece even is so I can't say." Fabio said apologetically. "But, if you are worried I could try and talk about her to Suzaku-chan and Ouryuu-kun to watch out for her."

"Thanks, I am sure Tsubaki will appreciate the gesture." Kyotaka said with a happy tone.

"If you are talking about family, I would like if you could meet my daughter then." The other male said at this point. "She loves saints since young and maybe if she knows you she would stop buying fake paintings of saints with her allowance, I fear her financial future if this continues."

"O-Oh." Fabio said without understanding. For him, even if the painting is a fake one the simple act of wanting to spend money on that is not wrong. Even fakes costed the work of the painter and the important in this sort of situation is not that the picture looks like a saint but the sentiment.

"Besides, if she sees you she might not buy those fakes simply because they are not pretty enough to match." The man said, making Fabio blush.

He didn't ask to be beautiful, he never really cared for that but the genes he has are too good and Ino would not have her user look bad when she finally has consciousness, not to mention his status as a True Saint.

Seeing his state the man laughed teasingly before speaking.

"Don't worry, with time you will become properly handsome instead of pretty… maybe. Anyway, my name is Touji from the Protestant church. It is nice to meet you." The name, Touji, introduced himself.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, Touji-san." Fabio said.

"Ora, how well behaved. Your mother should be proud." Touji said.

"And she is." A woman's voice said by the door and when this voice echoed in the room for a split second nothing happened and the next moment Fabio launched himself at the woman so fast that the senior exorcists had to think he had reinforced himself on some form. Not that he had, he had just started developing as a proper True Saint and, as such, had significantly greater physical attributes.

"Mamma." On his excitement Fabio called his mother in Italian, he was simply too happy to see her again.

"There, there, everything is okay." Griselda said while patting his back. "And don't you worry, I am right here and I will not let anything bad happen to you. I am your mother and now guard, after all."

Fabio didn't care, he didn't care about anything else right now as he basked on his mother's warmth.

Even Heaven couldn't match this for him, a mother's embrace is the best place.

"Fabio, I heard how you had to fight a group of Enforcers from the Five Families. Well done." Griselda said and Fabio smiled sweetly at that. However, the next words would dictate a terrible fate. "But, I heard you got injured from a measly few of them. That is no good, we will have to straighten you up."

"B-But mother, they are older and quite strong and-"

"Not important, now drop and give me eight." Griselda said sternly where Fabio immediately dropped and started doing push-ups.

The other two senior exorcists looked amused at first, but when the number of push-ups reached 20 they looked confused.

"Griselda-san, why is he continuing if he already gave five push-ups?" Kyotaka asked. Griselda and Fabio looked at him as if he was a fool.

"Because I/she meant eight hundred push-ups of course."

And with this note, another day continued.