Chapter 9: Phenex (III)
(This chapter is short, so deal with it)
My brain: "Thanks for the 'Totem of Undying' Matsuda, I almost died there if you don't show up"
Matsuda: "No problem" he said while holding a lemon squeezer behind his back
legend
"nornal talking"
"ATTACK"
"thought"
[Sacred Gear talking]
[Sacred Gear telepathy]
*SFX*
Training Day 6
When Issei woke up in the morning, what awaited him was the intense pain of muscle aches.
"There's a night training planned for doing it at night as well. We are the resident of night after all" Buchou says.
The training was much harder than the training Issei do every morning. It has a few times more training than the one He did in the morning. Even if a Devil is much stronger at night, He would still die if He train both during the day and night.
He was already in a bad mood because He had to share the room with Kiba. When He heard the girls' voices that are having fun from upstairs, He regretted being born as a guy.
Then in the morning for day 6, it was study time.
They gathered at the living room, and they apparently decided to teach Him and Asia about Devils' knowledge.
Therefore they were teaching them some weird names that were hard to remember. Because both of them was taught things that they don't even understand.
When they pumped quite a decent amount of information, Kiba asks him a question.
"Our greatest enemy. The Angels led by God. What is the name given to the highest rank Angels? Also the ones among them?"
"Ummm, it's 'Seraphim', right? The members are... Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and... hmm, Uriel?"
"Correct." So it's correct. He remembered that they all have an '-el' at the end of their name, so somehow I remembered them all.
"Next is our 'Maou'-sama. What are the names of the 'Yondai Maou-sama'?"
"Sure! Piece of Cake! I'm planning to meet them when I get a peerage! So I remembered all their names perfectly! Lucifer-sama, Beelzebub-sama, and Asmodeus-sama! And lastly the female Maou-sama that I look up to, Leviathan-sama!"
"Correct."
"I'm definitely going to meet Leviathan-sama!"
From what he heard from Rias. That the person standing at the top of the female Devils is the Maou Leviathan.
He also heard that she is a very beautiful Maou-sama! He was also told that He could meet her if He's lucky!
"Ku! I can't wait!"
How beautiful will she be? Since she is Maou-sama, she must be very beautiful...
"Haa... I really want to meet her."
"Then next, I will ask you to say the names of the leaders of the Fallen Angels that you hate the most, Ise-kun." Here it comes. The names of those Fallen Angels Issei totally hate...
The Fallen Angels have more leaders than the other factions. And their names are complicated... But He remember the names of the top two.
"The main group of the Fallen Angel is called 'Grigori'. The name of the Governor is Azazel and the name of the Vice-governor is Shemhaza. I know completely up to here. And the name of the leaders are... Armaros... Barakiel... Tamiel... Ah, and, hmmm, huh? Bene-something and C-C-Cociane...?"
"Benemue, Kokabiel and Shariel. You have to remember them properly. This is also the basics. It's the same as remembering the names of the prime minister and the vice-prime minister of Japan as well as the leaders of the surrounding countries."
"OH FUCK THIS SHIT, like Man, that's why Fallen Angels are such a pain. I can't come to like them. They are probably scum anyway."
Also they watch over the 'Children of God', in other words the 'Sacred Gear' possessors twenty-four seven.
That's also the reason why He was attacked and why Asia was killed once.
The Fallen Angels made a group to research about the Sacred Gears. They invite beneficial Sacred Gear possessors to their group or they take their Sacred Gears.
If they aren't beneficial then they kill them on the spot. Seriously they are the biggest scum ever.
They even kill those possessors that do not know about their own Sacred Gear. That's how He was.
They seem to be the greatest enemy of the Devils, so He won't hold back on them. He won't hold back on those guys who did such a terrible thing to Asia!
Like this He was taught about the Angels and the Fallen Angels. It's becoming quite useful to know.
He need to remember especially about the relation between the Devils and other factions since they are important.
Then next, Asia starts her lesson.
"Cough. Then now, I, Asia Argento will explain about the basics of the exorcists."
Asia who is about to speak front of everyone.
Ah, she turns red. Thank you very much for such a cute response.
"U-Umm. From the place I used to belonged to, there were two types of exorcists."
"Two types?" Asia nods at his question.
"The first type are the ones that appears in films and novels. The father reads a section of the book, then he uses the holy water to get rid of the Devil from the person's body. They exorcists on the 'surface' . So the exorcist on the 'behind' are the ones that is a threat to us." Rias continues from where Asia left off.
"Ise, you also have met him before, but the greatest threat to Devils' are exorcists who received the divine protection from a God or the Fallen Angels. We have been fighting against them for a very long time behind the scene. They come to destroy us with the power of light received from the Angels, and with their physical bodies that they trained to the uttermost limits."
Then He remembered the crazy priest boy from before. He was a crazy exorcist with white hair. He not only kills Devils but also those who have connections to a Devil. To tell the truth, he's the type of person both Issei and Matsuda don't want to meet ever again.
While Issei was thinking about it, Asia takes out loads of stuff from her bag.
Rias picks up a small bottle with water inside it with her fingers and is holding it as if she is touching something disgusting "Now I will talk about the traits of holy water and the Bible. First of all, the holy water. It will be very terrible if a Devil touches it."
"That's true, so you can't touch it as well, Asia. Your skin will get harmed."
"Sob, that's right... I can't touch the holy water anymore..." Asia gets shocked after hearing Her comment. Well, she is a Devil after all.
"I will tell you how to make one afterwards. I don't know if it will be useful but there are a couple of ways to make them" Maybe this is her strong field, so Asia continues to talk energetically.
"Next is the Bible. I have been reading it every day since I was a child. But I'm in trouble now because it gives me a pain in the head even if I only read a sentence of it."
"You are a Devil."
"You are a Devil after all."
"... A Devil."
"Ufufu, Devil's receive intense damage."
"Sob, I can't read the Bible any more!" Asia starts to have teary eyes after everyone points it out to her.
As what he heard from Rias before. We Devils suffer greatly if someone reads out the Bible to us.
He haven't experienced it yet, but I may suffer because of boredom if someone read it out to Him.
Wait, so that means Asia has been reading the Bible. If she continues she might die one day!
"However, this is my favorite phrase... Oh God. Please forgive a sinful person like myself who can't read the Bible-au!" She received damage again by praying to God.
"Please God, just ignore this child's prayer" Like this, after they finished thair morning study session they went outside to continue the training.
5 Days Latter
On the day of the decisive battle
"I'm ready" Issei, getting fired up in his own room.
Right now, it's 10 o'clock at night. The decisive battle will start in two hours, exactly from 12am.
Today their job as a Devil is off. They went home straight after school. That's because they may end up wasting their own stamina.
All of them planned to meet up at the club room 30 minutes prior to the match, so by that said, he can only stay here for about 90 minutes. But still, He feel the most relaxed here in His own room. So that, he want to stay here as long as he can.
If He'll go there early, He will feel nervous whether He like it or not "Ah, I feel more nervous than the time I was waiting for my entrance exam results to our academy..."
He's currently wearing his school uniform. He thought this will be the most fitting clothing for this. Rather, should He prepare clothing for battle purpose? When He asked that to Rias, 'If my group has a uniform, then it has to be the uniform of Kuou academy. We are the members of the Occult Research Club after all' She replied like that to him with a smile.
That's why his battle uniform will be his school uniform. Well, if He was doing martial arts He could have prepared a dougi.
"I can do this... I can do this! My new ultimate technique!"
"You ready Ise?" someone asked him from the outside of the broken window. It was his friend, hovering in front of the window, Matsuda.
He get a bit shocked when He witness the clothing that He is wearing.
That's because he is wearing his in a butler's outfit, which consists of gray trousers, a six-button double-breasted tailcoat, and a charcoal black vest. This was his friend's uniform when he was still a chess player.
"What's with that outfit."
"You see. When I asked Buchou, she told me, 'Wear something that you feel the most comfortable in'. I thought about it a lot, and I found out that this outfit is the easiest for me to move around in... I may have a bunch of bad memories on this outfit, but that's already a past"
"Yeah, past is past."
Around 11:40 pm.
As all of the member of the club gathered in the old school building. They're all now currently waiting in our most relaxing positions. Everyone except Asia is wearing their uniform, and Matsuda in butler uniform.
Kiba is equipped with a gauntlet on his hands and has some armour on his lower leg. He has his swords against the wall.
Koneko is sitting on the chair and is reading a book. On her hands, she is wearing gloves that allow her fingers to be seen. It's one of those gloves that martial artists wear.
Akeno and Rias are drinking green tea elegantly. Just to be expected from our Onee-samas, they sure are calm…
Asia and Issei sit on the chair quietly while thay wait for the time to come.
Ten minutes prior to the match, the magic-circle glows and Grayfia appears from it.
"Is everyone ready? It's ten minutes before the match."
Everyone stands up after Grayfia confirmation. She was about to explain about the battle but only stop when her eyes landed on Matsuda.
"Please forgive me, but you see, a human is not able to join this match"
"If that's the case, then I'll join as 'Issei's personal slave" his answer gave everyone shock, they never thought that his loyalty towards Issei is stronger than they ever thought.
Grayfia could only gave a little to visible smile at him "If that's what you call yourself, then you can join" She said before she face everyone and starts to explain the rules "When it becomes the time to start the battle, you will be teleported to the battlefield through this magic-circle. The location of the place is in a different dimension used for battles. You may fight with all your power. It's a disposable space so feel free to fight to your satisfaction."
"I see. A battle purpose field, huh. So Devils can prepare something like that as well" Issei thought
Indeed if they fight somewhere in the humans' world or Devils' world, thay can't avoid destruction. So it means that thay need a place where we won't harm anything no matter what thay do.
But leaving that aside, there's something that Matsuda concerned about.
"Hey, Buchou?"
"What is it?"
"Buchou, you also have another 'Bishop', right? Where is that person?"
"Unfortunately, the other [Bishop] can't participate. Though there will be a time when I will talk about that in the near future" She answers that to him without any eye contact.
"Seems like there's something complicated about this matter. I probably should stop asking about this topic now." He thought
Grayfia-san then speaks under this weird atmosphere "This 'Rating Game' battle will also be viewed by members of both households from a different location through broadcast."
"Are you serious? So they will be watching us? So they are going to view us like VIP members, huh. They sure must be having fun. Since Buchou's parents are watching this as well, I can't show them an unsightly scene." He thought as this is his first time being watched by a multiple stanger in a fight.
"Maou Lucifer-sama will also be viewing this battle. Please do not forget about it."
Maou!? Maou-sama!? Wow, that makes me nervous. Even the one standing above us is paying attention to this match!? Buchou then makes a shocked face.
"Onii-sama is?... I see, so Onii-sama is also going to view this battle"
"Huh? I think I heard it wrong. What did Buchou just say? O-Onii-sama…?" Issei got confused so he put his hand up and ask.
"U-Umm, Buchou, you just called Maou-sama 'Onii-sama'…? Did I hear wrong?" But Kiba answers me straight away.
"No, Buchou's brother is indeed the Maou-sama."
"M-Maoooooou!? Buchou's Onii-sama is Maou-sama!?"
"Yes" Rias confirms it straight away.
"Are you serious!? Seriously!? No, wait. But Buchou is part of the 'Gremory clan', isn't she? I think her last name is different from any of the Maou's last name…
Lucifer, Beelzebub, Leviathan, and Asmodeus. It doesn't match with any of their last names." His brain is going overdrive
"Are you confused because Buchou's family name is different to the names of Maou-samas'?" Kiba guesses what he's trying to figure. It's a bummer but he has it correct.
"Y-yeah..."
Kiba starts to explain after he admit it reluctantly "In the previous Great War, the Maou-samas was in a critical condition and has passed away a long time ago. But there would be no Devils if there aren't any Maou-samas. That's why the Devils decided to keep the names of the Maous and let it be inherited to the ones with enormous powers. So the current Four Great Maous are the Ultimate-class Devils that are the successors of the first generation Maous that has inherited their names."
"So that's how it is. Then 'Lucifer' and 'Beelzebub' isn't a personal name but more like a managerial position."
"To tell you the truth, out of the three factions of the God, the Fallen Angels and the Devils, the Devils have the least power. We are actually in a tight spot but we are still safe because the current Maou-samas has a power equal to the previous Maou-samas."
"So the Devils' society is just somehow managing, huh... I'm pretty shocked to hear that the Maou-samas that have their names recorded in the books you find in the libraries are already dead." He thought before he figured out something "So Buchou's brother was chosen to be a Maou from the Ultimate-class Devils then?" Kiba nods at his question.
"Sirzechs Lucifer—who is also known as the "Crimson Satan". He is Buchou's brother and the most powerful Maou-sama."
"I see"
"It's about time. Everyone, please head to the magic-circle" they gather to the magic-circle after Grayfia urges them to "Also, once you get transported, you cannot use the magic-circle until the game ends."
The magic-circle's symbol changes to another one which is not that of the Gremory's and it starts to emit lights. It's also not the symbol of the House of Phoenix. Perhaps it's the one used for the game?
While Issei was thinking about it, the light covers them and the teleportation begins.
When Issei and Matsuda open their eyes. Both of them tilted their head in confusion as when they witness the view. Obviously, because all of the are still at clubroom.
"What the, did the teleportation fail? But everyone besides me and Asia are calm and they aren't even shocked about this situation we are in. Also Grayfia-san is gone. Don't tell me she teleported just by herself?" He thought, he was about to inquire but.
[Hello everyone. I am Grayfia, a maid from the House of Gremory and today I will be the arbiter of the Rating match between the House of Gremory and the House of Phoenix.]
Grayfias voice has been heard from the school's broadcast.
[In the name of my Master, Sirzechs Lucifer, I will be keeping my eye on this match. By using both Rias-sama and Raiser-sama's opinion, we created this battlefield which is a replica of the school, Kuou academy, which Rias-sama attends to in the human world.]
"Oooh, hold on" Issei thought as he quickly take a look out of the window, the sky is white. It's supposed to be very dark since it's midnight. So did they make a replica of the school in this world of white? Just how extraordinary can the power of Devils be!?
[The location where both teams were transported will be their "base". Rias-sama's "base" would be the Occult Research Cub's clubroom located in the old school building. Raiser-sama's "base" would be the Student Council's room located in the new building. For the 'Pawns' to use 'promotion', please head to the enemy's base to do it.]
Similar to the actual chess, "promotion" is a special move you are able to do if the 'Pawn' reaches the furthest part of the enemy's base. I can change into any pieces besides the 'King' piece.
"So I have to reach the enemy's base no matter what. Student Council room, huh. It's at the corner of the highest floor in the school building. I have to head there! Likewise, Raiser's [Pawns] can promote if they get here. Unlike us, where I am the only [Pawn], they have 8 [Pawns]. If they all turn into [Queen], we are in deep shit! 'Queen' is the ultimate piece. It's certain that we will be in danger if they are to promote. It's normal for [Pawns] to be sent first so they can take down each other. Does that means I have to take down 8 beautiful girls of 'Pawns] all by myself…? Wow, I have rough roads ahead of me.
"Everyone, will you all please put this transceiver in your ears." Rias says it while putting it in her ears as Akeno gives everyone an earphone type transceiver.
"At the battlefield, we will be using this to communicate with each other."
"So we will receive the orders through this transceiver huh. This is an important item. I need to make sure I don't break it." Matsuda gave thought about it as he put the thing into his ears.
[Now it's the time for the commencement of the battle. Also, this match will continue till dawn in the humans time. So, Game starts now.]
I was just having a vacant time, and the only thing I can think is making a new Chapter.
Issei: "How about watching a porno instead"
Me: "Fuck you"