Gonna start here by replying to a guest that reviewed as i think it may be important for everyone to know.
I portrayed Gin as OP in the last chapter but that's due to Raiser and not Gin himself.
Gin is strong but he shouldn't of been able to defeat that many so easily. Raiser is cocky and arrogant, he didn't think that his girls would need to go all out.
The only two that did was Isabella and Siris although Siris was off-screen. Gin was underestimated plus he is a descendant of a God.
Phoenix in general is nothing to a Senjutsuu user.
Now to Gin's words and actions. Yeah, they are gonna be pissed about it but his race was near eradicated by the devils. He is allowed some leeway there.
Both Sirzechs and Serafall are OOC because all we have seen of them is that they are Sis-cons. I'm going in depth with Serafall to bring her out more.
Now about what you said to the romance, i haven't actually started it yet. Yes, its shown but it's from looks alone.
Then it's the final point of what Serafall said to Gin which is this chapter. I agree that it's rushed but it comes with Serafall, she is a brash and upfront person. She get's what she wants and does it quickly, plus she has the political power and strength to do so. She isn't the type to bother what others think about her, hell she openly cosplays and is a proud Otaku while being a Maou, Leviathan.
Anyway, i wanna thank the guest, Nekoman, for reviewing and how i put it may come across otherwise. This was the easiest way for me to explain it, constructive criticism is always a good thing to me. It lets me know i can continue to improve.
Last thing is just something small. This chapter is big on info so it's gonna be blocky, plus it's earlier than expected. My fiancé got sick so I've had to postpone some work to stay home and look after her so while she was sleeping soundly i got most of this chapter done for you. Have fun :P
The room we teleported into was of similar size to the clubroom but it was a taller room instead. The walls were made out of a grey stone compared to the dark wood of the clubroom. Bookcases littered the two walls, a desk and chair rested in the centre of the room with it's face to the door and it's back to stained glass that illuminated the room in different colours. I was positioned facing Serafall and the window as Serafall was positioned facing me and the door. As childish as she is and said to be, she actually looked at home behind the desk.
Along with the fluctuation of magic in the room came a number of documents and a thin book. The book faced me as the documents faced Serafall.
"Before we begin Gin-chan, you'll need to know that your clan will be under me to begin with. The Underworld already knows that you are a Nekoshou so they'll be slightly reserved about this. Your clan will be to me like Lucifuge was to Lucifer, although the only thing i'll ask of you is to participate in events with me."
She ends on a smile, serious right from the start.
"Once you've read that we can get started."
Serafall pushes the book further towards me and quickly starts on her documents, probably stuff to pass the time until I am finished. I took the book from the desk and opened it.
The number of Extra Demons is pretty small and most of them are the remnants of extinct clans like Abbadon and Belphegor. The most famous Extra Demon is Mephisto Pheles, he is the only one to not have a clan either. I'd be joining him there for the time being. Most of the Extra Demons have secluded themselves from the Devil Society, two famous examples were Roygun Belphegor and Bedeze Abbadon who are 2nd and 3rd champions in the Rating Games.
The Extra Demons don't hold as much political power as the Pillar clans but they have more worth in Army talks. Most of the Devil legions come from the Low-mid class devils with the Extra Demons taking up Captain positions. All of the members of the Spec Ops teams are Extra Demons, when the Pillars wanted something done quickly and expertly they went to the Extra Demons.
The Extra Demons are both similar and different to the Pillar clans. The clans themselves are near identical but marriage and things close to that are not the same. It's perfectly normal for Extra Demons to marry half bloods of any race, it's not frowned upon at all even though they are all pure-bloods too. I would be the first reincarnated devil to become an Extra Demon through a process which has been recently finalized by Ajuka Beelzebub. It said finalized by said nothing of the experiments so who knew if it actually works.
The book finished there, it was more of an introduction to what i'd be getting myself into. I'm interested though in why over half are not involved in devil society, possibly due to the Spec Ops business. Make sure nothing comes back to bite the lazy Pillar devils in the ass I guess.
"What's next?"
She looks up from her documents and her face lights up, she must hate dealing with paperwork.
"The workings of a clan is pretty easy and you'll learn as you go along. It's quite self-explanatory really."
I'm not really sure that is what you are supposed to be saying, it's almost like she is trying to make me be unprepared.
"First thing first is to turn you into a pure-blood. The process that was designed was for people who didn't know Senjutsuu, the process is a simple substitute which can only be utilized in this situation. I have to take a vial of my own blood and section it off so the clan abilities aren't based over leaving just the pure-blooded base. Luckily Ajuka-chan has given each Maou a series of vials for the first few times while we practice trying to do it ourselves. Then you create a cut along your left forearm that brings the blood to the surface but not too deep. While you control your blood with your Senjutsuu, lock onto the blood cells that aren't reincarnated devil blood and form a protective barrier. I'll then slowly pour my blood over the cut you made through with magic and the pure will fight off the reincarnated. Your blood will then fuse together completing the process. Simple, right~?"
She just had to ruin it at the end there. I had started to wonder how long she could stay serious for, maybe that was her way of lightening the mood. Oh well, I understand what I have to do. This is actually an easy process for a Senjutsuu user, being able to control our own blood stream is a basic skill. It helps with healing and the like so it's one the first things to learn. Luckily the change will be done for me, that's something we never really needed to know.
I brought my left arm up and hovered it over the desk with the underside and palm facing upwards to the ceiling. I started to focus on the blood in my body as Serafall lightly cut into my forearm with a scalpel. The cut was small and thin, the blood took a second or two before rising to the surface and connecting over the line forming a small train. With the blood now on the surface I could focus in on the specifics. I narrowed down the blood and sectioned off the reincarnated devil blood pushing my Nekoshou blood and Tsukiyomi blood away making a slight but important space around the devil blood.
I looked to Serafall and nodded. She took a look of concentration as she summoned a vial of dark red blood that had a magic circle hovering over the top of it. The vial was then brought to just over the blood on my forearm and slowly tipped until the blood in the vial started to trickle out of it onto my arm. The initial contact was fine, I felt nothing from it but from then on I felt like a war was going on inside my own body. The pure blood was taking over from the reincarnated blood but it wasn't going down without a fight, the resistance though was extremely futile.
My body felt like it was burning up from the inside, it was a completely new sensation. My body has never overheated before, it's always been the right temperature. I've never caught a cold or the flu. My Nekoshou side keeps me warm to touch and my Tsukiyomi blood protects me from the cold, more like it revels in it. My body enjoys cold temperatures due to my affinity for Ice. This hot feeling was strange, I felt my whole body tingling at the new sensation. Even though I found it uncomfortable, I liked it. It was a snug feeling that was nostalgic, it gave me a sense of shared heat. The type you get from a hug off your loving mother, it was hot and stuffy but you persevere because it feels great.
This feeling died down first in my left forearm as the blood retracted in and the wound closed up. The feeling then slowly just washed away leaving me a little conflicted, it brought back memories I had let go many years ago. I had always received motherly hugs off of Okaa-san but it didn't feel right, it didn't hold the same type of warmth.
Serafall had noticed my melancholy and looked like she was going to pry but I smiled to her stopping that train of thought.
"Now that the base of the Tsukiyomi clan is done, we can move to the next and final portion."
"And that is?"
"Your clan's symbol and crest. As you know, the crest for Gremory appears on the palm of your right hand. That allows devils to know that you are just a servant in that particular clan. The blood members of that clan have the crest on the palm of their left hand, the reason for this is that most Devils are right handed. This allows them to be ready with a weapon in their stronger hand while showing their identification with their left hand. As devils are prideful creatures there was always been fights within, there has also been a number of civil wars before."
I see, that's quite plausible and a smart thing to do.
"What you need to do is imagine what you want as your emblem and crest for you clan, Devil magic runs of imagination you know. Once that vision is crystal clear in your mind bring the Gremory crest to your right hand and run it over your left hand, this'll transfer the magic and react forming your clan's crest. If you wish, you can create a variant like the Phoenix clan has with the flames."
I guess i'll just stick to Icicles then, that'll do for the transportation.
I opened up my left hand fully and started to think of a design, there was only one thing that could work for me. That is the moon but there is multiple phases but with the fact that this is a circle that means a full moon, new moon or an eclipse. An eclipse would be the perfect choice.
To my mind I brought the image of a black background with sparkling lights dotting themselves all over. In the centre of the black and sparkles was an everlasting darkness in the shape of a circle, around that circle was a silver light that shone brightly illuminating its vicinity.
I brought the Gremory crest to the palm of my right hand and then ran that hand over the top of my left hand causing crimson, black and silver sparks to fly from the space in between my hands. The magic kick-started and fluctuated as my left hand was filling up with a baseless type of magic. Completely running over my left palm with my right hand I saw a dark circle occupying the palm of my left hand. Around the edge of the black was three thin silver circles that emitted a fluctuating silver light that rose up and down in waves.
"An eclipse?"
"Not just any eclipse Levia-chan. I'm the descendant of the Shinto Moon God, it's the Lunar Eclipse."
"The difference?"
"A solar eclipse emits an orange light around the circle of pure darkness, a lunar eclipse emits silver light."
"Now that your clan is done, we need to run over the details of it."
The details? The specific of my clan maybe? Like Crimson hair to Gremory, that type of thing probably.
"Firstly is the blood inheritance. Your kids will gain all characteristics from your Nekoshou side so the small stature, hazel eyes and adorable cat features~. Powers of Tsukiyomi so they will all be adept in Ice magic. Royalty among animals of the night."
Yes, the animal is a good one. I'll have to see if I can lord over the Familiar Forest but keep Satooji around, I wonder if that'd change anything. The creatures there might be happier knowing that the one they look up to is ruling over them rather than, to them, a no-name devil.
"Next is your standing in the Underworld. In the eyes of the Devil Community and even the higher ups you are now a High-class devil but that isn't the truth behind it. This Extra Demon system is to find promising devils and bring them in to get back some pure-bloods. We bank on your potential but you are still in fact a Low-class devil just with special privileges. To rank-up you'll have to do it like everyone else but you won't need to do a promotion test, it'll be automatic after we have received notice of your achievements. You will not receive your own Evil Pieces until you have done some feats or raised your standing through contracts."
"What are the ways to rank up?"
Serafall's smile quivers briefly, this probably indicates another long-winded talk from her. This is probably tiring her out, let's see if I can milk it out of her.
"The traditional but slowest way is to complete contracts. Each contracts equates to a number of points, the points change from contract to contract on what is wanted, the reward and the person it's done for. There are multiple variables to it."
"The next way would be through Rating games. There are also multiple variables in this and award more points due to them being rarer than contracts. Each person you defeat is worth points, points are then added or subtracted depending on how it's done. Quick kills give more points and taking out a number of enemies by yourself also gives more points. Winning the game gives you points and you can receive more depending on your efforts, the same with Losing. You don't gain any extra points if you lose but if you did extremely well like standing firm by yourself or figure out their strategy and you can gain some extra points."
"Lastly is the hardest but quickest way to rank-up, Military feats. Completing a task that is very advantageous to the devils, for example taking out a Seraph. That would instantly allow you to rank-up, you'd also be called the 'Seraph Slayer'. It would be easy for you to do this as you could leak Grigori information or assassinate the leaders due to being one of them but I know you wouldn't do that."
Does she really know that? There are a few leaders there I wouldn't be bothered about killing, Kokabiel is a definite and possibly Penemue too. Actually Azazel is the type of person to help me out with this, he'd probably create a fake which seems real and do it that way.
"Lastly will be your living arrangements. Currently you don't have much to your name but I would like to give you a place to start off with and two servants to help you out. One servant is from Zechs-chan and the other is from me, they should both already be there."
When did she do that? I doubt she was able to predict it during the Rating game and I didn't hear her talking when I was reading the book. Well, she is a Maou. I'll just leave it at that for now and worry about other things. I'm about to start my journey of rocking the devils from the inside, I don't have time to figure out how she spoke to people without me hearing.
She then quickly got up from her chair behind the desk and transformed, I use that literally. She actually did a transformation sequence akin to something from a Mahou Shoujo anime and what resulted from it was also something from a Mahou Shoujo anime, more specifically 'Magical Girl Milky Spiral Seven'. It's pretty popular in the anime scene and it was a pretty good cosplay version right up to the magic wand, it looked like the actual thing. I was somewhat curious on how that came to be.
I got up myself and didn't want to be different from her so I summoned stuff myself. I summoned my headphones from Tsukiyomi and the black and blue shemagh scarf. I then quickly followed after Serafall as she started to happily walk towards the door of her study, quickly catching up to her I walked directly beside her. We then quickly left her castle, which was ridiculously large and much larger than any medieval castle I've ever seen.
Leaving the perimeter of her castle we took into the capital of her region, Laevateinn. We were receiving strange gazes from the devil population, the reason being my cat features on display along with the fact that I was casually walking next to one of the Maous. I'll probably get bashed privately on those forum things for this, I wonder if the devils actually have those? They seem like they would have a lot of them, they are arrogant bastards after all.
The walk, while nice, was long and boring. I had to put up with those irritating gazes and a Maou that hadn't noticed a thing, probably due to the incessive whistling and humming she was doing of random tunes. It's hard to tell whether she started it to amuse herself or to try and ease the tension her devils were causing me. But eventually we reached the place that Serafall would be giving me to start out.
Looking at the place in front of me I was surprised.I know the devils are rich and the living embodiment of Greed and Pride so I was expecting a manor house or maybe even a mansion if I was lucky but what I got was neither of those two things. I got a castle, nowhere to the scale of Serafall's but a castle nonetheless. Even a small castle has a considerable feel to it, this one had a different feeling to Serafall's. This one was musky compared to the homey feeling that was flowing through the Leviathan Castle. The castle that was in front of me had to be more than ten times smaller than Leviathan's but at least five times bigger than my current home in the human world.
It was strange. I don't know whether i'm being lucky or what, could it be possible that this is all just to get her in my good books for when she has a request later on in my life? Serafall doesn't seem the type for that, she is too innocent in a way despite being a devil. It's annoying that I feel so conflicted about this, even with my Senjutsuu and ability to read her Ki I can't sense anything other than genuine child-like innocence from her. It's kinda infuriating.
We walked down the long pathway up to the large wooden doors of the castle, the dark wood contrasting well with the darkness of the grey stones. Coming to the doors I could feel the magic in the walls presumably a magic alternative to insulation. The two large wooden doors opened up completely and granted us entrance all by itself, no one opened it for us.
Upon entering the castle I saw two people, a woman who was the spitting image of Grayfia albeit slightly shorter and an old man who was slightly shorter than me. They both possessed auras that were stronger than mine. Just looking at them I could tell of their blood. The woman was obviously a younger sister to Grayfia and the old man was like me but I didn't feel an exact similarity, Nekomata maybe.
"Gin-chan, this is Gray-chan's younger sister Grace. She will be your maid and attendant for devil related things."
Gray-chan huh? I wonder how Grayfia reacts to that, must be a satisfying response. Grace then bowed to me with a stern expression, it wasn't on Grayfia's level but it held similarities. I wonder why she would be my maid anyway.
"The old man next to Gray-chan is Hibiki-shi. He is a Nekomata that I took in before the other devils could find him. He will work as your butler here in the castle."
She saved him? I guess I can trust her a little more then, give her the benefit of the doubt at least. I'm surprised at the respect she is giving him though, maybe it's just due to his age. Hibiki then bowed to me himself over his right arm which he brought to his chest just for the bow.
As he stood back up I started to take in their forms. Grace was near identical to Grayfia, she wore the same blue and white French maid uniform with the white headdress.
"Grace-chan here, isn't too keen on the Gremory family, all she holds for them is gratitude of taking her and her older sister in after the 'Civil War' between the 'Two Maou Factions'. She has been looking to find a master elsewhere and only wanted to serve someone who was a true Lucifer or someone who specialized in Ice magic. There is probably more to it but that's for you to find out when she wants you to."
A fellow disliker of Gremory. That's kinda weird to come to me then, even with my dislike of Gremory I am a part of their family for the time being. There must be some kind of hidden message here, maybe it's just due to the Ice magic I wield and my ambition to get away from Gremory.
"I'm Tsukiyomi Gin, a pleasure to meet you two."
I nodded my head towards them with a smile, they both returned the smile with one.
"Gin-chan, Zechs-chan has got you your car and license. They are both in your club room at school. I'll see you again Gin-chan, Bai bai~."
I slowly waved back to her as she teleported away, she expels way too much happiness. I turned to my maid and butler and smiled.
"Let's get to work then."
They both bowed in response and spun on their heels and started to walk off further into the castle and I followed on after them. Looking at Grace I saw that her hair was different as well, you could tell that from the front as well. Grace didn't have her hair in braids like Grayfia does, Grace just let's her hair flow down against her back but ties a small clump at the bottom with a blue bow. Both Grace and Hibiki had silver hair although Hibiki's was closer to grey.
We continued on through the halls of my new castle until we reached it's study and all stepped inside.
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Hours passed by slowly as the three of us started to get everything in order. First was the furnishing of the castle and we went with silver and ice blue while keeping the furniture contemporary rather than the typical Victorian that the Devils seem to enjoy. The paintings that would decorate on the walls would all be either of cats or the night sky, for my office I picked out a painting of a city at night with skyscrapers lining the outside with the moon shining brightly in the centre of the top half of the picture. A small silver cat was sitting facing the moon with it's tail laid out to the side and an empty can to it's right. It resembled me when I was alone after escaping thanks to my parent, I sat in the centre of the street in my kitten form and just watched the moon slowly float across the night sky while it gave off a beautiful and serene silver light.
Then we got into the business of dealing with personnel for this castle. That I was leaving entirely up to Grace and Hibiki but I did ask for servants that were part animal, gotta have that theme going. Experience wasn't something that bothered me, Hibiki and Grace could probably teach them well anyway.
Next was dealing with Grace and being in contact with Azazel. I strictly told Grace to never harm a fallen angel, she did question me about it but wasn't all that bothered. She said that she doesn't hate them but she doesn't like them either. Despite looking near identical to Grayfia, she is really different to her. I can tell even with the short time of meeting them both, the air around them is different. Grayfia has a 'take no bull from anyone' air about her but she waits for an explanation before committing to dealing with it. Grace feels like the type of person who would let something go through before bothering to deal with it, let me learn from my mistake and then reprimand me about it. Perhaps she will be more easy-going than Grayfia.
Grace was very competent in her work, she instructed me well and everything was clear. She also had good ideas on where to create a foothold for the clan so it can start gaining money. Apparently, Serafall was going to give me the rights to a few places so I can start gaining income that way but it was completely up to me what. Neither Grace nor myself knew of their popularity and income they got Serafall so it was a little like pot luck on what we chose. What we did choose was a tailor and a hotel. As of yet I won't have my own territory because that comes with being high-class, as the head of a clan I only need to be high-class for territory unlike everyday devils who need to be Ultimate-class for their own territory.
The only thing left to do was deal with Grace herself. I gave her my crest so she could link our magic together to talk at any time, got her room set up in the castle and spoke about things she'd do. She was going to take up the spot as Gardener and stay here in the Underworld for the time being to get everything up and running. Once everything is settled and running smoothly she will come to the human world to help me out.
With everything finally sorted I was able to return to the human world. I brought some magic to my left hand bringing the crest to my hand, I had to register it on the first teleportation with it to sync with my magic. I took a deep breath and allowed the magic to flow out. A circle of darkness appeared underneath me followed by three bright rings of silver light that fluctuated in the magic source. Icicles started to form around the outside of the rings, once the icicles met up again at the beginning my body was teleported back to my home in the human world.
This chapter was interesting to write. I think it's the first time anyone has bothered with the 'Extra Demons', not to sure though.
I will also be continuing to develop upon it and do some devil politics which will be fun for no-one.
Anyway, the next chapter is an everyday chapter before i start the Excalibur arc.
Next chapter will involve Raynare and Rias, mainly Raynare.
Well, sorry for the small rant at the beginning. I didn't want it to look that way so hopefully you guys don't take it that way. Ciao-nya.