Hey everyone sorry I haven't been updating, I've been busy with culminating tasks at school. This chapter should be pretty good and it will be introducing a couple new characters as well as the beginning of Gin's curse training and the entirety of Rias' trial. So I hope you enjoy!
Anything you recognize I don't own and High School DXD belongs to Ischium Ishibumi.
"Talking"
'Reference in speech'
"Sacred Gear/Phone talking"
'Thoughts'
"God-like beings"
"God-level beings
Hyoudou Household:
It was night time and Gin wanted to get straight into his training with Akuba, something he had not yet done. So, along with Koneko, Restia and Est, Gin made his way to his bedroom.
It was only after they were all changed and laying in Gin's bed that Akuba spoke to them "Hello, miss Demon Slayer could you do me a favor?" he asked. Est looked to be thinking over it for a second before she nodded in reply. "Perfect. Would you mind undoing the seals that are present in Gin's body so he can use his full potential?"
This gained shocked looks towards the tattoo on the heterochromatic teen's arm, but Est nodded none the less and put her hand on Gin's heart. Est began muttering something incoherent and after a brief flash of light she said "Done. I undid all 9 seals inside of him."
"Great now everyone get to bed you have a long day ahead of you and Gin, you have a long night as well." Akuba said and although he couldn't see it Gin knew he had a sinister grin. The group decided that that was indeed for the best so they drifted off into sleep.
Gin's Mindscape, Gin's P.O.V:
Whenever I woke up into my normal training area inside my mind I was immediately able to tell there was something different about it. It seemed darker and the previously muffled strength coming from Akuba's section of my mind was now almost overwhelming.
Now I understand what Orochi had meant whenever they said I had an affinity for curse magic. I looked around to see that none of the heads were currently present so I decided to walk towards the source of power inside of Akuba's domain.
I only walked about 50 steps before I heard a rather menacing voice.
"One… Become One… Reveal Your True Self… Claim Your Birthright!" It said. Naturally I had no idea what it was talking about so I decided that my best course of action was to ask.
"Who are you?" I called into the darkness somehow expecting a response.
"I am you… Well the rest of you…" The voice responded.
"Then what's my birthright?" I asked.
"That's for you to discover… I'll be seeing you again soon…"
And just like that Orochi appeared and everything was back to normal. But still… what happened? And what was that voice it sounded familiar… oh well time to train with Akuba.
Normal P.O.V:
"Gin what happened? We were blocked from your mind for the past couple minutes." Hikari asked, clearly worried about Gin "Yeah Dude, we could here you saying something but we couldn't make it out." Kaze added.
"Nothing much, apparently I was talking to 'The rest of me' he was saying something about my birthright. Do any of you know what that means?" Gin asked the eight-headed serpent.
"I do in fact know but until you master curses I can't tell you. I apologize Gin but that's how it has to be." Akuba said.
Gin sighed before nodding in acceptance to the conditions. "So then when do we start Akuba?"
The remaining heads all returned to whatever they were doing before while Akuba began to teach Gin about curses. "So to begin you need to remember that magic and curses while being fundamentally the same are actually different skills, that's why you needed to know so much about magic before I taught you about curses." Seeing Gin nod Akuba continued his lesson "To use a curse you are basically casting magic powered by negative emotions. So what you need to do is identify your strongest negative emotion whether it be anger or jealousy just find it and try to transform it into power. Unlike most people who wield curses you may actually be able to use more than one and even create new ones. For example someone who makes a curse based on anger will frequently use Incinerate which does exactly what you'd think it does. At any rate good luck and let's see what your primary curse is…"
After Akuba's lecture was finished Gin got straight to work looking deep within himself, searching for his most prominent negative emotion. He looked into his past, how he was abandoned and abused and while he was upset and angry at that, it wasn't his most prominent one. No, that went to his anxiety of being abandoned again, he was afraid that the people he's met would leave him alone or betray him.
Once Gin had established this as his greatest negative emotion he held out his hand and began to pour his anxiety into his hand the same way he did with his magic. To the surprise of both himself and Akuba a black ball of what appeared to be composed of nothingness, was forming in his hand looking like it was going to consume everything around to satiate its emptiness. It took less than three seconds for the ball to be at an optimal size for Gin to use as a projectile weapon but the swordsman wasn't finished. In the next second the ball was transformed into a double bladed spear with what could be considered a handle in the middle where Gin was now holding it. The spear was undoubtedly designed for throwing but it could also be used as a melee weapon.
Akuba had an odd expression on his face that seemed to display surprise, pride and a hint of fear. 'That shouldn't be possible!' The serpent of curses thought while looking at the spear in Gin's hand 'That monster couldn't have had a child… But that power it's undeniable who his father was… I just hope he'll wield his power justly, unlike his father.'
"Congratulations Gin. Your primary curse is Abyss Break, a very unique curse that is effectively the power of both everything and nothing at the same time. Now it's time for you to wake up but remember keep your ability to use curses hidden the only ones who should know about it are the Demon Slayer and the Vorpal Sword, they already know otherwise they would have never appeared to you. Tomorrow we'll try to unlock a second curse so you don't need to use Abyss Break. It would cause more problems than it would solve…" Akuba said ominously.
Gin nodded and prepared to leave but after Orochi left he once again heard the voice from before "Your curse is the curse above all… Just like yourself it is infinite should you just claim your birthright… Your true birth is nigh… The world shall soon experience the power of the abyss…"
And just like that Gin woke up and prepared with the other residents of his house, to leave for the ceremony for the brothers to receive their Evil Pieces and the trial for Rias.
With Rias?
Rias was sitting in her office, alone while talking on the phone…
"So will you do it?" She asked.
"Yes, I will kill the one known as Gin Hyoudou… Do you have the payment?" Replied a female voice that was void of emotion from the other side of the phone.
"Indeed, $2 000 000. Can I assume that there will be no loose ends?"
"Yes, but could I ask why you need him assassinated?"
"He poses a threat to my safety and I need him taken care of so just do your job and you'll never hear from me again." Rias responded, irritated that the assassin was asking questions.
"It will be done…"
And with that they hung up with Rias smirking victoriously "Let's see how you deal with that Gin…"
Evil pieces ceremony Normal POV:
In a grand looking hall with a wooden stage and purple drapes, multiple devils had gathered together to see both Gin and Issei get their Evil Pieces and leave their current peerages. Those present were Issei, Gin, Sirzechs Lucifer, Serafall Leviathan (who was hugging Gin at the moment), Falbium Asmodeus, Ajuka Beelzebub, Asia, the Sitri peerage, Restia, Est, Koneko, Kiba, Akeno as well as surprisingly Riser and his peerage.
"Today we've gathered to give two devils their very own sets of Evil Pieces and leave their previous masters to begin a new life and adventure, so could Issei and Gin Hyoudou please come here?" Ajuka said from the stage with a smile. Ajuka had heard about Gin and how he's quite similar to himself from Serafall. Gin and Issei walked up onto the stage with Gin wearing a silver suit with a black necktie. Issei was wearing something similar except that his was red and had a green tie on.
"Issei would you step up to the monolith?" Ajuka continued after seeing him do exactly that "Do you vow to serve the devil community as well as possible?"
"I do."
"Do you vow to uphold our laws and values?"
"I do."
"Do you vow to acquire your peerage and be willing to aid the people with your power?"
"I do."
"Then as one of the four Satans I request you place your hand on the monolith as well as one hand above your pieces to bind them to yourself."
Issei reached out and touched the monolith with his right hand while he held his left over his pieces and poured out a bit of magic into them which turned them red and green in color.
Ajuka smiled and then said "Welcome to high class Issei Hyoudou." Those present began clapping making Issei smile brightly at his friends and brother. "If you could join the crowd Issei…" the newly high class devil nodded and walked of the stage. "Now Gin, it's your turn to step up."
Gin nodded and walked up to the monolith. "Now you just heard the vows that you will be needed to take so what do you say to them?" Ajuka said with a smirk as his sarcastic side came out sometimes.
"Of course I do."
"Then put your hand on the monolith. I'll go get your pieces… they're a bit… special." Ajuka said making the three Satans that Ajuka had not informed of his decision although they had talked about it gasp in surprise while everyone else was confused.
It was about a minute later that Beelzebub returned with Gin's pieces. Opening the case he spoke "Now pour your own magic into the pieces and I'll put your king piece into you."
While Gin was doing just that Sona finally realized what they were doing, they were giving him one of the very few remaining king pieces which caused her to smile unnoticeably. Due to Gin's magic and his connection to Orochi his pieces were iridescent although it was black in the center. Ajuka then put the king piece into Gin's chest which caused Serafall to pout because she saw her knight pieces falling out of him and everyone (including Sona) began laughing at the Leviathan's expense.
Sirzechs then stepped up to the stage and began his portion of the day's events "Now would Yuuto Kiba, Akeno Himejima, Asia Argento, Koneko Toujou and Gasper Vlahdi please step up to the stage?"
The people called did exactly what they were told although a little confused as to who Gasper was until they saw a cardboard box moving towards the stage making Issei's eyes go wide and mumble something along the lines of "it actually works?"
Now with everyone present Sirzechs continued "Gin will be deciding where you go peerage wise due to the illegal means in which Rias acquired you into her peerage, so Gin? Where to?"
"Well to start Asia, Akeno, Kiba and Gasper will be placed in my brother's peerage and I will be taking Koneko into my own." Gin said with a smile. He had talked this over with Issei on their way over.
"Very well then do as you will." Sirzechs concluded with Issei returning to the stage with his pieces in hand. Taking them out, he used one of his bishops on Asia, and 4 pawns (2 for Akeno, one for the others due to Issei having a mutation piece for Gasper) on the others.
Gin however did something that surprised all of them, he took out his queen piece and walked up to Koneko. "Koneko, while we were in Mexico you told me that if I'm the king then you'll be my queen so I was wondering will you be the queen of my peerage?" Gin asked his first girlfriend. Even though his two familiars were also his girlfriends, Koneko held a special place in his heart.
"Of course I will Gin… I'll do my best." Koneko said to him. With that said Gin placed the queen piece into her chest and once she felt the new power going through her she let her nekoshou appendages show and did a cute "Nya!" causing all the girls and for some reason Riser to squeal in delight at how cute she was. But Gin simply walked up to her and kissed her to show her just how much it meant to him that she became his queen.
Serafall then walked up to Gin, poked him on the chest and said "Just remember that now you have to take responsibility for the actions of your peerage so try and keep them out of trouble. Oh and Gin-tan? Make sure you take very good care of your cute neko queen!" She finished with a cheeky grin, causing Gin and Koneko to blush.
"Of course but now it looks like I have two very jealous sword spirits to take care of." He said referring to his familiars. While Est did indeed have a jealous pout on her face, Restia had a seductive smile on hers.
"Oh and what are you going to do about it." The dusk beauty said while walking towards him with her hips swaying.
Looking to his white haired queen for approval she nodded, so Gin walked up to Restia and then looking like he was about to grab her he walked right passed her and continued on towards Est. "Well, I was going to give both of you a kiss but as it turns out I only have one jealous sword spirit so I guess I only need to console Est." With his piece said he leaned down and kissed the Demon Slayer as well causing her to blush for her own part and Restia to pout, only for Gin to walk up to her and kiss her as well.
"I knew it!" Issei shouted getting everyone's attention on him "Gin is a lolicon!" Everybody present broke out into laughter because it seemed accurate considering he did just kiss three different lolis.
A few hours later:
Gin, Est and Restia are currently walking down the road to the location of the trial alone. Koneko was brought immediately by Sirzechs along with the other members of the ORC to prepare for their testimonies but Gin wanted to walk and enjoy the last couple minutes before he would be cooped up inside a building for a while.
The three of them had been talking about menial things like where they were going and about how the male of the group would have to do to make up for all the schoolwork he missed until Gin suddenly held his hand up in a motion for them to stop before they turned into their respective sword forms in the raven haired teens hands before he called out to no one in particular "Come out, I know you've been following me."
A shadowed figure stepped into Gin's field of view and said "So you knew you were being followed but you didn't care? That's stupid by anyone's standards after all I could be an assassin…" A monotonous voice that seemed feminine said.
"Oh I knew you were an assassin because about 15 minutes ago I saw that sword on your hip so I led you to an alley where you would be at a disadvantage because of how close the walls are here." Gin replied without any expression "Now who are you and who were you sent by?"
The figure stepped out of the shadows with a surprised look on her face. The assassin was a beautiful young woman about 17 years old with long black hair and red eyes. She was just a bit shorter than Gin himself. She has a slim body with an average sized bust. "My name is Akame Valefor. As for who sent me… I can't tell you that. Also just because you limited my movement doesn't mean I can't kill you." Akame said as she drew her katana and got into a stance designed for speed.
"Valefor? Aren't they extinct?" Gin said as he followed suit and held the Demon Slayer in a reverse grip, keeping it behind him.
Akame nodded before replying "They are… My family was killed right in front of my eyes by another devil family about ten years ago. I'm an assassin to survive after all. Now prepare to face my Murasame!" She shouted the last part as she charged at Gin.
The red eyed assassin was stopped however when her sword was unexpectedly blocked by the dual wielder. You see the Valefors were devils that specialized in illusions so up until this point she thought Gin had no idea that she was behind him and was talking to the illusion she placed in front of him.
"You made a mistake Valefor-sama, you forgot that your demon sword has its own aura surrounding it. If not for that you would have taken my head off, in the future I recommend keeping it in a dimensional pocket to keep it hidden until just before you strike. Now shall we fight honorably or dirty?" Akame was shocked that the man in front of her was willing to ask for her preference on this, and that he was giving her constructive criticism. She wasn't nearly as confident that this would go as planned as she was whenever she started this fight… now she was scared. Scared that the swordsman would take it into his own hands to terminate the last member of her family, herself.
"Let's go honor, if I'm going to die it will be because I was truly outmatched." The red-eyed beauty said with the fear she was feeling evident in her eyes.
"So be it."
With these final words spoken Akame pushed off of Gin's sword to gain some distance before she launched herself at him once again.
The two continued clashing swords with each other on equal grounds for about two minutes at which point Akame began to lose her footing from fatigue. That was the difference between the two of them, stamina. They were equally skilled with their respective styles but the difference was that Gin was more used to prolonged fights so he was able to fight for hours without tiring but Akame didn't. She was used to going in for a quick kill. One strike and she's out.
But with Gin that wasn't even a possibility and the last Valefor knew it. She knew from the moment he blocked her first strike, he did it so effortlessly that she knew he was accustomed to combat. What she didn't know however was that Gin, while not tired was pushed to use all of his skill to fight her. He wasn't able to hold back against her like he did in all his previous fights.
They continued for about ten more seconds before Gin knocked her sword from her grip, tripped her using the top of the Demon Slayer, which although wasn't sharp like the blade still hurt her due to its divine properties, and held the Vorpal Sword to her throat.
Gin was about to thrust his satanic sword forward but he saw her eyes and immediately wished he hadn't. She was afraid to die, but more than that she was afraid to fail. It wasn't the person she was hired by that she didn't want to fail but probably herself, she was afraid that she failed as the last remaining Valefor.
Sighing Gin threw the Demon Slayer into the air. The sword was covered in a bright light for a second before Est reappeared. "Est darling? Could you bring me the demonic sword over there?" The male said pointing towards the disarmed Murasame.
Est nodded, picked it up and gave it to Gin. "Thank you." He said as he threw the Vorpal Sword into the air which also transformed into Restia. Gin then flipped the sword in his grip and held it out to Akame with a smile on his face. "Come on, take it. I won't kill you. You're too much like myself for me to do that. After all we're both afraid of failing those important to us. I mean I just got my Evil Pieces, what would my queen think if I failed her already?" He said this in a soft tone as Akame got up and took the sword from him with tears threatening to spill out the corners of her eyes.
"Thank you…" Were the words spoken by the assassin as she sheathed her blade.
"Now how do you want to go about restoring your family?" Gin said, causing Akame's eyes to go wide and his two familiars to sigh.
"Of course he would do that." Restia spoke with obvious fondness in her voice "Indeed, he really likes helping the pretty girls doesn't he?" This time coming from Est who was pouting cutely but she spoke fondly about her partner.
"Why? Why would you be willing to do that I just tried to kill you!" Tears were now flowing freely from Akame's eyes.
Gin surprised once again by patting her on the head before speaking softly to her "That doesn't matter. What matters is where you go from now. You could go back to being an assassin, try to make the Valefor family a pillar again or you could join my peerage and work with me to rebuild your family. I'd treat you fairly and I would help you get stronger so you never have to worry about failing anyone ever again, besides you can help me improve with my swordsmanship as well, you are the only person who's ever made me go all out with my swords before after all."
Akame nodded once with a beautiful smile on her face so Gin took out one of his knight pieces and used it on her.
Akame wouldn't admit it but she felt slightly attracted to Gin and was looking forwards toward the time that she will be spending with him.
At the Trial:
In the courtroom everyone was silent, the judge, the jury, the audience and Rias, all of them were silent everyone had just provided their respective testimonies with Koneko being the most recent due to her having solid proof as well as her own words. She was also last because she would be needed to introduce the last person that will come to the stands.
"Now there was supposed to be one more testimony and we were told that you can bring them out so miss. Toujou? Are you ready?" The judge said breaking the silence in the court.
Koneko nodded and rung the bell her sister gave her. It took just a little longer than a minute before Kuroka came out of a portal that had appeared setting everyone on guard.
"Hello! I'm here to help my adorable Shirone-chan, Nyaa." She said as she took a seat "So you see…" Kuroka then described the events that happened to her while she was under the service of her master and what she had heard while she was there "and then I killed him but left without Shiro- Koneko behind so that she wouldn't have to live the same way I did."
By the time she was finished almost everyone except Rias had a disgusted look on their face. The judge looked towards Rias signaling it as her turn to defend herself. Which she did… by explaining how she needed to do it to get out of her engagement and to have a worthy peerage for herself.
This went about as well as you'd think it would. Considering the jury had their verdict in only five minutes "The jury has reached a verdict… Rias Gremory is hereby found… guilty! As for Kuroka Toujou, she will be pardoned for her crimes but will be placed under the surveillance of Gin Hyoudou. Dismissed." The judge said hitting his mallet against the podium.
Smiling both Koneko and Kuroka jumped into Gin's arms and after looking at each other both kissed him on the cheeks which got his cheeks to burn red. "We did it Gin!" Koneko exclaimed.
"Yes we did my adorable kitten." He replied trying not to notice that her chest seems to have grown a bit more yet again "Now all that's left to do is have Kuroka her join the peerage and I'll introduce you to our other member tomorrow.
Koneko nodded and got off to let Gin bring her sister into the peerage which he did, as his first bishop.
That's a wrap and once again I'm sorry it took so long to get this out I've been really busy. For those wondering why I made Akame a Valefor, well that's because I was always interested to see what she would be able to do with a bit of illusion magic. But yeah there's not much else I can say but I'll do my best to get back on schedule. Also just thought I would mention this but the last two chapters were exceptionally long for me, this is indeed the normal length. Please leave a review and if you want PM me, Cya!
Official Harems
Gin:
-Confirmed: Ophis (Main), Koneko (Main), Kuroka, Serafall, Sona, Tsubaki, Xulean, Momo, Terminus Est, Restia, Bennia, Akame, Lilith, Vali (fem), Amaterasu, Yasaka, Marie (Dies Irae)
Issei:
-Confirmed: Xenovia, Irina, Asia (Main), Gabriel, Ravel, Akeno, Rossweisse (Main), Tsubasa, Penemue, Murayama, Aika, Hikari, Kunou, Katase, LeFay, Ellis (Blade Dance), Esdeath (I have something planned for her it should be good)
Peerages:
Gin:
Queen: Koneko
Bishops: Kuroka, Marie (Dies Irae)
Knights: Akame, Bennia
Rooks: Vali (fem), picking from the reviews
Mutated Pawns: Lilith (X4), Four unspoken for
Issei:
Queen: Rossweisse
Bishops: Asia, Ravel
Knights: Murayama, Irina
Rooks: Xenovia, Up to you guys
Pawns: Akeno (X2), Aika (X1), Kunou (X1), Kiba (X1), Gasper (X1 Mutation), Ellis Farenghart (X1)