Author's Note: This is be the first of many chapters dedicated to the daily lives of the characters in the Exorcist group as they finally adjust to the peace an Empire without Honest can provide.

Chapter 21: Tatsumi's Journal Part 1

Journal Log Day 200

What that little kid emperor surprised me, as it did pretty much everyone else. I couldn't believe that it was this little guy that managed to defeat the entire Revolutionary Army just with a letter and then only let us live to because we have information and the abilities to fight this new enemy. As a member of the anti-Helliion group, the Exorcists, I've been training with my evolved Incursio to master it in order to defeat the White Wing. Its power as it turns out is light manipulation, with its invisibility Trump Card is actually light refraction to camouflage itself, a mere fraction of its true power. I haven't mastered its true Trump Card yet, but I'm getting there. I'm also uncomfortable with people having to touch my wings or tail as they've become a permanent attachment to my body. I'm either being admired by how cool I look or it frightens anyone away.

Even so, I've been grateful for other reasons, mainly because without Honest the capital has truly become peaceful. The corrupt nobles and officers that engaged in Honest's policies, and had enough alibis to avoid persecution were...judged by Oda in a far distant location and were never heard of again. The members associated with those that were only being brainwashed by their elders are now being re-educated in common decency bythe Lord of the Path of Peace at the new re-education division of the religion. The remaining patriarchs and matriarchs were allowed to stay in order to maintain relationships with the noble class with the Empire on the condition they become better citizens. As for Suzuka, she's imprisoned herself in the safety of the Imperial Fist temple for some reason. Emperor Makoto has agreed on the head of the Temple's terms to not detain her if the Imperial Fist lends their services to him and not Honest. They agreed on the condition of sending in Cosmina for some reason I can't figure out.

Hemi, my old man, Najenda and Nakaido have been reinstated into their general ranks and working with the Six Generals in hunting down people who aligned themselves with Hellions in order to locate their masters' base of operations. They're also trying to find Hellions and kill them. It turns out that the reason aside from Honest wanting an excuse to have uncontrollable elements away from the capital, was the Minister Chouri before his death, had been informed by Makoto's father, Busshin of Hellion existence. He wanted to send in the Six Generals because they were the only people in the Empire at the time strong enough to even last more than a second against a Hellion, let alone kill them in droves. So they spent the last decade destroying Hellions under the pretense of killing invaders from other kingdoms; but they keep multiplying in number to counter the losses of their population. They admitted Budo had initially done some work in defeating Hellions, but couldn't catch up with the other four with Esdeath doing Honest's dirty work. So he gave up and settled with defeating resistances for Honest, much to his displeasure.

As for the generals themselves, it's complicated as the letters I get from Najenda imply. Hemi and Swaar are back to drinking buddies like the rebellion never happened because they only fought with the mindset that they were on opposing sides. Nakaido is friendly, but Ocean refuses to associate with him because of what happened during their fight. Oda isolate himself from others, only helping when it involves Hellion idolizers. Najenda and my old man are having the group look for the retired soldier that turns out to have trained me and my old man, saying he's able to help Einheima and Math in upgrading the Teigu. And also...my letters say that Najenda and my old man are getting along, maybe because of their shared trait of eyepatches and that he glares at anyone who calls her "Hunk" as he sees her as a woman. Didn't know he had that in him to be so considerate. And a second letter states that my old man of all people is comforting her on the loss of Lubbock, and she returned his concern...and a few letters later, Najenda says that she's going to become a real mom to someone soon...my mom...Moving On! As for Esdeath, Circe and Winnifria, it'll be discussed later on. As for the council that usually hangs around Emperor Makoto, they've been assigned to help with the Six Generals' mission to find Hellions, much to both their joy of being useful and horror of obviously out of place for this assignment. Izanagi has basically taken all of their responsibilities because he's really good at multitasking. Wave, Run who is grateful to Voluptasia for reviving him and Kurome have also been assigned to the Six Generals to better master their powers. It would be for the best, as Kurome isn't really happy with the new regime and Wave wanted to be with her to comfort her.

Izanagi and the younger relatives to Makoto were allowed to return to the capital as royalty. Izanagi helps Makoto with politics and training him to use the Emperor's heirloom, Excalibur as its the only Teigu that could fight on par with Daemon if he ever resumed his ultimate form. Also, Makoto has been happier now that he has company of his younger cousins in his bed, not being lonely anymore. Voluptasia, someone I can't figure out has gotten very close to Makoto as he continued to master Excalibur and has turned her bashful attention to the young Emperor instead of me. I don't get why though. Izanagi initially seemed to be cold and distant, but he's really stressed about the whole rebellion and how things got worse. Now that Honest is put away, he's more composed and friendlier to approach. His Teigu, Quetzalcoatl, is one of five armor Teigu that were created, along with mine, Arondight, Grand Chariot and Excalibur, his focuses on the power of wind and speed. His Trump Card, Cortez, allows him to use wind currents to turn the enemy into gold. Its good that he's reluctant to use it as it is a scary ability to have. As for Makoto, whenever he activates it, the room becomes too bright to see him. From what I can see, is that he takes a humanoid armored shape of the kid's small size.

For the other Teigu users of my generation, they're training under Math and Einheima who want us to master our Teigu to the level of the Six Generals. I'm still dealing with the fact that they're actually over 1000 years old due to their curse of immortality. I casually accept it since the Teigu have the power to warp the laws of reality, resurrect giant Danger Beasts and have enough sentience to have their own identifies. Immortality seems tame in comparison. They were the original creators of the Teigu, with Einheima being also the creator of the Shingu along with other special weapons she's helped create in other countries to match the Teigus' power.

Dr. Ordanaire assists them with Perfector in check ups to see if we are healthy enough to fight and train. In comparison to his depraved brother, he is a sane man with a wife and son. He regrets being associated with Dr. Stylish and the mere mention of his name irritates him to no end. This side is not what I had expected from a serious, no-nonsense doctor. He activated the Trump Card denied from his brother's curiosity, Best Solution, it allows his hands to create something from any item in his general location to perfectly solve any difficult situation. Einheima implies that Perfector was the prototype for Halphas when they had created the Teigu, whose power would be a larger scale version of his.

Rake turned out to the estranged son of Liver, who beat up people to satisfy a thirst for combat, something both Liver and Bro disapproved of. Bro and Rake would get into fights over which hairstyle was cooler, Pompadour or Afro much to the military force's annoyance. Rake never commented on Bro being gay as it allowed him more chances with the ladies. Although he had a strained relationship with his father, he tried to have him released when Liver was imprisoned for not supporting Honest. Just as he had gotten approval, Esdeath had enlisted him into her Three Beasts groups to help her in her conquests. Disgusted with his father's hypocrisy, he left the Empire and joined the Revolutionary Army to battle his dad. I wonder if I would've become that if my old man stayed in the Empire during Honest's reign. Modoru told me he was furious when Bro beat him to the punch to killing Liver, saying he wanted to kill the bastard himself. In spite of this, he's now mastering the Teigu, Black Marlin in Liver's steed, given by the Empire forces because he had the most capability with it. It's very admirable...which is the best thing I can say about him. Rake is a JERK, even more so than Mushashi and my old man. He is brash, sadistic, and incredibly cocky, with some pessimistic and playing around attitude mixed in. He's constantly ridiculing and looking down on the other Teigu users, especially Modoru who he treats like trash. I never expected the seemingly polite Liver would have a son like this in my wildest imagination. In spite of this, he's also very level headed in combat and occasionally shows us moments of kindness. I can't figure him out. He seems to have a grudge on Esdeath for turning his dad into a lapdog. Esdeath also holds him in low regard as she sees him as a poor replacement. Adeline says they argue like an old married couple. He uses Black Marlin, a Teigu offered to him after a previous Revolutionary owner had died, but also said that he should've gotten it in the first place as the previous guy was worthless. I wanted to punch him for insulting his comrade, but it turns out he can use its water manipulation in much more effective manner than its previous owner and even Liver for that manner. Rake uses the body's property of being 70% composed of water to manipulate his bodily fluids, a modification Math helped create because the previous abilities of relying on outside sources were unpractical in a real fight. It can turn his spit into bullets, turn his sweat into needles, his tears into small daggers and his...welll...Number 1...(can't say it in front of Discora and Harmony) into acid. His Trump Card has been modified into Bloody Pride, that manifests his blood in the form of fighting gloves to punch enemies.

Speaking or Modoru, when he's not being Rake's chew toy, is a prankster with an immature and playful personality. He fights by confusing and deceiving his enemies and using the Axe Teigu, Belvaac as a finishing move when their guards down. He's more like the childish older brother to the Teigu users. Surprisingly, Adeline of all people is his girlfriend and they have a much more stable relationship than mine. His Belvaac as I've seen before allows him to separate the axe into two pieces that hound its target till it hits. It's trump card, as I've learned is called Boomerang, recombining the two pieces into a boomerang shape, have it surrounded with orange energy and toss it towards the enemy till it hits...most of the time it hits Modoru instead, but he recovers.

I heard of Adeline from my reports from Najenda. She graduated at the top of class in the Empire's military, but left when Honest's corruption began to grab hold of the capital. She's strict, but motherly to us as long as we don't get into trouble. She's also very depressed that she doesn't stand out more in the group even with Extase, who admittedly even by Mine has a very unimpressive Trump Card that she refuses to modify out of pride and memory of Sheele. I hope Sheele forgives me for just insulting her Teigu earlier. She gets along with Modoru enough to be his girlfriend, something I am very puzzled about. In terms of strength, she's the 3rd strongest of the Four Heavenly Queens, with Voluptasia and Miyu being way beyond her in capabilities. , Adeline takes charge as the leader of the group as she is the most responsible and mature of the group. She really has a great deal of admiration to Najenda as she was the junior to her senior in school. Both found Esdeath to be hard to get along with.

Miako keeps to herself, being very aloof to the group and for the most part doesn't show any emotions. The only emotion she does have is hatred for Akame. She really despises Akame and more than one occasion, had to be restrained from killing her when she saw her. It turns out she was the younger sister of Taeko, a Revolutionary assassin that Akame had killed. It got this from Adeline who Miako is comfortable talking to. Akame has tried to reconcile with Miako, but with no positive results. She has more capability of using the Teigu, Shamsir than its previous and twisted owner from the Wild Hunt, Enshin. It can release aerial blades based on the lunar cycles, weak when there was no moon and strongest when the moon was at its fullest. Miako discovered its Trump Card: Mahshid, can can create artificial moons to counter Shamsir's flaw. On top of this, she's a master of espionage as she's managed to find me wherever I escape to avoid Winnifria and Esdeath as of recent events. She seems to enjoy Esdeath's company as well, much to my annoyance as she non-verbally teases me a lot. She ranks the weakest of the Four Queens, so she trains hard to keep up with her stronger allies.

Discora and Harmony are interesting to say the least. They talk in unison like a single person, but sometimes Discora speaks on "her" own. Discora comes off as lively, cocky and bratty when he does this. Harmony, the more girly and cheerful one chides Discora for this and insists on acting like each other. I learned from Einheima that Discora's actually boy, but is forced to dress up and act like his sister 24/7. Harmony is very…close…to Discora and doesn't let him have goals that aren't hers. The reason for this as Einheima told me that their older brother, Nyau, had sold them into slavery into the former Path of Peace member Bolic's collection where he had his minion, Holimaca use this Teigu, Adayusu to continuously merge and defuse them for long periods of time. As a result, Harmony thinks Discora is her divided half and as such needs to act like herself. It makes me and Akame glad that we killed Nyau and Holimaca the way we did. Einheima confirmed to me that Adayusu, ironically one of the Teigu made to destroy Hellions, would reunite Daemon's mind with his body. Esdeath didn't know of this fact about Nyau as she only sought him out for his strength and didn't check his background. As for their Teigu abilities, Discora take ownership of Scream, the flute Teigu from a fallen Revolutionary Army soldier, allowing him to use his own power rather than relying on his sister. The Teigu as I remember it, allows him to use hypnosis in various ways, but Einheima has modified it to allow him to become an older version of himself with heightened speed and strength, and not the behemoth Nyau turned into. An additional use for the Teigu, would be use it as a bludgeon as Discora discovered. Harmony uses Heavy Pressure, the microphone Teigu that emits soundwaves in a more subtle way than its previous owner, Cosmina, a Wild Hunt member reduced to a monster by her ally Dorothea. Einheima has modified the microphone so it emits enchanting sounds that draw in enemies so Discora can then defeat. Her Trump Card, that its previous master didn't discover was Muse, which allows her to grow up into an attractive woman with heightened speed and power. Einheima told me that she and Math made Scream and Heavy Pressure to be parallels to each other, like most Teigus I learned turned out to be.

Alister is a very playful and intelligent fellow that wittily teases the girls, especially Miyu, whom I believe he has a crush on. Alister is a shrewd fighter that intelligently uses his Teigu, Die Leaguer in various combinations to take advantage of the floating spheres' powers. Mimasu and Alister share a close relationship in despite of their contrasting personalities. Alister at times, has a distant face looking into the distance. Adeline says that he joined the Revolutionary Army to find his missing sister, hoping to interrogate Honest of the Hellion location. His Trump Card, is Carnival, combining the spheres into a checkerboard staff that has ten different effects when it strikes an enemy, which seems to be completely random. I'm guessing the previous owner, Champ of Wild Hunt, wasn't smart or skilled enough to achieve its trump card.

Mimasu is Oda's estranged son, much to my shock, lacking his father's strength and makes up for it with his mind. He's very distant and cynical about everything, questioning every decision made. Alister is his closest acquaintance as he's the one he can speak on equal terms. He has a strange habit of noting terms called "Story Cliches" for any scenario concerning battle, which surprisingly have proven correct. He uses the Teigu, Spectator in a more passive way than Zank, the mad executioner that Akame killed. Mimasu is the strategist, using Spectator's power to read minds of enemies, look through solid objects to see hidden enemies, see muscle movements to predict actions, inspect for objects along with long range vision to find distant enemies and has modified the illusion power by having Einheima combine the Teigu with the crystal ball, Delphi that had shown us the history of Hellions to view any thoughts of an enemy on a projector. All of these abilities including his Trump Card, Scan, which allows him to scan for the weak point of any enemy, allows him to give precise instructions to deal with enemies and defeat an enemy if he's forced to fight himself using cunning to win. Math says that it works the best for him as Mimasu has no interest in the opposite gender, unlike myself who obviously was very interested in the girls in Night Raid.

Orochi, Math's Teigu may look and seem creepy, but is very kind and also very clumsy in his actions. Seeing that reminds me of Sheele when she was alive. He has all of the regenerative powers and strength of Susanoo, but with his Trump Card: Orochiryu, allows him to become a large eight headed serpent that breathes poison, might make him stronger than Susanoo. I tried to ask about his past, he kept quiet in comparison to Susanoo's honesty. His master, Math is a cheerful and wise grandfather figure, lenient and understanding, but mentions of Daemon show a much darker and violent killing intent that he tries to suppress around others. I decided not to mention Daemon's name around Math again.

Einheima can be informative and wise when she wants to, but most of the time a mischievous and obnoxious brat. Mine and Einheima argue with each other constantly because they're both equally stubborn. While she does have distant, mysterious expressions of unknown thought, she seems to have a sadistic desire to have Hellions die, as she sometimes displays the warped faces I had seen on Aria and Seryu when she muttered thoughts of murderous intent to herself. It from that I got the impression that she was the one who designed Yatsufusa, Koro and other horrifying Teigu because she wanted to have the Hellions be killed in the most nightmarish ways possible. Math implies that it was Hellion assaults in her childhood that made her this way, but I can't find in myself to ever really forgive her for creating the weapons that hurt my friends. The Teigu she had was Delphi, the encyclopedia of knowledge that had shown us the history of the Empire, before she merged it with Spectator. My old man somehow knew of this and sent her another one due to his unique powers. She then modified it into Scripture of Sages: Grimoire, a book shaped Teigu that allows her to cast spells made from the special energy she and Math wield called Blessing. Her trump card, Archmage, allows her to eat (yes eat it whole) so she can increase her speed and other stats in order to fight alongside us. After a fight is done, she then becomes a baby for a few days as the setback to her abilities.

Miyu is the friendly person I initially thought Seryu to be, without any of the insanity of her sister. The 2nd strongest of the Four Queens, she diligently trains to be strong so she can serve the people. She's very girly in comparison to the sullen Miako, the responsible Adeline and the odd Voluptasia, dressing in girly clothes and shopping when off duty. She doesn't like killing and tries to avoid it if she can help it. She seems very confused that her mom, formerly a crazed justice fanatic is now calmer and only goes crazy on actual enemies to the Empire as well as Hellions. Circe also seems to be convinced that she can engage me to her, which causes Miyu to fluster in embarrassment, as constant attempts of setting me up with her daughter have shown. Miyu due to drinking Styx, is able to manipulate her body in any way to combat her enemies. In summary, Miyu represents what Seryu would have been if the Hellions and Honest's poliices hadn't driven her insane. Circe for that matter, is much calmer and mature than I initially saw her to be, at least when she's not punishing evil people or pushing Miyu on me. Her Teigu, Halphus allows her body to become any kind of weapon and her Trump Card, Genesis and create any weapon suited for defeating an enemy.

Voluptasia is...strange to say the least. She initially seemed to be a shy little girl to me, but the more I learned about her, the weirder she seemed. Basically, Voluptasia often acts stuck in her own world. Because of this, she seems slow and easily distracted, when in reality she merely has a mind that works quite differently from that of most people. She is often prone to daydreaming, absent-mindedness and non-sequiturs. When she gets a thought in her head, she tends to focus on it so intently that the rest of the world simply disappears, causing her to often miss what's going on around her. Voluptasia always keeps a quiet, accessible mood. It's extremely rare to catch her in a fit of anger or losing control. She has a habit of being able to point out obvious things nobody else seems to notice, like the flaws in my old man and Einheima's plan. According to Einheima, she was by herself for a long time till Sekairyu found her and got her into the Revolutionary Army. Her only contact with boys was Sekairyu and Izanagi who more like people that gave her cookies to please her, but with me she was for the first time, felt an tenderness in her heart as she had fallen for him. I thought it would mean she'd eventually fall for me, but then the same thing occurred when she saw Emperor Makoto. She told me she only was interested in me because I was strong, but Makoto as it turns out has the potential to be stronger. So she's wanting to win his affections since. Aside from that, she displays a great deal of phenomenal power that makes me think she's even stronger than Esdeath's current power, but lacks the motivation to use it. Also she stared at Daemon and Lucia like they were her parents and I'm curious to know why.

Aside from his fanatic worshipping of General Oda, Mushashi is a cold, cynical and arrogant loner that doesn't associate with the group at all. He'd rather be spending more time alone honing his skills than socializing with people that aren't General Oda or one of Oda's forces. Mushashi displayed great indifference towards the others, feeling his skills put him so far above the team that they were more of a hindrance to him and his own advancement. He only works with us because Oda ordered it and wouldn't be risking his life if it wasn't the case. Mushashi also had a competitive streak that he had developed with a friend named Sora, information that Einheima had told me of when I asked out his past, at times accepting his challenges if only to show that he was superior, something he seemed to have directed at me. He has both a superiority and an inferiority complex, as he is unwilling to acknowledge when someone is stronger than him, but obsesses when he believes that they are. Mushashi was initially dismissive of Akame as certain he was the better, only to obsessive in getting better than her, when she was his equal in swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat. He's oblivious or simply doesn't care about the fan crushes from the girls that have fallen for his looks. As mentioned before, he's a prodigy in combat as he was taught by General Oda himself. He wields the Teigu: Heads of Thousand Beasts: Chimera, a chain of animals collected from a tribe of assassins that Akame and the group, the Elite Seven, managed to kill. It's was then sent to Oda's faction where Mushashi would possess and have people within Oda's troops modify. Its abilities, are now modified to allow to transform into large animal humanoids that increases his strength tenfold. His Trump Card: Bakemono, allows him to become a chimera of Danger Beast that are best suited to defeat an enemy.

Mine is the same as she was before the incident with Budo, but the situation around us has changed dramatically. In order to defeat General Swaar at the time, Einheima injected the remains of Pumpkin into her body to become the Teigu Hermes. It was the only option left as even with Dr. Ordanaire's expertise, Mine would've been comatose for life. Even though she lost, the conflict ending with Oda having Honest imprisoned made that lose irrelevant. But, with that power came a great price; one that forced us to end our relationship. I had a vision of what Mine had become and what it would mean for our relationship, something outright confirmed when Einheima said that Mine was sterile due to become an artificial being. It would mean a life of a vacant marriage that would become bleaker as I grew older while Mine remained the same age. So we were forced to break up. She's also been receiving letters from Swaar of all people, wondering if she was ok and if any boys were trying to take advantage of her. It's like he's her father or something, though Hemi mentions he had a wife and daughter of Empire lineage and lost the daughter due to her mixed...I understand now. Her Trump Card is Big Pinch, allowing her to use the difference of strength to overwhelm an enemy if they are stronger than her by firing all 17 guns at him or her. The drawback is that it doesn't work at all ironically when against enemies weaker than her, as she relies on the difference of energy between herself and an stronger enemy to fire the right amount to defeat him or her. A weaker enemy's energy isn't enough to launch her trump card, so she uses her regular sniper and gun rifles to make up for it. Basically, only Rake, Voluptasia, Math and any of the Six Generals are the only training partners to allow her to use her Trump Card.

She's currently living with Dragnet, Bro's little brother that I learned about once the Exorcists had been established. He was an awkward kind of guy, socially inept and clumsy, much unlike the larger than life presence Bro had, something that told me Bro had him sent out of the front lines and never spoke of him because of how unprepared he was for fighting the Empire. I was right, Dragnet confirmed that when he joined the Revolutionary Army in order to follow Bro, he had him stationed as an aide to Hemi so he wouldn't get involved with the work Night Raid had dedicated their lives to. He would've remained a nameless soldier till fate allowed him to become Mine's operator, and since then has become closer to her. Some part of me wanted to punch him for taking away Mine, but I punched Einheima instead along with Mine for allowing this situation to happen. Mine and I have gone back to being friends, but I regret not having to marry her. He has basic battle training, but is too naive and inexperienced in real combat.

Akame...oh boy, is very complicated. After Leone's death, we had begun to understand each other much better, maybe more than just friends. If Pais and Ritone hadn't jumped in, I don't know what would've happened if it were left to continue. Akame remains as serious and level-headed around the team, but with me I can tell she's avoiding me. She stammers when she's talking to me alone and away from the group, blushes when she looks in my face and gazes at me with a look that Mine...gave when I admitted my love for her... Lately, she's very mad at Miyu, Miako, but especially both Esdeath and Winnifria for having all their attention on me. I want to talk to her about it, but I can't say anything without Miako deciding to reveal intimate secrets about me, Winnifria and Esdeath to pester her. Math is currently helping her master the true power of Murasame, one that seems to be different from the one hit poison that she's been using till now.

My current situation is, Esdeath and Winnifria is also very complex. Esdeath for her involvement is put under house arrest with Winnifria, who is faster than even time to detain her if she ever goes berserk and myself because her attraction to me keeps her from using her time powers to eroding the capital to dust. Emperor Makoto allows her to live because at the moment he can't touch her and also her power is an asset to the Empire more than ever. So aside from training in the palace, I've been forced to remain with Edeath and Winnifria at all times, except using the bathroom obviously. This means I've been in the bed with the two of them thankfully in their civilian sizes, at night and sharing baths with them. Esdeath tries to have me to herself as she usually does, but Winnifria tries to take me because she understandably sees me as a bad influence. Esdeath hasn't been able to make advances towards me because Winnifria is very pure for a militant family's daughter who believes any advances so occur after marriage. This is good if it weren't for Winnifria's own innocent attempts at dating me in thankfully normal situations, like stargazing, going out to dinner and training at the military academy, with Esdeath being forced to attend. I've also seen an increase of threats from Winnifria's girl followers for having to stay with their idol. It turns out Winnifria has a large family of younger siblings that had been hidden from Honest's knowledge due to Budo's fear of what he would do to them. They're polite and friendly for sheltered children. Winnifria, although she carries herself as a stoic woman, she's very strong willed, courageous and determined. When around me, she's very awkwardly shy, as I've been in a relationship before, I can tell she's trying hard to please me as a potential girlfriend.

I noticed a change in Esdeath that's both subtle and significant all at once. Not that she's given up on wanting to fight strong enemies and being dominant over me in a relationship. It's that somehow after getting omnipotence in her abilities she's become enlightened to the fact short term sadism and adherence to primeval beliefs hinders her in her actions and that being empathetic to people, regardless of their strengths is the best way to achieve her affections for me. That and being around the young children at the academy and Path of Peace temple, have caused her to become more motherly. I think it's helped her in associating with the group, though with Rake she's very dismissive due to being not the person his father was. To put it in Rake's words, she's become the type that parties and enjoys a good fun fight rather than being the type that spares enemies to become worthy adversaries, try to use orders as an excuse to engage in bloodshed and live only for battle. Math told me that Hemi and Swaar are the former type and Izou, Chisa, Daidara, Seryu, Kurome and formerly Esdeath are the latter type.

Einheima also has told me to my face that the latter type is exactly what Hellions are, but it's complicated. They've been divided into two factions after Notam appeared, with The White Faction including the monster that manipulate Honest, prefer trickery and ending fights without direct confrontation if they can help it and the Black Faction, which to me are a much darker version of Esdeath and Seryu, believing that fighting is their purpose and since they believe in the Justice of the Law of Nature, it allows them to do whatever they want. Math implies if the Black Faction gets their leader back to their mindset, he'll destroy the world in searching for a worthy opponent. And I swear I sometimes hear a roar of anger in the far distance whenever Esdeath starts to become nicer. Esdeath has told me a lot about her father, but not her mom for some reason.

I'm getting off-topic because I've actually in a pickle right now. Esdeath somehow managed to convince Winnifria that she would share me with her. Aside from one incident involving Circe, which she refuses to go into, it would be her first kiss, a first kiss with a boy. From that point on, Winnifria's abandoned her previous abstinent beliefs and has joined Esdeath in passionately pursuing me, taking turns in the privacy of Winnifria's residence to kiss me. I tried to write to my old man of all people of how to deal with this. It's because the girls would try and protest this relationship and be defeated easily by the two of them and Voluptasia is too weird to talk to, despite being leagues above them. The Emperor and his forces would also be easily defeated as well in spite of protest, Ocean even with his Teigu negation power would be shocked and frozen before he could even react. Mushashi, Einheima and Rake would have a field day with this, saying I'm really their pet now. Discora's too young to understand, Mimasu wouldn't care and Modoru would be silenced before he could even say anything, along with Dr. Ordanaire, Alister, Math and Orochi. I then discovered to my horror Miako had already sent the information to my old man on Esdeath's request and was shocked to what the response was. He said it's there's nothing you can do when you're confronted with a domineering woman, let alone two as he knew from experience with mom, so I should just give in and eventually come to like it. Then the door open and I saw the two of them in their nightgowns ready for night.

I'm being forced to leave now, but they've assumed me enough to write about their Teigu powers before they take me away. Esdeath's Teigu, now called Demon's Extract: Gaap, can manipulate ice and time to their full potential. Meaning regeneration from nothingness, becoming ice and controlling the time stream in its entirety. Her Trump Card, Chukwa, can slow down an enemy's time to allow for rapid strikes, something I know from experience. Winnifria's Teigu, Furfur, allows her to become lightning and faster than time itself. Her trump card, Avalon can either purify or obliterate those of impurities, something that didn't happen when she struck me. This purity of my soul resulted in her affections towards me. And there's nothing I can do now as I'm not strong enough to overpower them.

And now I spend the night together. One the bright side, Math is going to teach us a new technique to help us work better as a team of Teigu users. Tatsumi signing of-(stopped from writing as Tatsumi was then dragged out of the room by Esdeath and Winnifria.)

Next Chapter: Tatsumi's intimate night with Esdeath and Winnifria. And discovery of a new power.