Disgaea Jewel of the gods Chapter 37: The hidden truth
The group reached Holt, and went into Adell's house. "It's time for us to crack Old Man Geo's code." Jennifer said.
"You can use my old study to solve it." Adell's mom said. "There are plenty of books there that can help. Also, it would be best not to question any weird smells there."
"You sure you won't need any help?" Adell asked Mao, Beryl, Jennifer, Thursday, and Hanako. (Yes that was just to state who would be working on the code)
"You guys wouldn't really help much." Mao said. "Besides I want a challenge. If it wasn't for the fact that we're on a time limit because Baal's trying to destroy the universe, I'd do this on my own."
"We'll tell you when we find out what the jewel of the gods is made of. Then we'll go to Old man Geo, and learn how to use it." Raspberyl said.
"We'll probably solve this by tomorrow." Hanako said. She, Mao, Raspberyl, Jennifer, and Thursday went into a room with a desk and many books.
"So what are we supposed to do while we wait?" Sapphire asked.
"I'm going to sleep. Wake me when they find what that jewel's made of." Laharl began to walk off before Flonne opened her mouth. "Laharl, you really didn't want to kill your mom did you?" Laharl said nothing. "I'm sorry that you have to go through all this, but she's still your family. She saved your life in the past."
"Flonne, I know you can be pretty thick, but you're smart enough to know I don't want to talk about this aren't you?" Laharl asked.
"Well I knew you'd try to get out of the conversation, but you can't avoid it forever." Flonne said. "We'll definitely run into her again. I just want to know what you'll do when that happens." Laharl ignored Flonne and continued to walk off.
"I have to go use the bathroom." Etna said. "I'll be right back."
Tink turned red. "Ohohoho! Perhaps you'll require company in there? A bodyguard perhaps? Or someone to simply make you more comfortable?" Etna impaled Tink with her spear, and went into the restroom and locked the door. "I don't think anybody would suspect what I'm doing here."
Etna got out a book and began to write in it. 'It's been several days since the Prince, Adell, and the perverted dean had their levels go down. They still manage to hold up pretty well, but if they didn't have assistance from us, they'd be dead by now. Unless their levels get back to normal, or we find out how to use that jewel that the prince ate, we can pretty much count them out for fighting Baal.' She paused for a minute before continuing to write. 'Today we saw the queen, Laharl's dead mother. She tried to bring the prince and Rozalin to the underworld for that bastard Seedle we fought the other day. Eventually she tried to kill Laharl. I was so shocked that I wondered if that was really the queen, but I knew it was. I saw the prince's eyes begin to tear up when the attack was coming towards him.'
Etna stopped to take a breath, and continued. 'When the prince was born, he was a regular crybaby. But when the queen Gwen died, he almost never showed sadness again. Not when he was around 800 and got mauled by a pack of wild demons. Not whenever King Krichevskoy took him to see the Queens grave. Not even when I told him how the King died while the prince was sleeping. The last time he shed a tear was when we thought the Seraph turned Flonne into a flower for life. Flonne must remind Laharl of the queen.'
Etna thought for a while more, flushed the toilet to make it seem as if she really was using it, and went back to writing. 'I can tell that the queen doesn't want to do this, but she still obeys Seedle's every order. I don't know much of the details, but I did make a promise to the King. I'm going to protect the prince with my life, to make sure he becomes a great overlord, no matter what gets in the way.' She closed her diary, washed her hands, and went out of the restroom.
Zetta walked through the gardens of islands floating in the sky. "So this is Celestia. It's a pretty big change of scenery after rushing through netherworld after netherworld." He tried to walk through a gate, but multiple angels teleported in front of him. "Who goes there? State your business."
"I'm Zetta the most badass overlord in the universe. I'm here to see the Seraph."
"He has no business with somebody like you. Leave now, or we'll have to use force." One of the celestial hosts' said.
Zetta just chuckled. "Question, are you familiar with Overlord Laharl? The one who invaded Celestia and nearly killed the Seraph?" During the travels, Laharl would never shut up about his feats in an attempt to look superior to Zetta.
"Yes. Overlord Laharl. We still don't trust him even after he made peace with the Seraph." An angel said.
"Well just to let you know, I'm literally thousands of levels ahead of him. He was around the 80's or 90's when he fought you people right?" Zetta shown his level, and the angels were shocked. "You're…you're this powerful?"
"Still want to fight me?" Zetta asked. Despite them being fully aware that they had no chance, the celestial hosts got out their staves, bows, and spears. "We can't let anybody come into Celestia without consent."
"You're funeral." Zetta casually walked up to the angel who just talked, and put his hand on her head. "Have a nice afterlife." Zetta sent energy through the angel, and blew up her head, leaving only a neck, and blood streaming through the opening.
"Everybody, attack with all you got! We can't let him harm the Seraph!" Zetta tilted his head to dodge an incoming spear jab. "Attack? I'm just here to ask the guy a question."
"You expect us to believe that after just killing a celestial host?" Zetta realized that his last move wasn't the smartest he made. "Well, if that's how it has to be… ZETTA BEAM!" He shot eye lasers killing the angels in his way and began to make his way to the Seraph. Three angels appeared who had a force field ready to block any attacks. The only time it was destroyed was with the Disgaea 1 casts 'Galaxy Omega Star'. Zetta simply punched it, and the barrier shattered, and he easily defeated the angels. "I'm not leaving until I get my answers! If anybody's stupid enough to try and fight me, step right up!"
Adell found Laharl near the door to the study at night time. "I thought you said you were going to sleep."
"I couldn't sleep. That almost never happens. Why are you here?"
"I didn't see you in bed, so I was wondering if you were going to leave the group, so I looked for you. Also, if you even try to do that, I'll beat you down and drag you back."
"I wasn't thinking of doing it. Besides, there's no way you could ever defeat me. You'd find yourself dead in a minute."
"I said before that we're all at equal grounds now didn't I?" Adell asked.
"Heh, good point." There was a brief silence between the two before Laharl decided to break it. "So red hair, what the hell are you?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"You look like, act like, and say that you're a human. But those COMP's said that 4 powerful DEMONS would appear in that city when we were still travelling with Zetta."
Adell sat down next to Laharl and thought for a minute. "To be honest, I'm not sure. The last time I saw my parents I was too young to remember what they looked like. They left to do something important and they left me with Mom and Dad to raise me." It was still awkward that the literal names were 'Mom' and 'Dad'. "I never saw them again. If I am a demon it might explain why I wasn't effect by Zenon's curse. Still, demon or human, that doesn't change my style, I'm going to protect my family, and the other planets from Baal."
"If you are a demon, you're definitely a unique one." Laharl said.
"My turn. Is the fact that your mom's working for Seedle going to get in your way of fighting Baal?"
Laharl glared at Adell, but answered anyway. "No. I'm not going to go to the underworld unless we have to. Baal's more of a threat than Seedle right now."
"But are you saying that because you feel it's the right thing to do, or are you just trying to avoid her?" Laharl's expression pretty much gave Adell the answer. "Flonne has a point Laharl. You can't avoid family forever. I know that it hurts you that she's against you but…"
"That's not the reason." Laharl interrupted.
"What?" Adell asked. Laharl stood up, and there's an obvious height difference between Laharl and Adell since even though Laharl's standing up, he's still shorter. Yeah, he's a shrimp.
"Me and my old man put her through nothing except suffering." Laharl gritted his teeth. "When she married my dad she became discriminated against by other humans. The disease I got when I was young caused her to give up her own life for me, and was turned into a Prinny for giving up her own life. She watched over me for centuries even when she worked enough to atone for her sins. And now she's being emotionally ruined because of her target, me." Laharl sighed. "If it wasn't for me…if it wasn't for love…if it wasn't for my old man… she wouldn't have to put up with all this."
"You blame yourself for this?" Adell asked.
"No. I blame love because of it. Love is just a pointless feeling that causes you to do things that you know are bad moves. She knew what would happen if she married Krichevskoy. She knew that she would be a Prinny for saving my life. But she did them anyway. If love causes you to make actions that not even a 5 year old would make, then I'll never accept it."
"Love isn't a weakness." Adell said. "It motivates you to protect what matters. I care for my family and Holt in general. And I know that even demons care for their families also."
Laharl just rolled his eyes. "Hey Adell." Adell raised an eyebrow. Laharl rarely called anybody by name. "You saved my life at Shinra tower again. That makes me pissed of now."
Adell shrugged. "You don't like feeling indebted to people do you?"
"Of course not! You saved my life again after Evil Academy. Now I owe you again." Laharl began to walk off to go to sleep. "I'm going to pay you back for that." The way Laharl said that, Adell wasn't sure if he was saying he'll save Adell's life in the future, or a threat. He wouldn't put the latter past Laharl. 'How far are they into cracking the code anyway?' He thought.
Mao, Jennifer, Raspberyl, and Hanako were laying their heads on the table in exhaustion. "We got pretty far. You think if we show him our progress he'll tell us?" Hanako asked.
"No! If we ask him then that's admitting defeat!" Mao shouted.
"Is that what this is about?" Thursday asked.
"Mao's right. Badasses should never give up no matter what. We'll just have to try harder." Raspberyl stated.
"Alright, let's get back get to work." Jennifer said. She went up and grabbed a book from an empty shelf. The room was a mess of notes and books. "This is the last book here. Hopefully it'll be the last thing we need to find out what the jewel is made of."
Zetta walked in and saw Mid-boss and the Seraph. "Hey there. You must be the seraph. I've never been to Celestia before. I'll just help myself to a drink. What do you have? Milk, Juice, Beer? I'm fine with any honestly."
"It looks like we have a rather rude guest, Lamington." Mid-boss said. "What should we do with him?"
"Drop the act Krichevskoy." Zetta said. "There's nobody here who doesn't know who you really are." Mid-boss sighed, and changed his appearance with magic to his real form. He had similar blue hair, but it was twirled into two strands, along with him wearing a red cape. "I'm surprised you can read me so well Zetta."
"It's been a few millennia since we last fought." Zetta admitted. "Still, if I fight somebody who can actually make me have trouble catching my breath, I'll remember them."
"Zetta, you attacked Celestia, and killed many of my angels." Lamington said. "This means you directly declared war on Celestia."
Krichevskoy got out his sword. "You do know what will happen if Celestia accepts right?"
"Hey, they attacked me. And only some of them are dead, the rest are unconscious. Besides, can you really do anything about it? What level was the brat when he beat you?"
"He was between the 80's and 90's when he came to Celestia." Krichevskoy said. "And you're thousands of levels ahead of that."
"Exactly. You have no chance. Besides I just want to know one thing."
"You wish to know where Baal is, correct?" Lamington asked. "Unfortunately we don't know where he is either."
"You can find any person in the entire universe!" Zetta protested. "How can you NOT find him?"
"He changed forms again Zetta. From what we can tell, he isn't in his true form, his Prinny form, or his eryngi form." Krichevskoy said. "And there are countless amounts of demons with an evil energy like him across the universe. Trying to narrow down one demon from all of them would be the equivalent of finding a specific grain of sand in a dessert."
"Great, so even the ruler of Celestia is useless." Zetta sat down on a couch, and decided to relax. "Do you at least know where in the underworld is Seedle?"
"Yes, but unless you die, you aren't going to get to the underworld. Not even dimensional gatekeepers know how to get there." King Krichevskoy said.
Zetta grinned. "You're wrong about that Krichevskoy. Have you ever heard of the sacred tome?"
It was around noon the next day in Holt, and everybody was still waiting for the code to be cracked. "How long is this going to take?" Salvatore asked in irritation. "Why didn't we just get the code from him by force? We ARE demons after all."
"I doubt that he would give us information if we attacked him." Rozalin replied.
"Before planting orchids, one must learn how to wait for a single plant to grow." Mr. Champloo said.
"…Is that even food related?" Adell asked. The group waited for several more minutes until they heard Raspberyl's voice.
"I can't believe this!" She screeched. Almaz opened the door, and the group saw a furious Beryl, a flipped table, a shocked Hanako, a shocked and angry Jennifer, and Mao biting his thumb.
"Calm down Beryl." Mao said.
"Calm down!? This is horrible!"
"I agree Beryl, but it's no use screaming about it." Jennifer said.
"Did you solve the code?" Gordon asked.
"Affirmative." Thursday answered. "But the ingredient is very shocking."
"There has to be something we overlooked." Hanako said. "One of these books must have had something that we didn't look over well."
"We double checked." Mao stood up. "The jewel gets its power from humans."
"We know that. Fear energy is created by human's fear of demons, and hell." Kurtis said.
"That's not what I meant." Mao said, "As in it's literally from humans. The jewel of the gods is made out of human lives!"
I had fun writing this chapter. There isn't as much action as there was in other chapters, but I was still looking forward to getting this far. I hope you enjoyed it like I did. Also, I have a lot of stuff in school, so don't expect the next chapter to come any time soon.