After everything was settled Fabio managed to have a talk with Mephisto. The older devil was clearly distressed with the news of the passing of a trusted subordinate, that on top of the destruction caused by the attack was enough to make him very troubled. Fabio, seeing this, decided to give a hand by using his Graal to heal all the injured quickly, his control over Life helping him immensely on that and thanks to his new understandings regarding Death he could sense where the ones who were close to dying were, so the rescue operations worked splendidly well and soon most of those who could be saved were properly saved.

That made Mephisto feel much better, knowing that the work of his life was not destroyed just like that.

"Young one, I don't know how can I even express my thanks to you." Mephisto said and it was the Gods damn true. Fabio had pushed back the invasion, helped protect Mephisto's students, and helped to heal the injured as well as helping those who could have died.

"Don't worry, I just like to help." Fabio said and it was his truth. He was literally a Saint, being good and liking to help was part of the course.

"Even so..." Mephisto felt troubled as he could not see what he could do about all this. Just not doing anything to thank him left a somewhat bitter taste in his mouth but he could not see what he could-

Oh, oh he could do that.

"Then, what if my disciple here teaches you a trick or two regarding dealing with an Avatar Type Longinus?" He proposed and that did peak Fabio's interest.

After all, he did have two of those now, knowing more on how to better use them did sound like a good idea.

It was only a few hours later that Fabio and his party left the place, Fabio getting one more friend in Levinia as the two hit it off almost instantly and became fast friends quite easily.


After returning to the Vatican Fabio, a miracle in itself and the first person to have not one, not two, but THREE Longinus with two being of the holy triad and the most sacred in the eyes of the church, the first True Saint in hundreds of years and someone who had gone to the Underworld and came back, was now grounded.

Yes, grounded like any other child who did something he shouldn't have.

Thankfully Fabio could at least talk with some of his friends in the Vatican, like Asia and Xenovia, as well as had to take care of his Peerage. And wasn't that a shocker for the church, that a human managed to obtain a Peerage like what a Devil does, but instead of turning them into devils his powers turned them into what could only be called a 'perfect form'.

The four girls who were in Diodora's peerage before were a bit of trouble for the church, some of the higher-ups wanting to have them out of their halls due to being excommunicated saintesses and nuns, but when Fabio said that he would leave with them if that was their decision, everyone shut up.

Are you kidding me, turning a blind eye to those four or losing a True Saint and the user of the Sephiroth Graal and Incinerate Anthem, two of the holy Longinus? This was not even a decision worth considering, they just made up some story for the masses and they ate right up, it even increased the faith instead of lowering it.

Time passed and Fabio was finally released from his 'grounding'. The church couldn't allow for what could be their best weapon to stay inside the Vatican while there was so much to be done. Especially since many disasters befell the church one after another.

First, Masaomi Yaegaki, one of the church's top exorcists, was found in a relationship with a devil heiress and had to be executed. Second was that Vasco Strada decided to retire, passing his sword to Xenovia who was still too young to be able to compare in any realistic way. Third was that Siegfried defected, taking with him four demonic swords even as they were supposed to be used on the creation of the ultimate demonic sword for Fabio's use just as they were projecting the Ultimate Holy sword for him.

And finally, the Holy Sword Project happened.

To say that the church was terrorized at this would be an understatement of the highest order. Of the 120 children of the project, only a measly few survived, and even those that survived did so mostly because Fabio had a premonition and tried to go and help. He was stopped, but his 'hunch' made the exorcists more nervous and they moved faster to the location, thus saving at least a few of them.

When Fabio found out about this he cried tears of frustration, if he had not been grounded he was sure he could have done something and have saved more lives. Instead, here he was doing nothing.

When he realized that he could no longer stay locked up, even if this period had been fruitful indeed with him spending so much time without being able to leave his quarters he spent it comprehending Life and Death as well as learning of magic. He even managed to complete his Ring of Solomon, he now only needed the blood of some devils to imprint their house traits in the ring and it would be done.

After much discussion Fabio managed to obtain permission to leave in missions, he wouldn't even have that big a protection guard since, as of now, he was already quite strong, approaching the level of an Ultimate Class even at the tender age of 11.

As such the church decided instead to let him go, but they put him with a person they believed could work well with him.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, can you make me a pancake? Oh, and a cake. Oh, and some biscuits too. And some bread too, perhaps!" An absurdly excited voice said to Fabio the first time they met.

Well, not quite the first time since he had met, and saved, this girl before.

Lint Selzeen, a clone of Siegfried and Sigurd who had awakened the bloodline of both Siegfried and Sigurd inside her. She was only alive thanks to Fabio, not only that but his help had made her body fully awaken the powers she could have had.

That meant that not only was her talent for swordplay a notch above even Fabio's who had the best possible teachers to help him, she also was a perfect Demon Sword User as well as having the impenetrable skin of Siegfried. She could tank most hits that could take out others as if they were nothing. Not only that, thanks to the excessive 'Life' she had in her she could heal from any injuries quite fast, making her that much better at this.

Obviously, if Fabio was going then so was Regulus and Kuroka who was crawling up the walls due to being locked up for so long. He wanted to take the other girls but they were instead sent to the research institutions up in Heaven so that Heaven and the Church could understand exactly how the process that happened to them took place to try and improve their replication process.

The girls were also being properly trained by the church in how to use their strengths as an advantage as well as cleansing them of all marks of what had happened to them in the hands of Diodora.

Over at the Church, another duo had also been formed with Jeanne, the reincarnation of Joan D'arc, and Yumi, a user of Blade Blacksmith as well but that had a mutation one. Yumi, who had lost her brother, had found companionship with Jeanne and the two became close friends. They would, later on, have many missions together and many times paired up with Fabio's team too when the mission was more dangerous.

Time passed, Fabio continued helping people and he had used his Perfect Pieces a few more times for those who really wanted it. That means Valerie, who was now Fabio's Pawn, and Leonardo, a boy that told Fabio in no uncertain words he wanted to be part of his Peerage and Fabio accepted easily enough. It helped that both had once been saved by Fabio, Valerie who was about to die after being hunted and Leonardo who was about to die of the disease.

The two new additions were put on Fabio's team, a quarter of fighters now and they were soon becoming the face of the new and likely strongest generation of the Church. Valerie being particularly interesting as most started considering her mutated Sacred Gear as a new Longinus due to how much of a 'cheat' it really was. After all how many are there which could do what she could?

Her gear was a mutation of the Sacred Gear Trick Vanish. It was a perpetually Balance Breaker gear, her power being that she could seal away any attack or ability using the screws she can generate, letting her seal her enemies such that she can put any magic attack as null as long as she hits it with her screws. She can also seal away anything, including the divinity of an enemy making her, theoretically, able to kill a God.

As for Leonardo, his ability to create any monster or creature he could think off was enough to make him a powerhouse even if he didn't want to and he learned ways to use this ability not only for direct combat but also for scouting and more.

Fabio, during this time, did many missions and met many people. One of which was a girl named Ophis, the two hit it off well as Fabio had all the patience needed to interact with said Dragon Goddess.

Their first meeting was actually quite interesting...


Fabio, now 14 years old, was just coming out of an orphanage in the Middle East. He traveled all over the world and was already used to spending all his money helping those in need and helping heal or teach those who might need the help, he would do that whenever he was not on a mission at least.

Right now he had just left the orphanage when he saw a strange girl.

She was wearing a gothic lolita dress that exposed her chest, her nipples being hidden under simple bandaids in a X shape, her skin being very pale while and her hair and eyes a deep black.

She was completely at odds with her surroundings as she was dressed much too strangely. As she looked at Fabio so did he look at her for a moment, he could sense absolutely no death from her, which was a worrying sign, but he was more worried about something else.

He could sense complete emptness and sadness out of her, and being the kind young man he is he could not resist wanting to help. Moving to her Fabio lowered himself to look at her eye to eye before speaking.

"You are quite sad, huh. Is there anything I can do that will make you feel better?" He asked honestly.

"… Get that red dummy out of my home." She said and Fabio tilted his head.

"I am not sure I can help you with that. I don't even know who this 'red dummy' is and if you couldn't push him off then I likely can't either." Fabio admitted, making the girl lower her head in sadness. Seeing this Fabio fumbled, not knowing what he could do to help.

Thinking quickly he came up with an idea.

"Look, what if I take you to eat some ice cream and you tell me all about this?"

"Ice cream? What is that?" the girl asked and Fabio smiled.

"Oh, you will love it."

And she did. She would be like one of those drunken workers, drinking to complain about all sorts of things, but in her case she would eat ice cream to let go of her worries. That Fabio introduced her to ice cream really helped.


After that she would come many times to see Fabio whenever she was feeling down or bored, which was quite a few times. More than once she was found inside the Vatican sleeping next to Fabio or outright curled up as if in a spoon position with him. Not that he ever did anything to her, she just found out that his presence was the second best place for him to sleep.

She loved doing that whenever she wanted to feel as if she was 'home', even if she wasn't.

But that was not all that happened during this time. Fabio, during his missions, had many times talked with his friend Sairaorg via communication spells he crafter using the knowledge he obtained from Solomon and Merlin.

Thanks to his advanced magic knowledge he was able to bypass the screening that the church had over him to make sure he wasn't in communication with the Underworld.

He would many times talk with Sairaorg and, more than once, arranged a sparring match with the young devil king. The two would use only their bodies during those fights, even if Fabio wasn't capable of having Touki he could still challenge Sairaorg when regarding it. The two held back with Fabio not using holy energy, magic, or his swords while Sairaorg would not use his Power of Destruction he now had.

Fabio also helped Sairaorg by helping his Peerage members that were born without their clan House Traits, using his Sephiroth Graal to do what he did to Sairaorg, raising their powers quite a bit. He also helped heal Sairaorg's mother just as he said he would which made Sairaorg extremely thankful for his friend.

In other places, things also changed during this time. One of which being a certain redhead devil meeting a girl who has awakened from a coma not long after Fabio healed her, the two becoming friends and soon the awakened girl, Ingvild Leviathan, turned into the Queen of a certain Rias Gremory. Another devil princess, this one with short black hair, also found her own Queen, even if this time it was not a woman at all and instead she has gotten herself a Longinus user in Tobio Ikuse. She obtained him as she had been delayed on going to Earth due to the whole situation regarding Fabio's presence in the Underworld, that time was just enough for her to come to Japan just in time for the 'Heavenly of Aloha incident' and from it meet Ikuse Tobio, the user of the Longinus Canis Lykaon.

Time continued to move and the tension between the three factions of the church went to a head as a new incident happened. There were talks of sending Xenovia and Irina but this time, when Fabio spoke up, the higher-ups listened and accepted sending him and his team instead.

Thus Fabio now was going to Kuoh, his objective being the retrieval of the Excalibur Fragments, elimination if possible of Kokabiel, and the one thing Fabio actually wanted out of this.

The execution of Valper Galilei, someone that Fabio hated intensely after talking with one of the few survivors of the Holy Sword Project, Yumi, who also became friends with Fabio after a few missions working together.

Just the thought of the man was enough to make Fabio angry, the thought of someone who should have been a Bishop, a high ranking member of the church and someone that should have helped the lost souls and those in need with fervor, committed atrocities that Fabio could simply not accept.

That the Excalibur fragments, the pieces of the sword that were about to be forged into his new weapon, was also stolen did not help in his mood.

"Hey, hey, hey, Fabi, Fabi, when we get there can I smash some knees? Pretty please with a cherry on top!" Lint asked, giving puppy dog eyes at Fabio who only lightly laughed at her antics.

"Don't worry, I am sure something can be arranged, Lint." He said and, on his shoulder, a cat looked at him suspiciously.

"I sometimes cannot believe that my innocent boy became so bloodthirsty that he would even think of accepting words like those, Nyaah~~. But you did fill up nicely, Nyaah~~." Kuroka said, looking him up and down and even as a black cat her eyes still seemed a bit lewd.

Before Fabio could speak anything someone grabbed Kuroka by the scuff of the neck and lifted her up.

"That is not nice, Kuroka-san. Fabio is our master and you should treat him with respect." Valerie said and Kuroka just rolled her eyes at that.

"Yeah right, as if you never tried to spy on him when he is naked, Nyaah~~" Kuroka said and Valerie's face went from pale to a vibrant crimson red.

"That, that was not my fault! He is the one who likes to walk around naked after baths and doesn't mind entering in mixed baths nonchalantly!" She said and Kuroka chuckled. "And I bet it was your fault he became like that anyway! You, you perverted cat."

"This is rich coming from you, you closet pervert vampire!" Kuroka rebutted and the two started to argue, the scene quite hilarious as Kuroka was still in her cat form.

In Fabio's other shoulder was Regulus who just yawned seeing this, far too used with this whole situation as those two would bicker way too much all the time. As for the other room occupant, Leonardo, he could only shake his head in amusement from this whole ordeal. He knew both were partially right and partially wrong. He knew that while Kuroka's perverted mind definetly has had some influence over Fabio as he grew up the most important thing was that Fabio himself didn't mind being naked.

Something about life (Ino) demanding him to not be so mindful of his body's state of dress and, to be fair, Fabio was taught that one should not pay much mind to how one is dressed during combat. He took this advice to heart and decided to train himself to not mind how he is dressed.

Leonardo was now the proud owner of enough blackmail material for some girls that he could get away from most anything, they all more than eager to show Leonardo some unusual expressions whenever they saw Fabio walking around in his courtyard with his Excalibur hanging around. The most unusual to show an expression being dear Asia who covered her eyes with her hands but left space between her fingers in both her hands to see, if it was a controlled action or not remains to be decided as she refuses to speak anything about it.

Even if someone asks her anything about that particular day she would only blush, say the word 'huge' and start to pray for forgiveness.


AN:

So yeah, sorry for taking so freaking long to update this fic. I am trying to get back in track for this fic and some of my other fics. If there is any fan of mine Barbatus King out there, I expect to be able to write more for it soon as the new Overlord Ln novel is FINALLY out and I take heavy inspiration from our lord and Supreme Being, Ainz Ooal Gown.

Anyway, I will try and update this more frequently, at least once two weeks or a month.

In other news, I have a few new fics, one of which is a DxD fic that I am making a bit similar to a Wuxia but it will not be quite a Wuxia. The MC is a Devil and will have for a peerage people from extinct clans and will, I hope, be quite entertaining to read.

Finally, for Fabio right now, the four girls he 'obtained' from Diodora can all be based on anime characters. If you want send suggestions be free to do so, I left them vague exactly to make this easier. They can have sacred gears or not, but I will need the description of them before I can add them here.

Anyway, thanks for reading, bye =)