Knowledge is power


Sakura awoke in her room within the mansion she now owned. The mansion in the Conventicle Malfeasant was actually fairly nice, she now realised. When you compared it to things like the hotel rooms of Malfeas, the mansions of the green sun princes were not only opulent but actually designed for human occupation. The serving staff was a bonus too as it was another group she could ask to do things. Last night for example (as much as night exists in hell) she had asked them to find food fit for human consumption, they were expensive but it was well worth waking up to normal rice and something similar to miso.

After she had finished eating she sat in the mansion's "Plotting" room. Made by the previous inhabitant the room was darkly decorated, it had a fire place containing green flames and a table upon which was maps of all kinds. It was, as the name might hint at, a room for plotting evil plans. Sakura considered what she needed to do to obtain Shirou.

She needed to be stronger, physically stronger would help her take him by force, mentally stronger might allow her to create better plans, socially stronger would allow her to just order Shirou to come with her.

She would first become wiser she decided, that would mean she would need to find a place of education. She asked her Coadjutor "Where could I go to learn many things?"

Her Coadjutor responded after a moment of pause "The crystal libraries of lord Orabilis would work," When Sakura didn't speak the Coadjutor went on "He creates libraries from rains of glass, within them you can find tomes and scrolls on possibly every subject that exist. Normally the risk is that you might learn too much and lord Orabilis would destroy you but as a Fiend infernal you are immune to the laws of hell."

Sakura nodded thoughtfully before asking "And where is the nearest library?" Her Coadjutor gave a mental shrug "I never went to one and never cared to, thus I don't remember where any are.

Sakura nodded and went instead to her staff to ask that question. An Akuma dragon-blood knew the answer "My lady, there is one that can be reached in about half a day."

Sakura god the woman to explain the exact course before leaving and riding on Wondrous Hate to the gate out of the Conventicle Malfeasant, after leaving she followed the route her servant had explained.


Little did she know she was watched leave by Silber, who had managed to track her all the way here but couldn't enter himself. He watched for a bit longer before starting the journey back to Rin.


Sakura was travelling for quite a long time but eventually she reached the glass library and entered. She searched for scrolls and tomes on a wide variety of subjects. Some were asking about specific species of demons, some were about the Yozi and their natures and some were about the Exalted.

As she read about the nature of the Yozi she felt eyes on her, she looked up to see three orbs of glass floated around her, each was an eye that stared at her. The eyes of Orabilis then? They were something like scouts for the end of wisdom who watched out for those breaking the laws. She flared her caste mark for a moment and the eyes moved on. The fiend caste was designed to ignore rules and so only the Ebon Dragon himself was allowed to punish them.

She found many an interesting passage that she could use to become stronger, most of which were ideas of the charms some of the other Yozi could teach her. Those who were not in the Reclamation. Metagaos the All-Hunger Blossom was near the top of that list, how would she go about claiming its charms though?

She could always look for it in person but that was dangerous beyond all else, Metagaos was a Yozi that ate and nothing else. It consumed all including concepts, It could eat noise and then the silence leaving nothing but a buzzing hum. Quiet possibly it could then eat that buzz as well. It could eat a hole, it could eat someone's ability to travel anywhere but closer to it, it could eat minds and souls.

The charms it might teach would be incredible. Kimbery would likely wish I learn more of her charms but Sakura didn't see them as very useful as most of them required a body of water. The Ebon Dragon's charms would be useful however so Sakura added to her list of ways to grow stronger.

So The Ebon Dragon and Metagaos. The charms of the former might actually help her learn Metagaos's charms safely.

Either way there were other things she learned, she learned more about Solars and Lunars so she would be ready. She took notes on sorcery she might want to learn. She stole a device that acted as a simple map of Malfeas.

She left and returned to the mansion while thinking about how she would go about getting Metagaos to teach her it's charms.


Rin heard the report from Silber and headed off, she now knew where her sister was staying. She would wait there and try to talk to her when she was next there.


End of chapter

Slightly shorter than the normal 1000 words. I can only say; because I am lazy I didn't want to write any more today.

Either way Sakura gained a dot of lore for her research today.

Regardless I will answer any questions about this story that you want to ask.

Also Hah, uploaded on the wrong day, oops ;p