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[Volume 4] Chapter 24: Two Souls Intertwined

"I can't believe I managed to sneak myself over here." Yuudai mutters turning off the powers of the ring Whales gave him. He wipes the sweat off his forehead and a few heavy breaths escape his mouth.

The teen had just finished running to the celebration all the way from the academy. He came because he heard that a celebration was going on and Louise and others decided not to go. He definitely wanted to go to a celebration that he had a help in making possible.

The cheers of the townspeople scream out as the princess steps out of her carriage. He smirks running over and walking over towards the princess herself. The guards try to stop him from proceeding, but he just manoeuvres around them easily without any of his powers.

"Sorry guys, but I need to speak to my favorite princess." He says catching Henrietta's attention. "Hey Henrietta!" He greets silencing all the townspeople at his blatant greeting.

A small smile spreads on her face. "Hello young familiar. I didn't expect you to be here." She says in a downcast voice.

"Can we speak in the carriage? I hate having a crowd." He says hearing multiple insults.

"How dare he talk so disrespectfully to the Saint Princess!" One yells.

"Yes, come on in." She says getting in and Yuudai in after her. Once in, he sees another older man in there too. He ignores him though. "Congratulations Henrietta! It seems like you're accomplishing so many things in one go! I'm so proud of you!" Yuudai states with a wide smile.

Henrietta's face softens, but as she goes to say something a vision stops her. The image of Wales shows next to him with the exact same smile. The Whales vision mouths something, but no sounds escape his mouth. The same movement as Yuudai's mouth did. Congratulating her. The image of Wales moves into Yuudai's body as if one of him.

Henrietta is speechless. Her one true love that she made an oath to now is, possibly, one with her best friend's familiar. He entrusted his ring to the familiar, after all. She shakes the thoughts away trying to force a smile. "Thank you."

Yuudai sighs. "Please don't fake a smile. It's unbecoming of my friend." Yuudai states giving her a dull look.

Mazarini frowns. "Don't tell the princess, soon to be queen, of Tristan what is unbecoming of herself." The older man tells him.

"I'm sure you know more than anyone that sugar coating things as a war starts is not a good idea." Yuudai says getting a hesitated nod from the advisor. "So how do you feel in all of this Henrietta?" He asks.

"Hey young familiar…do you remember an oath?" She asks hoping for a positive response.

His ring glows faintly making his eyes widen. "So it seems I do." He replies shocking the princess. "It's like a memory I never made, but was given to me. Perhaps Wales had an actual reason for giving me the ring other than all he told me."

'Whales…' She steels herself. "What was the vow?"

Yuudai looks her in the eyes. "The Prince of Albion, Wales, vows before the the water spirits that he will one day walk on this Ragdorian lake with Princess Henrietta and the sun, hand in hand." He repeats the oath from his new memory.

As he said all of that, Henrietta could have swore Wales had just said to her himself. She smiles sadly. "I see."

Yuudai starts grinning. "Wouldn't it be so cool if I became the new king or prince of Albion?" He asks giving a small laugh.

'If that happened then I don't know if I could tell you apart from my dear Wales.' She thinks in her mind. Her mind flashes to when he kissed her because of his misunderstanding.

'I feel like what the new generation would call, the third wheel.' Mazarini thinks sweat dropping.

"Well I am going to go join in the celebration. As long as somebody doesn't try to kill me for talking to you." He says. "Again, congrats on your victory and ascending to the throne." He proceeds to walk out and disappear into the crowd once more.

"I don't want to like him, but he is interesting. After all, if the report is right, he was the one flying in the so called Fighter Jet." Mazarini says sighing.

'Whales...you couldn't come to me, but why would you trust anyone with our secret?' She wonders. 'But if you trusted him then I'll trust him too.'

Later At Tristain Academy

Yuudai sighs happily laying on the ground with a full stomach. He had run back an hour ago after getting food and just decided to lay down. He hasn't moved from the spot since. In Vestri Court.

"There you are Yuudai!" Siesta says running over to him.

"Yup. Here I am." Yuudai replies sitting up.

"I have a gift for you." Siesta tells him holding a present in front of him. He smiles at her.

"Do you now? You didn't have to." He says as she hands it to him.

"You helped save my village, I wanted to do something in return." She replies.

"Well since you got something for me, I have something for you." He says pulling out a beautiful wrist bracelet. Her eyes start to sparkle from the sight of it.

"I was over at the celebration and had some of Viscounts money still from the first mission I was on and decided to buy a few things. I figured you might like it." She nods quickly putting it on as Yuudai pulls out Siesta's gift for him. It looks like a hand woven scarf with words etched in. "I love this and all, but what does it say?" He asks admiring how nice it feels.

"It says Yuudai and Siesta." She answers. Yuudai laughs for a moment. "Why are you laughing?"

"Well that is because if I said yes that one night then everyone would mistake us for a being engaged." He replies.

"I wouldn't mind that." She says smiling at him still.

He pulls the whole scarf and deadpanning. It's too long for just one person. "Siesta. I may just be dense here, but why is the scarf this long." He asks.

She smiles mischievously. "Just so we can do this." She says as she wraps around his neck and hers at the same time. The length is perfect for what she had in mind. She lays against his side on the ground as well cuddling him pretty much.

"I should have known." He says still smiling.

"Hey Yuudai. Why do you show no interest in having a relationship?" Siesta asks looking at him curiously.

"Because our heart belongs to another." A voice states from nowhere. Siesta doesn't seem to hear it so Yuudai shrugs it off.

"Well I just don't think it would be right." Yuudai states wondering why he said that.

"What do you mean?" She asks.

"I still feel as though I could be the one the reason for your death because of the war starting, but there is a new feeling. It feels like having any kind of relationship would be…blasphemy I guess. Not many other words I can describe it as." He explains.

"When did you start feeling this?" Siesta asks.

"It was actually while I was talking to Henrietta." He answers. "I didn't really read into that feeling, so I just continued to do what I was doing." Thinking back, I still need to find out what this ring is doing now."

Siesta doesn't hear the last part though. "You met with the new queen?!" She asks in surprise.

"Yeah, I would like to say we a good friends." Yuudai says.

"Do you like her more?" Siesta asks looking at Yuudai very intensely.

He tries to say no, but nothing comes out. He then thinks of another way of saying it. "I personally don't like her the way you are thinking." He says. She smiles and leans her head on Yuudai's chest. He takes off the scarf handing it to her confusing Siesta. "I should probably check on Blanc. I want you to keep that safe for me. Can you do that?" Yuudai asks.

"Of course!" She replies. He smiles at her then heads towards Louise's room. As soon as he was out of sight he jumped out a window and looking for a quiet place to think.

He finds a plance beneath a tree. He sits laying against it. He glances at the ring knowingly.

"So are you infused with the ring or something?" He asks.

The image of Wales appears in front of Yuudai sitting down too. "So no grand surprise for me?" Wales asks jokingly.

"Maybe for the others, but not for me." Yuudai replies.

"To answer your question, no. A part of my soul was infused in the ring, but not anymore." Wales explains.

"Then how are you here?" Yuudai questions.

"The part of my soul infused with that is now infused with your own soul now." Wales explains making Yuudai's jaw drop.

"What?!" Yuudai exclaims. "How?!"

"Well it was meant to only let me fuse with the one in possession if my soul is unable to rest, but that's all I know. After all, I'm the small part of the soul that has no idea what is going on." Wales continues to explain.

"So I guess this means you will forever be a part of my soul?"

Wales shakes his head. "I believe that if you able to put the other large part of my soul to rest you will be able to send me back into the ring."

Yuudai sighs in relief. "This is why I like you Wales. You have solutions to problems."

"So I ask this as a final request, can you bring my soul to rest?"

Yuudai stands up as well as Wales' apparition. "You can bet on it. I will bring you peace even if I have to be impaled again."

Wales smiles. "Thank you. By the way, while I am infused with your soul, you will be unable to show love to anyone other than Henrietta."

"Let me guess. Because you and Henrietta loved each other your soul can't accept any other girl and since your soul is a part of mine it means I can't outright say my love for anyone." Yuudai guesses.

Wales deadpans. "I seriously question why you weren't some kind of royalty. You definitely have the mind skills for it."

Yuudai just smiles. "Prince of Albion perhaps?"

"Get your own title peasant." Wales tells him in a mock offended tone. The two just laugh with each other for a while cracking jokes and enjoying themselves since the serious things are out of the way.

Later

"And I am back." Yuudai announces walking into Louise's room. He finds her sitting on her bed looking out the window. A very tense atmosphere.

"So it seems you are, dog." She says in a very cold voice.

"What did you do?" Wales asks from beside him. Only Yuudai can see him since Wales doesn't want others to see him at the moment.

"I didn't do anything this time." Yuudai replies. "So what is wrong Blanc?"

Louise flicks her wand at the door making an audible click. The sound of the door locking. "Hmm. What did you do? That is a good question." Louise states. "You didn't arrive here until now. Pretty late."

Yuudai summons his gun of blackness and hides it behind his back. "Yeah I guess."

"You did bathe with that maid though." She says. Yuudai's eyes narrow on Derflinger besides Louise.

"Traitor." Yuudai accuses.

"You best run." Wales advises. Yuudai nods shooting the door nob neutralizing the magic silently. He opens the door quietly and immediately runs out after silently closing it.

"Ah, there it is." Louise says as a pelican lands giving her a box. She gives it some gold and it then takes off. She opens it taking out an animal tamer contraption. "A dog like you wagging his tail around was already too much, but I guess it was a mistake. One I won't make again." She states turning to find her familiar gone. "YOU DAMN MUTT! GET BACK HERE!" Louise screams at the top of her lungs.

Yuudai is outside and hears this scaring him. "I am so screwed." Yuudai states hiding in a bush.

End

And finished! I actually finished this earlier than I thought I would. That means the poll and question is finished. The final product: Highschool DXD!

I hope you like this development and as soon as you read this, the nextstory should be up. It will be called Fear Of Devils. Don't expect too much from it yet, it is getting into the run of being in the DXD universe. It won't be a crossover, it will be him brought back to Japan, but he will still mention this story.

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