He had been preparing himself something to eat for lunch when the call came.
"Narukami-san, Beelzebub-sama is asking if you and the rest of your team would be available to meet with him in two hours or so." Sitri Sona said once he answered his phone.
Yu blinked before setting down the deli meats he'd been putting in his sandwich. "Of course. That should be enough time for me to recall the ones that are out searching for the Fallen."
"Any luck on that front?" She asked.
"We haven't found anything yet, even though we've been searching every location with traces of magical residue. If we exhaust that lead we'll perform a more comprehensive search in case they're hiding their presence in some way that would keep those traces from showing up to Rise's scans." He told her.
The teenage devil let out a hum. "I see. Well then, I will be escorting Lord Beelzebub to your home in two hours. Please be ready."
"Of course, see you then." He said before the girl hung up. He pulled his phone from his ear and considered it seriously before calling in his team, hoping this next meeting would be going well.
Two hours later found the team sitting in anxious silence in their spacious living room, waiting for one of the leaders of the entire devil race to show up on their doorstep. To say they were feeling a bit nervous was an understatement.
It had already been decided that Yu and Naoto would do the majority of the talking. Yu, because he was the leader, and Naoto due to being the most analytical and factual of the team, so she'd be able to answer questions the best. The rest would try to avoid saying anything unless asked a direct question.
They really wanted to avoid screwing this up, as not only would the devil leader likely be monstrously powerful, he was also their best shot at returning home.
When the doorbell finally rang Yu got up and made his way to answer, opening the door to find the Sitri heiress there alongside a tall man that appeared to be in his early twenties. He was exceedingly handsome, with light blue eyes and slicked back green hair, wearing an olive green suit with a white shirt and black shoes.
"Narukami-san, may I introduce the Maou Beelzebub, Ajuka-sama." Sona said, gesturing to the man with her.
Yu bowed to the man. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Beelzebub-sama." He said respectfully before shifting aside to let his guests in.
The green haired devil nodded in greeting as he stepped into the house, Sona following behind. "The pleasure is mine, especially as this is an unprecedented opportunity for science, which I'm always eager for." He said, a smile on his lips as he followed Yu to the living room, taking in the occupants, who had all stood up to greet them.
As Sona took a seat away from the group in order to not interfere, simply observing with interest, the Maou sat down at the offered chair and gratefully took the tea he was offered as the teens sat back down. The devil took a few devices out of his coat pocket and set them on the coffee table before turning them on as he began to speak. "Sona-chan has already given me a report and a recording of the explanation you gave her and Rias when you introduced yourselves to them, however I would like to hear it all again from your own lips, so that I may ask for clarification on any details I feel need it." He made a motion with his hand, prompting several magic circles to appear throughout the room, including under each of the Investigation Team, making them tense up. "While we talk I'll be taking various readings with both technology and magic so I might learn more."
The teens relaxed at that before they all looked over to Yu, waiting to follow his lead. The silverette glanced at each of his friends in turn before turning back to the Beelzebub. "It began about two years ago…"
Much as they had before for Rias and Sona, the team explained the events that led to them gaining the power of Persona and fighting Izanami-no-Okami, along with their later battles against other deities as members of the Shadow Operatives, and then the mission that landed them in their current predicament.
Throughout the tale Ajuka listened intently, rarely speaking except to request clarification of certain things, such as what they'd surmised of the natures of Shadows, or about the areas of the TV world that reflected the people trapped in them. And he was especially interested in Labrys, which wasn't surprising, as she was an artificial entity made through human science. The talk took approximately an hour and a half, as the Maou was extremely thorough and detail oriented, which should have been expected of a serious researcher as he was purported to be.
During the explanation Ajuka had pulled a sleek looking laptop out of… somewhere… and had been typing what Yu assumed were various observations for review later. As Yu finished the tale with the events in the park when they met Rias, Ajuka let out a hum and glanced around at them before speaking.
"It truly is too bad that you don't have any of this Ito's research, as it would give me a firmer starting point on how to go about locating your world of origin and a way to open a gateway to it." Left unsaid was that he was far more knowledgeable and careful with such things than an obsessed human scientist. "Still, I assure you that I will be using everything you told me and the readings I've taken to do my best to get you back. After all, if nothing else, this is peaking my scientific curiosity like nothing has in the last century or so." He said with a smile.
"We appreciate it, Beelzubub-sama." Yus said with a smile of his own. "Please let us know if there's anything we can do to assist you in that."
Ajuka nodded amiably before focusing his gaze on the silverette. "Changing tracks a bit, I do admit to being immensely curious about your Persona power. I was hoping you would all be willing to give me a demonstration of it. If nothing else, consider it giving me some more datapoints for my research."
Yu considered that before glancing at each of his friends in turn to see their opinions. Since they all seemed fine with it he nodded. "Alright, we'll each summon our initial Personas so you can take your readings."
"I take it you want to keep something up your sleeve, which is why you're only showing me the initial forms?" Ajuka asked with a wry quirk of his lips, his gaze approving of the decision when Yu nodded. "Very well, I have no complaints with a pragmatic choice like that."
With that the Investigation Team showed off their initial Personas, going by order in which they joined the team (except for Yu, who was going to go last) and giving some basic information on their abilities, elemental alignments and specialties. Throughout the entire demonstration Ajuka studied them all intently, his gaze sharp and his fingers flying across his keyboard. Off to the side Sona was also watching with interest, intrigued by seeing more of a power that was completely new to her world.
When Yu's turn came he stood up and made his way to the open center of the living room where they'd been doing the demonstrations. "Izanagi!" He called, the banchou-esque representation of the Japanese deity appeared behind him, blade in hand, looking down at Ajuka with its yellow eyes, it's stance relaxed.
Akuja raised an eyebrow at the sight and smiled, appearing amused. "I wonder what this world's Izanagi will think of this when he finds out…" He mused, making Yu's eyebrows go up, as he hadn't considered that.
Once Yu's own explanation of Izanagi's capabilities was over he was about to head back to his seat when he heard a voice made out of the buzzing of thousands of insects in his mind. "I wish to speak with this whelp that has taken my name as a title, my summoner."
Yu hesitated, considering it. Ever since they'd arrived in this world, Yu had noticed several changes in his powers as a Wild Card. His former limit to how many Personas he could keep in his mind at once was gone, allowing him access to all those he had summoned before through Igor's help, and even some that Yu was sure he didn't. And they had been more… animated. Speaking to him, advising him, acting more… alive. Before the incident with Ito, if he'd dismissed a Persona, they would have gone back to his mind, not argued against it like Raphael had when he'd first met Rias.
True, they weren't talking all the time, which he was very thankful for, because otherwise he'd never get a moment's peace, but in moments like these they made themselves known.
He didn't know, exactly what had caused the change-
-an infinite and eternally besieged wall, a smiling guide, a not-butterfly playing chess against c*tH)T%# H(o& -
-but something told him that the trip from his world to this one was involved.
After a long moment considering the request he turned back to Ajuka, who had turned to his computer to study something while he waited for Yu to sit back down. "I have someone that wishes to speak with you." Then, as Ajuka raised his head and before he could change his mind, the silverette summoned the Devil arcana card and crushed it, summoning the persona that had made the request, and with it, a greasy sensation that filled the room like a corruption made manifest.
Behind him appeared a large, horrible figure, looking like a monstrous blue fly, its body bloated and its multiple limbs twisting, tipped with claws, one of which held a staff made out of a human skull with the spine still attached. Its insectine wings buzzed occasionally, the skull and crossbones of the poison symbol that were patterned on them blurring with the motion, and it's huge, crimson compound eyes studied the devil in front of it before the long proboscis that trailed from between huge bladelike pincers in it's mouth vibrated in a simulation of speech. "So, you are the whelp who killed my counterpart and took his name as a title…"
Ajuka set his computer aside and slowly stood up, eyes locked on the monstrous fly. "You must be the Persona of Beelzebub then, I take it." He said mildly, though his eyes were sharp. "I'm afraid you misunderstood. I did not personally kill your counterpart. The original Maou Beelzebub died in the Great War against the God of the Bible and the Grigori. I simply took his place once his descendants and followers were routed to keep them from leading the entire devil race to extinction."
"You assume such information would make me more amenable to you, when the opposite is true." Beelzebub buzzed, tapping his bone staff against the carpeted floor as he studied the devil. "If you had at least killed my counterpart and taken his position by right of conquest, I could find it in myself to respect that feat. Treachery is a way of life for our ilk. Or, it used to be, at least." He said, somewhat condescendingly. He raised a claw to point at the devil. "Pray you never give reason to rouse my summoner's ire, for I will be more than happy to help him eliminate you." With a harsh, buzzing laugh, the Persona faded away, leaving the room empty of it's cloying presence.
Everybody was silent for a moment before Kanji let out an almost explosive sigh. "I'm never going to get used to how some of your Personas can make me feel, senpai." He said, his voice a grumble as he tried to shake off the lingering feeling of taint that seemed to cling to his skin.
"Yeah, Yu-kun, you could have warned us. That wasn't pleasant." Labrys said, a frown on her face.
Ajuka began putting his things away, appearing pensive. "Well, that was most certainly interesting." He looked at Yu with a wry smile on his face. "The counterpart of the namesake of my title certainly isn't what I expected. Though, to be honest, I'm not entirely certain what I would have expected."
"Sorry." Yu said, shrugging slightly.
Ajuka waved it off as he finished packing and Sona approached from where she'd been sitting, visibly more tense than she'd been before and eyeing Yu warily. "Don't worry about it. Like I said, it was interesting." Then he looked around at the Investigation Team, who had all stood up to see him out. "Now then, was there anything else we needed to discuss?"
Yu was about to say no and see him out when Labrys stepped forward. "Actually, I need some help with somethin." She said, somewhat hesitantly. "I don't have the pod I sleep in to recharge and run repairs and maintenance, or any of the tools for it. I have the plans for all of it in my memory banks, because Aegis said it would be a good idea to have them if I needed them. I'm good for now, but I could really use it all before we start getting into real fights, or I'm not gonna last long."
"Why didn't you say something before, Labrys!?" Chie asked what they were all wondering, sounding concerned.
Labrus shrugged and rubbed her arm. "We didn't have any resources to fix the problem before now, so there wasn't really any point, y'know?"
Yukiko hugged the android. "Tell us about these things in the future, Labrys. We need to know when you're having trouble so we can fix it. That's a lesson we all learned a long time ago."
Labrys nodded slowly, returning the hug. "Okay…"
Ajuka cut in at that point. "I have no problem having the equipment you need built if you give me the plans. It would be interesting to see some of this Kirijo Group's work for myself, anyway."
Labrys nodded, and after connecting a cable to Ajuka's computer to a port on her body and transferring the information, Ajuka said his farewells, the team following him and Sona to the door.
Once the devils were gone Yosuke was the first to speak. "Let's hope this works out for us, partner."
Yu nodded, along with several of the others. "Let's hope…"
The night after the meeting with the Beelzebub found Kanji and Naoto standing in the small copse of trees outside of a crumbling old church. "Y'know, we really should have checked here first, seeing as we're dealing with angels and all." Kanji said, his voice an annoyed grumble.
Naoto nodded as she wrote down observations, lips twisted into a frown. "Indeed, narrowing down locations due to thematic likelihood would have helped us find them faster." She said as she observed the candlelight flickering through the windows and the figure in a robe partially hidden in the shadows cast by the moonlight, keeping watch.
"It wasn't on the list of places Rise gave us to check, though." Kanji pointed out, his arms crossed and tense, ready to grab his Perun Plate from the backpack he was wearing at the first sign of trouble.
Naoto shrugged. "Doubtless they have some way to hide their presence. An infiltration isn't very good if your enemies know where you are, after all. We should have considered they'd be doing that." She sighed as she put away her notepad. "We'll have to keep it in mind going forward."
Kanji nodded. "I'm guessing we head home and report in?"
"Yes." Naoto said, beginning to sneakily move away while pulling her phone out of her pocket. "I'll call Yu-senpai and let him know we have the information so he can call in Gremory-san."
"You're certain?" Rias asked an hour later. She'd been about to take a relaxing bath when she'd gotten the call that the Fallen had been located, so she'd postponed her 'me' time to head to the Investigation Team's house, finding the entire group waiting for her.
Shirogane nodded, her arms crossed. "There was far too much activity for a supposedly abandoned building, and the people we saw weren't exactly teenage hooligans out to party."
Rias bit her lip, thinking about it. "Desecrating a church like that is certainly their syle, yes. I really should have thought of having you check there…"
"Sorry about that." Narukami said with a sigh. "We focused almost exclusively on the locations with residual energy. We didn't consider that they'd have some way of hiding that."
"Sorry, senpai." Kujikawa said, looking forlorn.
Narukami reached over and gave the girl's hand a reassuring squeeze, a gentle smile on his face. "Not your fault, Rise-chan. You gave us what we asked for. We should have thought they'd be able to hide from supernatural detection methods."
Kujikawa nodded, smiling gratefully. "Thanks, senpai. And I tested my scanning abilities on the church once I was told that's where they were hiding. They were able to hide from a passive scan before, but something more focused lets me see them, though it's not as detailed, so I'll know better for next time."
"Nice goin, Rise-chan!" Teddy cheered.
"So what's our next move?" Hanamura asked, dragging the meeting back on track.
"My peerage and I will perform some reconnaissance now that we've got the location." Before Narukami could offer to help she held her hand up to stop him, a smile on her face. "Thank you, Narukami-kun, but as this has demonstrated, there are things us locals know and can identify that you can't yet, so it would be best if we were the ones to look into it for the moment."
Narukami nodded slowly. "Understood. Alright, please call us in if you need any help dealing with the Fallen."
Rias nodded with a smile. "Of course." She frowned briefly when a communication circle appeared next to her ear, Akeno's voice coming through to report that she and Hyoudou-kun had run into some trouble. "I have to go. I'll be in contact later."
Narukami nodded. "Till then."
Rias nodded back, smiled, and then teleported back to the ORC's HQ to find out what had happened.
The next afternoon found the girls of the Investigation Team wandering through the shopping district of Kuoh, out to relax now that they didn't have to search for the Fallen every moment of the day. Rise had been especially enthusiastic, taking her more reticent friends to various stores, trying out outfits and chatting. All of them were thankful to have enough money to be able to do such things now, even though not all of them were entirely enthusiastic, especially Naoto, more so now that they were looking at swimwear with which to take advantage of the pool they had available at home.
As Rise happily held a yellow bikini up to herself in the mirror, considering it seriously, Labrys decided to finally get around to asking the girls a question that had been bugging her for a while. "Say, how did you all end up to be sharing Yu-kun, anyway?"
"Funny story, that." Chie said, scratching her cheek bashfully as she smiled with a light blush on her face while she put the outfit she'd been considering back on the rack. "Well, it started when we were all hanging out and found out while talking that we'd all confessed to him, but been turned down."
"Yes, we were all rather distraught by that." Yukiko said as pulled a pretty red one piece with sakura blossoms on it off the rack, looking it over. "We figured that since we all got rejected, that must mean that he already had someone outside of the team."
"Or he was gay." Rise cut in with an amused smile.
"Indeed." Naoto said as she hesitantly looked at a rather modestly cut, almost school swimsuit style outfit. "Normally we would let it go as his choice, but we all wanted to get some closure by finding out why, so we began to investigate."
"We began by talking to one of Yu-kun's female friends from school, Ebihara Ai. She's very pretty, and he skipped school with her several times, so…" Yukiko shrugged.
"But after a bit of prodding we found out that she was in the same boat as us." Chie said, a somewhat sardonic smile on her lips.
"So then it was onto another schoolmate, Ozawa Yumi." Naoto said, continuing the story as Labrys listened with interest. "Of course, it didn't take us long to find out that she had the exact same story."
"The only other girl that was a possibility was our friend Marie." Rise said, pulling a slightly scandalous pink number off the rack, studying herself with it in the mirror.
"You mean, the friend of yours that turned out to be Kusumi-no-Okami?" Labrys asked, surprised.
"Yep!" Rise said, popping the 'P'. "Can you guess what we found out?"
Labrys looked a bit unsure. "...Her story was the same?"
"Pretty much." Yukiko said. "So that was all of the girls Yu-kun was close to, all saying they'd been rejected when they confessed to him."
"It was possible that he already had a girlfriend back in the city, but very unlikely." Naoto said. "Yu-senpai was very open about not really having any friends before arriving in Inaba, and he never mentioned any girls he was close to."
"So we confronted him." Rise said, nodding decisively as she made her choice.
Chie chuckled at the memory, with Yukiko and Naoto both smiling, amused as well. "Yeah, we gathered all the girls that had been rejected by Yu-kun and went to his house to demand answers. He was pretty surprised to find us all there."
"I'm pretty sure he was close to running." Yukiko said with a slight cackle.
"Under that kind of pressure he finally answered, telling us he felt bad because apparently he hadn't intended to romance any of us or date at all, since he'd have to leave Inaba when the school year ended, which is why he let us down." Rise continued, smiling as well. "He said that even if he did want to start a relationship, after finding out that we had all fallen for him he couldn't bring himself to choose one of us and hurt the others."
"It was Ai-chan that declared that if he couldn't choose, then he should just date all of us." Chie said with a grin. "She can be pretty forceful and opinionated, but after thinking about it a bit… well, the only real downside is that we wouldn't have all his time to ourselves, but he's such a great catch we were willing to put up with it just to have a piece of him to call ours."
"He really is…" Naoto murmured with a soft smile on her face, which the other girls shared.
Labrys' eyes darted from one girl to the next, taking in the happiness in their expressions. "Huh… I never would have guessed you guys would all just decide to share him without a fight if I wasn't used to your relationship."
"Who said we didn't fight?" Yukiko said with a dainty snort as she and the others moved to pay for their purchases. "The amount of catfights we got into while trying to divide up Yu-kun's time between us probably added as much to our combat abilities as our actual time fighting Shadows did."
As the girls left the store, bags in hand, still chatting about the issues that came up when one was part of an unconventional relationship like theirs, they began to walk past a nice park, where Labrys noticed someone they knew. "Oh look, it's Hyoudou-kun." She said, pointing over at a bench where the boy was sitting with a pretty blonde girl in a nun's habit.
"Huh, a devil and nun. That's a weird pairing if I ever saw one." Chie commented idly.
"It doesn't seem to be going well." Yukiko said, noting the way the nun was crying as Hyoudou tried to comfort her.
Rise glanced at her friends. "Should we go see if we can help?"
The other girls nodded, prompting the group to approach the two sitting on the bench, though things seemed to be calming down, the nun now smiling up at the boy she was with.
It was as they were getting near and Hyoudou noticed them that the attack came. "Yukiko!" Chie cried, tackling her girlfriend away just as a spear of light passed where the ravenette had been, barely missing the martial artist.
The other girls were instantly on alert, Labrys moving to engage the Fallen Angel that followed in the wake of the spear, a middle aged looking man in a grey trench coat and black fedora, another spear in his hand. He seemed somewhat surprised as the android swept the weapon aside, her metal limbs not being inconvenienced at all, the artificial girl knowing what to expect after fighting the Fallen that had attacked Hyoudou.
The surprise faded quickly, the man developing a savage grin, eyes glinting with battlelust. "Good, you're not easy prey." He pulled back briefly and created another spear, dual wielding now. "Let's have some fun."
"Pest control isn't what I'd call fun." Labrys retorted before launching herself at the Fallen.
Naoto drew Black Hole from inside her coat, thankful that Rias had obtained a firearms license for her, and took up a stance, eyes darting about, ready for any attack. Her observational skills, instincts and battle experience were what allowed her to notice the blur that was a young seeming Fallen dressed as a gothic lolita rushing for Rise with a spear poised to run the idol through. Without any conscious thought the detective turned and fired, catching the loli by surprise as the magical bullet hit her shoulder, making her stumble and falter.
Spotting another Fallen that seemed to be the one that had originally attacked Hyoudou advancing on him and the nun Naoto shouted to Chie, who was just getting up. "Chie, back up Hyoudou!"
The martial artist of the Investigation Team looked up toward the devil and nun, breaking into a sprint that turned into a flying roundhouse kick at the Fallen's side, catching the woman in stripperwear of guard, the far stronger than one would expect kick sending her flying several feet.
"You alright, Hyoudou?" Chie asked as she took up a stance, eyeing her opponent as the woman got to her feet, a snarl on her face.
The boy nodded shakily, which Chie couldn't blame him for, considering what had happened the last time he had faced this particular Fallen. "Yeah, don't worry." His face firmed and he glared at the Fallen, though he was still shaking. "Don't worry, Asia, I won't let them touch you." With that he held out his left arm, a red, scaled gauntlet with green jewels appearing to encase it. A deep voice called out [BOOST!] as the gems flashed.l.
The Fallen glared at them, still snarling. "You're going to regret that…" She said.
Chie adjusted her stance, preparing herself for the inevitable attack. "Bring it on, bitch."
Yukiko, for her part, had gotten back to her feet and drawn Boundless Sea, quite thankful that her weapon of choice was portable and easy to hide. She glanced around, trying to see where she could be the most help, and saw that the loli had engaged Naoto again, who was managing to keep her back with quick and effective gunfire as Rise pulled out her phone, no doubt trying to contact Yu and the others.
The yamato nadeshiko began making her way over to help when another Fallen appeared, this one another voluptuous woman in a skimpy outfit, moving to attack her, no doubt thinking she was the most vulnerable one there after Rise.
True, Yukiko may not be the physically strongest or most skilled of the team, but she was in no way a pushover. She dodged back, barely avoiding the Fallen's spear, and slashed Boundless Sea at her enemy's eyes. The Fallen obviously didn't expect that move, and definitely didn't expect the apparently frail fan to cut into her face, making her fall back with a cry, her hand going to her face.
Yukiko smirked as she quickly pressed the attack, her fan becoming engulfed in flames as she began slashing at the Fallen, who had gone on the defensive, utterly unprepared for the assault.
As all this was happening, Rise moved into cover by some vending machines, allowing Naoto to have an easier time covering her while she called for reinforcements. Rise wanted to help with the fight, but she knew that she wasn't skilled enough to pitch in, at least not yet. The smartest thing she could do was get more help.
The phone clicked and Yu had barely begun to greet her when she cut in. "Senpai, we're under attack by four Fallen. Hyoudou-kun's here too along with someone else he's protecting. We're holding our own, but we could use some backup."
Yu's voice became serious. "Tell me where."
As Rise gave him the address she couldn't help the fierce smile that formed on her face. Now that the rest of the team was on its wayl, these Fallen were going to regret all their life choices by the time the Investigation Team was done with them.
Ugh. I seriously, honestly wanted to get this done by the 10th, but life decided to kick me in the nads.
Long story short, my mom had a heart attack at the beginning of the month and was in the hospital for two weeks. Then, only a few days after being released she tested positive for Covid, which she was likely exposed to in the hospital, since she didn't have a private room. Thankfully she was fully vaccinated, so the symptoms have been mild so far, but she's currently keeping well away from the rest of the family, and we're all waiting to see if we show symptoms as well.
If any of my readers have, for some reason, not gotten vaccinated yet, for the love of Rias Gremory's breasts, go do it! Not only are you protecting yourself, you're potentially saving other people's lives as well.
In any case, Not really much to say about this chapter. The next should include the rest of the fight with the Fallen, and whatever aftermath comes of it. Please look forward to it.
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