Minato x Ophis snippets

by Angel of light darkness

wrote a couple omakes/snippets that shipped Minato from Persona 3 with Ophis from DxD. Figure I'd repost them from DaD Forum Omake section. MessiahXDragon snippet series: ongoing.

9. God's Gift, A Wild Card Part 2

Author's Notes: And now, for part 2 of this niche JRPG Crossover that reached over thirty thousand words and needed to be split into two chapters when it began reaching forty thousand words.

God's Gift, a Wild Card.

You are about to witness a tale, the legend of Messiah, that will be handed down generation after generation.

Aka, Conception Series crossover. It's time for a baby boom! PART 2

When Le Fay came back after going to get aid from the Independent Magician she let out a scream as she ran to hide behind her brother as soon as she saw him, Ophis's snake emerge from her body with it's head aimed at the spot she teleported in.

"Le Fay, what's the matter!?" Arthur asked alarmed, looking to his sister he saw her face was red with her covering her chest with her arms. Her eyes were locked onto something and turning around Arthur saw someone on the floor sprawled out face first.

"I found the Independent Magician" Le Fay said as she glared at the twitching body on the ground, she didn't plan on bringing her along but since she was fondling Le Fay at the time the independent got dragged along "She turned out to be a lot more, pervy, than I hoped. She got dragged along in the teleport so she should be disoriented for a bit"

Arthur narrowed his eyes with his grip on Excalibur Ruler tightening, he slowly approached the Magician that dared to assault his sister when she went to them for aid, he readied his holy sword prepared to use it's power to take control of the Magician if they stepped out of line.

"Ugh" The pervy Magician hand's twitched, the Pendragon's keeping an eye on them to make sure there were no surprise use of magic "Did I pass out again? This won't be good for my back- huh?" with unsteady arms the pervy magician pushed herself up and looked around, her hat hiding the top half of her face from where the Pendragon's stood "Wait, where am I?"

"Is everything okay? I heard screaming" Minato rushed over to see what was going on, Vali and Bikou waiting with Ophis and the Star Children in case there was trouble, Minato was prepared to give the signal that they were under attack if there was one. Spotting an angry Arthur, a mortified Le Fay and an unknown girl on the ground Minato kept his eyes on the unknown while he spoke to Arthur "Who's this?"

The unknown girl got on her knees and turned to face Minato, once he saw their eyes Minato saw two things he recognized. First was a look that Aika would sometimes give him when she thought he wasn't looking, and the second was something that surprised Minato and cause the Sea of Souls to stir within him.

"The Independent Magician my sister went looking to help us" Arthur answered, unsheathing Ruler a tiny bit to let it's power be felt "Though, after what she did to my sister I'm having second thoughts on them being here"

The Independent Magician slowly raises their arms in a gesture of surrender "To be fair, I thought I was dreaming and your sister is very blessed" her words did little to soothe the Pendragons.

"Look, what's important right now is that we need your assistance" Minato said, trying to get control of the situation even as he could feel dozens of Personas focusing on the girl before him "We have several journals relating to a magic item an apprentice of Aleister Crowley made that has affected several of our friends, we need your help to decipher them"

[1] "Alright. Not much different from what I usually do anyway" The girl said, slowly getting to her feet and giving Minato a chance to get a good look at her. Long silver hair and unhealthy pale skin with greenish eyes. She wore a blue double breasted blazer with a white dress shirt and red tie underneath and a black cloak over the blazer, a blue skirt with white knee high tights with a band of blue near the top.

The more he looked at her the more certain Minato was of what he felt from this mysterious girl, looking over to Arthur and Le Fay he saw the siblings whispering to each other while shooting cautious looks to the girl.

She bowed her head slightly, a sign of respect that hid how she looked Minato up and down "Caprice Freeman, Independent Magician and the revealer of the Secrets of the wickedest man in history"

"Minato, and I have a question I need an answer to" Caprice raised an eyebrow at Minato's words but nodded regardless "You were him, weren't you. Your Aleister Crowley's reincarnation?"

He could feel the Persona of Crowley reacting to the girl in front of him, much stronger than what he felt with Siegfried and that Stray Exorcist, when he looked into her eyes any doubt of the girl before him being the reincarnation of Aleister Crowley disappeared. While the Aleister Crowley of his world realized the mistakes he had made in life near it's end there was no guarantee the same could be said for the Crowley of this world.

Arthur and Le Fay looked at Minato shocked at his question, meanwhile Caprice looked at Minato wide eyed with her mouth clenched shut. Her eyes searched Minato for a hint as to why he would ask that question, in the end she just asked what made him said that.

Not being able to outright state that he had two versions of Crowley in his head, Minato went with his next best option "Eyes being windows into the soul can more literal if you know what to look for, I can tell you have personally experienced death. That and you coming across master ciphers for coded magic books mean you're either very lucky or you already knew what the ciphers were or where to find them"

Minato frowned as he looked at the reincarnation of Aleister Crowley, doing his level best to ignore the Persona versions that were looking over her form with great interest, before asking something "Were there any master ciphers to begin with, or did you make that up to explain away how you knew things?"

"The Master Ciphers were real, we needed them in the event we forgot how to decode our research due to our life style at the time" Caprice admitted, memories of digging through abandoned houses searching for old research rising from the back of her mind.

Arthur tensed as Le Fay looked at Caprice Freeman with a degree of fear in her eyes, Excalibur Ruler's power ready to take control of Crowley reincarnation's body. If the Magician they were looking for really was the wickedest man reborn then Arthur may have to take control of them, a cruel action to make someone a prisoner in their own body but they couldn't take the risk.

Caprice could feel the hostility from the male Pendragon behind her, after what her past self did it was understandable, she looked to the one who knew who she was once "So, what happens now?"

"We still got work to do, the only thing that really changes is that I feel I need to set some ground rules" Minato said, looking to Arthur and gesturing for him to put down Excalibur Ruler "No drugs, nothing lewd, we finish deciphering everything. Oh, and no swearing. There's children here" Caprice nodded, seeing that her answer was genuine Minato turned around and gestured for her to follow "I'll show you want we're dealing with and what we know so far"

The Pendragons looked to one another before following behind, neither leaving the other's side as it seemed they will be working wit the reincarnation of Aleister Crowley.

-=-][-=-

Once Crowley's reincarnation got to personally take a look at the bed their past life's Apprentice they got to work deciphering the journals and research Crowley's Apprentice actually bothered to hide, though there were several forms of distraction.

Namely the ease at which Caprice's expression shifted from scholarly intrigue to lecherous excitement and back again was a bit worrying, though considering everything Minato was happy no drool had gotten on anything.

They started to learn more about Crowley's apprentice and what they found was a bit worrying, he made contact with an unknown god from another world.

[2] During his research into fertility and trying to get into contact with gods with domain over the concept of fertility the Apprentice used an elaborate contraption to gather ambient energy to increase the power of his ritual, he put as much power as he could into his set up before trying to contact any deity but instead of it spreading out to get the attention of the gods and spirits of this world it remained focused into a single pillar that made contact with another world.

Fearing what he had done the apprentice destroyed everything he could to cover his tracks before going into hiding, fearful of others misunderstanding what he was trying to do or 'worse' steal his research.

He stayed up as long as he could but when he finally fell asleep he was visited by what he could only describe as a king of gods, comparing this Star God to the likes of Zeus or Odin in their prime.

The Star God wished to know who made contact with him and for what purpose, the Apprentice's desire for knowledge outweigh his fear as he explained his purpose of wanting to increase the conception rate of all beings to bring new life into the world and sought divine guidance in his noble goal.

Hearing his intent the Star God agreed to teach the apprentice, saying that if things went well he would make Crowley's Apprentice his Prophet. The Apprentice was excited at the prospect and began his time as the Star God's disciple, learning all he could from the god's teaching and learning more about the Star God themself.

The Star God was the head god of a pantheon with twelve deities representing the zodiac serving under him, the Star God is worshipped by his world as a god of the stars, life, light, harems, heavens, goodness, protection, heroes and several other domains with some being shared with the other twelve gods of it's pantheon.

During his time learning under the alien god Crowley Apprentice's writing started becoming harder to read, less going mad and more too excited to write tidily, much of what he learnt aligned with his earlier research and expanded in ways he never seen before. Eventually the Star God deemed the Apprentice worthy enough to become his Prophet and to learn one of the most Sacred Rituals the alien god held. The Star Child ritual, something the Star God's people affectionately called the 'Classmating Ritual'.

The purpose of the ritual was the creation of Star Children, stellar beings created when two people who share a bond with one another make physical contact, the Star Children would take on characteristics of the parents with ambient energy from space being used to form the physical body initially.

Star Children were made to be warriors to defend the Star God's world and it's people from monsters, the monsters being referred to as Impurities who all originate from an entity known as the 13th Phantom who used humans to make more Impurities, because of that they are all granted knowledge and equipment at birth to complete this task.

What leftover stellar energy not being stored inside the Star Children to enhance their physical abilities to superhuman levels would be used to form their equipment, after everything is formed inside their nesting dolls the Star Children are born with installed knowledge along with an instinctive knowledge of who their parents are and where to find them if need be.

There was vague notes about how stellar energy rebounded onto the parents when the Star Children are being made, however they were vague with the only definitive answer being that whoever successfully performed the ritual would cease ageing once they reached their prime for 120 years before ageing again but three times slower the previous rate. If the person was past their prime they would regress to it, effectively regaining lost youth.

The Apprentice turned Prophet began work on creating a relic of power to facilitate the Star Child ritual, that relic being the bed Ophis took, though it appears that during the creation of the relic the newly named Prophet of the Star God began to notice certain things and created modifications to the relic and the Star Child Ritual.

The first among these changes was increase the amount of stellar energy exposed to the parents of the Star Children, the idea being that if the small amount gave longer life then more could possibly grant the parents of Star Children new powers themselves. He cited previous Tantric experiments Crowley had performed to back his idea, mentioning how surprisingly easy it was to make the changes.

The second major change was from where the ritual would gather the needed energy from, it was meant to gather energy from stars with a focus on zodiac constellations but the newly made Prophet of the Star God saw ways to expand on it with the simplest being adding the yearly Eastern Zodiac onto of the monthly Western Zodiac that was identical to the one in the Star God's world with a few minor differences.

The more difficult prospect was drawing upon the dormant star energy that had been absorbed by the environment, star energy was a constant thing that usually worked in the background and had infused the Earth since it's beginning, he needed a means to pinpoint clumps of the energy and a means to harvest the power they held.

[3] After some research the Star God's Prophet discovered certain minerals retained star energy of different zodiacs and could be used to store the power, however his breakthrough came when he discovered the Druidic zodiac. The trees in that Zodiac held a massive amount of star energy with each tree containing the star energy of two different zodiacs and replenished anything that was lost overnight, with the knowledge of how to use plant life to store star energy he began work on creating facilities to make the most of star energy.

The otherworldly god was conflicted on what his new Prophet had been doing, if the dairy entries are to be believed, the Star God was pleased with the results of the research but was bothered by the unauthorized changes made to one of his most Sacred Rituals as well as being deeply worried what the changes could do to the Star Children and their parents. Especially if God's Gift was involved.

The Star God ordered his new Prophet to cease his work as he considered the situation, after a week the last dairy entry talked about how the Apprentice of Aleister Crowley turned Prophet of an Alien God was to set out on a pilgrimage to other worlds as a bonding exercise between him and the Star God.

"Do you think this Star God actually took this guy on a trip across worlds to grow closer together?" Minato asked as he turned to Le Fay as she was nose deep in a book before finishing "Or do you think something else happened?"

Le Fay frowned as she considered Minato's words, her fingers tapping against the table as she did so before answering "Normally, I wouldn't give the idea of gods from other worlds being the answer. But, today has been full of surprises" she picked up another notebook and opened it up "If this Star God is taking his new Prophet to other worlds it may be to expand his influence into other worlds, likely starting with ones weaker than our own"

"Speaking of other worlds and star gods, take a look at this" Caprice said as she pushed an open grimoire towards Minato and Le Fay, on the pages were lines of symbols none of them have seen before "Seems like my, I mean Crowley's" she shook her head "This apprentice started writing in an alien language, which I'm guessing it's the language this Star God uses like how Angels have Enochian, chances are the details of this Star Child ritual is written here"

Minato frowned as several hundred Personas looked at the alien writing on the pages through his eyes "So now we need to figure out a translation for a literal alien language"

"Not exactly" Caprice said as closed the grimoire before lifting up the hard back cover of the book "If he's still my student" with those words the reincarnation of Crowley broke the hard back of the grimoire in half.

Le Fay looked at Caprice horrified, letting out a soft scream as she watched what she thought was a fellow Magician so casually damage one of the most valuable items to Magicians.

Arthur came over and put his hand on his sister's shoulder, having an idea of what she was experiencing as Magicians usually treasured grimoires and to see one damaged was almost comparable to seeing someone murdered. With it actually being a one to one comparison to any grimoires that held a consciousness, though they were rare.

Caprice's hand explored the broken back cover and pulled out a sheet of paper with the alien symbols on one side and English letters on the other "Always keep a cheat sheet on hand, if not for you than for whoever finds the thing after you" she smiled looked to Minato and pointing to Le Fay as her mouth hung open in shock "Magicians usually avoid damaging grimoires at all costs, making the grimoires themselves the best place to hide them so long as they have to damage the thing to get the cheat sheet"

"That's, brilliant. Underhanded, but brilliant" Le Fay admitted her eyes locked onto the translation sheet as she memorized the translation of each symbol.

It took a while to fully translate the alien language and once that was finished they began studying the magic involved, as Le Fay and Caprice were practically cheek to cheek as they read over everything Minato got up to stretch after helping comb through, decipher and translation what they needed. He gave Arthur a nod before he left, leaving the oldest of the Pendragons to watch over his sister to ensure nothing unwarranted happened.

After doing what he needed to refresh himself Minato walked around for a bit before going back to help Le Fay and Caprice, checking in on Kuroka he saw the Nekosou had her arm over her eyes before she looked over to see him at the door.

Minato sat down with Kuroka and explain to her what happened, she was sceptical about no longer being a reincarnated Devil but after Minato recited several prayers whispered to him by Archangels with it not affecting Kuroka at all she was more willing to believe the seemingly impossible situation.

"My Evil Piece was the cause, huh" Kuroka said, looking over herself as she sat in bed "Would I still be hunted by the Devils?"

"For being a Stray Devil, I don't believe so. But if there any crimes connected to you" Minato said, seeing the youkai's expression harden "That bad?"

"I killed my former king when he planned to experiment on my little sister" Kuroka answered, wincing as she remembered the aftermath of her actions "My only regret was not taking my sister with me when I ran"

Minato nodded, his concerned for Kuroka's sister growing "Yeah, I would've done the same" he looked to Kuroka with worry "You can stay here if you want, lay low for a while until you figure out what to do next"

"Hmm" she turned to look a Minato with a smirk "Your alright having a wanted criminal in your home?"

"I would have done the same if I was in your position, besides" Minato rubbed the back of his neck "I'm guilty of the same thing, do you know Diodora Astaroth?"

"The nun fetishist? Isn't he-" her eyes widened as she looked to Minato "It was you, you killed the creep"

Minato winced "Not, right away. I put him in a mental trial to test him" he nodded "Yes, I killed him, but I gave him the chance to save himself and he failed in that task"

"Like those Saw movies?" Kuroka asked.

He looked to her confused "I haven't seen those, so I can't really comment"

She looked at him with new interest, her eyes looking into his own "What about his Peerage? The news reports said they died with him"

"I turned them human again and destroyed the Evil Pieces that were removed" Minato explained "Right now, their staying with me until they can get on their feet. So you have some comrades in the same position as you, I can introduce you to them when they get back"

Kuroka nodded "That sounds nice" her expression turned to worry "Hey, did anyone get hurt after I was possessed by those impurities. Are the children okay?"

"They're fine, everyone is more worried about what you've been through. The children were worried they might have gone overboard when they fused together into a mech to beat the monster possessing you"

"I'm sorry, the children fused into a what?" Kuroka asked looking lost.

Minato shrugged "It took us all by surprise"

The two talked for a while before Minato left to let Kuroka rest for a bit longer, leaving the door open a crack to let the others know she was up, going to the living room he came across a sight that froze him in his tracks.

Ophis sat on the couch with all four Star Children sleeping on top of her, their sleeping faces and Ophis content expression was one of the cutest things Minato had ever seen.

The mother of his children turned to look him "I can't move" she looked down to her children that seemed to snuggle closer together "I don't want to wake them up"

"How long have they been sleeping?" Minato asked as he sat down softly next to them, feeling his heart melt as he saw Atsuko let out a loud yawn.

"A few minutes now, they don't seem tired so I think they slept just because they could" Ophis frowned as she looked to Minato, who was caught off guard by her serious expression "We need to talk about the children, their insistent on wanting to fight to protect us"

Minato frowned, remembering the information on how the Star Children were literally born to be heroes to save the world from destruction, he told Ophis what they learnt about the Star Children and once he finished he looked down to the children still sleeping "It's likely an implanted compulsion rather then a true desire of theirs"

"Still, perhaps they have a point" Ophis said, remembering how earnest the children were in their desire to protect them, her gut instinct telling her they wish to protect herself and Minato not being one implanted into them artificially "They will need to learn to protect themselves"

"I can summon as many Personas as need be to keep them safe, and you could give them each one of your snakes, if we can combine our powers we won't have to worry about anything hurting them. We can keep them safe, they won't-" Minato stopped as he saw the look Ophis was giving him, it was a look of realization giving way to sympathy as she remembered the day they went camping and Minato confided in her his past "I, I don't want to lose any more family"

As he whispered those words Minato felt one of Ophis's snakes tenderly rubbing it's head against his cheek, his hand intertwined with that of the Infinite Dragon who gave him a comforting smile "We won't lose them, you said it yourself so long as we both live they can not die. Besides, we need to respect their wishes, make compromises between our wishes and theirs" Ophis glanced around and checked her snakes to make sure the coast was clear before whispering "I got that piece of advice from one of your Personas"

Minato frowned "If I listened to everything my Personas tell me I would have went into the forest with Caprice and not come back for hours"

"Which one said to do that?" Ophis asked, wondering which Persona had a grudge against the reincarnation of Aleister Crowley.

"Crowley, and I rather not mention what he wanted to do with his sudden female counterpart" letting out a defeated sigh, Minato looked to his children as he added another item to the list to make sure he raised them right "We'll train them, but I'm only letting them get into fights if they can defeat Zeus one on one in his prime"

"Yes!" "Shh"

The attention of both parents snapped to that of their children, looking down they saw all four of them were only pretending to sleep. Ophis had the children move from her to Minato so she could get up and grab a snack before coming back to join in on the family hug.

-=-][-=-

"It's baby making time, everyone we're taking turns in pairs"

Those were Caprice's words as she and Le Fay explained what they learnt and how the inner workings of the Star Child ritual functioned, through their research Caprice and Le Fay created a device to measure the rate Star Children could be made based on designs left behind by the Apprentice turned Prophet.

The reason for that being due to the low conception rate of Star Children, even with all variables in their favour the best they could hope for was two precent. However, that was in the world of The Star God not their own.

To see if there was any difference between the two worlds Caprice and Le Fay set up an array of three magic circles to run some tests in Ophis's room after they figured out how things broadly work, while a pair would stand in two of the circles the third would reveal the rate of Star Child Conception.

Minato, worrying that something might happen and the insistence of his children, went outside to give the Star Children some basic training while the others performed their tests.

It quickly became apparent that, yes, the same low birth rate of Star Children was the same in their world as it was in that of the Star God's. The highest they could get was 1.5 percent and that was only after they discovered that if one of the potential parents was a dragon it doubled the conception rate.

Minato was brought in after leaving the Star Children under Lilith's care, the children kicking footballs at targets to work on their aiming, as he and Ophis stepped on the circles to be tested the arrayed flashed before displaying a result that shocked everyone who saw it.

"A hundred percent conception rate" Caprice muttered, resetting the process several times and getting the same results "Two precent was suppose to be the best possible chance, how is it a certain thing with these two" she looked back through her notes to see if she missed anything, going over to a journals to re-read pages she remembered were related to the matter at hand.

"Maybe their bond is that strong" Le Fay suggested, looking through the information she had on hand.

Kuroka raised an eyebrow as she lounged on the magic bed, while initially worried of repeating of what happened several hours ago she worked through her trepidation to try out the bed again and to her delight was not negatively affected "You mean Minato and Ophis's bond is so special it let's them always make Star Children when at best it's a one in fifty chance?"

"That, or he's God's Gift" Caprice said, looking over a short passage in one of the journals that appeared to be notes for a religious text "Says here a God's Gift has a guaranteed chance to always make a Star Child, though from what I'm reading here that would technically make this guy here a messianic figure" Caprice glanced to Minato with a teasing smile "Any words you want to add, Messiah~?"

Caprice swung her hips to hit Minato, however her calling Minato a messiah caught him off guard and as a result lost his balance. Le Fay, seeing Minato about to fall onto the bed, tries to stop his fall but ends up being dragged along with him as the two fall onto Kuroka.

Everyone went still for a moment as they waited for something to happen, after several seconds of nothing, Minato apologised to Kuroka for falling onto her and for dragging Le Fay along.

However, before he could get back up a flash of light over took the room for a moment and once it faded both Le Fay and Kuroka were unconscious with two Matryoshka Doll that were very familiar to Minato and Ophis appeared in the middle of the room. However, instead of an Ophiuchus symbol one held the zodiac sign for Libra and the other for Pisces.

"Wait, are those-"

*POP!* *POP!*

The little matrons slip open to reveal two more Star Children.

The one born from Libra had cat ears above her head and two cat tails behind her, hazel gold cat eyes blinked with curiosity as bangs of blue hair momentarily covered her eyes before she pushed them aside. She wore a simple sleeveless martial artist gi with baggy trousers and martial artist shoes, on her forearms were guards with a large spiked weapon in her right hand.

The one born from Pisces lacked the cat or dragon eyes his siblings had, instead his blue eyes were half open as if he wasn't full awake. He wore a robe with long sleeves that trailed on the floor that had holes in the middle for him to put his arms through, his hood covering his hood so that they could only see his face and a bit of dark blonde hair. On his hood appeared to be a bird that had made a nest in the extra space of the large hood not taken up by the child's head, however on closer inspection it wasn't a real bird, the bird theme continued as the boy held a brass staff with a bird cage as the head piece. Around his neck was a crescent moon pendent with a jewel in the centre.

The boy's card necklace was a bit higher up than his sister so as to present the two necklaces he wore from tangling together, their eyes focused on Minato and smiled brightly.

"Hey daddy! I'm Libra, a monk class that can kick all the butts" Libra said overflowing with energy, doing quick martial art stances that Minato knew were close to the level of a master.

The boy raised up his staff "I'm Pisces, I'm a Magician class. I'll exploit elemental weaknesses so we fight smarter not harder"

"But fighting strong enemies is half the fun" Libra responded with a pout to her twin brother's response, looking around the two recently born Star Children noticed the odd looks they were getting from the others in the room "Is something wrong?"

Libra's words seemed to have snapped the others out of their shock, Minato turned to check on Kuroka and Le Fay along with the others to find the two asleep. Kuroka having a blissful expression while Le Fay was calm with rosy checks, the two children looked at their mothers and saw they were sleeping.

Caprice was busy writing down notes on what she just witness, not wishing to forget a single detail. Through all of this, Ophis had one thought going through her mind.

'How am I going to explain this to my children?'

No sooner had she thought that did the four Star Children born earlier that morning appear at the door to the room, the Star Children locked eyes with one another for a moment before they all lit up with such excitement you could imagine stars in their eyes.

"More siblings!" the now six Star Children exclaimed happily as they grouped together.

Kuroka's Star Child hopped over to her half siblings while Le Fay's Star Child trailing behind "Hey, I'm Libra and this is my twin brother Pisces"

"We're all Ophiuchus, quadruplets in fact" Isamu said before they all started introducing themselves to one another.

Minato and Ophis looked to each other, glad that their children were accepting of the whole half siblings situation. Checking on the others Caprice was still fervently writing something down, Arthur's expression was cold and indifferent while both Vali and Bikou were both still amazed at what they just witness.

"Hey, when will we get our names?" Pisces Magician asked, his staff floating mid-air for a moment before he sat on it and float up to be more at eye level with Minato.

"We'll need to wait for your, mothers, to wake up" Minato said, glancing to the blissfully asleep Nekosou and Magician "Don't want to leave them out of the name picking"

Pisces nodded "Then, I'll nap alongside mummy until she wakes up" as soon as he said those words Libra jumped up and dragged her brother back down.

Libra smiled as she dragged her brother behind her "Come on, we're playing games with the others. It's time for family bonding"

"Can't be bond by napping together in a pile" Pisces said as the Star Children left the room.

Bikou opened and closed his mouth a few times before asking "What do we do now?"

"What we should have done from the beginning" Arthur said fully unsheathing Excalibur Ruler and turning to Caprice with a cold glare.

It took no small amount of effort to stop Arthur from doing anything rash, Caprice saying she didn't think Minato was actually a divinely virile saviour didn't help things.

-=-][-=-

When they woke up Kuroka and Le Fay had different reactions to what just happened, the latter describing the accidental 'classmating' as "Strange, like nothing I had ever felt before" while the former "It was wonderful, Nyan~"

Though they were both glad to know Minato would take care of the new Star Children along with the four he already had with Ophis, giving both Kuroka and Le Fay a chance to let him carry the majority of the burden of raising the children if either had reasons they couldn't be around all the time or didn't want to be a part of things.

While she didn't want to say it out loud, Le Fay was extremely grateful for the offer. She still had studying and other responsibilities to attend to, things she couldn't drop to be a parent full time. That's not to say she didn't want to be a part of her Star Child's life, but she couldn't drop everything to do that and needed to learn how 'children born from alien rituals' affected things in regards to her family and lineage. Looking down at her Star Child, Mordred, as he slept on her lap Le Fay smiled at the child's peaceful expression.

Even her brother couldn't deny the Star Children were all adorable, all it took for Mordred to stop his uncle Arthur from hurting either Minato or Caprice was to give him the puppy dog eyes and saying "Please don't hurt papa, uncle Arthur" Le Fay could still see how the metaphorical arrows pierced her brother's heart and rage.

Kuroka was not in the same position as Le Fay, unlike her the Nekosou had no such responsibilities she needed to attend to and had already talked to Ophis about making a harem with them both, she was overjoyed as she hugged her Star Child and began teaching her child whatever she could. To Kuroka's surprise her daughter Kurobara took to her lessons like a fish to water, raising the idea of Star Children possibly developing talents based on the parent's skills.

The others came back later that evening and the Arisato Residence was starting to get a bit full with thirty five individuals present, Minato himself, his five summoned Personas, his six Star Children, Ophis, the five members of Team Vali, the fifteen former peerage members, one chimera hellhound and a reincarnated Magician who was caught between some form of excitement Minato didn't want to know about and terror at the swordsman who was very upset with her for accidentally making his sister a mother.

Luckily the house was large enough to comfortable fit everyone, though Arthur left with Le Fay due to how crowded they felt it was getting and promised to come back in the morning time with the remaining members of Team Vali staying. Caprice was more than happy to stay the night as she still wanted to learn more about the Star Child Ritual and look over the notes they had gathered, her desire to stay made things easier for those that weren't entirely convinced Caprice didn't hold some malicious intent due to the reputation of her past life.

Seeing this mistrust Minato put something together to prove that Caprice was more than Aleister Crowley's reincarnation, or at least prove this Crowley had seen the errors committed in their first life. Looking over the unassuming notebook Minato was conflicted on it, he hoped he wouldn't need to use it despite knowing the good that could comes from it.

Putting those thoughts aside Minato put the special notebook in a drawer of his desk and locked it before settling into his own bed for the night. It wouldn't be long before he was joined by others, Ophis laid on one side with Kuroka on the other with Bridget giving the Nekosou a heated look.

He was half asleep when they came in, he recognized Ophis almost instantly but was surprised when he felt someone else hugging his other arm. He would have said something but the first day of being a parent was a tiring one, so since neither showed any complaint Minato accepted things and tried to get some sleep despite the heat.

Sleep seemed to be over in an instant from Minato's perspective, his bedroom door slamming open jolting him awake, waking up Minato saw Satou and Aika at his bedroom door looking in with mouths hanging open in shock.

"Um, I'm pretty sure you can't barge into Mama and Papa when their sleeping" a small voice said, looking down Minato saw Kurobara and Emma looking up at the two shocked girls before looking into their parents "They came here looking for you Papa, when we tried to tell them you were still in bed with Mama they forced their way in"

Kuroka rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, looking to Aika and Satou with a teasing smirk "My, someone has a murderous look in their eyes"

Minato attempted to raise his arms but found them both in the grasp of Ophis and Kuroka, instead he looked at the two at his door with a simple answer "I can explain"

"Please, don't skip any detail" Aika said with a blush, and for a moment Minato felt like he saw the same perversion he saw in Caprice's eyes in Aika's own.

-=-][-=-

Outside of the Arisato residence Arthur did a quick headcount of the Star Children to make sure he wasn't seeing things, once he did that he turned to Minato with a frown "More Star Children?"

"Some friends of mine came over early in the morning, one thing led to another" Minato admitted, scratching the back of his neck "Also, we learnt that a human chain is enough to activate the magic so long as one person sits on the bed and all three are making skin contact"

He wasn't sure what Satou wanted to say when she suddenly took his hand into her own, before she had a chance to say anything Aika poked Satou's free hand while she laid on the Star Child bed. Next thing Minato knew he was holding a limp Satou as Aika was hanging off the bed with two new little matrons with the symbols for Leo and Capricorn ready to bring into the world another set of twins.

The Leo Star Child was Aika's who turned out to be a Thief, he wore a mainly black outfit of trousers, jacket and hat with blue highlights. The most eye catching thing about him was the eye mask, large blue scarf and the large feather in his hat. He seemed to share his half brother Billy's habit of lowering the brim of his hat to hide his yellow eyes to look cool, over all Hayate was trying to paint himself as the mysterious brother.

The Capricorn Star Child was Satou's and was a Minstrel, while she was born with a shamisen in hand she could transform it into other stringed instruments when given a moment to focus. She wore a humble pink kimono with a large red sash that complimented her blue eyes and blue hair, her smile tugging at heart strings as easily as she played her instrument. Shio's smile growing bigger when she played for her family.

At the moment they were showing off each of the cards they were born with, while Ophis Star Children all held the same design the other four each had different ones. For Kuroka's Star Child her card showed a set of swords handing on a scale held up by a woman whose blindfold had the Roman numeral XIII (8) written on it, for Le Fay's Star Child his card showed two fish circling one another beneath a crescent moon with the Roman numeral XVIII (18) at the center of the moon

Aika's Star Child card had the head of a lion with the Roman numeral XI (11) in it's roaring mouth, he showed it off to the others thinking it was the coolest. Satou's Star Child had the picture of two ram horned devils with the lower body of a fish holding up their chained hands as watered flowed down to reveal the Roman numeral XV (15), Satou was a little worried at seeing Devils on Shio's card but some explaining about the Devil Arcana cleared up any misunderstandings.

After explaining to the two about the supernatural, the Star Children and generally everything they got themselves into both displayed different reactions to the whole thing. Aika was keeping to herself mostly, praising Hayate for being cool, while Satou actively dotted on Shio with every opportunity she got.

"We lock the door to Ophis's room so no one will get near the bed for now" Minato said, feeling Arthur's stare.

Gabriel approached Minato with a worried expression on his face, hoping that a fight wasn't about to break out between Minato and Arthur "So, why are we standing outside for?"

Thankful for the distraction Minato turned to answer the question "The ritual that created the Star Children was modified so it was suppose to empower the parents as well, what that means we're here to figure out"

"And you making mothers out of two more unsuspecting girls gives us all the more data points to use" Caprice said as she approached with notes in hand before looking to Minato with a smirk "You being a magnet for girls is really helping out things, especially with two normal civilians" Caprice leaned closer to Minato to whisper, her eyes looking over to Aika and Satou as they were talking with Ophis and Kuroka "I like the one with glasses, the other one scares me a bit"

Minato gave Caprice an annoyed look "Please don't say it like that, now how are we going to do this?"

Gathering together the parents of the Star Children Minato stood alongside Ophis, Kuroka, Satou, Le Fay and Aika with the Star Children watching with the others from a distance. Caprice looking over notes before turning to look at the group of six "Okay, after taking part in the Star Child ritual do any of your feel different? Like, did something change or is there something present that was there before?"

Minato and Ophis shook their heads, neither of them feeling any difference before or after the Star Children were born. Satou and Aika looked uncertain while both Kuroka and Le Fay nodded.

"There is, something" Le Fay admitted, she pointed to her chest and down to her stomach in a circular motion "It feels like there's a lump of power within me, originally I thought it was leftover magic that would dissipate over time but thinking it over it may be related to the empowerment process"

"Why didn't you mention anything before?" Arthur asked his sister, worried for her well-being and asking himself why she kept it hidden.

Le Fay gave her brother a comforting smile "I'm not in any discomfort or anything of the sort, it's actually comforting in a sense"

"I noticed the same thing" Kuroka said as she trailed a finger from her stomach to her breasts "I can feel this gathered power in me, mingling with my chakras ready to be released. It's what I imagine having a Sacred Gear is like without it being connected to the soul"

"Hey, I think I can feel it as well" Aika said as she had her eyes closed "I think, I can almost touch it" not sooner had she said those words did Aika's eyes snap open alight with power.

[4] Through some more testing, with the exception of Minato and Ophis, everyone involved with the successful use of the Star Child ritual had gain a notable increase in power that raised both Aika and Satou to the level of a High Class Devil. Along with the increase in power came new clothes and weapons for each to use, each having their own different style and weapon that suited them best.

After putting together a training course it gave the Star Children a chance to train with their parents, and going by the smiles it seemed like everyone enjoyed it whether they were participating or just watching from the sidelines.

As the Star Children were all riding Bridget with Kuroka and Satou keeping a close eye on them Caprice drew both Minato and Le Fay to talk about what they should do next with an excited look in her eyes, that excitement left her eyes when she saw Le Fay's expression.

The building discomfort with working with the reincarnation of the wickedest man in history came to the surface, Le Fay saying what she felt and admitting she wasn't comfortable having the Star Children near Caprice due to who she was in her past life.

When Caprice asked for a chance to prove herself Minato gave her one, he handed her the notebook he prepared the night prior with the help of several Personas with Thoth and Crowley taking a leading role. The notebook was enchanted to lead Caprice through a trial to prove she was better then who came before, if she passed the trial she would find her way back but fail and her memories of her time with them will be forfeit.

Without hesitation Caprice accepted the notebook and trial, intent on proving her naysayers wrong.

As she left Kuroka turned to Minato with a questioning look "Tell me, how well do you think Crowley's reincarnation will fare?"

"That's up to Caprice to decide. Although, I do hope she succeeds as it could do good for both herself and the world" Minato shrugged "I give trials in the hopes the one's being tested succeed, even those I may not like" he pulled out a small notebook that easily fitted inside someone's chest pocket, he opened it to reveal blank pages that slowly filled with words and pictures "And we can use this to check her progress"

Looking at the book revealed the first location for Caprice's trial, to make amends for the wrongs Aleister Crowley committed in his first life and finish what he started. And the first steps of that journey began in the city Cefalù, Sicily.

-=-][-=-

Minato winced as he read the current status of Caprice on her trial, it was getting late and everyone was just about ready for bed with Mordred already lazing anywhere he could to get some sleep. Le Fay was helping put Mordred to bed so she would be busy for a little while, with his mouth setting into a thin line Minato grabbed an umbrella and teleported to where Caprice was.

The sudden change in temperature was a little jarring but given a moment to adjust the cool weather and rain helped Minato cool off after several warm days, quickly putting up his umbrella Minato walked out from under a tree and found himself in a park with a familiar figure sitting on a park bench. Going over Minato sat down on the bench and shared the umbrella between the two, pulling out a tissue he offers it to Caprice to clean her tears.

Caprice accepts the tissue but doesn't say anything right away, instead she takes off her hat and just looks at it.

"Reincarnation, it's a lot messier than I expected" she said in a soft voice, not raising her head as she spoke "I was only seven when knowledge and memories came back to me, like a switch had been flipped and a lifetime of experiences came to me in an instant"

The sound of thunder could be heard, but no lightning seen, Minato looked up for a moment before turning back to Caprice "Does it relate to how your sitting here in the rain?"

"I went to the old house here in Cornwall, to set things right there and close off the flow of negative energy. But, after I finished I just wanted to look around and" she stopped, a sob caught in her throat "I went to the home and the beaches we used to visit, I've been thinking of visiting all these places but I kept putting it off and now" she put the hat up against her face "Their all gone"

Minato winced with sympathy, while he was no stranger to loss he hoped he would never know the pain of losing a child personally, he could feel the Persona version of Crowley wanting to reach out and offer whatever comfort he could to this world's version "I'm sorry for your loss"

Caprice lifted up her head and turned to look at Minato, her eyes red from crying "Do you want to know what the worse part is, in the grand scheme of things barely any time has passed. I died in 1947 and came back barely half a century later, when I realized who I was it was already too late"

For a moment, Minato tried to put himself in her shoes. Picturing himself somehow finding his way back to his original world only to find everyone he ever cared dead, with even Aigis and Elizabeth passing before he was able to return. The thought of it alone was painful, and if something similar how to the Star Children-

Minato stopped himself there, not wanting to continue down that line of thinking, instead looking to Caprice and spotting the notebook he gave her "If you want, you can take a break and start again later on"

"No, I need to finish this" Caprice said with resolution in her voice "If I don't finish what I started, then I'm every bit the wickedest man in history the world has painted me as" she looked away from Minato and took out the notebook with a firm grip, keeping it close to her to ensure it kept dry.

"If you don't mind me asking, what do you think of your first life?" Minato asked, genuinely curious at how she saw her past incarnation "What do you think of Aleister Crowley?"

"I, he" Caprice stopped for a moment before letting out a sigh "This is still confusing, Crowley was a person who made many enemies and generally made the world a worse place"

Minato raised an eyebrow "You believe he did nothing positive for the world?"

"I'm guessing you don't agree with that, going by your question" Caprice turned back to Minato with a curious but guarded look "Do you think the world is better off for having Crowley in it?"

"That's a question I can't answer, it's not my place to decide if the world is a better or worse place for having a particular person in it" Minato answered, looking up to see the clouds were starting to pass and the rain halting "While he did do harm, his writings and the ideas he spoke of inspired others that have made this world a fuller place. Mainly artists, musicians and the hippie movement was based on Crowley's writings"

Minato smiled a little as he lowered his head "Although, if it wasn't for Crowley's Apprentice making contact with the Star God the Star Children wouldn't have been born so, I'm a little bias on the subject matter"

"Huh, I think that's the nicest thing I've ever heard of anyone say about… who I was" Caprice said quietly.

"Well, if what I heard is half true you didn't endear yourself to the long standing organizations in the supernatural. That, and Aleister Crowley just doesn't come up in mundane conversations that much"

"True" she glanced to Minato for a moment before putting her hat back on "Say, is there a particular creed you live by? Like 'Do What Thou Wilt'?"

Her question gave Minato pause as he considered the question and answered with the closest thing to a creed he had "To accept full responsibilities for my actions, that whatever I do I must face the results of those choices and not hide from them by making excuses. My actions are my own, not a King or a God's will to hide behind or to justify what I do" raising his hand Minato clenched it into a fist "And thus, we become truly free and the weight of our choices becomes the burden of that freedom"

"Okay, that sounded pretty cool" Caprice admitted with a smile as she looked out across the park as the rain stopped and the sounds of birds could be heard "And not entirely incompatible with 'Do What Thou Wilt'" a tinge of regret darkened her gaze "If I internalized that lesson back when I was writing the Book of the Law, how would things have changed?"

"We can't spend too much time on what ifs, if we do then that list of what ifs will only grow more and more without end" seeing sunlight poking through the clouds Minato lowered the umbrella and closed it "All we can do is learn from our mistakes, and keep moving forward"

"Hmm, speaking of moving forward, I best get moving again" Caprice put her hat back on before opening up the notebook to reveal several pages of maps and item descriptions "The big one up in Scotland is going to need a lot of prep, that one has done a lot of harm and it's about time I correct that biggest blunder"

Minato spotted several items in the notebook and noted how several look incredibly rare, the rituals they could be used for would be extremely powerful, normally he would be worried for the well-being of anyone attempting such things but consider whose reincarnation sat beside him…

"In that case, I won't hold you back any longer" Minato reached out his hand for Caprice to shake "Best of luck, Caprice Freeman"

She took hold of his hand with a look contemplation for a moment before smirking "It's Alise, with an s instead of c" she said as she met Minato's surprised gaze "Caprice Freeman is an alias of mine, I took it up due to how often I mistakenly introduced myself as Aleister even before my memories came back"

"Well, that came out of nowhere. What prompted you to tell me?"

Alise shrugged as they ended the handshake "You seem trustworthy and you've given me the benefit of the doubt, so it only seems fair" she looked to Minato with concern in her eyes "Hey, if it isn't a personal question, did you have any long term plans before the whole Star Children thing?"

Raising an eyebrow, Minato answered "I'm planning on becoming a doctor, and now I plan to do all I can to raise my kids right. Even if it means becoming the criminal kingpin of Japan" seeing the respectful look in Alise's eyes turn to confusion at his sudden admission of his willingness to become the ruler of Japan's criminal elements, something he was willing to do if his options were few and far between, Minato asked Alise the same question to keep the conversation going.

"Long term plans for myself? Well, I have a few general ones. Namely becoming widely respected in the Magical Community, and becoming a parent again" Alise looked up to the sky, the blue sky coming through the grey even as the sun hid behind a cloud "I, wasn't good parent. Or, at best I wasn't the best I could have been. I want to try again and do better this time, giving them a chance for a happy life"

Minato smiled at Alise's words as the Persona of Aleister Crowley nodded, remembering the old regret from life. Minato's smile faltered when he saw Alise's expression turn lecherous, the Persona of Crowley expression and intent followed soon after.

"To be frank, I'm really looking forward to making them" Alise hugged her self and squirmed in place "There are things about the female body I'm all too excited to test out" with half lidded eyes and a toothy smile she turned to him with hungry eyes "You know if I fail this and lose my memories, well, that means you could anything to me and no one would ever know"

"I'm not the sort of person" Minato answered, his response seeming to only widen Alise's lecherous smile.

She leaned in forward, invading Minato's personal space "Hmm, your answer both makes me happy and disappoints me. Do I need to sweep you off your feet?"

"I'm not easy to seduce" he answered as he inched away from the pervert beside him, coming to the end of the bench as he does so.

There was a glint in Alise's eyes, one that told Minato of the danger he was in "Oh, that makes it better. Nothing against a soft target, but a hard one is all the more~" she said with a heated whisper, Minato jumped to his feet and handed the umbrella to her.

"I, need to go. I have to help put the Star Children to bed, basically got a full day tomorrow helping the others get used to their new powers. Best of luck, I await news of your success" backing away, Minato kept his eyes on Alise before he found a spot to safely teleport back.

Once he was gone Alise pouted for a moment before smiling at the spot he teleported away from "Minato Arisato, I have to say you weren't exaggerating Ms Aika"

The reincarnation of Aleister Crowley got to her feet, using the recently gained umbrella as an impromptu cane, her thoughts going back to the Japanese girl who reminded Alise much of her younger self in her first life. It was that similarity that drew her in, and what drove her to ensure she didn't fall down the same pitfalls that claimed Crowley in life.

Alise looked forward, her spirits restored as she marched forward "Now then, no rest for the wicked"

Meanwhile,

Minato came back and found Le Fay giving him a blank look, in her hands was book they used to keep up to date on the progress of Crowley's Reincarnation. She opened the book to show pictures of Minato on the bench with Alise, the second to last one showing her seemingly flirting with an interlocked male and female symbol before he left in the next picture.

"I saw her crying on a park bench, I couldn't ignore that" Minato said, the situation making him feel like he was a husband explaining to his wife why he left in the middle of the night.

Le Fay shook her head with a tired grin "Hmph, you sound just like my brother" she handed Minato a book "Come on, Ophis says your a good singer and we want you to sing the children to sleep"

Minato nodded and followed right behind Le Fay to the children's room, doing small vocal exercises to get ready.

-=-][-=-

Eventually Alise returned and, aside from being slightly burnt with her mana reserves utterly exhausted to a concerning level, was general in good health.

Everyone was a bit more welcoming when she returned, having seen all she went through not just to prove she wasn't as bad as the rumours said but also prove to herself she was more than her past life, even her biggest detractor Arthur eased up in regards to Alise. No longer seeing her as the reincarnation of a dangerous Magician that almost ended the world as they knew it, instead seeing her as a perverted Magician with undeniable talent.

That didn't mean they were entirely comfortable around her, they still didn't know Alise very well and there was the chance of surprise perversion both mundane and magical. Still the charming Magician meant no ill and had become more than a bit fond of the group she found herself with, along with a possible new apprentice with Aika Kiryuu.

What dark deed done in the past by Aleister Crowley that could be have been made right was made right by Alise, lifting an old burden that weight down on her soul since her memories came back and in the twilight years of her previous life.

However, little did they know that Alise wasn't unseen during her trial. Rituals designed so only the soul that started it could end it suddenly closing one after another when the original caster died decades ago drew attention, and in the shadows malevolent eyes searched for the reincarnation of Crowley.

-=-][-=-

Rizevim Livan Lucifer looked at the battered, bruised and bound form of their honoured guest. In all the possible ways the human given the title of 'wickedest man alive' could have made their return known, closing the dark energy wells he opened in life was not one of them.

In truth, Rizevim was more than a little annoyed at such a development as those founts of dark energy were quite valuable to them. To the majority of humans such sites brought misfortune but to those who knew how to wield the dark powers there were few other places better for their purposes, even when such sites were place under guard it was a simple matter to have one if not all of those on the security teams in their pockets.

Still, it was only a minor annoyance as they had the one responsible for creating them in the first place. Rizevim made a mental note to thank Cao Cao and his Hero Faction for this, if it were not for them putting into the effort of tracking down Crowley's reincarnation to that festival then he would have to put more effort in beyond sending Euclid to collect them while the 'Heroes' were busy with something else at time.

Speaking of the Lucifuge, he thought back to when he saw Euclid moments ago almost finished with his preparations, Rizevim noted how he still favoured one arm over the other. While Phoenix Tears could heal many wounds it still took a while for the person to recover mentally, especially when one's own arm is completely cut off with a sword imbued with divine power.

Hearing a groan he turned to their guest, while Euclid had a chance to heal the same couldn't be said for their guest as one of her eyes had swallowed shut with dry blood staining her clothes, hair and body.

"Hang over, or concussion?" Alise said with a hiss, she slowly raised her head and opened her one good eye to see where she was. Although she couldn't see much due to how dark the room was, as she searched her mind for what happened to her Rizevim dug his finger nail to cut open the swollen area of Alise's face to release the blood. Alise let out a pained sound before stopping herself, not wanting to give whoever captured her the satisfaction of her painful cries.

"It's good to see you woke up on your own, we were about to consider certain methods had you not woken up soon. Ms Crowley" with a snap of his fingers candles lit the room, giving their guest some light so she could properly address him.

Rizevim went into detail of what he wanted from Crowley's reincarnation, leading with making them his contracted Magician before mentioning his wish for new wells of negative energy Crowley inadvertently created in their previous life.

"Well, you certainly know how to treat a girl and I'm not exactly in a position to say no" Alise said, playing along until she could find a way to escape.

"Oh? I can assure you that, despite your treatment in getting you here, your free to decline and be on your way" Rizevim said with a smile, Alise bindings fell apart allowing her the chance to move, he outstretched his hand to offer a vial of Phoenix Tears.

Alise tried to move but the sharp pain kept her seated, looking down she saw her legs were broken along with her right arm with bloodstains covering the kimono she was wearing, with little other options she accepted the vial from the Devil before her.

Memories slowly started to trickle back, there was a festival taking place and they decided to attend with the Star Children. She, Aika, Minato, Phis and Satou went with the Star Children to the festival, Team Vali would meet up with them later as they got called away for something urgent, the people who worked for Minato had other responsibilities at the time and only some of the group of fifteen that Minato was housing was coming in their own group.

A barrier was put up while they were there and not long after Alise found herself fighting a Devil, how it started she can't remember, the fight was a hazy blur but she remembered blowing the guy's handsome face off and breaking more than a few bones. The Star Children came to help, Billy's bullet blinded the Devil for a moment giving Isamu time to slice the Devil's arm clean off. There was a scream of pain before an explosion of power and…

...And she ended up here, wherever here was.

"But, the same can't be said for the little extras that came with you" on those words Euclid Lucifuge entered the room, a serene face with eyes of a hateful glare aimed towards Alise, while behind him servants came in with a table with several suitcases. But it was what they brought in next that made Alise's blood freeze in her veins.

Billy, Emma, Hayate and Shio were all bound by chains that glowed with powerful magic. The Star Children struggled to get free, aside from some dirt their kimonos untouched and Alise hoped that meant they weren't hurt.

She turned to Rizevim, as soon as their eyes met the Devil gave her a condescending smirk and she answered with a barely restrained glare, it was obvious who had won "I'll do whatever you want, just let the children go home to their family alive, unharmed and in perfect health"

"That, would be impossible to fulfil. Unfortunately" Rizevim said, enjoying every moment as a magic circle appeared beneath them to show the image of an arena. Littered around the arena laid slain monsters and defeated Devils, at the centre of this arena were Atsuko, Kurobara, Isamu and Mordred.

Atsuko was healing Kurobara and Isamu while Mordred seemed to be erecting a magic shield around them, the formula for the shield seemed to be a repurposed teleportation spell that would cause all attacks from the outside to go in one side and out the other with the interior completely untouched.

They didn't look to have physical injuries but it was clear they were all exhausted, the kimonos their parents picked out for the Star Children were free of blood like the others but the damage done to them proved they had more than a few close calls.

"Master Rizevim, the preparations are complete" Euclid said as he gestured to the table, on it was laid out all manner of medical and torture instruments with vials of Phoenix Tears and several other liquids Alise partially recognized from her past life.

Alise gritted her teeth, the copper taste in her mouth telling she had blood in her mouth from the earlier attack, she looked over to the projection of the arena and saw the audience cheering as something large was about to enter the arena. With little other options she pretended to drink from the vial given to her, tossing it's contents over her shoulder, as she looked to Rizevim with a defiant look as she spoke a spell.

The spell was old, supposedly made by King Solomon himself but there were hints it dated back further with the theory Solomon perfected pre-existing spells into one was a popular conclusion. When invoked it could bind any Devil with only the Morning Star said to being able to resist it to an extent, any weaker Devil would find itself helpless against it's effects with the one caveat being that it could only affect one Devil at a time.

But, she only needed one Devil. She wasn't even finished when the spell took effect, Rizevim's arm jerking outwards to stop Euclid from attacking Alise, once finished she took a moment to take a breath despite the soreness in her chest.

Rizevim looked to Alise with a cautious eye "I must say, the legends about you Crowley" he smiled wickedly "I dare say, they under sold you" he let go of Euclid, letting the Lucifuge nurse his partially crushed wrist "What is your wish?"

"Treat the children you brought along with me like they were your own, and see they return home to their family" Alise said.

Euclid couldn't help himself, he chuckled darkly at the request. Rizevim had killed his own son for being weak, the reincarnation of Crowley had all but signed the death warranties for the children with the way she worded her order. Euclid was delighted, he can get vengeance on the brats that caused him so much bother and break in their new Magician.

As a large dragon began to enter the arena Alise looked up to the Devil, her eyes telling the Devil to follow through with her orders, and she saw the maliciousness in his eyes. In that moment, the reincarnation of Crowley realized how vile the son of Lucifer truly was.

As the dragon roared it threw it's head down to devour the Star Children, however it never reached them.

White arms seemed to break into reality and grabbed the maw of the dragon, the mighty beast helpless to act as all efforts proved fruitless against the thing that held it, in mere moments the dragon's body withered and turned to dust as all that remained were bones on the ground.

The white arms seemed to grab hold of the fabric of reality itself, in one smooth motion reality itself was ripped apart to allow a monster into the world.

All black with a cape of coffins and a metal dragon skull mask, that was anyone could have seen before a primordial roar ripped through the air as most of the audience outright died on the spot with those remaining fleeing the location as fast as their fear idled minds and shaking legs could carry them. All except the children, the Star Children approached the monster as if they recognized it. Alise wanted to scream for the children to run away before the image glitched, in the arena she could see now stood Minato embracing his children with several others around him.

The monster floated above Minato like a deathly guardian, the image glitched again with the only difference being the monster was looking directly at them. The spell failed after one more glitch had the image gone completely and replaced with a black void in which only the monster's skull mask remained.

Alise felt a chill crawl up her spin the moment she say the arms of the creature, the familiar touch of death gliding across her soul along with the chill, for a moment her thoughts were consumed with the memories of her previous death and haunting images how this life would end.

Taking a deep breath to try and calm herself she looked around to see the others weren't doing any better, Rizevim's terrified expression made him look like he just wet himself while the pretty boy Devil that attack her had lost all composure as he shook in terror. However, there were four unaffected by the monster.

The Star Children. They were utterly unaffected by the terrifying monster that appeared in the image, looking closer Alise saw Shio had a hopefully look and Billy smiling brightly even as a number of Devils laid on the ground either dead or unconscious.

Whatever time they needed to process what had happened was taken away as one wall and the entirety of the ceiling were blown away, at the source of the explosion stood Ophis with an absolutely furious expression.

""Mummy!"" Emma and Billy cried out, relieved to see their mother was here to save them.

"Devils. What are you doing to the children of my brood?" Ophis asked as she teleported over to the children to free them.

Euclid backed away, intent on saving himself, until he felt someone stab him in the back right into his spine. Looking behind himself he expected to see Rizevim standing there but instead saw a girl with pink hair and cold eyes, those eyes drew him in until the child of Lucifuge's mind was lost in maddening illusions while his body was made useless.

Satou let the know motionless body of Euclid Lucifuge fall to the floor before rushing over to embrace Shio, relief washing over her knowing her child was safe.

Hayate and Aika went over to free Alise as Lilith kept Rizevim in place, standing behind him with one hand on his shoulder.

Rizevim Livan Lucifer stood transfixed at he looked at his mother, he knew she was dead but to see her standing before him left the super devil utterly speechless. Meeting her eyes he saw only disdain in them, the unspoken words clear as day 'Your father was right, you are a failure. First as a weapon and again as a person'

Lilith looked over just as the others arrived, Rizevim turned and saw his grandson Vali glaring at him in full Balance Breaker with the rest of his team. And they weren't alone, four skeletal beings rode on horseback with some human with blue hair with a gun to his own head-

The sound of a gunshot and shattering glass signalled the coming end of Rizevim.

-=-]SMT IV Apocalypse 'To Become God's Enemy' intensifies[-=-

In an instant, all felt the same thing.

It was a presence that had been absent from the world for far too long.

Those of the ordinary world and the supernatural, humans and monsters, Angels, Fallen and Devils. Pantheons throughout the worlds acknowledge the return of an old foe who saved the world he loved dearly.

Two truths were made clear to all, the living and the dead. The Saviour had returned, and he was APOCALYPTICALLY PISSED!

Thankfully, to the relief of many, it became clear that the fury that could end the world was aimed at one soul in particular.

'Rizevim! Get back here and face your punishment like an adult you serial child abusing-!'

-=-][-=-

"What shall we do with those who remain?"

Minato considered the question "If you asked me that several minutes ago I would have told you collect them, either dead or alive. But now" Minato paused for a moment as he eyed the sealed essence of both Rizevim and Euclid, both Devils experience what could be described as all the circles of Hell at once, glancing to the Pale Rider he gave his answered "Preferably alive"

The Horsemen of Death nodded before riding off with the others to collect any stranglers of the enemy forces present, as they rode off Minato wondered for a moment if he over did it by summoning the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. They weren't summoned at full strength, to avoid the risk of undoing four of the seven seals, but giving it a moments thought there would have been other Personas more suited for this task.

Thanatos was relishing his hunting for those in the arena, stuffing the living and the dead in coffins connected to a pocket dimension to keep them secure for later.

Putting those thoughts aside for the time being Minato checked on his children to see if they were harm, fortunately they were all fine as they told them of what happened. They all recounted what happened at the festival and how Alise did all she could to protect them from Euclid's attack, Isamu, Hayate, Kurobara and Atsuko proudly told them of their battles in the arena with their siblings mentioning how well they could have done ignorant to the horrified looks on their parents faces.

Speaking of Alise, she remained silent with only giving a small thanks when she got healed. It was only after someone called out to her that she answered.

"I, I'm so sorry" Alise bowed her head "All of this is my fault, if I hadn't stuck around the children would have stayed safe"

Satou looked to the reincarnated Magician with a cautious look, tightening her grip on Shio a little bit "How exactly is this your fault?" she asked, wanting to make sure if the confession came from misplaced guilt or from genuine wrong doing.

"They found me when I was on my trial, undoing what damage I had done in my previous life"

"A trial I sent you on" Minato interrupted, surprising Alise.

Le Fay stepped forward "And a trial that wouldn't have been needed if we were a bit more trusting of you, and not putting on your shoulders the legends left behind by your past incarnation" she looked down to her Star Child in her arms, Mordred was fast asleep as he held the stuff bird toy he got at the festival "If you were at fault for this then we too would be just as guilty"

Alise looked over everyone giving her similar expressions, not ones of scorn like she envision in her mind but ones of reassurance "You, don't blame me for any of this?"

"If we did, we would have made our displeasure very apparent by now. As you can see" Kuroka said, her eyes turning to the sphere that contained two Super Devils responsible for all of this before they drifted up to the one holding it "Vali, is everything okay?"

Vali tore his eyes away from the ball that contained the soul of his abusive grandfather, his eyes drifting to 'granny lili' for a moment, before turning to the others "I'm fine, although" his eyes landed on Minato as Messiah stood beside him "There's something I need to know, who are you really Minato Arisato and what is this power you wield?"

"That's, a long story" Minato answered, his eyes glancing to meet Ophis's own before closing them "One I promise to give the abridged version when we're done here"

Distant explosions could be heard as the Horsemen found their targets. It took nearly an hour to get everything taken care of, stealing what they wanted and removing any evidence of them being there as best they could.

Once they got back to the Arisato household Minato told them everything, where he came from and the power of Persona, with Ophis admitting to already knowing much about Minato's abilities but not to the extent of him summoning the Horsemen of the Apocalypse or Messiah.

For Messiah, Minato explained it didn't represent a singular messianic figure (even if though Messiah's appearance fit closely with one messianic figure in particular) but instead the concept of a saviour. Meaning Messiah was the amalgamation of all possible messiahs, all that were, are or could be, the possible and the impossible.

"A Messiah for all, would that include the Thelema faith?"

Considering the question, Minato gave a tentative nod.

"A power representing one's individuality, giving them the potential to gain strength that could defeat gods" Alise said, sharing how she saw the power of Persona, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Minato in a new light.

Ophis looked at Alise confused (?) "What are you-" before she could finished her question Alise leapt over to Minato and grabbed hold of his hands.

"I've often asked myself, Why have I been reborn into this world and what is my purpose? And I think, I understand now" Alise got right up to Minato's face, so close that their noses were almost touching "It was fate that we meet, Minato Arisato, to bring about the True Æon of Horus!"

"Oh not this again" Arthur said exasperated.

Satou gave Alise a hard look "Are you asking senpai to start a cult?"

Kurobara looked around the room at the growing tension before turning to Kuroka "Mama, can we go out and play with Nephew Vali and Uncle Monkey?"

Everyone turned to the Star Child due to the question, Vali himself looking the most confused "Wait, Nephew? I thought I was Uncle Vali"

"You were" The Nekosou Star Child nodded "But, since granny Lili is your great granny and with how she's connected to Daddy that makes you our nephew" she crossed her arms with a proud expression "It's really simple once you think about it"

"Oh~!" The children said in unison, amazed at their sister's logic.

"Your right, Vali is our Nephew. This is awesome!" Hayate said excitedly.

Shio nodded "The fact you made that connection, your really insightful"

[5] "Heh heh. Well, it's not like Mordred got all the brains" Kurobara said, embarrassed at all the praise directed at her.

Billy looked to Mordred, Le Fay's Star Child lightly snoozing, gently Billy poked his brother's check.

"Nya?" Mordred muttered in his sleep, rubbing his eyes as he got up, opening his eyes he gave his half brother a tired look "What is it?"

"Your part cat"

Mordred blinked confused "Wha-?"

"Mordred's part cat, Mordred's part cat~ " Billy said as he ran off laughing.

Pouting more out of confusion than anything else, Mordred summoned his staff to fly after his gunslinging brother "Wait, explain how I'm a cat?" as they two left the rest of the children followed shortly after, with a grinning Bikou tugging along Vali who suddenly got eight aunts and uncles.

"Okay, now that the kids are out of the room" Minato said before turning to address the Magician who wanted to restart a cult "Let me tell you how I, and by extension Japan as a whole, feel about-"

Whatever he wanted to say was cut off as a bright light filled the room, one that Minato had started becoming too familiar with, Alise fell onto him with her eyes half lidded and her tongue hanging from her mouth. And just beside them stood a Matryoshka Doll with the Sagittarius symbol, the room fell into a stun silence at what just happened.

"B-but, the bed is locked in Phis's room. So how?" Aika asked as she looked to the others for answers when she spotted something odd "Wait, why is our baby daddy glowing?"

Noticing the glow himself, Minato looked over to see glowing marks along his arms and torso that stretched down his legs. In the heat of the moment he removed his top to give the others a chance to get a clear look.

"Those look like the markings we saw in the Star God's Prophet's notes, why are they on Minato's body like tribal tattoos?" Le Fay asked as her mind worked to figure out the answer, she furrowed her brow as she got an idea "Wait, would that even be possible?"

Minato frowned "It's not just my body, I think whatever this is might also be affecting Messiah- AH!" he yelped as he felt someone lick his neck.

A smirking Alise looked to Minato with mischievous eyes "Hmm, God's Gift is practically a messianic figure and since your Persona Messiah represents all messianic figures that means you truly are a God's Gift. A God Gift's to women" her fingers danced along Minato's body as she leaned into him "Hey, you good for another round or six right? I've experienced much in two lives and, that was surely up there, I want to make sure if classmating is a top ten or number one"

"Get off senpai you-" Satou reached over to grab Alise when the Magician turned to her with sultry look, causing her to pause.

"Careful now, we have no idea how the power has been internalized by Minato here. For all we know touching me could lead to even more Star Children being born" Alise said, a genuine warning mixed with excitement.

Satou blushed "That, doesn't bother me. If it came down to it I would have a hundred Star Children with senpai"

Le Fay's eyes widened "Wait, you could" she said as the shocking realization sank in "You could have a hundred Star Children easily within a year, even factoring days in between the fact the most dependant stages of development are more or less skipped makes it possible"

"I think we should stop at nine, we'll have our hands full as is" Joseph said as he pulled Alise off Minato, much to the dismay of the two Crowleys, giving Minato time to put his clothes back on "If you decide to start having a hundred Star Children you risk bringing a new species into the world"

"What about, not creating a new species but, making it so one species is no longer endangered?" Kuroka asked, a smirk on her lips.

Ophis grabbed hold of Minato's hand and made sure he was looking at her "I want more Star Children"

"Huh?"

"Before, there was an even slip between the children you had with me and those you had with others" Ophis explained as she put her face closer to Minato "I want more to fix that imbalance"

"I said, no more Star Children" Joseph said sternly "At least give us time to get used to the nine we have now"

The little matron began to shake, the action drawing in the other's attention as new life was about to enter the world.

*POP!*

---

A week had passed since Rizevim's kidnapping of Alise and the Star Children, which quickly led to the death of the Super Devil along with all those remotely involved with what happened. Currently Rizevim's soul was sealed away, experiencing what could kindly be described as 'every single layer of Hell simultaneously' while any power he held was stripped away.

The Star Children weren't shaken from what happened but the same could not be said of their parents, counselling was decided upon as well as further the training of the Star Children with their parents joining in.

However, the journey to save those Euclid Lucifuge kidnap did not go unnoticed. Especially when the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rode forth to deliver justice and retribution on behalf of what to all felt like the Saviour returned.

It took a week just to get everything sorted out, but once everyone knew what happened they were surprisingly understanding. Any issue Heaven could have had with Minato weakening the first four of the seven seals, that would bring about the end of the world, to summon the Horsemen was pushed aside when they learnt the Star Child ritual would let them make more Angels without the risk of falling. Even if the birth rate was one in a thousand it was better than what they had before.

Overall, the days continued forward with the additions of the Star Children and with knowledge of the alien god known only as the Star God. With the information they had on the god from another world it left everyone cautious but hopeful, except for Issei. Once he learnt all they knew about the alien god he had the look of someone who found religion.

[6] And while The Red Dragon Emperor found a God he wished to worship, the White Dragon Emperor was being dragged along by his great grandmother to met his own mother after so many years of being apart. Lilith was intent on having Vali reconnect with his own mother even if she had to kick him into the woman's walking path.

-=-][-=-

---

Bonus Omake: Tales from around the Omniverse.

"You know, I've been wondering" Aika said as she was watching Hayate playing on a swing set.

Alise, helping her Warlock Star Child learn about the difference between Arabic and Babylonian myths, turned to her student with a raised eyebrow "About what?"

"Your former student turned Prophet, he went to other worlds with the Star Child Ritual, what affect do you think it all had in worlds besides our own?" Aika asked.

Alise just shrugged "Who knows, you'd need to be able to look into potentially infinite worlds and something like that borders on the concept of omniscient. We don't have anything like that, you'd either need to be a Supreme Deity or are able to look into other worlds as easily as changing a TV channel or opening a book"

"Fair enough" Aika answer, letting go of the question and focusing on the present before her.

Meanwhile… Fire Emblem Cluster.

Alfonse read over the report the various kingdoms scholars had compiled regarding the mysterious ruins that laid on the border between Askr and Embla, during the rare moment of peace they were experiencing it seemed like a good idea for all the kingdoms to come together and unravel the mysterious the unknown ruins presented.

No kingdom had any records of such ruins existing, even ruins long lost had something alluding to their existence whether in the form of ancient texts or folk lore but these ruins held no such thing.

Kiran went into the ruins to look at it personally, Alfonse would have joined their Summoner but he had to take care of some other matters before he could join him. Princess Veronica of Embla had a similar idea and went into the heart of the ruins to see things for herself, the Summoner of Askr and the Princess of Embla met at the heart of the ruins and…

…things ended up like this.

Looking up from the reports the Crowned Prince of Askr looked as Kiran and Veronica sat together as a small child that had Kiran's dark complexion and Veronica's red eyes wore a copy of Kiran's Summoner Cloak in the colours of Embla.

Behind Veronica stood the Prince of Noir, Xander, who threw a hard look to Kiran and the Prince of Hoshido, Ryoma. It almost seemed like fate how the two found themselves on opposing sides in the World of Zenith, Xander standing alongside Veronica and Ryoma standing alongside Ryoma.

To prevent any fight from breaking out Alfonse cleared his throat "Okay, so" he looked between the new parents before him "You shook hands, agreeing to keep things civil, and then" Alfonse looked down to see the child solve an odd puzzle Kiran brought from his world, a colourful cube that spun around "She just appeared"

"Tinuviel" Kiran said, scratching his cheek "It's the name of a character from a series written by my favourite author, I suggested it and Veronica liked it"

Veronica looked away as she replied to Kiran's words, a light blush dusting her cheeks "I found it cute" she turned to Alfonse with a victorious smirk "That being said, I'll be taking Kiran with me back to Embla. For Tinuviel's sake, I think it's best both her parents are together in her home life"

"Counterpoint, you can live here in Askr with us!" Sherana suggested "I mean, you are already technically. We have like five different versions of you here already"

Sherana's words caused Tinuviel to look at her confused "Five versions of mother?"

"I think we should discuss that later, I still find the whole thing confusing" Alfonse cleared his throat "Either way, can you two show me where it happened"

Alfonse looked to see where it happened himself, it was large beautiful chamber with a center platform where Kiran and Veronica stood that led to the birth of their daughter. The scholars present were able to work on learning the secrets of the ruins, learning that it was meant for the birth of Heroes called 'Children of the Stars' who were said to be destined to save the world.

They tried repeating what happened to the crowned princess of Embla and Askr's summoner with little success, those summoned to aid the Order of Heroes and those contracted by Embla came to offer their aid in solving the mystery before them.

After several attempts the managed to repeat what happened that led to the birth of Tinuviel, although it involved Kiran once more with Morgan [Daughter of Robin and Tiki] and Kana [Daughter of Corrin and Mozu]

Normally, Heroes summoned couldn't have children until they returned to their worlds and freed from their contracts. But it seemed whatever magic was at play could bypass that.

Alfonse watched as the two angry fathers ran after Kiran, Corrin in his dragon form while Robin flew with magic. The two angry fathers only came to a stop when their daughters and grandchildren came in to stop them, however Kiran's moment of peace was snuffed out when his new mother-in-laws and Divine Dragon grandmother in law arrived.

Hearing a commotion, Alfonse looked over and saw a female iteration of Robin looking through the robes of her Grima possessed counterpart.

"Wait a minute, this thing is lined with books!? I thought it was armour plating!" Grima said as they saw Robin pull out a book, her expression as she held aloft her book made the crowned Prince of Askr fearful. Even more so when he saw the title.

'How to Breed people'

"I think it's time we sent that one home, right commander" not hearing a response, Alfonse looked over to see Commander Anna looking at the inscriptions along the walls with a distant look in her eyes "Commander?"

Commander Anna turned to the prince "I swear I've seen some of these symbols before, in old family fairy tales that my parents read to me before bed time"

"What did these fairy tales tell?"

"That my family is descendant from a man and woman of two different worlds coming together to have hundreds of 'Star Children' to save a world" Anna looked over the ruins and to Kiran as he was being grilled from his new extended family with Veronica joining in as the Star Children stood off to the side "After seeing all of this, I really hope the 'have hundreds of children part' is overblown and not accurate"

-=-][-=-

Elsewhere… DanMachi

"Star Child Ritual?" Bell asked, completely confused at what his goddess Hestia just said.

They had gathered at the old church that used to act as the main base of the Hestia Familia, the fact they returned her for a secret meeting with Loki already put Bell on edge.

"It's a closely guarded secret even amongst the Gods, few knowing about it beyond a select handful either due to circumstances or a connection to our divine powers" Hestia explained, her eyes focused as she explained things "This ritual is able to perform a miracle not even the gods knew was possible, to have children of our own"

"Um, don't you already have that with Familias?" Lily asked.

"She ain't talking about adoption kid" Loki said, her smirking ground large as she lounged on the Hestia Familia's old couch "This ritual let those who couldn't have kids otherwise have them, their own flesh and bones"

"Wha-what!?" Those just learning that piece information cried out before quickly shushing themselves.

Loki nodded "Yeah, I know, and that's why Kali is targeting our Familias to learn about it. That warmonger is planning on creating a near endless army of Star Children, if she got her hands on it then only the most drastic actions would be left"

"Wait, why us?" Bell asked.

"Because, I'm somewhat familiar with this ritual" Hestia admitted earning shocked looks from the adventurers and a victorious smirked from Loki "The Goddess Brigid is a dear friend of mine, a couple of decades ago she learnt of the ritual from a wandering prophet of a God no one had ever heard before. Her and her sole member of her Familia Caam went on to have a child, half mortal and half god, the first Star Child of this world"

Loki nodded "Yep, they went into hiding to raise their child in peace away from politics and since Kali doesn't know where they are she's going for the next best thing. Us"

"There's one thing I'm curious about, why is Kali after your Familia Loki?" Hestia asked, her eyes narrowed as her suspicion of the Trickster Goddess grew.

"It's because of me"

Whatever Loki was going to say was cut as as Ais answered, Loki gave her a worried look but sighed as she already knew the cat was out of the bag.

"Kali is searching for Star Children as well, believing we would have some clue to the ritual that birthed us" Ais said, noticing the look on Bell's face she continued "My human father and spirit mother used the Star Child Ritual to have me, meaning I am a Star Child"

"And THAT means Kali is coming after my Ais as well, and I'd sooner head back to Heaven than let her be taken" Loki said, her voice firm "So, had about an alliance"

The two goddesses shook hands, prepared to protect their children and the Star Children from the grasps of Kali.

-=-][-=-

Nasuverse: Fate Grand Order: Grand Carnival Phantasm Space

"Star Child Ritual?" Ritsuka Fujimaru asked curious to learn more about this asset Da Vinci told them was donated to Chaldea from a 'trustworthy donor' with heavy use of quotation marks.

"Servants can have kids now!?" Mashu yelled out in shock at what they were just told, her heart racing as she covered her mouth in the vain hope no one heard her yell.

Da Vinci nodded with a sigh "Theoretically, but we need to run some tests to make sure this ritual is on the up and up"

"No time like the present then~"

"Shall we run the tests. Master~"

Without warning Ritsuka Fujimaru found themselves flanked on both sides by Merlins, on one side was the male Merlin that Ritsuka had the most experience with and on the other was the female Merlin.

The door to the room was broken down as the many versions of King Arthur stood at the doorway looking in, giving their Magus Advisor pointed looks. The two versions of the Magus flowers let Chaldea's final master go and not a moment later Morgan Le Fay picked up her 'husband' and ran off with Ritsuka.

The Knights of the Round table gave chase with other Servants joining in. All the while the staff sighed and kept an eye out for any damages.

[Picture of Star Children playing with chibi cat creatures in a cafe]

Many, Many, MANY Sleepless nights later…

"Okay, the Star Children born from Servants receive increase power related to the vessel Heroic Spirits are using. And while they can't inherit Noble Phantasms they can inherit Class and Personal Skills from the Servant Parents" Da Vinci said under their breath before turning to the patients in the beds.

Ritsuka was out cold, the number of Servants wanting to have Star Children with their shared Master ended up knocking them out. But not before all the Servants were satisfied first, Da Vinci envied that kind of stamina.

Archer EMIYA and Assassin EMIYA were both conscious but didn't have the energy to move, while not certain what happened to Archer Da Vinci did know Assassin EMIYA's possible wife wanted to have as many Star Children as possible to give their daughter Illya more brothers and sisters.

Feeling a tug Da Vinci looked down to see their own Star Child pointing at the door "We have another two" looking over Da Vinci saw the Male Arthur Pendragon being carried in by several of his female counterparts alongside Waver Velvet or otherwise known as Lord El-Melloi II who was carried in by young Iskander.

Once more, Da Vinci wondered who gave Chaldea this ritual and where they were now.

-=-][-=-

Overlapping Dimensional Cluster, Isekai Quartet

"So, can you tell what happened?" a man with dark unruly hair wearing sun glasses asked the teenager wearing a tracksuit across from him.

Subaru nodded "Well, a couple of us were curious about you since you showed up without warning one day and wanted to talk" he looked to the side for a moment before looking back to the man across from him "We found a room with your name on it, doctor"

The man lazily waved his hand "No need for formal titles here, you can just call me by my name. Right now I'm not a teacher, prophet, magician, doctor or researcher, I'm just a man called Rob that just wants to help a kid"

"Right" Subaru replied, wondering if the man across from he normally acted like this or was he trying to be cool "Anyway, Kazuma and Aqua went in on their own. Wanting to snoop around" Subaru, realizing what he just said tried to run damage control "We tried to stop them, but they wouldn't listen"

Rob nodded "So, the pair of Kazuma and Aqua went into my office and three came out"

"Yeah" Subaru answered quietly "They came out with this giant thing, and while we were talking it hatched and a kid came out calling Kazuma and Aqua their parents" Subaru winced as he remembered Aqua running away screaming no, leaving them behind with Kazuma being asked why Aqua was running away

"And then?"

"Ainz decided to look inside himself to see what caused the, surprise birth, and he brought Albedo and Shalltear with him" Subaru gave a shaky smile "Same thing happened to them, difference is Albedo and Shalltear took to the idea of being parents better than Aqua. I think Ainz was doing just as well as Kazuma, just being more reserved in his processing of the whole thing"

"A lich, succubus and a vampire having Star Children? Been a while since I met that vampire succubus hybrid" Rob muttered before feeling Subaru's eyes on him "Sorry, got lost down memory lane. And I'm guessing you went in next?"

"Not, willingly at first" Subaru admitted, feeling the pain in his rear from earlier "Tanya hugged the wall opposite your office and actually kicked me to go in alone, saying I'd have a lower chance of having a virgin" he turned to the floor to see what was near him "To be fair, I think she was right to worry about a virgin birth"

"Truth is Subaru, I don't know where those came from" Rob said, shocking the teenager as the teacher looked to what was delicately placed on the floor "It's the main reason why I asked you to come here, why did you get seven Star Children despite being the only one in the room?"

On the floor were seven nesting dolls, the little matrons each having a different symbol representing celestial bodies of the solar system rather than constellations, each bearing one of the symbol for the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

"You wouldn't happen to have any powerful magic cast on you that from someone with powerful affection for you, do you?" Rob asked, looking to Subaru he notice the discomfort on the teen's face. Deciding that was a sensitive topic Rob reclined in his chair "Eh, doesn't really matter that much either way"

"Eh, wait. Your dropping the question just after you asked it"

Rob nodded "Yep, lost interest. Although" Rob lower his sun glasses to meet Subaru's eyes "Hypothetically, if you DID have such a thing, would the one who cast it share a connection with you and would they be able to listen in to what you do"

Subaru shook his head "I, wouldn't have any idea of that sort of thing"

"I mean, they wouldn't have to speak to you. They could just tap out once for yes and twice for no to answer simple questions" Rob looked to Subaru, an unusually sharp gaze in his eyes "Would they be able to hear what you hear, because this would involve them?"

Subaru winced before slowly nodding "I, think they would be able to hear"

"In that case, congratulations!" Rob cheered before jumping to his feet to give Subaru a hug "You just became parents! The love between you is so powerful it was able to give life to your children with only one of you being present"

The sound of something shaking caused the two men to pause, looking over they saw the little matron with the Mercury symbol shaking. Subaru moved closer to the shaking nesting doll, his heart in his throat as he waited for the moment-

*POP!*

And just like that, the first of Subaru's children was born. A girl with a broom in one hand, a straw one that witches are typically seen with.

She wore a black robe with a hood with slipped off into what looked like bunny ears ending with little crystal balls, sleeves too long for her arms so a hole was made so she could still them out, and around her neck was a medallion with the symbol for the planet Mercury. She lifted her hood, giving Subaru the chance to actually look at her instead of just seeing the lower half of her face.

Purple eyes greeted Subaru nervously, for a moment Subaru thought they were just like Emilia's eyes before realizing that they lacked the blue hers had, silver hair could be seen from under the hood

Without realizing it, Subaru opened his arms for a hug and with a smile the Star Child ran into her father's arms.

'This is, mine and Satella's child' Subaru thought to himself, wondering how the feared Witch of Envy was taking the current events.

---

With Satella

"CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! Mine and Subaru's child is too cute!" Satella squealed in joy, tears of happiness rolling down her cheeks as she saw her child being hugged by her father. She didn't know what type of magic that had affected her and Subaru, and in truth wouldn't be against it affecting them again.

Looking at the other nesting dolls she was giddy with excitement as she waited for the others to bring more of her children into the world, she could barely contained herself as-

"What?" Satella froze as she saw the second Star Child born, it only took one look for her to know that the child looked nothing like her. Instead, she looked like a certain Witch she knew.

Jealous growing, Satella waited for her other children to be born to make sure whatever Echidna did didn't affect the other children. As more children were born Satella realized she will need to speak with all the other witches.

[7] "Why do six of our children look like the other witches!?"

---

Back with Subaru.

"A septuple love ritual, I never thought I'd see one do that accidentally" Rob said, looking at the group of seven Star Child Witches talking to one another while he stood alongside Subaru.

"A what?" the now teen father of seven asked, still processing the information.

"Septuple means 'of seven' and the love ritual is what makes the Star Children, it's also called the Star Child Ritual or Classmating for certain individuals" Rob explained hand Subaru a bottle of water "I had my suspicions that all the Star Children you brought into this world came from different mothers due to the symbols on their nesting dolls, but looking at them myself I'm certain of it" Rob turned to Subaru with a perverted grin "You, my boy, just had children with seven different partners at once"

"How am I going to explain this to the others?" Subaru asked himself, the distant sound of yelling and explosions being heard.

"Well, pretty sure everyone already knows about the Star Children due to the others so it's just up to you to introduce your kids" Rob said, taking off his glasses to give the teen beside him a reassuring look and a pat on the back "Hey, I believe in ya kid. Not going to lie, it will be rough, but I'm here for whatever you need"

Subaru looked to his new teacher with a hopeful look "You mean it"

Rob nodded "I may not look it, but I'm hundreds of years old with life times of experiences and I've helped people raise Star Children in the past" Rob gained a distant look in his eyes as he looked upward, his tone growing melancholic "Sometimes, people need time to adjust to be parents otherwise they'll become overwhelmed. And sometimes, some people aren't meant to be parents" he turned to Subaru with a hopeful smile tinged with sadness "Whatever happens, I'll be here to support you all. I make this oath in the name of The Star God"

"Thank you" Subaru took a deep breath as he looked forward determined "Alright, time for introductions"

Introducing his Seven Star Child Witches went as well as Subaru could hope for, mostly confusion on how Subaru had children with seemingly no partner and Ram making snide comments but things got complicated when the children lowered their hoods.

The Star Child with silver hair and purple eyes wearing the symbol for the planet Mercury, Chiyo, shocked them with how similar in appearance to Emilia she was. Strangely enough, the only other Star Child to get a reaction that strong out of anyone was Hikari.

Beatrice and Puck looked at the white hair girl with thick eyelashes frozen in place, Hikari awkwardly waved as her other hand touched her medallion with the symbol for the planet Saturn. Overall they were doing better than Roswaal, once he spotted the Star Children the man seemed to just pass out on his feet.

The following week…

"And that's how the Star Child ritual works" Rob explained to Beatrice as she sat with him at his desk.

The two of them were currently in the class set up for the Star Children to attend while their parents had classes, right now the children were drawing family pictures.

Beatrice read over the information given to her, making sure she understood what she was reading before swallowing one of the sweets Rob kept on his desk "With this, anyone could have children"

"Well, almost anyone" Rob admitted, turning to face Beatrice to explain himself "You know the student Reinhard van Astrea, the guy has so many Blessings on him that it interferes with the ritual" Beatrice's surprised look encouraged him to continue "Granted, he can deactivate a couple and things could go smoothly. But the guy has so damn many of them it boggles the mind, one in particular makes like tens others completely redundant"

"I see" Beatrice replied, the laughter of the children drawing her attention to them as she saw the small look alike of the witch of greed laughing before looking back to the Prophet of the Star God "I suppose you'd need to refine the ritual further then, to account for someone with so many blessings"

"Hey, the ritual is perfectly fine. The fault lays with the guy who collects divine blessings like Pokemon cards" Rob said, an annoyed frown on his face "Besides, the Star Child Ritual has gone through many improvements and advancements. Even individuals of the same gender can have Star Children now without issue"

Beatrice looked to the man curious "Really, have you encountered any setbacks in your quest to improve the ritual?"

Rob looked away from Beatrice "Well, the biggest setback would have been when I lost one of the prototypes for single use eggs to perform the ritual. No idea where it ended up, but I pray that whoever found it that it brought joy into their lives"

[8] Unbeknownst to the Star Prophet, in the Jojo cluster Noriaki Kakyoin was screaming as he awoke from a dream with a Russian nesting doll beside him.

Hearing a knock at the door drew the attention of everyone in the classroom, the door opened to reveal Puck flying in. As one the Subaru's Seven Star Children went over to greet their big brother Puck, the spirit finding himself caught in the grasp of seven children and needing Emilia to pull him free.

With class over Rob got to work putting the art work of the Star Children on the walls to display, as he was finishing up he found his eyes lingering on one particular drawing. The picture showed Aqua with a bottle in hand, Megumi passed out on the floor and Darkness in some weird pose and in the centre was Kazuma with an angry look and a child with a neutral look.

Like before, Rob's mind was filled with concern for the Star Child of Kazuma and Aqua. They weren't bad people, for the most part anyway, but that didn't mean they were good parents for their son Riku. Already Riku was staying with Subaru due to the hectic home life he had with his parents, but their self reflective attitudes and concern for Riku's well being made him hopefully they just needed time to adjust.

The sound of approaching footsteps drew Rob out of his thoughts, turning around he saw Roswaal entering the classroom. Rob kept an eye on his fellow teacher, they exchanged pleasant greetings but it was made quickly obvious his peer in a jester make up was more focused on the drawings the Star Children had made.

Roswaal eyes zeroed in on those made by Subaru's children and onto one in particular, the one drew by Hikari that depicted her and Subaru with a woman in a black dress that looked like an older version of Hikari.

Witches of Sin, those are the mothers of Subaru's Star Children. From what he could learn from the others it seemed like the Witches of Sin were largely considered to be the opposite of Star Maidens in Rob's thoughts. Seen as dangerous individuals in contrast to Star Maidens who were considered heroes in their own right.

Rob held back a sigh, wishing to consult his God for aid. However, the Star God was in a custody battle with a fake sounding 'breast god' over the soul of a Star Child in another world. Rob prayed, hoping his God will save the child's soul.

Elsewhere…

"And with the power invested in me by this court, The one known as Star God shall hold custody over the soul until the proper God of the soul's domain is able to return after being indisposed"

The Star God cheered, hugging the Star Child and granting them boons to overcome the enemy threatening their world.

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Author's Notes:

And done, I did not expect that this would need two chapters to make. For those wanting to know the names of the Star Children in the main bit, or forgot:

Name: Isamu

Father: Minato

Mother: Ophis

Class: Sword

Gender: Male

Constellation: Ophiuchus

Tarot: Wild Card

Name: Emma

Father: Minato

Mother: Ophis

Class: Lancer

Gender: Female

Constellation: Ophiuchus

Tarot: Wild Card

Name: Atsuko

Father: Minato

Mother: Ophis

Class: Cleric

Gender: Female

Constellation: Ophiuchus

Tarot: Wild Card

Name: Billy

Father: Minato

Mother: Ophis

Class: Gunslinger

Gender: Male

Constellation: Ophiuchus

Tarot: Wild Card

Name: Kurobara

Father: Minato

Mother: Kuroka

Class: Monk

Gender: Female

Constellation: Libra

Tarot: Justice

Name: Mordred

Father: Minato

Mother: Le Fay Pendragon

Class: Magician

Gender: Male

Constellation: Pisces

Tarot: Moon

Name: Hayate

Father: Minato

Mother: Aika Kiyuu

Class: Thief

Gender: Male

Constellation: Leo

Tarot: Strength

Name: Shio

Father: Minato

Mother: Satou

Class: Mistrial

Gender: Female

Constellation: Capricorn

Tarot: Devil

Name: Zoro

Father: Minato

Mother: Alise

Class: Warlock

Gender: Male

Constellation: Sagittarius

Tarot: Temperance

[1] Yes, I am using the female design of Aleister Crowley from To Aru no Index New Testament.

[2] DxD canon does have people contacting gods in other worlds, the difference here is that the reasoning behind it involves a Magician attempted to communicate with the gods of his world but a miscalculation leads to him contacting the god of another world and not because he was too randy for breasts.

[3] For those curious, the Druidic Zodiac (which functions on a lunar calendar) fits into the Western one like this.

-Alder 18th March - 14th April

Aries 21st March – 19th April

-Willow 15th April - 12th May

Taurus 20th April - 20th May

-Hawthorn 13th May - 9th June

Gemini 21st May - 20th June

-Oak 10th June - 7th July

Cancer 21st June - 22nd July

-Holly 8th July – 4th August

Leo 23rd July - 22nd August

-Hazel 5th August - 1st September

Virgo 23rd August - 22nd September

-Vine 2nd September - 29th September

Libra 23rd September - 22nd October

-Ivy 30th September - 27th October

Scorpio 23rd October - 21st November

-Reed 28th October - 24th November

Sagittarius 22nd November - 20th December

-Elder 25th November - 23rd December

Capricorn 21st December - 19th January

-Birch 24th December - 20th January

Aquarius 20th January - 18th February

-Ash 18th February - 17th March

Pisces 19th February - 20th March

-Alder 18th March - 14th April

There's a 13th Druidic Zodiac called Rowan (21st January - 17th February) that's between Birch and Ask but it's tiny compared to the others so I left it out to keep things tidy with three sets of twelve Zodiacs.

[4] Can't really come up with new outfits for them, but imagine something like those seen in Conception 2 Children of the Seven Stars.

[5] Just in case I haven't made it clear, during a Star Child Ritual with multiple partners it's possible for the Star Children born to get traits, stats, skills from ALL parents even from the ones their not directly born from. For Example, Kuroka's Star Child getting mental boosts and talent for magic while Le Fay's Star Child would have some level of talent with Senjutsu or have cat like behaviors.

[6] Basically Vali does the brooding stunt of watching his happy mother from afar, believe it's better for him not to be involved, before Lilith kicks him in the butt and drags the White Dragon Emperor to talk to his mother. The reunion is awkward at first but quickly becomes heartwarming when Vali's mother embraces her son.

[7] Seemed like a more fun idea of Subaru having Star Children with all Seven Witches, originally I planned on only Satella but this idea seemed better. As for names:

Sin = Celestial Body = Name

Lust = Moon = Kaguya

Envy = Mercury = Chiyo [I'm aware that Satella and Emilia have the same eye colour, Chiyo lacking the blue is intentional]

Greed = Saturn = Hikari [Inspired by Hikari Kongou]

Sloth = Mars = Miyako

Gluttony = Venus = Rio

Wrath = Jupiter = Keiko

Pride = Sun = Kyoko

[8] Basically, a Russian Nesting Doll replaces an egg in a piece of Jojo fan content.