"Beast Tamer?" Minato asked as the large dogs that enthusiastically greeted yesterday laid down on the grass besides them in the park.
Kiyome nodded as she sat beside Minato on a park bench "Yes, pretty self explanatory. A Beast Tamer helps other beings attain new strength in a mutually beneficial relationship, helping them attain new skills while keeping the Tamer safe" Kiyome turned to Minato and meeting his gaze knew what he was going to ask "While not exact, yes, it's like that franchise"
"How do you train them?"
Minato grew more curious as he talked to Kiyome, while he did indeed have an idea of how many monsters acted he never gave it much thought about how to train them. Still, there was a strong desire to learn how to train monsters to make them more effective, he couldn't quite place the reason why. Almost as if Beast Taming was something Minato would have been involved with in another life.
Kiyome turned to the dogs to see them rolling around in the grass, she smiled as she turned back to Minato "It can be challenging, you need to have a firm grasp of each individual to make sure they get the most out of training. Can't teach a lamia to play tennis the same way as a harpy"
Minato blinked, caught off guard by Kiyome's answer "That's a very specific sport to mention"
Kiyome smiled, knowing Minato was curious.
The following day Minato found himself at a tennis court wearing the Kuoh Academy tracksuit watching several different monsters playing against each other in tennis, each monster using their own advantages to overcome their weaknesses in the sport whether its with a lamia using their more bendable bodies or harpies using their flight while holding the racket with their talons.
"This is very impressive, I've never seen anything like it before" Minato said, his astonishment clear in his voice. Tennis required a great deal of effort to be good at like any other sport, but getting to the skill he was seeing now for a sport that wasn't designed with their different physiologies in mind spoke volumes of Kiyome skills as a Tamer and her monsters.
Kiyome allowed herself to smile with pride, unlike Minato she wore the more official white shirt and skirt for tennis, her eyes roaming over the current players to make sure they were alright "Thank you, not a lot of other Tamers teach their charges how to play sports but seeing all the effort they've all put in makes the long hours of training worth it"
After all the friendly matches were over all of Kiyome's monsters took several minutes to rest, everyone getting the chance to sit down to have a snack, as they did Minato and Kiyome continued talking until Minato brought up a topic he's been meaning to ask for a while.
"What are your methods exactly?"
"Trade secret, I'm afraid. I can't tell you" Kiyome said as she took a drink from her water bottle, as she did she gave Minato a side glance as something flashed across her eyes "Unless"
"Unless?" Minato raised an eyebrow, waiting for Kiyome to continue.
"Tell me, Minato. Would you say you have somewhat a grasp of what each individual monster of mine can do?" receiving a nod Kiyome stood with a smile, crossing her arms under her chest as she did so "Then what say you to a little test, pick out a team of three monsters here to face against a team of my own. If your team wins, or at least draws, against mine I'll take you on as my apprentice to teach you my secrets"
"And if I lose?" Minato asked, his eyes drifting over Kiyome's various monsters who were all looking at them overhearing Kiyome's words.
Kiyome placed a finger against her chin before a mischievous glint appeared in her eyes "If you lose, you have to dress as a maid and serve me for a day. Since this is your first time I'll pick my team first to give you a chance to counter it.
"Deal" Minato said resolutely as he stood up "I don't know why, but I have the oddest feeling of déjà vu when you were talking about being a Beast Tamer. Almost as if I was something similar in another life. As for the maid part" Minato shrugged "I already work in a maid outfit, at the odd time, at work"
Blinking in confusion, Kiyome took a step back in shock "Wait, you're forced to wear a maid outfit at work?"
"Not forced" Minato scratched his chin in embarrassment "I just have trouble saying no to the owners, that and I can pull the look off pretty well along with getting triple pay for the shifts I wear it"
Kiyome looked at Minato head to toe with an unreadable expression "I brought up the whole maid thing as something to motivate you with, but now I'm genuinely curious how'd you look in one"
"You could stop by Gentle Etiquette every once and awhile, I don't wear it often but I haven't gone two weeks without putting on a maid outfit" Minato suggested to his possible mentor, if for nothing else it'd help get more business for the cafe.
"Oh, I haven't been there in ages" Kiyome lit up at the mention of the cafe "Though, I suppose we can talk about it later after you defeat my team. Are you ready?"
With a nod the two picked out with Kiyome going first, however while her selection came over to her without a moment's hesitation those Minato picked were more reluctant.
Unprovoked, Minato began negotiating his picks.
A couple of minutes later, as the best of three tennis matches began, Kiyome gave Minato a blank look "You bribed them with coupons"
Minato turned to Kiyome with a blank expression of his own "I only bribed the yeti with 3.000 yen worth of coupons, the Hellhound I showed dominance with ear scratches and belly rubs while I only talked to the harpy"
"She's literally ready to adopt you as part of her family. Minato" Kiyome turned back to the tennis match with a smile on her face "You are a natural, I'll be sure to treat you well my student. How about we stop by Gentle Etiquette tomorrow to celebrate?"
"Tomorrow doesn't really work for me, I'm going to look for a new apartment tomorrow and one of them is near the mountains" Minato answered, he came across the listing for the apartment to rent last week and planned the visit soon after. It was a bit out of the way but due to a mixture of bad luck finding other apartments and the cheap price it was his best option so far.
"Really? Where would it be if you don't mind me asking?" Kiyome asked, curious.
Minato answered her, Kiyome furrowed her brows in concern.
'I've heard that place is cursed, while I haven't heard anything beyond the odd rumor it's better to be safe than sorry'
Kiyome's words passed through Minato's mind as he looked at the address listed for the apartment to rent, the building seemed to be an old estate with an additional floor added onto it with some attempt made to make the whole place look aesthetically consistent.
"You're not going to move here," Ophis said as she looked over the building, frowning slightly at the ugly walls of the building. She went with Minato to all the apartments he had visited thus far, with minimal difficulties in the process, she still needed to keep a close eye on him to ensure his loyalty and that meant moving with him.
That, and she had grown used to Minato making her breakfast.
"No. I'm going to check this place to make sure nothing fishy is happening here, what happens afterwards depends on what I find" with those words Minato approached the building and rang the doorbell, Ophis followed after looking up to one of the higher levels to see a shadow person standing at a window.
The front door was opened by an old man with long grey hair reaching his shoulders and a long beard reaching his stomach, he looked at Minato with a blank look as he pulled on the suit jacket too large for him.
"Ah, you must be the young man here to see the room" he looked down to see Ophis, his expression unchanging beyond a slight twitch in his left eye "I see you brought a little friend with you, come along we don't have all day"
The old man stepped further inside giving Minato a chance to follow him inside, the house looked like it had gone under some renovation in the last few years
"Here is the main lounge, it's communal so feel free to have any guests wait here and not wander the residents. I'll show you the kitchen over here"
"Sir, there is something I need to ask right away" Minato asked as he stood in the hallway. The old man turned around and gave Minato a nod to continue "What of the human spirits here?"
The man's eyes widen slightly, just about maintaining his composure "I'm sorry, could you repeat that?"
"The spirits of the deceased that linger here, what do you know of them?" Minato looked over to the nearby stairs and kept his eyes locked on it "And how do they haunt this place?"
"I can assure you young man, there are no spirits lingering in this home" The old man said defensively, his eyes quickly looked over to Ophis for a moment before turning his gaze back to Minato with an aggressive look and a plan forming in his mind.
Without uttering a word Minato let out a deep breath, as he did the air seemed to become noticeably heavier as a figure began to take shape at the stairs.
A woman wearing a white suit stained red with blood stood on the stairs, her features sunken as black voids where her eyes should have been looked towards Minato with blackened tears streaking down her cheeks.
"You, you aren't being held here on your own" the ghoulish specter lunged towards Minato, long bony hands reaching out to him but never reaching him as an unseen force kept the spirit in place "No. Instead of something internal, an external force chains you here"
Lifting his palm to the spirit light begins to spread across it's being as Minato touches it's forehead, the spirit thrashed about to resist but in the end welcomed the light.
The spirit before them now changed, appearing more as it had in life then in it's death. The woman's spirit offered Minato a smile as she closed her tired eyes, she faded from view just as quickly as she appeared.
"What, what did you do?"
"I freed a soul chained here by a malevolent force" Minato answered, his voice gaining a slight edge to it as he turned to the old man once more "Now, what do you know of the malevolent force here?"
"She's not malevolent. She's in pain and" The man spoke quickly before his words were cut off as the entire building began to shake as an inhuman scream could be heard, neither Mianto nor Ophis were faze in the slightest as Minato stepped closer to Ophis releasing a pulse of power to repel the power of the house from touching them.
"I don't know what you are; but, as a dear friend of mine would say, let's skip to the main event"
With those words the house twists and warps into a nightmarish mockery of what it was before, large holes dotted the walls and floor as blood dripped from the walls and pooled on the ground like water.
"What are you planning?" Ophis asked Minato, turning to face him fully "You can exorcist everything in one moment, so why?"
Minato nodded "While it would be easy, it doesn't mean it's the best path. There's no guarantee that all that spirits trapped by this curse would be freed if I did what amounts to exorcism nuking" bending down he gestured for Ophis to climb onto his back. Ophis gave Minato a confused look (?) "I'd feel more at ease if we kept together, chances are this place would try to split us up" accepting his reason Ophis climbed up and wrapped her arms around Minato's neck and her legs around his torso. Minato used his left arm to help steady Ophis before the two journeyed further into the curse house.
As they made their way further in they came across spirits trapped with some still living elsewhere in the world, among the trapped souls there were many chained together to form malicious monsters that could have been outright destroyed had Minato began blasting holy power along with the trapped souls. To avoid causing harm to the innocent Minato used a sword of light to cut away the bindings trapping the souls.
Eventually they find the old man again, standing between them and a terrified woman behind him. The old man spoke about protecting his wife as he held a gun towards Minato, Minato for his part focused on the thing behind the old man.
With a frown Minato drew upon Angel's power and fired several swords of light passed by the old man, as they flew the spirit of the man's wife slumped forward with her crying abruptly stopping. Looking upward Minato gave the source of the curse a glare.
"Get out here. No more using others as puppets"
The world itself seemed to shudder as cracks formed in the air that lead to a shadowy void, from the void a monster made from the fusion of animals and plants slithered out.
It gave one last defiant cry before meeting a swift end.
Once the monster was gone the house returned to normal, Ophis still on Minato's back as the old man held the specter of his wife.
Minato kept silent as the man held his wife, her smiling gently to him as she said they were the foul entity that had possessed her. Giving thanks she gave her husband a kiss before fading away.
It took awhile for the old man to calm down and explain his situation, quickly becoming clear that the creature that used his wife's ghost as a puppet used him to draw in more innocent people to feed it. After a while of talking and gaining help from some of the newly freed spirits Minato was able to convince the man he was a victim in all of this as well, and that he could atone and try to find peace in his life before his own time came.
From the moment they arrived to them leaving it only took an hour and a half to deal with the situation, with the curse and monster only taking a little over thirty minutes and hour spent helping the old man get back on his feet.
Walking down the dirt path that led to the house Minato took his mobile phone out of his pocket to call a taxi, before he dialed Minato angled his head to get a look at Ophis who was still riding him.
"You know you can get down now"
"I know. I don't want to"
Minato paused for a moment as he thought the situation over for a moment, looking down the road to Kuoh Town and doing a small math in his head he held out his phone.
"If I call a taxi you will need to get off, or would you prefer I carry you back on foot" Minato angled his head so he could look at Ophis "I don't mind either option, so pick what you want"
Ophis ended up deciding to take the taxi back, though she didn't move until it had arrived, they arrived back at Gentle Etiquette sooner than anyone had expected. Minato and Ophis gave similar responses to what they had about the other places Minato had checked out, with the only real difference that Ophis mentioned that Minato helped the old man with some personal problems.
The following day Minato checked in with Kiyome.
Kiyome looked at Minato with a shocked expression "You did what?!"
"I exorcised a malevolent spirit from the house" Minato answered as he held his tennis racket at his side, using his free arm to wipe the sweat from his forehead using the sleeve of his tracksuit.
Kiyome began the next part of his training to become a Beast Tamer by giving him several books and told to research several monsters, research and information gathering being a cornerstone for all Beast Tamers. Not wanting to leave Minato with a short lesson, Kiyome offered to train Minato in tennis as a bonding exercise between Master and Student, and if she got a new member for the tennis club then that was merely a nice bonus.
Kiyome frowned "Minato, while I'll admit everything turned out well you should have left the house and told me" she crossed her arms "Do you have any idea how dangerous it can be going up against a spirit that claims land as it's domain alone?"
Walking over to Minato Kiyome looked him up and down with a stern eye before lightly grabbing his face and having him keep eye contact with her.
"Still, it looks like you're fine. No curse I can detect nor anything possessing you, still" Kiyome nodded to herself with her eyes closed "Right, I'll check the house out myself. If the place is clean it'll clear my conscience and if not we can finish the job" Kiyome opened her eyes as a thought crossed her mind "Wait, was there anyone else with you at that house?"
Minato looked to the side to see several of Kiyome's monsters gathered around one figure. "Phis was with me. Though if the malevolent force somehow survived you'd think it would latch onto the old man"
Kiyome looked to Ophis as she interacted with the monsters, mostly riding the bigger ones, Kiyome nodded "Right, the girl with dragon eyes. I doubt it would have latched onto her, even if she's extremely weak with no noticeable power dragon's and dragon hybrids usually have a resistance to possession" she gave Minato a curious side glance "Though, why did you bring Phis with you?"
Minatro shrugged "She wanted to come, I couldn't really stop her"
With a hum Kiyome turned back to look at Ophis, who was riding with the headless horseman "So it's safe to assume she wanted to see you train" Minato nodded "She'll need to come with us then, let's grab a quick snack before we head off. If we're quick we'll be able to get something from Gentle Etiquette afterwords"
As they went off to get changed into their regular clothes Minato saw a message on his phone from Satou, the message she sent caused him to raise an eyebrow.
"There's an old man with a lawyer waiting for you at the cafe senpai, the old man is saying you helped him with something and wants to repay you. Do you know who they are?"
After some texting it didn't take long for Minato to learn the old man was the same from the haunted house, letting Satou know the man was harmless as far as he knew, Minato went over to see what the old man wanted.
Out of everything he could think of, what the old man wanted was something Minato never thought of.
Kiyome looked around the interior of the formerly haunted house with an appreciating eye, Mr and Mrs Nakajima looked around commenting on the house and comparing it to one of their seasonal homes.
Minato looked down at the deed to the house and the paperwork that made him the new owner. The old man couldn't live here anymore after everything that happened and couldn't just let anyone move in without fear of history repeating itself, nor did he have the heart to abandon it either. In the end, he reasoned it made the most sense to give the house to someone who could handle it if history did in fact repeat.
"Kiyome"
"Hmm?"
"I really need to say no more"
It didn't take long to move things into Minato's new house due to him not having much to move and the house being fully furnished, meaning the next night Minato was fully moved into his new house. He stayed up all night to make sure nothing happened with Kiyome and Ophis sleeping in another room with Satou, over all everything seemed to be going well until he sensed something in the woods.
Minato left to begin his search of the devils he sensed, specifically two with one noticeably stronger then the other. Enhancing his speed with a Persona made the journey a quick one and as he found the two devils, looking between them made the stark contrast between the two hard not to notice.
One seemed humanoid curled up into a ball with a large more beastial creature repeatedly kicking them, hurling belittling remarks as they did so.
However, it wasn't just their appearances that were in stark contrast to one another but also the feeling they gave off. While the beast felt like a full devil the one on the ground wasn't entirely a devil, seemingly a mix between a demon and yokai like Koneko.
"Huh, who's there!?" The beastial demon turned away from their helpless target and turned to Minato, it's eyes glinting as it saw him. Malicious intent coming off in waves.
Minato outstretched his hand, drawing upon Yamata no Orochi's power to summon the two handed sword Kusanagi.
The beast charged, it never reached Minato as before evening reaching the halfway point razor sharp winds from the Kusanagi dismembered it. Minato kept an eye on the creature before moving over to examine the yokai demon hybrid curled on the ground.
"Please. Make it quick. I can't live like this anymore" the devil yokai whimpered, causing Minato to pause as he looked closer at it. As he did so something strange occurred.
He could see the entirety of the demon yokai, mind, body and soul. Allowing him to see there was something inside it turning the yokai into a demon. Acting on instinct Minato reached out to the suffering yokai before a flash of light washed over them both, when it faded the yokai was restored as Minato held five pawn chess pieces in his hand.
"Wha-what did you do?" the yokai asked with a confused stutter, sitting up to give Minato a chance to see the young boy's face.
Minato looked up from the pawns in his hand to the confused Nurarihyon, all he could offer him at the moment was his own thoughts.
"I don't know"
Author's Note:
A little something with Minato becoming Kiyome's apprentice in Beast Taming, a bit of a nod towards the origins of Persona as a spin off of Megami Tensei, and Minato and Ophis going on a little adventure. Could they have finished the whole thing off in under a minute? Easily. But Minato wanted to save everyone he could and Ophis it as a chance to observe Minato work up close.
Next Chapter will deal with the arranged marriage event with Rias and start something I have plans for.
Omake: Apartment Hunting
Had trouble putting together this Omake so this is the basic of what happens.
Kiyome talks to Minato about the other places he's searched for apartments.
The First place would be home to the titular character of Gabriel Dropout, during which Gabriel would openly use her angel powers and break her apartment door with a knocked out Satania, Minato turned it down due to high insurance. A second one putting him close to characters from Jashin-chan Dropkick/Dropkick on my devil, everything seemed to go well with Minato meeting Yurine Hanazono and being invited into her apartment to wait for the late realtor leading to Minato being the target of one of Jashin's many attempts to kill her college attending summoner with both Jashin and Yurine looking on in horror thinking Minato is about to be killed only for Jashin's attack to be reflected back on her with no apparent effort on Minato's part. After a quick run in with Pekora with Minato stealth healing her to help with her hunger and inadvertently regenerating her halo to restore her angel powers, Minato turns down the apartment due to the realtor being sleazy in using the Yurine and her friends as reasons for him to move in. The third would put him in the same building from Ms Kobayashi Dragon Maid (Minato turning the place down due to price and Ophis solo wrestling the dragons and winning with having Tohru pinned to the ground)
The last place would be Satou's former building where her aunt lives, that particular appointment was cancelled due to a sudden and unexplained fire in the room up for rent
EDIT:25/10/2020
Got around to actually finishing the Omake.
"Okay, follow my finger with your eyes"
Minato liked to think he was prepared for whatever he would come across, he was wrong as he wasn't expecting a Devil to come head first through the wall of the apartment he was checking.
At the minute he was with the devil girl in the room she was in when she got punted into it by the angel who the room belonged to, he was admittedly curious why two angels and two devils were in a single room together but that could wait till later.
Seeing the devil in question having no issue following his finger with her eyes he nodded "Okay, you don't seem concussed though I would recommend visiting the hospital to make sure" Minato turned to the other girls in the room "I don't suppose one of you could keep an eye on your friend"
"I'll do it!" an angel girl with long white hair said as she raised her hand, her cheery tone not reaching her eyes "Nurse Raphi, ready to treat and restrain the patient as needed~"
"What do you mean restrain!?" The devil girl Minato was treating, Satania, pulled back and placed Minato between her and Raphi.
"We'll keep an eye on Satania" the other devil in the room, Vignette, bowed her head "We're sorry for any trouble"
A polite devil with little to no evil in them, Minato was certain more than a few Personas were taken aback at the sight.
"By the way, what were you doing in that room?" the angel girl with long blonde hair, Gab, asked Minato point blank "I've never seen you around here before"
"I'm apartment hunting, that room there was up for rent and I came to check it out" Minato turns back to the wall with the very noticeable head size hole "Though, I'm not sure I'd be getting it"
"Ah, don't worry about it" Vignette smiled "The owners can make speedy repairs. I suspect it'll be fixed by the end of the day"
Minato blinked as he took a piece of paper out of his pocket "That reminds me, after the owner saw the hole in the wall they gave me a piece of paper. Apparently the price changed" Opening the paper Minato read through the print out and stiffened, seeing everyone's eyes on him he told them the contents of the letter "The insurance went up, I can't afford this place now"
Gab snatched the paper out of Minato's hand and looked at it in shock, falling to her knees as she read it as well.
"Well, I think it's best I don't overstay my welcome" Minato got up and said his farewells to the girls.
"Wait!" Satania cried out moments behind putting her hand to her face "You should do well to remember this day, for you have offered medical aid to the future queen of Hell!"
Minato took a moment to look over the expressions of the others, gathering that this was normal for the red headed devil Minato smile and gave her a mock bow "All I ask is you remember this lowly mortal on the day of your ascension, your majesty"
Satania, caught off guard and flustered, mumbled "I will and thank you"
===] MxD | Angel Dropout - Devil Dropkick [===
Minato checked the address on the building with the listing, walking onto the property he saw a girl wearing a gothic lolita dress with a medical eyepatch over her left eye.
"Hello" Minato called out to the girl to get her attention "Do you know where I can find the caretaker of these apartments, I'm here about seeing a room"
The girl nodded "Yeah, they're running late today and asked me to greet you" the girl said with a sigh "I'm supposed to keep you company until they arrive, which should be in a couple of minutes" she turned around to walk up the stairs to the second floor.
"I don't want to be a bother," Minato said, not wishing to intrude on the girl's day.
She turned around to Minato with little emotion in her voice "It's fine, I owe the caretaker a favor anyway so it's no real bother. Come on, there's some snacks in my apartment"
Following her upstairs the two made some quick introductions, Minato was surprised the girl he suspected of 8th Grade Syndrome was actually older than him and in college.
Being directed inside Minato sat down at the table as Yurine went to collect something, as he waited something leapt from beneath the floor from behind him.
"YOU DIE THIS TIME, YURINE!"
Turning his head slightly Minato saw a devil with the torso of a human, her dignity saved only by her long hair, with the lower half being that of a snake wielding an axe overhead as it was heading straight for Minato's head. The devil's wicked expression changed into one of confusion before morphing into shock.
Yurine watched on as she knew she didn't have enough time to save Minato, she looked on as the axe was millimeters from Minato before coming to a complete stop.
"Huh?" The shock turned back into confusion, the devil's expression not changing even as a geyser of blood sprung from her head at the same exact spot she would have hit Minato. The stream of blood was powerful enough to send the devil spinning across the room before slamming into the floor gripping their head "AHHH! WHAT HAPPENED!?"
Several minutes after the attempted murder Yurine explained to Minato that the devil who just rose from the floor was her devil familiar Jashin, a devil unable to return home due to Yurine missing the spell to send her back leaving the devil with the only option of killing Yurine.
Minato was willingly to banish Jashin back home, but after seeing the summoner and summon interact he realized Yurine had everything under control. That and withholding the chance for her to go home was his own little payback for attacking him, he'd offer help some other time if they meet again.
Minato sat down for some snacks with Yurine and Jashin, neither acting as if the devil was attempting murder not several minutes ago. Minato and Yurine made small talk, Minato talking about his last year of High School and Yurine talking about college. It wasn't long before some mutual of the two came over, questioning why a boy they had never seen before was doing in Yurine's apartment.
When the caretaker came back with the realtor, Minato said his goodbyes just as someone else sluggishly made their way in. A girl who Minato could see was malnourished, seeing little he could do at the moment he gave the girl a head pat to disguise him using healing to reverse the damage from her malnourishment. The girl was caught off guard and didn't do much until after Minato had finished and was already out the door.
The discussion with the realtor was unpleasant, to say the least, in the end Minato just walked away. A walk that became slightly more brisk as he walked into a crowd of people once he saw the malnourished girl from earlier with angel halo and wings searching for something or someone.
===] Double Drop | Dragons Abound [===
Minato sighed in defeat as he left the apartment showing early, another place out of his reach. Minato looked around and found Ophis was missing, using Ouroboros's power he was able to find her on the roof. What he saw was something he never would have expected to see.
Ophis was sitting on the back of a woman in a maid outfit with obvious dragon parts showing, Ophis maintained a solid hold on the maid dragon's legs as she held them in a lock.
Seeing Minato Ophis let the maid dragon go and walked over to him, ignoring the other dragons in human form around her, all knocked out. Minato quickly left with Ophis hoping not to cause a scene.
===]And here's the fire[===
Minato sighed deeply as he looked through the listings again, the Nakajima's made sure there was always the most recent listings for workers in the break room, hearing the door to the breakroom open Minato turned to see Satou coming in as she was talking off the head piece of her uniform.
"Is something wrong?" Satou asked the second her eyes landed on Minato.
Minato shook his head, offering Satou a gentle smile in return "Not really, I've just not had much luck with the apartment search recently. Though it's still early days so I'm not too concerned" he pointed to a particular listing, drawing Satou's attention to it "I'm checking out here next, it's not too far so it would be good for commute"
Satou looked at the listing and froze, her eyes fixated on the address as chill went up her spine, the listing was in her old apartment block. Where she lived.
Satou thought about her Aunt meeting Minato and in an instant she knew what needed to be done.
The next night, Minato stood with Satou as the apartment listed was alight with flames. The residences were thankfully all safe and the fire mostly contained with little chance of it spreading further, while repairs would be sorely needed the building would be usable.
Minato's shoulder slumped "If I did not know any better, I'd think I was cursed"
Satou patted Minato's back to comfort him, internally happy she was able to save her senpai from her Aunt. The quiet moment between the two came to an abrupt end as Minato's arm intercepted a steel pipe aiming for his head, Minato held the steel pipe with an iron grip as his would be attacker was shocked to see him catch the pipe at first and being unable to get it out of Minato's grasp.
Several police had seen the attack and rushed over, the man abandoning the pipe to Minato as he ran to try and get away. The man was quickly captured and taken away for questioning, Minato and Satou were questioned as well before being let go after handing over the steel pipe, Minato didn't know why the man tried to attack him and only learnt that he was an artist who lived in the apartment block on the same floor as the apartment up for rent.
===] The Great Unifier, Melon Bread [===
Taking a bite of melon bread Minato hummed. "Hmm, better than I thought" he took another bite to savor the taste as he shared the bag containing melon bread with Ophis, who seemed to be enjoying them herself.
"Wait!"
Hearing a loud cry Minato and Ophis turned to see a dog running with an unopened melon bread running away from a chasing Satania, Satania seems to have given up on the chase as she neared Minato and Ophis as they sat at a picnic table.
"Satania" Minato called out, the devil girl looking over to him surprised, holding up a bag of melon bread "We have extra if you want any?"
Satania looked conflicted, her eyes checking her surroundings before tenatively making her way over "Thank you" she mumbled before taking a bite of the melon bread, her face lighting up as she did.
"Oh! Mister!"
Looking off to the side Minato saw the malnourished angel girl he met at the apartment building the realtor tried to use Yurine and her friends as an 'incentive' to buy.
"Strapping Young Lad surrounded by cute girls, don't tell me that isn't tempting" their words echo in Minato's mind, it was one of the few times he felt like punching someone in the nose.
'Still, why am I encountering so many Angels and Devils recently?' MInato thought to himself as he ate melon bread with an Angel, Devil and Dragon.
EDIT: 24/07/2020
Okay, since I'm seeing some confusions in the reviews let me make this clear.
The Yokai at the end of this chapter is NOT Kuroka, rather it's a MALE Yokai OC known as a Nurarihyon. His situation is going to get more detail in the next chapter as it will continue directly from where this one left off.
Sorry to the Kuroka fans but your neko waifu is not making an appearance. Yet.