Chapter 2: Isn't too early for…

"This is your new home," a stern voice snapped the little boy from mesmerizing the place where he was taken by a man who had claimed that he was his father. The only thing why he had accepted him was the photo in his mother's room assured him that the man wasn't lying to him.

The little boy had dark blue hair and bluish-grey pair of eyes. He was clad in some sort of navy uniform, pair of brown shoes.

The little boy looked at the man who had light blue hair and was wearing something that he had seen in some fantasy books that his mother had given to him to read. It was something a noble usually have as their clothes.

"I know that mom is a big fan of myths bu-" he was cut off by the older man as the child felt his father's hard yet warm hand pat his head. He looked up and saw the man was smiling.

"She is not a fan, Minato," the child tilted his head sidewards and began to get confused, "She is a part of the supernatural world."

"Oh?" His eyes stared at the newcomer, as the door opened, a young woman, who seemed in her early twenties was walking towards them. Minato almost have dropped his jaw because of how beautiful the woman was, much to his chagrin, the older woman could easily surpass his mother's beauty and body. Her hair color was the same as his father, light blue hair, but hers was longer, easily reaching the back of her knees.

The newcomer was wearing a type of uniform, a white one with several black buttons and long sleeves. Her neck was covered in a blue scarf. The older woman was also wearing high-heeled boots, making him much more smaller that led him to move his head upwards to look at her.

What really had gotten his attention was the hat with a symbol of black cross, the same with her belt.

Taken aback from the sudden movement of the woman, Minato flinched when the porcelain-skinned woman knelt in front of him and stared at his face with an unreadable expression. The boy felt like it was eternally, the silence was, and only broken by said woman.

"You are…" the light blue-haired woman cupped his cheek with her right hand, making his entire body stiffened, "quite familiar." The lady shook her head before her eyes fixed on his own.

"My daughter," even when his father tried to diffuse the awkward situation, the woman remained in her position and her hand didn't move from his cheek, "He is your half brother, his name is Minato Arisato." Cadmar looked at his daughter as if he was trying to search for something. He wasn't sure if it because of what she had said or not, but Minato was sure that he had never seen the older woman in his entire life.

But somehow, his nervousness faded away when the woman in front him smiled gently.

"Minato…" the woman called Esdeath slowly moved her hand away from his cheek and rested her palm on the top of his head, "I'm glad to meet you; my name is Esdeath Partas."

[Wake up!] the loud voice of Hannibal made him shot his eyes wide open as he immediately rose from the desk where he was sleeping at and sharpened his senses.

"Enemies?" Minato asked, he wasn't sure if there were anyone fool enough to attack the Kuoh Academy but he remained battle-ready and waited for any confirmation from the being inside of his Sacred Gear. 'It should be important, you know that Knight of Rias-san already have shortened the time of my sleep, any more of that will make me mad.'

The fiend ignored him as he explained the reason why he had awoken him from his deep rest. [It was faint but I sensed something a few minutes ago. It wasn't from any Devils, the lack of demonic energy supported my claims.] Hannibal started to grumble. It didn't take him long to find out that the fiend was mad. The foulness in Hannibal's tone unnerved him quite a bit. [The smell of that blood… that smell of that particular signature! It might be a poor version but I know for a fact that was the smell of that flying vixen!]

Minato stayed quiet while waiting for further clarification but he let out a sigh when the Sacred Gear halted from talking. He could feel the gear, the being inside of the gear was on the verge of rampaging, and he would be in a world of trouble if Hannibal accidentally forced him to do Balance Breaker in the middle of the school.

The bluenette was so sure that if that happened everyone will get mad at him, not just Sona, Rias, their peerage, and his own father, but also their elder siblings. A shiver coursed through his spine.

He was afraid.

Yes, he was afraid, but not for his own life—but for the stability of the Underworld. Three possessive and obsessive older siblings, with a power that could turn an entire landmass into a sea of ice or turn them into nothing but ashes, that were willing to fight for their own respective young siblings and ready to abandon anything and everything for them.

Because of his thoughts being occupied to what ifs scenarios, he nearly forgot about Hannibal and the energy that was gathering around his body. Anymore of this, then he would need to say farewell to his normal human identity.

Well, he could use some mind-manipulating spells, but it won't enough if Hannibal accidentally blew half of the school.

That was why he would do something to calm the destructive lizard.

"Are you sure?" Minato idly asked as he stood up from his chair, "Or are you simply getting senile?"

[WHAT?!] The dumbfounded tone of the fiend let him know that he avoided the old lizard-like creature from doing something crazy.

"Anyway," he walked towards the door slowly, "Do you want us to check it up?"

[You just want to skip your boring class.] Hannibal said blankly. [Didn't those two owners of this land have warned you for your habit of skipping classes?]

Minato chuckled, "Sona-senpai and Rias-senpai wouldn't mind if I skip a class or two, especially when my amazing partner has given me a reasonable excuse to check something that might harm their territory."

[I never thought this day would come.] Hannibal talked in a dramatic way. [To see that I am being used by my wielder as means to do stupid things.] the blue fiend sniffed mockingly. [Preposterous!]

"Shut up overgrown lizard," Minato groaned as he rubbed his temple to lessen the pain that Hannibal had inflicted before stepping out of the committee's office.

'Is this the place?' Minato asked the fiend while looking around the empty hallways of the school which was always uncrowded whenever the staff were working inside of the faculty office or it was time for their classes.

[Two meters away from your exact location.] Minato started to search for something extraordinary but stared blankly at the small dark spot in the floor.

'Seriously? You made me to go to the most dangerous place in school just for that,' he pointed the spot by using his index finger, 'Did you forget that I'm still in the middle of cutting class.' Minato nodded his head to himself, 'It's your fault that I've missed my class.'

[Wai- What?] It seemed Hannibal dropped his jaw. [Don't put the blame on me! You were the one who have used my words as an excuse to avoid your class! And what 'missed' are you talking about? You outrightly said that you are going to skip a class!]

'The idea itself wouldn't come in my mind if you didn't mention anything about foreign magic signature or something about blood,' Minato retaliated back.

[Sorry, but in the end, I am not the who will suffer.] Hannibal announced triumphantly that made Minato to show his dissatisfaction by moving closer to the spot.

'It seems no one is going to get punish,' Minato rubbed the spot with his finger before smelling it, 'This infiltrator is not careful enough. This is blood.'

Blood wasn't new to him, and identifying it had been easy for him to recognize because of the countless situations he had been through when he was still training in the Underworld. There were some times that he found blood was more comfortable than his clothes back then due to the climate of the territory of his clan.

[As expected from Esdeath Partas' little brother.] He could tell the fiend was having fun with his slight displeasure when it came to his big sister. [I remember those times when she was forcing you to clean her body after returning from the capital-]

"Shut up!" Thankfully he was alone in the area.

[Hahahaha, I was just jesting, partner.] Minato was not amused. [But still, you are lucky man, partner.]

The bluenette had chosen to ignore Hannibal and the resentment and jealousy in his voice. It seemed the fiend was still mad after he blocked the ability to see of Hannibal every time that Esdeath decided and forced him to bath with her.

'Do you think Sona or Rias have sensed the magic you were talking about? Their group has experts when it comes to pointing out someone's true identity.'

Now, he unraveled the mystery why Hannibal had said 'particular signature,' the fiend was talking about magic and seeing there was a small bloodstain, it was a healing spell or something akin to that. But still, it wasn't enough to solve the whole thing and find whoever dropped the blood.

[I don't think those amateurs has the ability to feel what I have felt earlier. It was carefully hidden.] Hannibal stated. [That is why you need to be careful with this one. This person can take them and their pieces down despite of this being weaker than the one I have known before the God of the Bible sealed me inside of this Sacred Gear.]

"I suppose we should look for the person who owns this blood-"

[And eliminate whoever this being without attracting anyone's attention.] This time, they have both agreed on each other's plans before the sliding door opened in his right that snapped him from his position and straightened his posture, hoping that he could spare from being lectured about the importance of classes.

'Oh… my luck is really annoying,' he said inwardly.

[You may have my sympathy.] the old lizard offered.

In front of him, there were two people, one of them was so damn familiar and the last person he wanted to see in the entire school, standing behind of the recently opened-door the woman behind of Sona was new to his eyesight.

A silver-haired young woman with pink ribbons in her hair, her both hands were full of papers, no doubt the documents were important for the lady focused her eyes on the paper than looking at him. She was clad in a simple grey business suit, allowing the woman to show her profession and the suit itself added seriousness to her frame.

But he have almost taken his opinion back when the unknown woman flinched when his presence registered on her eyes, almost dropping the papers in her hands, and let out a pinkish blush.

His eyes focused on the dozens of documents that the lady was carrying but decided to look at Sona to avoid any misunderstanding.

"I was going to ask you why you are still here but this is perfect," Sona smiled as she waved her hand to the lady with silver hair, "Let me introduce you to your new homeroom teacher, Arisato-san, please say your greeting to Miss Rose Weiss." The student council president pushed the eyeglasses with her index finger, "Seijuro-sensei suddenly retired yesterday because of unknown reasons but we were lucky that Weiss-sensei also submitted her forms yesterday. Such coincidence, if you ask me."

'As if you can call it lucky and coincidence,' Minato said internally, 'Too suspicious, if you ask me.'

Such thoughts disappeared away from his mind when it finally registered that he wouldn't get an earful from the president. Deep inside, he was rejoicing.

The silence was staggering and that was because he still not giving his name to the new teacher. The news of his classroom teacher's resignation greatly surprised him— and the fact that he wouldn't get an earful after skipping his classes— as he ignored the two women in front of him. Minato still couldn't believe that his classroom had no teacher! It meant that he had skipped a class when there was no class at all!

Minato forced himself not to sigh loudly.

"Arisato Minato," he looked at his new homeroom teacher and nodded, "Nice to meet you."

"L-Likewise," she nodded back and say nothing more.

"He's also the head of our Disciplinary Committee," Sona said to the older woman, "So if you have any problems with some of our troublemakers don't be shy to tell him," Quickly, Sona glared at him, "He will help you, right, Arisato-san?"

"Leave it to me," Minato agreed obediently, deciphering the hidden meaning of Sona's glare. Looking at the body of his new teacher, Minato was sure that all the perverts in the entire school would do something inappropriate, especially those three. Just by only imagining the numbers of the perverts he would have needed to put down had already giving him a massive headache.

Minato had a feeling that what he had done to the Perverted Trio wasn't enough to stop them from being perverts. And he knew that they would never change even in the face of death.

"Anyways, please go to your classroom and show Weiss-sensei the way to the Class 2-A. I need to excuse myself, even I have a class to attend to," Sona went to the stairs and left them to their own accord.

"Um…" Rose seemed like she was having a hard time to form a word, leading for him to take the lead.

"Do you need some help with those, Weiss-sensei?" Minato asked, reaching his hands to get the paper, which the older lady allowed him to help her. Receiving all the documents, Minato started to walk away and nudged his head to the way where the Class 2-A's room located at, "Please follow me."

"Y-yes, thank you very much, Arisato-san," The woman meekly said before following him.

[Classroom?] Minato could feel the fiend was grinning. [I know you know that girl is not normal.]

'I know,' sending a quick glance, Minato sensed a faint and unnoticeable magic lingering around the girl and also a recently casted one, 'She must be an expert to hide herself to Sona that well.'

[Then the roof?]

'I suppose.'

"So," he was now behind of the silver-haired woman, the sharp tip of his sword pointed directly at the middle of her nape, "How about you start explaining why someone like you, a Valkyrie, is here in the territory of Devils?"

Luckily, the Student Council President didn't show the layout of the school before, that was why he could easily fool the teacher but it didn't go that smoothly because of how cautious the teacher was, forcing him to lie that he had forgotten something in the rooftop. The new teacher had no choice but to follow him because he was holding her documents which were the lesson plans for the whole year.

What a diligent woman.

The walk was fast, stating the fact that the stairs that would lead them to the roof was just couple of meters away and the shy attitude of the woman had helped him to fool her as she had only questioned him why they were going up the same where Sona went and easily put her worries to rest.

After the Valkyrie entered the rooftop and closed the door, Minato immediately dropped the stack of papers and used his speed to disappear from her eyesight and showed up in her back with the [Vicious Blade] in his right hand, pointed at her nape that could separate her head from her body as he couldn't sense any magic from the woman. Not even a single augmentation magic, even the weaker ones, indicating that he successfully caught his new teacher off guard.

But now they were in isolated place where no one could see them since majority of them were busy in their respective classrooms. Not that it matter, Minato casted a barrier around the whole rooftop, a barrier that was not strong enough to alert the devils in the school but enough to stop any noise from getting away and force anyone who will enter the rooftop to stop in their tracks and go away.

The lady didn't move, as she kept standing straight, facing the countless settlements that were made by regular humans. "How did you know that I am a Valkyrie? Even the heiress of Sitri Clan didn't notice anything."

It wasn't amusing, Minato showed it by letting his sword to touch the skin of the Valkyrie, indirectly telling his answer to her question before drawing back a little. "It's rude to answer someone's question with another question." He was surprised that Hannibal was not saying anything but it didn't matter for him.

As if realization hit her head, the silver-haired new teacher flinched at where she was standing. "I see… I was careless."

"No," Minato said, letting it off when the Valkyrie didn't show any indication that she would answer his question. He could ask her again after he finished entertaining her questions. If the Valkyrie still won't tell him her reason for staying in Kuoh Town then he would just kill her and destroy her body, like her sister usually doing whenever she wasn't in the mood to spare her opponents or torture them. "My Sacred Gear was the one who had sensed your blood, if wasn't for this one then I wouldn't know that you have used one of your spells to heal the wound you've gotten from the paper."

"I can understand that your Sacred Gear capable of sensing me and the structures of my spells, either because of its hatred towards my family or because my magic is foreign," the woman with a name Rose paused, as if she was thinking something important, but before he could ask why Hannibal hated her family the silver-haired foreigner cut off his thoughts and asked him another question. "But how did you know that I got my wound from a paper cut?"

"Little drop of blood in the floor means you were wounded while you were walking or standing in the hallway, and the fact that you were the only one who was carrying something earlier that could potentially hurt anyone if they aren't careful enough merely added my suspicion towards you." As if sensing the petty denial of the Valkyrie, Minato immediately added something to further support his deductions, "Do you want me to mention that the hallway is empty, so do the faculty office because the advisors are in their respective classes to teach the students of Kuoh Academy, I took a time to peek inside of the office and saw nothing but tables and chairs. And the caretakers are cleaning the cafeteria by the time Hannibal sensed your blood, which was only five minutes before I decided to know why my partner became restless."

"To summarize it all," Minato looked at the back of her head with his visible eye greatly narrowed, and stopping the amusement from leaking in his voice, "I simply combined them and guessed it all. Because of your lack of… denial, I just jumped on conclusions."

"WHAT!?" Minato, now, found something amusing and that was how the woman changed her tone from being serious into an embarrassment and her accent made him chuckle inwardly.

"Just joking." Minato confessed, "The last one is a jest."

Throughout his explanation, the Valkyrie had found out using verbal tactics to fool him won't be effective and useful. In just short matter of time he completely discovered her identity and solved how she got her wound as if she was a suspect in a murder case and he was the detective who was assigned to solve the case, like the show she have been watching since she started living in her cheap apartment.

With the words that she had heard from couple of girls before meeting Shitori Souna, that she knew was an alias because of the countless videos she had watched in Devilnet when Sona Sitri defeated all of her suitors in a chess match to stop any arranged marriage proposals and the upcoming "Marriage of the Year" of the heir and heiress of Phenex and Gremory Clan.

And the reason why she was watching and reading some articles about Devil Marriage? Well, it was because she slightly envied some devil girls for being in a romantic situation, even though some of them were pretty bad like the Gremory's heiress.

But back to the topic, Rossweisse thought that the head of the Disciplinary Committee had no brains because of his infamous nickname which was the Head of Skipping and Sleeping Committee. She didn't expect the same boy was sharper than she was aware of!

Forcing her to face that she have no chance of defeating the young man, and using magic wasn't an option when the bluenette could cut her head off before she could use something. She raised both of her hand slowly, "I give up. I will tell why I am he-"

"Honestly," the blue-haired young man cut her off, "we can continue this later in the Disciplinary Committee's office. I don't want to be subjected to another interrogation so I am letting you for now. Besides, I don't want to be rumored as a molester who would touch his new teacher."

She couldn't believe the boy was just messing with her and she have shown her displeasure through dropping a cold sweat while her right eye twitching.

But more importantly. Was he really think that she was not worth to be touched because of her age!? Humiliating.

She couldn't do anything but to watch the boy's retreating form, she didn't even notice the bluenette was already been carrying her lesson plan before leaving her to the roof while thinking how exhausting her new mission was going to be after being exposed by the user of the Great Fiend King's Sword, the very reason why she was sent by Odin, himself, into the Kuoh Academy.

She was getting some weird feeling that Odin just wanted her to be gone so he could do party all day and all night.

"So are you going to come, or you want to stay here?" Minato asked idly, "And don't be serious about it for now," she tilted her head to the side, clearly confused by the sudden lightness in his voice, "You still have a class and students to intend with and you need to lighten up so you can up your charades, it will help you to hide yourself under the radars of the other devils here."

"I sure hope so," she shook her head and followed the boy.

"But I'm still expecting you to fully answer my questions," the boy said out of nowhere. "Just a fair warning, it depends on you whether you live or die."

Just what the All-Father thinking for asking her to ask one of the fourteen Longinus's cooperation to help him to do whatever he was planning? And the fact that he was the younger brother of the [Devil's Strongest General] and the [Queen of Sadasm] didn't lighten her mood at all.

She shivered as her imagination went wild. The silver-haired did not want to be chained on the wall as Esdeath Partas whipped her whole body.

Rossweisse shook it away. "Well…" She followed the boy slowly, and looked straightly at the papers he was holding in, "at least he is a gentleman."

'Oi…' Minato said inwardly, 'Why did you suddenly become quiet?'

[I was searching around the area of the school to find some unwanted visitors other than that girl.] Hannibal confessed. [It took longer than I have expected but it seems that pathetic excuse of a descendant of that vixen is the only one here right now.]

Minato decided to ignore the hatred behind of the fiend's tone as he turned right to reach his classroom. 'Are you sure? This,' Minato sent a glance towards the woman, that made the silver-haired Valkyrie's body to flinch, 'lady that you called pathetic had bypassed all of us until she had used magic.'

[I am sure.] Hannibal said, he could feel the pride of the fiend. [This time, when you have summoned me earlier, I poured all of my focus to search the entire place, hoping for some real action.] The fiend sighed, and continued on dejectedly. [But it looks like it's all for naught, I should have just insulted the girl rather than searching.]

Minato blinked dumbfoundingly. He was never a fan of insulting someone, but sometimes there were some exceptions, especially if someone pissed him off. But to insult the woman and mock her capabilities?

He looked at the silver-haired woman again, like earlier, the Valkyrie flinched. She was just like an innocent rabbit. Her attitude and timid expression was enough to fool him, it made him to wonder how really strong this Valkyrie was. He truly couldn't trust Hannibal's observation right now. The fiend was notoriously of being bias to… almost everything.

However— he needed to make sure that Hannibal remained inside whenever he was in the presence of his new teacher, or else, the Valkyrie will never survive the onslaught of insults that Hannibal was currently listing.

Cadmar wasn't having the time of his life inside of his private office.

How could he? When his daughter who already have surpassed his strength and power was glaring at him as if she wanted to strike him or something.

He had thought he could rest after finishing some paperworks that was stacked in his office because of some problems in the field but he was proven wrong by his own daughter as she was waiting for him in his office. The head of the Partas Clan could guess why the strongest member of his clan decided to go back home after years of staying in her private mansion in the capital.

In front of his desk was a woman in her early twenties, sitting in the chair while her long rapier resting besides her. The woman was currently looking at him— glaring at him, while remaining silent.

Cadmar merely shook his head slightly, as if he was trying to lessen the incoming headache that will hit his brain after this meeting. "Esdeath, do you want something from me?" Cadmar, with his experience when it came to his own daughter, knew that he needed to be careful. He didn't want his entire office turned into snowflakes, especially when some important documents were inside of his drawer.

"I want to challenge your decision," Esdeath said straightforwardly without wasting any second to announce her desire, "I am here to stop you and the current Lucifer from pitting my own little brother with that scarlet Gremory."

"I know that you are surprised-"

"No," Esdeath sent him a cold glare, "I am not. I am mad."

"Yeah, you are." He flatly agreed. If he wasn't the father of the woman in front of him then he would have been careful with his choice of words but he had faced countless terrible beings to be intimidated by his own daughter. Intimidation was far, yet his battle instinct was screaming at him to be ready. "Both Lord Lucifer and I merely created a plan and a deal that would have benefited both sides. It is a golden opportunity for us to finally make to the top."

"And you are willing to sell the freedom of my brother just to gain a spot?" Esdeath sneered, her face showed great deal of hatred, "I have fought numerous battles just to earn the exact amount of influence to ensure my brother's freedom. You know very well the only reason why I am still in the service is my agreement with the High Council to completely void Minato from any unwanted proposals so my brother wouldn't be treated as a gene donor."

If earlier Cadmar was not intimidated by his own daughter, he was surely now felt fear rising inside of him. The already cold temperature in the room suddenly went frigid to the point that some of the documents in the table became solid. The light blue-haired General's facial expression was enough to make anyone to submit to their fate. It was pure loathing, yet he took it calmly, as calm as he could.

"If you really that disagree to our plan then you can talk to Minato," he closed his eyes after seeing the surprised look on Esdeath's face. "I told Lord Lucifer that Minato has the final say to this matter so if you really want to stop this deal; you will need to convince him."

"I see."

His eyes slightly opened and saw that Esdeath was nowhere to be found.

Cadmar sighed in defeat, "Should I contact Minato to let him know that any moment Esdeath might sprout out of nowhere?" the light blue-haired man mused out loud while his both eyes were closed.

He shook his head tiredly, "Oh mother of god-" a wave of headache washed through his mind but he shrugged it, "I forgot to tell Minato about all of this!"

Remembering his second child, he couldn't help but to let a smile. The smile was not of happiness, because of how melancholy it appeared. Knowing what kind of boy Minato was, he had a feeling that he would agree with their decision. Always putting the people they were fond of… just like his mother.

He had truly felt terrible after accepting the Lucifer's offer without asking for his son's approval. However— it was needed, like what he had said earlier, it was the golden opportunity that he was waiting. And he had a feeling that Minato will do something to save his friend's future, he was sure that his son will find another way to stop the forced arrangement between the Gremory and the Phenex.

What he did was to ensure that there would be a thing that will benefit all of them. Except for the Phenex Clan. But still, the hatred that he had seen in Esdeath's face made him aware how wrong his move was.

The statuesque door shot opened, producing an unpleasant sound yet it didn't bother the master of the House of Partas as his both eyes remained shut.

"Forgive me for intruding in your conversation with Lady Esdeath but-" the servant who entered the room stared at the empty chair in front of the table just to find it empty.

Cadmar cut off the forming question inside of the servant's mind as he stared at the devil who had clothes of a butler. "She teleported."

"Ah~" the head of the Partas Clan's eyebrow almost twitched after hearing the disturbing tone of the servant, "To use a teleportation magic without alerting the servants outside of the door while not leaving any kind of energy is such a amazing feat. As expected of Lady Esdeath."

"Stop kowtowing," Cadmar's interruption forced the servant to leave his thoughts and stood in attention. "You sound like a bootlick."

"I apologize, Lord Partas." The devil butler bowed his head slightly.

"Why are you here?" His question snapped the young devil yet the servant remained on bowing.

"Something is happening in the forbidden place— and we can't do anything but to stop their advancement for limited time. We were unable to kill them."

Cadmar took a breath deeply as he rose from his chair before activating the special type of teleportation spell that was needed to enter the place.

It seemed he really couldn't have a peaceful afternoon.

"Does your committee has no members at all?"

Minato simply shrugged his shoulders as he stared at the silver-haired Valkyrie, who was currently sitting in front of his desk, and paid no attention to her incredulous tone.

The class went smoothly, and he couldn't believe it. That may be because of his presence and the fact that her facial expression and aura became serious after he had opened the door of his classroom. It was as if the newly-employed teacher had split personality, but as usual, he let it aside and merely thought about it as her professionalism as an instructor.

Nevertheless, it didn't change the fact that he fell asleep in the entire time. After his supernatural teacher had ordered them to open their book, his face suddenly dropped onto the wooden table and ignored the entire world.

That was the sole reason why he have no idea to what had happened earlier. Still, it was surprising that those three perverts didn't do anything that would force him to beat them.

"I have one," he decided to break the awkward silence, "but she is busy with something else."

"Is that so…" the Valkyrie trailed off.

"Anyway, I need some answers," Minato said straightforwardly, "And I don't want to waste any more time." It made the woman nervous. Minato didn't need to ask because it was painfully noticeable. "So what is your name? Your true name I mean."

"Rossweisse," the Valkyrie answered without a second thought.

"I'm asking about your true name."

Rossweisse wrote her name on a small paper and gave it to Minato. After seeing what was on the paper, a sudden cold wind passed through him, even though the window behind him was closed.

"… What?" Minato stared at the paper dumbfounded, "Are you kidding me? Your alias is pretty stupid, yours is almost identical to your true name!" Minato rubbed his temple, "Just like with Sona's alias." It was rare for him to outburst, but sometimes there were really exceptions.

[Hah! I am starting to wonder if she has really connection with her.]

Minato never asked about the person that Hannibal kept talking about, and he was curious right now. But he remembered the complete nonsense in his hand.

'This world is full of suck people who will use an alias with the same pronunciation of their real names.'

His early outburst seemed inflicted something into the brain of the Valkyrie as her eyes started to become watery.

"I-I d-don't have enough time to fix everything because of the sudden order from him!" The woman exclaimed in frustration.

Why did he suddenly feel like a jerk?

Minato had an idea who was the one who had ordered the silver-haired Valkyrie. But he wasn't sure whether he was correct or not but his intuition telling him that it was the famous All-Father— the leader of the Nordic Faction himself— Odin. Yet, it was only a guess, who knew? Maybe Loki have found a way to trick a Valkyrie or two to frame the God of the North to cause a massive war.

Now that he had thought about it, that might be the reason of this sudden intrusion of Rias' territory. The nature and infamous legend of that Trickster God was enough to put him into edge.

[You have been overthinking.] Hannibal said blankly. [You forgot about that girl's pathetic display.]

True to his words, Minato felt a little bit guilty for making the woman to sob like a little girl, her doe blue eyes were producing tears. Was this his fault all along? Or was there anything else going inside of her mind?

Before he could either ask about the one who had given her the order to infiltrate the Kuoh Town or calm her down, a little magic crest popped near him. The sudden influx of magical energy made Rossweisse to drop what she was doing and glared at the magic circle.

"Hello, Master!" A childish voice came from the circle before showing a small creature with an appearance of a snowman with blue jester attire. "I came back after finishing my job Hee-ho." The snowman said gleefully as the white creature flew into his side, "Distributed the fliers like you said Ho~."

"Good job Jack Frost," Minato patted the head of the snowman but because the newcomer was wearing a blue hat, the bluenette merely disarranged it.

"Umm… who is that?"

Minato nearly forgot about her at all. It wasn't his fault when every time he was trying to get an information, the Valkyrie always doing something weird.

"No, who are you? Hee-ho, I don't know you." Jack Frost said in return as the blue-dressed snowman hovered into the edge of his desk, closing the distance between them.

"I don't know you either." The woman slightly leaned towards the small creature. Her doe eyes slowly narrowed when Jack Frost let out a… cute growl.

Seriously. Was this really happening?

Minato let out a sigh before explaining, "Jack Frost, he is my familiar. And Jack Frost, that is Rossweisse, the new teacher."

"Oh! A fairy," Rossweisse announced as she stared at the creature softly. "What a cute little familiar~"

"Thank you Hee-ho." The little snowman adapted a look of confusion as he placed his round hand under his chin. "You're pretty nice too." Minato wasn't sure whether his familiar was talking about Rossweisse's appearance or her attitude, and seeing the Valkyrie's reaction, then they were in the same page.

"What's two plus two?" Jack Frost, his familiar asked the valkyrie out of nowhere.

"Umm… four?" Rossweisse was unsure. Not because she didn't know the answer, she wasn't sure whether it was the answer they were hoping for.

"No!" Jack Frost created two symbols of number two and rotated the other one before closing them to each other. "It's FISH! Hee ho!"

The valkyrie sweatdropped so did Hannibal.

But he was not. He was chuckling gently. Always the one with the childish humor and always throwing jokes out of nowhere.

[I really don't have an idea why you like that little snow fairy's unhumorous jokes.] Hannibal said blankly. [I have a feeling the only reason why you have accepted that garrulous snow doll is because of its cringeworthy jests so you can annoy a lot of people.]

Minato remembered the snow spirit and how it impressed him with its dream to be the strongest Familiar. Sadly, a certain dragon was currently holding that title, despite of not really being a familiar. The bluenette admired Jack Frost's desire to be the strongest familiar and was captivated with how diligent the snow fairy was. He could have a dragon-type Familiar or the high-level ones but still chose the fairy among them all.

No matter how weak Jack Frost, the fairy never let it to destroy his dream. He had a lot to say about his familiar but he was cut off when said familiar asked particularly no one.

"But why am I getting a weird feeling from her?"

Rossweisse tilted her head as Minato let out another sigh because of what will happen next after he told that his new teacher was a Valkyrie.

"That is because… she's a Valkyrie."

"Oh~ I see-! What Hee-ho!?" Jack Frost jumped into the air and pointed both his palms towards Rossweisse, who was still confused. A sizeable soft-looking snowball sprouted in the palms of the fairly, "An enemy!"

[As if that familiar of yours can kill anything with that.]

Feeling tired of the shenanigans, Minato calmly handled the situation as he grabbed Jack Frost's sizable head and lifted the white creature into the air. The fairy wiggled his arms showing his annoyance with his Master's chosen action towards him.

"So how about we continue our conversation," this time, he was the one who narrowed his eyes. The atmosphere suddenly became heavier as Rossweisse flinched and couple beads of sweat formed in her forehead while his familiar's stiffened not because the fairy was afraid, it was because Jack Frost did not want to be hindrance to his master.

The Valkyrie slowly nodded her head after feeling the overwhelming pressure on her. "The All-Father has sent me here to properly ask you to assist him. While I do not know why Odin-sama desires you and your Sacred Gear, I could merely guess." As if sensing his incoming question, Rossweisse shook her head, "I don't have the means to contact him right now. Odin-sama will be the one who is going to contact you."

This… completely became complicated suddenly. While he was expecting it as the reason why she was here, he still praying to anyone, excluding God of the Bible, that it would be something less problematic. After hearing couple of words from his own father and the lectures he had gotten from his sister, Odin was one of the Gods he would never liked to be acquainted with.

He let out a tired sigh. And didn't bother to hide it to his visitor. "Better than nothing, I guess." The bluenette motioned for her to continue.

Rossweisse stared at him. The timid and seemingly low-self esteem disappeared as she became serious. "Thor-sama and Loki-sama, both of them disappeared. While Thor-sama's absence has the blessing of the All-Father as Odin-sama stated that Thor-sama is travelling around the Human World, Loki-sama certainly did not notify any of them the reason of his own leave. Which makes the Gods of Nordic Faction nervous, because Loki-sama is destined to trigger the Ragnarok, some of them came into conclusion that it might be the reason of his sudden disappearance."

"Too problematic," he blankly muttered as he could the happy whistles of Hannibal. One of the Strongest Beings in the entire existence was traveling around the world, while it wasn't a problem, still got his attention. However— after hearing the Evil God had vanished it troubled him greatly. Especially when the All-Father had sent someone to communicate with him. He set it aside as the Valkyrie seemed just guessing the move of her God, "What is my role here?"

"Like what I've said earlier, you hold one of the weapons that could kill a god, so I have a feeling that either Odin-sama will ask you to apprehend Loki-sama before he could put the Norse Faction into a very dangerous situation or ask you to search for Thor-sama."

'Seriously?' He was dumbfounded that they would bring him into their… domestic problems. Didn't they know that he was the younger brother of the very sadistic and overprotective lady?

[Don't forget she's just merely guessing. There might be another reason.]

He shook his head, Hannibal was right. There was no use to stress himself with this information. "May I ask why me?"

Rossweisse's seriousness melted as she smiled sheepishly and scratched her chin with her index finger. "You are not… very hidden as they have a site dedicated to you in the Devilnet."

Hannibal laughed out loud. [Actually, I did see it coming. Have you forgotten about your stalkers and fans?]

He groaned before massaging his temple. "… Okay I have enough of this for now. I do not need another stress for today!"

It seemed his outburst wasn't that scary as his new teacher giggled, he didn't mind this. However, Rossweisse stared at him with a mild confusion. "Umm… Arisato-kun?" He rose an eyebrow. "Who are them?" She pointed at window in his back, he turned around just for him to see the three perverts as one of them had a camera, taking pictures of them.

How great. After he had told that he didn't another additional problem on top of his piling problems.

"Are you still sulking, Kiba-kun?" Rias asked her knight as she saw him with a dejected face, "Or did you nag Minato-kun again to teach you his clan's style?"

"Yes," was all Kiba said before sitting on the couch.

"Honestly, Kiba-kun," her knight stared at her, "I don't think Minato-kun can teach you anything."

"For what reasons?"

Rias sighed loudly before adapting a serious look, "From what Minato had mentioned when we were still kids, the training that he was getting at that time couldn't be call training. They have no style whatsoever, his father or his sister didn't teach him anything."

"Sounds like an excuse to guard their style if you ask me, Buchou."

"No," Rias said sternly and corrected her words, "They didn't teach him any styles or movements, he said they only taught him one thing."

"What is it?" It perked her knight's curiosity.

"How to kill," Rias finished darkly. "And from what I have heard from Onii-sama, the Partas Clan has no secret fighting style at all. They will just kill their enemies without mercy." Rias shrugged her shoulders while her knight's face faulted, "He said that his sister taught him how to make his enemies cry in pain. By pulling their eyeballs."

"You better believe the words of my dear little brother," both Rias and Kiba's eyed widened in surprise as they both finally registered the presence of the third strongest female Devil, "I apologize for my sudden intrusion and my unannounced visit, but do you mind if you spare me a moment and escort me to my brother's location?"

It troubled her. Rias gulped and couldn't believe that the so-called Queen of Sadasm was in front of her and now asking her to be alone with her. Imagination went crazy as she shuddered and sweat, because some of the images in her mind were too… bloody and gruesome.

"Y-yes, as you wish, Esdeath-sama."

Asking questions was not an option right now and knowing the older sister of her best friend… it might be the greatest decision she had ever made.

A/N: Sorry for the long wait— that is if there is anyone waiting of course— I've decided to continue this fic because I already have planned for everything and I really could not remove this story from my mind. Reviews, Follows, and Favorites will be very much appreciated. If you have any questions, please use your account so I could pm you. By the way, sorry for the errors, I am too sleepy to check, I'll edit them tomorrow if there is any.

On different note, I will need some suggestion for Minato's peerage so fill up the following:

Queen:

Bishop:
Bishop:

Knight: Already have taken
Knight:

Rook: Rossweisse (For plot purposes... Not the plot, but the actual plot.)
Rook:

Pawn(s):