Life: 18
I sat in the student council office sitting across from me was Sona Sitri who's expression was one of abject horror when she caught my gaze.
"No not you. Anyone but you." She said causing me to grin from ear to ear.
It would seem given my close relationship with her sister plus the fact that I'm apart of her show means that Sona is embarrassed to be in the same room as I. This made things especially fun when Saji, who still has yet to meet Serafall at this time tries to defend Sona from the perceived threat, aka me.
"What did you do to Sona you pretty boy bastard?" He snarled at me and I turned to him and gave a knowing nod.
"My dear boy, I simply saved her older sister from perial on a couple of occasions. I see you haven't told him about me, I'm hurt Sona." I say with a frown that I quickly replace with a smile and pound my chest in a hearty manner.
"But if you must know young Genshirou, I am the Man of Miracles." I begin and Sona's eyes widen in fear.
"No." I hear her mutter.
"The one who makes the impossible possible." I continue much to her chagrin.
"No." She speaks even more loudly this time around.
"The symbol of unwavering perseverance." Now Saji was looking at me in intrigue as I spoke which only made Sona suffer even more.
"No." The word no longer had any meaning once it left Sona's mouth as it was merely a sound to my ears.
"I am!" I smile even bigger.
"Don't you dare finish that sentence." Sona narrowed her eyes.
"Magical Boy Bari-tan!" I strike a pose that would make both Killer Queen and Serafall proud.
This resulted in Sona rubbing her temples as a headache must've started to form. So all in all mission success! Saji, on the other hand was looking at me with stars in his eyes.
"That is so cool!" He cheered and just like that I received a new fan.
"No it is not cool." Sona said looking at her Pawn who immediately lost all giddiness when Sona stared at him with cold eyes.
"Now, why are you here?" She asked me and I simply smiled and waved.
"To ask if you have any information regarding the vigilante of course." I say and she looks at me with a serious stare.
"Sadly I haven't been able to discover much myself other than the fact that the assailant is likely a human male with a mid to high ranked sacred gear." She informed and I gave a sigh.
"So, nothing new then." I say dejectedly.
"Regrettably." Was the only thing she said to me.
"Well this bites." I grumble before leaning back in the chair.
"I take you have nothing new either?" She asks and I look at her with a solemn look.
"The guy has a dragon type sacred gear. It seems to convert damage into power and adds it to the user." I say and she widens her eyes.
"How did you-"
"Sairaorg, came across the vigilante and they fought." I say looking down a feeling of pure anger filling me as I recall the state my best friend was in when he returned to the house.
"Is he alright?" Sona questioned worry in her voice.
"Yeah, a little banged up but he'll live. Probably will need to rest for a little while." I say and Sona nods at that with a sigh of relief.
"Does Rias know about this?" She asked and I shake my head.
"Rias doesn't seem to want to do anything regarding the vigilante except maybe try to recruit him." I say in a bitter manner.
"I doubt she'd be willing to now consider the attack on Sairaorg." Sona put in but I shook my head.
"I somehow doubt that." I say and Sona sighs.
"You lack of faith in Rias is at times is disturbing you know that." She points out but I don't say anything.
What would I say? I think she would still try to reincarnate him due to her wanting to keep up with me? That I don't trust her because I know she'd let someone die if it meant obtaining a strong servant? Sometimes I feel as if I'm cursed with knowledge that I can never share with anyone and it sucks at times.
You see due to my engagement with Ravel, Riser was never engaged to Rias. You would think that would me she'd have no reason to be so desperate like she was in canon. You'd be wrong and I'll admit I'm to blame for this mostly, but due to our goals being the same of becoming Rating Game Champion she has this idea that we're rivals in her head and she needs to catch up to me because of it.
In essence I fear I may have unintentionally created a monster.
"So what's your plan?" Sona asked taking me out of my thoughts.
"Simple, I'm going to find this vigilante and I'm going to kill him." I say with no real hint of emotion in my voice.
"Isn't that a little extreme?" She raised an eyebrow and I shook my head.
"He's too dangerous to be left alive. Not only that but he has no issue with attacking us. For maou sake Sairaorg reported that he considered killing stray devils as practice for when he went after us." I say and Sona nods.
"In that case shouldn't we warn Rias about this?" Sona put forth and I had to think about it.
"Technically, yes. But I doubt she'd listen." I say and Sona looks at me with an unreadable expression.
"Perhaps you should put your bias away for once and try." She had a point, I hate to admit it but she had a valid point.
"Very well. I'll inform Rias once my business here concludes." I say and she gains an intrigued look in her eyes.
"And other business do you have?" Sona questioned.
"Simple really. Saji how would you like to join me and lady Serafall Leviathan in her tv show. You'd be sure to get real popular." I proposed and before the Pawn could say anything Sona pointed to the door.
"Get out!" She yelled not having any of my shenanigans.
Well mistakes were made. And I say that in the most positive way possible.
"You can't be serious Rias. The man wants to see us all dead." I say and she looks at me as if I had grown a second head.
"And I told you I can reason with this vigilante. I assure I can be very persuasive." She waved off.
"He attacked Sairaorg." I said and she looked at me with a frown.
"I'll be sure to have him apologize in that case. Besides if he was able to contend with Sairaorg then that means he must be strong." Rias says with a look that tells me she hasn't really thought this through.
"So what exactly is it you intend to use to get him into your fold?" I ask and she smiles.
"I'll just appeal to his greed, whatever that may be." Rias nods to herself and I facepalm myself.
"You realize that it's probably not going to be that easy right? There's a likelier chance that he'll try to kill you like he tried to with Sairaorg." I pointed out and she rolled her eyes.
"But unlike Sairaorg I have an ace up my sleeve." She says and I sigh deeply.
"And what pray tell is this ace?" I asked though I feel I already know where she's going to go with this.
"My power of destruction of course." Rias once again makes me facepalm myself.
"Oh sure, I'm certain that that is going to be the best deterrent from him trying to snuff out your life." I say and she looks at me as if I've grown a second head.
"You assume that he would try to snuff me out. What if he'd join up instead." She argues.
"I'd say that a pretty big if." I grumble but Rias seems to not care about my words.
"A risk I'm willing to take." Rias said with finality.
"A foolish gamble." I mutter out.
"Oh like you're gamble when it came to reincarnating Fenrir?" She asked and I paused there for a moment.
"That's different." I defend and she lowers her gaze.
"And how is that?" She asks but I can't answer, not without giving myself away about the game.
"It just is." Was all I could say.
"I see. Kiba escort Barisol out if you don't mind." She ordered her Knight who gave a nod.
"Right away Rias." Kiba said before approaching me with a smile.
"This way please." Kiba gestured.
"Fine." I relented realizing nothing I say or do will make a difference.
Kiba and I walked out of the old school building and she kept a reasonable distance from me. Oh do you think I misspoke? No I definitely said she, for you see it would seem that canon was changed even more than I originally thought as instead of Yuuto Kiba we have Yumi Kiba, Knight of Rias Gremory and sole survivor of the Holy Sword Project.
"I'm sorry about Rias." She said gaining my attention.
"It's fine, I guess I really shouldn't have expected anything different." I say and I see her smile drop for a brief moment.
"You know she only does it to catch up to you right?" Yumi says and I look at her in confusion.
"She respects you a great deal and doesn't wish to be left behind." The blonde haired Knight said.
"That may be true but she has to realize that she's not only putting herself but others in danger if she tries to approach this vigilante." I say and Kiba nods her head.
"That might be true but you should put a little faith in Rias from time to time, I'm sure she knows what she's doing." She says before stopping and blushing a bit.
"By the way I caught the newest episode of Serafall's show last night, you did an amazing job." She praised and I smiled brightly.
"Why thank you Yumi, it's good to know I always have a fan." I say and she nods.
"Well I guess I should be on my way. I have a certain someone I need to have a chat with." I say and Yumi bows politely at me.
"Best of luck to you." She says before heading back to her King.
I wander around the school grounds for a bit until I come across the person I was hoping to see.
"Hey there Ravel." I say approaching my fiance who looks at me with a doey eyed expression.
"Barisol, I have been looking for you. I have the item you requested from Mislar Berith." She said pulling out a small box.
"Excellent. Now I want you to open the box." I say and she looks at me with confusion.
"Alright…" Upon opening it she was greeted by the sight of a ring with a gem in the center of it.
"What is this?" She asked me and I smiled.
"Well I was starting to feel bad about not having gotten you a ring for our engagement so I had asked Mislar to whip me something up and tada, here it is." I say and I notice tears in her eyes.
"I love it!" She says before hugging me tightly, an action that I reciprocate.
I was sitting by Sairaorg's bedside watching as he stirred awake.
"About time you woke up, you had us scared." I say and he grins weakly.
"Is that so? My apologies then." He jokes but I don't laugh.
"Idiot, do you have any idea what I would've done if you had died?" I asked and he thinks it over for a moment.
"Can't say that it would be pretty." He said and I chuckled.
"Damn right it wouldn't." I say and he laughs a little before turning somber.
"I'm sorry I wasn't able to apprehend the vigilante." He said and I shook my head.
"Don't be you couldn't have known how strong he was." I say and Sairaorg looks down.
"It was odd, almost as if with every punch he landed it was like I was punching myself." He said and I nodded.
"From the report you gave before passing out we managed to determine that the damage you inflicted onto him was added to his power. Talk about a dangerous sacred gear." I say and he nods.
"Although I have a feeling that isn't the only power of his sacred gear." I reveal and Sairaorg looks at me with curious eyes.
"What makes you so certain about that?" Sairaorg asked.
"Just a feeling." Was all I said and he nodded.
"That's good enough for me. I've long since learned to trust you and your feelings." He said sitting up.
"Now, what do you want me to do regarding the vigilante." He questioned and I sighed in response.
"You are to do nothing." I say and he gives me an incredulous look.
"But I have experience fighting against this foe." He started but I held up a hand to stop him.
"While that might be true, I'll be the one to handle things from here on out." I pause before continuing.
"Besides you did your part by giving us information regarding the enemy and weakening them." I place a hand on his shoulder and smile.
"At the very least please take the others with you when you fight this man." Sairaorg begged but I shook my head.
"No can do, I have to be the one to defeat this threat." My answer caused him to frown.
"Why? For what reason?" He asked and I sighed.
"Because I'm the King." I say before getting up.
Sairaorg was silent for a moment before nodding his head in resignation.
"I understand." He relented begrudgingly.
"I'm glad old friend." I say before leaving the room only to receive a call from Le Fay.
"Hello." I answer and I hear a sigh on the other line.
"We have a problem." She says and I tighten my hands into fists.
"What seems to be the problem?" I ask and she hesitates to say anything.
"Let's just say it has your name all over it." Was all she said and I knew at that moment I needed to see what she meant.
I teleported to her location only to see a message written in blood written out to me. To paraphrase the message it would seem the writer, three guesses as to who it is and the first two don't count, wants me and the others to leave Kuoh permanently if we fail to comply then its open season on us devils.
"What should we do?" Le Fay asked and I placed a hand on her cheek.
"Don't worry about it. I plan on taking care of the problem myself." I say and she looks terrified.
"No you can't do it on your own!" She cried out.
"Why is everyone telling me that today?" I question out loud.
"Because it's crazy to fight this guy on your own. Sairaorg barely came out of it without major injuries I don't want to see you in the same state or worse." Le Fay said hugging me tightly.
"You know you could show a little faith in me Le Fay." I say before kissing her to calm her down.
We stay like that for a few minutes before pulling away from each other in order to catch our breath.
"I still think you should have some back up." Le Fay said looking at me in the eyes, I could see the worry she held for me in them.
"It'll be alright." I say before turning to leave.
"Let's go home. I want to treat everyone to a special reward." I say causing Le Fay to blush.
AN: Chapter end. So I might be taking a small break from writing due to having been hit by a car yesterday and needing to let myself heal, however I figured I might as well finish up this chapter and post it anyways. But enough about my "woes" and lets move onto some reviews.
ivangironestalaya: Thats not a bad idea, I might just take it, after all I do like myself from Jeanne Alter.
Akamiki-kun: I've been thinking about giving Barisol a skill to debuff his enemies as a sub-power of his Fated King but I haven't worked out the details just yet. As for the last two Pawns I know for a fact Xenovia will be one and the other I've considered either Kuroka or Vali but its open to change.
GrayWolfDen: Not bad ideas, I do like the idea of Lint and sacred beasts could be fun.
Nayrcon: Nero is from the Fate franchise, she's in the Fate/Extra games and Fate/Grand Order.
FinalKingdomHearts: Here you go.
Ed95: No Mittelt isn't dead she was just somewhere else at the time.
The Last Kenpachi: While not a bad guess I think its safe to say that its not Saji.
Shadic21: Glad you liked it!
Harbinger of Mayhem: Or is it?
Dr. Gale: I guess only time will tell, or you know until I reveal who it is whichever comes first.
Zetazero246: Umu.
Maxinonor: No problem.