Well folks, it time one again for another chapter of Devils, Angels, and a Gamer... which will henceforth be refereed to as DAaaG because it's less of a mouthful.
Anyway I have no idea what I'm gonna do for this chapter so it's gonna write itself.
Oh and to the reviewer known as *Checks notes*ArcanaXII, yes the Spirit Function is going to get really broken, really fast. It's gonna be fun.
Anyway I'll see you guys at the end of the chapter.
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I'd say my hang out time with Yuuma went well... I base that on the fact she hasn't tried to gut me just yet.
I also sent one of my Shades into her shadow, you know so I can figure out what her plan is for me.
In the mean time I was sitting in my house looking at the Muramasa sword, which I hadn't drawn yet.
"She was pretty weak for a Rook." I said to myself looking back on the fight, "If Rias said she was sent to kill Stray's then that means she was pretty darn weak."
Looking at the blade once again I started to chuckle, "Oh, now I get it." I chuckled.
Let me explain, Hiromi doesn't have a Gamer ability, so she can't get stronger by killing enemies like I can, instead her situation was as such- A noob who somehow managed to get their hands on the ultimate weapon.
Muramasa was literally doing all the wok for Hiromi, all she had to do was maintain the skill and strength needed to use the sword and she's got all she needs. And as a result she ended up neglecting her training, meaning she could never actually tap into her full potential.
In all honesty I'm pretty sure I would have been dead if I didn't have Gamer's body keeping my injuries to just an HP bar.
"Well then." I said putting the deadly katana back into my inventory, "I'm gonna need a normal katana so I can gain some katana skill without having to rely on Muramasa's power... I should probably wait on learning magic though, I don't know if Devils, Angels, and Fallen can detect someone with Magic."
With that in mind I left the house and pulled out a map that I thanked Yuuma for, and to my luck, I found that there was indeed a metalworks in Kuoh, thank... I should probably start thinking of someone else to thank instead of god if I'm gonna join Rias's peerage after Issei- After all I don't wanna screw him out of a place if I can't stop Raynare.
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I found the metal works pretty easily, despite the fact it was kinda wedged in between two buildings that were much flashier.
Stepping inside I looked around at the works on display.
[Steel Katana]
[A simple steel katana, nice and sharp, good weight, and no evil curses... Unless you slap one on it.]
I smiled at that and noticed the price was fairly affordable for me, 15,800 Yen may be a bit of a dent in my wallet, but at least I can fight with Melee now and not have to draw blood that could result in me having to kill someone.
Buying it I left the metal works, hiding the sword in my inventory as a small distracted crowd passed me and walked back toward my house...
"No, I should probably hit up a bookstore first." I said to myself, "Knowledge is power after all."
I could gain skills from books or perhaps even increase my stats, considering they go up by themselves on occasion.
[You deductions of what you can do with books has increased your WIS by one... Point Proven]
'Yeah like that.' I thought dismissing the screen.
It was then I heard the barking... no, yipping dogs coming from an alleyway. And that pissed me straight off.
Now let me make something clear, I don't hate dogs in general, but the small dogs with high pitched barks that bark at every little thing I find annoying as all hell.
Despite him being a comedian, Jeff Dunham has a point, the size of the dogs is roughly correspondent to how smart a dog is. Which is why I prefer being around larger dogs instead of smaller ones.
"Okay, what is making these midget mutts yip their throats out?" I grumbled walking into the alley.
Sure enough I saw three small dogs barking at a small cardboard box in the edge of the alleyway.
"Okay, what are these brain dead pups barking at in the box?" I mumbled walking up behind the dogs and pushed them aside with my foot, which actually caused the dog that I touched first to jump and tumble over my foot, "Shoo mutts." I snapped at the dogs.
Instead they stood and barked at me, so in turn I picked up two trashcan lids and slammed them together, causing them to jump and scatter.
"So... what were they barking at?" I asked aloud turning back to the cardboard box and getting onto my belly to look into the box.
And was met by a clawed swat to the face.
"Ow." I said blinking at the sudden attack to my face.
I was apparently attacked by a little black cat that was hiding in the box, naturally I observed her.
[Kuroka Lvl 62]
[Race: Nekosu-Devil]
[Piece: Bishop]
[HP: 1,520/1,520]
[MP: 2,390/2,390]
'It's amazing how I can so easily be killed by everyone around me.' I thought looking at Kuroka's stats, 'With how many people I've seen close to or passing the 50th level mark it makes me wonder what the level limit is.'
"Well... aren't you a feisty little one." I said softly and held out my hand to the Nekosu.
Slowly but surely I managed to pet the disguised devil with a single finger.
'I always did consider myself good with cats.' I thought, "Come on little one, you're safe. Are you hungry?"
Slowly but surely the small cat stepped out of the box and I picked her up and held her into my arms, "Well, this was easier than getting Ghost out of a bush." I said mostly to myself.
"Mreow?" Kuroka meowed.
"Don't you worry about it you little fluffball." I said smiling, "Let's just get you to my place, I'm pretty sure I've got something you'd like there and if I don't I can sprint to a pet store if I need to."
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Turns out, I has some fish in my fridge from my shopping trip a while back... maybe I should have actually paid a bit more attention to what I bought.
I cut it up for the devil and served it to her on a small plate I had and sat on a couch and flicked on the T.V. to the news channel while I drifted into my thought land.
'So... I've found Kuroka before canon even starts, but the question is whether or not she's with Vali at the moment or not.' I thought pulling out my Revolver and checking it's ammo, fully loaded, and thankfully I had infinite regular ammo, which I was really thankful for because I have no idea where I would buy more bullets... Well at least in Japan.
I looked back to Kuroka, who was still digging her face into the fish, so I reached toward my shadow and waved my hand at it, alerting one of my Shades that I wanted it's attention, I then pointed to Kurkoa, then to my shadow, my way of telling the Shade to go into her shadow and watch her.
The Shade nodded it's hood before slinking out of my shadow and into Kuroka's, causing her to briefly notice it's presence and look around, only to fail to see the floating robe fly into her shadow.
I barely held back my chuckle at the success of my Shade's abilities. I really need to find one of those Spirit Books to boost their abilities.
Standing up I walked over to Kuroka and pet her head, causing her to look at me in surprise, "I'mma head out and pick up some more fish for you okay? I don't know how much I have and I'm pretty sure it's tastier than cat food." I said.
"Mreow." Kuroka replied before returning to her fish.
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"Well then... Should I return straight home or should I look around a bit more?" I muttered to myself.
The answer was decided for me when I noticed I was passing by a bookstore.
"May as well pick up something to read." I muttered, 'And see what skill books I can find.' I thought afterwards.
Stepping into the bookstore the first thing I noticed was... the shopkeeper was completely hidden behind the books...
Oh, and Sona's here as well browsing the books, beautiful.
'Well let's try to be causal and fly under her radar... To the occult section... crap gonna have to speak to the cleck about that I can't see jack where anything is.' I thought walking over to the stack of book I assume the clerk is behind, "Excuse, can you point me to the occult section?" I asked.
A hand popped up behind the books, "Over by the window on the left." The man said.
"Thanks." I said turning away and heading to where he directed.
It wasn't too big a section, but whatever I can work with this- After all my first mission is to hopefully find a book that will upgrade my Shades.
[Spirit Book- Ghost's]
[This Spirit Book will empower all Ghost like Spirit's, giving them a new ability]
[This Spirit Book will allow Ghost Spirits to use the ability- Overshadow]
[Current compatible Spirits: Shades]
'Yep, this will do.' I thought checking the title of the book.
Basic knowledge of ghost across the cultures
I like that, now what next...
Standing up I turned around to look around for the fantasy section, only to come face to face with Sona.
"Holy mother of Hell!" I cried out, that was actually genuine for once. I mean I don't thing anyone would want to turn around to see someone standing right over you.
Sona raised an eyebrow at me before seemingly waving it off, "You're Vincent Lane correct?" Sona asked, "The American transfer student to Kouh Academy?"
"Jeez, you guys already got my picture or something?" I asked, "Actually before that, personal space." As I said that last line I gently grabbed the Sitri's shoulders and slowly pushed her back, from what I've seen of people's levels so far I actually don't want to see Sona's at the moment.
Sona's seemed to understand the 'Personal Space comment and willingly let me push her back, "I have, I'm Souna Shitori, Student Council President at Kouh Academy."
'Please don't mention anything about devils.' I thought, "Well, Vincent Lane... Even though you already know my name." I said holding my hand out for a handshake.
"A pleasure to meet you." Souna said, "I have things to do today, however I would like to speak with you privately about a certain matter at a later date."
'Dammit' I thought as my face went deadpan and grabbed a book about devils from the shelf, "It wouldn't happen to have anything to do about this subject would it?" I asked pointing to the Kanji for 'Devil'.
"So you've already had someone talk to you about the subject then." Sona said.
"Yep." I said, "You can still come over though, it'll be nice to at least talk with someone... just remember I do need information about Kouh Academy."
Souna smiled at this, "Of course." She said before walking off with the books I'm hoping she paid for.
I deiced I better pay up and go too.
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Okay that's this chapter done... and way overdue as well.
Anyway later today I'm going to try and get one more thing out... oh and the two stories on my Ao3 have updated today as well so head to my bio and click the links if you want to check those out.