Author's rant: This fic is still alive... I hate my life. Too busy and barely has time to check the mails, let alone writing something and not to mention the writer's block. *beep* *beep* *beep* and my co-writer decide to use me as the scapegoat for his new fic which was post under my name.

Anyway, this chapter is quite short compared to the other chapters and we decided to begin the Riser Arc (DxD) as well as the Nami no Kuni arc (Naruto) before revealing more about Wataru/Naruto's past.

Finally, our (Varange's and VuTrungThanh's) most sincere condolence to the family of 'broomstick flyer', one of our favorite fanfic writers and a wonderful woman who was loved by so many people, had peacefully passed away at 10 a.m, 22nd of March 2015 in UK. We sincerely thank you for all your wonderful works that you had created. Your name will forever be remembered in our memory. May your soul rest in peace.

broomstick flyer

? – 22nd of March, 2015

R.I.P

Chapter 9: Meeting a perverted crow, Wizard and devils, missions and the departure

[Three days later, in the early evening, Kuoh town]

"Is everything ready?" asked Kaito Daiki as Wataru along with three unconcious Fallen Angel Raynare, Millett and Kalawarner lying on the ground.

"This should be enough" said Wataru in his For Someone's Glory mutant form as he snapped his finger, making the black fog materialized around him. While Wataru was confident that both Avalon and For Someone's Glory mutant form was enough to conceal both his energy signature and his appearance, he dediced to let the black fog envelop him as a safe measure. After all, the (perverted) crow that he was going to meet didn't become the head of Grigori for nothing

"Though to be honest, I'm quite surprised that you decided to spare them after taking all the information that you could get." Said Daiki as he finished his mochi

Let out a small snort, Wataru said in a sarcastic voice

"Yeah right. Coming from a guy that had suggested Yoko-chan to 'torture' the three Fallen Angels here as well as screw their minds until they would chase after me everytime they saw me so that they could get in my pants in a 'steaming foursome kinky sex' as they had said. Thank you very much"

"Actually, I had recommended the word 'rape' but Yoko decided to change that" commented Daiki offhandedly as he ignored the twitch of Wataru's eyebrows "But seriously, why did you spare these Fallen crows?"

"Don't you already know the answer? You're strangely dull today, Daiki" asked Wataru with a raise of his eyebrows

"I have my assumption, but I also want to hear it from you" said Daiki with a shrug as he playfully spun his gun around his finger

"Given these three's... minds, not thank to you Daiki..." grumbled Wataru

"It's my pleasure!" said Daiki cheerfully with a mocked bow

"... they now can be my spies in Grigori and can help me keep an eye on Kobakiel. So, do my answers satisfy you?" continued Wataru

"Not really, to be honest." Said Daiki with a shrug of his shoulders "By the way, what about the blond nun?"

"I will give her an invitation to join our group and before you ask, I will tell her the truth about my identity as well as the death of Bible God in a later date if she agreed to join our group. Not to mention at the moment with her current state, do you really think that she could handle the truth about the death of Bible God?"

"And if she don't want to join our group?" asked Daiki with his eyebrows raised

"Then she can leave. But if she need a place to live, I will offer a room in our house" said Wataru calmly "And if she want, I can have her attended the Kuoh Academy with us. Of course, I will pay the school fees for her. After all, it's not like Goldie-sensei will care about one or two coins in the bottom of his treasure go missing anyway."

"Whatever you say. You're my boss. Oh and here, give this to the crow, tell him that it is a gift" said Daiki as he took out a small box and gave it to Wataru before the familiar dull grey veil-liked appeared "Now go and come back quickly, boss. I'm targeting a big treasure and I definitely don't want to miss it"

[Somewhere else]

"Ahhh! This is the life!" said Azazel, the head of the Grigori as he sat on the shore with his fishing rod. While he hadn't got any fishs so far but at leat now he was away from the eternal enemy of any leaders, regardless big or small: paperwork. And he had managed to finished reading a smut novel that he hadn't had many time to read.

'Maybe I should write my own series' thought the Fallen Angel as he let out some perverse giggles

"Azazel?" said an emotionless voice suddenly snapping the perverted Fallen Angel out of his thought and put him on guard while looking at Wataru in his For Someone's Glory with black clothing from head to toe and a black mask completely covered his face as well as black fog envelop his body as he stood in front of a grey veil-liked barrier.

"Who are you? How can't I sense anything from you?" ask Azazel as he tried to see through the black fog which constantly shifted Wataru's outline like an off-focus photograph that obscured his features.

"I believe these are yours" said Wataru indifferently as from the grey veil-liked behindhim, three unconcious body of Raynare, Millett and Karlawarner was dropped onto the ground before he turned back to the grey veil "Next time I hope you watch your underlings carefully or else... I will not be merciful next time..."

Suddenly, Wataru stopped right before he entered the grey veil-liked barrier, took out a small square white box and threw it to a clearly shocked Azazel

"A farewell gift from me and a friend of mine... And if I were you, I would keep an eye on a certain crow named Kobakiel... See you later, Azazel..."

With a wave of his hand, Wataru stepped in the grey veil and the grey veil disappeared without any trace. A few second later, Azazel snapped out of his shock and checked the condition of the three female Fallen Angel only to find that they were still physically fine. As his mind turned to the small box, Azazel opened the small box only to find...

"... a button?" said Azazel curiously as he pressed the button

Unbeknown to Azazel, his personal chamber where he kept his collection of smut novels, porn magazines and anything akin to those were gradually burning to ash from the moment he pressed the button

"Serve you right" smirked a very satisfied Daiki as he also disappeared from the view. After all, how couldn't be he annoyed when the treasure he found in Azazel's personal chamber was the first porn magazine of the world?

[Timeskip, one month after the 'Holy Maiden' operation, Kuoh Airport]

"Welcome me..." said Kenzaki Kazuma as he stepped out of the taxi. If it hadn't been for his lost wallet and lost personal papers (which he suspected had been stolen by that annoying blond hair woman name Yukari), he would have arrived in Japan sooner. Taking out a letter, Kazuma opened it and re-read the short message

'Meet me at The International Cuisine Restaurant Cous Coussier. Minerva'

"Well, it's time to meet Minerva-sama." Said Kazuma as he picked up his suitcase and after making sure that there was no one around, he summoned his motorbike and drove away .

Though if The Ace of Dark Kiva had looked around him more carefullly, he would have noticed a small black gap above his head before it could vanish without a trace.

[Meanwhile, Kuoh Academy, After School]

In the ORC's clubroom, a very distress Rias Gremory could be seen sitting in her chair behind her desk as the Gremory heiress's mind was still deep in her own problems.

Yesterday, Rias had received a letter from her family informing her that today, her idotic Onii-sama's Queen, Grafia Lucifuge and her Lucifer-damned womanzing bastard arranged fiance Riser was going to the human world and 'visit' her in order to 'push' her marriage and just thinking about the way that Lucifer-damned son of the bitch would leer at her was more than enough to made Rias want to explode and destroy anything in front of her eyes.

But unluckily for the redhead, destroying things wouldn't make her problem solve itself and Rias was in a very desperate time now. Unless Rias succeeded in challenging Riser in a Rating Game for her freedom, the redhead would have no chance to change her fate... While her peerage was inexperienced, Rias was confident in her adorable servants's abilities and powers, especially Issei who had managed to finally fully awaken his Booster Gear, one of the Longinus-tier Sacred Gear, 2 weeks ago. And not to mention that she could ask for some help from Wataru's group as the redhead was confident that Wataru would accept to help her.

But to be honest with herself, Rias wished If only she could have the blond nun named Asia Argento as her Bishop, who had moved in Wataru's household and started attending the Kuoh Academy one week after the incident at her now dead client house, she would be more confident in her winning possibility. The former nun's Sacred Gear, Twilight Healing would be a very great help since it could heal nearly every wounds or injuries.

And speaking of her mysterious classmate, Kurenai-Pendragon Wataru. No matter how hard Rias had tried, she couldn't come up with any plausible explainations for how Wataru could be the mysterious man who had appeared in her dream and rescued the infant named Naruto or what kind of connection between the brunette and the blond infant. All the pieces she had just refused to fit with each other and it was so Lucifer-damned frustrating! And not to mention how easy Wataru had destroyed the barrier with a strange crimson spear a few days ago, too. It was more than enough to prove the power Wataru possessed could easily make Rias's Power of Destruction look pale in comparision.

Moreover, if Wataru was really the mysterious man in her dream then it also meant the Holy Sword in her dream, Galatine: The Reborn Sword of Victory, was also in Wataru's posession! Just how much power did her mysterious classmate have under his sleeves?

Letting out a long sigh, Rias massaged her temples in order to try to sooth her stress as she tried not to slammed her head onto the table. Just what had she done to deserve this fate?

"You seem troubled" came the voice of Sona as Rias's childhood friend along with Rias's Queen stepped in the room

"Thank you for the obvious statement" said Rias sarcastically as she gave her childhood friend as well as her rival an annoying looked "And what honor do I have to receive a visit from the kaichou right before I have to meet my so Lucifer-damned 'fiance' ?"

Without being fazed by Rias's sarcastic attitude, Sona just continued with her usual profesional tone with her left eyebrow slightly rose

"Don't tell me that you forgot that Wataru-kun had said that he would come here since he had some important things that need to inform us?"

"Oh, right..." said Rias absently as her mind slowly remembered about the mysterious brunette's sudden request. Judging from how serious Wataru looked, Rias could guess that no matter what kind of reason for this sudden request, it must be very important as well as urgent.

"Ufufufu, maybe Wataru-sama had noticed the change and want to know why you seemed so aloof recently, Buchou-sama" said Akeno with some giggles and Rias shot her Queen with an annoying look. After the 'incident' at the murdered client's house or more precisely, watching Wataru maimed the exiled exorcist Freed Salzen, Akeno had been acting more and more seductive toward Wataru to the point that now the rumors that Wataru and Akeno were in relationship with each other were spreading like fire. And anyone could easily guess how annoyed Rias felt and how angry Aoko was everytime the Gremory heiress and the second-year 'bishoujo princess' heard that.

Wait.

Suddenly, her flow of thought was halted by another thing that clicked in her mind and filled her eyes with horror.

Kurenai-Pendragon Wataru was going to come here THE SAME TIME Grayfia and that Lucifer-damned bastard Riser Phenex would come here! If She didn't do anything, Wataru might think that she had agreed to his request in order to trick him and revealed the existence of his group! And with Rias's mind now was too overloaded to think clearly, she couldn't come up with any good solutions in order to prevent the meeting now!

And before Rias's mind could come up with anything, a red magic circle appeared in the Occult Research clubroom and a certain silver hair maid appeared after the crimson light finally die down.

"Rias-sama" said the silver hair maid before her eyes turned to the Sitri heiress "... And Sona-sama? What are you doing here?"

[At the same time, Wataru's inner world]

"... So, tomorror is the day huh? The day we come back to our old homeworld" said Sukouru in an amused tone, his eyes never left the setting sun as he now was sitting on the grass with his back leant against the flat side of a random sword while standing next to him was no other than Wataru who was also looking at the setting sun of his inner world with a faraway look

"... You really have been waiting for this day, haven't you?" said Wataru pointedly.

"Of course I have!" exclaimed Sukouru with a maniacal laugh "I can't wait to see our former so-called family in misery and make them pay for what they have done to us! Ahh, just thinking about using Torashinai to beat our former so-called sisters until those two are turned into two masochi..."

"For Root's sake, just stop right there Sukouru. I have no desire to know any of your sadistic fantasies" sighed Wataru as now he knew why his sadistic inner self liked Akeno so much. Just thinking about what would happen if Akeno and Sukouru met each other in the real life send a shiver down Wataru's spine.

"Your loss" said Sukouru dismissively as Wataru scrunched his nose at his inner self "Anyway, don't you have to meet the redhead and that Meganekko? And are you really going to have our newest member accompany Yoko and Aoko? And when will you tell her the truth about the death of the Bible God as well as the real history?"

Massaging the bridge of his nose, Wataru said tiredlythough he couldn't help but chuckle at the nickname Sukouru had given to Sona, Meganekko

"I have already asked Haruto to tell Rias and Sona about our group's short trip. And about Asia-chan, I don't have many choice. Asia-chan surely couldn't go with Souji and Minato since their mission will be very dangerous. And meeting with Oni as well as the Shinto Faction may be too much for her. And finally, compared to going to a world of ninja where it is to kill or to be killed, meeting The White Princess of the True Ancestor along with The Princess of the Dead Apostles and The Beast of Gaia is much more easier. I have also thought about asking Rias or Sona to watch out for her but after hearing about the identity of the devil who caused Asia-san's banishment from Daiki, I couldn't risk it. After all, Rias's and Sona's group have their own business and they couldn't watch over Asia-san all the time"

"Ah, now that you mention it. Diodora Astaroth, the heir of Astaroth Clan and another new name in our 'Need to be Judged' list." Said Sukouru with a maniacal glint in his eyes "I wonder what Noble Phantasm should we use in order to castrate him before we judge him? Nine Lives... Nah, too overkill. Arondight... Nah, his filthy blood doesn't even deserve to stain a copy of sword... Balmung... Nah, may cause too much attention...Ah yes! Merodach the Original Sin! It has been a while since the last time we use it and I can't wait to use it again! Wait! I can..."

Before Sukouru could finish his sentence, a harisen appeared in Wataru's hand and Wataru used it to smack onto Sukouru's head

"No, I'm not in the mood as well as have no intention to fight you. Anyway, I'm leaving." Said Wataru tiredly "Until the day we 'judge' Diodora Astaroth, you better prepare and I may let you out for a short while."

"Only a short while? Oh, come on! At least give me a day! I want to eat ramen as much as I want! Not only one bowl a day like how you have been eating! And you haven't answered my last question! " complained Sukouru only to be ignored as Wataru disappeared "Damn it, sometimes I really hate my other self!"

[Ten minutes later]

"... Ugh... Why do I have to do this? Oh right, because Daiki is on the 'vacation'. 'Vacation' my ass. More like 'Treasure hunting/ stealing'." Grumbled Haruto as he munched his last plain sugar doughnut while walking to the old building where the Occult Research Club was put in.

Though Haruto wasn't prepared to find himself somehow couldn't move toward the old building anymore. Frowning, Haruto raised his hand up into the air in front of him only to find an invisible barrier was blocking his path.

'That's strange. Why is there a barrier here? And why bother to put it when Wataru had asked to meet Gremory-san after school?' thought Haruto inwardly. Looking around cautiously in order to make sure that there was no one else around, Haruto took out a ring which had a black gemstone on it and put it onto his right middle finger. Raising his right hand toward the barrier, Haruto chanted mentally

'Connect, Please'

Suddenly, a red magic circle appeared in front of Haruto and attached itself onto the barrier and the Wizard casually walk through the barrier via his magic circle before it disappeared into the air. Though before he could continue, Haruto's sense quickly picked up many unfamiliar energy signatures beside the signatures of Rias's peerage and Sona Sitri which made Haruto's frown deepen. Perhaps they were having guests, wondered Haruto. As the curiousity took over his mind, Haruto quietly approached the door of the ORC clubroom and tried to hear the conversations between Rias's peerage and the 'guests'

"Really? You would give me 10 days to train? Are you mocking me, Riser?" the voice of Rias Gremory quickly reached Haruto's ears and Haruto could tell that frustration was building up in her voice which meaned whatever was happening in the room was very far from pleasant. And who was 'Riser'?

"Is it humiliating?" now came an unknown and very arrogant voice Haruto assumed that belonged to 'Riser'. "Believe me when I said I wanted to fight you right now but that wouldn't be any interesting. Just because your peerage has large potential doesn't mean that your peerage is powerful and to be honest, I doubt the handicap I gave you would make any difference with the result of our Rating Game. "

The arrogant type, thought Haruto in disdain. From what he had heard, Haruto could hazard a guess that Rias was going to participate in a Rating Game with this 'Riser' and she was given ten days to train and prepare thanked to the arrogance of this 'Riser' person. Well, it seemed the responsibilty now all fell to the Student Council, thought Haruto.

"Who's there?" suddenly, a sharp voice echoed to Haruto's ears as the Wizard could feel the silence in the room as well as an unnoticeable chilling air was coming toward him. After a quick second weighing his options, Haruto decided to play dumb for the time being

'At least I don't have to knock the door' thought Haruto dryly as he turned the door handle and opened the door

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Rias was terrified.

After all, how could she not when Grayfia had detected someone was standing outside and immediately her mind, which had been trying to restrain herself from lashing out at her Lucifer-damned womanizing bastard fiance for touching her while Sona could only send her a sympathy look, quickly changed to a certain brunette and his reaction when he saw many unfamiliar devils as well as her 'fiance'. But much to the redhead's surprise, relief and confusion, the clubroom door opened only revealed a frowning Souma Haruto standing there instead of Kurenai-Pendragon Wataru.

But the thing surprised Rias the most was the very brief moment when Haruto looked at the silver hair maid Grayfia Lucifuge before his attention returned to her and Sona. In just that very brief moment, Rias could see both the surprise and the calculating look appeared in Haruto's eyes before it disappeared.

It felt like as if Haruto recognized Grayfia. But how? Had Haruto met the silver hair maid before? But Grayfia showed no sign of recognizing Haruto. Turning her head toward her childhood friend/rival, Rias could see that the gears of Sona's mind was running hundreds miles per hour judging from her surprising and thoughtful look. On her right side, Riser was having a disgusted look as if something akin to trash or sh*beep*t was standing in his sight and this made Rias narrowed her eyes

"Who are you? And what's your business here?" asked Grayfia in her usual monotone voice but anyone could feel the edge in her voice.

But much to Rias's as well as everyone's surprise, Haruto just simply IGNORED the silver maid.

He just IGNORED the Ultimate Queen.

He just simply IGNORED the Queen of Annihilation as if she wasn't present in the first place!

As if not noticing the surprising look on everyone's face, Haruto took out from his blazer eight envelops and gave said envelops to Sona as he started speaking.

"Rias-san, Kaichou-san, our group will leave the town for ten days. These are notices for our absence. In the meantime, I hope your groups will look after the town until we came back"

Shocked.

That was the word could describe the state of Rias right now as she felt like the world around her started breaking apart. And her childhood friend wasn't any better if the shocked looked on her face indicated anything.

Wataru's group was leaving!

Her Wataru-kun was going to leave! Why this time? The questions just kept dancing wildly in Rias's mind as her plan to ask for some training from Wataru now crumbled to dust.

"Okay, My job is done here. See you later then." Not waiting for Rias's and Sona's reply, Haruto turned to the door, though Issei stopped him before he could open the door

"Wait! I remember now! You are Souma Haruto, one of those uprising Casanova bastards! And you are the one appeared in the Stray Devil hunt last time and sucked something out from the Stray Devil's head!" yelled Issei as the Sekiryuutei pointed his index finger at the Haruto

"Yes, that's me" deadpanned Haruto as his eyebrows twitched in annoyance. And before Haruto could leave the room, he was stopped... again, though this time, it was a massive fireball thrown at his defenseless back that did the deed.

"RISER! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST DO?"shouted Rias in anger and horror. That damned bastard had just attacked Haruto, a friend of her Wataru-kun!

"Clean some trash." Sneered Riser hatefully as Akeno quickly tried to extinguish the flame with some water spells "No one will gonna miss one or two pieces of trash..."

But before Riser could finish his speech, a sharp voice echoed throughout the room

"Oh dear, and now I am just a trash" said Haruto mockingly as a red magic circle appeared and sucked all the flame into it, revealing a totally unharmed Haruto "Oh well, then I bet that no one would remember a Phenex scum like you."

'Water: Torrent, Please'

Suddenly, many blue magic circles appeared around Riser and from all of them, torrents of water shot out at Riser but instead of falling to the ground after hitting the arrogant Phenex, the water kept flowing in the air and literally trapped Riser in a huge water pillar. A few second later, a spike of power shot out from the pillar of water as the water started boiling and slowly evaporated, making a thick fog spread out in the ORC clubroom. Rias could see that Riser was clearly trying to use his own fire in order to evaprate the water pillar away.

"Shouichi-san and Souji-san once told me that the most delicious food in the universe was the 'fresh air'. Though ironically, not many people could notice how delicious it is until they don't have any more air to enjoy." Said Haruto calmly while the water torrents kept pouring water to replace the water that had been evaporated and keeping the water pillar at bay "A normal human can live three minutes without air. Let's see how long a Phenex like you can last with your so-called 'imortality'? And I advice you to find a way to get out instead of wasting your magic reserve or else... you won't have enough to sustain your pathetic life even if you manage to get out of my pillar."

"Riser-sama!" Finally got out of their shock, Riser's peerage members jumped at Haruto with their weapons ready to attack Haruto or at least make him lose his focus and free their 'King'. Though before Rias's peerage and Sona could intervene, Haruto just lazily raised his right hand toward his attackers

'Water: Bind, Please'

In a blink of eyes, chains made from water shot out from the magic circles that had appeared earlier and firmly restrained every of his attackers.

"Sorry for the uncomfortable feeling but I hate to beat girl, even if it's self-defence." Said Haruto in a somewhat annoyed tone "Anyway, I'm leaving"

But much to Haruto's dismay, he was stopped... again and this time, it was by Grayfia after she stopped the torrents of water and the liquid chains by freezing them and pulled a near-fainted choking Riser out of the water pillar. After snapping out of her shock from the display of Haruto's power, Rias made a mental note to find a similar way to cut off the air so that she could choke the panting bastard 'fiance' in the Rating Game

"Stop. Who EXACTLY are you? What are the intention of your and this 'group' of yours?" asked Grayfia in her monotone voice yet left no room for excuse and made Rias, Sona as well as every devil in the room froze in fear due to the aura that was leaking out from the Ultimate Queen.

But once again, much to the young devils's shock, Haruto just shot Grayfia an emotionless look as if the aura didn't even faze him before he said in his trademark deadpanned snarl

"REALLY? That good-for-nothing pervert had just literally shouted my name one minute ago and now you asked me who EXACTLY I am?" on the side, Issei started crying anime-tears as Koneko looked at said pervert in disgust

Before Grayfia could say anything, wings of flame had appeared on Riser's back as the Phenex's heir dashed toward Haruto with his body now literally on fire

"I will fucking kill you, you human trash!" roared Riser hatefully as he tried to land a hit on Haruto but this time, Haruto just simply side-stepped the incoming attacked before he rammed his right fist into Riser's stomach

'Sleep, Please'

With a small flash of light, the body of Riser immediately went limp and dropped to the floor as Haruto shot another annoyed look at the arrogant blond male before he went to the door only to be stopped by Grayfia... again, who caught Haruto's sleeve firmly

"You still haven't answered my questions, Souma Haruto-san" said Grayfia in a voice that made all the devils stepped back in fright. Despite her monotone voice, even Issei could feel an unspoken threat in the silver hair maid's speech "Who EXACTLY are you? No normal human could have the kind of power that you just demonstrated."

But again, much to the devils's shock, Haruto just swatted Grayfia's hand away before he said in a voice that clearly showed how very annoyed Haruto was right now

" You want answer? Fine! Then I will give you one: Sode fureau mo Tashou no En./ It must be a bond from before that caused our sleeves to brush against each other."

With that, Haruto opened the door and left the clubroom before he forcefully slammed the door closed, making some small cracks appeared on the wooden door. And it took nearly a full minute that felt like eternity for the young devils in the room snapped out of their shock as Sona decided to break the heavy silence

"... Did he just... flirt with her?" said Sona with uncertainty lacing in her voice

"... I... don't think so..." said Rias as she was also flabbergasted by Haruto's action. Really, the Gremory heiress couldn't help but wonder how large Haruto's guts was to confront Grayfia Lucifuge like that. Even though he might not know the silver hair maid, the fact that he shrugged of the silver hair maid's aura was not something a normal person could do so easily like that.

And more importantly, why couldn't she shake off the feeling that she had heard Haruto's sentence somewhere before?

"Grayfia..." said Rias as she turned to the silver hair only to be shocked as anything she intended to say died on her lips when the redhead saw the reactions of The Ultimate Queen of the Underworld.

In front of Rias as well as other young devils in the room, the usual calm, cold and nearly emotionless Queen of Annihilation was completely gone and now the eyes of the head maid of the Gremory Castle were wide opened as her hands raised near her lips which kept opening and closing without any sound escaped her throat until her shaking knees seemed couldn't handle the weight of her body anymore and Grayfia fell to the floor on her knees.

And in that time, all the young shocked devils in their head, there was only one question

'Just... what the hell just happened?...'

[Timeskip, that night]

"... I see..." mused Wataru in silence after Haruto had finished telling him about his confrontation with Grayfia Lucifuge in the afternoon as Souji, Minato, Eiji, Shouichi, Aoko and Yoko sat in silence while Asia was looking somewhat nervous. While Wataru wouldn't blame Haruto for what he had done in his self-defence, this might would make thing a little more complicated than he had expected

"... Um... Wataru-san, who is this... Grayfia Lucifuge? Do you know her?" asked Asia timidly. After a month since the time she had agreed to join Wataru's group, the former nun was still very shy and innocent as well as fairly inexperienced in things like socializing. And what amazed Wataru most was that she harbored no hate towards Devils and treated everyone equally, regardless of what they were. Though the shy blond girl could be quite guillible and sometimes it was much worse than when Eiji was tricked into doing something stupid.

And now Wataru had more reasons to blame the meatbags that called themselves 'priests' of the Catholic Church.

"Ah, well yes... you could say that I know her Asia-san..." said Wataru haft-truth with a reassuring smile before he remembered another thing. Maybe after this trip, he would tell her about the death of the Bible God, which he couldn't bring himself to do it everytime he saw her still followed every words of the teachings and prayed to God as well as read the Bible, which Wataru considered was nothing more than a waste of good papers. Wataru knew one thing for sure that when Asia knew that the Bible God was dead, she would most likely collapsed on her spot from the shock.

But then again, the truth, no matter how unpleasant it was when it broke the illusions of others, was still better than the illusion that had deceived the eyes of other for too long. It was better that way, thought Wataru to himself.

"... Anyway, Asia-chan. Have you ever gone to Napoli?" asked Wataru suddenly as he decided to drive the story to the other direction

"... Um... No..." answered Asia in her usual timid way "... All the time when I was brought up, I mostly stayed in the church... so I rarely went outside..."

Nodding his head in understanding, Wataru continued

"Then you should go prepare. Tomorror, you, Aoko-chan and Yoko-chan will go to Napoli"

"Really?" asked Asia as her eyes shone with excitement before a frown appeared on her face "But... only us? What about you and everyone else?"

"I'm very sorry but we can't come" said Wataru with an apologetic smile

"But... but I want you and everyone to go with us, too." Said Asia sadly "It's not fair for you"

"Don't worry, Asia-chan" said Wataru with another reassuring smile that made Asia blush "I promised you that I would bring you to see a special place, didn't I? Not to mention in this trip you are going to meet three friends of mine and I believe that they will like you immediately. It's your dream to make more friends and see new places, right?"

"Yes... I want to make more friends and see new places..." mumbled Asia softly

"Then what are you waiting for? Go and prepare and enjoy the trip." Smiled Wataru and Yoko and Aoko pushed the hesistant blond girl to their respective rooms to prepare

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...What?" asked Wataru as the other males looked at him pointedly after the girls exited the room

"... What about our vacation?" asked Haruto

"Sorry, not today." Said Wataru nonchalantly as the Wizard scowled "Anyway, main business. Shouichi and Haruto, you two are going to meet the Shinto Faction in order to discuss about our alliance with them..."

"I expect a vacation after this" grumbled Haruto as Wataru turned to Eiji

"Eiji, you are going to meet the Oni. I trust you can take care of this?"

"I can take care of it. Don't worry about me, Wataru. Moreover, it has been quite a time since the last time I met Hibiki-san so this should be fun." said Eiji assuringly

"Souji and Minato. Before I go into the detail of your task, I want you two have these." said Wataru as two small golden portals appeared in front of Souji and Minato and dropped out a sword and a small axe onto the table.

"... Nihil weapons" said Minato quietly as his eyes just kept staring at the sword while Souji picked up the small axe and started examinated it

"Yes, Nihil weapons. Weapons which seek form and wish to become real. To become something legendary. You may need those" Said Wataru calmly as his eyes turned serious "Also, in this mission, you will have my permission to use your Royal Form: Hyper, Souji. "

"... Wow, just how hard this mission can be that you want Minato to accompany me, give us Nihil weapons and even let me use my Royal Form, Wataru? " asked Souji with his voice full of interest.

With a sigh, Wataru took out a file and passed it to Souji, whose eyebrows raised a little bit after reading the file while Minato just skimmed through the file with his usual apathy look.

"My obaa-chan said: 'Chase two birds, and you catch two birds'. And I must say you are aiming at quite large birds there, Wataru" said Souji with an odd smile on his face.

"Yes. Tendou Souji and Arisato Minato, your mission this time is a Rescue mission. Your target is Valerie Tepes, a Dhamphir of the House of Tepes and the possessor of the Sephiroth Grail. You must make sure that there will be ABSOLUTELY no trace of yours left behind. Also, if the situation is safe enough, I want you to take down her bastard brother, Marius Tepes. The sooner that bastard die, the better. But pleases remember, Valerie's safety will always be the top priority. Are you two clear?"

"One question: What about the son of the Original Lucifer?" asked Souji as he gave the file back to Wataru "This file said that Marius Tepes would have a meeting with him soon. Do you want to take him down too?"

Suddenly, the air in the room went cold as Wataru's eyes turned crimson right after Souji mentioned 'the son of the Original Lucifer'.

"While I have no doubt in your strength and abilities, Rizevim Livan Lucifer is still not someone who you can have a chance to win... yet, Kabuto. After all, he is not a Super Devil for nothing." said Wataru in his demonic voice as the silhouette that Rias had seen in the first meeting appeared behind him "But more importantly... he's my responsibility, my KILL. My tou-san had made mistake by letting him live, so now... it's MY responsobility to fix that mistake... Anyway, the meeting is over now. You guys go prepare for your missions... And I also need to prepare for my own trip..."

"... You're going back to there" said Minato which sounded more like a statement than a question

"Yes... I will go back to my former homeworld... The Elemental Nations..." said Wataru in a chilling tone "No matter how much I loathe that world as well as quite a number of 'people' there... There're still innocent humans in that world deserve to be saved... No matter what, I will not let my hatred cloud my judgement and let the innocent receive a fate that is much worse than Death."

(Chapter end)

Author's note: The next update will be The Ring Wizard Champion and Naruto Musou revised... at least that's the plan... Anyway, please read and review! We authors live by your reviews after all!