Chapter 19: New Journey

After finishing the final adjustments to the Crimson Order, they decided to take a rest for a bit before going back to Orario. This gave Bell some time to ask the master smith himself on how can he create something on this level.

Normal POV.

It was almost night so they've decided to set up a small fire where they can sit around while cooking their food before traveling back to Orario again. Bell seeing that this is the perfect opportunity decided to ask O-Etsu.

"Um.. Mind if I ask you something? O-Etsu-san?" The boy asked while eyeing the lively smith who's practicing his rapping skills.

"Just call me Etsu boyya! Anyway, what is it?" He answered his gaze with his own and he can see it clearly that he's very curious on something about him.

"How did you create such an amazing weapon like this? The only one I saw who creates this kind of weapons is Hephaestus-sama herself, and she was known for her godly works as the greatest blacksmith even in Tenkai." He returned his gaze to the small fire in the middle.

"I see, well when I saw your reaction earlier. I had a hunch that my former goddess already made a weapon of this calibur for ya, but there is still some differences between her work and mine. For example, just cooling mine off takes a huge amount of effort like plunging it into water. Unlike hers, just one soft blow of air is enough to bring the shape and design of the weapon in display. Because she can handle the power of her forged weapons unlike me who needs the user themselves to finish it... But this one is for sure, that sword in your grasp is my best work so far. I can confidently say that it can stand up to one of her divine works." The man then laughed while tapping Bell's shoulders.

"Somehow feel like I'm the weirdo here even though it's the exact opposite " He sweat dropped before looking at the sword he's currently holding.

Astrea then called out to the two for them to eat dinner and after finishing their food. Bell and Astrea began their journey back to Orario again.

It was almost dawn when they've arrived and the gates just opened so there is not that much of people entering and exiting, this made their way in easier since there are also very few Ganesha Familia members.

That's what Bell thought before he saw a familiar looking beautiful women with short blue hair and eyes that's looking straight at their direction.

"Shakti-san..!!?? " he screamed in his thoughts as he saw the women walking straight his and Astrea's direction while eyeing them suspiciously.

Bell's POV

"You two, please wait a second. We're doing some inspections right now because of some troublesome adventurers... I know it's inconvenient for you but please obey us and let us take a look at your things." She said while holding a hand out, demanding us to turn our bags and other possessions to her.

I don't know why but for some reason, I'm a little bit nervous because who knows. I'm currently bringing a weapon right now and I might be accused of something but before I could hand over my belongings. My goddess showed her a letter with a seal.

After reading the letter, Shakti-san went to her god Ganesha-sama and showed the letter to him and after finishing it. He gave us both a thumbs up with a huge grin and his childs let us in finally.

We then walked passed Shakti-san but while walking beside her, she whispered something that caught me off guard all of a sudden.

"I look forward on working with you" She said gently as she continues guarding the gates.

Me and my goddess continued our walk towards our temporary home in daedalus street before calling it a day until we saw a green haired elf in a waitress running towards our direction. This surprised Kami-sama since she recognized who is it but she held herself back from calling her out.

"Ka-"

"No Bell, this is not the right time yet. So please let us be on our way..." I saw tears on her eyes but decided to just leave it alone for now, I know it's painful to watch someone you love from far away. Not being able to interact with them, not even a simple hello or smile. Just nothing.

We then arrived at our home and at last can finally relax but tears in her eyes won't just stop until a few minutes later.

"Instead of worrying about things that can wait until later, we should focus on you getting stronger first. Since your magic is pretty famous by being the fastest and easiest to use, you'll be forbidden to use it until we can reveal who you are. Instead, you'll have to learn another type of magic connected to your skill 'Blood of Jupiter'. I'll talk to Fels about that matter so for the time being, go to the middle floor and try to reach the safety point by the day. Since Ouranus said he'll assist us, I'm sure he'll send Fels to assist you before returning to the surface and camping on the 18th floor." She then wiped her tears away and suggested that we start things, it turns out that being the way I am now won't even budge the remnants of Evilus out there since they control bunch of those eerie monsters Lefiya-san and I fought in the 18th floor. Not only that but they also have some strong level 3 to level 5 adventurers hiding in the shadows.

"The battle ahead of us will be a hard one especially since you're the only one we can send out to stop them for the time being. But fear not, Loki Familia will be there during your missions to sometimes distract them and act as a vanguard for you until you reach them. And we can also take advantage of your skill Liaris Freese for this matter." She pointed a finger on my chest and smiled gently at me.

Sensing my confusion, my beautiful goddess spoke again. And she used my under cover status to boost my determination on training and learning a new fighting style and magics.

"You want to see her again right...?" She whispered to me.

"Yes" I nodded to her and gave her a determined look.

"Then think about her everytime you step inside the dungeon, the more you got stronger. The more you can eliminate the threat to our peace. And when the threat is gone, we no longer have to hide ourselves in the shadows. We can finally be together with the people we love. You can reunite with her once again."

Her words struck me like Ottarl-san's punches. It really gave me the boost in my emotions.

"You're right, Kami-sama. So when can I start?"

"Tonight at 10 pm, since the number of the adventurers entering and exiting the dungeon are very few and sometimes none. You can enter with no worries and you can just climb up again after a day." She then gave me a smile and excused herself.

I noticed her eyes and how dull and tired it looked. I suggested that she should sleep and rest for the day and let me do all the housework for now but she turned it down.

"Bell, I can't let you do all the work" She said worriedly to me and I'm happy to know that she's concerned about me but I insisted.

"No, Kami-sama. Remember that I have a Falna now, and I'm pretty strong to so please don't worry about me and take a rest. This is nothing." I smiled gently to her as I put my hands on her shoulders.

She then returned my smile before agreeing with me.

Few Months Later.

Aki's POV.

it's been a few months since Bell left the city. I'm sure he's okay but I can't help but be worried about him since I don't know where to send letters since he never gave us his address in his letter.

It's hard to not see him running around the city or the dungeon middle floors. But I slowly got used to it with the help of Riveria-san and the others and now. I'm doing my everyday tasks like always.

I do remember him from time to time but since I have no time to be worried about him because we're too busy on investigating a path that we discovered recently that we suspect as another entrance to the dungeon.

"Aki, Rau-no. Aiz, I need to ask you two a favor." The captain almost insinctively called out for Raul before correcting himself. I guess me moving up to being an executive is still not a normal thing for him but when I look at Raul. He seems more oblivious of the fact.

"Eh? Why not me captain? I mean, we always take orders from you all the time so why the sudden change of mind now?" He said before being reminded by the captain that executive are partnered with a fellow executive.

"O-Oh I see..." He then left the scene with a very depressed look on his face.

Narvi tried to not laugh at this matter but her wide grin won't hide the fact that she finds his depression funny. But being the good one, Alicia got a little angry at her for laughing at their fellow member.

"Aki, let's go. Finn's waiting for us." Aiz snapped me out of it as she taps my shoulders. Turning my attention away from my friends.

I followed her as she walks towards the captain's room. We knocked three times before hearing him say "Come in" and after that, we entered the room and saw an unbelievable amount of papers again but this time, it's twice as tall as Riveria-san.

"As you can see, I'm quite busy here so I'll be brief. Investigate the Daedalus Street today. Just the two of you and return here for report at exactly 8 pm. You are free to to take a break at 12 noon and eat but be sure to return again before the clock hits 2 pm understand?"

""Yes!""

"Then please go. Thank you two." He smiled at us before we exit the room with mountain of paper works. Aiz eyed me briefly as soon as we go out before speaking up.

"Do you miss Bell?" She asked me suddenly. It almost caught me off guard but I'm expecting this kinds of questions to pop up here and there but not from her. She's an airhead after all.

"Yes. In fact if I can, I want to send him a letter if I know his address but sadly that's not the case." I smiled gently as we continued our walk towards our home's exit.

We continue to chat and talk about some silly stuffs including Raul's attempts to get close on me recently. This got me thinking all of a sudden of why would he do that.

"I wonder what's going on inside his head? I can understand if he's still getting used to it like the captain but he's mentioning it and complaining about how I became ahead of him on being an executive. "

"I think he likes you. Raul I mean." Her words stopped me from thinking for a whole minute there before I can speak again. I never expect her to say something like that.

"h-huh...? How can you say that?" I stuttered as I slowly began to imagine him and me being in THAT kind of relationship. And the more I think about it, the more that it doesn't look that bad. Maybe if I'm not in love with someone right now. I would probably end up with Raul or who knows. Maybe in a parallel universe we were seeing each other.

But before I could get anymore weird ideas, I brought out a new topic for Aiz and even though she looks like usual, I knew for sure that she's also concerned about him since she trained him before.

"By the way. Don't you also miss Bell? I mean you became pretty close to the point where you trained him before our expedition." I asked the doll princess in front of me who looks passive as always.

"I don't know, but I feel like it just doesn't feel like usual without him being chased around." She said nonchantly and I kinda agree with her this time since he's a magnet for all kinds of odd things.

After exiting our home and arriving shortly at the Daedalus Street. We noticed something different, the usual quiet and ghost town like atmosphere was gone and was replaced by lively chatter of the residents. It's a good thing to see but it's not usually like this which sets me on alert.

"Aiz, something isn't right here. Let's ask the residents on what happened here and why do all people look so happy."

We walked around and shortly found a group of kids playing around happily, and since kids doesn't lie in some matters, we decided to ask them out on what's happening here.

It turns out that there is a mysterious male adventurer who's living here are giving money to the poor residents of this area. Money with a large amount for each family and the amount was enough to sustain them for 3 months or so. They said that this man was so kind and cheerful but he never showed them his face, not even once which sounds weird.

"Um, can you give me more details about this handsome onii-chan you speak of?" I asked the little girl who looks like she's enjoying talking about the unknown person.

"Um... Ah! He's always carrying a very cool looking sword! And he's always with this very very very! Beautiful lady!"

I looked at Aiz who's for the first time looks like listening to something intently. But I saw in her eyes that she's not worried about this unknown adventurer in the first place but rather about something else.

A person then suddenly appeared before us. The person was clad in pure white robe and from what I can tell from her body shape and figure. She's a women.

"haa! The beautiful lady! Hello! Are you alone today!?" The boy with red long spiky hair ran towards the lady with a huge smile on his face. A second later and everyone also ran towards her direction.

I observed her actions and nothing seems off about it. She's just speaking with the kids very kindly while gently patting their heads but what happened next is something that surprised both Aiz and me.

"Excuse me cat lady but, are you Anakitty Autumn by any chance?" Her question made us both draw our swords not noticing the scared look on the kids' faces.

"Please sheath your swords, I mean no harm. I just want to know if you are that person" I caught a glimpse of her eyes under her hood. I saw that she really just want me to answer her question.

I sheathed my sword and apologized for the kids before nodding to the mysterious lady. She then smiled at me before whispering "I see" and leaving the scene.

We continued our patrol for the day until it was already night. We decided that it's more than enough for today so we started to head back to our home.

But after arriving back there, Aiz said that she wants to go to dungeon before sleeping so Riveria-san asked me to accompany our reckless princess which I obeyed. And we arrived then at the 18th floor and decided to take a rest for abit before returning back.

18th Floor Woods (Night).

We sat down under a large tree and lit up a small fire while taking a short rest. Aiz then asked me on how does it feel to be aj executive, a thing that she should've asked months ago.

"Nothing unusual, it's just that I get to receive tougher orders from captain now and sometimes I have to go and do it alone not like before where I always have someone with me like Raul." I answered non chantilly as I unsheathed my sword and inspected the blade if it was chipped away or not.

She was about to ask me another question until we heard a huge explosion near us. We put out the fire and immediately head to the source of it and we were both surprised when we arrived at the scene.

A guy in black robe and hood was menacingly standing with his back on us while facing a large number of Violas and 5 members of what we can tell as Evilus members.

"Aiz, we'll jump in. He can't win this alone!" Aiz nodded to me and we were about to dash in until we heard the person in front of us chanting.

"Sanzai suru, kemono no hone! Sentō, kōshō, kōtetsu no sharin. Ugokeba kaze, tomareba sora. Yari utsu neiro ga kyōjō ni michiru! Hadō no 63! RAIKŌHŌ!!"

We were in awe when we saw him slashing those Violas while evading and chanting his magic all at the same time. He executed it perfectly and made it look so natural like breathing. But what surprised me was the power of that magic. It left a huge hole and destroyed that many violas in just one go.

"Who is this person!? He's no ordinary adventurer! And what was that chant!? I don't understand a single word he said earlier!! "

We stood there motionlessly, still surprised by what we saw earlier but he still have some surprise yet.

He brought out his sword and was heading towards the members of Evilus and from what I can tell, that sword is no ordinary weapon. But after taking a closer look on it, I started to notice that something is engraved on that blade, like Bell's knife.

"Who is he...?" Aiz said with eyes shot wide. And believe me, I also want to know who that incredible guy is.

The person then whispered something and a second later, his sword was suddenly covered in crimson flames and was about to slice the head of these evil doers but he stopped midway when he saw them all passed out.

"You're not going to finish them off?" I asked him as he started to carry them around and it looks like he's going to head up to the surface. An idea then came to me.

"Don't tell me he's their ally!?"

I was about to draw my sword until Aiz stopped me and asked him where he would take them. He then just simply answered "to Shakti Varma" and was about to walk off but I called him out.

"Please wait! Who are you?" I asked the mysterious person. When he turned around, I noticed his posture changed a bit. It suddenly became softer and relaxed .

"Just a simple ally of Justice"

A/N: Hello, I'm back again with another chapter.

I'm starting to focus on Aki from now on until Bell reveals who he is to everyone, I will be covering some sword Oratora volumes here and will alter some storylines from it.

And! I won't let Line die this time, this will be a spoiler for the future chapters but Bell will save him and something interesting will happen after that, but don't expect too much. Since Line won't fall in love with him. I have other plans for her just wait for it.

Anyway. As you can see, there is already another fucking Bleach ref. The Hado no.63 was the first lightning element hado I saw in the franchise and it really looked cool especially when Kukaku used it against Aizen in the Sokyoku Hill. That's why I tried to add it to the list of "Old Type" magics. And there will be more. I'll try to add some skills from other anime as well.

That's it for now, see you next time.