"Issei-kun, this is amazing! How does your apartment have this much space?" Murayama says as finishes touring his apartment.
"I told you Haruko, magic."
"You think I could do something like this in the future?"
"With enough skill and practice, yes. However right now I need you to focus on the basics. Firstly concentrate on the part of you that feels the most powerful. "
Murayama thinks hard as she concentrates, "I don't know what part feels the strongest, maybe my arms. I mean… I practice Kendo every day after school. She looks down at her arm as concentrates hard on her forearm. After a couple of minutes, it happens. Her arm ignites with flames that are pure white color.
"Looks like I was right, Haruko, you have a sacred gear."
"Sacred gear?"
"They were created thousands of years ago by the god of the christian bible to enact his miracles on earth. Yours is called Flame Shake. It allows you to create extremely hot flames that burn white. It probably also contributes to your innate ability to control fire magic."
Haruko's mother was in shock that her daughter not only had a powerful fire weapon, but was also now a devil." Haruko-dear I always knew that you were special. But this Issei guy is cute. You should make him yours.
"Mom!" Murayama says as blushes. "You're embarrassing me!"
"With all due respect Murayama-san," Issei says, turning to Haruko's mother. "I plan to make Haruko mine. She is beautiful, strong, and really smart. However she would be one of multiple women. Are you okay with that?"
Haruko responds first before her mother can." Of course I'm okay with it if I was I wouldn't have devoted my life earlier. I don't care how many other girls you get, I will stand by your side for the rest of my life."
"Well I 'll stand by my daughters decision, after all you did save both our lives."
"Right anyway seeing as you don't have a house right now, the two of you are more than welcome to stay here. Simply pick a room that does not have a name plate on it. After that you can basically will the room to anything you'd like and the magic will be able to create it."
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The following morning.
"Issei, will you really buy me some replacement clothes?"
"For the third time, yes Haruko!"
"I'm taking you out for breakfast and then we will go shopping!"
"Thank you Issei, I really appreciate…" She stops mid sentence and looks over at two people in white cloaks sitting on the street begging for money.
One of the two people was silent, but from the one that was speaking it was obvious that it was a woman. Issei can sense a faint holy aura coming from the two of them. But it didn't seem malevolent like that of a fallen angel. These two could be actual angels disguised as humans, or perhaps agents of the church. The question was why were they here and why were they begging for food?
Before Issei can even do anything Haruko is over inviting them to breakfast. Issei just sighs hoping that Haruko wouldn't come to regret her kindness. Issei walks over to the two white robed people and introduces himself as Haruko's boyfriend.
The two figures hold down their hoods revealing a woman with Cerulean blue hair that has a streak of green in its bangs, and bright golden colored eyes. The other figure is a man with chocolate colored hair, and bright pink eyes. The man introduces himself as Marco and the woman as Xenovia.
Issei couldn't help but admire Xenovia's beauty. As she introduced herself he could hear a slight Italian accent nearly identical to the one from the cute little nun. "What brings agents of the church to our humble little town?"
Xenovia looks taken aback as if she didn't expect Issei to know she was from the church."How did you kn- "
She is cut off by Issei,"know that you are agents of the church? Simple because I am a devil, and I can sense the holy aura coming off of you. "
"Xenovia, do you want me to kill this devil scum?"
"No Marco, we have a mission and killing a few devils stopping to kill a few devils will not further our goal. Second of all we can't do it in front of all these people because to them it will look like they're just cutting down an innocent person. I say we deal with this devil later and only if he gets in our way."
" I assure you," Issei responses." Neither I nor my peerage will get in your way. In fact I will even help you. We can start by treating you and your pink-eyed friend to breakfast. There is a nice little breakfast restaurant near here that I was going to treat my girlfriend to."
Issei leads Xenovia and Marco to the small little breakfast joint. Once at the table Issei says, " order anything you want, it's on me."
"Oh lord, please forgive us for accepting charity from this devil and bless the food that we are about to partake in." Xenovia and Marco say in almost complete unison.
Issei lets them have their prayers, but wonders what would happen if they knew that they were praying to someone who has been dead for thousands of years. "Welcome to Dennys, my name is Asahi and I will be your server. Can I start you off with something to drink?"
" I will have the orange mango lemonade!" Haruko says almost right away.
"Make that two!" Xenovia quickly responses
" I will simply have a brewed cup of green tea." Issei says as he looks over the menu.
Marco is the last to order his drink, " Coffee, black!"
"Give me a few and I will be back with your drinks!"
Issei looks around the room, the only other patrons of the restaurant were an older couple in the far left corner. Asahi brings a tray with our drinks on it, putting each one of our drinks in front of us. " Are we ready to order?"
" Yes I will have the breakfast sampler!" Marco blurts out.
"I'll have an omelet with bacon cheddar cheese and jalapeños!" Says Issei in much more refined manner
"I'll just have a stack of blueberry pancakes," Haruko says, looking up from her menu.
" Country fried steak with a side of chocolate chip pancakes!" Xenovia says.
"Got it! I will put those in right away for you!" Asahi says as she gathers up our menus.
After the waitress is gone, Issei looks straight at Xenovia. "So what brings agents of the church to our humble town?"
"Like we would tell you devil!" Marco snaps with an angry scowl.
"Shut it Marco!" Xenovia says smacking the man in the back of the head." It doesn't matter if these people are devils, they are kind souls who are willing to help us in our time of need. The least we can do is answer a few questions they have."
Xenovia turns to look at Issei before continuing," My name is Xenovia Quarta and this idiot here is Marco D'Angelo.
We were sent here to track down a rogue priest who was excommunicated by the church. When he left he stole a number of sacred holy objects and we are here to bring them back."
"I see," Issei says." Is there anything we can do to help? I can have my peerage help you look for these holy objects, just don't expect us to touch any of them. I mean we are devils after all."
"Right! Issei was it? You also think you could help me with one other thing, Issei?"
" If it is within my ability to help then I will do what I can."
" I'm also here looking for my best friend, her name is Irina Shidou. She disappeared a few months back while trying to gather information about the holy relics for the church."
"Irina Shidou, you say! I may be able to help with that after all I do happen to know where she is."
Xenovia's beautiful golden eyes sparkle with excitement."Where is she?!"
"Kouh Academy!" Issei says as the waitress begins to bring their food.
Once the waitress sets all of the food in front of them and leaves the conversation continues." Why would she be attending a Japanese High School?" Xenovia asks as she pours syrup onto her pancakes.
"Because, she has been reborn as devil in service to the heiress of the noble devil clan of Gremory. "
"You lying sack of shit!" Marco yells. " Irina hates devils! Their is no way she would ever become one!"
His outburst causes the old couple and a few of the workers to look over at our table. He is once again smacked by Xenovia," quiet Marco! If she became a devil than I'm pretty sure she had a good reason."
"Right! I don't know exactly what that reason is," Issei responses." But if you want I can take her to you tomorrow morning."
Xenovia nods "I would like that very much Issei!"
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"Where in the world has Kiba gotten to? He knows how important this rating game is and yet he chooses to go awol now!" Rias yells as she furiously paces the floor of the Occult Research Clubhouse.
"I doubt he would just abandon us, Rias. I'm sure he has his reasons why he is being distant. " Akeno replies as she brings tea around for everyone.
"Still though this is not like him. I want everyone out looking for him. "
"Do I have to go to Rias?" Comes a voice from inside of a cardboard box on the floor next to the couch.
"Yes Gasper, I want you searching too!" Rias replies to the cardboard box.
"But I don't want to go the outside world is scary."
Koneko looks up from the chocolate bar she was nibbling on and towards the cardboard box. "You are coming Gaspi, even if I have to drag you out by your toes. "
"Whaaa!!!!" The cardboard box shrieks as it scoots to the other side of the room." Rais! Koneko is being scary again."
"I will show you scary." Koneko replies taking another nibble from her chocolate bar.
"Koneko stop!" Irina says walking over to the box. " You know how sensitive Gasper can be. Come on out Gasper and I promise I won't let Koneko get you
"You promise, Irina." Gasper says from inside of the box.
"Yes I promise."
The box flaps slowly flip open, as the figure inside Rises up from inside the box. They are wearing the Kouh Academy of girls uniform, and look very much like a petite young girl with pointed ears and red eyes. However despite the person's appearance and choice of dress the one coming out of the box was in fact a boy.
"Come on Gasper, " Irina says grabbing his hand. " Let's go look for Kiba together okay."