Kiba Yuuto was currently in front of Rias, he had informed her about Issei Hyoudou's strange activity, he was currently standing up while he waited for his master's response. In the end Rias told him what his activity would be for the next few days. "Since we still don't know if he has knowledge of the supernatural, I am ordering you to keep a close eye on him."
This was originally Koneko's task, however, due to the disappearance of the chance of him having a sacred gear she made her stop spying on him after the weekend. "As you say, I'll be on my way then." Kiba was now in charge of finding out what happened to Issei Hyoudou, yet unknown to him he would never truly understand the change of personality that he had.
It would be a simple mission, he could either approach him and befriend him, or he could just spy on him just like Koneko used to do, either way seemed to work, the main question right now was if he was aligned with any of the factions aside from the demons, in which case it would lead to trouble.
As he left the building, Akeno commented "Seeing how much Issei has changed certainly raises many questions, but are we sure that this is necessary?" Rias responded as she seemed sure of herself. "It could be the work of the Fallen Angels, it is strange to see them in the move, yet we need to be prepared for whatever may happen, this is territory under my supervision and I must make sure nothing terrible happens."
She was also worried about her arranged marriage, she wanted a way to cancel it, yet right now she was completely cornered, in the end it was a matter of time whether or not she had enough power to be able to.
Issei was making his way through the academy, as he did, he noticed the many stares he was getting. Right, he had finally decided to go to class instead of staying inside the club room the whole time. Not knowing that it was also the fact that he had completely changed his look, only a few people noticed the change last week, but even then it wasn't this drastic.
He made his way to his class, where he kept being stared at, both of his friend Motohama and Matsuda didn't really talk to him much, it seemed like they had completely cut ties after the various times he had ignored them, and also because he knew that a few girls in the school were looking at him dreamily, which seemed weird to him. It didn't matter to him, he was not willing to enter a relationship, at least not for a long time.
The bell rang signaling the start of the class as the teacher finally entered the classroom, he felt like what he was learning was easier to understand, yet he assumed it was the fact that his stats also affected his other capacities, such as Fortitude making him stronger, Prudence making him mentally prepared, Temperance his knowledge and Justice his charisma.
And since his Temperance was incredibly high compared to the other stats, it was no surprise that he could learn stuff easily. Yet this didn't feel like it was cheating unlike using his skills to gain knowledge, speaking of which he had started to use Episemophobic's Nightmare for stuff unrelated to literature, stuff such as religion, languages and other topics, he wrote everything he could about it before deactivating the ability to then read what he wrote.
Yet he didn't know how accurate the information was. There were, in the case of religion, various contradicting points due to the testimonies, various cultural legends and such from the many mythologies and beliefs.
Issei wondered as he also wanted to know more about the system as well, what would his next story be? Given that the Literature Club was known as Story 1, it meant that there would be more to come. He also wanted to know what Justitia did, it was a gun, yes, but since it could shoot even without bullets there had to be some drawback or effect aside from that.
For the rest of the class he started paying attention to his thoughts instead.
Classes finally finished as he got up to pick everything he had to go immediately to the Literature Club room to create poems, he wouldn't do it to an excessive amount like he did before, but he wanted to practice other forms of art as well as make it his career, indeed, he had decided that he would make it his job as he truly was passionate about it.
Before he could make it out of the class, he saw as someone was standing in front of him, it was Kiba Yuuto, he had a smile on his face, wary of him, Issei inquired "It is a surprise to see you here, may I know why you're here for?" He had his smile up as well, he saw as the class around them was gushing for some reason, he didn't know why, but there was something more important right now.
Unknown to him, the class had realized that they both had the same aura around them, they were both really gentle, Issei had become similar to Yuuto in a way, as they both were pretty boys with a kind and calm nature. Kiba proceeded to respond.
"Well, it is mostly because I was told by the Student Council to check on you" This was a lie, Yuuto knew that they would have come themselves or asked him to go to their room. "But it seems like you've finally decided to come to class, I simply came to check if everything was ok."
Issei knew very well that something was up, the Student Council didn't seem like the kind of people to ask someone outside of the group to inform him, yet he kept playing along, not to be suspicious. "Sorry about that, I was too inspired to really let those ideas fade away, I've had quite a bit of experience before, and when I found out that there was an empty room that could be used, I immediately went for it."
"Well, it doesn't matter much, I only came to tell you that it shouldn't really become a habit like what you did last week." Kiba then proceeded to leave the classroom "I'll be on my way then, excuse me." He excused himself as he finally got out of there.
Kiba gained an initial impression of the new Issei now, he was hiding something at least, that smile he put on was not one out of kindness but as a mask to hide what their true intentions were, and he knew that Issei noticed.
Issei was left there standing, weird, he never interacted with Yuuto much before, this was possibly the first interaction he had with him, and if it wasn't then the first non negative interaction he had. He finally got up as the rest of the class was confused on what they had just watched, especially Motohama and Matsuda as they saw their former friend act nicely to their number one enemy.
"No way..." Matsuda started whispering "Issei has become an ikemen..." Motohama was shocked to see the most perverted one out of the three throw aside their alliance and simply move on with life. They both felt betrayed.
"Oooh, this makes things interesting.'' Kiryuu was interested in this development, what made Kiba Yuuto interact with Issei? She spent her perverted mind thinking of many possibilities but there wasn't really anything set in stone.
While everyone else kept whispering to each other, Issei saw this as his time to leave the scene. As he did, he saw that the system gave him a new message. It seemed like a Story was created, as he continued to read, he got near the Literature Club, but stopped as he kept reading.
Issei was looking at the system as if he wanted to strangle it, this story... no whatever this was, he wanted nothing to do with, he refused to be part of whatever story this was going to become, and he was about to bang his head on the wall as he saw what his role was.
A new story has been created
Information: The prince of the academy has taken an interest in you, who is known as the perverted beast of the academy, as you've turned a new leaf, it has unfolded a story where two unlikely characters become incredibly intimate with each other.
Genre: BL
Role: Love Interest
"Are you fucking kidding me" Issei wanted to die, he did not swing that way, and he would never. Right after saying goodbye to his first girlfriend forever, the system seemed to mock him. He had to accept that this was his life now, he was now forced to be whatever the system wanted him to.
But maybe it didn't have to be this way.
Just like with the Literature Club, maybe the story wasn't like it is supposed to be, maybe there is a twist. Issei was looking for any way possible to not end up with Yuuto. It was simply him coping with the situation, bargaining to see if there was a way out of it.
Thankfully there was no quest given, so he could just maybe ignore the story and move on until it gave him a quest, and he would try anything to find a loophole to avoid it. He left the Literature Club room as he didn't feel like he wanted to try making anything there, this notification really left him with a sour taste in his mouth. He left the Academy and decided to stroll around a bit to gain a bit of inspiration.
He made his way to the park, he remembered when he finally got home that night after completing his first story, his parents were worried sick as they went to hug him, he knew now that they really loved him, and he promised them that he wouldn't do something this again, that he would tell them both when he was going to be outside of the house for long periods of time.
He saw the abandoned church far away and wondered what it looked like. He wanted to see what it was, but something else caught his eye.
There was another church, one that seemed newer, with a gray coloring to it, and that it was never there in the first place, it hid behind the abandoned church so many people wouldn't notice it, in fact it looked like a big shadow, Issei took it as a sign that he was supposed to be in that new church and went towards it.
It was much farther than he thought.
The church looked like it was the size of the abandoned one, yet as he got closer he realized that it was incredibly far, which meant that it had to be pretty big, he didn't know how long the walk was going to take, but he knew he had a lot of time.
What story would this one be? Religious stuff seemed quite the complicated stuff and it could go in many ways, Slice of Life? possibly. Horror? Also possible. Fantasy? This seemed like another choice.
He finally got to where the mysterious church was at, and saw that the door was really big. He wasn't sure what to do now that he was here, but he didn't want to simply go back. He ended up knocking at the door.
It took a bit of time, but he started hearing footsteps, then the door opened, he saw a young looking man, he was a young adult with straight long aquamarine hair, he wore the outfit of a priest, yet it was black, he looked gentle as he had a smile on his face, he said "Oh my, I wasn't expecting a visit, come in please, I'll get you something in the meantime."
Issei followed him, this was... weird the church wasn't full of people, yet it still had a few people inside of it, they were all kids, younger than him in fact, a 5-6 year different possibly, but the weirdest part was that looking closer to the structure, it was similar to the church he had in his dream and when he went to Sayori's house.
This was certainly made to be part of a story, the church was a complete mesh of both churches he visited before, the color was literally the inbetween of both of them, and the altar was still there. As he sat down near one of the benches he saw as the man turned around to ask him "Do you want tea, coffee or simply water?"
"Just tea, thanks." Issei kept checking the place out, the man seemed to be the only one taking care of the church and only 6 kids were in the place, the church was in great condition and it had a lively atmosphere. The man came back with a cup of tea and some snacks as he went to talk. "So why have you come here my child? It is unusual for us to have any visits."
"I just saw that behind the abandoned church was a church that I never knew of, so I came to see it for myself" Issei responded truthfully, in a manner of speaking it was true that he came because of the system, but he was curious about the place.
"Then maybe I should introduce myself, sorry for the late introduction by the way, I am called Father Ichirouta, I am the caretaker of this place, this church works as an orphanage as well." As he finished talking he got up. "Now maybe I should introduce you to some of the residents here, since I do want you to not have any surprises happen to you." They both stood up and started walking towards where the 6 kids were seated.
"What is your name by the way?" The man known as Father Ichirouta was now asking Issei for his name, it was in an incredibly calm voice, that of an incredibly benevolent man, Issei responded "I'm Issei Hyoudou, it is nice meeting you."
Issei continued following him, while on the way, he saw it could take a bit of time until they got to where the other kids were hanging out, so he decided on asking a quick question. "So what do you guys worship? This looks like a christian church."
Ichirouta chuckled, "Well you may not be wrong, but in the end I've strayed from my beliefs of God... I've come to worship another god actually, but that is irrelevant right now..." They finally got to where the other kids were, they noticed that they had company and looked at the new face. "Everyone, this is Issei Hyoudou, I want each one of you to introduce yourself to him."
Each kid stood up from where they were seated, many of them seemed eager and proceeded to introduce themselves one by one.
The first one to go was a boy with a few bandaids on his knees, shoulders, everywhere really, it seemed like he was reckless but incredibly outgoing, he was a ginger with a big smile on his face. "Hey there it is good to meet you, I am Andric I hope we can get along well." He then stretched his hand while awaiting a handshake, Issei gave him that as he didn't know what else to do.
Next was a girl with long blue hair, a blue that was incredibly dark to the point it could possibly be mistaken with black "It is a pleasure meeting you, I am named Masako, it is a pleasure meeting you." She then bowed her head, she was polite, maybe too polite for the occasion, she was calm and well mannered.
Another girl with lime hair and messy clothes seemed to want to introduce herself next, "Oh oh, me next I want to be next!" She was incredibly excited to introduce herself "Hi my name is Ha Eun, I'm not sure where Ichirouta got the name, but I like it a lot, here, have a cookie!" She then opened her hand which had a cookie, he took it, but didn't know if he should eat it, it seemed strange that each kid had a name from a different country, but it seemed like Father Ichirouta named them himself, that would mean that he possibly went around the world, which could be expected from someone who worked at a Catholic Church by going around places doing charity.
A blonde boy with a gentle expression went up next "Hello there, I'm Jadon , I hope we can get along quite well, so hope your stay here is great." Issei noted that this kid right here was the oldest of the bunch and possibly the one who took care of them all in case Ichirouta wasn't able to, truthfully he reminded him of Kiba strangely enough, in fact, he had a similar hairstyle as him, this meant that this could possibly be part of the BL story that the system had created for him.
A boy with glasses and long purple hair was currently playing the game only to pause it. "I'll make this quick, I'm Tino, nice meeting you, if you have anything else to tell me, then please do it right now." After a moment of silence he went back to his game, Issei would have thought that he was a NEET, but he also noticed that he had a notebook with him, it had poems in it, this interested him quite a bit.
The last one to introduce herself was a girl with short cyan hair, which was adorned with ribbons. She seemed quiet, yet didn't seem timid. She looked as if she was waiting for others to finish before she could go. "I am Grizelda, with a Z by the way, so I hope we can get along well. She then proceeded to wait for him to answer.
"Well it's nice to meet all of you." Issei said, certainly this was a pretty interesting group of orphans, it seemed like Ichirouta was taking good care of them but he wondered what the meaning of the names were.
He spent an hour talking to the group, something that caught his eye was that everyone seemed to get along incredibly well. It was possible that Ichirouta had taken care of them from a young age, which meant that he had been in the church for a while now. But he saw as there was no more information to gain right now.
"I should get going now" Issei decided that now would be the best time to leave, the church seemed harmless and he needed to get home so as to not worry his parents again. "Oh already? Well no matter, I hope you visit again one day" Father Ichirouta seemed a bit disappointed but he knew that Issei would come back. As Issei left the place he noticed that he had gotten a notification yet again.
A new story has been created
Information: Our protagonist finds himself at the doors of a church, it seems normal as he gets to know the people living inside it, yet he feels like something is wrong, as he investigates even more he soon realizes that he had already fallen into the rabbit hole.
Genre: Mystery
Role: Main Character
Ah, it seemed like he was the main character this time... yet the information was quite alarming, Issei wanted to believe that it had nothing to do with the members, but rather what the place itself was, he forgot to ask Ichirouta's full name and also what god he ended up worshiping, this could be an important point for the story.
He would come again next time to find out more about the place, but right now he wanted to take care of his other story. The one he really did not want to do, yet it seemed like he had to take care of both of them at the same time.
Kiba was spying on Issei, he believed that Issei was with the Fallen Angels, as he realized that the old church was actually the base of operations of a few of them, but he saw Issei go past it, and he then found himself at another church that he didn't know existed.
At this point Kiba could do nothing, he saw that Issei was in front of a man who happened to call himself Father Ichirouta, but right now he was incredibly cautious. He spent the time waiting outside, he didn't want to risk it.
As time passed, hours had already gone by, and then he saw as Issei got out of there, what Kiba didn't expect was to see 6 children waving goodbye, they brought memories of himself and the other kids back then, but this time they looked happy, the blond one reminded him of himself.
As more thoughts came into his head it made him paranoid, was there an experiment going on in Kuoh? Was the church trying to redo the experiment? Kiba was starting to feel anger rise inside him, but he stayed quiet, he didn't want to risk exposing his position, and the kids looked actually happy, so he hoped that it wasn't the case and it was just a normal church.
It seemed as his past came back to haunt him, but unlike last time, he was prepared.
He continued following Issei, just what was he doing visiting a church? He didn't seem affiliated but at the same time he wanted to know why he went there, but what was a church doing here? Were the angels also in their territory? In the end this was something that he needed to report to Rias as soon as possible.
Issei looked at the system as it finally gave him a quest, fortunately it wasn't one related to Kiba, he still needed time to prepare himself with whatever shenanigans the system made him get into.
Quest #1
Sweet Home
Condition: Join Father Ichirouta's Church
Failure: You fail to join Father Ichirouta's Church
Accept
So it seemed like he had to join another place yet again, he hoped that it wouldn't be like with the Literature Club, he didn't want to see people die again, yet he knew that the system didn't hold back with the story.
Issei looked through the Writer's System and wanted to check the relationships.
Relationships
Story 2
Kiba Yuuto 5/100 - 0/100
Story 3
? Ichirouta 15/100 - 0/100
Andric 31/100 - 0/100
Masako 20/100 - 0/100
Ha Eun 36/100 - 0/100
Jadon 14/100 - 0/100
Tino 10/100 - 0/100
Grizelda 24/100 - 0 /100
It seemed as his initial interaction was quite good, but he was really unsure of the purpose of the romance bar here, it was pretty weird for some of the characters really. Yuuto ironically was the one with the least progress made, and he was unsure if he really wanted to gain romance points with him.
Right now all Issei could do is strengthen his relationships and join the church, maybe he'd get a cool robe like the one Ichirouta had, but he wondered, would both stories mesh together? or would they be kept separate?
He knew that the story could influence reality, but he was unsure if it was just a special case thanks to Monika's powers, yet he has yet to see anything that teared reality that came from the church, he knew it was too early to judge but right now he needed to be cautious.
Actually, with Yuuto's introduction as a story, it seemed like it wasn't just other realities, but it could also be his own world, this meant that it could be possible that the biblical damage boost was meant for something in his world, due to the fact that the literature had nothing related to it.
And this meant that the books had something to do with his world, this hypothesis seemed as his way of differentiating between reality and what the system added, but he was still unsure if this was true.
Unless Unknown Sefirot was actually related to something else, it meant that the books had something to do with his world and God existed, same went with Angels and Demons. Yet he didn't know if other religions were true or not, he needed a form of confirmation.
It was something that he simply needed to wait out, the many questions would sooner or later be answered, he told himself that many times, but right now it was bugging him a lot. He'll immediately go to the church tomorrow.
In the meantime he wanted to try other forms of art, he would have tried music first, but realized that he had no instrument, he'd go buy one later if he had money for it. Maybe he should keep practicing poems and think about it later again.
He simply went back to making more poems without the help of his skill.
The Academy was getting boring as Issei was learning more than he needed during his spare time, he made sure to be able to skip some classes in the case that he needed to do something important, and if having good grades meant that he could get some leeway, then it was worth it. Right now, he was out of the last hour, since he already knew much about literature he could skip it as he'd just excuse himself to the Literature Club, bless the club.
He made his way to the church again, he knocked on the door again, and just like last time, he was met by Father Ichirouta, "Oh, you're back, please come in, this time I've been expecting you."
The children came to him this time, as they seemed to like his presence, he wasn't really good with kids, at least he thought himself of that way, be it his past as a pervert or his own insecurities, he didn't know yet he didn't care, this was the present and it was different from before. Father Ichirouta then excused himself "I'll be back in a bit, I need to do something first, please hang out with the kids in the meantime, they were waiting for you to come."
"Hey Issei let's play tag!" Andric seemed pumped up as he wanted someone else to play with him, but he was cut as Ha Eun wanted to do something else "No fair! I wanted to show him what I can cook!" Well color him impressed, hearing Ha Eun talk about cooking, at such a young age made him expect her to be passionate about it, this meant that the cookie she gave him before was made by her.
"Both of you please stop, he can easily switch between both of you during a period of time" Grizelda was trying to play the negotiator, and it seemed to work, Jadon seemed to support this idea. "I agree, even if he's not able to, he'll certainly come back next time, don't you both think that it's better if all of you work together?"
"Sorry for both of them, it has been awhile since someone else came to the church so it is quite the experience for the both of them" Masako was apologizing, Issei didn't really mind it "It's all right, I don't really see any problem with it, but sure let's play tag first."
He spent the next few minutes chasing after Andric, Grizelda and Ha Eun while the others seemed to watch. Father Ichirouta seemed to have finished whatever he was doing as he got closer to them. "Issei, could I talk to you for a minute?"
Issei was waiting for a moment to talk to Father Ichirouta, he wondered what he wanted to talk about however. "Uh? Oh sure, everyone, Father Ichirouta wants to talk to me, I'll be back." While they all seemed sad about their play time being cut short they continued to play as Jadon finally joined in.
They got farther from the kids as they finally got to a comfortable place to talk. "Now then, I'm sorry for interrupting your time with the others, but I sincerely wanted to ask you." "Would you like to work here as charity work?" Father Ichirouta looked away in a sign of partial guilt as he didn't want to ask someone else to waste their time with taking care of the church without them wanting to. "Sorry if I'm asking much, you can decline if you want to."
Perfect. Issei looked at him and quickly said "Oh? Well, I suppose I can, I have quite a bit of free time so yeah, I'm able to." He did enjoy spending time learning more about the kids that lived here, but he wanted to know more about Ichirouta as he was the most mysterious one out of them all.
"Excellent, then I hope you can come from time to time when I ask you" Father Ichirouta took out a paper that seemed to have his phone number "Here, have the number of the church, in the meantime, could you give me yours? It's the only way I have to communicate with you, don't worry I won't ask you to do much, I just want you to check on the kids with Jadon as I am busy from sometimes."
"Sure thing, just give me a pen and I'll do it" Ichirouta quickly gave him a pen. Issei then gave the piece of paper with his phone number. "I'll be looking forward to coming here more often."
Quest #1
Sweet Home
Condition: Join Father Ichirouta's Church
Failure: You fail to join Father Ichirouta's Church
Completed!
Reward: Trait (Believer of Sophia)
Before Issei could react he saw Ichirouta grab his shoulder. "Now then, I should talk about what the god of this church is." Issei went back to sitting down ready to hear.
"You may know that I was part of the Catholic Church right? Well, I was a priest there, I was a high ranking one in fact, however, upon reading a few scripts from various other religions, I found my faith in God broken, I ended up leaving the Church."
"And what may that be Father Ichirouta?" Issei was now curious, what made a supposed important member of the Church to leave?
"God is not someone you expected" This intrigued Issei even more, what did he mean by that? Now that he thought about it, it was possible that Unknown Sefirot was foreshadowing this story instead, he kept quiet as he wanted to listen to what Father Ichirouta wanted to say.
Father Ichirouta kept continuing his story. "I was devastated, I had given up on my dreams of continuing my football career as I wanted to make amends with the sins I've done, but in the end it was for nothing."
"However, through the various texts I've read, I have found a new belief, there was a Goddess known as Sophia, I went on and on researching and I found out a dirty secret that I was not sure if the angels even knew of..." So angels were indeed real. Actually, scratch that of course they were, this would also mean that demons also existed, would fallen angels also exist then?
"Sophia had created God, yet God of the Bible had lied about the fact that he was the creator of all, it was Sophia who did it" Now Father Ichirouta started to sound crazy, if any of his former acquaintances heard him right now, he would have been long kicked from the Church.
"God lied about everything he had done, his mother, Sophia, seemed to still exist, I don't know if that is true or not, but I've been working in a way to try and confirm her existence to others as well as expose all of the lies God had said." Father Ichirouta may have been delusional if it weren't for the fact that he took out various books which seemed to have some sort of mention of Sophia in them, maybe it was his way of revenge, having his career taken from him because he followed someone who ended up being a phony could create a lot of resentment, Issei didn't know but he wanted to believe in him.
"I hope you've learned a lot from this my child, it is nice to meet someone willing to hear what I have to say, I hope I didn't scare you with my talk, but it is truly sad we live in a world where no one recognizes the original creator." Father Ichirouta seemed to have finally stopped with his rant.
"Well, it is certainly interesting, I'll be helping you for now, I want to believe that you are a good person, you've been taking care of the orphans so there is atleast good in you." Issei seemed a bit skeptical over Ichirouta but he didn't want to judge or be hostile to him, if what he said was true, then maybe he could possibly get answers and see if the system was part of the actual world or if it was not. "Anyways unfortunately that took up all my time here, next time I'll have much more time, since I am telling my parents about me helping around."
"I am grateful to have a kind soul helping us here" Father Ichirouta started praying "Oh, sorry, that is still a habit of mine, it is the only thing I can't seem to stop ah ah." He nervously laughed, Issei couldn't really see any evil in him, it simply seemed like someone who had a different view of the world,be it a wrong one or a correct one, it was up to them to find out.
"Then I'll be leaving now, I'll possibly see you tomorrow, I'll tell you otherwise through the phone alright?" He saw as Father Ichirouta nodded, they both waved at each other as Issei finally got out of the church.
He felt as Father Ichirouta wasn't doing this out of malice, and so he thought that maybe he could help him in some way. Time would tell about what the Goddess Sophia had done for the world and who God truly was.
He proceeded to look at the new trait he had gotten as it seemed like it was his mark of being part of the church now.
(Unknown Sefirot): User deals triple damage against Biblical enemies. User is immune against Biblical enemies. Increases Stat gain.
(The Black Swan): User takes 25% more psychological damage from enemies. If User's Sanity is below 25% Deals double damage to all enemies.
(Believer of Sophia): User can recognize Biblical enemies. User cannot be recognized by Biblical enemies
He now had quite a lot of stuff against Biblical enemies, maybe far too much. And it seemed pretty useless right now, as there were no Biblical enemies to be found at least for would change as he now knew that they did exist, they could possibly come to the church to stop what Father Ichirouta was doing, and he was prepared to defend the place.
Kiba Yuuto finally caught up to Issei Hyoudou, he was not expecting him to skip the last hour of class, he couldn't do that himself, not when he had to maintain the persona of the prince of the Academy. He saw as Issei got out of the church yet again. He didn't know what he was doing inside there, but he seemed happy.
Yet Kiba couldn't really think about his current situation, just a few minutes ago he had met a former nun called Asia Argento, while running towards where he thought Issei was going, he accidentally bumped with Asia, Kiba was able to understand her thanks to being a demon and was able to deduce that she was going to the old church, while he gave her directions, he also wanted to inform this to Rias, especially since he saw as she used a Sacred Gear to heal a kid.
Right now, while he needed to follow Issei, the debacle with the Fallen Angels was more important, and Asia could possibly be a lead to them. He needed to inform Rias first.
He left the place to go straight to the old building, time was slowing running out as Rias' engagement was getting closer to happening, he needed to get any sort of help to help his master out.
That night, they ended up recruiting a new member to the Peerage.
(A/N)
And that is the start of the second arc... well truth be told, this is 2 arcs meshed together as I found out that the chronology wouldn't really work out, this means that the arc might possibly be longer than expected. Arc is gonna be much less emotional than the DDLC one, either this comes out good like the last one, or the first arc was just a one time thing. This also comes as a challenge for myself to see if I can progress the story while juggling two plots.
Before you start talking about Sophia and the Biblical God being false and all that... oh boy you're not gonna expect the end of it (at least I believe). The funny part is... I read about something else and saw that this shit fit in so fucking well I just needed to add it. Like the thing I wanted to add in was already implemented, just needed to know where in the story it would appear, and found out that this worked incredibly well. So basically Sophia was added because I needed to change a plot device, I won't add much about Sophia it doesn't really add much to the story, also remember this is a fic, so not everything will be accurate to mythology... like any other media with real life mythology.
Now the Boy Love story... yeah that is why I said no new ships, because it is no, it is simply my excuse to try and still include some of DxDs content, Unpopular and Popular dude friendships are my favorite too. And about the church characters... Ichirouta is not an OC, I can tell you that, all 6 kids are technically OCs but they are actually based on something else so in the end they are like Cordis, they do exist in a game but don't really have a name.
Yup I got Asia Argento to get recruited to Rias' Peerage, don't know if this would actually happen, but again, it has been a long time since I last saw anything related to the canon story.
Next up the references and inspirations, there really isn't much to say for this chapter, Sophia is based on the Goddess Sophia an old mythology about who God was, it was far more comboluted than the other god I was looking for so I really didn't want to get into Sophia as it would also get in the way of yet another arc.
Father Ichirouta is a character of another anime, if you guess it, you either saw the hint or just had a good childhood.
Scrapped ideas from last chapter... in this case it would be scrapped stuff for last arc.
Sayori was supposed to be the main pair for that arc, but in the end couldn't find a realistic way of adding it which you may have noticed, so I basically had to restrain myself from derailing the story for a ship I really love that no one else possibly hasn't thought of (if they did, then the next few are even crazier).
Issei's design was supposed to be hella feminine for this arc to get really into the BL story and just completely embrace it, but went against it since it was far too extreme, if you are curious of the design well here it is. The original is ハツコイソウ/Hatsukoisou by flg4. As you can see, you can clearly see that I thought about this in the middle of the night. Design might have been a better choice since he now could have had hair clips similar to those of Natsuki's, so it's kinda up to you if you want to use this design instead of the one I ended up with.