Date A Re:Live

S2 Chapter 35: Nia Test, Part 1

By : Tohka_Yatogami

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Summary

Even a similar story can take it's own path. Shido and Mana are amnesiac siblings living with their friend Kotori, however the past catches up to Shido when he nearly runs into a space quake, and his world changes as one girl asks... "Are you here to kill me?" (Stronger Ratatoskr, weaker DEM, games & movie are canon to story) [Shido/Tohka/Harem]

Welcome to the next arc everyone, Nia Test. This arc is a little different from the rest for three reasons. I won't say what they are though. The first two if you noticed them will likely clue you in on the shocking swerve I'll be throwing in by the end, which is also the third reason. Maybe some of you might see it coming, and maybe you might not. Either way, I hope you at least enjoy the chapter.

Now, before I somehow forget to do this again... *looks at the Natsumi and Yamai arcs* the emotion of this arc is "Curiosity", quite fitting for a Spirit who writes a manga series don't you think? *sighs* I kinda wish Silver Bullet was real, cause the story just makes it sound so interesting! Fiction in fiction, it often never sees the light of day, if any of them even do at all T^T

Oh yeah, while the Miku arc isn't until after this one, you will see a familiar scene from it and a mention of her, that's right... I'm talking about Shido being voted in as the Ten-Oh Festival organizer. My reasoning and justification for this is that it felt like the festival got set up way too fast. So I'm having the preparations begin here to make its pacing more realistic, plus I feel it's actually the perfect chance to get Shido to meet Nia anyways so... win-win ^^

Let's take a look at Nia's data sheet and then we'll get this arc started!

-Nia Honjou, Code Name: [Sister]-

Angel: Raziel, the " Tome of Revelation " - Raziel is a simply futuristic tome made of metal and some unique kind of paper, every page in the book is blank and eventually becomes blank after any additions are made to it. Raziel is a near-omniscient Angel, if Nia has a question for it then it's likely to give her an answer, however some information appears in the language of the Spirits which only Rinne can read. Nia can also draw or write something in Raziel's pages to manipulate events up to a maximum of five minutes into the future, or temporarily create a living or non-living object she draws.

- Alternate Form: Thoth - By opening Raziel quickly and drawing through the flipping pages, Nia can manifest a world of imagination from its pages. The space around the world of Thoth is mentioned to be about a 1 kilometer radius. The objects or creatures that manifest within the world of Thoth are considered living within it, so one needs to make careful contact with what's within the radius.

- Alternate Form: Kirigami - By imbuing some of the pages in Raziel with her spirit power, Nia can rip copies of the pages off to make paper warriors that are giving life through her mana. The Kirigami however don't possess wills or understand commands Nia gives them, therefore she must write a set command for them to follow that starts with "The Kirigami will" followed by the chosen commands, otherwise they'll do nothing but stand in place.

- Powers: Ni a's elemental affinity as a Spirit is Imagination, if Nia can fantasize it, dream it or invent it then she might be able to manifest it depending on what it is and some limitations, a prime example being that Nia managed to ask Raziel a specific set of questions that allowed her to discover a method to always escape from DEM wizards before they can even get near her and outrun them for 27 years. Some of the limits to Nia's powers is she can only manipulate the fate of events and how the effect people, as Nia can't use Raziel to create love or to kill someone, and if she creates something then it won't exist forever. Should she form something that doesn't or has yet to exist, she can't use it to learn how it will eventually be created.

Risk Factors: A

Spacequake: C

Spirit's Astral Dress: B

Angel Rank: S

Strength: 80

Consistency: 178

Spiritual Power: 155

Agility: 169

Intelligence: 205

Tohka, Yoshino and Natsumi were all seen looking a paper that Reine handed to them as she made a small stop at the apartment, it was something about being part of the group's class at Raizen High yet not actually being students, for the second semester.

"Uh... what?" Tohka asked, completely confused. "We're in school, yet we're... not in... school? What is this?"

"For once even I'm confused, and that's saying something!" Natsumi claimed, just as tongue tied from what she was seeing.

"I told Kannazuki these were too complicated, but no. He insists 'they're smart girls Commander, they'll understand", remind me to lecture him later." Reine sighed, soon sitting down.

"We figured with how the DEM's moves are getting more focused recently as of Westcott taking full power, it would be best to keep all of Ratatoskr together the best we could at all times. So, since there are a few class re-arrangements for some classes at this time of year, we'd have you be in the class acting as students without officially being enrolled, use Tamae's classroom as an all Ratatoskr class. Consider it having access to the fun of school, but being able to skip all of the dumb and boring stuff."

Tohka blinks before grabbing Yoshino and Natsumi's papers and throwing them all into the air.

"That means I can spend all day with Shido and not have to deal with any learning at school! Yay!" Tohka cheered, soon jump dancing around the room as she twirled around. Soon stopping as her stomach growled. "And now I want Doritos."

Everyone face faults as Tohka grabs a bag of them.

"How'd she go from cheering to dancing to getting hungry for Doritos?" Kaguya asked, surprised as she turned away for a moment. They moment she turned back she suddenly had her jaw drop as Tohka had eaten five bags of them. "What the!?"

"Oh yeah, you guys didn't get to see how large Tohka's appetite is in Okinawa." Shido replied, sweat dropping slightly.

"Where does she put it all?" Yuzuru asked, looking at Tohka's figure... until she saw her chest. Causing Tohka to tilt her head as Yuzuru quickly turned away. "...Never mind, I think I know."

Mana groaned at that, making Rinne kneel by the twins' ears.

"Don't mention anything about Spirits and chest sizes together, she's really sensitive over the fate she's small compared to everyone else." Rinne whispered loudly.

"I can hear you mom, and that's because you suck at being quiet when whispering!" Mana called out. Making Rinne's eyes widen before she blushed, leading her to slowly back track out of the room.

Soon the next few days after, everyone was back in Raizen High for the Second Semester, and a new building was present on the campus grounds within part of the greenfield areas which had some of its trees shifted to create the campus grounds for the new structure and any needed fields for things like gym class.

The public story was that this was a building made to house a special class for some students who earned special honors for their efforts, but that was to cover up the fact that it was really a sub-base for everyone in Ratatoskr who was within school age.

Within the classroom walls, all the Ratatoskr allied students from Tamae's class were present like before, all of them in casual clothes since they were now in a private area of the school, only requiring their uniforms if they had to visit the public campus. The doors open as the new 'students' came in, Tohka rushed over to Shido and hugged him.

"Shido! I'm so excited to be here, this is gonna be fun! Now we get to be together almost all day every day!" Tohka exclaimed, smiling brightly. Everyone sweat dropped as they saw Shido choking slightly up until Tohka let go. "Best idea ever!"

"G-Glad to see you happy about it... Tohka." Shido coughed, soon inhaling to regain the air Tohka squeezed out of him. At that moment, Saya slid across the floor as she came into the room, giving a dramatic pose as she did.

"And Saya Yamada has entered the classroom!" Saya declared, making everyone sweat drop as Kurumi just giggled as her best friend's antics. "Now come on everyone, get in here! We've gotta make this official!"

The sight of Mikie, Katie, Leonora, Cecile and a few other Ratatoskr members entering the room were scene.

"Wow, most of the gang's all here!" Kurumi smiled, and soon noticed another face enter the room, no longer with her crutches as she did. "Artemisia!"

"I finally got the OK to walk without my crutches, so hi there everyone." Artemisia smiled, waving her hand. "I'll even be able to start aiding the AST again soon enough."

Soon after that, everyone else who fit the description of the attending class had come in before Tamae and Reine walked in as the former carried a big smile.

"Welcome everyone, and I'm glad to announce the first day of the second semester! Not only that, but the official opening of the Ratatoskr Classroom." Tamae smiled, soon looking at the door. "Now while technically a formality, I'd like you all to meet our second assistant teacher and her little aid."

Rinne soon ran in with Rio piggybacking her, nearly tripping once she came to a stop before regaining her footing and looking at everyone. Mayuri sweat dropped at the sight before Rinne smiled and waved at everyone.

"Hey everyone, Rinne Sonogami here and ready to help teach!" Rinne smiled, making Reine sigh before smirking a bit.

"Well, guess it's good some of us are having more fun with it than others." Reine replied, soon looking at the class. "Everyone, I believe most of you are aware that today we have a school assembly. So get your uniforms on and head over to hear it. For those who don't have one yet, come see me before you leave."

"OK!" Everyone replied at once, soon heading over and getting a uniform if they lacked one already. One they did, everyone was waiting in the gym as the talkative trio suddenly appeared on stage for the announcement.

"Welcome everyone! As you all know, the Ten-Oh Festival is about to turn its head once more, are you all excited!?" Ai asked, hearing everyone cheer. "I can't hear you!"

Everyone cheered again, most of the Spirits a bit confused on what this event was.

"Now the time for this year's organizer to be chosen is here, the results of our ruthless poll are in! And with an overwhelming number of votes, our winner is..." Ai announced, soon turning to the screen... only to have her eyes widen as Shido appears on it. "Shido Takamiya!? Wait, are we sure this is right?"

Shido shouted out in shock, soon suddenly forced on stage by someone.

"How'd I get voted in!?" Shido asked, completely confused.

"I have no idea, but the votes are legit." Mai replied, shrugging her shoulders a bit. Mii was looking at the votes and saw something odd.

"Weird, it seems like most of the votes came from boys-" Mii stated, and then suddenly they and Shido all went silent as the screen showing Shido's vote total and the 99% of the voters being male was suddenly explained. "Oh no..."

Soon some of Shido's former classmates, and many of the male students standing in the shadows of the crowd all gave evil looks and smiles at the result.

"Serves him right!"

"That's what he gets for always being lovey dovey with all the cuties and taking them for his apparent harem!"

"He had it coming!"

Suddenly most of those boys felt something hit them where the sun doesn't shine as Mana was tossing some marbles with an angry face. Making Saya stare at her before smirking and holding out a hand for a high five.

"That's what I'm talking about it, you show them sister!" Saya stated, getting her high five returned. "Plus..."

Saya whispers to Natsumi, who's eyes widen as she smirks.

"Oh yes boys, thank you for giving Shido the perfect opportunity to be with his girls planning all the events and stuff alone. You gave us all so much personal time." Natsumi stated, suddenly making all those boys pale as that factoid came to light and Saya snickered.

"No wait, I wanna change my vote!"

Soon all the male students complained at their plan backfiring as Saya and Natsumi fist bumped at that. Hiroto chuckled at that.

"It just shows when you try to play with fire, you'll only get burned." Hiroto stated, noticing the other male students' sudden disappointment and tears. Soon he sees Tohka looking at him. "Something up Tohka?"

"What is this Ten-Oh Festival anyways?" Tohka asked.

"Oh, that's right, it wasn't around at your time." Hiroto said, bringing up his phone to show some pictures.

"It's a joint event hosted by the ten High Schools that make up Tenguu City. Every year events are planned for students and citizens to enjoy, even some tourists get excited by this, in fact we even hold polls to vote each school's efforts in booths, exhibitions and performances. The school that wins gets a lot of prize money to add to its budget, and bragging rights for the next year."

Tohka's eyes sparkle.

"Wow, that sounds awesome! Has Raizen ever one before?" Tohka asked.

"Only once, a lot of schools can really pull out some big shots. The competition is especially fierce through Eibunishi High and Senjo University high. Though the clear winner has had the top spot for the last 15 years. I think Saya and Kurumi know which school this is." Hiroto explained, looking at the two.

"Rindouji actually kept winning ever after 5 years? Whoa... I knew our old school was good, but not that good." Kurumi replied surprised, and seeing Tohka's curious face. "Oh right, you don't know. Rindouji is a Girls Only Private school, the students there are either from wealthy families or earned scholarships."

Hiroto nods.

"Not to mention that as of last year they've gained a powerful new addition that dominated the stage portion. The famous new idol, Miku Izayoi!" Hiroto declared, making Shido blink as he finally walked back to the crowd.

"Who's Miku?" Shido asked, making Hiroto gasp.

"Shido, I am shocked. How do you not know the mysterious new and popular idol?" Hiroto asked.

"Uh... because I've been saving the lives of unique and keeping them all happy?" Shido answered, almost implying he asked what should have been a rhetorical question and making Hiroto sigh. "What?"

Hiroto shook his head.

"Shido, if you can't be at least up to date with things like this, people are gonna consider you a Neanderthal at this rate." Hiroto stated, making Shido sweat drop at that. Soon turning and patting his back. "Though if you can find another non-Spirit who doesn't know who she is, I'll kneel over and eat spaghetti while doing a handstand."

Saya blinks for a bit before looking at Kurumi.

"Do you know who this Miku girl is?" Saya asked, making Hiroto go white as Mana suddenly began laughing. All the while... none of them noticed the Yamai twins getting so cuddly it almost looked like they were flirting.

Soon the time of sunset came, and Shido was with Yoshino, Saya and Artemisia getting out of the supplies they needed. They had just finished and were preparing to head back to the Takamiya Household.

"Man, its only day one and already they're already making me work my butt off." Shido sighed, soon turning to Saya. "Oh, and thanks for what you did at the assembly earlier. I owe you one Saya."

"No need, you making Kurumi stay happy is all the payment I need. After all, it did kinda bring me back to live." Saya replied, making Shido chuckle a bit. "It's a good thing we left Natsumi with Tohka. Even if she can eat anything, I'm sure you don't want her putting anything inorganic in her stomach."

As if right on cue, Natsumi was seen cooking at home, putting out some plates of food before Tohka could start munching on one of the couch pillows.

"Wait, that's a real thing?" Artemisia asked surprised, but before she got an answer they heard someone collapse.

"Hey look, over there." Yoshino pointed out, making everyone see a silver haired girl wearing a hat and spectacles on the ground. Her stomach growling loudly as she twitched across the ground, reaching a hand out shakily.

"Dang it, forgot to eat... after that rush hour." Nia weakly said, collapsing onto the ground.

"I got her." Artemisia replied, grabbing her and rushing to the nearest fast food joint before putting $10 dollars down. "Give me the biggest thing that you can make nearly instantly, and keep the change."

The stall person's eyes widen before he rushes to make some fries, once he hands to Artemisia, Nia's nose twitched before she suddenly grabbed them and scarfed them all down.

"Oh thank god, food!" Nia sighed in relief, soon suddenly burping loudly. "...And sorry."

"Wow, she was really hungry." Yoshino stated, and suddenly Saya's eyes shifted a bit as she looked a bit more at the woman who blinked at what she was doing... and then Saya screamed in surprised. "W-What is it Saya?"

Saya mutters gibberish until Shido hit her on the back.

"That woman, does anyone know who that is? T-that's Souji Hasegawa! She's the creator of most popular ongoing manga right now, Silver Bullet!" Saya whispered to them, getting Shido and Artemisia's attention as their eyes widened and turn to her. Nia shrugged at that.

"Surprise?" Nia answered, moving the sunglasses up to confirm it. "Say you aren't gonna suddenly announce I'm here, are you?"

Saya shook her head at that.

"Good. Now if you could do me all a favor, mind getting me more food? Those fries are only gonna work temporarily." Nia said, her stomach still rumbling. "And there's the first warning sign of my starvation."

"Uh... sure, we were just heading home and dinner's waiting." Shido replied, looking at Saya and Artemisia. "You guys wanna join us."

"Sure, I don't mind." Artemisia replied.

"Let me call my parents real quick." Saya said, taking out her phone. "Hey mamá, papá. Uno de mis amigos me invitó a cenar, razón por la cual estoy hablando en español para evitar la embarazosa mí. Es eso OK?"

She hears them answer and nods.

"OK, gracias chicos! Te quiero!" Saya replied in Spanish, hanging up the phone. "They said I can."

"You know how to speak Spanish?" Yoshino said surprised, and Saya nods. "Then why haven't you used it before?"

"Because I only use it when I don't want someone who speaks English to know what I'm saying." Saya answered, making everyone blink at her. "...What? Like you don't have things you don't want people to hear?"

Everyone nods at that, admitting it was true. Nia followed the group home right after that.

Natsumi whistled while she finished the last of the food, and soon she noticed Shido and the others walk in.

"Hey Shido, welcome back-" Natsumi stopped as she noticed their guest, and rubbed her eyes briefly as she blinked. "OK, not an illusion. Who the guest of yours?"

"Oh, this is-"

Shido's words were interrupted as everyone suddenly heard Mana scream, prompting her to rush over to Nia to her surprise.

"Y-Y-You're Souji Hasegawa! The maker, author and illustrator of Silver Bullet, my favorite manga series! I'm you're biggest fan!" Mana exclaimed, shaking Nia's hands as the silver haired spirit blinked and most of the others went wide eyed.

"You're THAT Souji?" Kotori asked, familiar with the name due to Mana owning every volume of the series. "Holy macaroni!"

Nia sighed playfully before tossing the hat and sunglasses off to the side.

"Yes, I'm the genius behind Silver Bullet. Hold your applause everyone." Nia confirmed, soon seeing Mana suddenly holding some Silver Bullet merchandise. "You want an autograph on those, don't you?"

Mana blushed a bit and nodded.

"Eh, guess it doesn't hurt anyone." Nia said, taking a permanent marker from somewhere and signing it all. Mana breathed heavily before fainting.

"Rio's confused, why is big sis napping?" Rio asked, noticing Mana on the ground. Nia blinked at that last part before Rio looked at her and made her sweat a little. "You look familiar, does Rio know you?"

Nia mentally sighed at that, Rio didn't recognize her right now.

'Good, the disguise is working.' Nia thought, soon rubbing the kid's head. "No, I don't think I've seen you before. Maybe you're familiar with one of my photos?"

"Hmm... Rio might be, Rio doesn't always remember things." Rio smiled, soon going to the table.

"Good idea kid, if I don't eat now I'll collapse again." Nia said as she grabbed a plate, making everyone minus the group who found her earlier give her confused looks. "I sometimes forget to eat when I get into some of my work."

Everyone nods and gives an 'oh' with their mouths, soon joining everyone at the table, minus Nia who was just eating by the counter. Mana looked at Nia, who held a finger out.

"Sorry kid, no spoilers." Nia answered, making Mana pout as she ate her food. Nia soon finished her meal and stood up. "I'm gonna borrow the bathroom real quick, then I gotta leave. Deadlines are murder."

Nia soon walks into the bathroom and locks the door, after looking left and right for anything odd in place, she takes off her glasses. Her body glowed a silvery color for a moment as her short hair suddenly grew out, changed from an adult to teen in appearance, and her flat and average figure changing into a more buxom and curvy one.

"Woo boy... using that disguise for long periods of time always leaves a weird feeling after I go back to normal." Nia said, shaking her head and body slightly to shrug off the odd feeling changing back gave her. She summons her Angel and looks at it. "Is that how you feel whenever I have to write in you?"

[Eh... I'd say it's more ticklish than weird, but I don't like being tickled so I still understand the off feeling you get.]

Nia shrugs and nods, soon opening Raziel to its blank pages.

"Now let's figure out where boy's gonna be in the next few days. Raziel, show me his current plans." Nia asked, causing the tome to show {preparing Raizen's Ten-Oh Festival presentations as its chosen organizer.} to her surprise. "Ah, seems like I'll be able to meet with boy easier than I intended. I've got something there tomorrow."

Nia smirks as she placed her glasses back out, changing her back to her appearance as Souji Hasegawa. She flushed the toilet just to be safe and walked out, as she neared the door, using what she just learned she pretended to notice the shopping bags Shido's group had as odd.

"Huh, usually don't see kids buying this stuff. You working on a project or something boy?" Nia asked, making Shido look at her.

"Oh no, I'm unfortunately my school's organizer for the Ten-Oh Festival." Shido answered, making Nia give him an interesting look. "What?"

"I just happen to be having something at Tenguu Square tomorrow, you'll be going there anyways so why not come and take a look? I'll even let them know that I invited you personally. After all, I think your sister might be interested in something... exclusive?" Nia smirked, and Mana suddenly grabbed Shido's arms.

"Ow! O-OK, I'll come! Just stop hurting me Mana!" Shido gasped, making Mana scream victoriously. "And that'll sting for a while... and my full name's Shido Takamiya as a heads up."

"Alright, see you there boy." Nia replied, noticing Shido's look. "I don't use names unless someone's a close friend, that happens when you have thousands of fans."

Nia walked out, leaving Rinne to blink at the situation.

"So... is that a normal thing for humans?" Rinne asked, everyone shook their heads. "Really? Huh, the more you learn."

Soon at the Tenguu Square building, Shido along with most of the Ratatoskr agents were present for preparations for the eventual Ton-Oh Festival in a few days. Rio's eyes sparkled at how big the building was.

"Rio's never seen something to big before, Rio's excited." Rio stated, smiling brightly.

"And you'll get to explore the rest of it when the festival finally begins." Rinne smiled, petting her daughter's head. She turned to Shido right after. "Shido, me and the others will help set things out for you while you take Mana to visit that author woman. Just sends us any updates through that... uh, is it that texting thing?"

Saya facepalms.

"Yes Rinne, the texting thing." Saya sighed, shaking her head worriedly. "Please hurry back."

"Right..." Shido replied, sweat dropping a bit. Mana soon hugged his arm tightly in excitement. "Ow! Mana, stop that, it's hurting- Ow! That hold's crossing a line now!"

Shido guided Mana as he tried to force his little sister's grip off, eventually they reached a certain area inside the building where a man was standing by a door that lead to Nia's event. Once he noticed them come close he held out a hand.

"Halt, no uninvited guests or those without a pass or ticket allowed. Go somewhere else." The security man said.

"Uh... actually Souji invited us herself, does a Shido Takamiya ring a bell?" Shido asked, holding up his school ID.

The man went silent before he checked a list he held in his pocket, and sure enough that name was listed on personal invitations. He took a step to the side.

"You're clear." The security man replied, and Mana squealed. "No squealing or any other loud fan noises outside of the room please."

Mana put her hands over her mouth and muffled said squeal, soon the two walked in as they saw Nia wearing black jacket/coat hybrid with a mini-cape that had a red inside draped over her shoulders. A similar longer cape around her waist, flapping against her gray pants that showed some of a white shirt under the coat with black cross markings and asymmetrical boots with the right one being up to her knees and the other her ankle, and a pair of silver guns in her hands.

She was cross dressing as a character, specifically Fatima, the fabled 'Silver Bullet' and protagonist from her manga it shared the name with. Nia soon does his signature pose, causing Mana and many other fans to all scream and take pictures.

'Holy crap, Hiroto wasn't lying... these things DO get crazy!' Shido thought, noting how wild and uninhibited Mana currently was in comparison to her usual self. He even had to grab his sister as she nearly tried to tackle Nia.

"Thank you all for coming, now if you'll excuse me, feel free to look around. Glad my fans are happy with my work." Nia replied, soon giving an upside-down finger point that set them off again. Some guards had to hold back the crazier fans as Nia noticed the Takamiya siblings. "Ah, I see you made it boy, girl."

Mana smiled brightly.

"I'm so excited right now, I don't care you didn't even use my name." Mana said, her smile so wide that you'd worry it would get stuck if mouths required breakable gears to move themselves. "I think you said the other day about something... exclusive?"

"Huh? When did I say that, I don't recall it?" Nia wondered, making Mana's face pale... only for Nia to making a teasing smile and chuckle. "I'm just messing with ya! Here, this is a spare."

Mana suddenly went silent as she caught a copy of Futima's cosplay outfit, and after a few seconds she screamed so loud that her voice failed to project. It was only a few seconds after she fainted in her brother's arms.

"Man, girl's crazy obsessed with this manga, isn't she?" Nia chuckled, slapping Mana's cheek to go wake her up. "It's even got another autograph on there in white. Enjoy it, only brownie points your ever getting."

Mana nodded heavily before nearly stumbling as she went to find Rinne and the others, and actually tripping over her slightly before leaving the room.

"So, uh... is that it or..." Shido asked, unsure how to reply. Nia grabbed his arm. "Wait, what-"

"You boy, you're coming with me." Nia replied, making him shout as he was suddenly dragged off somewhere. 'Can't believe the guy who's saved eight Spirits is this easily surprised and nervous. Makes me wonder what they all see in him, well except that girl with the butterfly ribbon.'

With the others, Tohka felt an itch on her nose and she suddenly sneezed.

"You alright?" Mikie asked.

"Yeah, I'm alright. Though that came out of nowhere." Tohka replied, sniffling before wiping it. "Maybe Shido or Mana's talking about me?"

Rinne tilted her head confused.

"It's a weird thing people like to say often, if someone's thinking about you and far away from you, you'll suddenly sneeze." Katie replied, making Rinne's face contort with confusion.

"Then why don't I sneeze often?" Rinne wondered aloud, making everyone sweat drop. Mana soon came back with the others, nearly stumbling again as she held her recently acquired Futima cosplay. "Oh, hey sweetie, what's that you got there?"

"...My life is complete." Mana answered, giving something of a lovesick giggle as everyone sweat dropped at her. "It's complete."

Mayuri tried to say something but just scrunched her lip in.

"At this rate, I'm worried she might tell us she wants to marry that Souji woman... please say she's already married." Mayuri asked, gulping a bit after saying that.

Shido found himself panted as he helped Nia pass out copies of various volumes of the Silver Bullet manga with exclusive covers to her various fans as they buy them out, Shido was surprised how Nia was able to react and didn't even seem tired by this. Heck, she was having a snack and only had one free hand!

"Hey boy, you're slowing up a bit." Nia stated, making Shido regain his focus.

"Right! Sorry!" Shido replied, handing out more as Nia quietly snickers. After about 30 minutes of non-stop manga handouts, they finally sold out and Shido slumped to the ground. "I don't think I can feel my hands anymore!"

"Sheesh boy, man up. Aren't boys supposed to be the gender with the bigger muscles?" Nia smirked, making Shido sigh. "Then again, you got that harem on you so man they're the ones defending you."

Shido looks up at that.

"Oh come on, like it wasn't obvious? You got two people with blue hair excluding you, two with pink, and the others are all the same age as you and you pretty much said with your words that they're living in the house." Nia stated, making Shido blink before nodding slightly.

"Plus I've seen another guy with a harem before. Sheesh, you think people would see them more often considering the reason why polygamy and such was made legal. I mean hello? 30 years ago, the population dropped from 8 billion to 2 billion, we're only at about 3.5 billion now, gotta restore our numbers while the Spacequakes constantly threaten to kill us. You'd think more people would do it, but no they don't."

Shido stared at her, making Nia clear her throat.

"Sorry, we all have things we take seriously and that's one of mine." Nia replied, clearing her throat again. "So how many of those girls are actually your harem and not family?"

"W-Why would you ask me that!?" Shido screamed in shock.

"There's no law against it, is there?" Nia smirked, making Shido groan and slam his head on the table. "Come on, don't be shy."

Shido raised his head slowly.

"Eight, two were my sisters, one was my mom and one was... well she'll be my cousin soon so she doesn't count." Shido answered.

"Ooh! Looks like we've got a real Casanova here." Nia teased, making Shido blush at that. "I get the feeling you're not even done yet either. How many more you want? Going for a dozen?""

"Stop it!" Shido blushed, making Nia laugh and fall out of her chair. "What is wrong with you Souji!?"

Nia stopped laughing and climbed back in her chair.

"I make a fictional stories, curiosity and inspiration are a key thing to those." Nia answered, making Shido sigh. "Hey, at least they seem to care about you. Better a harem is happy than it is large."

Shido blinked on that, surprised at the solid advice she just gave him.

"Uh... yeah, I guess that's a compliment. Thanks." Shido smiled, making Nia shrug. Suddenly he felt Nia pull his arm again. "Wait, what are you making me do now!?"

"You'll see, now don't complain. You chose to come after all." Nia answered, making Shido groan.

Back with the others as they were setting up, some of the Spirits were reading the first volume of Silver Bullet, getting quickly interested in the story.

"Wow, this is as good as Mana implies it." Kaguya noted.

"It seems like this half of the century's version of that One Piece series, we need to ask Mana to let us read the rest." Yuzuru agreed.

"Told ya!" Mana smiled from afar, her face blushing from the joy that still had yet to leave her.

"I admit it's good, but I prefer Other Fake to this." Kurumi admitted, making Mana gasp at her claim in shock. "Hey, don't gasp at that. It's like how not everyone likes the same flavor of ice cream."

Mana blinks before turning and whistling.

"Thank you Mana." Kurumi smiled, soon thinking a bit. "...Say, where is Shido?"

"I think he's still with Souji, wonder what he's doing?" Mana wondered.

Shido soon found himself at Nia's apartment complex, she put her hand on the scanner and opened it up.

"...What are you doing? You made me help you sell your manga out, and now I'm out your house. Is this some kind of mixed message you've giving me?" Shido asked, honestly confused at this point. Nia thinks for a bit and gives a cat like smile.

"Oh? Boy, are you implying you think this is a date?" Nia asked, making Shido blush and suddenly sputter unintelligibly as a result. Nia snickers. "I don't think our age gap's too big after all, maybe I wouldn't mind dating-"

"Stop! That isn't funny!" Shido yelled out, waving his hands out. "Don't even joke like that!"

Nia blinks.

"...Who said I was? Cause I'm pretty sure I didn't." Nia smirked, making Shido pale as he fell on butt. Nia laughed as she walked inside. Shido groaned as he walked inside as well, quickly tripping over a bit of trash.

"Yeah, that's where I need help. Work related stuff? No problem, organized as the dots placed on a domino. Everything else on the other hand? I think it's obvious I can't stay tidy to save a life. So, help me clean?"

Shido sighs at that, its like she was making him the chore boy for the day to pay back having given Mana an exclusive fan item.

"Oh boy, it's like everyone things I'm a living vacuum. Alright, I'll help clean up, but you're not just gonna sit there doing nothing, got it?" Shido stated.

"Of course, I have a system so I need to make sure said system doesn't change too much." Nia replied, soon throwing her coat on the couch. "Which is starting as of now, proceed boy."

Shido sighed as he and Nia soon began cleaning up everything, at least what Nia said he could clean out of the whole mess. After he got out all the trash he checked the fridge, noticing all she had was fruit punch.

"Uh... you know only drinking this stuff isn't very healthy, right?" Shido asked.

"Don't worry about that, they were just on sale last time I went." Nia answered, and led to Shido writing a grocery list to live for her on the door. Nia whistled at how clean the place looked now and smirked before patting Shido on the back and smirking. "Maybe I should pay you to do this, in fact here's $100."

Shido stared in shock as he saw the 100 dollar bill get placed in his hand, blinking just to get his senses back into reality. Right before he did though, Nia used the moment to form Raziel and write something in it. She giggles at his expression.

"What? Are you secretly poor or is that your first $100?" Nia joked.

"Uh, no it's not that! It's just I didn't think you'd pay me this much... how much do you have?" Shido asked.

"Eh, details. Well I'll saw now that I've gotten all the help I need from you, so go feel free to rejoin your friends and get all you work down." Nia replied, opening the door. "Off you go."

Shido blinked before shrugging, things had already gotten weird enough with them. As he suddenly took a step, a sudden paper suddenly fell off the table right to where he stepped and made Shido slip.

This was part of what Nia had written, {Have a paper make Shido slip towards me, and either slide pass me or end up crashing into me and smacking an accidental kiss}, now the question was which result would happen?

"Look out!" Shido warned, and Nia just stood there.

And in the end... Shido completely missed her, and Nia looked to see him crash on the railing outside and get hit in the gut by it. Nia sighed and smiled, just as she expected. Shido was nowhere near ready to seal the powers she possessed.

"Well, it seems like you're still not at the right level. Luck's been all that's let you seal the other Spirits so far." Nia stated, making Shido turn at her in shock.

"Wait, how... how do you know about the Spirits?" Shido asked, paling. "Oh no, are you with-"

Nia chuckled a bit.

"I think this should answer your questions boy." Nia replied, soon taking her glasses off. Shido gasp as she sees Nia's true form, right at the same moment she manifested a nun based Astral Dress before him.

"Allow me to re-introduce myself Shido Takamiya. I am Spirit No. 2, also known as [Sister], my name's Nia Honjou. The one known as Souji Hasegawa is a disguise I use to write Silver Bullet under, this is the real me."

Nia soon flies into the air.

"Hey wait! If you know about the sealing then-" Shido began, only for Nia to wag her finger.

"Sorry kid, but it's clear to me you're just not ready to seal my powers, if you tried to then you'd likely do more harm than good." Nia answered, surprising Shido.

"If you want me to give you the chance to seal my powers, then earn it by showing you can actually do it with skill. I can tell you now, me, Zodiac and Diva are much more than any of the Spirits you've faced so far. Good luck boy, until the day you're actually ready."

Nia giggled as she teleported away, leaving a shocked Shido.

"Oh boy, the others are gonna love this... hey wait, why didn't Rio recognize her if she's a Spirit? Unless Rio didn't know about it." Shido wondered aloud, soon thinking about Nia's words. "Can't win with luck... the last three Spirits are more than what we've faced before. Is that a warning?"

"YOU SAW WHO!?"

Shido covered his ears as everyone shouted at once, soon removing his hands from them after it ended.

"That Souji Hasegawa is really a Spirit named Nia Honjou?" Shido repeated, making everyone stare at him more.

"Rio didn't notice Souji was Nia, Rio always met Nia as Nia. Not Souji." Rio replied, soon rubbing her head. "Rio's head hurts."

Rinne rubbed her head to Rio's happiness.

"A warning about her powers, well... to be honest I think she was justified to claim that. The Raziel Crystal's powers are based on the element of imagination. Out of the elemental abilities, I'd say it's one of the more dangerous ones." Rinne replied, soon thinking of the last two.

"Gabriel and Michael's Crystals aren't pushovers either, Gabriel has control over sound while Michael is able to distort space itself. I hate to say it, but the last three Spirits? They'll be our toughest challenge yet, today was just a prelude... and Nia barely showed us anything."

Meanwhile outside the building, a girl wearing a Rindouji uniform walked by. She looked up at Tengu Square, revealing her indigo hair and her whitened pupils, and suddenly gave an unusual smile as she did.

"Hmm... I get the feeling that the next few days will be interesting, I wonder why?"

Surprised? After having every Spirit sealed upon Shido meeting them, I decided to finally break that trend here, there's two reasons I decided to do this. The first is that I wanted to give one Spirit the role Kurumi had of failing to be sealed on the first capture attempt and Nia seemed like the right Spirit due to Raziel's abilities, and the second is for the next arc, they can't have Raziel's near-omniscience.

To anyone who didn't figure out the two clues that showed something was amiss in this chapter, I'll share them here. The first one was the DEM didn't show up in response to Nia's presence, Westcott mentioned using the next Spirit to appear as a way to capture Shido in the previous chapter. The second was only Shido had been in focus, yet I said for season 2 that Tohka swapped the protagonist spot with him.

Nia's disguise thing was an idea I got based on the fact that Nia uses Souji as her pen name, but also because I've seen some authors such as the man behind Daily Life with a Monster Girl who represents himself as a hermit crab with art pens for pincer claws. That made me think I should make Nia's canon form a secret identity, and I decided to go with it.

So I've made her glasses, which she doesn't wear in Spirit mode, a creation of Raziel's that changes her appearance and makes her eyes look human when worn, hence her canon appearance. The younger, long haired and buxom version of her is her true form. I think I'm fixated on those traits because of most of the anime I grew up on, it makes you have a type based on the characters you make your favorites.

Alright, now that we've gotten Nia's situation put on standby for now, the Miku arc is finally happening! *chuckles* What makes it funny we've finally reached this arc? Well, Shido mentioned back in the first chapter of Kotori's arc that he was sure no Spirit would ever be a lesbian, boy is he gonna learn that the hard way. *giggles* Everyone, get ready for Shiori, especially since Natsumi's powers mean he ain't cross dressing when he becomes her :3

Get ready everyone, Season 2 is getting ever closer to its end and after that its two Movie arcs. Speaking of which, I'll mentioned right now Ars Install and Rio Reincarnation will be said movie arcs for Season 2. Mayuri Judgment will not be one, but this is because it's going to be the movie arc for Season 3 instead, and I think most people will know the reason behind that choice considering one important part of the movie's story.

Well, that's it for now. Until next time everyone, stay awesome! ^^

A/N: To anyone wants to know, here's a translation of the two lines Saya said in Spanish, mostly because I don't know Spanish and I'm unsure how accurate the translation engine I used was.

1. Hey mom, dad. One of my friends invited me to dinner which is why I'm talking in Spanish to avoid embarrassing myself. Is that OK?'

2. OK, thanks you guys! I love you!

-Spirit Bond Levels-

Tohka - 90%

Origami - 87%

Yoshino - 81%

Kotori - 85%

Kurumi - 79%

Natsumi - 63%

Kaguya - 55%

Yuzuru - 55%