Within an enclosed room alight with several chandeliers and candles, many men prayed desperately in unison.

Then... one of the candles snuffed out from a nonexistent wind, with a nearby statue cracking apart and heating up.

The men paused in panic, terror clear on their expressions.

"Don't panic!" An elderly priest called out to the hooded men, surrounded by four younger ones who all stood within the sanctuary. "The hymn!"

The men nervously returned to their prayers, their mutterings soon interrupted again, this time by a strangled scream of pain. Convulsing in pain, the man's orifices dribbled blood before he suddenly combusted in a blaze of scarlet flames.

"Don't stop chanting!" The high priest warned, the other hooded prayers staring at their burning comrade as he soon fell down as a charred corpse.

Giving brief signs of the cross, the others quickly returned to their prayers... until another was set ablaze.

Then another.

Then another.

Soon, half of every single person in the area had become burning corpses.

"You must withdraw!" One of the priests gestured protectively to the elderly one.

"Don't be foolish!" The high priest chided. "If we fall, who will protect humanity?!"

All of a sudden, the high priest himself choked as his orifices started to leak boiling blood. Then he himself was set ablaze, his screams of pain and rage almost lost in the crimson conflagration spreading out.

"Damn you, Sataaaaaan!"

All across the building, beyond into the yard and even into the surrounding structures, azure flames raged and painted the stormy skies above in unholy vermillion light.

Book of Genesis, Chapter 01: He Who Fights Monsters...

"You lost little lamb, confess your sins and say your prayers."

Rin Okumura, freshly bandaged for some light injuries, sniffed petulantly. "I didn't do anything bad!"

The priest he was confessing to wasn't deceived, mildly adjusting his colored glasses. "Then what's with those wounds?"

"I fell down some stairs." Rin replied defensively.

"Quite a fall if your back was dirty, too."

"Quite the fall like you're saying." Rin nodded, a few beads of nervous sweat forming.

"And the blood from your nose?"

"Well, the reason I fell in the first place was this super hot babe in a t-shirt who got some water splashed on her-"

"WHAT?!" Shiro Fujimoto, High Priest of the Southern Cross Boys' Monastery and adoptive father to Rin himself, burst out of the confessional with an eager blush on his cheeks. "Where'd she go?! Lead the way, Rin!"

Catching his mocking expression, Fujimoto wasted no time in headlocking Rin into submission. "Liar! You had a fight again, right?! Why do you always do that?!"

"Let go, stupid old fart!"

"They called from your part-time job earlier." After pushing Rin down to his knees, Fujimoto revealed the true source of his ire. "They called from your part-time job earlier. They said that they don't need someone who doesn't come back after completing a delivery."

"You're saying that as if someone like me could do a decent job to begin with." Rin huffed with a hint of remorse staining his stubborn tone.

"Don't act like a spoiled brat!" Fujimoto chided him. "One day, you'll have to leave this abbey and make your own living! It's my duty as your guardian to make you ready for that!"

Seeing that he didn't seem to be getting through to Rin, Fujimoto sighed. "Or will you become a priest and succeed me in leading this monastery?"

"Who'd want this rotting church?!"

"Father." Yukio Okumura approached the duo with an exasperated smile as he interrupted the conversation. "I'm finished with the preparations for moving. Now I only have to actually move the stuff."

Fujimoto nodded in acknowledgement. "Good job."

"Welcome back, Nii-san." Yukio turned his attention to Rin, who huffed. "Did you get into another fight?"

"Shut up." Rin replied with a lot less heat than he'd been giving his guardian.

"Even though they're twins, they're totally different." Izumi commented from where he was cleaning the windows, causing Rin to blush in embarrassment.

"The younger one, Yukio, is an athletic genius with amazing grades." Naoya added from his own window. "Also, he easily got into True Cross Academy's high school division this spring."

"While the older one only causes troubles." Izumi chuckled. "Rin, if only you had just a fraction of your little brother's virtues-"

"Shut the fuck up!"

As if in response to Rin's rage, the portable heater in the middle of the church burst apart in a flare of flames and caused everyone to jump in shock, the filled kettle on it falling down with it's cover rolling all the way to Fujimoto's feet.

"Whoa, my goodness." Fujimoto rushed over to assess the damage while picking up the lid on his way, muttering in distress as he looked at the busted stove. "I really need to buy a new heater..."

"Reverend Fujimoto." Seishiro Nagatomo approached him from outside and leaned in close to the crouching man. "You have a guest."

Fujimoto nodded as he stood up. "Clean this up before the service. Yukio, treat your brother's wounds."

"Sure." Yukio answered before gesturing for his brother to follow him. "Come on, Nii-san."

A while later, Yukio was just about done with the wounds on Rin's knuckles, along with his whining. "Try to bear with it just a little longer."

"...ah, so you're moving to a dorm?" Rin spoke up after noticing the packed boxes.

"Yeah, school starts next week." Yukio answered. "After fifteen years, it's time to leave this abbey."

"So is this the last time you'll treat my wounds?" Rin smiled forlornly.

"If I become a doctor, I'll help you anytime." Yukio finished wrapping the bandage and snipped the roll off. "If you pay the fees, that is."

"Your dream is to become a doc, right?" Rin admired the finished treatment with pleased sparkles. "Keep up the good work! I'm sure you can do it!"

"Don't forget about the fees, Nii-san." Yukio closed the box and sighed. "Listen, you're gonna be alright without me, aren't you?"

"Wh-What's with that?" Rin deadpanned. "Are you going to scold me, too?"

"I'm just worried." Yukio looked at him with sad eyes. "It's not just me, either. Father and the others, too. You have fights everyday and you drop out from your jobs after a short while."

"I'm worried about it, too." The elder twin looked down in shame. "I know I should be growing up already. But..."

"Great shot, Shiratori-san!"

'"There are too many of them." Reiji Shiratori scoffed as he put out his hand for another arrow from his lackeys, readying his crossbow for another shot. "They get in the way all the time."

"Oi!" Rin yelled from the sidewalk, his bicycle in hand as he got their attention. "What the hell are you doing?!"

Shiratori quickly aimed at the boy and pulled the trigger. The fired arrow nearly missed Rin's face, lodging itself into the tree beside him.

"Shut the fuck up!" Shiratori laughed along with his lackeys. "I'm just shooting down these shitty birds! Shut up and watch!"

The moment he saw Shiratori move up his crossbow to aim at the few pigeons still on the ground, Rin lost it. Abandoning his bike, Rin's fist made a straight line for Shiratori's nose.

And the rest that followed?

Karma, as far as Rin was concerned.

Yukio sat in silence after the story for a bit before speaking again. "Well, this might be a test for you."

"Test?" Rin raised a brow. "From who?"

Yukio gave Rin a closed-eyed smile. "God."

"You're getting more and more like the old man." Rin deadpanned.

"Ah, here he is!"

The boys looked over to the door to see Izumi and Maruta entering the room.

"They're looking for part-timers in the Southern Cross Mall." Maruta held out a flyer towards Rin.

"A part-time job?"

"We called them, and they were like 'come right away for the interview'." Izumi chimed in.

Rin curled his hand into a fist. "Wh-Why'd you call them without asking me?!"

"Just go." Naoya called out, causing their attention to shift to him as he tossed a box at Rin. "I'll lend you my suit."

Rin caught the box, holding it above his head. "I have to wear a suit to interview for a part-time job?"

"Here, my shoes." Izumi added to Rin's load. "Don't dirty them."

"And here's a map and your CV." Maruta finished. "Just add your photo there."

"Nii-san..." Yukio smiled in appreciation of everything happening before him.

The elder twin rubbed the back of his head with a small blush. "I've got no choice..."

"What's with this?!" Rin stood at the end of a hallway before a mirror, struggling to tie a tie that had hopelessly tangled itself around him. "How are you supposed to tie this thing?!"

"Ah, forget it!" Rin abandoned it as a lost endeavor and walked away. "It's easier this way."

"Thank you for your help, Father." A voice captured his attention from outside.

"Never you mind." Fujimoto said to the woman he was speaking to. "Really, don't worry about it."

A girl was by the woman, clutching her skirt in her small hands. She looked sad, her eyes trained to the ground. Fujimoto set a hand on her head, causing her to look up at him.

"You should be happy." Fujimoto had crouched down so that she wouldn't strain her neck or feel intimidated by his height. "You have your parents watching over you. If you have problems, ask your mommy and daddy first. If they can't help, then come asking us, the Exorcists."

Later on, Fujimoto waved off the mother and daughter with a smiling wave.

"It must be hard, to be an Exorcist." Rin spoke from behind, causing the man to drop his smile and turn about. "You have to get rid of things that don't even exist."

Fujimoto crossed his arms. "But those monsters do exist. They come in all shapes and natures, even as humans if the situation warrants it."

'Well, you ain't wrong about that.' Rin grimaced as he thought back to Shiratori the previous night.

"By the way, what's with that get-up?" The man asked, gesturing to Rin's suit.

Rin stuttered while trying to find the right words. "E-Everyone's been insisting that I go to some interview, so I borrowed it."

"No necktie?"

The black-haired teen turned to his dad quickly, embarrassment written clearly on his face. "Going tieless is in, for your information!"

"Heh, you just don't know how to tie it, do you?" Fujimoto joked before gesturing him to come closer. "Give it. I'll teach you."

A blush grew on Rin's face as he looked at him wide-eyed. "Huh?"

"Raise your collar and close the button." The grey-haired man put the tie around Rin's neck as he helped him. "Man, you're only growing up physically... And to think you were so cute when you were little, going 'Daddy, Daddy' all the time."

"That was ages ago!" Rin looked away in embarrassment. "And it would be damn creepy if a grownup was still 'cute'!"

"Grownup?" Fujimoto looked around the area, teasingly. "Hmm, I don't see any grownups around here!"

He laughed at his own joke, causing Rin to snap. "Oh, shut up!"

"There you go!" Fujimoto reached out to pat Rin's head, pushing him back gently towards the gate. "If it's that embarrassing, show me how much you've grown!"

"Don't look down on me!" The boy scoffed as he put his collar down. "Fine, I'm gonna prove to you that I can make it on my own! Keep your eyes wide open and just watch me!"

Fujimoto just saw him off with a smile, as he'd done for the little girl.

"Rin Okumura, 15 years old. You want to start working right after finishing middle school?"

Rin, seated on a chair at the other side of the room, chuckled and smiled at the interviewer. "Well, since I don't really like school and all that..."

"You're very wrong if you think you can keep doing as you please in this world!" The woman lectured.

"That's true..." The boy sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck.

"For starters..." The two were now in front of a large stack of boxes, with Rin now wearing the same work apron as the woman. "Line these up at the front of the store."

"You mean all of them?"

"Too much to handle?" Her glasses glinted as she looked at the boy.

"I can do it, Momoi-san." He rolled up his sleeves and walked towards the boxes, the woman making her way out of the room.

"There she goes again, hazing the newbies." One of the workers said from around the corner.

"He'll never get that done in a day, will he?" Another worker asked.

Rin grunted as he attempted to pick up a big stack of boxes. The older employees gasped as they looked at him.

Not even three minutes later, the manager gawked at the large pile of boxes already outside the building as she had specified. Just in time, Rin ran up with a box above his head. "Boss, this is the last one!"

Unfortunately, he ended up tripping and sending the box at Momoi's direction, thereby emptying it's contents over her.

Unfortunately, a good portion of his workday occurred in that manner. Whether from accidental bouts of his immense strength or his horrible luck, most of the jobs he tried to do kept failing which finally culminated in Momoi scolding him.

Later on, Rin sighed as he sat down in mental exhaustion. "I guess I'm just not fit for work, after all..."

"What's the matter, newbie?" Rin turned towards the woman, his senior coworker frying some noodles for sale. "Cheer up! Here, have some."

The teen stood up and took the offered food. He took a bite before cringing. "What's this?! It's horrible!"

"You think so, too?" The lady said sadly. "The boss ordered a huge shipment of these noodles because they're cheap, but they're not selling at all."

"He do you think I could give that a try?"

Some minutes later, Rin stood behind the table, handling the stir-fry before an eager crowd. "Hey, we've got a new line of yakisoba here! How about it, people?"

One of the customers took a bite of the offered sample and jumped in surprise. "What is this?! It's delicious!"

"Not to mention it smells amazing!"

Rin's coworker stood to the side, selling products to the crowd. "The secret to its flavor lies in this special sauce. Also, we top it with these sardine flakes as a final touch!"

"I want some!"

"I'd like some of that, too!"

"Me too."

Amidst the eager shoppers, the manager walked up with her permanent scowl.

"B-Boss?!"

She walked over to the table, causing Rin to back away slightly. She went on to pick up a fork and a sample container. Lifting a bite to her mouth, her eyes widened as the improved noodles hit her taste buds. "Staff meetings start at 08:30 every morning."

Momoi earned shocked looks from them all as she walked away. "Don't be late. Do your best from tomorrow, too!"

"...wha?"

"She means you're hired." The older woman said as she hit his back slightly with a smile. "Congratulations, newbie!"

Rin's face turned from shocked to happy in seconds.

"You got the job?!"

Back at the monastery, Yukio talked on the phone while the others prepared dinner.

"Yeah, they want me to start tomorrow."

"Congratulations, Nii-san!"

"Thanks!"

"I'm so happy I got some good news before leaving."

Rin chuckled slightly. "Hey, what are you all in tears about?"

"No tears around." Yukio smiled before the phone was suddenly taken from his hand. "Oh..."

"Come home, already!" Fujimoto said as he held the phone to his ear. "Today, we having Yukio's farewell party, so we're making sukiyaki!"

"Woah, gotcha!"

Yukio and Fujimoto shared smile at Rin's excitement.

Rin walked out of the telephone box with a smile, only stopping in his tracks at the cries of a little girl.

"Stop! Give it back, please!" The girl was chasing her pink scarf down the parking lot as it flew through the air.

"There you go!" Before it could fly further away, Rin quickly snatched it and smiled as he handed it back, immediately recognizing her. 'Wait, it's the little girl who the old man saw earlier.'

The little girl gasped as the scarf start to move again as if the wind had picked up. The black-haired teen looked down when suddenly a creature materialized on the end of the cloth.

The creature chittered loudly before trying to pull away with the scarf.

"What the hell are you?!" Rin grunted as he kept his grip on the cloth and entered into a brief tug-of-war with the creature. "Let go, you little shit!"

To his surprise, the creature actually released the scarf at his order, a weird look of fear and remorse on it's face before running away and disappearing, leaving the teenager and the little girl bemused and alone.

"...well, that was weird." Rin muttered as he looked at where the creature had run off to. 'What the hell was that, a monkey? Or a-'

"Thank you, Onii-chan!" The little girl cut Rin from his thoughts as she hugged his waist and beamed up at him. "You made the evil ghost go away!"

'That thing's a ghost?' "W-Well, that's me!" Rin laughed awkwardly as he patted the girl's head. "Mr. Reliable, right here!" 'Well, I guess it doesn't matter much. I got the job and helped out a little kid in trouble, so let's not question the string of good luck and make it stop.'

"That really happened at your work place today?" Fujimoto paused in his meal to stare at Rin. "What did it look like?"

"Eh?" Rin paused in his gorging of sukiyaki to stare at everyone else's serious expressions. "What do you mean?"

"That thing you said was tormenting that little girl." Fujimoto clarified, putting down his bowl to stare at his son with a serious expression. "What did it look like?"

"...well, it was small, like a monkey?" Rin took another bite while thinking back. "It was totally black, too. You know the really weird thing? I told it to let go, and they did."

Yukio's eyes narrowed disbelievingly. "You're saying that they obeyed you? With no issue?"

"Weird, right?" Rin nodded in agreement with his brother's skepticism. "I thought so, but I was like 'Wait, I'm on a good roll today, so let's not question it and make it stop'. So I didn't. I got the job, so I'm happy. Little girl goes home happy with her scarf and her mystery bully's gone, so she's happy. And I'm here eating sukiyaki for dinner with you guys, so I'm doubly happy!"

"...well, that is a good point for you to make, Rin." Fujimoto smiled. "Now, let's make a toast for Yukio!"

"Yeah!"

Later, in the middle of the night, Fujimoto stepped down into a sealed room underground and approached a large red chest while holding a lit candle.

Putting a special key into one of the keyholes, Fujimoto gasped at what he saw after pulling the unlocked chest open.

A sheathed katana with the seal locking it now smoking slightly. "Just as I thought..."

The next morning awoke with Rin snapping up from his alarm clock. Giving a baleful glare, he reached over to stop it, only to remember the reason he'd set it in the first place. "That's right! I have a job to get to! I gotta get there before 8AM at least!"

Leaping up from bed, Rin bustled around preparing and soon noticed a note on the table left from his missing brother.

The stuff I sent yesterday will be arriving in the morning, so I have to leave early. Take care, Nii-san.

PS: Don't make Father worry anymore.

- Yukio.

"Heartless. At least wake me up to say goodbye." Rin finished up dressing and opened the curtains. "It's not like... I'd... Huh?!"

Outside the window were tiny particulates that kind of looked like laughing skulls. Rin's eyes widened as the sight of the thousands of the tiny creatures flying around everywhere. "Wh-What's the hell?!"

It didn't change even throughout his workday. They seemed to be prevalent in some spots and near absent in others, but there was still the upsetting fact that nobody but Rin seemed to be able to notice them. 'How come nobody has noticed these things? Is it like that black thing from yesterday with that little girl's staff?"

"Oi, newbie."

Rin started from his coworker's voice, never having noticed the man approaching. "O-Oh, yeah?"

"You okay?" The man looked worried. "You've been spooked all day."

"Oh, um." Rin wondered how best to reply, seeing a few of the tiny black skulls floating about the man, too. "It's just first day jitters, you know."

"Ah, I feel you there." The man patted his shoulder consolingly. "Just remember, Nanaka-san and I are here if you need anything."

Rin smiled, a little more at ease. "I appreciate it. Really."

Waving the man goodbye as he left for the day, Rin prepared to go home as well, especially as none of the tiny skull things at least entered into his home for whatever reason.

"Hey, Okumura-kun!"

Halting from the nauseatingly familiar voice, Rin narrowed his eyes and looked over at the group of bullies from the other day. "Shiratori and the lackeys... Plus one."

"Are you free for now?" Shiratori spoke up again, practically surrounded by a swarm of the tiny skull particles.

"Actually, I am." Rin huffed as he turned away. "I just don't feel like devoting a single piece of it to scumbags."

"Huh? That's mean, Okumura."

"Don't tell me you're bitching out 'cause we're in public."

"Just for a little while, Okumura." Shiratori beckoned, his cruel smirk the very opposite of convincing. "Nothing bad's gonna happen, I promise."

Against his better judgement, Rin followed after them. 'If anything does happen, the farther away from my workplace, the better.'

Soon enough, the group found themselves in a more secluded alleyway, with a fire burning in a barrel nearby.

"Sorry about yesterday." Shiratori said with a smirk on his face that showed off his teeth. "We were just playing with those pigeons, but then my hand acted on it's own..."

"I wonder if that excuse would fly with someone with a badge." Rin snided. 'What's with him? He's got way more of those things circling him than anybody else.'

"Exactly. That's why I just gotta ask... How much do you want?"

Rin made a confused noise at that strange question.

"My parents are kinda famous, you see..." The boy started with an offhand statement. "And as for me, I'm about to enroll into True Cross Academy. So it'd just be a bother if any unsavory rumors to swirl."

"You're going to the same school as Yukio?" Rin deadpanned. "Yeah, I can see how that would be a problem."

"That's how it is!" The lilac haired teen chuckled, either missing or ignoring that he'd been the one referred to as a problem instead of Yukio. "So consider it hush money to hold your mouth."

"Huh? And I was wondering what you wanted. I don't need your money, and it's not like I have a habit or history of snitching." Rin waved his hand as he turned to walk away. "Okay, I've got things to do... Leftover sukiyaki to eat..."

"Oh, my! What is this, playing the cool guy? Seriously, don't be such a saintly guy." Laughing cruelly, Shiratori pulled out his wallet. "Everyone knows you're so poor you can't even get into school without help. Here, just take it."

Pulling out a ¥10,000 bill, Shiratori waved it back and forth teasingly. "Your brother, Yukio, only got into that school by working his ass off for a scholarship, right? In other words, he's in debt!"

Rin stared at him in quiet murderous intent at the words leaving the guy's mouth. 'Don't do it. He's not worth it. Don't do it. He's not worth it-'

Rin's body seemed to have different thoughts from his mind, given that his fist smashed into Shiratori's face hard enough to knock him down.

"Badmouth me however you like, " Rin growled, the skull particulates chirping excitedly at the scene of violence, "but keep my brother's name out of your fucking mouth!"

"That hurt... You've gone too fucking far!" Shiratori raged, the volume of his voice rising as his canines grew while his skin became even more gaunt, making his eyes pop out and glow an unearthly orange. And if the skull particulates had been excited before, they were now chittering and laughing uproariously around him.

'He's not human?!' Rin jumped back at the new appearance. In the midst of his shock, he was pushed and pinned to the ground by the other three boys. He looked up at them through the corner of his eye, shocked at their lack of reaction. 'Why doesn't anybody else see it?!'

"Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, huh?" Shiratori pulled out a steel rebar out of the burning barrel, the tip red hot from the dull fire. He walked over to the boy, his voice much deeper now. "I'm going to give you back twice the pain that you caused me!"

"Th-That's enough, Shiratori-san." One of the minions looked up with a wry smile. "If you go any further-"

"Shut up!" Kicking him away right in the jaw, Shiratori gripped Rin by his hair and pulled him up slightly, causing him to grunt in pain as the lilac-haired teen brought the burning rebar closer to his face. "Now, where should I burn you? Your nose? Your mouth? Or your eyes?"

Rin's eyes widened further as the metal rod came closer and closer to his face. 'This guy... He's really gonna...!'

"Maybe I'll keep at it until I hit bone!" Shiratori cackled maniacally, his laughter being eerily echoed by the skull particulates around him.

'Stop!' "Stop!" Rin shouted as his thoughts spilled out of his mouth. "STOP IT!"

Suddenly, the flame's hue turned from orange to gold and sparked wildly, along with a surge of the golden electricity exploding off Rin's body. All of the boys were immediately blown away, shouting words of shock.

"I'm... electric...?" Rin looked at his hands, seeing the tendrils flickering across his skin. "Yellow... electricity?"

As he knelt in shock, the lackeys ran away from the scene. "What the hell?! Run away!"

"Ah... That divine lightning is indeed proof of your lineage to her." Shiratori spoke up as he got up and approached him, his demeanor completely changed from deranged to pleased. "I wasn't mistaken after all. That ridiculous incident boasted a successful existence!"

Shiratori crouched down before him and extended a hand. "I am Beelzebub the Unappeasable, lord of all undead and Archon of Gluttony. Will you come with me, young nephalem? It won't be long before Gaia is unable to handle you."

"G-Gaia?" Rin repeated.

"Evil is in their hearts..." Rin turned to see his father approaching them while reciting a verse. "O' Lord, give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of the invention. According to the works of their hands, give thou to them: render to them their reward. Thou shalt destroy them, and shalt build them up."

"You..." Shiratori(Beelzebub) growled, his maniacal rage returning. "You dare, Paladin?!"

Fujimoto's glasses glinted as he smiled with narrowed eyes. "Blessed be the Lord."

Rin looked on in shock. "Old man...?"

"I shall tear out that tongue of yours, so that you can no longer spout your spells!" Shiratori(Beelzebub) roared as he charged forward with sickly miasma wreathing his clawed hands.

"You have heard my Word." Fujimoto easily dodged the clawed swipe without a single break in his reciting. Grabbing him by the wrist, Fujimoto easily flipped over Shiratori(Beelzebub) until he landed painfully on his back. "The Lord is my strength and my shield."

Moving his fingers in the shape of a cross, Fujimoto finished with them pointed down at the possessed boy. "Thou shalt perish!"

A powerful burst of white energy slammed into Shiratori(Beelzebub), causing him to scream as his body hijacker was forced out in a large burst of miasma that soon led to the boy passing out with his features now back to normal.

"Are you okay?" Fujimoto asked his son.

Instead of replying, the boy stuttered in confusion. "W-Wait, what about him. Is he okay?"

"I've exorcised the monster that possessed him." Fujimoto answered him. "He'll wake up later."

"Monster."

"You can see now see these tiny ones, right?" Fujimoto asked before blowing away a small skull particulate that flew past his face.

Rin flinched back as he now noticed the increase of them in the area, brushing a few of his sleeve. "These things, too?"

"These are called Skull Flecks, which gather around places and people with death being a constant. It's no surprise that there were plenty of them around today, with a lich running about nearby." Fujimoto explained as much and quickly as he could. "The world consists of multiple dimensions layered over each other, with our own being the material world called Gaia. Normally, our realms shouldn't have any natural interaction with each other thanks to the Veil, but more than often, there are always abnormalities that allow them to come into here, especially as this is the middle point between them all. Now, get up. Thanks to this uproar that Beelzebub has caused, your existence has been revealed to them all. They'll have varying reasons, but many will come hunting after you. You must hide before that comes to pass."

"Wait a second! I don't get it!" Rin protested. "Monsters? Realms? What the hell do you mean?! What the hell did the two of you mean by my existence?!"

"Rin, you're not human. And I mean that not by your temperament, but by your species." Fujimoto's statement caused Rin to gasp. "You are the born child between an angel and a demon."

Before he could finish his sentence, they were cut off by the Blip Motes as they started to join together, making a huge blob. More abnormalities occurred around them, fungi growing unnaturally while the ambient light was getting dimmer.

"And while I don't know the identity of your angel mother, your father on the other hand is a whole doozy on his own." The priest grabbed Rin by his arm and dragged him out of the area. "Your father is the demon that all know of. Lord of all dragons and serpents, and Archon of Wrath, Satan."

Rin stared at his guardian in complete shock.

KingVessel: The characters are the same. The lore is not.