Hello Redgrave.

Let's not waste time insulting either of our intelligence. I know about your blatant Revenge Porn book, while I personally would find the concept of your revenge immensely Cathartic in your shoes for some reason my sister Dorothea finds herself taken with your little fantasies and wants to talk to you in person. Seeing as how we're taking the school trip to Yamatai Dorothea intends to drop in on us in her free time. I don't know what she's planning but I've rarely known my sister to blindly hold a grudge for no reason. So long as we keep things amicable, there won't be a problem.

A letter from Deidre Fia Roseblade to Angelica Rapha Holfort Leading up to what would be known as the Black Field Trip


Erica Rapha Holfort: Are our plans in place?

Luxion: Provided that your information is correct? Yes. The Five Heirs and the Saintess on one ship should be enough of an overly inflated target to bait the Principality.

Luxion: Is it wise to keep the Warlock, the Actual Saintess and the Duke's Daughter on the other ship? From what I understand they would be a considerable asset in subjugating the Black Knight.

Erica: Killing the Black Knight is half the reason you appear in the first game to begin with, arguably all of it. And unlike in the game there won't be some grand epic duel despite what my father may wish, we will blast him from as far away and with as much fire power as possible without giving him the chance to flee.

Erica: If it came to light that we knew about the attack in advance and let it endanger the Duke's family and Blackmore then our political situation will further devolve. We have enemies on all sides and that includes from within, you and my memories from the game are our only assets.

A conversation Between Captain Erica and The Luxion Ship AI


Mylene Rapha Holfort: An attack during the School Fieldtrip?

Erica Rapha Holfort: We should assume that Fanoss's legendary aggression will rear its ugly heads. I've no doubt that the Offrey's fed all kinds of juicy intel and gossip to their Fanossian masters that makes us look weak.

Mylene: Not a hard task to pull off. And with the former crown prince travelling with the current Saintess outside our borders a juicy target has been presented. They may attempt an attack. Your proposal?

Erica: Luxion will follow the ship discretely through the use of his cloaking magic, the rest of the fleet from a distance. With luck we can Ambush their Ambush and land a decapitating strike.

Mylene: Decapitating?

Erica: If Fanoss wants to make it look like an accident they'll use their monster army. Which also means they need one or both of their Princesses.

Mylene: I see.

Transcript from a Conversation Between Erica Rapha Holfort and her mother Mylene Rapha Holfort Leading up to the Black Field Trip


As much as the three of them wanted to stay together, Angelica had to deal with another Noble Family, Leon had his wellness check to look after, Olivia wanted to visit the Fox and Tanuki Petting zoos. The group agreed to reunite in the afternoon.

"I'm glad Livia isn't here." Leon kicked empty gourds as he walked through the castle like building made out of wood and paper that the fox woman next to him had led him to, the air was thick with the smell of alcohol, Leon was confident that if he lit a lantern in here the the whole place would burn down. "Guard the doors and maintain a barrier around the fortress. If it looks like we're about to leave stop us immediately unless I say otherwise."

Although the woman could easily pass for a Fox type Demi-human, she was in fact a Demon who had taken a human form through the use of a doll like Left and Right. In fact even though she was taking orders from Leon she was in fact a contracted demon for the man who lived in this castle, but she also knew what he was like when he got drunk, which these days was all the time. If luck is on their side they'll only lose the castle.


The time after the Clan War and the Subsequent Witch Hunts was a time of strife, all across the world angels and demons incited great conflict across the nations resulting in several civil wars. Of them, Japan's warring states period was particularly brutal lasting for approximately 146 years across several warring dynasties. The Sheer extremes of human emotion and death generated thousands of demons and angels from humans, animals and objects, though the locals preferred the terms Yokai and Kami. Once the war was finished a General by the name of Oda Nobunaka who had died and transitioned into a demon negotiated with the various supernatural entities to retreat into their own private cities in the Paradiso and Inferno versions of Japan and later the islands that would be born of Japan Yamatai.

Among the Demonic rulers there were so-called Three Great Yokai born of Man, Beast and Object.

Umbra Clan History of the Yamatai Island Chain


Angelica looked ahead of her at Dorothea. The older woman had arrived in Yamatai ahead of time. Not only had she acquired a customised blue kimono with a floral print that emphasised her figure and left the muffin of her breasts exposed but she had also combed over her hair and decorated it with hair pins and combs in a traditional Yamatai style, even though Angelica used the term 'older' Dorothea aged like fine wine, and would've only graduated the academy last year. It was a good indication of how Long Dorothea had been here, as if she was bragging about how much time she had spent here. The Duchess had to wonder what other kinds of preparations she had made.

"Is there a reason you called this meeting?" Angelica asked folding her hands together as she stared ahead. She's never known a Roseblade to miss an opportunity to make a spectacle.

"I assure you that my reasons for this meeting are entirely personal, and for that matter private." 'Personal' and 'Private' for the Roseblades means 'I don't plan on getting unneeded people involved' and 'I'm not going to drag this out to the public if I don't have to.' "I trust you've heard that I've been husband hunting for quite some time."

"Very short 'hunts' as I recall." Angelica stated by way of reply. Dorothea's marriage 'interviews' consist of a single question asking the other partner if they wanted to be her 'pet' or not. However man or woman, young or old, yes or no, every single interview has ended singularly in 'disappointing' and thus ending the interview immediately. It would be one thing if Dorothea would simply outline what she was looking for in a partner, as she repeatedly claims that while she is looking for a partner she has yet to find one who matches her tastes. "I don't think you picked up anyone at the cafe, so are you hoping I would organise another such event?"

"Not at all." Dorothea waved Angelica off. "I'm just happy to get to talk with someone who has the same tastes as I do." Dorothea held up a book that had a rather raunchy cover on it, with Angelica noting that it was already on the sixth volume. The Fujushi Boys.

"Does that mean we're finally getting the details of the Great Dorothea's man hunts?" Angelica would never let this meeting be made public, her association with that wretched book could never be known. Dorothea knew this and thus having embarrassed Angie might be willing to air her own dirty laundry as well.

"In simple terms?" Dorothea smiled lewdly as she spoke. Angelica was fairly certain that she leaned towards men herself, but she was also fairly certain that Dorothea was trying and succeeding to seduce her. "Part of me would like to be a character in this book. Seeing the people inside makes me want to be both the one doing these things to others and having others do them to me." A chill went up Angie's spine, the recognition of a predator and that she was actively being hunted on top of that. "I've been making do for some time now with exclusive servants but-" And already Angie heard more than enough.

"I'm afraid I'm going to have to stop you there!" Angelica needed to stop this chat before it got worse. "I created the rough outline of this book, the contents was something decided upon by my subordinates." Dorothea's predatory smirk intensified.

"No one had the stones to set something like this up when I was at the academy, and there was no reading material on the like either, I know I checked. So that means that it was either you or..."

"Leon." Angelica stated as she let out a sigh. "The details of what is done in the book are taken from Blackmore's family library."

As Angelica was desperately trying to resolve the misunderstanding the two women heard a dull boom echo out and looked to the sky to see something sailing over the skies of Yamatai.


Olivia had been enjoying herself at the petting zoo, she already had her measurements from Jenna so she just had to place an order for a custom kimono and then she could go to the petting zoo. One moment she was surrounded by a adorable and fluffy as far as the eyes could see, and the next thing she knew the Pagoda she had been sitting in front of buckled like it had been struck by a meteor.

"Leon!?" Olivia was surprised to say the least when she saw who had been the one to literally crash her party. And indeed sitting in the rubble of the Pagoda had been Leon Fia Blackmore.

"Okay!" Leon audibly creaked as he sat up, or that might be what was left of the Pagoda she wasn't sure about. "That was just plain rude!"

"What happened!?" Olivia asked as she already started casting healing magic on Leon.

"He punched me!" Leon stated as he checked his jaw for broken bones and his mouth for broken teeth.

"Are you going back there?" Olivia asked looking concerned

. "Let's let him sleep off his hangover, or at least sober up." However long that'll take. "I shouldn't take too long since I have this and all." Leon held out what suspiciously looked like a gourd that wreaked of Alcohol, decorated with pattern of a long snake like creature.

"You shouldn't have that." Olivia stated as she went to grab the gourd but Leon moved it out of her reach.

"It's not a gourd Livia, it's a Devil Arm, and one with a fair bit of bite to it too." Leon stated as he tossed the weapon into the same void that he kept his other weapons. "I would not touch it lightly if I was you."


Sakimichi: A Gourd containing the Soul of the Legendary River Dragon Mizuchi, One of the Three Great Yokai of Japan and King of Objects.

Originally a gourd growing on the shores of the Kawashima river, the gourd tree became a receptacle of all the jealousy and resentment of the people who suffered from the river's constant flooding towards those who benefited from it's waters for it's hydro power and rice fields. Once harvested, the Gourd was converted into a ceremonial tool of offering Saki to the great dragon to wash away all the negative feelings towards it.

As a weapon the Sakimichi is every bit as ferocious as the Dragon whose soul it holds, capable of spewing forth flaming liquid with enough force to cut through any mundane material and is weighty enough to be used as a blunt instrument to bludgeon enemies to death with.

Excerpt from Rodin's Weapon Catalogue


Angelica's exact words was that none of the five heirs would be allowed to step foot inside of one of Holfort's dungeons.

This however was Yamatai, a country that wasn't a part of Holfort's territory, even if they were allies. To Julius's surprise his mother actually agreed with the Loop Hole, and in fact insisted that the former Prince takes his friends and Marie along with him.

"Remember boys! We have to get our levels as high as possible during this trip!" Marie oddly enough was the one taking the lead, decked out in her saintess regalia with chain mail underneath the robes.

Their training had been good, in fact it had been fantastic. Each of the five of them had obtained abilities and fighting strength that Marie never would've dreamed of, if they had been like that in the game she never would've had to get her brother to beat it for her. That said, in terms of raw stats the best way to go was to obtain levels, and to do that they needed to be able to dungeon dive, and here was a convenient five floor dungeon for them to explore the 'Traitor's Prison'.

Nothing like the one in the capital mind you but they would work with what they have. For the time being the group entered the dungeon.

Unlike in the capital this particular hole in the ground had its own theme, in lieu of the Hideous or the Affinities these monsters were straight out of the story books of Marie's past life. There were for instance the short and emancipated Goblin like Gaki, which didn't stay short or Emancipated for very long if they got the chance to eat one another. There was also the large sumo like Kappa, snake necked men, oni-dressed in clay tile armour and the list went on, she even ran into what she swore were ninja weasels! However when you go into a dungeon the real attraction was its bosses and this one had five.

If you had asked Marie if she had any convenient memories about the game that she can use to get by then sure, there were lots of it. She remembered how to seduce all the boys and she remembered all the super hard bosses that she had to get her brother to beat for her. How to do things like efficiently power level the boys or rare items and equipment to help them get stronger on the other hand, that she distinctly lacked, but luckily for her the Princess had access to all of this relevant information. And so 'Luckily' Marie would now be spending a good chunk of her vacation time back in Japan running some thousand year old prison.

"C'mon! The sooner we finish here the faster we can get back to our vacation!" One of those tricks for optimising level gains that Marie had learned about involved certain accessories that could be gotten in a Gacha in Yamatai.

Apparently Luxion had 'acquired' them discretely and gave them to each of the boys. Brad had three star shaped accessories, Fire Red, Earth Brown, and Green Wind.

Greg had received an accessory resembling three crossed swords and another red star.

Chris had gotten a sword and shield accessory alongside a yellow star.

Jilk had gotten a drawn bow accessory and a blue star.

Julius had gotten another sword and Shield alongside another two Brown and Yellow stars.

Marie now had a blue star accessory accompanying her three key items.

In the mean time Marie was cackling internally, Angelica had thought that she was stifling them by keeping them out of the dungeon, but now they were the ones getting the optimised stat build while she would be the one who had crippled her own potential with near constant dungeon diving. Telling herself that Marie entered the first floor boss room alongside her entourage.

It was a giant bulbus mass of mouths with horns sticking out this way and that, useless vestigial limbs sticking out the side their only purpose seemingly to be chained down to the floor.

"Come on it's just a big balloon!" Greg snapped as he stepped forward, spear at the ready. "Let's just pop-" Suddenly dozens of magic circles appeared around the 'big balloon.' "-it?" And then the boys first boss fought in months mopped the floor with them.


"Your magic stones?" Leon asked as he looked at Angelica with suspicion. "What about them?" After Leon decided to wait for his cousin to sober up he and Olivia went looking for Angie.

The chat with Dorothea had what you call an effect on Angie, who had decided that she needed to have a chat with Leon concerning her plans for the future but needed to work up to them. Thus she was going to work through the other relevant questions for him.

"I'm given to understand that it can be rather unhealthy to let them build up in your body. I recall at least one case of an otherwise healthy adventurer dying because one that had appeared in his heart got too big." Though the Mana crystals can be thought of as important organs to help the body process demonic and angelic energy, from another perspective they were more like benign tumours that grew over time and gradually became less benign.

"Just remove them when they get too big." Leon stated shrugging his shoulders. "If you turn them into accessories then you can even keep an extra supply of mana on hand, though you'll have to go back to rebuilding your stats from scratch."

"Just remove them?" Livia had naturally followed up the question. "Do you mean that surgery thing I read about in the books back in your home? That sounds like a barbaric method."

"If you don't like it then stop going into dungeons, though even if you do do that it won't stop them from getting any bigger unless you move out to the boonies with no dungeons." Leon stated sounding annoyed. "It's not a big deal anyway." Leon led the group to a shrine being manned by a Fox type beast woman, at least what appeared to be one anyway. "I pay my respects to one of the three great Yokai." Leon stated with a bow to the woman working the shrine.

"I pay my respects to the Young Master of the Umbra."


Tamamo No Mae: One of three Great Yokai of Japan and the Queen of Beasts.

Originally a Fox who had fallen into inferno during the Warring States era, she had the good instincts and strength to survive her transformation and return to the land of mortals albeit severely wounded.

She had the good fortune to be picked up by a group of Wandering Miko who worked as prostitutes and shrine maidens in service to local goddess of fertility. Learning their ways and practising their religion Tamamo would eventually transform into a powerful Demoness of Lust having grown eight extra tails as a way of containing her immense power.

Tamamo seized control of the other Kitsune and taught them the sacred arts that she had learned, through them she seized control over all the demonic beasts in Japan and became known as one of the Three Great Yokai.

Excerpt from Lemegeton's Guidebook of Demons


Angelica wasn't entirely sure about what she was looking at. Objectively the high quality red and white clothes and accessories indicated someone of equally high status, The amount of exposed flesh particularly on the breasts going from the waist along the thighs and down to the knees was painting a different picture. She thought she was a Beast Woman at first, but Angelica has never heard of one with nine tails before, so she concluded that they were part of whatever costume that she was wearing.

"Allow me to introduce Miss Angelica Rapha Redgrave and Miss Olivia of Blackmore." Olivia still had no last name as she was a commoner, for Angelica this was intolerably sad, so to help her build some prestige she had been instructing the other girl to introduce herself as 'Of Blackmore' referring to Leon's territory. "And also allow me to introduce Tamamo No Mae, high priestess to the temple of Ami No Uzume."

"A pleasure to make your acquaintance Missus Angelica and Olivia." The fox woman bowed to the Duchess and commoner and they responded in kind. "Shall we come inside for tea? I would like to have your opinion on how Oyaji is doing Young Master."

"She was the one who called you here." Angelica deduced as the Fox woman led the three of them inside. Although it was a tea room it was one that left little to the imagination. The other 'Priestesses' were talking with various men at other tables and after a while led them away to another floor where they heard the sounds of thumping and beds squeaking. "Pardon me for saying this." Particularly considering this was one of the few women that Leon showed actual legitimate respect. "But your temple seems like a..."

"Brothel?" Tamamo answered as she began sipping the green tea another priestess had prepared for her. "It is a common misconception among the people ignorant of our way of life."

"I'm listening." Angelica replied by telling the priestess to prove her wrong as politely as possible.

"Our religion holds that our islands were born between the God and Goddess Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto. The story starts with the question 'how was your body formed' and the reply from Izanami was 'my body though formed has one place formed insufficiently.' Izanagi then replied 'my body though formed has one place formed to excess thus I would like to take that place formed in excess and put it into your body that has formed insufficiently.'" Olivia turned beat red at the implication. "Sex is a natural part of life just like eating, exercising and sleeping, and thus doing each of these things is a act of worship to our creators. Mutual attraction between men and women leads to physical intimacy and that leads to the birth of life, and without it life ceases to function. I had thought that the women of Holfort were more open about these matters." Tamamo looked more disappointed than anything else.

"The vast majority of the women of the academy pay for sex with people that despise them but tolerate their existence because of the amount of money that they give them." Angelica stated letting out a sigh. "I sincerely doubt that what they do can be seen as anymore than a perversion of what you believe in."

"What do you mean 'Despise?'" Olivia asked sounding confused. "I don't know how it is with beast men but I know that Elves see magical energy in lieu of light, with mixed energy such as what most people give off looking disgusting to them." Angelica explained in simple terms.

"I remember that Left and Right keep talking about how the beast men keep complaining about the excess perfumes that the women of the academy keep using." Leon replied as he looked up to the air in thought.

"That's so horrible." Olivia stated as she grew sympathy for the women of the Academy.

"That it is." Tamamo agreed for completely different reasons.

"Well this is as good of a Segway as I'm ever going to get." Angelica stated letting out a sigh.

"Dorothea Roseblade is planning on romantically pursuing you Leon." The look on Leon's face was 'who the hell is that?' "To be more precise she seems to believe that you are a bondage enthusiast like she is." Olivia looked like the proverbial kettle that was on the cusp of boiling over.

"How the hell did that happen?" Leon asked sounding more disturbed than confused.

"How isn't important." Angelica had no intention of confessing her role in said misunderstanding. "It has however moved up my own time table." Angelica stated as she breathed a sigh. "It has come to my attention that though my previous engagement has been annulled I still require a fiance, on account of the strong chance that I will be inheriting my family's house in lieu of my brother. Of men of acceptable social standing in the kingdom you are the closest I am to."

Technically Leon was too low ranking to meet the requirements, but considering the rate by which he acquired promotions, the size of the territory that he controlled, the total wealth he possessed, and the social influence he had among the next generation of the kingdom's nobility he had some of the highest standing in the entire kingdom.

"Are you hitting on me?" Leon asked sounding confused. "I'm proposing to you." Angelica stated bluntly, a light blush on her features even at the utter train wreck of a situation this had become. Leon just hung his head down low.

"Complicated." Leon replied simply. "Don't tell me you have a fiance already? In Alzer perhaps?" To Angelica's question, Leon's entire body shivered from his toes all the way up to his head.

"Absolutely not!" Leon gave a thousand yard stare to the question. "I have so many problems I need to deal with and I literally cannot explain a single one of them. And unfortunately for me every single one of them is so unbelievable that even if I did explained them you wouldn't believe me."

"Are you talking about your belief that you'll turn into a demon when you die?" Angelica asked looking legitimately concerned.

"One of them yes, but it's a fraction of the shit that I am going to have to deal with, and most of it is going to be while I am firmly among the living." Leon replied as Olivia looked around confused. "You pretty much picked the worst place possible to ask me this. The Cranky old bastard I came here to meet, that is what I'm afraid of becoming." Leon stated giving a thousand yard stare.

"Perhaps it will simplify issues to see instead of being told of his fears and the form that they take." Tamamo stated in simple terms. "You look like the one my master lost." Tamamo indicated Angelica with her finger who in turn looked surprised by the statement. "He might actually listen to you."


Lusachia: Among the denizens of hell there are exceptional individuals among the common stock of demons that are plagued with obsession.

In many cases, this obsession combined with the innate demonic power within and without their bodies can cause physical mutations to take hold of their bodies, many don't survive. For members of the Goat Demon clan known as the Baphomets this obsession takes the form of magic, their mutations robbing them of anything resembling a defined form as their bodies swell up into a floating mass of dark flesh and teeth. Such individuals become effectively useless in physical combat, in exchange though their brains and magic generating organs have vastly expanded while the extra mouths enable chanting for multiple magical spells at the same time, moving about the battlefields spewing violence on prey with devastating and efficient spell casting.

Excerpt from Lemegeton's Guidebook of Demons


The members of Marie's raid team were beaten battered and sore, the thought of 'what the hell was that thing!?' going through their minds over and over again. The Balloon-Mouths-Thing they just fought was a nightmare! What kind of boss monster fights by sucking the air out of a area creating a vacuum while at the same time using that air to increase the air pressure on another area, one guy bursts in a vacuum while another gets crushed like any orange! Their legs were frozen in place alongside their bodies while a spear of fire was formed over their heads! Multiple spears of stone were formed directly under their feet! How exactly is a first level boss able to track half a dozen targets casting multiple spells at the same time!? The only good thing they had to say about it was the chain that had pinned it to place in the centre of the arena.

The fact that it either couldn't or wouldn't move to defend itself was their only saving grace, still the few short moments that the fight itself lasted nearly led to a Total Party Kill. Brad was the real MVP, keep the thing's various spells from killing all of them with his own magic, she just wish that he looked a little less excited about the near death experience put them all through claiming that he had made a break through in his own magic. Still they ended up spending the entire day to recover so that she could heal their frostbite, burns, stab wounds, oxygen deprived brains. In the end it was almost time for the balloon monster thing to respawn before they left for the second floor. Perhaps feeling spiteful, the boys decided to spawn camp, with Julius, Greg and Chris holding their weapons out to where the creature would respawn while Brad prepared several spears of stone in the same spot.

The creature reappeared, received several stab wounds, the angry hacking of the boys and then died again.

"Not even a weapon." Julius snapped displeased and unamused. A horror like that and all they got out of it was a lousy mana regeneration potion! Brad ended up taking the second potion, having already drunk the one from the day before, and together with the rest of the group moved on. It would take a while for the horror they just fought against to respawn, so they had to go deeper to get more experience. Against a monster that was even stronger than the eldritch horror they just fought. Life was unfair.


Review Section:

RonaldM40196867: Dragon.

Chronos0305: She doesn't, or to be more accurate she doesn't in the same way that we would. You may remember that the third game introduced four characters closely related to Cereza. I took was disappointed by the lack of a Male Lumen alter, if only there was a fan fiction author out there just as disappointed as I am who was working to correct the Egregious errors of the third game. Julius needs to get his head pulled out of his ass, something that as far as I know doesn't ever actually happen.

guest: So long as Leon goes to the academy and meet Olivia, then he'll become aware of her harassment by the Five Heirs, fall under her influence, fight and beat the five heirs up, thus accelerating the events of the game.

RedRat8: Erica knew things would be off the rails from the get go, whether it was misinformation from the game, her own actions throwing things off, or another reincarnated operating outside of her control. Which is why she made preparations like she was desperate out of her mind.