Shin's eyes fluttered, hearing only the sound of a repetitious beeping, however, the light above him was so blinding, and his eyelids felt so damn heavy at the moment. Releasing a grunt, suddenly an overwhelming soreness of his entire body hit him.
Hearing a shuffling beside him, he slowly looked to the side while trying to open his heavy eyelids. After several tried, he was finally able to open them wide enough to see and was greeted by the sight of a rather luxurious hospital room.
The rooms hospital bed he was on was in reality, a queen-sized bed with a luxurious white headrest with gold trimmings. The mattress was the softest he had ever felt, although he didn't pay much attention to that due to his body's soreness.
All around the rooms were various paintings that Shin was sure cost more than he could ever imagine, as well as a TV that was more akin to a holographic display as it was just a wooden table with a long and thin black projector sitting on top of it. Projecting a crystal-clear image, which at the moment was just a background a beautiful flowery meadow with the time in the bottom right corner.
Then, right next to him, was a couch. The couch had purple cushions, a white wood as the support, and once again a gold trim that made the couch seem very luxurious. Sitting on the couch, looking at Shin worriedly, was Sona. Her hair was a mess, and her clothes were all wrinkled. It was obvious she had been previously sleeping on the couch.
"Shin?! You're awake!" Sona said, surprised and relieved. Hurriedly pressing a button on a remote stationed on the bedside table near shin.
"Sona? What are you doing here? And where the hell am I?" Shin said as he very slowly and meticulously sat up, groaning all the way up due to his body's soreness.
Sona stood up and walked over to Shin and sat on the bed beside him, putting her hand on his forearm for comfort. "You're in a hospital in Sitri territory," Sona explained, resulting in the widening of Shin's eyes.
If he was in a hospital in Sitri territory, then that meant he was currently in the underworld, which indirectly meant that whatever was wrong with him was serious enough that he had to be brought to the underworlds best hospital to receive treatment.
"What's wrong with me? It can't be something little if I had to be brought to the underworld to receive treatment." Shin asked, worried. He wasn't a doctor, so he had no clue as to what was wrong with him. All he knows is that when your veins explode and you vomit blood, that something is wrong. The cause for it, however? He had no idea.
"I don't know. Since I am not family, the doctors will not tell me without your permission. Doctor-patient privilege and all that. However, since my family owns this hospital, I pulled enough strings to allow me to at least visit you out of visiting hours." Sona explained.
"I see. Well then, how long have I been out?" Shin asked.
"You've been unconscious for 5 years," Sona said, causing Shin to suddenly choke on air. The shock was almost enough to send him back into unconsciousness. However, Sona's chuckles stopped him from doing so. Looking at her, she was smirking amusedly at him.
"You're fucking with me," Shin said, ticked off.
"Yea. You were unconscious for 2 days. At first, we brought you to the hospital in Kuoh, however, they couldn't figure out what was wrong with you after running all the tests they could. So, I brought you here." Sona explained, and it was at this time that the door to Shin's room hurriedly opened.
In came two nurses and a doctor, hurriedly telling Sona to get out of the way, to which she complied. The nurses wasted no time in getting to work, one using a pump thing on his arm, the other using a small flashlight to test his eyes, telling him to look this way and that way. The usual stuff nurses do.
Meanwhile, the doctor read over a paper and waited for the nurses to be done. After a few minutes, the nurses stepped out of the way and allowed the doctor to talk to Shin. "Hello Mr. Hyoudou, I am the doctor that has been treating you. My name is Marco Sitri, a member of the Sitri clan." The doctor said as he extended his hand, Shin responding in kind, albeit slowly and painfully, shook the doctor's hand.
"Now, for proper procedure, I'm going to need to ask you if you're okay with Miss Sitri being present for this. The decision is yours." The doctor asked, Shin, looking over to Sona, seeing her worried face he couldn't help but feel happy. He didn't expect Sona to have gone so far for him.
"It's alright. She's done this much for me, it's only right that I allow her to know what put me in this situation." Shin said, Sona smiling at Shin appreciatively.
"Alright, then I have some routine questions to ask you." The doctor said, moving onto questions such as his birthday, if he had any allergies, if he had any previous serious injuries, was he on any medications, was he sexually active. The usual questions you get asked when you go into the doctor.
After asking them, the doctor put the clipboard he was holding down onto the desk and pulled out a chair that had wheels on it, wheeling on over to Shin. "Alright, then all that's left is to explain what happened to you. Now, a lot of things happened when you were with Miss Sitri, and it all boils down to your magic attacking you." The doctor explained, confusing Shin.
"My magic attacked me? Why would it do that?" Shin asked, utterly confused.
"Well, your sacred gear, which Rias Gremory so graciously explained to us, allowed you to absorb energy and contain it within your body. Something which was unprecedented until now. Correct?" The doctor asked, receiving a nod from Shin.
"You see, although your Sacred Gear is, in fact, limitless, your body is another story. You see, everyone's body is only able to handle so much. In this case, you exceeded the limit of how much magic your body could hold at once. At most, your body is able to hold the lower end of high-class magic, and no more. You, however, had the demonic reserves of a low-class devil on the higher spectrum, as well as a holy energy equivalent to a high-class angel, one of 8 wings at the very least. This was simply way too much magic for your body to hold." The doctor explained.
"So, my body eventually gave out on trying to contain it, which resulted in the magic being spread throughout my body and attacking me." Shin assumed, receiving a nod from the doctor. Shin cursed himself for being so stupid. He had been so greedy, so consumed at the prospect of gaining more power, that he had overlooked the simple fact that he was not ready it. That his body was not yet ready to handle such power.
"Yes, and your body was damaged in three places specifically the most. The first was your brain. It was the first thing it attacked, it was the cause for your vertigo, as well as the blood that came out of your nose and eyes. Second, it attacked your liver, which was why you were vomiting blood. Finally, it also attacked your heart, causing it to pump way too much blood, which caused your veins to blow." The doctor listed off, causing Shin to fall into despair.
Once again, Shin was not a doctor, but he didn't have to be one to see that this was not good. "Is there any permanent damage?" Shin asked, his hands shaking in worry.
"When you came in, the first thing we did was seal off your holy magic, which allowed your body to regain control of your magic and stop the attacking. Second, we used a phoenix tear to try and halt the decline of your organs. Luckily, the damage to your brain was almost completely healed." The doctor explained.
"Almost?" Shin said, worried.
"Yes, it's nothing serious. It will heal within the next week, but for now, things like standing up too quickly, bright lights, and exertion could cause vertigo or migraines. It's a slap on the wrist considering all the things that could have gone wrong." The doctor explained, easing some of Shin's worries.
"The damage to your liver was completely healed, and there is nothing to indicate that it was ever damaged. Your heart, however, that's a completely different story." And just like that, Shin once again fell into despair.
"Although the phoenix tear did halt your heart from being damaged any further, it could not heal the damage done, and quite frankly, you would not survive open-heart surgery. The damage done to your heart is too extensive, it can't be repaired. At the current moment and time, I give you a year, two if you're lucky to live; and at most six months before your bedridden." The doctor explained, Sona and Shin both falling into despair.
"Luckily, while you were unconscious, we did implant a pacemaker, which will help you keep a regular heartbeat, however, it won't make a difference in the long run when it comes to how long your heart will last." The doctor explained.
"What about a heart transplant? Won't that solve the problem?" Sona asked, her eyes a bit watery.
"It's not possible," Shin said, he already knew the seriousness of this situation. Quite frankly, Shin was screwed. He wouldn't have any way to get a heart transplant.
"And how would you know?! Did you suddenly become a doctor?!" Sona said to Shin, about to go off on him however, the doctor stopped her from doing so.
"Actually, Miss Sitri, Mr. Hyoudou is correct. There is a complication in the possibility of a heart transplant. That being Mr. Hyoudou's blood type, AB-. It is only found in less than 1% of the population, and on top of that, the heart would have to be of a human who was reincarnated as a devil, just like Mr. Hyoudou. Frankly, he would have a higher chance of winning the lottery 7 times in a row." The doctor explained, causing Sona to quiet down, now realizing how dire Shin's situation was.
"Is there even anyone with the same blood type as me that has been reincarnated as a devil?" Shin asked, his voice devoid of any hope.
"No." The doctor said. "I'm sorry Mr. Hyoudou, but there isn't any possibility of a heart transplant." The doctor stated. Neither Sona nor Shin saying a word. "I'll leave you to yourselves." The doctor said as he stood up and left the room, the two nurses following after him.
Even after the doctor and the nurses had left the room, there still wasn't a single word spoken. There was only silence, the only sound in the room being the continuous beeping signaling Shin's heartbeat.
"Sona," Shin said quietly, drawing her attention. "Please, don't tell anybody about this." Shin requested of her.
"Why not? This isn't something you should hide." Sona said, stating her opinion on the matter.
"Because I don't want to spend the rest of my time being coddled by people. Treating me like glass. I'd rather die sooner and happy than later and miserable." Shin explained, Sona looking down, silent.
"Fine, if that's what you want. But don't take this as me agreeing with your decision." Sona said, causing Shin to nod in gratefulness. Slowly, and painfully due to bruises and sore muscles, he swung his feet over the edge of the bed and stood up.
"Shin! You shouldn't be standing up!" Sona said, coming around the bed and trying to get him to sit back down on the bed.
However, Shin just shrugged off all her attempts and walked over to the window, looking out into the beautiful landscape of the Sitri territory. "I'll be fine. Bruises are formed when blood leaks into the skin, with me conscious I'll be able to heal the bruises quickly. My sore muscles will heal by me forcing my body to generate more stem cells, it will make the muscles heal quickly as well. I should be fine within the next few hours." Shin said as he took a deep breath, wincing when the breath made a shooting pain go throughout his body.
All his plans had been shot to hell and he only had himself to blame for it. Of course, there were solutions to his problem, however, they were out of reach. For one, Ophis or Great Red, as well as anyone else with similar powers, could make him a new body. However, they have no reason to do that nor does Shin know how to get in contact with him.
If he was going to die he wasn't going to spend his time walking around on eggshells, not knowing when his heart was going to give out. If he was going to die, then he was going to make the most of the rest of the time he has left, even if it ends up shortening that time.
"Let's go. I hate hospitals and I'm sure my family is worried about me." Shin said as he turned around, ignoring his body screaming at him to sit down.
(Scene Break)
Six hours later, Shin had finally got home. It took several minutes of arguing with Sona, and then his doctor to get released from the hospital. Then it took several hours for them to get back home due to them having to take the train from the underworld to the human realm. However, one upside was that within that time, his bruises had already fully healed, and his muscles were perfectly fine. He was as good as new, well with the exception of a very unhealthy heart.
His family had been relieved to see that he was home, and fine. Apparently, Sona had told them that he was scouted by a college and that he had been there for the three days checking the campus out. It wasn't a horrible excuse, but it wasn't good either. However, with the application of magic, it was very believable.
After his parent's ambush of questions, he got to his room with Asia and explained everything that happened to him, as well as what was wrong with him. He didn't want to, however, he needed to know if Asia's sacred gear could possibly help his situation. It couldn't.
Next, he ingested some of Asia's blood, hoping that he would be able to isolate her blood type and adapt it to himself, essentially changing his blood type. Then it might be possible to get a heart transplant as Asia was A+, a common blood type. It didn't work either.
The only way he would be able to get a heart transplant is if his body was suddenly drained of every ounce of blood he had, somehow still stay alive despite that, and survive long enough to have a successful heart transplant. That simply wasn't possible for more ways than one.
He considered turning into Orochimaru and hop bodies, however, he had no idea how to do that, nor did he even want to do that. He tried healing his heart with stem cells, but that didn't work either. Over the course of two days, he tried everything he could think of, however, none of it even had the slightest hint of working. He was screwed.
So, after coming to the conclusion that he was not going to be able to get out of the situation, he decided to hell with it, and he would throw caution to the wind and continue with his plans. Everybody has to die sometime, and it wouldn't be his first time dying either.
On his way out of school ground after school, he was intent on just going to the gym and have a big leg day. If he happened to have a heart attack while deadlifting, then it'd be the gyms problem, not his. However, during class, Rias had told him to stop by the ORC. Evidently there was something important she had to tell him that he needed to know.
Walking into the ORC, he figured it had to be pretty important considering everyone was currently gathered there. Usually, it would only be Rias and Akeno, occasionally Koneko or Kiba would be there as well. However, all four of them there was not usual. At least one person was almost always on a contract or doing something else.
"What is it that you needed? Is this about what happened four days ago? If so, I'd rather just leave." Shin said, not feeling like entertaining Rias' whims at the moment. He had much better things to do.
"No, it's not about that," Rias said. Deciding to take her word for it, Shin nodded and sat next to Koneko. "I have talked with Sona, and she has agreed to let us go and get you a familiar from the familiar forest as tonight is the full moon," Rias said, confusing Shin.
He thought Rias and Sona fought over that opportunity with a dodgeball game. But now Sona was allowing them to go to the familiar forest. That didn't make any sense. As far as he knew, several of Sona's peerage members needed familiars. Why would she just give up her chance to get familiars with her servants? Unless….
Shin was now annoyed. He was going to have to have a talk with Sona. For now, however, it was unimportant. "That's great. When can we go?" Shin asked, although he already knew the answer.
"We can go now. Akeno." Rias signaled to Akeno, who then started to form the teleportation circle to the familiar forest, everyone walking over to the open space in the room where everyone would teleport to and from.
It didn't take more than ten seconds for them to arrive in the crisp air of the familiar forest. The place looked admittedly creepy. With all the dead trees, the fog, the full moon, it was a scenery straight out of a horror movie. How something with dead trees everywhere was considered a forest was beyond Shin. It name definitely didn't match the place.
"This is the familiar forest? Not much of a forest…" Shin said, walking around.
"Not this part per se, however, the familiar forest is a very big place. There is a rainforest, plains, a tundra, an artic, and a desert in the familiar forest. Where you are now in is the plains. As you can see, it's basically dead." Someone said from out of nowhere, drawing everyone's attention. The person looked like an otaku who watched way too much Pokémon and was dressed as Ash Ketchum.
"Alright, who the fuck is this?" Shin said, looking at the rather old man dressed as a child standing up in a tree proudly. Did he not realize how ridiculous he looked?
"My name is Zatouji, the familiar master!" The guy kept ranting; however, Shin was having none of it and just walked off.
"Shin?! Where are you going?" Rias yelled to him, Zatouji seemingly not even realizing that Shin was leaving as he continued his rant about cute and powerful familiars.
"Do you seriously think I'm going to put my life in the hands of that guy?!" Shin said, pointing at Zatouji, causing everyone to take a glance at Zatouji, then nodded in agreement and left with Shin; Zatouji still not realizing they had even left.
They walked for over an hour and saw a wide verity of familiars. They saw imps, minotaur's, orcs, even a nine-headed hydra that Rias begged Shin to try and get. Shin was uninterested in any of them. He was not here looking for a strong familiar, or even a useful familiar for that matter.
Shin's way of thinking was that if you wanted a strong familiar, then you were incompetent and needed someone to fight your battles for you. Shin wasn't about that, all he wanted was a companion.
Currently, the five of them were walking through a mountainy area, snow covering it everywhere. In the distance. "Shin! Look over there! It's an ice wyvern! That would be a fantastic familiar!" Shin stopped, looked at the familiar, then looked away.
"Not interested," Shin said, continuing his walk through the artic area as everyone shivered but him. Hell, Kiba had icicles coming out of his nose.
"How are you not cold?!" Kiba yelled, shivering like a leaf.
"Fire magic." Was all Shin said, continuing their walk with everyone, with the exception of Koneko, complaining the whole way. However, Shin was not leaving without a familiar.
Suddenly, while walking through a foresty part of the artic area, Shin heard a very quiet sound of snow being packed down, signaling something was walking very close to them. Looking around, he could not spot it at all, however, meaning that it likely blended in with its surroundings and was likely stalking them, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
"You guys stay here; I have to pee," Shin said, walking off. He knew after a while of them walking without the creature striking, that it wouldn't strike while they were all grouped up, which likely meant it was smart. It didn't want to fight while outnumbered. However, if he was singled out, then the creature would attack. It was a gamble, considering it could end up being strong and kill him, and with his heart, fighting anything strong would result in his heart possibly giving out due to exertion. However, Shin likes to live life on the edge.
After walking out of sight of the other four, who had already sat down and started a fire to get themselves warm, Shin stopped and just stood still, waiting for the creature to attack, and he didn't have to wait long.
Hearing something jumping behind him, he turned around, raised his hand, his palm facing whatever was attacking him and released a very strong amount of repulsive force. He was just glad that this sort of magic had no toll on his body at this level. Although the amount of repulsive force was very strong, that was because it was a natural force. It didn't take much of it to be strong.
The amount of force he released would be the equivalent of being hit by a 2000kg semi going 100 mph. Suffice to say, the force he released hit the creature, causing it to release a loud yelp, then proceeded to go an and uproot and break trees for several hundred feet. Meanwhile, the creature he attacked with the attack was blown back several dozen yards.
Judging by how far it was knocked back, Shin predicted it to weigh about 150kg, maybe 175kg. Walking after it, no doubt Rias and everyone was now rushing towards him after feeling him release that much force, which had actually managed to blow away all the snow on the ground in a very wide area for several miles.
"Shin?! Are you alright? We felt you release a big attack… Woah." Rias stopped behind him, awed at the damage Shin had done to the forest.
"I'm fine. Just seeing what attacked me." Shin said, walking for a little bit before arriving at the creature, who was whimpering painfully with each breath it took. It turned out to be a wolf, a very big wolf. Approximately 4-foot-tall when standing on all four legs. It was a shame really that Shin had killed it, however, he didn't have much choice, it would have made a good familiar. However, just because this one was dead didn't mean he there wasn't another somewhere.
Without a word spoken, Shin walked back to where Rias and all of them had a fire running, and then walked over to where he had been hearing the wolf stalking them, and just as he hoped, after searching for a few minutes, he the wolves tracks. Since it wasn't snowing at the moment, and the wolf was around 150kg, it left very clear tracks.
"Come one. These tracks will likely trace back to that wolf's den. Since it wasn't traveling in a pack, it likely doesn't have one. Wolves are a pack mentality creature, if they have a pack, then they always hunt for food in the pack." Shin said to the others, not giving them, any say as he tracked the wolves tracks for several miles.
After half an hour of tracking the tracks, Shin thankful for a devils' ability to see in the night, it had led them to what Shin was hoping for, although he was a little disappointed, to be honest. Around fifty feet away from where Shin was standing, he could see a little white wolf, most likely a newborn as its eyes were still blue. (For those who don't know, wolves can be born with a multitude of eye colors, just like humans. However, with age, generally six to eight weeks, their eyes will turn either a shade of yellow, or brown.)
Shin walked forward, unworried about other wolves. He had checked, and the wolf he had killed was a female. Since it was a female, hunting by itself, it likely meant it had no pack, and likely very desperate. Mother wolves very rarely every leave their pups, or in this case, pup, alone.
Walking up to the little wolf pup, Shin smiles, amused as it hadn't even noticed him, much more preoccupied with chewing a bone, one that was almost as big as it. It didn't even notice him until he was a foot away from it, to which the puppy looked up at Shin innocent and curious.
Shin, in his last life, had been a big dog person. He had grown up with dogs his whole life, from the moment he was born basically. In his previous life, his family had two huskies and an English Shepard. Thus, he knew a lot about dogs, and by extension, wolves.
So, crouching down slowly, as to not scare the little pup, Shin extended the backside of his hand close to the little pup. As a puppy, wolves would generalize things by the way it smelled, and the way it felt. Creeping up slowly, the pup sniffed and nudged Shin's hand all over, figuring out if Shin was friend, foe, or food.
In the end, it decided Shin was a toy and started biting his hand playfully, Shin playing right-back, playfully shaking his hand in its mouth, unbothered by its tiny teeth that would occasionally scratch him. "This is it. This is what I want as my familiar." Shin said to the other four people.
"Alright, if that's what you want," Rias said, pouting. She wanted him to get the nine-headed hydra or the ice wyvern. In her mind, both of them had to be a once in a lifetime opportunity. There was only one nine-headed hydra in the familiar forest, and the ice wyvern is from the dragon clan, an almost extinct clan. Both of which would have made amazing and strong familiars. Although they wouldn't be able to do things like hand out contracts, that wouldn't go over well.
After playing with the pup for a while, Shin grabbed it by the back of its neck and picked it up. The pup wiggled around for a bit, not used to the sensation of being picked up, but stopped and resigned to it after a bit. "Yep, it's a girl," Shin said, causing everyone to sweatdrop. "We should probably go now. To my knowledge, places like snowy areas are usually the ones with the really dangerous creatures. Hell, we've seen several huge polar bears already." Shin said, bringing the wolf pup to his chest and holding it like a lap dog.
"What are you going to name your familiar Shin?" Akeno asked, her nipples hard enough to cut diamonds at this point due to how long they've been in this artic area. That went for Rias and Koneko as well.
Looking at the puppy, Shin shrugged his shoulder. With its white coat, ice-blue eyes, and white nails, everything about it screamed winter. "I don't know. Something wintery like Yuki?" Shin said.
"Naming your white wolf snow? Isn't that a bit lazy?" Rias said, criticizing Shin.
"Well, what did you expect? A name like Dumbledore? It's not like she is going to care what I call her." Shin said, annoyed. He was never good at naming things.
"Fine, whatever. Let's get back to Zatouji so he can make Yuki your familiar." Rias said, Akeno taking that as her sign, she started forming the teleportation circle needed to go back to the plains of the familiar forest.
When they arrived, Zatouji was in the exact same place as he was before, still ranting about familiars and how he needed to 'Get da ze!', which Shin assumed was a ripped-off version of Ash's, 'Gotta catch 'em all!'
"Yea, Yea, we understand. Can you just do the familiar binding thing now?" Shin said, annoyed after listening to Zatouji rant for just a few seconds. This seemed to stop Zatouji's rant as he looked down at Shin, his eyes suddenly bugging out of his head.
"Th-That's a Dire Wolf!" Zatouji said, surprised. "How did you get that? They only come from the artic area!" Zatouji said.
"Yea, I know. I was there." Shin said dumbly.
"You went to the artic area?! Are you crazy?! Do you not know how many dangerous creatures there are there? Snow Owls, which sounds cute but trust me, they're very dangerous. Ice Griffins, cool but also very dangerous. Dire Bears, and Polar Bears. Ice Wyverns. Arctic Kitsune. Yetis. All of those are high-class in strength! Not to mention the Snow Bunnies!" Zatouji said.
"The snow bunnies? How are they dangerous? We saw like a dozen of them and they looked pretty harmless." Rias said.
"Harmless?! They may look cute, but when they feel frightened, they transform into these 20 meters tall gorilla creatures with six arms! They are one of the most dangerous creatures in the entire familiar forest! They are all Ultimate-class in strength!" Zatouji said.
Shin had found it weird that the wolf hadn't just gone after the bunnies while stalking them considering they were easy prey, but now he knew why. The wolf must have known that it wasn't a good idea to attack the bunnies. "What about this." Shin said, holding up Yuki for Zatouji to see.
"That right there is a Dire Wolf. They generally take two or three years to reach sexual maturity and usually end up low-class to mid-class in strength. It's for this reason that they are so rare. You very rarely see one because of how weak they are in comparison to the rest of the creatures in the arctic zone. It's also for that reason that there isn't a single wolf pack in the entire artic zone." Zatouji explained.
Shin was surprised by Zatouji's explanation, but it did make a lot of sense. Since wolves are predators, they have to kill for food, and since there is basically nothing they are strong enough to kill, the only food they can get is scraps of other animals. He didn't really care all that much, however. He wasn't looking for a strong familiar, but a companion. What better companion could he get than a wolf, the ancestor of man's best friend (dogs).
Zatouji, after getting over his surprise, did his job as the familiar master and bound Yuki to Shin as his familiar. By what Zatouji explained, it worked by binding the familiar to the Evil Piece inside of you, thus sharing the powers of the Evil Piece. So, just like Shin, Yuki would be able to use demonic magic. This also gave Yuki the ability to understand all spoken languages, however, it didn't give her the ability to understand the meanings of the words spoken. So, it didn't really do anything in that way. Nor did it give her the ability to talk. So, he would have to train her just like you would a normal dog.
Afterword, they returned to the ORC. Koneko, Kiba, and Akeno left immediately, saying they needed to go take a shower to heat themselves up. "Rias, thanks for bringing me to the familiar forest." Shin said, placing Yuki down and letting her explore the ORC, although he didn't let her wander off too far.
"It was no problem, well actually, that's a lie. I think my nipples got so hard they ripped a hole in my bra." Rias said, rubbing her hands together since she was still cold. Shin meanwhile smirked and looked at her breast.
"Yea, I can tell," Shin said, laughing. Rias soon joined in on laughing with him.
After they settled down, Rias looked at the floor. "Shin, look, I'm sorry for what I did, and I'm not going to try and come up with an excuse either. I just want you to know that when you become a High-class devil if you want to cut ties with me for what I did, I understand and wouldn't blame you for doing so." Rias said, surprising Shin.
Shin had expected her to apologize eventually, just not this soon. However, he wasn't going to complain. "I would say it's alright, but it's honestly not. I don't blame you for telling your brother, nor do I expect you to put me above your family. What I don't like is that you took advantage of the situation and tried to profit off my death, twice now. However, I do appreciate you apologizing. It's a step towards gaining my trust, although a tiny one, it's still a step." Shin said.
Rias nodded, grateful and happy. Shin meanwhile couldn't believe she still hadn't figured out that Shin was the one that put her in this situation entirely. Not once had she questioned him or even showed that she knew everything he had done was a fake situation he had set up for his own advantage. The phrase, 'Not the sharpest tool in the shack' fits her perfectly.
"Well, I'm going to get going now. I have to get home and explain to my parents as well as Issei and Asia that a wolf will now be living with us. There will be a lot of devil magic involved." Shin said as walked over to Yuki who was, unbeknownst to Rias, trying to drag the rug the couches and the coffee table was sitting on across the floor.
After picking Yuki up and allowing her to chew on his finger instead, he started walking out of the ORC. "By the way Rias, I'll be here early tomorrow morning. There are some things I want to talk to you about when it comes to your engagement." Shin said, implementing the next stage of his plan.
"Alright, I'll be here," Rias said as she walked to her desk, putting on her reading glasses, most likely about to do some paperwork.
"Okay then, see you tomorrow morning," Shin said, walking out of the ORC. He wished he could just go straight home, but first, he would have to go to the nearest pet store and buy a whole lot of things. He just hoped he would have enough money on him. If not, however, devil magic works just as well as money. Not to mention how irritating it was when he looked over his shoulder to a tree, seeing a phenix sitting there looking through the ORC's window.
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