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//Read Before Proceeding!//
Someone might ask why angels like Gabrielle, Zelel, Raphiel, and etc. aren't like what was described in the fandomwiki of High School DxD. Well, my man, you should stop worrying about those stuffs. We deviated from the norm of the original story ever since I started to write this fanfic.
We're not in the Draconic Deus(DxD) Universe but in an Alternate Earth within an Unknown Universe. So, Angels having similar blonde hair and green eyes are not a norm. Purge the thought and let's move on!
For those who thought that, "Oh, isn't this too weak for someone who has GOD in their racial name?", I want you to know that he just awakened it and Elemental Foxes 'have' to collect elemental beads to become truly strong. And, don't forget his already OP healing technique and recovering technique. That's already enough for him to exploit when he starts training.
Okay, thank you for bothering to read this!
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While Shin and Irina are playing by themselves upstairs, the adults are engaging in a conversation about their findings upon investigating the church and the exorcists of this town. Griselda first checked if there is someone spying on them as she erected an illusion barrier that their best technicians made beforehand, before erecting another barrier for sound proofing and other barriers to block someone from trying to tap on their conversation.
Zelel looked at every nook and cranny of the house to check if there are wiretapping magic circles or wiretapping devices. After their checks, they finally went back to Gabriel and told her that it was now safe.
"We found out in our investigation about some priests that are using orphans as their experimental subjects," Griselda said.
"E-Experimental subjects? What might be those experiments that they're being subjected to?" Maho asked.
"According to our findings, they do some inhuman experiments on the children to see if they can wield the seven pieces of Excalibur at once. If they cannot wield it even after those experiments being done by them, they will eliminate the child," Zelel replied.
Gabriel didn't say anything as she was quite sad at this news that she received from some Angels who are skilled in investigation and covert missions.
"So, what does this have to do with me and my family, Gabriel-sama?" Touji asked.
"Mm, we're just informing you because your daughter might get targeted by them if you're not careful. As the daughter of an exorcist, she have quite a great holy affinity," Gabriel said.
"We are slowly reducing the orphans they can take from the orphanages and covertly spying on those individuals we suspect had a hand in this. But, these individuals are quite skilled at hiding their tracks and are good at erasing the evidence," Griselda added.
"That's right, according to our informants, the one's responsible for this whole charade might now resort in kidnapping children so you need to be careful. It seems that he's hurrying his project as he's already quite low on the numbers of kids he can experiment on," Griselda continued.
This is one of the things that they wanted to fix at the current church. The higher ups did gave their approval on whoever wants to start this project. However, their fault lies in the fact that they never checked on how the experiments were conducted. Blinded by the thought that they might be able to get a potential strong force, they never tried to figure out what the process was. Thus, this led to the current distrust of Gabriel and the other Seraphs to the church.
They really don't know who can they trust right now so Gabriel, along with her subordinates, started to do some investigations. With her cover being the sightseeing tour, the other Angels and those exorcists never suspected them of doing anything suspicious. In fact, with Gabriel's nature, it was quite easy to fool these people into believing.
Thanks to this, their plans on slowly identifying the moles are starting to bear fruit. It is slowly by surely being completed, and that's all because of Gabriel's involvement in all this.
Shin's birth has created this small butterfly effect even though he didn't do anything. Well, maybe he did do something. His participation in roaming around the human world with Gabriel in their secret escapades resulted in them being granted the freedom of visiting places as long as they are accompanied by Griselda and Zelel.
This further resulted in Gabriel seeing the state of the church. Although she's innocent by nature, she isn't naive. Being associated with Shin, Gabrielle, Raphiel, and Tapris, she now has quite the attachment to kids. After knowing about the atrocities that these priests and exorcists are committing on those kids, Gabriel was saddened and enraged.
In fact, this report was what triggered Gabriel to ask her brother Michael to start their plan of investigating the church and see if some of their brethren is also colluding with someone to plan on something. They knew that there are some loopholes in their system and they are not removing the thought that, although it pains them to think of it, many moles might have formed in their ranks.
"Also, we found out during our investigations that an exorcist under you is in a relationship with the governor of this town," Gabriel suddenly said.
This was like a bomb that dropped on top of Maho and Touji's head. Even though the three factions formed a non interference pact, relationships like this are still looked at with scorn.
"T-Then, what does the church plan to do with this?" Touji asked.
Touji knows what exactly will the church do after knowing about this.
"Don't worry, the church haven't heard of this news yet. But, we surmise that it's only a matter of time before they knew about this," Gabriel said.
She, like Michael, don't have any prejudice against other races. Griselda, who studied under the church when she was young, has prejudice against Fallen Angels and other races at first. But, along with Zelel, she slowly changed her views after associating with Gabriel for a long time.
This problem of prejudice is also something that Michael, Gabriel, and the other Seraphs wanted to fix. After some meetings and discussions, they decided to go for peace. Although the peace talks are still out there, they wanted to lay the foundations for it early. And, having the church and the Angels have no prejudice is something that they wanted to achieve.
They plan on slowly changing their brethren's mindset. Now that the current Lucifer is completely different from the previous one, they want to see if this would work. If the Angels, Fallen Angels, and Devils continue to go after each other's throats, they surmised that other mythologies wouldn't let this chance go.
Aside from that, their development came to a complete halt while they're in the middle of the Great War. Only after signing their Non Interference Pact were they able to slightly develop. Development can only take place when there is peace.
"When that time comes, we are sure that the church will contact you to eliminate them-" Griselda then looked at Touji seriously before saying.
"-We want you to pretend on eliminating them. Our alchemists are already working on a realistic dummy to use on this certain event. The rest will be taken care of by us," Griselda said while looking at Gabriel.
"Killing them is something that might sow discord to our already shaky relationship with the Devil Faction. They will be under our custody as the Satans of the Devil Faction said that taking them under their custody will bring them in danger. The Underworld aren't in a great situation similar to us. They have to constantly worry about the Old Maou Faction who suddenly became quiet. They're constantly on high alert as they never knew what might be running inside their head," Gabriel said.
"Certainly, we have already asked some friends of our Seraph to watch over them for the time being. The old Devils would certainly find a way to eliminate these two if they found out about their relationship," Zelel added.
"Understood, when the time comes, we will submit a report to you if the church were to take action," Touji said.
After that, they continued to talk about the intricate details of their plan and made sure to issue a gag order on Touji and Maho. They asked them to remain silent about all the things that they talked about here. Being a devout believer, Touji and Maho of course acquiesced.
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When Shin and Irina arrived at the dining room, Irina's parents were shocked to see her come while holding hands with their visitor. Touji seems to even be ready to cry tears of blood as he saw his daughter blush but not retract her hand with a happy smile on her face.
"Ara, it seems that Irina-chan and Shin-kun got closer to each other after playing~," Maho said.
She was happy to see her daughter have a male friend that identifies her as a girl not a boy. Her daughter acts like a boy sometimes so she have quite the complex when the other boys treats her like she's a boy, too.
Despite this, her daughter never wanted to wear cute clothing as she said that it was 'embarrassing' to wear them outside. But, seeing her daughter now playing with this cute boy named Shin, she's quite sure that her mind will now change.
Gabriel, Griselda, Zelel, and Maho started teasing the two kids, while Touji is gritting his teeth in the sidelines, as they began to eat lunch together. After eating lunch, Irina immediately grabbed Shin by the hand and ran away from their house out of embarrassment. It seems that little Irina could no longer handle the teasing.
After she ran out, she went towards the nearby house, with Shin in tow, and knocked on the door.
*knock* *knock*
*knock* *knock*
"Yeees, coming~!" a childish voice said.
When the door opened, it revealed a brown haired girl with a similarly brown colored irises. Her shoulder length hair is tied in a braid from each sides that reaches until the back of her head, then tied with a big crimson ribbon.
When Shin saw her, he felt that something inside his chest throbbed. This... he is just suspecting it but this world is different from what he knows. Just take this girl in front of him for example.
"Ichika! I made a new friend! He's a visitor but Mom and Dad had something to talk with the beautiful big sisters who came with him so I brought him here to play!" Irina said.
The girl in front of them was absent minded for a second as it seems that she also felt something when she got near Shin. Hearing Irina's explanation, she looked at Shin and said,
"A new friend?"
She then smiled and invited them in by saying,
"Let's go inside then. Akiko, Yae, Aoi, and Rana is inside right now."
While they were entering inside the house, a mature woman's voice suddenly called out to Ichika.
"Ichika dear~! Did Irina-chan come today, too?"
"Yeess, Moom! She brought a new friend with her!" Ichika shouted back.
"A new friend!? Can you bring this new friend in!?" the mature woman said.
"Okaaay~!" Ichika shouted back.
When they arrived inside, Shin saw four little girls inside. One of them have light brown hair that is cut in a cute bob. She's wearing what seems to be a pink headband with a cute white cat as a design. She also has beautiful green colored irises.
Another girl has long and flowing dark brown hair that is tied in a pony tail. She also has dark brown eyes. Her stature is straight and she emitted the feeling of being a straight laced little girl.
Near the straight laced looking girl is a black haired girl that emits a very fluffy atmosphere. Her face seems to have a perpetually smiling expression as she looked at the girls around her with the same smiling expression. She has medium auburn colored eyes that looks at everyone with a gentle gleam in it. Her hair is cut in a cute bob, making the majority of her hair to curl inwardly, while some tufts of her black hair curls outwards.
Lastly, there's a little girl with auburn colored hair that is around shoulder length, one tuft of hair on each side of her hair curling outwards. Her cute face is framed with two tufts of hair on each side that reaches her shoulders and curls inwardly, while her bangs are cut in a unique diagonal pattern. One side being at the level of her brows while the other side reaches until below her nose.
This girl have a very energetic and feisty vibe around her, similar to a blonde haired and blue eyed girl that he met in the past. If he remembers correctly, that girl is surnamed Hoshino.
Noticing Shin's gaze on them, Ichika started to point at the girls and began to introduce them one by one,
"The girl over there with a headband is Katase Yae. The girl with a ponytail is Murayama Akiko. The girl with black hair is Sasakura Rana. And the girl with auburn colored hair is Yuzuki Aoi."
While Ichika is introducing them, they all greeted him in their own way.
"Hello! I'm Yae!" Yae said energetically.
"It is nice to meet you. I'm Akiko indeed," Akiko said in her overly polite way of speaking.
"Ara? I don't have any characteristics that you want to add, Ichika? Maa! *clap*, my name is Rana! Nice to meet you!" Rana said in her gentle and soothing kind of voice.
"Hmph! Why is there a b-b-boy here, anyway? You! Be grateful that this young miss is introducing herself to you! I'm Yuzuki Aoi! Y-You're not allowed to call me Aoi, g-got that!?" Aoi said, completely entering tsundere mode.
Shin marveled upon seeing these different kind of girls be friends. They're still little girls so they look cute no matter what they do. A wise man once said, "Cuteness is JUSTICE!".
Shin looked at the girl who Irina called Ichika and asked,
"What about you? What's your name?"
Ichika just smile at him and said,
"Don't you have to introduce yourself first before asking others about their names?"
Shin felt a sense of déjà vu when she said it. This was what Yuki told him when he asked her a question. Shin just smiled at her and the other girls around the room before bowing elegantly.
"My name is Tenma Shin Flammia. It's nice to meet you," Shin said with a bright smile that shows his dimples.
All the girls were slightly dazed when they saw him introduce himself so elegantly. He's like a prince from the fairy tales that they've read in the past. It also looks so cute at the same time when he did it. That white hair with some slight pink tinges and prominent tuft of pink hair on his bangs, his golden eyes that looks at them in a gentle and soothing way, just like Rana, and the dimpled smile that fits a boy his age.
"What a cute boy!"
They suddenly heard a woman said. The voice came from the kitchen. When all of them looked at where the voice came from, they saw a beautiful middle age woman that has the same features as Ichika. The woman approached Shin before kneeling in front of him to be in an eye level with Shin.
"You're called Shin, right? My name is Hyoudou Miki and this is my only daughter, Hyoudou Ichika!" the woman, now named Miki, said.
Shin was taken aback by her enthusiasm. Well, that's mostly because she don't have a son so she's excited to know that her daughter is friends with a boy her age.
"Y-Yes, my name is Shin, Aunt Miki," Shin said.
After that, Shin talked with the people inside the house of Hyoudou Family. He came to know that Aoi, Akiko, Rana, Yae, Ichika, and Irina studies at the same school. He also talked with Gorou who continuously talked about how he wanted to have a son, similar to Miki. This made Shin look at them with a weird gaze for a while.
'If only they know how their son turned out after being corrupted by his grandfather. It's a good thing that Ichika was born instead of that perverted prick. A lot of girls all over the world will thank God if they knew that such a man wasn't born,' Shin thought.
Even though it was quite cruel to think about it like this, it was the absolute truth. Remembering that time when his perverted orbs brought multiple men to jail because a 'fragment' of his perversion possessed them. Imagine, thousands of men all over the world attacked a woman nearby only because a 'fragment' possessed them. What would happen if more than that fragment possessed them? Even the women who became a victim of this incident was probably even traumatized.
While thinking about all this, Shin played with the girls for some time. He's already used to playing with the girls their age as they're about the same age as him, Raphiel, and Gabrielle.
Rana was older than them by a year but she's also become like a little sister to Shin. It didn't take long for them to warm up to him like they've been friends for years. They happily played for some time as the girls enjoyed his company.
During his interactions with the girls, Shin found it easy to mingle with them. It was probably because he was also infected by Gabriel's habit of calling people in a first name basis but Shin quickly got to the point where they were calling each other in a first name basis.
Sasakura Rana, the oldest among all of them, acts like a gentle older sister for the most part. But, she also likes to tease others when she finds an opportunity. She have this annoying shit-eating-grin on her face when she's successful in her pranks.
Yuzuki Aoi, the youngest among them by some months, is the most feisty girl of them all. When she don't get what she wants, she would 'ignore' them and enter her 'tsun-tsun' mode. In this mode, she is the strongest. She can be extremely unreasonable and no one can talk her out of it. Shin's special move to coax her is a hug and a head pat.
Murayama Akiko, the straight laced girl. It seems that she was from a family of sword practitioners who studies kenjutsu at a young age. She already started her training so she is quite the disciplined one. Well, she turns into her dere-dere mode when she gets pampered by Shin though.
Katase Yae, Akiko's first friend and neighbor. She's the second to Aoi when it comes to being feisty. Along with Akiko, she also started to study kenjutsu under Akiko's mother's tutelage.
Hyoudou Ichika, the girl-next-door type. She's kind, diligent, polite, and she knows how to cook and do house chores. She was diligently taught by her grandmother who ingrained the qualities of being a good wife into her whole being. Shin feels some kind of connection with her, possibly because of Yuki.
These girls have mostly differing personalities but they get along quite well. They even promised to attend the same school. But, sadly, Shin can't follow them in Kuoh Academy right now. Due to the Kuoh Town being under the Devil's territory, Shin found it hard to convince Gabriel and his parents to allow him to attend this school.
'I guess I need to wait for the peace talks to conclude before I get the chance to transfer there,' Shin thought while playing house with the girls.
Currently, he is being fed by his tsundere wife who still feeds him while she pretends that she doesn't like doing it.
"H-Here! Eat it! F-For your information, I-I'm not doing this because I l-like it OKAY!?"
'Yep, the tsuntsun Aoi is cute,' Shin thought inwardly.
"Aoi! Hurry and let me take your place! You said that you don't like it right? Right!?" Yae interjected.
"W-Who said that I don't like doing this!?" Aoi snapped back.
"Ara? But I heard that you don't like doing that, though? Neh~, Akiko?" Rana said with a shit-eating-grin plastered on her face.
"Certainly, I heard her say that," Akiko replied without any hesitation.
"Ah! Akiko you traitor!" Aoi said as she jumped up from her seat.
"Haii~! That's enough~. Our snack is ready~!" Ichika called out.
Every girl crowded in front of the snacks that she made when she said it. She then slipped through them, bringing a plate of snacks in her hands. Sitting in front of Shin, she said,
"Here, Shin-kun. Say, aaahh~!"
"Ah! Ichika! You're so sneaky!" Yae bellowed.
"Fufufu, looks like I have to join the fight~! Eiii~!" Rana said as she hugged Shin's neck from behind.
"Shouldn't you be stopping them!?" Shin retorted.
"How lively these kids are. Don't you think so too, dear?" Miki asked to her husband.
"Yeah. This boy has the potential to become someone who I dream to become!" Gorou replied.
"And what is that dream, dear?" Miki inquired.
"Of course, it's to become a harem-!"
Gorou was about to finish his words when he heard a bone chilling voice behind him.
"Is that so? You will sleep in the couch tonight," Miki said.
"Yes, ma'am!" Gorou replied in a hurry.
How scary.
Thus, Shin's first day of meeting with the girls of Kuoh Town ended like this. After that, Shin would often visit them. But, later, his visits gradually decreased in frequency, same for his visit with his other friends. That's because, the beginning of the school year for the Angel School is approaching.
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A/N:
//Some Spoilers are present. Please read at your own discretion!//
//Elemental Foxes//
• Elemental Foxes are a race of foxes that gained high intelligence. After unconsciously gathering the mana in their surroundings, they slowly evolved. They gained their racial name after they evolved into a humanoid form by gathering elemental mana and forming elemental beads inside their body. They have nigh infinite amounts of mana and they can throw forbidden spells like it was a normal fireball. They can gather mana on each strands of their bushy tails.
• Elemental beads are the crystallized form of all the elemental mana that they gathered in the tail that corresponds to that element. Once their approximately 10 million strands of tail are brimming with elemental mana, they can condense it to form an elemental bead. Aside from that, their tails can also be filled with the neutral mana. At first, after filling up their only tail with neutral mana, they can unlock their second tail. They can unlock the next tail by filling up their now two tails with neutral mana, and so on and so forth.