Chapter 143: Oops, I Almost Forgot I Have An Onee-sama to Attend To
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"Come in," Grayfia opened the door and invited us in.
Her eyes lingered on my face for a brief second, her thoughts unreadable, before she stepped to the side to let us walk in. She closed the door and followed after.
When I stepped into the meeting room and ignored Vali Lucifer standing against the wall in a manner not so different from the earlier me, I looked at Azazel. He waved at me light-heartedly and pointed at the floor near his feet.
I was already looking there without him pointing, there were two individuals on the ground, both unconscious and tied with holy lights. I recognized one to be Kokabiel, and while the other stirred a memory from the anime I failed to recognize her.
Seeing Kokabiel was enough, however.
'So that's the little fucker that was behind all this.' I took a long look at him, holding myself back from killing him just here.
Then I let myself look at the unconscious, dark blue-haired girl. "And who's this?"
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"Oh, I thought you'd know," Azazel said as I looked at him. "I heard that Freed was sent near your neighborhood, that's where he vanished from. I'm assuming he messed with your family and that's where he died? In response, you got mad." He explained as I looked at him in silence. As I thought before, he's extremely smart and scheming, so I wasn't surprised.
He continued, "Then you tracked down who he was working for, and once you found them you killed them. The three Fallen Angels who died a couple of months ago in the old church nearby, that was you, right? That was Raynare's group, direct subordinates of Kokabiel. Since you killed them, as well as Freed Sellzen, that only left one other person from that group. This girl here. Her name's Kalawarna, she was a part of that group until you killed her three companions, but she wasn't in the church back then out of pure luck."
"Aha."
"So I thought it would show my goodwill by handing her over to you," Azazel said, and he was right, it did. He was extremely sensitive about the lives of Fallen Angels, as they were low in number, yet here he was handing me over a woman who would have otherwise survived if he hadn't notified me about her relationship with Kokabiel.
"I'll keep a note of that good notion," with a nod, I approached the two unconscious bodies and tapped my foot against them.
One after the other, the body teleported into my Void Storage. Sirzechs as well as his wife had seen this in action before, but Serafall and her little sister hadn't. Azazel and Vali too appeared surprised, the latter wearing a deep scowl.
Huh, is spatial storage that rare?
No, I guess even if people had storage that could store normal items, it must take particular skills to store magical entities.
Oh well, my Void Storage is a miniature empty universe. Not anything to scoff at, so it made sense.
"In any case," Serafall cleared her throat and looked at me. "This meeting didn't go to the depths of our intentions and decision. Azazel and we Satans have decided on a bigger-scale meeting in the upcoming week. Seraphim Michael will be accompanying us then. We are planning to hold a peace treaty between the three biblical factions."
"That's great," I told her and she smiled.
"And it's all thanks to you, sweetheart~ I think we can do the vacation plan after the meeting is done. I'll be sooo free after it, it's a good time to enjoy a vacation." her lips curled into a smile, and she asked me in a gentle voice, "Will you join?"
"After Sunday, sure," I have a date with Mai Senpai this Sunday, and I should be free after it.
"Great! We'll decide on a more exact date after the meeting." She hopped off her seat to jump into a hug, and I returned it easily.
Azazel looked at the scene with a raised eyebrow, whistling, but I ignored him.
That is when the meeting came to an end. A larger, more important meeting would be held next week as Serafall said, and if it followed the canon timeline, there would be some situation then.
But whatever the case, that didn't concern me. Issei Hyuudo wasn't here today since Sona probably didn't want him to be in the same room as me, after the last incident between us where I broke his limbs. But he will be there in the next meeting, and take care of the situations as per in canon.
The three factions can deal with their own problems, I could care less. As the main character of the world, Issei should take on problems where I'm sure these Satans will expect me instead.
I must focus on raising my Sect's overall power level in the meantime.
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The rest of the day was boring. Classes went on as usual, with the English class as an exception due to Quetzalcoatl's absence so it was an uneventful day.
Classes came to an end with the chime of the bell, and I met up with the girls at the front gate. Ruby and Tsubasa weren't here yet, so I spent my waiting time having a small chat with Shoko and Yuzuru, later moving to Kana.
The short red-head was a bit subdued today, she remembered her encounter with Two Gods last night where she had passed out, and her little mortal mind finally realized the lethality of this world.
"I should have said it last night, but I'm glad everything ended well," she said with a meek expression, meeting my eyes. "I heard the details from Ruby during lunch break. So… thank you for saving my life."
'Huh?' Given that, I was fighting for myself and my family, and she just happened to be there, I found myself confused. No, she was rather pulled into this mess because of us, so I didn't deserve the gratitude. Looks like she misunderstood the situation due to the lack of context, works for me.
I can bring her into the Sect like this. She's naively uninterested in the supernatural world despite having an unawakened Sacred Gear inside her. The [Kingprotea] name of her Sacred Gear did give me quite a lot of expectations.
"It's nothing, you just happened to be in the area," I said. Knowing her personality, it will work better to be casual about it. She frowned, expecting me to appreciate her 'thank you' better but I didn't indulge her in it.
We waited in silence until Ruby and Tsubasa walked toward us from a distance. When they walked closer, Ruby brought up an important detail that I had honestly forgotten.
"Huh, why are you guys waiting today? We don't have training today." Ruby said and I blinked, as did Shoko and Kana.
Yuzuru tilted her head to her sister's surprise, "What? You didn't know? I thought you were just waiting to see them off. Ai told us a few days ago, remember?"
I guess they missed it, as had I, due to so many situations recently. Yura Katayose, the 2nd biggest actress in Japan will be joining us today in our house. She's probably there by now, waiting with Ai. We had agreed upon Wednesday to have her over, and today was the day.
"Uhh, right, and I had other plans today. I'm late!" Kana rubbed her template with a panicked look, but when I shook my head and met her eyes she calmed down.
Really, what was there to be panicked about in this world that could end if a God felt bored enough? A dark, nihilistic frown crossed her face before she sighed and excused herself from us.
"Never mind, I just have a lot of things in my head. I'll see you guys tomorrow," she said and decided to take her leave. She was so much out of it that she forgot that we took the same train home.
Shoko and Yuzuru took their leaves, and Ruby, Tsubasa, and I joined the wandering Kana on the train. We separated from Kana after getting off the train and reached our home in no time.
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The sun was low in the western sky, painting the clouds orange, and the three of us walked through our neighborhood toward our house.
"Be sure to not call her 'mom' for now, 'aunty' or 'Ai' is what it's going to be," I let Ruby know as we approached the front gate.
"Okay~ I'll try." Ruby hopped to the gate, greeting Blue who opened it.
"Try? I'll beat you up if you mess up." I threatened her from behind but she stuck out her tongue and rushed inside, stopping in front of the door and ringing the bell.
I shook my head and stopped to look at Tsubasa, "Guess we'll see each other later."
"Sure," she said with a smile. "Will you manage some time for me tomorrow night? There is something I want to talk to you about."
Now what is this about? Haah, can these girls stop making appointments with me for a second? "Sure," I didn't mind since it was Tsubasa this time, she's sweet. Pulling her to my arms, I gave her a short kiss when Ruby wasn't looking, and parted ways.
She walked into the house beside ours, and I went where Ruby was waiting. The door clicked open, and a blonde head peeked out. Green eyes behind oval glasses noted my and then Ruby's presence and a massive grin bloomed on her lips.
"Aqua! Ruby~!" Onee-sama Yura pulled us both into a hug, quite awkward due to the height difference between me and my twin, making me wonder when I should increase Ruby's height. She's too short given she's my twin. Regardless, the hug was a warm one that both Ruby and I gave in to.
"Aunty Yura!" Ruby greeted her with a shout, while I greeted her by squeezing her waist. She was more comfortable calling her aunty while I called her Onee-sama.
"Both of you are so grown up now!" Yura's smile was brilliant, and I noticed Ai watching us from behind the door. "How was school today?! Ah, come inside first."
Ahh, she's finally here, Hikaru Kamiki's years of investment.
I'm looking forward to this.
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[Third Person Point of View]
In the meantime, at Tokyo airport, foreign divinities landed in Japan. As per Freya's plan, Rossweisse and Brigid Thorsdottir came to Japan.
They only had a small bag by their side, their clothes rugged, creating the image of two poor women in this foreign land.
Rossweisse had a dark expression, and bruises around her body, but Brigid was worse. Heavy wounds were tattering her body, all purple and blue as if she had been beaten by a group of people.
People shot them looks, both for their exotic appearance, as well as their injuries. They appeared abused and thrown away.
"Can't believe they went this far to create the image of banishment," Brigid let her shoulders droop as she sighed once out of public sight.
"Don't let your guard down," Rossweisse shot her a frown and said. "Don't forget we are actually banished in papers, it's not a play, so don't say something that might leak that truth. Even if you think we're alone."
"You're just too paranoid and unnecessarily professional, Rose." Brigid crossed her arms and said.
The two of them were friends, leaders of different Valkyries branches. Both of them were serious personalities, but when alone, Brigid was the one to let loose a little.
"We are here for a mission," Rose said with a weak frown, her uncertainty about this mission obvious.
"And we're going to succeed with ease if what we heard about him is true," her partner in this mission replied. "He's going to see us weak and beaten, banished from our home, and try to comfort us. We will play hard to get at first and then give in. Then we will bewitch him and kill him when he least expects it."
"Yeah, sounds super easy on paper," Rose sounded skeptical.
"It will be easy in application too," Brigid chuckled. "You're just nervous because you don't have relationship experience." She laughed and Rose shot her a dirty look. At that, Brigid sighed and looked up at the sky. Her eyes narrowed with cold lightning intent. "Otherwise, I'll confront that fucker directly and beat him to his fucking death."
"Language."
"I don't care."
Rossweisse sighed, "Control your killing intent, then. He'll obviously notice and be cautious around us if act like this in his presence."
She grumbled, "Fuck. Fine."
Rossweisse felt herself sweating. Was this mission really worth the risk? She wasn't sure how this would end for the two of them.
She hoped it wouldn't end too badly.
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