In the darkness of the night, a girl walked with a man. The lights of the streetlights reveals a path to walk on. Caelum decided to teleport themselves in a park and slightly far from home to let the girl be accustomed and rearranged her thoughts about the events that happened.
The blonde girl looked curiously at her soundings, odd buildings and odd environment. Everything is new to her, the dusty basement and the empty courtyard is very much different than here, it's very much what the books she read described.
Caelum glanced at Valerie. It's surprising that a child quickly became calm after what happened. He revaluate her mental fortitude in his mind.
"Are you curious of where are we?"
Valerie looked at Caelum after he asked that question. She nods her head.
But before he could answer her curiosity, her stomach emanated a growl, demanding to eat. Embarrassed and ashamed, Valerie gaze turned to the asphalt ground, she doesn't have the will to look at Caelum after her stomach interrupted them.
Caelum hummed, they changed their direction. Going to the open restaurant that's still open in this hour.
Valerie looked at the strange building in front of her. An odd square looking rectangle looking building with glass for walls in some areas, inside looks to have multiple tables and chairs.
Inside the restaurant, only very few people are inside. Caelum took a seat in the nearest table and Valerie followed along, taking the seat opposite of him.
Caelum called a waiter. The waiter's face turned weird when seeing a guy with a hello kitty pants and a dirty little girl in this suspicious hour in night, he tried to discreetly call his colleague at this but a small mental spell solved that slight issue.
Ordering just burger and fries, Caelum looked at Valerie who's confused at what to order.
"You can order anything you want, don't hold yourself back."
"C-Can I really?"
He nods his head and confirmation. But the girl did, only buying the same order as him. So Caelum added cake for her.
Taking the two's order, the waiter left, leaving the two people alone in akward silence.
The food arrived.
Caelum ate the food that was served but Valerie only stared at the strange food that was on the table.
"Aren't you going to eat?"
"U-Um...What is this?"
"Food."
"?"
Valerie can only look at Caelum confounded. The food she was served at her home... Well, her previous home now, is different than... This... Fat sandwich?
Looking at how Caelum ate his, she copied his movement and ate the burger.
The vampire physique allowed them to drink blood. Regular human food contrast their sensitive taste buds because of various seasoning, thus not allowing them to eat food made by people but only allowed to eat if seasonings are not too much. Although there are some exceptions, and dhampirs are. Dhampir are immune to weaknesses the vampire have, except the sunlight does, only slightly bother them.
The burst of flavour after taking a bite surprised her. The taste this odd sandwich gave her was unlike the leftovers she got. The bland and bitter food she ate before wasn't as... Hefty? Strong? as the the food in her hands.
She ate the burger like a someone that was starved. Tasting the fries and cake on the side, both was as good as the burger.
Coughing as she ate too fast. Water was given to her the person opposite of her. She drank the water to dislodge the chunk that got stuck.
"T-Thank you."
"Hn, don't eat too fast, the food won't disappear."
She continued to devour until the food until she made the food disappeared, contrasting Caelum's word of it not disappearing.
She looked at his food, burger only eaten halfway and the fries untouched.
He slid the fries to her, surprising the girl. But she gladly accepted.
Caelum nibbles on the burger on his hand as he watches the crying girl devouring the food in her hands.
... Melodramatic much?
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Now back on road, they walked, this time satisfied.
Valerie, now much more relaxed, comfortable enough to walk with her hand holding Caelum.
"Mister, thank you for the food."
"Hn."
Caelum only nods his head.
Valerie looked up at the man. Looking more clearly at the person who saved her. Although she can only see the side of his face, he looks like her father's age, someone in their late twenties maybe in their thirties, brown hair and beneath his sharp yellow eyes is a slightly wrinkled skin. This person was the one who saved her.
"You don't speak much do you, Mister."
"Speaking requires energy that has the probability of the lost of 50 calories each hours. I, who is an individual that dislikes doing things that requires effort and positively desire to approach anything that requires minimal effort of such activities... I'm just not a fan of making paragraphs."
She smiled at his contradiction and tried to continue the conversation.
"You're really strong, mister. Those people were strong but you defeated them. Are you a magician?"
"Hn, I a magic cyan."
"What magic did you use against those bad people?"
"I used Runes."
"Runes. What are those?"
"Magic. The one I used was an Ansuz rune that means holy and Sowilo rune that means sun."
"Then what are..."
A back and forth of the girl asking questions and the guy giving answers.
"Girl. Do you want to get rid of the headache?"
This time, Caelum turned to question her.
"But my headache is gone though? Mister, you already get rid it. Oh! And my name is Valerie, not girl!"
"Hm. Then Valerie, the headache you experienced was information the thing inside you, a sacred gear, is giving. The information you are forcefully given are too much for you at this moment. I only gave you a temporary solution, by redirecting the information to me."
"Ooh. You spoke longer this time! But isn't it painful taking the information to you?"
She was baffled when the mister spoke more words than he did before. Valerie asked him if it's painful taking the sacred gear's information inside her to him. The pain she experienced when the sacred gear forcefully gave her knowledge about itself was painful. Although she can't clearly remember, the experience didn't disappear.
"It's no trouble for me."
"Woah. Then mister is amazing! How can the headache not do anything to you then? Is it magic?"
"Yeah, it's magic."
"What magic is it? Does it fight back again pain?"
"No. This magic is making my thoughts faster and have different thought processes."
"So then mister is smart then!"
"...I guess so."
"Woah."
Valerie's eye twinkled at this new information about this mysterious man. Now that she's thinking about it, she doesn't know his name.
"Mister! I've already told you about my name, but I don't know your's. What's your name?"
"...Caelum."
"Caelum? What does it mean? Mine means brave and strong! My mother's the one who named me!"
"It means the sky or heaven."
"Ooh."
"...Now, do want to permanently stop getting headaches from your sacred gear?"
"...Then if mister Caelum can. Can you?"
"I can and I will."
"Hehe, thank you mister Caelum. You're a kind person."
"...Well, I won't describe myself that..."
He muffled a slight laugh and whispered that sentence. Amused at her words.
"? Sorry, mister but can you repeat that? I didn't hear that properly."
"I said you're going to take a bath. You're still dirty. You smell"
"Ah! I didn't notice that!"
Hmm, blind?
And they continued to walk.
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When a child sees a cute animal or anything cute in general can make them turn their full attention on that specific object or thing. And when the kid that experienced mostly abuse and discrimination from their race sees, Valerie's attention is fully on it. I guess that's why she liked Gasper so much then.
"KYYAAAA, SO CUTE!"
Why shout tho?
Vehemently patting and rubbing Duke's fluffy head. Duke letting her pat him and even moving closer, she fell to fluff heaven.
"Now, now. Clean yourself first. You'll get Duke dirty too."
Caelum lifted Valerie, parting the angel of fluff and the vampire of cuddles.
"Awww..."
Valerie pouted when she was forcefully parted from Duke. But she agreed nonetheless, the white fluff shall not be dirtied.
Putting the vampire back down, he walked to the living room. Valerie, following while trying to rein in her urge to pat the dog again.
Inside the living room, the interior is designed with with modern furniture than the usual nineties time outside. And Valerie, who was not allowed to interact with the outside world before now was once again intrigued. It's different than the Victorian Gothic design the Tepes castle has.
"The bathroom is over there, the bath is already prepared, you only need to just take a bath."
Caelum pointed to her the bathroom. How did he prepare the bath with him just arrived? Magic.
Now thinking about it, magic can be used to explain anything. Why is my ass dirty? Magic. Why do I wake up with a tower? Magic. Why did dad not come back with milk? Magic. Why do I have no bitches? U just ugly lmao... :(.
Going inside the bathroom, Valerie was confused at the things inside.
Poking her head out the door. She questioned Caelum.
"Umm. Mister Caelum. How do I take a bath."
Caelum looked at her with a weird look.
"...You don't know how to take a bath?"
"N-No, what I mean is how do I take a bath using this... Objects?"
She showed him a soap bar.
"...That's to scrub your body."
"Eh? Um. And this?"
She him the shampoo.
"...That's to apply to your hair."
"Oh. And this?"
Took him 5 minutes explaining things.
With Valerie playing in the bath. He remembered that he doesn't have clothes with her or clothes for her size. There's no stores open at this time.
So with that problem, he improvised. That means teleporting to a random clothes store and stole everything. Truly a good example for a citizen. Helping clean the store for them to have space to hang the clothes.
Now with Valerie clean, he allowed her to play with Duke and eventually Bella after the cat came down from curiosity at who's making a ruckus.
Valerie eventually tired herself and fell asleep. The fatigue of the combination of the events happening came back to her in full speed.
With a grunt he slowed down the grail's knowledge going to him.
He pulled his hand from the child's own. Feeling the warmth disappear, her sleeping face turned to a frown. She shook in her sleep as she twisted and turn.
Caelum put Duke under the gutter. The dog was once again squeezed like a stress ball. The dog was not amused.
He showed a apologetic smile. He whispered to the Tulear.
"I'll give you a treat if you just endure."
With a treat as a reward, the dog endured.
Going out the room, he teleported to meet the would be caretaker of the vampire.
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The underworld, a place different from human world. It's size is as the same as the earth. The underworld itself has existed since the start of horizontal lines of time.
This place is not where just the devils placed their clans and cities at. But also the underworld or hell of other mythologies. Different areas and different territories are place in here. The territory of Hades is located in the lower strata in here. Cocytus can be found on lowest depths beneath. And limbo can be seen at the edge of this world.
The place where the fallen angels took place can also be found on the surface of this other world.
The Watchers of the Children of God, Grigori. That is the name of the organisation the fallen called themselves after they fell from god's grace.
The angels that fell first was Azazel, the very first fallen angel and the one who introduced weapons to humanity. He gave and taught humanity weapons and cosmetics, but human wickedness brewed different methods to use those weapons, to use it against themselves.
Thus the angel was cast out from heaven for that... That was what was said in the book Enoch. But in the end, it wasn't true.
Azazel saw boobies and he tickles his jinkles and got yeeted out from heaven.
"Sigh."
The fallen sighed as he was drowned in a pile of work.
Who knew it would be turned like this, overworked and overtired, underfun and underhappy.
Azazel, you're the most fit to be the leader! Azazel, you're the strongest of us! Azazel, you're the wisest of us! Azazel, bla bla bla.
Do have any idea how little time I can have for myself?! AAAAGHH- at least let me have time to peep on the girls bath!
If I have known I wouldn't be able to behold Gabriel's chest anymore after I fell, then I wouldn't let that lower tier chest hypnotize me! Old man! Forgive me! I have sinned, please take me back!
"Azazel, brother. Please stop complaining in your mind and continue to work."
Shemhazai, the Vice-Governor of Grigori. An angel who has felled when he was convinced by Azazel to have sex with a woman. Although the reason for falling was from Azazel, does he hate him?
No no no, even when he is the one who made him fall, Shemhazai did not regret that one bit.
"Buuut Shemhazai! I'm booorrreeeeddd! I want to play with my toooyyyysss! I hate it heerree!"
"Azazel, please finish your work before you play with your research."
"Auuggghhh..."
Azazel, the unmarried, childishly complained. All the other leaders and cadres are married or has it light. He who is supposed to be the supreme leader should be the one that marries first! Although there are some exceptions, like Kokobiel, the guy only wants to just start a war. Satanael also. But they have it nice! They wouldn't have to be responsible for a whole organisation on their back! Do you know how tiring it is, going to departments to departments, signing paper after papers, and always inside your office while you can't have the opportunity to see hot babes!
"Atoms cannot touch, it's from the electromagnetic field from the atoms that influence eachother. So that means officer, I didn't kill him, he just got electricuted...
Suffering from papers, Azazel?"
A new voice different from the two in the office, sounded around the room.
"Cael! Is the spell that do paperwork finished already! This papers are slowly killing me!"
The Modern Merlin appeared inside Azazel's office.
"Almost."
"Noooo...."
Azazel's hope to escape the horrors of paperwork now, was crushed.
"Hello, Caelum."
"Shemhazai."
Shemhazai greeted Caelum with a nod and Caelum nods back.
"I brought coffee."
He showed the two the cups in his hands.
"Ah. My fuel for the night."
"Thank you for the coffee, Caelum."
Taking a seat on the office couch, Caelum sipped his own coffee and the two accepted the good will. Azazel took a sip and his face twisted.
"... It's too bitter..."
"Taste skill issue."
"..."
Placing the paper at the side, Azazel leaned forward as he interwined his fingers together. Smiling at the new arrival, he asked.
"So, Caelum, there's something you want from me for you to be coming here without notice, right? Are you just here fo chitchat or maybe you miss the very handsome fallen angel everyone loves?"
Azazel made a cutesy pose... A middle aged man trying to be cute is cursed.
Not wanting to suffer from this, he gave them his reason for coming.
"I want you to take care of another kid again."
"Hey, you already thrown 3 other kids at us already, Grigori isn't a kindergarten, ya know?"
"This one is another Longinus."
Azazel perked up hearing it's another Longinus user. He knows that this guy has some weird ability to find sacred gear users. The first time was another Longinus user, The White Dragon Emperor. Imagine his surprise when he discovered that the kid was a Longinus user. And the Longinus was Divine Dividing! One of the high-end of the Longinus spectrum!
"This Longinus can help your race's reproduction problem."
The fallen angels problem, their numbers. The fallens has problems in their reproduction. Their bodies aren't made to have children or make children, very few can actually make a child with themselves, let alone another race. Baraqiel was one of the few that managed to have a child, a daughter... Though that story was full of tears and despair... Well, what happened happened.
Azazel's face turned serious. Being the supreme leader of his organisation, he knew that problem is one of the largest in their race. Having received a large blow and having his brothers and sisters die in the Great War. His race was the one having the lowest number in all of three. The devils already made a solution in that and the angels still has many of themselves left.
"...It's the Sephirot Graal, no?"
Azazel guessed. The only Longinus that can help the fallens problem is something that can twiddle with the soul, and the Sephirot Graal is exactly that. His guess is answered with a nod.
"Then what do you want for you to give us the kid."
"I want you take care of the girl, share your research on sacred gears, access to your military, and to help me in something in the future."
"Deal."
Caelum raised an eyebrow. He didn't expect for Azazel to just instantly agree on his conditions, he expected for him to think about it more. He listed those large conditions to make it smaller so that he can get what he actually wanted.
"Hm. You're going to accept it like that?"
"Heh, didn't expect that huh? Yeah, your conditions might be a tad bit too high, but with the problem that's bothering us has a cure now, we're definitely taking that."
"...I see."
Standing up from his chair, Azazel turned to look at Shemhazai.
"I'll be relying on you to take care of the paperwork for bit, I'm going to prepare for this new kid."
"...You are actually make that an excuse to escape, huh?"
Azazel can only laugh at Shemhazai's scrutinising eyes.
"Sigh, fine."
"Hurray!"
...Hmm, yes. Azazel is truly a very responsible leader, but not a role model. To let his subordinates to have experienced to rule so that when he's gone, they wouldn't have to run around like headless chickens.
I guess that's why he let himself be sealed.
Or maybe because it's actually is to escape paperwork.
Caelum looked at the desk of Azazel. Quite literally towers of paper.
...Paper airplanes exist for a reason.