Chapter 20. Finding the Lost Nun.
During these few days I had my Pokémon walk freely throughout the town to look for Asia, now there were pictures of Pokemon making appearances everywhere in Kuoh, the funny thing is that the townspeople seem to accept and even like their presence.
I've seen picture of Snorlax taking a nap in the park and a bunch of children jumping on his belly, pictures of Liligant picking flower with local little girls, Pidgeot roosting on top of people houses, Wigglytuff dancing and singing in the street surrounded by sleeping people, Lapras being patted by school children and even Umbreon being treated like a playful cat by an old lady.
I was having too much fun looking at all of these picture, even the Legendary Pokemon were taken by surprise by a picture or two, Ho-oh was seen eating some bread an old man was using to feed the local pigeons or Lugia who was roosting on top of Kuoh academy once and was later seen being fed by the girls of the school during lunch, even Suicune was recorded letting a bunch of kids ride her for a little while.
Honestly at first I was a bit nervous about letting my Pokemon roam freely all over town, not because I thought they could get hurt, each one of my Pokemon are powerful enough to put up a fight against gods and easily come out on top, the Legendary Pokemon? well they're more than powerful enough to beat Great Red and they're continuing to grow stronger along with me, my evolution to a Heavenly Dragon also gave them a big boost of power as well.
Practically nothing in this world can't take them on and that's even more true since I gave my Pokemon all kinds of perk orbs from the ones I have available to me making them even more powerful.
No the real reason I was nervous, is of how the townspeople would take their presence but to my relieve they seem to be completely welcomed by everyone in Kuoh even more so when everyone recognized them from the plush dolls being sold in Wiz's shop.
This of course made the plush dolls even more popular as well as the shop, everyone liked the plush dolls and Wiz's sweets and baked goods, especially since everyone could find a Pokemon or two hanging out with Wiz or Sakuya in the shop.
Amongst the most popular Pokemon was Gardevoir who took a liking to helping around the shop in a maid uniform making her very well known in the shop, Vaporeon or Umbreon could be found taking a nap on the counter and the girls who would come to eat sweets would always give them a pat on the head, something both of the Eeveelutions like very much.
All of this brought me peace of mind, knowing the townspeople weren't going to be scared of my Pokemon friends and were accepted made me very happy.
Though I was expecting the devils to cause trouble or at least investigate the Pokemon but they have been oddly subdued lately, especially Sona who looked stressed and even depressed, I'm pretty sure she must feel guilty of upsetting Serafall.
But I'm staying away from that, it's wasn't my problem and this is something both Serafall and Sona should deal with by themselves plus I don't think Sona would even listen to me to begin with.
Rias has been quiet too but I think that must be because Issei has become a devil now and she must be busy with teaching him, I'm pretty sure she convinced him with the promise of him being able to make his own harem in the future and knowing how he was I don't doubt for a second that he jumped at the chance .
Honestly I feel bad for Ddraig but in the end it isn't my problem to begin with and I I'm more than happy to just ignore the idiot's shenanigans.
Kiba has also returned and to his surprise his reputation took quite the hit from his behavior during our match, it seems that the girls of Kuoh academy no longer had him up in a pedestal, they still think he's handsome and what not but his attitude showed them that he wasn't as perfect as everyone thought him to be.
I could sometimes feel him staring at me from a far but I usually ignore him, he's not someone I ever want to involve myself with, in any case things were sort of normal after the whole fallen angel debacle.
Serafall also told me that she had gotten a massive monetary compensation to both the Gremory and Sitri clan from Azazel for the trouble his subordinates had caused and to her as well since she was the one to be on his ass about that from the get go.
Serafall could be very vindictive when she wanted to be.
Speaking about Serafall, the new movie is coming along very well and Lugia was enjoying her time as an actress very much, she even gave Serafall a Silver Wing as a present for letting her have fun with acting and Serafall now wears it proudly around her neck since she made it into a necklace.
While all of this was taking place I myself was busy grinding my new skills and Martial arts, not going to lie I was having too much fun using Hadoken and Shoryuken on the monsters in my Instant Dungeons.
I had also finally mastered the Fighter class with all the hand to hand combat I was doing to grind my martial arts so I picked a new class after mastering the Fighter class's Mystic Art which was named Fire Dragon Rampage.
This Mystic art is a combo of series of punches and kicks ending with a blast of fire in the shape of a Eastern Dragon's head, it is a very powerful technique that causes a massive amount of damage, doubly so since my perk Hellfire makes it cause soul damage as well and physical.
This made this technique terrifyingly effective against pretty much everything that would dare face me, to me is was another weapon in my already big arsenal.
After mastering the Fighter class I choose the Hunter class since it would go great with Excalibur's bow mode, this class has a lot of skills dealing with the use of a bow and arrows like Cross Lazer, Eagle Shot and Wild Rain.
This skill will add even more diversity to my fighting style and that is always a good thing to have.
It was all of this that I was thinking about on my way to school with YunYun when we suddenly heard a cry of panic causing me and YunYun to look up, only to sweatdrop when we caught site of Dragonite flying towards us holding a panicking and screaming Asia on her arms all the while Dragonite had a happy smile on her face.
After landing in front of us and letting poor Asia down from her hug, Dragonite raised an arm to wave at me and YunYun, I smiled at my very cheery Pokemon while YunYun went to give Dragonite a hug which the Dragon type happily returned.
I then turned my attention to Asia who was trying hard to regain her breath from the fright of being suddenly kidnapped by Dragonite, I got on one knee and patted her back causing her to look up at me "sorry about Dragonite, she sometimes get over excited when making new friends, she more than likely wanted to show you off to me and YunYun".
Asia shakely smile and then shook her head "i-its okay... I was just caught by surprise, she suddenly hugged me and took off flying... i-it scared me a little..".
We both turned towards Dragonite but she just continued smiling and tilted her head in confusion causing me to sweatdrop *sigh.. I told all my Pokemon to let me know if they find her not pick her up and kidnap her, jeez Dragonite...*.
[Fufufu she must have gotten very excited about finding Asia first and decided to show her to you right away.]
*She must have thought it was some sort of game and wanted to win, it's really adorable though!*.
Well I can't argue with that, both Excalibur and Astraea were probably right about Dragonite, out all of my Pokemon she was the most playfull and caring one, she was always hugging someone too even the Legendary Pokemon were occasionally hugged by her, much to their chagrin.
I helped Asia up and dusted her a bit, she seemed a bit nervous and shy something YunYun recognized right away and decided to do something about it by giving her a smile and a hug, something I'm sure she once wished someone would have done for her.
I chuckled a bit because Asia jumped a bit in surprise but seemed to enjoy getting a hug from YunYun, in her defense I think anyone would enjoy a hug from her.
I smiled at Asia "you're Asian Argento right?".
Asia jumped in surprise and stared at me with widen eyes in shock "y-yes... but how do you know my name?".
I nodded at her and patted her head to try to calm her down, she seemed to relax while I started to explain myself "well we found some fallen angels in this town, they killed a boy and were planning to do something else while in this town, they had this Sacred Gear Extractor in their headquarters my guess is that they were planning to use it on you, I got your name from their surface memories when I and someone else took care of them".
Asia looked down and seem very sad causing YunYun to hug her even tighter, I felt bad for her "sigh.. I know it seems like a lot and I'm sorry for dumping all of on you right now but I think it's best if I'm honest with you... how about we go somewhere else to talk and so I could explain everything to you more comfortably".
Asia just nodded, YunYun and I then took her to Wiz's shop were we went into the back so I could explain everything that had happened to the fallen angels that were supposed to welcome her when she arrived here in Kuoh.
Needless to say that she was heartbroken was an understatement, after I finished telling everything that Serafall and I found out that day she just looked down and stayed like that for awhile until she finally spoke up "what I am going to do now? I have no where else to go...".
YunYun, Wiz and Sakuya looked down in sadness but then they turned to look at and gave me a three way puppy eye combo attack and it was super effective "ugh..".
I literally had to grab hold of the wall besides me to keep me from falling from the damage my heart just received, Asia noticed and got worried but I shakely smiled at her "y-you can stay with us Asia our house is pretty big and you can even go to school and work here with us after too".
Asia widen her eyes in shock "really? but why?... why would you help someone you verily know?".
I smiled at her, I knew she was a kind and caring girl from the anime, the fact that she was excommunicated just because some asshole devil wanted to make her his just added to the misery that she had to lived with, along the loneliness she constantly felt as a Saint of the church showed me that Asia was a girl that deserves happiness.
But I couldn't tell her all of that so I decided to go a different route "well most of us know loneliness very well and we can tell that you yourself feel like that so why not joins us and be our friend?".
YunYun nodded and smiled at Asia while Wiz just softly smiled, Sakuya just stood there nodding "we might not look it either but we're also not exactly normal either, I'm a dragon a Heavenly Dragon to be exact, YunYun is a Mage, Wiz is a former Lich but now she's a water goddess and Sakuya is a Chronomancer who happens to be an amazing maid!".
Asia looked at all of us in surprise but nodded nonetheless while I continued to speak "we also live with Serafall, she's a devil and a maou but she's a very kind and cheerful person, you can stay with us and we'll protect you and teach you all kinds of new things, we all protect each other".
Asia stared at us in silence for along while, we let her think and consider her options, we weren't going to pressure her after all, if she wanted to stay we wanted her to make that choice by herself.
Eventually she began to speak "... I have always wished to have friends, to play with them, hang out with them, read books with them and even pick flowers with them, even when I was excommunicated from the church for helping a devil I still hoped to some day make a friend...".
Asia looked down for a second and then looked up to stared into my eyes "is it really okay to stay? will you really be my friends?".
They was she asked that, with some much hope and fear made me feel bad for her, I knew she was lonely but to hear it so clearly in her voice was heartbreaking but I knew just the words she needed to hear the most now "of course you can Asia".
And her composure broke, poor Asia began to cry her eyes out in both relief and happiness, YunYun and Wiz immediately engulfed her in a hug and Sakuya and I just smiled as we allowed them to heal poor Asia's heart with hugs.
That night we took Asia to our home and gave her a room, I also sent Gardevoir to get her luggage that she had dropped during her kidnapping.
I introduced her with all my Pokemon and she immediately became the favorite of both Dragon and Fairy type Pokemon, Rayquaza actually let her pat him and rub his chin to the surprise of everyone, since Rayquaza hardly let anyone touch him who is not me.
I'm pretty sure Serafall is going to be jealous of this because Rayquaza always ignores her, Mimikyu really likes Asia and she herself seemed to have bonded with Mimikyu as well, now she's always hugging her and carrying her around like a teddy bear, something that Mimikyu seems to like a lot.
Later on that night Serafall appeared and after telling her about Asia and her past she immediately hugged her and promised to be her best friend ever.
Asia was at first nervous about having a maou hug her but eventually accepted it when she saw that Serafall was a good person, afterwards we all had dinner made by me and Sakuya, while we were eating I told Asia almost everything the girls and I could do.
She was surprised and very curious about the Gamer System, she hadn't ever played video games before but she admitted to wanting to give them a chance, something Serafall immediately rectified by taking her to my room and play video games together almost all night.
She wasn't very good and was dying all the time but she was having a lot of fun playing with Serafall, her smile and giggles was a big clue to this fact.
The next morning before YunYun and I went to school I gave Asia the same Skill package I gave to the girls before and told her that we we're going to train together so we could protect each other.
At first she seemed very hesitant but in the end she seemed to understand that all we wanted was to protect each other and accepted the fact that sometimes we would have to fight to protect our little family.
You could say whatever you want about Asia but one of her biggest motivators has always been to have friends and family, now that shehas both she's very determined to protect them.
She was the kind of person who would be willing to do anything to protect those she loves and she understood that we wanted her to be strong to ease our worries as well so she immediately got onboard.
We did take her on the next few days to buy anything she needed for herself and her room, she seemed very hesitant at first but since she knew she could help me grind for money later that sort of alleviated her worries and allowed her to relax enough for her to buy a bunch of stuff, especially clothes, which the girls helped her pick.
Serafall had also promised to enroll her to Kuoh academy soon so she could join YunYun and me, she wanted more friends and by Astraea! I was going to help her fulfill that wish!.
After YunYun and I left for school, Asia decided to help around Wiz's shop while Serafall gets her enrolled, plus she took it upon herself to also help with my Pokemon.
Having a lot of Pokemon was fun and an adventure of its own but I do have to care for their needs, a job I'm always glad to do so but it could be a challenge, thankfully with Time Manipulation it has become more easy to do so.
Asia however loved the Pokemon and she quite like taking care of them, so me and her would get up early in the morning and take care of the Pokemon.
I taught her how to groom them and what sort of snacks and food they like, where I keep the feed and where me and Serafall had planted a bunch of berries trees so she could give them to the Pokemon or use them to make snacks for them.
She was a natural at this and I believe if she was born in the Pokemon world she would have been a great Pokemon Breeder especially with how the Pokemon love her a lot.
She looked adorable watering Liligant and Snivy with a small water can I bought just for that and she seems to enjoy doing this if that soft smile on her face was anything to go by.
In school not a lot had been happening though we did notice Kiba coming to pick up Issei often during lunch and after school, more than likely he was still getting taught everything he would need to know about being a devil.
Serafall told me that Venelana Gremory wasn't thrilled about Rias's actions and had scolder her something fierce, right now Rias was under her mother's scrutiny and she couldn't afford to screw up anymore.
I think that that's a good thing though and hopefully Issei won't be so completely lost in this new and dangerous world he jumped in head first though I'm not holding my breath, I knew how much of an idiot he is, having met him in real life just made that very clear to me.
Later that day Serafall had arrived to the Student Council, everything was very tense since Sona was still reeling from Serafall's rage and was nervous about causing her sister to get mad at her like that again.
Serafall was still hurting a bit about Sona's attitude and true feelings about her but she decided she wasn't going to make a big deal out of it anymore and just be happy with the life she has now with Rean and the girls "Sona I want to enroll a new student to Kuoh academy, please do take care of everything for her".
Sona nodded but was still curious about this new student her sister wanted to personally enroll "...is she a friend of Rean's? do I have to worry about her?".
Serafall frowned causing Sona to flinch "no you don't have to worry about her and she is mine and my boyfriend's friend so I want you and Rias to stay way from her, do I make myself clear? I'm still very pissed you both disobeyed me and the only reason I didn't killed Kiba was because aunty Venelana told me she would handle it".
Everyone flinched this time and were now very worried about Kiba, Sona frowned not liking how callous Serafall seemed to be to a member of another devil's clan but Serafall stood up and Sona decided to speak before her sister leave "... sister, this relationship with Rean Hayashi is changing you..".
Serafall turned her head and gazed onto Sona's eyes "no Sona, I have always been like this... I just tried not to show this side of me to you but now that I no longer care what you think about me I see no reason to hide my true nature... after all why do you think I received my tittle as maou?".
Serafall turned her head away and began to walk up to the door, she opened it but before she stepped out she spoke one more time "... just how many live do you think I took during the Civil War Sona? do you have any idea the number of pureblood devil's I ended? we the maou are monsters don't ever forget that... it's time you and Rias grow up and forget those delusion of power you seem to think you have... in this big wide world, both of you are nothing but ants in the grand scheme of al... I'll send you the paperwork for Asia Argento later, do take care if it".
With that said Serafall closed the door behind her and left leaving a room full of shocked teenagers and a very distraught Sona who could do nothing but stared in disbelieve towards the door her big sister just walked out of.
At the same time unknowing of everything going in the Student Council room, YunYun, Rika and I were having lunch, however today we had Mew with us.
Ever since I allowed my Pokemon to roam freely around Kuoh Mew had taken Kuoh academy as her turf and usually spends her time sneaking in the clubs and classes to play around with the students.
By now Mew had become a sort of pet to the whole school and would often allowed the female students to pamper her and give her snacks, honestly Mew's playful and adorable demeanor was as dangerous as YunYun's.
But today she choose to to hang out with us and was happily laying on my sister's lap and enjoying her ears being scratched while we ate our lunch.
Serafall suddenly appeared out of nowhere and sat on my lap surprising me, YunYun and my sister, YunYun's surprise didn't last long because a second later she pouted at Serafall making the maou giggled "sorry Yunyun but you have to take any advantage when you want to seduce Rean!".
I sweatdropped not liking where this conversation was going and I got even more nervous when YunYun suddenly seemed to get curious about what Serafall was talking about.
So I changed the conversation right away trying to preserve YunYun's innocence "how was your talk with your sister?".
Serafall frowned "Asia will be enrolled soon so that's already taken care off, both Sona and Rias are reeling from the scolding my mom and aunty Venelana gave them so they're going to be on their best behavior for a while so they'll leave you alone for a while".
I nodded "I see, I did noticed that all of them seemed more focused and stressed than usual plus Rias seems more proactive in teaching Issei how the whole devil thing works".
Serafall nodded "yes but in all honesty, that boy is a mess and he doesn't have a filter either, I'm expecting him to someday say the wrong thing to someone and he'll more than likely will get kill, I don't know why Rias wants him in her peerage".
I looked up to the sky "he has the Boosted Gear, I can sense Ddraig in his soul, that Sacred Gear partially awakened when he died, it's the only reason why I would think Rias would want someone like him in her peerage".
Serafall turned to looked at me and raised an eyebrow "I see... I guess that she must be counting on him to get her out of the situation she's in but I don't think it's going to be enough".
Rika who was was now rubbing Mew's belly turned to look at her "oh? what is this situation Rias has that she has to have that pervert on her team?".
Serafall smiled at my sister "That's peerage Rika but... well Rias is in a arranged marriage but she's not exactly thrilled about that, her fiance is quite honestly an asshole, everyone knows that but at the same time everyone is curious about what sort of offspring they would have so they're being force to do it, of course her fiance is all for it".
Rika frowned "jeez no offense Sera but devils need to get with the times, that's so medieval that's not even funny".
YunYun then took a drink from her water and then spoke up when she was done drinking "really? that sort of thing is normal in my world, though I can understand why Rias would be against it, it's every woman's dream to marry someone they loved".
I sweatdropped when all three of them lovingly sighed, even Mew looked confused and turned to look at me with her head tilted in confusion, I just smiled at her and shrugged "I don't get it either Mew".
Mew floated up and flip herself upside down and laughed, causing me to chuckle at her shenanigans, Rika then spoke up "still, why do you think it's not enough Sera".
Serafall turned to look towards my sister with a frown on her face "well according to what my mom told me, Rias's parents are going to give her a chance to get out of the arranged marriage but Rias how's to beat her fiance in a match, my guess is that because Issei has a very powerful Sacred Gear she's counting on him to beat him, the reality is that he's just not strong enough to do so, that kid doesn't even have a lot of mana and I even heard that he can't even use teleportation circles".
Rika grab her chin while Mew floated down and sat on to of her head "Sacred Gear? hmm I think Rean mentioned that before, it's isn't supposed to be some sort of weapon for humanity to protect themselves from the supernatural?".
Serafall nodded "yes and the Boosted Gear is supposed to be a Longinus or a godkiller if you want but that kid is just too inexperienced, more than likely Rias is going to get desperate and will completely disregard my orders so Rean be sure to be ready for that okay?".
I nodded to Serafall and hugged her "no problem, if they come to bother me I'll make sure to give the a little taste of what I gave Kiba".
Serafall and YunYun nodded while Rika and Mew fist pump, whatever comes my way I'll deal with it, besides I'm not alone either.
The next Monday Asia finally started to go to school and like in the anime, she instantly became very popular, her sweet and caring demeanor made her very lovable and no one could escape her charm.
The funny thing is that she came to school with Vaporeon wrap around her shoulder like a scarf, Vaporeon just refused to come down from there in the morning and so Asia just decided to go to school like that.
My Pokemon really loved Asia a lot and they usually tend to be very overprotective of her now, like I had guessed even Serafall was a bit jealous because Asia was able to get close to Rayquaza when she would get ignored most of the time.
I took a while to get Serafall to stop sulking about that but eventually she cheered up and accepted the fact that Rayquaza wasn't a fan of her though she vowed to some day pet him, in response Rayquaza just rolled his eyes and lay down to nap while Asia cheerfully patted his snout.
Everyone wanted to pet Vaporeon or to hold her but again she refused to move and just deadpan at everyone trying to bribe her down with snack and cat toys.
Though I did wonder where those cat toys came from, I asked Murayama and she said that a pink floating cat would always come to play with them so they got into the habit of bringing cat toys for it.
Of course I sweatdropped because Mew had unknowingly taken over the female school population to the point that they bring snacks and toys for her.
However Vaporeon just refused to move and stayed up there all day and even payed attention in class causing the teacher to be impress with her.
Honestly I wonder why they don't say anything about her appearance but meh, I'm not going to complain about it, though it did surprise everyone when Vaporeon finally came down her perch on Asia's shoulder and came to me just to lay down on my notebook where I was taking notes.
I stared at her while she stared at me, this went over a few a few minutes until I sighed and then began to rub Vaporeon's belly like she wanted me to causing her to purr her name and everyone to look at me in surprise not expecting me to be this nice to animals.
The jokes on them though, I love my Pokemon, to me they're my family too and even though I know how powerful they are, I would always protect them.
The girls in class gushed at how adorable Vaporeon looked while getting her belly rubbed and everyone forgot to study that day.
After school we all went to Wiz's shop to help since after school is the busiest time of the day since many kids and girls like to stop by and enjoy our sweets and cakes.
I was in the back baking some more cupcakes and cookies while Rika, Asia, YunYun and Sakuya took care of the customers in their maid uniforms while Wiz took care of the cash register.
It was a very busy day and the Pokemon plushies were selling very well, Asia was now helping me making them too, she seemed to like the idea and wanted to learn how to do it too, so I gave her the skill.
It didn't take her long to master it since she already knew how to sew, the skill just reinforced that knowledge and gave her the knowledge to do new complicated stuff.
Now we both make the Pokemon plushies and it's a great way for us to spend time and get to know each other better, she seemed to have a lot of fun doing this with me which of course makes me happy.
Eventually the Kendo club arrived and everything got a bit crazy but we were already used to this since the Kendo club had become regulars in the shop now.
The girls were always happy to see them since they had become great friends with the entire Kendo club, especially Murayama and Katase.
I got very busy making more sweets and cakes for this big group of hungry girls but I enjoy being busy especially for our shop, eventually our friends left and we cleaned everything in order to close the shop for today and finally go home where Serafall was more than likely waiting for us.
Once we arrived to our house we found Serafall laying on the couch watching TV and YunYun immediately jumped on top of her to hug her followed by Asia who was also very happy to be home and to see her.
I smiled as I watch Serafall's eyes widen in surprise and go "oof" as she was suddenly underneath YunYun and Asia but she smiled nonetheless and hugged them back.
Ever since the girls heard what had happened between Serafall and her sister the girls had been doing things like this to make sure Serafall knew she was loved, of course Serafall knew but she didn't mind and she happily accepted their affection.
Sakuya and Wiz smiled at them while I just watched the girls have their fun, however a surprise no one expected arrived when Ninetails suddenly came into the living room while holding by the nape of its neck an unconscious small yellow colored fox.
Serafall upon noticing the small fox instantly got up 'while carefully making sure Asia and YunYun didn't go flying' "Kunou?! but what is she doing here?!".
This small surprise would drag us to a new adventure, one that would make our small family grow even more.
Meanwhile Rias Gremory right now had been told that because of her irresponsible actions her wedding would be pushed forward, leaving her almost no time to prepare.
Riser Phenex had appeared and told her of this decision by her father, not having any other options she had to challenge Riser into a rating game for her freedom and she only had two weeks to prepare her peerage for the upcoming fight.
However even she knew that two weeks wasn't going to be enough and while she was panicking to come up with a solution, it was here were the memory of Rean's match with Kiba came rushing back into her head "maybe... I can convince him to help me... or at least to train my peerage, I don't know how he does it but he must have a way to get stronger quickly, I'm just going to have to give it a try tomorrow...".