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"Is it bad?" Asia wanted to prepare herself for anything.
"It isn't bad… but it'll sound like an impossibility." Rias answered back remembering just how shocked they were when they heard his story.
"I'll ask him when we get back." Asia nodded agreeing with the assessment.
As much as she liked being with everyone, she was only there because of Ritsuka. She needed to know where things were going before she did anything out of impulse.
"We're back!" Akeno called out.
Nobody answered back though. Kiba was in the living room… lost as he stared out the window. Most of the girls understood that he would get this way whenever he was thinking about the past.
So, they gave him a wide berth. He made a token effort in saying hello at the very least which assuaged their worries.
Ritsuka, however, seemed to still be within the dojo. The magical energy that radiated from the room seemed quite strong even though he had mentioned that he was a poor Magus. Though that came into question when the things he did spoke another story.
Whomever Ritsuka trained under had much higher standards than any other mage in their world. That didn't mean much though since he wasn't from this world.
Asia knocked on the door forgoing all protocol since she needed to speak with him about important things.
Koneko offered to take her things while Rias held back Akeno since this was an important conversation.
Akeno wasn't thrilled about the situation but realized that this was important for the Peerage.
"Oh hey. What's up?" Ritsuka nonchalantly opened the door peering out at the group. "Got everything you needed?"
"Y-Yeah… thank you for taking care of me." Asia responded automatically bowing. Politeness ebbed and flowed all around her stature. "Um… I need to talk to you… privately."
"Sure. Come on in." Ritsuka opened the door. Rias waved at him and turned away towards the kitchen with Akeno following after her. Kiba remained sitting lost in his thoughts. Koneko was nowhere to be found.
Asia first noticed that there was nothing in the room anymore. A large magic glyph was in the center but that was it. On the table were ten vials full of a red potion that seemed to radiate heat off of them.
Ritsuka carefully placed them in a magical storage case, if the magical pulses were anything to go by.
"So… what did you want to talk with me about?" Ritsuka sat on the floor which Asia followed right after. Sitting across from him she could see the concern in his eyes.
"I… I wanted to know about you." Asia stated clearly trying to be brave about things.
"It's kind of a big thing. Think you can handle something this big?" Ritsuka started only to stop when Asia started turning red. "That is not even remotely what I mean!"
"I-I-I know!" Asia yelled back clearly flustered still from the bath they shared. It wasn't like she could remember the feeling of his skin against hers… or the prodding of his- 'Stop thinking!'
"Um… okay, well… about me…" Ritsuka stumbled over his words trying the best way to go about this. "You see… I'm actually… a time traveler and dimensional hopping human."
Asia looked at him wondering if he was just lying to her. He wasn't. His eyes were full of sincerity and she couldn't fully comprehend what was going on. This didn't make any sense to her but it was the truth. It was entirely the truth.
"But… But! Awawawa…" Asia was too flustered to reason it out. It made some weird amount of sense since Ritsuka had shown himself to be far beyond what most people actually were.
Even in terms of devils and angels, Ritsuka was only human and Akeno's tale of how he dealt with Fallen Angels was too extraordinary to dismiss as luck.
"Yeah… it's a lot to take in. So I'm here… temporarily while I search for that Holy Grail fake and deal with it." Ritsuka sighed as the word took hold.
'Temporary… temporary… temporary…' Asia could feel her heart sink at that word. She thought it was too good to be true and she realized it was.
"You… you have to go away!" Asia screamed out though Ritsuka didn't flinch in the slightest.
"Yeah. Yeah I have to continue doing what I'm doing." Ritsuka mentioned. For a moment Asia saw a much older man before her. One that seemed brittle, almost overwhelmed by what he was facing.
Instead, he merely hardened his features and continued speaking. "I have to… all to make sure the world stays safe."
"The world…?" Asia questioned not realizing that tears were flowing down her cheeks.
"Yeah… two incidents I was part of nearly made the world cease to exist entirely. We managed to stop that and restore what was once lost but it cost a lot to get to that point. More than I could ever imagine.
I don't think I'll ever truly win… but I can assure you that I will never lose." Ritsuka stated with all the confidence he could muster. It didn't change the fact that he hated making someone cry.
Asia wiped the tears away. The sheer scale of what Ritsuka was speaking of boggled her mind. She couldn't actually understand the scope that he mentioned.
The thing her heart seemed to echo was that there was a reason and he wasn't throwing his life away.
"And the o-others?" Asia sniffled since her emotions were still weathering the storm that had clouded her mind.
"They know already. Akeno has pretty much forced me into a position where I have to give her a child…" Ritsuka grumbled though it was broken by a good natured chuckle. "It's really weird isn't it?"
"Even me…" Asia whispered under her breath. Her eyes were wide open and she looked directly at Ritsuka.
"Huh?" Ritsuka mumbledj and thought he just heard wrong.
"Nothing… I understand. Though… I've come up with a decision." Asia announced.
"What did you decide?" Ritsuka managed though he noticed that Asia's gaze had changed completely. No longer was her gaze reverent… Ritsuka noticed it almost felt familiar to how Akeno looked at him.
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