"Rias my cousin, genuine question."
"I might have a genuine answer."
"Why do you use your full real name here in the human world? I'm mean any human with access to a phone and an occult interest could find out hey your a devil. Gremory isn't exactly a name humans have. I mean even Sona goes by a filthy human last name here instead of Sitri."
"I-I uh."
She had no answer for that
"As with many descions you make, you didn't think did you?"
I gave her a deadpan look.
"Hey, I'll tell aunt Janice your bullying me again!"
She looked at me indignantly.
"You do remember that last time you tried that she just looked proud at me and gave me a thumbs up right."
She deflated in defeat at that
"This is fun."
My sister was just smiling and watching us.
Rias' peerage was there too, but seemed too nervous to talk to us atleast the Nekoshou and the Jewish swordsman half devil were. I think he was Jewish anyway. Isaiah is the name of a Jewish prophet. Personally don't care. I also wonder why the church would keep a guy who's sacred gear specifically makes demonic swords in the first place. But Akeno was quietly pouring tea, but still didn't talk she was the only one who had spent an extended period of time with me or Aina. Koneko never liked me for some reason. She said and I quote "you smell bad" while hissing at me.
"Well Rias, Aina, Rias' peerage, I'm going for a walk around town to familiarize my self with the landscape."
- pov change Aina-
Ah there he goes to do something crazy again. My beloved younger brother. I always know when your going to do something crazy. You get a look in your eyes. I look forward to seeing the weaklings reactions. *sigh* Rias would be so much stronger if she actually trained and learned some techniques besides throw big ball of destruction.
"He's scary… so that's your cousin President."
The church reject spoke first
"Yes, that's my cousin Nae Flauros. His mother is my dads sister. He's well… unlike me he's never really liked normal humans. Humans with magic or sacred gears he hates only a fraction less than normal."
"And half devils?"
"Actually he doesn't care to much about that. He might be distrusting of you kiba because of your… background rather than your half devil status."
Rias' knight breathed a sigh of relief. I could tell he was probably a good person. But my feelings about humans and the church are only marginally better than my younger brother's. On top of the fact I hide it most the time.
"He still smells bad."
I have no clue what that cat is talking about. She's been saying that ever since she first met him. She refuse to elaborate too. I think my beloved Nae smell rather nice. However I let none of my discontent show.
"Koneko he's not that bad he's just proud and for good reason. He's the strongest young devil of the current generation after all."
Her knights eyes widened at that. The cat just pouted and looked away.
"Well as much as I Loooovvveee heeding you all talk about my beloved brother I must get my rest. School starts in two days after all."
I promptly stood up before going to the room I was assigned. But not before I overheard a few more comments.
"Is she..?"
"Yes Kiba."
"But isn't that?"
"Only politically for devils which they both do not care about."
"And their parents?"
"Their mother doesn't care and actively supports it. And their father is too whipped to argue openly."
"…okay."
*sigh* brother right her peerage is a train wreck. A train wreck with potential, but a train wreck none the less.
-pov Nae- A little bit later
The Flauros' bloodline ability is centered around technology not just machines, but the conceptual idea of technology. I've heard there's a Longinus sacred gear that basically mimics our bloodline ability, but only effects modern technology. Unknown dictator I think it's called. Well even if it can't do everything our bloodline can do. Being able to potentially buff a gun till it can kill a god is something. Although very few Longinus users have ever scratched a god let alone killed one. Why do I bring this up. Well there is a secret technique of our bloodline that we can only use once even if it fails. I learned it from my ancestor when she was super drunk. Because our bloodline ability focuses on the concept of technology. She thought "Hey! Sacred gears are a technology… kinda?" So she developed this technique. Unsurprisingly she was also drunk when she had this idea. I honestly pity Lord Zekram Bael for haveing to deal with both my ancestors, Runeas Gremory and Kalana Flauros, back in the day. Funnily enough they are some of the only ancestors still around, and only Zekram does any work. Poor bastard. Anyway off topic.
The unfortunate news was it can only be used once per person so she ended up with a twice critical. Not to say it sucks. She's achieved a sub species balance breaker with the damn thing. I've seen her unleash it during a drunken rampage.
Anyway back to the topic the technique can remove a sacred gear without killing the target. It's also a lot faster than the generic steal ritual that takes hours to preform and kills the target. So here I am outside the hyodou residence. I personally don't care if the perv dies or not. The problem is Ddraig's spirit makes the stealing ritual infinitely harder to pull off without backlash. If I can't steal the gear I'll just kill him. It will be a shame if I don't get it, but better than leaving it in the hands of this fool.
I quietly snuck in to his room. Uggghhh it smell like sweat and ughhh. Filthy horny monkey. Let's get this over with. I cast a spell to keep him sedated and isolate the room of noise. Part of the technique is to chant something that resonates with the gear. Or so my drunken ancestor said.
I closed my eyes and began using the technique.
I̵ ̶d̸e̵c̵l̴a̴r̵e̷,̶ ̸u̷n̸d̸e̴r̷ ̴m̴y̴ ̶a̴u̸t̴h̴o̸r̸i̶t̸y̶ ̷a̷s̶ ̴F̶l̸a̶u̴r̶o̴s̷.̵
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̵U̵n̷b̶i̵n̸d̷ ̵y̴o̴u̶r̷s̵e̴l̵f̴ ̶f̶r̸o̸m̷ ̷t̸h̵i̷s̶ ̷w̴e̷a̴k̵l̴i̵n̶g̴,̵ ̷a̴n̷d̸ ̵j̵o̷i̸n̵ ̵m̴e̶ ̷i̴n̴ ̶g̴l̶o̶r̴i̶o̸u̵s̴ ̴c̷o̷n̶q̸u̷e̶s̸t̷.̷ ̷
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̴T̸o̷ ̵s̷t̷a̸n̴d̸ ̴o̶n̴ ̵t̶h̸e̷ ̶f̵i̵e̸l̸d̵ ̴o̵f̶ ̷b̵a̴t̸t̸l̴e̴ ̴a̴n̶d̴ ̷b̵r̶i̶n̴g̸ ̸m̷i̷g̸h̴t̶y̵ ̵f̵o̶e̴s̴ ̴t̷o̶ ̶t̸h̴e̴i̵r̶ ̸k̴n̷e̷e̶s̸.̷ ̷
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̷F̴o̴r̴ ̵I̸ ̵s̶h̷a̵l̴l̵ ̷b̶r̷i̵n̵g̵ ̸l̶o̷w̴ ̷t̸h̵e̴ ̷w̴h̸i̷t̴e̴ ̶d̵r̴a̵g̷o̶n̸.̷
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̷B̸r̷i̶n̶g̴i̸n̶g̷ ̶e̴t̸e̶r̷n̸a̶l̸ ̵g̸l̶o̴r̶y̷ ̶t̸o̸ ̸t̷h̵e̴ ̴r̵e̵d̵ ̸d̸r̸a̷g̶o̸n̷
A bright light flared from the fools body and shot into my left arm. I heard a draconic roar in my head. Before quieting down.
[We will about talk your transgression later.]
I felt the presence go quiet. I think Ddraig went back to sleep. I guess force removal woke him up. I quickly left the house. I didn't check he was still breathing and I honestly didn't care. If my ancestor was right he will be fine if not. Then nothing of value was lost. I was racing back to where Aina and I were staying with Rias. When I suddenly felt a familiar gaze upon me.
I stopped where I was and deployed a quick barrier to keep the normal humans away.
"Come out I know your there."
There was a silence for a good 5 minutes, but the presence hadn't vanished. Suddenly from an alleyway I saw a cat emerge, a black cat. I could tell it was no cat though.
"So it was you Kuroka."
The cat transformed it to a beautiful Nekoshou woman.
"Nae it's been along time hasn't it. You end up sleeping with your sister yet?"
"No, not yet."
"Yet huh?"
"We both know how she feels about me."
"True. So now that you've found me are going to arrest this dangerous SS-class stray devil."
"No, not at all. In fact now that I've found you again I'll fulfill the promise I made myself all those years ago. And clear your name."
I met Kuroka about 5 years ago she was injured and on the run. I didn't know she was a stray devil at the time. I helped her patch her wounds and asked who she was.
She said she was a dangerous crazy murderer. I just laughed in her face said who would believe such an obvious lie. She was baffled by my response. I then clarified that I didn't believe that she hadn't killed someone, but a truly dangerous crazy murder wouldn't look so sad about it all.
I tried to invite her back to our house to heal, but she refused. I asked why and she answered more seriously that she was a stray devil. Given earlier information, I asked why did you become a stray. What she told me made me livid. I don't care about human life, it's almost worthless in my eyes. But lives of other supernatural beings is another story. Hell I like the other abrahamic factions more than humans.
I wanted to help her but she said it would be pointless without evidence. And with that she left. I swore that I would clear her name that day. So I began secretly gathering evidence a technology based bloodline abilty is amazing for hacking after all. The hard part was finding out who to hack though.
"What? And how do you plan to do that with-"
"Without evidence? I have it. However I want you to see it to confirm its authenticity."
I snapped my fingers. Using some basic devil teleportation magic to bring the box to me. I held the box out to her.
Cliffhanger mf. Anyway tired near midnight might release more of this tomorrow so 9+ hours later.