Time-Line 6th June 2005
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Change of POV: Morgan Le Fay
The first thing I was expecting when waking up was not a notification like this one.
I rubbed my eyes, my gaze softening before slowly frowning at 'Screen' in front of my face.
[ < Goto Ryuji> Eliminated Ultimate-Class Human]
[Gold Earned: 2,500]
It shouldn't be my reaction, I immediately stood up from my bed and rubbed my eyes.. Then I checked my Clock beside me, it's 6 AM.
"I see.."
Grandmother should be awake by now, she goes to work after 7: 30 AM.
"First waking up, then following with asking Goto-San what the hell happened when I slept." I mumbled to myself before jumping from the bed and immediately taking off my pyjamas I have been wearing and instead dressing myself in my standard long sleeve shirt, pants and small sneakers for my size.
When all seemed perfect and checked..
'No matter how many times my parents or grandmother tried to force me to wear skirts I managed to avoid those awkward situations by either making a scene or throwing them away. Till they eventually gave up that is..' I thought as I exited my room and walked towards the bathroom. 'If I must, I will wear skirts for School because of their uniform rules but otherwise I don't think I will. ' I thought.
I exited my room, then closed the doors of my room before walking towards the doors in he halfway leading to bathroom on second floor.
Yeah, you heard it right. Out house has two bathrooms, one on second floor and other one on first floor.
I entered the bathroom, I brushed my teeth quickly and set up the water in boiler to be hot for later at night, I will be bathing after all.
Everything was over under less than five minutes.
I exited from the bathroom before heading down, down stairs. My sneakers making a 'plop' noise after touching the wooden form of the stairs.
~Clink!
The moment I stepped on the lower floor I could smell it, the beautiful and sweet smell of Pancakes.
~Sniff~
~Sniff~
"Grandma! Are you making pancakes!?" I questioned as I walked into our kitchen, I couldn't help it. Even in my previous life I always liked sweets, sweets are a must!
The moment I walked in, I saw Grandma finishing the last pancake before enveloping it, and noticing it's enveloped form dripping jam from it.
My voice of course caught her attention.
Grandmother glanced at me, her slightly wrinkled face smiled at me. Despite being in her 60s, for a Human she still looks amazing.
DXD world.
The only explanation I could come up with, probably.
Sometimes I wonder why anime is potrayed to be Fan Service while LN itself is not as much. And I don't know in what variant I'm in yet.
For all I know, I could be in Anime DXD, Manga DXD, LN DXD, AU DXD or I hope I'm wrong a fanfiction DXD.
A worst one yet.
"Good morning sweetie! How did you sleep tonight?" She questioned me as she placed last pancake on the plate before moving both plates on the table.
One towards my chair while one towards her own.
I walked up to my own chair an walked up to it, since it works like stairs.
"Another dreamless sleep, but I feel refreshed!" I replied, thankfully I didn't have to go to kindergarten yet, I behaved enough for my grandmother to not send me there. It would be pain! If I'm already forced to re-live new childhood but in Japan this time, then at least spare me kindergarten!
I don't want to deal with children yet.
"Ah~ Nice. Here are some pancakes with your favorite Jam~" She added as she placed my plate towards me. On it are three carefully placed and enveloped pancakes. With sweet purple jam dripping from them.
I thanked first.
I started eating, and humming already.
"Today I will come back a bit later, a celebrity is visiting our restaurant so they want me to stay over. Kosu-San will take care of you till 5 PM and then I should arrive." My grandmother replied as she started eating her own pancakes. "Do you need me to get you something?" I frowned.
I thought for a moment, what would a normal child ask in my case.
"Grandma can you get me a bottle or two of orange juice, I didn't drink orange juice in a long time!" Long time means a week here.
She giggled while covering her mouth with her right hand. " Ok sweetie, count it done!" Honestly, in this life I could not have hoped for better parent, I like her and that's it.
We talked a bit before she turned on the TV to see any morning news.
And to my surprise.
"A horrible accident happened at Protestant Church tonight!" Reported announced as she read paper in front of the camera. Ah, reporters nowadays cannot remember their script but need notes..
My grandmother raised an eyebrow while I perked up while eating last pancake before turning my head to look at TV. A confusion evident in my blue yet cold eyes.
"An terrorists attack at innocent Priest happened today! With terrorists throwing grenades into the Church!" Reported motioned at hole in the walls of the Church before Camera-man decided to walk towards the hole, camera pointing at it. Showing the damage range.
My grandmother gasped as she covered her mouth.
My eyes widened at reporters words before I shifted my attention back towards my grandmother with my gaze laced with concern.
Yeah, my grandmother has a weak heart.
"From current police investigation, three grenades have been thrown inside the Church." Once again reporter began speaking, this time they entered the Church. "Thankfully, every Church resident had been okay and safely escaped from the terrorist attack. Zero injuries . But unknown terrorist escaped, there are zero traces of battle, no blood, no finger prints or anything that can lead to such conclusion!" He added before my grandmother checked her watch, noticing it's 7:20 AM before turning the TV off.
A bit fast turn of events, wouldn't you agree?
"I will be heading out now, a bit early. Kosu-San should arrive soon, I texted her about everything." She said before putting on her usual jacket from the chair and purse before walking up to me who just finished eating last pancake. " And you be good girl or there won't be anymore Anime to watch!" She threatened as she kissed me on the cheek as I nodded.
She patted my head once more before turning away and walking towards the doors.
"Goodbye!" She waved before exiting the house, I returned her wave and mouthed my own "Goodbye!" as she closed the doors.
And soon enough you can hear 'Car' engine turning on and pulling from the garage .
With nothing to do, I jumped from the chair I was sitting on, before walking up to the couch to sit on it and turn the TV on, but I'm not really a fan of News channels, I hated them so I quickly changed the channel.
I changed channels several times before I stopped at one that interested me for the mean-time.
Some movie about aliens fighting Humans from what I see, and it's near the end of the movie, if 'Started since one hour and 20 minutes ago is anything to go by'.
I sighed as I continued watching, waiting for Kosu Ikari and Goto Ryuji to come here and explain to me about 'Goto-San killing an Ultimate-Class'.
Ikar-San will arrive, but as for Goto-San I hope he will and I won't need to send an order for his explanation.
I'm sure it's going to be a fascinating tale.
Anyway, minutes quickly turned into dozens of minutes before I heard someone ringing the bell at the doors.
I stood up from the couch before walking up to the doors. Slowly, one step at a time, no need for hurrying anyway.
But honestly, the bad thing with being short Is that I can't see who is on the other side of the doors with the peep hole. Though, bringing a chair with me would take more time than anticipated and wouldn't prove to be worthy.
I opened the doors slightly, just so I can see who is on the other side and if something were to happen then I can shut them next second and twist the key, thus closing the doors for time being.
You never know who might ring on your door in a town infested with Exorcists and Devils like Kuoh, i'm not naive, and I'm certainly not going to believe that an Angel would ring.
And good, the face that greeted me was non other than Kosu Ikar-San's with makeup? And behind her I noticed another figure wearing black jacket but due to Ikari-San covering them I could not discern who it was.
Though, I have my own assumption on their identity. Assumptions that is.
I opened the door entirely now.
"Here." I said as I opened door, allowing both Kosu Ikari and Goto Ryuji to enter, Ikari-San with Beaming face while Goto-San's is expressionless.
And old, completely expressionless yet unreadable face of Goto-San, you never know he is thinking with that face.
"So, mind explaining what happened? Killing an Ultimate-Class creature despite supposedly needing to stay low for time being?" I questioned as I shut the door with a resounding 'Thud' before looking at Goto Ryuji, who meet my gaze before he bowed.
"I apologize for not going fully according to your orders, Morgan-Sama.." I fell a but! " But, that man was a Fallen Exorcist who was about to kill Touji Shidou, father of Irina Shidou and his students. It prompted me to intervene and slay him for following several reasons."
He apologized?
Incredible, Goto Ryuji himself apologized!
My eyebrows raised as I walked towards the Kitchen, both of them following me before we all sat on the table.
Each one taking their own seat.
A silence followed.
As I though for a moment. Yes, that fallen exorcist if he was not stopped he would have killed Touji Shidou and created even bigger butterfly effect than it was already created by my simple existence and Influence I have over his daughter. And guardianship over Irina would be in her mother's hands with uncertain future.
A future that could not be controlled nor predicted anymore. A complete yet blank slate.
On other hand, Goto eliminated Ultimate-Class Fallen Exorcist and that was sure to make his name known on Devilnet soon enough.
On the third hand, I got 2,500 Gold.
Fourth, I can't blame him honestly. But let's move the conversation further before I started overthinking again
"Sigh~ Acknowledged, but do tell me, does that Exorcist has bounty on his head and how much is it?" I questioned him as I crossed my arms over my chest.
If he indeed have a bounty, then I could very well forgive everything!
Goto answered swiftly. " An exact amount of 1,500,000$ Dollars, wanted by Grigori. Money was main motivation, with such large amount of money we wouldn't need to worry for a long time financially but we would be able to start connections around and possible when Morgan-Sama has enough Gold to sponsor more bases in bigger cities." He elaborated his main motivation.
I almost spat at the amount!
This opens up a large number of options for us in future!
I nodded, it's good enough reasoning, I can't blame him. Over twenty days slaying only Low-Class and Mid-Class Devils earned him over 500,000$, but now in a single night that number increased four times. It was a decision no one would pass on if they are capable to subdue that Ultimate-Class Fallen Exorcist.
It was realistic choice, a matter of job.
Even I have to agree with his decision, if I was in his place and was as strong as him I would have done the same thing too. I'm just what people might call 'opportunistic'.
Or something like that, I might take advantage of the situation in most cases, bu I don't do it always. Even I have moral code of course.
But this also brings me up to next question.
"So I suppose those 'supposed' grenades were the work of that Fallen Exorcist?" Goto-San's nod was the answer I needed. Good, I see.
"Then did you finish investigation on the Church's members and whereabouts?" If they did, and reward was not given to me, then it means that I need to be the one to hear their report. But we will see if this small theory is correct soon enough.
Goto-San nodded before extending his palm at Ikari-San direction, causing her to place an envelope in his hand, which he proceeded to give to me.
Seeing this, I took it and opened it.
"In it are all current data we have for the Priest, Touji Shidou, two nuns who were his previous students in exorcist arts and his current student. To learn everything about them I had to use a connection I formed since saving one young man from a Stray Devil. " He paused. " It's just so happened that he and his grandmother were passing by and she was informant from Supernatural world, it was lucky encounter honestly." I frowned.
I nodded, I knew that such scenes might happen eventually, but I shifted my full and undivided attention back to the envelope, I teared it off.
Then I pulled the paper from it.
I immediately noticed four pictures on the paper, in black and white. One middle aged man, one boy no older than 18 at most, and two younger women, twins no less.
In silence I started reading, their ages, their profession as exorcist and their 'Level'.
Paper was barely filled with informations, but all data bout them are basic level, nothing too 'fancy', we could barely pull with current connections right now. In future we will have better network of course.
information Network is a must.
But I ignored Irina's father and the nuns.
And focused on young man. His name, I knew who he was, I don't know for sure but I think I read his name from somewhere.
I tilted my head, then I closed my eyes in thoughts.
Then it appeared in my head, where I heard his name!
He was supposed to fall in love with Belial Overseer of the Kuoh Town, and later on both of them would be killed by their respective higher ups. Though, Devils goald was actually to kill the Belial girl because she learned about existence of the King Piece.
A King Piece that could drastically enchant someones's Magical Power or in other words Mana, and since Magical Power is practically everything, they became stronger at least 10 to 100 Times with the usage of King piece. A High-Class can enter into Satan-Class range, a Satan-Class range can enter into Super Devil-Class.
That just shows how powerful these King Piece's are.
It was broken thing that should not have been made by Ajuka, that shitty King Piece has power to turn an Ultimate-Class into Satan-Class.
Whatever Ajuka did back then, he must have been high to do create something like that and not use it on himself.
Just imagine it, a Super Devils like Ajuka and Sirzechs who are already in top 10 to use King Piece, and their power astronomically expands by at least 10 times.
Other factions would surely grow weary of them, and even afraid. Though, it's not as if they are not already afraid of them, it's just that such level of fear would be uncountable compared to current.
And so they were killed, both of them about same age. And after boy was killed by Touji Shidou, Touji and his family left Kuoh in Canon, that was their 'official' reason. They simply could not walk on the lands where they shred their comrades blood.
I clenched the paper tightly, If I manage to keep Cleria Belial alive and save her, in secret under the disguise that she was killed by 'Church' and same with the boy priest later on, I would be able to get Diehauser Belial on my side, a Satan-Class power house.
And having a Satan-Class powerhouse deep in Devil's territory certainly does not sound bad at all, especially since he proved himself to 'switch sides rather easily' once he learned what happened to his cousin, Cleria Belial in LN.
But then, screen appeared in my vision.
[Quest: Investigate Church in Kuoh!]
[Description: Send a Hunter to investigate numbers of Exorcists in the Church !]
[Reward: 5,000 Gold]
[Progress: Completed!]
[5,000 Gold sent to Wallet!]
[Current amount of Gold : 18,950]
Chapter Word Count: 2,822
Before Editing Word-Count: 1,940
After Editing Word-Count: 2,822