179Metempsychosis Spin-Off
Deviation
Chapter 4-3
A/N: Many thanks to Javis R. Yeriel in FFN for being my Beta reader!
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Flashback/Technique/Command"
"Call"
Sacred Gear/Weapon
Romaji/Emphasis
Note: In my stories, "Life Force" is used to refer to the number of years a person has remaining. For example, "The 'Technique' drains portions of his Life Force to deal the desired amount of DMG." This means that as a result of using the 'Technique', 'n' number of years has been reduced from the amount of years he would've lived without using it. "Ki" on the other hand is referred to as a type of Energy similar to Mana and Demonic Power.
9:20 PM, 1st April 2007
Cottage, Kamuiwakka River, Hokkaido
Izayoi POV
The fishing competition wasn't anything noteworthy.
"Your ante please."
I was paired up with Tsubaki for the competition. The two of us had gone to a part of the river that was relatively calm and had small rock piles to fish. We shared one bucket to keep our fishes in and managed to catch 12 within two hours.
"Call."
Throughout the entirety of the two hours, both of us stayed quiet and barely uttered a word unless it was necessary. Fortunately, neither of us had any problem with the silence, so the air between us wasn't awkward.
"Raise."
When we had returned back to the cottage, we were declared the runner up team losing to Rias and Sona by three fishes.
"Raise."
I am 50% sure that the selection process was rigged. I was paired up with Sona's Queen, Tsubaki, whose King was suspicious of me. So who better than to have her most trusted Peerage member to watch over me?
"…fold."
There's also the fact that Sona and Rias had been put into the same team, meaning that Sona attempted to discourage Rias from making me a part of her Peerage. But the displeased aura must mean that she failed and Rias is more determined than ever to make me her Knight/Rook/Bishop, even if it is just to piss Sona off.
"Well, Izayoi-kun? What will you do?"
I glanced at Rias and then took a look at my hand. Seeing what my hand held, a feeling of nostalgia crept up on me and I held back the urge to smile at a rather fond memory of mine as Leone. With this being the last round, I pushed forward all of my chips drawing shocked looks from everyone.
"Wha-!? Oi, Izayoi! What the hell are you doing!?" Issei shouted in shock. He may not understand Poker that much- he got out of the game first- but he at least knew what I was doing wasn't the brightest idea to carry out.
I just smiled and shrugged my shoulders. "It's the last round, so I might as go all in!"
Rias and Sona exchanged looks before Rias shrugged and did the same getting a disapproving look from the Chess addict.
"I won't go all in, but…" Sona pushed half of her remaining chips forward and finished, "…might as well end the game for tonight with high risks."
"What about you two?" Rias asked to Tsubaki and Koneko.
"I shall raise my bet." Tsubaki pushed five more chips forward.
"…raise." Koneko pushed three chips forward.
"Everyone ready?" Rias asked getting nods from us while the rest that had dropped out of the game due to losing their chips tensed and leaned forward in anticipation.
"In three!"
"Two."
"""One!"""
The five of us revealed our hands at the same time and silence descended upon the entire living room.
I held back a laugh and simply waited for everyone to get their bearings back after what they just witnessed.
"Wha-" Rias's jaw hit the table as she stared at the cards with eyes wide open.
"Oh my~ that was unexpected." Akeno commented with a hand on her cheek.
Issei and Saji just stared at the table, their eyes out of their sockets and mouths wide open. These two were given a detailed overview of what kind of hand held what amount of power.
"Tsk." Koneko clicked her tongue and crossed her arms.
Yuuto just nervously chuckled.
Tsubaki and the rest of Sona's Peerage just stared with dull eyes at the table, their minds having screeched to a halt.
But Sona? Her glasses exploded in shock! That's what almost had me laughing.
"What the actual fuck!?" Rias swore standing up. "HOW!? I was damn sure I had the strongest hand!"
"A Royal Flush…" Sona absentmindedly mumbled fixing her glasses on instinct before giving me a look that I did not want to identify for the sake of my sleep and sanity.
"Incredible…" Tsubaki muttered glancing my way.
Instead of pulling all the chips towards me, I just stood up and stretched ignoring the hungry look Akeno shot me when my shirt rid up and exposed my navel alongside giving the barest hints of my abs. "Well, I suppose that's it for tonight." Once everyone got their bearings I shifted my weight to my left foot and put a hand on my left hip. "Unless there's anything else you guys want to play?"
"How about a few rounds of Twister?" Akeno asked with a serene smile on her face getting a sigh out of Rias.
"Sure, I guess." Let's see what this sadomasochist has in store.
Except for Sona, Tsubaki and Yuuto, everyone agreed to play. With there being eight players, Akeno brought out two large mats for four players per mat. On one mat, there was me, Akeno, Koneko and Rias. On the other was Issei, Saji, Momo and Reya. Sona was the referee of my mat while Tsubaki was Issei's.
Almost one hour into the game, Akeno was breathing over my groin, Rias's face was almost mashed into Akeno's breasts, and Koneko became a bridge over my face with one of my arm between her legs.
Sona ended the game right then and there.
7:25 AM, 2nd April 2007
Cottage, Kamuiwakka River, Hokkaido
Izayoi POV
"Isn't it a bit too early to play Chess all by your lonesome, Shitori-san?" I ask as I sit down on the couch opposite to the Chess addicted Devil.
Sona glanced up at me from the Chess board. "Good morning Hyoudou-kun. To many it might seem lonesome to play against an opponent who is none other than myself, but that's the point isn't it?"
I tilted my head back and hummed in agreement understanding what she meant. "True. Only an individual knows the most about themselves. So more often than not, they themselves become their worst match-up." I would know. After all, I do fight my clones on a daily basis early in the morning to polish my skills.
Sona gave me a sceptic look and glanced down at the board before her lips widened in a triumphant smile. "Would you perhaps be kind enough to humor me a match against yourself?"
This time I skeptically looked at her. I guess I can humor her a match, but the main question is… should I aim to win or aim to lose? Sona has that thing about "marrying the person to defeat her in Chess" if my hazy memories of canon are anything to rely on. But, does that apply to Humans? I don't think it should, mainly because Humans don't have long lifespans. That and they are as significant as a worm in the eyes of the Supernatural unless they are born with a powerful Sacred Gear.
Moreover, I think this whole thing started because the Underworld is following the tradition of having the heirs of two Pillars marry each other to increase the number of Pure-Blood Devils and giving birth to strong Devil children. Sona had not approved of the person who had been set as her fiancé and had defeated him in Chess, which brought forth the deal between her and her parents about marrying the one who defeated her in Chess.
Of course I could be optimistic and assume that such a thing never happened in my timeline and that I am in no risk of getting involved with her on a personal level, but, I am not an optimistic person. Never was and never will be. Pessimism and realism has gotten me this far, optimism hasn't. So there's no reason to pretend there's no risks in winning this match. So the only option is to lose on purpose, but that in and of itself is a problem.
Sona is a perceptive little girl, not enough to make heads or tails about me, but enough to determine whether I'm holding back or not. So going all out to win is the way to go.
"Sure. I wouldn't mind a match as long as you don't hold back on me due to the difference in our age."
"I expect the same as well then, Hyoudou-kun." Sona said with a smile of victory as she neatly arranged the board giving me the white pieces to start the game with.
It's a good thing I decided to go all out against her, cause Sona is way, way better than I honestly expected her to be. I had started off with a balance of offense and defense, avoiding taking her pieces while making sure she didn't take mine. But soon I realized we were getting nowhere because of it. This was simply extending the duration of our game. So I switched to the "strongest defense = strongest offense" mentality and went full aggressive on her.
As something of an expert (not a master, mind you) in this game, it was quite impressive to me how she recovered from my assault after two turns and started to reply in kind. Soon it became a full on slugfest between the two of us, both equally matched and unrelenting. It was a thrill that I've missed for a long while ever since I reincarnated into this world.
Sometime into the game, I absentmindedly noted that we were joined by the rest who crowded around us with Rias and Issei cheering me on while Sona's Peerage did the same for her.
For a full 1 hour and about 10 more minutes we kept beating the shit out of each other until I finally slugged her in the face defeated her with my remaining single Pawn, Knight and Bishop.
"…checkmate…" I declared tiredly with a wide smile on my face, panting and sweating from head to toe. "…man that took a lot of juice out of me!" I commented leaning back and resting on my couch.
There was silence for several moments before Rias and Issei broke it with a cheer high fiving each other. "YEEEEEEEEAH!"
Sona's Peerage on the other hand except for Saji looked like they couldn't believe what they were seeing despite the fact that Sona had a smile similar to mine on her face.
Our eyes met, and neither of us could resist chuckling.
It's a relief for me that she's chuckling instead of looking pale and horrified about the consequences of her loss. It means that I'm safe from being pulled into the political shitstorm that would occur if the two of us from different factions were to get engaged to each other.
Ignoring how our chuckling brought everyone to a pause, I extended my hand towards Sona who clasped it. "Good game."
Sona shook my hands and replied, "You as well."
Then a magic circle abruptly flashed into existence startling us all making me and Sona jump away from it, the force of our jump toppling over the couches. Two energy strings shot out of the magic circle and wrapped around my thumb and Sona's little finger. Then the other end of the energy strings came out of the magic circle and merged with each other making the energy string connecting me and Sona look like the fabled 'red string of fate'.
There was several seconds of silence as everyone stared at the energy string that connected me and Sona making a fucking mockery of the 'red string of fate'. Then once everyone registered what happened, their faces twisted into expressions of pure horror.
'Well, most of them at least…'
Rias looked like her soul got sucked out of her body turning into an empty husk which I would've found hilarious at any other time but now. Akeno was barely holding her King up despite looking like she got frozen in time. Koneko just stared blankly at nothing facing the direction of the string that connected me and Sona. Yuuto surprisingly enough looked horrified.
Sona turned as white as chalk staring at the energy string with eyes wide like saucers. Tsubaki looked like she died inside while Momo and Reya had horrified expressions on their face.
Out of us all, Issei and Saji looked the most out of loop yet horrified at the same time, which once again, I would've found hilarious if not for the current situation. Out of loop because they didn't know what that magic circle and energy string thingy was; and horrified because a supposedly normal human got exposed to magic.
As for me? Aside from taking note of everyone's reactions, I was busy suppressing the sheer rage that roared and screamed at me to be let out. I can understand why the rage came to be. I mean, how can I not? That was a fucking Geas, a magical contract that can cripple the parties included in it, if not outright kill them if broken. Now some Geas has tied me and Sona into possibly marrying each other no matter what. What's worse, I don't even know what the consequences will be if we don't adhere to it, but I'm putting my bet on death.
Giving in to my rage will not help, because that way I won't be able to find out the true reason and purpose of the Geas. That, and Sona herself looks like she didn't expect this.
I took a deep breath and exhaled before repeating this action a few times to calm myself down. Once I calmed down, I kept up my act of a normal human and politely asked, "Can someone kindly explain what the fuck that lightshow and this…" Ignoring Issei's scandalized gasp, I looked down at the energy string connecting my right thumb to Sona's left little finger and finished, "…string thingy is?"
Sona and Rias looked at each other before Sona nodded and spoke up. "That lightshow was Magic. Or rather, a magical contract that is commonly known as a Geas."
'No shit, Sherlock…'
I stayed quiet and waited patiently for Sona to finish. She picked up where she left off and continued, "As for this string… it's the proof that you and I are bound to each other through a preset contract made by my parents. All we need to do is accept the contract, and this string will be gone."
So her parents put a Geas on their own child? The Best Parents Award should be given to them for that!
"Magic, huh?"
"Yes. Simply put, every myth that you have learnt about, Gods, Dragons, Devils, Angels, Fallen Angels, Youkai, Buddha and many more are real and exist. They simply stopped appearing before humans several centuries ago."
'Yeah… after YHWH fucking died.'
"So, Heaven and Hell are a thing?" Sona nodded. "I see…" I sat quietly for a few seconds staring up at the ceiling before asking, "Can you tell me what this contract entails, and what will happen if either of us refuses to accept the contract."
Sona took a deep breath bracing herself before answering, "The contract says, "Any Supernaturally aware person to defeat Sona Sitri in a match of Chess gets to have her hand in marriage."" In the furthest back of my mind, I heard a loud and happy cheer of "SONA-SAMA~!" which I promptly ignored for the sake of my sanity and focused on what Sona was saying. "Should either of us refuse to abide by the contract then, the Geas will make it so that neither of us can use Magic for the rest of our lives." Her tone was grave and despairing when she mentioned the consequences of refusing the contract, not even questioning that I, someone who is not an aforementioned Supernaturally aware person, got bound to her in the contract.
But I did not care about that.
No.
What I cared about is the fact that I would be unable to use Magic if I refuse to marry her, the one person who I used to simp for as Leone back in his previous life.
Being unable to use Magic is a fate worse than death, and that is most probably why her parents used it as the consequence of breaking the contract. Truly they deserve the Best Parents Award.
"And for the record, everyone here except you are Devils." Sona added in a tense manner and I pretended to be surprised and faux tensed my body.
"Everyone? You mean…" I looked at Issei who faced away from me with a guilty look on his face. "…my brother as well? I can understand you and Gremory-san being Devils, because I've read Ars Goetia, but my brother? That cannot be!" I resisted the urge to cringe at those words.
"Actually… that's true. I am a Devil." Looking at the bat wings protruding out of his back I pretended to be dumbfounded and stared. "I've been one for a month or so…"
"…how?" I asked adding a touch of betrayal to my tone taking no pleasure in making Issei flinch in guilt.
Rias stepped forward with a hand over her breast and spoke up, "Actua-!"
Before she could even finish the first word of her sentence, an unfortunately familiar teleportation magic circle spread on the carpet on Sona's left (my right) drawing shocked looks from Rias, Akeno and Tsubaki, while Sona herself looked resigned to whatever will happen next.
"Sooonaaaaaa- chaaaaaaaan~!" Serafall cried popping out of the teleportation magic circle and promptly glomped the despairing Chess addict, or should I call her my fiancé? "The monitoring spell I put on your Geas warned me that you lost to some fat, ugly meanie in a Chess match and now you must marry him!" Everyone cringed at Serafall's words while I merely twitched, resisting the urge to speak up. "Where is he!? Where is he!? Tell me where I can find him! I'll hunt him down and kill him! Then you'll be free of this Satan damned Geas!"
Sona facepalmed and gestured at me. "He's right in front of us Onee-sama. And by no means is he as you put it, "some fat, ugly meanie", so please be sure to apologize."
Serafall whirled around to face me with a glare on her face, only to pause, blink twice, then stare, then rub her eyes, then stare once again, then alternate between me and a confused Sona before sighing and holding her head as if in pain.
"…we're fucked, aren't we?" Serafall summarized the hell that Amaterasu will unleash on her and Sirzechs drawing confused looks from everyone.
I nodded and chirped, "That you are."
"Huh/What?" were the responses everyone had except for Serafall who looked like she aged a couple of decades.
Serafall gave me a stink eye and asked, "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be back at the castle, training? Or at your hometown spending time with your birth parents?"
"Rias Gremory invited me in hopes of recruiting me into her Peerage." I looked at Rias who was gawking at me in disbelief. "Am I right? After all, I'm just a normal human with high potential to be recruited into your Peerage."
"Wha-? How…?" Rias shook her head and exclaimed, "Why do you know such a thing!?"
Closing my eyes I reeled in the Mana, Ki and the magical signature of Blade Blacksmith that I had been leaking on purpose and proceeded to erase my very presence from their senses. When I opened my eyes, they gasped as the Divinity that I've been suppressing as a Demi-God showed itself in the form of red flakes at the bottom of my golden irises.
A bit of trivia for you my dear readers, these red flakes are always seen in the eyes of the beings that are Demi-Gods as a proof of their awakened Divinity. If the Divinity hasn't been awakened in them, then these red flakes will not appear at the bottom of their irises.
"You're a Demi-God." Sona breathed out with wide eyes as realization dawned upon her. "It's no wonder the Geas acted up…!"
"Speaking of which…" I eyed Serafall and asked, "Mind confirming a few things for me Maou Leviathan?"
"…ask away."
"Who set up this Geas?"
"Our parents."
"Sitri-san said the consequences of refusing the contract is to be unable to use Magic. Is that right? Mind you I'm not doubting her words, I'm merely seeking a confirmation."
"Yes." Serafall growled out the answer.
"Then that means, both her and I are… victims of her parents so to speak of, yes?"
Serafall took a moment to think before answering, "That's right."
"Then let's throw them under the bus, or rather at the Sun because that's the only way your sister will not suffer Mother's wrath!"
"Good idea!" Serafall chirped drawing horrified looks from most of the kids. "So does this mean you accept?"
"Are you seriously asking me that? A Magic Researcher to refuse the contract? Death is better than losing the ability to use Magic!"
Serafall rolled her eyes and parroted me, "I'm merely seeking a confirmation." My end of the string glowed acknowledging my acceptance making Serafall look at Sona.
Sona took a deep breath to compose herself and fixed her glasses before confidently nodding. "Yes. He defeated me fair and square in the match, so I have no reason to refuse." Her end of the string glowed before the entire thing disappeared.
Serafall sighed in relief and slumped back against Sona. "Good. Better him than some scum of the earth Devil like that Riser Phenex."
"Izayoi-"
I raised a hand stopping Issei from speaking any further and said, "I know you have a lot of questions to ask me Issei, and I will answer them. But before that…" I looked at the clock and noted the time to be 9:30 AM. I faced Serafall and continued, "…don't you have a meeting with Mother in 30 minutes, Serafall-san?"
Serafall groaned. "Did you have to remind me of the hell that I'll be facing soon? I swear I need a long term vacation!"
I sniffed at her and answered, "Blame your buddy for that. This meeting wouldn't have been planned in the first place if Sirzechs Lucifer hadn't broken the contract Mother set up with you and him."
"W-What did Onii-sama do?" Rias asked in worry.
"Your brother brought you to Kuoh correct?" I asked getting a nod from her. "Which is where you met Issei and after hanging out with him, you made him your Servant, correct?"
"Where are you going with this?"
I looked Rias dead in the eyes and said in a grave tone, "The reason you were given Akihabara as territory is because Kuoh has been made off-limits for the entire Biblical Faction. That and my family is under the protection of Amaterasu-Omikami. You recruiting Issei into your Peerage basically violated the contract she made with your brother and Serafall-san. And considering that he brought you to an off-limits ground and allowed you to make someone under the protection of a faction's Chief Goddess your Servant is an unforgivable act that he will suffer the punishment for."
Rias looked horrified and muttered, "So it's my fault Onii-sama is going to face a Goddess's wrath…?"
"No it's not." Serafall and I said together before she let me explain further. "I take it he did not tell you that Devils are not allowed to step foot in Kuoh and to stay away from my family?" Rias shakily shook her head in a 'no'. "Then it's not your fault. He brought this upon himself. So don't pull the blame towards yourself." The girl did not look convinced but instead decided to keep quiet and sit down on a chair.
"Wait. Why didn't you tell me those things Onee-sama?" Serafall winced hearing the accusing tone of Sona.
"Well…I did not believe you would recruit Issei into your Peerage, thanks to his… reputation of a sleazy pervert in that town. No offense."
"It's fine." I waved her off ignoring Issei's cringe.
"True. But if I had known those things, then I would've been able to prevent that idiot from recruiting someone under the protection of a faction's Chief Goddess!"
Rias didn't respond, instead opting to stay quiet.
Serafall awkwardly laughed. "Ahahaha… my bad?"
Before Sona could start ranting Serafall's ears off, I clapped twice to get their attention and said, "Anyway, you best be off Serafall-san. I'll be here explaining everything to them in here. I'm leaving it to you to break the news of my engagement to your sister to Mother."
Serafall sat up with a start. "You can't be serious!"
"Oh, yes I am!" I pointed a finger at her and initiated a teleportation magic circle under her directly over the Arctic Ocean. "Buh-bye~!"
"Wait! Noooooooo-" and with a flash of light she was gone, neither breaking off the spell, nor struggling.
'Was she trying to get across a point to these guys or something…?'
9:45 AM, 2nd April 2007
Cottage, Kamuiwakka River, Hokkaido
Third Person POV
"Okay, let me introduce myself properly this time." Izayoi spoke up breaking the silence that descended upon the teens after he force teleported Serafall to the Arctic Ocean. "I am Izayoi Megumareta Hyoudou, the reincarnated son of Amaterasu-Omikami and the younger brother of this generation's White Dragon Emperor, Issei Hyoudou, born of Miki Hyoudou and Gorou Hyoudou. A pleasure to make your acquaintance."
"Megumareta…?" Issei whispered in confusion.
"That is the name I used to go by in my previous life as Amaterasu's son. Now that I've been… reunited with her so to speak of after my reincarnation, I decided to use that name as a middle name." Izayoi held up a hand silencing Issei again and added, "And before you ask something stupid like if I'm your brother or not… yes, I am still your brother. Yes, Miki Hyoudou and Gorou Hyoudou are my parents as well, and so is Amaterasu."
"O-Oh…" Issei blushed and scratched the back of his head before coughing and asking his next question. "How long have you been aware of, you know? Everything."
"That's a stupid question." Izayoi deadpanned with a bright smile on his face making Issei cringe. "I've always been aware of the Supernatural, I am after all, a reincarnated God, now a Demi-God."
"So that's why you were so weird since you were born!"
Izayoi snapped his fingers and pointed at Issei before sarcastically saying, "Give this monkey a medal! He figured out the truth of the Universe!"
"Oi! How many times did I tell you not to call me a monkey!?"
"Nobody cares." Izayoi said with an eye roll. "Hurry up and ask your questions, cause…" He took a look at his watchless wrist and finished, "…we're likely to be dragged into the meeting the two siscon Maous are having with Mother."
"I find your claims hard to believe." Sona spoke up. "To my knowledge, there was no God named Megumareta in the records."
"I wasn't recorded because I died at the age of 6." Izayoi chirped, his answer giving everyone a pause. "I was born sick and frail, confined to my room in bedrest for almost the entirety of those 6 years of my life." He tilted his head back and smiled softly. "But those 6 years of life were not as bad as you would've thought. Mother was always there by my side, hardly leaving my side unless something important that she had to attend came up." He chuckled and glanced at everyone before resting his eyes on Sona. "Even then she refused to leave my side. I had to force her to attend many important meetings. On rare occasions, when my condition was better, Mother took me outside and showed me a lot of things, took me to a lot of places and I got to meet and befriend so many people."
He then sighed and continued, "But alas, sometime after my sixth birthday, my condition abruptly worsened and before Mother could do anything, I died in her arms. And then, a couple of centuries later, I'm reincarnated as Izayoi Hyoudou."
"I-I see…" Sona muttered visibly shaken and guilty for accusing Izayoi of being a fraud. "I'm sorry for accusing you of falsifying your identity."
"Eh, don't worry about it." Izayoi waved off her apology. "I was expecting that anyway."
"Hold on. I don't get it." Saji spoke up looking confused. "If you were reincarnated through Human parents, then how come you call yourself a Demi-God instead of a Human?"
Izayoi internally commended the boy for asking that question. He was expecting that question of course, but not from him, rather Rias or Sona. Nonetheless, he answered, "After I moved to Kyoto, Mother helped me draw the Divinity in my soul and suffuse my Human body with it. Constantly exposing my Human body to my own Divinity and that of Mother's slowly turned me into a natural born Demi-God. Take a good look at my eyes. See these red flakes at the bottom of my irises?" Saji nodded. "These flakes signify that I am a Demi-God."
"Ahhh, I see…" Saji nodded totally not getting what Izayoi explained. Izayoi noticed it and instead of pointing it out, he just smiled in amusement.
"How old are you then?"
"20." Izayoi lied as naturally as he breathed. Then he smugly smirked at Issei and added, "So that makes me the older brother, not you Issei."
"I was born before you."
"I'm older."
Issei and Izayoi stared each other down for several seconds. Just as Issei opened his mouth to say something-
*Crack*
-a crack appeared in the space between them.
*Cr-Cra-Craaaaack*
The crack spread rapidly sending everyone except Izayoi into a fit of panic thinking they were going to be attacked.
Then the cracked space shattered, revealing a dark and black void from within which, a beautiful woman stepped out with light pink hair that ombred to hot pink tied into pig tails using two tubes, and a red clip on the side of her face. She was relatively tall and slender, wearing a red leotard with the middle mostly cut out, red-orange spoilers with flowers on the side and high red gloves.
Noticing the lack of smile on her face, Izayoi could tell she was not amused with his situation.
"Bocchan." She intoned walking past everyone to stand before Izayoi.
"Inori."
Not minding the familiarity between them, the newcomer's presence was so large, it weighed down on everyone pinning them to where they stood, unable to do anything.
"Is it true?"
"Yep."
Inori pursed her lips and frowned. "Any other time I would've congratulated you for getting engaged, but…" she glanced at Sona from the corner of her vision. "…I cannot do so with how this engagement came to be."
Izayoi nodded. "Yeah, I can tell that. Anyway, how's Mother taking the news?"
Inori smiled in an amused manner and replied, "She almost burnt Maou Leviathan to a crisp."
"Yeah, well, she's always been short tempered when it came to any matter regarding me." Izayoi said from his experience over the last two years and as Megumareta. "But that aside, reel in your Ki will you? You're giving the kids a scare."
Inori rolled her eyes and did as told. "Where is your room? I'll pack your luggage while you explain to them."
"Second floor, furthest room on the right."
Inori bowed and floated upstairs to do her self-appointed task.
Izayoi faced the glaring teens and said in an amused manner, "That was Inori Yuzuriha, one of my handful of friends and my Personal Attendant."
Issei blinked several times in surprise and asked, "Wait. You have friends!?"
Izayoi dully stared at him before drawling, "Y'know… I would've punched you if I hadn't kept it a secret from you, mom and dad. But yes, I do have friends, I just never brought them up because they were involved with the Supernatural."
Then a teleportation magic circle spread beside Rias making her jump back as a Sakuya Izayoi lookalike came out of it.
"G-Grayfia!?"
Grayfia bowed to Rias and Sona. "Lady Rias. Lady Sona. Both of you are asked to come with me. You may bring your Queens with you if it makes you comfortable."
"To where?"
Grayfia looked at Izayoi and bowed before answering Rias, "To the meeting with Amaterasu-Omikami."
"O-Oh…" Rias and Sona paled.
"Worry not." Inori said floating down behind Izayoi. "Bocchan will make sure neither of you will face Amaterasu-sama's wrath."
The person in question shrugged. "I will as much as I can."
"Now, let us be off." Grayfia said creating a teleportation magic circle big enough to hold five persons.
"Alright. Yuuto, Koneko and Issei. Stay here until we come back alright?" The three of them nodded.
"The same goes for three as well. Understood?"
"Understood!" Momo, Reya and Saji chorused.
With a nod, Rias and Sona stood by Grayfia's sides with their Queens.
Everyone except Grayfia and Izayoi flinched when a series of loud cracks resounded as the space behind Izayoi and Inori shattered once again revealing the dark and black void in which they both disappeared into.
With a flash of light, Grayfia was gone as well with the two Heiresses and their Queens, leaving the rest of their Peerage members in awkward silence.
"…now what?"
A/N: To those who have recognized the name "Inori Yuzuriha", know that she is not the same as her original counterpart. She is completely different.
I also want to make something clear. Sona and Izayoi will not be romantically invested into each other. They will be something akin to business partners. Firstly, because Sona is 15 years or so younger than him, so the mere thought of getting married to her makes him uncomfortable. Secondly, Izayoi is the type of person who prioritizes work and family before most personal matters, and Sona wouldn't always be a priority to him. She would be something akin to a side project of sorts, not important enough to be busy himself with her, but important enough to spare her some of his attention. Thirdly, he wants his partner to be somewhere around his mental age, which is 32-33 (older if it's someone from the Supernatural). In his eyes, Sona is just a kid who got fucked up side-by-side with himself because of her parents.
With this made clear... DO NOT POST REVIEWS WHINING AND BITCHING ABOUT PAIRING HIM UP WITH SONA! There's a reason why I haven't put OC and Sona in closed brackets, and that is because they won't be romantically involved with each other.
Character Profile(s) as of Chapter 4
Name: Izayoi Megumareta Hyoudou
Age: 14 (20/32)
Gender: Male
Race: Demi-God
Date of Birth: 16th March 1993
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 60kg
Power(s): Ki Manipulation
Abilities: Touki, Swordsmanship, Martial Arts
Equipment: Common Creation-Type Sacred Gear - Blade Blacksmith
Name: Inori Yuzuriha
Age: Unknown
Gender: Female
Race: Human (?)
Date of Birth: Unknown
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 55 kg
Power(s): Magic (displayed)
Abilities: Space-Time Magic
Equipment: Unknown