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Chapter 1
I yawned quietly as the teacher in front of the classroom droned on about maths while writing on the blackboard. School was easy. Even being in one of the best schools in the country with some of the best teachers in the world didn’t provide me with an intellectual challenge. How could it? I was a god, after all.
More of a minor god, but that’s just quibbling. A god is a god, after all. Unfortunately for me, my godhood only really works when I am inside of my realm. I can enter my realm from anywhere at any time, which is convenient. It does, however, leave me as a mortal when I am outside of said realm.
Now you might be asking, what does being the god of a realm have to do with school classes being too easy? Simple. Within my realm everything is mine to command, including the very fabric of time itself. I discovered, when I was much younger, that I could freeze time within my realm and take all the time I desired to study something.
Even better, I didn’t have to just study the entire time! It was my realm, I could do anything I wanted within it! I may have spent a little bit too long within my realm after that discovery. What was meant to just be a few extra days to do a night's homework turned into a couple of decades.
It would have been a bit awkward trying to explain to my parents how I went to ‘bed’ one night and ‘woke up’ the next day as a man in his thirties. Thankfully, I was a GOD! It was a matter of willpower to simply return myself to my proper age. After that, I just made sure I didn’t age when time was frozen. Going through puberty twice was a pain in the ass and being stuck with teenager hormones sucks so much, but it is better than the alternative.
Regardless, all that extra study time within my realm meant I was far ahead of the curve set by other students. I’d made it a habit to take all of my textbooks into my realm on the first night of a new school year. From there, I studied everything, did all the worksheets, and made sure I understood the material fully. Even if it took me a couple of years within my realm, I did it all. I took plenty of breaks, of course.
This left me with the appearance of a genius and allowed me to cruise easily through all of my classes.
Now you might be wondering, ‘If you’re a god in your realm and can do anything you want, why bother with anything outside of it?’ Well, my realm is great, and being a god within it is amazing, but I am aware of the dangers of living within it permanently. I don’t want to lose my humanity by being able to always fulfill my every wish and whim. Being a mortal among mortals allows me to maintain my humanity by having to deal with the inconveniences of real life.
Yes, I am aware that everything within my realm is fantasy, even if it is real. Like I said, I am only a minor god. It hasn’t stopped me from enjoying the hell out of being able to do as I please. Other people have to use their imagination when reading a book, I bring the characters and events of the book to life and watch it like it's really happening. I can even participate as if it's a holodeck program from Star Trek!
Anyway, all of that leads to me being extremely bored while in classes, which I am only taking to maintain contact with humanity. Well, it also helps that Kuoh Academy is one of the best schools around and is an elevator school to their college. I might be a god, but even a god needs a degree.
I don’t need much, my realm provides, but I would like to maintain a life and, eventually, I would like to get married and have someone by my side. Speaking of, my eyes trail to the girls within my class. All of them are at least good-looking, if not beautiful, but a few are head and shoulders above the rest. Specifically Himejima-san and Gremory-san. Their beauty is almost supernatural.
Their beauty actually makes me slightly concerned. I know supernatural things can exist. Thanks to my realm, I’ve given myself real magical abilities! I can cast spells in the real world and do all kinds of things with magic. If I can do it, why couldn’t other people? The only issue is that I’ve never witnessed anything in person that proves, to me, that anything else supernatural exists. It’s all myths and legends with no proof.
I could be the only being with magical powers due to my unique status as a minor god, but I’m not that naive. If I can do it, why couldn’t others? If I am a minor god, what proof is there that other gods don’t exist? Is the sun really Amaterasu? Could Odin be out there ruling over Asgard? Is God sitting in heaven? I don’t know one way or the other. I’m curious, but not enough to actually try to find out.
I’m a little scared to know the answer honestly. Again, I am a minor god, someone like Amaterasu or Susanoo could smite my ass if they really existed and I upset them.
Right, back to Gremory-san and Himejima-san, they are almost supernaturally beautiful and it makes me suspicious of them. I’d never confront them over it though. I don’t want to advertise I have supernatural abilities to anyone. I’ve kept it a secret since the day I discovered it. Well… I did try to tell my parents once, but I wasn’t skilled enough to open my realm whenever I wanted so they just assumed I had an active imagination. I’ve never brought it up again.
So, I stay away from them. I don’t have many friends, having only transferred in this year, my third and final year of high school. It came as a surprise to my parents and myself when I was offered a full ride to Kuoh, an academy on the other side of the country from where I lived. If housing hadn’t been included I wouldn’t have been able to attend. While my family wasn’t poor, it also wasn’t rich and couldn’t afford the rent of an apartment along with their mortgage.
The fact that the man giving me the scholarship was named Gremory Sirzechs-san, a weird given name, was another reason I was mildly suspicious of the red-headed girl in my class. I had no idea how she was related to the man, but I was certain they were related somehow. Gremory was not a common family name.
Finally, the final bell of the day rang and classes were let out. As we were leaving the room, I handed over the worksheets that had been assigned from the textbook, already finished and filled out. They’d been done for years, by my measure of time.
Already used to it, the teacher didn’t say anything and just slipped the worksheet into a folder. Smiling to myself, I made my way out of the classroom. It is still a little weird for me to be the center of so much attention as I walk down the hallways. Kuoh was an all-girls school just a couple of years ago and still had a disproportionate number of female to male students. This made me an anomaly in the student body and got me quite a bit of attention from the female population.
It wasn’t too shocking that I was popular among the women. There weren’t very many male students and only a few of us were good-looking. Kiba Yuuto, a second-year student, was by far the most popular male in the school. With blonde hair, blue eyes, and an always polite demeanor, it was no wonder he was coined the prince of Kuoh.
I was the second most popular male in the academy due to my fit body and striking looks. I might not have had the foreign looks of Kiba due to my raven black hair and obsidian black eyes, but I had sharp cheekbones that lent me an aristocratic look that many seemed to enjoy. Some did find my eyes a bit offputting though, with my irises being so dark it was hard to differentiate them from my pupils at a distance. It made my eyes appear to be solid black on the white sclera.
My body made up for that though. I could say with absolute confidence that I was the most ripped male student. I had all the time in the world and a realm where my desires were made real. Naturally, I abused that to give myself a body that someone else would have to put in a lot of effort to gain and maintain. I had rock-hard abs, pecks, and a v-cut with a solid swimmer build that male models would kill for.
On top of all of that, I trained hard in martial arts. It was so easy for me to create teachers within my realm who could teach me anything I wished to know. I had copies of the greatest martial artists in the world all teaching me as their single student. This training added a certain… aura or air about myself that gave me a dangerous edge that seemed to excite the girls.
I was dangerous, not scary. It was a thin line but one I walked well.
The sound of male screams drew my attention in the direction of the kendo club. I frowned a bit in distaste. I, more than almost any other male, could understand having strong sexual desires. I am more than willing to admit, even if only in my own mind, that I have thoroughly enjoyed the ability to make perfect replicas of any woman that catches my eye and have my way with her. I’m sure many would find such a thing creepy, but I defy any red-blooded male to deny that they would do the exact same thing if they could. So, I felt no need to peep or act in any perverted manner. My sexual needs and desires were met on a regular basis. So, I could understand the desires of the perverted trio, but I couldn’t empathize with their methods of dealing with it.
I turned away from the tortured screams of whichever pervert it was the Kendo girls caught and turned my attention back toward heading home. Right now home was a small single-room apartment that probably cost fifty-thousand yen a month and only cost that much because of its location.
Stepping into the apartment led to a small entryway for removing shoes. Right after that, on the right-hand side of the walkway was the tiny kitchen which consisted of a single gas burner stovetop, a small stove hardly bigger than a toaster oven, a tiny microwave, and a dorm room fridge-freezer combo.
On the left-hand side, it was mostly wall until the room transitioned into the combination living room, dining room, and bedroom. At the transition, there was the only other door in the apartment and it led into the bathroom. The bathroom was as small as everything else with the washing area sharing space with the toilet. The only bright spot was the tub, which was at least large enough to comfortably soak in, even if I wouldn’t be able to fully stretch out.
Of course, none of that mattered as I could live within my realm. The apartment only acted as a location for me to have my legal identity. I didn’t pay the rent on it anyway. On the plus side for Kuoh Academy, my monthly bills would be a pittance as I didn’t run anything within the apartment. They also gave me a stipend for groceries and incidentals that I just stuffed into my bank account and left there. Why buy groceries when I can summon them at will and live off of five-star meals prepared by copies of the world's greatest chefs?
You have not lived until you’ve had a Beef Wellington personally prepared by Gordon Ramsey. Speaking of, I think I’ll have that for dinner tonight.
“E-excuse me?”
I pause in my walk and turn around to look behind me to see the girl that had called out to me. I was about halfway home and rarely talked to people outside of school where it was up to the girls to approach me. I might be going to school to keep a hold on my humanity, but that didn’t mean I was a naturally sociable creature. I am actually fairly awkward around people I didn’t create. Centuries of subjective time effectively living alone would do that to anyone.
“Y-yes?” I cleared my throat, which suddenly felt rather thick, “Is there something I can help you with?”
The girl in front of me was actually rather beautiful. Her black hair was kept long with bangs, her eyes were a wine red, and she had a rather well-developed body beneath the school uniform she was wearing. It wasn’t one I recognized, but I’d only lived in the area for a month so that was to be expected.
“U-um… You’re Sakurai Tatsuo-san, right?”
I nodded. My parents named me Tatsuo, meaning dragon man; one who reaches far. I found it rather fitting given my deity status.
I watched as she bowed deeply, “M-my name is Amano Yuuma, I’ve admired you for a while! Will you go out with me?”
I admit, I froze for a moment at the question. I might have had a lot of sex with a lot of women, but it was women created within my realm. I’ve never actually… dated before. Despite my good looks, I’d never been asked out on a date before either. This was all… well it was brand new and exactly why I didn’t just vanish into my realm for all of eternity.
I swallowed thickly and nodded my head until I realized she was still bowing and couldn’t see me. I cleared my throat and managed to squeeze out, “I would love to.”
Yuuma immediately popped up and gave me a dazzling smile, “Great! Meet me in front of the arcade Saturday morning at ten!”
With that said, she spun on her heels and ran away, though I could hear her giggling as she did. I’m man enough to admit I felt a little giddy as I stood there and watched her walk away. I’d just secured my first date!
I turned and resumed the walk to my apartment with a bright smile on my face. It wasn’t much longer before I was slipping the key into my apartment door. When I opened the door, the tiny apartment I’d been given was nowhere to be seen. Instead, the door opened into a massive entryway of a mansion so grand I’d never actually visited all of its rooms.
Standing within the grand entrance was a brigade of random women I’d seen in my life. All of them wore maid uniforms and bowed as I stepped inside. A chorus of voices calling out, “Welcome home, Master.”
I smirked and closed the door behind me. I could open a portal to my realm anywhere at any time. I generally chose to only open it at appropriate times. I didn’t want people to see me opening a portal in the middle of the public and taking pictures or asking questions. This was especially important because while I could close the portal when inside of my realm, I always had to open it in the last place I closed it while within it.
Opening a portal where a door exists makes it extremely easy for me to make it so there’s no need to explain anything to witnesses. People watching me a moment ago would have simply seen me entering my apartment, not a gigantic mansion that acted as my entry to an entire world of my design.
I look over my pristine brigade of maids and smile to myself. They were all just women I’d happened to catch a glimpse of while out in public. I didn’t know any of their names, but I didn’t need to. They only existed to serve me as my maids in any capacity I wished. And yes, I have slept with all of them at least once.
After I gave them a nod of my head, they all straightened and went about their usual business. My realm was a real world, which meant there was dust to deal with, among other things. The women were also living beings and had their own needs to take care of as well.
That brings me to the number one rule of my realm. Things made within the realm cannot exist outside of the realm. For example, if I created a brick of solid gold it would be as real as all other gold in the world. Until I tried to take it outside of my realm. The moment it crossed the threshold of my portal it would fade from existence. No dust, no ashes, no flashes of light, nothing. It would merely be there one moment and gone the next.
The rules were a little fuzzy about one aspect of that though. Specifically when talking about things I eat within the realm. If I make and eat an apple, and then leave the realm right after, the apple doesn’t vanish from my stomach. Trying to carry out the whole apple has the same result as trying to take out the gold brick, it vanishes.
No, I can’t just eat the gold and leave with it. I tried. It only works with actual food.
I also know that any permanent changes to my body will also follow me out of the realm. If, somehow, I get hurt and leave my realm without healing it, the injury remains. If I heal it and gain a scar, the scar remains. If I change my very genetic code to turn my hair neon green, I will grow neon green hair. I know that because I did it to my pubes one time just for shits and giggles.
The fact that permanent changes made to myself within my realm stay even when I leave is one of my greatest strengths. You see, I didn’t just look strong due to my physique, I am extremely strong. Stronger than any human should be. I can, quite literally, lift several tons without much strain on my body. On top of that, I have a huge pool of mana to use for my magic.
I’ve been upgrading both of them for decades of subjective time. You see, I gain some energy on a daily basis that can be spent however I wish. I call it faith. All of the people I’ve created within my realm are living breathing beings. They do have free will and can choose what they wish to do. They choose to worship me as their god.
Of course, the fact that I created them, and they know it, probably has something to do with that worship of me. Something I encourage. There’s no set method of worship, but while I am in my realm I can hear their prayers. I occasionally choose to answer one to let them know I am listening. Just because the prayers I often choose to answer involve me sleeping with the woman offering the prayer is irrelevant.
Anyway, the point is that I get faith energy from them and it allows me to do a couple of things. Most of the energy I’ve gotten from them has gone into enhancing my body to make it stronger. After all, as a minor god I shouldn’t have the same limits as a mundane human. It’s also the way I gained my mana and the ability to cast spells of my own design. Granted I based many of those spells on things from different media. I especially took inspiration from Skyrim’s magical system. There was nothing like throwing around blasts of lightning, fire, and ice with such ease.
I contemplated the small amount of energy I had and considered giving myself some psychic abilities. I’d always been a fan of psionic characters. With enough time I could easily turn myself into someone like Mob from ‘Mob Psycho 100’. Hmm, maybe I’ll accelerate time for a couple of years to gather enough faith for it. Though I don’t, currently, have anything else I’d like to do during that time and I HATE being bored. Still, it’s something to consider when I have something else to spend my time on.
One of the maids moves to my side and follows along just behind me and to the right as I head deeper into my real home. I’ve spent… well probably centuries living in this house. It’s more my home than the place I grew up in with my parents.
I don’t even look over my shoulder as I address the maid following me. I’m not sure which one it is since they rotate the schedule to have the honor of serving me personally, “Tell Gordon I’d like Beef Wellington for dinner tonight.”
She makes an affirmative sound but remains otherwise silent as we walk through the mansion to my bedroom. A quick change of clothes, with a helping hand from the maid, and we move to the backyard. While the mansion is impressively large, my yard is bigger… as in an entire planet big. I knew because I’d given myself the ability to fly at extreme speeds and circumnavigated the entire globe. I had an entire copy of Earth all to myself.
I’d yet to explore space, but it was on my list to do at some point. I had a moon so I must have space as well.
Awaiting me in the training area was my current martial arts teacher, Bruce Lee. It was wonderful to know I could create true-to-life facsimiles of real people that contained all their knowledge and skills. I’d been tutored by Albert Einstein in maths, Physics by Issac Newton, and so many more.
Sensei Lee was here to help me master my own version of Jeet Kune Do. Obviously, he wasn’t there to teach me his own style, which went against the very principles of Jeet Kune Do. No, he was there to give advice and act as a sparring partner while I developed my own style. Naturally, the facsimile of Bruce Lee I’d created was as strong as me. There would be no point in the spars if a single blow from me would snap him in half like a twig no matter how well he blocked it.
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I moved through my mansion to the massive bathing facilities. This was my world so, naturally, I had a dozen different hot springs around the house for bathing and relaxing within. As I step into the nearest one, I’m greeted by a couple of maids wearing nothing. I take a moment to admire them as they remove my clothing for me. The funny thing is, I’ve never ordered them to do things like this for me. They’ve chosen to do so and I’ve just never seen a reason to tell them to stop.
I always feel so much cleaner when a pair of beautiful women scrub every inch of my body. It’s not even a sexual thing… most of the time. Frankly, I don’t think I could go back to a more ‘normal’ method of bathing.
After the bath, and a nice long soak, I changed into something more comfortable. All of my clothing was from outside of my realm. I used to make extravagant and expensive clothing to wear within my realm, but after walking out of my realm once and having all of my clothing vanish… yeah, I couldn’t risk forgetting which clothing was ‘real world’ and ‘realm world’ again.
It was just another reason to maintain a connection with the outer world. Along with several other plans I had for when I had more money. I could do anything with enough time and money for raw materials. In fact… I walked through my mansion to my garage where over a hundred rare and expensive vehicles sat. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, a boat, and even a couple of jet skis.
Sitting in pride of place, right in the center of the room, is my favorite vehicle, a custom-designed motorcycle. It looks like someone took the chassis and design of the famous motorcycle from Akira and combined it with aesthetics from Tron to turn it into a sleek machine with a vibrant glow.
I want to ride this thing out in the real world. To do that, I needed money to buy the raw materials it was made of. Since some of those materials were pretty expensive, it was just a pipe dream, for now. Once I could buy the materials I could instantly make the bike. I controlled everything in my realm, including materials brought into it from the real world. Once I had the materials for the bike I only needed to flex my will and it would be created.
I walked past the custom motorcycle dragging my fingers along the gleaming black carbon fiber that made up a portion of it. I liked to come by and take a look at it every now and then as a bit of motivation, but it was getting late. My realm was perfectly synced with the real one and I did have school in the morning. After school tomorrow, I will need to think about a plan for my date with Yuuma-chan.
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Rias calmly listened as her Rook, Koneko, told her of the meeting between Sakurai-san and the fallen angel in disguise. When Koneko finished her report, Rias thought about what she should do about it. Sakurai-san had been moved to Kuoh by her brother to give her a chance to recruit the boy.
Sirzechs was certain that Sakurai-san had a Sacred Gear, possibly a Longinus, but he was uncertain which one. After a month of observation, Rias didn’t know which one it was either. There had been no clues, unlike with the Hyoudou boy and him smelling like a dragon. All Koneko could say about Sakurai-san was that he always smelled ‘fresh and clean’ first thing in the morning. In this case, she didn’t mean his body odor. Somehow, some way, he was cleansing himself spiritually at night and getting rid of the ‘filth’ polluting the human world. Specifically, polluting its natural energy, the force that Senjutsu focused on using.
He also had magic, which wasn’t all that uncommon. There were hundreds of thousands of people with magic in Japan alone. Many of them never even knew they had it and just continued to pass it down family lines. Sakurai-san’s magic was pretty impressive, but not enough for her to justify recruiting him into her peerage.
She HAD to know what his Sacred Gear was before she could make the offer. If it was Longinus class, it would take all of her Pawn pieces to recruit him. It might leave her with too few pieces to also claim Hyoudou-san. It was imperative that she get the strongest members into her peerage as possible or it would all be for naught.
She bit her thumbnail, a nervous habit when she was being extremely indecisive. Finally, she comes to her decision, “Koneko, I want you to follow Sakurai-san on his date on Saturday. Observe him and the fallen angel closely. If they’re approaching him they may know something we don’t. Do your best to sus out what his Sacred Gear is. If things turn violent call us in and, if you think you can, try to protect Sakurai-san from danger. I’ll see if I can slip him a summoning pamphlet as well.”
Koneko nodded in acknowledgment and returned to munching on her cookie in silence.
Rias smiled at the sight and turned her head slightly to the side to take in the visage of her Queen, Akeno. She wasn’t the least bit surprised to see the malicious gleam in her eyes or the sadistic smile on her lips. Akeno had been petitioning her daily for permission to go and slaughter the four fallen angels roosting within the abandoned church. If it wouldn’t start a much larger incident, she’d have let Akeno kill them all the day they arrived.
Well, if the fallen angel attacked Sakurai-san tomorrow, they would have all the excuse they needed to attack the fallen back. This was devil territory and while they couldn’t stop the fallen from spending time in their territory, they could draw a line with them killing people in it. Until then, they could only bide their time.
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I studied myself in a full-body mirror to examine the clothing I’d chosen for my date today. Yesterday had been just another boring day of school and nothing to write home about. Today though? I was about to go on my first real date and it was thrilling! I hadn’t felt this nervous in a long time, decades at least. Sure, Yuuma-chan was far from the most beautiful girl I’ve spent time with, but those were all creations within my realm. Even if I made a fool of myself in front of them they wouldn’t say a thing.
For today I’d chosen a mix of casual and high class. I was wearing a nice pair of jeans and sneakers for casual. For high class, I was wearing a nice button-up shirt, a tie, and a vest. Combined with my physique, I looked damned good. The maid who helped me pick the outfit finished a final adjustment on my tie before giving an approving nod, “She will be impressed, Master.”
I smiled at the maid and left my room with her following close behind. As we walked I double-checked my wallet to make sure I had enough cash on hand to go along with my debit card. I lived on a pretty strict budget to try and save as much money as I could to make my motorcycle in the near future.
I soon left my mansion in my realm by way of the portal I opened to overlap the apartment I’m supposedly living in. From there I take my time walking to the arcade where Yuuma wanted to meet up. Even moving slowly I arrived ten minutes early. Lo and behold, there’s Yumma waiting for me.
There’s no point in wasting time so I walk up to her putting on a calm look even as butterflies flutter around in my stomach. As I get closer she spots me immediately smiling brightly and bouncing while she waves excitedly at me, “Tatsuo-kun! Over here!”
It takes everything I have not to blush at the way her chest moves when she bounces or turn into a grinning idiot. She called me Tatsuo-kun! I do my best to retain my calm walk as I approach her, “Good morning Yuuma-chan!”
She skips her way over to me and instantly grabs my arm to hug it between her breasts. At least this kind of thing I’m used to! It’s far from my first time touching a pair of breasts and while hers are nice, they don’t have the power to turn me into an idiot. She looks up at me with her wine-colored eyes and smiles brightly, though I can see a light blush on her cheeks, and asks, “So, what are we doing today?”
I return her smile as I feel my excitement growing, “Well, I thought we could walk around window shopping, then have lunch, and then spend some time in the arcade.”
She picked the arcade to meet at and he fully intended to get her onto the DDR machine before the date was over!
Yumma beamed at him, “That sounds great! Let’s go!”
She tugged on my arm and pulled me toward the nearest store, which happened to be a shoe store… I may have fucked up as she drags me into the store to browse shoes.
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I have nothing to compare it to, but I think my date with Yuuma went pretty well! After some window shopping and lunch, we had a lot of fun in the arcade. I even managed to win her a small plushie toy from a claw game! I’ve never won at one of those before! After that we went to a movie, she picked a comedy. We both enjoyed it and now we were walking through a local park as the sun began to set.
As we walked in silence, I felt the back of her hand brush against mine. Bracing myself, I reached out and clasped hands with her. A quick glance showed a light blush on her cheeks before her hand clasped mine in return. I will deny to my dying day that I blushed as well.
Look. I may have had tons of sex with tons of beautiful women, but they were all created by me. There was no chance of rejection, no thrill of dating or ‘the chase’, nothing like that. I made them, I wanted to have sex with them, and they happily let me. Yuuma though? She could reject me. It added a whole new aspect to this whole thing that set my heart all aflutter.
The sun was nearly completely down as we approached a fountain in the center of the park. Yuuma, looking flushed, fidgeted a bit before asking me, “Tatuso-kun, will you do something for me?”
“If I can.”
What else was I going to say? OBVIOUSLY I’d do just about anything for her. I really wanted to see where this relationship could go. I mean, she could be ‘the one’ you know? I looked down at her as she looked up at me through her lashes, “Would you die for me?”
That instantly set off alarm bells inside of my mind. I quickly jumped back and put some distance between us. As I did, I could see the look of mild surprise on Yuuma’s face as she looked at me, “Ho? Most boys are left too surprised to react when I ask them that.”
I frown at the change in her voice. It had gone from a young woman’s to a full-grown woman with a hint of condescension in her tone. Well, two could play at that game! I instantly opened a massive portal to my realm right behind me that looked exactly like the park we were in, keeping her from noticing it. I take a single step back moving into my realm as I narrow my eyes at her, “That implies you’ve done this before. Too bad, for you, that this time you targeted a god.”
I revel in the look of surprise on Yuuma’s face, until it turns into laughter, “A god?! You!? You’re just some jumped-up human with a Sacred Gear! You think that makes you a god?!”
I blandly stared at her, completely certain of my safety within my realm. When she finishes laughing she leaps into the air and goes through an honest-to-god transformation sequence! Her modest blouse and skirt are replaced by a much racier outfit that looks like something out of a BDSM fetish magazine. It hardly covers her and has more in common with a bikini than the armor the shoulder pieces suggest it is trying to be. More interestingly though, two large black feathered wings have appeared from her back.
Now I am really curious. I have many many questions, but the two most important are, “What are you and what is a Sacred Gear?”
Yumma, in her new much more mature form, stared down at me, literally looking down her nose at me, “I am the fallen angel Raynare, that’s all you need to know.”
Apparently, she really believed that because the next moment she was holding a brightly glowing spear that matched the wine-red color of her eyes. It was jagged and covered in thorns as if it was a rose stem turned into a weapon. She cocked her arm back, “Thanks for the date, it was fun. Now die!”
Instantly after the word ‘die’ left her mouth, she hurled the spear at me with quite a bit of force. Too bad for her, the moment it entered my realm I had full control over it. I casually slowed the spear down to a stop and calmly plucked it out of the air. With it in hand, I examined it with my realm and my magic. Both told me the same thing. The spear was made out of light energy that had somehow been tainted. Well, she was a fallen angel so that made sense.
After looking over the spear, I look up into the eyes of a surprised Raynare. With a casual squeeze of my hand, I shatter the light spear into shards of light that fade away, “Nifty trick. But I told you. I am a GOD! You think something as paltry as that could harm me?!” I scoff and deliberately turn my back on her and begin to walk away, “You’re not even worth the effort of fighting if this is your level you pathetic crow.”
I smirk as my words are met with an incoherent scream of rage and the sound of flapping wings. All according to plan. I have zero idea how strong a fallen angel actually is. Fighting her outside of my realm is fucking stupid and possibly suicidal. Pissing her off and making her come into my realm? Heh.
The moment she crosses the threshold, I slam the portal closed. I hear her scream and can feel her coming up behind me with another spear of light. She viciously slams it into my back where it shatters harmlessly. I calmly turn around with a wide smile on my face as I see the absolutely baffled look on Raynare’s face. I stretch my arms out in an all-encompassing gesture, “Welcome to my realm, Raynare.”
She looks into my eyes, still shocked at how ineffective her spear was. Then my words register with her and she pales dramatically, “Your realm?” she asks in a quivering voice.
My smile morphs into a smirk, “I told you I was a god. Within this realm, my word is law. What I desire happens as I desire it.”
If anything, his words made Raynare pale even more. Her whole body began to shiver in fear while her eyes widened. She jerked away from me and looked around her desperately. I chuckled, drawing her attention, “If you’re looking for the exit, it’s closed.”
She spun her head around to face me and muttered to words before she took off into the air at, what I assume, is her top speed, “Innovate Clear!”
“Innovate Clear? I wonder what that means.”
I shrug my shoulders and let Raynare fly off, for now. I can catch and imprison her anytime I desire… After I make somewhere to imprison her. I’ve never had to imprison someone before. Oh well, that can wait until later. She’s never leaving my realm unless I let her out. I can get answers from her later. For now, I need to go back to the realm world and make my way home. I want a nice bath before I get some sleep. I’ll confront Raynare tomorrow and get my answers.
I open a small man-sized portal and make my way through it. I pause as a feminine voice calls out, “Sakurai-san!”
I turn and I have to admit I am surprised to see a few familiar faces. Four of them to be exact. Both Gremory and Himejima are in the park wearing their school uniforms, despite it being the weekend. They’re joined by both Kiba and Toujo. I looked over the four of them with a frown on my face. What the hell are they doing here?
Gremory swiftly makes her way over to me and looks me over with concern. This is odd. She’s never done more than glance in my direction before. Now she looks like she’s worried for me. That’s confirmed when she asks, “Are you alright? Did something happen? Where’s the fallen angel?”
Alright, now I am extremely suspicious! How did she know about any of that? Was she… I glare down at her, “Are you spying on me?”
Gremory jerked back at my question and looked a little guilty, “I had Koneko spying on the fallen angel. When she tried to kill you, Koneko called the rest of us to come help.”
So, she knew what Raynare was the whole time but didn’t bother to tell me anything. I’m willing to bet she has her own agenda. I need to know what it is and learn more about this sudden change in my worldview. A fallen angel implied regular angels, which implied there really was a god out there. I’m glad I never claimed to be him!
I continue to stare at Gremory and assess the situation, ready to step back into my realm at a moment's notice, “I appreciate the concern, but that implies you knew what she was from the get-go. That begs the question, why? What does all of this have to do with you?”
Gremory straightened up and smoothed down her skirt to compose herself, “Kuoh and the surrounding area are my territory. I am in charge of everything supernatural here, especially when it comes to potential enemies.”
Enemies? I frown slightly at that. I’ve never been super religious and Christianity isn’t hugely popular in Japan. Still, through various forms of media, I have a shallow understanding of it. As far as I know, the fallen angels were all led by Satan and fought against heaven. So, their enemies should be those from heaven, right?
I look over Gremory again and once more note her supernatural beauty. Angels are said to be beautiful beings. Even Raynare was physically beautiful, though her scowls and sneers detracted from her good looks. I could see Gremory being an angel. Still, I need to know for certain so I simply ask, “Are you an Angel then?”
The look of shock on her face is the first clue I’m not quite right. Of course, seeing Himejima lift her hand to her mouth to giggle behind it is clue number two. Number three is Kiba choking off a chuckle. Lastly, number four is seeing the small smirk on the face of the ever-enigmatic Toujou.
I narrow my eyes and focus on Gremory again, “Not angels then… What are you?”
Gremory looks a little uncomfortable before she straightens up and answers, “We’re Devils.”
Black wings pop our of all of their backs at her declaration. I take a quick look around at all of them and just… NOPE! I immediately open a portal beneath my feet and fall into it before sealing it closed. I land uncomfortably on the floor of my mansion but it’s a hell of a lot faster than trying to walk into one.
After picking myself up and dusting off, I decide to call it a day. I’ve dealt with enough for one day. I went from being a minor god that only assumed there were other things out there to knowing for certain that fallen angels and devils existed. I’m fuzzy on what the difference might be, but it doesn’t matter. No way am I sticking around to talk to a devil and find out. Besides, Raynare is still panicking and flying around my realm. I can just grab and interrogate her at my whim.
She’ll be a good source of information since I can force her to only speak the truth to me. Outside of my realm, Gremory could have lied to my face and I wouldn’t have known. I doubt Raynare’s information will be unbiased, but it will at least be the truth as she knows it.
I check in on Raynare’s location and I’m surprised to find that she’s actually gotten all the way to Britain and is still flying like mad. I briefly wonder what she’s looking for before I dismiss the thought. Instead, I make my way toward my bathroom while simultaneously putting an impenetrable shield around my mansion. I’m invincible within my realm, but I still don’t want to get attacked in my sleep.
I strip out of my clothing and climb into my bed where I am shortly joined by one of the maids. We wrap our arms around each other and relax as our naked bodies intertwine. It’s not a sexual thing, but ever since I hit puberty the first time, I’ve enjoyed sleeping with a woman in my arms. Even after I de-aged myself I continued to do so just for the comfort it provided. Tonight would be no different, especially since I was certain I was in shock at all the revelations that had come. When the shock wore off and I became emotionally unstable, it would be nice to have her there to comfort me.
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I hate being right. It took a while but eventually, the false calm faded and I broke down. Thankfully my maid was there to help me through it. My very first date with a real girl turned out to be a setup all just to kill me. A classmate turned out to be a fucking devil of all things and had been spying on my date the whole time. It clearly never occurred to her to tell me I was bait in whatever game she was playing.
So, fallen angels wanted me dead, and the local devils wanted me as well. I don’t know what their reasons are, but I will find out soon.
I put on some simple clothing, just jeans and a tee-shirt, before stepping out onto one of my patios. A group of maids set up my breakfast, I casually summoned Raynare from where she was sleeping. She’d settled down somewhere in France for the night. I guess she got tired of flying around aimlessly looking for… well whatever it was she was looking for. An escape maybe? Well, there was no escape without my permission.
I chuckle as her unconscious body falls out of the air and lands in a tangled lump on the ground. She doesn’t stay down long, jumping to her feet and summoning one of her light spears as she looks around with wide terrified eyes. The moment she sees me she moves to attack. Two of the nearby maids move faster than any human could possibly track and grab Raynare by her arms before forcing her down onto her knees. A casual swipe of one of their hands shatters the light spear dispersing it.
Raynare looks around frantically as she struggles, and fails, to get out of the grip of my maids. They’re beings created to keep up with me, but I’ve powered them up further on top of that to make certain they could crush Raynare with their pinky fingers, if necessary. It was easy enough to do when I knew exactly how powerful Raynare was thanks to her being in my realm.
Eventually, her struggles cease as she realizes the futility of it. I can see the moment her fear turns into anger. She glares at me with pure hate as I calmly sip on my orange juice. Seeing my indifference she tries to transfer her fear to me to regain control of the situation. She snarls, “You have no idea how badly you’ve fucked up! Let me go now and I’ll put in a good word for you with my boss. If you’re lucky he won’t utterly destroy you for this.”
I look at her blandly as I set up a zone of truth around her. I probably should have done that from the beginning, but seeing her reaction has given me a bit to go off of. Still, best to know if I’m pissing off some uber-fallen or something, “Is that true?”
There’s a look of pleasure on her face as she seems to think she’ll be getting her way, “No.”
She freezes as she realizes she didn’t say what she meant to say. It was clear, to both of us, that she’d meant to say yes, but it was now clear that was a lie. I smirk down at her as I calmly take a bite of my waffle. After I swallow, I address her, “I forgot to mention. You’re now incapable of lying to me.” I focus for a moment and add to the zone around it to make it force her to answer my questions, “And now you will be forced to answer any question I ask you.”
She pales dramatically. It’s clear to me that she knows I’m speaking the truth. It’s also clear that she knows something about my power, I want to know what that is, “Tell me everything you know about my ability. I believe you called it a Sacred Gear?”
Raynare scowls, it’s clear she’s trying to fight it, but this is my realm, she has no choice but to answer me. I’m feeling a bit vindictive over the date fiasco so I find myself enjoying her anger as she spits out, “You have a Sacred Gear called Innovate Clear, also known as ‘The miniature garden of blue innovation’. It makes your claims of godhood less ridiculous since the one to control Innovate Clear is said to be a Sacred Gear that allows one to impersonate god. I’ve never seen Innovate Clear used before, but your ability matches its description.”
I nod along as she talks. Clearly, she’s correct in what my power is. It’s nice to know it has a name though, “What is a Sacred Gear? I take it there are more out there?”
Raynare slumps in defeat as all her efforts to keep herself from speaking fail. Her voice goes from angry to flat, “A Sacred Gear is an item created by God and given to humanity to help protect them from supernatural threats. Being born with one is a random act of God that no one can predict.”
“How many are out there?”
She shrugged her shoulders, “I don’t know, hundreds at least.”
“Where does mine rank among them?”
She shudders in fear, “Yours is known as a Longinus, one of the top twelve most powerful Sacred Gears.”
I preened a little at that. It was only natural for my power to be among the best. I’ll ask more about Sacred Gears later to get as many details as I can. Now it’s time to ask something else important, “Why did you try to kill me?”
“Orders.”
I sigh and modify the truth and compulsion effect once more to force her to expand on her answers, “Whose orders?”
Here she gained some courage as she replied, “Lord Azazel, leader of the Grigori, the leader of all fallen angels. He sent orders for me to assassinate you before you had a chance to grow in strength, or worse, join either the Gremory or Sitri bitches and become a devil. No one wants the power of a Longinus in the hands of the devils.”
“Ah yes, them. I’m familiar with Gremory-san, but I don’t know anyone named Sitri.”
She scoffs, “Yes you do, though she goes by Shitori in the human realm. No idea why she did something so silly. Regardless, those two bitches are in charge of Kuoh. Our mission was to spy on and undermine them at every opportunity.”
“I see. Tell me what you know about devils.”
“They’re nothing more than weapons created by Lucifer and Lilith, the first human woman. They’re little more than grossly mutated fallen angel and human halfbreeds. If you ever want to die a grisly death, be sure to bring that up in front of one of them. In the Great War, they were Lucifer’s army fighting against the forces of the Grigori and Heaven in the three-way war. The war has since entered a ceasefire due to the deaths of Lucifer and the four Great Satans along with massive losses on all sides.”
“You mentioned recruitment by the devils. Tell me what you know.”
“Not long after the Great War stopped, a devil named Adjuka Astaroth, now Adjuka Beezlebub, created what he called ‘Evil Pieces’ in the shape of chess pieces. By using these Evil Pieces a devil can reincarnate anything below a god or Buddha into a devil. The leader is called the King while the others are members of the King’s peerage. They’re slaves in all but name. The slaves are then used in games called Rating Games to determine their ranking amongst themselves.” She smirks a little, “Though in the case of the Gremory bitch, she’s even more desperate for strong pieces to lord over. It’s not hard for anyone to find out just how much she hates the man she has a prearranged marriage agreement with.”
“Ah, so she would like to recruit me and use my power to gain her freedom somehow? That explains why she was spying on us.”
Raynare nodded, “Most likely with a rating game. The best method for her to gain your loyalty would have been to let me kill you, then resurrect you with Evil Pieces so you would be grateful to her.” She smirked, “It’s not a bad plan, honestly.”
I hummed in agreement. I probably would have been very thankful to be brought back to life, “Too bad you were so weak then, eh? Still, that means she likely still wishes to recruit me.”
Raynare had a malicious look in her eyes as she spoke, “Probably. In which case, you really are fucked. The current devil government is led by four individuals who have taken on the title of Satan along with the names of the four Great Satans who perished. The elder brother of Rias Gremory is the Satan Sirzechs Lucifer, a devil said to be even more powerful than the original Lucifer himself. If he decides that you belong to his little sister, then the only thing you can do is cower here.” Her lips curl into a truly vile smile, “I should also mention he is a well-known sis-con who will do almost anything his precious little sister asks.”
I blanch slightly at that. But I don’t feel much fear. It’s not like staying within my realm is a great burden or anything. However, I don’t enjoy the idea of someone else dictating my actions. I plan to have time to enjoy my life in the mortal realm. I still want to find someone special! This reminds me, I need to give Raynare a bit of a punishment for what she put me through.
I focus on her and give her a shit-eating-grin that puts her on edge, “I’m not finished pumping you for information, but you need a bit of punishment for messing with my feelings.”
For dramatic flair, I lift my hand and snap my fingers loudly. Raynare looks confused for a moment before her eyes slowly open in growing shock. Her wings are gone, her power is gone, and I have rendered her a normal human mortal, “Your punishment will be to serve as one of my maids while reduced to a mere human.” My grin grows playful, “Just pray they don’t decide to force you into bath duty.”
They would never do that. They’re too busy fighting over it as a reward to give it to Raynare as a punishment, “I’ll summon you when I want more questions answered.” I focus on the maids, “Take her away and get her a proper uniform.”
The two maids nod and drag Raynare away. She looks kind of broken. She’s lucky that the maid uniform is a legitimate maid uniform and not some french maid fetish wear instead.
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I took a deep breath and braced myself. I’d stretched Sunday into five years to get in some more training and to increase not just my physical might, but my magical might. I’d never sat down and focused hard on it before, why would I? I’ve always been a god and there had never been a threat to me. Clearly, that had changed. I focused hard and consumed all the faith that my followers had given me. I’d more than doubled the amount of mana I had and increased my physical strength to the point that I could lift ten tons without straining muscles or breaking bones.
On top of that, I spent a long time practicing my martial arts and magic. I have no idea how strong the devils are, but I’ve not got a new ability that will let me know. If they’re too strong, I’ll simply jump back into my realm and hide there until I’m strong enough to decimate them all.
Of course, I put Raynare in stasis while I used my time dilation. I don’t know if I will be keeping her for very long and I don’t want her having any secrets to tell. Time dilation is one of my greatest secrets and strengths. If she tells others, they may find some way to use it against me. I don’t know how, but I won’t put anything past them.
I take one final breath, slowly letting it out before I open a portal back to the mortal realm. I cast a simply scrying spell out of the portal to check for life signs nearby. Nothing bigger than small animals appears so I can assume no one is waiting to ambush me the moment I step out. I’m not taking any chances though so I cast a quick invisibility spell on myself followed by a flight spell.
Now invisible, I fly out of my portal and close it while I rocket high into the sky. Once I’m about a kilometer up, I stop and look around. In the open air, nothing but other invisible things could hide from me. A quick cast of my life signs spell detects nothing in range of me. I let out a soft sigh of relief. Time to make my way to school.
I have little fear, just appropriate caution when dealing with monsters said to eat human souls. I highly doubt they will do anything in public, but even so, I’m ready to fight, or flee, as appropriate. Hopefully, I can trick them into my realm just as I did Raynare. If I can get them there I can get all the answers I need.
I land on a side street not too far from the school gates. I dismiss the invisibility spell but keep the flight spell active in case I need to make a quick getaway. Walking to the gates I pay close attention to the other students walking along nearby. None of them seem to be paying any additional attention to me so I doubt they’re devils.
As I approach the gate, I frown a little bit when I spot Shitori Sona, or more accurately Sitri Sona along with Shinra-san and a few other members of the student council. Normally seeing them performing spot checks at the gate would just be another Monday. This time I know what Sitri-san is and assume the rest of the student council is the same. They’re always together and doing things as a group in a weird way.
I ignore them as I make my way through the gate, and luckily, aside from a few looks, they leave me alone. I guess they’re leaving it up to Gremory-san to deal with me. Whatever that might mean.
I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
—--Line Break—--
Classes were as boring and normal as ever. The only difference was the sheer number of times I caught Gremory and Himejima glancing in my direction. I flat-out ignored them. I want nothing to do with devils. I’m not religious, unless it's a religion featuring me, but even I won't fuck around with dark forces like that!
Unfortunately, classes are over for the day. I’ve already packed my bag and turned in the homework that was just assigned, when I’m confronted by the two ‘great onee-sans’ of Kuoh. The pair give me polite smiles though Gremory is the one to speak for them, “Sakurai-san, I was hoping you could spare a moment to come to the Occult Research Club for a chat?”
I gave her a bright and cheerful smile as I happily replied, “I’d rather get beaten nearly to death by the kendo club than join you somewhere with no witnesses. Have a nice day!”
I walk around the shell-shocked duo and past the staring crowd of onlookers. I only make it to the stairs before the whispering begins behind me. I don’t mind it, though I am curious about how this might affect my reputation. Probably in a negative manner given the extreme popularity of the duo I just told to, basically, fuck off.
I think my high school career is about to take off in an unexpected direction.
Lucky for me, I’m a god.
Bring. It. ON!
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Not exactly what I planned to work on but the idea popped into my head and seemed interesting. While I tend to write powerful characters or have them grow into power pretty rapidly, I always wondered what it would be like to have a god-like character from the get-go. In this case the god is only a true god within the realm of Innovate Clear, but he’s still a god. Innovate Clear is one of those things that just BEGS for someone to do something cool with it. It’s not got much information on it but just the basics can tell you how broken the damned thing is.
I did put some rules on it. Tetsuo also doesn’t have his balance breaker yet and I’m not sure what it will be.
Anyway. I really want to get back to Fabricator, so expect a chapter of that to be next.
Love you all.
Comments
Kalvin Pedersen
I actually enjoyed this. It was really entertaining. Hope that there might be more chapters in the future
Mezmor
Fabricator, when?
emahue64
been reading dxd fanfics for years and this is the first I've seen someone use innovate clearwhich sucks cuz it's the one I'm really interested in
