[56] Farfetched Theories
<span style="font-weight:400">Chapter 56: Farfetched Theories
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<b>[Third Person Point of View]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">Half an hour earlier, inside a Middle Shore pocket space, in the yard of an old Japanese mansion, arge round table was kept. Two Gods sat behind it, and opposite them, two Satans sat.
<span style="font-weight:400">There stood twockey Gods behind the Gods in the chair, and likewise, two devils stood behind the two Satans.
<span style="font-weight:400">"How gross," Yatagarasu, one of the two Gods who were standing, said with a smile. "That we are having to share a table with devils."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Yatagarasu, don''t say stuff like that," the Chief Goddess of Shinto, Amaterasu, said, as she covered her mouth with a sleeve. "No matter what, they are our guests."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Guests who we should be fighting to the death with," the God on the other chair, Bishamon, said. She had her legs crossed as she looked at the two devils. "Sakuya could have died, if not for that young man."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Entirely untrue," it was one of the devils who had the guts to reply, she stood behind the chair of Sirzechs Lucifer. Sapphire said, "I was just there to stop anything serious from happening. We wouldn''t want to mess with Shinto, after all."
<span style="font-weight:400">The other devil who stood beside Sapphire, Grayfia, looked at her and then nodded at the Gods. "She is right, we tasked her with it. If the situation came down to Ranefer killing Sakuya-hime, Sapphire would have stopped that. That is why Satan Lucifer had sent her, to begin with."
<span style="font-weight:400">That was a lie, of course. Sirzechs Lucifer didn''t even know about this until the incident already happened. But, this was how politics worked, filled with lies.
<span style="font-weight:400">The Satan who sat beside Sirzechs, the girl who was making her name as a human idol in Japan, looked at the Shinto Gods with a soft smile. "Hey, look, my Levia-tan would be out ofmission if we picked a fight with Shinto. Do you think I''d enjoy that?"
<span style="font-weight:400">Bishamon frowned at the magical girl, the dangerous devil Serafall, who had the guts to y idol in Japan. "As if something so trivial would matter to people like you."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Of course, it would." Serafall gasped. "I am serious about this whole idol business; you know? Really, trust me when I say that the Satans had no rtion to this incident. It was the Phenex Household on their own who pulled off this incident."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Then hand those birds over to us," Bishamon demanded with a scoff.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m afraid that''d be too much," Sirzechs Lucifer, the strongest devil in history, spoke up for the first time. He had an elegant smile on his face as he looked at the Gods. "They will be thoroughly punished for this incident by the underworld''s standards. The devils are ready topensate the Gods with any other things."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Doesn''t seem very convincing," the loli God, Yatagarasu, said. "Correct me if I am wrong but, I heard that the Phenex Household''s third son is engaged with the Gremory Household''s heir?"
<span style="font-weight:400">Sirzechs smiled kindly. "I don''t see the point you''re trying to make. I''m sure you know that although I was a Gremory in the past, myst name ends with Lucifer now. The Satans aren''t allowed to give their families any special treatment."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Enough, you guys," Amaterasu cleared her throat, looking up from behind her long sleeves. The Satans focused on her. All knew that this meeting would only end when she talked, the other Gods'' battering didn''t do anything. "Since there weren''t many casualties during this incident, and in fact, the Phenex Devils lost more than us, and now the Satans are ready topensate us, we shouldn''t drag this situation on. We shall let them know what we want, and then move on from this."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Of course, greatdy Amaterasu," Serafall replied. "I''m d you''re so understanding. As a token of my gratitude, I''ll sing a song about you in my next concert."
<span style="font-weight:400">That sounded like a politepliment, but such an incident would cause Amaterasu''s poprity to rise. Her faith would increase.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mhm? Thank you." Amaterasu nodded. "Though I do hope that''s not the only thing you meant when you said you''dpensate us."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Naturally," Serafall spoke again. Sirzechs leaned back in his chair to let her handle it, she was the one in management for foreign affairs, after all. "Let us discuss that."
<span style="font-weight:400">After that, for the next half an hour, they went back and forth about what they wanted and what they could get. Bishamon grew bored out of the meeting, she was annoyed that they had to talk things out to begin with, but at one point things came to a solid agreement.
<span style="font-weight:400">"d working with you," Serafall smiled and reached out a hand for a handshake, but Amaterasu just had a polite smile and nodded. Indeed, though she stopped her subordinates from insulting the devils, even she herself didn''t see them very positively. She didn''t even want to do a handshake. Serafall kept smiling and withdrew her hand back.
<span style="font-weight:400">"On a rted note," Amaterasu started. "I heard about the incident in detail, and know about Aquamarine Hoshino''s performance in this incident. Take this as a serious warning that, if you guys mess with him because of this incident, you will pay. That child is the Chosen of Tsukuyomi and is also blessed by myself. So if you mess with him, we''ll assume that you''re messing with Shinto as a whole."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ah," that took all the devils aback. Even Sapphire, who saw the young man fight. "No wonder. Hey, Sirzechs, looks like your sister caught a big fish."
<span style="font-weight:400">"What?" Both devils and gods wondered out loud at what Sapphire said.
<span style="font-weight:400">The Gravity Devil''s eyes sparkled as a very mischievous idea came to her mind. With a shrug, she lied naturally, "Rias Gremory, the heir of our family, is a <i><span style="font-weight:400">very</i><span style="font-weight:400"> close friend of Aquamarine. Allow me to make this clear, Rias does not like Riser, the third Phenex son. She wishes for the engagement to get cut off. So for all we know, this Aquamarine and Rias may be more than just friends, and this was their n from the get-go."
<span style="font-weight:400">Everyone exchanged nces as Sapphire expanded her story. "What if he picked a fight with the Phenex Household because he thought Riser would be there in Fuji, where he hoped to kill him and therefore break his lover, Rias'' engagement? Sadly, Riser just happened to not be there. I know this sounds like a far-fetched story, but teens are hot-blooded, it''s not unbelievable if they pulled this off, I’m sure you’d agree. So really, Gods, don''t worry about him, we wouldn''t harm him when he might soon be my house''s son-inw."
<span style="font-weight:400">"...I can vouch a bit about that," Bishamon added when Amaterasu looked skeptical. "He said it himself that this Rias Gremory was a friend of his. But I''m unsure if they share any romantic rtionship."
<span style="font-weight:400">"I see," Amaterasu smiled. "That is good. I shall not judge him for befriending a devil since he already proved his friendly status to us by defending a God. Fine then, I won''t make a big deal out of it if I smell devils lingering near him. However, if any devil does harm him, I will hold you Gremory ountable for it." She looked at Sirzechs with a cold smile. "Satan Lucifer, I hope you would live by your word and not press your Satan authority to help your family if that were ever to happen."
<span style="font-weight:400">Sirzechs gave her a cold stare for a while before smiling again. "Naturally. Then, I take it that this meeting has gone well?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Indeed it has," Amaterasu replied as she stood up. "Now, you guys should leave."
<span style="font-weight:400">The devils didn''t waste their time and did just that. When they finally left, Amaterasu looked at the sky while Yatagarasu hummed behind her.
<span style="font-weight:400">"He really is interesting, as you said, mydy." Yatagarasu muttered, "It takes guts to seduce the sister of Lucifer."
<span style="font-weight:400">For once, Amaterasu let out a heartyugh as she didn''t care to cover her mouth. She looked at Bishamon and nodded, "Give him what he asked for, but tenfold. Also, prepare a few protective artifacts for his family. Ah, and give him my greetings."
<span style="font-weight:400">The devils thought they had cornered the Gods by saying the exceptional human was friends with their Princess, but really, it was the Gods who felt triumphant. Their chosen human had seduced the devil princess.
<span style="font-weight:400">The reality, however, was different from both ounts. Though thetter one perhaps had some weight to it.
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<b>[First Person Point of View]</b>
<span style="font-weight:400">Sakuya-hime hugged me while Bishamon looked around the house, her purple eyes soon locking with Ai''s own.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ai Hoshino, the most famous from Japan in recent times." Bishamon walked to her and suddenly patted Ai''s head. "Good job."
<span style="font-weight:400">I stared at her. What is that woman doing? Well, it''s true that she''s older than Ai and the previous 14 generations of her family, but isn''t it too sudden to just pat her?
<span style="font-weight:400">"Despite your busy schedule, you''ve raised a fine young man," Sakuya chimed into that conversation, still hugging me with her soft breasts pressed against my chest. "Tell you what, we have decided to take you in as a Regalia after your eventual death. In that case, you''ll live forever as an immortal soul as a part of Shinto."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ah," Ai, who was still processing all of this, blinked in confusion. "I-"
<span style="font-weight:400">"No, she wouldn''t," I said before she could. Earlier, Sakuya and Bishamon had given me a general idea about the terms people of this world use. I knew what Regalias was; it was a Noragami term for spirits whom Gods take in as their subordinate, promoting them to Minor Divinities; they are called Regalia.
<span style="font-weight:400">The two Goddesses turned to me, Sakuya looked confused, and Bishamon raised an eyebrow. I knew they had good intentions when they said this, and they expected me to see it as a reward, but since I had finally reached <b>Underlord</b><span style="font-weight:400">, I didn''t have to ept such promises.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Because she won''t die," I rified myself to the two Goddesses. "I should be able to live for a few hundred years as I am right now, and I n to make my mother do the same."
<span style="font-weight:400">Ai Hoshino will never die; therefore, she doesn’t need reassurance that she’ll be chosen as a Regalia after death.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Huh," Bishamon looked at me in surprise. "I have heard some expert human Senjutsu practitioners can live for hundreds of years, but it''s my first time seeing such a human in person. I don''t doubt you though, after the performance you showed. Still, a promise is a promise. I don''t know how you n to make your mother live so long, but if you don''t seed, or even if you seed and she dies a few hundred yearster for any reason, as long as her soul is intact we will take her in."
<span style="font-weight:400">I found myself a little offended hearing her say ''if she were to die'' when <i><span style="font-weight:400">I </i><span style="font-weight:400">said she wouldn''t. I didn''t want to agree to such a thing, it was a simple personal agenda to not have backup ns for things like this because then I might getzy when thinking about ways to keep her the most protected. Since a part of my mind would think she''d be fine anyway let''s take it easy. Also, it hurt my pride to take such backup measures when I was confident in granting her immortality.
<span style="font-weight:400">But, then I knew what failure was. I knew what <i><span style="font-weight:400">I</i><span style="font-weight:400"> was, how many times I had failed despite my reality-shattering powers… I imed to be absolute, but was I really? This wasn’t a bad offer. If I were to fail again, if I were to die in this world, at least my mother would live on as a spirit.
<span style="font-weight:400">I pushed my pride aside and nodded. "In that case, she''ll be in your care – only <i><span style="font-weight:400">if</i><span style="font-weight:400"> such a tragedy were to fall upon her."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hey, why are you guys discussing this without me? I don''t want to live forever," Ai suddenly said, making all of us turn to her. What? "I think life loses its meaning if-"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, shut the hell up, you stupid little woman." I shot her a quick re as she shut up. What the hell was she on about? What did this <i><span style="font-weight:400">child</i><span style="font-weight:400"> know about the meaning of life?
<span style="font-weight:400">"...." Ai paused and then red back at me. “Punk. You wait till our guests leave.”
<span style="font-weight:400">"Now, now, don’t fight. You shouldn''t be rude to your mother, boy," Sakuya-hime gently hit me on my head. “Bad boy.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“…”
<span style="font-weight:400">"Haah, he''s always like that, so rude," Ai said with a dramatic shake of his head. She managed to shoot me another re in the midst of it, pretty mad that I snarled back at her while in the presence of literal Gods. "Forgive his insolence, Goddesses."
<span style="font-weight:400">"It''s alright, he''s a fine child," Bishamon waved it off. “Plus he has a point, even though usually I’d respect the person’s choice. Eternal life, if you are versatile with it, doesn’t be boring or traumatic… for the most part.”
<span style="font-weight:400">A silence fell in the room, and Ai looked down on the floor. I could see that she wasn’t really convinced, maybe she’ll find a way to cancel this dealter. For now, I changed the subject.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m surprised you epted so easily that they are Gods?" I looked at Ai. "What if they are liars?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"Huh?" Ai tilted her head. "They have this divine presence around them, though? Like, I saw you do magic, I saw Ruby do it, but I didn''t feel this even then. Even though they are just standing, they feel divine, I guess. I feel on my entire being that they are Gods. It’s kind of hard to exin more than that."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ah, right, the divine presence," I nodded. "My bad, it doesn''t affect me so I almost didn''t notice.” It also didn’t affect her much, I guessed, if she managed to stay on her feet without bowing and kissing their feet and shit.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Hmm," Bishamon looked at me. "Yeah,st time, when I and Sapphire shed our wills, you stood fine. Interesting… willpower for a human."
<span style="font-weight:400">‘Funny. Could that really be considered a will-power sh? So pitifully hrious.’ I didn’t express my humor openly, there was no need to offend them.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Anyhow, we have some gifts for you and your mother," Sakuya-hime cleared her throat and said as she snapped her fingers. Multiple lights shone and bags appeared around us. "It''s a bit more than the things you asked, so I hope you''ll like them."
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