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We left Gasper to his games and headed back to the Clubroom.
My two newest girlfriends were listening with rap detention as I explained about myself and where I came from. They didn't believe me at first, but a few demonstrations of my abilities and they were mostly convinced.
"Woah…" Rias said with stars in her eyes. I could tell she definitely wanted to visit my home, maybe even move there. Rias was an interesting one. She was a girl that craved a regular life, but at the same time she also thirsted for excitement. "Aliens…Space Travel…Alien Gods!? Your Universe sounds crazy! And you're trying to become a Goddess yourself?"
I nodded at Rias. I had mentioned to them that I was trying to become the Goddess of Angels. That required the Angels of this world to acknowledge me as such. Even if they didn't pray to me, belief would still send me Faith Energy. Rias and Sona were justifiably skeptical, until they found out that I could heal pretty much anything and even revive the dead!
"Really!? Only G–God…Ow…was able to revive the dead in our world. Even then, he was only able to revive Humans or half humans like J–jesus…Ow." Rias said while clutching her head from the migrain saying those two names gave her.
I quickly healed her headache with my Purger of Darkness and told her she could just refer to those two as Big G or Big J. That caused her to giggle.
Sona had been looking contemplative for a while. "You blatantly exposed the Supernatural to the humans of your world…and they actually accepted you?" Sona asked in surprise. She was under the impression that things should not have gotten that smoothly.
"Yeah, why wouldn't they? What did you think would have happened?"
"We all thought they would have started launching nukes to kill us all off! That's one of the reasons why we try so hard to keep the Supernatural world secret. That's why we wipe the memories of any normal humans when they discover us." Sona explained. She thought that humans would never be able to accept the Devil's, because they used to eat their souls back during the Great War.
"I nodded at that. You would think that's the case," I told the two of them. "But you're forgetting one important thing." I said with a sly grin.
They both looked at me curiously. Rias tilted her head. "And what's that?"
"Both you and Sona are super hot." I told them. Sona sputtered at me with a red face.
I laughed. "Let's be real here, the majority of men tend to think with their little heads. If human men found out that there was an entire race, full of super hot women, that 'regularly indulged in sin,' do you think they would try and destroy that race? Or would they instead all try and hook up with the Sexy Devil girls?" I asked them. If I was an ugly Fallen Angel, my reveal to Earth Marvel would not have gone over as well as it should have. It did though, because I was ridiculously Hot, and half the planet wanted to fuck me.
I accepted that fact a while ago…
Sona and Rias were both gaping at me for my question. Sona tried to argue that people were smarter than that, and that there was no way that could be the case. "War can easily be prevented just because I'm hot? There's no way that would work." She scoffed.
I pointed at Sona. "You literally chose not to attack me, a Fallen Angel in the heart of your territory, because I am Hot." I told her. "…You're the same as them."
Sona pressed her face into her hands and let out a muffled scream of embarrassment at being compared to the average horny guy.
Rias giggled at Sona's expense. She then had a pondering look on her face as she started muttering something about how millions of Otaku would probably betray their home country of Japan to defend their precious Youkai Catgirls if they found out they really existed…
She got the idea at least.
…
Our conversation was interrupted when I felt a massive surge of energy on the outside of the town. I couldn't believe I didn't sense it earlier!
I opened a portal to the edge of town. Sona and Rias followed me.
I recognize the two magical signatures of whoever fought here. One of them was Vali, and the other was very similar to Isane Hyoudou. Was he fighting with Issei here? Some things were starting to make sense to me now. I had subtly asked Rias about the perverted trio earlier. According to her, they were three normal humans and one of them might possess a Sacred Gear, but she didn't know which one. They spend so much time together, that the Sacred Gear aura brushed off on all of them.
Rias was desperate to get a strong peerage, but she didn't yet know if she was desperate enough to recruit a blatant degenerate to her family.
"What kind of fight happened here?" Rias asked in shock. Her eyes were wide as she took in the devastation around us. I didn't blame her, half the forest had been completely leveled to the ground. Trees were violently torn up and thrown around everywhere. There were craters scattered around everywhere that could only have resulted from many explosions.
There must have been a very powerful barrier put up here. Otherwise, there's no way I wouldn't have been able to sense a fight like this going on nearby.
[Or maybe you were just too engrossed talking to your newest girls to notice…]
'Give it a rest system. I'm horny but I'm not that horny.'
My wings emerged behind me and I took to the sky to get an aerial view of the battlefield. It extended for a few kilometers. There was no way Canon Issei would have been able to push Vali this far in a fight. That settled it, I now figured out who the time traveler was.
Sona and Rias were hovering next to me looking around. Sona suddenly cringed and looked off into the distance. "My sister is here…" She muttered quietly.
I raised an eyebrow at her. "How do you know?"
Rias giggled at Sona who was covered in goosebumps. "She always gets this way when Levia-tan comes to visit her precious So-tan!" she said teasingly.
As she said that, I felt numerous Magical beings teleport nearby. I recognized one of them as this world's Azazel. He was with three very powerful devils, and two very powerful Angels. I flapped my wings and started making my way over towards them.
I cringed at the sight when we arrived. Azazel was standing in the middle of a crater. I could feel anger radiating off of him. Lying on the ground next to him was Vali…or his corpse that was. He was beaten black and blue and even missing his left arm.
"Vali lost?" I muttered in shock as I descended.
"Rias?" "So-Tan!"
Sirzechs Lucifer and Serafall Leviathan called out to their sisters as we all touched down. The two Maous looked at me standing between their siblings and started glaring at me.
"And who is this?" Serafall asked while giving me a distrustful look.
Sona shifted awkwardly. "Hello, Nee-sama. This is…Layla of the Fallen. The Goddess of Angel's…and our girlfriend…" Sona trailed off.
I smiled at her for that introduction. I wasn't the Goddess of Angels yet, but I appreciated her talking me up like that. Especially when Michael and Gabriel were also looking at me inquisitively. Upon hearing the word "girlfriend," both Sirzechs and Serafall's expressions darkened. I could definitely feel some killing intent directed at me. Ajuka Beelzebub merely raised an eyebrow, but otherwise didn't look that interested.
Gabriel skipped forward and stood in front of me. "I don't remember you in Heaven and yet you are a Fallen Angel? Where are you from?"
"An alternate Universe full of Aliens, Alien Gods, planet-eating Alien Gods, Eldritch Monsters and tons of other crazy stuff." I answered her with a smile.
Gabriel smiled back at me. "That makes sense!" she said in complete acceptance of my answer.
[No wonder she and Asia get along so well.]
Michael spoke up. "What qualifies you to be the Goddess of Angels?" He asked curiously. I supposed his skepticism was justifiable.
Despite that, I grinned. This was a good opportunity to talk myself up to them. "I can turn people into Angel's, heal pretty much any injury or disease, teleport unimpeded pretty much anywhere I want, …and revive the dead." I said that last one casually, as if it wasn't a big deal.
--Faith Energy +1000!--
I smirked at that notification. I didn't know who that came from, but it was most likely Gabriel. She was looking at me in pure excitement from my claims.
Serafall and Sirzechs both blanched at my claims.
After I spoke, I noticed that Michael had subtly stepped between them and me. Since I had just announced that I could create Angels, there was no way he would let me come to harm.
"Fascinating…" Ajuka muttered to himself while observing me more closely.
Azazel turned around and spoke for the first time since I arrived. His attention had been completely focused on his son's body so far. "You can revive the dead!?" Azazel asked me. His voice sounded horse, but was tinged with hopefulness.
I floated down into the crater towards him and Vali. I focused on Vali's body. He had really been put through the ringer. I didn't think I could heal his missing arm, even with my Purger of Darkness, but thankfully I had the Rinnegan as well. "King of Hell!"
Azazel stepped back with a look of shock as a gigantic head manifested nearby! The King of Hell looked very similar to the anime, down to the giant Rinnegan pattern in its eyes. I picked up Vali's body and tossed it directly into its mouth. It closed its mouth and started visibly chewing. It was pretty gross to look at, but that's how it worked.
"What the hell are you doing!" Azazel shouted at me angrily! He conjured a Lightspear in his hand and was about to attack my summon.
"Easy there, Azazel! It's fine! The King of Hell feeds on pain. He literally eats injuries. Just watch!" I shouted at him to stop.
Azazel gripped his spear tightly, but didn't make another move to attack. Everyone nearby flew down to get a closer look at what was happening.
"Fascinating!" Ajuka said as he walked a bit closer to the King of Hell. "I can detect that this being's dimensional signature is different from that of the Goddess of Angels. He comes from another Universe himself. And how does he eat pain? Is he eating the physical injuries or is he eating the concept of pain?" He started rambling to himself, lost in thought.
"Your summon is kind of creepy looking, Layla." Rias said to me.
The King of Hell's eyes shifted towards her and he actually glared. He was more sentient than I thought he was. A lot more prideful too.
Rias shied away in embarrassment. "I'm sorry…" His eyes dismissed her and he went back to chewing.
"She can't actually revive the dead can she?" I heard Serafall whisper to Sirzechs. "She's just blowing hot air right? Trying to trick our darling sisters!?"
"I dont know." Sirzechs whispered back. "But if she really can…"
"We won't be able to punish her for stealing our precious Imoutos!" Serafall lamented. "She'll be far too valuable when this information gets out!" Serafall turned to Michael. "Don't think we didn't notice that you were ready to attack us to defend her the moment she mentioned that she could create Angels!" Serafall told him accusingly.
Michael simply shrugged at them. His and Gabriel's eyes never left my back.
Half a minute later he stopped and opened his mouth. Vali's body was ejected onto the ground. It was covered in saliva, but was otherwise completely restored to. The only thing was that he was still dead. I thanked the King of Hell who actually nodded to me in response before sinking back down into the ground. I crouched down over Vali's body and placed my hand on his chest. This was something I hadn't done before, but it should be instinctive. Vali was dead, and I didn't want him to be anymore. I wanted him to live.
And he did.
His body twitched before his eyes opened wide! He shot upwards and started violently coughing! "What the fuck!" He exclaimed in confusion. He glanced around rapidly. "Where did my rival go, and why are all of you here?"
"That was amazing! You really are the Goddess of Angels!" Gabriel exclaimed after watching me resurrect the dead!
"I thought only Father could do what you just did…" Michael spoke.
--Faith Energy +10000!--
--Faith Energy +10000!--
I grinned at getting another notification so quickly. My plan for using the Angels of this Universe as "Faith batteries" was turning out to actually be feasible. I already gained 21000 Faith Energy from just Michael and Gabriel alone! Both of them were looking upon me with near reverence right now! It might be a bit cruel to exploit them like this and change their faith a bit, but at the end of the day, they were not my actual siblings and this was not my home Universe. The only people from here that I currently cared about were Rias, Sona and Vali.
I didn't want to exploit my own siblings' faith and change the relationship between us. The fastest way to become the Goddess of Angels was to get actual Angel's to believe me to be such. That's why I received so much more Faith Energy from them than I did from Kunou Alter.
Thankfully for Vali, he hadn't been dead long enough to lose his Sacred Gear. His white Dragon Wings popped out of his back and Albion profusely thanked me for saving his partner. We let Vali take a few minutes to get himself acclimated to being back amongst the living before we started interrogating him on what had happened.
He told us his story. It was quite a doozy. This version of Issei was even more messed up in the head than the last one I killed…
Vali was about half way through his story when Serafall started acting strangely. She put her hand to her ear and a small magic circle manifested by her ear. The scowl she'd been sending me subtly this whole time vanished and her face changed to one of panic! "The Sitri territory is under attack! Low Class Devils are being slaughtered by two people calling themselves the Children of Thanos!" Serafall declared.
I froze for a second upon hearing her words.
…
–????–
An hour earlier…
His largest and most powerful vessel drifted in orbit above another version of Midgard. He sat on his throne contemplating his next move. His target had been very skilled at eluding him so far. What annoyed him the most, was that she wasn't even evading him on purpose. He had chased her all the way from his home Universe after she devastated Asgard and destroyed Midgard–along with a few of his precious Infinity Stones!
His loyal children kneeled before him in the throne room of his vessel. Sitting by his side, was his new loyal Queen. After some proper re-education, she had proven to be a competent woman to keep by his side. Despite that, the fires of vengeance still burned in her eyes. She wanted revenge against the exact same woman that he was after.
"Her power to jump between Universes with such ease is quite annoying, Father." Ebony Maw said to him. "Every time she jumps, it takes us days to follow after her! And then she's gone already before we get there!" He complained.
Gamora scoffed at Ebony Maw. "That's just because you're too incompetent to create a better method to travel across Universes."
Her sister next to her also snickered at Maw's expense.
Ebony Maw glared at his lord's daughters in annoyance. "You two have no idea the difficulty of the task Father assigned to me! If even the slightest calculation is off, our vessel will be torn apart and lost to the eternal void forever!"
"Whatever…" Gamora replied in annoyance before looking at him. "Father, this can't go on! We've been chasing this Layla of the Fallen for weeks now! We're wasting our time!"
"We haven't wasted our time, she's on that planet below us right now!" Ebony Maw defended himself.
Thanos stood up from his throne and looked at the blue world below. He grimaced in irritation. Layla of the Fallen, his target, was currently on that world somewhere below him and yet he couldn't attack her right now.
"The world directly below us is full of beings with terrifying strength. If our ship descends from orbit right now, I guarantee we won't last more than 10 minutes before we are destroyed." Hela the former queen of Asgard explained. She stood up from her own smaller throne and walked over towards her husband. She placed her hand on his large arm. "We need to fight her on our terms. We need to lure her into a trap. Maybe we should attack her home Universe?"
"We don't know which world her home world is though, Mother." Ebony Maw addressed Hela. "She's jumped to over a dozen Universes in the past month alone."
Hela smirked. "Then we will simply attack the world that she has jumped to the most. That's the most likely one to be her home world."
Thanos nodded. "Yes, we shall do that. Maw, prepare our ship for another Universal jump. I tire of this endless chase as well. We shall attack her home world after all." Thanos declared and his loyal children all listened.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Alarms blared across Thano's ship.
"Sire, we are detecting massive power surges on the planet below us. They are all coming from a small Island Nation. Our sensors have managed to pierce through an energy barrier for us to see and hear."
A holographic screen appeared in the ship's throne room. Thanos watched, impressed, as a warrior in Red Draconic Armor battled intensely against another warrior in White Draconic Armor. The battle was very violent and close. In the end, the Red Warrior triumphed and slew the White one.
Hela stood next to him as they watched. "The Red Warrior has a severely damaged soul. He has less than a month to live if nothing is done. I could probably heal him though." She said.
"I see little point." He replied. Thanos found the battle entertaining, but held little interest once it was over. That was until his ship's sensors picked up the voice of the Red Warrior speaking. Specifically, he was swearing vengeance against the same enemy that Thanos was after!
"He is preparing a teleportation ritual, Father. What should we do?" Ebony Maw asked.
Thanos grinned. "Lock onto his power signature so we know where he teleports to."
On the screen, the red Warrior vanished from the Battleground. The ship's computers took a couple minutes to calculate where he had teleported to.
"Interesting," Ebony Maw commented. He had done as his Father asked and locked onto the Warriors power signature. "He appears to have teleported into the center of their world…"
"I wasn't aware that midgard was hollow inside." Hela commented with a shrug.
"Prepare our own teleporters." Thanos said. He turned towards Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive who had been relatively quiet so far. "You two will follow after the Red Warrior and recruit him. Wherever he teleported to, I want you two to cause as much death and destruction as you can within a short time. I want Layla of the Fallen to know you were there. Make sure you spread the message that we will be coming to her home next!" Thanos said with a wicked grin.
"Don't take too long," Hela warned them. "We don't want to alert the powerful beings guarding this world of our presence."
Proxima Midnight bowed. "Your wills will be done, Father…Mother. We shall recruit this Red warrior and spread death in Father's name. Layla of the Fallen will finally know that her days are numbered!" She and her partner immediately left.
Thanos grinned to himself. He didn't know if the Red Warrior was worthy of being one of his new children, but he would prove a useful soldier at the very least.
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Chapter 233:
Serafall looked pissed!
She glared at me specifically. "Who are the Children of Thanos and why are they after you!?" She asked me accusingly. "Did you cause this? They left a message for you, Layla of the Fallen!" She spat out!
"What?" I asked in surprise. They were after me? Then why are they attacking down there? How were they even here!?
"Don't play dumb! You must have done something!" She exclaimed emotionally. Some of her demonic aura started wafting off her and warping the air. I didn't know if she was on the verge of attacking me, but I wasn't backing down to her. Serafall held up her hand and a pink magic wand appeared in her palm. She pointed it at me. My instincts screamed at me that an attack was coming!
My own magic aura sprang around me as the ground started to shake. My eyes shifted to my Rinnegan and I was preparing to send her flying with an Almighty Push. I held up my palm in her direction.
"Nee-sama, stop!" Sona ran up between us in a panic! She was holding up both her hands to stop the two of us from coming to blows right here. We both immediately stopped our attacks before they went off.
Serafall scowled at her younger sister. "So-tan get out of the way! Your big sister is going to punish this Crow!"
Sona was currently trembling under her sister's powerful aura, but she didn't back down. I was very impressed by her boldness. "That Crow is my girlfriend now, Nee-Sama! You need to treat her with the respect a consort of house Sitri deserves!" Sona declared boldly to her sister.
To my surprise, Serafall's emotions did a complete 180! Her anger disappeared and tears formed in her eyes. "Noooooooo! So-tan is growing up and has a girlfriend now!!! What about me!? Are we not going to have sister sister yuri yuri time anymore!?" Serafall whined loudly. Magical anime tears started to spill from her eyes and formed a puddle at her feet. She was obviously being dramatic and doing that on purpose.
Sona's face turned bright red in embarrassment from her Sister's words and actions. Sona sputtered at Serafall. "W–we never had yuri yuri time in the first place! You're lying!" Sona glanced at me quickly. Her eyes were pleading with me to believe her.
Serafall wiped her eyes. "That's because I didn't know that you secretly liked girls. I always suspected, of course, because your peerage is full of cute Japanese schoolgirls. But… I wasn't 100% sure because you never took any of them into your bed, So-tan!" Serafall declared.
"That's why your sister's peerage is all schoolgirls? I thought she simply wanted a peerage full of intellectuals like myself." Ajuka said in mild disappointment. "It turns out that I'm still the only Devil without sex constantly on my mind…"
Sona covered her red face with her hands in embarrassment at being compared to every other horny young Devil by Ajuka Beelzebub himself.
[Is he wrong though?]
'He is not…'
"My sister told people that she wanted a smart peerage, but it was never true." Serafall said to him. She turned back to Sona and smiled softly at her sister. "If you wanted a harem of pretty girls, So-tan, all you had to do was ask. Your sister would have immediately made you a harem and even managed it for you!" Serafall said in a tone that indicated she was completely serious. The more she spoke, the more embarrassed Sona got.
Everyone nearby was just watching this interaction without interrupting. I looked over at Rias. She was covering her mouth with her hands and doing her best to hold back her laughter.
"Nee-sama! I hate you!" Sona couldn't take any more teasing! Her Devil wings popped up behind her and she flew back towards Kuoh in embarrassment.
Rias wiped some tears of laughter from her eyes before speaking to me. "I suppose I should follow after her. Here, take this. I'll message you later." Rias handed me a cell phone with the Gremory clan symbol on the back of it. Her own wings popped out behind her and she flew off in the same direction as Sona.
Once they were gone, all eyes once again turned towards me. Serafall was no longer hostile, but she didn't look happy by my presence either. "Hmph, at least you have the stones to stand up to me! Just so you know, I'll never give up on So-tan! We Devil's aren't humans after all..." She trailed off.
[Incest is winc–]
'I get it, System!' I understood what she meant. "You know, if you really want to get into So-tan's bed, the easiest way is to hop in ours." I told Serafall with a smirk of my own.
Serafall paused in thought at my words before giving me a cute pout. "Hmph, I'm not so easy to win over as my sister is!" Serafall hugged her arms to her chest in a way that pushed up her large breasts, emphasizing them. "Magical Girl Levia-tan is someone that millions of Supernatural beings lust after, but few will ever have!" She declared proudly.
Sirzechs coughed awkwardly. "Serafall, your territory is still in a crisis. Maybe you should save this conversation for another time?" Sirzechs calmly suggested.
Serafall's eyes widened in remembrance! "That's right! We have to go, Zexxy and Aju-tan!"
"Please don't call me that."
"You know I hate that name…"
The two male Devil's said at the same time.
"Don't let me keep you all here." I told them. I wanted to know what had happened as well, but I wasn't about to run off to the Underworld with them.
Ajuka created a teleportation circle for the three of them on the ground.
Serafall pointed at me from inside the circle. "Don't you dare take my sister's innocence while I'm gone!" She yelled before she vanished.
Sirzechs looked like he also had something to say, but didn't have time to before he was gone as well.
Azazel, Michael and Gabriel had been fussing over Vali this entire time off to the side. When they noticed that the three Maous had left, they decided to follow after them. Either to see if they could help out or just to present a united front.It wasn't my business either way. I could tell that neither Michael and Gabriel wanted to go. They both clearly wanted to stay and talk more with me. I would have preferred that as well. It would have been a good opportunity to spread some more propaganda about myself to get more Faith Energy.
The three of them left and I was now all alone in the destroyed Forest with Vali. He was still looking pretty shaken to be honest.
"So…How was death?" I asked him awkwardly.
"It sucked. I don't recommend it." He said bluntly as his metallic dragon wings sprung up behind him. "I'm heading back to the hotel to take a nap." He flew off quickly.
Now it was just me left standing here on my own…
I sighed while thinking about how I should handle this situation.
Lady Death did warn me Thanos and Hela from the Marvel Zombies Universe were planning on coming after me, I suppose it was my fault for not really considering the implications of that. It had been over a month since the warning and he never showed up. Part of me had wondered if he had given up.
[Obviously, he hadn't.]
Has he been following me across Universes this entire time? "Now that he found me here, why didn't he just attack me?" I asked the System.
[I don't know. Great Red is actually active in this world. Maybe Thanos didn't want to piss him off?]
"That makes as much sense as anything else. I don't have any better theories." I said as I looked up towards the sky. "First thing first though…"
My ten black wings popped out behind me. I flapped my wings hard and rocketed myself into the air. It didn't take me long to punch into the lower stratosphere and I kept climbing higher and higher.
My rapid aerial ascent probably tripped a bunch of human sensors, but I didn't care. Once I was in orbit, I spread out my senses and tried to find Thanos's ship. The Infinity Stones wouldn't work in this Universe, which meant he must have gotten here through technology. I was hoping to destroy his mother ship while he was still here in orbit! That would teach him for being a creepy cross Universe stalker!
[Hell yeah! No means no!]
I flew around the planet trying to find his ship for almost an hour before I finally felt a trace of Dimensional Energy! I zipped towards the source. When I got there, all I found was the empty section of space where his ship had been. I was too late to catch up to him. I shouted out some curses in annoyance, but there was no sound in Space to even hear them…
[I still heard your colorful swearing, Host. I especially liked the one about Thanos and the purple dinosaur… You should try using your Orb of Anywhere to find out where they're headed.]
I called on my Orb of Anywhere and let it analyze the space around me. I had never used it to piggyback on someone else's Universal travel before. It was an odd sensation. I was like a master artist trying to interpret the drawing of a toddler. Thanos's method of traveling Univereses was not even close to as efficient as my own. Through my Orb, I could sense that it would take him literal days of traveling through the void to reach Earth Marvel.
[Days that you can spend preparing to give him a very rude welcome. He was way too arrogant to actually tell you where he was going.]
The System's words struck a vindictive cord within me. Personally, I was getting annoyed with all these enemies of mine being left to roam free. It was time to thin the herd a bit. They were deeply going to regret giving me a preemptive warning!
[He caught you off guard, it's only fair that you reciprocate!]
…
Knowing I wouldn't get any more information in space, I opened a portal back to the hotel Heather and Asia were still at.
[Why didn't you just portal directly into space in the first place?]
I internally scoffed at that question. 'Because flying into space with my wings was obviously cooler!'
[Fair enough.]
Both of the girls were still passed out when I made it back. I woke up a groggy Heather and Asia and gave them a rundown on our current situation. They were both understandably upset that our adventure was cut short, but they obviously didn't want Earth Marvel to suffer an attack without me there. Both of them started getting ready to depart while I checked the phone that Sona gave me earlier.
…
Sona received the news of what happened from her sister and had been keeping me updated with the phone Rias gave me. The children of Thanos had gone into the underworld and razed an entire hospital to the ground… Patients, doctors, nurses–they killed them all indiscriminately. Apparently, the hospital was barely guarded since no one in the underworld would be insane enough to attack the territory of one of the four Maous.
[That was a very poor decision. Not that human hospitals are ever really guarded either. Although, they definitely should be.]
This specific hospital was where a very important secret patient was being kept, according to Serafall at least. I took that to mean Ingvild Leviathan was there. I was confused on why they would have even chosen that specific Hospital until Sona gave me the second bit of information. The survivors of the attack claimed that the Children of Thanos weren't the only ones there. The Red Dragon Emperor actually attacked the hospital himself slightly before they arrived. When the two groups met, eyewitness accounts claimed Issei took the still unconscious Ingvild and left with them willingly.
[This has certainly become a mess for you…]
I didn't necessarily see it that way. "I'm not so sure, if anything this made things easier for me. Issei and Thanos will now be coming at me together. That saves me time hunting them down separately." I said.
[That's good. There's also other good news here if you look at this from another perspective.]
"And what's that?"
[At least this Thanos didn't team up with your own Universe's Thanos.]
I shuddered at that thought. Yeah, that would have turned out badly for me. Especially since I believe the Thanos of my home Universe to be Super Class or possibly even stronger. On top of that, he definitely already has one or two Infinity Stones in his possession.
[That would have been a brutal fight. On another topic, what will you do about Heather and Asia?]
"I'm taking them back home with me of course." I replied.
I'm not leaving two super-powered pretty teenage girls alone in ANY version of a DxD universe… Knowing Heather's "Potter luck," some random Devil brat will definitely stumble upon her within the first few hours and try to add her to his peerage. I obviously wasn't going to let that happen.
…
…A couple hours later. I had arrived back at Kuoh Academy. This time Asia, Heather and Vali were all accompanying me. We were all sitting in the occult club room with Rias and Sona.
Vali and Asia were sitting together on the other side of the room. Vali was looking better after his nap but still not perfect. Asia was doing a good job comforting him. She cried for ten minutes straight and hugged Vali tightly when she found out that he had been killed! He didn't push her away and actually hugged her back. I could tell he was pretty shaken up when he realized that he had truly died. Had I not been here, then that would have been it for him. He was a tough teen, and I'm sure he'd bounce back in a couple of days. He was probably itching for vengeance as well.
Heather and I were sitting across from Rias and Sona. Neither of their peerages were here again. They had all been sent out to start fixing up the heavily damaged forest just outside of town. That was going to be pretty hard to explain to the mundanes unless it was fixed quickly.
"So you two are dating my mom, hmm?" Heather asked while scrutinizing Rias and Sona. I told Heather about Rias and Sona before we got here. Needless to say, Heather was not exactly happy that I now had two girlfriends that were only a few years older than her.
Rias gave Heather a big smile! "You must be Heather Potter! Layla told us so much about you! I heard you're an amazing young witch! The adventures you've been on sound so exciting! And you're so pretty too! Other wizards and witches must have always been so jealous of you!" Rias was blatantly putting on the flattery to get on Heather's good side. One of the easiest ways to win someone over was to dish out compliments after all. Especially for a girl like Heather, who hadn't received a lot of praise in her life until recently.
Heather blushed at all the praise. "Now that you mention it, the other kids at Hogwarts were always jealous of me…" She mumbled cutely with pink cheeks.
Sona caught on and started following Rias's lead. "You are definitely amazing! I would have immediately offered to make you my Queen if I didn't already have one." Sona added.
"Thank you." Heather replied to her as well. My daughter then turned to me. "I still don't like that you're now dating two High School girls…even if they're both 18 and not human. These two seem to be very nice though…" She paused for a moment before her eyes narrowed at me. "You better treat them both right, mom!" Heather scolded me adorably. She didn't notice the subtle high five Rias gave Sona after the two of them won her over.
"What are you going to do now, Layla?" Rias asked me. "Are you going back to your home to fight this Thanos? Who is he anyway?"
I sighed. "That's a long story… One that ends in me using an Asgardian Death Star laser to blow up the Earth." Both Rias and Sona looked at me like I was joking of course. This was one of the adventures I didn't get to when I was talking about myself to them earlier.
"She's not joking," Heather said to them both for me. "Mom did blow up another Earth that was overrun by a zombie apocalypse."
"Ok then." Sona said with a slightly pale face. "...We'll table that story for later. What we want to know is if you'll take us with you when you go back?"
I raised an eyebrow. "What about your school life here? And your peerages. Just so you both know, I'm not taking them. I wouldn't mind Rias's peerage coming to visit my home, but yours, Sona…" I trailed off.
Sona grimaced. "Yes… It has recently been brought to my attention that my peerage is… inadequate compared to Rias's. Other than Tsubaki at least. I don't really know how to fix that though. It's not like I can undo turning them into Devils." Sona said.
"My mom can do that." Heather replied.
"..."
I really wasn't trying to blow Rias and Sona's minds every time they discovered another one of my abilities, but that's what had been happening so far at least. I made the offer to Sona to return the majority of her peerage to normal humans and she could then erase their memories of the Supernatural. She would be able to build a better peerage from the ground up in the future. She didn't immediately dismiss my offer, so I figured she was seriously considering it. When she spoke of them all, she didn't sound nearly as close to them as Rias did about her own peerage.
As for Rias and Sona coming with me, I told them that was fine but we were leaving first thing in the morning. Both of them agreed to leave their peerages behind for now. Rias was going to let Grayfia take over managing her peerage and Sona was going to temporarily have one of Serafalls servants look after her own.
One of the main reasons that Rias wanted to come with me was Riser Phenex of course. She told me that he had spies in Kuoh and he definitely knew that she was now my girlfriend. The second I left, he would probably swoop in like a vulture to try and steal Rias back. Was he really that stupid?
Yes, he was.
That would obviously make me furious and I would probably end up killing him and starting a war with his whole Clan when I returned. In order to avoid all that, Rias thought it was better to just come with me back to Earth Marvel for now.
As for the other business I still had here, I sent a message to Azazel to get in contact with the church. I asked him to tell them to keep the members of Diodora's peerage in their custody–whenever they got them back–and I would fix them all when I returned.
Everything was taken care of for now, and we were heading back home first thing in the morning. My first stop would be talking to the Ancient One to see what we could do about Thanos's imminent arrival.
[What about Emma? She's still on Earth DxD in the Grigori.]
"Huh…? Emma? …Oh… Crap…" I muttered to myself. She's been there for days now…
[You forgot about your new secretary didn't you…]
"...I had a lot of things going on, alright!?" I'm sure she won't be too upset with me anyway.
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