บท 103: dragons and servants

Once they remembered about the more serious matters Alex moved everyone to the dorms, and they went down to the indoor pool area to fit all of them. As they all sat at some tables near the pool, they noticed Ophis and Fafnir nearby playing with Asia's Sprite dragon. Alex knew she made a pact with Fafnir, but that pact relied on her giving him her panties, something Alex planned to remedy soon. After they got seated he looked around and said,

"First thing first, I know things I shouldn't due to my background. That doesn't mean I'm gonna act on all of it, and I'm not gonna share my knowledge unless I think it's necessary, understand?" They all looked conflicted, but Sona nodded her head and agreed. Seeing she did so without hesitating the rest agreed as well, since they knew she was the smartest out of all of them. Alex nodded when they agreed and he moved onto the next thing,

"The second thing is the secrecy, I'm not too sure how strict the secrecy goes, but we can't spread it outside of Asora. So don't go blabbing." This was easier for them to agree on, and he finally moved onto the more urgent matters.

"Now that that's cleared up lets talk about you two." The ones he was looking at was Murayama and Katase, who was still with the rest of them. They turned red with all the eyes on them, but Alex asked them suddenly,

"What would you like us to do? We can remove the memories if you want, but it won't erase the emotions you went through. Alternatively you can live with what you went through and know there's things out there." They looked conflicted with what he said, and were silent for several moments. Suddenly both looked up with fire in their eyes, and they said,

"I don't want my memories to be wiped, but I also don't want to just move on and pretend it didn't happen." Seeing this Sona smiled, and pulled a couple things out of her pocket and placed them of the table. Looking at the game pieces the two girls looked confused, but the rest had looks of understanding. Sona then said,

"These are called evil pieces, they turn humans into Devils. The two of you have good characters, and you have at least a little experience with combat through kendo, would you like to join us as Devils?" The two looked at the pieces with more awe now that they had an idea what they were, and hesitantly asked,

"What would it mean if we became Devils?" Sona answered them,

"Firstly, since its me offering you their pieces it'll mean you'll become my servants, though it's not as bad as it sounds. Secondly, you'll become part of our devil society and gain our powers, along with several other benefits." They were thinking about for the next few minutes, during which Xenovia looked at Bennia and Loup Garou and asked,

"While they're thinking about that, how about an introduction president, we were kinda rushed before." Sona widened her eyes in realization, and said,

"Yes I apologize, this is my new rook Loup Garou, he's now joining the Kuoh college." The man in question simply nodded his head in response. Sona then addressed the little girl in grim reaper attire.

"This is my new knight Bennia, she is a former grim reaper-" But that was as far as she got before Bennia came forward and bowed to Alex, who was confused as he recalled she mostly liked issei due to oppai dragon. But her next words surprised him.

"Thank you for doing something about lord Hades, I was tired of the way things are done down there with him and my shitty dad. When I thought about what I wanted to do after lord Hades was defeated I decided I wanted to help the one who beat him!" He looked at Sona, who nodded at her words. Alex said to her,

"I see." She nodded enthusiastically, and continued,

"But I heard you don't intend to have a peerage so I was disappointed, until I heard about one of the women close to you having openings in her group." Alex understood what she was getting at from there, and didn't need anymore explanation. At that time Murayama and Katase spoke up,

"Um, if you're alright with us president, we would like to accept your offer to become Devils!" Everyone was surprised they agreed so quickly and Sona asked,

"Before I accept you I would like to know, why accept my proposal?" The two looked at the. With determination, and said,

"We don't want to be in that kind of situation ever again, regardless of how slim the chances. If we didn't learn about this then we may have been ok, but we know now, and I don't like thinking about how I was useless." Seeing the determination in their eyes, Sona smiled. She then gestured to the two evil pieces,

"Ok then I'll accept you. But a bit of explanation about the evil pieces, the ones I'm offering you are called pawn pieces. Each piece has a specialty attached to it, speed for a knight, strength and defense for a rook, magic power and support for a bishop, and an all rounding of all three for the queen. As pawns you'll be able to use promotion, which means that when you receive my permission in battle you'll be able to promote to any piece besides the king, which is me." When Sona finished her explanation the two reached out and took the two pawn pieces, and activated them, becoming Devils. Alex nodded, and moved on to the next subject,

"Now about who attacked us." When they heard him everyone's eyes sharpened as they hung onto every word.

"They are the remnants of the Khaos brigade, and call themselves Qlippoth. Currently they are being led by the son of the original lucifer, Vali's grandfather, Rizevim Lucifer, who is using the holy grail to revive the ancient evil dragons. The one I fought before was Grendel who was defeated by the original Beowulf. He's such a battle maniac that when I crushed the bones in his arm he didn't even flinch, but laughed with joy. I didn't expect that he would flee earlier, but I guess Euclid Lucifuge was the one behind that since he most likely would've stayed until I tore him apart."

Everyone felt overwhelmed at the sudden rush of information. As they were trying to process it, Xenovia asked,

"If he's a dragon, how come you didn't use Ascalon?" They all looked up at her question, and most of them recalled that they hadn't even seen the blade for quite a while. Alex smiled bitterly, and pulled the blade out of the separate space for them to see for themselves. When he did everyone in the area flinched and Ophis and Fafnir looked over with intensity at the hostility.

The blade now had several fractures running along the surface, and was stained with a black substance. It was giving off an intense pressure, filled with many negative emotions and an intense hatred. Akeno recognized the aura along with everyone else who experienced it, and said with distaste,

"Samael!" Alex nodded, and started explaining,

"When I tried to protect Ophis I knew Samael's defense would've destroyed it, so I super boosted it to prevent that. As a result it took too much energy and started to fracture from it, and it became drenched with Samael's blood after severing his tongue. The blood seems to be seeping into the cracks, and integrating into the blade somehow, possibly because Ascalon was already a dragon slayer as well. I don't really know what to do with it, and all of the people who could fix it are in heaven, so I've been keeping it in the separate space."

After talking about everything happening, everyone felt quite a bit of fatigue. There was the magician attack, Alex fighting Grendel and the rest of the magicians, finding out about his origins and Asora, and now everything he told them there after all of that. Everyone decided that they needed to sleep on the information he gave them, and went their separate ways. Murayama and Katase went with Sona so that she could give them the rundown on Devils life from now on. Like this the very busy day ended.