The day after the busy night, Kisuke, with a kitten on his arms were walking to the direction of the park.
The weather is cloudy, dim and gloomy so there is no one in the park today. This is a stroke of good luck for the couple since they stand out too much with black cloaks covering their body and aura.
Kisuke arrived at exactly 10:00 AM while nursing the scratches on his face.
Yoruichi tried waking Kisuke up at around 9:30 AM, but he wouldn't budge with just some paw taps. Thus without much choice, she scratched his face.
"Couldn't you woke me up in a less painful way?" Kisuke asked the smug kitten.
"I could, but too much effort. Try waking up earlier if you have an appointment, you won't experience that again." Yoruichi said in her distinct male voice.
Kisuke could only smile wryly at her answer.
When they arrive at the park with no one but two cloaked figures at the corner of the park. If there are other people in the park, they would have been reported to the police for their suspicious attire.
Kisuke approached the obviously who figures and Cleria asked first, "Why did you bring a kitten?"
Kisuke smiled brightly and said, "She gets too lonely when I leave her alone."
This earned him a cat uppercut to the chin but it didn't really hurt him and it only made her cute for her antics.
"...cute." Cleria muttered under her breath.
She got hold of herself and feign coughing before continuing to speak, "Well then, since you're here let's move somewhere first. Follow me."
Cleria started running to the forest intending to cross it. Masaomi who is silent all this time quietly followed Cleria.
Kisuke before following, put on his aura-concealing cloaked and placed Yoruichi on his shoulder.
After half an hour of running while avoiding many eyes, they arrived at a forest with lots of shrubberies. 100 meters away from their position, Kisuke can see a large mansion that only very rich families could have.
"That is my residence, but it was probably already raided yesterday after my 'death'." Cleria spoke with the look of melancholy in her eyes. Her lover lightly patted her shoulder to comfort her and it successfully lifted her mood, albeit just a little.
"What do you propose we do?" Kisuke inquired.
"I have a hidden chamber underneath the mansion which contains a library and small museum." Cleria said while looking around at the surrounding.
"Museum?" Kisuke couldn't help but ask.
"I say it's a museum but it's just a small collection of paintings, sculptures, and artifacts from several centuries ago. I just collected them in a spur of interest, but they are just gathering dust for a few years now. You can sell them one by one anonymously to get some cash." Cleria answered while still looking around her.
After a few more seconds of looking around, Cleria found something, "There it is."
Cleria moved to a spot several feet away from them, "You can't enter the underground chamber from the mansion as there is no physical pathway. This spot here is the teleportation array that will take us directly in it, but the resulting light and fluctuation from its activation may gather some attention." She then looks at Kisuke.
"Bakudou No.26 Kyakko(Curving Light)." Kisuke didn't say anything else and started casting his modified Kyakko that can hide more.
A dome made of thin blue film engulfed the group and hid them from the surrounding. This is the second time Cleria and Masaomi witness this spell and they are still in awe at how effective it was and how fast it was cast.
Cleria didn't wait for another second and activated the teleportation array. A magic circle 5 meters across and bearing the Belial Clan insignia shone in gray light.
The group disappeared in granules of light and reappeared inside a small library with ten bookshelves full of books.
Cleria started walking and the rest followed. She led them to an open area between the library and the museum. There is a round table with 10 chairs at the side. Near the table was a counter for drinks.
The group sat down one by one starting from Cleria. She snapped her fingers and the utensils a jar of tea leaves started moving to the table. When they reached the middle of the table, a small magic circle manifested and the utensils began making tea themselves. After a few minutes, three cups of tea were served.
"How convenient. I should also study how to set up these arrays." Kisuke commented while his eyes were shining.
After drinking a sip from her tea, Cleria started talking, "Alright, let's start. First, I'll be giving you the information on three races of the Three Faction..."
Cleria began talking and Kisuke didn't interrupt and just listened while taking sips of tea.
Originating from Heaven, the Angels are powerful beings who serve the Biblical God, and have the powers to inflict pain upon Devils/demons and by extension the Fallen Angels, due to their light-based powers. After the death of the God from the Bible in the Great War of the Three Factions, the Angels were incapable of increasing their numbers. There are rumors that they made a system similar to the devil's Evil Pieces System that can reincarnate other races in angels.
Fallen Angels are Angels that have fallen from the grace of God, due to having "impure thoughts" that divert them from the teachings of the God in the Bible. The leaders of Grigori were tempted by human women and had fallen after having sex with them.
Despite being cast out of Heaven, Fallen Angels and their subordinates have been known to occupy churches and use them as bases. However, they go out of their way to destroy all of the religious icons in these churches in the process out of spite for their former leader.
Currently, the Fallen Angels have the smallest population among the Three Factions, but can increase their numbers by tempting existing angels.
Devils are beings that originated from the Underworld consisting of the 72 Pillars of High-Class Devil noble families, the Extra Demons and the countless armies under them. The total life span of a Devil is approximately 10,000 years. The Devils were originally led by the Four Great Satans prior to their death in the Great War. Following the end of the Great War, the descendants of the original Satans apart from Rizevim wanted to continue the Great War, but were faced with opposition by other Devils, most prominently the Bael clan, who assumed authority after the death of their leaders. This started a civil war between the Devils with the descendants of the original Satans losing the war and a new government was formed among the Devils. The new government then appoints four new Satans through strength and accomplishment in the civil war.
After the formation of the new Devil government, Ajuka Beelzebub developed the Evil Pieces system to help replenish the decreased armies of the Devils, eventually creating the Rating Games.
"... and that are the races that consist of the Three Factions. There are other races and mythological factions but you can read about them in my records." Cleria drunk some of her tea to rest for a bit.
Enjoy.
Probably just 1 or 2 chaps and we'll move to the canon's timeline.
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Reminder: This is a harem series.
Harem candidates
Yoruichi
Sona Sitri
Koneko & Kuroka.
EDITED
Corrected some mistakes
"As for the not so common knowledge, except for one, they are all recorded and written by me. You can find it buried 50 meters deep under this table." Cleria continued.
"Except for one? Why would you make an exception? Hmmm... Ah. Could it be that you didn't have a chance to record it yet?" Kisuke played with his empty cup while asking.
"Really sharp. You're right. I didn't have a chance to write it down and keep it yet. It's also probably the biggest reason that we were hunted down." Cleria just smiled wryly at Kisuke's deduction.
"What?!" Masaomi, on the other hand, was understandably shocked at the revelation.
"I'm sorry dear, because of my knowledge, we put our lives into danger." Cleria faced Masaomi and bowed to him with tears about to fall from her eyes.
Masaomi didn't let Cleria to do that for long and immediately hugged her while whispering to her ears, "It's okay, I already promised you that I will forever be with you."
Cleria couldn't stop her tears anymore as she has been hiding this piece of important secret, even if it is just a speculation, from him since yesterday. A heavy weight in her heart was finally relieved along with her tears when she heard Masaomi's words.
Kisuke read the mood and didn't interrupt them. He just played with Yoruichi's paws while waiting for them to calm down.
Wiping her tears, Cleria apologized to Kisuke for the interruption.
"The secret that I manage to uncover is about the existence of the King Piece." She continued explaining.
"Hm? Isn't Evil Pieces system adopted the idea of chess? So the leader should have this King Piece. What is wrong with that?" Kisuke was quite confuse as the game of chess can't happen without the king.
"The problem is every young high-class devil receive only fifteen pieces, without the King Piece. The master of the peerage can use his or her demonic power to brand the Evil Pieces they received. It is common sense that there is no King Pieces." Making another cup of tea for everyone, Cleria continued to narrate.
"Heh... So this nonexistent pieces are?" Kisuke urges her to continue.
"They exist, and only those in highest position are aware of them. I only accidentally discovered it."
"Then what can these King Pieces do to warrant such excessive actions of hunting you down just because you know about?"
"They can provide a power up to the master of the peerage. At least ten times to a hundred times of their base power." Cleria took a deep breath before saying this.
The room was silent. Everyone was dumbfounded.
"Ten to one hundred times?!" Masaomi shouted.
"I see. Rating Game and Evil Pieces are the foundations of the modern devil society and the usage of this basically cheating or just plain corruption. If came to light, various people will lose their shit." Kisuke muttered after being silent for a moment.
"You're right. That is why they can't let me off, especially since I know that the top 3 rankers of rating game are King Pieces users. They made their way to the top through cheating. Just being one of the rankers give you various privileges." Cleria lamentably agreed.
Another silence descended among them.
"What do you plan to do now?" Kisuke asked after finishing his second cup of tea.
"Hide. Let things cool down. Live a quiet life somewhere and establish a family with Masaomi." Cleria finally smiled and held Masaomi's hand.
"I see, then take that cloak with you. It'll make you look like a normal human." Kisuke smiled back and give his blessing to the two.
""Thank you for everything"", The couple once again expressed their gratitude.
Cleria passed a few more things and the method of activating the teleportation array to Kisuke before getting ready to leave.
" Oh, one more thing. Just a piece of friendly advice. Don't let the quiet and peaceful life dull your skills, on the contrary, improve it for unexpected rainy days." Kisuke said before they teleported away.
The couple looked shocked for a moment before saying, "Are you really a kid? Why do you seem more experienced than us? Haaah... Whatever, we'll do just that. Thanks." Then they disappeared.
Kisuke and Yoruichi were left alone in this wide chamber.
"What do we do next?" Yoruichi's voice resounded from Kisuke's side.
"We take a quick look at the books until 4:00 PM, then go home for dinner. I'm still tired from yesterday's ordeal." Kisuke replied while walking through the bookshelves.
"Don't forget to buy my yogurt before going home." The cat didn't forget her snack and reminded her partner.
"Yes yes."
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The next day.
After eating his breakfast, Kisuke was lazing on the sofa while watching the magical girl show being aired on television when their doorbell rang.
"Kisuke, take the door for a moment." He heard her mother from the kitchen who is washing the dishes.
"Got it." Kisuke got up and walk to the door. When he peeped through the pinhole, he saw two familiar figures.
He opened the door and greeted the two, "Uncle Touji! And some girl I don't know. Please come in, my mother is inside."
"Who is some girl you don't know! I'm Irina!" The young girl in frilly white dress and hair tied up in ponytail immediately reacted at Kisuke's remark.
"What?! Why are you dressing like a girl?!" Kisuke feigned a shocked expression.
"I'M A GIRL!!!" Irina finally lost it and was ready to pounce on Kisuke.
"Kisuke, stop teasing her so much." Kisuke's mother, Sakura, appeared behind him and gave him a knock on the head.
"Touji-san, Irina-chan, please come in. I'll prepare tea and snacks." Sakura continued and invited the guests in.
Touji just smiled at the kids' antics but Kisuke can still see traces of exhaustion on his face, "We'll take your offer, thanks for having us."
The three sat in the living room while Sakura prepares the tea and snacks.
Kisuke and Irina are still bickering and Touji just watched with a light smile.
Sakura came out and joined them, "What brings you here today?" she asked Touji after she gave the cup of tea.
Touji took a sip before saying, "Irina and me here to say our farewells."
Irina became gloomy and stopped eating her snacks after hearing this.
"Farewell? Are you moving out?" Sakura inquired.
"Yes. Due to my work, we will be moving to Europe. Kisuke-kun has been a good friend of my Irina here, I also wanted to thank him before leaving." Touji patted his daughter's head to comfort her.
Touji looked at Kisuke and said, "Thank you Kisuke-kun, for taking care of Irina."
"You're welcome, uncle. We'll probably see again each other in the future, and by then, I hope she isn't a pain in the butt as she is now." Kisuke replied to Touji while grinning at Irina.
"Who is the pain in the butt?!!" Irina was once again furious, but she didn't have the gloomy aura anymore.
The four talked about random things for about half an hour before Touji and Irina bid their goodbyes and saying that they still have to go to the Hyoudo residence.
After seeing them off, the mother and son duo entered back to their house.
"Will you miss her?" Sakura suddenly asked her son.
"Of course, she's like my little sister after all." Kisuke replied but didn't stop walking towards his room.
Sakura just smiled at him.
Kisuke returned to his room and saw Yoruichi enjoying her milk while in cat form.
Yoruichi looked at him and asked, "What's the plan from now on?"
"Many!" Kisuke jumped to his bed before he continued.
"First, we study everything in the library. I saw some books about magicians and mana manipulation yesterday. That will help us fuse our physical and spiritual body.
" After we accomplish that, we'll be able to regain our former abilities and with some improvement. We'll also be able to materialize our Zanpakutous.
"In my case, I think I'll also be able to take out a hollow mask with the help of Hougyoku.
" And lastly is the reopening of the Urahara Store.
"All of this will take some years to complete."
Kisuke finished speaking and looked at his cat for some input.
"You still haven't given up of that desolated store of yours?"
"It is my calling."
ANNOUNCEMENT!
This will be the end of Volume 1. I don't know if I have enough word count for that, but vol1 ends here.
Next Volume will start just before the canon timeline with our shinigamis back in action plus more.
But you will have to wait. xD
In two days, I will go work in a project that will take 1-2 weeks, so I don't know if I'll be able to post a chap.
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