Two weeks has passed.
Issei Hyoudou became a reincarnated devil under Rias Gremory after he was killed by the fallen angel in disguise.
They just let him do the odd job that their familiars do to let him gain experience.
Issei also had some encounters with other fallen angels and almost got killed again if not for the Gremory peerage. But Kisuke thinks that it wouldn't happen in the first place if they do regular check up on the town's state of affairs.
Koneko moved in a few days after welcoming their new member and carried on her training.
Koneko's hand-to-hand combat techniques improved continuously due to Yoruichi's close and proper guidance. Just with half of her total strength and speed, she could defeat Yuuto Kiba in a spar.
Meanwhile, Kisuke discovered something impressive while researching about Senjutsu with Koneko.
The life force, which is the main driving force of Senjutsu is somewhat similar to reiryoku(Spiritual Power).
Kisuke discovered that life force was derived from the physical body and everything alive from the surrounding. While reiryoku is derived from the soul body and everything with a soul from the surrounding.
Kisuke and Yoruichi's bodies have a life force of course, but they couldn't really control it and it is relatively unknown to them of how they can use or take advantage of the life force.
However, a new door opened for them when Koneko showed them how her body can naturally manipulate life force.
Kisuke hypothesized that maybe it's due to her race being a nekomata and have a natural attunement to life force like how soul reapers like him and Yoruichi were attuned to reiryoku naturally. But then again, further research is needed.
That didn't stop Yoruichi from developing Shinigami Arts based on life force though and she manages to make a Flash Step based on it.
Only Koneko can use it currently as Kisuke and Yoruichi's power source is still the mana-soul hybrid. They planned to change it to life-soul hybrid as it looks like more compatible with their skill sets due to the similar properties of both life force and reiryoku. Although they wouldn't entirely discard mana as magic is a very versatile skill to use.
Koneko's Flash Step is more or less has the same effectiveness as the magic counterpart. But do take note that this Magic based Flash Step was developed and perfected over the years by both Yoruichi and Kisuke. Senjutsu based Flash Step, however, only had less than two weeks of development time and only in its initial state.
Even after taking into consideration the experience of both the former Soul Reapers in converting the skill, it's still incredibly fast due to its compatibility with the energy source.
Koneko also learned it easier than the magic counterpart.
Kisuke is also developing a training regiment for both him and Yoruichi to use Senjutsu in preparation to switch life-soul power. He also started redeveloping Kidou to accommodate the change.
If someone were to know what they are planning to do, they might say that they just wasted a few years of their life by discarding their current power and developing a new one. What's important for both Yoruichi and Kisuke isn't the time as they are destined to live a long life and just a few years are incredibly cheap to them, but potential. The potential height that they could reach increased significantly by only sacrificing a few years of hard work.
Kisuke's mother, Sakura, also returned a few days ago. She was obviously shocked when she heard and saw that Koneko, a cute high school girl, is living with her son.
Sakura looked at her son weirdly and said, "I just left for a few weeks and your strike zone broadens. You even brought her home to live with you. You didn't kidnap her, did you? Let's return her, okay? I'll apologize together with you and maybe they won't put you to jail."
Kisuke, of course, had to frantically explain it to her before she can calm down. While this is all happening, Koneko who is sitting beside him all this time is trying to stop her laugh causing her body to tremble, which in turn, worsen the misunderstanding.
After an hour of 'war' with her mother, she finally accepted his explanation, "So you're Misha-san's granddaughter. You're also very quiet like her, did you inherit that?"
"That's rude, mom."
Misha is the granny Gigai with a basic mod soul that tends the store when Kisuke is not around. Misha supposedly didn't feel well in just sitting around and was asked to manage the store.
And like that, the issue was resolved, except for Sakura suggesting to Koneko to become her daughter-in-law every now and then.
Kisuke looked at his mom carefully and sigh. There are also mysteries regarding her mother. Sakura has a faint trace of demonic power. It's not a result of a spell as he already checked it. It's coming from her body, more specifically, her heritage.
He also checked his body multiple times for a trace of demonic power but didn't find any. He is sure that they are biological mother and son so Kisuke thinks that the blood of a devil entirely disappeared in his generation. He also doesn't know who is his father, but he didn't confront her about it as he didn't really care about it.
Kisuke also wanted to cast some protective spells for his mother but decided against it as it might just draw more attention to her.
Late at night. Sakura is already asleep and she together with Koneko. Sakura decided that she should sleep with her in her room so the two of them could have a girl's night.
Yoruichi entered Kisuke's room through the window in her cat form.
"How is it?" Kisuke asked while he's laying on his bed.
Yoruichi jumped down to his chest and yawned before giving her report, "Several crows and few bats."
Yoruichi stretched her paws before continuing, "It's still the same group of crows that killed Issei. As for the bats, they're newcomers. When one of them used magic, I saw the insignia of the Astaroth Family."
"Astaroth? What are they doing here?" Kisuke looked at Yoruichi.
"They seem to be watching the movements of the group of stray exorcist under the crows."
"The Gremorys' can probably deal with them. How about those fuzzy presences?"
Yoruichi furrowed her face in contemplation, " I'm not sure. If not for our ability to sense the soul directly I might not be able to notice them. If I were to base it on physical features and aura, they seem to be Grim Reapers."
"Grim Reapers? And you almost missed them? Now that's interesting. Let's go on a night date tomorrow." Kisuke patted Yoruichi's head.
Pretty busy today.
I slightly rushed this chapter, please comment on my mistakes.
It may seem that I'll just be following the canon's plotline, well I'll be following it, but...
Please just look forward to the developments.
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Next day evening.
A black figure is flashing in and out of existence, jumping from one place to another.
This figure is Kisuke wearing a black-colored aura-concealing cloak. Under his hood was Yoruichi in her cat form scanning the area.
The two felt a fluctuation of auras at the distance and Kisuke decided to take a look.
They landed on a tree branch near the abandoned church of the Kuoh Town and took a look inside.
There they saw Koneko, Issei, and Rias' Knight, Yuuto Kiba simultaneously attacking an exorcist with a gun and blade made out of light.
"The shitty priest!" Issei shouted at the appearance of the exorcist.
"Up until now, I never had the pleasure of meeting the same devil twice! I'm super strong, so I usually just chop their heads off as soon as I see them!" The exorcist mouthed unceasingly.
"But you lot have broken my pretty record and that ain't good. You'll pay for it by letting chop your bodies into pieces. That way I'll have peace of mind." The crazy exorcist continued.
"This guy is crazy," Issei commented.
"That much is obvious from the start." Yuuto readied his sword.
"You shitty lot came to save Asia-tan? I should have played with that bitch before. Too bad its too late now." The exorcist sported a crazy smile.
"You bastard! Where is she!?" On Issei's arm, a red gauntlet with a green gem in the middle suddenly appeared.
"Hmm? There is a staircase under that altar that leads to the ritual site." He answered honestly.
"Y-you actually answered?" Issei's mouth is twitching.
"Huuunh??? That 'cos you lot are goin' to die 'ere~~~.!" He started firing his gun in rapid succession.
Issei frantically dodges the bullets while Yuuto clashed swords with him and Koneko just throwing stuff from the distance clearly holding back.
"Bastards!" He kicked Yuuto away when he got a chance and aimed his gun at him, "Dance! Dance! Dance! HAHAHAHA!"
Koneko stopped throwing things at him and run in front of Yuuto to block the bullets. The bullets destroyed parts of her clothes and the final bullet in his magazine hit her forehead leaving a red scratch.
"Koneko-chan!? Are you okay!?" Issei shouted from the side still charging his sacred gear.
"That hurt a little" Koneko said still in her usual deadpan expression.
"Hyahaha, You might be tiny, but you're tough." The exorcist was not scared of her intense defense.
"...Tiny." Koneko touched her modest chest.
Koneko suddenly disappeared from her spot and appeared in front of the exorcist sending a punch to his gut.
"Wh-- Gehooo!" His eyes widened in shock of the unexpected speed.
"W-what!? Oi Kiba, I thought Koneko-chan's a Rook. Why is she as fast as you?" Issei was also shocked.
"T-that's... She already mastered it? And
He kneeled in pain and started salivating. He looked up and saw Koneko looking down on him with cold eyes, " Ah..." He knew that he was f***ed.
Koneko started pummeling him like she's letting out all her frustrations.
Both Issei and Yuuto were speechless. They looked at each other in cold sweat and had a mutual understanding to never call Koneko 'tiny' or anything synonymous to it.
"It seems that Koneko won't be finishing anytime soon, let's go and save Asia-san," Yuuto suggested. He didn't want to look at the brutal beating.
"Right, let's hurry." Issei has the same opinion.
They headed to the altar and moved it to the side. They saw a staircase going down just like the stray exorcist said. They gave Koneko a final look who is still pummeling the poor exorcist and went through the staircase.
After a few minutes, Koneko finally stopped and wiped her nonexistent sweat and let out a sigh of satisfaction.
Kisuke who is watching all this while is also drenched in cold sweat after looking at the poor exorcist who is bruised all over and his manhood completely.
"Say, Yoruichi," Kisuke spoke to the cat on his shoulder.
"Hmm?" The cat is also watching in satisfaction at her student's actions but didn't give her full points because she didn't kill the exorcist.
"She wouldn't do that to me of she got stronger than me, right?"
"Who knows."
'Yosh, I'll never let her become stronger than me!' Kisuke made a weird promise to himself. Of course, he never thought of impending her progress.
"They'll be fine here. Let's take a look at those two who seems about to get killed." Kisuke changed the topic and looked at a certain direction.
Kisuke used magic similar to clairvoyance to view what's happening at the Gremory King and Queen. He saw them on the ground with tattered clothes trying to stand up.
In the air in front of them is a fallen angel with black hair and four pairs of wings signifying his strength as a vice-cadre level.
The fallen angel is looking at the two beauties full of lust and is about to pounce on them. The two beauties were not scared an intended to end their selves with him if it really came to it making the naughty fallen angel stop on his tracks and hesitate.
"What are you going to do?" Yoruichi asked Kisuke.
"Help them of course. They are still Koneko-chan and Issei-kun's comrades and their camaraderie are still one of the best I have seen." Kisuke replied.
"How are you going to do that? Are you going to reveal yourself?" Yoruichi asked again.
"I'll just snipe him from here. I don't care about the devils lurking around, but I still can't pinpoint the exact location of those Grim Reapers." Kisuke gave Yoruichi a grin.
"Right, I'm sure that they are watching all of this but I also can't pinpoint their exact location. Maybe they'll reveal their selves if something unexpected happens. Go and do it. Make it flashy, it's going to be fun." Yoruichi is patting Kisuke's face to urge him.
"You look like a cat who found a rat to chase. Haah, whatever. I'm going around." Kisuke used Flash Step to go to another direction to avoid the town getting destroyed in his attack.
He stopped at a certain spot 300 meters away from Rias, Akeno and the fallen angel. The fallen angel looks like he can't wait any longer and was about to dive. Rias and Akeno amassed all of their demonic power for an all-out attack.
Kisuke pointed his right palm at their direction and muttered, "Hadou No.88 Hiryuu Gekizoku Shinten Raihou (Flying Dragon-Striking Heaven-Shaking Thunder Cannon)."
A beam of blue light with streaks of lightning more than five meters in diameter appeared in front of his palm like a gigantic laser beam sweeps across the sky and hit the fallen angel vaporizing him along with the beam's path two kilometers long from Kisuke's position.
I'm here to inform you guys that I've accepted another big project, so I'll be out for another week or two starting from Monday.
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I'll be posting one or two more chappy before I go.
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