Serafall covered her face with her hands and muttered, "It's impossible to hide this if they were to go out. I have to notify the others so that it'll be easier to hide it from others."
She then looked towards Kisuke and asked, "Why did you do this? Couldn't you've made a basic body for them?"
After drinking his tea, Kisuke answered her, "No real reason. If there is one, then it would be because I wanted to try it and learn something from it."
"...What if Akeno-chan and Irina-chan didn't want any of this? How are you going to solve that problem?"
"I can always create a normal body for them. Since I saved them, I want them to test a few things for me." Kisuke then looked straight into Serafall's eyes, "By now, you should have an idea of how I do things. As I've said already, I'm a merchant and for everything I do I want to have proper compensation, and this is the compensation I wanted from them."
"Besides, if they want to return to their normal bodies, I'll only ask them to stay in these bodies for a short while to study their progress, before making another set of normal bodies. I'm only asking them to participate in a little experiment that could help me understand a few things." Kisuke slouched back to his seat and drank his tea.
Serafall sighed yet again before she stood up from her seat, "Since you're the type of person that makes his demands very clear, I guess that makes you more trustworthy than other people out there who pretend to care." She then prepared a magic circle to teleport her out, "I'll meet Sirzechs, Ajuka, Azazel, and Michael and tell them about the girls. Though, I won't be telling them about the dragons."
"Thanks~. That'd be helpful." Kisuke waved goodbye to her.
Serafall disappeared and Kisuke was left alone with Ophis, who was still busy with her long-awaited cookies and doughnuts.
"Time to return to work. I have to finish everything I need to do, before the 'anchor' loses its effect." Kisuke stood up and returned to the terminal displaying Akeno and Irina's status.
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A few days later, Kisuke was almost done with everything he had to do. He'd also moved Akeno and Irina to the beds. He concluded that they'd be able to wake up within a few hours.
However, he didn't wait for them and instead called for his 'housemate', "Ophis-chan~! I'm going to the Underworld! Are you coming?"
Ophis, who was watching Magical Girl Levia-tan, turned to Kisuke and nodded, "...I shall go."
Kisuke first sent a signal towards their destination to let the people there know that they were coming, before setting up his teleportation magic. The moment Ophis arrived beside Kisuke, they teleported away and reappeared within a simple wooden house in the middle of some fields.
"Kisuke!" One of the people waiting for them jumped on him, "You're late again!"
Kisuke scratched his head with a wry smile, "Ah, I'm sorry, mom. I'm a little short on time, so I had to finish everything I have to do first, before doing anything else."
"Short on time?", asked Sakura, "What do you mean?"
"I'll explain it later. For now, let me greet everyone." Kisuke then turned around to face the other people in the house, "It's been a while, Cleria-san, Masaomi-san, and Claire-chan~. And nice to meet you, Diehauser Belial, I presume? Or maybe I should address you as uncle Diehauser?"
Diehauser first approached Kisuke and patted his shoulders with a smile, "Uncle is fine. It's nice to finally meet my nephew who made it possible for my family to reunite. From the bottom of my heart, thank you."
He then sighed, "Then again, I can't just reveal their existence yet, even to our parents due to some danger still lurking in the shadows. Though after the crisis in the Underworld, things became a lot easier for me, and maybe one of these days, I'll be able to introduce you to your grandparents. They've been lonely all these years after losing two daughters."
If it was any other man, Kisuke would feel pretty awkward to call someone 'uncle'. However, he knew that even in addition to his former life, Diehauser Belial was still older than him by a few centuries.
"I'd really like to meet them too, but maybe not these days. I wouldn't like our meeting to be a short and dangerous prospect.", replied Kisuke.
"I see... You indeed have your own difficulties. Tell me, anything you need and I'll provide it to the limit of my abilities."
"Thanks~, Uncle, that's reassuring~."
"I've already prepared a meal. Let's continue our talk at the table." Cleria interrupted them and asked Claire to take care of Ophis.
Diehauser still couldn't get used to the sight of his niece leading the Dragon God around.
Over their meal, Sakura, Cleria, Masaomi, and Diehauser filled Kisuke in on the events that happened while he was gone. He had several questions, but he let them finish their stories first.
After their meal, they'd already told Kisuke about everything that had happened. Kisuke then asked Claire to play with Ophis and prepared some tea from his inventory. "So four months already passed.", muttered Kisuke after sipping on his tea.
The adults who heard him were confused. "What do you mean, Kisuke?", asked Sakura.
Kisuke then told them the same story that he told Serafall, "And we only spent a month and a half in that world. I'm not sure if the worlds' times were running on different scales or those blanks were from my travels between the worlds. Either way, that's going to be a problem."
Kisuke tried to sense the 'anchor' he left and concluded that the worlds aren't running on different timescales because the rate of energy being emitted is still the same, 'The travels... But still, I don't know if it was only from the first time we traveled or if there was also time dilation during my trip back.'
Since the worlds were already connected, Kisuke was hoping that the time difference only happened when they traveled the first time.
But while everyone was fascinated at the existence of another world and wanted to hear more about it, only Diehauser was making a difficult expression, "What's wrong, uncle?"
The others also finally noticed the expression he was making and asked him the same question. However, it took a minute before he spoke up, and instead of answering their questions, Diehauser asked, "Does that world have an existence called 'Chichigami'?"
"Chichigami?", muttered Kisuke while thinking, 'What's up with that silly name? The God of Tits?'
Diehauser sighed, "I guess there's no one like that over there." He then looked at everyone and said, "Let me be honest with everyone. Even before I met my sisters again, I had been part of a certain faction within the Khaos Brigade."
Sakura, Cleria and Masaomi's eyes widened at his confession, "Nii-sama..."
"Please let me hear more about it." On the other hand, Kisuke's expression didn't change at all.
Diehauser was surprised at his still nonchalant attitude, 'So he doesn't decide a person's worth immediately with the little information he has.' Chuckling, Diehauser nodded, "Sure. Allow me to explain myself."
Sakura, Cleria and Masaomi also calmed down a little after that exchange and waited for Diehauser's side of the story. They thought that they really needed to learn from Kisuke to stay composed and not to instantly jump to conclusions.
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28th00: Ah, yes. Chichigami and ExE. No. Stay away. CODE RED! That place has multiple transcendents at war with each other for like, tens or hundreds of thousands of years at this point. A big no-no zone. Too bad, they're gonna come HERE. Phis-chama just wants to play with her friend, eat sweets and watch Serafall's anime. Truly, honestly. She has a 'home' now, so she just wants to enjoy life. The life of a NEET Dragon Loli. Hmm...
Alexander: Chichigami. One of the very few beings with the potential to stun Kisuke and Yoruichi into silence just because of the ridiculousness. I'm very curious about a possible interaction between them. Also, do they have radical factions in their faith? Are or were there religious wars between the 'bigger is better' conservatives and the 'flat is justice' reformers?
Goyya: That… Will be for the future. It's really a ridiculous character where Kisuke would take great interest in.
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Diehauser told everyone how he got involved with the Khaos Brigade. But since Kisuke was listening, he started from the very start.
The Belial Clan is a very tight-knit family. Even if they came from a branch family, each one of them treated everyone with respect and love, which was very rare for a noble Devil Clan.
Cleria's mother died in the Civil War between the Old and New Satan Factions when she was still small, so her father and cousin took great care of her in her mother's place.
A while later, Cleria's father remarried and got together with a Human girl which became Sarah, or Sakura's, mother. However, due to the complexity of Sakura's birth, her mother couldn't take it and passed on soon after. Cleria and Sakura's father grieved at the loss of another loved one, but he still persevered for his daughters.
At this point in time, Diehauser vowed to get stronger for his family and trained himself with the utmost effort. But at that time, the Belial territory's economy was still not in a good condition due to the long-term after-effects of the Civil War, and the clan prioritized their citizens for them to live in ease and peace.
For Diehauser to join the Rating Games, a considerable amount of money was needed as it's a system for High-Class Devils and above. Although they were also high-ranking nobles, their wealth couldn't be compared to others.
However, even though Diehauser's mother was very against him joining the Rating Games due to its dangers, she also supported him when she couldn't convince him, by selling all of her valuable jewelry to fund his education.
His father, the Lord of Belial Clan, on the other hand, sold the unoccupied and unused land and some non-essential businesses they had to other nobles, to add more to that fund.
But thanks to their sacrifices, Diehauser was able to study in a prestigious school and was able to meet almost all of his servants right now that helped him to become strong and successful. A few more years had passed and Diehauser soon became the first ranker of the Rating Games, dubbing him and his peerage as the strongest within the Underworld except for the Devil Kings.
Soon after, he also inherited the position of his father and was able to bring the Clan to glory and riches. However, even with wealth, the small clan didn't lose themselves and continued their way as the benevolent Lords of the Belial territory.
Of course, life doesn't always go up. Thanks to Diehauser's success and rise in power, other Clans, especially those who they didn't get along with, couldn't help but be jealous and fear them.
But instead of Diehauser who they couldn't easily touch, they targeted another rising star of the Belial Clan, Sarah Belial. A genius who contributed greatly to the research regarding the reincarnated and half Devils. Despite some questionable points of her research, she helped the development of the Evil Piece System by making it easier for those becoming Devils, to adapt to their new bodies.
Sarah, while with her father and rare Human servant in her personal laboratory, was attacked. Due to the suddenness of the situation, all the guards in place were instantly massacred. Knowing that they were in a very bad situation, Sarah's father used his own life to block the enemies' advance and asked the Human servant, Ryouta Urahara, to escape with Sarah.
When Diehauser arrived, it was already too late as he only found the dying father, telling him what happened. In a rage, Diehauser chased after the Devils that attacked the laboratory but most of them already escaped and those who were captured refused to talk and killed themselves.
The Belial Clan also tried to search for Sarah and Ryouta's whereabouts, but as they did, evidence of Sakura's supposed malpractice came to light, and the higher-ups of Devil Society issued a warrant for her arrest.
The Belial Clan was, of course, shocked by this, but even more so, they were enraged. They hadn't been able to properly mourn for the fallen Belial member, and here they are being attacked yet again, from a different angle.
And after that, Sarah and Ryouta never appeared in front of them again, not even a bit of news from them.
What's worse is that they were not able to find the main perpetrator of the attack and weren't even sure if it was just a single clan, or a collective effort. Not just that, the attack on them became a different story altogether and it was told to the public that Sarah escaped with her Human servant.
After a few years of grief at the loss of both her father and sister, Cleria decided to come to the Human world to search for her missing sister. Soon after, she became the Lord of Kuoh Town and used it as her base for the search.
But after a decade, there was still no news regarding Sarah and Ryouta. It was then that another misfortune befell the Belial Clan as the Exorcists from the church assassinated Cleria due to her being in a relationship with an Exorcist.
Diehauser couldn't take the news and tried to invade the Human World to attack those from the church, however, he was stopped by Zekram Bael, a Devil that has more authority than the four Devil Kings.
After asking for a reason, Zekram told him that they didn't want another war with Heaven and he would stop him even if it means using force to do so.
Diehauser and the rest of the Belial Clan had to swallow their anger due to this. They knew that they'd just be destroyed if they were to go against them and Diehauser, as the head of the Clan, didn't want that.
However, he noticed the strangeness in Zekram's actions and investigated it secretly. This time, he figured out what really happened. It seemed that in her investigation she found out many things, Cleria was able to discover the existence of the forbidden King Piece and he used the fact that she went into a relationship with their enemy to silence her.
At that point, Diehauser's grief and rage reached the peak, he vowed to take revenge against Zekram. It was also that time that he got invited to the organization that aimed to destroy the current system.
For the last decade, Diehauser had been acting as a spy for a faction called 'Qlippoth', which is led by the prince of the almost extinct Lucifer Clan, Rizevim Livan Lucifer.
"Of course, I never intended to destroy the Underworld or the other worlds. I just wanted to get back at Zekram Bael and only shared information that would be detrimental to him and his clan."
With that, Diehauser finished his story. He then looked towards Cleria and Sakura, "But even If I didn't intend to do that, if you didn't appear in front of me again, I might have devolved into something that cannot be forgiven, no matter what."
After that, Diehauser faced Kisuke and bowed down his head, "For that, I would like to express my utmost gratitude for leading them to me."
"Although it was only started as a coincidence, I'm really glad that I was able to help," replied Kisuke. Deep inside, he wasn't just thankful that he was able to coincidentally save a relative, but he's also very thankful that he was born into such a family.
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28th00: So, backstory chapter, huh? But yeah, this clan gets majorly screwed over in canon. It's not cool yo. Didn't Cleria ascend to heaven too? As a devil, she ascended to literal heaven, right? It's been a long time since I read volume 18, but that's how I hear it went down.
Goyya: To be honest, I don't really remember that part.
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