3rd POV
Earth, Japan, Kuoh Town
This morning, Rias Lucifer-Gremory received a report that one of the criminals that were being chased down in the Empire had managed to escape to Earth by using a magic transportation circle after she killed the guards on the service.
This happened from time to time; when criminals were strong, they often searched for weakly guarded teleportation circles that connected Baator and Earth.
Nowadays, most of such teleportation circles are heavily guarded, which meant that this convict had been planning it for a long time and was very cunning and probably even very strong to overwhelm the guards of the teleportation circle in a short time before the reinforcements appeared or other defenses were activated.
“Probably a pinnacle Ultimate-Class powerhouse.”
Muttered Rias, as suddenly one of the Novice Executioners assigned under her appeared from the shadows.
“Lady Rias, I bring you a report about your reincarnated servant. Yesterday, Fallen Angel attacked him when they found out that he is alive… of course, the Fallen Angel is no longer among the living.”
Reported Novice Executioner.
“Splendid, also, has the word from the Empire arrived about the things I have requested?”
She asked shortly.
“Yes, it will be teleported this evening.”
Answered Novice Executioner with a bow as he melted into the shadows.
“I will need to send Shirone to search for the convict.”
Muttered Rias.
Shirone, despite her rather cute appearance, was the pinnacle High-Class Devil/Nekoshou Hybrid in both Demonic Energy and Physique; she can even send Rias flying with one punch.
Though one of her strongest abilities was the usage of Senjutsu and Youjutsu and other similar techniques, she was the best tracker and could easily search for targets.
After some time, Shirone returned from the Baator as she was to visit her elder sister Kuroka.
“Shirone-chan, I need for you to search for a criminal that escaped here. He should be hiding somewhere in the Kuoh Town, probably at the Pinnacle of the Ultimate-Class, so be careful.”
Said Rias as she watched Shirone laying on the couch and munching on some sweets that she had brought from her trip.
“When I was returning, I saw that pervert talking to some nun, and she had a Twilight Healing to the top of it.”
Said Shirone as she was eating her sweets as Rias froze in her spot.
“Nun? Here in Japan? How? Something is not right here…”
Japan was a place where wasn’t even a single Chuch devoted to the Yahweh, so hearing that a nun was here didn’t sound right.
Rias knew that the nun should be Asia Argento, a former Holy Maiden that healed a devil, Diodora Astaroth, that was executed several days ago for being connected to Rizevim Livan Lucifer and for kidnapping female members of the Church, raping them and torturing them to death.
It was found out by his own mistake by letting himself be healed by Holy Maiden, thus ending in her ex-communication. Intelligence Department investigated that matter and quickly found out that a Devil who was involved was Diodora Astaroth.
Then it was passed to a Commissariat, where they arrested Diodora and quickly found out about his deals with Rizevim, information leaks, and even some suspicious connection to the Fallen Angels, which has not been clarified, but all evidence was pointing to a Kokabiel’s rogue faction.
Diodora was sentenced to death, and his executioner was none other than his family, Ajuka Beelzebub, who also came from the Astaroth Clan.
“Hmm…”
Rias hummed about what to do with this situation. On the one side, it was confirmed that the Holy Maiden was already no longer a member of the Church; what still made things problematic was the fact that when the higher-ups of Heaven learned the real reason, she would be immediately put under their protection.
While Heaven was weak, another conflict with them was totally unnecessary, especially over one insignificant human with Sacred Gear.
‘Those Fallen are probably trying to extract her Sacred Gear. With their abilities, they could use only some crude ritual to do so, so she will die in the process. This is perfect; I don’t really need to deal with this situation and could also obtain a Sacred Gear for the Magisterium of Arcannotechnology to research upon.’
Though Rias, as this would be nice merit for her.
Currently, all operatives on Earth were under strict order to not evoke any kind of conflict with any faction due to preparation for something big, though Rias new that they didn’t want any war till the Empire was ready to tear down the Dimensional Gap.
“You can go and search for the target… I will deal with the matter with devil and nun.”
Stated Rias as Shirone got up from the couch and went to search for the hiding criminal from the Empire.
***
“Twilight Healing should be useful in research to create a portable healing device, don’t you think, Vali?”
Asked Rias to Vali, who teleported her after some time after Shirone left.
“It should. From what I heard, Magisterium of Arcanotech has several prototypes of such devices, but they lack efficiency compared to Twilight Healing. After Michael started tweaking Holy System to increase the probability of Sacred Gears landing to already pre-destined members of the Church, it became significantly harder to get our hands on Sacred Gears.”
Stated Vali as he sat on the couch.
Before Yahweh succumbed to his injuries, he made many additions to Heaven’s System, the most important ones being that Pure Angels could reproduce without becoming Fallen Angels, or giving full control over Heaven’s System to Michael.
This made Archangel Michael a controller of Heaven’s System on the same level as Yahweh. All of that was achieved only thanks to the agreement that the Emperor of the Chthonian Empire had with Yahweh, or rather it was due to the fact that he didn’t kill him.
In the end, Heaven was still no match for Empire, even if some changes were made to Heaven’s System, but it wasn’t as weak as everyone would expect from their losses during the war.
