Biblically Accurate Angel - High School DxD

Chapter 21

[Moon is currently at the Peak of mid-high class. But because he is akin to Sirzechs Lucifer among devils he have higher energy and much more power than his class would normally suggest.]

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He woke up on the break of dawn, just when the first ray of sunshine graced the mountain on the horizon with its radiant light. Marking the beginning of the day.

"Mmm," Moon muttered as he got up, feeling a bit tired even though he slept about five hours. Which normally would be enough for him to make a full recovery, but unfortunately, due to the intense fights that he had yesterday, it wasn't enough.

But it doesn't prevent him from sending a message to Kale to request the delivery of the magical artifact.

Moon, using a convenient magical artifact that is in the shape of a diary, sent Kale a message. "Inform the Mink to bring the magical artifact to the place." He wrote. While writing this, he would unconsciously fidget and twitch, displaying to those with a keen eye how excited and happy he was.

A minute later, Kale sent a reply back. "Ok, I'll send it. The place of transfer and time is the same, right?" Kale inquired.

"Yes, it will be the same, though request someone strong to guard the artifact."

"OK," Kale wrote.

After that, Moon got out of the cave and started cleaning up his surroundings. Picking up a feather or two that fell and cleaning up anything that would suggest that he was here. A thing that he had done, because he had no desire nor need for any training. As he still hasn't recovered fully.

So he spent the next few hours doing exactly that. Cleaning and picking up a few feathers. He even washed himself in the river, thinking that it would be his last bath for at least the next week or so.

(Pov Kale)

"Human world, is it the same as Sir Moon described?" Her daughter, Katu, who sat beside her, asked while stuffing her face full of food with stars radiating from her eyes.

And the question she asked stumped Kale a bit, as her knowledge was not much better than her daughter's. It might even be worse than her, as she spent a lot less time with Moon.

"Probably," she answered ambiguous.

"Then if I went there, is it true that Hymans are just like us but taller?" Katu continued asking though this time, her tone had a hint of confirmation instead of curiosity.

Kale just gently shook her head. "Human, dear, not Hyman. But yes, he said that they are very similar to us but taller, and their males are much better looking. and their skin color comes in a variety of different colors."

With a smile adorning her face and her mouth still stuffed to the full with food she sprang up. "Yeah, human. He said that they come in many different colors, like black, yellow, white, brown, and even rare pinkish. Mom, do you think that we might be subspecies of humans since we are so much similar?. I mean, the only difference is the fact that we are shorter and green. But humans also come in different colors, so?"

Kale in reflex opened her mouth to answer her question but stopped in the next second as her question fully registered in her mind. "She does have a point," one part of her mind said, while the other part of her mind denied it the next second. "No, we are completely different. The first goblins are born from the magical energy of the underworld, while God created humans."

But the side of the brain that agreed with Katu didn't stop. "Oh please, there are at least hundreds of gods and almost ten versions of different gods creating humans. Though most indirectly, like how, in Shinto mythology, after the first deities, Izanagi and Izanami, created the land, Izanami died giving birth to fire. Then her body rotted in the underworld; maggots crawling in her corpse became the first humans. But still, our species should have some connections"

But she shook her head intensely, as thinking of something like this is like asking which one came first, an egg or a bird. A Paradoxid question with no clear-cut answer.

"We can ask about it when we get to heaven." She said as she continued her meal while waiting for the mink clan's reply. Which came about an hour later, in the form of a messenger bird.

The messenger bird came in through the window and delivered a message that said they would meet up and would be there. With no mention of magical artifacts or who will be delivering them. But she shrugged it off as through the several months that she spent with the mink clan and through Moon's lie-detecting ability. She already learned that they don't have any bad attention towards them.

But just in case, she forwarded the message to Moon, word by word, without leaving a single word or changing anything, thinking that he might notice something she didn't.

Then she turned around and walked towards the treasury, where every magical artifact they managed to buy was located. Because they had managed to get the magical artifact they wanted through a trade. She, thinking that it would be a pity to leave all the money they had accumulated behind, bought every single magical artifact or totem they managed to get their hands on. Whether it was a boot that would increase the user's speed or a ring that would allow one to improve their digestive system. As long as they were useful, she bought it all.

However, because some did not want to sell, she had to increase her offer or even offer an extremely high-grade potion. Though that said potion was only a potion with a lesser modifier, in the end, they now have quite a big collection.

Using one of the most useful and expensive artifacts that she currently has, which is a bag of holding, a bag capable of holding two tons of weight while on the outside weighing only a kilogram, she exited the building accompanied by Katu. While also flanked by several guards, people who are ready to fight tooth and nail for them without hesitation.

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When noon came around, she reached her destination. A hill where she and the Mink clan representative first made an agreement.

Between the thick woods and branches of the trees that fully covered the sun, she reached her destination.

When she got there, she unexpectedly saw several minks already waiting there. Because she got here almost thirty minutes early, she expected herself to wait for the mink, but instead, they were already there. Judging by the fact that Phamt, the son of the Thunder rabbit and head of the mink clan, was leaning against a tree while dangling one leg back and forth with his eyes closed, they seemed to have waited quite long.

"Hello, Mr. Phamt," she greeted once she walked closer. Her eyes narrowed toward the white rabbit as she walked.

Phamt, who was dozing, slowly opened his eyes as he stretched his body. "Huaaah." He yawned as he got up "Hello, Miss Kale, it has been quite some time since our last meeting." His face was adorned with a smile as he replied.

"Yes, it has been, almost three or four weeks?" She wondered out loud with a polite smile on her face.

"Yeah, it has been four weeks, specifically twenty-six days," he replied with a smile as he gestured to the trunk of a fallen tree. Suggesting that she should sit.

Kale nodded back at him as she turned around and sat. Though not alone, Katu was a step behind and sat right beside her. "Mr. Phamt, forgive my rudeness, but because of my excitement I can't wait to see the artifact," Kale said as she gazed at Phamt with squinted eyes and the edge of her mouth raised, trying to speed up Phamt as she was feeling excited about the prospect of going to the human world.

Phamt's face instantly falters as it transforms into a forced smile, and his head locks up in the previous position. "About that, you see."

Kale, upon seeing this unusual expression and how he is wording it, instantly got a bad feeling. "Mr. Phamt, should I be worried?" She asked, with her eyes narrowing as she tried to gauge what he was trying to say.

Still, his face froze into a forced smile as he explained. "Well, there has been a bit of a complication that, unfortu…" But before he could finish, a person covered in a hood who was sitting a bit behind him stood up. "I will explain it, Phamt; you don't have to." The voice was heavy and wizened. Reminiscing about an old tree that weathered countless storms and still stood strong and steady.

The hooded figure pushed back his hood and revealed his face. 

He had a face full of beard that reached down to his chest, and his face, at least the part that one could see between the beard, was fully covered in wrinkles. But his eyes, which glowed with blue light akin to the lighting itself, suggested otherwise. As if the beard and the wrinkles that adorned his face were just cosmetic that he adorned. Sometimes his blue eyes would flash like lightning—no, like thunder.

He started walking closer to her, and when he moved. She saw his body through the openings of the hood; instead of the small or thin body that his beard and wrinkles suggested, his body was filled with muscles and power. And every time he moved, his muscles would pulse and coil like a snake—no, like a python as it thrashed around fiercely.

"Elder you are ?" Kale asked as she studied the mink closer.

"I am Thunder Rabbit, Rapim," he said as he sat on the boulder that Phamt previously leaned against.

After that, he lowered his head and said. "I am sorry, but the magical artifact that we are trading. We don't have it. But if you want, I can trade in a magical artifact of equal value and send you to the human world through a friend of mine when he comes by next time." He said, his voice slow and calm, reminiscing of a lazy wind on the riverside.

In contrast, Kale's voice was a fierce wind that is often apparent in the mountain peak. "WHAT!!" She stood up, her eyebrow shot open as she gazed at the old rabbit mink man. Not at the fact that he was the Thunder Rabbit, but instead at the fact that the magical artifact they are trading doesn't exist.

"How? How did they hide that they didn't have the magical artifact? Did they know Sir Moon's ability to detect lies and had done countermeasures? No, it doesn't make sense. I never revealed the fact that he had this ability, and through the several meetings we had and the investigation that I adopted, I already learned that a magical artifact that is used in the trade had once appeared and the mink clan had taken it. But what does he mean, he doesn't have it?" Dozens of questions and thoughts blazed through her mind as she tried to come to terms.

"It will be a long talk," Thunder Rabbit Rapim muttered as he turned his gaze to a tree in the far distance. Specifically where the Moon is located. "My friend, do you want to come down here and talk?" He said as he gazed at Moon.

Moon, who was observing in the distance, instantly flew to Rapim upon hearing his question. His wings brought forth a storm of wind as he stopped right in front of Rapim. Blowing away his beard and ruffling his clothes in the process. "What do you mean, you don't have it?" The deep and magnetic voice of Moon came forth with raging finality. As if a dam is about to burst forth because there was a storm on the other side.

"Well, my friend, the magical artifact that was supposed to be traded was already used decades ago by my friend, and there is no magical artifact that is capable of doing something similar to it in the vault of my mink clan," Rapid said calmly, in contrast to Moon, who looks like a raging volcano with only a thin layer of crust being the barrier that is preventing him from attacking the Deceiver, the Liar.

But his voice, despite his raging holy energy that is almost thrashing around him, came out as calm. "So you deceived me, huh? How did you manage to deceive me? I thought my ability was well hidden and no one, not even those in the ultimate class, would be capable of seeing through it and deceiving me without my notice" he said.

Rapim raised one of his eyebrows in surprise. "Ability? Mmmm, clairvoyance? No, that is not it. Is it the ability to detect lies?" The edges of his eyes following his raised eyebrow also folded as it came in. "Would you believe if I were to say that I never knew about it?"

Moon stayed quiet, his pupils in the shape of a cross boring down on Rapim, while his holy energy slowly started materializing into a physical form as it cast invisible pressure upon every being in the vicinity.

Phamt and the guards who accompanied them clutched their weapons tighter as their faces tightened into frowns. Beads of sweat rolled down the heads of the guards who were in mid-class, heck, even Phamt's, as they narrowed their eyes.

From the information that they collected yesterday, they already knew that the invisible backer of the shop was at the very least the peak of the middle-high class. The energy that Moon was radiating and the invisible pressure that he was radiating prove it true. Heck, he is probably at the very pinnacle of high class, considering that he managed to pressure even Phamt, who was in mid-high class.

They all stood still for a few seconds, waiting for Moon's response. Rapim is calm and still, with one of his eyebrows raised, being the sole exception.

"I believe you," Moon said, suddenly in the silence. His words cut through the silence like a sharp knife.