Chapter 76: [76]:Beelzebub
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Dismissing the screen and his Sacred Gear, Issei headed to bed. Today had been a long day and tomorrow wasn't likely to be any easier.
The Next Day
ORC Clubroom
"So Rias, what's the plan?" Akeno asked as she served her [King] a cup of tea.
Pausing to sip the tea and savour the taste, Akeno always did brew excellent tea, Rias answered, "There is no plan, Akeno. You know as well as I do how tenuous our relationship with this armoured man is. The man was positively skittish when we met earlier, despite his attempts at calm and bravado, and, if his own statements are true, has no knowledge of us outside the old legends. Which, I will remind you, fail to paint Devils in any type of fair light. If we try anything underhanded or dramatic in hopes of discovering his identity and he discovers them, there is a good chance he'll simply disappear and we lose a valuable prospect for no gain."
Taking another sip of her tea, Rias shook her head slowly. "No, our best bet is to take this slowly and let him get to know us for us and build trust over time. Then we make an offer as honest and reasonable while putting the benefits offered in as best a light as possible."
The Reincarnated Nephilim nodded. "Understood. This situation with the Purifiers is worrying though."
The redhead nodded as she placed her teacup on her desk before adopting her 'thinking pose,' or 'the Gendo Pose' as Akeno sometimes called it. Letting her watch Evangelion had been a mistake.
Both she and Sona had read the letter that the wielder of the [Gamer's Gear] had given them and it had been a mixture of darkly amusing, horrifying, and heart-achingly sad. The act of a Fallen had led a simple (though admittedly brilliant) human to join the Purifiers in a war against all things supernatural. This in turn lead to the creation of those ratmen, only for him to end up betrayed and murdered by his own creations, dying full of doubt, worries and regrets.
"The key point that worries me is that there might be more to these Purifiers than what is visible at first glance." Rias muttered, more to herself than Akeno. "It seems utterly ludicrous, on the face of it, for a group of ordinary humans, bereft of even any magical abilities of their own, to try and attack the supernatural races, but this letter is very compelling."
"If it's genuine." Akeno demurred, playing the Devil's Advocate (or Angel's Advocate, as the case may be).
"True." The Crimson-Haired Ruin Princess agreed wearily, though she personally doubted it was faked. This entire situation was far too contrived to be any sort of deception. The costs of setting it up would far outstrip any gains it could provide. "Where are the others? I was certain that they knew about our meeting with our human friend at your shrine?"
"Two of the Perverted Trio are being chased around by Murayama-san and the other Kendo Club girls. Kiba-kun's trying to stop them from being unmanned." Akeno covered her mouth to hide her amusement. It faded somewhat when she recalled that Hyōdō Issei hadn't been seen peeping with the other two, meaning that either he had gotten better at hiding or that he had stopped peeping with them.
Given that he had almost been killed by the madman who had invaded his home, it wasn't too hard for Akeno, who had been forced to watch her mother being killed in front of her by the fanatical members of the Himejima Clan, to see he may have had a change in his priorities after that. He had walked away with a physical reminder of his brush with death, a thin scar down one side of his cheek.
Those kinds of situations can change a person. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse
"Koneko-chan is just getting some snacks. She should be here soon." The [Queen] continued. "What about Sitri-sama?"
"Sona'll be here as soon as she finishes organising the Student Council." Rias answered easily. "The addition of Saji Genshirō to her Peerage has made it easier, as they're all Devils now. I don't think Sona will bring along more members than we have in case we spook our friend."
In fact, Rias suspected that Sona would only bring Saji along so as to make the situation similar to the last time they met. Her childhood friend was astute enough to know that panicking their erstwhile ally with new faces could end badly for them.
Eventually, all of her peerage, plus Sona and Saji, were gathered in the room. Sona brought everyone's attention to her with a slight cough.
"Our objective here is to find information out regarding the makers of the Ratmen, the Purifiers." She said, adjusting her glasses with one delicate hand. "Beelzebub-sama's men discovered that the burrow from yesterday had been magically filled in with concrete and several, as-of-yet, unidentified substances at some point after we left it, so he has no further leads. This has made him somewhat…irked. He has already requested that Rias and I pass along any information the red-armoured man provides us."
"Wouldn't it be simpler to have Beelzebub-sama meet this guy in person then?" Saji asked in confusion.
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