Flashback: 10 Minutes ago.
Kiba Yuuto, the troubled Knight of Gremory was walking towards the clubhouse at a very slow pace, his mind occupied by the holy sword he saw at Issei's house, and upon seeing it he remembered his true purpose, the only goal he had in his life.
To destroy all the holy swords and avenge his fallen friends from his childhood, those children souls who weren't as lucky as Yuuto and lost their lives, Yuuto's blood boiled just by remembering those foul memories.
Being friends with Rias, going to school, meeting new people and making friends truly brought happiness to Kiba, but still... did he truly deserve that happiness? His friends died, and here he was acting all friendly and smiling, The troubled Knight felt disgusted by himself, disgusted at how he almost abandoned his motive, his desire for revenge.
As much as he appreciated and loved his new friends, he just couldn't abandon his goal.
Kiba took a deep breath, having arrived at the building where the exorcists would be meeting the devils, Kiba planned on taking advantage of them and finding the location of the holy swords.
Having encountered Freed the night before, that insane maniac slipped a piece of information, he was aware that in Kuoh, the stray exorcists held a couple of holy swords he wished to destroy.
And those exorcists meeting Rias, had no other reason for being here than those wretched swords.
"Yo Yuuto." A voice interrupted his thoughts, he jumped slightly not expecting anyone to be there.
He swiftly turned around and found his friend, Jinrang standing just behind him.
"Oh, it's just you..." Kiba sighed, turning back around to go in the building, but Jinrang put a hand on his shoulder and turned him back around to face him.
"'Just you'? That's real rude Yuuto, anyways got a second? Let's talk." Jinrang said dragging him along, Kiba didn't resist and allowed himself to be dragged along. "Alright, since it's you I'll listen to what you have to say."
"Cool, this place should be as good as any." Jinrang said, stopping just below a large tree, the shade was good enough and there wasn't a chance for anyone to eavesdrop.
"So, I'll start by saying that I'm roughly aware of the Holy Sword Project, but I'm unaware of the little details. I'm hoping you could fill me in on it, and tell me more about yourself as well."
"Why're you asking?" Kiba asked glaring at Jinrang, "I want to get to know you better, and understand what's troubling you so that I can help." He responded
"You can't help me. you shouldn't help me." Kiba looked away from him.
"Why the hell not?" Jinrang questioned.
"Because... what I'm planning to do, will undoubtedly make me a stray devil and I'll be hunted down like a rabid animal. You're my friend, I treasure the time we've spent together and I don't want to put you or any of our friends in danger."
"You're someone I treasure as well Yuuto, it wounds everyone to see you act this way, we all want to help. Tell me of your circumstances, and maybe I can help come up with a solution and save you from becoming a stray."
"...You're a real busybody."
"Sure, I guess."
Kiba took a deep breath, looking up at the sky and decided to give in, and tell Jinrang exactly what he wanted to know. Yuuto felt compelled to, deep in his heart he felt that maybe, just maybe Jinrang could help him, like he helped Rias evade the marriage, like he helped Issei and trained him to be strong... even though he would never admit it, Kiba definitely needed help.
"The Holy Sword project, was... developed by a researcher by the name of Valper Galilei, he wanted to artificially create people who could wield holy swords, and because of him... me and my friends, were subjected to inhumane experiments... I sometimes have nightmares about it. After countless experiments, after countless hellish hours, the project was unsuccessful, the church was unable to develop any Holy Sword wielders."
"It... amazes me, how far people are willing to go for power and knowledge." Jinrang sighed and brought a hand to his face.
"Yes, but that's not the end of that story."
"There's more?"
"When the project was declared a failure... we were ordered to be disposed off, probably to hide the experiments. We were gathered in one location... me and my friends, and then they gassed us." Kiba took a deep breath, while clenching his fists in anger. "I'll never forget them, they helped me escape because somehow... I was the least affected by gas and had the chance to survive, and that's when I met Rias for the first time, she took me in, gave me a new home, showed me the entire world."
Kiba finished and smiled when he remembered Rias helping him on that day, he then turned to Jinrang, with a sad smile.
"It was great while it lasted, but I've come to my senses now and know what I must do."
"I get the gist of it, you want to avenge your friends, right?"
"...Yes, I'll make sure to destroy every single holy sword, to appease the spirits of my comrades, and if you're planning to convince me to abandon my vengeance, then save your words."
"Huh? No no, I don't plan on stopping you, quite the opposite, I'll help you get revenge but..."
"What?" Kiba was surprised, normally his friends and other people often discouraged him from getting his revenge, but Jinrang instead offered help. which was... strange, but then again, Jinrang is not exactly a normal person with a normal childhood, the details are still unknown to his friends.
"I have to say, you're a bit of a dumbass aren't you?"
Kiba's eyes narrowed and he almost growled, "...Excuse me?"
"I mean, to get revenge you're destroying holy swords, which mind you are inanimate objects who have no will of their own-"
"THEY'RE THE SOURCE OF MY SUFFERING! MY FRIENDS SUFFERING!" Kiba yelled angrily and jumped up on his feet, while his breathing quickened.
"See? You're confused, the source of your suffering is Valper Galilei, the person behind the experiment and the one who ordered you and your friends to be disposed of, the holy swords didn't order that to happen, did they now?" Jinrang stood up as well, and put his hands on his shoulders.
"Yuuto, In my opinion... it's better to kill Valper to both take your revenge, and prevent him from doing the same experiments on other children, the holy swords can no doubt be reforged, but Valper can't be revived."
"...Damn it." Kiba muttered, "I..." He couldn't find any words to counter Jinrang, he understood how foolish his idea for revenge was.
Jinrang took his hands off of Kiba's shoulders, and put them in his pockets.
"Yeah, the whole destroying the swords is pretty stupid." Jinrang remarked, again.
Kiba chuckled, "...Yeah when someone else points it out, It does sound pretty stupid."
"Y'know, I've noticed this but when you're offering some 'Life-changing' advice, or guidance you seem to always put your hands on the other person's shoulder, why's that? You have a weird fetish or something?" Kiba joked.
"Hmph, since you're joking around now, I guess my words reached you, and I do it because... well I don't know, my adoptive father and uncle did it when teaching me stuff, so I guess it rubbed off on me." Jinrang explained, with a grin before turning serious again.
"Enough about that, what's the plan looking like?" Jinrang questioned.
Kiba looked away from Jinrang and thought about it for a few seconds, before looking him in the eye again, "Those exorcists up there, we first need to know why they're here, I'll think about the rest."
"Sure, let's head up."
Jinrang and Kiba moved in the building and got to the second floor, walking down the hallway before stopping by the door, just as Jinrang was about to open the door, Kiba stopped him and shook his head.
He then silently leaned in closer to the door to listen to the conversation between Rias and Xenovia.
Kiba couldn't help but get agitated over their attitude, the tone, the words spewing out of their disgusting mouth... it really ticked Kiba off.
"New plan, I'm picking a fight. You in?" Kiba whispered to Jinrang.
"What? Dude, you' sound like a 70s delinquent. I reckon it's better to try to like... get in their good graces? Or something, whoever they're looking for HAS to know something about that stray Valper, let's help them out and in return they'll help us out." Jinrang whispered back.
"You really think those two idiots will help us? US? Jinrang I'm a devil, and you have a close relationship to all of us, they definitely won't even think about helping us, the only help they'll give is a one way ticket to the afterlife!" Kiba whisper-yelled back.
"Tsk." Jinrang clicked his tongue, "Fine, let's say I agree to your plan, why must we fight them? What benefit does that have?"
"None, it's my selfish desire. I have to know. No I must know just how strong these 'Excalibur wielders' are, after that we'll move in and capture whoever they're looking for, since they're in this territory without permission, we have a valid reason to strike." Kiba explained while gritting his teeth.
"...You trust me right?" Jinrang asked after being silent for a while.
"Yes, I do." Kiba nodded.
"Then don't do anything rash, not every exorcist is a piece of shit, those two are pretty close, but they can definitely be reasoned with."
Kiba took a deep breath, and exhaled. "...You better be right."
"Thanks Yuuto, for trusting me." Jinrang grinned.
Kiba smirked back, "Make sure not to fuck up."
"Oh shit, Kiba's swearing." Jinrang's grin widened even more.
Jinrang turned the knob and walked in with Kiba following behind him.
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End of Flashback, and end of chapter.
A moment please, I really appreciate everyone reading this book, it means a lot. I just want to say a couple things, and I guess to rant about it? If that's the proper way to use that word.
So, I just want to say that I really REALLY appreciate criticism, like seriously I want to improve so it's very very welcome, and I want reviews too, so I know where and how to improve, but when someone tells me the work is shit because it doesn't have the harem genre it really ticks me off.
If someone told me that the work was shit and actually point out where I can improve I'LL HAPPILY TAKE THAT, and make sure to improve the quality of ts, but I can't really do that If people tell me that it's bad because the mc doesn't have multiple lovers. WTF? Why's it a deal breaker? I just don't get it, if someone explained this to me that would be great too.
Anyways, I wish you guys the best of everything, the next chapter should be done in a week max, maybe sooner depending on my mood.