Volume 5 Chapter 266 - Report
Serafall, who isn't paying any attention to the commotion, is only blankly touching her own head where Kisuke's hand was formerly on, 'What was that?'
She's still trying to understand what she's feeling back then. When Kisuke patted her, after the initial shock, she felt strangely warm as she looks into his eyes and ended up blushing. Aside from that, an impossible feeling accompanied it, the sense of security from him, which she can only feel from her parents when she's a child and is already almost impossible for someone of her caliber. This nostalgic and strange feeling ended up confusing her.
"Nee-sama!!!" Serafall woke up from her daydreaming when someone suddenly grabbed her shoulders and called her, "Sona-chan? What happened to your forehead?" Serafall noticed that there is a small bump on her forehead and asked it first.
'You're asking that!? You're daydreaming all this time!? And you're daydreaming hard enough to not to notice such a big commotion caused by that idiot!?' Sona looked at her big sister in surprise and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Serafall took a quick peek on Kisuke who is now sitting beside Issei looking forward with a serious expression. He's now behaving like a good and disciplined student. She then took back her gaze and answered Sona, "Nothing~!"
Although she went back to her usual attitude, Sona didn't miss it, 'That peek… Although just for an instant, she looked at him differently! Bad! This is bad! If nothing changes, my big sister will also fell into that wolf's mouth!'
"Ehem… Serafall. We're already behind the schedule. Let's start this conference." From behind Sona, Sirzechs' voice sounded. When they looked at him, he's wearing a wry smile.
"Yes~!" Serafall returned to her seat and Sona did the same. Although everyone already returned to their positions, there is an awkward atmosphere lingering around.
Even the stoic and quiet Vali has cold sweats on his forehead and is trying his best not to make any comment, 'What the hell is he!? I already received a warning from Kuroka, but this is much worse! Although fighting him would be fun, the disadvantages of involving myself with him are too much… Better avoid him…'
"Let's ignore that guy for now and continue with what we must to do." Azazel is not affected by the weird atmosphere and pushed the talk.
Sirzechs nodded and started, "All here today are aware of the highly classified truth… That God is dead. We will begin our talks with that as given."
And that's how the Three Great Factions conference began.
They talked about the effects of God's absence in each faction, the possibility of leaked intelligence on hostile forces, and their current developments towards ruin if nothing is done. The talk went on until the topic reached Kokabiel's actions.
"Well, Rias." Sirzechs looked towards his little sister, "Could you tell us about the events of the other day?"
Rias stood up, "Yes, Lucifer-sama…" She then explained exactly what happened and it was followed up by Sona's statement.
"Thank you. Be seated." Sirzechs nodded at them, "We would also like to hear it from you Kisuke Uraha…ra?"
Sirzechs wanted to ask Kisuke but when he looked at him closely, he's already snoring away. At some point in this conference, Kisuke fell asleep.
Sona and Akeno were about to wake him up by flicking his nose and electrocuting him when a manly voice was heard, "I'll be the one who's going to speak on his behalf. I already have his note." The forgotten black cat spoke. Due to Kisuke's antics, they already forgot the existence of the 'pet'.
"Y-Yoruichi… is it? Then please." Sirzechs already met her a few days ago but still can't get used to the form of a talking cat with a manly voice she always takes.
However, for Michael and Irina, this is the first time they encountered Yoruichi, "A talking cat? Wait… Yoruichi? Why does that name sound familiar?" Irina asked to no one in particular.
"Oh, right. The Heaven Faction still doesn't know about Yoruichi's existence…" Azazel muttered.
"Yoruichi? Mind telling me a little bit about him?" Michael also curiously looked at the cat.
"If there is someone who knows more about her, it's the Devils, but from the information I gathered, it seems that she's on Ultimate-Class level," Azazel replied.
"All Ultimate-Class beings are recorded due to the power they have and now there are two people of this level that is unknown until now?" Michael furrowed his brows, 'Someone who would hide their strength is either a hermit or those living in the shadow… Can we really trust them?'
Azazel, Sirzechs, and Serafall guessed what Michael is thinking but didn't point it out. Although they are planning to establish an alliance, that doesn't mean they wouldn't want to strengthen their own factions. Both the Underworld and Grigori wanted to take Kisuke and Yoruichi in for their abilities and they are fine with Heaven not participating in it.
"Another thing… That cat is also Kisuke Urahara's lover." Azazel then revealed another information that shocked both Michael and Irina.
"What!? That cat!? I don't know about species since he can probably transform to humanoid… but the gender…" Irina exclaimed and she started shaking, "I never knew that Kisuke swings that way… I've been gone for too long to correct his ways…" She muttered.
Xenovia wanted to correct her misunderstanding but Yoruichi spoke first, "Do you still want to hear what he wants to say?"
"Ah… I'm sorry. Please go on." Michael signaled Irina to calm down.
"Okay… Please wait for a moment." Yoruichi then went inside Kisuke's shihakusho and rummage around in it for a few seconds before coming out with a piece of paper in her mouth and laying it down in front of him, "Ehem… This is what he wanted to say, 'I came back from a vacation and I saw a stupid crow pummeling my employees to death so I hacked it into pieces.' That's all."
'That's all!? All of that suspense and that's all!?' They all wanted to retort loudly but they are afraid that if they did, it'll end up badly for them. They already saw Azazel, Sona, Irina, and Akeno suffer from it.
Seeing all of them are staying quite, "Tch!" Yoruichi clicked her tongue loudly, "How boring." And then she proceeded to lay down on Kisuke's lap to accompany him to sleep.
The rest didn't know how to react after that but they already learned the best way to deal with this, 'Let's ignore it.'
The conference continued with Azazel explaining that Kokabiel's actions has nothing to do with Grigori and he even tried to solve the problem by sending Vali in. If not for the strange man interfering, they would have dealt with Kokabiel themselves before it even devolved to the situation back then.
They then proceeded to ask him why he's gathering the Sacred Gear users under his care and he explained it with it just his hobby of researching the said things and even offered some of his findings. Waging war? He has no interest in it.
Since the conference is going nowhere with other leaders just kept sounding him out, Azazel directly proposed a peace treaty between the Three Factions.
Sirzechs, Serafall, and Michael thought for some moments but they still agreed to it as needless hostilities would only negatively affect everyone.
They went on discussing the terms and asking for Issei's and Vali's opinions as they are the hosts of Dragon Emperors and could potentially be powerhouses of each faction.
After that, Issei asked Michael about Asia's and Xenovia's situation and there need to be exiled from the church. Irina also looked at Xenovia and Asia apologetically.
But just as they are closing the conference, Kisuke and Yoruichi woke up with a start and smiled, "Finally, something interesting happening~."
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