Chapter 7 sins

Reverend one

Her beautiful supple skin brushes against my divine body. Had I not been reborn this way I would have taken her the first second I laid eyes on her, but alas I choose divinity over regular flesh. The room was silent as I eyed her beautiful body, used as a sponge for my various mandibles her skin made bare on my commands. Maybe as punishment they took it away, awe what a waste. She trembled with every movement to scared to make eye contact with any of my divine faces. She moved from my body to the corpses hanging from my chin. Her fear was tantalizing the embedded bodies needing to be rubbed down. I could taste her fear. I finally spoke to the lowly winch “are you in love yet.” spoken from my central face. A pitiful meek of “yes your holiness you are the most beautiful of the revered ones.” “huh not of all beings in existence?” hilarious. she struggled to swallow before replying “I m-miss spoke I mean in the whole wide world you are the most handsome man.” her pleading was titillating “do you have a family.” I could almost see her inner turmoil as she coldly responded yes. I was fixing to have to go, but before that I wanted to toy with her “are you disrespecting the other revered ones, you know Inferno city is no place for faithless heathens I might just have to send you and your family all to the wilds." she continued tears running down her face as she tried to respectfully beg for mercy. “Im-m sorry my lord I meant no disrespect to anyone or anything i was jus—.”boring. I'm ascended a revered one. I have no need for a lowly subject's presence, much less respect. I grow bored so easily. “hmm I wonder how they would taste. Any siblings grandparents I'm quite starved.” she stopped falling to the floor hyperventilating trying to mask it as a bow.it was getting late i could hear the rings of bell as he walked by . one of my attendants came and clothed the terrified girl as I laughed to myself. I like her so I probably wont do anything to them, but hey you never know where the day might lead you.

66th floor of the headquarters of floor 13

It all came back with nothing. Hernan and Father growing progressively less useful as Pallas filled his role diligently as there cup bearer. All there investigations stopped and ended on the man who supposedly left the boys at the church Czarface. It was a mystery, it wasn't possible for the boys to be his. He had 3 paths traits, so there's no way one of the boys didn't at least inherit one of his abilities or traits. That left only one related candidate, his girlfriend, a girl named Rukia Hellsing, a mutt of the world nobles, the latest in a long line of one big enter familiar breeding between the families. There's only one problem with this theory though no one had seen her since she went missing on the eastern island 17 years ago. “I think she'd be the best bet if we could figure out where she is and talk to her. We could figure out what's different about the boys.” a puff of smoke “Alright since you have a problem with the bureau for some reason why don't you try to find her through the church maybe ask a higher up if they know anything.” The cheery conversation instantly faded as a look of disgust and fear spread over Hernan's face as he tried to change the subject “ never mind I'm sure we can figure this out through different means, and I'm sure it doesn't really matter who their parents are.” this was a huge shock to everyone seeing the almost instant shift in attitude and father wasn't standing for this “what do you mean it doesn't matter you had us come all the way out here, why don't you just ask for help from a higher up I'm sure they could he–” a laugh, a laugh as he looked up teary eyed “i'm sorry I can't help you with that, Why don't we start your training.” as he looks to the boys all standing behind father “what do you mean why wont you talk to someone.” a snap as the alcohol took over “ I'm not going to go fucking talk to a higher up. Im the highest priest in this region and I'm not going to talk to those sick fucks at the top, or the bureau or any of the monsters crawling around trying to scrounge up any power they can.-------I'm sorry I'll look into on my own but I wont go to anyone from Inferno city. ” standing up from the stump he made tipping over a little before gesturing for the boys to follow him as father sat dumbfounded.

“Alright lets first see the extent of your powers. I want the three of you to have a light spar with your abilities to see if you can make it in the entrance exam. I can heal you if something goes wrong as evident by my arm, but it is slow and painful, and no one can revive the dead so don't rely on that.” the three boys all spaced out in the field as Lucius took note of his completely regrown arm, looking as if it had never been violently ripped off.

Lucius

On the count of three it started. I was going to go all out. I needed to prove we were worth it.

It had been months since I had fought Paimon, and I'd only ever seen a bit of Pallas’ ability. So I had no idea what to expect. Paimon started his song and attack. He held his hand over his eyes making goggles as he waited for the beat to drop.------ when the song finally yelled out with extreme bass and violence {Fuck} instantly he was above Pallas who had just brought out his wheel. Through the goggles he put Pallas in a white outline where he couldn't move. {BAM} right in the nose as Paimon jumped to the ground then flipped into a heel kick. Pallas’s nose was shattered even shocking Paimon who turned off his ability to check on him. His cartilage was sticking through the skin as his nose was bent flat onto his face, blood spilling out everywhere. Then that beautiful sound from the click of the wheel happened. instantly it was fully healed though he was still crying as his nose had just been shattered. With his guard down Paimon was wholly unprepared for the Diagonal elbow Pallas threw right into his cheek. It looked super painful. Though staying calm Paimon simply said “Remix” as a new violent heavy metal track started playing. With each thud of the of the drum or hit of a symbol he moved. Within the first three beats he had moved, instantly flipping Pallas upside down dropping him on his head while kicking him. Normally he can only use this song for about 30 seconds, but he didn't even need 10 to finish Pallas who after getting a one man jumping session gave in the towel and turned off his ability. I knew I was next on the chopping block. His Capoeira mixed perfectly with his ability; the very principal of the martial art was to never stop moving. My skeletons foot dropped on him, but it was no match as he made a box with his hands by connecting his pointer finger to his thumb on both sides then through that projecting the sheer violence of the base onto the skeleton decimating it as he spun throwing himself at me. Hands reached out to block his attack and right before the impact “REMIX” a upbeat pop song started. I knew it well it was one of fathers favorite songs about how you should count what you have now and not what you don't have. I could time every beat anticipating his movements until he yelled “edit”. I was confined to a box forcefully smiling as beautiful graphics flashed through. Every attack I tried being thwarted by my body being contorted to match with his ability. Though I managed to land one attack through everything, an arm was able to grab his leg through a break in the beat and gain enough leverage to slam him into the ground hard enough break me out, and to send him bouncing into the air. When with the sound of a saxophone he catches himself with a cartoony graphic star. He began laughing with each HAHA being pushed out onto the sky in a stylized font. as he declared “I win.” I couldn't see, my entire vision had been detached and moved like a camera to watch a crow he had summoned. It was dancing to the music, and I couldn't see anything from my own eyes when I heard “remix” whispered into my ear seemingly right behind me as the hardest beat yet started playing. my vision snapped back to a windmill kick aimed directly at my jaw, the sheer speed as different effects were flashing by in the background building up power before the impact “POOOOWWW” almost a directly hit on my jaw. It had been blocked though, he had lost, 3 layers of hands blocked the attack as his whole leg was choked by my arms as corpses started pulling in his other leg. At that point his music turned off it was a impressive show but his biggest issue was showing through again in his mana, and a split second after the music stopped with me unable to stop my own ability {BOOOM} he was crushed by a giant skeleton fist that slammed into the side of him like a semi truck sending him violently crashing into the wall of the 66th floor concaving it like a meteor. Hernan watched stunned from the sides with father and Pallas shocked at the display. Hernan stood there for a few seconds in awe before snapping to and running over to heal Paimon whose moans could be heard from where I was. Hernan then yelled for another solid 30 minutes at us as he used his ability to heal Paimon who was almost unconscious and definitely had a number of broken bones. I felt awful. I didn't even mean to control the skeleton to do that; it just acted on its own, but I rightfully took the barrage. The worst part of all this though was the healing. Hernan told me his healing magic wasn't great, but worked on the principle of growth, having flowers and stems grow from gates to naturally fix the issue. This left me with the terrible sight of flowers coming out from the tear ducts of Paimons eyes. They were from his brain gate with Hernan yelling “your Lucky that brain damage is the easiest part of the body to heal, but don't rely on that. I've seen plenty of people accidentally kill their training partners by leaving them brain dead on accident.

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1 hour later

Paimons brain had been mostly healed though flowers were still coming out of his eyes. every minor fracture or broken bones had little flowers spewing out from the skin. Hernan had once cooled down given his monologue about how he saw potential in these hoodlums and that he would be their mentor . Both Lucius and concussed Paimon were ecstatic and Pallas was there. Hernan then let the boys go have fun on the grassy floor and run around as He and father went back to the stump he made to talk some more.

“You know I never asked why you've taken such an interest in the boys. You should know by now I have no relation to my family and I would never talk to them.” Hernan had a plant bring a bottle over and pour for him “I know that, Maybe I just want to be selfish. They're all obviously stronger than most I knew at that age. I think they have a bright future and selfishly I hope they'll change something.” a laugh “you sound like every old geezer down here you know that, maybe the 13th floor rubbed off on you. Wouldn't change shit in their own life so they pass it on to the youth then get disappointed when nothing changes.” finishing another shot before slamming it “come on it's not that bad for a dying old man to hope to change something.” “you dying old man?” a little chuckle “I feel like I'm in my twenties, but remember my grimoires title. Everyday lately I've been feeling strange and I think I'm growing closer to my fate.” raising an eyebrow “really now why would an old man like yourself be feeling weird.” this angered Hernan a little “I'm not joking, and I'm not even that old you know I'm only 76 that means i still have another 4 years till I'm officially old” {PEWWWW} as Father spit his entire glass onto Hernan where the 2 both adequately drunk burst out laughing. Catching the boys' attention who were all sitting around looking at all the flowers on Paimon.”uuhhh I don't know how you could be worried, Hernan you're such a funny guy.” drinking from the bottle at this point “ah screw it I got to get some of this off my chest. Maybe you'll be okay since you're a royal and all that.” “hey watch it can't have the others know about that.” “my bad. So if you want to know something, you have to promise to not tell the boys till they're living it large in Dantes.” “easy, come on come on tell me.” he finishes the huge bottle and has his flowers bringing him another one “as you know I grew up in Dantes right and went to Walprugis academy the whole process. I know you did something similar. Well I fell in love with the church thought it was my life's purpose to rise through the ranks. So I did that for some 30 years of my life, I dropped out of the academy so from 17 to almost 50 my everything in my life was about raising through the ranks in that life. starting in a little back alley temple of a lesser god and moving up to a church, then cathedrals. You know I could have been a revered one.” Father rose his eyes “really shoulda taken that in a heartbeat wouldn't have ended up down here.” a faint chuckle “I would rather do anything than become a revered one compared to how steep the price of entry is for one of those fucks this little life down here is like walking downhill.” Father and Hernan continued talking for another 30 minutes before they were ready to part ways, but before that Hernan had something. “Here take this, give it to Lucius whenever. it should make his life a lot easier." It was an immaculate pair of fake horns that had tons of magic impeded in them “what I can't take this, this is too much.” Hernan forcefully shoves them in his hand “it's not a gift to you it's too Lucius. Think of it as a gift to the next bright sorcerer. Just make sure to tell him it can only handle so much damage before the spell breaks.” Father hesitantly accepted the gift, hiding it to give to Lucius later before they all parted ways from Hernan.

From there the boys would update their schedule to come down to the inner city 3 times a week to fully battle each other on the huge 66th floor while Hernan gave them tips on various ways to better make use of their abilities. This continued for the next 2 years with the boys going through all the steps and being able to try out for the entrance ceremony. Just 2 and a half years later from the start of this dream the whole family would be leaving the 13th floor many for the first time in order to see Paimon compete in the entrance ceremony on the far off continent of Walprugis.