Miyo ran over to Isamu and also jumped against his belly before wrapping her arms around him. "Do you see how uneducated all of these idiots are?! None of these people know anything about history! It's a wonder that Aruna even knew anything about her esper!"
Isamu was on edge again. Now having two women have their arms wrapped around him, he was barely able to say anything and again was in a paralysis-like state. "I-I... I like reading... history books... n-nothing special..."
Upon seeing his reaction, Aruna started pouting and pushing against Miyo's head. "You're making him nervous! Get your hands off him!" "Zen! Get this succubus off my cub-."
Before Miyo could finish her demand, she suddenly felt something pull on her clothes and feel herself be lifted off the ground and off of Isamu. "Zen, I meant-" "Yeah, what did you mean?" Kaiyo said, holding Miyo closer to her face. Miyo abruptly shut her mouth and started sweating as she saw Kaiyo's envious and annoyed look.
"We're going out. We still have a job to do. Zen, Aruna, you'll teach them what they need to know while we're gone." The woman started walking towards the big gateway that they all came from while carrying Miyo under her arm.
"You know that we'll be finished as soon as you step out, right? The whole... time shift thingie Omoikane has going on?... Also, what were you going to do anyway? This is your job too, so teach them yourself!" Aruna yelled after them.
"I knew that! I just wanted to get Miyo away from here." Kaiyo yelled back at them. She had her back facing them and didn't turn around to hide her face, which was turning bright red out of embarrassment. Her voice didn't give it away, and the only one that was able to see her face at the moment was Miyo, but Isamu was getting skeptical.
"Why are you getting embarrassed then? Your heart is beating really fast." Everyone ended up staring at Isamu. Even Kaiyo turned around again but somehow completely calmed down already. "What do you mean her heart is beating fast? Can you see her heartbeat?"
Aruna lowered her head so that hers was on the same height as Isamu's. Their ears were nearly touching as she tried to also see something in Kaiyo but failed. "I can't see anything..." "I can hear it... I can feel her heartbeat, but I can't see anything." Isamu answered while glancing over to the woman that rested her head on his shoulder.
"I thought your ability was something like that too because you have a heart in your eye." The woman went from pouting, inflated cheeks to a wide and smug smile before she pressed her cheek against his. "My name is Lust. I don't think I need to explain what the hearts in my eyes mean."
"Can we... continue whatever we had going on here?" Fudo sat on his chair, his leg impatiently stomping on the ground over and over. "We can't keep getting distracted like this." Miyo, still clenched in under Kaiyo's arm, started to laugh slightly. "Obviously, we can! In the time we've been in here, not even a second outside of the library has passed... well, besides the time I that Aishi opened the door. We literally have all the time of the world!"
"But this is turning into damn chaos. How the hell is the reade- are we supposed to know what's going on?"
"Well, this is going to be your new job. This little chaos is needed at a time. Imagine having everything you need be told right after another... I doubt you would understand everything right away." Zen said as he sat down next to Fudo and then put a hand on his shoulder. "We all got this treatment. The boss knows what she's doing. Just ask questions when you gotta, and enjoy the theater she creates."
Zen had a wide, nearly blinding smile on his face but Fudo could only concentrate on one thing "Why does he still have the toothbrush in his mouth?" he thought as he looked up at Zen's face. "Then... tell me why all of you know Aishi's esper. Is that ball some kind of super-strong esper that everyone is afraid of or something like that?"
"Nope! Saying it like that, it's the complete opposite!" Miyo announced somewhat happily. "You see, I said that the esper ranks go from G to a triple S, but there are exceptions. Trigram is one of those, Trigram is H rank, as the only one weaker than the weakest espers."
Kaiyo slowly reached for the book that was still lying on the table in front of them and started flipping through the pages. "So, we explained that espers exist since the universe exists and that they gradually got weaker. Trigram is from one generation before the espers that we call gods, but he is by far the weakest esper ever, we all know him because everyone that becomes Trigram's host immediately destroys him in hope of getting a better esper, or they die in battle because they didn't know how weak he was. So he had a new host practically every week... that was before he suddenly disappeared 12 years ago."
"Did he disappear... because he became my esper?" Aiko who still stood near Fudo instead of sitting down for some reason grabbed Trigram and held it in her arms like a small pet.
"Well... did you kill someone in the last 11 years?" Zen asked while leaning back in his chair. "I... My mother died of childbirth, would that count?" Zen suddenly opened his eyes rather quickly and looked down at her. "Yeah, it does... You grew up without a mother too?" He asked in a more gentle tone, with his eyebrows furrowed and his unfocused look more set on the little girl.
"Well, they all did, Zen. These three are orphans, that's what I meant as I said we got work earlier. We gotta get them out of the orphanage, so we were about to play lonely married couple and adopt them." Kaiyo expressed loudly, and so she changed the entire mood in the place.
Zen suddenly looked at the two next to him with the eyes of a big brother. He didn't know how old they were, but he saw them as something he would need to take care of. Fudo and Aiko stared at Kaiyo and Miyo with their eyes and mouths wide open. Fudo's face just looked as if he was thinking that one of the two would jump up and say that she was kidding, but Aiko's face became a mix of all kinds of feelings.
"Do...do you mean that for real? Are you actually gonna become our parents?" Fudo said after jumping up from his chair. He slapped both hands as hard on the table as he could and stared at the two women, who both had an identical smug smirk on their faces.
"Well, officially, we would be your parents, but we can't act like that. Our team is full, and we were about to make you make your own team, as I said earlier. All that would change would be that you're officially either Fudo Noguchi or Fudo Kido, and that little Aishi will become your little sister... if that's ok for you two."
"Well... Aiko was always some kind of little sister for me... just...make this up with her, I don't care." He said, leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes, but everyone looking at him could easily see that he did care. His eyes were clenched together, and he bit his lip, but weak enough, so it was only slightly visible.
"Can I call you mom then?!" "Yes, we will play parents as much as it goes for us, but we have our own jobs to do, and that's why we trust in you on doing yours alone. As soon as you two need help in anything, we'll assist you, and this is a promise." Kaiyo immediately answered Aiko's question, she didn't hesitate or think even a second, and she didn't lose eye contact with her either.
"Me too!~ I'll play good mom too!~" Aruna yelled as she held Isamu up under his arms and waved him around in the air. "Isamu is not from our orphanage, he doesn't need to be adopted. He can already come with you," Fudo said while glancing over to them.
"I... kind of agreed to it already. She asked me if I was an orphan too, and I said yes, and now I'm adopted... I guess. To be honest, I'd like to have a mother. I don't really care if I just met her, everyone here seems to be weirdly fast at accepting all this, so I went along with it. I mean, we also got threatened to work in a company that we never heard about. This isn't the weirdest thing that has happened in the last... 10 minutes?" Isamu looked down at all of them from his position, still being held up high by Aruna. In comparison to how he was a few minutes ago, visibly calmer.
"Well, you sure are calm about this all... despite being like frozen before. You got used to being touched already?" Miyo smirked, her head resting on arms lying on the table and her eyes nearly closed. "I never had a problem with being touched! You all were just pressing against my back!"
Curious as to what he meant, Aruna let him down again and immediately pulled the jacket that Fudo gave him off his shoulders, revealing a burn mark that nearly covered his entire back. "That... this is from an esper. There's mana in that mark... this should still have your body completely paralyzed... how are you even moving?"
"His combination is somehow so strong that he starts with S. We don't have any information on the lion they fought, but the incoming Infos tell enough that I already have a place to assign them in, but more to that later," Miyo said, her face turned into a somewhat more serious one for no apparent reason.
"I have to tell you something, which is in this all the last lesson I'll tell you before we will set out. As I said, that there are exceptions to the rank limits. I meant both sides. There is Trigram for H rank, there are also espers above triple S. Espers that we call god-type do exist, and they're mostly double S or triple S, but there are ones even stronger than those. The espers that we call; the seven ancient gods."
She opened the book once more and started flipping the paged until she nearly hit the end. The book began to project a hologram above them again, but this time it didn't show a story or anything like it. This time, there were only seven objects projected above them, and they started slowly moving in circles.
"These are the espers. All of them are in their own way rivaling those espers that control our earth... in other words, these are literal gods amongst us humans. This one is Omoikane's library, the one representing me."
Inside all the seven objects was a key that didn't seem to be far from a normal key. A little bigger in size, and a little rectangular talisman was bound to it. No one was paying attention to it, though. Isamu, Fudo, and Aiko all stared at Miyo, who just all so casually revealed that she owns a god.
"For the other ones here... my information is limited. I either know them because they work with me, because I needed to find information on them, or... because I killed them." She didn't even look down to see their reaction and continued to explain with a strong focus. In the order that she listed them, she also pointed to another object. First, she pointed to a golden apple, then she pointed to a large scythe that had skulls all over the handle, and lastly, she pointed to a normal-looking staff that was used for fighting, which had gold covering both ends.
"Those are Origin, the esper that was given by the divine being itself, the death god's scythe, the weapon Thanatos, the god of death himself used, and The monkey king's staff, not much to say here. The owner was just level 5 as he fought me, I was able to kill him quickly, but if it would've been a little stronger, then that staff would've been my end."
"That staff... is that Nyoibo? The weapon that Sun Wukong used?" Aiko asked as she took her sight off Miyo and instead carefully inspected the staff flying above her. Miyo closed the book, silently nodding without letting go of her serious expression. Her usual smile was gone, and the unfocused eyes that didn't even keep eye contact while she was talking to someone were locked on to the three.
"I need you to know... this is a work in which you will need to kill every now and then. Mercy can't always be shown. Everyone in the seven deadly sins has a body count in the three digits, and I know that it was a Yami, but you three already killed someone, so I ask you, will you be ok working alone already?"
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