#13: [兄弟の乱闘] Siblings’ brawl

"To think that the strongest one really is my brother" Gabriel said "So you knew" "No, I just had a hunch"

"I'm the one who told you to believe in your hunches, because they're on point"

Gabriel was waiting for Morningstar to make the first move, but he wouldn't. He's just standing there with his ominous aura, though the students outside the barrier can't feel it, Gabriel felt it all the way, they stood there for half an hour, then Morningstar vanished, Gabriel tried to look for his fluctuations but somehow couldn't.

Gabriel blacked out some time after. When he woke up, he was at the infirmary "Why am I here?" he asked "You were brought here by Akumu-kun" the nurse replied. He jolted out of the bed and asked the nurse "Why would he do that?"

"He said… [Take care of this guy, when he wakes up, tell him this…]"

Gabriel was in shock, he thought that Samael's return is to wreak havoc but he's quite wrong. Although, he knows exactly what his weakness is.

Day after day, week after week, Gabriel challenges Shiro and loses the same times he challenged him. One day, Gabriel challenged Shiro again, but this time, Shiro told him that he'd give him a handicap, he won't turn into Morningstar.

In the arena, Gabriel transformed once again and Shiro didn't as per promise. Gabriel knocked Shiro to the edge of the arena, Gabriel was also very confident about defeating Shiro there with [holy-attributed mana] but Shiro vanished in thin air. Gabriel thought of the first time he challenged Shiro and tried to memorize his air "You won't be able to take me down, not without turning into Morningstar"

Gabriel then felt a strange fluctuations behind him. Standing there is a man with very long silver hair, and a crimson red suit, everyone from the outside might have some idea who he is, but Himari, Ryuu, Mai, Hikari, and Tomoe knew exactly who or what the is.

"[Blood manipulation – Vladimir]"

A smile filled Shiro's face as his form changes, forbidden ancient magic was learned and processed through the cursed eyes fused with [silent chanting] and [hide fluctuations] he managed to bring out Vladimir in full force. Gabriel clicked his tongue and said "That's how you want to beat an angel? Pathetic"

With [holy-attributed mana], Gabriel shot Vladimir [Shiro] down and was shocked to see that he isn't there and only a puddle of blood is seen.

"He's using forbidden ancient magic…" said Tomoe, Hikaru noticed and asked her "Why do you think it is forbidden?" "Well, first, it requires too much blood to grow into that kind of form, and besides, a demon can't have too much blood due to the cannibalism ban" she replied. Knowing what she said, Hikaru asked her "Which clan are you from?" knowing that Tomoe's older sister is her father's adviser.

"But don't you think it's amazing?" Ryuu asked "Yeah, to be able to produce so much blood" Himari then said. Gabriel sensed that he can't hold out for long. And so decided to use something that he's been putting training for.

Gabriel raised his hands and gathered clouds. He smirked and told Shiro "You better be ready boy, you won't hold out for long" light starts to gather around the formed clouds "[Holy attribute: Judgement of God]" Gabriel chanted.

Light rained from above as Shiro lays down in pain, later fainting after. Shiro then woke up in a puddle of blood on the infirmary floor "What happened to you?!" the nurse asked while panicking. "Holy magic is something that I can't comprehend for now, and it's one of my weaknesses too in terms of race" he said blatantly.

The nurse got shocked after remembering his [Archangel form] and fainted next to him in the puddle of blood, who then woke up on the infirmary bed with her clothes changed. She was confused for a bit and asked Ryuu, who was there at the moment looking after Shiro. "He changed you clothes then carried you to that bed then fainted, thankfully I'm right at the entrance when he did" he said with a smile. ||||

She went to the teacher's lounge to change clothes and returned to the infirmary to continue her job, but when she returned, Shiro and Ryuu were no longer there, she tried looking for them at the hall but they're nowhere to be found. Ryuu cast a concealing spell so that they'll not get caught. "Shiro this is your decision, don't blame me" he said and teleported to the Akumu Manor. Ryuu called a maid and told her that Shiro ordered them to take him to the training room he always uses.

When Shiro was there, he used the remains of his mana to manipulate the blood around him, making the blood reproduce 500% faster than a normal human's. as he stood up, he found some ghoul corpses in the lockers and used it to forge a little something that would help him.

The next day, Shiro went to school as usual and got challenged by Gabriel again "This time, I won't use anything, just me and my equipment" he said "I defeated you when you used Vladimir, you think something lower than that could beat me?" Gabriel bragged despite that he's the one who challenged Shiro.

"It's not something that is lower, but it's on par"

At lunch, Shiro headed to the arena which is full of students watching due to the last fight where Gabriel won. "That's one hell of a crowd, don't you think brother?" Lucifer [Shiro] said to Gabriel with an evil grin. "You won't be able to taint it any longer though" he replied.

Before the match, King asked Shiro to let him control his speech but Shiro will control the movements of their body, Shiro agreed to this and laid out a plan.

The match went ahead and Gabriel struck first, Shiro's speed is not a joke so even Gabriel had a hard time keeping up "Is this how you plan to defeat me?" Gabriel stated as he panted in exhaustion. "You tired?" Lucifer asked as he boasted about his [Shiro's] speed.

Gabriel brushed his exhaustion off and struck again. His exhaustion from running is getting to his fight as each strike gets sloppier. "What's whit the weak strike brother?" Lucifer gloated. "Shut up, you know nothing" Gabriel tried brushing it off. "My turn then" Lucifer said as he grinned. He struck Gabriel and made him fall to his knees. "Is this really my brother? He's not this weak the last time we fought" he makes fun of Gabriel's skills and laughed. His laughter is heard even outside the barriers.

Gabriel is in confused about what to do, either he continues and embarrass himself as he loses, or he gives up and lose because his legs won't let him stand and fight.

But Gabriel remembered something important in a fight; mana is everything.

Gabriel raised his hand and took a part of his [Holy-attributed mana] and pointed it at Shiro. Shiro tried to lose it but couldn't the fluctuations followed him at his speed and when he thought he lost it, it hit him from behind making him faint. When he awoke, it was 5 minutes after he fainted, he asked Gabriel if he could stand but Gabriel didn't speak, he moved his body and stood up "Is this enough?" Gabriel asked.

"Fool" Shiro mumbled. Gabriel not knowing anything leaned forward and got struck. Shiro's mana fluctuations were hidden as he collected some to his hand, he waited for the right opportunity to strike. His decision was to catch Gabriel off guard and strike him with the collected mana.

Shiro purposely fainted as Gabriel fainted the moment Shiro's mana hit him. About half an hour later, Shiro woke up at a bed inside the infirmary. In the next cubicle is Gabriel's bed, he's still asleep.

A few minutes later, Gabriel woke up and saw Shiro sitting on his [Shiro's] bed. 'I want to challenge him again but I don't think that I can challenge him in this state' he thought to himself.

Chapter 13.5: [] 7 swords

A few weeks later, Shiro hasn't been challenged by Gabriel for quite some time and has been fulfilling his duties at HQ.

When Shiro gets home, he sometimes finds Tomoe waiting for him at the door. "The past is the past Tomo, you don't have to do this anymore" Shiro says "But I want to, so don't deny my wish, K?" she said cheerfully.

Shiro's routine was going back to the way it was before Gabriel started challenging Shiro.

[Match results; Shiro: 18 – Gabriel: 1 – Draw: 1]

King remembers that Shiro has one more thing that he needs to tell him. "Boy, How many spells did you learn from the eye until now?" he asked "About 17 continuous spells" he replied.

"The last spell out of the countless that is stored inside the eyes, is what I call [7 swords] where you summon 7 demons in the form of swords that resembles the seven sins" he explained. "So the [7 ancients]?" Shiro asked

"Yes, pretty much"

Shiro tried to cast all seven swords but has only managed to draw out one; sword of wrath, Belial. When he tried to command it, it doesn't listen to him as he still hasn't grasped the forms of each demon, thus making him go to the royal library and read about the 7 demon generals alongside the founder waging war against the founder's father and his seven brothers.

Shiro learned a bunch of things, like how the founder and his 7 generals were supposed to be angels but the founder wanted to become God and manipulated almost half of the angels, including his 7 generals.

When the founder lost in his brothers' hands, his father banished them to hell. The demons who got banished with him complained to the founder [King/Lucifer] about their loss and blamed him for losing, and wanted to take him throne but couldn't.

After some time, the other demons, started to propagate and make families and the founder making six domains and having each ancient demon general to rule each, the seventh to continue his reign after his death.

When Shiro finished read everything, he tried again but this time focusing only to Belial, when he had successfully summoned the sword, he ordered it to transform but it took some time before it did.

Next, he tried focusing on the sword of greed, Beelzebub. He imagined a blade that would fit his title [Blade of Greed]

He couldn't grasp Beelzebub's fluctuations at all so he gave up and called it a day. When he got home, there was a letter that says [Got to the 5 kings' conference and don't bother hiding your curses, its better if you keep them out in the open.]

He fulfilled their wish and went to them. "Shiro-bou, you shouldn't be too stiff, if the council sees all the curses, they might think something else but please bear with them" King Eiji said.

At the banquet, Shiro tied his hair back so that the curse crown can be seen, he also had to hide his demon mark since it's something that would cause trouble for him if people were to find out.

"Don't be too stiff, it's alright" Hanzo said.