Talent

The devil society as a whole is full of sins. They live with the knowledge that they are sinful, but they simply don't care. This is why internal affair is a real problem. When you need to force lazy devil to work, or prideful devil to obey others... There is just so many issues that I don't understand how this society still works, albeit barely.

I mean, there's a lot of internal factions, all working for their own benefit only, then there is the old satans faction that want to spark another civil war, and some warmonger that want to restart the great war... Yeah, it's a miracle we're not destroyed.

But despise that, they don't work to change things. I realized that every devil is majorly incline to a single sin. There can be more of course, but every single devil has what they call a major sin. Mine ? I still don't really know. I'd guess sloth ? But really I'm not too sure. My mother told me it was pride, but if it is, I never really realized it, and she confirmed I was lucky to be barely affected.

But anyway, the thing is that whatever your major sin, devil tend to revel in sins in general. And it shaped this society.

Sloth make devil tend to wait for things to happen, Greed and Envy make them jealous of what others tend to gain, and Pride make them refuse to accept it is their own fault.

The result ? Talent is everything.

If you don't have a natural talent in something, the general consensus is to simply do the minimum to be considered adequate, and move on. Witch is a bit sad considering we have a massive lifespan, and nothing much to do.

So I was weird. I didn't have talent in magic, and yet, I kept learning. And that was not only for magic but every field I tried to learn. I realized that there was a real social gap here when they didn't really understand why I liked to learn about everything.

But their concern was forgotten as swiftly as the discovery of my absence of family power. From then on, they didn't really care what I did. As long as I didn't really bother them, they were happy to stay away too.

Not for Rias thought.

The problem with Rias, is that I realized that she had felt inferior to me. When your parent keep telling you that you must be more like your brother, well, it does help stack up resentment. Sure, we were 6 years old, but her sin was Pride and damn that sin.

So from that moment, she started harassing me. It was little things really. Verbal jabs, little reminder of her advancement in mastering her power, taunting me with her new peerage members, things like these. But after a few years, she simply started loathing me. The attitude of my family certainly didn't help when they let her do whatever she wished (I'm pretty sure that Grayfia even encouraged her a bit), until she realized that I was just inconsequential for the truly important people. She then simply stopped caring. I think I was around 11 years old when that happened.

The thing is, I have a talent. An incredible talent i dare say. I'm not sure how, but when I want to create something, I just KNOW how. It's weird really, but I can create almost anything. Well, as long as I have the material, the right environment, the right tools, the eventual right circumstance, ... But you get the idea. If I want it, I know how to do it.

And while I hadn't really realized what my talent was at first (I thought I was just a gifted artist), when I did, my "family" had already abandoned me. So I did the best thing for me. I hid it.

I could have shared my talent with my family, and be groomed to become the next Ajuka Belzebuth. But really, why would I ? That sounded problematic if anything, from I'd heard from a few conversations between Ajuka and my brother. So I decided to do the next best thing at the moment. I just decided to show myself has a great artist. While it wouldn't help me gain respect amongst the powerful Devils, it would at least greatly mitigate my status as a trash.

Furthermore, I wasn't restricting myself to the devil society. I mean, even if I wasn't important here, could I be elsewhere ? So I hid my real talent, and decided to show a very watered down version to the world.

But I took my time. I wasn't in a rush, so I simply decided to keep learning things, and most of all, I wanted to roam the world. I felt I needed the inspiration. At the age of 8, I was already considered mature enough to wander a bit, and frankly, no one really cared much if something happened to me.

I was asked if I wanted an escort, but after seeing the look I was given by said escort, I decided it was better to travel alone. But before that I decided to create my very first magical trinket.

It wasn't anything fancy, but using my magical knowledge and some ghost essence (easy to acquire at the open market), I was able to create a ring of aura concealment. A simple ring that would make my aura similar to a regular human. I would have to conceal my magic power myself, but that was relatively easy. The reason I didn't want to conceal my magic power with an artefact was if I was in need to use my magic and someone of the supernatural world didn't sense it. Well... It would ring alarm bells, and depending on the place, could be potentially dangerous. After all, no one likes spies.

So at the age of 8, I started my year long travel.