The Church and Heaven Faction

~26 April 2008~

Dulio Gesualdo, The strongest exorcist in the world and also the holder of second strongest sacred gear, the Zenith Tempest. Dulio currently walks around the streets of Kyoto, the safest town from the Stray Devil in the supernatural world. Right now, Dulio and Michael, one of the Four Great Seraphs, go to Kyoto for an alliance with the Shinto faction. The reason is because of their new situation inside Kyoto. With Kyoto becoming the safest place from any Stray Devil and any other monster lurking around, the Youkai faction can plant many medicinal herbs and also any other ingredient for a potion.

While the Church and Heaven are not in short supply of herb, the heaven wants Kyoto as the place where many newbie exorcists train because the area that they have is busy repelling the Stray Devil and their monster.

The stray devils that stay around the Vatican can create a monster by using biomass. While the beast is not particularly strong, they have a number. Last week, they got an invasion of Five Stray Devils and a Thousand monsters at their side.

The first Stray Devil is Catherine or knows as the Red Queen. She is a biokinetic with an innate understanding of, and the ability to modify the biology of any living organism she touches. However, she also can create an entirely new life from the Biomass he has, which is the reason why the Church has difficulty fighting them. Not only that, every time they fight that group, the monster also gets upgraded and becomes tougher to kill. She is also the healer of the group.

The next one is Francis the Trickster. Francis has the ability to teleport and duplicate himself. Every time Trickster teleported, he would leave a clone of himself in the place where he previously stood. The clone itself only lasted for 10 seconds before it disappeared, but at that duration, the clone can attack his enemy. Trickster usually uses his power to do a suicide bomb tactic. He will pull out the pin from the grenade he holds before teleporting all around his target. His ability lets him keep any item he carries in his possession, which is annoying as the Trickster will always bring many grenades in his body. Luckily the Trickster can only teleport to where he can see.

The third Stray Devil that attacks the Vatican is Mark the Marquis. Marquis has the power to manipulate bone. He can grow or shrink, reshape it and multiply it. He can send his bone through the ground and ceiling to spring out and attack his enemy or capture them. His only weakness is when his bone breaks, Marquis will feel an unspeakable agony through his body. Initially, they can handle marquis by breaking the incoming bone. However, when Marquis joins the group, the Red Queen upgrades his bone from steel-like hardness into stronger than diamond, making him more difficult to fight against.

The next Stray Devil is Luke the Burden. While his nickname is a burden, he is not a burden to his teammate. He is the group frontliner, the one that absorbs all the damage. His power lets him move faster and get stronger with the more burden he applies to his body. Right now, he has 50 tons worth of heavy armor all around his body. With that kind of weight, he can move at Mach 3 quickly and punch like a giant. He got that armor from the member of this group.

The last one is Rachel, the Armory. Rachel is this group support. She supplies the member with armor, from light armor to heavy armor. Her power is to create any type of armor with a simple material. All her armor can take a High-Level spell to a certain degree, making her and her teammate harder to defeat. The reason why the Church and the Heaven faction can defeat them is that the Church and the Heaven can overpower the armor they have, including the one that Burden has on his body.

They call themself as the Elite.

Dulio initially doesn't know the reason why the Elite attack the Vatican, but Lord Michael says that the Elite wants to take the Holy Grail in the Church. All the Seraph also suspect that the Stray Devil wants to take the Holy Grail and make themself immune to the holy power.

Dulio shakes his head when he arrives in front of his destination. Le Blanc Cafe. He hears from the people all around Kyoto that this place has the most delicious food they ever have. As he opens up the door, he can smell something amazing.

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Kojiro, like usual, wakes up early in the morning and begins to train himself, but this time, he trains his endurance. After training for three hours, he gets out of the chamber and begins to take a shower. After taking a shower, he walks to the kitchen and begins to prepare some breakfast for them. While cooking, he remembers the charges he used yesterday.

Yesterday, he used his charges into Stray Devil Physiology (3/200), Forcefield (4/200), Light Armor (6/75), Pocket Dimension (6/800), and Endurance Training (6/115).

Last night, he focused his charges into a Defensive and Support specialty. If yesterday he focuses on the Defensive and Supports specialty, this time he wants to focus on the support specialty which is why he uses it in Biology (3/200), Stray Devil Physiology (4/200), Chemistry (4/150), Computer (3/112), and Simulation (7/500). The reason he has both Biology and Stray Devil Physiology is that Biology is more about plants and animals, but weirdly enough, it also includes a monster from mythology.

With his new upgraded specialty, he has a strong urge to do some tinkering, but he can stop the urge before it can control him. After he finishes cooking some breakfast, he hears footsteps coming from the stairs. He looks at the stairs and sees Sakura already wake up and walks to the kitchen with Fou and Lilith walk with her. However, he raises his eyebrow when he sees some of Fou's fur inside Lilith's mouth while Lilith has a claw wound on her scale.

"Do you wake up because of those two?"

Kojiro says while pointing his spoon at both Lilith and Fou.

"En"

Kojiro looks at both creatures and sighs before continuing his cooking of the last dishes. For a few times, he also whacked the impatient hand, paw, and tail from the food on the table. When the food is ready, they begin to eat. Today breakfast is Filipino breakfast food. Garlic Fried Rice with meat and fried eggs, the meat is called tapa and longganisa. While the drink is Coffee (Kojiro) and Orange Juice for Sakura, Fou, and Lilith. Kojiro still doesn't know why the snake has an Orange Juice as its favorite drink.

After they finish breakfast, he asks Sakura to take a bath with Lilith and Fou while he prepares for the cafe.

When he is done preparing, he looks at Sakura, who wears a maid outfit he made for her the other day. This outfit has already been enchanted to the brim by him, making it more of battle armor than a maid outfit.

After waiting for 15 minutes after switching the sign, he immediately hears a bell ringing indicating that there is a customer. As he looks at his first customer of the day, he immediately knows who the young man in front of him is. This young man is the strongest exorcist in the world and also the holder of Zenith Tempest.

After taking a deep breath, he smiles at his customer and says,

"Welcome to Le Blanc Cafe Today specialty is garlic fried rice with fried eggs and sausage."