35 Chapter 9 Part 2

- Vali -

He was getting bored sitting in the room while Azazel was doing business stuff.

Deciding to take a walk outside and see the place, he got up and left the room.

This was the place which had the Headquarters of the new Crossroads Publications. A place worth checking out.

As he was walking through the town, he crashed into someone and stumbled back.

"Ahh dammit, who's it?"

Looking at the one in front of him, he raised an eyebrow.

Salmon Pink hair. Annoying face. A White Scarf.

The guy also looked at him and his eyes widened.

"Hey, you're a dragon, right?" The boy asked, suddenly making Vali stunned. "Yes, you smell like a dragon. Fight me."

….

….

"I don't fight weaklings."

"Huh! Who are you calling a weakling?"

"You obviously. Do you see someone else here?" Vali mocked.

To his surprise, fire lit up on the boy's hands. "You take that back. I am very strong."

'Vali, I sense a Dragon inside the boy. A very strong one. His Magic is Draconic too.' Albion spoke in his mind.

A Dragon.

Interesting.

"Then come and have a taste of defeat." Vali got ready for the fight.

Both of them clashed, making the area around them explode with magic power.

The opponent was not that weak either.

The Divine Dividing manifested on his back and just as he was about to get serious, he heard a voice from above.

"Oye, you two brats. Stop making noise here. This is an office area." Looking above he saw a blonde haired girl floating in the air. She looked barely above his age.

"Get out." The fight was just getting interesting and he didn't want anyone to interfere with them.

They were about to clash again but Vali found himself smashed to the ground instead. The little girl was standing above him with her foot on his face.

The other guy was under her other foot.

"Do you think this town is your backyard that you can come in, cause trouble and give no shits about anyone?"

Vali had never felt so humiliated. He held her leg and used Divide.

'Vali! No!'

Albion's voice sounded in his head but it was too late.

He felt an overwhelming amount of power rush towards him before he fainted.

- Azazel -

He rushed outside as soon as he heard that his escort had gotten into a fight. He had brought the kid because he wanted to tag along after knowing Lavinia might be there. Now, thinking about it, it seemed like a bad idea.

Reaching the place, he saw Vali laying on the ground, blood coming out of his orifices.

There were two other children there and several Oni surrounded them.

He quickly ran to Vali to check on his condition but none of the Oni stopped him.

There were signs of a fight but his injuries were not from the fight. It was from… did he try to absorb the power of an Ultimate Class being?

This dumb boy.

"What is going on here?" The Princess asked.

"Hime-sama. When we reached here, they were already in this condition."

"The kids were fighting. I told them to stop and shoved them into the ground. The white haired one tried to do something to me, absorb my power in some way and then this happened." The blonde haired girl said.

Azazel looked up in surprise. "He tried to absorb your power?"

"Yes, do you have any problem?"

He tried grasping her power and damn! She was an Ultimate Class. Just what kind of monsters did they raise here

Vali must have underestimated her.

"Umm Old-man, will he be alright? I just wanted to spar with him for a bit. I didn't want him to get hurt." The salmon haired kid asked, worried.

"Ah, he bit off more than he could chew. Don't worry, he'll be fine. He just needs some bed rest for a month or so." He brought out a Phenex Tear to feed him when the Princess interrupted them.

"Please let me." She walked and sat down beside Vali and brought out a vial with a blue liquid on it and spilled it over him.

Under the amazed eyes of everyone, all the wounds on him were healed.

"What was this potion?" Yasaka asked, amazed.

As far as Azazel knew, the only thing which could show this effect was a Phenex Tear but it had to be consumed.

"This is a potion we make in our faction. We Kijin are very prone to getting hurt due to our war loving nature. So, potions such as these help us a lot."

"Are these for sale? By the way, what other products does your faction produce? We never got a full list of what we can trade." Azazel took the chance to ask.

They had such potions and even weapons surpassing normal Holy Swords. The barriers around the town and who knew what else.

"The alliance and the trade agreement was sprung on us a bit suddenly. We couldn't prepare anything for the time being. I need some time to discuss things and decide the prices before we can give you a reply."

"That's understandable. As far as we've had access to, Phenex Tears of the Devil faction was the only thing which could do this. We all have our own methods to heal but something like this is very rare." Nurarihyon pointed out. "Not to mention, those things are extremely costly even for the Devil faction, not to mention us. Having an alternative will help everyone a lot and also give your faction a good enough position."

The Princess looked in thought and then nodded. "I will keep that in mind."

Vali regained consciousness soon as another group of people arrived at this time and the one heading the group was a familiar face.

"Va-kun, Governor-General Azazel. What are you guys doing here?"

- Lavinia -

"So that's how it was."

"It's all this dumb Natsu's fault." Erza smacked Natsu in the head, making the boy cower in fear.

She had sent Azazel away and brought Vali to the restaurant.

The boy had been quiet since he woke up.

Sil-kun brought a bowl of ramen for them, making his eyes light up.

"Is this guy the Sil-kun you were talking about? He doesn't look like much." Va-kun pouted, making others smile while a few of the children, especially Mirajane, looked incensed.

"Doesn't look like much? Says the boy who got beaten up by Tanya-chan." Mirajane taunted.

Vali bristled but didn't say anything, taking out his anger on the food in front of him..

"Kuahahahaha they were just playing around. Don't be so harsh on them." Veldora-sama laughed. "When two dragons meet, fighting is a normal thing. The dragons inside the two of them are quite good too. Not as good as me, the Great Veldora Tempest but still good enough."

"Yes! It was amazing. I am all fired up. Let's fight again" Natsu-kun jumped, spraying fire from his mouth before he was smacked down to his seat by Erza-chan.

"Don't go on teaching bad habits to the kids, Veldora." Rimuru-san scolded. "On second thought, we can build an arena of sorts in the town for people to spar without destroying the surrounding areas. I will look into it."

"That would be wonderful. Also, Va-kun, you should be careful when using your Sacred Gear."

He pouted but didn't say anything.

Over the next few hours she showed him around the place before they separated. Although it seemed that he was getting along well with Natsu-kun. He did promise to come over to complete their fight soon.

Right now they gathered in the meeting room. The guests were resting in one of the Inns so they had taken the opportunity to gather and discuss the matters.

"So how was the meeting, Shuna-chan?"

"They wanted to make an alliance with us. We also secured a trade agreement with them although they want to trade the Health Potions, weapons and armours if possible." Shuna-chan replied.

"I see. I will ask Rimuru-sama and Ainz-sama. They are talking about setting up a factory. I can ask Weiss to set up the Hipokute Herbs production areas in Jistav too. We cannot burden Rimuru-sama with it. Silas-sama has said that he could get Hipokute Herbs because they can be used as food too. We don't have to worry about the supplies but it would still be prudent to establish a farm for the herbs."

"What about the weapons and armour?"

"We don't sell them normally but auction some of them occasionally and take commissions from other factions to craft for them. The main problem is that we don't know how much our products are worth in this world. The auctions will help us get an idea but we must investigate things in the meanwhile. We have several blacksmiths among both the Kijin and the Elves of Jistav, not to mention the Dwarves. Elves are very good at Enchanting items and are being taught by Irene-sama. Their skills are only going to increase."

"Anything else we can ship as our products?"

"Food. Silas-sama was talking about making a hunting team and going to Jiro-sama's world. We can ship normal food products from that world. It would still be far better than most things we can get in this world."

Several things were decided in the meeting and they finally turned in for the night.

– Serafall –

"Why is mother at the Dantalion House? She hasn't returned for a while now." She heard Sona asking her and went stiff. "I have asked everyone but they just keep avoiding the question. Just what is going on with everyone?"

Mother hadn't spoken a word, just as she had said that day. All her peerage members were searching the whole world for Silas but to no avail.

She had tried using the government records to find him but it didn't give any results. Silas had gone underground after his adopted parents died.

Not even his friends from High School knew where he went or what happened to him. There were rumours about him running a restaurant but when they tried to find anything specific, they always came out empty handed.

Not to mention Japan has become very chaotic now. What with a group of Youkai suddenly rivalling Sirzechs and Ajuka coming out with the ability to use Holy Magic. That was the absolute worst thing which could happen to them.

How does a Youkai even use something like Holy Magic? Something of that level should only have been possible if Heaven's System was used to bombard something but it would have set Heaven back by several decades.

This stopped them from investigating in several parts of Japan as well as they might have wanted to. Even now, she was collecting information and was planning on having a meeting with the new Youkai group to decide on a further course of action.

Due to all this mess, none of them wanted to tell Sona about what was happening so as to not burden her.

But it was having an opposite effect on the girl instead.

"Sit." Letting out a sigh, she instructed.

Sona followed while she thought about how to approach the subject. This wasn't something normal after all.

She collected her thoughts and decided to go with the flow. "Do you remember we had another sibling, the brother who passed away before you were born."

An odd look came on her face but she nodded regardless.

"He… is still alive. Father had… hidden him outside of our knowledge. Silas, the boy who saved your and Rias' life, was our brother."

"What!!"

Over the next hour, she explained the entire situation to her.

"So we just need to find him, right? If so then next year I will be starting school in Japan. We can always find him there."

"It's not that easy. The entire Japan has become a hot zone over the past few months. I will go there myself and check things out."

"Will mother be staying at the Dantalion House till then?"

She let out a sigh at the question. "I don't know Sona. I… don't know." She really didn't know.