Asia - Ow~!

Yu - You can feel pain but not to coldness in the air? Come on it's below 60 degrees out here! What were you thinking?

Asia - ...I'm sorry.

Yu - What's wrong?

When I heard Asia reply in a low depressed tone I crouched down beside her and asked. At first, she looked like she didn't want to answer but after thinking for a moment she began to open up.

Asia - I-

*Growl*

Asia - *Blush* I-I um um um

Yu - ...Let's get you some food first. Come on my treat.

Pulling the hand of the now blus.h.i.+ng Asia I grabbed her suitcase and made my way to a nearby fast food shop I saw on my way here. The place wasn't crowded so I sat Asia down and then went to buy some food. When I came back I place the food down and waited for her to finish eating before having her tell me what happened.

Once she did I realized that events related to the plot had already begun to set themselves in motion. Following that when I remembered the date I noticed that the due date for Issei's four-month training was in 2 days. On a side note, my desire to kill Diodora had grown significantly sadly the little snake doesn't leave his family territory much.

Yu - [Maybe I can send a group of Shadow Clansmen to kill him in secret. It might take a lot of resources to not only get the job done but also make it so no one can track it back to me but, I think my elites can get it done. Hmm~]

Asia - Um Yu-san?

Yu - Hm? Yes, what's wrong?

As I was planning out who and when to send one of my secret task forces Asia called out to me. Compared to earlier when she was too depressed to look at me after talking out her experience with me she seemed to have calmed down a lot.

Asia - Does Yu-san believe in the Lord?

Yu - You mean G.o.d?

Asia - *Nod*

Yu - Well I do know that G.o.ds exist I've seen and even talked to some (fought with some too) but I've never seen the G.o.d of the Bible. So yes I believe that G.o.ds exist even the G.o.d of the Bible but if you ask me whether I have faith in any religion I'd have to say no. I do believe that there is someone or something that created all of existed but I don't think that being would take up the t.i.tle of G.o.d. If it wanted a t.i.tle like G.o.d it would've made itself known but since it doesn't I don't think it cares much about what people think of it.

Naturally, I can't say that I've met a being like that so all I could do was be vague when stating my opinion on believe. Even in my past life, I didn't have much faith in something like religion I thought it was a weird thing have faith in but never thought badly of those that did. However, after actually coming into contact with someone of a higher plane of existence and comparing it with the G.o.ds I meet previously I noticed that the huge difference between the 2.

So ya after witnessing a being stronger than anything I've ever experience in my second life I'd rather believe in the being that brought me to this world rather than the G.o.ds of this world.

Asia - ...I see...

Yu - Hey Asia what do you plan to do with your life now?

Asia - ... I don't really know. I never really thought of my life outside of the Church.

Yu - Then do you want to work for me?

Asia - What do you mean?

Yu - I lead an organization, and for the past few years we've been building something akin to a Kingdom or Empire if you will. During those few years, we've fought a lot of battle with those that would want to prevent us from expanding and developing. However, not every battle is casualty free and as a result, many children have lost their parents and now live as orphans.

Asia - I'm sorry to hear that.

Yu - Thanks for your concern... Now here's the job I'm proposing to you actually relates to your life up until now.

Asia - A nun?

Yu - Now you just told me that along with being an orphan you also took part in a.s.sisting the orphanage den mother taking care of the orphans and doing normal ch.o.r.es, and from what I could tell from your tone you actually liked it. Also, it just so happened that our current orphanages are short on den mothers and a.s.sistance.

Asia - Do you want me to be a den mother?

Yu - Do you not want to?

Asia - Ah! No, I mean yes! It actually sounds like it would be a nice job to have. Um but what about school?

Yu - Do you still want to go to school? If you do that's not a problem it's not like I can instantly make you a den mother without training so you'll first start as an a.s.sistant.

Asia - Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.

*Flick*

Asia - Ow~

Yu - Stop apologizing for everything. If it was an inconvenience I wouldn't have given you that option.

Asia - I'm-

Yu - *Readying finger flick*

Asia - Nevermind...

----

After that, I basically told Asia the types of tasks she would be performing while also telling Asia about Haven. Honestly, I was surprised when she agreed to my proposition so easily but after noticing her situation I began to understand. She was left alone with no place to go, the fact that I offered her a place to stay was a form of salvation for her.

When putting it that way it made me feel like I was taking advantage of her situation to bring her over to my side. Although when I remembered that if I didn't then she'd fall into the hands of Raynare I pushed aside the unease in my chest. Giving a second chance at life was better than dying at the hands of fallen angels.

For the next 30 minutes, I continued to Asia before eventually stopping once I saw that she was beginning to show signs of drowsiness. So after cleaning up the food wrapper but of us left the shop, and were about to head back to Haven if not for the fact that I sensed mana fluctuations in the air.

Yu - Asia there is something I need to take care of so I'll send you ahead. I'll be right behind you but if anyone asks tell the Yu sent you.

Asia - Huh ah! Okay.

Teleporting her into Haven I followed the mana fluctuations until I found myself staring down on a group of four male fallen angels.

Fallen Angel 1 - Hey are you sure the girl is still here?

Fallen Angel 2 - Ya from what my informant in the church said after leaving the orphanage she seemed lost and depressed. I don't think she'll get very far in that state.

Fallen Angel 3 - For a simple pick-up mission, it's proving to be quiet the ha.s.sle.

Fallen Angel 4 - Shut it, all we have to do is trick her into coming with us and we'll get paid over 10 million euros.

After that, they went on and on with there arguing eventually blurting out the name Raynare. At first, my plan was to kill them but after hearing Raynare's name pop up I decided against it.

Yu - Drew

Saying that name out loud the shadow behind me began to take the form. Once it was done a 2-meter tall man with deathly pale skin his face was covered by a mask and hood but I could see his glowing ice blue eye. He was kneeling behind me, midnight black clothes covered his body, and he carried no weapons besides the twin daggers hanging behind his waist.

This was Drew the strongest a.s.sa.s.sin type soldier exceeding even Magari and Charollete in terms of stealth, infiltration, and espionage. In the beginning, he was a simple shadow soldier but after my shadow soldiers started gaining consciousness he proved himself to be at the top of everyone else. Eventually, the achievements and loyal he showed to me a.s.signed him the role of being my shadow being beside me at all times unless I tell him otherwise.

Drew - What is your command Master.

Yu - Those Fallen Angels down there might have some information useful to me capture time and get every bit of information out of them for me.

Drew - As you wish, and what about after they've given us everything they have?

Yu - Kill them. Knowing you that might be doing justice.

Drew - ......As you wish.

Another thing about Drew was that while his loyalty was second only to Seriyuu he was a shadow clansman and those guys tend to have very s.a.d.i.s.tic personalities. Drew was no exception to that and even found interrogation to be one of his favorite a.s.signments I give him.

Yu - [Good thing for me I have a bond with Drew and all the other shadow clansmen or I don't know how I'd be able to control them.]

Leaving that thought in my mind I looked towards the four fallen angels and saw that Drew had already begun his work. Using shadow magic to create shadow thread like s.h.i.+kamaru from Naruto he stabbed them into one of the fallen angels legs before dragging him into the shadows. The actions alerted the others and one was smart enough to run away, unfortunately, he found Drew appearing before him daggers drawn as he cut off the fallen angels wings, severed all his tendons, and wrapped him in a thin wire.

It didn't stop there after wrapping him in wire he used the fallen angel like a weapon and hurled him at the other enemies hoping to knock them out. If not for the fact that the enemy had strengthened themselves with magic it might have worked but it didn't and they summoned light-based weapons and were about to charge at Drew.

Sadly, Drew was faster than them and used one knife to chop off one of the enemies arms while the other was shoved up against the other's rear end before he eventually pulled the knife upwards causing the victim to pa.s.s out in shock. As for the last enemy Drew cut off one of his legs before using low-grade elixirs heal any fatal wounds, later he sent them to his separate sub-s.p.a.ce shadow realm, and disappeared.

Yu - *Sigh~* What the **** did I just see. Drew's techniques may very well be the very definition of cruel.

Taking a moment to forget everything I just saw, I closed my eyes before finally leaving Rome and entering Haven. However, before I could even open my eyes I was tackled and when I opened my eyes I saw that it was s.h.i.+rone, Kuroka, and Valerie. All them had looks of expectation on their face but I didn't know why.

Yu - What's wrong-

s.h.i.+rone/Kuroka/Valerie - Where's our rings!?!?!?!?

Yu - [Oh~ that's why.]