Chapter 115 - 114: Last travel

Chapter 115: Chapter 114: Last travel

DxD World, Sixth Heaven: Zebel

In the last of the accessible heavens, the four great Seraphim were sitting around a round white marble table, drinking tea as had been customary for hundreds of years already, when something caught everyone’s attention, making them abruptly stand up and raise their gazes toward, ironically, the sky.

Hundreds of kilometers above them, the four could see a sky made of eternal, solid, immovable clouds. This was, at least according to what was said, completely impenetrable to any attack regardless of its type or power. But the four of them knew that there was something else above, the last of all the heavens, the Seventh Heaven.

That place was not only where the Sacred Gear system created by God resided, but it had also been his residence before his death. He was, at the same time, the only person who should be able to enter there without going through the door, whose security was, without exaggeration, the greatest in the entire world.

So, if the four of them were drinking tea sealed away from the door, how was it possible that they had suddenly sensed a presence appearing in the Seventh Heaven?

"Brother, do you think..."

"Father hasn’t returned, Gabriel" Michael interrupted her, knowing what his overly naive and optimistic sister wanted to say. "But someone capable of accessing that place isn’t ordinary. We must prepare to fight with everything we have if it turns out to be an enemy"

"If it turns out to be one?" Uriel raised an eyebrow. "Even if they aren’t, they’ve accessed the Sacred Gear system and could cause absolute chaos in the human world if something goes wrong. We have to deal with whoever it is quickly. What are we doing standing here in awe?"

But before Uriel could move, her body froze upon witnessing the sudden and inexplicable event.

The ceiling of clouds of the Sixth Heaven opened, and a beam of divine light descended from there, from which two people came down. Upon seeing this, not only Uriel, but all four of the great Seraphim were left stunned.

Of course, many Angels could perform this kind of movement. Even they did it from time to time to cross the heavens quickly without needing to use the doors. But the ceiling of the Sixth Heaven was also the floor of the Seventh Heaven, and no one should have been able to open a direct passage there. If that were possible, there would be no point in guarding the door so carefully.

On the other hand, in front of the stunned Seraphim, Yuuji frowned.

’We’re not on Earth yet. It seems that even though I can completely control the sky, I can’t control something I don’t know’

In reality, Yuuji was equally surprised when he suddenly landed in the Seventh Heaven. He even immediately asked Mona where he was.

According to Mona’s explanation, the ’Dimensional Walker’ ability left him at the point closest to his universe in that other universe.

The dimensional barrier itself didn’t count as part of this universe, so they didn’t land there. Therefore, the closest place, or the place closest to the world’s boundary, was the heavens, with the Seventh Heaven obviously being the highest.

Previously, he had landed on Earth because the sky rejected his arrival, but now that he possessed divinity over the sky, it didn’t exactly accept him, it simply didn’t even have the right to object, leaving the ability to place him there.

"Outsiders, how is it possible that you possess divinity over the sky?" Michael asked, recognizing in Yuuji something that only the Biblical God should possess.

’Could it be that after the death of the Almighty, his divinity ended up in another world?’ he thought.

"Michael" Yuuji said in surprise, recognizing the only angel with golden wings in existence in front of him. "It’s the divinity of the sky from my world, don’t worry about it.

Actually, I arrived here by accident and was looking for the exit. Can you guide me?"

"If a being as powerful as you, capable of controlling the entire sky at will, says he is looking for an exit, then it must be true, as there would be no reason for you to lie.

Allow me to guide you, sir" Michael said with a kind and respectful smile without doubting his words for even a moment.

"Wait, are we seriously guiding him without asking anything else?" Uriel questioned.

"Yes, it does seem somewhat irresponsible" Raphael agreed. "Even if we believe him, that doesn’t change the fact that he was in the Seventh Heaven and could have touched something by accident"

"Uriel, Raphael" Michael reprimanded them seriously. "There is no need to doubt our guest. Have you forgotten that we were also created from the divinity of the sky?"

Upon Michael’s reminder, both Seraphim froze before beginning to apologize. After all, having been created with the divinity of the sky meant that whoever controlled it also controlled them. If Yuuji truly were a bad person, a single thought from him could make them disappear, so there was no need to try deceiving him.

Even so, Yuuji interrupted them before they could speak.

"There is no need to apologize. I’d also be upset if a stranger appeared in the safest place in my home and gave no explanation.

Just guide me to the exit"

"Of course" Michael nodded respectfully. "Most likely, since you don’t know this heaven, you can’t control it efficiently, right? Allow me to help you with that"

Michael placed a hand on Yuuji’s forehead, and all the information regarding the heavens, their history, structure, and functioning was immediately transferred to him.

"Why are you showing me all this?" Yuuji asked, giving the Seraphim a suspicious look.

"I will not deceive the outsider" Michael said with a helpless smile before becoming serious. "The truth is that the heavens are in decline. Ever since God died, we have barely been able to stay afloat. It is impossible for us to maintain the Sacred Gear system, we can barely interfere with humanity and its faith, and fewer and fewer Angels are being born, even with the Brave Saint system.

As the bearer of the divinity of the sky, you are the only one capable of stopping this decline, which can only end with the extinction of the angelic race, Lord Outsider"

"And you think that a stranger who comes from another world and only visits for a few days every once in a while is your best option to replace God?" Yuuji raised an eyebrow.

Michael shook his head with a helpless look toward his people. "It is, and it isn’t. You are our best option, but also our worst option, because you are the only option we have.

Without you, the entire race will die within a few thousand years at most. So I will choose to follow my intuition, which tells me that you are a good person, and beg you to please rule over us.

Besides, with your divinity over the sky, we are basically all your subordinates without the right to refuse. Choosing to kneel of our own accord or waiting for you to tell us to do so at some point is exactly the same. The only difference is that one of them means Lord Outsider might develop goodwill toward our race"

"You are a kind person, Michael, just as I’ve heard" Yuuji replied. He was exactly as he had imagined the angel known as the personification of kindness to be. "I can’t promise I’ll do a good job, but at the very least, I can keep what God left behind functioning"

"Thank you very much! My God!" Michael immediately knelt.

"My God!"

"My God!"

"My God!"

Gabriel, Uriel, and Raphael immediately followed him.

"’My God’ is too much. Please, just call me Yuuji Rito. And she is my fiancée, Lala Satalin Deviluke"

"It is a pleasure to meet our queen" the four said in unison, being extremely exaggerated and respectful.

"Fine, do whatever you want" Yuuji sighed. "I’ll give you the ability to reproduce naturally so the problem of the Angels will be solved, and I’ll repair the channels of faith and the Sacred Gear mechanism for now.

The possibility of an angel becoming pregnant will be proportional to their lifespan, using humans as the baseline. I suppose that’s enough for now. Let me know if anything else happens"

"Thank you very much, my God" Michael immediately knelt again.

"Thank you very much" the other three followed.

This time, it was gratitude truly filled with happiness and not merely respect because of his divinity. Yuuji had just solved, with only a few words, problems that had gone unresolved for years and were leading his entire race toward its end.

"I can feel the changes inside me. I can become pregnant" Gabriel said.

"I can feel humanity’s prayers clearly again. There will be no more corrupt churches taking advantage of the weak" Michael said happily.

"The Sacred Gear system is working properly again. I can feel the strength of hundreds of people on Earth receding. Balance Breaker no longer exists" Uriel said with surprise and excitement. If there was something that had worried her greatly, it was that humans were pushing their Sacred Gears beyond what should have been possible.

Balance Breaker, something many believed to be a natural evolution born from surpassing the natural power granted by the Sacred Gear through sheer conviction, was actually an error in the Sacred Gear system, an error that existed because the creator and only operator capable of managing this system, God, had died.

However, the problem was that this system was connected to the heavens. Every time someone managed to push their Sacred Gear beyond its predetermined limits and achieved a Balance Breaker, this negatively affected the heavens. Did they really think that this new power came from nowhere solely because of their strength of will? They were forcing the Sacred Gear to obtain more power than should have been possible through the system, and that system was directly connected to the heavens.

"So that’s why you secretly supported humanity and fueled the war against the devils behind the scenes? Not because of hatred toward devils, but so that more Sacred Gear users would die and stop affecting the heavens?" Yuuji asked, having heard all of Uriel’s thoughts. It was also something he had theorized as soon as he received information from Michael about how the heavens worked.

"My God, I know I was wrong and acted badly, but I don’t regret it. I live for the heavens, and I would do anything for them. But now that you are here, the heavens are saved and there is no need for me. I am willing to accept any punishment" Uriel immediately knelt again.

The look Yuuji gave her told him that she was telling the truth and was willing to accept any punishment.

"I’ll reduce you to a two-winged angel and send you to the First Heaven. There, if you ever have thoughts like these again, you will become a Fallen Angel and lose your race" Yuuji said.

"Thank you very much, sir, for your mercy" Uriel said as several wings disappeared from her back and she teleported to the First Heaven, where most ordinary Angels resided.

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