Chapter 88 – Visiting Vatican Again

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"Are you sure, Riku? You won't be back for at least a week?" Asked my old man.

We were standing at the entrance of my mansion. My old man was looking at me in front of me with Setsuna on his side while I stood with Masaomi and Kubinashi. Both of them will follow me wherever I went from now on.

At first, I just wanted to bring Masaomi with me, but then Kubinashi asked to follow me because he can help with securing anything with his string. I didn't mind so I allowed him to tag along.

I wanted to get an Excalibur shard to further enhance my strength, but after learning the technique that my old man gave me, I have enough power to cut my opponent. And so my goal had changed, I wanted to find Khaos Brigade's base.

It could be in Dimensional Gap, but the Hero Faction would surely have a base on Earth, and that's my goal. I had read something alongside their base was in Japan from the series, but I forgot the exact place. It has been 16 years since I lived here, and my idiot self from years ago didn't write the location of their base in my notebook.

"Yeah, after hearing Khaos Brigade made a move, I will try to find their base by myself."

My best bet was Vali, if I could find him then I will be able to meet even Ophis herself. Talking about Vali, I grinned at my old man.

"Hey, old man. Give me a way to contact the descendant of your old friend. He will surely be a big help this time."

Setsuna covered her mouth with her kimono's sleeves, seemed to understand what I talked about. Masaomi and Kubinashi were in the dark because they didn't know anything about my old man.

"You have planned this since I brought you to that place, huh." Said my old man as he scratched the back of his head.

"As expected of young master, he resembled you, Commander." Said Setsuna as she chuckled in amusement with closed eyes.

"Damn, why did I raise him to be such a sly brat." Grumbled my old man before he looked up to the sky.

We were just smiling while looking at my old man until he finally lowered his head.

"Fine, his name is Bikou. He's a monkey youkai and he also has a weapon that looked like that old monkey's weapon, Ruyi Jingu Bang."

Bikou, huh. I expected it to be him, but he was leaking information about Khaos Brigade for Sun Wukong? My old man said that he also had some insiders.

I looked at him with a sly smile on my face, telling him with my expression that he can't fool me.

"Haa-" My old man sighed and crossed his arms.

"I had some insider, but they were killed after they conveyed the information to me. It's unfortunate to lose him, but it can't be helped."

My old man had a sad expression as he said that. His informant was killed? So that was why he held that meeting yesterday.

I nodded my head and then turned around. I walked away and raised my right hand.

"Don't worry old man, the one who sees Khaos Brigade as a nuisance is not only us. I will stop by someplace to tell them about this information, we have a lot of allies, old man."

I glanced over my shoulder with a smirk on my face. Kubinashi and Masaomi bowed their head to my old man and followed me.

After both of them caught up to me, I teleported the three of us to Vatican City. We arrived right in front of their Church, and we were immediately surrounded by a lot of Exorcists.

"Stop where you are and identify yourself!"

One of the exorcists with the typical exorcist's robe stepped forward and pointed his sword at us. He was a man in his thirty with brown hair. The other Exorcists took out their light sword and pointed its tip to us too.

When he saw us, no, when he saw Masaomi who stood beside me, he was surprised.

"Masaomi?" Asked the exorcist.

I glanced at Masaomi and saw him smiling a little, but he had a sad expression on his face.

"It's been a long time, Shido-san. I never expected you to be in Vatican City when your post was in England. I heard you stopped being Exorcist and became a Pastor of the Protestant Church of England?"

After realizing Masaomi's identity, the man with brown hair which I guessed as Shido Touji, the father of Shido Irina lowered his sword and gestured the other Exorcists to lower their sword with his hand.

"I was called here by Vasco Strada-sama, he said that he had some interesting information. Imagine my surprise knowing the subordinate that I killed myself was in fact still alive and visited Vatican Church a few days ago."

"I was lucky, but I still can't forgive you. You know the reason without me telling you, right?" Masaomi narrowed his eyes and glared at Touji.

Well, this is bad. Touji killed his beloved, so I understood why he was angry. But, we were in front of the Church right now, and I wanted to foster an alliance with them to tackle Khaos Brigade.

"Yes, I was wrong. I killed you and drive your lover back to the Underworld. I won't ask to be forgiven-"

"Wait a minute, drive back? Cleria is still alive?!" Masaomi interrupted Touji as he shouted with a loud voice.

His expression turned into that of someone who hoping for something. I also didn't hear it wrong, Touji said 'drive away', not kill.

So that meant, Cleria Belial was still alive. So that was why! Kuoh Town was leased to Devil for Satan's siblings. Cleria Belial was never an overseer of Kuoh Town.

"Yes? We drove her away to the Underworld because we wanted to maintain the status quo of the 3 factions. If we killed her, it will become a war and we wanted to avoid that."

Masaomi had a big smile on his face as he lowered his head.

"Is that so… so she's alive…" He muttered in a low voice, and after clearing the misunderstanding, I spoke.

"So, can I meet Vasco right away?"

Touji looked at me and nodded his head.

"Yes, please this way." Said Touji as he gestured to follow him with his hand.

The Exorcists made way for us and we followed Touji.