Chapter 13 "Awakening Potential"

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"Where is Kenji?" Rias asked her father, older brother and sister-in-law for the fourth time that hour. "I want to go get my Evil Pieces!"

"Sorry I'm late!" Kenji careened into the room at top speed. "I woke up late, and had to get breakfast, then I needed a shower, and-"

"It's fine, Kenji. " Zeoticus had his teeth slightly clenched.

"Stand next to your sister, and we can wait for your mother to come, then we can all go together. " On cue, Venelana walked into the living room.

"You don't have to run, Kenji. " She gently admonished her son.

"I know you're excited, but-"

"There you are, Ven. " Zeoticus said.

"Let's go. Ajuka is waiting for us.

" Venelana stepped into the middle of the room, where Zeoticus drew a magic-circle, which he, Sirzechs and Grayfia stepped into. Zeoticus snapped his fingers, and they all disappeared in a flash of light.

Once it cleared up, they were in a room that was unknown to Kenji. Kenji looked around, and saw someone he hadn't seen before, but had heard a lot about.

He was a handsome young man, who had light blue eyes and slicked-back green hair. He had a mysterious aura around him that seemed to be somewhat devilish.

This was Ajuka Beelzebub, one of the four Satans, just like Sirzechs, and one of the three known Super Devils, just like Sirzechs.

"Good morning, Ajuka. " Sirzechs said, walking forward and shaking Ajuka's hand.

"Are you well?"

"Very well, thank you Sirzechs. " Ajuka answered.

"Who's getting their Evil Pieces today?"

"Kenji and Rias Gremory. " Sirzechs replied, gesturing to his younger siblings.

Everyone noticed that he said the word 'Kenji' with slight distain in his voice, but no-one paid it any mind.

"Alright. " Ajuka said.

"Who's going first?"

"Rias. " Zeoticus said, automatically.

"Off you go, Rias. " Ajuka raised his eyebrows slightly at what Zeoticus had said.

The last he had heard (and he heard a lot) Kenji was still the Heir to the House of Gremory, though Zeoticus wanted to make Rias the Heiress.

Rias smiled, and followed Ajuka through a door behind him, and everyone was silent for a minute, before a loud squeal sounded from the other side of the door.

"Rias?!" Sirzechs asked, sounding concerned. Rias came out of the room, holding fifteen chess pieces in her hands.

"I got a Mutation Piece!" she cried, sounding extremely happy.

"Oh, well done, Rias!" Sirzechs replied, letting Rias run into her older brother's arms and hug him. Kenji saw that one of the pieces, one of Rias' two Bishops, was a deeper red than the rest of them.

"Okay, off you go, Kenji. " Venelana bent and kissed her son.

Kenji blushed, and followed Ajuka into a laboratory-type place. There was a very large and complex-looking machine in the middle of the room.

"Okay Kenji, could you press your hand onto the indicated spot, please?" Ajuka asked, pointing to a spot with a handprint on it.

"Sure. " Kenji replied, putting his hand onto the spot.

"Do I need to do anything else?"

"Just focus your magic into that hand, and your Pieces will be created. " Ajuka replied, and Kenji obeyed the Satan.

After about a minute, fifteen objects shot out of the machine, and landed in a little bowl underneath the machine.

Ajuka scooped up the pieces, and looked them over. When he got to the eight smallest objects, he stopped and stared.

"Amazing…" he muttered. "This is amazing…"

"What's amazing?" Kenji asked, but Ajuka firmly clasped one of his hands in his.

"Kenji Gremory. " Ajuka said, warmly.

"Congratulations. You're the first Devil ever to get more than one Mutation Piece in your set of Evil Pieces.

"

"…What's a Mutation Piece?" Kenji asked, and Ajuka put the pieces down, and facepalmed.

"You know how Evil Pieces are used to reincarnate beings into Devils?" he asked. Kenji nodded.

"Well, if reincarnating a being required more than one Evil Piece, then using one Mutation Piece would be sufficient in reincarnating that being instead of having to use several pieces. "

"Alright. " Kenji replied, looking carefully at Ajuka.

"What Mutation Pieces do I have, and how many do I have?"

"You have eight Mutation Pieces. " Ajuka replied.

"And all of them are your Pawns. " He handed the fifteen chess pieces over to Kenji.

Kenji thanked him and left the room, to an excited-looking family.

"Did you get a Mutation Piece, Kenji?" Rias asked. "I bet you didn't, because I got one!" She waved the Mutation Piece in Kenji's face, with a superior look on her face.

"I wouldn't sound so superior, Rias. " Ajuka walked out of his lab.

"Your younger brother is the first Devil in history to have more than one Mutation Piece. He has eight Mutation Pawns.

" Rias' jaw dropped.

"How?" she could only ask.

"I don't know. " Ajuka replied, smiling at Kenji.

"I can only say that, as Devils have a one in ten chance of getting one Mutation Piece in their set, and Kenji has eight Mutation Pieces, we can only presume that Kenji had a chance of one in ten to the power of eight, which is one in one hundred million, which is approximately sixty-seven times the current population of the Devil race today. " Everyone, even Grayfia, who was usually so emotionless, their jaws dropped at the same time.

"One in- in one hundred MILLION?" Venelana stammered.

"Yes. One in one hundred million.

" Ajuka repeated. "I thought it was going to happen at one point or another, but not to this degree, I must admit.

" He shook Kenji's hand again. "No wonder Zekram Bael said he he finds you interesting, Kenji.

" He said.

"Yes, I'm very proud of my son, Ajuka. " Zeoticus reached out and took hold of Kenji's wrist.

"But I must say, as the Gremory Head, and the person who knows best for my children, I think that Kenji should join his older sister's peerage, and give her his Mutation P-"

What happened next happened so fast, that no-one, not even Sirzechs or Ajuka, who were both Super-Devils, could see how it happened. Kenji had pulled Zeoticus' arm towards....