Soul Medicine

Issei explained that Azazel soon called him after reporting to Sirzechs the Khaos Brigade's attempt to kidnap Ravel and Gasper, saying that Rias and Yuuto were trapped in the Tepes Territory after a sudden coup d'etat raised by the second son of the King of the Tepes Faction, Marius Tepes.

Azazel also suspected that the Khaos Brigade was also behind this uprising. Since the Vampire Nation of Romania still hadn't formally formed an alliance with them, they couldn't send the army of the Devil Kings in a short time, so he was asking Issei and the rest of the Occult Research Club to come to Romania as reinforcements.

Before they left, however, Issei faced Kisuke again, "When I told Azazel-sensei that you came, he told me to tell you that one of the Longinus is involved with Romania."

Kisuke looked at him silently, giving him a signal to continue, "The Sephiroth Graal, also known as the Holy Grail of the Secluded World. The Sephiroth Graal has the ability to make contact with the principle of life, where the possessor is being forcefully told about how life and soul are made. It's a Sacred Gear with an ability to manipulate souls." Issei added.

Kisuke's brows furrowed slightly and thought for a moment before taking out a container similar to a famous mint candy container, but a lot smaller and only had a few pieces of candies in it. He then tossed it towards Issei which the latter caught with confusion, "This is?" asked Issei wondering why Kisuke would suddenly give him mint candies.

"Take one and it'll act as first aid to a damaged soul. Take a second one to strengthen the natural recovery of the soul. And take the third and... you'll feel good for a day or two," answered Kisuke.

As the clan who produced the Phoenix Tears, Ravel immediately reacted in shock, "A medicine for soul recovery!? You have something that even countless medical organizations can't produce!? And why is it in a form of candy!? And why would you take the third dose just to feel good!?"

In turn, Kisuke also made a shocked face, "Young lady, have you forgotten? I'm a Candy Store owner! Of course, I'll be selling candies! And why wouldn't you want to feel good? Ah, just let me clarify it. This is not an opioid, so worry not. Ah, and by the way, I almost forgot. Within three weeks of taking the third dose, if you take the fourth one, there's a chance of you violently dying, so keep that in mind while taking it."

"Why would you forget something as important as that!?" shouted Issei.

Chuckling, Kisuke just waved with his fan, "Ahahaha, relax~. I don't think anyone would easily take the third dose of it. Those are pretty expensive, after all."

"Y-you're charging for these?"

"Of course! How do you think I make business! If I keep giving them out for free, I'll never get out of the red!"

'Ah... So you admit that you're always in red,' thought everyone.

"But Issei-kun~. You don't have to worry about the cost. I'll be sending an invoice to Azazel-san later," added Kisuke.

"...I'm just curious, but how much are these?" asked Issei while shaking the container of five pieces of small orange-colored candies.

"A million Yen each."

"I see... A mill... Wait... What?"

"I said a million Yen each. Since we're friends, that's already a discounted price."

"What!? A million Yen for this one pack!?" Issei stopped shaking the candies.

"What are you talking about? It's a million Yen apiece. So in total, that costs five million Yen."

"What the hell!? Isn't that too much!?" shouted Issei and the rest had the same reaction. Rossweisse even swallowed a mouthful of saliva after hearing that price, 'Just how many items could I buy from a 100-Yen shop with that kind of money?' Rossweisse thought that the destitute shop owner was a comrade but she just realized how wrong she was.

But before Kisuke could defend himself, Ravel suddenly spoke up, "Uhmm... Could you sell some to me? If possible, at least 10 pieces."

"Ravel!?"

Kisuke looked at her and answered, "I could, but I won't. I would first need to do some background check on your clan before I could sell some to you. As for the reason, I hope you already know."

Hearing that, Ravel could only sigh as she understood what Kisuke meant, "I understand. But I would still like to request for this background check."

Kisuke shook his head, "Sadly, I don't have much time to go through a background check nor manpower to do it for me so I won't be able to take your request."

"Is that so? Then I hope I can cooperate with you in the future."

"As my potential customer, of course, I would."

Seeing everyone's doubt in their exchange, Rossweisse explained, "Like the Phoenix Tears, this soul recovery medicine could be used in unsavory experiments that would push the 'specimens' beyond their natural limits, which will make data gathering easier or even successfully completing what could possibly be inhumane experiments."

"With that said, even though Azazel-san would be the one paying for it, since I gave it to you, that means I trust you and you should be the one to decide who to give it to," added Kisuke with a serious expression.

Issei fell silent for a moment before nodding at him and hid the candies while answering, "I understand the situation so rest assured."

"Good." Kisuke nodded in satisfaction, "But before you go..." Kisuke then looked towards Bennia, "Please take Bennia-san with you."

"Huh? Me?" Bennia pointed to herself and asked.

Kisuke nodded and instructed, "Please pass me your scythe."

Bennia hesitated for a bit before stepping forward and materializing her beloved scythe before giving it to him.

A few seconds after the scythe landed in his hands, however, Bennia shuddered and cold sweat started forming on her back, 'W-what's this!?'

After pouring some of his Reiatsu-Ki in the scythe and setting up a Kidou, Kisuke passed it back to the horribly terrified Grim Reaper and said, "As you can probably tell, I loaded your scythe with my spiritual energy. This will increase the damage it can cause to whoever it cuts, albeit, only temporarily until the spiritual energy dissipates."

Bennia nodded and received her scythe nervously.

"However, its real use is it'll be able to release one strong attack that directly damages a rogue soul."

"R-rogue soul?"

"A soul that doesn't own a body or is using someone else's. If I were to guess, this Sephiroth Graal is the main reason why there's a supposedly dead Evil Dragon roaming around. Although this attack might not affect those with a certain strength, it'll be effective against those who're 'revived'."

"U-understood!" Bennia saluted at him. She still couldn't forget the enormous soul power that he emitted towards the scythe. While thinking that, she asked, "U-uhmm... Boss Hat... Are you secretly a Primordial God that is related to the Grim Reapers?"

In response, Kisuke just chuckled and patted her head, "Ahaha, of course not~ I'm not that old, you know~."

Although Issei doesn't know what's going on between them he still urged everyone who was going to Romania, "We don't have much time. Let's go."

"Ah, one last thing." Kisuke interrupted him.

Issei saw Kisuke taking out a very familiar chess piece and gave it to him, "...A Rook?"

"I already erased Koneko's record within it so Gremory-senpai could use it again. If there are still some problems, then you'll have to ask the creator of it."

Everyone in the room except for Bennia was shocked at seeing this. But the one receiving it, Issei immediately recovered and smiled, "Is this her decision?"

"Yes," answered Kisuke simply.

"I see," Issei then faced Akeno and said, "Akeno-san, please prepare the teleportation circle to Sirzechs-sama's place."

Akeno nodded at him and started the teleportation magic. Everyone from the Occult Research Club, including Bennia, hopped on it.

However, before they were teleported away, Kisuke noticed that Akeno and Irina were looking at him strangely, 'Is it because of Koneko's piece?'

But he immediately shook away these thoughts and focused on the remaining people, "Now then. I promised Sona that I'll take care, or at least assist you when I returned. I'm here to fulfill that promise."

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Editors:

28th00: Nekoshou are pretty much a species facing extinction, so her becoming a pure Nekoshou again would be pretty alright for them. They're aware that Kisuke is the resident God of Souls, effectively, so this is his domain. Being a Devil and using Senjutsu sounds dangerous, since they're already magnets for negative energy… Kuroka is a supergenius at Senjutsu, even by the genius Nekoshou standards, so it makes sense that she'd be able to use senjutsu with such a negative modifier. Besides, Issei seems to get that they're still friends, but Koneko is gonna stay with Kisuke and her Sister. Sona's peerage is gonna go through hell training… Bennia learnt that Boss Hat is basically a Primordial God of Death(reaper relation) whose soul is basically a divine authority unto itself.