Chapter 42: Kyoto and Secrets
(A/n: I will be changing the plot background too much, so just enjoy. Don't complain about the plotline. And sorry for the chapter delay; just some personal works were left.)
<MC POV>
"Ruby, Amy, and Aqua, see this. I won a whole family tour trip to Kyoto in a lottery." Ai announced it excitedly.
"Yay!" All three of us were smiling with joy, but inside, three of us were pale because all of us knew that it was not a coincidence. And we don't want to spoil a family trip either.
After I received the letter from the unknown crow, I explained it to both Ruby and Aqua and told them about Shinto gods and also about Youkai in the Kyoto region. Both of them were pale after knowing that God really exists, but got eased after knowing that they don't interfere that much on the non-supernatural side.
The next day,
We have all reached Kyoto, but we have a problem: we don't have any familiar people in Kyoto who can give us a tour of Kyoto. And that's where I come.
A black-haired woman with a red-coloured pupil approaches with a bright professional smile. She was dressed in blue jeans and a white shirt with a black jacket over it and sunglasses.
"Hello everyone, I am Kaede Kanzaki. I am your tour guide for your whole family tour trip."
Now, how did I become a tour guide? I actually left BETA (Clone) with Aqua and Ruby and went to Kyoto to find information about tour guide companies. I entered one by making a fake identity and sabotaging my identity as a tour guide to take my whole family on a trip.
And this serves me two purposes: first, to hide Amethyst Hoshino's abilities, and second, to show that I, Kaede Kanzaki, am protecting this family. I will create a new persona of myself as Kaede in the supernatural world, who is Scathach's disciple and protects Ruby, Aqua, and Amy as they are part of my organisation.
"Nee-San, don't you think this fox woman is too suspicious?"
"Yes, she might be someone from the Youkai faction."
'Oi, oi, I can hear your whispering to my clone.'
Well, now that I remember, I didn't tell Aqua and Ruby about my ability to shapeshift into my previous life's body. Anyway, I helped carry all the luggage and loaded it onto my newly acquired Land Rover before driving them to the hotel, which was evidently booked as part of the trip's reward.
"Miss Hoshino, nice to meet you."
"Thank you, Kanzaki-San; you can call me Ai."
"Then, I go by Kaede. Anyway, Ai, you really have cute triplets."
"They are certainly cute."
Since last year, Ai has already left the entertainment industry and just lives a normal mother's life. She finally chose to spend time with us and see us grow, so she left the industry and just worked as a normal idol instructor in the Gemstar company, which is now handed over to President Saitou. And all my shadow soldiers who entered the entertainment industry have also done many things, so they have retired, and now they are again following my orders.
And after the whole incident, Ai is giving us more time and also spending time with us in public areas. Ruby and Aqua were also satisfied with the whole change. But now we have to protect Ai because our supernatural abilities might pull her into the supernatural world.
So, I put many pills in Ai's drinks, which clean her body's system, enhance her body, increase her reaction speed, and enhance her reflexes. And even have to put on the mana vein opening potion while using Aleph to fast-forward the change in her body that she didn't realise that she had unlocked Mana. And the most surprising thing I witnessed was that Ai has learned Judo and Taekwondo in between becoming an idol, so she already has good self-defence. I just have to collect some more points and purchase a devil fruit and give it to Ai, removing the side effects of the devil fruit.
Anyway, moving towards the Kyoto trip, we reached the same hotel I witnessed in DXD season 4. And moving the luggage inside the rooms.
"Just call me when you have to go for the trip; I will be next to your room, and this is my number."
"What was your name again?"
".."
"Tee-Hee"
I forgot that Ai sometimes mistakes the names and don't Tee-Hee me.
"It's Kaede Kanzaki."
"Thank you; I will remind you when we leave."
After this, I went to the next room and started researching every sightseeing place and its history, which I memorised with the help of Raphael. Damn, wasn't it a normal Kyoto trip?
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<BETA POV>
"Nee-San, there is something wrong with that woman. How did she know about Ai's title without asking about it first?"
"Yes, that fox lady's eye was just staring over mom; she is definitely someone from the Youkai side."
'Damn, I mustn't tell them my original body identity.'
"Ruby, I think she is not from Youkai; otherwise, Nee-San would have warned about it; she is a normal tour guide."
"Yes, she is just a normal, friendly person, completely normal without any doubt."
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<MC POV>
After some rest, all of us went to visit many temples and other things. We first went to a museum related to Samurai and ninjas. Then to Arashiyama Bamboo Grove and Park Then Ninenzaka and Sannenzaka slopes head towards Kiyomizudera Temple. And many other temples like Rurukoin, Sanjusangendo, Kiyomizudera, Kinkakuji Temple, etc. sight-seeing places.
(A/n: I am not Japanese or have ever been to Japan, so I just mentioned some sight-seeing places from the internet.)
After we went to Kyoto Tower at almost dusk and viewed the beautiful scenery in the sky, It took us almost 5 days to visit many places.
And at a certain place near Fushimi Inari Shrine, every normal person got unconscious, even Ai, except Aqua, Ruby, and my clone. And of course, I pretended to be unconscious. Just after some time, some people with masks came and surrounded three of them and escorted them to the nearest shrine. And at the same time, I sneaked in by placing a clone of mine in the previous place and following them.
<BETA MC POV>
So, those kitsune mask people, or youkai, took all of us to the nearest shrine. And after entering, I saw that far away, a woman with purple hair was sitting while closing her eyes. And one thing surprised me: her face was almost the same as Ai's. Wait, is she a relative of Ai or something? Damn, this is getting over my head.
"Ara-Ara, so my dear great-grandchild has come."
"Aqua-ni, Amy-nee, has she lost her mind?"
"Ruby, don't talk rudely like that." Aqua said.
I facepalmed at this comment, but there were no such characters in DXD.
She finally opened her eyes, which were black like obsidian but had a white star like ours in her pupil.
"Oh, I forgot to mention that your grandfather was my son. So, I will be your great-grandmother, Ame-no-Uzume."
""WHAT?"" Aqua and Ruby were surprised; they don't know anything about Ai's past except that Ai had a mother. But I have investigated everything about Ai and found one record that says that Ai's father went missing, and after some years, Ai's mother left her in an orphanage and disappeared.
Ame-no-Uzume, the goddess of dawn, revelry, and the arts Wait, it can be true that she is our relative because I suspect her lineage is the one that gave us unique eyes.
"So, what does it have to do with us?" I asked with indifference in my speech. Yes, if we were connected to such beings, Why haven't they supported Ai before? If I had not been reincarnated, what would have happened to Ai, Ruby, and Aqua? Why are they now behind us? Is it our talent or our sacred gear that attracted their attention?
Aqua and Ruby also understood the meaning of my question. And everyone present there was also shocked by my indifference.
"INSOLENT, you dare to argue against our Goddess." One of the masked people says it loudly.
*BOOOM* Damn, the original is already here.
"FBI, OPEN UP!"
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<MC POV>
"FBI, OPEN UP!"
"WHO ARE YOU, INTRUDER?" A masked servant asks
"You are all surrounded by me. HANDS UP."
"Haha haha, you idiot, we have surrounded you." Another mask servant
"We'll see about that." And I tapped my left foot on the ground, and many ripples formed to point out everyone present here with each type of weapon except Aqua, Ruby, my clone, and the self-proclaimed granny.
"Hands up; you are surrounded by me." Everyone, without any waste of time, raised their hands.
"Who are you, intruder?" Ame-no-Uzume asks
"Part-time FBI, I just came to clear some pests."
""Nee-San, didn't you say she is totally a normal person?"" Aqua and Ruby argued with a sarcastic voice.
"I guess she's totally normal in her league."
I ignored my clone and siblings conversation and killed some random masked followers of the goddess.
"You, How dare you kill my followers?" But after some time, she kept quiet because she also realised they were not her followers to begin with. All the killed people started to emit intense death auras and came back to their original appearance as Grim Reapers.
Yes, practically, the Shadow Monarch's abilities don't only symbolise shadow; they also symbolise darkness and death, and because of the title "Shadow Princess", I can sense every being with a death aura. And after following the youkais, I found many signs of Hades' pests in the youkais faction.
I left some of the grim reapers, which were hidden in this shrine, because I wanted to show off my skills. I took out Gae Bolg and jumped towards the Grim reapers hiding, slashed skillfully while dodging their scythe, and eliminated all of the grim reapers.
"Nice to meet you, Shinto Goddess; I go by Kaede Kanzaki. I just came to clear some pests who were attacking my fellow tourists."
"I suppose you are the new disciple of Scathach, from the rumours going on. Now, I believe it after seeing your skill. I am Ame-no-Uzume."
"Oh, I am interested in your family drama; may I become one of the audience members?"
"Yasaka, Show our guest a place to sit."
A big-boobed blonde fox woman came and brought me to a place to sit. and a small, 7-8-year-old loli fox was peeking while holding Yasaka's dress. Damn, she is already too cute. Control, Amy, control; no touching Loli now.
Okay, now I've come to one conclusion. Which is that Hades is behind our family, but the reason is still to be stated by the Goddess.
"I am sorry, my grand children; actually, just like you saw, many people from the supernatural side were behind my son and killed him because of a certain thing, that is Sacred Gear, Singer's Melody."
"Yeah, a Sacred Gear, which my son got because of being a demi-god. But this Sacred gear was mutated by my son to be able to extract other people's sacred gear while using it to maintain a certain frequency to break the connection between the owner and the gear.
So, later on, every faction targeted him. But he thought this sacred gear might bring instability to the whole Supernatural world. So, he completely changed sacred gear to only be inherited by those with the same lineage as him, and after he died, it passed down to his descendant. And the actual sacred got completely separated into different parts with different effects.
And he only left a piece of sacred gear, so to use to find the parts of sacred gear scattered among all the descendants to use it at necessary times."
"Wait, does our grandfather have other children other than Ai?" My clone asked
She was stunned by the Beta question, and she silently nodded.
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