The Esper Devil ( Esper OC X Highschool DxD )

Chapter 59 - Fox Blood

Part 1

It all happened four years ago, in a dark night at Kyoto's countryside

I was 13 at the time, preparing for my first large scale battle

"Is that where they are?" - I asked, my voice filled with spite

Kuriko and I, along with an entire company of soldiers from the Community were laying siege to an area at the outskirts of the city

(Correct, after they launched a counterattack they had to hide afterwards)

Kuriko calmly answered with her telepathy, she's older than me and at the time already had the airs of a woman... but her attitude wasn't any better than it is today

I gripped my fist

"Cowards, so they kill our members but don't have the guts to come after us, huh?"

Kuriko just shrugged, seemingly unfazed by the death of two of our companions, she was the complete opposite of me

(They were just unlucky, the other youkais were your run-of-the-mill ones, they didn't expected a Great Youkai to show up out of nowhere. It seems they got a tad too close to the youkai stronghold)

I frowned at Kuriko's nonchalant attitude towards their deaths.

"Do we have permission invade the capital? I mean, we are already here, might as well..."

I asked, thrilled with the idea of putting an end to all of that, but the commander of the operation quickly shutted me down

"No, we can't, our orders are just to purify the youkais from the area, upper echelon doesn't want to start a war..."

He answered in a technical way, but there was anger in his eyes as he turned his head and spat out

"For now..."

Me and Kuriko were high levels already, but our ranks in the actual hierarchy were still very low at the time, we couldn't possibly command a mission, much less one of this caliber.

And even commanders have to answer to other people, and those people didn't had a good excuse to start a large scale conflict.

"They say that untill a voting has been held, containing the Great Youkai is our mission and since he's considered to be guilty of the killings, this should cause the other youkais to fall in line, however, and I really shouldn't be saying this..."

He sighed

"I really hope they fucking don't"

Listening to our conversation, other members of the operation turned to look at the captain

"All I want at the moment is to say fuck protocol and give the order to kill every single non-human thing in town, with permission or not"

The lieutnant, a foreign esper also in charge of this operation, decided to step in after hearing the words of the captain

"Sir... we can't do that"

She voiced her concern, and the commander shook his head

"I know... I know we can't"

He declared disappointed, but feeling his anger was as strong, if not even greater than mine considering the two dead soldiers were his men, I tried to back him up

"I understand how the captain feels"

The two of them looked back at me

"I want to destroy all of them too, but if the guys upstairs say they can't start a war yet then it can't be helped... All we can do is hope to make a good enough impression here and maybe we can get what we want."