Winds of Change (DxD)

Volume 6 - Chapter 17 - An Outer God's Graduation + Episode - Aaron Toole

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Jin Skyward's Soliloquy

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A few hours have passed since the invasion/war with the Khaos Order. I had gone around each faction and pantheon and helped them with repairing and rebuilding their towns and cities. Not all of them needed help since when I initially repaired the omniverse, they also were restored with it, but not everything in them—or people lied to me just to get me to repair some broken down portion of their home.

Regardless, I didn't care that much since I felt guilty for being late, and failing so many times on my trials. If I didn't, then I could have arrived much sooner and stopped all the destruction Lapis did. If I can help it, I'd like people NOT to die, you know? Just because I have the power to bring them back to life, doesn't mean it was traumatizing for them.

You'd have to be a complete shallow idiot and lack brain cells or empathy if you couldn't see that side of it.

Right now, I was in the Irish Pantheon, more specifically, the Faerie Kingdom. I hadn't been here in a while, but...they were also all killed during it. No one survived. I was near the Inn I stayed in before and helped repair and renovate it.

Oh, I also lost a lot of shadow soldiers, so I plan on making more in the future. I have more than a billion, or was it a trillion? Well, either way I lost a lot of them, and I wanted to at least quadruple that number soon.

In addition to this, and I feel bad about this, but I left the girls as soon as I came back again. I feel like an asshole for doing that, but as usual they understand and let me go. Ugh, I should go back, especially because quite a few of them died—especially Akeno. Although like the rest, she told me not to worry about it and she wanted to spend time with mom since Shuri was also forced to watch her and Baraqiel die.

However...I wasn't exactly alone. Two were stuck to my hip since I came back—both looked exhausted, especially Suzaku since I heard that the majority of the Himejima clan, including her parents were killed by Lapis' attack.

So I helped the residents in the Faerie Kingdom. Suzaku and Lavinia weren't too far from me as they helped with comforting the citizens here, as well as providing them with food I created using my powers. We already had been to several others before we came to the Irish Pantheon, and yeah...a lot of devastation was also there.

I feel like Hestia might have some kind of agenda against the Khaos Order now. She did lose three of her friends she was close to, and of course many other residents of her realm and other fellow gods.

She was angry with me, but at the same time—for some reason, didn't blame me. I wouldn't have minded it if she did. However, I guess Hestia was a lot more mature than I took her for, even after I apologized to her a couple of times. She just told me to shut up in the end.

"Thanks, Middleman! I think the others over there need help," said a Fae.

"Yeah. I'll get to it. If you need any more help don't hesitate to call me again," I told her and she agreed before flying off. I turned around to look at Suzaku and Lavinia. They were handing out boxes of food to anyone who came by for them.

It seems like we'll be here for a while. I walked back over to them and started helping out. I created two avatars to go help the rest of them out as I stayed with them. They kept glancing at me as I helped them out which confused me, but I didn't ask them about it.

When we first arrived here, a lot of the land was destroyed, like a few other pantheons we visited. However, it wasn't as severe as them, so I only needed to spend a few minutes fixing things. Once that was done, I went around renovating and helping these two with handing out provisions since I wanted to make sure they had enough to eat until their next shipment came.