Side Character DxD

Chapter 27: Summer Break (3)

In an office above the sky, A certain God was humming to himself as he rewatched a recording of a videotape.

"Clever use of the Talismans," The Shinto God of Storms and Seas said as he watched the video, looking at his protege curl the balls of Magical Paper into a ball and throw them, improvising to combat his lack of ranged options.

Susanoo-No-Mikoto replayed the scene, pausing at the moment the ball of paper left the human's hand, watching as the boy's sacred gear seemed to activate instinctively, turning what would otherwise be a painful spread of Anti-Evil Spirit seals into a firework of Anti-Evil Spirit flames.

Susanoo turned back the clip, once again replaying the exact same scene, watching again and again how his student's Sacred Gear turned a ball of paper into an explosive of Light Magic.

"Are you going to sit there silently all day?" Susanoo asked, pausing the video as it showed a Moth of light over the hand of Motohama Ken, for but a brief second, as the ball of Talismans left his hand.

"I am merely wondering..." A second person's voice sounded around the Office, The god of Storms turned his head to look at an androgynous man, with long silver hair and smooth pale skin. If Susanoo hadn't known this man for almost three thousand years, he would have thought this man was a Jade-like Beauty, befitting his effeminate position as the God of the Moon.

"Wondering about what, Tsuki?" Susanoo smirked as the nickname left his lips, his black stubble and rough skin far different from the other man's calm and serene appearance.

"Your decision to give the Human such a dangerous first mission," Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto told his younger brother, ignoring the nickname his sibling gave him, "He has only been involved in the supernatural world for a month, And yet you decided his first mission should happen so soon, and involve a hostile Spirit," Tsukuyomi pointed out, "It would have been better to ease him into the role of a Shin-corp agent with a simpler job,"

"Perhaps," Susanoo agreed with his brother, "But, It was a trial by combat, and he succeeded in flying colors," Susanoo spun in his chair before resting his legs on the table and leaning back, showing his carefree attitude, "He convinced the Yokai to leave the apartment, and he exorcised the Spirit, In my eyes he passed with flying colors,"

"But what would have happened had he failed?" Tsukuyomi asked, linking his fingers together, "It was blind luck that his Sacred Gear activated when it did, Showing another never-before-seen ability, to Exorcise the Yurei," Tsukuyomi leaned forward in his chair, "He could just have easily been killed by the Spirit had his gamble failed, And that is not considering the scandal it would have caused with the Celtic Faction," 

"Because Connla was on the team? Relax, the kid is doing fine, He beat the two Yokai who were causing trouble for him," Susanoo waved his brother's point off.

"Did his victory over them need to include blowing a hole in the side of the building and physically shooting both him and his opponents out of the third floor of a dilapidated building?" Tsukuyomi raised an eyebrow at his brother, waiting to see Susanoo try and worm that answer into being a good thing.

"He showcased his creativity and problem-solving skills without harming his opponents," Susanoo smiled.

"And how about your Apprentice getting stuck in tar, relying on a gamble with his sacred gear and a chance encounter with the Yurei's second half to achieve his victory over what many would consider such a middling Evil Spirit that not even a weaker Exorcist family would take care of it, let alone one of the Five Principal Clans," Tsukuyomi pointed out again, causing Susanoo to shuffle his head to the sides as if thinking of a good rebuttal.