𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙨―𝐑.𝐎. 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

Nineteen

The library. The place where books are walls and the only sounds are the librarians shushing, chairs screeching, and the occasional tap on the keyboard on laptops and computers. This is the place you normally reside in with Juin before you moved Exorcist classes. Everyone had already been told about you working in the library for the entire afternoon.

Your head was currently in the Guide to Rituals book looking through it. A new order. That's what Akemi told you, but how would they go about it. The hand print where Hera slapped you was red and very visible. The only way to get a new order was to destroy the gods and goddesses and with that you needed to crush the Olympian Crystal held in Olympus.

The solstice was months away, and the only way to do that was to perform an Entrance Ritual. You look in the ingredients for this ritual and saw:

A Pint of Charmspeak Half-Breed Demon Blood
A Tuff of Manticore Fur
The Bone of One Before You
The Eye of A Bastard
A Ring of Flower Crystals
The Flesh of A Friend of Traitor
The Wings of a Dead Pegasus
The Fire of a Pyromancer Goddess
The Body of a Gahenna Demon as The Sacrifice

The second to last one made you look at it for a second. Nico told you he could see the lotus flower on Bella's arm. She knew all about the cause and what they were planning to do. Bella was trying to get close to Rin, so they could have  his body to use it. You hit your head on the table with a thud!

"Don't ruin that pretty little head of yours!" The voice of Shima came to your ears.

You sat up from your spot and you looked to see Shima, Izumo, Konekomeru, Bon, and Shiemi there. Rin was probably with Bella. They each were carrying books for you. The books that Mephisto gave you and your mother.

"Your mother gave these to each of us and told us to come here to the library." Izumo told me.

"Thanks, guys. Just put them right there." You pointed to the tables.

They set the books in front of them, and they sat down. You looked at them and raised your eyebrow.

"What happened to your cheek, [L/N]?" Shiemi asked.

"Oh, that. It's nothing." You pulled your scarf over your cheek.

"It's not nothing. Someone hurt you!" Bon exclaimed.

"Its nothing, honest. Some people just value family more than the evil deeds they commit." You explained.

"Hera slapped you because you killed Claudia!" Shiemi exclaimed.

"Yeah. It's just I beat my sister to a pulp and then I do a pyromancer spell on my cousin which kills her.  She doesn't even realize she's in danger, because some greco-roman demons don't like the Olympus order." You said.

"What do you mean that some Greco-roman demons don't like the Olympian order?" Konekomeru asked.

"Wait. Yukio and Shura didn't tell you the reason that I almost died or placed in a lightning cage because of the GDC's past?" You wondered.

"The GDC?" Izumo asked.

"The Godly Demon Cause. Yeah. Well, the story starts thousand of years ago when there was the Greek civilization with different Greek States. The Peloponnesian war didn't start because of the Delian League and the Peloponnesian league. It started because certain greco-roman demons didn't like the way that the Olympians treated them.

"There was one demon that started it all, Sir Alvertos. He was head of the Spartan Military and an Ares and Aphrodite demon. Since he was an Ares demon, Sparta worshipped him as a god and did everything he asked. Under his military leadership, Sparta wanted to infiltrate the Parthenon, because that's where Olympus was at the time.

"Athens was the greco-roman demons that didn't think the Olympians were overrated or anything. It was currently ruled by the daughter of Athena, Anatola. The war ended and it looked like Sparta had won, but no one really did. When the Spartans got to the Parthenon, Olympus had been moved to the Pantheon.

"At the time, they were only called Greek demons, but now in history, they were called Greco-Roman demons. When neighboring places with Godly Demons heard of the news, their societies were split between Sir Alvertos and Princess Anatola. Out sprouted the Godly Demon Cause. Before long, the mythologies merged together and created a place where the Olympians and other forms of Olympians can reside.

"Now, the only way to destroy every kind of gods was to destroy the Olympian Crystal where their immortality is stored. There lives have been up for the last eight hundred years, and once it is destroyed, anything could kill them like just coughing, falling down stairs, or tripping and scraping themselves." You explained.

"Hold on. That doesn't make sense. Why would Godly Demons not like their parents?" Bon asked.

"Because the Godly Demons think that they are inferior to their parents. They want to finally get their rule. I think my adoptive mother, Margaux, wasn't targeted by my sister, Akemi, because she was close to me. I think it was because she was an idealist who thought that gods were much wiser in deciding what was best for us, our world. My younger brother thought I was the reason his family died. Monsters always attack demigods, half-breed, and godly demons." I explained.

"So, what are you looking at?" Konekomeru asked.

"A book about rituals. The Entrance Ritual is how you get into Olympus when it isn't the Summer or Winter solstice. The ingredients call for something absurd though." You told them.

"'A pint of Charmspeak Half-Breed demon blood'. [L/N], can Bella be targeting Rin to get his blood?" Izumo asked.

"Charmspeak is cancelled out when the host of the act cares about someone else equally or more than the power of the person who uses Charmspeak. They wouldn't use his blood for that. Hey, how do you know about Half-Breed demons?" You replied.

"Yukio and Shura told us about the different types of godly demons when we all found out what had happened." Shiemi said.

You looked at them. From what you've heard, Yukio tried to keep what you were under wraps. The words of other people and students throughout the years rippled through your mind. It's been six months since you've switched cram school classes, and almost 6 years since you've met Yukio and 3 years since you've met Shiemi, and five months since you've actually befriended Rin.

"Maybe a Charmspeak cancellation can be cancelled out." Konekomeru said.

You looked at him. What does he mean by that? Your research didn't say anything that could cancel out a Charmspeak's cancellation. You grabbed the Enchantment and Charms: Techniques and Styles book from the pile you brought out.

"You guys actually want to help me?" You asked them as you turned to the Charmspeak page.

"Of course, we do, [Y/N]! You're our friend!" Shiemi exclaimed.

"Plus, you can't do this all on your own." Bon told you.

You couldn't help the smile on your face. "Well, if you are going to do something, you're going to have to know everything. I think they're may be planning to do."