Concerning News

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3rd Person POV

Yukio and his team of exorcists hadn't found one sign of the three missing girls, and it's been 2 months since Izumo's disappearance. It had been a year since Rin's death, and Yukio had already lost 3 others close to him. He didn't know how much more he could take.

Rin's POV

Father, as I had taken to calling Satan after 120 years, had requested to see Amaimon and I. We didn't know what for, but it had sounded important.
"Yes, Father?" Amaimon and I rose when he entered.
"Sit down, you'll thank me later," he cryptically replied. If Satan said we should sit down and is about to say something, it is very good news or very grave news.
"I'm sorry, but I need you to go to Assiah. The Vatican is kidnapping everyone that was close to Rin. Shura, Shiemi, and Izumo have already been taken. Yukio is next, and I suspect he will be taken in two Assiah months, or 16 Gahenna years. I need you to find the others and bring them, as well as Yukio, to Gahenna before they take Yukio." I nearly fainted.
"Rin, in Assiah, you've only been gone a year. The Kyoto Trio became exorcists, but of the lowest class." Satan added.
"Don't worry, they can't harm you, you're a demon king now. Also Amaimon will be going with you, if not Ilbis as well, to help you. They can't hurt you anymore," Satan attempted to reassure me, and it was working.
"I'll go, father. I'm the most familiar with their ways and I'm the most professional of us. I'm also the Crown Prince, it's my job."
"Don't kill me for this, but Yukiohasbeengettingbulliedalot." He rushed, though I could make it out.
"WHAT? Since when and how bad?" Satan proceeded to show me what he had seen through other demons' eyes, mostly coal tars. They beat him, everywhere except the face, forearms, and neck, every day. Every few weeks, they would take a pocket knife to him. Once, before the graduation, they cut his forearm instead of chest. This had occurred since Shura's disappearance.
Amaimon and I were ready to kill someone, though Satan calmed us.
"If you kill anyone, our attempt at rescue could fail, though nothing should happen if the bullies and/or the Kyoto Trio had a mysterious accident out of nowhere, like a wild animal attack or a mysterious suffocation in the woods, or being crushed by a boulder..." he trailed off. Amaimon and I smirked.

Yukio's POV

A knock sounded at the door to my dorm. Getting up, I pulled my exorcist jacket over my clothes. I opened the door to discover my least favorite person - Mephisto.
"Yukio, pack your bags. I'm moving you to the old dorm. You'll be staying in the triple room there. A triple room was a room for three people to share. The Kyoto Trio had one.
"Why?"
"You'll be sharing with a couple of new arrivals. They're here to help on a case, but don't shoot them when you see them. One you'll be happy to see." Cryptic much?
"Why would I try to kill them? Why would I be happy to see one?"
"Well, they're demons. That's all I'm gonna say." He teleported out in a cloud of pink smoke. Why would I be happy to see a demon? The only demon I'd be happy to see is Rin but he's dead.
I sighed and grabbed boxes, carefully putting items in them. In one, I had pictures of Rin, Shiro, and I with other miscellaneous items, another had files, one had clothes, yet another with manga and books, etc.
It took me three hours to pack all of my stuff, including exorcists supplies. Pulling out my phone, I dialed Mephisto.
"Hello?"
"I'm ready. Come help me move my stuff."
"Demanding much? Fine. Give me a minute." He hung up and a minute later appeared in my room.
"Eins, zwei, drei!" He said and we, along with all of my stuff, appeared in a triple room inside what I presumed was the old dorms.
"Take a bed in the end. I presume the demon brothers will want to be close to each other. They may request otherwise." With that, he disappeared once more.
Sighing, I took his advice and chose the bed against the wall on the right side, since the bed was similar to that of when Rin and I shared a room before he died.
I slowly unpacked, putting my books and exorcists supplies in the drawers beneath my bed, a couple pictures on my nightstand and the rest on the desk closest to my bed.
I put my clothes in the closet at the end of my bed, the folded items going into the drawers below it. About an hour or so later, my belongings were placed nearly in my share of the room.
To be nice, I stripped all of the beds of their dusty sheets, placing them in the dirty linen baskets. After collecting three memory foam mattress pads, I hauled them to the room and placed one on each bed. Making another trip, I collected three sets of sheets and pillowcases. Starting with my own, I made the beds.
Deciding that was enough, I sat down at my desk to get some work done before the new arrivals, well, arrived.

Rin's POV

After Father dismissed us, I teleported straight to my room. When I had become the Crown Prince, I discovered I could teleport using my flames. My father and I called it flame travel.
Once there, I grabbed a few changes of clothes, some manga, a cache of sweets for Amaimon, and some other miscellaneous items, as well as a large cache of Japanese money.
After gently storing the clothes and manga in special cases, I dropped the candy in a velvet bag and pulled the drawstring. Once I put the money in my wallet, I gathered the miscellaneous items and placed them in a large case. I opened a small portal to a pocket dimension and loaded the cases into the dimension, throwing the candy in before closing the portal.
Every demon king had the ability to open a small portal to a pocket dimension, and only that king had access to his dimension. No other king could access it, nor any other being, even Satan.

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