Luminescent

Making Waves

"We really need to start planning things if we're gonna enter the war." Rin sighed. He didn't have to attend regular school anymore and the Order was apparently hesitant to use Rin's power on missions, so he didn't really have that many. At least his higher class as an Exorcist brought in a good amount of money even with the few missions he got.

"I agree, it's time to do something that will make some waves. You've done wonderful in your training and you've got your career as an Exorcist now. Do you have something in mind for us to start with, Darling?" Mephisto agreed, turning to Rin next to him at the dinner table.

"I was thinking that we really need to do something about that Artificial Gehenna Gate. Demons are constantly slipping through it into Assiah and the excess strains our ranks. Even with you slowing it's opening down, the Illuminati has been suspiciously quiet for a while now. I think they're going to make a move soon." Rin began.

"I killed the guardians Satan placed around Tartarus, but I still need to get rid of the ones on the actual Gehenna Gate and the Artificial one. We have to make our move before the Illuminati makes theirs. Shima hasn't mentioned anything, but it's pretty obvious anyway." Rin pointed out. Mephisto snapped and a diagram of the Artificial Gehenna Gate came up in the middle of the table to allow Rin to better visualize and show them things.

"There's the two here, one on each far side, and two more at the bottom. They'll definitely be higher-levels and prepared for an attack, so we'll have to put together a team to take them out and another team to defend the first. I'll be channelling power into the Gate's borders to destroy it, but it would be much easier if I had someone disrupting the structure while I use raw power. It's like a magic circle, erase one part of it and it disappears. It worked when I sliced the thing in half with Kurikara the first time I unsheathed it." Rin explained, looking to Amaimon. The Demon nodded his approval. "Keep going, you're doing good, Camellia." He gave a rare encouraging smile. Rin blushed, but proceeded as asked.

"So, I was thinking that since we can't make it super obvious that we're all in league with each other, we'd have to propose it and I could be the one displaying the plan and suggesting who to put where and why. They like strategy with plans for things big enough to be called Incidents." Rin decided.

"Amaimon, you'll be with me disrupting the Gate. Mephisto, I know you're pushing your hosts limits, but I need you to extend the time bubble to the demons coming out of the portal on my signal as well. I'm banking on the slower reactions of the demons while we work at the most desperate point. Ryuji, you'll be leading the Team destroying the guardians because you're already immortal and can just keep coming back until you win, not to mention the staggering power-level of the Phoenix. Shiemi, you'll be leading the Team backing them up and defending them. Shura will be on your team because she has an arsenal of techniques to defend with. I'll have Shima and Izumo on Ryuji's team because their familiars are good for offense. I'd like to request the help of the Arc Knights for this too. They're pretty useful. Unfortunately, that also means calling in Angel as the Paladin and supposedly the strongest exorcist." Rin listed out his plan and preened when even Bon and Mephisto nodded approvingly.

"Well, it's definitely a huge step. Perfect to start things off. We'll start taking the Illuminati out from there, then Satan when he has no support left in Assiah, and when the dirty work's done, we'll take down the Order and create a better version of it." Bon smiled at Rin across the table, reaching to take his hand. "You know, when I first met you, I never dreamed you could make waves nearly as big as you already have, not only in the Order, but the world, even. Makes me glad you refused to take 'fuck off' as an answer when I was being a dick to you back in Kyoto." Rin looked away as his face steadily got redder, but took the offered hand.