Chapter 21: Chapter 21: Seth's New Little Bro!
"Isn't this the sealed classroom?" Asked Issei.
"Yes. The child lives here."
"Man, I can't wait to meet him!" Says Seth with sparkling eyes and a large grin.
"Eh? Seth-kun, why are you here?" Asked Rias.
"I hung out with Ddraig last night and I overheard you guys talking about your bishop. I wanna meet him too. I bet he's super strong!" Seth grinned his battle intent flaring.
"Eh?! I don't think that's a good idea, the reason why he's sealed is because his power is out of control." Said Kiba.
"But then how'd he do his job as a devil?" Asked Asia.
"Through a computer, the child is currently our biggest earner." Added Akeno.
"He must be good at his job then."
"Wait Seth, how did you interact with the Red Dragon Emperor?" Asked Rias.
"Astral Projection." A phantom version of Seth then came out of his body. It was a skill he got after Maxing meditation.
"Yeah he's been using it to talk to Ddraig."
"The Dragon? Why are you talking to him?" Asked Koneko.
"I'll tell you when it's finished."
They didn't bother to question him any further and opened the room.
"Nooooooooooo!" Yelped a girlish voice from the room, it was dark with multiple stuffed animals and a coffin.
"Wait? That voice!" Seth barged in the room to see a cute blonde haired boy with red eyes wearing a Kuoh Academy uniform. "Is that you Vampire Lord278?"
"Eeeek!? W-who are you? A-and how'd you know Warriors of Legacy handle?" He asked in a timid tone with tears in his eyes.
"It's me, Starkey69!"
"Star-onii-san? That's you?" The boy calmed down.
"Yeah it's me!"
"Dammit Seth got another cutie! Dammit!" Issei grinded his teeth.
"But I thought you were a dude? Why are you wearing chick's clothes little bro?" Seth crossed his arms and turned his head in slight confusion.
"I just think girl clothes are cuter?" said the boy without reservation.
Hearing the two sentences above immediately crushed Issei's hopes.
"He's a guy!" He shouted.
Ignoring him, Seth replied to Gasper. "Well if that's what you feel like." He gave him a thumbs up.
And so Rias gave Issei an explanation and those new to the peerage on the little crossdressing Day walker's past and abilities, then she left Issei, Asia, Koneko and Xenovia with the task of looking over him.
"Ooh! Can I join?" Asked Seth.
And so he joined.
"Yeah. Then, Ise, shall I thoroughly discipline him? A weak man is no good. And also I wanted to face off with a vampire since childhood. Leave his treatment to me." With that Xenovia pulled onto the rope attached to Gasper's Cardboard box.
"Eeeeeeeeek! N-N-N-No way, I don't want to fight against the user of the holy sword Durrandaaaaal! I-I'll be destroyeeeeed!" He squealed in terror.
"Whoa! Xenovia calm down! Baby steps!" Said Seth as he came between her and the dhampir.
"Sethanel? So what should I do?" She asked with a slight blush as she saw his smile.
"Simple if you want to toughen him this ain't the way to do it?" He placed a palm on Gasper's head. Who then proceeded to hide behind Seth quiver in fear.
"And how'd we do that?"
"Like I said before baby steps. Hey Gasper." The boy looked up.
"Do you wanna learn how to control your powers?"
"I-I-I-I-I do, b-b-but I'm a useless waste of a vampire!" He cried.
"Okay. This is bad." Said Seth.
"Eh? Why?" Asked Issei.
'I know some people are depressed but self deprecation of this level is seriously fucked up! What the fuck is wrong with your original care takers that they literally murdered and and stomped on your self esteem so much. What the fuck!' Monologues Seth as he's in disbelief that this is real. The young dhampir is probably would've been teetering on the edge of being suicidal if things were any more worst off for him.
"Listen Gasper I know your power is scary. It scares most people and most of all it scares you. But you can't let that fear rule and you can't just stay cooped up sealed off somewhere nothing will change."
"B-b-but I'm no good!" Seth just ruffled his hair.
"Then if you don't believe in yourself, then believe in me that believes in you."
"Wha?" Issei turned his head and neither anyone else knew what was going on.
"I don't get it but I'll try!" Said the little dhampir.
"Alright now let's go play!" Seth summoned multiple remote controlled toy cars with a magic circle.
"Huh?" Everyone reacted.
A bit later behind the Occult research club room.
"Alright Saji you're up!"
Standing there with his absorption line connected to Gasper's head stood Saji. Seth invited him specifically to help out with Gasper's training.
His job like in canon is to absorb the excess power the boy has.
"You guys ready?" The key blade wielder looked over to Issei, Xenovia and Asia who nodded their heads. Each of them held a controller
"On three two one go!"
Three race cars of varying colours zoomed across the field.
Gasper's eyes locked onto the red one, Issei's car, which he tried to stop but missed completely stopping Koneko's white car instead.
The white haired girl looked at him with a blank yet intimidating look. "Eek!" He squealed in fright.
"It's okay Gasper, just keep trying, you'll get the hang of it." Encouraged Seth as he drifted past Issei and Xenovia.
"Haha! You guys are eating my dust!" He smiled cockily, pissing off Issei.
"Yeah we'll see about that!" Shouted Issei accelerating his car.
But Gasper managed to stop it this time!
"Dammit!" Shouted the Red Dragon Emperor.
"Hey good job Gasper! You're doing great. Let's practise this for a while."
A few minutes later Gasper finally got a hang of it. And now he could stop whichever car he could want.
"Alright guys I think that's enough for now let's rest before moving onto the next step." Said Seth who then walked over to Gasper and gave him a head pat. "You did great today. You'll control your powers in no time!"
Gasper didn't know why but he felt a warmth building in his chest. To which he smiled warmly as well.
"And thanks Saji you've made his training way easier than I could ever have thought."
"Don't mention it." The two fist bumps.
"Well this has been interesting." Said a voice Issei immediately recognized.
"Azazel! Asia get behind me!"
[Boost!] He summoned his boosted gear and got on guard. So did Xenovia, Koneko and Saji.
"He's the governor of the fallen angels?" Asked Xenovia.
Issei nodded. "Yeah that's him… and what the hell are you doing Seth?!"
"Hi I'm Sethanel Cooper wanna be friends?" He asked.
"I'm Azazel but you already know that. And sure I don't mind being friends."
"Cool, wanna join us for lunch?"
"Well I heard you were a good cook from Vali so why not!"
A bit more later, everyone sat on a bench with a table with a number of foods which Seth made. Issei stared wearily at Azazel while taking bites from his plate while Koneko and Xenovia ignored the fallen angel governor, just simply eating and enjoying the food made by Seth.
Asia and Gasper though didn't know what to do just awkwardly eating. While Saji left to deal with something from the student council. Though not without a plate and basket of food for the others in the student council.
He'll never pass up food and Seth sorta forced the basket onto him. So he didn't have a choice.
Azazel stared at the sky in a daze.
'That was the most delicious thing I ever ate….I need this kid in my faction asap'
"It's impressive that you'd thought of a way to deal with the child's excess power. You do know could just feed him some of the Red Dragon Emperor's blood it shou-"
"Somewhat equalises Gasper's own power with his sacred gear, making him strong enough to be able to utilise it properly. Albeit it'd be temporary at best, but constant feeding should circumvent this." Interrupted Seth.
'Huh? And he may not show it but he's smart. Well some geniuses tend to have some quirks.' Thought the fallen angel as he took a bite of a sandwich to which he smiled in Glee.
"...." Ignoring the fallen angel governor everyone looked to Seth.
"How the hell?!" Issei broke the silence.
"I use my brain sometimes. Most times I just use my mouth hole to think. It's fun!"
He just goes along with his goofy whims. Which gained him the [Whimsical Little Gremlin] trait.
'That makes way too much sense!" Thought everyone who personally knew Seth.
"Hm. You're smarter than you look, kid. Your factionless right, wanna join Grigori, you might not have a sacred gear but we could use your mind."
"Nah! Sounds like work. I'm a magician for fun. And shouldn't you be giving me a reward for kicking Cocapuffs butt already." Seth complained.
'Shit!' Inner Azazel cursed.
"*Sigh!* That's disappointing!" He sighed but his smile came back. "Then whaddya like as a reward?"
"I want a sacred gear, any will do, I don't care how weak or strong." He laid his demands onto the table.
"Expect that sacred gear in few days. Though I'm curious, why do you need it?"
"Research."
"Hmm? Then why not just ask for my research?"
"Cuz that's boring! Plus, researching is just so fun! Just the excitement of just discovering something new is just so fun don't you think. It'd be way too boring to just piggyback off someone's years of hard work!" He replied with a toothy grin and shining eyes he could understand why so many scientists loved discovering new things so much.
Azazel gained a stunned look for a moment. It was very brief but no one other than Seth noticed it, he smiled softly reminiscing of times when he was younger and had the same spark for research.
"Alright I think it's time I take my leave."
"Before you go, you can take this." He gave the man two bags.
"These are?"
"Cookies one for you another for Vali."
"Vali was right. You are an interesting guy. I'll be seeing you later." Says Azazel as he leaves.
"Sure, let's fight next time!" He waves at Azazel.