Chapter 31: The Day Before the Reunion
After helping Murayama get mildly adjusted to the reality that she was, in fact, a Magician, he had no choice but to proceed to a much, much harder topic to explain. One that would shock her even more than their absentee parents' being Magicians alongside the rest of their bloodline.<...
2025-04-16 09:08:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 54: Katerea Leviathan
Katera clenched her teeth in frustration, her nails digging into her palms as her anger surged. The sight of Avalon sedately looking at her as if she were a lost child annoyed her to no end. Replaced? Her? As if she could accept such a reality. She was a true Devil, someone destined to reclaim...
2025-04-15 13:50:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30: The Akahashi Clan
Takauji was sitting beside Murayama on her bed, his younger sister looking up at him, desperately hoping he’d have the answers she was looking for.
“Takauji… what’s happening to me?” She sniffled, holding up her left hand, reciprocating the same feeling she had experience...
2025-04-13 10:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29: The Ashikaga Clan
Ayabe City, Kyoto, Japan.
Regarding housing in Japan, most people settled in large, industrial apartment complexes, mainly if they lived in a City. Or a tiny house in the suburbs if they were smart with their money.
On the other hand, the affluent could choose to dwell whe...
2025-04-11 11:34:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 53: The Truth
Eurus blew an impressed whistle, looking at the sky, wearing a black aloha shirt with a white flower pattern. She pushed down the pair of shades she had picked up along the way, sipping on a martini with a small, bright orange umbrella attached to the glass.
“So, that’s our target?” She looked to her...
2025-04-09 04:09:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: Life Finds a Way (2)
Rustle! Rustle! Rustle!
Step after step, Takauji could hear the sound of something inching towards him from the brush—accompanied by a low, sinister growling noise.
One which signified the creature approaching him wasn’t in the most optimal mood for their first meeting.
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2025-04-08 05:50:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27: Life Finds a Way (1)
“Pardon?” Sona stood there dumbfounded, facing her Contracted Magician, standing side by side with the Governor-General.
“I said, I’m going to the Underworld for a bit. Azazel has something rather interesting he wants to show me, and it’ll probably boost my strength.” ...
2025-04-05 05:06:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: A God Reborn
Sona’s eyes were as wide as they could possibly be, the name Raynare had just muttered replaying through her mind repeatedly.
She knew exactly what the name meant and who it belonged to.
But she just couldn’t wrap her head around the fact that such a figure had appeared right before her,...
2025-04-03 11:30:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 52: Isle of Skye (1)
The Underworld, Bael Clan Estate.
After receiving his next mission to disrupt the meeting between Hexennacht and the Old Satan Faction at Mount Olympus, Avalon had returned to the Underworld alongside Sirzechs—going straight back to the Bael Estate while his brother returned to...
2025-04-01 13:03:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25: The Governor’s Arrival
“Is this really a good idea?” Asia couldn’t help but ask, standing alongside Takauji, Sona, and a floating, imprisoned Freed at the front entrance of Kuoh’s abandoned church.
“It’ll be fine, they’re nothing more than a rag-tag group of scoundrels. Hardly anything worth fussing over,...
2025-03-30 12:02:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24: The Nun’s Predicament
Shatter!
Freed’s body catapulted through the air, landing him back-first on a glass table in the apartment's living room, causing it to shatter as a few shards dug into his skin.
“What’s wrong?” With a faint ringing sound polluting the Stray Exorcist’s ears, it had be...
2025-03-27 16:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 51: The Beginning Of The End
Welcome to Volume 3 of TPD, “Loyalty in Betrayal.”
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“I’m afraid not, for the same reason you couldn’t detect it while you were in Heaven, the Infinity Dragon’s interference is simply too powerful for us to combat—as it stands, we’re pre...
2025-03-25 13:33:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23: Father Freed (2)
Night had slowly begun its descent over Kuoh Town’s sky, but Takauji’s investigation was nowhere near concluded.
Freed had arrived at the front door of someone’s apartment, the unnerving smile on his face unchanged, as he leaned down towards Asia.
“Since you’re going to be my assista...
2025-03-22 14:50:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: Father Freed (1)
I tend to use italics for word/dialogue on top of thoughts, so from now on I’ll add ‘this’ to thoughts so there’s no confusion.
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‘I should be able to do this now.’
Takauji squatted down at one of the corners of his room, extending h...
2025-03-20 14:56:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 50: Adrian Shephard (Volume 2 END)
Chapter 50, that’s another milestone for the books.
This chapter might not be as long as the others, but it is probably one of, if not the most important chapters I’ve ever written for this story.
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One by one, Azazel, Micha...
Chapter 21: The Hensou Formation
The final bell had already rung, and today was the day Takauji was both dreading and looking forward to at the same time.
Track & Field training.
Even with his drastically improved Mage body, a part of him still wasn’t sure he’d be able to shrug off the long-lasting pain that came ...
2025-03-15 11:56:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: The Four Basic Techniques
The following day, Takauji had expected his day to consist of him immediately returning home after the final bell had rung, to start learning the barrier techniques used by Eastern Magicians.
The ones that required him to successfully obtain Chakra, which he had already accomplished. <...
2025-03-13 11:43:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 49: Mount Olympus
The Underworld, Lilith.
Stood firmly in the center of the Underworld’s Capital was a gargantuan, imposing structure in the form of a castle, one that carried a sense of royalty around it potent enough to strike the hearts of every citizen fortunate to dwell within the city’s walls,...
2025-03-11 15:19:04 +0000 UTC View PostWith the release of MoD Chapter 19, I have officially completed releasing all the Advanced Chapters for the series, and now can continue working at normal pace instead of rushing myself on both series to the point of exhaustion!
Yipeeeee!
2025-03-08 17:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19: Stray Devil Alenth
Well, that’s definitely not a bad sign, Takauji breathed a bemused exhale, being greeted with the sensation of something wet splashing against the soles of his shoes the moment he stepped into the warehouse.
He used his Projection ability to create a flashlight, allowing ...
2025-03-08 17:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: 2nd Circle Magician
A few hours of meditation, on top of the time he had spent unlocking his Chakra, had gone by, hours that were drastically less mentally draining, and significantly more relaxing than what he had just experienced.
And once a certain amount of time passed, Takauji found himself being enveloped in quite t...
2025-03-06 11:43:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 48: The Next Era
After an awfully lengthy, and questionably detailed explanation from Avalon. Venelana finally started to grasp what was about to happen not only in the Underworld, but Heaven, and the Human World as well.
Not that knowing what was going on made it any easier to come to terms with, for the three main factions ...
2025-03-04 12:47:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17: Cockblocker Contractor & Chakra
"Well, isn't this an interesting sight?" Takauji smirked, having just arrived at the abandoned church alongside Raynare, and finding himself met with quite a fascinating view upon their arrival.
Three individuals were sitting on the grass, with a large, watery serpent wrapped around the...
2025-03-02 10:47:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16: Takauji's Day Out
Takauji stood in anticipation at the center of Kuoh's Plaza, with the Clock Tower, one of, if not the town's largest attractions right behind him. His foot rhythmically tapping against the floor as his gaze shifted back and forth from his watch.
Good grief, if you are going to hypothetically plot aga...
2025-02-28 06:55:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 47: A Return Visit
After absorbing one of his Knight pieces, Acerola had officially become a member of Avalon's peerage, meaning that all that was left for him to find was another Rook, and one more Knight—upon which his peerage would be complete.
Avalon furrowed his brow as he watched her body slowly regenerate, "This migh...
2025-02-26 13:46:22 +0000 UTC View PostQuick announcement; I feel like the quality of my TPD Chapters have been slipping a little, and I'm pretty sure it's because I'm rushing them by trying to finish each one within a day.
Do y'all mind if I take a bit longer with them? Like 2-3 days per TPD Chapter. I want to bring the word count per chapter up as well, and obviously the gene...
2025-02-25 12:42:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15: Preparing for a Date
After setting his phone aside following his text with Yuuma, Takuaji returned his attention to the open book in front of him, the one that would teach him how Eastern Magicians handled the concepts of barriers.
The Eastern form of barriers was split into different categories.
There were Protecti...
2025-02-24 05:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14: Raynare's Scheme
Kuoh wasn't a town with an especially large religious population, and even if they were, most of them would either be followers of Shintoism, or Buddhism. Christianity made up a very, very marginal percentage of not just Kuoh, but Japan's populace as a whole.
Therefore, after the local church's priest, Ma...
2025-02-22 08:18:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 46: Recruiting Acerola
After experiencing the unwelcome intrusion, the attendees all gathered in a lounge room without Oshino and Jin's presence for the time-being, everyone sat on either a couch or chair with their respective group.
They were all finding it exceptionally hard to relax, and understandably so, with the excepti...
2025-02-20 15:04:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13: Yuuma Amano
"Well that's far simpler than what I imagined," Takauji mused aloud while studying the contents of the book on teleportation circles that Sona had gifted him. Finding the creation process only somewhat challenging, but drastically easier than what he was expecting.
The first step was to make sure that you were...
2025-02-19 12:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post