Chapter 66 - We are moving here!

"What are you doing here?" Barakiel asked as he opened the door.

In front of him were four people.

Three of them, two girls and a boy, were his "students".

They were Raynare, Kuroka and Drako.

The remaining person was a little girl that Barakiel had met before. She was the daughter that Azazel had adopted a few years earlier, Valina. As far as he knew, Valina came from the lineage of Lucifer and also possessed the Divine Dividing, the name of the Sacred Gear that contained the soul of the "Vanishing Dragon" Albion and one of the 13 Longinus.

"Move in?"

The only boy present, a young dragon Tiamat had left in Grigori, asked Barakiel. He had his head tilted to one side as he made the face of an idiot.

Barakiel did not know why, but he felt the need to strike at that idiot face Drako was showing.

As for Raynare and Kuroka... they did not look much different than normal.

Raynare had a drowsy face with dark circles that looked like dark circles under her eyes, probably due to lack of sleep. This was not unusual, as she had already appeared like this on the first day of training.

Seriously, how could a little training cause so much stress on her? It even got to the point where she couldn't sleep well at night.

It was impossible that this little training was the cause of this.

No.

In fact, that could be the cause of Raynare's condition, but for a completely different reason.

Barakiel had noticed the day before when Raynare had started to cry because they were not going to have training that afternoon. He offered her to train with twice the intensity, even three times the intensity, and her response was twice as intense.

If the previous training was too hard, she could have told him, and Barakiel would have lowered the intensity a little, just a little. But she shouted excitedly that she wanted to train with double the intensity.

It was at this point that Barakiel connected all the dots.

Raynare had never been lazy, she just couldn't find the motivation to train. That's why she stopped in the middle of her training, to force Barakiel to force her to run to put more tension on her body.

That's why she was so excited about wanting to train at twice the intensity.

Sigh...

They had misunderstood Raynare all these years, Barakiel felt a little sorry for her. That's why he was going to give everything to train her from now on, pushing her to the limit in every training session.

He had woken up in the morning with this mentality, after sending the nightmare to the back of his mind. But he hadn't expected her to show up in front of his house with the rest of them.

Kuroka had the same face as always. She looked sleepy, but not for lack of sleep, and most of all annoyed, though Barakiel could not understand why she seemed annoyed every morning.

She was glued to Drako, as always. Kuroka was always attached to Drako, except when he was training.

When Drako started training, she would settle down somewhere and control her [Kasha] to help the little dragon train.

If it was little surprise to find her three students on her doorstep, even more surprising was to find Azazel's adopted daughter. What was she doing here, and why was she looking so intently in his direction?

Was this meant to be a fight?

Barakiel had heard that Valina was a lover of battles, but he didn't expect it to go this far.

"Honey, who is it at this hour of the morning?"

Shuri's voice was heard from inside the Shrine.

"Huh? What are you doing here?"

Shuri was just as surprised as her husband. In front of her were the three teenagers who had visited them the day before, along with another unknown girl.

"We're moving."

Drako wasn't asking anymore, he was affirming.

It was at that moment that Barakiel realized the suitcase each of them was carrying. How could he have overlooked that detail?

"And... where are you going to move?"

Shuri already had an idea, but still, she asked.

"Here, of course."

"Sigh..."

Shuri patted her forehead and sighed. She did not know what to do at this point.

There were four of them, and there were only four beds left inside the Shrine. This was too much of a coincidence.

"Akeno..." Shuri muttered when she saw her daughter peeking out the door.

Shuri noticed. Yesterday, Drako asked her daughter a question, and she answered with number four. Shuri did not understand what she meant, and Akeno had only told her that it was a secret between her and Drako.

Now it all added up.

Drako...

He had refused to care for Akeno if anything bad happened to her. But he had agreed to help her daughter if she was ever in trouble.

So this was his way of helping.

Barakiel could not always be at home, but he could go to work in peace if someone else was in his place protecting his family. And it was even better if he could trust them, which he could not do with many of the members of Grigori. And of the few Grigori members he trusted, they had their own jobs to do within the organization.

"Go ahead, I'll show you to your rooms."

"Wait, Shuri..."

"I said I'll show you to your rooms."

Barakiel took a step back when he saw the determined look on his wife's face. Even if he disagreed, what could he do against his wife?

Shuri entered the house, and Akeno followed her as she stuck out her tongue to her father. Drako and his party followed behind.

Shuri arranged a different room for each of the guests. And though Kuroka complained, she too had to back away from Shuri's steady gaze, accepting her fate of being separated from Drako.

Drako, who was the last of the group, said to Shuri before entering her room.

"I won't take care of Akeno in your place, because I won't let her lose her mother."

He entered the room and closed the door before Shuri could say anything. She was stunned for a moment, a tear streaming down her face as she mumbled.

"Thank you, thank you very much."

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Author Note: I'm going to be changing the writing style. Sometimes it's going to be in the first person, and some times on the third person, it's going to depend on the situation.