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The soft ticking of the clock over the unlit fireplace and the sound of Kiara wiping part of the dry eraser board they had found in the basement were the only things he could hear while they took a break from their long strategy session.
From nearly every inch of the coffee table to even some of the low chairs close to it, Millicas could see the many sheets of paper that his partner in crime had filled with notes over the last 4 hours.
He reckoned that, considering the nature of their back and forth, over half of those notes were solely about everything he knows and remembers about the canonical timeline of the DxD Setting,
alongside his memories and possible theories of how the universal calibration had and could have shifted that same canonical timeline in any meaningful way.
The dry-erase board had certainly been a lucky find, considering how much use he gave it when the initial retelling of the timeline devolved into a lecture about the history and culture of the supernatural world, with a lovely side tangent of his knowledge of the different factions, races, and magical systems of the world that his scholarly companion had managed to coax out of him with her sharp and insightful questions.
Regardless of years in an isolated oil rig or as a clone in another world, you could take a magus out of a magical college, but not the thirst for the unknown out of the magus.
Of course, a considerable part of their time together was spent more in chit-chat and getting to know each other, time well spent in his book.
''Right,'' her soft voice broke him out of his trail of thoughts. After getting the board as clean as she could, she focused her eyes on him.
''Now that we are on the same page, let's try to put our current situation into perspective,'' she said while picking a new pen for the board; they had already drained the one they used at the start.
''We currently reside in the World of DxD, a version of Earth in which the Age of Gods never came to an end, and now multiple supernatural factions live hidden among humanity, some in plain sight and others in their slices of reality,''
her hand glided across the board as she went over the summary, the beginnings of a chart appearing under it.
''On behalf of a client, The Company has a set of primary objectives we have to complete within one year in exchange for a reward of 2000 credits.
Alongside these objectives, there is a second set of bonus tasks we can accomplish for extra rewards.''
With a couple of strokes of the pen, the raven-haired beauty summarized their state of affairs in a handy little flowchart.
''Of course, this doesn't account for our objectives or any kind of long-term strategy, but it should serve as a starting point.''
Millicas walked up to the board and read through the chart out loud. ''To complete the primary objectives, we need power and recognition.
Those things can be further divided, power into combat capabilities and political power, while recognition can be separated into renown in the devil society and the supernatural community as a whole.
Because of the intrinsic importance placed by the supernatural on power, we can easily achieve recognition by gaining power.
To gain that power, we need resources and time. While our resources and the ways to gain more are varied, we need time to turn them into power.''
He could see her pride in a job well done in the smile she gave him.
''So the only factor unaccounted for is how much time we have at our disposal, specifically in regards to when in the timeline we have been inserted.
You said before that the proper start of canon is the death of Hyoudou Issei at the hands of the Fallen Angel Raynare.''
She moved away from the board and reached down to pick up the multiple notes strewn around the place.
The sight of her heart-shaped behind distracted him for a second as she bent over to reach across the coffee table for some of the wayward papers.
''Which makes looking around Kuoh for pieces of evidence of where in the timeline we are our priority before anything else,''
he continued for her, quickly moving his eyes back to the board when he saw her standing up.
She arranged her notes neatly in her arms while giving him a knowing smile; the pink tint on her cheeks did nothing to detract from the pleased gaze he saw in her eyes. It seemed his wandering looks hadn't escaped her notice.
Feeling a little embarrassed at being found out, he quickly tried to move their conversation along.
They had to go over a lot of things in the last few hours, but one of them, they had decided to leave for later and now seemed like the perfect time to address it.
They had taken the time while talking about the peerage system for him to check Kiara's Value with the corresponding spell, discovering that as of right now, he could resurrect her using one of his regular pawn pieces if he chose to do so.
That information ended up leading to a couple of questions, the most important of them being how the evil piece recognizes potential and power regarding the powers and abilities granted by the catalogue to the retinue and the interaction between the sudden inherent potential shift in a newly reincarnated devil because of the uses of the catalogue.
They had spent nearly an hour on that. They had talked about his ideas for his peerage, her place on it, and the different things they could test on the usage of the evil pieces, among other things. Once more, pulling out his device, he looked her in the eyes. Seeing understanding flash in her eyes.
''Are you sure about this, Kiara?''
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