Noa inspected Griselda's outfit, looking her up and down, an incredulous expression on his face.
While Griselda had gotten used to the embarrassing outfit, it was still a bit shameful for someone like Noa, who emanated a holy aura, looking at her outfit in disdain. She could feel her face heating up.
It was one thing for a grown woman to wear something that belonged in the back alleys of red light districts, but for a girl that didn't even look grown up to wear it?
Hell nah.
They needed to arrest whoever designed the outfit and whoever made it a normal thing.
Noa was about hit them with that 360 yy.
This woman was also an unfamiliar name.
Hmm...
Griselda Quarta... Who the hell is that? Was she like Lavinia, where she just wasn't in the anime?
He remembered Xenovia had a similar last name but she looked way too young to be her mom even when canon started... was this her older sister?
"Ahem!" His thoughts were cut off.
"I-I can overlook your disrespect towards the church's battle attire," Griselda started, her voice trailing off, "seeing as I too, feel like it is inappropriate..."
"Yeah. You should look into your manufacturer." Noa nodded in agreement.
"I was told that making the fabric for the outfit was a long process..." She had complained to the higher ups when they had given the attire, saying she was green lighted for missions. The excuse was poor, but with the lack of actual authority as an orphan chosen by the Vatican due to her compatibility with combat and light based weapons, she couldn't argue.
Furthermore, she was still inexperienced.
"Yeah they had to be bullshitting with that one, chief."
Griselda coughed, trying to lead the conversation away from her outfit.
"Let's get back on topic!" Lavinia interrupted. When did the conversation turn from Stray Devils to pedo-bait outfits?!
This woman came out of nowhere and was hogging all of Noa's attention! He was her partner!
"Ahem... Yes, you're right. Do you have any information on the Stray Devil that was reported to be in this town?"
Noa paused. "Oh so that really was a Stray Devil..." It was just an educated guess, but it appeared he was just built different.
"You know about it? Could you tell me the location? My investigation around the town came up empty, just signs of resistance," Griselda's eyebrow raised. Was she finally going get some information? The girl had said that it was already dead by the time she arrived, but it was obvious that she was lying.
"That monster? Yeah, I killed it." Noa plainly said, getting up from his sitting position on the pew, stretching before getting down to start his 100 push-ups.
What? He needed to gamble.
A man gotta do what he gotta do.
Griselda blinked in confusion at the rather special behavior, raising an eyebrow in suspicion. While the boy did feel like a Holy Man, akin to descriptors of renowned Saints, the casual manner in which he admitted it made her feel a bit bewildered, his manner of speaking not matching his age.
She looked incredulously at the boy who had started doing push-ups, mentally noting that his hair was unnaturally tame, unlike one would expect of hair as tall as he was, as if the wind itself didn't want to get in his way.
Griselda fell into thought.
Should she bring them into the Vatican?
She wasn't trained for this. This was only her 7th mission, and on top of that, her first time doing a Solo mission, due to the recent shortages in Exorcists.
Her assigned senior suddenly left for another mission when an emergency report was sent to the church, leaving her alone.
Griselda didn't know whether she had the authority to bring someone in...
Lavinia on the other hand, was disoriented by the whimsical nature of Noa, who had suddenly gone from casually admitting that he killed the Stray Devil to doing push-ups.
What happened to being weary of the women, children, and the elderly?!
She already knew Noa was a bit special in the head, but Griselda obviously checked both women and children, and this guy just revealed that he killed the Stray Devil?
Like ma BRUTHA.
Unfortunately for Lavinia, Noa's Protection of the Faith made him favor people pure of heart and faithful, and Griselda had both.
"...May I ask what you're doing?" After some thought, Griselda thought it would at least be good to bring him over to the Vatican, even if he wasn't going to join. She would leave the logistics to the people who were more experienced than her.
"Don't mind me." Finishing up his push-ups, he got up. Noa noted that he finished faster then he expected.
Even though Noa knew that he got a stat boost from Protection of the Faith, he never got the chance to use his physical abilities at all, spamming his ice abilities instead. It felt weird to not feel any resistance when doing push-ups.
[Daily Quest (3/3) Completed: 100 Push-Ups - +1 Free Pull]
Dusting off the nonexistent dust on his body, he crossed his arms.
"So, what are you going to do now that you know I killed it?"
"Well, I have to report that the threat is neutralized. However, may I propose something?"
Griselda seemed nervous.
"Go ahead." Noa nodded, giving a glance to Lavinia to see her opinion. While her expression didn't look entirely positive, she also gave a hesitant nod.
"Would you like to join the Vatican?"
"Nah, I'm good."
Griselda paused at the instant refusal, stupefied. "I-I see..." she trailed off.
Looking at Griselda's unhidden disappointment, Noa sighed, changing the subject. "You have any money?" He needed some money, both for his Weekly Quest and for some food.
He really wanted some KFC right now.
Was KFC even a thing in 1993?
He was really out of touch. He felt like a grandpa, even though he was from the future.
"While the Vatican does give Exorcists incentives and a small stipend, it's mainly centered around benefits in church. Currently I only have enough for transportation back to the Vatican."
Noa gave her a look of pity. She was working at a black company and it wasn't even the 2000s. Child Labor on top of that? Such misfortune.
'Why's he looking at me like that?'
"Can I leave the Vatican whenever I want?"
Griselda shook her head. Then the church was useless. No money, no freedom. His two life goals.
One may ask, isn't money being one of his life goals too vain?
Hell nah.
Whoever says money doesn't buy happiness obviously didn't have enough. My girlfriend broke up with me? Yeah I'll be crying in my multimillion dollar Porsche.
"Welp, then I don't have a reason to join."
Griselda paused. She really wanted to explain that Noa would probably be accepted with high benefits instantly just from his aura alone, but she didn't know how to explain it without sounding delusional.
"I see... Then I will be heading out now. Thank you for clarifying and may the Lord be with you."
Bowing, Griselda walked own the aisle and opened the door to see a snowstorm, the visibility practically nonexistent. She squinted. A whiteout? In Ukraine? It was only snowing a little when she was investigating!
Noa also blinked in surprise when he saw Griselda open the door. Wasn't it literally just sunny this morning? The fuck was this weather?
Griselda slowly shut the door, turning around, pausing. "If I may be so bold, may I stay here until the weather gets better?" Noa shrugged. "It ain't my church. I just slept here cause I was tired. Right?" Noa looked at Lavinia, who seemed reluctant.
She contemplated for a few seconds, before eventually nodding. It would be too cruel to just kick her out in that weather.
Griselda bowed in appreciation. It felt weird to bow to two children, but life was filled with unexpected circumstances, this was just one of them.
"So formal~" Noa commented. "We're all children here, so why not relax?"
Griselda gave a wry smile. "My apologies. I'm just more used to formal speak."
"Kay then. You have any food for dinner?"
That question made both Lavinia and Griselda falter.
How were they supposed to get food in that kind of weather...?
Griselda shook her head. While she had gotten here from the main road from the larger town nearby, she had expected this trip to be short. The only food item she had was a pack of peanuts.
"I have a pack of peanuts if that counts..." She trailed off, pointedly ignoring Noa's look of pity. They were starving their workers too?
"I have some left over jerky from the hare yesterday, but it's only a dozen small pieces..." Lavinia took out small pieces of meat from her worn-out pockets.
The two girls looked at Noa. "What are you looking at me for? I don't have anything."
He turned his shorts pockets inside out, with the only thing it contained being small pieces of lint.
"Can't you do that thing you usually do?" Lavinia whispered into his ear.
Oh yeah, he had Gacha...
He glanced at Griselda. Personally he didn't care doing an embarrassing ritual, but praying to a pretty servant instead of God felt wrong... After all, he was in a church right now.
Noa made his way to the front of the cross, before kneeling.
Griselda looked on with curiosity. Despite Noa having a holy aura, she didn't strike him for a believer judging by his manner of speaking. If Lavinia could read her mind, she would burst out laughing. As someone who believed in God, she kneeled next to Noa, closing her eyes in prayer.
Lavinia, not wanting to be left out, followed suit.
It didn't feel right to pray to Nero, and he had already prayed to Jeanne... Oh, he remembered.
"Please Saint Martha, the boxing saint, the next coming of Muhammad Ali, please gimme something good..."
Unlike Griselda, who was in her own world of prayer, Lavinia was baffled overhearing Noa's prayer.
Boxing Saint? Saint Martha? Was he talking about the same person? Different from Noa, praying to random people in history to someone she had just met was a little awkward, so she just prayed in her head.
"Pull...!"
[Outfit - Okita Souji (Swimsuit) - Stage 2]
The moment he registered the words in front of him, he shoved it in his inventory.
He instantly recognized Okita Souji as a Saberface, but there was something more important.
What the fuck? The hell was he supposed to do with a swimsuit?...But does it even fit him?
[All Outfits from the TYPE/MOON Gacha System auto-adjust in size to the wearer.]
How convenient. He would have to look at it later. Not because he was a femboy pervert, mind you, but there could be other parts that isn't a fucking swimsuit. Get your minds out the gutter.
Thank God he put it away while the other two were praying. That could have been way worse.
"Pull...!"
[Servant Skill - Trash & Crush - EX Rank]
A/N: (Bro I made the rates even worse but this guy still got an EX Rank skill...)
Oh! Let's fucking GO!
HE WAS ON A FUCKING ROLL!
Noasanity!
He could inspect the abilities later, but it was an EX Rank skill nonetheless!
Maybe the Boxer Saint was blessing him! This church had to have some Gacha boosting abilities!
"Pull...!"
[Extra Skill - Last Master Fujimaru Ritsuka's Experience - (Second Singularity: Eternal Madness Empire: Septum) - D Rank]
Noa tensed up. Every time he got an Extra Skill it always hurt like a bitch.
The feeling of memories and experience not his own ramming into his head wasn't something he could get used to.
However, unlike what he expected, in his mindscape, he saw a bookshelf with only one book in it.
Taking the book out of the shelf, he read out the title.
[Second Singularity: Eternal Madness Empire: Septum - Emperor of Rose]
He opened the book, to recognize the content.
'It's just the entire Second Singularity in book form.'
That was a good thing. He would prefer his Extra Skills to not cause him excruciating pain, even if he wasn't one for reading. He thought of a specific scene, and the pages automagically flipped to that page.
Damn was this convenient as hell!
Noa nodded in appreciation. Who cares if the Skill was only D Rank? If he could collect all of them, then he could be pretty confident in naming servants, and their skills.
He put the book back in the bookshelf, aptly named Fate/Grand Order.
So far, other than the Okita Souji swimsuit, he had gotten 2 pretty useful things.
He had one pull left.
Next to him, Griselda was wondering why Noa was praying for so long, but it felt awkward for the Exorcist to be the first one to stop praying, so she just waited.
"Pull...!"
[Outfit - Tenochtitlan - Stage 2]
The name was unfamiliar, but it sounded pretty male, sounding way better than Okita Souji's swimsuit. Unfortunately, Noa didn't get any food today. Like always, just in case, into the inventory it went. Didn't want another Marie Antoinette Dress happening.
Getting up, Noa stretched his legs, massaging them. Kneeling was way too exhausting.
Following suit, Lavinia massaged her legs as well, as they fell asleep. "Did you get any food?"
Noa shook his head, "I was unlucky." Lavinia's face morphed from expectation to disappointment.
Griselda was confused as she got up. What did the girl mean when she asked if he got any food? Why was he praying to God for food? Judging from the girl's familiarity, did that mean the boy really got food by praying...?
Wait. She didn't even know their names. The boy was talking to her with such familiarity she had completely forgotten to introduce herself.
Now how was she supposed to...?
Griselda glanced at Noa, waiting for a good opportunity for introductions, but she got called out almost immediately.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Noa raised his eyebrows in confusion. Griselda kept glancing at him weirdly. He knew he was a damn cute shota but that didn't mean he wanted to bag children. He preferred not to be sent to jail mentally, thank you.
But if the other person was a milf...?
Mmm... Decisions decisions.
"I-I just wanted to introduce myself. I realized that I asked to stay here without even doing the bare minimum..." Griselda trailed off.
"You know you could have just asked, but why you gotta add all that extra words like you got a stick up your ass...?" She was like Chat GPT, adding a shit ton of words for no reason.
Before Griselda could even react to that, Noa pointed at himself. "My name's Noa, don't remember my last name, no parents, 9 years old. Nice to meet you."
Noa glanced at Lavinia, who looked reluctant but continued nonetheless.
"Lavinia Reni. Also no parents. 9 years old. Nice to meet you."
'This kid called me someone with a stick up my ass! Are we just going to ignore that?' Griselda thought, getting caught up in the mood.
"Griselda Quarta, 13 years old. Also an orphan...wait why am I saying this?! You disrespectful brat!" She glared at Noa, pointing at him.
She could forgive him for saying she looked like pedo-bait, seeing as she didn't really like the church's battle attire either, but to say she had a stick up her ass? It took a long time to cultivate this mentality, thank you very much!
"Heh."
Noa chortled, amused at the sudden switch in personality. It felt weird to see a 13 year old act serious. What happened to experiencing childhood?
Ah, the old days, eating chalk, eating crayons, and eating playdoh. That was youth. Or maybe not.
Noa ignored her outburst. "I guess we're the orphan trio, huh?"
'Now this kid was ignoring her?' A vein popped out, as Griselda clenched her teeth. What a disrespectful kid! Wait. Kid?
Did she just get angry at a 9 year old? Griselda immediately sobered up, feeling shame from her sudden outburst. She even had experience with caring for kids at the orphanage and yet she still got mad at a child.
What happened to experience?
If Noa could read her mind, he would ask "What experience? You're a fucking kid." Fortunately for Griselda, he couldn't.
"Hey, gimme some jerky."
Ignoring Griselda having an existential crisis, he turned his attention toward Lavinia.
"...Sure." Holding out half of the jerky, Noa made sure there wasn't any dust on the food. "Cheers." He held out his piece of jerky towards Lavinia. She looked at it in thought, before realizing what Noa was asking for. "Cheers!" They tapped tips(pause), and they popped it in their mouths.
It was a little chewy, but the taste wasn't bad, even without salt. He attributed it to the Japanese Brazier. Who knew if it had special effects.
Watching Lavinia and Noa chew on their protein, Griselda looked down at her small package of peanuts, before inwardly sighing. Next time she went on a mission, she would definitely bring a protein bar.
The three quickly finished off their foods and looked around the church to see if there was anywhere to sleep. Thankfully, it seemed that there was 2 rooms with a bed.
Noa didn't even know it existed, and he was the one who made it.
He separated with Griselda and Lavinia and went into his own room, much to Lavinia's dismay.
He may look like a girl but he sure as hell wasn't.
Closing the door, he looked over the pulls he got. He already checked Ritsuka's experience, so he just needed to look at the skill and the clothing.
"Who's skill is this?"
While he didn't know skill names, he could recognize some Servants, and he could probably glean how to use it rather than just reading about it and experimenting from there.
[Passionlip - Origin: BB - Parvati, Durga, Brynhildr]
Uh...excuse me? All these names sounded familiar... BB was that Sakura AI in the Moon Cell if he remembered correctly. So Passionlip was also a Sakura Face.
That's all he knew. He didn't play Fate/EXTRA CCC.
So his possible reference was useless...
No choice but to rely on the system.
"What's this thing do?"
[If something "can be enveloped by your hands," you can crush and compress it, eventually turning it into [Dust Data]]
What does enveloping by his hands mean? Was it a matter of perspective?
[Yes. However, the object you are crushing and compressing must be unimpeded visually. The time and effort it takes to compress an object increases depending on the size and overall strength.]
Damn. That was overpowered as fuck!
Noa inwardly cheered, being mindful of the girls next door.
He didn't know what Dust Data was, but since the Moon Cell was a computer, Dust Data was probably something like garbage.
Noa looked around the room for a test subject, his eyes falling on a chair.
Taking a few steps back to make some distance, Noa held out his hands near his eyes, making a crushing motion.
As his two hands met, nothing happened. Noa tilted his head in confusion. What the? Did he need to use Mana?
[Similar to Winds of Niflheim, it's charged by Ambient Mana and used by Imagery]
Hmm... thinking back to the hydraulic press videos he used to watch for a time, he got into position again. This time, there was an invisible resistance, but it wasn't that strong, like crushing a paper ball.
His hands slowly approached each other, and Noa could see and hear the chair creaking, distorting. The volume wanted to go somewhere, but it was trapped, only leave it's cries in it's wake.
As the chair got smaller and smaller, Noa fully clasped his hands together.
He looked at the 5 cm by 5 cm by 5 cm cube on the floor.
"Damn... This looks metal as fuck..."
Picking it up, Noa expected it to be heavy, but surprisingly it was rather light. Didn't he crush it into a cube? Shouldn't the density increase?
[When crushed, the object only retains 1/10th of it's original mass]
Noa raised an eyebrow. What an unusual drawback. Or was it even a drawback?
He shrugged. At least he got another broken power in his arsenal.
"Do I have to finish the motion? No Homo."
[Negative. Host can stop halfway, and the object will be in that state unless they have a healing ability.]
Noa nodded. "So where does the mass go?"
[It get's deleted.]
Noa paused. So it was another go big or go home ability? Damn, give him something that only hurts the enemy, not outright kills the thing!
At least it was a strong ability.
Now for his new pieces of clothing.
[Unlike clothing from Craft Essence, you can materialize the clothes straight on your body.]
"Yeah I'm not doing that for the Okita Souji one, even if someone paid me 20 bucks..." Noa trailed off in thought. Would he tho?
20 bucks was 20 bucks. He would suck it for 20 bucks.
"Maybe I'll take a chance with Teno...something something's outfit. After all it's an Aztec city so it's probably like some shaman robes."
Since Noa's free pull count per day decreased, might as well gamble on his clothing as well.
He waved his hands to create an ice mirror to admire himself.
He took out Okita Souji's outfit.
In his hands was a black and white stylized haori jacket, black tights, a black leg strap, a white scarf, black gloves, and a black bikini.
He immediately tossed the bikini back into his inventory. Begone.
Before anything, he had to make sure of something.
"I know you said that I could only put stuff from the gacha into the inventory, but can I but my modern clothes in there?"
[As it is both from another universe and manufactured in the future, it is allowed.]
Noa pumped his fists. Nice.
He took off his thin sweater to show a clean white t-shirt that was a few sizes too big. He didn't know why it didn't get dirty yet, seeing as he hasn't showered for 2 days already.
[Protection of the Faith]
Word? Hell yeah.
He kept on his black shorts, even though it reached town to under his knees.
The Haori-Jacket was lowkey heat, with bow knots on the sides with a long white knot on the back and long sleeves with wide rims. He put it on and looked in the mirror.
Damn was he dripped the fuck out.
He put on the black gloves and the anti-gravity scarf.
"Dayum~! Looking fly as hell~"
Who cared if it looked kind of edgy? With his kind of looks, anything could fit.
This wasn't narcissism. It was pure fact.
Taking out Fairy Sword Galatine, he posed in the mirror, imagining a battle scene. After a few minutes of that, his initial hype calmed down, shame seeping in.
He inwardly cringed.
"What the hell am I even doing..." Putting the sword back in the inventory, he glanced at the tights still strewn on the bed.
Wearing the same socks for two days straight felt pretty disgusting despite his body being clean, but... tights.
Even though he had a chronic lack of body hair on this body, wearing tights was a matter of his own dignity.
Why was he even considering this? Was his own mind getting corrupted into actually being a twink? Like that body affects mind bullshit?
Well, it wasn't like he needed to pull the tights up. Taking off his White Air Forces, he took off his dirty gray socks and chucked it into his inventory.
'Why is this fabric so smooth?' Noa thought, picking up the tights
Noa thought, putting on the black tights before grouping up the tights to his ankle.
He shivered.
Looking in the mirror, it didn't look like tights, but a black sock. Noa sighed in relief. Thank Christ.
Now to see the Tenochtitlan outfit.
He was a gambling man.
Put on the outfit!
[Do you wish to put on [Outfit - Tenochtitlan - Stage 2], replacing everything currently on you?]
Noa nodded. "Yeah."
His current clothes changed, and he looked in the mirror and he froze.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!"
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A/N: I read in a martial arts novel that body affects mind. Personally, if I turned into a macho man, I would act macho too. Also, someone gave advice saying that mc should get ritsuka's experience. I thought that byitself was kinda boring so I did what i did. Also I keep saying I'll have 2000 words max but I just keep writing...
If you're wonder what mc looks like rn as a child. It's Captain Nemo. Funny thing, Captain Nemo was considered to have an unknown gender until it was determined to be male.
Nemo Bakery is Female
Nemo Engine is Female
Nemo Marine is Male
Nemo Nurse is Unknown
Nemo Professor is Unknown
Like damn.
I pray for good not brainrot DxD fanfics to suddenly be made. Unfortunately, I consider my own work to be brainrot tho if you couldn't tell, since im writing this for fun.
If you enjoyed, I would appreciate power stones, comments, and reviews.
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Current Status Page of Noa
[Noa]
[Vessel: Noah - Source: Old Testament]
[Parameters]
[Strength: 6.34 (50 - E - POTF) - Not even F ]
[Endurance: 5.12 (50 - E - POTF) - Not even F]
[Agility: 15.12 (50 - E - POTF)- Not even F]
[Mana: 9.00 (50 - E - POTF) - Not even F]
[Luck: 81.58 (90 - A- - POTF) - B-]
[NP: EX]
[Extra Skills]
- [Knowledge of Reinforcement Magecraft (Luvia Edelvelt) ]
- [Knowledge of Illusion Magecraft "Illusions so Real that the World Believes it" (Merlin) - EX rank]
- [Last Master Fujimaru Ritsuka's Experience - (Second Singularity: Eternal Madness Empire: Septum) - D Rank]
[Class Skills]
[Class Skill - Riding - D Rank(C Rank - POTF)]
[Personal Skills]
- [Jewel of the Earth - A Rank(A+++ Rank - POTF)]
- [Furthest Earth (Kyokuchi) - A Rank(A+++ Rank - POTF)]
- [Wind of Niflheim - B Rank(A Rank - POTF)]
- [Protection of the Faith - EX Rank]
- [Trash & Crush - EX Rank]
[Noble Phantasm]
- [Those Who Make Me Lower My Head, Even Once, I Pray They All Die - E Rank(D Rank - POTF)]
- [Doomsday Come - EX Rank]
- [Flucticulus Diana - C Rank(B Rank - POTF)]
- [Fairy Sword Galatine - Weapon]
[Items]
- [Craft Essence - Heroic Spirit Dream Portrait: Billy the Kid]
- [Craft Essence - Hippo-Chan] - Used
- [Craft Essence - Balloon Scimitar]
- [Mystic Code - Rin's Pendant]
- [Craft Essence - Fate/Grand Carnival 2nd Season]
- [Craft Essence - Vestiges of Year 1999]
- [Craft Essence - Summer's Corruption Set]
- [Craft Essence - Heroic Spirit Formal Dress: Marie Antoinette]
- [Craft Essence - Artisan's Mochi]
- [Noble Phantasm - Fairy Sword Galatine - Weapon]
- [Outfit - Okita Souji (Swimsuit) - Stage 2]
- [Outfit - Tenochtitlan - Stage 2]