Inner Voice: All Heroines Hear My Inner Voice

Chapter 594 - Annoying old man

"Welcome back Eiji-sama and the others."

The one who welcomed them to Eiji's house was a beautiful silver-haired maid. Not Grayfia, but Maria's older sister Lucia.

Rias originally took everyone to teleport to the occult research club to drop off Gasper and Yuuto.

After a short conversation, it was decided that Valerie would stay at Eiji's house. Hearing this, Gasper didn't object and was actually relieved because he thought that his childhood friend's safety would be more guaranteed if she stayed with Eiji.

Before leaving, Rias also did not forget to tell Sona about the success of their mission in Romania.

Sona was not surprised and her reaction was boring because she already knew Eiji could solve the problem of the vampires of the Carmilla Faction easily.

After all, it was her fiancé.

Not only was he very handsome, he was also very strong and reliable.

"We're back Lucia."

Eiji said and shamelessly hugged the woman he was referring to.

"....." Lucia loved being hugged by her master and lover, especially when the man's hand secretly squeezed her ass. However, she was a little embarrassed when she saw the gazes of Rias and the others.

Her professional maid expression became stiff.

"Eiji.... let Lucia go. She still has to help Valerie to choose the bedroom and other things...."

Rias said helplessly. With her demonic perception, how could she not know Eiji's hand was secretly squeezing Lucia's ass?

"Oh that's right. Lucia, this is Valerie Tepes. She will be our new family member from now on." Eiji reluctantly stopped hugging Lucia's plump body and introduced Valerie.

"Hello Lucia-san.... Wait, family member?"

Valeria was a little slow to realize how strange it was for Eiji to introduce her to a woman named Lucia.

She was certainly happy to be treated like a family member in Eiji's house since the Tepes family had been destroyed.

Still, right now she was confused.

Eiji also did not explain what he meant by what he said.

Lucia stared at the blonde vampire. She had already heard enough about her from Eiji's inner voice earlier and smiled kindly. "Although Miss Valerie already knows my name, I am Lucia, one of Eiji-sama's maids. Please follow me."

"Um... Okay, Lucia. You don't need to be so polite, just call me Valerie."

"Alright Valerie."

With that, Valerie followed Lucia upstairs. On her way, she also saw other beautiful women and got acquainted with them.

She wondered why there were so many beautiful women in Eiji's house?

After learning the reason from Lucia, Valerie was surprised that those women turned out to be Eiji's women.

Lucia was even one of them.

Valerie blushed as she suddenly realized what Eiji meant by "new family member".

"Poor Valerie, she doesn't know she's been herded into the wolf's den."

Koneko said flatly.

Akeno giggled and Rias couldn't help but glance at her fiancé.

Eiji pretended to be confused. "Koneko, how could my house be a wolf den? There isn't a single wolf in... Ah there is one. You mean Wolfy, right? Don't worry, there's no way she ate Valerie."

In the front yard of Eiji's house, the wolf in question suddenly sneezed and resumed her sleep under a tree.

Although she was a Goddess reincarnated into a wolf. At this point, she was nothing more than a pet that often played with Lala.

"....." Koneko fell silent. The wolf she was referring to was definitely not Wolfy, but it was the boy standing in front of her.

Eiji did not blush or feel embarrassed and casually changed the topic. "Are you guys going back to school? It's only 1pm."

Rias nodded. "Akeno and Koneko are going back to school while I? I'm going to the underworld for a while to report the results of our trip to Romania to Onii-sama."

"What about you, Eiji? You're not going back to school with Akeno and Koneko?"

Rias and the other two girls looked at Eiji curiously.

The man seemed to have other plans that were different from theirs.

Eiji did not deny.

"Yes, did you forget? One of the great Seraphs, Gabriel invited me to come to his residence in heaven. I'm afraid it's for something important, so I must go there immediately."

[There's also my promise with Amaterasu... Ahem! I think it's good to finish our business today so as not to make her wait too long like before.]

Not only Rias, Akeno and Koneko. The other heroines who heard Eiji's inner voice rolled their eyes.

What business? Eiji, you just want to seduce the other beauties right away!

However, would they be able to stop him?

It might be too late, especially considering the number of harem members he had. As long as those women were not bad women, they were also not too opposed to having more sisters.

Not just because of the halo harem's influence, but Lala had actually influenced the mindset and morality of the women in Eiji's harem.

Just like Lala, those women would be happy to have more sisters.

...

Eiji had no idea what those women were thinking. If he knew, he would argue because even though he had the intention to meet Gabriel and Amaterasu. It was purely because one of them had bothered to get her queen to send him an invitation.

As for the latter? That woman owed it to him because he had approved of the Shinto Faction wanting to join the alliance and also forgiven her younger brother's stupidity. Perhaps because of that, she insisted on paying him humbly.

As a cultured man and not a herbivore, Eiji did not want to reject those women's goodwill towards him.

It was definitely not because he was too lustful and greedy for their beauty.

[....]

'Miss System, don't you want to say something?'

[No.]

Eiji was a little disappointed because at this moment, Miss System didn't correct what he was thinking or make any sarcastic comments.

Knowing what her host was thinking, Miss System wondered if this man really liked being contradicted by her and receiving sarcastic comments from her?

Unfortunately, right now she was too lazy to do that.

"Eiji, what are you thinking about?"

"Are you thinking about perverted things? Eiji, you should refrain from thinking about that in a holy place like heaven. It wouldn't be polite."

While Xenovia asked curiously, Irina said worriedly.

They were both in girlfriend and bodyguard mode at the same time.

Earlier when hearing Eiji was going to heaven, the two had teleported from school to Eiji's house using the bracelet Lala had made.

They then volunteered to be his bodyguards and guides on his way to heaven.

Although initially Eiji wanted to force open the dimension where heaven was located to go there directly.

Irina discouraged this method due to politeness issues and offered a more normal way.

Eiji agreed only because he was curious about the way to go to heaven that Irina knew.

"No, why do you guys often think I think about things like that? I'm not a perverted man, okay?"

"....." Irina and Xenovia were silent. From their expressions, they clearly didn't believe what Eiji said.

Eiji's lips twitched and as usual, he would change the topic in this situation. He looked at a building in front of him before asking, "By the way Irina, is this a place that allows us to go to heaven in a more normal way? A church?"

The building in front of him was a church. But not like a normal church, it was bigger and more luxurious and it was located in the Vatican.

They teleported to come here.

"Yes, this is the Vatican Church, the main headquarters of the exorcists and where we were trained in the past."

Irina explained while looking at the church in front of her with a nostalgic gaze.

Still, there was also nervousness in her eyes because she had another purpose for bringing Eiji here.

Xenovia was also a little nervous but unlike Irina, she was actually reluctant to return here if not for following Eiji and Irina.

After all, she and Irina were former exorcists who left the organization unceremoniously while carrying the holy sword with them. Xenovia was worried about the reaction of certain people when they saw them return.

"Oh..." Eiji certainly noticed the two girls' nervousness, but he wasn't worried about anything. "Let me guess, there's some kind of special teleportation tool that the angels made inside this Church, right?"

This reminded him of the teleportation tool in the world of Trinity Seven.

Although he remembered that if it was Michael or any other angel, they could instantly teleport to heaven.

"As expected of Eiji! Being able to guess such a thing right...! Truly worthy of being my future wife!"

Xenovia let out a shout of admiration while hugging Eiji's arm.

Eiji enjoyed the soft and elastic sensation pressing against his arm. However, he looked at the blue-haired girl with a strange look and said, "Xenovia, you mean future husband, right?"

"Eh... Yes, we can swap roles."

[What do you mean swap roles? Xenovia, you're a girl even though you're a tomboy! From the very beginning, you were my future wife and I was your future husband.... Wait, I forgot and just remembered that in the original work Xenovia is a bit stupid, I shouldn't argue with her just because of this.]

"Xenovia, just forget about my question."

Eiji sighed

Xenovia blushed when Eiji called her his future wife in his heart. However, her eyes widened when he called her stupid.

Not only Irina, Eiji also called her stupid? She wasn't stupid!

Irina shed tears because she was deeply moved.

"As expected from Eiji! You finally realized Xenovia's stupidity!"

"Irina, you...!"

Xenovia was a little annoyed and had the urge to beat Irina up.

The two girls' screams were very loud. Did they forget their nervousness earlier when standing in front of the Vatican Church gate?

Eiji wondered.

At this moment, it was probably due to hearing the noise Irina and Xenovia were making. A white-haired middle-aged man wearing church robes opened the gate and approached them.

"It's so noisy. What are you guys doing here?"

His tone was harsh and when he saw them, he ignored Eiji and glared at Irina and Xenovia as if he recognized the two girls.

Irina and Xenovia froze and immediately fell silent when they saw the old man.

"Etto... H-Hello, master. How are you."

"Yo master, you seem to be in good health. That's good. We came to visit."

Irina stammered and Xenovia lacked EQ in her words.

"...." Eiji was silent.

"...." The old man's face darkened.

Still, master?

Eiji suddenly remembered something.

[I don't know what Irina's and Xenovia's master looks like, the original work didn't make illustrations for him. But since these two girls called the old man in front of me Master, I remember his name is Ewald Cristaldi.]

!!!

The heroines were surprised.

Not because the man named Ewald Cristaldi was Irina and Xenovia's master. But they were surprised that Eiji remembered the name of a man other than some of the protagonists for the first time?!

Will the sun rise from the west tomorrow?

Irina and Xenovia were also surprised, but they were more nervous when they looked at their master.

"I'm still very healthy and I'm quite surprised that my two traitor disciples still dared to come back here." Ewald said calmly. He then glanced at Eiji who seemed to be so close to his two disciples, no. The two girls seemed to depend on him. "And you must be Eiji Seiya, right?"

While Irina and Xenovia felt a little guilty for being called traitor disciples by Ewald.

Eiji looked at the old man with some surprise. "You know me?"

Ewald nodded. "In addition to your achievement to make two of my disciples defect from the Church out of love and ally with the devils. I have also heard many things about you... One of them is that you are the Peace Treaty symbol of the Five– no, now it should be the Seven Factions... It is remarkable and unusual for a young man to be able to unite many factions from various Mythologies."

When he said that, Ewald's gaze was sharp and the swordsman aura he emitted from his body would make ordinary people and most supernatural beings fearful. Even Irina and Xenovia felt a little intimidated.

Not because of Ewald's aura, but because they knew that even though the man was old. He was one of the two strongest exorcists in human history.

Looking back, the achievements he accomplished as an exorcist were incredible and was said to have killed many high-class devils by himself with just his skills and Holy Sword alone.

Irina and Xenovia in the past had been unable to accomplish this feat.

"So that's it." Eiji smiled faintly and said calmly. "You don't seem to like me, old man. Um... What's your name? Irina and Xenovia never told me anything about you."

He pretended not to know.

"Heh... No wonder they never called me again after defecting. They really have been misled by you and the devils into forgetting their holy sword master."

Ewald glanced at the two girls with a disappointed look.

Irina and Xenovia averted their gazes from the old man as they could not argue.

After all, it was true! Ever since learning of the death of the God of the Bible and boarding Eiji's pirate ship, they had been immersed in a life filled with fun and love. They had almost forgotten all their ties with the people in the Church including Ewald.

That was actually why Irina and Xenovia were nervous when returning to the Vatican Church after so long.

Ewald looked at Eiji again and said, "My name is Ewald Cristaldi, I am one of the cardinal deacons in this Church. What made you come here with two of my former disciples, Eiji?"

He did not deny that he disliked Eiji. Not just because that boy had stolen his two disciples, but there were also other reasons that he did not mention.

At least for now.

This was not the time yet.

Still, Ewald didn't know Eiji already knew why he disliked him. Even so, Eiji was in no hurry to say it and said, "Ewald-san, we came here to go to heaven."

"You guys want to go to heaven? What for? Heaven is not a place you can visit casually."

Ewald frowned, he looked even more unhappy than before.

"Master, Eiji..." Irina wanted to say something but the old man interrupted her.

"Irina, you still call me master?"

"Cristaldi-san? I prefer to call you master even though Xenovia and I are no longer worthy of being your disciples." Irina smiled wryly but this time she dared to look directly into Ewald's eyes.

"Cristaldi-san, we want to go to Heaven because Eiji was invited by one of the Four Great Seraphs, Gabriel!" Xenovia said proudly and did the same with Irina.

She was starting to get annoyed with her former master for antagonizing Eiji.

Although she and Irina were guilty, it didn't mean they would continue to tolerate people who made things difficult for their lovers.

Ewald was a little surprised because he did not expect after several months of not seeing each other, Irina and Xenovia to be this brave to him. From their gazes and auras, Ewald knew the two girls had grown stronger since the last time he met them.

These two traitorous disciples were very confident that they could defeat him. Instead of getting angrier, Ewald smiled slightly. "Call me by whatever name you want and Xenovia, you said Gabriel-sama invited Eiji to heaven?"

"That's right!" Xenovia shouted.

"Then old man, can you let us pass through and borrow your church's teleportation tool?" Eiji asked and changed again the way he called Ewald as he wanted.

"....." Ewald was silent. He wondered why the great Seraph Gabriel would invite a boy like Eiji to heaven.

Moreover, these youngsters were quite rude, right? They wanted to borrow the church's teleportation tool to go to heaven with this kind of attitude.

Under normal circumstances, he would have refused. But now? Ewald sighed.

"Follow me."

He turned his back on Eiji and the others and started walking inside.

Irina and Xenovia looked at each other, they were relieved that Ewald still allowed them to enter.

Still, when Eiji and the others followed the old man. Irina and Xenovia frowned because instead of taking them to the church's teleportation tool, Ewald took them to the church's training ground.

The area was vast like a gladiatorial arena. It was also a nostalgic place for Irina and Xenovia.

Eiji could guess why Ewald had brought them here.

"Old man, you seriously want to do this? You don't believe Gabriel invited me or..."

Ewald stopped walking after he had kept a few meters distance and faced Eiji and his two former disciples. A sword that emitted holy power appeared in his hand.

"Don't misunderstand me. I have no doubt Gabriel-sama invites someone like you to Heaven, Eiji. But before I can allow you to use the church's teleportation tool, I want to see how strong the person who symbolizes the Seven Faction alliance's Peace Treaty is."

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