Shin High School DxD - Volume 1 - Chapter 3.2

Part 2

A few hours after the meeting with Beelzebub-sama—. The purple-haired girl, Ingvild Leviathan, was sleeping in the Hyoudou Residence’s spare room. She was sleeping as she was still affected by Rossweisse-san’s hypnotism magic. Outside the room, my comrade’s familiar was placed to watch her so that when Ingvild woke up, she didn’t leave her room. I organised the information about Ingvild that I got from Beelzebub-sama. She was the descendant of the previous Maou Leviathan. She was a precious existence.

On top of that, she also held the new Longinus, and its power was being targeted.

The ones targeting her was the mastermind that sent the unknown Devils to the Kuoh Town area. Though we still didn’t know who it was, it was basically confirmed that they had a connection to the rulers of Hell. …I was sure the ringleader was an evil God.

And about Ingvild’s personal information… I was really surprised when I was told about her information. She had just woken up from her sleeping disease, and…she became afflicted with that disease more than a hundred years ago. The fact that she was a descendant of the Leviathan had also just come to light. According to the rumors, only the noble Devils that were a part of the previous Maou Leviathan faction knew about this information.

And those noble Devils hid the girl who was affected by the sleeping disease in their own territory.

…I was surprised by the fact that things like this were still being hidden.

Though she bore human blood, if she was the descendant of the previous Leviathan, the current government would surely make a ruckus about it. But this meant that even the Old Maou Faction that was a part of Khaos Brigade also didn’t know about this. On the contrary, we were the ones who felt surprised, as when the imprisoned Old Maou Faction members were interrogated, they looked like they didn’t know anything. Beelzebub-sama also said that there was someone in the Old Maou Faction who went by the name of Katerea Leviathan who bore the blood of the previous Leviathan’s blood legitimately… but Katerea probably wasn’t told anything about this. If she had known, she would have killed Ingvild Leviathan who’s a half-human… As to why the Devils of the previous Leviathan faction didn’t tell Katerea was…I couldn’t imagine the situation of that in the previous government.

…Ingvild was born in the human world, and we knew that she was raised in a certain beach city in Europe from her testimony when she had just woken up from her sleeping illness. The Underworld Government also didn’t know how it happened, but it looked like quite a while ago, when the beings who bore Leviathan’s blood came to visit the human world, they made children with humans, and those children were left in the human world. Or something like that. And she was one of the children that were left behind. Ingvild had probably awakened her Leviathan power through genetic atavism. And here I thought the government must had at least known about the children that were left in the human world and had a connection to Leviathan, but…I guess it wasn’t weird if that information might be concealed because the coup d’etat was successful. There was also the thing with the previous Lucifer’s descendant, Vali… I guess it was impossible to grasp everything. …It made me wonder if there were also any descendants of the previous Maou Beelzebub and Asmodeus as a result of interacting with humans when the Underworld government didn’t know. But, wait, they might have existed but were disposed of, and as a result, only Vali and Ingvild were left now… Well, even if we thought about such things now, it’s not like we would get any answers…

Now, I wondered when did the Devils who hid Ingvild knew about her and hid her. …It seemed like Ingvild’s parents summoned a Devil in order to save their daughter from the sleeping illness. And that summoned Devil knew about her real identity and hid her in their territory. …Did her parents that summoned a Devil in order to save their sleeping daughter know that their daughter’s Devil power had awakened? Did her parents rely on the Devil as their last resort in order to save their daughter from the incurable disease? Either the Devils of the previous Leviathan faction were called by mere accident, or they knew about this. I could only say what was in my imagination about that. …If more than a hundred years had passed, then her parents would’ve been—. …I guess there was no helping it that I became gloomy thinking about that information.

However, this meant that the sleeping disease that she and Sairaorg’s mother had didn’t kill her even after sleeping for a hundred years. Although I knew that the body would slowly weaken because of not waking up and the host would eventually die… But, for Devils who lived for ten thousand years, was sleeping for a hundred years not a problem? I didn’t know the answer as well as I was no expert on that. However—. I couldn’t even imagine sleeping for a hundred years. It was a hundred years, you know? You did nothing but sleep for as long as the life of humans with a long lifespan… Plus, she was raised in the human world. She must’ve been raised as a human until her Devil power awakened.

…

…It was unfathomable for me. It was when I was thinking about Ingvild’s situation. Finally, the door of my room was knocked on. The one who entered was Ravel.

“Ise-sama, Ingvild-sama has woken up.”

—.

…Well, I was her only acquaintance. I guess I should try to talk to her. I went to the guest bedroom where Ingvild was.

Asia and I went inside the room where Ingvild was. Since she might not be able to calm down if there were too many people, the ones chosen were me, who had met her before, and Asia, who didn’t look intimidating. Ingvild sat on the bed. I pulled a chair to side of the bed and sat, while Asia stood some distance behind. Ingvild had the same sleepy look when I met her. I wonder if it was the after-effects of the sleeping disease… According to the gossip, her memories wouldn’t return having been sleeping for a hundred years, so a lot of things were going to be vague. From the previous talk, I knew the fact that she had been sleeping for a hundred years, as well as the special power that resided inside her — Longinus. …Well, the last thing she remembered was her spending her daily life in a beach city in the human world with her parents after all… Ingvild opened her mouth.

“This is the Red Dragon-san’s house, right?”

Beelzebub-sama said that she must’ve known me as [Red Dragon] because of [Nereid Kyrie]’s specialty. That Longinus was also capable of controlling even Dragons, so she must have somehow known about the Dragon in my body — Ddraig. I laughed and answered.

“Yes, this is the house that I…we live in. We haven’t introduced ourselves, have we? My name is Hyoudou Issei, and the girl over there is Asia Argento. Nice to meet you.”

Even though I did know her name, I wouldn’t call her by it yet. She might become vigilant if I did, so I should have her introduce herself first. As I thought that, she introduced herself.

“My name is Ingvild and my surname is… I can’t remember it. But the people that I met at the hospital and the mysterious establishment called me Leviathan…”

Her Sacred Gear awakened soon after she had woken up. Or rather, it looked like it was her Sacred Gear that actually woke her up. The Devils that hid her knew that they couldn’t keep her under their control, so they contacted the Underworld’s Government and the Fallen Angels’ organisation, the Grigori. Shortly thereafter, the Devils of the Underworld, as well as the Fallen Angels, found out a thing or two about her existence. The Devil higher-ups who knew about the Sacred Gear residing in her body cooperated with the Grigori which specialised in Sacred Gear research to perform an analysis on Ingvild’s ability.

What we knew about Ingvild’s ability was that her power was infused in the song that she sang, and that the song was capable of affecting Dragons. And then, when the researches found out that she was raised in a beach city and took her to the sea of the human world, they realized that there was another ability, the power to control the sea. Depending on its usage, those two special abilities might greatly affect the world, thus it was categorised as a new Longinus. On top of that, it was as a top-class one—. As to why her Sacred Gear — Longinus had awakened now, it looked like there hadn’t been any answers from the researchers. And amidst that, she concealed her whereabouts. I guess she must have been kidnapped by the beings with malicious intent upon finding out about the new classification of her Longinus. I asked once again.

“Hey, Ingvild. Why were you in that park and…that deserted area?”

I rushed to the point, but looking at her condition, it seemed like I couldn’t hide this information from her as well, so I decided to ask her directly. She murmured.

“…The sea”

“Huh?”

She continued as I heard her words.

“I saw the sea, and when I realised it, I was in an unfamiliar place…and when I was singing a song in that park, I met Red Dragon-san.”

…When you realised, you were in an unfamiliar place…

Ddraig said.

[There is a possibility that she teleported to places using magic circles unconsciously.]

…Was this also one of the after-effects of the sleeping disease? But that shouldn’t be related…

Anyway, she did remember that she met me at the park.

“Did you remember the time you were at the place with deserted houses?”

I asked that. The place when she suddenly appeared and sang a song that made Bova and me suffer.

“…?”

She looked at me with her orange eyes and only shook her head. …So she didn’t remember about that… Was it unconsciously or was it under someone’s orders?

Well, as I didn’t feel any hostility, I thought the latter one might be a possibility when she appeared near the deserted areas. I should have Rossweisse-san investigate if any spells were done on her, and I guess we’d know then. Uhmm…I didn’t think that this conversation would proceed any further, so I guess I should ask about her instead.

“Ingvild, you are—”

After that, I asked about what happened after she woke up. This was her answer… She was supposed to be spending her days in the human world, yet she was in the Underworld when she woke up. She knew the fact that she bore Devil’s blood. She went to the Underworld in order to heal her sleeping disease. It seemed like she was also told about the fact that a Sacred Gear resided in her body. The Devils and Fallen Angel researchers were also kind and they were helpful. She knew that the power was in her singing voice. She was surprised when a Dragon that cooperated in the experiment appeared in front of her, but it fell asleep when she sang a song, and she found it cute. She was brought to the sea in the human world in the middle of an experiment. And it seemed like it was there when she remembered…her hometown, the beach city. And then, she was also told the fact that — more than a hundred years had passed.

“… I was seventeen years old. But, when I woke up, I was told that I am a one hundred and seventeen year old granny. Yet when I looked in the mirror, my appearance is still seventeen years old… Strange, huh?”

Ingvild murmured something rather sad. Having strong Devil blood in her, it appeared that her characteristics tended to be that of a Devil since her lifespan was about the same as a Devil. Because of that, her appearance didn’t change even after a hundred years. Well, since she was a Devil, she could change her looks by using demonic energy so there wouldn’t be any bodily changes caused by aging. But, she had been living as a human, so it must have been difficult for her to grasp the concept when she fell ill to that sleeping disease. Even though she had been sleeping for a hundred years, she was still alive. She didn’t grow old, and when she looked at the mirror, her reflection was exactly the same as when she was seventeen years old. She then said something impressive.

“I heard that my mother and father are dead. I’m sure that the granny who lived next to me, that kid who lived up the hill, and the fisherman who often delivered fish to us have already passed away. —It’s as if the present time was just a dream.”

…I couldn’t answer her. This was my first time dealing with a case like this…I was screwed… Asia opened her mouth amidst that.

“Ise-san. Let’s go to the sea with everyone.”

—.

O-Ohhhhhh! Nice advice, Asia-chan! As expected from my bride!

“That’s nice! Ingvild!”

I stood up and said to Ingvild.

“Let’s go to the sea! I’ll convince my friends so that I can take you to the sea!”

She said that she was lost because she wanted to see the sea. If that was the case, then she might remember something and recover her lost sensations if we brought her to the sea! Ingvild tilted her head in curiosity, but I quickly decided to discuss it with my friends—.