Author notes 1
Hi guys.
Hope you all enjoyed the holidays, because I did.
Part 2 of the gathering.
Entire chapter with Samuel Pov.
We finish the gathering in part 3 and from there is pure action until the end of the story.
I'm not going to talk much in author's notes 1 because I'm going to do it in the second one.
Things we will be walking in the author notes 2.
-Chinese translations and how to detect one.
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-Samuel POV-
I see how Sairaorg walks with confidence towards me.
He only came with two members of his peerage, huh.
One of them is a blonde beautiful curvy woman with a ponytail. His peerage queen.
Kuisha Abaddon.
I can see how some of the guests throw some glances at her and the group in general.
The other member is the one I'm really interested about.
Regulus.
The Nemea lion.
The sacred gear who evolved and materialized himself. Fucking insane.
Fun fact, his name Regulus is the name of the brightest star in the Leo constellation.
My constellation in both meanings.
I was born in August ten, in both lives. My birthday is close by the way, huh...That means I'm a Leo.
Coincidence? I think not.
And well...the other meaning...King of Stars stuff, but that I will figure out later when the time comes.
Ah. He is in front of me already.
"Samuel Lancaster I hear so many things about you, finally I can meet you!" Sairaorg said with a strong and confident tone.
Makes sense I guess, he is Rias cousin after all, so they talk.
"Sairaorg Bael, nice to meet you too." I say.
We both look at each other and we give a firm handshake, which made a loud sound.
(Image)
"You are strong." Sairaorg didn't say but stated.
"You too." I say with a calm smile.
Lion meet up lion after all.
"Okay lets have a spar right here Lancaster!" He said with some fanfare.
Third time in the night someone asks me for a spar, is this the day by day of the strongest? You go anywhere and someone asks for a spar?
I was about to say yes but guess Kuisha has other plans. She is grabbing Sairaorg, giving him a face of "Dont make problems here".
"Haha well guess we can always spar other time." I offer.
"Sure! I will be looking forward to." Sairaorg said lifting his arm.
See? This is youth.
After that spar I can give him the holy water of life maybe. Lets help out the manhwa protagonist.
Maybe he can become my BESTO FRIENDO.
"You are a lion..." Regulus said looking at me cautiously. Some people of the group perk up at his words.
Okay that one is new...
"I guess you can call me that." Maybe the multiple "Lion" people I assimilated are giving me that vibe...and the other factors.
"Are you another Nemean Lion who survived?" He asks bluntly.
That was a really good guess but no.
"No, Im human." For now.
He keeps looking at me like he found some unbelievable thing.
"This human is strange like I told you Regulus. I wonder what you really are Samuel Lancaster." Ddraig said from Issei hand.
Uh oh, when the really old bastards start talking between them is not a good sign for me.
"Well you can also consider me a lion I guess, my armor, my crest and my way of living." I said to Regulus and Ddraig, a half truth.
"Maybe. The first time I see you in your armor I thought you have Regulus Nemea for an instant Lancaster." Sona stepped up to say that to me.
Heh true. Wonder what will happen if instead of Star Buster Star Blaster I would have received the Regulus Nemea as a sacred gear.
Wielding The Battle Axe of the Lion King... I got the Escanor assimilation too, it will be peak to be honest. The balance breaker form you look literally like a Knight of the Zodiac.
"The liberation" is cool too, the chant... the longinus chants are fucking cool. I don't care if they are a bit edgy, make me remember of the Emiya chant...it's so fucking cool.
Annihilation Maker has no liberation ergo no chant...
Who decided that?
I swear when I get my hands on that thing I will fucking pull its ass out from the system and go full psycho experimenting on it. It's my favorite sacred gear after all.
If it doesn't have a chant it means nobody was good enough to perform the liberation right? It's a fucking longinus for fuck sake. Don't give me that crap. I don't buy it for a second.
"You were always this strong Lancaster?" This time Rias asks me.
Been a while huh? I can see she is training. Her arms are more toned. For a girl of course.
"Not always but I trained." I say with a smile. Not a lie, I train okay?
Sona hearing my answer just frowns for a couple of seconds then she lets it go with a smile.
...Did she just? Never mind, the brainrot from my past life is still strong hehe.
"You are a freak of nature." Vali said his two cents.
Dude...look who is talking.
"Indeed." Albion agreed with his host.
Argh! Et tu Albion?
After that the people who did not know each other introduced themselves, we keep talking of other topics.
I was to throw a joke but my attention was caught by the new guests that just enter.
Heaven faction.
Michael, Vasco Strada and three young ones...uh oh I know this one, hope she doesn't give me problems here and make things awkward.
The leader of the angel faction stopped in his tracks when he looked at me, maybe I went a bit overboard with the amount of power I decided to show...meh.
As Vasco and I meet eyes he just simply offers a kind smile and a nod, I return the nod.
Finally meeting the former strongest human huh? The guy is big.
I respect him, it's good to see a fellow human holding his own in this crazy ass world.
And the three young people...huh.
Dulio Gesualdo, wielder of the Longinus sacred gear Zenith Tempest. Interesting.
The other one is Irina Shidou. I feel a bit bad with this one...I kinda stole her bag keeping all the Excalibur pieces in the Kokabiel incident. Meaning Excalibur Mimic is in my possession.
At what point will the church figure it out? Will they figure it out to begin with?
Good thing she got a new sword. I don't recognize the sword, after all my meta-knowledge isn't perfect...but it's a magic sword 100% sure.
Now the last member...
Lint Sellzen.
She is basically a female version of Freed...because homunculus shenanigans.
Mmmh white haired girl, a homunculus artificially created, Fate is older than Highschool DxD for a couple of years...I see you there Ishibumi.
I'm also a fan of the Fate series.
Going back to this girl...
I killed her brother, Freed Sellzen, I didn't even leave a body to mourn that sick bastard.
Do I regret now seeing the pure disgust, fury, and sadness in this girl's eyes?
Absolutely not.
Michael along with Vasco goes to talk with the other adults on the other side of the hall.
Oh fuck, those three are coming right here...
Here we go...
"Xenovia!" Irina said to my girl.
"Irina." Xenovia nodded to her friend.
"How are you?" She asked her. "Hope you are treating her well Lancaster-san." She said that one to me, half teasing half warning.
I just rolled my eyes.
"Ara~ ufufufu so it was true, you two are really dating." Akeno said with a smug smile promising endless teasing.
It's so fucking over.
"Guess you are like that too Lancaster." Rias said in a smug tone like she won against something.
"I hope you are not doing something perverted with her Lancaster." Sona gave her two cents.
"..." I give up.
"Women." I said flatly as they giggled.
Dulio stepped up with a calm smile.
"Dulio Gesualdo. Nice to meet you everyone." He gave his short presentation in a lazy tone.
Maybe nothing will happen with this group. They are too calm except for Lint.
But I don't think she will be this stupid...probably she will swallow her anger, maybe she will try some sort of vengeance on other fronts.
I mean she is a good person...
If I was her I would keep quiet and then strike in the right moment.
Fast kill without torture because torture is the inferior mindset.
"Hi guys, nice to meet you I'm Lint Sellzed." She said with a happy tone.
Some of the people gave stares to each other when she introduced herself. Mostly Issei, Asia and Kiba.
Maybe Lint will play it dumb. Yes. Let's end up the night without trouble on this part.
"So you are Samuel Lancaster...I'm the sister of the man you killed."
Or not.
Her entire face got serious, she locked in as she turned her neck to me, using a more frivolous and cold tone.
What a way to kill the vibe girl...
Guess I finally see some consequences for my actions.
Everyone got quiet as they turned to me, even Latia and Seekvaira who were further away from the group, talking amongst themselves, turned to see the upcoming drama.
Time to use Tattletale powers.
Let me focus on Lint. Let me see...
[Dislike you. Know you made the right decision. Still dislike you. Wants to make you look bad in front of everyone. Wants to punch you. She is sad. Slight depression.]
It focused even more, I'm not Tattletale after all.
[She wants to bring you to justice, but her superiors wouldn't allow it. She hates that you're strong.]
Interesting last part...
Enough.
I have a good idea and I know how to answer correctly.
"I killed him because he was evil. You already know all the sins he committed." I stated in a serious tone.
"You should have taken him to jail or to the church, he could have faced trial and spent the rest of his days in prison. You-" She said quickly, angrily and agitatedly.
"He robbed the church, so thief. Manslaughter. Multiple homicides on repeated occasions. Rape. I could go on, but I'll leave it at that. Trial or not, he was going to be given the death penalty." I say.
"I know but-"
"Your love is being wasted on him." I finished with that fact as she winced.
"Maybe you are right..." She said with a sad expression.
"Good." I say.
"But still...I want to carve in your skull." She spat at me.
"Less good."
She materialized a light sword out of nowhere.
"Samuel Lancaster. I challenge you to a duel!" She said loudly, finally attracting the attention of the other guests in the gathering.
I rolled my eyes at her.
Really, what is happening with all the spars and now a duel.
How troublesome. Give me a break already.
"Nah. I pass." I make a wave with my hand to dismiss the "challenge"
"YOU CAN'T PASS YOU BASTARD!, FIGHT ME RIGH- WAIT DULIO!? IRINA!?" They grabbed her arms on either side and dragged her back, taking her to the adults.
"My deepest apologies Lancaster, we will take her back." He said with an apologetic expression.
Okay.
"LET ME GO! LANCASTER! THIS DOESN'T END HERE YOU HEAR ME!" Lint said.
Her rantings begin to lose volume as she is dragged away by her companions.
To be honest I'm good with this "resolution", it could have been worse. I don't want to hurt innocent people after all.
I turned to the group.
"That was..." Issei started saying.
"Crazy?" I offer.
"Awkward." He finished.
"I get where she comes from but...defending that rapist? Come on." I say as I rolled my eyes.
"...Yeah." Issei said slowly.
He agreed, huh? Obviously. After all Freed tried to rape Asia. His girlfriend.
Kiba killed Freed in canon did he got with this kind of problem with her? or he got a pass because he is a gentle ikemen?
If that the case, go explode.
"Things like this are only the start Lancaster...let me tell you something, people are talking about you, you know that right?" Rias told me.
Indeed.
When you are strong, people start to talk about you. After this gathering it will be even worse.
"I know." I nod.
I'm prepared. It's the path I choose.
"Well guys, I'm going for a walk on my own." I told the group. "Xen go with the girls, I pick you up later." I told Xenovia.
"Nicknames already?" Akeno said, quickly picking it up.
"Don't even start you..." I told her as I go away.
"Ufufufu~"
Stop that cursed oneesan laugh, woman.
Time to fish for problems.
I wandered quite far away from the group, going to the food table. I wanted to try the drink with the peculiar purple color.
Looking back on the interactions I had and the people I just met.
Heh, you can say finally the four protagonists were in the same place together. I smile to myself.
Issei the shonen protagonist. Almost every time winning by deus ex machina and spewing about friendship to his enemies.
Kiba will be the seinen protagonist because his life was a tragedy.
Sairaorg is the manhwa protagonist, he lacks demonic power, something everyone in his environment has, he was discriminated against because of it, but he overcame it through sheer tenacity and hard work. And of course his mom is in a coma.
Now...
Me.
Uh. I always joke that I'm the overpowered side character hehe.
But what kind of protagonist would I be? The antihero?
Wait.
...The fanfic protagonist? WAIT WAIT WAIT.
I hate it because it kinda makes sense because of the setting. Guy transmigrated/reincarnated with a cheat...
Oh my god, please tell me I'm not in some shitty fanfic.
"..."
If that's the case hope the author is not fucking retarded you know~? Like nerfing me for some reason. Or pulling a buff from his ass for the enemies.
Now that I think about it... if this was a fanfic probably I would make some harem and I would think with my dick all the time. It's DxD after all.
Somehow all the girls will be okay with me starting a harem and never questioning me or having consequences in this regard. Like Pokémon I will catch them all to satisfy the readers and their vast tastes.
Eventually, given the number of women, the author can't keep writing about so many characters around the protagonist's life, and as a consequence, many women in the harem fall into irrelevance or worse...oblivion.
Oof~ yeah this is not a fanfic.
And if it is I hope the author is somewhat decent and got my back. No crack shit and decent update times!
The readers and the constellations or whatever is watching deserve it!
Hahaha but yeah I don't think it's a fanfic. Doesn't have the signs.
Okay enough schizo jokes.
(Author: How do we tell him?)
I tried the drink.
Grapes and alcohol huh, Some wine i never hear of. Tastes good.
Well well well...look who is coming in my direction.
Odin the All-Father.
Rossweisse following him as his bodyguard.
"At least the alcohol here is good, and the women too. This generation in this regard is saved." Odin said as he goes to my side and drinks in one go his cup.
"What do you think brat?" He asked me.
"This will be the golden generation and the best one." I replied.
"Hoh." He said stroking his beard, looking thoughtful.
"Odin of the Norse." He introduced himself. "This one is my boyfriendless valkyrie bodyguard." He points at Rossweisse.
Heh, no dudes?
"O-Odin-sama!" Rossweisse said with tears in the corners of her eyes.
After the tantrum of the white haired virgin I introduce myself.
"Samuel Lancaster."
Odin took the time to look me up and down. Conjecturing and seeing my power.
I have to keep in mind that I can't lie so blatantly to the old man, but I can still tell half-truths or some twists.
"The strongest of the new generation huh...HAHAHA A HUMAN NONETHELESS!" He laughs carefree.
"Brat... no, Samuel Lancaster, you know who I am?" Odin asked.
"You are the chief god of the Norse, why?"
"Then this makes things simple, I know your situation, you are not tied to any of the three factions, come to the Norse." He offers spreading his arms with some fanfare.
Rossweisse's jaw just opened in surprise.
Interesting but I will rule my pantheon sooner or later.
I appreciate the offer, but he only offers me crumbs under someone else's control.
"I can give you women, like Rossweisse here, she is a virgin." He winks at me. "You say yes and she is yours right away." He points at the woman in question with his cane before I answer.
"O-o-Odin-sama! Stop saying nonsense!" The valkyrie whimpered with a red face as she looked at me.
"Thanks for the offer old man but my home is the Abrahamic Pantheon and I have a woman already." I said with a smile.
"You can have two if you say yes..." he tried to tempt me.
What are you? Some fanfiction reader?
"Thanks but no." I said definitely.
"Bah! You are not fun, Rossweisse let's go, I need to look under some skirts before we go." He passed right by me with a smile.
Well...he let it go quickly, good then.
Rossweisse gave me an apologetic nod as she followed Odin.
When he was walking away I decided to use Tattletale powers on him.
[Want to touch a big pair of breasts.]
Of course... what a funny perverted old man.
I tried out some of the food too, some plates I never saw before.
I noticed some people left this area, discreetly but they left.
Makes sense if I become a pariah in the pantheon.
Big power unchecked, no affiliation, it's normal that people keep their distance.
Well...most people.
They keep coming.
"Greetings." A young voice said.
I turned to see a young man with a gentle expression and closed eyes.
He was wearing noble attire.
Diodora Astaroth.
One of the many dead men walking on my kill list. This guy is a piece of shit.
He is alone...he is not that retarded I guess. Imagine going to a gathering with your kidnapped mentally raped harem.
I grin in my mind as this bastard approaches me.
Time to create a false narrative and sell the lie.
Of course I use my powers on him to help me even more.
[Want to know you better. Want to know your goals. He was ordered to do it. Assessing possible recruitment for Khaos Brigade. Look down on you because you are human. Despise you because you are human. Despise you because you are stronger than him. He is sure your feats are inflated by the church.]
HAHAHA. The last one was funny.
"Sup. Name's Samuel Lancaster, you?" I said with a laid back attitude putting some food on my plate. Let him think I'm a retarded musclehead teen.
"I'm Diodora Astaroth. Nice to meet you." He put his hand on his chest as he nods.
"Likewise." I nod back.
"It's not everyday you can meet a human this strong." He threw some false compliment.
[He hates this. He hates talking to you. He hates you.]
PFFFF! bro stop making me laugh.
"Thanks. It's not everyday you can meet a devil of the nobility?" I tilt my head to him for confirmation. Implying that I don't know much.
[He wants to poke your eyes out from your skull.]
Okay.
"Indeed. I'm a high class devil." Diodora said with a proud tone in his voice.
"So what do you think of the Gathering Lancaster-san?" He asked making small talk.
"Pretty good, good food and drinks, hope nothing bad happens, it will be a shame to stop with those delicacies here." I said.
[He thinks you're a good for nothing glutton. He thinks you are simple-minded and stupid. He is tired of you.]
Pfff.
"I understand that you are not part of any of the three factions, can I ask why?" Diodora asked calmly, going straight to the point.
"It's boring. The three factions are boooring." I throw my hands up a bit. "And besides I don't want to be under someone doing boring tasks, you can say I'm a free open minded spirit looking for new interesting things to do." I say with a smile.
Not gonna lie I want to vomit a bit after saying that but I need to create that narrative and trick this bastard.
It's game over after that.
"...I see. It was nice to meet you Lancaster-san. Enjoy the food." He bows a bit as he walks away.
"Likewise, have a nice one dude." I lift a bit my cup to him.
Let me see.
[He thinks you are an unaware laid back dumbass easy to manipulate. Possible useful tool. He is going to report this to his superiors.]
This is big...if it works and they try to recruit me then it will be one of the last mistakes they will do.
Khaos Brigade just got trolled.
First let's see if this works first...
They will probably send someone unimportant...I play along. I can do a one vs all against their entire roster. I'm this strong but no.
I will secure the sacred gears from Khaos Brigade first. Annihilation Maker is my priority.
It's time I got my hands on my favorite gear.
Something in the back of my mind is telling me Leonardo never liked to be a sacred gear user. Instinct, perhaps?
I got you bro, I present you a trade, I got the longinus and you got freedom from something you don't know how to use.
After that I can make an invincible and loyal army with my knowledge and meta-knowledge of other "creatures" from other fictional worlds.
Heh.
Let's walk around the party a bit more. I keep walking looking at the rest of the decorations, the gothic old building.
I wonder how much money Azazel threw at this. He is filthy rich after all.
Oh!
I stopped in my tracks as I see the woman who is talking to Serafall.
Damn! she really owns the title of world babe of the DxD world huh.
Yasaka.
The fans' favorite. I still remember how hard they simp for her in my other life... and how hard they goon too.
Blonde hair, fox ears, her flawless and well groomed nine tails.
Her particular well known kimono... the cleavage showing the big breasts. Second biggest bust of the series btw.
The curvy figure. The ass. She can have both vibes. Milf and a babe.
Oh no! she is hot.
Yep, I understand better now why it's so over for the guys.
If she was blue haired I may lose it completely hehe.
Kunou is next to her with a boring face as the two women talk to each other. But who cares?
I'm a loli hater, I hunt down lolicons.
Meh time to go I guess, I will talk to the guys a bit more and I will go home with Xenovia.
I look away but with my peripheral vision I see how Serafall's neck goes in my direction.
Like a predator who just spotted a prey.
"Hey Sam-kun, come here for a bit." She waved with a cheerful smile
...Bitch how did you call me?
Wait...go there? right now?
It's so fucking over.
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Author notes 2
Samuel is becoming well known in the supernatural world.
A lot of characters in this gathering, huh? We still got 2 more to meet in the next part.
Lets go talk about the page situation now.
-Chinese translations and how to detect one.
We are in an economy of translations and AI fics. One of the worst times to be a reader on this page.
Funny thing, this is a problem almost exclusive to this page.
On other sites like Fanfiction, Ao3, and Spacebattles, I never saw a Chinese translation. Im not saying they dont exist, I personally never saw one.
Going back to Chinese translations...they suck.
But im not going to complain about this too much because this is a Chinese page after all, a lot of people dont know this fact or they forget about it lol.
I dont get the translators to be honest.
Let me explain...
Let's suppose you are a translator. You want to translate a Chinese fic and put it here for the non-chinese readers to read it.
The problem is...people hate Chinese fics for a lot of factors.
Lets list a couple of them for fun.
Chinese propaganda, Chinese supremacy, racism, shit on America for free (sometimes other countries too)
The famous Chinese poison from their media! From there we got gems like the "You are courting death!", "Respect your senior junior", and other stuff you probably know.
Young masters. (This one became a meme.)
Power level names are crap. (Heavenly immortal dragon curse devouring sage.)
Chinese slang. (I will not go there for my sanity sake.)
Non-Chinese readers dont like Chinese names or they forget the names of the characters easily.
I can go on but lets leave it at this.
(Put more reasons here if you want)
Now if you are a translator you need to edit all of those things to make the thing readable.
And im saying, if you have to do all that, isnt it better to just write your own original fanfic at this point?
Because if you dont do that crazy editing, I dont think many people will read it.
The funny thing is that this happens, and I saw some translators adapting their game along the years.
It used to always be stated in the synopsis that it was a translation, but not anymore. Now some random has to come in the reviews and put the raw name.
Well lets go, I will throw some tips to detect a translation to not waste your time.
-Check the authors of this page who normally post translations.
I will not say names for obvious reasons.
When you know the names, it becomes like second nature to just dodge the fic.
-Read the synopsis and the reviews.
Some fics still say they are a translation in their synopsis.
If that werent the case, thats why we read the reviews, some random hero putting the raw name when somebody asks, if you see that you can dodge.
-Come out of nowhere and already has 50+ chapters with 0 comments.
Self explanatory.
-You start reading and see a Chinese name or Chinese slang.
You fell for it but at least I hope you dont waste much time lol.
Those are all the tips I can think of right now.
If you got more tips share the knowledge with your fellow goblin readers.
Thanks for reading the chapter and the author notes, see you in the next one, bye.