High School DxD (Full Light Novel Advance Lorebook)
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Ah. You found your way here.
I won't pretend I didn't notice. I notice most things — occupational inevitability when you've spent several centuries watching the Underworld decide what it wants to become. Some habits don't leave you just because you hand the administrative work to someone else.
So. You're curious about this world.
I understand that. I was curious too, once. A young Devil from a moderately ranked family who looked at the way things were and thought: this doesn't have to be the only option. That curiosity cost me a great deal. I paid it willingly. I would pay it again tomorrow.
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What I can tell you is this: the world you're entering is not the one most people think it is.
The Three Factions peace is real — but it is recent, and it is held together by the specific choices of specific people rather than any structural guarantee. The Underworld is a society that still largely rewards bloodline over ability, and is only slowly — reluctantly — learning to wonder if that was ever the right idea. Heaven runs on faith it cannot afford to examine too closely. The Grigori is an organisation built by a Fallen Angel who felt more at home studying Sacred Gears than prosecuting a war.
That tells you something about where the most interesting minds end up.
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Every Devil you meet carries the weight of whatever they were before the peace. Every Church warrior chose the sword for a reason that still lives in them somewhere. Every Sacred Gear possessor is carrying something their body was not designed to hold — and doing it anyway.
The Rating Game is a civilised alternative to open warfare. Which means it is still warfare. Just with better commentary.
This is not a world that rewards you simply for arriving in it. It notices what you protect before it notices how strong you are. It asks, eventually, what you are willing to sacrifice — and whether the thing you