I will become God-Harem King of the World! [Highschool DxD/Exalted] (CLOSED)

[Alexander]

It just occurred to me that meeting Asia was a random encounter in canon. Are we going to miss our window for that if it doesn't happen in this next week?

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Already covered that. Unless something change a lot you will meet her.

However, and I am saying this because it's a detail easily overlooked, you may want to acquire a dot in Linguistics.

 

[Pipeman]

Does a day in school count as training for the first dot due to English classes?
Then again we might want to spend that first dot on learning some pseudo magical language like latin instead instead.

 

[P_D]

Then again we might want to spend that first dot on learning some pseudo magical language like latin instead instead.

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Asia has been with the church for god knows how long so she probably knows some latin.

 

[Alexander]

Does a day in school count as training for the first dot due to English classes?

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Nope, sorry: the minimum is 3 hours of continued effort. Also, with every dot you learn a linguistic family, not a single language.

 

[Malcolmo]

Wouldn't Asia be more likely to speak Italian though? Although Latin and English would work as well I suppose.

 

[BobTheNinja]

Since I crossed out my previous vote for Magician, I'll go ahead and repost it here.

[X] Sign on as a Magician

 

[P_D]

Nope, sorry: the minimum is 3 hours of continued effort. Also, with every dot you learn a linguistic family, not a single language.

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Wait, so we can learn all Indo-european languages with a single dot?
Or am i thinking too big here?

 

[Alexander]

Wait, so we can learn all Indo-european languages with a single dot?
Or am i thinking too big here?

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Nope, that's exactly right: you study English for a week, you end up speaking and writing 439 languages and dialects perfectly.

Exalted, guys. They are not awesome, they are AWESOME!

 

[John At Dawn]

Nope, that's exactly right: you study English for a week, you end up speaking and writing 439 languages and dialects perfectly.

Exalted, guys. They are not awesome, they are AWESOME!

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I thought it would just be all Germanic languages. English, German, Dutch...

That's convenient though.

 

[Mu-Sensei]

Huh, I thought Germanic Languages were a group, Latinic were another, Middle Eastern, Far Eastern, African, Meso-American... etc etc...

Not being a Pawn also means we'd be some outsider walking up to and beating the shit out of devil nobility with horribly cruel magic.
I doubt that is really better.
But, yeah, aggravated damage is definitely not something we should overlook when we have to deal with the regenerator.

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If on a previously agreed one-on-one duel? He would have brought it on himself.

Bonus points if he misinterprets our proximity to Rias and demand the duel himself.

 

[Heaven Canceler]

Nope, that's exactly right: you study English for a week, you end up speaking and writing 439 languages and dialects perfectly.

Exalted, guys. They are not awesome, they are AWESOME!

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Wait, if I get this right, by learning English, we get the entirety of the Indo-European-Languages???? This includes languages that are absolutely and very different from English even if they have the same origin, hell, I think a number of these are dead languages. Well damn, Solars are broken.

@Mu-Sensei: They are apparently subdivisions of that Family. If we believe Wikipedia, we will have almost half of the languages of the world and the majority of these spoken in Europe.

Edit: We should totally act like we can only speak passable english and then listen into conversations of others when they use other languages. Devils, angels and co. have existed for a very Long time, so they can probably speak very old languages.

 

[overmind]

Nope, that's exactly right: you study English for a week, you end up speaking and writing 439 languages and dialects perfectly.

Exalted, guys. They are not awesome, they are AWESOME!

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...We are doing this.

 

[BFldyq]

Edit: We should totally act like we can only speak passable english and then listen into conversations of others when they use other languages. Devils, angels and co. have existed for a very Long time, so they can probably speak very old languages.

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Actually, Devils have the ability to have anything they say understood in the language they are most familiar with. They can control this to be heard in a particular language as well. This works in reverse as well.

However, they gain no actual ability to speak the language. Nor does this apply to text.

 

[Ubylkoen]

[X] Sign on as a Magician

 

[Alexander]

[X] Join as a Magician.

You have many choices, but in the end, once you consider Bright's words and your parents safety, only one is correct.

"Rias-sempai? I have decided." You fold your fingers together. "I'll become a Magician affiliated with you. However, I would like for the protection to be extended to my parents too. I don't want to put them in danger for my choices."

"Consider it done. I know the value of family and share your concerns." She stands up and offers a hand. "Welcome to the Occult Research Club Hyodo-san. No, Issei-kun. Can I call you Issei-kun?"

You shake her hand. "You can call me Ise, Rias-sempai. Or is it Buchou?" Her hand is so soft...

"Yes, when on school calling me Buchou is appropriate."

At that moment wings sprout from the backs of everyone around you. They're different from the black wings of Fallen Angels, their wings are like bat wings. You almost jump in surprise at the sight.

"Let's introduce everyone anew. Yuuto."

Kiba smiles at you after Buncho calls his name.

"My name is Kiba Yuuto. As you already know, I'm a second year like you, Hyoudou Issei-kun and a I'm a Devil. Nice to meet you."

"....First year. ....Toujou Koneko. Pleased to make your acquaintance. ....I'm a Devil too."

Toujou Koneko-chan bows her head.

"My name is Himejima Akeno, and I'm in third year. I'm also the vice-president of this Occult Research Club. Nice to meet you. Even though I'm like this, I'm also a Devil. Ufufu."

Himejima-senpai bows her head very politely.

Lastly, it's Rias-senpai. She waves her crimson hair and says it very directly.

"And I'm their master as well as being a Devil from the House of Gremory, Rias Gremory. My house holds the rank of a Duke. Let's get along from now on, Ise."

Your turn. You stand up and bow in a more formal manner.

"My name is Hyodo Issei, a second year. I am a Sacred Gear user and future Magician. I hope our collaboration will be productive. From now on I will be in your care. Please look after me."

"Yes! My first Magician!" Rias smiles and raises a first in the air. "I feel like I grew as a Devil a bit more."

"You did Rias, you did." Akeno congratulates her master. Kiba and Koneko nod in approval.

Devils or not, you are sure of one thing: they are good people. Kinda ironic, but in a good way.

Backing (Gremory Clan): O

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Later you left the Club. To finalize the contract you will need to firm some papers Buchou will have ready the next day, but the gift of it is clear: for the next nine months you will study as a novice Magician under them and in return be an asset for the Gremory Clan. Akeno-sempai will be the one to teach you since she is the one more knowledgeable about magic in the Peerage. Your training will start tomorrow: she already gave you a bracelet with a magic circle that will instantly summon one or more of them if you are in danger and promised she will put a similar circle and a defensive barrier around your house by tomorrow.

But before going home there is another place you want to visit.

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"...."

Silence. Abe-sempai and the girls from the tennis club are staring at you slack-jawed with wide eyes.

Honestly, this is getting a little annoying.

"Ahem." You cough to gain their attention. "Yes I know, it's out of this world. But the Apocalypse is no near. Abe-sempai, can we talk?"

"Y-Yes!" She turns to the others. "Continue without me. I will be back soon."

The two of you walk to the other side of the fence, where you can still be seen but not heard.

"What. Happened." Abe-sempai goes directly to the point.

"My Sacred Gear did it to me. It seems it magnifies all my positive traits to an absurd degree." And it can do so much more. It's not even a Sacred Gear.

"I never knew Sacred Gears could do something like that..." She muses before taking a high-class lady-like stance. "So, barely a day passed and you already came to collect your debt? I may have underestimated you."

"More of less. I would like your opinion about something. You see..."

You tell her of the recent events and your new affiliation with the Gremory. At the end of your tale her face is hard.

"If Fallen Angels are really targeting your life I can't fault your decision. But be careful when dealing with Devils. A trade with a devil needs to be done carefully or else you might have your soul taken away."

"But Gremory-sempai said devils don't do that anymore."

"You still have to be careful. You can't trust them so easily. Neither Rias-san nor Kaichou."

"Kaichou?" You ask confused.

She quirk an eyebrow. "Sona Shitori, the Student Council President. She is a Devil too. Didn't you know?"

Eeeeh?! The third most beautiful girl in the school is a Devil?! "Seriously?"

"Yes. Her real name is Sona Sitri, of the Sitri Clan of Devils. All the members of the Council are part of her peerage."

Why didn't Rias-sempai tell you that?

[Because she wanted you to join her.] Ddraig says. [It's obvious her principal goal is to make you a part of her peerage, but she knows people aren't so easily convinced and so gave you a choice.]

[The girl is smart, but not enough to realize that you may had a way to learn about this so fast.]

'I see. So it's like that.' Speaking truthfully you don't really resent her. She may had omitted information from you, but it's apparent she never intended to exploit you in a bad way. You kept secrets yourself after all, so you can't fault her from doing the same.

Is this the famous social-fu you heard about on the internet? It's surely complicated!

"Thanks for telling me Abe-sempai. One last thing: do you know any Japanese Magic Association, not hostile to Devils, that I can contact for assistance?"

"Uhm..." She assumes a thinking pose. "My family is very old and proud so we kept mostly to ourselves, but we formally belong to the History Compilation Committee, the main Japanese Association that is in change of keeping the supernatural hidden from normal people. There are other minor but influential associations, but the only two I know are the Urakai ("Shadow Organization") and the Keikain House, the premier Onmyōji Clan that protect Kyoto. There is also the Youkai Yakuza but I advise against it, at least until you're strong enough."

You nod. "I see...wait a second!" Your head whip around so fast you almost give yourself a whiplash. "Youkai Yakuza?"

There is something absurd like that in the world?!?

"The business type, not the criminal type. Many Youkai Clans are too prideful to receive help from humans, so they sought to be independent. They're actually good guys, if a bit rowdy. Or so my father said."

You kept passing from one weird things to another.

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When you return home, the sight that greet you is that of your parents happily dancing together, loudly thanking "Kami-sama" for the miracle of "turning our useless and plain son into someone that will have success and will not end masturbating on porno until the day he dies".

Parents? What parents? You don't have parents. Stop laughing Ddraig!

You just walk into your room and close the door, hoping that by the time dinner comes they will have calmed down.

[Uhuh. You have amusing parents, brat.]

There is nothing amusing here.

[Come here worm. We need to talk.]

Bright-sensei's clear voice cuts through your conversation. She actually sounds serious this time.

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"It's about your training." She explains. "You will learn the magic of this world. But, while that is good, there are many powers that you, as a Solar Exalted, can claim for your own. Powers that nobody in this world experienced before, thus they will not have counters for them.

"We can both give you special training." Ddraig continues, making himself comfortable on the ground like a big lizard.

"Since you have the Boosted Gear that has me, a Dragon, sealed inside you also possess a "Dragon Quality" that make you able to learn the techniques of us Dragons. Be careful however, for this same Quality means you will be affected by dragon-slaying weapons. There aren't many in the world, but every one of them is a serious danger."

"What kind of techniques Dragons use?" You ask intrigued.

"Very straightforward ones. Dragons are beings created from large masses of energy, we represent power. Dragon techniques are about hitting fast, hard and often many times at once. There are also some to increase speed, defense and even to summon a lesser dragon as an ally in battle."

Sounds awesome. "Can I learn how to fly too?"

"That can be taken care of by Boosted Gear itself, but only in the future." He anwers cryptically.

"The ways of an Exalt are more complicated." Bright assumes a lotus position in mid-air. "First, let me tell you about Castes."

"The Caste of a Solar Exalt indicates the predisposition toward a certain role or certain duties based on individual abilities. There are five of them:

Dawn: leaders of armies and undefeated warriors; Zenith: priests and rulers of nations; Twilight Caste: scholars, sorcerers and craftsmen; Night: spies and assassins; Eclipse: diplomats and bureaucrats.

You and I, worm, both belong to the Twilight Caste. We create peerless wonders and wield unstoppable magic."

So you're a Wizard type?

"Next are the natural weapons of an Exalt: Charms and Sorcery. Charms are a form of Essence manipulation that focuses it through the Exalted's Abilities to enhance their effects to great degrees."

"Abilities?"

"In Creation humans do not deal the same way with skills and knowledge. There all human skills are divided between 25 Colleges, or Abilities. Knowledge of a skill within a College makes the acquisition of all the other ones much easier, possibly even trivial. In your world one can train all his life to play an instrument and never learn how to sing. In Creation that doesn't happen: once someone become sufficiently proficient in an art it is absurdly easy to learn the other skills that fall under the same College."

"That's why I was able to learn new things without studying them first? How come? We aren't in Creation."

"It doesn't matter: your Exaltation will warp reality to make you work under the laws of Creation, no matter where you are."

Amazing!

"Listen well. The Twenty-five Colleges are:

Archery, Martial Arts, Melee, Thrown and War. Integrity, Performance, Presence, Resistance and Survival. Craft, Investigation, Lore, Medicine and Occult. Athletics, Awareness, Dodge, Larceny and Stealth. Bureaucracy, Linguistics, Ride, Sail and Socialize.

As a Twilight you have a natural affinity to Craft, Investigation, Lore, Medicine and Occult. You also have a personal affinity to Presence, Resistance, Athletics, Awareness and Dodge. Meaning that mastery of them will come easier for you. Becoming more proficient in them mean you will be able to learn more powerful Charms. They are learned separately, so remember: to learn Charms you first need to raise your Abilities."

"Charms are, like, those golden flames I used and my skin turning into steel?" She nods. "Awesome! And what is Sorcery?"

"Sorcery is a more sophisticated and demanding form of Essence manipulation than Charms. Charms are useful in combat and other situations where you need to act fast and within your Abilities. With Sorcery on the other hand the Exalt focuses Essence through sheer will alone, so it's time-consuming. It has a strategic value, not a tactical one. With it I destroyed entire cities and massive armies alone, but when I fought single, powerful enemies I relied on Charms. Many spells have powerful effects that a Charms couldn't emulate: some may not be usable here in this new world, but the other will aid you greatly."

"Those are your options brat. It would be best that you decide right now how to divide your time and what to prioritize, because you can't do everything." Ddraig interjects.

"For an Exalt sleep is merely an inconvenience, so you will be fine with only four hours of sleep every three days."

"Even if I get dead tired?"

"Even then. By raising Lore a bit you could even drop that school of your altogether, but that would give your abilities away to those Devils. So it's not an option. For now."

"You also need to gain more potential. As I said you need to do heroic deeds. My advice is to search this city for possible challenges."

"In short: be a little kid and go search for adventures!" Ddraig guffaws.

This dragon of yours is having too much fun for your tastes. You may need to thrown him down a peg or two.

Still, you have so many options! But you need to decide on a schedule.

Popularity Arc: Complete

+3 Xp for doing good things in a good manner

Now is the time to arrange your schedule. I don't have a sure-proof method yet, so I rely on your sensibility and experience to do a good job.

A day is composed of: 24 hours.

00:00 -> 8:00: free time
8:00 -> 15:30: school time (half a hour is the time needed to prepare and walk to school). Every day counts as: Lore +1 day, Intelligence +1 day.
15:30 -> 24:00: free time. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday you will study DxD magic under Akeno for three hours, from 15:30 to 18:30. You can also study more alone since you will receive the material to take home.
Sunday you are free to do what you want all day.
Every three days you will need to sleep four consecutive hours.
One day of training are at least three consecutives hours of continued exercise where you push your limits.

There is also this option:

[] Adventure Time Potential Gaining Activities (Xp farming). You can choose one for every day, but they will take an unknown amount of time. When selected you will be given a list of possible options one more horrible than the other.

There's more? Nope. Go wild.

Please plan for the next seven (7) days. Also, add 6 and a half hours to the total for today.

 

[Smuthunter]

There's no N in buchou.

As to the activities, I'll need to think about this. Maybe wait for Pipeman to chime in first, since he's the resident optimization guru.

 

[Eler0]

Hmm, let's see. That means we have (assuming we have school on 5 days out of seven, and sleep Wednesday and Saturday)
7*24-(7.5*5+3*3+2*4)=113.5 hours of free time.
That's more than I expected.

We really need one dot in Linguistics so we can talk to Asia, that's 3 hours a day for 6 days, so 18 hours.
Leaves us with 95.5 hours
We definitely want to grab Occult, so studying it in our free time on three days (assuming studying under Akeno counts as training) means we lose 9 hours
86.5 hours
We probably want to pick up an offensive ability, maybe Martial Arts, so another 18 hours
68.5

That leaves us with 68.5 hours to get Charms, Spells and XP.


If 3+ hours of training count as one day of training, could we spend 9 hours and have it count as 3 days? Because if we can't then that whole calculation sort of fails.

 

[Fellgar]

Hmm, let's see. That means we have (assuming we have school on 5 days out of seven, and sleep Wednesday and Saturday)
7*24-(7.5*5+3*3+2*4)=113.5 hours of free time.
That's more than I expected.

We really need one dot in Linguistics so we can talk to Asia, that's 3 hours a day for 6 days, so 18 hours.
Leaves us with 95.5 hours
We definitely want to grab Occult, so studying it in our free time on three days means we lose 9 hours
86.5 hours
We probably want to pick up an offensive ability, maybe Martial Arts, so another 18 hours
68.5

That leaves us with 68.5 hours to get Charms, Spells and XP.


If 3+ hours of training count as one day of training, could we spend 9 hours and have it count as 3 days? Because if we can't then that whole calculation sort of fails.

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We have occult favored so we just need to put exp into it, no study needed.

 

[Eler0]

We have occult favored so we just need to put exp into it, no study needed.

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Nope. Look at the training times on the first page, improving any ability is instant, but learning one (so going from zero to one dot) requires 6 days of training. At least that's my interpretation.

 

[John At Dawn]

"Uhm..." She assumes a thinking pose. "My family is very old and proud so we kept mostly to ourselves, but we formally belong to the History Compilation Committee, the main Japanese Association that is in change of keeping the supernatural hidden from normal people."

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Hello, Campione, how are you there?

 

[Pipeman]

Well, for Charms we currently can only really get ones in Presence and Resistance anyways so we can probably afford to squeeze in a lot of XP grinding.
Adding training for our perfect defense adds 15 hours and one Presence Charm at most 12 hours leaving us with at least 41 hours.
That means constant XP grinding is on.
Odds are going XP grinding once a day might still not cover 41 hours.
If we have free time and XP left we can add more dots to stuff we already have and after that get more Presence and/or Martial Arts Charms.
If we have free time but no XP and already gone on our adventure for the day, we can get started on training for attribute points.

That said we kind of need to decide on which Presence Charm we should get first.
Have a link.
Keep in mind we only have Essence 3 and Presence 4 right now.

Does anyone know when we need to have the Linguistic dot exactly for Asia?
Because if that's not mid-week I'd delay that for more immediately useful stuff.

 

[Smuthunter]

That said we kind of need to decide on which Presence Charm we should get first.
Have a link.
Keep in mind we only have Essence 3 and Presence 4 right now.

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Of the charms on that list, the one I see as having the most use to us right now without violating Issei's principles is probably going to be Irresistible Salesman Spirit. Double the presence successes on bargains and encouraging courses of action would greatly enhance our odds of attracting allies to work with us and would also give us an edge in working with Rias and the Gremory family if we wind up needing to change the terms of our relationship.

 

[Pipeman]

Of the charms on that list, the one I see as having the most use to us right now without violating Issei's principles is probably going to be Irresistible Salesman Spirit. Double the presence successes on bargains and encouraging courses of action would greatly enhance our odds of attracting allies to work with us and would also give us an edge in working with Rias and the Gremory family if we wind up needing to change the terms of our relationship.

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Tending towards that as well.
Main downside is that it can't be combined with Enemy-Castigating Solar Judgment, but that's not really usable in friendly situations anyways, and that it's not actually UMI, meaning we get only one shot at it.
That said it's really damn powerful.
Hypnotic Tongue Technique is my other main candidate but given that we are probably more concerned with making contacts and deals right now than mindcontrolling people I'm willing to wait for that one.

That aside, do we have school on saturday as well?
And confirmation on whether training more than 3 hours actually helps us would be appreciated.

 

[overmind]

Tending towards that as well.
Main downside is that it can't be combined with Enemy-Castigating Solar Judgment, but that's not really usable in friendly situations anyways, and that it's not actually UMI, meaning we get only one shot at it.
That said it's really damn powerful.
Hypnotic Tongue Technique is my other main candidate but given that we are probably more concerned with making contacts and deals right now than mindcontrolling people I'm willing to wait for that one.

That aside, do we have school on saturday as well?
And confirmation on whether training more than 3 hours actually helps us would be appreciated.

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I like Listener Swaying Argument better, since it seems we will be arguing against people too many times.

I also think that we should start with the linguistics first, that way we get it out of the way first, plus in case we meet Asia sooner then we can be ready for that.

 

[ShadowAngelBeta]

I agree with Overmind. I don't remember when exactly we're supposed run into Asia, but it is fairly soon. And we need something quiet at night to do, so 9-ish hours of studying at night, a little before we go to bed until we're supposed to be waking up, if we can stack hours like that would work well.

 

[Smuthunter]

I like Listener Swaying Argument better, since it seems we will be arguing against people too many times.

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LSA only works on an audience rather than the person we're talking to though, and its main use seems to me to be sowing dissent in an enemy's ranks. At present the main people we would use that against might be Rias or possibly Raiser. In the former case it's undesirable unless we want to turn Rias's peerage against her for some reason, and that strikes me as an extremely bad idea both for plot consequences and for long term relationships. In the latter case we don't really need it since there are other ways Raiser could be dealt with. Maybe later in the story it would come in handy, but not right now.

 

[Pipeman]

Listener Swaying Argument is not really what we should go for right now.
It can be useful sure, but it's not going to be for a while that we actually care about the opinion of onlookers nearly as much as we care for convincing the guy we're talking to.

As for how we split things up, that also depends rather heavily on whether or not we can actually do the 9 hour sessions and get something out of them.
That aside, how do we have to learn Martial Arts?
Can we ask Bright for intructions or do we have to find some place that gives courses?
I mean we are only training for the first dot, meaning that some very basic instructions and some self training should actually suffice.

Edit:
Also, which weekday do we currently have?

 

[overmind]

Listener Swaying Argument is not really what we should go for right now.
It can be useful sure, but it's not going to be for a while that we actually care about the opinion of onlookers nearly as much as we care for convincing the guy we're talking to.

AS for how we split things up, that also depends rather heavily on whether or not we cana ctually do the 9 hour sessions and get something out of them.
That aside, how do we have to learn Martial Arts?
Can we ask Bright for intructions or do we have to find some place that gives courses?
I mean we are only training for the first dot, meaning that some very basic instructions and some self training should actually suffice.

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Alright then.

By the way, do you know what source are we using? I mean is this the Manga, Anime, or Light Novels version?

I have read the manga, never seen the anime, and just recently started reading the Light Novels.

 

[Pipeman]

Alright then.

By the way, do you know what source are we using? I mean is this the Manga, Anime, or Light Novels version?

I have read the manga, never seen the anime, and just recently started reading the Light Novels.

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I'm assuming we're based on the light novel with manga and anime as auxillary canon where they don't contradict the light novels.

 

[P_D]

Found this:

-IC Knowledge: Kiba promised to present you to someone who can help with Yuuma after School. School time in this quest if from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM, every day but Sunday. Lunch time starts at 12:30 AM and lasts for about 40 minutes.

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So... What do we want to raise and how much? Linguistics by a dot, Occult as much as possible, martial arts by some, then put some time into learning a charm or two if we have time and EXP?