Streamer in the Omniverse

Negotiating with the (CHAT).

Finally the chapter, sorry for the delay, I had to attend my cousin's birthday and ended up delaying things. 2 hours by car to go and come back, 4 in total, kind of wasn't my cup of tea but oh well.

As always, if anyone wants to read 3/7 chapters of my two stories, it's possible on my (P)(A)(T). If not, still, I appreciate you reading my stories, thank you very much!

That said, good night and happy reading!

(P)(A)(T)/CalleumArtori

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"My eyes are orange..." I murmured, looking into the handheld mirror. Not the eyes themselves, or around them, but my pupils. "How do I get this back to normal?"

I had stopped using all my energies and returned to letting the second racial trait take a back seat, but still, my eyes wouldn't return to normal.

"Maybe it's permanent?" Ruby tilted her head to the side. "Your Semblance?"

"No. My status says nothing." Or rather, it did, but not this.

[Semblance forming: Blocked]

I still didn't have a Semblance, probably because of the peculiarity of my soul, and not only had I not 'discovered' it.

There was only one way out then...

I stared at the mirror in my hand in silence. No one spoke for about ten seconds before I moved. I raised my hand and pulled a spoon from the VoidBag.

"NO!"

Ruby was the first to react and jumped on my arm, snatching the spoon from my hands.

"Ruby, give me back the spoon, please." I opened my hand towards her.

"No! Not before you tell me what you were going to do." She looked at the spoon in her hands and then at me suspiciously.

I didn't have time to respond before she threw the spoon to Yang.

"Yang, use smash!"

Yang had little time to be confused before simply squeezing the spoon with both hands and crushing it into a silver metal ball.

"That was silver." I pointed to the ex-spoon in her hands. Yang shrugged and tossed the ball back to Ruby.

"Uncle Qrow's gonna pay."

"Me again?!"

We both ignored Qrow, Yang's eyes changing to red as she shook her head and pointed at me, finally realizing why Ruby stopped me.

"Are you crazy? Your eyes just changed color, mine do that every time I use my Semblance and I don't try to rip them out with a spoon!" She pointed to her eyes that had changed completely from lilac to red before pointing to Ruby's hands, where the ex-spoon was.

I stared at her for a moment before sighing.

"I wasn't going to rip my eyes out." I was... Maybe. At least I was going to do a test. "They'll grow back anyway." I think?

"That's not a reason to do that. You're not even sure if they'll grow back either." Weiss shook her head and pinched the tip of her nose. I noticed she did that a lot.

"Ignoring the previous incident." Ozpin coughed to draw attention to the room. "Why your irritation about the change in your eye color, Devas?"

"I like the color of my eyes. There's not a very deep reason." It was one of the only things about me that wasn't almost a copy of that 'thing'.

The color of my eyes was mine. Something of mine, I liked it.

"I see..." Ozpin looked at me thoughtfully before pointing to my face. "You'll be happy then, since they're returning to normal."

I quickly pulled the handheld mirror back from inventory. It was true, the orange color was rapidly receding, the color of my eyes returning to their usual honey brown.

The sigh I let out was one of pure relief. In fact, I was more relieved than I actually thought I would be.

As much as I thought about ripping my eyes out, I wasn't entirely serious, if I were, Ruby wouldn't have been able to snatch the spoon from my hands, or I could have just grabbed another one, I had many in the VoidBag.

The room fell momentarily silent before Ozpin resumed the conversation.

"Well, now that emergency surgeries have been canceled." Ozpin took a sip of coffee and continued. "What was that earlier?"

I felt everyone's gaze in the room turn to me with varied emotions in each pair.

"My second racial trait. I'm sure Winter told you about them." The woman, as far as I knew, hadn't slept these past few days, reviewing everything she could from the stream. She looked tired.

Was that why James gave her the invitation? Delegating the work and avoiding exhaustion?

"She did. But Miss Winter said you didn't reveal any beyond the first one." Ozpin nodded. "Unless she didn't see the stream where this happened?"

"No, I really didn't reveal." I didn't deny.

"Is it something you're uncomfortable showing?" Glynda asked. No, that was the case with the third racial trait...@@@@

"No. I just prefer to keep some things secret." Just like the eyes in my shadow. "It's something that involves humanity, if you want to know. Humans in this case, I can understand them better." It wasn't a lie, even though it wasn't entirely true.

Blake seemed confused by this statement, which was expected in a way, since she was a Faunus and yet my racial trait affected her.

Faunus and humans weren't so different to my racial trait. I won't lie and say I knew why, but as different as the two species were, with Faunus being less affected, they were still affected.

Terrarians didn't, I didn't even need to test, they were something entirely different, even though they looked very similar on the outside.

"We noticed. It was like..." Qrow shivered as if he felt chills. I don't think he even realized he did that. "It felt like I was back at Beacon as a student. Exposed, weak."

"I remember that time. You and your sister were the first to step forward when I asked for volunteers in combat class." Ozpin seemed amused by the memory. Had he been a combat teacher before?

"Yeah, we were young, stupid, and didn't know any better, thinking we were invincible." Qrow stared at the immortal in the room. "Perfect volunteers to set an example for everyone, right?"

Ozpin didn't respond, the smile on his face said it all. Qrow grunted and looked away, muttering, "Sadist." Which only amused Ozpin even more, who hid his smile behind his coffee cup.

What would they think if I told them that was me containing the racial trait to a large extent?

"You're not going to specify more than that, are you?" Qrow turned to me.

"No. At least not now." Not in the near future, probably. "Everyone deserves privacy. I may have less due to my job, but I still want to keep some cards close to my chest."

Qrow looked at me with slight suspicion before nodding slowly.

"Leave it, Qrow, we all have secrets." Surprisingly, it was James who 'defended' me. I wasn't the only one who seemed surprised by this.

"I didn't know you and our alien friend had gotten so close, Tin Man. The paranoid Morningwood not being paranoid? Did I miss some memo or something?" Qrow asked with a raised eyebrow before taking a sip from his drink flask.

Winter frowned at the man for the pun, Glynda sighed as if she were used to it, and Ozpin didn't react, watching in silence.

Team RWBY, on the other hand, seemed to be holding back laughter, even Weiss, who seemed scandalized and flushed, had trembling lips.

As for me, I forced myself not to react to the nickname; it wasn't that difficult, anyone with the internet had heard worse and much more often, I was hardened.

James completely ignored the pun on his last name.

"Devas has been nothing but courteous since he arrived and has proven himself an ally. I have no reason to suspect his character or powers." He explained, and I could feel that it was true...

Was it because of the racial trait? Had it given me some kind of heightened emotion detection? Or was it something else?

Nightmare energy had done something similar with negative emotions, but it was more of an instinct than anything else and didn't work as well without the Bone Helm.

In this case, it wasn't like that; I was sure James wasn't lying and was genuinely just trusting me, even though he himself was curious and wary...

...Nothing human is foreign to me.

Lying was human, trusting was human...

It seems that using the racial trait consciously for the first time had changed something in me...

"Devas. Why was I affected?" Blake drew the room's attention with the question. "I'm a Faunus, not human."

"Yes, you're a Faunus." I nodded in agreement. "But for my racial trait, you're human. Well, at least part of you..." I scratched my chin as I thought quickly.

"About half?... No. A bit less, maybe more..." It was kind of confusing; it wasn't exactly an exact math. "I would say, aside from some differences that Faunus have." I pointed to the top of Blake's head and her eyes. "They're basically humans, probably a subspecies, first cousins if I were to specify further."

Aside from the animal characteristics and some advantages that Faunus had like night vision and increased strength, agility, and stamina depending on the Faunus's 'animal species', they were basically humans, which was kind of strange to be honest.

"Damn..." I spat out the word. "And the owner of the body?" Ozpin's shame wafted in waves, but he still explained.

"I don't have full knowledge of what happens to their souls, but their consciousness shares the body with me, being able to share control and alternate who's in charge and who's in the 'back seat', so to speak." He explained. "After a while, we merge, our memories become one... It's always just me in the end..."

He had a bitter look on his face; his feelings were even worse.

Ozpin was old, how old I wasn't sure, and didn't need to know to understand why this happened. Adding twenty years of experience to a thousand, two thousand? Maybe more?... It was clear who would be left in the end...

"You're angry." Ozpin said. It wasn't a question.

"I am, but not at you." I didn't know the beginning of the story, why he had been cursed; maybe he was to blame in the beginning, but not anymore, maybe not even in the beginning.

Although, at this moment, Ozpin, or Ozma, could be considered a parasite by some people, he was as much a victim as the people who 'died' every time he inhabited their bodies...

I shook my head and resisted the urge to look at Ozpin's soul, as I was sure I didn't have enough SP to analyze someone so old, especially with divinity inside the body.

One thing at a time, I could deal with the cursed man later, first Amber.

"Did you set your nickname?" I asked. Ozpin replied to me with a message in both (CHAT) and (CHAT-FATES).

[TheWizardOz]: Yes, I did. How curious... Well, I imagine everyone here must already know me because of the stream, but I'll introduce myself. Nice to meet you all, I'm Ozpin, the current headmaster of Beacon. (Emote of the 'Wizard of Oz' waving with one hand and drinking coffee)

"I like the emotes. I have several, some that remind me of how I used to be as well, how curious..." Ozpin murmured beside me, playing with his phone.

I took the opportunity to read the (CHAT), it had been a while since I had done that, the last few days had been kind of hectic.

[(MOD)GeniusBillionairePlayboy]: Nice to meet you dude. Your situation is kinda shitty, but good luck with everything, DS should help you out if you can manage. (Emote of Iron Man giving a thumbs up). DS! Some new folks arrived a while ago, Serafall brought her friends, I called the three of them RGB, one of their sons is even a fan of mine!

[CrimsonSatan]: I must say your personality is completely identical to what I read with my son and that worries me. As Mr. Stark said, Serafall invited us to the stream, nice to meet you, Devas, I'm Sirzechs Lucifer, the Lucifer Satan.

[GreenSatan]: Nice to meet you, Devas Asura, or Streamer, if you prefer. I'm Beelzebub Satan, Ajuka.

[MagicalGirlSera-Tan]: DEVAS, GIVE ME (MOD), LET ME CHANGE THEIR NICK, THEY LIED TO ME! (Emote of a magical girl stomping her foot angrily).

RGB friends... The funniest part wasn't even the nickname, but that Stark just didn't give a damn that the three were Devils, three Satans on top of that.

But... Sirzechs and Ajuka... The two strongest Devils, well, at least until the boob idiot and the emo descended from Lucifer surpassed them... The two seemed to be acting like Satans too, not like Serafall who was more laid-back and friendly.

A good cop and bad cop game? Maybe. As much as I wanted to think it was just my paranoia, chances are I'm right here, especially after Serafall mentioned 'connecting worlds'.

Serafall would be the friendly one, the one who attracts people there, who talks to everyone, the 'silly one', while Sirzechs and Ajuka are the guys who are just there to flex, to act more serious and show power.

I could even imagine: 'Sera-tan is nice, but that doesn't mean the Devils are weak, don't mess with us.'

Actually, carrot and stick are the right metaphor here. Serafall is the carrot while the other two are the stick, or in this case, a damn giant sledgehammer.

Ugh! Shitty politics. Screw it, I'll ignore that.

"Nice to meet you, Sirzechs, Ajuka, you can call me Devas or DS like the others. Welcome to my stream, here is a calm, friendlier and more relaxed place, I hope you enjoy yourselves as much as Serafall is." Translating: Don't fuck with me, don't try any shit, and we'll be fine. I was sure they had understood.

I went back to reading the (CHAT).

[TohsakaHeiress]: Two more Devils, two Satans and one is named Lucifer... :D. Devas, I have some questions but... I don't have enough money to pay for them, could I pay in another way? I can help with Amber's healing, I have some knowledge that might be useful. (Emote of a Chibi Rin sitting drinking coffee).

[AinzOoalGown]: Hmm... Lucifer, it's been a while since I heard that name, Beelzebub too... Devas, I can assist in the healing of this young lady as well, Nazarick has a range of knowledge more than exemplary, I'm willing to negotiate. (Emote of a skeleton holding a book).

[AdvocateOfGenderEquality]: Wow, everyone suddenly turned into mercenaries... Good idea. Hey, you shitty goddess! you know about souls, don't you? It was your job, come here and earn us a few bucks! (Emote of a generic guy pointing to a gold bar).

[TheGreatGoddessAqua]: How do you expect me to do that from here?! I'm a goddess, I never needed to study to know how souls work, I just know, use my power and poof! Things happen, don't belittle me Kazuma! (Emote of a Chibi Aqua sighing and saying: Mortals...).

[WiseWizardGleam]: I'm not specialized in the area of souls, but I'll help as much as I can, Devas. Serevus and Minerva also helped, but they're in class right now... Before I forget. Nice to meet you, Mr. Ozpin, or do you prefer Ozma? (Emote of an old man with bright eyes).

[JiraiyaIsAnIdiot]: Nice to meet you, Ozpin. Just as Dumbledore said, I'll do the same, Devas. I don't know much about souls, but I'll help where I can and ask for information from others here, I'll make Jiraiya-Chan and Minato-Chan help too. (Emote of an old toad with a book in hand)

You know, I'm sure many people in my situation would think of Rin's words, 'Could I pay in another way?' with a more... Happy context... Thighs and everything...

I don't, well... Not entirely. But right now I'm more tempted to ask her to steal Avalon from inside Shirou and hand it over to me than anything else.

I didn't even worry about the mana problem between worlds and all that. Avalon was Avalon; the sheath would simply say: 'Another world? Screw it.' and work normally, this shit was absurd like that.

But since I was sure Rin would either have a heart attack if I told her that some 'random' person had the Sheath of King Arthur inside their body, I'm not going to ask for that.

"The price I'm going to ask for is a 'dibs', Rin, just remember that." Screw it, Goldie's 'trash' was only trash for him who crapped out Noble Phantasms, for me, it was worth much more than gold.

Rin obviously accepted the deal, even though she knew I'd probably come out ahead. Being in a discussion about how to cure a soul with the people who were here was reward enough, she didn't even hesitate to accept, actually.

As for Ainz, well. In summary: He wanted knowledge from his world, knowledge that I didn't have, or didn't have before in this case, since Saya was an angel and had sent me some of the volumes of Overlord they had found there.

I searched for some things in the VoidBag as well and found some other volumes that I didn't even know I had, but it was kind of obvious to be honest, I had thrown everything I found in Japan into it.

I just wanted an update with a search bar for the VoidBag, my life would be easier, even though I could just 'grab' anything easily in there, I needed to know it existed beforehand, I had to look through a few hundred mangas to find what I was looking for.

I had fifty-two chapters of the Overlord manga in hand. After a quick negotiation, I agreed to throw three chapters to Ainz in the future and he accepted.

With that, I had some people to help already.

Rin, Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall, Fukasaku, Jiraya, Minato, Jarvis, and Ainz, or in the latter case, probably some NPC from Nazarick that Ainz chose to ask the questions.

"Is it over there?" I asked Ozpin. The girls, Ruby first, had asked me to create a (CHAT) for them to talk to Ozpin after he explained how his curse worked, even Winter was thrown in there, they had been talking ever since.

They took things more calmly than Ozpin expected, he was probably used to receiving anger, disgust, or something like that when he told them he 'stole' bodies, the girls just accepted it and asked a few questions.

Of course, they still thought the whole situation sucked, but it seemed like the stream had desensitized them to some things. Should I take credit for that then?

"Yes. It's been a while, I must say I'm pleasantly surprised with everything. And you, are you done with what you were doing?" He asked me.

"Not yet. But I'm almost, you can go discuss with everyone in the meantime." I waved to him and pointed to the (CHAT) I had created only with those who would participate in this discussion. Things would be more organized that way.

Ozpin nodded and went to sit down, going back to messing with his phone. I went back to look at the (CHAT), or in the case of the RGB group. Stark really outdid himself with that nickname...

[MagicalGirlSera-Tan]: 5 Questions of those "Don't ask that Serafall" and I'll make Ajuka help. I guarantee that with his disturbed mind this girl will be cured in five minutes! (Emote of a chibi magical girl raising her pinky finger).

"One of those questions there. They have that name for a reason, a few reasons actually." And the reasons were: 'I want what she had asked for' or 'There's no way in hell I'm giving that away so easily'.

There was also the option of me simply not knowing what she was asking for either. How the hell was I supposed to know what Gabriel would be doing in a month?

While I negotiated with the B from RGB, the G and the R remained silent, just watching, probably talking to Serafall outside of the (CHAT).

[MagicalGirlSera-Tan]: 3 Questions and a nude of mine, I'll even record a video if you want, you can even choose the outfit. (Emote of a chibi magical girl in a sexy outfit).

"The devil is tempting me with pornography..." I murmured amusedly. "Unfortunately, I'll have to decline. Tempting, I admit, but no."

[MagicalGirlSera-Tan]: Do you know how much they would pay for this? Lives, men would give lives for this photo, this video! Devils, Fallen Angels, Gods, Yokais, Chinese Immortals, even some Angels! And DROP THAT BIBLE!.

"How am I going to shield myself from temptation without my shield?" I asked, putting the bible against my chest before laughing and putting it back in my inventory.

"Let's do it this way. Two questions." I raised two fingers. "I'll answer two questions of the 'Don't ask that Serafall' type, but with one caveat..."

I knew what I wanted from the start...

"... I want two bags of feathers, one with black feathers and one with white feathers..."

... Let's see what I can do with Angel and Fallen Angel feathers...

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Well, here's the chapter and some explanations:

Why didn't Devas ask for a Sacred Gear?

Response: Even though these things are created by Big G, they still lack divinity, the chance of them just 'breaking' with the transfer was high, not to mention the cost. Sacred Gears are hard to come by in DXD, at least without the right knowledge, and any Sacred Gear that could be useful for Devas and has divinity or enough power to function even in another world (without the help of the stream), wouldn't be worth the price for Serafall.

Not to mention the mess it would cause, after all, having one of those things just 'poof' from the system would alarm the entire Heaven. Since the RBG team wants to keep the stream somewhat 'private' for now, that would be imprudent.

Well, as for the feathers... If anyone says Devils don't have some of those things stored away, they're lying. You can point them out, the person is lying.

Devas is going to have fun with the feathers, so will I, many ideas. (Oh, yeah, the feathers have divinity, even the Fallen Angels, primary creations of Big G and all that, even in their 'grace' they are still angels, so much so that they can still use their light sticks. Seriously, I'm going to buff this thing, it was ridiculous in the anime...)

Well, the next chapter will be out earlier, don't worry. I won't delay things too much with Amber either, so don't worry about that either.

Well, I've rambled on enough here. Good night, everyone, and happy reading!

PS: I was thinking about posting the prologue of an original story here to see everyone's reaction, get some feedback, and any other suggestions on how to improve it. What do you think? I'll announce the day I do it, of course, so those who don't want to read it won't mistake it for a chapter. Please comment if possible, it would really help!