How To Survive In The World DxD With Fragment Memories

Masaru felt like he went form the 2000's to 1900's when he looked at the buildings, it was really like he went back into the past. From the looks of it the townspeople appeared to be normal, the shops look quite old like those shops you find on the titanic movie. "This is Yorkshire, Greater Malling... You will be coming here often for when I send you to buy some daily necessities and other smaller things" Jessy happily explained everything to Masaru however he honestly felt like he entered a territory of a beast, there even the occasional feeling of being watched.

"Steve, you have to make sure you work hard otherwise you will turn like those other boys who ended up in jail" Jessy reminded Masaru who simply kept his face stoic but he really was feeling a bit irritated at being reminded so many times, "Oh yeah there is also this boy called Matthew Freeman who is also a child on the LEAF project, his foster parents is Mrs Deverill who lives down near Lesser Malling... There is an abandoned Nuclear Plant as well" Despite her naggings Masaru was listening carefully about the information she was giving him, especially this Matthew Freeman if he was not mistaken there are several reports about this boy having a possible future sight ability or something that allows him to see in the future.

'Could it be they intend to use his ability to see in the future? Although it sounds amazing but I am sure it has a lot of restrictions since powerful abilities tend to have a price or restriction on them' Masaru thought as he was trying to figure out just how does this boy link up with the witches or could it be that he is simply here to bide his time before he is old enough to be an ȧduŀt in the society? It did not take long for the bus to stop in the middle of nowhere, there was a vɨrġɨn forest on the one side of the road and on the other was a fence that went as far as both directions of the road which was probably a farm fence.

"We're here" Jessy walks in front while Masaru was following her along the road till they came across a gate that looked similar to the rest of the fence so from a distance it was quite easy to miss it, Jessy unlocked the gate pushing it open for herself and Masaru to enter but the latter had to lock the gate after being reminded although he would not even forget something so basic. There were five farmhands working on the fields two Africans and three British whites, from the looks of it they appear to be quite healthy but the smell on them was reeking smell of something that decayed for a long time that was extremely pungent enough to make him feel a bit repulsed. "You should get used to the smell Steve, you will be working here from now on"

"If you don't mind I would rather work on the fields with planting, weeding and harvesting since I have experience in these" Hearing Masaru's request Jessy was a bit surprised this boy had experience in farm work and since he was only asking to work in the fields instead of the Ranch where the pigs are it was still reasonable, "That's fine, I can have Matoto lead you tomorrow" Masaru nodded, it appears one of the Africans names was Matoto but is that really his name or a nickname this old lady gave him? Masaru had no way of telling but for now he will have to get used to this lifestyle as he will be staying here for quite a while.

The house they were staying in was a traditional british farmhouse, two stories with a chimney sticking out the tiled rooftop, the walls appear to once be painted white but the age had already begun to change it to yellow stained colour. If the smell was taken away then Masaru could more or less handle it, but the smell was really horrendous for him who has a sacred gear that boosted his senses and since he trained his senses it was naturally sharper than normal. "Your room will be in the roof, I had Noah clear out the room for you so you can go up and take a rest dear, tomorrow you will start working on the farm"

Masaru heard what she said before he went up to his room, it was quite empty in the roof but the height was short so he had to bend slightly to move about, there is only a single bed, small table with a lamp on it. At the other end of the room is the Cabinet where he could store his clothes. From his mission point of view, it was a good place, but he was having some difficulty controlling his urge to kill the cat he spotted looking at him meaningfully from the window outside. Even he was shocked about why he was having such urge which he normally only have when enemies were around, [So it is finally safe to talk huh?] Drago who was sleeping inside his sacred gear woke up just in time for Masaru to ask him a few things.

[I am not sure but that cat is not normal, if the witches are still here then you can consider that cat their familiar or something... Unless this world's pets started to develop their intelligence or it might be a Nekomata like your Rook] 'I will place my bet on the familiar theory since I could not sense any life nor death from that cat at all' Masaru responded in his mind while he laid on the bed to act like he did not feel suspicious of the cat, [I have been sensing around but boy this place feels weird] 'Yeah, from the looks I can see the people seems to be normal and going on about their lives... But I feel like I entered a cage with animals in it'

[Well from the looks of it the women and her workers don't have any mana so I suppose if you're intending to slip away every now and then, you will have to look out for that cat instead] Masaru nodded, but then again how come he could not sense a witch at all? Controlling a cat like that from a distance? Is it possible without mana? Masaru was thinking about the information he had gathered from his spellbook and he could only conclude that the witches that stayed here unlike those that went out... They could not use magic but Sorcery...

Some regards Sorcery as a higher-level kind of magic but in reality, it was a business cooperation kind of magic, the requester summons the granter and requests their power for a price. Depending on what kind of Demonic Spirit was summoned or how much the Demonic Spirit was willing to grant, it could give the requestor unimaginable power although it would not be their own power but borrowed power. If that is the case then it will make sense if they could not be sensed normally like other magicians. 'No use thinking about this now... I have to integrate into this area before I can actually start investigating the surroundings'

The next morning Masaru got himself dressed in second-hand articles of clothing which he could simply discard if it gets too dirty, it was a white t-shirt, brown pants and a pair of Wellington Boots. After making sure he was at least looking the part he decided to head down when he smelled the breakfast but the pungent smell of faeces still destroyed it, Masaru was not sure if Jessy was doing this on purpose or if she was simply too used to smelling faeces. When Masaru was about to head from the first floor to the ground floor he felt a pair of eyes gazing at him, when he stopped to look he spotted the cat who leapt off the chair heading into the room where he could not see so he ignored it going down.

"Morning Steve! It appears you are an early riser which is good!" Jessy was currently serving an old English breakfast made of two sausages, bacon, fried eggs, mushrooms and a bit of chip. Although it looked perfect Masaru was still a bit skeptical, "Morning Jessy, I normally wake up this time" Masaru spoke as he took his seat, there was no need to pray since this was not a religious household so Masaru could start eating immediately, but he could taste it, the fact the food was a bit expired as it had a strange sour taste that makes you want to spit it out. It angered him that he had to stomach this kind of food but for the sake of his investigations, he swallowed it reluctantly while pushing his limits to control his facial expression from displaying just how badly the food tasted despite looking delicious.

When breakfast was over Masaru went outside where the larger African farmhand was waiting for him, he was wearing the standard farmer clothes which were the white shirt, blue pants and a pair of leather boots. His face was without wrinkles from Masaru's perspective it appeared like he was in his 20's but in fact, this man was older than 40 already, "Morning Steve, I'm Matoto. There is no need to speak of your past, I have no interest in it either... You came here to reform and that is what you will do, follow the rules and things will be smooth, break the rules and you will work in the pigpen till your an ȧduŀt" And thus Masaru's Farm life started in the worst possible way, bad food and bad people... What fun!

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"Matthew! Get to work!" Mrs Deverill was calling out to Matthew who came to live with Mrs Deverill because of this Project called LEAF, it was horrendous for him since he was not used to the Farm life, the food was alright but the pigpen was simply disgusting. "Coming!" He called out while leaving the pigpen, ever since he met the stranger at the Abandoned Nuclear plant he began to believe he was in a dangerous place and he simply wanted to get out of here, the people all oddly know of him and even looked at him strangely not to mention he felt like he had been growing weaker than he was when he has gotten here.

"I need you to go help Noah with the weeding in the back for me" Mrs Deverill ordered him to do something before leaving, Matthew, however, thought it was a chance to escape this place since he had a charm he will not go around in loops as he did previously when he tried to escape this maddened place. But then again he agreed to meet the man who is intending to escape from this place as well and he wants to take Matthew with him. So Matthew waited till he was certain that Noah and Mrs Deverill was gone before he grabbed the bicycle and went off towards the direction he was told.

He kept pedalling till he reached an average looking house that was easy to find anywhere else, but it was strangely quiet but he still entered as he thought maybe he was busy in the back or sleeping up stairs. But the suffocating smell of blood penetrated his nose causing him want to vomit but he held it in as he began to move up the stairs where the smell was becoming more and more pungent, when he opened the door which should be the bedroom he saw the corpse of Thom Burgess Body, he was murdered causing Matthew's breathing to become hastened and rough while he looked at the words on the wall painted with green written "Raven's Gate" Matthew was scared, he had special powers that do not activate when he wants it too so he was a helpless child if the murderer was here so he made a run for it.

It did not take long for Matthew to come across policemen who was currently on patrol so he made them stop, "Huh? Aren't you Matthew that Mrs Deverill is looking after?" One of the officers spoke but Matthew's pale fearful face made him stop his question, "T-Tom Burg-Burgess has been murdered!" Hearing this the officers both had a serious look on their face, they knew of this child being a LEAF project meaning he had a criminal history, they could not easily trust the words of a child even though Matthew did not want to return he was still made to come back with the officers so they could take a look.

But when they arrived at the house the door was opened by a woman Matthew once met in Lesser Malling which greatly shocked him, he had many questions coming to his mind as he could not understand what was going on. "Good Morning Officers, ah Matty! Why are you here? Did you perhaps escape from Mrs Deverill's place?" According to Miss Creevy, Tom Burgess went on a vacation to help his friend with a request so he was not home but Matthew strongly protest that he saw him dead in the bedroom upstairs, "No! I saw his dead body upstairs in his room!" because of the strong protest Miss Creevy allowed the Officers and Matthew to go up the stairs and when they entered the room it was clean, no words were written, no bloody smell nor was there a corpse.

Matthew wanted to speak but could not find any words to say, it was simply too shocking! "I'm not sure what to say, I feel sorry for this child who lost his parents at a young age maybe that is why his imaginations seem real for him?" Miss Creevy, "Don't worry Ma'm we will make sure to take him back to Mrs Deverill and tell her about this" But Matthew kept saying what he saw was true but the officers did not listen to him and even wanted to take him back to Mrs Deverill's place but Matthew escaped before they could get their hands on him. This place was wrong, everything was wrong. Matthew was truly scared but at the same time, he had to find out what this Raven's Gate is, Tom Burgess died to give this message to him and he had to find out about it.

First, he went to the Lesser Malling searching through the books and found a book written by a woman named Elizabeth Ashwood and the book was called Raven's Gate. He read through it but the part that contained Raven's Gate was ripped out, there was nothing. He even went to ask the Librarian but she said that was the only book they had and the writer was dead, so Matthew went to search on the website but suddenly a chat window opened up asking Matthew who he was {Who are you?}, when Matthew gave the person his name {Matthew Freeman} he also began asking questions but the man did not respond back to him at all. So he went to the librarian to ask where he could find information about the Raven's Gate to which the Librarian suggested to him he should go to the greater malling.

Matthew grabbed his bicycle which is actually stolen from Mrs Deverill's farm and started pedalling towards Greater Malling, it was quite coincidental that Masaru himself also went to Greater Malling since Jessy and her farmhands were gone as well as the cat, he set up an alarm device in his room that will go off if any of them return back home so he could instantly return back before they reach nearby. Today Masaru was reading books searching for Raven's Gate and this was where he met Matthew Freeman, he recognize the boy as Jessy for some reason had a photo of this boy in her closet along with investigation reports along with a letter which was from Mrs Deverill and it appears almost every villager had his information.

Masaru could see the boy was searching about Raven's Gate quite openly unlike him who is searching in silence, 'Could it be he has information or did something happen?' Masaru did not want to openly approach the target that is being monitored even now by the librarian who took out a phone to send a message which Masaru presumed to be Mrs Deverill, 'I will have to follow this boy' Masaru thought as he walked pass Matthew bumping into him "accidentally" while allowing his spellbook to place a tracker which could not be sensed easily on the boy, he was not sure but he knew if something big happens this boy will be in the centre of it... Otherwise, the entire Yorkshire was just a huge land of perverts

Matthew had no time to think about Masaru who bumped into him so he went to the newspaper gazette to get more information, Masaru followed him from a distance while making it appear he was going towards the cafe to order a cup of coffee, looking left and right he took out a hat from his bracelet placing it over his head allowing his ears to be covered before he called out his sacred gear to only cover his ears. He was not sure if the boy was stupid but Matthew was currently talking with a man named Richard Cole who is a young man and a reporter, Matthew was telling him everything about Mrs Deverill, Raven's Gate, Tom Burgess, while listening Masaru felt his story would simply be maddening and crazy from a human's perspective. But he who heard this with his sacred gear was shocked as he never imagined that this boy is actually something the witches wanted to use, he was quite familiar with Witchery magic which normally uses sacrifices in their rituals, it would be the only reason this boy was being monitored by almost every resident of Yorkshire Lesser and Greater Mallings.... 'Just what in the world are these witches planning to do with the boy?'