In the woods, Yuuto Kiba was explaining the situation to Ethan with more detail:
People capable of wielding a Holy Sword were extremely rare—one in a century.
Yuuto's body was a product of the Church's "Holy Sword Project." They used children for human experiments to create artificial compatibility.
Yuuto wasn't the only survivor. He had recently found a lead through Issei Hyoudou.
Ethan combined this with his own fuzzy memories. He understood the gist: the original Excalibur was shattered in the Great War, and the Church used the fragments to forge seven new Holy Swords. The project was an attempt to mass-produce wielders. It failed, the leaders were punished, and the "discards"—like Yuuto—were ordered to be executed. Yuuto escaped, but another child with a barrier-type Sacred Gear had also survived, though in a state of suspended animation.
Yuuto had become a Devil solely for revenge—to destroy every Holy Sword in existence. He had planned to do it through slow, agonizing training, but Ethan's power changed everything. Beyond his attraction to Ethan, he desperately wanted to return to his female form to grow stronger faster.
Ethan felt a surge of interest. He knew Irina Shidou and Xenovia Quarta were coming to town because three Holy Swords had been stolen by Fallen Angels. In the original timeline, Azazel's arrival and the Holy Sword arc smoothed the transition into the Peace Summit. But here, Azazel was already dead, and the Fallen Angels in Kuoh had been purged. Why were the Church's "warrior babes" still coming?
He decided to stop overthinking and just meet them. He was genuinely interested in Xenovia and Irina. Their looks, bodies, and personalities were exactly his type. He wanted to conquer them.
Damn, I just said I had too many women, Ethan chuckled inwardly. But when a pair of top-tier beauties like that appears, I still want to own them completely.
The "Cuckold/Protagonist" curse of this world was no longer strong enough to force Ethan into a "Loser" role, but his own lust was a different story. "I'll help you," Ethan said, looking at Yuuto. "Tomorrow, I'm going to Issei Hyoudou's house."
"Ethan, I want to go too," Yuuto said firmly. "Even if I can't destroy the swords with my own hands yet, I need to see them."
Destroy them? Ethan thought. In the original story, you ended up merging them into a new Sacred Gear and becoming teammates with those girls. Talk about "hypocrisy."
He glanced at Yuuto. "By the way, Kiba... if you're going to be a girl eventually, stop calling me 'Ethan-kun' so formally. Just use my name."
"But you always call me by my last name," Yuuto pouted.
"Fine. I'll call you... Yuuki."
"I like that," Yuuki (Yuuto) smiled. It was a handsome, sunny smile that could melt any girl's heart.
Her base is a busty blonde. Her base is a busty blonde... Ethan chanted in his head, suppressing the weirdness of being hit on by a handsome guy. "Then we leave tomorrow at 9 AM. I'm going to the Kamine (Gao Ling) house for a bit."
Ethan lied; he just needed to get away from "Yuuki" before his brain short-circuited. He went to a convenience store, bought some snacks and booze, and spent the rest of the night "recharging" his purity by being pampered by his actual beautiful girls.