Title: Revelation
Author: Kristen Sharpe
Date: December 20, 2017
Rating: G
Warnings: Possible spoilers for manga Chapter 81 to present.
Continuity Mangaverse, an indeterminate time after Chapter 96.
Disclaimer: “Ao no Exorcist/Blue Exorcist” belongs to Kazue Katou, Shueisha, Aniplex, and various other parties.

           “That is what the Order’s really like.”

           There. He’d told his brother everything. About the experiments, the cloning. About every desperate grasp the demons who ran the Order had made to prolong their own existences.

           Breathing hard, Yukio watched Rin’s face.

           It was unreadable.

           “Yeah,” Rin said quietly. “That fits what you told me back with that Phantom Train thing.”

           “What?”

           Rin shrugged. “You said exorcists don’t save people; they fight demons.”

           He had, hadn’t he? Because he learned it from…

           “Father told me that.”

           Impossibly, Rin smiled.

           “So, he warned you.”

           And, everything Yukio thought he knew slid sideways.