( Meanwhile. )
< System Space >
" So, you put 'that' in her body, My dear Lord of Shadows. " Sireena asks as she had some meeting with her Master, the White Demon.
" Ask Dreadbone about that one... " he tells her.
" After all, he was the one who had some 'issues' with her in the first place, my part is to only let him after he did some great job. "
" Dear me, what kind of issues? " Sireena asks.
* White Demon thinks for a while. *
" Let me remember... "
< Begin Flashback >
< Date: May 30th, 2022 >
< Location: Demon Forest Dungeon (S), Black Shadow Base Holding Room >*
" Oh, so you've decided to keep her here, Lord White Demon? " Dreadbone asks as he is having a meeting with the White Demon.
< Summon: [Black Shadow Elite VI, Dreadbone] >
< Level: 95 >
" Yes, alongside Yukino-senpai. " White Demon says as he sees her inside the cocoon.
" I see, you want to keep these chicks together in this new Dungeon we raided, huh? " Dreadbone asks which made the White Demon stared at him.
" Hey, hey, great leader... " Dreadbone tries to calm mr. White Demon down.
" I'm sorry if I offend you, my lord..., but- "
" You know I'm older than you, right? "
" You know I could exactly tell that you had something, especially with Mrs. Japanese 'Nadeshiko'* here. "
" My Lord White Demon, Ragna Kent. " Dreadbone says, being an older person he is than his own Lord.
" I see... "
" So there's no hiding from you, then... " Ragna sighs while looking at Yukino's cocoon again.
Ragna touched the cocoon, he sighs, realizing that perhaps this is the better way to keep her accompany, to complete the task of fate that must happen between him and her.
" If she woken up early, there's a chance she would hate me before even trying to know me. "
" But, I can't risk her entrapped forever. "
" Especially since I don't intend this Dungeon to be a long-stay for us, this place is still within the Demon's territory. "
" So what, Lord Ragna? "
" Didn't we destroyed many of the Demons while building strength? " Dreadbone asks which nods.
" Indeed. "
" You had greatfully done that part, Dreadbone. "
" I believe you should earned your Gift. " Ragna looks at Moon Yeji's cocoon.
" You can have her. " Ragna says to Dreadbone which made him a bit surprised.
" Me? " he asks in confusion.
" She's once your 'classmate', isn't she? "
" One of the top girls in your 'Academy'? " Ragna asks him.
" I simply have no wish to do anything with her, so I'm giving it onto your care. " Ragna tells Dreadbone as he leaves.
As he left, Dreadbone stays there alone and looked at Moon Yeji's Cocoon there.
" What's with the face, Moon Yeji? " Dreadbone sees Yeji's stasis face.
" C'mon, you knew I won't do 'that thing' to you when we're alone... "
" I know I'm the Sixth Black Shadow Elite, but my intentions for you is out from the word 's*xual'. " Dreadbone then picks something from his
< Item: [Fake Divine Fruit / Arch-Deviant Fruit Prototype (S)] >
< A Fake Divine Fruit which is an Arch-Deviant Fruit Prototype made by the Demonic Sect's Hollow Witch. >
" It seems the Hollow Witch loves to made many of these, isn't she? " Dreadbone asks while looking at Yukino a bit.
" What a mother you have there, O Japanese Nadeshiko. " Dreadbone teases her in a moment while putting the fruit into Yeji's cocoon, so transparent that it allows the outside people to add something inside, just like Dreadbone did as he forced Yeji, gagged her the very fruit while she's unconscious.
" Goodbye, Moon Yeji... "
" I hope you meet Shim Jun Woo sooner or later. "
" Send him my regards..., kukuku. " Dreadbone says as he laughs so loud, not knowing that his Lord, already seen it and heard it somehow, using his sight.
< Unique Skill: [Shadow Blind Sight (Active)] -- LVL.4 >
< The User could see anything using the shadows as a medium. >
" If that's your desire... " Ragna says as he leaves the very place.
...
< Flashback Ended. >
" I believe it's like that. " Ragna says it, to Sireena as he explains how it all happened.
" So your dear 'Senpai's Mother... " Sireena stops as she now realized.
" The 'Hollow Witch' Fubuki Misaki is known to had made many of those, the 'Fruit' is her recent greatest product before I 'ended' her. "
" I was still wondering if by Eating the Fruit, the Black Shadow Army could gain more 'antibodies' against the gods' Divine Power, including their humans. "
" But, the progress is still on-going, yet the 'God Hunter Tournament' is nearly happening. " Ragna says.
" So perhaps, I should ask more of the Black Shadow volunteers, whom already tried the fruits a week ago, asking them if they had any changes in themselves. "
" Might as well check all of their status with the System. "
" I see, dear me... " Sireena says as she hears all this.
" But still, dear Lord... "
" Yes, continue. " Ragna permits Sireena to continue.
" About that dear girl, Moon Yeji. "
" Probably stalling Senpai for now. " Ragna tells Sireena, he already predicted this like always.
" After all, judging from your battle earlier, I assume she had exponentially evolved behind my radar... " Ragna quickly figured it out.
" Should we take her down, dear Lord? " Sireena asks.
" She's might still be in the Dungeon, she- "
" Let her... " Ragna tells Sireena.
" Attempting to killing her without preparation is suicide, even for you... "
" After all... " Ragna closes his eyes.
" Unlike me... "
" ... "
" Yukino Senpai, before her recent power-up... "
* sigh. *
" Is already a force, that one needs to aware with. " Ragna tells Sireena on what he believes,
( Meanwhile. )
< Demon Forest Dungeon (S), The Forest of Dread >
" Moon-San. " Yukino sobs, as the place is filled with her snow, as she looked upwards, she sees Moon Yeji's monstrous form is already frozen deeply with her eyes, creating a great monstrous glacial statue that had never existed.
* Ice cracks. *
* Yukino sobs. *
As Yukino begins to regret what she just did, the ice begins to crack alongside with Moon Yeji herself, as now her body is nothing more than a frail ice after being frozen.
Her very body shatters like ice, shatters into bits and bits that flood the entire forest.
"( You killed her... )" 'Sal' asks Yukino from the within as Yukino falls into the ground, horrified of what she's done.
" That was supposed to freeze her... "
" Her body should've just stopped moving, I... " Yukino was horrified by her new strength, she miscalculated it.
Her hand shakes, tremble of the guilt, happened because of her quick reaction to solve the problem.
" No..., no, no... "
" How could I..., I ... "
" Murdered... a human... " Yukino begins to tears, she shouts, angrily punishing herself for letting this happened in the first place.
( As things happened. )
[ Realm of 'Candida Aeternitas', a realm within Yukino's body ]
" It seems her development was too far, she grow so much than imagined. " Sal says to himself while flapping the wings like always.
" Now as this happened... "
" I hope she wouldn't become like the White Demon in the future... "
" After all..., judging from her strict way of things... "
" She might be a far worse adversary than Adrian Waterson and... "
" Ragna Kent. "
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Extra:
*Japanese Nadeshiko:
The term is also used metaphorically to describe the ideal of Japanese feminine beauty. It conveys the qualities of modesty, grace, and natural charm.
*Demon Forest Dungeon (S), Black Shadow Base Holding Room.
This is the full name of the place that Yukino was currently held before she escaped.