Third Person Point of View
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Natsume fired several light balls at Theodora and she blocked them with her monster's limbs. The witch smirked at Natsume who frowned at the woman.
'That thing absorbed it, didn't it? But it didn't get stronger, so it can't change whatever it absorbs into power? I guess that's a good thing…' thought Natsume as she dodged an attack from the water monsters.
"Oraaaaaaaaa!!" shouted Kouki as his lightning-coated spear provided by Byakusa collided with Isaac's fist.
"You like screaming, don't you? Does your crow lady like hearing that?" asked Isaac with a snicker.
"Huuuuuuuuuuuh?!" Kouki growled back annoyed.
Isaac as Theodora mentioned was what she called a 'Super Zombie'. He was comparable to combat-orientated gods, so around Middle-Tier God-class beings. Kouki Samejima was unfortunately barely Low-Tier God-class and was struggling considerably against the zombie man.
"I don't have special powers you know? All I got is my body," said Isaac.
"And I got my fist, shut up!" Kouki roared back and tried to stab him with Byakusa but Isaac dodged the attack and snickered at him again.
Their battle wreaked havoc as they jumped and clashed around the country of Germany. They had long since left the forested area and were fighting in an open field. Kouki glanced at Byakusa and the spear around his arm quickly disappeared and the white cat on his shoulder began to shoot lightning attacks at Isaac who was thrown off a bit.
"Oh? You've started to thi—ugh?!" he didn't finish his sentence, as he felt something pierce his left thigh. When he looked at it, he saw a light spear. "What the hell…?!" he looked around and saw a female fallen angel in the sky. "Bahaha! You called your bitch to help?!" asked Isaac.
Even though Kalawarna was only Ultimate-class in power, she became a smart fighter and used every advantage she had. She didn't want to be a burden on the team and had asked a few fellow fallen angels in Grigori to train her. She even asked Penemue and Raynare—in turn Mittelt also asked for help along with Dohnaseek.
Their former group had formed again during those short training sessions, and they started speaking to each other regularly. They were even brought to the [Training Facility] a few times in Aaron's home during the silent few months. But they had to prioritize their jobs before they could dedicate their time to only training.
The only one out of the three who benefitted the most was Mittelt as she also reached Ultimate-class during those months with Meruem's help. Dohnaseek reached High-class and Raynare was the strongest out of them at Multiversal.
"It doesn't matter, I'll just kill both of you!" he shouted and leaped towards Kalawarna who stayed calm. "Too fast for you, huuh?!"
Kalawarna created a small ball of light in her hand and then quickly increased its luminosity, in the process, blinding Isaac temporarily.
"Shit! What the fuck?!" Isaac screamed in pain as he covered his eyes. However, he didn't get to rest as he was hit by two lightning attacks and something pieced his arms. When he regained his sight, he saw that a light spear and Kouki's lightning spear had pierced his arms.
"Annoying pests!" he shouted and did a 360 spinning kick around himself which created a powerful shockwave that pushed both of them back.
"Looks like our teamwork has improved a lot, Kouki," said Kalawarna as she stood beside Kouki.
"Heh. Well, we did train our asses off for this! Let's keep going until we wear him down."
"Of course."
"Quit flirting!" shouted Isaac as he appeared in front of them and punched the ground. The two dodged and the place that Isaac hit exploded and created an enormous crater.
"He's bitter about something," remarked Kalawarna.
"He was probably single when he died, maybe a virgin?" mused Kouki and he laughed. This just further aggravated Isaac as he increased his speed and caught up to both of them.
"I detest couples!" he screamed and punched Kouki. The young man countered with Byakusa's tail and it created a mini explosion.
Kalawarna fired light daggers at Isaac that were attached to very thin wires. The zombie man dodged and mocked Kalawarna for her horrible aim. However, she smiled and pulled the wires back, stabbing Isaac in the back with her daggers.
"I'm weak. I know that, but you shouldn't underestimate your opponents like that. The weaker we are, the craftier we get," said Kalawarna as a light spear erupted from the ground and pierced Isaac through his leg again!
Isaac had a powerful regeneration ability, so the attacks that Kalawarna had inflicted on him quickly healed. However, Kouki's attacks took longer to heal as he was closer to his level of power than the female fallen angel.
"You bitch!!" he screeched and instantly appeared in front of Kalawarna who didn't react in time. Isaac threw a punch towards her stomach with the aim of killing her. At the same time, Kouki moved in between them and blocked the punch.
Both Kouki and Kalawarna were blasted away by Isaac's enraged punch. They flew a considerable distance before crashing to the ground. Kouki immediately recovered and helped Kalawarna out.
"Was it essential to tell them about our physical relationship?" she asked annoyed at her boyfriend.
"Uh…well…n-no…?" replied Kouki as he started to sweat.
"You're an idiot. But the idiot I love, but now he's angry at both of us because of that dumb comment of yours, what will we do?" she asked him.
"Beat him using the power of love!" he shouted proudly.
Out of frustration, Kalawarna smacked him on the head and shouted, "That's not going to help at all!"
"I was getting to that. We can—"
"—Receive my help," said a female's voice. Alarmed, both Kouki and Kalawarna turned around and saw a young woman with blonde hair and sky-blue eyes.
"You're…that former Hero Faction member. I think your name was Jeanne, right?" asked Kouki.
"That, I am," replied Jeanne. "The new Hero Faction is here to help. We were contacted by God Serena-san earlier. He's gone to a different faction per the orders of Jin-san, so we've been tasked with helping the other groups of Team [DxD]," she explained.
She summoned a holy sword using her [Blade Blacksmith]. Jeanne, like the rest of the new Hero Faction, now called the [Team Spear of the Draconic Emperor] which they would also use for the upcoming International Rating Game. They had been training in Aaron's [Training Facility] as he had been preparing to send them to the Phantasma's universe.
All of the members of the new team were at least High-Tier God-class in strength, so they didn't have many opponents that could oppose them in this universe. However, Aaron plans on taking them to his [Pocket Dimension] soon along with the others for one final training session before he graduates.
"Let's defeat this man and go join your teammates, Kouki-san, Kalawarna-san," said Jeanne as she pointed her holy sword at Isaac.
"Great, more whores. Whatever, I'll make this quick!" he shouted and dashed towards Jeanne. He cocked his arm back and sent a full-powered punch at the blonde girl.
Jeanne simply blocked the attack with her sword and stared at a shocked Isaac.
"Wha—how did you block that?! I'm a God-class being, dammit!"
"What a coincidence, so am I," replied Jeanne. She kicked Isaac in the chest and sent him away. She then swung her holy sword down to the ground and created numerous swords that shot out from the ground and pierced Isaac all over his body.
"Khhh?! Shit!" he shouted in pain. He hadn't expected powerful back-up to arrive, so he glared at Jeanne and panicked slightly. Once Isaac got up, he pulled out all the blades that had pierced his body. His regeneration ability was working overtime as it was desperately trying to keep up with all of Jeanne's attacks.
Isaac looked back up and saw the three of them speaking with each other before Jeanne disappeared and reappeared in front of him. On instinct Isaac punched the ground around him and forced Jeanne to jump up. He then grabbed a piece of the ground beneath him and flipped it towards Jeanne.
He looked it up by jumped towards the piece and kicking it, the large rock burst into pieces and he hid behind one of them. Isaac masked his presence as much as he could and waited for Jeanne to blink, and when she did, he left his hiding place. He covered his body in energy and focused it all into his fist and threw a punch at Jeanne's head.
However, his hand that he used to punch Jeanne was suddenly sliced off. He watched it fly by his head in shock, then he was suddenly hit by a barrage of hundreds of light spears from behind. In his haste, Isaac had forgotten about Kalawarna and Kouki and had focused his assault on Jeanne.
Unfortunately for him, Jeanne knew where he was the entire time and let his own little plan play out until she cut his arm off, and Kalawarna hit him with her attack. Before Isaac could recover, he was hit by an even larger lightning attack followed up by several tails piercing his back and an even more powerful output of electricity being discharged into his body.
The one responsible for that was Kouki and Byakusa in his Balance Breaker and 'True' form. Byakusa in his true form takes the form of a saber-toothed tiger with several tails with electricity around it.
"Nice shot," praised Kouki as he patted Byakusa on the head. The saber-toothed tiger smugly looked at Kouki and raised its head, proud of itself.
Isaac's body finally hit the ground and he slowly got up. They were genuinely surprised by his durability and will.
"I…won't…go…down…that…easily…!" Isaac declared while heavily breathing.
As predicted by Kouki, Isaac died single and virgin before his death. He died at the age of 29, a year before he turned 30. He has always been bitter and lonely as a result of this. As a young man, Isaac tried his best to fit in. He used the advice of 'Be yourself' or 'Be the best version of yourself', yet it wasn't enough for anyone.
Isaac who was a skinny young man, went to the gym and improved his body there. He watched videos and even took classes on how to stop being socially awkward around people. This was even after all his hard work…all his attempts at even making a friend fell on deaf ears.
What started as Isaac wanting a romantic partner ended with him just wanting a friend. However, society at large ignored him, and even shunned him. That was when he stopped trying, he became a recluse and eventually found out about the supernatural.
However, the first time he tried to step foot into it, he immediately lost his life. He met a stray devil and was killed by it. He died alone, afraid in a place where he wouldn't be found. But Isaac knew that even if he died, no one would care or even grieve him.
His parents died when he was 17, and he was on his own after that. His grandparents were too old and frail to assist him, and all his other relatives didn't want to help him. Isaac was dealt a shitty hand in life who kept slamming him down at every opportunity, even after he tried to improve himself.
But a few years later he seemed to have been brought back to life by a person who called themselves Theodora. Isaac didn't know how to feel at the time. However, eventually he was tricked by Theodora's bewitching personality, fell in love and did whatever the woman wanted.
Theodora was good at quickly understanding a person's personality after a few conversations and observing the person. So she used Isaac's insecurities and his past after Isaac told her about it and turned him into a loyal servant for herself.
"Why do you try so hard?" asked Jeanne as she looked at Isaac with pity.
"To…turn…this…shitty…world…into…our…ideal…one…! Society…is…unjust and unfair…!" he roared back at her. Isaac took a wobbly step towards her, and another. He slowly did this until he was just an arm's length away from her.
Jeanne shook her head, did a quick prayer for Isaac and then pulled her sword back—she then did a single thrust with all her power and immediately destroyed Isaac's body, with his head the only thing that remained. The power produced a powerful shockwave and destroyed the open land in front of them.
"Rest in peace, amen," she said and turned to Kouki and Kalawarna. "Your teammates are still fighting the others. Let's go back."
…
Griffon and Natsume sent out powerful wind-based attacks and light attacks at the small boy named Vigos, a subordinate to Sekudia, rank 3 of the Ueboros. The young man rapidly typed on his keyboard and several large metallic pans blocked the attacks of both Natsume and Griffon.
Natsume had previously been exchanging attacks with Theodora when this young man showed up. He was previously in France, and was going to fight Shigune's group when he received a notification from Theodora asking for extra assistance, so he left his group in France to help her in Germany with permission from Sekudia.
Instead, a temporary member was dispatched to the one in France instead. It was a slightly stronger member of the Evie faction, though in their overall hierarchy, the one sent was dispensable.
"How the heck can you type that fast?!" Natsume complained and shot at him with her light-powered gun.
Vigos didn't answer, but threw the small bomb-like ball into the sky, he again rapidly typed on his keyboard and the ball multiplied several times, and then another thing appeared, that resembled a gun, it then blasted the ball-like objects at Natsume and Griffon. The balls immediately started blinking as they approached both of them.
Griffon sent out a powerful blast of wind at the balls and slowed them down, as did Natsume too, her own wind also sent the balls backwards. However, Vigos did the same thing with his air gun, and this repeated until the ball-like objects exploded creating a powerful shockwave between them, forcing both parties backwards.
"He doesn't seem to have powerful abilities, but has those gadgets of his from his universe…" muttered Natsume.
'Why not use our [Spirit Dive] on him?' asked Sylph.
'No, we can use other abilities on him, but I don't think it's worth it,' replied Natsume.
'If you say so, Natsu-natsu.'
"Devastating Gale…" muttered Natsume as her body was covered in a condensed green aura. This ability combined with Sylph increased Natsume's speed considerably. However, it's the second most enchanting magic that Sylph taught her.
"Griffon please support me," she said and Griffon behind her squawked in response. Natsume appeared behind Vigos and aimed her palm at him. She then unleashed several bullets of wind at him.
To her surprise Vigos had already started typing, and several magic circles appeared and blocked some of the bullets. However, his defenses were too weak as the bullets destroyed them and hit Vigos causing him to grimace and jump away from Natsume.
'It's like I thought, if the attacks are too strong for his equipment, it'll leave him vulnerable. Let's take advantage of that. This shouldn't be hard at all…!' With that in mind, Natsume dashed towards Vigos again.
The young man in a slight panic typed rapidly, and several cannons appeared all around him and began shooting lasers at Natsume. Natsume covered her arms with a different colored wind—they were black. She then made the wind spin around both her hands before she twisted her body and threw them at Vigos.
This action created a large black whirlwind that ripped through the laser attacks from Vigos' cannon and hitting the young man and blew him up into the air. This caused him to yell in pain, but he didn't stop there, as he kept on typing with his one hand and his shoes were suddenly covered in thick metal and thrusters forced him to float in the air.
Natsume damaged his equipment as a few of them were clearly not in the right shape.
'Natsu-natsu, you used that magic, huh? Hehe, I didn't think you'd ever use it~!' exclaimed Sylph happily.
'It's not like I need to use it that much though,' replied Natsume.
What Natsume Minagawa used just now was [Sky God Slaying Magic]. More specifically, the move [Sky God's Boreas]. During the 100 years, Natsume wanted to learn more techniques and other wind powers, so she both learned a combined version of God slayer magic and Dragon slayer magic, which in turned birthed Sky Dragon God slayer magic.
"I won't go down without a fight…for our future…" muttered Vigos. He reached behind him and pulled out a large gun and readied it. He also quickly typed something and his cannons also began to charge.
Vigos came from poverty in the Phantasma's universe. However, he was smarter than anyone around him. Whatever he could get his hands on, he would eventually turn that thing into some kind of useful tool or even weapon. This obviously garnered him attention and a local gang took him in and fed him and his family.
However, another rival gang and the gang that Vigos was in had a war, which ended up killing all the members in them, and by proxy causing destruction in his home which killed many of his friends and his parents.
Vigos survived on his own after that day, and he was eventually scouted out by Elanor of the Eradicators. He worked under her for many years until a promising figure began to make a name for himself, and Elanor sent him to work under him.
Sekudia had ties with Elanor after meeting her once and nearly dying. However, Elanor was impressed by his abilities and let him live. With Elanor's guidance, he became stronger with the help of Vigos and Caedos, the other subordinates of Sekudia who was fighting Sairaorg.
Sekudia was a rather quiet person, he only spoke when necessary. He had spoken twice to Vigos, both times to praise him, he and Sekudia built a silent but strong bond between boss and subordinate, so much so that Vigos is willing to fight for him until his dying breath.
Vigos is a kind man and hates violence. However, to him, the only way to achieve utopia and true peace is by following their leader, Phumera and by re-awakening the Outer God, Magnum Tenebrosum.
"…Please surrender," Vigos asked Natsume.
"I refuse. You may be fighting for whatever you believe in, but I'm also doing the same thing," replied Natsume.
"I see…forgive me, I said something naïve. Yes, we're fighting for something, aren't we?" he asked himself and pointed his cannons and gun at Natsume. "I am ready to lay my life down. I am Vigos…a nobody."
"I'm Natsume Minagawa. I hear and feel your resolve, Vigos-kun! …[Fallen Spirit's Dance]," muttered Natsume. Her body was covered in dark green and black wind. This was the last spell Sylph taught her after [Devastating Gale]. It increased her speed even more than [Devastating Gale] and she had a less powerful [Penetrate] ability that was constantly activated when this spell was active.
"I won't change sides no matter what you say," he added.
"I expected that much," replied Natsume. Natsume nodded and Griffon who had silently be watching behind her, roared and a large tornado appeared behind Vigos.
Vigos' cannons started firing at the tornado, but it was futile as it had no effect. Gritting his teeth, he turned his cannon's attention back on both Natsume and Griffon. He aimed his cannons at Griffon and began attacking him, Vigos then aimed his large gun at Natsume and fired.
A large laser-like stream of energy shot out of it and increased in size considerably. Natsume put her hand out and fired her own attack back at Vigos. A windy stream of dark green and black wind shot from behind her and quickly collided with Vigos' attack. The two attacks had a short struggle as Natsume's attack won and hit Vigos.
The young man gritted his teeth. He didn't cry nor did he scream in pain, he took the attack like a man, he felt his skin being cut, parts of his flesh being ripped apart, yet he pulled the trigger again and fired another shot—but to his horror, the beam was quickly destroyed by the ongoing attack by Natsume.
'…Gosh, I hate strong people…' he thought and was finally blown away by the attack. Natsume flew over to him and stood over him. "Kill me," he said.
"I don't like taking lives, so—"
"Heh." Vigos then pressed something and rapid beeping noises started to go off. Natsume jumped away as Vigos erupted into a powerful explosion.
'I guess he really didn't want to say anything, huh? He must have been very loyal,' commented Sylph. Natsume didn't say anything as she stared at where Vigos once were, she didn't like that he took that way out of life, but decided not to comment.
'So much for getting information out of him about the Phantasma or the Khaos Order.'
'I doubt he had anything like that, Natsu-natsu. We heard him, didn't we? He sounded very loyal to whoever his boss was,' said Sylph.
'Yeah, I guess so…' she took one last glance at the spot before jumping away to confront Theodora.
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Ajamu swung his sword down at Theodora who blocked it with a magic circle. Natsume suddenly arrived and threw another [Sky God's Boreas] at Theodora who absorbed the attack and grinned at Natsume.
"What's wrong? That can't be all, can it?" asked Theodora smugly.
Ajamu touched the ground and hundreds of vines and roots shot out and towards Theodora. Again, she blocked some with her magic circles and absorbed the others. However, Kanami appeared behind her and thrust her spear towards Theodora while it was covered in her [Ashen Burst] flames.
Theodora simply put her hand behind her back and absorbed the attack too causing Kanami to click her tongue. The witch then fired water bullets towards Kanami who spun her spear with her finger and blocked the incoming projectiles.
"Whatever! I'll use it then; I need to actually test it and not against you guys! Natsu, Ajamu, support me!" shouted Kanami.
"Okay! Don't overdo it!" shouted Natsume. Ajamu was confused, but also agreed.
10 small white flames crosses appeared behind Kanami and began to glow. At the same time, her cross-shaped pupils also glowed. "Balance Break!" shouted Kanami as everything around them was engulfed in intense white flames, blinding everyone except the wielder herself.
Once the light faded, Kanami stood there with the 10 crosses behind her letting out low vibrating noises while they gave out a soft glow. "I'm bad at names, so let's call it the [10 Commandments], because I quite literally based it on the 10 commandments of Christianity!" she shouted.
"One!" she shouted, and the area was covered in a pure white barrier and field. "I'm your god now, and everything I say goes…" she said smugly. Her first commandment creates a space of any size and all rules bend to Kanami's will. Only those stronger than her can overrule them.
"Hmph, that's complete nonsense!" shouted Theodora as she summoned a large dragon-shaped water attack and fired it at Kanami.
This shocked Theodora who tried to order and change the attack's direction, but it didn't listen. So she was forced to absorb her own attack, angering her. "You…" she muttered in fury and glared at Kanami.
"Seven!" she shouted and white-armored knights with flames coming out of their arms and legs with flaming weapons appeared. A total of fifteen of them appeared and pointed their weapons at Theodora. Just like [Blade Blacksmith] and Yumi's [Glory Drag Troop], Kanami's seventh commandment, she can summon white-armored warriors to fight on her behalf. They have the same power rank as the wielder.
The white-armored warriors charged Theodora and began attacking her. The witch flew away, but they quickly caught up to her. Theodora's special ability works automatically, so she doesn't need to actively use it. However, when it's used automatically, it drains more stamina than if it was used by herself. However, she can substitute her stamina for her magic temporarily, and once that runs out, it goes back to her stamina.
As Theodora put her hand out to use her absorption ability—
Once that was said, the attack from the white-knight was absorbed and when Theodora tried to absorb another, it didn't work and she received a slash to her arm instead. She yelled in pain and teleported a great distance away.
"…Khh, impossible. How can she just…? Don't tell me that the first rule was true…? How large is this space then…?!" she looked around herself and said," I'll just escape it then, after that, I can—"
Theodora felt something in her body change—no, to be more accurate, something about her existence changed. No matter how hard she thought, the thought of leaving this place, this space would instantly vanish. It terrified her. It's as if…a god was playing with her existence.
"That's pretty cruel, Sis. But I like it," said Natsume. "Did we even need to support you?" she asked.
"Umu, it felt like our new leader did not even need our help," added Ajamu.
"Ahahaha~" Kanami awkwardly laughed at the two. Theodora became irritated at their attitude and slammed her hand to the ground.
"If that's the case…!" Theodora's body glowed and then the monsters all around them, including the ones in the town roared and their bodies glowed. They then started to attack wildly around them, like they had entered some sort of berserk state.
"Go and help defend the town, we'll take it from here," Kanami ordered her white knights and they left to defend the town along with Aaron's shadow soldiers. She then turned back to Theodora and smiled. "It wouldn't be satisfying to just kill you. Let's have you speak the truth, why don't we?" Kanami asked with a smile.
"O Spear. The true Holy Spear which pierces through God—"
"Suck the ambition of the King of Domination sleeping within me and pierce through the gap of blessing and destruction—"
"You. Announce the will, and turn into a glow."
Kanami had used [Truth Idea] on Theodora. [True Longinus] glowed for a few seconds before dying. A few seconds later, it seemed like nothing had happened, but… Kanami smiled as she looked at Theodora who appeared mortified. Her face had turned pale and she looked utterly horrified.
"Now then, Theodora. Tell us a lot of things, okay?"
Theodora nodded.
"Hmm, let's see…tell us about the others of your organization! Ah, the more notable ones, of course," replied Kanami.
"Our new base is within the Khaos Order, it is apparently somewhere in the Multiverse. We have various brainwashed magicians and human scientists working for us and performing experiments. In total, we have around 500,000 members in the organization, it may not be the largest in the organization, but it's still a large number of people."
"Our leader is Oz, and the next in command is Augusta. The other members are Glenda, Gayelette, Kalinya, Ondri-baba, Sonadia, Mombi, Locasta, Evanora, Theodora, and Dorothy. We originally wanted to be an all-women's groups, but we have also taken some males, though they are nowhere near our power. So they do grunt work most of the time."
"We have collaborated with the Phantasma, and we have found a way to recover our souls, and then transfer them to a new body in case of death. So if any of us die today, we will be able to revive ourselves without the help of the [Sephiroth Graal], Lapis or others."
"We also have Avezza to thank for leaving behind blueprints for a design for a certain machine. That machine can also preserve the consciousness of individuals—if both are combined, our resurrection facility is completed, and we are essentially immortal."
"Even if they said we would have 'losses' today, that may not be true as we can just resurrect ourselves," she finished her explanation and looked even more horrified.
Kanami, Natsume and Ajamu silently stared at Theodora in shock. Kanami tapped Theodora on the head, knocking her out. "We can't let her escape, die or do anything else. We need to give her to Jin," said Kanami.
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea, but let's go and help out the town first."
…
"Thank you for the help earlier, Fusae," said Kanami. The battle had ended a few minutes ago and they had finally rescued their parents.
"…I left it to you as you knew her. I just helped enchanting you all…it wasn't anything significant," explained Fusae. She then walked over and hugged her father.
"Mom, we can explain!" said Kanami.
"Explain? I already heard and saw all of it! What is that bird?! Crosses and white fire?! Witches?! The supernatural?! Annnnnnnnd you're dating the same man with a harem!?" she shouted and listed the thing she saw and heard in just a few minutes.
"Well, technically Sis isn't dating Aaron yet though…" Natsume corrected her mother.
"…We have a bond, Natsu-natsu! We're basically married already~!" exclaimed Kanami.
At her wits' end, their mother smacked both sisters on the head. "Take this seriously!" she shouted at them and they both apologized.
"But I'm serious though, mom…" said Natsume dejectedly.
"He's pretty famous, you know?" said Kanami as she pulled out her smartphone and showed her mother (and by extension Fusae's father) what Aaron had accomplished over the past year. Kanami and Natsume also explained the state of the supernatural world before Aaron showed up.
"So…let me get this straight. This Jin person wants a harem, but also wants peace, so he's doing all this…to get a harem for himself? Tell me, how many are in his harem now?" their mother asked.
"…T-twenty-eight, I think?" Natsume looked at Kanami who was still counting with her fingers.
"Twenty-nine if you count me!"
"But you're not dating yet…"
"Details, dammit Natsu!"
The two sisters began arguing among themselves and even started stretching each other's cheeks out of frustration. Their mother watched on in silence.
Fusae's father turned to her and asked, "What's your relationship with him, Fusae?"
"…He's my benefactor, and we're roommate since I moved to his home, and I'm contracted to a devil who's also one of his lovers," she explained.
"…I see. But you didn't answer my question," her father pointed out.
"…We're friends."
"—For now!" shouted Kanami before being smacked by her mother again. Fusae sighed and shook her head, though she sported a small blush.
"You kept us in the dark about this because you feared something like this would happen, correct?" he asked.
"Yes I did…"
"Thank you, but even if I'm the only one who'll know, please rely on me more. I can't let my daughter handle this burden by herself for the rest of her life. What would you do or say when you grow much older and don't change in appearance?" he asked.
"I-I would use magic and change my appearance…but please keep this a secret from mom. I want to tell her eventually by myself—or with someone's help," she said and her father agreed.
"I'm sorry for interrupting this emotional moment, but I was just contacted by someone called Cúntóir and said to bring them to Italy since they found the cure for the poison," said Ajamu.
"Oh crap, I forgot about that!" exclaimed Kanami. "We have to leave, as well as everyone else who was captured!"
"…I would have died because of you Kanami. Jeez, let's go then, maybe I can meet this Aaron person," their mother said and threw her hands up.
Suddenly Kouki and Kalawarna arrived with Jeanne. "Yo, sorry we're late, we got caught up killing a bunch of monsters," said Kouki. "This is Jeanne by the way. She's Bro's subordinate now, so play nice."
"We're heading to Italy, please prepare yourselves," said Jeanne as she created a magic circle.
…
Thunderous and powerful explosions could be heard in the distance. Sairaorg Bael and one of Sekudia's subordinates, Caedos fought each other. However, Sairaorg Bael was clearly the one dominating the fight, as each time his punch and Caedos' mechanical scythe clashed, the man would grimace as if he was in pain.
"What do you fight for?!" asked Sairaorg as he threw a touki-covered punch at Caedos, who tried to block it with his scythe but was blown away.
He crashed to the ground but quickly adjusted himself and pulled himself up with his scythe. "Nothing. I'm just living in that and this shitty world!" Caedos shouted back. He then dashed back towards Sairaorg and swung his scythe down.
Sairaorg moved his body to the side and avoided the attack. He glared at him and asked, "Then why did you kidnap the innocent?"
"I didn't want to, that crazy bitch wanted to!" he replied and swung his scythe sideways. Sairaorg blocked it with his arm and stared at Caedos.
"The Devil called Elegia?"
"Yeah, her! She calls herself a Super Devil or whatever! She said she wanted to test herself and give results back to her creator!" Caedos shouted and then pressed something on his scythe and multiple spikes flew out of it and towards Sairaorg.
The Lion King punched Caedos in the face and then sent another punch towards the spikes that created a shockwave and disrupted their momentum and also destroy them.
"You're insanely strong, you know? I was just a simple miner in our world…I'm nothing or no one special. I don't even know why Sekudia chose me to be his subordinate."
"Sekudia? Who is that?" asked Sairaorg.
"My boss, he's number three in the Ueboros organization. Anyway…" he took his scythe and cut himself on the neck which shocked Sairaorg. Suddenly, his veins started to glow green and his eyes turned green. His body suddenly became larger and more muscular. "I ain't switching sides regardless of what you say. Sorry about that, devil."
Caedos jumped into the air, and swung his scythe down with even more force and power. Sairaorg cocked his right arm back and stared at the man hurtling towards him.
Caedos like Sekudia's other subordinate Vigos was born in the slums of the Phantasma's universe. He was in poverty and he didn't get many opportunities to prove himself. The only thing that he had going for him was his enormous body and strength. Even then, his strength wasn't anything special. He was just slightly stronger than most people around him.
When faced with real danger, he could be one of the few to try to stay and face it. However, it wasn't anything out of a noble obligation. To him, he had the body and strength, so he had to since no one else would do it. If he didn't do it, they would suffer more losses.
Rank 4 of the Eradicators, Virion Deamonne mistook this for courage and bravery and tried to recruit him to be his subordinate, but after Caedos explained to him the truth, Virion Deamonne still wanted him there. Even if Caedos didn't think so, Virion definitely saw it as such.
But in the end, he still refused, but Virion recommended for him to keep on searching for his own purpose. So in the end, he chose to work in his universe's mines, as their mines there were large and extensive, with his body, build and strength—it was perfect for him.
However, one day, and to his and his colleagues' surprise, he was approached by Sekudia and was offered to be his subordinate. Initially he refused, but once he found out that his family was being helped by Sekudia, he felt like he was obligated to be his subordinate. His family was given a new home, better jobs and better opportunities.
Caedos only found out about it over time and found out that it was Sekudia who did it all. In the end, he accepted in being his subordinate. He was surprised to see others with similar circumstances to him in his group, but he didn't question it. He just thought it strange that people of high status being this considerate of the weak, but he didn't hate it.
Sekudia informed his two subordinates that if they took this job, they would most likely die and not go back to their home. They both understood and still decided to follow their boss. The others did not as they didn't want to die. Sekudia accepted their answer and let them be.
Not many were sure of what Sekudia really thought of the world since he was a mostly silent individual—a man of few words—yet the words he spoke were usually kind and compassionate. Perhaps he took this opportunity to come to the Draconic Deus to confront the Middleman?
"I would have liked to speak to you more if possible. Goodbye," said Sairaorg as he thrust his fist forward, with even more power. His fist didn't hit Caedos, as the man was killed by the wind force that hit him in the face.
The land in front of Sairaorg was also obliterated. The Lion King held a bitter smile as he looked at the destruction in front of him. An image flashed in his mind—it reminded him of his first loss to Aaron. It almost felt similar. A single powerful punch that obliterated everything in his path, yet it held no ill-will.
Sairaorg walked over to the dead body of Caedos and he picked him up. "Perhaps you may be able to—" he didn't get to finish his sentence as he sensed danger from the man he picked up, so he let go of him and jumped away.
Once he did, a massive explosion ensued, further destroying the area that surrounded them. Sairaorg stared at the explosion with a frown. He didn't like what just happened. Perhaps it was due to Aaron's influence, but he valued life even more after meeting him. While he didn't go out of his way to help just anyone he met, he was more—
"Mmm?" his train of thought was interrupted when he felt another powerful explosion behind him. When he looked back, he saw a giant black hole—however that black hole was also swallowed up by something else and vanished. "…What in the world happened…?"
…
"Ow~! You have no delicacy!" shouted Elegia, the Super Devil as she blocked another attack from Ezeri. She then backed away with a smug smile and asked, "Do you know why I tortured her? Because she acted like some kind of hero~, she said 'If you want to hurt anyone, hurt me!'. Such a goody-two shoes, it made me sick."
This comment enraged Ezeri off, but he still kept his power in check. He created multiple cloned and they all rushed Elegia. Elegia smiled and created her own clones and clashed with Ezeri's clones.
"Fufu, do you wanna know my super awesome ability~? It's to be able to copy any ability or skill I see~ doesn't that mean I'm the strongest?" she asked herself and then laughed.
"A cheap copy of something will never surpass the original! And you clearly don't give a shit about honing them to their strongest form!" shouted Ezeri as he appeared behind Elegia and kicked her in the face and ripped her arm off.
Elegia screeched in pain and crashed to the ground. She got up and grinned, before she touched her bleeding stub and restored her arm. "Anything I copy, I keep permanently, and I copied a powerful healing ability to~"
Ezeri sighed at Elegia confusing her. She finally caught on and looked at the prisoners. Meruem had torn through the barrier and was healing Sofiel and a few others. He also checked over them for any other injuries. If Aaron saw this, he would be surprised since Meruem would have never done this a few months back.
Elegia was about to move when Ezeri materialized in front of her again with a maniacal grin. "Too bad, you won't live that long," he said, kicking her in the face. The force of this kick was so powerful that it flattened the terrain around them. Multiple shadow soldiers had to stop the attack from hitting the town as to not kill the humans in them.
Elegia's face was obviously destroyed by it, but she appeared to have survived, much to his surprise. "Heeeh? You can survive that, huh? Good, I can torture you on Sofiel's behalf," he said and arrived in front of Elegia and punched her again in the face. The face that Elegia had just healed was devastated once again.
Elegia was propelled away from the spot, furious that she was being toyed with. She healed herself again and fired hundreds of demonic balls at Ezeri. The man simply destroyed them with a single punch or kick, and chased after the Super Devil.
"What's wrong? Are you scared?!" he shouted at her.
"Scared of who?! A bitch like you?!" she fired back and created several hundred light spears and fired them at Ezeri. She added wind magic to increase the speed of the light spears. But Ezeri again kicked and punched them out of existence, he covered his body in touki and grinned.
Ezeri fired touki bullets at the light spears and they both cancelled each other out. He then jumped towards Elegia who fired lightning at him, but he simply swiped it away. Ezeri threw a punch at Elegia who matched him, furious at the man in front of her.
Their fists collided and generated a powerful shockwave that shook the sky. However, Elegia's arm suddenly exploded causing the woman to scream in pain. Ezeri followed it up with another powerful kick to her stomach, which destroyed most of her organs.
With that kick, Elegia passed out, near deaths door. Ezeri landed back on the ground and he placed a palm facing forward in front of his face with one hand and then tapped it with his other hand, and formed it into a fist, which created a massive amount of air pressure.
"Daytime Tiger!" shouted Ezeri.
He then launched the air pressure at the opponent in the shape of a gigantic tiger. The air pressure then condensed and hit Elegia. A few seconds later a massive explosion occurred in the sky.
Elegia's body fell to the ground, lifeless. Ezeri grinned to himself and shouted, "Eat shit, asshole! Touch my woman and I'll make you pay over and over again!" Ezeri then sighed and turned around. He glanced at the battle going on with Shigune and an unknown warrior of the Evie.
'Shigune-sama should be fine, the difference in their strength is too high, she won't lose, but I'll keep an eye out on her,' he thought and walked towards the prisoners. He glanced back at Elegia, and dashed back to her one last time and stored her in his necklace. "You'll at least be useful to Aaron-sama, piece of trash."
…
Shigune dodged multiple balls of electricity that were aimed at her. Poh, who was on her shoulder, ate some of them and let out happy yells as he did so. She used her whip to destroy some of them, and devoured some of them too.
Shigune used her ring to identify the new individual that appeared in place of the other boy. [Appraisal] is a skill that is on all of the girl's ring. What she saw was [Ingelram], and the mecha soldier was two levels higher than the black mecha soldiers that they saw the Khaos Order use.
Shigune created several magic circles around Ingelram and fired the attacks at him. Ingelram created several swirling holes and absorbed the attacks and used the attacks' powers to increase his own power.
Ingelram was a 25-meter-tall mechanical robot. His main body is mostly gray and black with some red accents. He had blades on both arms colored red, some thrusters behind him. He had white eyes and a yellow contraption on the top of his head.
Ingelram covered his blades with [Impulse] and appeared beside Shigune. He then slashed his right arm at Shigune and hit her. However, to his surprise, the Shigune he hit burst into flames and disappeared.
Ingelram looked around quickly, but was then hit on the back by a pair of legs. Shigune had dashed back towards him and kicked him with both her legs that were covered in flames. This launched Ingelram away and crashed to the ground.
Shigune followed it up by igniting her arm and punched in front of her. "Fire Fist!" she shouted and a large stream of flames hit Ingelram which caused him to melt slightly. Ingelram discharged large amounts of electricity and dismissed Shigune's attack.
Furious, he summoned a large sword and swung it to his side. A large section of the land was blown away and he hurtled himself back to Shigune who countered with her whip. She whipped it at Ingelram and also summoned the [Flames of Rebuke]. Golden flames covered the whip and hit Ingelram's sword.
Flames and sparks collided which cancelled each other out. However, Poh jumped on Shigune's whip and ran towards Ingelram. Once he arrived in front of him, he lunged at Ingelram and bit off a large section of his torso. Poh didn't stop there as when he landed on the ground he turned around and opened his mouth and began the process of devouring everything in front of him.
Shigune teleported away, and Ingelram tried to do the same thing. However, he did not escape unscathed as when he crashed at a different location, his left side was mostly missing. The only thing left was his robotic leg.
[…] Ingelram stared at the both of them as he got up. He knew he was outmatched, but he did not want to travel back to his universe alive with nothing to show, that would result in his own demise. So he covered his entire body with [Impulse] again and only remaining blade.
He raised his right arm up and the blade began to violently vibrate as electricity and wind began to violently pour from it. He was preparing to use his final attack. He then swung his remaining arm down and a large vortex of electricity and wind bolted towards Shigune.
"Poh," she called out and the Sacred Gear opened his mouth again and began to devour the large attack. To Poh, no attack is too small or too large to eat, and he ate, and ate the attack until it was gone.
Ingelram stood there in disbelief and put his head down. [These organic life forms are too powerful for me. Only the Atrocity Fanatic, Combat Fanatic, Invader Fanatic, Keito Tenkai, Ragou Shichou, and Shepherds are capable of fighting them in equal footing…] he muttered to himself as he felt his body shut down.
Shigune watched Ingelram as she ignited her entire body in flames. "Poh, you know what to do after, right?" she asked her Sacred Gear, and he happily let out a strange grunt.
…
"Aaron, c-can I get some help…?" Shigune asked. They were all currently in the [Pocket Dimension], for the next 100 years, around 42 years had passed since they first came into the other dimension.
"Hmm? Oh sure, Shigune. How can I help you?" Aaron agreed to help her
"You taught Suzaku-san, Natsume-san, Kanami-san, Lavinia-san and others those slayer magic, right?" she asked.
"Oh. You mean the Dragon, Devil, and God slaying magic? Then, yeah, I did. Do you want to learn?" he asked and Shigune rapidly nodded her head. "I don't mind. Which one do you want to learn?"
"I-is it possible to learn all three?" she asked uncertainly.
"Yeah. Akeno and Lavinia have learned all three. Suzaku's working on Devil Slayer magic now, the same with Kanami and Natsume. So you want to learn all three, huh? Alright, which one do you want to learn first?" he asked.
But before Shigune could answer, Poh jumped out of her arms and Aaron caught him. Poh then proceeded to comically morph into something that resembled a dragon.
Aaron chuckled and asked, "From what Poh is showing me, dragon slaying is first then?"
Shigune blushed but nodded in the end. She took Poh back and lightly scolded the goat-like creature and she was then taught how to use the three types of Slayer magic.
…
Shigune focused the flames around her body to her right fist and jumped into the air. Ingelram saw this and tried to move, but his body had already failed him and it did not do anything, so he simply watched the female above him come down towards him.
Shigune increased the flames output and a large quantity erupted behind her. She finally reached Ingelram and brought her fist down on the mecha warrior.
"Fire Dragon King's Destruction Fist," she muttered and the area around them exploded in flames.
The trees, the land, the mountains, the clouds in the sky and Ingelram were completely annihilated. In order to prevent the flames that Shigune produced to annihilate the town and her teammates, Poh began to devour them too. All the while happily humming to himself.
Once her attack was finished, Shigune stopped the flame output and looked at the remains of Ingelram. The only thing left was his head, as she thought it might be useful for Aaron, so she touched it and stored it into her ring, but—
Shigune looked up to see large blades of water hurtling towards her. Poh stepped in and devoured everything.
The woman floating in the air had bat-like wings, similar to those of a devil. She had long white hair tied in a ponytail that reached her waist. She had black horns on her head, lime-green eyes, and displayed a pendant on her neck. She wore a navy-blue, white and gold dress that resembled a nun's uniform. It had some unique designs on the end of its skirt. She wore black leggings and black pumps.
Shigune used her ring's [Appraisal] and found out that it was a devil called Frida Zagan. 'Zagan? Isn't that part of the 72 Pillars but is supposed to be extinct? …No, there are some pillars that are supposedly extinct, but Aaron and Rias-san's group found some surviving member a few months back…' she thought.
Shigune found herself in the air. She became confused, but she saw black blades all around her and they were quickly approaching her. Shigune swung her whip all around her and used its [Devour] effect and devoured the attacks.
"What was—"
She reappeared and smirked.
It began to suck everything around it into itself, nothing was safe and even some of the roofs on the town were beginning to be sucked up. Shigune frowned and shouted, "Poh! Eat!" and pointed to the black hole.
Shigune wasn't sure if it was a real black hole, or an attack based on it, nor did she know if Poh could eat it. But she trusted what she was told about Poh when she awakened him.
As the incarnation of the Fiend of Gluttony, Poh possessed a limitless appetite, being able to devour absolutely anything ranging from monsters to magic, including ingesting the Holy Flames of the Longinus; [Incinerate Anthem], which are potentially powerful enough to kill even Gods.
Poh opened his mouth and began to vacuum the black ball towards him, but it didn't budge. So he looked back at Shigune before running towards it, and used the pull the black hole had and jumped towards it.
"Poh?!" Shigune shouted in shock and tried to run after him, but it was too late. Poh had reached the black hole and opened his mouth and began to eat it. To her surprise, he didn't have a problem eating it, and even dived into the black hole attack and began to eat it from the inside.
"Wha—how does—huh?" Shigune became completely confused, but just stood there and watched. Eventually after a full minute, Poh fell back to the ground and ran back to her—seemingly finished eating the attack.
"A-are you telling me you can even eat black holes…?" she asked her Sacred Gear. Poh simply tilted his head, unsure of what his wielder had asked him. "Never mind…" she muttered as she picked up Poh.
She glanced at where the black hole and devil once was and remembered her words. 'Hmm. At least the Slash/Dog Team has improved more than my daughter, fufu. Well, it doesn't matter. For as long as I have this body, I can achieve anything'. Shigune was unsure how to interpret that, but would bring it up with Aaron in the future.
…
Shigune arrived back at the forested area, as her battle with Ingelram had brought her out of it. When she arrived, she saw all the people captured chatting with everyone else there. She looked back at the town and saw that Mittelt and Meruem were the ones watching over it.
She saw her mother and approached her. "M-mom…" she called out to her awkwardly.
Shigune's mother looked at her and sighed. "I heard everything," she said. She walked over to her daughter. She then looked at Poh and added, "He's cute, he's called Poh? I heard from the big buff man over there." Her mother pointed at Sairaorg who was currently embracing Silveteela Stolas.
"U-um…"
"You don't need to say anything else. I will understand if you don't want us to be involved in this, so I'll keep it a secret from your father and the rest of the family. But please come by and visit your brothers. They're worried about you," said her mother.
"I-I'm sorry, everything has been so hectic lately that, I—"
"Bring your boyfriend, okay? I think your father will like him," her mother said and stopped her daughter from trying to explain further.
Shigune blushed and nodded. "O-okay…I-I'll bring him home soon…" she replied.
[Shiguuuuneeeeeeeeeeeee!!] Kanami's voice suddenly rang out from her ring's transceiver. [Come to Italy, the cure for the poisons for our parents are heeeereee! Bring everyone else too! We're about to go there ourselves since we're finished here!]
[K-Kanami-san, o-okay, I'll inform everyone,] replied Shigune and the transceiver vanished. "E-everyone!" she called out to them and told them what Kanami had told her.
"Okay! Let's go, I don't want any of them to die!" agreed Sairaorg, the same with Ezeri who had been doting on Sofiel, the fallen angel.
…
Jin Skyward's Soliloquy
…
Both Severa and Imperia were already unconscious. I read their memories earlier and found nothing useful. But I do plan on making them part of the Electa. Right now…I was about to win against Sekudia, but he wasn't a talker. Even after I tried to speak to him a few times, he refused to say anything back to me.
I also received some updates from everyone, so—
"Your subordinates have died," I told him. His eyes widened for a moment before he closed his eyes and nodded.
"…I see, so this is our limit," he said softly. "Do not mistake it, Outer God. I do not hate you, nor do I hate this universe. I am trying to reform my own universe, and hoped to meet you if I became part of the Ueboros," he explained.
Meet me? So he was just doing this to meet me, huh? I guess there are also a bunch of people in their universe that want some kind of change to happen. However, he sure has balls doing it that way. If he got caught, it would have been the end of him and his group.
[We're assuming that his subordinates even knew anything,] added Ddraig.
"Did your subordinates know anything about this?" I asked. I was still in my Incursio's Balance Breaker and made quick work of the two super devils from earlier.
"No. I kept all of them in the dark. In our universe you will need to be wary of everyone, including your own subordinates. Only the true members of the resistance that are in hiding know of my real purpose. It pained me every time I had to take a life, even now…" he told me and looked at the two devils.
"They're not dead, just unconscious."
"I know," he replied. "I would like to create an alliance with you, Outer God."
I put my hand up to stop him. "I don't know if you're telling me the truth or not, so how about you drink this," I said and summoned a small pill. I had done the same thing with Thuldruns from the Shepherds, but I already distributed this to the alliance in case we capture future prisoners.
"Very well. If it makes you trust me," he said and accepted the pill. He then ate it without hesitation. Those pills will force you to tell the truth and nothing but the truth when taken. So, I proceeded to question him about many things, and he told me what I believe is the truth.
To summarize it all, there are some members of the Eradicators that have the same beliefs as him, and wish to change their universe. No one else in the Umbra, according to him, though he isn't entirely sure, no one else in the Ueboros and definitely not Yve as she's a fanatic to Magnum Tenebrosum.
The number of members in the resistance is very small. They barely hit three digits, so they're in the low hundreds. Most of them are weak, though they're around high-class to ultimate-class in power if Sekudia had to my universes power system.
Currently, he's scouting out Rank 2, Raerea from the Eradicators as he noticed and felt that she may feel the same way as the resistance. However, he hasn't formally asked her to join since he needs to investigate her more.
He also believed that Ranks 4, 10, and 15 may have the chance of switching, but he's not entirely sure yet. He hopes that he'll find out more in the future, or if I influence them enough to switch sides.
"I see. So what do you want out of this alliance?" I asked. "I have my own plans for your universe, and once I enact them…"
"Please leave my universe to me for now, and keep doing what you're doing. However…I would like some assistance to the resistance members since most of them live in extreme poverty, and just a few days ago, four died of starvation. If you help us, we will become indebted to you, so—"
I created some capsules and threw them at him. He caught it since he deactivated his abilities as we spoke. "Those contain freshly made food and refreshments. I don't know if they'll even like the food from our universe, but I personally cooked those since they were a bunch of experiments I tried for my future restaurant. Action speaks louder than words, Sekudia. I'd like more information regarding your leader and others in the future, but let's stop there for now since…"
I glanced at my side and saw someone trying to call me on the rings and I answered. [Hello?]
[Aaron, Glenda, big monster thing, Italy, please come. Vali Lucifer is apparently keeping it busy with his team, and even more monsters appeared after a few minutes. There's also—the voice of Shuri sounded frantic.
I wanted to ask how she got my ring, but remembered that I added a calling function to her necklace too.
[…Alright, I'll be there, please go to a safe place. It's my fault that you got there after all,] I told her. She kept calling me earlier about going to Italy and where Suzaku was. I was hesitant, but she began to cry which made me feel like shit, so I relented in the end.
I looked at Sekudia and he nodded. "I will go back to my universe, however, please injure me first, otherwise it would be all for naught."
"I'll heal you back up once we see each other again," I said and he nodded. I appeared in front of him as he braced himself and punched him in the gut while I tore through the inside of his body with the [Quake] ability of Incursio.
He was blown away and he puked out blood. For added effect, I grabbed his arm and tore it off as he was launched away.
"…Quite brutal, but I was tortured worse by Elanor…anyway, goodbye for now, Outer God," he said and teleported away.
I looked at the two unconscious devils and left my Balance Breaker. I froze them in time and put them into my [Inventory], I'll deal with them later. "Next up, Italy, let's see what's up…"
…
Third Person Point of View
…
When Aaron teleported to Italy, he was greeted with a horrendous sight. Most of the town had been destroyed by the monster above him. However, he felt that only a few lives were lost, but it still angered him that innocent lives were lost. He had gotten some updates by the shadows that they had moved them to different countries to avoid the destruction.
He saw Vali and his team desperately trying to kill the monster above them, but—
[Hahaha! Come on, Lucifer! Why can't you hurt me?!] shouted Glenda's voice. Aaron focused on a certain spot and saw the upper naked body of Glenda attached to the beast.
Vali was the one trying to do damage to the monster, the same with Le Fay, however, the rest of the team were killing the rest of the enemies that were flying towards them. They were having an easy time, but they were clearly tired and were running out of energy.
"Take this," said Aaron as slime pills appeared in front of them. They looked surprised and looked at Aaron.
"You're late!" shouted Vali as he arrived beside him.
"I thought you'd take joy in fighting that monster," Aaron said in a joking tone as he smirked at his little brother.
"I thought I would too, but I guess I'm too small and weak to do any real damage to it. Do something about it," said the young Lucifer.
Aaron shook his head and ruffled his head, annoying Vali. He slapped his hand away and fixed his head. "Leave it to your Onii-chan, Vali," said Aaron as he flew towards the monster, as he did, a few other people came out of a certain building and flew to Aaron.
"You guys are done on your end?" he asked.
"Yeah, but please reinforce that barrier," asked Natsume. Aaron nodded and did just that. To his surprise, Atsutarou Himejima was also there.
"Atsutarou Himejima, it's been a while."
"…Yeah, sorry about last time. But…let's talk later, let's take this thing down first," said Atsutarou and Aaron agreed.
The beast above them roared and began firing millions of blasts at them and summoned its own creatures too. Everyone around them got ready to fight, but Aaron put his hand up and closed it—instantly the creatures above them exploded. Blood and guts started to rain down on them as the beast roared again and summoned even more.
"…Why do I get the feeling that you could have killed me back then?" asked Atsutarou. "Oh, I have to thank that Cúntóir woman for healing me too," he added.
"Yeah. She's great, so you better do that after this," said Aaron. "Anyway, you guys deal with those monsters, I'll go punch Glenda." Aaron didn't wait for their answers as he flew up and appeared in front of the human body of Glenda.
[Ah, my adorable dragon toy. How are you? Did you kill those devils? Did you enjoy your little romantic life with my daughter? Will you join our side now? I can give you my body you know?] asked Glenda.
"…I'm not into fucking giant monsters, sorry, I have to decline," replied Aaron. He cocked his arm back and appeared beneath Glenda and gave her an uppercut! Glenda and by proxy, the giant monster was launched higher into the sky and they broke through the earth's atmosphere and reached space.
However, what concerned Aaron was that he saw Glenda smirking at him when he punched her up into space.
"Noooooooooo!"
Aaron heard Shuri's voice behind him so he turned around to see Atsutarou Himejima be pierced by a large sword made out of darkness. To his right, was Vali who he had pushed out of the way who looked shocked, and above them was a white-haired woman.
When Aaron used [Observed] on her, he saw that she was called Frida Zagan, a survivor of a clan from the 72 pillars. However, beside her name was (Glenda). His eyes widened as the woman turned around and smirked at him.
Aaron appeared in front of Frida (Glenda) and kicked her stomach. However, instead of physically harming her, he removed Glenda from the body of Frida. Her body went limp and he caught her.
Glenda's astral body looked shocked, but then she became enraged and started screaming. "Give it back! Do you have any idea how hard I worked to put myself into that thing's body?!" she then lunged back towards Frida's now limp body, but Aaron simply kicked her in the chin sending her flying further into the sky.
"Atsu! Atsu!" Shuri cried. Aaron turned around and flew towards the injured Atsutarou. Shuri looked up and with tears streaming down her face. "Please help him…" she begged Aaron.
"…Don't worry, he'll be fine, mom," reassured Aaron as he healed both Frida and Atsutarou.
"…I didn't really think I deserved to live, even after all that crap we talked about earlier, Shuri. But I have to thank the Middleman again, huh?" he asked and laughed.
Atsutarou grabbed Aaron's shirt and looked up at him. "I told them everything I knew. I'm probably going to be locked up for a long time, but…I want to apologize and thank you, Jin. I'll do whatever it takes to atone for my sins, and if I remember anything else down the line, I'll inform you all."
"Don't talk anymore, Atsu. You're still tired! You shouldn't have tried to come out and help!" Shuri said angrily.
Before Aaron could respond, they heard an even louder shriek above them. They all looked up and it seemed that Glenda had merged with her other self and the beast.
[You may have that useless brat again, but she'll be useless to you since she can't even use her power! She's even worse off than my 'daughter'! She was useless when I got her. She couldn't even do anything without tripping and nearly crying. My god, it was annoying to 'help' her during that time. Thank God I just abandoned that act and tortured her instead until she broke~!] she gloated to herself and laughed maniacally again.
Frida Zagan of the Zagan Devil clan wasn't the last survivor until a few months ago. She and some of her clan members survived and were in hiding in the human world. They lived a quiet yet comfortable life. However, all that changed when the Anti-Satan faction from the Khaos Brigade approached them, put certain ideas into their heads and that's when their lives changed.
Frida was forced to join the Anti-Satan faction along with the others, while the others were more skillful at using their clan's ability, however, they weren't that powerful overall. At best, they were only High-class in power and when they accepted the red vials most died, only a small handful gained new strength.
Frida herself was a reserved and shy girl. She wasn't outgoing and preferred to be by herself. However, she was forced to do many things she wasn't comfortable with—including killing certain people they caught, or torturing them with her words. That was until Glenda took her.
When the Anti-Satan faction crumbled, many of their members were killed, hunted and interrogated, she escaped thanks to Glenda and after that, Glenda tried to do her fake kind and gentle mother act, but she quickly lost patience for her, and that's when her hellish days began.
During her torture, she lost all hope and let her mind go, to protect herself. That was when Glenda took advantage of it and invaded her mind. However, a person can only have one soul in this multiverse, so…with the help of the Evie and Phantasma they went to a different timeline and gathered a soon-to-be dead Glenda's soul and told her of their plan and she was onboard with it.
That other Glenda's soul occupied Frida's body and controlled it for the last few months. The two Glenda's shared ideas with each other and tricked everyone that the Frida that they knew was the real Frida and not another Glenda. However, some suspected otherwise, but didn't confront her about it.
However, Aaron had separated her from her body, so she merged with the current Glenda and the beast. Both didn't know if it would work, but now they occupy the body of the beast and are using it together.
'It's an even worse version of our situation, isn't it?' asked Rudra.
'What do you mean?' Aaron asked.
'Two souls merging, but they are the same person but different timelines. Neither of them are kind individual's too. That has to be its own kind of hell,' explained Rudra.
'Well, you have a point…' replied Aaron.
The beast above them summoned more and more magic circles and started firing millions of spells towards them and around earth—the only thing they wanted to do now was cause as much destruction as they could. The other parts of the beast also started attacking everything around them.
They breathed whatever attack they had, spread poison as much as they could and tried to harm anyone and everyone there was in the immediate vicinity. Their attacks were stopped by Aaron's shadow soldiers and a few of the G.o.D as large magic circles appeared all over the world, protecting its inhabitants.
"I can't let this go on for any longer…Suzaku, can you keep an eye on her for me?" Aaron asked as he handed the unconscious Frida to her.
"Yes…leave her to me," replied Suzaku and brought Frida into the building where Cúntóir was.
'Report,' said Aaron as he contacted his shadow soldiers all over the world.
However, to Aaron's surprise, instead of hearing his shadow soldiers' voices, he instead heard multiple voices of people around the world and the supernatural world.
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"Are we going to be okay, mom, dad?" a child asked his parents. They were in the country of France and they were humans that were part of the supernatural. They were the few who weren't affected by Aaron's sleeping spell and stayed awake during the whole ordeal.
"It's fine, those friendly shadows are helping us," replied the mother as she tried to reassure her child.
"Yes. We'll be fine, they're the Oppai Dragon's friends. The Oppai Dragon will also protect us and whoever else this is happening to," added the father.
The young child looked at the shadow soldiers with them and said, "Good luck Oppai Dragon! Do your best!"
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"Rias, it seems like we're done here. I don't sense or see more of the Khaos Order's members," reported Akeno.
The Gremory peerage was in the Land of Heaven Falls as they helped defend it along with Danu.
"President, I found some families and I moved them to the evacuation zone," said Shirone as she arrived beside their [Queen]. "Xenovia and Asia are with Áine-san and are helping the people around the town."
"We received some kind of monster also appeared above the country of Italy. It's quite large and has the potential to destroy the world," added Irina who went with the Gremory peerage.
"Switch Princess…!" a child shouted and ran to them. The child's parents ran behind her trying to catch up with their child.
Rias crouched down and spoke to the child. "Hmm? What's wrong?" she asked gently and petted the child on the head.
"Are we going to be okay…? Are the bad people going to hurt us?" the child asked. "We heard there was a monster that appeared in the human world…"
Rias became concerned on how fast the information travelled. She theorized they had a leaker, but thought that the child just heard it because of all the commotion. She smiled at the child and said, "No. We'll be fine. Oppai Dragon-san will protect this world…so leave it up to him, okay? I'll join him soon to give him the power of breasts."
"Mmm!" replied the child happily.
"I-I'm sorry, Princess Rias, our child—" the parents tried to apologize and took their child back.
Rias stood back up and shook her head. "No, it's fine. I can understand why she's worried. The world is in chaos right now, but…I meant what I said. Jin won't let our world be destroyed."
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Aaron heard more and more of these types of things around the world. He looked up at Glenda and gritted his teeth as he felt some regret swelling up in his chest. Even though he made a promise to Shiva that he'd bring peace and protect as many people as he could, he also heard some people around the world had died.
He even nearly saw Atsutarou Himejima die, and hated seeing his mother Shuri cry like that—even Suzaku shed some tears for him. To Aaron, if someone as kind and understanding as Suzaku cried for that man, then to him, he wasn't as bad as he thought.
Aaron took a silent step forward and horns grew out of his head. His illusion magic also disappeared.
Certain attacks had made it past the shadows and destroyed parts of the world, however, they seemed to be aimed at random by Glenda, but…Aaron knew that a certain place had been attempted to be destroyed over and over again. It was Lavinia's former home that he and her had repaired.
Even now, he knew that Glenda was trying to hurt her former pupil and 'daughter'.
Aaron disappeared from his spot—a bright golden, blue and white light quickly flew towards Glenda. It was so bright that it was visible all around the world, however, what made it unique was—
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"Hmm?" Irene stood up from her chair. She and Ophis were back in Aaron's home as they offered to help protect Kuoh. Both dragons made their way out of his home and looked up at the sky.
"That's…Aaron?" Ophis asked.
"It indeed is," replied Irene.
"Warm, and comforting," added the Dragon God of Infinity.
"Yes, it is. I don't know what made him like that though," replied Irene as she stared at the light.
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As Aaron arrived below Glenda, he cocked his arm back, and was prepared to use 5% of his overall strength. He didn't want this woman to live any longer than she had already. She had made people suffer too many times, used people for her own selfish reasons. She gave them false hope and broke them.
To Aaron, to hear such things angered him—especially when it was done to Lavinia, and even the devil Zagan, even though he barely knew anything about her. As he was about to throw his punch at Glenda and the beast, a memory flashed in his mind. It was a request he did during those silent few months.
It was back in the Slavic realm, Prawia.
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"Please help me find a reason to live."
Those were the words that stunned Aaron to the spot. He had decided to do this request by himself and thought it would be quick. It was quite vague, and when he heard those words, he wasn't sure what to say to the person in front of him.
It was a young man who looked terribly depressed. The ones who had sent the request to him were Evelina and her mother Siyanko. It was in the town of Menyev, and one of their residents had been stopped from taking his own life. They were one of Evelina's new friends as she had started to open up to everyone after Aaron's departure from the realm.
During his time healing the young man, they uncovered certain secrets from his family that left both of them surprised at the time.
To the young man, from his point of view, it seemed like he was abandoned and betrayed by the rest of his family. However, in the end, it was to protect him from evil people. Aaron and the young man eventually found out where they were, and who the evil people were.
They were a rogue group that were formally part of the Khaos Brigade before they became the Khaos Order. One thing led to another and the young man's family was recovered and now they lived a happy life. Of course, they had to rebuild their trust with each other from the ground up, but Aaron was hopeful that it would work out well.
He even asked Evelina to keep an eye on them and she happily agreed.
"Thank you," said the young man. "If it weren't for you, I would have already taken my life at this point in time…you…"
"Don't thank me, you had a crucial part in finding them too. I didn't give you a reason to live, you help find it yourself, so keep on moving forward," said Aaron.
The young man embraced Aaron and cried even more. Not too long afterward, they parted ways. Aaron would always be welcome to their doors for as long as they lived, that's what the young man told him…
After that incident Aaron began to think about the words he heard the young man say.
"A reason to live."
To him, it strangely resonated with him—he equated it to his previous life at the time. He tried to put it to the back of his mind and not think too deeply about it. However, it creeped up on him from time to time.
However, to him, it just reinforced that people struggled on a daily basis in this world—probably in his previous life too. Some find help, some don't. Some live, some…don't, and he knew he wouldn't be able to arrive to help them on time since he wouldn't know about their struggles.
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Sixteen large and powerful barriers covered the earth, and four in particular around Aaron. The members of the [Goddess of Battles] sensed that whatever was going to happen, it might have the potential of harming the earth, so they created them just in case.
Aaron covered his arm in that same light—a mix of gold, blue, and white. He appeared in front of Glenda's face. A look of shock and horror stretched across her face—
[Do your best, Oppai Dragon!]
[We'll be fine because the Middleman will save us!]
[Oppai Dragon! Beat them with your Oppai Beam!]
Aaron heard more and more voices cheering for him. He gritted his teeth again. He didn't want to become a hero, but if it gave the people of this world hope at times like this…then he would happily play that role.
As Aaron thrust his fist at Glenda, she was blown away by his fist. A large concoction of lights consumed her body and blasted through the galaxy—shaking the entire universe and beyond.
[Ah…so I'm going to die, huh? Fufu, at least I got to experience that warm feeling, Middleman-kun~]
Those were Glenda's last words as Aaron increased that aura's power and killed her. An even larger shockwave occurred and the sky above them lit up in the colors of Aaron's aura. The magic circles produced by the G.o.B protected the rest of the earth from the damage that his punch did.
At the same time, Aaron also repaired the damage he did in his immediate universe. The sun that was destroyed and the other planets in his universe. By estimate, he had wiped out 99% of every other planet in the solar system with that punch and also destroyed several others across the multiverse. But he also…
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Universe – Crepuscule Phantasma
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"P-Phumera-sama!!!" Yve shouted in horror as she burst into the throne room.
"What is it, Yve? I sensed a powerful shockwave just now…are you here to report something about it?" asked Phumera calmly.
"40% of our troops for our army has been wiped out! And 32% of our facilities have also been destroyed! I'm led to believe that it was an attack aimed at us!" she reported to her leader.
Phumera's eyes widened in shock. "Do a complete and full damage report and come back to me…we may need to fast-forward our plans for the future…" ordered Phumera.
"A-at once! W-will you try to restore the destroyed…?"
"Impossible. Once affected by an Outer God, and with their intent—even I cannot restore it with my [Reality Manipulation]. We must wait for Magnum Tenebrosum to awaken to undo them," explained Phumera.
Yve nodded and left quickly. She was furious at what the Outer God had done—and she wanted to get revenge. They had been diligently working on a way to awaken their outer god without the help of the Khaos Order, so for this to happen now…
"Unforgivable…I'll kill you myself…and your lovers…!" muttered Yve in fury.
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Universe – Evie Etoulde
Evie Faction
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[Melvazoa.]
[I know, I felt it. Report,] replied Melvazoa.
[According to reports, around 54% of our research facilities were wiped out by that attack and 52% of our army was also killed. Do you think you can undo the damage done?] asked Regalzeva.
[If I couldn't reverse the other attack he did to the other facilities, then I doubt I could influence this one. Add more resources to the new ones we have hidden and increase the work. We cannot be held back any more than we are. We will attack sooner with the Phantasma than planned. We can't let that Outer God do what he wants anymore,] said Melvazoa.
[Very well,] replied Regalzeva as he left the room they were in.
[Jin Skyward…Middleman…I will have your head soon…!] he said in anger as reality distorted around him
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Aaron's body slowly fell back to the ground and when he landed on the ground, he did it gently. He looked back up at the sky where Glenda once were and silently removed his seals and let out his aura to let the whole world feel it.
"This is my universe. If you want to destroy it, I'd like you to see you try," he declared to them. It was a warning, not only to the Khaos Order, but anyone else that wanted to follow that organization's footsteps.
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"Rimuru-sama, what was that?" asked a red-haired ogre.
"Hmm? I would also like to know Benimaru," replied Rimuru. "It was pretty powerful, right? I wonder if they also felt it?" he asked himself.
"Milim-sama has been screaming about 'something powerful' when that occurred, so the rest may also…"
"Yeah. You're probably right. Let's hold a meeting to calm the nerves of everyone," he said and walked away.
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"Hmmm~? Is that you, old friend?" asked a long-red-haired individual. He looked up at the sky as he came out after he felt a powerful shockwave. Behind him were two maids with green and blue hair.
"Any ideas?" he asked the two, but they silently shook their heads. "Kuku, I can't wait to meet this person."
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A certain blue-haired True Dragon was flying through the multiverse when a powerful shockwave knocked her off her course.
"W-what the hell…?" she was shocked and wondered who it was, but then she felt a familiar warm and comforting feeling after the shockwave. "Hmph. So it's you, Aaron? I wonder what caused you to do that…maybe I should rest for a bit and visit your soul to check up on all of you," she said to herself.
"No…I can't stop until he either evolves or if I find the base. I promised I would do that." Velgrynd slapped her cheeks and kept searching. She wanted to see them, but couldn't return yet.
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"Why, are you smiling, Irene?" asked Ophis.
"He's nearly there," replied Irene as she smiled at the fading light.
"Nearly…there?" Ophis asked confused.
"You'll understand in the future, but I can feel it," she said rather giddily. Ophis tilted her head confused, but agreed in the end.
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In a vast empty void, a certain individual watched this event occur. This individual also felt the shockwave hit them. A small and rare smile appeared on their face.
"That's my baby! That's my Aaron, isn't it?! Oh my God! He's really the Red Dragon Emperor! Wait, no, I should call him the Dual Dragon Emperor, right?!" asked a woman.
<<…Indeed, he is,>>
"Hey, hey, Azathoth, how long can I stay here?" she asked.
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"I can't wait to talk to him about so many things!" replied Róisín. 'And also, I want to apologize to my baby boy…' she thought, and her face became solemn as she watched the screen in front of her.
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Jin Skyward's Soliloquy
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[Partner, are you okay? Did you find anything in her memories?] asked Ddraig.
'I'm fine…strangely enough she didn't erase her memories. Though there were two sets of them, so from both souls, I believe? I don't know how that happened though. They showed nothing but a broken individual from birth—Glenda had always just been like that—it worsened once she became part of the supernatural world,' I told him.
I hated seeing Lavinia in those memories. The hope that Glenda gave, and then her crushing it when they met again—especially seeing her break down when Augusta told her that. Even remembering now made me feel bitter.
[From birth, huh? So she was a sociopath or something?] asked Ddraig.
'Yeah…something like that. Let's talk about it later, but for now…I need to repair the whole world and anything that was affected by this…'
[Yeah. My bad.]
I held my hand up and began to repair the affected areas of the human and supernatural world. After a minute of doing this, I checked with my shadow soldiers and confirmed that they were all restored. I teleported the humans that were evacuated back to their homes too, and finally turned around to face everyone with me.
"What?" I asked them as they were just staring at me.
"Look at him acting so casually after…that!" said Kanami and a few of them agreed with her.
"…Right, well, let's get everything organized and in order. The humans will probably question why they all suddenly fell asleep," I told them. I'll need to wipe out their memories of tonight as well.
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A few days have passed since the incident. Like I predicted, the world had another 'phenomena' because worldwide reporting told them that every human fell asleep—some started saying it was a miracle by God, but they just put it into the new wonders of the world.
I had a few meetings with the leaders of the alliance and I would increase their defenses too. I've been also invited to meet the president of Germany in the future, as well as the 'Hound Unit' since they helped defend the country along with others of Team [DxD], specifically the Valkyrie/Norse group led by Zelma and Rose. I was surprised they also stayed awake when I forced all the humans to sleep.
Other pantheons have also started requesting to join the alliance. That massive worldwide event caused an uproar and the gods of their pantheons were unsure if they would be able to defend against something like that.
It was mostly confined to Italy, though that thing was strong enough and large enough to wipe out the continent of Eurasia with a single spell. I don't know why Glenda didn't do that. Maybe she became even more arrogant after she gained that kind of power? Well, whatever the case, it worked in our favor.
Other things that happened were, I was invited to go over to Natsume, Shigune and Fusae's home in the future too since their parents want me to meet them. I don't know why Fusae's wants to since I'm just a roommate, essentially.
Finally…
"Aaron…" Momo approached me and called my name out. She was accompanied by Reya, Sona and Tsubaki.
We captured several people during that event, and like before, the alliance wanted to interrogate them by themselves before they ask me to step in, so I let them. For now, they haven't said anything, but sooner or later they will. But I do wonder why they're approaching me. Saji did make a comment about finding something strange down in Thine Ifreann Réimse. The same goes for Scathach and Aífe.
"Reya and I found something interesting under Queen Halloween's realm. We were expecting to see a Bánánach, but instead we saw something else…it's better if you see it yourself. Queen Halloween has also withheld telling the alliance about it until you viewed it," explained Momo.
I looked at her then at Reya who nodded and then at the [King] and [Queen] who also confirmed for me that they were serious.
I got up and sighed. "So much for taking it easy," I said and stretched my body. "Alright, let's head over there then…in an hour or so, I need to do some other things."
"Okay, just call me," said Momo as she went back to her room.
Momo also moved in with me. Reya also asked which confused me, but I let her since I saw no problem with it.
"Now then…to Grigori where Atsutarou is being held at…" I muttered to myself.
"I'm coming too…" said Lavinia from behind as she embraced me.
"Me too!" added Akeno.
"…Alright, alright, you guys can come too."
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