Diablo was sitting on a hill in a forest which was not too far of from the city, he was able to get a good view of the city with the wind blowing softly while he was taking some sweets. As he was watching all by himself, Veronica approaches him and says "What a surprise, wasn't expecting to see you all the way here.", diablo responds "Just a little sight seeing, nothing to much. What are you doing here?", Veronica sits beside him with her legs crossed "Well I was just taking a walk and decided to feel abit of nostalgia. Then I traced your energy all the way here.", "Typical" diablo responds. Veronica then asks "By the way, about Alex and Kazuki. Why did you give them the divine powers of gods, and the weakest versions at that?". Diablo keeps quiet for a moment as he was taking a moment to take in some sweets, he tells Veronica "Because they were the only ones with potential, and it was also due to the plot of the story. As for the reason why I gave them the weakest versions of those powers is self explanatory." Veronica while beginning to lean towards diablo's shoulders then asks "Care to elaborate?", diablo just sighs in annoyance "You. You know what you're doing. Either way, power has a way of affecting people, if someone is wielding a power they can't handle, it will lead to insanity. It's mainly because they're minds isn't capable of holding that much power, in some cases it could be the body of the individual burning or detiorating, but that's another special case on its own." Diablo continues to say "Alex and kazuki at the moment can't handle powers that are strong enough to shatter entire universes. If I gave them the ability to operate on the same level of power ukina at her true golden state was performing at, they'd just go mad due to the vast amount of power. Right now they only have powers of that of low tier gods, which is strong enough to wipe out entire dimensions that are made up of celestial bodies bigger than an average planet by ten times. You also operate on that plain of power yourself, veronica." Veronica then responds "Its surprising how knowledgeable you are. It's like your getting smarter by the day.", diablo feeling abit insulted by that statment just responded with "Oh please, its common knowledge, not my fault you're dumb. But I do have infinite knowledge and information since I'm the reincarnate of the being that created this existence." Veronica asks "By the way, were you the one who saved me? Back when I was fighting ukina, I only had a last effort resort in stopping her, and that was using my one thousand S-rank monsters. The monsters and myself got wiped out by a thousand sun's. I swear I thought that was it for me.", diablo turns his head in another direction trying to avoid the conversation "Well maybe it was just some kind of plot armour or something,don't ask me for every little thing." Veronica starts to tease with her voice turning into a seductive tone, she starts to tease him by pointing her finger to his face continuously as well as pressing her heavy chest on his shoulder "You were the one who saved me, weren't t you? Admit it, you like me.", diablo just had an annoyed expression, his face was beat red, this reminded him of the times were Veronica would always tease him and ichiki as teenagers, he thought to himself "God damm those boobs are soft! But just calm down, you're alright. A man like me doesn't give into temptations! A man like me never gives into temptations!", he then asks her with an annoyed and look "Aren't you supposed too be in the lords office? Go do some paperwork or something!", veronic responds seductively "Oh dont worry, I already got that covered. And plus, I have no paperwork to fill until next week, so I have this week to goof off like old times." Meanwhile tobi and kazui were doing some heavy paper work and filings in the lords office, the paperwork seemed very intense for them, they both had this singular thought in their minds "I already knew that Veronica would make a terrible lord(They aren't lying)". Alex was sitting on a river bank with kinto, "Its been a while since both of us sat together like this. It feels so pleasant being able to do this with you again.", kinto exclaims while eating chips. Alex tells him "Yeah, we haven't done this in a while. It feels kind of nice and new at the same time. Too bad, moments like these don't last for long.", kinto just sighs "Did you really have to remind me of that? You know the kind of world we live in, its like peace Is just a temporary thing." Alex just puts his hand In kinto's bag of chips and takes a handful of them and stuff it in his mouth all at once, this leaves kinto in shock. He yells I'm annoyance "Aiy you, you've started! You never see me doing that with your meal now do you?", alex with his mouth stuffed with food "Sorry, dont try to eat me", kinto then tells him "By the way, shouya asked of you. Remember him? The kid who went berserk on the assassination exams.", alex after swallowing the chips responds "Oh yeah, that guy. I remember him, he's the guy who can bring out tentacles and arms from his back.", kinto just responds with a nervous smile "That's not how you remember someone now." Alex starts to scratch his head and says "I've been thinking of something. Is it possible that I have already attained the position of lord automatically? Back when we were declared the heroes of the war, kojin referred to me as the person who will be the future lord of the city. If so, i was expecting I'd have to do more than just be the mpv of a war." Kinto after listening to alex then responds after taking a deep sigh "You really don't get it, do you? You are the same guy who defeated bara when he came to destroy our city, you're the strongest among all thirteen of us in the squad, and you were always ranting about being a lord while we were kids. If anything, kojin already recognised you as a worthy candidate. He basically gave you that position as a final gift before he passed away." Alex felt inspired by kinto's explanation, he also remembered his parents telling him that they put their faith in him. Alex just smiles cheerfully "Is that so? Well I'm glad.", kinto just tells him "Seriously, it's like I lose brain cells by just talking to you." The two friends begin to laugh, they haven't felt this joyfully with each other in a long time.
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