Isekai Restaurant
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Chapter 15: Archdaemon
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- Silas -
I woke up to the feeling of softness on both sides of my chest. Opening my eyes, I saw blonde and cherry blossom coloured hair in front of my eyes.
On one side of me was Lavy, like usual, in my shirt and on the other side was Shuna, in a thin kimono.
Now, how did it come to this?
That evolution had brought a lot of changes to me.
I was hoping Sakura and Lavy wouldn't notice but I wouldn't have such useless wishes had I seen myself in a mirror even once.
My height had increased by an inch and my body was now leaner and sharper than before. The changes might not be obvious for someone who didn't know me that well but was obvious to someone who knew me even relatively well.
A few tests showed that my power had increased by leaps and bounds. A Daemon Chevailler wasn't even in the same league as an Archdaemon.
Safe to say that both the girls had noticed the changes the very second they saw me and started fretting over me.
It took me reassuring them for a full hour before they calmed down.
They had seen me laying on Shuna's lap when they returned and so, Lavy of all people invited Shuna to have a sleepover. The real surprise was Sakura actually encouraging her too.
By now, Shuna had already known about Lavy sleeping with me. She had even seen her with my shirt on my bed so she wasn't as surprised as the first time but she was embarrassed. I felt a bit awkward too.
Just yesterday I had confessed to and slept with Lavy and today she was bringing another girl, a girl she knew had feelings for me to our bed.
She wasn't kidding about all that yesterday.
Looking at the blushing oni princess, I couldn't find it in myself to reject her. It must have taken her a great deal of courage to do something like this. I didn't want to be a jerk. And it's not like I didn't like the situation.
Shuna was a very pretty girl with a great personality too. If anything I was lucky to have such a girl like me and Lavy actually being supportive of this. Perhaps, Rimuru and Ainz's words about ' the Harem Protagonist' thing had some basis after all?
And so, here I was, waking up between two beautiful girls.
My movements woke both up.
"Mmhh, is it morning already?" Lavy said before wrapping her hands around my neck and pulling me in for a kiss, something I wholeheartedly responded to.
"Good Morning, Sil-kun, Su-chan."
The scene was enough to awaken Shuna who was blushing red by now but she still leaned in and gave me a peck on my cheek.
"G-good morning, Silas-sama."
"Good Morning. We still have thirty minutes on hand. If you two want to stay and rest for some time, you can."
"I-it's fine." Shuna stuttered so I just wrapped a hand around her waist and hugged her to my side.
"Then just accompany us for some more time."
She just nodded shyly and I closed my eyes, enjoying the feeling till I needed to get up for work.
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"An Archdaemon is a spiritual being. It's a qualitative change compared to your previous evolutions." Milim explained.
"I have also heard that Archdaemons are very strong, boss." Tohru said. She had come in early in the morning to check up on me.
"Can you explain in detail?" I asked Milim.
"In this form, one is as strong as any monster with a Demon Lord Seed. Your case is unique even among Archdaemons. Generally a purely spiritual being cannot stay in our world for long without a body, but you already have that so it allows you to exert your full power unlike other Archdaemons. The second thing is having a name, you got that too. Finally, somehow, miraculously, you have not one but two Demon Lord Seeds. It shouldn't be possible, you know. How did you get it?" She asked.
"No idea. By the way, how did you know about the Demon Lord Seed thing?" I asked.
"Ahahahahaha nothing can escape my eyes." She replied smugly at my question. "Still, you have almost everything needed to become a Demon Lord. Say, wanna join the council with us? Both Rimuru and you could join. I can recommend you, you know?" She asked.
"Eh, not interested. You don't seem to have too much fun there, seeing as you stay here all the time." I retorted, making her blanched.
"But that's not fair. I don't have such a fun place. It's not my fault." She pouted.
"As I said earlier, you're always welcome here." I shrugged.
"By the way, why don't I sense a connection with you?" She asked.
"Hmm?"
"Normally, when a stronger being names someone, they risk losing a portion of their power. Obviously, I am very strong so nothing will happen to me hahahaha." She laughed again, making my eyes twitch. "Naming can make the one being stronger but it also makes a connection between them and their namer. It can have different effects like sometimes making them evolve like in your case or in case of Shuna-chan when she was named by Rimuru. Do you understand this much?"
I nodded.
"The one getting named can also gain some abilities from the namer sometimes, although that's very rare. But one thing almost always happens. The one being named forms a connection with the one naming. In your case, it formed but then broke as soon as you were carried into the Restaurant. Why is that?" She asked.
"Hey, what's the use of asking me? I didn't even know about the connection part let alone the part about the connection breaking. Then again, if I had to guess then it would be that the Restaurant removed it. Was it harmful by any chance?"
"Not really. You were already named by Rimuru so nothing new on that. I will have to ask Guy about it. I don't have any experience in naming others." She smiled, making me want to facepalm.
"If there is nothing to worry about then don't. Tell me more about Archdaemons." I asked. I wanted to know more about my new abilities.
"They are alright I guess. Not that strong but can destroy a country easily. You could probably do far more though with all the extra stuff I mentioned earlier. If you train a bit more, you could evolve again. Or well, I can always name you again. Next time I will ask Guy about them and tell you."
"I'll pass for now." I had evolved twice in close succession. I needed some time to understand and control my power first. "By the way, who is this Guy… guy?" I asked, completely ignoring the fact that she just waved off country destroyers as just… alright. It was not good for my sanity to think about it more.
"Oh, he is one of the Demon Lords along with me. He is also the first Demon Lord and a Daemon just like you so he should know more about the abilities of Daemons."
There were several pieces of information in those sentences which could individually give me an aneurysm but together they felt like I was bashed in the face.
"Alright, I will try to understand my abilities more till then so take your time. Here, I am done with your order too." I placed her plate in front of her and she immediately forgot about everything and dove into her food.
I went to Rimuru's world and checked myself once more. This time, analysing all the changes. The raw amount of Demonic Power I possessed had increased by several times. The same was the case with my Cursed Energy, it had increased to an absurd degree. I was pretty sure I could rival or even surpass Naruto's Cursed Energy now, but unlike him, I can control every bit of my power. It also felt like my Innate Cursed Technique had some changes and I can use Water and Ice now. I will have to check that first.
My new Skills, Flood and Frost helped me control water and ice with a thought. It also increased the power I could exert with the same amount of Demonic Power. The exercises Irene-san had me doing before, I could now do them as easy as breathing.
The Ice Devil Slayer Magic I used was also far stronger now without any extra effort.
Then again, that magic was supposed to turn me into a Demon and now I was an Archdaemon. I doubt it gets better than this.
"Maybe you can go and ask Kisuke. He seemed to know quite a lot about souls." Rimuru suggested. "I haven't heard from Ikki either. You can check out how he is doing too."
"Hmm. Sounds like a plan." I nodded. "I was planning to visit Zeref, August or Irene-san to know more, but they are not in Alvarez right now. Also, I don't know where exactly Jujutsu Academy is so I can't go there. Kisuke-san seems like a good idea too. He has already invited me several times before."
We all agreed to this suggestion and finally done with my work, I took the time to sit with Saitama and Rimuru.
"So, what's the deal with you and Lavinia?" Rimuru asked as soon as we were alone.
"Huh?"
"Oh don't give me that look. You have both been sharing those sickly sweet looks with each other. I mean sure, that's usual for Lavinia but what about you?"
My eyes twitched at his words but it didn't look like he was going to relent so I confessed. It will come out sooner or later.
"Two days ago, I asked her out. She accepted."
"What?!"
"Shh! Don't make a scene."
"What the hell do you mean don't make a scene? You got a girlfriend. We have to make a scene. Remember what you guys did when I was going on that date with Shizuka-san?"
"That was Ainz's idea."
"You were quite happy to go along with it." He countered, not backing out.
We did tease him a lot, especially with him being mistaken as a girl by Shizuka-san.
In my defence… it was damn funny.
Before we could say anything else, Shuna came with glasses of juice for us and he became quiet.
She gave me a shy smile, blushing as our eyes met and went back to the kitchen to clean up.
"Oi, what was that about?" Rimuru asked, as soon as Shuna disappeared into the kitchen. "You are not stringing her along, are you?"
"Obviously not. What kind of guy do you think I am?" I asked, offended.
"Then what was up with that look?"
"Well… the thing is…" I explained the whole situation to him.
"Screw you, damn harem protagonist!"
…The worst part was that I couldn't even refute his words.
"That's it. It's decided. You are throwing us a party."
"Hah?!"
"A party. I died a virgin at almost forty years old. Ainz is the same. Saitama…" We looked at the guy and became quiet. He was taken aback at the sudden silence.
"What? What do you two want to say?" He questioned defensively.
"Nothing." We replied at the same time and Rimuru turned towards me and continued.
"And you got two girlfriends in two days. You better give us a treat or so help me…"
"Alright alright, fine." I relented, not wanting him to start causing chaos.
Rimuru can be extremely vindictive about the strangest of things… and we did tease him… a lot.
"Know what, maybe you should take Lavinia with you on a date to Kisuke's world since you officially asked her out and all that." He suggested and I agreed.
"That's a good idea. Everyone has been so busy recently that we have had no time to spend on ourselves and we cannot exactly go out in our world as there might still be some supernatural people looking out for us."
We also had the Jujutsu Exam in line in a week or two and who knows how long that might take?
Finally, we finished for the day.