- Silas -
We went down a flight of stairs into what looked to be a gigantic space, complete with lights and all too.
Inside the space was Ikki… being chased around by two children, one with a baseball bat while the other was a girl with a freaking rocket launcher.
I looked at the shopkeeper who suddenly began to seem a lot more sinister to me.
"Just kids having some fun. Don't worry, we can heal everyone back to full health again."
…. That doesn't change anything, dammit.
It was then that I noticed something odd. Attached to Ikki's chest was a chain and on the other end of the chain was a body which looked exactly like Ikki's.
"So you noticed. The chain attaches the body to the soul. In our world, we can train to increase our spiritual power. Since the laws of Kurogane-kun's world binds a human, to bypass them, we simply made him into something other than a human. We temporarily separated his soul from his body and helped him train. It worked too as his Spiritual Power has been increasing steadily. This progress can be maintained even when he returns to his body."
"The boy is a ridiculously hard worker too. He has never once complained no matter what kind of training we threw at him. Kind of makes me want to train him too." The cat… said.
I am really having quite a hard time getting used to it.
Also what was it going to teach him, cat walk?
"Those chains I had cut back then?" I asked and he nodded in agreement.
"What are the risks?"
"He will turn into a hollow."
"You mean those masked ghost things?"
"Yes those. By the way, how did you defeat the hollow?"
"I didn't. Lavy did."
"Your waitress?"
"Hmm. She purified it."
"Purified?"
"You know, cleanse the soul of their sins, resentment and stuff and send it to the Shinigami Heaven. The Rukia girl told us that the guy will get there."
"Oh! Did she use her device? I didn't realise that these devices were so similar to a Zanpakuto. To perform a Konso too."
"She doesn't have a device. She used her Sacred Gear?"
"Sacred Gear? Those NotPokemon things? I never got to hear exactly what they were."
"Have you read the Bible?"
"A bit, yes."
"In my home world, the God of the Bible created a bunch of artifacts and started a lucky draw at birth to incarnate them in a human soul. This was done to give humanity the power to stand against the supernatural."
"God?" He asked, completely stunned.
"Yes. There are literal Gods living in my world. I was surprised and shit scared too. What is my life turning into? Demon Lords and Gods…"
Kisuke was the first one to break the silence. "So these Sacred Gears. What kind of things can they be?"
"Can be anything. From something to give the user an eidetic memory to having the power to kill even Gods."
"Kill Gods…"
"Yeah, you understand why I am afraid to go out in my world now? There are weirdos roaming about with weapons which can kill Gods and Demon Lords."
"Tell me more about them." He said, this time in a far more serious tone.
"There are thirteen Longinuses."
"Like the Spear which killed Jesus Christ."
"It was the first. These thirteen are weapons of enormous power. They can enable the user to kill gods too… with enough training of course. Even that crazy fire lady who tried to possess Lavy had one of the Longinuses. She just hadn't been able to use its full power. I was raised by human parents so I don't know much about the Supernatural world, only the things I should stay away from." I made it a point to get to know what to avoid first.
"How fascinating. So, how did Miss Lavinia purify this hollow?"
"Her Sacred Gear, the one used by the crazy fire lady, allows her to use the Holy Flames to purify dark beings. It's actually the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified."
"I see. I would totally like to see how it works some time but we need to fix your problem first." He said with a slight nod.
By then Ikki had fallen down to the ground, fainting so we moved on to him.
While Ikki was being healed, Kisuke showed me a way to cloak my power.
"First, why don't you go and stop holding back? Don't worry, this place is sealed tight. No one will be able to detect us outside." Kisuke waved at me. He looked very curious. It reminded me of those crazy scientist types.
"You sure?"
"Absolutely." He assured me.
"Well alright. Lavinia, why don't you take the children a bit away from the area and make a barrier around you all."
"Okay~"
Kisuke raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything. The cat surprisingly stayed on Ikki's head.
"Ready then. Here I go." I let go of all restraints for the first time since becoming an Archdaemon, the power which could destroy countries, and the place shook.
- Yoruichi -
What the fuck, Kisuke?
Just who is this monster?
This kind of power was something she had only felt once, when she had seen the Head Captain spar against his two disciples.
Was all that talk about Demons actually true?
She was having a very hard time maintaining her composure and using her Spiritual Pressure to shield Ikki who was already pressed to the ground from the pressure despite her efforts. Kisuke himself was barely standing. She felt Tessai make a barrier around them and the pressure lightened.
The boy soon held back his power and everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
"A-alright. Observe me." Kisuke instructed him to control his power after that released his power and slowly reigned it in.
The boy just nodded.
"To do this…"
Before Kisuke could continue, he started reigning his power to near invisible levels just like Kisuke.
"Is this alright?"
"... yes. How did you do that though?"
"I saw you, copied it."
"Just by seeing me once?"
"The method was pretty simple."
"Just out of curiosity, can you try something for me?"
"Hmm?"
"Try copying this." Kisuke moved to a different place with a Shunpo.
Even she was quite interested. To be honest, a large part of her was screaming bullshit at the guy. As if someone could learn to control their spiritual power so easily. Wouldn't that mean that the work they had put all this time was for naught?
But as if to break her preconceived notions, he appeared several tens of metres away from his place. "Oops, this is a bit hard to control." he then proceeded to disappear and reappear several times around the ground back to the place where he was standing at the beginning.
She saw the first few steps and the last one was close to a blur for her. He was getting better at a mindblowing pace. "That's more like it. I had to use brute force but this method is much more convenient. What's it called?"
"This is called Shunpo or Flash Step." Kisuke replied while bringing out a notepad taking some notes. "Interested in learning some more tricks?"
"Sil-kun seems to be having so much fun." She was picked up by the girl who came with him and she started petting her. "Are you having fun, Yoru-chan?"
"I didn't know that Silas-san was this strong?" Ikki said while sitting in his place, his face still pale but the light in his eyes was as strong as ever. She observed that he was heaving for breath but his soul was becoming stronger.
As expected, a soul grew stronger the fastest when it was in danger. And feeling that kind of power…
"Sil-kun is very strong. I don't think I can defeat him even if I used both of my Sacred Gears. Maybe hold him back for a while but not defeat him."
Yoruichi found herself still for a moment. "You can hold him back for a while?"
"An hour at best if I could achieve Balance Breaker with both my Sacred Gears. I don't have much Magic Power to sustain the use though."
"Balance Breakers?"
"Oh, they are the temporary power upped forms of the Sacred Gears."
As she talked to the girl, Kisuke continued with his experiments.
Over the period of the next two hours, he continued to break all of Yoruichi's preconceived notions of being a genius.
This was no longer a genius. This was a genuine monster.
- Silas -
Kisuke helped me learn many spiritual spells from his world called Kido. They were of two types, primarily, which were Hadō for direct attacks, and Bakudō for battle support. There were healing type Kido as well and it was also something I was most interested in.
My Reversed Curse Technique allowed me to heal my body. I just needed something to heal my soul with.
There were obviously spells in Rimuru's worlds but most of them were of Holy nature and we had no one who knew how to cast them, that's why I wanted to learn Healing Kido. Unfortunately, Kisuke wasn't an expert in those.
He did teach me some basic spells though.
Both Hadō and Bakudō spells were numbered from 1 to 99, the higher the number, the stronger the spell power.
I was invited to come over and learn more spells later on.
Ikki seemed to be having fun training there and there was still time before his school reopened so he decided to stay there for training. He said he will go to the Ryozanpaku masters for training again after this.
It was getting late, so we left and went back to our restaurant. But before leaving, I left a card of my restaurant with the girl whose house I had almost destroyed.
I felt kinda bad for her.
The stay in Kisuke's world was full of ups and downs but at least the candies in his store were something.
That reminds me, I need other helpers in the kitchen.
Maybe I can ask Nakiri-san since he was the Principal of a Culinary School or something? He could introduce me to some of his students who can help me out. In fact, I needed some new waitresses for my Restaurant too.
With most of the girls being busy with teaching the Oni and setting up the business. That only left me with Tohru as a waitress.
"Boss, I heard we are having a party?" My musings were broken by Tohru's words. She looked excited.
"Yes. A week later, we are having a party." I had earned a lot in the deal with Issac-san and could easily afford to splurge here. "In fact, you can invite your friends if you want."
"Really!"
"Yup. Kanna is often with Naruto and the Dojo Masters so she must be missing the other dragon friends too. It will be a good chance for them to reunite and have some fun." I suggested.
"Alright, I will bring some of my friends too."
"Just make sure they don't cause any trouble."
"Trust me, Boss."
Rimuru had also gone out to invite Shizuka-san for the party and I had asked Cid-kun's friends to invite others too.
It would be a good opportunity for all the guests to gather and also give me time to prepare everything in advance.
Moreover, they could bring their friends and that could increase my customer base.
As I was thinking of this, the door to the Restaurant opened and some familiar figures popped in.
Kisuke-san had come with the orange haired girl, Orihime, the black haired girl, Rukia, the carrot top Ichigo and… Yoruichi.
"Is this the place? A maid cafe?" Ichigo said, looking around the Restaurant.
"It's not a maid cafe, just a simple Restaurant." I replied. "Tohru, take their orders."
"Yes."
As Tohru took their orders, I talked with Kisuke-san.
The orange haired girl called Orihime was looking around the area nervously.
"Umm, hello." She said, attracting our attention.
"Hello. Welcome to my restaurant. What will you be having today?" I asked politely.
"Ano… I… you are the one who saved me, aren't you?"
"... I am. Are you alright now?" I asked. She had been unconscious when we left so we never got a chance to go back.
"Ah yes. Thank you for helping me… and my brother." She bowed deeply.
"It's fine. The… supernatural police of that world would have done that anyway." I said turning towards Rukia and Ichigo.
"Ohh…" She replied awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
"So, what will you be having today?"
"This…" She hesitated.
Kisuke-san spoke on her behalf. "She will be having a job at your restaurant if you have one."
"Say what?"
Kisuke went on to explain the situation.
She was living alone after her brother's death. Her parents had died even before her brother and after her brother's death, she was given an allowance by her aunt who stayed far away.
The incident that day had caused her house to crash. The landlord was an ass and had evicted her from the place and made her pay for the damage. Partly because there were no culprits found for the incident. Now, that part was taken care of by her aunt but she had reduced her allowance by a lot because she too thought that the girl was making up stories.
… talk about a messed up situation.
"So you are looking for a part time job in my Restaurant?"
She bowed. "Please."
"Hmm, well alright. The damage was partially caused by me because I interfered in the work of whatever soul police was doing back then. I think I can take responsibility for this."
I explained to her the schedule. I did need some more staff in the restaurant. It's not like I didn't have any empty rooms. We had expanded both the house and the Restaurant just a week ago.
"Hey, Hat-and-clogs, are you sure this is a good place to work? It totally looks like a shady maid cafe and not a good one at that." The carrot top spoke, making my eyes twitch.
"Excuse me, what do you mean by 'not so good maid cafe'?" I asked, my tone calm, as I reigned in my anger.
Who the fuck did this brat think he was, dissing my Restaurant?
Even Dragons and Demon Lords had to politely sit in line to be served here.
"What else? Your Restaurant is obviously empty and even the one waitress is a cosplayer pretending to be who knows what?"
"I am a dragon, little boy." Tohru replied, hotly and then looked at me. "Do you want me to bash his face, boss?" Tohru asked, not hiding her anger
"Now now, Tohru, what have we learned about customer service?" I assuaged her anger and looked at the carrot top. "Tell me, have you ever seen a Restaurant which is always full?" I asked.
He opened his mouth to reply but shut up again.
"As for my waitress, as she has already said, she is a dragon. A genuine Dragon. Do you perhaps have a problem with them?"
To his credit he didn't say anything and apologised too.
Rukia on the other hand looked at Kisuke, "But Dragons are…"
"Tohru-chan is not that kind of Dragon. So don't worry about it" He reassured her and then explained a bit about this place.
They ordered. Yoruichi, ordering milk and some fish.