Okay, so I've finally managed to get myself to finish this chapter.
Anyway, sorry about the delay, I've ended up getting distracted by: music, anime, manga, fanfiction, sudoku, video games, getting new ideas in my head and just losing my ability to concentrate on anything.
Anyway, as some of you may have already noticed, I've decided to change my penname recently so from now onwards I am 'The Distorted Shadow'!
Now, before we begin I would like to ask everyone to read my 'Unfinished Ideas' work. It is simply a collection of ideas that I started to write but didn't finish doing, so I would like everyone to read them and give me their opinions on whether or not I should continue writing any of them.
And that is all for now so let's get this show on the road!
"Montmorency please, I beg of you come back to me," a certain blond boy said as he knelt next to a young girl with blonde hair styled into ringlets, "you are the only one my heart desires."
Several snickers were heard as the class of second years watched the now recovered Guiche attempting to repair his romance with the young woman known as Montmorency Margarita la Fère de Montmorency.
It had been immediately after his crushing defeat at the hands of Minato Arisato that his relationship had suffered a blow of immense proportions, mainly due to the fact that both of the girls he had been dating had rushed to his downed form and started fighting over the fact that he had been dating them… of course then someone had pointed out that they had seen Guiche flirting with both of them at one point or another and the results had been as expected.
Both had dumped him.
They probably would've slapped him for it if he hadn't been in such a fragile condition however he had been fortunate that the water mage in charge of his recovery had prevented them from actually doing so.
That didn't change the fact that he was currently grovelling for forgiveness in the middle of the classroom where everyone could see him.
Louise had to admit to herself that it sure was nice to no longer be the centre of everyones ridicule, even if it was probably more out of fear of retribution than the fact that Guiche was currently such a pathetic sight.
Then again, she also noted that Kirche wasn't joining in on the laughter, though judging by the look on her face, it was only because she wasn't paying attention and instead seemed more traumatized by something she was pretty sure she understood already.
Today her familiar was going to start teaching at the academy. That though made a grin appear on her face as she imagined how Guiche would react to the blue haired boys presence at the front of the classroom… then she remembered another important matter.
Minato wouldn't play favourites. It didn't matter if she was his 'master', he wouldn't give her any preferential treatment and that meant that she very well could be ridiculed if she failed to meet expectations.
The grin that had appeared on her face disappeared with that thought, this class could easily turn out just like all the others she had been involved in and if anything, the fact that here familiar was the one teaching the class meant that if she failed to meet expectations then she would be an even bigger laughing stock than she already was.
Before the situation could get anymore out of hand the door opened to reveal two people she was hoping she wouldn't have to see until later, professor Colbert and Minato, who was carrying a large trunk that she had never seen before.
As soon as the blue haired teen entered the room, an unnatural silence descended upon everyone as most of the students minds began to question the dangerous individuals presence alongside the teacher.
"Good morning class," the bespectacled mage started calmly as he attempted to stop a grin from forming on his face at the fact that everyones attention was currently on the front of the room, "today we are going to have a change from the standard education that has been taught in this academy since its founding, however before that, we must wait for the new students to arrive."
Immediately everyone found themselves wondering what the well known teacher meant as they tried to think over anyone they had seen join recently, quickly coming to a startling conclusion… they had no idea who these new students could possibly be.
"U-um, excuse me," came a nervous voice from the door before the class turned to see who had arrived, only to see Siesta standing with a large group of other servants, "w-we were ordered to come here by the headmaster."
"Ah, yes, come in and sit wherever there is space," the bald man said with a jovial tone before noting that the servants all looked even more concerned now that they were actually being told to remain in the room.
"Professor Colbert, why are the servants here? Are they going to be used to practice on or something?" a plump boy with blond hair asked with a hint of nervousness in his tone.
"Oh no, they are going to be attending this class as students from now on," the fire mage stated with a smile, causing the room to fall silent as everyone outside of Minato, Louise, Kirche and Tabitha started staring at him in disbelief.
Then again, if the four that didn't stare hadn't already been aware that this would happen, they probably would've too.
"W-what do you mean they are going to be students? Commoners can't learn magic!" the girl named Montmorency asked loudly as her disbelief saturated her voice.
"Because from now onwards, this class is no longer focused on magic," the wave of shock that permeated the room at that declaration was clear to everyone, "so I would like to introduce you to the academy's newest teacher, Professor Arisato."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" instantly everyone winced at the shrill shriek that erupted from the lungs of the pale faced and kneeling boy before he passed out at the news.
"I wonder what's wrong with him?" Minato muttered just loud enough for the class to hear, making everyone look at him and blink in surprise.
"Uh… how about the fact that you nearly killed him two days ago?" Kirche asked nervously, honestly she really wasn't looking forward to learning under the dark blue haired boy but then again, she wasn't as averse to it as some of the people she knew.
"Huh?... oh, so that's who he is," and with that the entire room sweatdropped at his apparent inability to remember Guiche… well that is until their disbelief was disrupted by a snort from a certain pink haired loli.
"Z-Zero! Don't laugh at something like that!" a random student called out with both a hint of trepidation and anger at the young girls inability to contain herself at a joke only she was privy to.
"That's quite enough," the bored looking, newly appointed teacher stated calmly with a clap of his hands that instantly caused silence to consume the room, "we've wasted enough time as it is, now can the new students please leave the hallway and find somewhere to sit within the classroom."
At once the group of rather stupefied commoners rushed inside in the hope that doing so would prevent them from drawing the dark teens ire.
"Good, now can someone please either pour some water on, or kick the guy that decided it would be a good idea to take a nap on the stairs," once again, he asked the group politely but with an undertone that let them know it was an order… one that the blond girl was more than happy to follow through with by kicking the unconscious boy in the ribs, waking him up rather violently.
"Ah… Montmorency… what is going on? I had the most horrible nightmare, that evil familiar that Zero summoned was made a teacher… haha… can you believe that?" the blond boy started muttering distractedly as he tried to understand why he was on the floor.
"Actually Guiche, that was real," a random student said over the silence, making the blond pale again before turning towards the face that had tormented his nightmares for the past two days, only to start sweating upon seeing the bored look on the teens face… honestly he didn't know which he was more scared of, the nightmarish smile that was ever present in his dreams, or the look of complete dismissal he was receiving right now.
"Now that that has been dealt with, Jean, would you please pass out the material we prepared?" the ridiculously young teacher asked his senior who simply gave a smile before taking the trunk off his junior and opening it to reveal… something that wrought confusion throughout the room.
"Uh… Mi… I mean, Professor Arisato, what are those?" Louise found herself asking, finding referring to her familiar with such a respectful title incredibly awkward.
"They are called a notebook and pen," Minato answered for them, earning looks of confusion at what they considered strange words, "think of them as a substitute for scrolls and quills."
"But why do we need to change to something like this?"another random noble asked incredulously, earning several murmurs of approval from other members of the class.
"Because Ms Chevreuse spent several hours last night assisting in the creation of these objects after Professor Arisato displayed the sheer efficiency that these objects perform their jobs," the bespectacled teacher stated calmly, earning a few looks of surprise at the fact they had an Earth mage assisting in the creation of such simple looking objects.
"The notebooks will take up less space than scrolls and have a greater surface area with which to write on… just think of them as blank books that you are going to write in," the dull eyed teen stated calmly from the front of the class, earning the attention of the class, "the pens have a built in ink supply that has had most of the water removed from it to make it stickier, while the tip only allows the necessary quantities of ink to be applied to the paper, meaning it doesn't waste as much ink and you don't have to wait for it to dry either."
After giving the group the small explanation of why they were changing their media for notes, the former high schooler let out a loud yawn as he simply stood at the front of the room, waiting for the balding fire mage to finish handing out the resources that had taken half the night to prepare.
Honestly if it wasn't for Ms Chevreuse they never would've gotten even one pen made, let alone the two hundred they did with her assistance. It really was amazing just how easily magic could replace machines for mass production.
"And all done," Professor Colbert stated with a smile upon making sure everyone in the room had their hands on a set of notebook and pen before taking a set for himself as he proceeded to sit at the bottom of some of the stairs, more than happy with the thought of starting to learn a subject that he had pretty much been trying to create over the course of several years.
"Good, now to begin with I am going to give you a brief overview of what I intend on teaching you during my time as a teacher in the academy," the dark haired boy started calmly as he proceeded to pick up a piece of chalk, "forgive me if I make a few spelling mistakes but I'm still a beginner with your writing system."
The entire class shifted their eyes as they took in his demeanour, most of the class couldn't find it in themselves to believe that this was the same person who had mercilessly crushed the dot class earth mage mere days before… then again they began to wonder how much of their memories were tainted by the knowledge of the violence he could unleash if he wanted to.
"Now, the first thing on the agenda is to teach you a more efficient mathematical system, all science requires at least some level of mathematics and the numerals you use are rather inefficient," he started as he picked up a piece of chalk and started writing, "by the way, you don't need to write down this part of the lesson if you don't want to."
"I will also teach you some basic biology, chemistry, physics and depending on how quickly everyone learns, I may start going into more advanced aspects of the sciences later on in the year," he informed them of the brief summary of his lesson plan, "it has been decided by the headmaster that each year shall get two, four hour sessions with me a week, so I shall split the lesson into four segments, each fifty minute segment shall be dedicated to one of the four subjects I have just mentioned with a ten minute break every hour, during that break you may go to the toilet, have something to eat or drink or if you don't feel like any of that, simply rest or chat before the next part of the lesson starts. Any questions?"
The room remained perfectly quiet as he finished his explanation, honestly he was hoping one of them would notice that there would be an extra ten minutes that was unaccounted for but in the end he concluded that either they didn't notice, or didn't care about enough to warrant asking about.
"Uh… are you certain we're allowed to learn this?" a random servant asked hesitantly earning a nod from the dark haired teen.
"Yes, if anything it is probably even more important that people incapable of using magic learn these subjects," the former SEES leader stated in his usual drawl, surprising everyone present, "without the aid of magic making tasks easier, those incapable of using it will start using the knowledge I am going to impart on them in order to make their tasks easier, doing so will result in a technological boom that will eventually supplant the need of magic for simple tasks on a large scale."
The entire class immediately hitched their breath at the thought of magic being rendered obsolete and given how half the people present were mages, it was clear that his words would cause a stir.
The persona user found himself unable to hear any single shout over the cacophony of noise that the 'noble' teens were making and that was when he was extremely glad he had spent a part of the night he wasn't trying to convince Ms Chevreuse to make a large quantity of pens and notebooks, experimenting with his runes.
The class all stopped their complaints upon feeling the malicious, heavy and outright terrifying aura that dropped on them all as a monstrous face with long horns appeared behind their newest teacher, honestly the aura felt nothing like the one of that death god he had summoned earlier… no that was empty, cold and uncaring, this was outright evil.
"Now, settle down class, I haven't even finished my explanation," Minato stated calmly as he proceeded to let his partial channelling of Lucifer drop, "now as I was saying, with technology created by those that cannot use magic making tasks simpler and reduce the reliance your civilisation has on it, your descendents can then start using their magic for less mundane purposes and start researching far more interesting matters."
After making that statement the students all proceeded to come out of their pale faced stupors and let out involuntary shudders at the memories of what they had just witnessed.
"There is of course the fact that science has limits, just as magic does, however I am certain that by combining the two, this world will manage to achieve of level of prosperity that my own failed to reach," at that statement everyone finally managed to bring themselves down from their fear induced high, "now then, that is the first ten minutes of the lesson up, so now it is time to start teaching you the absolute basics of mathematics… Arabic numerals, addition and subtraction."
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Four hours later the conflagration of nobles and servants poured out of the room, more than happy with the idea of going to the Alviss dining hall to fill their stomachs after the series of unusual lectures.
Honestly it did seem strange to them that they were required to learn a whole new way of writing numbers but then again, it did make sense and above all else, took up a lot less room than their current system. One of the servants had pointed out that fact and asked if they would ever deal with really big numbers… he had then told them about a number called a googol and they instantly understood why they were changing their method of writing, if it was that ludicrously long written in this new system then they doubted they would ever be capable of writing it in their current one.
He had also surprised them by mentioning that one of the tricks in mathematics allowed the number to be written with a mere five symbols as opposed to the one hundred and one they expected.
Still, at least they got a fun new word out of it.
Then he had started telling them about Physics… not actually teaching them anything outside of concepts and when asked he simply responded that Physics requires a certain level of mathematics to understand. When someone questioned him he simply wrote a simple series of squiggles on the board 'E=mc2' and told them that it was probably the most famous equation in his home world.
That got everyone to shut up.
If the class was honest, they learned a few rather simple ideas throughout the class, though that is mainly what it was, ideas without much expansion. It did make sense however, despite the lack of detail his explanations did make it quite clear that there was a lot he was leaving out in order to stop himself from overwhelming them with too much knowledge… something the servants were extremely thankful for, after all they hadn't learned anything new in years and as such required a little more time to process the concepts than the constantly learning nobles.
Still, ideas like atoms, particles, cells, forces and chemical reactions were more than enough for one day.
"Dammit! I wanted to learn more about cells!" a pouting Montmorency stated with obvious frustration clear in her tone as she walked out of the lecture hall with a certain blond boy at her side, apparently her anger towards him had died after enough grovelling during the three breaks they had had earlier.
"Dear Montmorency, such an expression does not suit your beautiful visage," Guiche stated in as suave a tone as he could manage despite the numerous bruises that had formed along his body from the blond haired water mages more… aggressive rejections before she had caved.
Apparently Minato had never witnessed it due to looking at other things when it happened… though many people were suspicious that he looked away intentionally but given how he never seemed to remember the boys name they dismissed the thought.
Even if they were right.
"But if he is right and people are made up of cells then that knowledge could revolutionise water magic everywhere!" the young girl stated with the frustration clear in her voice at the fact that they didn't really know anything more than that, hell she didn't even know what a cell was supposed to be like, even if she had managed to come to the conclusion that cells were made up of lots of atoms as opposed to a handful of them.
It didn't hurt that the teacher had confirmed her thoughts by informing them that indeed, cells were several million times larger than atoms… when asked to explain what he meant, he told them if an atom was the size of a pea, then a cell would be the size of Halkeginia.
It was then that everyone finally understood just what sort of scale they were dealing with.
"Yes but didn't… he say he would teach us more about them later?" the golem user said with obvious hesitation at the mere prospect of talking about the persona user.
"Well, yes but it's frustrating to find out about stuff like this and not get any deeper explanation," the blonde girl muttered indignantly, knowing full well that she was simply being a little impatient in her desire to learn more about this 'Biology'.
"Oh stop complaining, if you really want to learn more, then just wait for the next class and pester him then," Kirche said from a few feet away before continuing, "besides, I just hope everyone stops doing things that make him smile like that…"
Everyone that heard her last comment shuddered at the memory of their new teacher's 'I'm going to ask you nicely' smile… it didn't help that the outright creepy smile was always accompanied by that malevolent aura and hellish visage that floated behind him.
"Well, to be fair, it does get our attention," Louise muttered relatively quietly as she contemplated the fact that her familiar was capable of commanding a level of respect (via fear) that she felt she never could… hell it hadn't even been a week and he already had the backing of the teachers for Brimir's sake!
"More like give us heart attacks…" a random student muttered under their breath earning several agreements from the others that were listening in on the conversation.
"Well, at least we're free from that oppressive regime once more," another random noble stated with an air of relief as they released a sigh of contentment at the knowledge of freedom.
That statement made all the servants twitch in irritation.
"Yeah… for now anyway," Kirche stated before glancing towards her shortest friend, "what did you think about the lesson Tabitha?"
"Informative," came the muttered response, then again out of everyone in the room, she had been the person to react the least when he started smiling that creepy smile of his… even if she did tend to glance away from the apparition of malice when it appeared.
"Well, I guess I shouldn't have expected any more than that from you huh?" and with a sigh, the red head decided to let her current train of thoughts slip out of her mouth, "so why don't we all just stop talking about that class and start talking about the important things… like how good he is in bed."
It took everyone several seconds to register what the tanned teen said before they all froze and stared at her while the Germanian simply gave the pink haired girl an expectant look.
"W-what are you looking at me for?" Louise found herself asking the much taller girl, obviously unhappy with the insinuations that she was making.
"Well something must have happened between you two, I mean seriously, before you were always trying to make him submit to you and now you're actually trying to defend him," the busty red head explained, earning an angry expression off the significantly shorter girl.
"It's nothing like that you pervert!" the young Vallière shouted in anger at the fire mages words, "he just told me a little about his past and that's it!"
"Oh? He told you his past? What did he say?" the red head asked, curious as to what sort of thing the blue haired teacher had experienced.
"That's none of your business," the short teen stated while crossing her arms over her chest angrily, "if you want to learn more about him, then ask him yourself because I'm not going to talk about private matters like that with you or anyone else, understand?!"
"There's no need to be so aggressive about it Zero, I was only asking," the significantly more developed of the two stated with a sigh at the aggression she received for her curiosity.
"And like I said, I'm not the person you should ask," it was quite clear to everyone present that the conversation was now over and whatever had happened between the girl and her familiar had completely changed their relationship with each other.
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"Well, that didn't quite go how I expected," Professor Colbert admitted as he stayed behind to speak with Minato about how the first lesson had gone.
"How did you expect it to go?" the dull eyed boy asked calmly as he cleared the blackboard of the significant quantities of text he had placed on it. Sure the class had made a few complaints about the fact that some words were written in a completely different language to what they knew, but he had simply admitted that he didn't know how to write these words in their alphabet… it didn't help that Professor Colbert himself seemed lost on how to spell some of these words himself.
"Well, honestly I didn't expect you to be capable of taking such absolute control of the students," the balding man admitted as he rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "I also wasn't expecting you to give such a brief overview of so many different concepts either."
"Well, they are simple concepts, most of the hard part of science is delving deeper and learning the intricacies of each subject and understanding how each interacts with the other," the former SEES member explained to the bespectacled teacher.
"Is that so, so you're saying that chemistry, physics, biology and mathematics are all interconnected?" the older of the two asked with obvious curiosity in his tone, "that is completely unlike magic, after all, with magic theory for fire magic has no correlation with earth, water or wind magic."
"That's because magic revolves around manipulating the world to act unnaturally, while science is the art of understanding how the world acts naturally," Minato gave another simple explanation before putting down the eraser he had been clearing the blackboard with and walking towards the door with the balding teacher taking a position next to the teen.
"I see, I never actually thought about how that would work but I think I understand now," Colbert gave a nod of conviction which the persona user took no notice of.
"Yeah, now I have a question for you," the stoic teen stated in his usual drawl, "since I'm a member of the faculty now, am I supposed to sit with the other members of staff during meals now?"
"Of course," the blue clad man admitted with his usual smile, "as a teacher it is your right to sit with the other teachers and use that time to get to know your colleagues better."
"So it is my right but is it my duty?" the dull eyed Japanese teen asked calmly.
"Well no… but it would be nice to discuss a few things with you," the bespectacled teacher admitted while rubbing the back of his head.
"Such as?" the dark haired teacher prodded with an obvious lack of interest in his tone.
"Well, that apparition you kept summoning during the lesson," Colbert admitted with a shrug.
"It was a partial summoning of Lucifer, the root of all evil," the tone that Minato made his statement caused his colleague to nod in acceptance before realising exactly what the boy was saying.
"THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!" obviously the fire mage found the statement far more serious than the Japanese teen, "whatever gave you the idea that summoning something like that is a good idea?!"
"Anime," the one word response made the blue robed teacher pause in confusion.
"What?" was all the bespectacled fire mage could bring himself to say, hoping that he would get a proper explanation for what the teen meant.
"It's nothing you need to worry about," the former leader of SEES stated calmly, "is there anything else you wish to talk about Jean?"
"Now hold on just a minute, we haven't finished talking about the fact you summoned the root of all evil during class!" Colbert really was taking his casual admittance with more concern than was necessary, though given that he wasn't aware of exactly what a persona was, it really wasn't that much of a surprise.
"Yes we have," the blunt manner that the blue haired teen made his statement nearly caught the more experienced teacher off guard before he put his headphones on and turned on his mp3 player, allowing him to ignore any further attempts the fire mage would make at getting him to talk about Lucifer.
Of course Colbert didn't stop attempting to get him to listen but then again, Minato had dealt with far more intimidating, stubborn and annoying people than the middle aged fire mage and found blocking out all the attempted distractions quite easy, especially with the aid of his beats.
The duo spent several minutes walking towards the Alviss dining hall while receiving odd looks off the few students and servants that saw the incredibly one sided argument, thought that was probably due to the fact that the younger of the two didn't pay the highly respected teacher any attention.
Upon finally reaching the great hall, Minato paid no attention to the cessation of everyones ordinary actions as they proceeded to look at him with cautious eyes, just like they usually did ever since he crushed Guiche with Thanatos… of course he couldn't really blame them, after all he had been going for the intimidation factor when he did it.
Of course the fact that he walked up to and proceeded to sit at the teachers table caused a stir, not that he could hear it over the track that was currently playing on his mp3 player.
It was with a quick 'Itadakimasu' that he proceed to collect food to his plate and start to systematically devour it with the force of a tectonic plate… in other words, a calm and constant pace that showed no signs of stopping anytime soon.
Of course the fact that he didn't say a prayer to Brimir and hadn't removed his headphones made several people in the room scowl, sure he had never made a prayer to Brimir before but the fact that he was currently sitting at the teachers table and still ignoring their cultural customs was a bit of a sore point for them.
It actually took someone removing one of the discs from his ear to get his attention.
"It is awfully rude to sit down to a feast and not say your prayers to the founder Mr Arisato," a man with no discerning features stated with obvious distaste in his tone.
"Well, to be fair, I have nothing to thank him for," the dull eyed teen stated with a shrug, "after all, if he hadn't appeared, I would still be in my own world doing the task I chose to dedicate my life to."
Everyone in the hall looked on as the unmemorable teacher scowled further at the Japanese boys statement, obviously unhappy with their worlds customs being discarded as something unnecessary.
"That doesn't matter, you are here now, eating this feast brought to you by the system given to us by the founder and not praying to him for it is unacceptable!" almost immediately, everyone in the room flinched at the sudden feeling of malice that washed over them as a dark aura surrounded the persona user and Lucifer was once again partially summoned behind him.
"Please shut up before I decide to take a leaf out of Shinji's book and smash your face in," the eerily calm manner that the blue haired boy spoke that sentence made shivers run down everyones spines, of course that was part of the reason for it… when intimidating it was sometimes scarier to not display aggression as it made others feel as though you are looking down on them.
Of course that didn't work if the target didn't know you were more dangerous than them, however with Lucifer adding to the effect… well it wasn't hard to tell who was more dangerous.
Silence reigned for several seconds before the apparition disappeared and the former SEES member went back to eating at the pace he had been before.
"Minato… please explain why you feel the need to summon that thing all the time," Professor Colbert asked in a tone that made it clear he was close to having a mental breakdown at the constant exposure to the powerful persona.
"It is effective," the dark haired teen stated in between mouthfuls as he lazily watched everyone that hadn't witnessed the demonized form of Lucifer yet finally get their wits about them and start whispering to each other while giving him fearful looks… it almost made him wonder if Shinjiro ever felt this way when intimidating others, the abstract curiosity that had him wondering just how badly others thought of him.
The tense atmosphere didn't let up for an instant as everyone kept at least one eye on the academically talented figure that had joined the instructors. While a few of them were watching him out of curiosity and a hope of getting a proper read on him, the vast majority were simply too afraid to let him out of their sight in case he turned on them.
Not that he cared about that, at most he only considered it a minor curiosity but that didn't change the one simple fact that they meant little more to him than a fun social study of super powered children being put in the presence of a higher entity.
And so far it was looking as if they were simply acting like normal humans, frightened for justifiable but flawed reasoning.
It was also interesting to see the reactions to his brief overview of the classes he would be hosting, while most showed outright scepticism, there were a few who seemed to consider the concepts worthwhile and even displayed an attitude he would happily encourage, the attitude that knowledge of the world and how it works could help make magic even more useful than it already was.
Of course they were vastly outweighed by the number that didn't believe a word he was saying, didn't care about what he was saying or were too focused on glaring at the servants for getting a chance at a minor education.
That last group was the main reason he kept bringing out Lucifer during the lesson.
He shook his head clear of those thoughts and instead focused on something else, his inner world… the sea of his soul and more specifically, the personae contained within… all one hundred and sixty nine of them.
He hadn't really paid much attention to them before, instead he had simply picked the ones that he had used in his fight with Ryoji before Nyx's descent, however the night before when he had been attempting to see if it was possible to imitate the dark aura's usually seen in anime, he had come to a startling revelation, the universe arcana had opened the door of his soul and allowed him free access to all the personae he possessed the potential for… even if they had been reset to their basic states.
So no more Helel with Victory Cry which meant no more spamming Armageddon like some sort of deranged demigod hell bent on destroying the world.
And Satan had even lost black viper for crying out loud! He almost felt like crying over that fact since he could still remember that time he had gone one on one with death and beat the crap out of it by spamming that almighty spell.
Still, at least there was a consolation prize… after all with that many personae in his arsenal he didn't exactly need to use ridiculously overpowered attacks like that, especially given how he was in a world that didn't have the dark hour or shadows that can resist magic like that, instead all he had to deal with if push came to shove was nice squishy humans with no resistance to any of the elements despite their ability to wield them in ways he had never seen before.
That part interested him quite a bit, he had seen Ms Chevreuse literally transform an object into another with a single wave of a wand, that was how she had managed to make the pens and notebooks last night after all, however the real question that itched in the back of his mind was simple.
How strong were these people in a fight?
He was no fool, he knew that humans were constantly at war and he had no doubt that he would probably end up in some form of conflict before too long, his luck just seemed to work that way.
That is why he had decided that he needed a weapon, hopefully a completely soulless piece of trash sword that was mass produced via moulding as opposed to forging, that way he could see if he could figure out how to combine it with a persona like he used to have that woman at the antiques shop do for him before the fall.
Yes, he was really looking forward to recreating Lucifer's Blade and showing everyone in this world the true power of a fusion weapon, hell, he may even give it to someone before returning to his own world, of course the question of what they would do with such a powerful object was up for debate but hey, he would make sure to give it to someone worthy of wielding that sort of power.
On second thoughts, maybe it would be better to just take it back with him.
Yes, that seemed like a good idea.
And that is all for today.
I hope you at least found this chapter enjoyable, hopefully I'll get around to doing the next chapter within the next two months (since I'm going to be trying to update my other fics as well).
So until next time...
Shadow out!