AN: Just a quick one! And I think that the bonds are more in the soul rather than the mind. In the case of winging, Esper powers are dependent on DNA and let's just say the Wild Card potential allow cheating in metaphysical ways.
Chapter 12: Accomplices and Progress
I cuffed the guy and used hypnosis to fool the cops that I was one of them. After that, I had to fill in some paperwork and pretended to be one of their co-workers.
All I needed to do was stay polite and joke a bit with typical cop jokes.
They fell for it. Just goes to show how shallow relationships are in Japan where all you need to do is know the right Japanese customs and be polite to gain acceptance.
After the paperwork, I told Yashima who was following me for whatever reason after kissing me, about my thoughts about it until noon came about.
"It works to an extent. But honestly it's a leading cause for unproductive meetings, did you know that Japanese offices still use faxes when most of the world has moved on from that? It's all about the paperwork and 'showing' that they are productive. Most large companies are inefficient due to following out-dated working practices, anyone with ideas on how to work better or people that work harder tend to be ostracised. It's not a good country to work in unless you're in the food industry. Well crap, I'm rambling to someone I just met. Sorry… I tend to get like this after work, especially police work, urgh it's frustrating sometimes you know?"
The pretty girl nodded submissively although, she did it with a smile.
"There's no need to apologise Tohru-sama! I'm happy that you're comfortable with sharing your feelings with me!" She was… earnest in her words that I can trust.
It's rather strange. I could sense a tendril of sorts linking her to me.
I knew something of a bond had been forged between us aside from the Social Link.
When I wanted to find out more through the Kaleidoscope my Persona's heavily advised me to trust them and withhold from doing so.
…They've never failed me before so I don't see a reason not to.
Some semblance of power had left me in order to have formed the bond, well, it's more like a bit of SP, MP and PP (Psychic Power) had left me. It recovered quickly enough however…
-Dang, she's giving me adorable puppy eyes! Is this some genetic evolutionary mechanism found in cute girls?
"I see. Thank you then, Yashima-chan." I petted her head a bit as the puppy impression made me automatically went for that display of affection.
"Mmm…" She hummed in comfort while latching onto my right arm.
… Ah well, must be some function of her race.
She had filled me in that she was meant to find an 'Ashikabi', aka life partner, and as Sekirei, fight until one remains in this Sekirei Plan organised by some whackjob (my own description) that's the boss of MBI. Some mega-corporation that has enough money to buy over the capital of Japan…
If this is my Persona's idea of vacation I really wonder…
In any case, I'm not complaining about my arm being trapped between her boobs. Huehuehue!
"Let's go get some food. You look a little hungry." I say and suggested that we get lunch.
She nodded enthusiastically and eventually I wondered if her race were like the Saiyans in that, she ate a lot!
Bye money! Well, I carry a lot of cash so it isn't a huge loss for me.
I took her shopping while I bought some electrical appliances for accessing the internet here.
I still wonder how she carries that hammer of hers in public without anyone questioning anything about it.
Then I realised! Typical Japanese people! Ignoring anything unusual to get back to their ordinary days… Maybe this is one of those anime's where everyone outside of the protagonist's allies are douchebags?
We made sure that we both had a few changes of clothes. She had this black MBI credit card with no real money limit. I knew that it would be a method of tracking purchases and users… but does it really matter? So long as I keep Kaleidoscope Izanagi at the fore front of my mind I'm virtually invincible to physical damage. I don't mind letting people track me. Come at me asshats!
And besides! Free clothes!
Yashima had forgotten to take the card out at the restaurant anyways so my cash reserves had fallen a bit. I'm not going to be uber paranoid.
Later, my Persona's seem to be conspiring about something. They told me to do three things.
One of them was to memorise the layout of a park in the city, especially a specific spot to teleport to at a later date.
The second was to test whether I could bring other's through the Kaleidoscope. It wasn't difficult to ask Yashima to wait at the park for a bit while I teleported to the 'Cuntry', grabbed an obviously evil Orc and male guy. I brought both of them back to where Yashima was and found them completely healthy with no side effects. I told Yashima to wait for another few seconds while I teleported to the river in the city and incinerated the both of them with Pyrokinesis.
I allowed their ashes to fall into the water.
Yashima and I got to know each other a little better as we walked through the park. By that time my Social Link with her was at Level 3.
It kind of felt like we were a couple… but then again, isn't she around seventeen? I'm about ten years her senior, but it wasn't that weird considering that in my past life my father and mother was separated by a ten year age gap.
And my Uncle moved to China to marry a woman twenty years younger than him.
Age gap issues were definitely something that was not a family concern.
She had a lot of difficulties when it came to anything that wasn't complimenting and showing devotion.
I raised that issue with her and decided to tell her the 'truth'.
What did it matter to me anyways? She wasn't one of the more ordinary people, and better yet, she wasn't human.
So I told her about how I died, became the bad guy of another universe and started changing things up.
"I'm not stupid. I know that laziness and procrastination… and whatever pragmatism I have stems from the cowardice and emptiness I inherited from the old Tohru Adachi. I know that in a way I'm using the Kaleidoscope to run away whenever it's convenient. When I face an unsurmountable issue I won't always charge right in with determination like I did against Ameno-Sagiri. Most of the time I would prefer jumping to another world to find the right power needed to solve my problem. Even so, I believe I can change and improve myself from there. So really, I'm not a perfect being and I'm slightly sociopathic to anyone I don't sympathise with at the very least. And that is why, Yashima-chan, you shouldn't just follow and be submissive to me blindly. I know some of my faults and I don't want you to think that I would hurt you for pointing them out."
"Tohru-sama… I understand. I mean, I know my Ashikabi wouldn't be perfect but I believe in your desire to be a great person at heart! Even if you stumble I will be here for you… because I love you. And we'll be together forever!"
"E-eh, that was um, thank you Yashima."
I didn't really know how to respond to her statement. Honestly we only knew each other for half a day! Is this some kind of racial emotional empathic marriage bond like one of those Veela HP fanfics?
In any case, I hugged her and apologise that I'm not sure that I feel the same way for her. Yet, there's no way I wouldn't care for her deeply considering her dedication. So I promised to allow her to stick with me forever.
"Well, marriage back then in biblical times… quite often the parents would play matchmaker and the love would usually come after spending some time together. I'm sure that will be the case for me as well."
"I look forward to receiving your love then… Tohru-sama." She replied demurely.
While she was a pretty and rather sexy young woman I will be totally honest when I say that it was her submissiveness that was turning on the most. Perhaps it was my time in the 'Cuntry' that gave me a fetish for women who will let me do whatever I wish to her.
I thank my Persona's 'Unshaken Will' skill in giving me strong self-control.
"Hmm, we need a place to stay and my Persona's are recommending me a place somewhere North. Oh, try not to say anything about the dimension travelling thing when we're there. I'm pretty sure the place is bugged, well, according to Saturnus who's helping Kaledoscope Izanagi organise some things." I say to her as we leave the park with bags of clothes and other items in out hand.
"Yes, Tohru-sama! I read you loud and clear." She says with a quick salute with the hand carrying the hammer, which almost slammed into my face.
I hope she's careful with that.
"Ah, Tohru-sama! Could you thank Kaleidoscope Izanagi-sama for me? I believe we wouldn't have met without his power…"
Oi! Rainbow Izanagi! She's giving you her gratitude.
"I can see that… and don't you dare call me that again or I'll give you bad advice. In any case, I saw her possible plight and decided to take action in a mutually beneficial manner. Her thanks is appreciated but unnecessary." Kaleidoscope Izanagi protested but accepted her thanks.
"So long as the bad advice doesn't involve him meeting that silver haired swordswoman then it'll be an acceptable punishment." Oho Magatsu Izanagi said.
"They said you're welcome." I simplified for her, allowing her to smile brightly.
By then, our Social Link has progressed to Level 6.
Time for the third thing the Persona's asked me to do. Rent a room at this 'Izumo Inn'.
It looks slightly run down, and I sensed a hidden room with my spatial awareness with someone inside it. I whispered what I noticed to Yashima and told her not to do anything about it unless necessary.
Other than that, it was a typical two story Japanese house.
I knock the door a bit and waited.
The door opened a handful of seconds later, revealing a slender and elegant woman with waist long purple hair tied up by a white ribbon. She appeared to be wearing some traditional miko attire that consists of a matching purple hakama and a white haori sash-like belt. Hmm, she's even wearing wooden sandals.
If it wasn't for Unshaken Will I would have been afflicted by the charm status.
She was supernaturally beautiful. For someone that accepts the supernatural easily due to my experiences it was clear that she wasn't human, not to say the hair itself was a dead giveaway.
It wasn't just her slender figure and beautiful face that made her beautiful. But a natural grace and elegance in the way she stood and held herself would have given geisha's and queens of all era's something to strive for. That, was what enhanced her existing features that border lined the peak of humanity to a level that transcended it. Although a part of her grace gave of a sense of… battle?
No offence to Minako and Yashima, but she was simply a Goddess in comparison to the both of them. Minako had that everyday girl charm that was maxed out to the point where any guy would be called the luckiest guy on Earth if she were their childhood friend that eventually married them. Yashima, now that I thought about it, looked French. As in, the hot kind of French girl you would expect from a supermodel competition that was hidden under her plain and everyday (Slightly tomboyish, yet extremely girlish) styled choice of clothes. Her light skin tone and facial features definitely attested to that.
Thankfully, all my descriptions were done in my accelerated head time! Good thing I worked on that Thought Acceleration magic.
I quickly noted that she pretended to look at us while she was assessing us as if we were a potential threat. After all, that's the way I did it to other people on occasion.
Well, in a less subtle manner. I'm just trusting my Persona's here so I'm avoiding any suspicious actions.
"Hello, can I help you two?" She gives a beautiful smile, although I noted her gaze had lasted on me a second longer than on Yashima.
"We're looking for a place to live. Ah, Tohru-sama, forgive me for speaking out of turn." Yashima replied quickly, almost automatically, before apologising.
I sigh and rub her shoulders.
"Yashima-chan, please stop apologising for these kind of minor things. But yes, we're looking for a place to live. I am being let go by the police department after I… made some seniors insecure after a raid I conducted alone. Most complexes won't let me stay without a stable job even if I can pay the down payment. We were hoping you would let us stay here." I say sheepishly and gave a grin to Yashima to really sell the happy couple aspect, not that it wasn't the case for her already…
It was a sort-of lie using rearranged real facts plus Yashima's devotion and actual emotion towards the situation, which she knew actually sort of happened to be back in the Persona-verse.
The woman stared at us for a bit and bowed her head lightly.
"We do offer housing here for a monthly fee of 50,000 yen per room. However, I must ask, are you two in any kind of trouble that I should know of?"
As in, she's probably wondering about the Sekirei plan. I look to Yashima who looked at me, she fidgeted a little and lowered her head a little, as if to defer to me.
Part of me was disgusted that I could certainly get used to this kind of authority.
"I don't think so. I made sure that any enemies I made are behind bars, well, unless my superiors are jealous to the point where they sold my name to the mob bosses but I doubt that. Would being in some kind of trouble involving a Shinto Goddess that would want to blanket the world with fog would affect whether or not we're allowed to stay here?" I asked seriously, if, but a bit cheekily internally.
The woman blinked twice.
"I don't believe so? My husband believed in never turning a person away, even if they were in some kind of trouble. Still, precaution is always something to consider." The woman says with a kind if but a little confused, smile.
"Your husband sounds like the kind of man that makes humanity worth fighting for," I blurted out before quickly deciding on something lighter to finish of the conversation. I almost sounded like some fantasy Anti-Hero there! "Is he the land lord here?"
The woman shook her head and gave a sad smile
"No, he was… but my husband died a few years ago."
"Oh…" I looked down in shame while screaming at my Persona's for not warning me earlier. They stayed silent, however. And I felt like a huge jerk.
I did the only thing possible. I slammed my forehead onto the ground in a Dogeza.
"I'm terribly sorry! I had no desire to bring up past wounds!" I apologise with sincerity.
"P-Please forgive us!" Yashima joined me and Dogeza'd right beside me, although she was standing a little bit behind me hence she wasn't aligned with me.
I didn't hear anything for a few seconds, before I hear the woman giggling a little.
"It's alright. It's not like you could have known so please, you don't have to bow your heads to me." She said with a sad yet amused smile.
"Now, I am the landlady, Asama Miya. We have two rooms available on the second floor, so long as you can pay you will be allowed to live here." She introduced herself.
"I'm Adachi Tohru, and this is… Adachi Yashima." I introduced us as family, I'll allow her to make whatever conclusions and roll with it.
Yashima's face looked up to me in adoration while being extremely flushed.
I might be a guy, but I'm not that dense to not know the implications of what I've said.
"Please to meet your acquaintance!" I finish, and Yashima echoed my words like the good little submissive girl she was.
Shit, that sounded surprisingly dickish in my head.
I might need to fuck someone in the 'Cuntry' to get it out of my system.
"I am very pleased to make your acquaintance as well." Miya giggled lightly at how 'in-sync' we were.
It was less about being 'in-sync' and more of Yashima knowing when to follow my lead, most of the time.
I took out the cash needed from my sack of notes, which was a considerable amount considering that I had millions of yen in both my wallet and sack.
She explained the rules of the household, involving no violence and indecent acts.
Not that it will be difficult since I could just bring Yashima back to Inaba for anything related to that.
In fact, I did just that after packing up and right before we went down for dinner with Miya and the other guests.
Back at my home at Inaba, I apologised for the mess and with Yashima, did some investigation in Okina City on the case of the insane policeman who was later shot dead in self-defence by his colleagues.
I could sense some faint power that was similar to the fog, yet, both more solid and somehow more elusive. The Kaleidoscope was wonky when it came to this area so I couldn't rely on that, and my Psychometry couldn't pick out much. All I knew was that it probably started after the policeman went to the restroom.
Sad as it is, I need more data to form a connection. And unfortunately, I needed to wait for another rampage. Yu called me today to tell me about how he aced his exams and that Dojima had told him to occasionally check on him lounging around Junes whenever I felt lazy.
Oi! I've been working hard lately!
Minako and Aigis called to thank me for the answers to the MCQ's for their midterms since it allowed them to focus on essay writing.
Yashima and I ate dinner in Okina City, and watched the news back in Inaba. I noted that they began talking about biker gangs.
It's almost time.
May 13 Friday (Cloudy)
Huh! It's Friday the Thirteenth!
And instead of some guy with a chainsaw coming at me I have a busty pretty girl cuddling in my bed.
Yashima seemed to have snuck into my bed instead of the assigned room. Woah shit, she's really close.
Well, understatement of the month. She moved between my right arm and body, my right hand was currently holding her plump ass with only clue lacy panties being the only thing separating my hand from accessing the 30% of covered skin.
…Oi, I know that she isn't actually asleep from the small peaks she's taking with one eye.
In any case, she's asking for it and I don't mind obliging.
Acting as if I was half-asleep, I used her as a pillow and brought her body into my embrace using my right hand on her ass.
She made a small 'eep!' sound as I began stroking her back with my left hand.
Admittedly, it was probably more to do with the fact that I was stroking her inner thighs and ass with my right hand.
Having her large breasts pressed against my body was icing on the cake while the main part of my own pleasure came from the fact that she had submitted to being used this way.
I was so distracted I failed to register the spatial movements before it was too late.
"BAM! Surprise!" Minako Arisato shouted as she pushed through my open bedroom door along with Aigis who was pointing her arm as if it was a handheld cannon.
"Ah! Engaging Combat Mode! Surprise Attack!" Aigis said monotonously.
"Honestly! A weak fence like that shouldn't actually be considered a door! You're should count yourself as lucky that we decided to test your security and-" Minako was saying those words until she froze while she took in what she saw.
Oh crap! She's staring at me.
"She's French, seventeen and their legal age of consent is 15. She is totally legal!" I yell out immediately while holding up my left hand and accidentally gripping whatever was in my right hand.
"A-Ahhh…" Yashima released a moan as I grabbed her ass roughly by accident.
…You're not helping my case, Yashima!
Thankfully, the both of them were very level headed. Although Minako fixed a very scary smile at me the entire time I was explaining that Yashima didn't really have a home to stay in after I saved her from some rapist and wanted to stay with me for a bit.
I made some sob story about how she didn't really have any identification documents after she was robbed and her parents went missing quite a while ago.
I think I convinced them that Yashima was just being, uh, overly affectionate in gratitude without my knowledge.
"I owe everything to Tohru-sama and I love him very much!"
YASHIMA! You fucking ruined my entirely rational sob story.
I was less mad at her and madder at the fact that my efforts were wasted.
"Eh? . Sa. Ma. Huh?" Minako repeated syllable by syllable.
"As I recall, that is a honorific used for a person that someone respects greatly." Aigis gave some definition from some cheap internet dictionary.
"My master has never complained about it thus far." Yashima cheerfully mentions.
"Oh really? Wow! It seems that 'Tohru-sama' is truly a model detective! Tohru-sama is allowing consenting 'adult' women into their home so easily when he called 19' year olds 'kids'?" Minako smiles pleasantly while I feel a terrifying presence somehow bypassing my 'Unshaken Will'.
It's probably because it's weaker in reality.
"Wait, that's what this is about? That little joke?" I thought back to the children's day message I sent her.
"Oh? Isn't Great Detective Tohru-sama missing the point?" She sarcastically says.
I don't understand women at all. I would have thought this is the case where they would focus on a near naked girl being on my bed.
Then again, she could have been mentioning it and I missed it somewhere.
Uh… things happened but I wasn't arrested.
In the evening we watched the news about what seems to be Kanji being shown on TV.
It's almost time, huh.
After watching the news, I used the Kaleidoscope to go back to the world where Yashima originated from (Which I did not research at the behest of my Persona's), just in time for dinner with Miya and co.
"Itadakimasu!" Everyone says as we dug in.
"This… this is heavenly." I say to myself and began to pray to Miya as if I was praying to a Goddess I'm not planning to kill. Yashima continued to eat while eyeing me intensely.
Miya giggled at my antics as the white-haired man looked at me strangely.
"I don't think we were introduced yet. Adachi Tohru." I introduced myself to him.
"I'm Kagari, nice to meet you." He later introduced himself to Yashima as well, who used my family name to introduce herself.
"Ah, I'm starving." A voice whined and I saw a well-endowed young woman with long, dark brown hair tied up in a ponytail on her left side.
She was very well developed and had brown eyes.
Oh, she was only in a frilly pink shirt that showed a lot of cleavage, and in a pair of panties.
I am starting to get the feeling I'm in the Highschool DXD version of Pokemon/Stay Night.
"Oh! Visitors!" She said after looking at Yashima and I.
"More like your new housemates. Adachi Tohru, pleasure to meet you. Thankfully for you, I was just let go from the force and I won't have to arrest you for indecency." I joked and introduced myself.
She also introduced herself while Miya reminded the now named Uzume about indecency not being permitted.
Accompanied by some evil Hannya mask thing that I managed to not be shaken by due to 'Unshaken Will'.
"Well, welcome to Izumo Inn! Home of the crazies!" Uzume said with a smile. "We're always looking for more normal tenants."
I raised an eyebrow.
"Hmm? Sorry to disappoint you but I don't really classify as normal. In any case, meh, normality is overrated in my opinion." I say with a light-hearted grin. Everyone else looked at me. "Technically, no one could really be considered normal due to individual differences. So there can't be a standard for normality anyways. And really, if everyone subscribed to the Japanese definition of 'normal' then I think the world would have all it's joy sucked up. It's the different people you meet in life that makes it so interesting and worth living." I thought about the people in Inaba, Hyoubu Kyousuke and the rest of the Izumo Inn.
Most of them looked a little lost before Miya giggled and agreed with me.
"I have to agree with you. Life wouldn't be so interesting without different people." Miya Asama agreed with me.
"Haha… I'm glad someone understands." I respond to her.
Glass cracks.
'Thou art I… And I am thou…
Thou hast established a new bond…
It brings thee closer to thy Fate…
Thou shalt be blessed when creating Personas of the Death Arcana…'
A faint bond forms between Miya and I.
The next day, my Persona's told me to hand around and head to a specific spot in the park I scouted at 4 pm.
I wonder why?
