Both Griffon and Shadow were circling Vergil as he continued to struggle in pain.
"Ok...we're gonna do this….we're really gonna do this…." Griffon said, trying to psyche himself up.
Shadow growled loudly towards Vergil as it looked like it could pounce at any second.
"I'm not freaking out, alright!?" Griffon said.
"Both of you cut the chatter!" V said, "Take him down quickly, he's already been influenced. We don't have any time to waste."
"You're...not gonna kill him, right?" I asked V
"As much as I would love to, I don't have enough power to do that yet…" he told me.
Vergil began to glow a bit brighter as the energy around him swapped from purple to blue.
"Tsukiyo….Your sword….!" Vergil said as he stuck his hand out to me. It was a bit slow, but in a matter of seconds, the medium sized blade, Force Edge, had appeared on the ground.
"Look, he can still talk, he hasn't gone fully bad yet! We can still save him!" I told V
"Maybe I can change the outcome right now…" I mumbled to myself, at least I thought I did until V hit the back of my head with his cane.
"Ow! What the hell?!"
"As much as it infuriates me to say this, I believe this is necessary. You are not ready to take on Vergil!" V said as he spat with anger.
"I know what I'm about to say will only further your suspicion, but if it will let you understand, then It's a risk I'm willing to take. Tsukiyo, I know about your clairvoyance, but I believe you were already suspicious about me were you?"
I sat there in silence, I fucking knew it.
"Yeah, I was suspicious of you ever since Alcanretia, but what about it?" I asked him.
He used his cane to drag me in closer to him, "This isn't that Fated Day. If you really think you can change the outcome of the future by yourself, right here, then I'll have no problem killing both you and Vergil..."
"I'm not stupid enough to run in head first and assume a situation based off of heightened emotions, but it seems like you are. Do we have to fix that?" V threatened.
I stayed silent.
"If you understand that much, then pick up your sword and help me knock Vergil unconscious. If you're not up to it, then stay out of the way." V's words really stung.
Part of me was relieved to hear that today wasn't the day I'd get my arm ripped off, but on the other hand, I know things have been set in motion. One day, I will have to kill Vergil…
I picked up the Force Edge off the ground. Despite it being a Legendary Sword, holding it felt ordinary, but oddly powerful and light.
"Hey! Guys!" A voice from behind me shouted irritatedly.
I looked behind me and saw everyone grouping up (plus Yunyun I guess? How the hell did she get here?) and heading towards us before they slowed down and saw Vergil.
"What's going on?" Darkness asked.
"Something is trying to possess Vergil, and he's trying to fight it. Stay back, your assistance isn't necessary." V said.
"So does that mean I can purify him!? Now's my chance to finally get rid of him!" Aqua said.
"If it were that simple, I would've taken care of him myself many months ago. This isn't as simple as waving a magic wand and casting a spell." V said as he semi-mocked Aqua.
"What's wrong with Zofia?" I asked.
"I don't know," Darkness said, "She used some of her magic to take out some demons and nearly fainted."
"It's a kind of Mana deficiency. I can take care of that later, right now we have to deal with this." Kosuke said in a serious tone
"So tell me, is he too far gone?" Kosuke said as he drew Alaster.
I stopped him before he could make the first move, "Wait, wait, wait! He hasn't changed yet, he's still trying to fight Mundus' spell."
"Mundus?!" Kosuke said, he thought to himself for a while before it looked like he had an idea.
"Stand back Tsukiyo, V. I got an idea." He said as he walked up to Vergil.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Are you nuts?! You're really gonna walk up all willy-nilly like and be ok?" Griffon asked.
Kosuke unexpectedly ignored Griffon as he continued to make his way towards Vergil.
"Hey there, bro. I heard you're going through quite the pain. Wanna see something cool?" He asked Vergil before he pulled out a small necklace. The necklace Kosuke pulled out looked almost exactly like the one Vergil showed me before, but just the other half.
The necklace glowed a faint red until it shined brightly, blinding the two that were close by.
Most of the violet energy that was emitting from Vergil seemed to have disappeared for the most part, but some still lingered.
Vergil was able to get back up on his own as his face started to relax.
"Thank you Kosuke…" Vergil said.
For once, it wasn't 'Imposter' or 'knock-off', but his actual name.
"Oh man, if this was a normal situation I'd be crying with joy…" Kosuke said.
Normal situation?
"Hey Knock-off nice going! You suppressed the energy and didn't get your head cut off! You should really count yourself lucky, maybe even get a lottery tick- OW, OW, OW WHAT THE FU-"
Griffon's words were cut off by the sound of a rapid fire Ebony and Ivory going off and sending Griffon back in his little ball thing.
"What do you think you're doing?!" V asked, but Kosuke easily ignored him.
Shadow growled loudly towards Kosuke as it ran up and split its entire front half of its body to form a makeshift venus flytrap.
A Red thunder bolt loudly struck Kosuke as it made him go into his Devil Trigger. As if it was out of thin air, Kosuke pulled out the Coyote-A shotgun and Shotgun Stinger'd Shadow almost point blank, knocking it out of its transformation.
With Shadow back in its original form, Kosuke pulled out Alaster and did an actual Stinger that sent Shadow into a ball like state, similar to Griffon.
V at this point looked like he was about to sweat bullets before Kosuke rushed towards him and pointed his blade to his neck.
"It's one thing to put me in danger, I don't mind handling a good challenge." He said lowly in his distorted Devil Trigger voice, "But to put my close friends and partner in Danger? You've gotta be batshit crazy to try and pull that off. Who the hell are you V, I want some answers."
V signed in defeat as he put his hands up, "You want answers, fine. I'll give you some answers. But it might be best to take care of them first." V said as he pointed his cane behind Kosuke.
I looked over to where V pointed his cane at and saw what looked like a small demon army of Goblins, oversized Snakes, and beastmen. These weren't ordinary mobs though, most of them looked like they had decent armour and weapons.
Looking at them now, the army might as well number well over a hundred, maybe even two hundred…
Kosuke looked behind him and saw the mob of monsters. He clicked his tongue as he got off his DT and pointed his blade away from V. "We'll talk after we deal with this."
"Let me handle this Army, I want to blow some steam off." Kosuke said as he was about to walk towards the Army.
"Wait!" Megumin suddenly said, "Let me help you. I want to blow some steam off too, I need this!"
"Are you sure? There's a good chance you might get caught in the crossfire, I don't want to spook a small girl like you…" Kosuke tried to tell her, big mistake….
Megumin glared at Kosuke with a look that could send chills down your spine, "Excuse me?"
"I don't mean to offend you or anything--"
"You offended me the very moment you looked down on me…" Megumin said ominously.
A bright orange magic circle was beginning to form as she began to chant her magic, but Aqua stopped her before she could do anything serious.
"No, don't do it! I'm too close to the danger zone! Wait for me to leave before you use it!" Aqua said trying to hold Megumin back.
While I was expecting Kazuma to step in and say something, he was close to Yunyun looking pretty docile and timid. What the hell happened to him?
"Hey Kosuke, you know how to use Dreadnought on Royal Guard?" I whispered to him.
He looked at me with some confusion as he answered the question, "Uh, s-sort of yeah. Why?"
"Good, you're gonna need it…" I told him.
There were a couple of footsteps coming from behind us.
"Hey! Who the hell are you!?" A couple of Goblins in armour said.
"Hey, those are Crimson Demon Girls!" A beastmen said behind the Goblin "The Boss'll give us some merits if we kill some now!"
Kosuke stepped in front of the Goblin as the Goblin towered him in size, "Oh ho ho, better get out the way if you know what's good for you, boy. We're not some low tier Goblins to hunt for fun, this is the big Leag--"
Blam!
Kosuke pulled out the Coyote-A shotgun and blasted the Goblins head, making it explode as if it was a small grape.
"So much for your armour…" He commented.
A couple of the Goblin watched in horror as they saw their companion's head explode.
"S-Surround them! They can't take us all on!" One of the goblins said as they surrounded us and pulled out their sword/spears and shields.
Darkness had put Zofia down on the ground as she pulled out her sword and looked as if she was about to protect her. Yunyun pulled out her little scepter and got into a fighting pose while Kazuma still looked pretty fragile. Me and Kosuke pulled out our swords and held our sword tightly as we looked around us, while Vergil was keeping a close eye on V…
And then Megumin broke out of the hold Aqua had on her and I'm still not sure what happened after that…
All I heard Megumin say before a bright white flash engulfed my vision was 'Explosion!'...
No chanting, no warning, no chance to brace for impact….
The initial blast I'm pretty sure was a ways away from us and more towards the base of the Army, but all of us were still hit by the backblast and aftershock.
"Haha…..Hahahaha! Look! LOOK AT IT! Do you still feel like looking down on me now! Witnessing my Ultimate Explosion! How many points was that Kazuma! Tell me! How many poi-!" Megumin got the back of her head smacked by Kazuma's sword.
"Negative 90! Are you fucking Crazy!?" Kazuma shouted, looks like he went back to his old self, "We weren't even less than a mile from that explosion and you still casted it! You're a fucking psycho, you explosion loving maniac! Now I'm gonna have to carry you to the town!"
I coughed from the dust settling around us and got up slowly as my body was still in a state of shock.
Looking around, I can see that everyone is ok, at least for the most part.
Megumin was still on the ground with Kazuma smacking her with his sword, Yunyun and Aqua are right next to him just as bad as Kazuma, but in even more shock, and Darkness and Zofia look fine with Darkness shielding Zofia's body.
Kosuke, being Kosuke, somehow managed to pull off a 'Dreadnaught' in such a short time (despite that skill being literally useless in the game), Vergil seemed to have stood his ground and not get hurt while I think Shadow covered V from the explosion.
And the Army that the explosion was meant for…
...well a small fraction of them are running away from us while a big majority are still on the ground. Some moving, some not.
The ones that could still move were starting to head towards us slowly as they raised their blades at us.
I pulled out my Blue Rose and tried to aim it at the demons coming towards us, but I guess I was still in a shellshock state since it felt almost impossible to steady my aim and get a shot off.
"Goddamn Dreadnaught Armour! Maneuverability sucks ass!" He tried to say, his voice sounded a bit muffled from the armour as he slowly pulled out Alastor.
But before the demons could get close to us, a couple of figures appeared in front of us wearing black and red cloaks.
"This is as far as you'll go Demon Army!" One of the figures said.
"With that mist out of the way, there's no stopping us from going all out!" another figure said.
From where I was standing, the figures somehow looked like they were in a biker gang, full leather jackets, fingerless gloves, and torn pants/skirts. Some had wands/scepters while about one or two were bare handed with bandages wrapped around.
"Disappear without a trace! Not to be found as you burn within the Hellfire of my Hatred and Rage!" One of the Figures said as he put his hands together as if he was making a Kamehameha wave.
"Come! Sacrifice your body to satisfy my urges! I must see a thousand bodies fall before my babies rip you to shreds!" Another figure said, this time a woman with an insane hair style and dark red scepter.
"Sigh...And here I was, hoping for some kind of challenge...Fine then! Don't say I didn't warn ya! Dance Water Dance!" Another figure said as he pulled out what looks like an insanely edgy guitar with a crystal on its center.
You know call me insane or blind, I don't care, but aren't they all kinda glowing the same color?
Like one of the dudes is using Water and another Fire...shouldn't they be glowing--
" 'Light of Saber!' " They all said together.
Oh...I guess that explains it….
A bright light came from their hands/crystals as the demons were easily cut in half and their numbers rapidly declining.
Any of the other Demons that were watching from the sidelines hesitated to move forward as they witnessed their comrades get obliterated. It didn't take long for all of them to retreat.
As the Army, or what's left of the army, retreated, the people who saved us focused their attention on us.
Things started to make sense as I got a good look at their eyes and faces.
They all had the same dark red Eyes as Megumin and Yunyun, not to mention that some of them had either odd looking battle scars or over the top make-up.
"I thought it was strange when we saw the mist begin to clear up, but who could have known that it was Yunyun and Megumin who came here. What're you two doing here? Shouldn't you be fighting the Demon King General?" the guy who said the Hellfire speech said.
Megumin, despite using her one explosion for the day, was struggling to stand up on her own two feet, "Hey, aren't you the son of the shoe shop owner? Buzucoily I think? It's been a while, but we heard that the Village was in danger, so we came to check up on it."
"Hey, you do remember me! Yeah, it has been a while but in danger…? Well..." Buzucoily said casually.
Hey now that's a bit suspicious…
My shellshock managed to wear off as I was finally able to stand and help Darkness get up.
"Oh are those your comrades?" Buzucoily said as he walked up to us.
"My name is Buzucoily, Son of the number one shoe shop owner of the Crimson Magic Clan and an Archwizard that can use some pretty advanced Magic." He said introducing himself while doing a bunch of weird poses.
Kazuma got up from where he was and introduced himself, doing some even weirder poses just like Buzucoily. "My name is Satou Kazuma, Master of many skills in Axel town, and someone who fought 3 of the bosses from the Demon King Army."
The other Crimson demon clansmen gasped and clapped their hands in amazement as they watched Kazuma.
"Man, it's such a rare sight to see someone greet us properly!" Buzucoily said as he put his hand out in eagerness. "It's such a breath of fresh air seeing someone not look at us with strange faces, I already like this guy Megumin!"
"R-right…" Megumin said awkwardly.
"You act so friendly with these guys but made me look like an idiot when I made my intro…" she pouted.
"Well that's probably because I still had some shred of normalcy back then…." Kazuma muttered to her.
While Kazuma and Megumin talked with the other Crimson Demons, I was able to help up Darkness and Zofia.
"Come on, let's get you up before you crush Zofia." I said as I helped her up.
"So mean, I'm not heavy!" She retorted back.
"Ugh! Finally!" Kosuke said, finally back to his normal self.
The first thing he did was get over to Zofia as she laid down. He reached into a small bag on his hip as he pulled out a small bottle.
He smacked Zofia's cheeks lightly to get her conscious, "Hey Zo, I'm gonna need you to swallow some Rejuvenation. Guys help me sit her up." He said.
Me and Darkness grabbed her arms and Managed to sit Zofia up, even if she was slightly slouching.
Kosuke opened the bottle and tilted her head back as he let the liquid drip into her mouth. Zofia coughed a bit as she somewhat choked on the mixture.
"Hey, do we have someone hurt there? We can bring them to the village to help." Buzucoily called out to us.
Buzucoily made a slight gasp as he looked over to us and saw my Demon Arm.
"Hey, your arm….are you...a demon?" He asked seriously as he began to walk up to me.
Yeah, figures…
Kazuma began to freak out as he tried to get in between us, "W-what!? NO! No! Him? A Demon? Psssh! Of course not-"
"Yeah, I am. What, you have a problem with me?" I asked as I stared him down.
"Tsukiyo what the fuck! I'm trying to cover for you!" Kazuma said as he gritted his teeth.
"I see, you are a demon…" He said seriously.
"That's…" He said as he glared at me.
"...SO DAMN COOL!"
wat...
He and the rest of his buddies ran up to me just to see my arm as they looked at it in astonishment.
"How does it feel?"
"Is it like a normal arm!?"
"Can it transform!?"
"Can you steal people's souls from it!?"
I got bombarded by a lot of questions from the group.
"You're not gonna suspect me of being a Demon King underling?" I asked them.
"Well I was going to at first, but the fact that both Megumin and Yunyun, our #1 and #2 of the village, formed a party with you should mean that you're not that bad of a guy. Don't know if you caught my name, but it's Buzucoily." He said casually as he did the same weird poses from before.
I'll admit, I did look at him a bit weird, but since he's technically from the same race as Megumin, I really shouldn't question it.
I put my hand out in front, "Tsukiyo, nice to meet you."
"Ah, there's that familiar look." Buzucoily joked, he grabbed my demon hand with full force and gripped tightly, "Nice to meet you Tsukiyo!"
"Whoa, that's a different sensation.." Buzucoily said as he didn't let go of my demon hand.
"Well, if you're willing to help my companion out then I guess I don't have a reason to be suspicious. The name's Kosuke, much like Tsukiyo here, I'm also a demon but just a bit different. That guy over there in blue is my older brother, he can't stand to stay away from his cooler--"
Vergil surprisingly launched the Yamato case over to Kosuke, nearly hitting his head. Kosuke was able to catch the case before it hit his face.
"I don't remember acknowledging you as my biological brother, don't get cocky over a little bit of praise..." Vergil spat at Kosuke, but Kosuke being Kosuke, he didn't take it seriously.
"He's just a bit shy about it!" Kosuke whispered as he tossed the case back to him.
Zofia seemed to have regained some of her consciousness as she started to groan, "Ugh...I hate the taste of bad medicine…" She said as she rubbed her head.
"You should take it easy, you know?" Kosuke said, "I really don't like having to worry about my partner."
"Hmmm...so now you call me your partner…" Zofia pouted.
"Can you stand?" Darkness asked.
"A little I guess, some of my body is still trying to wake back u-AH! MY LEGS! MY LEGS HURT! THEY STING!" Zofia whined in pain.
Kosuke got this huge grin on his face as he squatted down and began to poke Zofia's legs rapidly.
"FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! STOP IT YOU ASSHAT!" Zofia gritted her teeth in pain.
Kosuke laughed loudly as he watched Zofia in pain, "Oh man...that's just too funny! I'm sorry Zo, I couldn't let this opportunity slip by…"
"Hmpf! You're gonna have to carry me then since I can't walk right now...Come on, pick me up! Chop, Chop!" Zofia demanded.
"Alright, deal." Kosuke said casually.
"Huh?"
Kosuke grabbed Zofia's body and began to carry her princess style without a shred of embarrassment on his face. Zofia on the other hand, showed a lot of embarrassment. So much so that she had to cover her face from blushing too much.
Some of the women on Buzucoily's party made an "Aww!" as they watched Kosuke pick her up.
This only made her blush even more.
"Isn't that sweet? A demon with an Elf. Almost like something straight out of a fairy tale…" Buzucoily commented.
While everyone was watching Zofia get as red as a cherry, I noticed Darkness looking a bit envious of her.
"What, you want to be carried too?" I asked her.
Darkness snapped out of her small trance and blushed lightly, "H-huh? N-no, No! It's fine."
"What? Just because Vergil isn't in my arm doesn't mean I can't lift you up you know, besides, this won't be the first time I'll be carrying you."
Darkness began to blush an even brighter pink after I said that.
"Tsukiyo, stop flirting with your Masochistic Crusader!" Kazuma shouted.
I flipped off Kazuma from behind as I continued to pay attention to Darkness.
"Hold on, a Crusader?" Buzucoily said, "A Crusader that's going out with a Demon? Man, that's even stranger and almost impossible even! Sounds like something Arue would write…"
Megumins eye's lit up as soon as he mentioned Arue.
"Oh that's right! We need to get to the Village! I really need to talk to Arue…" She said a bit darkly towards the end.
"Oh that's right, now that the mist is gone, we should tell the others!" Buzucoily said, "Everyone grab on, we're gonna teleport to the village!"
"You grab on too, V, we still have some questioning to do." Vergil said.
Everyone was holding onto each other in one way or another and with Buzucoily chanting his teleportation skill, our visions were blinded by a bright light before the light went away and we appeared in a strange, but somewhat peaceful village.
It sort of reminded me of the Village the Hybrids used to live in, but without any broken or beaten down houses.
Megumin's eyes lit up brightly as she stepped in front of us and looked around.
Buzucoily introduced us to their home.
"Welcome outsiders, to the Crimson Demon's Village! Yunyun, Megumin, Welcome Home!"
DMCV SPECIAL EDITION
DMCV SPECIAL EDITION
DMCV SPECIAL EDITION
DMCV SPECIAL EDITION
COMING WITH LEGENDARY DARK KNIGHT MODE AND RAY TRACING, WITH THE PS5 LAUNCH AND SOON XBOX SERIES X….
….and not PC….
What the fuck Capcom!
Why do you want to hurt us PC players...why?
I bought my 2070 Super for Cyberpunk, Death Stranding and CoD to run on Ray Tracing...but why not DMCV?
Vergil's battle music is so fucking good (Bury the Light.)
It already toppled V's battle music and Nero's Pull my Devil Trigger hype. Those songs don't hold a candle to Bury the Light, it's too good.
At least playable Vergil is going to be $5…
Edit: I was somewhat considering making a small apology note at the beginning of the chapter saying that this isn't the arm ripping chapter, but I feel like that would spoil the chapter itself….
Sorry guys, The Fated Day isn't for another while, there's still a lot of things I need to set up before the DMCV plot kicks in.
Besides, I haven't even introduced the "Nico" Character yet….
Question:
Raidentensho: Asking about Original Devil Arms.
I'm not creative enough for that, I'm just gonna stick with canon Devil Arms. Sorry. But I am creative enough to figure some things out for Devil Arms….
