I couldn't help but have a large and warm smile on my face as I watch Kunou giggle and play around with Jack, a large smile being even on the adorable and now appropriately dressed assassin.
"How peculiar, I cannot sense her presence no matter how I try. Not even her scent is present." Yasaka hums from beside me, a glowing smile on her face as she stares at her daughter with overflowing love every now and then. Kinda jealous there.
"Well, Jack is an assassin." I point out, making Yasaka blink in shock before she turns to regard Jack with newfound interest and slight wariness. "She isn't a child anyway, she just enjoys acting like one due to… well, not having had the chance to enjoy being one." I say with a soft smile as I stare at the adorable and murderous little ball of energy.
This Jack is highly different from the one I knew. She isn't a child, she simply acts like one. She can shift into the appearance of her older self in just a second, but prefers her child appearance due to cuddles being so much better in that form. Even though it's… well, very developed in a certain place. I don't remember her butt being so big when I first summoned, and I believe she changed that on purpose so to tease me.
Jack's backstory here is very different from what I remember, and I still don't know much since she had a severe dislike of her past, and I do not want her to feel sad just so to satisfy my curiosity.
All I know is that she was still an abandoned child, but that… she was broken, something happened that pushed her to kill someone, and she kind of got addicted and attached to the warmth of blood.
"That was the first time I ever felt warmth." Were her words that day, when she opened up to me after several months. Since then I never asked her about her past again since it clearly takes a mental toll on her.
She is a sweet girl that is horrified by her own past actions. I don't know if this is a change caused by the weird summoning I did to get her from another universe, or something else.
Even her Noble Phantasms are different. The knives are still her regular Noble Phantasm with the curse for women and stuff, the other instead creates a Dimension that traps her targets in a misty decayed London, where she can teleport herself anywhere she wants as long as no one is looking at her.
Plus it also hides her presence even more, making her a truly horrifying assassin.
"I see… What a poor soul…" Yasaka sighs softly as Jack easily back-flips away from Kunou with a grin on her face, then expertly wiggles around to poke her sides and tickle her every now and then, causing the adorable fox girl to giggle over and over, much to Yasaka's happiness.
I hum, then glance towards the incredible Milf sitting beside me, a slight sweet and delicious scent filling my nostrils with every breath I take.
I thought I was used to the Supernatural Charm the races have after the time I spent in the Grigori, but then Yasaka pulls up and hits me in the face with a goddamn sledge hammer. She is very much out of this world.
And dayumn… Look at 'em boobies…
"Like what you see?" I blink, my eyes meeting Yasaka's as she purrs my way. Deadly dangerous milfy woman. I likey. Azazel's gonna be so jealous.
"Am I drooling? I think I'm drooling." I wipe my lips as she giggles, then nod when I find nothing. "Trust me, you are a breathtaking woman. I'd spend all day looking at you without regret." I nod sagely as she laughs softly again, a faint dusting of red over her cheeks.
"Still…" I scrunch up my nose at the very delicious sweet scent coming from her. "Are those pheromones coming off of you?" I mean, I know I definitely made her horny before, I just didn't expect her to start releasing pheromones.
The faint dusting of red over her cheeks darkens and grows a bit at my words. "Maybe." She purrs out, sending a pleasant shiver down my spine with her look alone. Oh dear, I'm in danger…
"That reminds me…" She hums with a sly grin on her face, turning so she could face me fully, each of her movements making those massive mountains jiggle and ripple wildly. "I did promise a reward if you impressed me, didn't I?" I couldn't help but gulp a bit loudly at that. This woman knows how to turn man into putty.
"I'll grant you one request. You can ask me to do anything for you." She ends her sentence by slowly licking her plump lips, making them glisten and look very kissable.
And now I am very horny. Oh boy.
I blink, then meet her eyes. "Anything?" Her smile grows bigger as she licks her plump lips once more before nodding.
I couldn't help the enormous grin that soon spread across my face.
(Azazel)
His phone rang on his desk, bringing him to a pause.
He grabs it while leaning back against the very comfy chair that also gives nice massages, made by his best pal Ciel of course.
His brows rise when he notices that said best pal sent him a picture, so he opens it up.
Then promptly gapes at what he sees.
The picture is of a barely visible grinning Ciel, his face nearly swallowed between the two massive melons owned by the stunning and sexy Yasaka. Both of his hands were grabbing handfuls of that deliciously soft meat, sinking deep inside those melons and covering the areolas and nipples of a topless Yasaka, who has a healthy blush on her face and an outright predatory look in her eyes as she gazes down at Ciel.
His proud yet jealous screams fill the Grigori headquarters for an entire hour after that.
XxX
"Heh… He's going to kill me the next time I meet him." I chuckle as I put away my phone, then turn my head to stare at the still topless and breathtakingly sexy Yasaka. Her breasts were so damn soft and warm and smelled so good…
"An unexpected request… but it was still very amusing." The milf hums with a smile on her face as she fixes her kimono, still keeping it loose, but now her breasts weren't so naked anymore.
"Sorry that I had to disappoint you, but I have stopped laying with people I am not in a relationship with." I apologize, not wanting to give the impression that I wanted to take advantage of her beauty and body just to tease a friend.
"No need to apologize dear." Yasaka says with a soft laugh. "In fact, you could say I am… Proud. It's nice to see a man that doesn't instantly give in to lust." Honestly, the majority will call me a dumb moron for missing such an opportunity, but eh. I'm don't really care.
"Happy to please!" I smile as I say that, then stand up and pull my gaze away from the beautiful milf. "Now, I need a secluded space to open a portal to my laboratory, then I can start setting up the array and defenses." That makes Yasaka's smile light up like a sun.
"If I may ask, how long will that take?" I hum and scratch the back of my neck in thought. It could take a few weeks if I take it calmly… but a kid is in danger so…
"A day or two, give or take." Even less if I go all out. Which, thinking about it, I should start doing. I've been far too lax. "I'll start with the security system first, make sure that fucker doesn't try sneaking in while I set up the array. And if he does… well, I'll just have him lead me to his group. Then they'll be history." I shrug as Yasaka stares at me with wide eyes and slightly parted plump lips.
And then she purrs slightly. "Now I really wish you picked the sex option." I burst out laughing at that. Oh man, the Kitsune Youkai's are truly sex fiends! I like it!
After that she swiftly leads me to a private room – the one right beside her private chambers might I add, and she also made sure to remind me that I can visit her for 'anything'. – and so I swiftly set down another portal back to my workshop and walk through it.
I take a breath and sigh it out as I stare at my very massive and non-euclidean workshop. I can't help but think that I am wasting my potential and just wasting time and resources for nothing.
But… I guess it has to change now. Canon is right around the corner, though the shit that happens in the first season and the likes is already dealt with.
Issei will soon be charmed into the Grigori, dunno about the blonde guy.
Asia, that sweet adorable and precious girl, is already working for the Grigori as nurse absolutely loved by everyone, even Kokabiel. So much so that any member of the Grigori will go yandere if someone dares even look at her in a weird way.
Fucking Diodora must be seething and screeching so damn badly right now. Heh.
As for Kokabiel's stuff… I have plans for that.
The fucker that is trying to kidnap Kunou is probably a moron from the Hero Faction… Should I give them a reality check or an Orbital Strike? What a though decision…
Wait, what was their end goal again? Genocide of all races or what?
Eh, they get an Orbital Strike, fuck it. I'm too lazy to deal with their shit and try to make them repent and change their ways.
Plus, I can extract Sacred Gears safely, and the Heracles dude should have the detonation Sacred Gear. It might be useful to use for a suit of armor. Like Blade Blacksmith too to be honest.
I scratch my cheek, then just shrug and flick my wrist, causing the workshop to expand even more, so much so that I could barely see the end of it. I also made sure to lift the ceiling up even more too.
God, I love using Spatial Runes so much!
I gotta thank Freya for teaching me how to make and use Runes again. Gotta think of a present for her. Maybe another vacation away from her dumb husband.
Runes have high cost, immense even, especially the bigger they are made. The Mana cost is constant too, but… Mana Generators for the win!
Not only do they keep the protective arrays around my home powered, but they also keep the Bounded Field and the Spatial Arrays within my workshop and home powered. All at the same time and constantly, with ease.
So far, Mana Generators are still the greatest thing I've ever built. I studied engineering and delved into other science fields, then studied Mana for a while before coming up with wild ideas.
The idea for Mana Generators came when I managed to inspect a Leyline of magical energy from up close.
They are literally the veins of Mana running across the Earth, keeping it alive and pumping magic in the atmosphere in titanic quantities.
I studied the Leyline, then after a bit of thinking and planning, I came up with a wild idea of fusing engines with Mana, and try to come up with an artificial Leyline.
My first slight success happened only after several months and probably more than a thousand explosions, with Quartz ending up being the critical factor that helped me create the Mana Generators.
For some reason that I still do not know about even after many studies, Quartz is a highly sensitive material to Mana, and seems to… enhance it when it flows in and out. I still don't understand how, but it might be because Quartz is very likely a magical mineral born from Mana. Though Diamonds work very well too, but I prefer using Quartz.
Either way, it's the main and the vital ingredient in making my Mana Generators.
But now I want something more powerful than even what the Large Mana Generators can give me.
I don't know for what I will use it, but it'll probably be capable of fueling something that can help me reach far beyond the Solar System.
A Dyson Sphere. Or better yet, A Mana Dyson Sphere.
The Mana Crystals that are inside the Large Mana Generators are barely the side of a human head… So what if I use a Mana Crystal bigger than a human body?
Just how much Mana can I generate with that?
And what could I even power with tha- But of course, silly me.
I'll attach omni-directional electromagnetic cannons that will make use of the Lorentz Force to electromagnetically charge a bullet made out of pure concentrated Mana, then shoot it at Mach Speed, possibly surpassing Mach 10, maybe going even far, far higher.
It all depends on the sheer output of the Mana Dyson Sphere.
I'll then enclose the Dyson Sphere and the electromagnetic cannons within a cube that will create portals to wherever I want them to, so I can just whip out a cannon that can likely shoot nukes hundreds of times stronger than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Very likely thousands of times.
Again, it depends on how high the Mana output of the Mana Dyson Sphere will be. I have very high hopes for that.
But of course, I cannot build these things without the composite metal I am working on, which will take me approximately two months to to crack it by my estimation, maybe less if I were to bring in and study organic materials like Dragon Blood and Dragon Scales. Maybe even their organs, though those are very rare.
But… If I go all out I can finish that in just a few minutes, maybe even less.
"Guess I gotta whip out the Balance Breaker after all." I groan as I rub the back of my neck.
I'm going to hate myself so much after this. But it's for the best. I hope.
The reason I don't like using my Balance Breaker is very simple. It gives me a horrendous headache. And by horrendous I mean 'Oh no I feel scalding knifes and hammers torture my poor precious brain!'. Reason why I prefer being lazy.
I groan again, then just take a deep breath and release it as the pupils of my eyes change. The left one before a glowing red '0', while the right one becomes a glowing gold '1'.
I flick my wrist and open my spatial storage, pouring every single material I have piled up in there outside of it and onto my workshop floor.
Though they barely touch the ground before turning into powder and flowing like a river towards a more open area.
Unknown Dictator's Balance Breaker is called 'Da Vinci Faciens Ager', as in 'Da Vinci's Fabrication Field', named after the Soul that was put into it to create this Sacred Gear. The Soul of the one and only genius Leonardo Da Vinci.
What does it do? Quite a few things. Accelerates my neurons, allowing me to process things instantly, and act instantly to pretty much anything while also being able to multitask on a dozen things at the same time.
It stretches my control to all materials other than iron, even towards crystals and wood. Anything that is solid, for short.
And I can also control everything in a range way bigger than the whole of Kuoh, though that's very taxing.
I breathe out as every becomes a blur.
Any and all materials are ground down into powder and moved in different sections of the workshop.
To the left I swiftly place any and all pending orders of Mana Generators, Healing Pods and Mana Batteries, leaving myself with an open schedule after this.
To the right instead I gather the materials for my composite metal.
I have mixed everything inside of it. Iron, Steel, Platinum, Diamonds, Carbon Steel, Steel-Iron-Nicked Alloy, Stainless Steel, Titanium, Inconel, Chromium and Tungsten, yet I was still- Nano-Machines.
I bring out a single Nano-Machine, take a look at it, and instantly resolve the problem.
Nano-Machines are miniature metal capsules with a chip inside of them. That is what I need, but different.
A Smart Metal. Evolving, Magical, Self-Repairing.
The Chip inside the Nano-Machine is the A.I. that I created to control them.
I'll create a Spirit and magically fuse all the metals with it, then connect it to me, making it an extension of me, allowing me the ability to control and manipulate the Smart Metal.
With Quartz added into it, anything I build with this new metallic league will enhance any and all magical abilities tremendously.
Creating a new Spirit will just waste time and resources, so I'll simply summon a nameless, mindless Spirit and take it over, fusing it with the metal and hoping for success. It's a 50/50 chance that it'll work.
I keep an eye on the project and turn towards the massive base of the Mana Dyson Sphere. I've made it out o Tungsten, Titanium and Inconel due to it's heat resistance qualities. And lead too. Hopefully the thing I'll make won't produce any radiation.
I'll prepare a Geiger Counter later just in case.
A large rhombus crystal the size of a car is soon created and placed in the middle of the Dyson Sphere. I've made it out of Quartz and Diamond, so to give it a stronger body to handle the sheer amount of Mana it will produce.
I then do my little trick that confuses many. The Mana generated from the Mana Generators comes from somewhere, but due to the sheer flow of Mana pouring out nobody is able to even notice the small little trick of mine, no matter how good they are at sensing Mana fluctuations.
Within the crystal that generates Mana there is a very small space, minuscule even, not even centimeters big. Inside of said small space is a miniature portal connected to a private artificial island of mine, far into the Pacific Ocean, and connected to the bottom of said ocean.
At said bottom is a very small Leyline, one that produces small amounts of Mana constantly, and I open another miniature portal inside of it, allowing it to pour Mana through it and into the Mana Crystal.
The Mana Crystal then enhances and doubles the quantity of Mana, making it denser and stronger, and said Mana is then bent and sent back into the Crystal, making it grow even stronger and denser. It's a slow process, reason why Mana Generators take so long it starting up, especially the large ones.
The Cycle is repeated Two times for Small Generators, Five times for the Medium, and Ten times for the Large. The string of Mana after the tenth cycle is left on hold, the excess Mana is absorbed and used to fuel the Arrays or whatever is attached to it, and then when it's about to end it is send back through the crystal, keeping it at it's highest output constantly.
The Mana Dyson Sphere starts with a low hum, the Mana Crystal starting to light up as Mana pours inside of it and is enhanced, then controlled through the Mana manipulation device inbuilt into the slowly spinning Dyson Sphere.
Funnily enough, Mana is controlled through a specific electromagnetic signal. It took a while to find it as it is very specific, and also different for all races, but once I was able to find it, it made all of this possible and easy to achieve.
After all, I had to fuse Engineering with Mana. Sounds easy, but it was anything but easy. Trial and error, failure after failure, and then one small success in that crazy plan of mine bought me here.
I studied my ass off since I was young, already having a massive advantage due to my past life and my adult mind, then gained another in the form of Azazel as a mentor.
People think of him as a lustful idiot, but the guy is an unquestionable genius. He cracked the code to make fucking Sacred Gears for God's sake!
How in the fuck he is not famous for that, I don't know. People are dumb.
Unknown Dictator in the base form simple gives me the ability to process things faster, but I didn't awaken it until I was already done with my Engineering studies and could build a car from scratch with a blindfold on. Azazel is a slave driver like that. He actually made me do that shit.
All my Sacred Gear did was simply help me finish my studies in the science fields at a record pace, the rest was all sheer fucking hard-work and torture.
Talent is one thing, but humanity didn't achieve what it did through just fucking talent, but also through sheer fucking hard-work and throwing random shit together in hopes that it does something.
That's why I want to unify it. To stop it from being the weak, cattle race it has always been, and to fully awaken their untapped potential.
I don't give a fuck about making them the strongest, I just want them to be strong enough so to not be cattle, to be just meat-bags used for fun by the stronger people.
So that the shit I went through doesn't fucking repeat itself ever again to anyone else.
I don't care that it's wrong to give magic to humanity and exposing the supernatural and yada yada. Or that they can be dangerous with it.
Every single fucking race is dangerous with magic.
Devils even more so than others. They are just a bunch of fucking artificial Super Weapons made for war and that revel in sin, and the very, very few that don't are just abnormalities among their race.
And in canon they got handed everything by those fucking dumb Angels. Very smart of them.
Let's just give them every single legendary weapon one after the other just because, why not. Let's weaken ourselves and strengthen our enemies, not like anything can go wrong, right?
Fucking dumb bullshit of that series. Hopefully they aren't that retarded here.
I turn my attention towards the morphing ball of liquid white metal and smile softly at the sigh. Looks like the Smart Metal is a success, though I'll have to wait a week before I can use it freely since I'll need the Spirit to stabilize and get used to it's new form.
It's attached to me, and I can make it so that it can master everything very fast, but there's a massive risk of the poor thing breaking under that stress, and I don't want that.
The new metal now seems to be very magically aligned, highly boosts it as it flows through it, has the best properties of all the things I fused into it, but boosted even higher by Mana.
I'll need to check if it can absorb all the other metals in existence on Earth, as that'll truly be a fantastic boon to have.
Still, I should have thought of this solution sooner. Spirits take in the essence of the things around them right after birth. Meaning that if they are formed around fire, they become Fire Spirits, around a strong source of light, they become Light Spirits. So on and so forth. As long as they aren't naturalborn Spirits that is, those are usually born with multiple elements.
And- Wait a second… Could I create a Mana Spirit? That would be… just so tremendously powerful. Just condense Mana to an insane degree and summon a newborn Spirit.
Something to keep in mind and try later.
I turn my attention away from my Smart Metal Spirit as I lift the Mana Dyson Sphere in the air, watching as the metal wheels around it start spinning faster and faster as loud hums erupt out of the glowing crystal in the middle.
Five Cycles… Ten Cycles… Twenty Cycles… Fifty Cycles… One-Hundred Cycles…
Holy… That's enough Mana to blow up… I dunno, the Moon? Maybe more. I doubt I can make a rough estimate without seeing it in action.
…
Time to prepare 'em Orbital Cannons with a blast radius of YES.
And the electromagnetic cannons too, just as a power move.
Though… I only have enough materials to construct one of both right now, which will be more than enough I guess. Once the Smart Metal Spirit awakens and gets used to it's form I'll be able to construct as many as I want since I have an endless supply of Mana to feed it.
But since I'd rather not waste this little bit of time I have left with my Balance Breaker, I'll swiftly prepare some plans for battle droids with enormous potential.
I may not have any uses for Sacred Gears myself… but could I possibly infuse one with a battle droid? That would be utterly fantastic if I could.
Let's see… Azazel has a couple hundred Twice Critical Sacred Gears as spares, so I can probably just ask him for a dozen or two to construct some powerful melee battle droids.
A Boosted Gear Battle Droid… Nah, better not. The guy is innocent and hasn't done anything to make me resort to such an action.
The Hero morons though… Those are another story. Dimension Lost, Blade Blacksmith, the detonation one and shadow one… I can grab them, see if I can make battle droids with them, and if not, I'll just give them to Azazel to appease his anger and jealousy after I sent him that picture with Yasaka.
I shake away those thoughts as I swiftly finish the enormous nearly fifty meters long electromagnetic cannon, powered directly by the Mana Dyson Sphere, then swiftly finished the twenty meters big and large Orbital Cannon, having shaped it like a spider, with the belly being the main cannon.
Now that those are done… I open an other portal to my artificial island, then nod with a smile as I stare at the massive aquarium and glass tunnel corridors beneath the sea, all at different depths and with powerful lights around them so to see anything that passes by.
I'll take Chisaki there for our date. Hopefully she'll love it.
A grunt escapes my lips as sharp pain explodes across my whole head, making me lose my grip on my Balance Breaker and nearly stumble- only for my likely fall be stopped by a pair of gentle arms wrapping around me and helping stay steady.
My vision swims as my head pounds and burns, only thing I can see being a flash of purple, which is more than enough for me to recognize who it is that came in to help me.
"Hey 'Saki…" I mumble out with a groan, receiving a warm loving smile from my favorite librarian.
"You shouldn't push yourself so hard, Master." She chides me warmly as she helps me walk out of my newly enlarged laptop, the roar of the Mana Dyson Sphere shutting off as the door slams shut.
"Couldn't. Had to take this seriously." And I'll have to do that more often from now on. Not just for me… but for those I care about. I just can't always rely on Karna and Jack, or any future Servant I might end up summoning.
What happens if they are unable to come to my rescue when something happens? So many things can happen that can separate us, where I can't use Command Seals to bring them back to me. Anything.
So of course I had to start taking my own protection more seriously, and finally use my full potential without wasting time lazing around and moping.
But this is not just for me, but also for Chisaki. I've bought her into this mess now, and one thing I do know is that once one learns of the Supernatural, you cannot unlearn that shit. It'll just somehow keep popping up, one way or another.
Maybe even going as far as having her somehow run into a damn Stray Devil.
I refuse to let anything happen to her. I'll never pardon myself if it does.
A sigh escapes my lips as I sit down on the comfy couch in the living room, then sigh again when Murasaki brings me pack of ice to hold against my head.
And to make things even better, she gives me a lap pillow. I'm in Heaven.
"One thing I learned about you, Master, is that you always hesitate too much." Murasaki hums pleasantly, her fingers slowly moving through my messy hair while her other hand rested on my chest, above my heart. "Even when it comes to the Devils."
"You don't want to go too far. You don't want to exterminate them all for revenge, to become their nightmare, to hunt them down. Yet at the same time… You do. You are merely holding back that blood-lust, holding back your potential and capabilities out of fear that you'd get drunk from the power of the things you can bring into existence."
"That is why Azazel has never said anything, because he knows you even better than I do." I breathe out slowly as she warmly caresses my cheek, my heart hammering into my chest and my brain pounding into my skull, making me feel ever worse.
"I just don't want to lose myself and become an idiot that only cares about power and whatnot." I grunt out, then sigh softly, slumping down on Murasaki's very soft and comfy lap.
"And that is perfectly fine." Murasaki hums warmly, though her very large chest stops me from seeing her beautiful smile. "Just know that no we will be here for you, always, no matter what." I sigh again, a small smile spreading across my face as I hold my eyes shut, shifting the bag of ice to the side of my head.
"Though you should stop hesitating on the matters of the heart." I choke and wince while Murasaki giggles softly, gently poking my cheek as I crack one eye open to gently glare at her.
"Ain't that easy." I grunt out in annoyance, my thoughts going back to Lavinia and Chisaki. I like them both, a lot, but just… I dunno. I don't want to selfishly start a harem, mostly because it's not even about lust.
"Master." Murasaki pokes my nose, bringing me out of my thoughts as she leans forward so that her eyes can meet mine. "Be honest with them, and with your feelings." She smiles kindly down at me, her warm pale hand once more lovingly caressing my cheek. "It's fine to be a bit selfish. You are starved for affection, and you want to love, and be loved, by many. There's nothing wrong with that." Well, when she says it like that…
Is it really so wrong to want a harem of women that I actually really love? And that really love me back?
Ah whatever, my headache will just get worse if I try to think about this shit even more.
I'll just enjoy what I can, for as long as I can.
I hum softly, then straighten myself and get off the very comfy lap. "What would I ever do without you…" I sigh softly, then turn to Murasaki and kiss her on the cheek, making her flush slightly at the intimate action.
"Getting back to work?" She hums pleasantly, clearly very happy after getting the kiss on the cheek.
I shake my head and sit up with a soft groan. "I'll go back to Yasaka real quick." I go to move, then pause and tilt my head.
I wonder if Issei has already been charmed by the Grigori…
Oh well, I doubt anything bad will happen.
XxX
"Why are you running? Why are you running?!"
"Why do you want to kill me?! I am not this 'Rival' you keep talking about!"
"Yes you are! Now come, our battle will be legendary!"
"Somebody! Help!"
"Vali, cease and desist."
"Outta my way depressed Azazel!"
It was at that moment that Kokabiel walked in, took a look at the scene in front of him, went "Nope.", and then walked right back out.
"I'll call Ciel if you don't stop."
"Do it! I'll challenge my Beloved Rival! Then let him pin me down, mating press me, and stuff my womb full of babi-"
"Ciel, you just had to awaken her defeat fetish, didn't you…"
"Ahn~!"
XxX
I suppress the weird shiver that goes down my spine the moment I think about that.
"I'll be back soon." I shook away those thoughts and gave Murasaki one last warm smile before I make my way back into my workshop, whistling softly at the sheer density of Mana that is inside it now as the Mana Dyson Sphere roars and spins high in the air.
I'll have to create some exhaust means for all this Mana, else I might contract Mana Poisoning, and that's a bitch to deal with.
My gaze then falls on the floating and shifting liquid Smart Metal Spirit. It was slightly bigger than before, roughly half the size of my body, showing that it's slowly absorbing the dense Mana in the air so to stabilize itself.
Right now it's kind of like a child growing in a womb, but the majority of Spirits grow and are born twice. Once in the Spirit Realm, and once when they are summoned and made to attune themselves to a specific element.
Naturalborn Spirits in the Human World are incredibly rare. They usually appear near very strong and dense Leylines, but again, it's rare that they do, and they usually die soon after birth since they have the intelligence of a newborn baby.
Though, again, it's very rare for them to form in the first place. Barely five of them are born each year, and barely none even survive long enough to matter.
I keep an eye on the Smart Metal Spirit for a few more seconds before straightening myself and calling for a flying drone to follow me through the portal back into the Youkai Dimension.
I exit the private room Yasaka took me to, then blink when I notice her standing and waiting patiently by the door. "Sorry to have kept you waiting." I smile up at her, receiving a warm smile back. Man do I love when women are taller than me.
"Are you feeling alright? Your eyes are a bit bloodshot." The slight concern is clear in her voice, and I am quite surprised at how sharp she is.
"I just pushed myself a bit too hard. Nothing to worry." I say with a grateful smile. "Now, I'll have to ask you a few questions before I start preparing the array, so excuse me." Yasaka merely waves her hand with the always present beautiful smile on her face, so I didn't stand on courtesy. "Could you tell me how big this dimension is, or at least a rough estimate? Would you like the array to be both defensive and offensive? And would you like the array to cover the whole dimension, or just this manor?"
Yasaka blinks slowly at my questions, then takes her time to process them and think about the answers. Or counter questions. "I believe this Dimension is roughly bigger than Kyoto as a whole. Around a thousand kilometers in total. As for the Array… what would the difference between an offensive and defensive array be? And how much will change if I do want it to cover the whole Dimension?" Now those are some very good questions, and the fact that she is thinking of having it cover the whole Dimension means that she doesn't let her feelings control her decision making.
"An offensive Array is always off. But when an intruder is found within it perimeter then it can be instantly activated to trap them inside. It will mostly have Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning and Dark Type Runes in it, so to mix in illusion with sheer attacks. It is very tough on the inside, but the very powerful beings can easily shatter it from the outside since all it's power will be focused on the inside and on offense."
"Defensive array are always active, detect and repel any intruder trying to get within the perimeter and that doesn't have a magical aura recognized by said Array. It keeps stock of all the people within the Dimension, and since you wish to have it under your control, it will transfer all the information to you, which might be painful and hard to bear. They have Water, Earth and Metal Type Runes in them, and are very though both on the inside and on the outside, with the Water Runes cushioning the impacts of each attack and dispersing a great deal of the force behind them, while the Earth and Metal Runes raise it's toughness to a large degree."
"I could also make a dual Array, with both defensive and offensive properties, but the cost will rise by a lot, especially if you wish me to cover this whole Dimension. They will have all of the Runes I mentioned previously put in it, have a far higher power output, and of course, the strain it will put on you will be no joke since you are connected to the Leyline."
"The Mana Generators I have gifted you will keep it always running and active, but when you need to use it for fighting purposes then you'll have to handle the strain." It's unfortunate that I still didn't find a way to attach an array to a security system like a bunch of TV's and stuff, so to safely transmit all of the information without the danger of frying one's brain.
Yasaka frowns slightly at that, then blinks and comes to a pause. "Is it possible to divide the strain, or the information, between people?" I open my mouth, then close it and frown. Is it?
"A woman after my own heart. Giving me new ideas…" I playfully growl towards her, then blink when her eyes start fucking glowing. Oh no, have I given her the way to conquer me? Fock… I like it.
"But, you might be onto something." I shake my head with a hum, then pause and smile when the drone I sent out for recognition came back, gaining a curious look from Yasaka. It looks like a big floating eyeball so… I should change the design.
The pupil of the drone glows, then it releases a few rays of light in front of me, creating a hologram of the whole dimension, just on a very miniature scale.
Roughly a thousand kilometers indeed… I can work with this.
"I could possibly do a Fusion Array." I hum out as I study the hologram, raising my hand and poking certain spots, causing the blue light to turn red there while Yasaka gives me a curious look.
"A Fusion Array is when a bunch of Arrays are clustered near each other, have the same fluctuation and type, and can thus can be fused in a single hyper-massive one with an even higher output than the ones I proposed before." I hum as I count the red dots, each one having a scale of a hundred kilometers or so each, with very minuscule blind spots that cannot be found or reached since they are mostly within mountains or in the middle of a lake.
"I need you to gather…" I count the red dots again with narrowed eyes. "A total of thirty-six Youkai, the strongest and most trusted ones you have on hand. Each one of them will have an Array to control in different sectors – these red dots are said sectors – and will be able to deploy it at a moment's notice, while also know of everything that goes on inside of it." Yasaka's eyes brighten considerably at it, and I have a feeling she's about to bring me back to my room and strip down…
"I will prepare a medallion for each Array, and have it connected to yours, though we'll have to keep that tidbit a secret. All the other Youkai will only be told that they can communicate through the medallions, while you can listen in on them constantly." I give her a meaningful look as I say that. "Just to be safe in case of any possible betrayals." Her eyes widen, then narrow as she nods in understanding.
She's now an ally, so I'll make sure that she can't get stabbed in the back by some moron that could get bought or blackmailed, one way or the other.
"How long will this Fusion Array take?" Yasaka asks, and I can't help but grin at her.
"This will take even less than a few hours!" Her eyes widen at that. "I just need some raw materials, like steel and iron, several tons of them if possible. I'll use those to build the Array Disks and medallions for the Arrays, all at the same time, then can just go out and set them down at the marked locations." That's the best part of Arrays in general, as they can all be created and inscribed on a sturdy material, then deployed instantly in case of emergencies.
Hell, I got a couple dozen Array Disks in my Spatial Storage, all ready to be thrown out and deployed to fuck somebody up.
And now I got a big 'Fuck You.' cannon in my workshop too.
"Now, anything else you want me to do?" I clap my hands as I say that, giving Yasaka a wonderful adorable smile.
"You could take me back to my room, bend me over and-" Alright lady.
Why do I have this effect on women? Is this my cheat power!?
(Chisaki)
Is she panicking? She isn't, right? No, of course she isn't. It's just a date, so why would she panic?
Just a date, with a very cute and reliable guy that just makes her feel all funny and nice and safe, and so much more stuff. Of course she isn't panicking.
"You are panicking." Her mother not-so-helpfully states her opinion with a nod.
"I'm not!" She screams, not because she is panicking of course. "Do I look good? Is my hair alright? Are there any stains on my clothes? Do I look good?!" Her mother, of course, just hides her mouth behind her hand and laughs softly, making her want to scream. Not because she is panicking.
"Honey, you look wonderful." Chisaki's lips quiver as she glances between her mother and the mirror a couple dozen times in just a few seconds, then finally she takes a calming breath and releases it.
Again, not because she is panicking.
She opens her eyes and stares at herself in the mirror, biting her lower lip in worry. A simple white sundress, a small open pink jacket above it, and sandals around her feet, and then a bit of make-up and lip gloss. Simple, but cute.
She hopes Ciel will like it.
Hiyori smiles grows bigger when Chisaki pushes her burning face in her hands to release a quiet scream. Ah, young love.
Chisaki's scream is cut off when the doorbell rings, her face burning an even darker red as she tries and horribly fails to recollect her bearings.
"Go and charm him honey!" Hiyori cheers for her adorable darling as she not-so-confidently strides out of her room and towards the door.
She coughs into her fist, fixes her hair again, then finally opens the door after taking a deep breath.
Hiyori nearly squeals when her eyes land on Ciel. She had to admit that he was adorable when she met him the first time, with his impossibly bright eyes being so… damn charming.
But now? Now he just took that to an eleven, even though his clothing choice is simply casual.
A very baggy sweater that didn't fit his form, showed by how it went halfway down his upper legs, and the sleeves were rolled up quite a bit so to show his hands. His pats weren't as baggy, but they still clearly didn't fully fit his frame. Also, they were both pitch black, making his bright hair and eyes stand out even more.
"Can I take a picture? I think I'm in love." Those were his first words, gaining him a nod of approval from Hiyori as her daughter nearly passes out from that.
"Thank you." Chisaki adorably squeaks out, making a dopey grin spread across Ciel's face as he stares at Chisaki with his bright eyes. "W-We should go!" She squeaks out again, trying to get away from her mother before she starts teasing the hell out of her.
"Make sure to protect my daughter from the mean, lecherous thugs alright?!" Hiyori calls from the back with a grin on her face, with Ciel leaning to the side to stare directly at her. Time for some teasing! "Think you can carry my daughter away from danger?" She wiggles her brows and chuckles behind her palm while Chisaki screams back at her with a burning face.
Only for Ciel to blink in confusion, then look down.
He grabbed the edges of his sweater, then lifted it up. "What do you think?" Hiyori instantly choked on air and nearly tripped even while standing still.
"What!?" She screams, leaning over her daughters shoulders as she stares at those well defined muscles and abs Ciel is showing, while Chisaki screams behind her palms, but still stares at Ciel's exposed body through a gap between her fingers.
"Next time you'll have to pay to see this." He winks with a massive grin, making her own cheeks flush up quite a bit before he offers his arm to Chisaki, who shyly and shakily reaches for it, then follow him out of the door.
"Use protection!" Hiyori calls out, then slams the door shut just as her daughter screams at her with a blazing red face.
"One hell of a mother." Ciel hums with a pleased smile, and Chisaki could only whine softly, making him chuckle and grab her hand, giving it a warm squeeze that instantly made her smile.
"So… ready?" He smiles brightly at her, clearly slightly nervous, but relaxes when Chisaki smiles right back at him with an equally bright one of her own. "Then, close your eyes." He grins, and she blinks in confusion, but does as he says anyway.
He slowly leads her forward, and she finds herself growing more confused as the sound of her footsteps changes, gaining a slight echo, while the air also does change, gaining a familiar scent.
"And…" He leads her forward a few more steps, gently holding her hand in his own before coming to a pause. "Open them." She does so, and instantly ends up gaping at the breathtaking sight.
Her eyes trail around the circular glass room she finds herself in, far beneath the water.
Her eyes widen as a few large whales swim past, followed by swarms of fishes and so much more.
"Welcome to my aquarium under the Pacific Ocean." Ciel grins as he steps forward, arms stretched to his side while Chisaki can only gape.
"There's an aquarium under the Pacific Ocean?" She whispers out slowly, the bright lights outside following the large whales that swum by a second ago for a bit more before moving back into place.
"Nope. I built it, and own it."
"Eh?" She blinks at him, but he simply turns around with his big dumb grin still on his face. "Wait! Explain!" She squeaks out, jogging after him as he walks to the other end of the large circular glass room.
"Nope!" He pops the 'P' and turns to give her a warm smile. "No magic, no supernatural. This is a date. It's just me, you, and delicious food." Her heart totally did not skip a beat at that.
"Alright." She nodded slowly, her cheeks hurting from the large smile on her face.
"You look beautiful." He hums out, making her heart soar and her tummy feel funny as they finally reach a small table, one filled with Italian food, her favorite.
She couldn't help herself and lean down to warmly kiss his cheek, making him blink, then smile brightly before pulling back a chair to let her take her seat, like a gentleman.
They soon started eating and enjoying themselves, and even though Ciel said 'no magic or supernatural', he still warmly and kindly answered all of Chisaki's curious questions about the topic, though he made sure not to expose certain stuff so to not bring her deeper into the loop.
Once done with the food, he gently takes her hand in his and leads her down the long glass tunnels in a quiet yet comfortable walk, then to an elevator that brings them back to the surface, the doors opening to show the grassy fields beyond.
And the ocean of stars above.
"Far away from civilization, far away from light pollution." Ciel hums with a pleased smile on his face as he leads Chisaki out onto the grassy fields, her wide eyes sparkling with the bright stars up above. "Still… I wanted to bring you on the Moon. Or on Mars, but it'll take a while for me to set a base on them. Probably a month or so." Chisaki could only gape at Ciel as he said that as if it wasn't crazy.
"J-Just for me?" He blinks in confusion at her as he cutely tilts his head to the side, making he swoon and want to hug him tightly.
"I'd do a lot more if I could." The butterflies in her belly grew even more at his words. "You are a literal ray of sunshine. I haven't felt this relaxed and truly happy in a long time. For that, you deserve a lot more than this."
Her lips met his the very next second, her face burning brightly and her eyes slammed shut while her arms wrapped around his neck.
Her body quivers when he hugs her waists too, but her heart soars when he leans into the kiss.
It was normal, just a chaste kiss, yet she tried her hardest to convey her growing feelings for him.
He's so different from the other guys, and she loves it.
She had tried her best to make herself look normal, plain even, so to not attract the attention of guys in school. She tried to wear glasses, hide her growing large chest, always look down and make herself look as small as possible.
But nothing ever worked, and she'd be asked out by guys that go 'I fell in love with you at first glance!' but can only stare at her chest the whole time as they say those words.
She never saw real affection from other guys, just lust.
And then she ran into Ciel. Literally.
He never gave her chest a cursory glance, always kept eye-contact, never even gave the famous beauties of Kuoh a second glance, and doesn't let the idiotic jealousy of other guys when he talks to her bother him.
In just a day he managed to make her forget all of her fears that he was just like all the other guys, and instead cemented himself as someone that is reliable, warm, kind, silly, and also very lazy.
And she might, or might not have, gotten a huge crush on him when he 'Holy Punched' the weird creature that kept bothering her out of existence.
She breaks the kiss and releases a shaky breath when Ciel grips her hips, looking at her with his beautiful bright eyes for a good few seconds before smiling.
"Want to lay down and look at the stars?" She grins and nods, then blinks when Ciel's phone vibrates a few times, quite loudly at that.
He blinks, brings it out, takes a look at the screen, snorts, then puts it away before grasping her hand and helping her kneel down, then lay on her back.
"Everything alright?" She couldn't help but ask as he lays down beside her, holding her hand in his.
"Yeap. You should worry about the other guy."
She doesn't know what is going on, but now she kinda feels bad for whoever this 'other guy' is.
Xxx
Once again, breaching into the Dimension of the Youkai is easy. But this time Georg is even more prepared to succeed.
Invisibility Spell, Sound Dampening Spell, Scent Erasing Spell, Heat Signature Erasing Spell. A whole arsenal of spells made by him to counter all the advantages the animal traits gave the Youkai's, traits that managed to discover him previously.
His failures were because he failed to account for every single specific trait, but now he is. And now he won't fail.
Breaching into the Dimension is easy thanks to Dimension Lost, which also has the power to easily detect, locate, and open Dimensions, something not many know.
And now he easily moved through the streets at a fast pace, aiming directly for the edge of the manor, where the daughter of Yasaka resides.
He vaults on top of the walls and takes his time scouting the area with his eyes, not wishing to fail once more so to not disappoint Cao Cao.
With night on his side, he jumps down into the courtyard down below and slowly walks past the artificial lake and frankly beautiful garden, then onto the porch.
The sound of his steps are erased as he walks up to the door, his smile growing more and more confident as he feels the weak magical signature within the room, and the five powerful ones trying to hide by the main entrance of said room.
Of course it won't be a problem to deal with them. All he needs is to grab the girl, and running away from them will be easy. He already has a whole arsenal of spells in mind to help him with that.
And so, with absolute confidence that he'll succeed, Georg opens the doors- Only to be instantly folded over a massive metallic arm.
"Meatbag engaged." A distorted metallic voice filled his ears before a shock-wave shook the whole building, blood and vomit spurting out of his nostrils and mouth as his body is flung back across the clearing and against the outer wall of the compound, smashing a crater into it with his own body.
"Tear his limbs off and beat the shit out of him with them." Another metallic voice enters his ears even as he hacks and coughs out blood from the impact that nearly turned his rib-cage to powder.
"No. Feed him his own innards." Georg lifted his head to stare at his assailants, his hazy vision falling on five massive metallic looking beings with glowing red visors, all of them with claw like hands and dragon like heads.
"Before that…" One of the droids starts, then easily lifts him off his feet by grabbing his head with a huge claw, the sharp tips sinking into his skull.
And then he screams and trashes around as he feels his brain burn within the grip of the Droid.
Several large magical circles appear between him and the Droid, then explode, launching him back and causing the Droid to take a step back. "I will make you chew and shit out broken glass for that." The Droid threatens, and Georg has no plans to find out if it'll actually do that as he realized why the Youkai's had such advanced technology around.
Architect was here. Or he made things for them. And he highly doubts it's just a bunch of scary and violent Droids.
"Either way, information has been collected." What? "Sending information to Lady Karna. The Hero Faction shall cease to exist tonight." They know the location of his group. They know where they are residing now!
Realizing that he needs to leave immediately, Georg instantly creates a dozen massive magic circles as he jumps back, then lifts up his arms to release the mist of Dimensio-
He screams. Sheer, horrendous pain threatens to split his head apart as he crumbles to his knees, the magical circles he summoned shattering as the large Droids stomp forward.
"Sacred Gear Disruptor engaged." The lead Droid pretty much growls out. "Cry about it, bitch." It pretty much sneers while cracking it's knuckles.
"L, Mald, Seethe, Cope-" The Droid in the back pauses in it's taunting, turning it's head to the side and staring down before moving aside, as do the other Droids. "I understand. I pity you now." Georg doesn't know what it means, but takes that chance to gather his bearing and take a deep breath.
Then turn around to vault over the wall to make his- Mist. Mist everywhere.
A horrible stench fills his nostrils, making him recoil and cover his bleeding nose.
His gaze narrows, growing more and more panicked as he realized that the ground below him suddenly changed, having now become a stone paved path of some kind.
Yet he could barely see anything with the dense and thick mist around him.
Where in the hell is h-
"London Bridge is falling down."
"Falling down."
"Falling down."
"London Bridge is falling down…"
"My fair lady…"
Horrifying chills ran down Georg's spine as a female singing voice drifted into his ears from right behind him, the sound of steps and metal grating on metal echoing all around.
His teeth start to clatter as he slowly turns around to gaze at the owner of the voice.
"London Bridge is falling down…"
"Falling down…"
A tall curvaceous woman in revealing clothing slowly comes into view, two large and menacing looking knives in her hands.
"Falling down…"
Her gaze flicks up from her knives to him.
And she smiles.
Georg stumbles back and raises his right arm- only to instantly see it flying in the air, severed at the shoulder, with the woman humming the gentle tune from before while leaning against his back.
His blood sprays everywhere as his severed arm hits the floor.
"Trying to harm a child…" The woman leaning against his back hums, then flips around and roughly grabs his hair before he could scream as his brain finished processing what just happened.
She yanks her hand down, painfully slamming him on his knees, then yanks his head back, his eyes full of tears and pain locking on the knife now just an inch away to gouge out his right pupil.
"I am going to gut you open." The woman smiles. "Very, very slowly." She drags the tip of her knife against his cheek, a stinging and burning sensation almost making him flinch as he whimpers from the pain of his arm, the sharp knife leaving behind a deep cut on his cheek.
"And I will enjoy every last second of it." She twirls her knife in the air, then grabs it in a reverse grip.
Then stabs it into his shoulder, and twists it.
"So make sure to scream loudly…" He does just that, wetting his pants from the sheer fear and the pain. "Because the more you scream, the more you'll live."
Georg could do nothing but scream his lungs out from the horrendous pain.
While Jack the Ripper laughed and sang happily.
XxX
"Will he succeed this time?" Cao Cao hums, lowering his gaze from the stars up above to Siegfried's curious gaze.
"Of course he will." He smiles and waves his hand nonchalantly. "He is prepared now, and knows how to perfectly counter all those Youkai's. Even I fear a fully prepared Georg." Siegfried hums while Cao Cao's gaze flickers across the other members of the Hero Faction.
Leonardo, Heracles, Jeanne, Connla, Perseus and the two Pendragons. All of them wielding immense power, and just waiting to move in case anything goes wrong.
The moment Georg comes back victorious, they'll move in to cause a bit of chaos across the city to cover for his escape, then move back to join him over the hidden location they decided previously.
"Hn?" He blinks as something catches his eyes, then he narrows them as he watches a thin orange trail rise above and into the sky from the middle of Kyoto.
"What's that?" Siegfried hums out curiously with narrowed eyes, clearly having noticed the weird thing himself. "Is that Georg's distress signal? Or the signal to move in?" He questions with a raised brow, but Cao Cao slowly shakes his head, finding himself gripping the True Longinus tightly.
"No… the signal is supposed to be purple… and it should have exploded by-"
"Brahmastra…!"
The thin orange trail suddenly becomes a titanic four pointed bright orange star.
The night sky itself lights up, and the trees and grass around them instantly turn to ash as wave of immense heat hits them all with the force of a speeding train.
"Get to cover-!"
"Kundala!"
The titanic four pointed star turns into a gargantuan white-orange meteor.
A meteor that reaches them the very next second.
Everything went white.
A.N. Oh boy, the done botched up! Are they dead or did Karna hold back? Discover that on the next episode!
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