(Update, so I'm now enlisted in the army so sorry for the long hiatus. I just get caught up with my duties that it makes it hard to read and write so please forgive any typos you see and enjoy the long chapter.)
The days seemed to fly right by, Oni-4 had been taking on the more dangerous bounties the guild had to offer. With the presence of the demon king's general in the area, it had made work hard to find.
Another thing to note was that ammo wasn't dropping as frequently as he hoped. He had to switch to his sword, Throne-Clever to save his ammo when dealing with large monsters, otherwise he was punching his way through monsters.
The only good thing that came out of his adventurers was a new skill he learned called Titan skating. Which allowed him to use his light powers to glide along the ground with the only problem being traction and turning.
However now he stands before an empty bounty board. No new missions available. The Titan was fairly annoyed at the lack of work.
"Nothing…" Oni-4 muttered and sighed, tapping his foot on the ground.
"You did a lot Oni, with the recent shortage I'm afraid to say we just don't have any work, you might just have to wander around and look for a job." Luna said and Oni-4 scoffed at the notion.
"No thanks… I'll be fine without work, just let me know when bounties come in." He said as he left, Oni-4 was a Guardian not some part time worker.
"So where are we on the progress Yokai?" He asked and Yokai pulled up his card.
"We jumped out of the recruit rank and bumped into bronze 1… at this rate we won't hit that master rank for months or a year." Yokai states as Oni-4 notes the next rank is bronze 2.
"Classic rank bullshit, like in gambit or crucible. I hated climbing ranks." Oni-4 said as he went back to his camp.
There he saw Megumin laughing along with Kazuma but his laughter died out when Oni-4's shadow loomed over him.
"Oh, hey Oni, Me and Kazuma are hanging out, did you find any good bounties?" She asked and he sat next to them.
"Not a single one, damn general is really causing an embargo on everything." Oni-4 said as Kazuma frowned a bit.
"I won't lie but it's strange, Megumin and I have been going on trips to cast her explosion spell and we haven't encountered anything demonic… come to think of it, we haven't really encountered anything, even the giant toads are gone." Kazuma stayed to which Oni-4 nodded.
"Hmm… it must be powerful then, if local monsters are just going to up and disappear because of its presence." Oni-4 said as he got up. He went to the side of his wagon to pull out a cast iron stew kettle. He had been using his money wisely to buy furniture for his wagon.
"So does he just cook for you?" Kazuma whispered and she nodded.
"Yeah, like I said he is a kind person." Megumin whispers back as Oni-4 set his stew kettle over a campfire.
"Kazuma, would kindly invite your friend Aqua over for lunch, and that blonde ugh… I don't think I know her name." Oni-4 asked which Kazuma looked at him rather suspiciously.
"Why, you legit beat Aqua up…" He said
"I know, I want to say I'm sorry, I wasn't feeling great that day… I just want to apologize over spaghetti." He said which was half the truth. He really wanted to figure out what Aqua was.
"You know how to make spaghetti?" Kazuma asked and he nodded.
"Old friend of mine taught me, Maestro. He always knew how to make good spaghetti. I had to beat him in punchies to get his recipe." He said as he lit the fire with his solar powers.
"Actually I wanted to ask you something, can you teach me any of those skills?" Kazuma asked and Oni-4 rubbed the back of his helmet.
"I dunno, they are tied to me being a Guardian." Oni-4 said as he pulled out his adventurer card. Kazuma looked over Oni-4's attacks and abilities. He sighed as he read over the requirements.
"I need a high connection to light which I don't qualify for, not to mention a lot of points." He said and Oni-4 sat down.
"Not easy mastering Titan moves, heck I had a hard time mastering my moves." Oni-4 admitted as he fondly remembered mastering his code of the missle sub tree.
"Yet you have a lot I've moves, and then more, also I want to know about the gun on your hip. I thought this was a fantasy world." He asked and Oni-4 shrugged.
"I died with my ghost Yokai, so they let me have him for free, said he was tied to my soul. He had my guns and armor on him, so I came in with the supplies I had on me. I can see you did too, you have a track suit on." Oni-4 pointed it out.
"So you simply waltz in and just have overpowered weapons." Kazuma asked and Oni-4 thought about it.
"Yeah, but I wouldn't call it overpowered, Megumin can cast an explosion that makes this gun look like a peashooter… besides I actually don't have much ammo for it anymore." He admitted.
"I mean I guess that makes sense because no one makes guns in this world." Kazuma said with a roll of his eyes.
"Well yes and no, see my ghost Yokai is able to make ammunition with ammo drops, but so far the monsters I've been killing have been giving me less and less to the point I have to start beating my enemies to death to conserve ammo." Oni-4 said as Kazuma nodded slowly… he didn't understand much about Oni-4, or who Yokai is.
"Right… I'm going to get Aqua." He said as he took off and looked back at the Titan. He seemed to be so different. When he first met him and watched as he duked it out with Aqua, he was terrifying yet now he seems passive and friendly.
Kazuma found Aqua working as a cabbage vendor. She was being chewed out by her boss.
"Why can't you do your job right, it's as simple as selling cabbages!!" He yelled at her. She looked down and nodded as he walked away.
"Hey Aqua remember that guy Oni?" Kazuma asked her as she turned around.
"Yeah what about him?" She asked, still Angry about their last encounter.
"Well he's inviting you over to lunch and wants to apologize." He said and Aqua perked up to this.
"So wait, the Necrophiliac is going to invite me to lunch and say he's sorry?" She asked and Kazuma nodded to which a smile grew upon her face.
"Finally some respect for once. Let me ditch this side job." Aqua said as she simply left the stand with Kazuma. The two made it to camp where Oni-4 was showing Megumin how to make meatballs.
"It's all about grounding up the meat and simply taking your hands and making it into a ball." He said as he had a meat grinder. Kazuma saw this and realized Megumin was right, Oni-4 wasn't evil, he's just a doting person… robot… thing...
"So you have invited me over to apologize."Aqua questioned The Titan who threw his meatballs onto a saucepan.
"I am truly sorry for the way I striked your face. I wasn't having a good day eh… not that it justifies that but I wanted to make it up to you." He apologized, as he held out his hand and she shook it. Her grip was firm and stronger than he anticipated. He wondered just what she was.
"So will this mean you'll join us, also possibly worship and pray to me?" She asked and he started laughing.
"I already said no, and I'll say no to the other, I am not a servant, nor will I worship you. I simply want to cook us some lunch." He said as he placed the saucepan onto the open flame.
The aroma was simply Tantalizing. The mixes of spice and homemade tomato sauce tickled their noses and made them drool as he stirred the saucepan. While they drooled, Yokai began scanning Aqua. The smell of the food had them entranced, allowing the ghost to get some info.
"I'm so glad I broke Maestro's arm for this." He said and dumped the meatballs into the kettle with some noodles.
"Wait I thought you said you won it in punchies?" Megumin asked.
"Yeah I did, Titans are very competitive about Punchies so I did the only thing I could do. I punched his arm and broke it. Best part was that the recipe was not even his but from an old chef, Boiardi was his name I think…" Oni-4 said as Darkness looked at him.
"You actually broke someone's arm for a spaghetti recipe, how brutal you… I wouldn't mind if we played a game like that." She said that last part in a whisper as she began to blush.
"Yup and to this day he will not play punchies with me in fear that I'll break his other arm." Oni-4 explained as he took off his helmet.
Kazuma, Darkness and Aqua found themselves staring as The Titan dipped the tip of his finger into the stew and took a taste test. He moved so naturally yet looked so unnatural.
"Oh, this is so good. I'm going to get the bowls." Oni-4 said as he went to the back of his Vardo wagon.
"That was freaky." Kazuma whispered to Aqua.
"Why are you guys so surprised, he told you he was an exo." Megumin whispers back.
"Yokai any idea what she is?" Oni-4 whispers.
"No clue, I feel this energy from her, akin to the light of the traveler." He told him and Oni-4 nodded. She surely couldn't be a goddess, why would a goddess hang around a kid. Oni-4 pulled out the bowls and began to serve his guest.
Lunch went on and the group listened to Oni-4 stories of the traveler and what it was.
"So my world had a god like that?" Kazuma asked.
"But a god so weak that it needed someone else to protect it." Aqua said and Megumin covered her eyes while Kazuma covered his ears and Darkness covered her mouth.
"The hive? What were they?" Darkness asked and Oni-4 pulled out a weird black idol.
"See the hive was a necro ailen race, they worshipped the darkness. Their leaders are god-like in a sense until I and the chosen's one raid team cut them down." Oni-4 said as he tossed it to Kazuma. He felt a chill trickle down his spine as he held it, whatever it was made him feel fear.
"The chosen one?" He asked as he set the idol down.
"A guardian who led an attack on the black garden. I helped him slay the black heart." Oni-4 said as he placed the idol back into his pouch pocket.
"Did the hive worship it?" Kazuma asked?
"No the Vex did a race of murderous robots, an evil so evil it despises other evil." He said as he stuffed a meatball into his mouth.
"Robots worshipped the black heart?" Aqua asked as she wondered if such beings would be even capable of worship.
"Yup, this thing was so beyond comprehension that the vex saw no other logical option but to worship it. Though it was actually rather weak and relied on the vex to defend it." Oni-4 said as he also had a vex eye on him, he should thank Yokai for saving his trophies from his past battles.
"As the traveler with the guardians." Darkness noted and Oni-4 nodded.
"So by killing the sol minds it used up all its power and died, allowing light to return to the traveler so it may begin healing." Oni-4 explained and this seemed to shake up Kazuma a bit, was that really the future of his world, to be almost driven to extinction.
"So from what I heard you also come from earth. How'd you die?" The Titan asked the teen who snapped out of it.
"I ugh… died trying to save this girl." Kazuma states proudly.
"Actually he jumped in front of a tractor thinking it was a fast moving car about to hit a girl. He wet himself and died of embarrassment." Aqua said with a snicker.
"Aqua!" She said and Oni-4 hummed at this.
"Actually that's not sad as you think, you willingly threw your life away to save someone who you thought was in danger. Shows a bit of character." Oni-4 said to which Kazuma lightened up a bit.
"And you?" He asked in return.
"I got caught up in an atomic level explosion." He said as Megumin perked in.
"Atomic level explosion?" She questioned.
"Yup, an explosion big enough to wipe out a city." Oni-4 said and she clutched her staff tightly.
"One day I hope to be able to cast such an explosion." She said blushing at the idea of wiping out an entire fortress.
"Maybe if you put more points into Mana you'd be able to." Kazuma said as the town's alarm system went off.
"Emergency, emergency, we need all adventurers to the main gate, arm yourselves and prepare for battle!" Was announced and Oni-4 got up and began Titan skating. Kazuma marveled at it, as he ran off after him towards the main gate while the rest followed.
The rest of the adventurers looked off towards the dark clouds and lightning, as the group joined the crowd. Before them a headless knight on a dark horse looked down at them. He cradled his head in his arm as a large bolt of lightning crashed behind him as the wind flowed through his cape and the mane of his horse. Oni-4 had to admit he looked very stoic.
"What's this about?" Aqua asked.
"What are you blind? There's a nightmare standing there!" Kazuma explained as Oni-4 kept his eye trained on it.
"Yokai any idea what that thing is?" Oni-4 asked Yokai who hovered over the Titan's shoulder.
"From the looks of it, I'd say a demon of sorts." Yokai said
"Yeah, kinda got that vibe the first time looking at it, any idea what kinda demon?" Oni-4 asked as he tried understanding what he was looking at.
"No clue." Yokai said as he disappeared.
"Tsk figures." The Titan grumbled as he placed his hand on the grip of his gun.
"I am one of the devil king's generals and I have been stationed away to a nearby castle." He said and Oni-4 was intrigued, this was the guy he needed information from, however as the headless knight continued to speak he lost his temper.
"Everyday, every single day, every bloody damn day, one of you maniacs comes to my home and hurls explosions at it and I demand to know who it is!" He shouted and his horse reared up, neighing as a giant bolt of lightning struck behind him. Oni-4 looked at Megumin who stared back at him. She gave him a nervous look as her eyes flick back to the demon general. Geez who could've saw that coming...
The adventurers began wondering who in the town used explosion magic and began to stare at Megumin who looked to her left at the other sorceress who began to panic and claim she was just a beginner.
Oni-4 sighed at this, however Megumin went out to actually confront the demon general.
"Should we intervene?" Kazuma asked
"No, let's not do anything rash… yet." Oni-4 instructed as he kept watch.
"Chances are he may spare her and if he does something, I'll end him quicker then he can draw that sword." He said as arc energy crackled below his calves. The headless knight began to complain.
"You, grrr… you are the imbecile who's been blasting my castle day after day after day. If you know who I am and wish to pick a fight, then have the decency to announce yourself properly before you attack, otherwise keep well away from my home, understand? Honestly this harassment is completely unwarranted. I spared your town, thinking it wasn't worth my time and how do you repay me? With a boom, boom, boom every single damn day! You must be out of your flippin mind you little witch!" He shouted which made Oni kinda feel bad, this guy had some honor at least.
"I am Megumin, I am an arch wizard who commands explosion magic!" She said and there was a silence between the two.
"What is a Megumin? Are you pulling my leg?" He asked and Oni-4 chuckled a bit.
"Wh-what no. I am of the crimson demon clan, and the greatest mage of the whole town. Yes I knew you were one of the devil King's generals, that's why I used explosions as a strategy to flush you out. It seems my plan worked and you have come alone, like a fool." She said and the entire crowd gasped.
"I'm not buying her strategy story." Kazuma said and Darkness frowned a bit.
"Her claim of being the greatest mage here is also dubious." Darkness added.
"This isn't going to end well…" Yokai said.
"Shhh, keep your voices down, she's on a roll. She hasn't used her explosion spell today and with everyone backing her up, he'll think twice before doing anything, the best part is coming up so keep quiet and watch." Aqua said and Oni-4 sighed.
"Oni shouldn't you do something?" Yokai asked him.
"Hold on, I want to see where this goes." Oni-4 said as he watched. However things began to go south when Megumin refused to stop bombing the general's castle.
"I sentence you to death." He said as he was about to lift his finger.
"Show time!" Oni-4 said as he leapt in and casted a ward of dawn. The spell hit the bubble and skulls circled around not being able to get to the adventurers.
"Stay in the bubble." Oni-4 said as he watched the spell disappear. He stepped out of his bubble and the headless knight's severed head narrowed his eye.
"Finally a worthy opponent." The knight said as Oni-4 drew his sword. The knight circled around Oni-4 his headless horse trotting while he examined his new foe.
"You must have honor, you have your sword out but you haven't attempted to swing at me or perhaps it's cowardice, what is your name knave." Beldia asked as his horse snorted at Oni.
"I'm waiting for you to draw yours. I am Oni-4." He answered confidently, he knew this guy means business but with so many people nearby tangling with the general might be a bad idea.
"If you truly wish to battle me, seek me out at my castle, I'll be waiting, and if you don't I will raze this town with my army." He said as his horse reared up and in a flash of lighting he was gone. Oni-4 sneered at this. He looked back to Megumin.
"Show me where this guy is hiding, so I can tear this castle down to it's very foundation." He said and Megumin nodded.
The group soon followed, leading to the very castle that Megumin had used as target practice. Oni-4 looked at it.
"You can all go now, I don't need help for this." He said and that's when Kazuma furrowed his brow.
"Hey it's my quest to defeat the devil king too!" He said and Oni-4 laughed.
"You're a liability, I can't keep watching over my back to make sure the humans all live. Go back and enjoy the spaghetti I made. I have some killing to do." He said and Aqua protested.
"But we can help, besides you can't kill him, he's a demon and without an Arch priestess you won't be able to do squat to him." Aqua said. Oni-4 sighed at this but figured she may be right.
"Fine but don't get in my way." He said as they continued onward to the castle. There between them and the front gates was a horde of undead.
"Let's see how you like this, Explosion!" Megumin said as she sent an explosion that wiped out half of the army below their feet. She soon toppled over as she smiled.
"Nice one, now it's my turn." Oni-4 said as his calves began to produce arc energy. The Titan began to charge up as he boosted into the air. He became cloaked in arc energy as he flew into the air coming down and slamming both fist down.
"Titan super ability fist of havoc, code of the juggernaut!" Oni-4 said as he began to pummel back the hordes of undead. He would shoulder charge into the horde vaporizing the undead with arc energy.
The rest began to follow behind him as they too fought back and dealt with the stragglers that Oni-4 missed. Their numbers thinned as Oni-4 continued to fight but his light soon began to dwindle.
He fought even harder trying to extend his fist of havoc energy. The longer he kept using fist of havoc the more it drained it to the point that his trample ability was barely giving him back much energy to compensate.
"Yokai, I'm losing steam…" He grunted as a zombie grapplers onto his back forcing the exo to tear it off and break it in half.
"Eyes up Oni, big guy. Use everything you got." Yokai cheered him on as Oni leapt towards the undead behemoth punching right through him. Steam flew off Oni-4 as he shook the blood off his hands.
The behemoth's body came crashing down as Oni surveyed his destruction. The damage was impressive, an entire battalion and even their behemoth dead… well as dead as an undead can be.
"You destroyed everything…" Kazuma said as a corpse grabbed him. Oni-4 curb stomped the undead until it was truly dead.
"Titan strong." He said as he looked at the gates. He looked at the large wooden doors and punched them. The gates shook a bit and creaked.
"Can you open it?" Kazuma asked as Oni-4 pulled his arm back and threw a powerful punch that made the door wobble and shake.
Determined, Oni-4 started walking back as he held three fingers up and began counting down. He charged at the door ramming his shoulder in and the hinges gave way.
The gate toppled over onto some more undead soldiers. Oni-4 took out his sword and swung it. The blade cleaved through undead combatants as he lobbed a flashbang grenade and a whole crowd of undead were gibbed as the explosion rag dolled them.
"Oh shit!" Kazuma cursed as he swatted away the giblets that rained on him.They dodged the debris as they kept up with the guardian.
They soon made their way to a large ballroom. Where there sat a demon. She sighed as she got up and looked towards the group.
She wore a black leotard adorned with a brown leather vest and a belt wrapped around her upper chest. She pulled back her hood and cape to reveal her hair was actually fire.
"See this is what happens when you only employ the undead, undead are only good for cannon fodder… i'll be with you in a cinch." She said as she placed her red crystal down.
"You're the heroes here to end my general. I expected more than a bunch of ragtag adventurers." She said as she looked down at the group.
"I was expecting something more terrifying." Kazuma snipped back.
"Well I'll assure you that-" she said before Oni-4 threw a haymaker and sent her flying into a wall.
"Too much talking not nuff fighting." He said and from the hole of the demon's impact it began to glow red as she came out more pissed than a bat outta hell.
"You… you dickless, son of a whore, do you have any idea who I-" She went on before a flashbang grenade landed at her feet. It blew her back into the wall.
"You know if she stopped her monologue and fought, she might stand a chance." Kazuma said as she stepped out the hole another time dazed from the grenade. She walked into a hail of bullets as Oni-4 mag dumped his auto rifle into her. The demoness was groaning as she tried to pick herself up. But he placed the barrel of his gun at her forehead
"Time for you to go back home, in hell." He said as she looked up, eyes full of tears.
"I yield, Have mercy, I was the one that encouraged Beldia to spare the town, and tried to calm him down after each explosion attack. P-p-please, I'm just an advisor trying to keep her job." She begged as Oni-4 lifted the barrel of his gun up. He then smacked her across the head with the butt of his rifle, knocking her clean out.
Oni-4 looked up to see Aqua sitting and eating with the rest of the party at a table that just so happened to be chocked full of good food.
"Encore." Aqua said as Oni-4 pulled back the slide on his deagle and put a couple of shots on the table, destroying the table and food.
"Let's go, I wanna finish this and be on my way." He said as they got up. They finally made it to the top of the castle where Beldia waited for them.
"So I see the noble knave and his friends have reached me." Beldia said, still mounted on that horse.
"I skipped over the corpses and took care of your advisor. This ends here." Oni-4 told him.
"Agreed, have at thee." Beldia said as the knight unsheathes his sword and Oni-4 does the same As Beldia was about to strike Darkness leapt in between to block it.
"The fuck." Oni-4 said as Darkness stood there.
"It's my job as a paladin to protect you." She said as her armor was damaged from the initial blow. Oni-4 pulled her back and he was struck by Beldia. His shoulder was hit by the powerful blade. Luckily his pauldron deflected the blade from cleaving off his arm, however this damaged the pauldron, mangaling it and compromising it.
"You destroyed my pauldron." He said as embers began to float off him. Soon a flaming maul appeared in his hands and Beldia began to panic.
"Hey man, let's just talk this out." Beldia said as Oni-4 struck him across the chest. He fell off his horse and began to crawl back clutching his head
"Hey it's just armor man, no need to freak out." Beldia pleads as Oni-4 raises his maul up. Beldia screamed as it came down, smashing him into his brick floor with a fiery eruption. Beldia groaned as Oni-4 raised his maul again, and slammed it down. This time Beldia was embedded into the floor. He groaned as he tried to move but found that his body refused.
"He's still kicking, I'll finish him off with turn undead." Aqua said and casted her spell to cause the weakened Beldia to plead.
"Wait no knave there is something I need you to haveeeeee." Beldia cried out as he lifted his arm up and was soon vaporized. A golden oil lamp clattered to Oni-4's feet.
"What is this?" Oni-4 asked as he picked it up. He examined the oil lamp and it felt weird and out of place. The castle began to shake as Oni stumbled back a bit.
"Oni no time to ponder." Kazuma said as he lost his balance. Oni-4 picked him up and started sprinting for the exit. While the rest kept up, doors began closing as a voice echoed through the halls.
"This place will become your tomb." It said as Oni-4 punches his way through the doors.
"Like hell it is." He said as he punched his ways through obstacles while Kazuma tightened his grip for dear life.
Once he knocked down the final door they escaped as the castle collapsed on itself. Oni-4 let Kazuma off and sighed a breath of relief as he eyed the golden lamp.
"Oni-4 the mission is a bust. We got no information on the devil king." Yokai said as he appeared.
"Yeah, well I had a babysitting job." Oni-4 complained as he pulled back the slide on his sidearm to inspect it.
"Hey we pulled our weight too." Kazuma said as that set off the guardian.
"Barely, I had to take out the other half of the army, bust down the gate, fight some more and then when it came for the big bad guy, your friend got in the way and almost got killed. This is why I don't work with non guardians." Oni-4 scrutinized them.
"That's not true." Aqua tried to rebut but the exo wasn't having any of it.
"Oh what part about it wasn't true, that you ate while I manhandled the advisor, or when I bashed that demon into the ground, you swooped in and finished him off before I could get some answers… screw you guys I'm going home." Oni-4 said as he turned heel and walked away.
"Oni!" Megumin yelled and chased after him. The tiny mage caught up to the Titan as they walked home.
"You're not mad at me are you?" She asked and he sighed.
"No but I need some alone time, go back to your party. I'm gonna vent for a bit." He said as he started Titan skating away.
Later that day he began to go over his armor. He didn't have any plasteel to fix it and it wouldn't look right if he just switched pauldrons so he ended up dismantling it. He was enraged that he lost a good suit of armor because of one incompetent teammate…
"So there goes the phenotype plasticity armor." Oni-4 said as he looked over the river. He brought out his optimacy armor set and began to put that on, He grasped his he felt something unusual.
"Chest pain?" Yokai asked.
"No I feel a warmth sensation in my chest, do you think my core is malfunctioning?" He asked and Ghost did a scan.
"No but something foreign is definitely in there. It looks odd." Yokai said as he continued scanning the Titan.
"Any clue what it is?" Oni-4 asked as he took off his shirt.
"Okay, that explains a lot now." Yokai said as he finished scanning.
"What, do I have a tumor or something?" Oni-4 asked.
"One you're an Exo so no it's not a tumor, two it's a shard of the traveler. It explained how you still have your light abilities despite the fact the Traveler isn't here." Yokai explained.
"Huh, should I remove it?" Oni-4 said as he started poking at his synthetic muscles on his frame.
"No, if we did it could possibly strip your light away. So I say keep it in and secret." Yokai said as Oni-4 finished scrubbing his pot.
"Gotta say when I wished for my powers I totally wasn't expecting that." He said as he continued to wash his dishes.
"You're not phased by this." His ghost asked as The Titan shrugged.
"Honestly this isn't the weirdest thing I've experienced since I got here." He said as he finished up and packed up his wagon.
"Yokai what would you think about staying?" Oni-4 asked.
"Why do you ask?" He questioned.
"Well it just so happens that we have a shard of the traveler, at first I was worried of losing my powers but now it seems we're set. This world is new, it's amazing to see humanity and human-like creatures live day to day without darkness looming over them. We could really make a home here." He said and Yokai looked down.
"That would mean turning our backs on the traveler and our friends, would you want that?" He asked and Oni shrugged as he stared at the exotic sidearm. After the casino incident he remembered not talking to his fire team or raid team anymore… he couldn't care less about friends and what of the traveler. Well it gave him his powers but does that mean he must continue to be it's shambling dead puppet.
"Listen to me it doesn't matter because either way you're my guardian and I'll be with you. If we want to strive to make this place a better world then I'll stick with you all the way through, but remember there's something beyond our sight and it has its sights set on us." Yokai said as Oni looked at the oil lamp.
"I know, but it beats living a day to day life of just existing to fight darkness for a gloomy future." Oni-4 said and he pondered why Beldia wanted to give him this lamp.
"Honestly what even is this thing and why did he want me to have it?" Oni-4 asked as he looked it over. He noticed some dirt and rubbed it, soon the lamp began to glow. It began to spark and shake as a pink cloud emerged from it.
"What the hell!?" He said and before him stood a woman!? Now this was a bizarre turn of events that won't be explained until the next chapter.
