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"Speech"

Time*

Arc 1 - Chapter 6

A few days later*

"Hey, Daisuke." Kazuma called for my attention, which I decided to give him for now while I continued to eat this delicious meal of grilled steak from the pig monster I killed this morning for a quest and got a small portion as a meal.

"If you're asking for money. Rejected." I said to Kazuma as I cut a small piece of the steak to eat while using Magic Hand to prevent the shitty goddess from trying to steal my food. As for Megumin. I cast another Magic Hand and prevented her from coming near my steak.

"It doesn't have anything to do with money! I have never borrowed any money from you since I met you! Why did you come to that conclusion before I could even say anything about what I wanted to talk to you, to begin with?!" Kazuma shouts at me for thinking such a thing.

"Oh, then what do you want?" I ask in a casual tone, a little happy with Kazuma's reaction just now.

"Can you give your kouhai a piece of advice on how to earn enough money without having dealt with the trouble risking my life from fighting beyond my level or having to recuse a party member of mine more than once?" Kazuma asks me while ignoring the looks he got from his said party members.

"Sorry man, but you're looking at the guy who maxed out all his life skills and at the very least better than a complete beginner in fighting with weapons made from said life skills." I replied, not trying to hide this from him. "Oh, yeah. I forgot about it and just remembered, but what is your power or weapon you gained before coming here?"

Kazuma didn't say anything and just slid his eyes over to Aqua, who took a small mouthful of the vegetable sticks in the cup at the center of the table, with Megumin doing the same.

I follow his gaze, then look back at him before looking back at Aqua a couple of times before my brain clicks.

"Oh! Oh, this is so amazing and, at the same time, just plain stupid! Please tell me you were just mad and decided to pick her out of anger or thought she would keep all of her Divine Powers upon entering the mortal realm." I glance at Kazuma's face, which says he did exactly what I just said, either one of the two or both, causing me to burst out laughing.

I didn't even care that the people around me were now staring at me as I laughed so hard. Where I just learn that out of anything, anything at all, he had to pick that useless goddess Aqua, who may be a great healer as that part of her domain. Still, she has no offensive abilities in any way other than the undead type enemies, where she can just blast Healing Spells at them, not to mention that she is hopeless in defending herself.

"Stop laughing already!" Kazuma shouts at me while blushing with embarrassment. Knowing that he missed out big. "How about you? What did you get?!" Kazuma wanted to find out if his senpai got a decent or overpowered ability/weapon.

"I told you already. I'm someone with all life skills maxed and above a beginner in using whatever I create with said life skills. That is my ability." I reach into my left pocket, pull out an ordinary knife, and then place it on the table.

"You made a knife?" Kazuma asks me with a hint of smugness and disappointment.

"Pfft! I must say, if this is what you made from that power I gave you, that's kinda sad." Aqua started giggling.

"You know, I think it's better for you to get Explosive Magic if using other magic is not working for you. You don't need to use a knife to fight as an Arch-Wizard." Megumin gives me a look of pity.

"If it pierces someone's heart, the wielder's physical body temporarily becomes stronger. Strength, speed, endurance, etc. All these will increase each time you stab someone in the heart with this knife within 10 minutes, and each stab successfully extends the time by a minute. Whether the target is dead or not. Seeing how the knife is draining the victim's blood from the heart and transferring it to the wielder via the knife's handle. I call it the Heart Seeker since it mostly requires to aim for the target's heart to work." I explained what this knife does before Darkness said something that would annoy me. "And before anyone thinks I'm bluffing." I pick up the knife and inject my mana into it, causing the blade to turn into a blood-red shade color and the stench of blood coming from it.

Upon seeing this sudden change of appearance and the smell of blood, almost everyone in the room froze as their bodies were covered in cold sweats for a couple of seconds. Everyone feels like a knife is pointing at their left chest, where their heart is—making it much worse for those who have never experienced such a thing.

Spinning it a couple of times before stopping the mana flow into the knife, it returns to its previous appearance. Along with the smell of blood.

However, this still didn't prevent everyone from getting rid of this fearful feeling they experienced, even if it was just for a few seconds.

Of course, the first one to snap out of it was Darkness, who threw herself at me with a red face, and I can definitely say she is arouse. But, I rather not end up stabbing someone by accident or myself, and push Darkness off me with a hand to her face while I put away the Heart Seeker.

"Just to let you guys know. I have more Heart Seeker." I give Kazuma's party a lazy smile, but all of them, including Darkness, look like the smile of a predator eyeing them like prey. This caused Kazuma, Aqua, and Megumin to fear for their lives, while Darkness now rubbed her face with the hand, I used to push her back. "Anyway, if you haven't heard yet. A General of the Demon King's army has taken over the old castle on that hill up north of town. Just a short distance away from here won't even take an hour unless you're someone or have someone among you with very low stamina. Then, it may take an hour to get there on foot." I said to Kazuma and his party members.

Instead of getting any response, everyone was still deeply shocked at what occurred just a minute ago. Other than Darkness trying to show her affection to me, which I rejected for now. Therefore, I think it's time to resume questing while testing other Magical Items.

Well, more like I'm trying to use more than two Magical Items at the same time. So, while almost everyone was still shocked, I took this moment to leave since I'd already taken a monster hunting quest and was sticking around when it was lunchtime.

Of course, Darkness was the only okay and followed me, leaving her party behind without a single thought about them.

30 minutes later*

"So, what are we hunting down?" Darkness asks me as she walks beside me and ignores the random monsters dying nearby.

"One-Hit-Kill Bear." I replied to Darkness' question while having Chariot Requiem continue to snipe down any monsters within range and stacking up on the small experience points, and I should be close to leveling up. Better to have any experience points than not having any at all. Also, training Chariot Requiem further into a sniper. "It says on the quest that this monster has been sited in the east of town and has caused lots of damage and killed a few people already. The death count continues since there has been noted about how there been a few missing people in the nearby area as well." I began informing Darkness what we're hunting down and additional information about the target.

"As a Crusader, it's my duty to protect the civilians! So, please leave it to me to take on the One-Hit-Kill Bear! I promise that my defense is absolute, and nothing it could do will cause me any harm at all! Therefore, if I somehow lose my weapon and my armor, don't worry. My Defensive Skills will protect me, even to the point if the monster dare ravages me to satisfy its urge to mate!" Darkness said to me; however, near the end, she hopes the monster will rape her, even though the monster would mainly kill and eat her corpse instead of thinking Darkness to breed.

I didn't reply, causing Darkness to look at me, waiting for me to say anything. Anything at all, but I kept my mouth shut. Of course, Darkness didn't seem to take my silent response badly, as this had happened more than once already. Therefore, Darkness decides to change the topic.

"So, uh, Daisuke." Darkness looked at her lover, blushing a little, "When will you have your way with my body next time? You didn't touch me for two days now. Is there something wrong, or did you overwork? You don't have to work so hard if it is the latter. I don't mind putting more effort into finishing more quests to get you the money for whatever you wanted."

I still didn't say anything, and Darkness looked worried this time.

Because for two days without having sex or any sexual activities had made Darkness a bit sexually frustrated. Even playing with herself or allowing monsters to hurt her didn't bring the same pleasure as it used to, which just made it hard for her to focus some time and not aware of her surroundings. A good example was she snapped at one of her party members for something she would easily ignored yesterday.

"Did I do something to make you mad at me, Daisuke? It is because of me. I promise to fix it! So please tell me!" Darkness started to panic a little that her lover may dump her, or maybe he found someone else while she was gone for a few hours. "If it is another girl, I don't mind sharing! Just don't throw me away!" If this were in the past, Darkness would find the thoughts of being thrown away like a wasted used toy. She would be delighted, but instead of feeling any pleasure from this. Darkness finds herself in despair instead.

"Calm down." I finally said something, causing Darkness to sigh in relief and look at me with a hopeful look. "I was just tired and wasn't in the mood." I wasn't lying but wasn't being entirely truthful as I wanted to see how many days or weeks, even months, someone like Darkness would react after not touching her sexually. Well, I was not that disappointed since it looks like two days was enough for Darkness' mind to wander and bring in stray unwanted thoughts.

"So we can have sex again tonight?" Darkness is relief that it wasn't because her lover was no longer interested in her or seeing another girl. Of course, Darkness is willing to share, but that doesn't mean she likes it. Most girls hate to see their man with another girl, and Darkness is the same but is willing to adapt if needed.

"Depending on my mood." I answered, causing Darkness to look at me with a stiff smile, hoping for me to change my mind and when I didn't. Darkness looked like someone about to do something that could end badly for her but willing to deal with the consequence. A look I noticed right away, "Oh?"

I stop walking, making Darkness do the same as I turn to face her fully, where she did the same. I give Darkness a smirk as I lean forward and look directly into her eyes, causing her to blush.

"Is my eyes playing a trick on me or..." I lean a bit closer until our lips almost touch. "Maybe you're planning to do something troublesome to catch my attention and not the good kind of attention?"

Darkness didn't dare look away, but the hot breath of her lover just made her body hot as well. "N-No..."

"Hmm? Is that so?" I let the disappointment sink into my voice. "Too bad, I was planning to punish you. Maybe have you walk with me back to town naked, letting everyone see how much of a slut you are with that kind of body you have. I bet with that body; you're planning to seduce all the men to do your bidding. After all, you have seduced me with the said body already."

Darkness lets out a muffled moan as she imagines that happening, causing her to feel very hot now and aroused. "I-I wo-uldn't... dare." Darkness whispered, trying to sound sincere but failing very severely.

"Well, how will you prove me wrong, huh?" I lean back and raise my chin to make it look like I'm looking down on Darkness. "I bet you would gladly accept anyone else if they catch your interest."

"I wouldn't!" Darkness shouts, causing me to lean back, even more, when she rejected so quickly.

Darkness paused, and her entire face, neck, and even ears turned red.

"So if I wanted you to sell your body to others in exchange for extra cash?" I ask Darkness, eager to find out what she would say. I did not expect her to jump at me and grab my feet as if she didn't, I would disappear.

"If you promise never to leave me. I'll promise to make sure to give you all my share of money-related rewards and sell anything valuable." Darkness started tossing many options she was willing to take to provide me more money, even at the risk of her health. But, one thing she didn't mention is that she is willing to sell her body to others.

"What about your body?" I ask Darkness, looking directly into her eyes to see for any lies beneath them.

"If... if that's what you desire, I'm willing..." Darkness sounded a little broken when she said this. As her eyes started to dull a little, where in the past this was her ideal husband, but felt so hollow right now.

"Lucky for you, that isn't my desire. Now, come on, we got a quest to do." I said to Darkness as if what happened between wasn't so tense and had a potential for something dangerous to happen that one or both would regret.

Light returns into Darkness' eyes as she happily jumps onto her feet and latches onto her lover's arm, with a smile on her face filled with love, knowing right away this was a test for her, and she likes to think she passed. She would think otherwise if her lover didn't push away right now. But! To her delight, he didn't! It makes her feel like this moment will be something she will never forget; how she changed as a person and found someone she loves with all her heart and hopes they would marry and have a family together one day.

I look at Darkness, who wasn't paying much attention to her surroundings. Again. Nevertheless, what I got from Darkness' responses shows that she is similar to all those girls I find around me back home. It's always interesting that with a bit of action and words, you can change a person's personality that has been developed for years and quickly change it in a moment—well, depending on how they grow up and what kind of person they are.

It's good that I like this girl, and I'm willing to take her with me to other worlds. Maybe start a harem? Then drop it instantly. I rather not end with the bad route, where the whole harem would only last for perhaps a couple of years before problems occur among the harem members.

Either way, having Darkness with me. I don't have to deal with my sexual frustration and not plan to make something remove that. I'm no monk or want to be one. I love having sex, but not making it the main focus. So, with this second life of mine. I shall take Darkness with me everywhere. After all, even though she is my lover. I know that she is willing to do anything for me. She is almost my ideal woman; she is a little touchy and clingy most of the time. Like right now, but nothing perfect in life, I guess. Which just made things fun for me, in my opinion.

The next day*

Taking out my Adventurer's Card to see what magic and/or skill I should get. Where the One-Hit-Kill Bear barely helped me reach level 41 by 80%, and the rest of the 20% experience points I needed was killing stray monsters nearby from Axel to the quest's location and going back.

I have 4 skill points to use, and I don't see any cheap/beginner magic I want. At the same time, I'm missing 6 skill points to get intermediate magic, and even beginner skills require 10 skill points, which I don't have.

Suppose there was an option to get skill points from another way besides leveling. If I was too impatient, I might take that option. But I think I will stick to just leveling up since I'm only level 41, not 100.

"Daisuke, look! I earned a lot, so I upgraded the armor I sent for repair. How does it look?" Darkness has her hands behind her as she leans a bit forward to show her front side more before turning around to show her backside.

"Great." I give her a thumb up while thinking about if I should make armor or a bodysuit for me to wear. Since I have close to zero defense, the only one that could solve currently is the Heart Seeker, but that's temporary. Therefore, this is still a problem for me. I guess I will think about it today.

"Is that it?" Darkness gives me a wry smile, hoping for me to comment on her more about her new upgraded armor.

"You look so sexy in that armor that I have this urge to shred it apart as I have my with your sexy body for everyone to watch us go at it." I follow up with something random that's almost something Darkness wants to happen to her, and I was right, as I watch Darkness' face go red and speaking up more nonsense, where nearby people wanted to take a few steps away from her, but for some other. They're already used to this and have to ensure Darkness doesn't come near them; then, they'll be fine. "By the way, how much did you earn from cabbages? I earned 5,000,000 eris from it."

"5,000,000?!" Darkness snaps out of her sexual fantasy, "I only managed to gain 300,000 eris." Darkness gives me a look of awe that I managed to earn so much money from the cabbages.

"What did you say?! Wait, what's this?!" Aqua's voice reverberated through the guild.

"Huh, something must have triggered that shitty goddess." I thought aloud, ignoring the way Darkness continued telling me her day had been after she got her armor back from the shop.

"Oh, yeah, Daisuke. I'm going to do some quests with Kazuma's party. You won't mind being alone without me, right?" Darkness asks me.

"Nah, it's fine." I replied and this will give me the chance to work on that bodysuit. "Well, I'm going to head out to train." I bid Darkness farewell, then completely ignored her party members, mostly the shitty goddess trying to beg Kazuma for some extra cash once she discovered he made a small fortune from the cabbage quest.

An hour later*

Lying on the ground, as I looked up at the sky while training Chariot Requiem was sniping for half an hour now and decided it was enough for today, then resumed thinking about the bodysuit. There is the idea of recreating the Trion Body from World Trigger, seeing how I already got a Black Trigger and the Sniper Triggers.

Of course, there is the Yuma's Trigger, which is a black-colored jumpsuit armor with many abilities attached to it. Then, I decided I shouldn't focus too much on the things in World Trigger, and I needed something different and interesting that I would use for a while, maybe as my main gear, before throwing it away after getting bored of it the next day.

There are those exoskeletons from Infinite Stratos. Maybe something like that, but I'm going to have to change a few things. Since some of the main core parts, if not all the main core parts are not available in this fantasy world.

I'm just glad I created the Magical Items I have already. But, I still want more. Now that I think about it. Even if I wanted to recreate Yuma's Trigger, I might not be able to due to not having one of the main core parts needed to finish making it.

Ah, so many options, but I'm very picky and very limited on what I could build on certain things. Well, I guess I just have to think about it later. Seeing how the current Magical Items I have now are enough to last me who knows how long.

Maybe I should go back to training Chariot Requiem further as up to now. I have only worked on precision for sniping and Regeneration Manipulation so far, and while using Grand Scale Soul Manipulation once only to revive a dead wolf. And from what canon mentions about Chariot Requiem's true ability is to switch the entirely of the people, animals, and plants of Earth with "something else". The theorized result would be the complete metamorphosis of every organism in the biosphere, both in body and soul, into entirely new and unknown entities.

This ability is the second main reason I wanted the Chariot Requiem in the first place. Since if I were to be able to master this ability, then it should be possible for me to switch a powerful soul from another world into mine for me to use, and with Grand Scale Soul Manipulation. I'll have control over that powerful soul.

Of course, I would only do something like this after mastering the other abilities that came with Chariot Requiem and the other extra abilities; I made sure the Requiem Stand gains besides the canon's abilities. But, I have no idea which one managed to stick to Chariot Requiem or those that didn't.

"Welp, I guess now is a good chance to find out if Chariot Requiem have them or not." I thought out loud as I summon my Requiem Stand.

Reaching into my right pocket to pull out a book, I wrote down all the ideas I wanted to make and a small section for Chariot Requiem's set of abilities.

The first ability should be Life Giver from the Stand: Gold Experience, where I was planning to get the Gold Experience and evolve into the Gold Experience Requiem. Since the Life Giver has many great usages, which were shown in canon many times. But, Chariot Requiem is what I desire more.

So, Life Giver is the first to test if Chariot Requiem possesses it and command it to punch the ground to see if it could endow anything its fists touch with life. But all I got is a large crack in the ground by Chariot Requiem punching it and no sign of anything coming to life. Therefore, Life Giver is not among the abilities Chariot Requiem possesses, or maybe I haven't found the right trigger for Chariot Requiem to use it or something.

Marking on my notebook with a pencil, I grab it from my left pocket, as a reminder that Chariot Requiem does not have Life Giver, much to my disappointment. I have high hope for this ability.

Next on the list is Time Stop, able to halt the flow of time for a brief moment. A powerful must-have ability. But, after seeing how Chariot Requiem didn't have Life Giver. I didn't think much about whether this is another ability Chariot Requiem can't use.

"Chariot Requiem: The World!" I tried using the same trigger words as Star Platinum: The World first and as I expected, and it didn't work. Since this method doesn't work, I may as well try the other one, and if this one doesn't work, then Chariot Requiem can't stop time.

"Chariot Requiem: Time, Stop!" I shout, but nothing and with a sigh of disappointment. I mark this ability off as well. Another powerful ability not under my control.

Going to the next on the list. It's the Stand: The Hand's Elimination, where anything the right palm touches when making a swiping motion with the arm is erased from the universe. So, I got Chariot Requiem to try by swiping the ground without breaking the ground and just erasing a layer of the ground instead.

Not surprising seeing it didn't work or any sign of Elimination activating like in the anime. Another ability off the list, once again, and I wonder when will there be an extra ability would show outside the set of powers Chariot Requiem has in canon.

Reading the other abilities on the list was pretty small since I don't think I would gain all of them and be lucky with an extra or two abilities.

I frown when I've only left with one last ability on the list to test out. It's something I wanted just in case I can't create any weapons for Chariot Requiem to use in the future.

I picked Weapon Creation, the ability to create weapons from nothing or by shaping the existing matter or energy to create the weapons.

First, I command Chariot Requiem to create the rapier used when it was Silver Chariot. To my surprise, I felt a drain of mana, and now Chariot Requiem is holding the same rapier used as Silver Chariot, but this one is colored black, and that is it.

I command Chariot Requiem to create other weapons, like a sword, axe, spear, pistol, submachine gun, and so on. But, like before, I was disappointed that the only thing Chariot Requiem can create with Weapon Creation is a rapier. On the bright side, I don't have to worry about Chariot Requiem fighting unarmed, but the downside is that I need to work on Fencing after all. Instead of allowing Chariot Requiem to act just as a sniper as its primary attacks.

Now that I think about it. I just made Chariot Requiem do stuff instead of teaching it personally by showing how it is done instead of describing it.

Maybe that's why Chariot Requiem's high learning ability degraded when it became a Requiem Stand—seeing how Silver Chariot had high learning ability in canon, where it rarely needed any direct orders.

But then again, how in the world did Chariot Requiem manage to improve so much by using a sniper rifle?

Either way, to test this theory out. I had Chariot Requiem create another rapier to use, then try to remember all I can with Fencing. If I remember correctly, the stance is by pointing the front foot straight forward, with the back foot at a 90-degree angle. The feet should be a few feet apart. Both legs should be bent to enable the fencer to rush to make an attack or defend readily. The sword arm should be bent at a 45-degree angle in front of the fencer, and the other arm should be kept behind the fencer. Next, when moving forward in Fencing, the front foot should move first, followed by the back foot. Opposite, by dragging backward, the back foot should move first and then be followed by the front foot.

I even wore the Fox Mask to help me out. Then after demonstrating the stance and how to move to attack, where I remember correctly, there should be three main moves used in Fencing: Lunge, Parry, and Riposte. A lunge is the basic attacking move, where the sword arm is extended fully while the back leg remains stationary as the front leg moves forward. A parry is a defensive action where the fencer blocks the opponent's attack. Only the blade should move when parrying, while the arm should be kept as straight as possible. A riposte is a counterattack by the fencer who has blocked the opponent with a parry.

These are all I remember, but they should be enough as I continue performing what I know about Fencing before Chariot Requiem to watch and hope it learn how to do Fencing, but again, this is just based on a theory I just came up with.

I commanded Chariot Requiem to start practicing Fencing while putting away the Sniper Trigger. To my relief, Chariot Requiem still possesses its high learning ability as it's doing much better than before when I tried to see if it could do Fencing at the time. That doesn't mean I won't stop Chariot Requiem from becoming a master sniper. That is too good to give up.

So for the rest of the day, I would have Chariot Requiem practice Fencing with me as its opponent and using Fujin.