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"Speech"
Time*
Arc 1 - Chapter 11
The next day*
"Hey, Trickster." Someone called out.
I continue to read the book I purchased this morning, just mostly for me to relax. Seeing how there is no manga, light novels, etc., for me to read. So I just picked anything interesting and this book is about the monsters in this world, including their locations, their weaknesses that have been discovered so far, and so on.
I wonder why this isn't given to new beginner adventurers or at least mentioned to them, so they could at least know about it and save up some cash to buy it later. It would have saved a ton of trouble on the way.
"Hey, Trickster, I'm talking to you!" The same person called out, but a bit louder and I wondered how long they would shout for or why the person being shouted hadn't spoken up.
This noise is making me a bit hard to concentrate on my reading. Maybe I should have read at home instead of coming to the guild?
"Sir, your meal." A waitress placed a plate of my ordered meal down on my table. Then left in a hurry for some reason.
Oh, right, that's why I came here for the food.
"Trickster, I know you can hear me! Trickster!" The same person begins shouting even louder, to the point the other adventurers start looking.
I let out a frustrated sigh, then folded the corner of the page of my book before closing it and placing it on the table, then looked where the noisy person is at, and I was a little surprised to see a middle-aged man wearing leather armor, with a greatsword on his back, glaring in my direction.
I glance behind me to see who the guy is glaring at.
"Hey! Don't turn your head back at me!" The middle-aged man roared and the sound of a sword being drawn.
At a speed that was beyond everyone's eyes; I got up from my seat, then grabbed the middle-aged's mouth with my left hand and with my right index finger just a couple of feet away from the middle-aged man's face, where a small ball of flames float at the end of my index finger.
However, this small ball of flames wasn't normal, nor it's a pitiful size of the Magic: Fireball. This is Control of Weather, where I'm gathering the heat around the area into this ball of flames. Which, in a way, caused everyone nearby to feel cold when it's supposed to be warm.
But, for the middle-aged man, his forehead is covered in sweats and could easily tell that this is no ordinary Fireball and could literally melt his face off if hit by it.
"Now, what's with all the noises?" I ask calmly while staring directly into the middle-aged man's eyes, where I found the familiar fear I always see in people's eyes whenever I'm about to kill them. "Also, who are you calling Trickster?" Not that I won't mind being called one, and I have been called once back on Earth for many bad deeds I have done.
I waited for the middle-aged man to say something before remembering that I was preventing him from speaking by covering his mouth with my left hand. In hindsight, I was expecting the guy or someone to attack me. This led me to prepare to use the middle-aged man as a meat shield.
Therefore, I slap a few yellow Spell Shards onto the middle-aged man and the Spell Shards create a binding web to prevent the middle-aged man from moving, then push him a little to make him fall back.
"So, why are you calling me Trickster all of a sudden? And what do you want?" I look down at the middle-aged man while ignoring the people around us, watching how this whole thing takes place.
"You're being called Trickster because of your past actions and someone continues calling you Trickster due to the mask you always wear!" Someone shouted.
Then, people began to say something too but quickly quieted down when everyone saw me take out a couple of Spell Shards to throw at them.
"Okay, I got my answer why I'm being called Trickster. Now, what do you want, that you have to yell at me?" I look at the middle-aged man with cold eyes for interrupting me from reading my new book. Plus, I got something important I need to do soon. Something that would make me even more powerful, where I need all the power I need for future journeys into other worlds.
"I just wanted to ask you if you wanted to join in a quest with my party." The middle-aged man groans out but rethinks this whole thing.
"Oh. No, I'm good. I am in no need of money." I said to the middle-aged man, then sat back down in the seat I was in to finish my meal before leaving.
"Please! It's for a good cause! I-AH!" The middle-aged man shouted and was about to explain why it was a good cause before he was painfully shocked by the Spell Shards binding him for a couple of seconds until he fainted.
After finishing my meal, while ignoring the look, I'm getting. I left the building, so I could begin working on my next big project.
A few hours later*
"Gold Experience Requiem." I call out my second Requiem Stand I obtained today after crafting another Stand-creating Arrow after heavily modifying it so I can hold two Requiem Stands. It should mostly be impossible to have two Stands let alone two Requiem Stands.
Gold Experience Requiem is a humanoid Stand of a height and builds similar to the original Stand User, Giorno's. Many of its features resemble the original Gold Experience, including the ladybugs on its hands and the oblong grooves, across its body. Its head extends into pointed tips with the back of the head hollow, giving it the appearance of a crown. Its eyes have a unique design, with the 'eyeballs' embedded in a cross-like structure within slanted sockets. It has an extended ridge collar on the back of its neck, several indentations, and various other patterns covering its body.
I made sure to heavily modify the Gold Experience Requiem as I did with the Chariot Requiem, where I included the previous form: Gold Experience's abilities are still there and boost them further than what canon could ever possess.
"MUDA!" Gold Experience Requiem shouted, punching a goblin in its face, causing said goblin to explode, splatting the ground with goblin pieces and blood, mostly blood.
"Oh." I may have miscalculated or was too trigger-happy about gaining Gold Experience Requiem, so I forgot it's a close-ranged Requiem Stand with incredible speed and power. Also, the goblin's body is already considered weak and easily can be broken by an average adult male.
I glance at the cold-looking stare of Gold Experience Requiem, which is looking for other hostile targets to deal with.
Rubbing my chin, if I should change Chariot Requiem's fighting style again, but decide otherwise. Since I can summon both Requiem Stands for a few minutes and may need both of them to fight close range in the future.
"MUDA!" Gold Experience Requiem yelled its Stand Cry as it punched a goblin that was able to attack me from behind. The same result from last time occurs.
And suddenly, I got a rough idea of how to use both Requiem Stands in how to use in a group battle.
"Okay, time for my next project. Maybe tomorrow." I mumble to myself as I notice it's getting late and return to town. And I had only used Gold Experience Requiem for just a few minutes, where it only killed a few goblins before the Requiem Stand disappeared a few seconds after not finding any more goblins to kill.
I start walking back to town, wondering how people would react, and learning how I have two Requiem Stands; both have unique, powerful abilities. Though, I may have to stick with just two Stands as I could feel the strain on my mind when summoning two Requiem Stands for just a few minutes. I'm going to need to work on this because just the strain on my mind alone would cause many problems for me in life and death battles.
The next day*
"So, Darkness. What do you want to do?" I casually ask Darkness where today; she is left alone in the guild as Kazuma and Aqua went off somewhere, with Megumin going off somewhere, but she went alone instead—leaving Darkness with me today.
"Right now, I don't have any ideas about what we could do at the moment." Darkness said to me, that she had already had sex before coming here to the guild; therefore, currently, Darkness has no lustful thoughts for the time being.
"Hmm." I hummed to myself, finding how Darkness' personality is interesting. One moment she liked one of those noble ladies, then a huge masochist pervert the next second. "Want to be my wife?"
"Ha?!" Darkness' face turns red at the unexpected marriage proposal. "Ah? Um, you want to get married to me?!" Darkness looked at me between excitement and suspicion.
The latter made me pause for a moment, then wonder why would Darkness look at me with suspicion.
"What? Or would you rather just be my sex slave instead? I could get someone else to be my wife while I have you as my sex slave." I grin at Darkness, who pauses for a moment to imagine this, and her face becomes even redder and a lustful smile appears on her face.
Not caring about the people around us that overheard us, rather they wanted to or not, are now blushing madly from what Darkness and I personally do in private.
"Hey, what are you saying to my friend?!" Someone shouted at me, causing me and Darkness to find Chris standing behind me, where she is glaring at me.
"Oh, hey, it's you." I said casually, not bothered by the glare I'm getting.
"Don't ignore what I say!" Chris glared at the bastard that tricked her friend somehow and if that wasn't enough, now the bastard is trying to get her close friend to be his sex slave of all things!
"Calm down, Chris. Daisuke, just joking." Darkness got up from her seat and quickly try to calm her close friend down.
"Darkness, I don't know what's going on between the two of you, but I must put my foot down this instant! He is a trickster who will cause harm to others just for his sick amusement. He is literally manipulating you for his amusement and once he gets bored of you, he will throw you away like nothing." Chris's facial softens at Darkness before the glare returns as she looks at the Trickster. "I want you to leave her alone and never come near her again. Do you understand me, Trickster?" Chris leans a bit closer to show how serious she is.
"And why should I listen to you?" I give Chris a big smile, and I'm ready to summon both Chariot Requiem and Gold Experience Requiem at any moment. Then, quickly rethink about using these two at this moment and should use them at the best moment.
Chris' glare begins to fill with killing intent, "You and me, outside. Now." Chris didn't bother to wait and quickly walked out of the building, where many adventurers around watching the whole thing were now looking at me.
"Interesting." I grinned at this, then got up from my seat and headed out, where everyone in the guild began to rush outside the building to watch the fight.
"Daisuke! You don't need to do this; I can talk sense into Chris." Darkness looks at me with concern and worries, mostly because she knows how strong her friend is and rather not have her lover get hurt by her close friend.
"Don't worry, Darkness." I pat Darkness' head as I exit the building, where a crowd formed in front of the adventurer guild.
"I see you haven't tried to run away." Chris sneered at me.
I raise an eyebrow at this, wondering if Chris is one of those cliche characters that are very arrogant and look down on many people outside of their inner group; then again, I shouldn't be talking since I sometimes act the same.
"Come on; we don't need to do this. No one wants to do something they would regret." Darkness quickly heads over to Chris, trying to reason her not to do this. "Daisuke hasn't done anything harmful to me, Chris."
"No, Darkness. You may think he hasn't done anything to you, but he has! I won't leave until that Trickster leaves town or dead before my feet." Chris no longer shouted but spoke coldly, causing the crowd to wonder what happened to Chris's friend, Darkness, where a few could figure it out and begin spreading rumors of misunderstanding.
"Chris." Darkness nervously looks around, where she gets pity looks and some she saw directed at her lover with a cold glare.
"Don't worry, Darkness. Once I take care of Trickster, you won't have to worry about him harming you ever again." Chris pulled out a dagger, then walked towards the one that dared defiled her close friend and did much worse things to her.
"Oh? We're going to fight?" I smirk at Chris, then pull out my Fujin and activate it. For the first time, the crowd is shocked to see Fujin up close, and the way Chris looks at Fujin with disdain shows me she either looks down on Fujin or she actually knows what this is. "That's fine with me." I slide the Fox Mask on.
Dashing forward and slashed at Chris with incredible speed; where I aimed for Chris' legs but missed as my opponent moved back at the last second, just a few inches from making contact.
I point with my free hand, and cast Paralyze on Chris, but to my disappointment. It didn't affect Chris at all, which caused me to have some thoughts about why the Paralyze Magic failed.
With a flick of my left wrist, three Spells Shards: Smoke Bomb, Flash Bomb, and Everte Statum. The Smoke Bomb smashed to the ground, causing a big smokescreen to appear, and the Flash Bomb land near where Chris was, causing a blinding light to flash before her eyes. Chris shouts in pain, and lastly, the Everte Statum smashes into Chris' torso, sending the Thief flying back several feet. All done in a few seconds.
With a single thought, I activate my Fox Mask: Foresight and roll to my right, where a second later, I would have a dagger to the neck and heart. The speed of the throwing daggers was out of my calculation and would have caused a flesh wound on my left shoulder if I didn't have my Fox Mask enhancing my body beyond the human limit.
I slash the ground multiple times with Fujin, which I keep doing a few more times until I slashed a dozen times, then I stop as the smokescreen scatters as a gust of wind blasts it away.
Wielding Fujin in a reverse grip, I tilt my head to the side when Chris appears in front of me, with a dagger almost stabbing me in the eye. I activate Fujin's special ability, causing the blades to emerge from the ground where I slashed with Fujin a few seconds ago. But, this was a huge miss as Chris disappeared in a burst of speed that surpassed the human's eyes can see and appear behind me.
Not turning back as I have already thrown another Flash Bomb behind me without looking, or more like, I've already seen Chris appearing behind me with Foresight.
"Shit!" Chris cursed as she was blind once again, but that didn't stop her from trying to stab Trickster in the back. Sadly, her aim was off slightly, which made her miss entirely.
I swung behind me to stab my opponent in the neck with Fujin; however, this was a faint, and Chris fell for it as she moved away from my attack range without even looking. She throws the two daggers in her hands at me, not caring if it misses or not. But, for the crowd, Chris' flying daggers weren't going to miss with such a small distance from the target.
I knock the flying daggers out of the air and charge at Chris, thrusting Fujin straight at Chris' heart and going double the speed I was going at before as my blade touches Chris' fabric clothing.
To my shock, Fujin broke down into pieces before my eyes and this gave me more clues about why the Paralyze Magic didn't affect Chris when it worked on other people.
I abandon my attack midway, kicking the ground with my right foot to stop moving forward and move backward quickly.
I didn't hesitate to throw the Black Trigger away, pull out a couple of dark yellow Spell Shards, and throw them on the ground before me, creating a wall made of the earth.
I spin on my heel, crossing my arms in front of me, where I block the high kick from Chris, sending me flying and crashing through the earth wall, knocking the air out of me.
With a single thought, I summon Chariot Requiem through me, giving me access to limited control of the Requiem Stand's Regeneration Manipulation, which I used to speed up my healing factor to speed up the recovery of anything that is broken, especially my forearms, healed instantly and I'm back in peak condition.
I grabbed a Smoke Bomb and was about to throw it on the ground, but I abandoned that idea due to what I saw with Foresight and instead took a couple of steps away as I moved out of Chris' attack range.
I began to sweat as things weren't going the way I liked it and thought Chris was just another one of those weaklings, but I was proven wrong. What's more, I could guess that Chris should be a high-level Thief, maybe at level 60 or higher.
No longer hesitating.
I pull the Grimoire Weiss from my pocket, toss it into the air, and cast the Sealed Verse: Dark Phantom. The Magical Tome opens itself up, rapidly turning the page as an otherworldly crimson facsimile of myself comes out of it and charges at Chris, who is shocked by this and was distracted enough to get a punch to the face, causing Chris to lose a tooth, much to the crowd shock.
"Daisuke! Chris! Please stop!" Darkness couldn't help it anymore and charged straight into the middle of the battle, hoping the fight would stop with her here.
With cold eyes, I cast Sealed Verse: Dark Lance, creating a Magical Lance in front of the Magical Tome and shooting it with high speed towards Chris, who also has cold eyes, burst into another high speed and dodged the Magical Lance and in front of me, with a flick of silver light. A dagger stabbed into my left side, almost landing to the side of my heart if I hadn't moved the moment I cast Dark Lance.
Instead of screaming in pain, I smirk filled with killing intent and smash my head onto Chris'. Ending up with a throbbing headache. Of course, this headache disappears instantly thanks to the Chariot Requiem still summoned inside me and has already prevented stopping the bleeding.
Wincing at the pain, Chris was about to back off to create distance and look for another opening to attack, but suddenly, she got her hair grabbed, causing her to wince even more.
"Oh, no, you don't. Stab me, and you think you can run away, then do it again?" I ask coldly, "You can forget about that, bitch!" I grab the dagger that I was stabbed with and ruthlessly pull it out without flinching, then increase my strength further with the help of the Fox Mask and adding Chariot Requiem.
I crush Chris' right hand, causing her to shriek in pain as I break her right hand, then I rip the dagger out of her right hand and stab her with it in her right shoulder before I pull her hair up, then forcibly pull her head down as I bring my right knee up, smashing her face against my knee, causing her to have a bloody nose.
Before I could slam my knee into Chris' face again, someone stopped me by hugging my right arm.
I glare at the person who dares to stop me and find it Darkness, who has a teary face.
"Please, Daisuke! You don't have to do this! Enough is enough!" Darkness cried out.
"Yeah! Why don't you stop already!"
"Release Chris now!"
"How about we give you the chance to leave before we make you leave!"
Soon the crowd was no longer idle and began moving a bit closer to me, as they threatened me if I didn't release Chris soon. I'll have to deal with them.
I narrow my eyes at everyone, then look at Darkness with cold eyes for taking on Chris' side; then again, I shouldn't expect anything less and was hoping someone likes to be good to be true. After all, even if I do have somewhat control over her and those other girls in the past. A few of these girls would have others in their life and can break free from my control within time, thanks to having others in their life who care for them and are willing to help even when it is none of their business. All in the name of friendship or something similar.
Although, I wanted to have an actual relationship with some of those girls, including Darkness. But, I'm willing to cut my loss when I see it.
I coldly stare at Darkness before swinging her off me and releasing Chris as well, leading to throwing the two girls onto the ground, with the latter wounded.
With a mental command, Grimoire cast Sealed Verse: Dark Walls, creating multiple Magical Barricades around me, blocking some of the Mages' attacks the moment they saw Chris and Darkness are out of the way.
Up next, the adventurers that fight in close range move towards me as they're going to take me down.
Frowning at this, as I'm at a disadvantage with the numbers against me.
I throw a Smoke Bomb down, then return the Magical Tome into my pocket, take out a couple of Shifting Shards, and use Teleport to get to the house quickly.
Once I made it, I started running around to store all the things on my working table in my pockets before taking out my Adventurer's Card and wondering if I should keep it since it may have some magical tracker on it, then without hesitating. I place the card on the table and hope for the best, where I keep my magic without having the Adventurer's Card.
I cast Control of Weather to gather the Heat Energy around the Adventurer's Card to burn it. A few seconds later, the Adventurer's Card is now gone, and only a black smudge in the shape of a card on the table to show it was there an Adventurer's Card there a moment ago.
I use Teleport to move to another marker outside of the town.
However, to my frustration and feeling cautious. I find myself not in the familiar forest outside of Axel and in complete darkness.
Not wanting to stick around much longer, I active Teleport again, but it didn't work.
So I use Tinder to conjure a small blaze in my left hand to have some light in this darkness, but this didn't work either.
"You think that after what you have done, you expect you could leave?! Fat chance of that happening!" A female roar in this darkness, where I knew who this voice belonged to.
"Well, now, I see that you're no one normal." I said to Chris, yes, the person I was fighting with a few minutes ago, and she is the one who roared just now.
"SHUT UP! AND DIE!" Chris roared with absolute rage.
The entire place begins to shake.
Not taking any chances; I reach into my pockets and take out five Shifting Shards, which absorbed the Teleportation Magic, and arranged them on the ground in a circle so that I could easily stand in the middle and activate the Shifting Shards to use the Shard Magic: Dimensional Shifting, where a bright white light and a portal form inside the circle of Shifting Shards.
I didn't hesitate to jump in, where it could take me anywhere at this point; even straight to hell would be a good chance if Chris could interfere with the Dimensional Shifting and directly send me there.
Much to my delight and luck.
"NOOOOO!" Chris roared, music to my ears as it looked like she couldn't affect my Dimensional Shifting after all.
With the portal closing behind me, I grab Spell Shard: Air Bomb from my pocket and throw it behind me, where I set it off to launch me further away from the portal that is now the size of a marble, but a dagger slip through before the portal completely close, but was sent back due to the Air Bomb.
"Gold Experience Requiem!" I summon my second Requiem Stand, and through it, I slowly stop falling to my death from the sky at such a fast speed.
I sighed in relief that I still have my Requiem Stands.
Now that I've escaped from that unknown dark place. I test if I still have the magic I obtained from being an Arch-Wizard by casting Control of Weather. Sadly, once again, nothing. This made me frown, because I may have lost all the magic I obtained from the Adventurer's Card.
However, I still have my Magical Items, but I have no idea if I have the Omnifabrication still. So, I really need to find out if I still have it or not, because if I don't have it, then it's a big problem for me.