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"Speech"

Time*

Arc 2 - Chapter 9

The next day*

"Fuck... My body hurts like a motherfucker." I groan out, then open my eyes, and the first thing I saw was a fucking mummy. Acting on the first thing that came to mind, I use Domain Control: Elemental Manipulation - Wind to blast the mummy away, then follow up with compressing the mummy into nothingness.

Slowly I got up from my bed, where I found I'm wearing the same clothes I had always worn, but all the cuts and tears were gone. Someone must have bought new clothes for me, and I truly hope it wasn't Hiro who helped me wear them.

Getting out of bed, I head over to my desk, where my Fox Mask and Magical Gloves are. Putting them on, I have both Requiem Stands to speed up my recovery before I head out.

I make a fist with my right hand before swinging it in front of me while opening my hand, releasing a good amount of microfilament wires for me to control where I slice through all mummies trying to enter my bedroom.

"I swear if this is another monster wave. I'm going to very piss. I might do something very reckless and dangerous." I grit my teeth as more and more mummies are heading toward me, intending to kill.

20 minutes later*

"Fuck off!" I shred through all the mummies until I finally come across the hallway leading to a dead-end where Hime and the others are. So, quickly, I use the microfilament wires to kill all the mummies in front of me until I clear a pathway for the others. "Hurry up!" I turn around while ducking before taking a few steps back as I avoid a mummy that tried to sneak up on me and tear it apart with my wires ruthlessly.

"Daisuke! You're awake!" Hiro shouted with happiness, with the others agreed with him.

"What's wrong with Hime?" I ask everyone where I notice she is close to fainting with how she walks alone.

"I got a cold." Hime begins to cough for a few seconds before stopping. "Daisuke, take care of all the mummies until morning. I..." Hime couldn't continue as she fell to the ground, but she had enough energy left inside her to bite her right index finger and then feed Hiro her blood. Afterward, she finally lost consciousness; this time, she won't be up until morning.

"Hey. Where, Ciel?" I ask Riza as I slice through more and more mummies trying to block us from leaving. Lucky for me, unlike the previous waves of monsters, I only have to deal with mummies and nothing else. These mummies are simply easier for me to deal with alone by relying on just the Magical Gloves. I don't have to use Magical Items other than the Magical Pills to recover my mana.

"He with Sawawa right now. Making sure no one attacks her." Riza replied as she bashed a mummy into the ground, then clawed down another that tried to grab her.

"I see." I continue killing all the mummies while ensuring none come near Hiro, who is carrying Hime on his back. Of course, Flandre is nearby to protect her master, but better to tear down the numbers further, to lessen the load on Flandre. She takes on all of them by herself while protecting Hime.

By the time it's morning. We have killed off all the mummies and the one leading them. Well, more like I light the mummy leader on fire via Domain Control. Overall, I was not looking forward to having to repair the mansion. Again.

A few days*

"Daisuke, you good there?" Riza asks me where I'm currently on the couch in pain.

"A bit, just a little sore from training. I may have overdone it." I groan, cursing myself for forgetting that all the Magical Pills I took didn't mean it would heal my sore body. It's only due to having Chariot Requiem that my body wasn't hurting even more than it already was in the beginning. "By the way, how was dealing with the headless horseman?"

I miss the part where everyone faced the headless horseman looking for its head. I think today or tomorrow is where everyone dealt with the headless horseman.

"Heh! No one is faster than me on these roads. I took care of the guy." Riza said with a smug on her face.

Well, that answers my question if they took care of it already or not.

"Oh, really now?" Hime spoke up, causing Riza to flinch and let out a nervous chuckle.

"Hime-sama, here's your midnight tea." Ciel placed down a teacup on the small table next to where Hime is sitting at the moment.

"Hm. Close, but a bit too sweet." Hime comments on the taste of the tea Ciel brought to her.

"I'll make sure to note that down, Hime-sama." Ciel bows, knowing that he still has lots to learn to be the best butler for Hime after saving him from going through his main programs and even allowing him to develop a relationship with Flandre, whom he finds getting along with, out of everyone here.

"By the way, is it just me, or does everyone know where you live, Hime?" I glance out the window, where I detect many life forms climbing up the hill. "I swear this must be the third time a wave of monsters is coming here."

"I'm still shocked you took on multiple waves of monsters in days by yourself, Daisuke." Riza said in awe due to finding out what happened the few days while she and the others were gone.

"Well, if I'm given a chance to do such a thing again. I think I'll pass on it. Ugh, you have no idea how often I almost lost my life." I said to Riza, but honestly, this is a huge thing for me. Because with the Book of the End. I can practice all the Magical Items I needed to do field-testing by having my past going through the event of taking on the waves of monsters repeatedly for combat experience. I just have to be careful not to end up dead since history will become the present under the effects of the Book of the End.

"So, you plan to stay out of the incoming battle?" Riza raises an eyebrow, where she has already detected the monsters heading this way.

"I'm more focused on how in the world the kingdom hasn't done anything yet, with all the monsters coming here when there are civilians completely unrelated to the supernatural world." I said to Riza, "But if needed, I guess I can help out." I got up from the couch as I felt my body completely healed. No longer does it feel in pain or sore in any way. "Also, we got Ciel here, who is much stronger than Flandre. Trust me. I checked while repairing him." Of course, I am speaking half-truth since Ciel manages to lift Flandre in the manga, who weights a ton. So technically, he is stronger than Flandre.

"Really now?" Riza looks at Ciel in a new light, which causes Ciel to rub his back with an awkward smile with the way Riza looks at him.

"Don't worry. We got this covered. Just stay here and rest. Plus, they are not here to kill us." Hime looks out the window, where countless shadowy figures are moving in the shadow. "They're here to get information out of us about Sherwood."

"Alright. I make sure to keep the place safe." I said to Hime, who looks like she doesn't know if she should be okay with that statement or be concerned.

A few hours later*

Opening my eyes and pausing to increase my combat experience through the battle event, I went against the waves of monsters by myself. "Come in." I got up from my bed to stretch my muscles and the one coming was Hime, who is alone.

"You coming to my room or what?" Hime raises an eyebrow at me with a hand on her hip.

The edge of my mouth twitched, "Give me a few minutes. I got something to do real quick. I'll meet with you in your bedroom."

"Fine, but don't keep me waiting too long." Hime narrowed her eyes at me before walking off. Not caring to close the door as she left.

10 minutes later*

"Okay, this is unusual." I thought out loud because Hime and I are not having sex right now. Something I got used to that I expected the first thing to happen right after entering Hime's bedroom, but instead of sex. I'm in bed with Hime, and we are fully clothed.

"Why is that? Is it because we're not going at it like some animal in heat?" Hime smirk at her mate as she rests her head on her mate's chest.

"Yeah, pretty much." I answered.

"Well, it's good to just do this instead once in a while." Hime said to her mate, then explained why, "Also, in the book, it says royalty just having a peaceful moment together would gain thrice the benefits of having rested normally. Furthermore, this would slowly stabilize our connection other than sex, so be prepared for daily sex until our connection can never be broken."

"Right..." I don't know if what Hime said is true or not since I still didn't get to read the book myself and can only rely on her words. "By the way, when can I read that book on my own?"

"You can borrow it in the morning. I'm surprised it took you this long to ask for it. I thought you would ask it the day I mention its arrival." Hime closes her eyes, as she is feeling tired now. "I'm going to sleep now. Night, Daisuke."

"Night, Hime."

Honestly, I've been busy lately and forgot to ask Hime about it until she reminded me of the whole thing.

A few days later*

We're in the middle of the sea, with just Hime, Riza, Hiro, and me.

"Tell me again, why do I have to tag along?" I ask Hime as I got out of my mental/history training, where I'm mentally tired again, for the fifth time today.

"Well, out of everyone else. Sawawa can't come due to having to do some tasks for me. Furthermore, I left Flandre and Ciel behind to protect her after realizing how dangerous it is for her to be alone, not to mention that Flandre wouldn't be able to get on this boat even if I wanted her to tag along." Hime replied, "Also, because out of the four of us. You're the only one who knows how to cook."

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?!" Riza scowl at Hime for saying she can't cook.

"Really now? Do you wish to cook for everyone tonight?" Hime glance at Riza, who flinch and look away. "That's what I thought, anyway. Just enjoy the sea; we'll return to land, maybe in the morning."

"I don't know if I ask you this yet, but why did you want to go out to the sea in the first place, Hime?" I look out into the sea, and I find nothing, nothing at all. But, at least I wasn't pushed out of the next chapter in the manga. I hope this isn't the part where we end up dead due to my existence in this world. I've already seen a few things that are different or weren't shown in the manga.

"Because I felt like it. Isn't that enough reason for you?" Hime smirk at her mate, who nods his head slowly.

"Hey, Hime." Riza stood next to the control system of the speedboat.

"What is it?"

"Isn't this a rescue signal?" Riza points at the controls, not that Hime could see it.

"Rescue signal, you say?" Hime looks at Riza.

"Yeah, it makes all these beeping sounds." Riza replied, where she moved around to get a better look, to be sure. "This should be the rescue signal, for sure."

"We should just leave that alone and head back now." I spoke up, because I already knew what would happen if we followed the rescue signal. There is a high chance that something completely different would happen with me in the picture now.

"Why would you do such a thing?" Riza asks with a hint of curiosity and doubt. "Wouldn't it be shameful to ignore the cry for help?"

"Well, for one. Going there is a death sentence for many since we're facing ghosts." I said to Riza while thinking about the past events, where I was at sea and some rare ones where my life was at risk. Honestly, going out on the sea is much more dangerous compared to the danger of being on land. Well, in my opinion, that is.

"Wait, ghosts?" Hiro asks in disbelief before Riza or Hime can say anything.

"Yeah, ghosts. I can sense the souls of the deceased not far from here." I said to everyone, then glanced at Riza, who was already sheering the boat towards where the rescue signal was coming from. "Wait!" I cried out when my brain registered Riza driving us straight to the giant abandoned ship.

"Shit!" I activate my Domain Control to cover the entire boat with grayish liquid and bring us up to the side of the giant abandoned-looking ship, which is massive compared to the small boat we've been using so far. "Everyone gets off!" I shout to everyone, where I mentally pat myself on the back for being able to lift a small but heavy speed boat a couple of meters in the air.

It's good that my talent in Telekinesis continues to double every day, and it has been over a month now, so lifting this speed boat would have been near impossible for me to do in the past. Now just takes me a bit of effort, but it won't last long.

"Okay, so our boat is busted." I drop the speed boat back into the sea, where it sunk since there is a big hole at the bottom of the boat.

And I just realized something where we could still avoid this entire chapter by using the Domain Control for the whole trip back to land. Since I have Magical Pills to recover my mana. In hindsight, I just remember this since I haven't used the Magical Pills often outside of battles.

"Any way you could repair it?" Hime asks me. "After all, you did repairs lots of things before. I'm sure you could do the same with the boat."

"Uh..." I stare down at the water, where I can't see where the sinking speed boat is, and I'm not that eager to use all my mana to locate it, even though not even a few minutes have passed. "I think I'll just figure a way to make a new one later from random parts I'll have to find on this ship. Well, after dealing with the ghosts."

"Alright." Hime didn't see any problem with that, even though she found this a waste of time.

"Something wrong, Riza?" Hiro asks the hybrid, where Riza has her werewolf ears popping out on top of her head.

"There is this sound that seems familiar in some way. I think I've heard this sound before." Riza said to Hiro.

"Really? I can't hear anything." Hiro digs into his ears, curious if he has built up earwax that prevents him from hearing clearly.

"Heh, as expected, a dog's hearing is many times better than a human's." Hime mocks Riza, who growls at her.

"I'm a werewolf!" Riza finds Hime's words annoying before she huffs and puts both hands into the pockets of her hoodie. "Anyway, before we were shipwrecked, I thought I heard something that sounded familiar, but I can't recall what it is."

"No matter, we'll know once we explore the inside of this ship." Hime said to everyone while looking around the place. "Overall, this looks like an abandoned ship. And if what Daisuke said before is true, then we should expect ghosts while exploring."

"Wait, we're exploring?!" Hiro gives Hime a shocked look, "Shouldn't we try to get off this ship instead?"

"Of course, because we have no way to return home until Daisuke here builds us a boat; even then, it will take some time." Hime said to her blood warrior.

"So, are we going to split up then? Since I have no idea what to look for parts to make a boat." Riza looks around the area, not a hint of anything that would help her think that could be used as materials.

"You three go ahead. I can do this alone." I said to the three, "Plus, I can defend myself without a problem. Even against ghosts."

"Well, alright." Riza knew, unlike the others, this friend? Comrade? Whatever! He is someone she can say with 100% confidence he can take on anything by himself.

"Are you sure, Daisuke?" Hiro asks with a worried look on his face.

"He should be fine. After all, he did survive against waves of monsters before." Hime answered in her mate's place. "Now, let's leave Daisuke to do his work."

Once, I no longer see the three. I summon Chariot Requiem and have it watch over Hime's group while having Gold Experience Requiem help me out in the process of making the boat to escape from this abandoned ship.

20 minutes later*

"Finally, finish." I mumble to myself, where I've created a speed boat out of the front part of the abandoned ship by converting them into plants via Gold Experience Requiem's Life Giver. Therefore, this speed boat is literally made out of plants, but still considered a speed boat due to the process of being made by Omnifabrication.

There were some difficulties during the process, as some ghosts tried to stop me from building a speed boat out of plants. It's a good thing a Stand can fight off a spiritual entity. Because I would have to stop often to take care of the ghosts via Book of the End. The ghosts' interference had set me back some times, where I would have been done half the time required to build the speed boat.

"Oh, I see you guys found someone." I look back, where Hime and the others came back, with an addition tagging along. I dismissed Chariot Requiem as he no longer needed.

The person in question has four scars going vertically on the shirtless male's face, where they look like claw marks, with a claw mark going over each eye and two other claw marks closer to the side of the eyebrows.

"Oh? Is this the other human you were talking about, girl?" The scarred man point at me while looking at Riza.

"Yeah, don't piss the guy off if I were you. The guy is someone who can make unbelievable things that's beyond dangerous." Riza warns her fellow werewolf, "Hey, Daisuke. This is Keziah Bold, a comrade of my father."

"Look like you manage to build a boat... out of plants." Hime blinks a few times once she gets closer to see the boat her mate made, and sure enough, the boat is made out of plants and she wasn't seeing things.

"Yeah, there weren't many parts for me to use around here. So I had to convert part of the area into plants to use instead. Don't worry, though. This boat will work fine." I said to Hime where the others are suspicious about this; well, Riza isn't after seeing all the things I have made so far. The only ones that are doubtful are Hiro and Keziah.

I wouldn't blame the two if I didn't create the boat myself with the Omnifabricatin. I wouldn't have believed a working speed boat made out of plants, either.

"Convert the area into plants? How is that even possible?" Keziah looks in disbelief, never hearing such a thing. If there were dirt and earth nearby, he would surely understand, but this is an abandoned ship where there is no such thing.

"Eh, it's too complicated to explain. Just know that we got a boat to use to escape this ship." I shrug. "By the way, how long have you been on this ship?" I ask Keziah.

"It has been three days now. The fishing boat was capsized by this ship. I was the only one to survive." Keziah answered with a hint of sadness for being the only one to survive while the others died.

"Hey, can you hear that, Keziah?" Riza said to her fellow werewolf as her werewolf's ears popped out. "It's the sound of the flute again."

"I can hear it. Then, are there survivors left on the ship?" Keziah looks confused about this since he has been on this ship for days, and this is the first time he has heard the sound of a flute.

"Everyone! Come and look over here! Quick!" Hiro shouted to everyone, causing all of us to head over to Hiro and see what he is crying about.

In the far distance, another ship is heading towards this abandoned ship.

"Look! There is a ship! If we call for help, I'm sure we can be rescued." Hiro said with a hint of relief.

"There is no point since we already got a boat. Furthermore, I'm sure the ship heading here can't see the abandoned ship until it's too late." Hime said to her blood warrior. "Not to mention, we currently don't have anything to be used as a rescue signal in the first place since the one on the boat had sunk to the sea along with the boat itself."

"Crap, they've probably got the rescue signal and are heading this way! They'll collide with this ship and sink just like we did." Riza said helplessly, unable to help the people on the ship heading here for their deaths.

"Then, what are we going do, Hime?" Hiro asks his master in despair and vowing if he manages to get this out of alive. He'll never get on another ship unless he is forced to.

"Isn't it obvious?" Hime places her hands on her hip, "We'll look for the mermaid!"

"Mermaid? The ones rumored to have gone extinct before the war?" Riza asks in disbelief that there is one on this ship.

"Correct, we need only find the sound source to find her. It is the source of all this evil. At the same time, though, she's an angel that'll provide us a way to escape from this ship if we didn't have Daisuke here." Hime point at her mate, who is truly something. "However, that doesn't mean we can just escape here without meeting the mermaid."

"Why is that?" Riza asks out of curiosity.

"Trust me. I have a gut feeling that the mermaid calls us here for a reason." Hime begins running into the ship, with the rest of us following her. I left Gold Experience Requiem behind to guard the speed boat since we will need it.

A few minutes later*

As we continue to run through multiple pathways, with both Keziah and Riza leading the ground by following the sound of the flute being played by the mermaid. We start seeing floating balls of mist.

"Hime! These are-"

"They're souls that are trapped on this ship. They're frolicking around because they have new friends." Hime cut Hiro off and explained what those floating balls of mist were.

"Then those people from before?" Riza asks Hime with concern.

"The deceased have probably become ghosts now." Hime answered.

"Damn! So Daisuke was right about the ghosts!" Riza recalls what I said before.

"Over here!" Keziah kicked down a door, then looked surprised at what was on the other side of the door he kicked down. Before starting to crack his knuckles. "Hey. Hey. Did you all make an appointment or something?" Keziah wonders if those ghosts following them had planned this. "They seem to have known our location right from the start. They even prepare a welcoming committee!"

Before everyone's eyes are numerous skeletons, some of them wielding weapons are walking up the stairs we need to go down to head to the mermaid.

"Blow a path through them. For a werewolf like yourself. These shouldn't pose much of a problem, right?" Hime places her left hand on her hip while moving a bit of her hair behind her shoulder with her right hand.

"As expected of a princess. You know us very well!" Keziah transforms into his werewolf form. Then, with a battle roar, "Follow me! Daughter of Wildman, Riza!" As he launches himself at the enemy. Riza followed right behind him, with her arms transformed.

"Hmm." I look around and wonder if I should do something or not since I had never once fought inside a ship before with my Magical Items.

"Planning to fight, Daisuke?" Hime smile at her mate.

"I think I rather not. I don't have any combat experience facing enemy inside a ship and I rather not end up bringing the entire place down by accident." I said to Hime, seeing how most of my Magical Items would destroy everything around me.

Even the Heart Seeker would be useless in facing the present enemies due to the ghosts possessing deceased bodies that had long been without any blood in those bodies. This is a significant factor for the Heart Seeker.

"Oh, wait." I forgot I have Chariot Requiem and summon the Requiem Stand to pick off the enemy one by one to help the two werewolves by using the assassination style I have Chariot Requiem develop.

In everyone's eyes, they see multiple holes appearing all over the enemies' bodies and being flung over the edge of the stairs.

"Come on; we don't have time to waste." I begin walking down the stairs while having Chariot Requiem speed up its pace instead of using its rapier to inflict any more holes into the skeletons. I have the Requiem Stand just pick up the skeletons and throw them over the edges to save time and effort.

10 minutes later*

It took some time, but we managed to bypass the ghosts trying to kill us and headed down a hallway, where everyone began to hear the sound of a flute being played.

"I must say, I never thought you would have Telekinesis or something similar. People with that ability are rare to come by. I can see why Riza wouldn't dare face someone like you alone." Keziah praises me, but not knowing I didn't use Telekinesis at the time, which I honestly forgot. "Hey, are you alright?" Keziah looks at his comrade's daughter with concern, who is injured by those skeletons' weapons.

"Shut up!" Riza scowls as she holds her right arm, where she is bleeding a little on her right shoulder and the left side of her stomach. Truly, Riza must admit that her father's comrade is strong, as expected of someone who is her father's comrade.

"Hime-sama, this is where the mermaid should be." Keziah points at the door next to him, "And it seems like it was locked from the outside."

"So she was imprisoned. This explains everything." Hime grinned as she got all the pieces needed to finish the puzzle.

"Let me take a look. We're meeting the mysterious mermaid at last." Keziah opens the door, where everyone can see a little girl in a white dress with no footwear and holding a white flute. Furthermore, the mermaid has long black hair and also have legs. "Hime-sama, I'm sorry, but your guess is wrong. This mermaid has legs."

"No. With this, I'm certain now." Hime walks past Keziah and kneels down, accepting the little girl into her arms, where the mermaid lets out a soundless cry. "This girl. In exchange for her voice, she is cursed to become human. Unable to swim away herself or call out for help. She could do nothing but play her flute and call in ships to rescue her."

Keziah spits on the ground, disgusted, "Is it that curse where you'll die if you talk? So locking her in was the ideal? Damn, whoever did this got no honor." Then, Keziah picks up the crying mermaid from Hime. "Relax! I'll get you off this ship for sure!" Keziah gives the mermaid a smile of confidence.

"You are no good." Hime said to Keziah, causing the guy to look at Hime in shock. "You have other responsibilities. Leave the mermaid with us." Hime grin as she has an idea to remove this forsaken ship.