Welcome to the next chapter of The Magic Knight, before starting the story. Let's answer some reviews:
Wako12: Why do you feel so strongly about this.
Hellspam: Glad you enjoyed that, it's dangerous to unleash a Yandere on anyone. I have an idea of how to make the game due to what I read from the Light Novel.
Justin D: Yep, you can always count on a father to jump right in to protect his daughter.
DdraigTrueEmperor9: Thanks. That doesn't mean that her love decreased…besides you know how she gets whenever someone calls her a "Self-Proclaimed…" they will have their own moments in the future. All that the [Power] category measures is their raw strength and power, which is why Sairaorg is the highest among their group; Issei the same [Power]-Type had trouble fighting with him head on even with his Balance Breaker (when Sairaorg actually did go all out using Regulus Nemea, he almost killed him). Lancelot, however, specializes in other categories his main fighting-type is [Technique] due to his speed advantage and different techniques and [Wizard] magical potential and abilities. That's a good father for you. Yea, Lancelot is a lucky guy getting a beauty like Yuuma on his lap is a great thing for him. Since he is also a scientist-type like Azazel and Ajuka; it wouldn't be too surprising that he would admire Ajuka. I don't think that he planned for them to be misused like that and the Devils were caught in a bind after the great war; plus there wouldn't be High School DxD if it weren't for that. PS Response: If you're referring to Akame, then I came up with another name for her; plus it's not like that I'm adding different characters into DxD.
King0fP0wers: Hey, King. It'll still be a long while before their peerage fight one another. Thanks, I thought that it was a bit weird that Ajuka wasn't involved in that incident. He fought opponents that even Issei and the others bad trouble fighting with just raw strength. I think that it was mentioned that Sirzechs and Ajuka could be placed in the Top 10 due to their irregular powers. I didn't want to make anything too op for him yet useful at the same time. If you want the True Longinus to not seem too over-powered, then it depends on how you make the character; Cao Cao is an ultimate-technique type who mastered its abilities while coming up with others like his Balance Breaker.
Guest: No.
AUO: That sounds like a thing that he might do to those that he shows interest in and those that he does not. That also sounds like something that he might do, though if Lancelot finds out about that he would kill the fallen angel.
Tohka123: Yea. He has to take responsibility at this point.
Zero: I have someone else in mind for being his Jack. That…would be going above the limit of what a demon sword is supposed to be. The cutting through dimension is one thing since Arthur did a thing similar to that.
Guest 2: A Fate/Cero Fan I see. Out of every servant and character, I think Berserker is my favorite especially when he goes full rage mode and just starts to roast people.
New Game and Quality Time
Later that night located inside of a town that was about eight stations away from Kuoh Town, Lance had walked down the road that led towards a building outside of town. Lance stood in front of the building that was seemingly abandoned based on the outside. What led Lance to this building where the instructions sent to him by Ajuka to his mobile phone. He was fully aware of the number of hideouts owned by Ajuka and this was the closest one from Kuoh Town, so he didn't need to utilize a teleportation magic-circle.
After walking into the lobby of the building, he noticed that there were a number of people mainly young men and women, some who were just around his age and others who seemed to be older than him. Based on the presence that they gave off, Lance could tell that they were indeed humans and not devils, but the did carry a unique ability among them. One of the groups of people who were there directed their mobile devices in his direction and made an astonished look on their face.
"This guy is definitely an Angel…wait no, half."
"So, my must be of the Miracle Children from the Church."
"It's not just that the "Level" and "Rank" is insane."
Lance realized that they were somehow measuring him using their mobile devices a lot similar to his own [Evil Piece Scanner app]. As he was taking glances around the room at those who continued to stare at him, which he had to admit was a bit unnerving. As he was about to take another step forward there was a woman wearing a business suit from her presence alone and the demonic power that he felt from her. Unlike most of the devils that he met, the demonic-power alone was enough to easily trump over a high-class devil.
"Her demonic powers is above that of a high-class devil."
That was the first thought that came to mind.
"Ajuka-sama is waiting for you on the roof."
The female devil informed him as she stretched her hand towards the elevator that led towards the top floor of the building.
After being led towards the elevator by the female devil, Lance was taken to the roof of the building. Where he was led to was a spacious garden built on the top of the roof of the building was filled with an assortment of plants. Based on what Lance could see, there were also a number of trees that were growing on the roof along with fancy water fountain. The only source of light there was is that moonlight that shone down on top of them. After leading him towards the roof, the female devil bowed her head and went back towards the lobby through the stairs.
Sitting behind the only desk located in the middle of the roof was a bewitchingly beautiful and attractive young man who appeared to be in his early twenties' with light blue eyes and green hair, which he keeps slicked back. This was the current Beelzebub—Ajuka Beelzebub. From where he stood, Lance could feel the almost too mysterious presence that maou gave off. What Lance soon took note of was that there was another person in the room conversing with Ajuka.
It was obviously a young woman with familiar light blonde hair that had a hint of green mixed in with it who seemed to be at least a year older than him wearing a long blue dress fitting for a high-class devil with a seal that Lance was familiar with. As Ajuka saw that Lance had entered the room, Ajuka turned towards him with an interested gaze.
"Ah, Lancelot-kun."
Ajuka greeted him with a slight wave of his hand.
Hearing that Lance's name was called out, the young blonde turned towards the direction of where he was standing and smiled a bit. He recognized her as Seekvaira Agares―the heir of the Agares that is just below the Bael Clan in terms of ranking. Lance also met her during the party between the young devils.
"Sorry, but am I interrupting something?"
Lance questioned with a questioning look on his face.
"No, we should already be finished by now. Seekvaira was just sent by her father to hand over me some papers." Ajuka answered as he turned to face the blonde-haired young woman. "Is everything finished Seekvaira?"
"Yes, Ajuka-sama?"
Seekvaira bowed her head in response to his question. Hearing that their business was already finished with, Seekvaira turned her heel and started to walk towards the elevator door. But as she was walking passed Lance, she took a short glance at him and smiled, which Lance immediately returned. Entering the elevator and descending down to the lobby floor. Lance began to take a number of steps forward towards the desk that Ajuka was sitting behind.
"This is the first time we're meeting Lancelot-kun, correct?"
"Yes, Ajuka-sama."
As Lance answered that with a bit of a more calmed look and tone from before. The green-haired maou continued to stare at him with an examining look on his face. Something that caused Lance to stare back at him with a wondering look on his face.
"Uh, is there something wrong?"
"You really do have your father's reckless demeanor."
Ajuka said almost jokingly as he glanced towards Lance, but hearing that from him caused the brown-haired teen to fall face first on the ground before standing back up laughing nervously. It hurt a bit after hearing even from even a maou said that he inherited his father's reckless demeanor.
"Why does everyone keep saying that to me?"
"Being reckless at your age is alright, especially for those who are still developing themselves further. At times, it did happen to Sirzechs and me when we were growing up fighting against the Old-Maou Faction. It especially happens to those who play the game that I made."
Catching on what he said Lance glanced towards him with a knowing look on his face.
"So you're interested in the growth of the players?"
"I'm particularly interested in the growth of humans since they tend to possess more potential compared to Devils and other beings. This would also be a perfect opportunity for you to further develop and test out your new ability."
The last few words that came from the mouth of the green-haired maou caused Lance to make a bit of a surprised look on his face. How did he already know about his Avalon Syntax? The only ones who had any type of knowledge about it were Yuuma, Rossweisse, and the members of his brave saints. Was this the ability of this man's [Kankara Formula], an absolute technique that allows him to control all phenomenon using his ability.
Though the offer of testing out his technique during this game sounded appealing to him.
"Sounds interesting, alright I'll play your game."
Hearing his answer caused Ajuka to smirk a bit, then held out his hand.
"I'll add it to your mobile phone. All you have to do is hold it out."
Listening to his instructions, Lance held out his mobile phone in front of him. Holding out his hand Ajuka made a small green magic circle in his hand with a number of devil letters and equations that were being customized by the maou. At the same time, Lance's phone started giving off a faint green light and as soon as the light had died down he noticed that there was something different about his phone.
Out of curiosity, he unlocked his mobile phone and noticed that there was a newly installed on his phone that wasn't there before.
"You can sign up officially some other time since it seems like you and your friends will be busy with other matters that concern the upcoming rating game. While we're on the subject, there is a favor that I need to ask you."
"If it's a request from the Maou Beelzebub, then this will be interesting."
A request from this certain green-haired maou, Beelzebub would be interesting, but as he explained the nature of his request. The look on the face of the maou was expressionless without a hint of his feelings on the matter is shown. Though Lance after hearing the request being given to him caused a deep level of hatred to begin to swell up in his chest.
As Lance stepped outside the building, standing further away from him was Seekvaira who seemed to have been waiting for him. After noticing him walking outside of the building, she sent him a warm smile.
"It was surprising, I never thought that I'd meet you again under these circumstances."
"Me neither, Seekvaira-san. So, what were you doing here?"
"I was just completing a small errand for my father," Seekvaira answered, as she moved a single strand of her head aside using her finger. "If you don't mind me asking, what were you doing here?"
"I was actually offered to be Ajuka-sama's game."
Hearing his answer caused a bit of a surprised look to form on her face. Seekvaria had heard of the games made by Ajuka, though she heard of only a small number of devils ever playing the game designed by the maou. Most of those who ever played were humans.
"Good, luck. I heard rumors that Ajuka-sama's game can be both mentally and physically tiring, which is possibly why there are little devils who play them."
"I'm pretty sure that I can handle it. I mean can't be any more difficult than the training that I've been through the past ten years," Lance said with a bit of a chuckle before glancing towards her. "I also watched the recording of your match against Diodora Astaroth. I was impressed, you utilized your peerage excellently and each of the tactics that you used was flawless. Though if it―"
"I was already informed by Ajuka-sama of Diodora's treasury during the rating game. It seems that he used one of Ophis' snakes to greatly enhance his demonic-power. Diodora was a fool to believe that no one would question his out of the nowhere increase in demonic power. Though to have lost the match in such a way, I have never been humiliated in such a fashion."
The tone that Seekvaira spoke in such a cold tone that is reminded him of Sona. Though after realizing how she was acting, she placed her hand on her forehead and let out a slight sigh in an attempt to calm down.
"I'm sorry for my tone, I just felt that my performance wasn't completely satisfactory."
"If it wasn't for that creep using one of Ophis' snake to increase his power, then you definitely would have won."
Hearing his comforting words, Seekvaira felt herself calming down and glanced towards him with a kind smile on her face.
"Thanks, Lance-san. But, if you'll excuse me. I have to inform my father that I've completed the task," She had said colly as she activated a magic circle that had the Agares crest within it and began to shine with a blue light. "The only thing that you can change the past is how you feel about it in the present."
Hearing the last part of what she said, Lance had almost instantly recognized that quote from one of his favorite genres of anime and he soon glanced towards her with a bright smirk forming on his face.
"A quote from a great man, Lockon Stratos. Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Season Two." Lance had responded, caused Seekvaira to delay the teleportation magic-circle from activating before saying another quote of the same series. "Why is humanity an existence that only conflicts with itself?"
"Setsuna F Seiei. Mobile Suit Gundam 00." Seekvaira had said with her tone becoming more excitable than she was before almost like a cheerful child. "I can't believe you like watching Gundam too."
"Of course I do, they're awesome. I like anything that involves mechs."
"Whenever you get the time, would you like to watch an episode with me one time?"
"Of course, I look forward to it."
A bright light shone from the magic circle under her feet with Seekvaira waving happily in his direction, he could tell that she also had a cute side to her. Again, the reminded him of Sona. Just like her, Lance activated a teleportation magic circle under his feet that shined with a golden light.
Meanwhile, inside the first-floor basement of the Du Lac residence was a spacious training room built the members of the Du Lac Family and fortified by the Ambrosius. The room is highly durable so any serious attacks will cause little to no damage to the structure, there are also a number of other functions added to the training room. Since they would be expecting battles against the Khaos Brigade, Lance and the others thought that it would be a great idea to get in at least some training sessions every week so that they would be prepared.
Currently inside the training room was the other residents of the house aside from Lance and Sona; the latter had gone to his laboratory without telling the others anything and the former being will her own peerage back at Kuoh Academy. Among those who were training to better themselves―
"Kuh!"
Xenovia had let out a slight grunt as she landed on her butt with Durandal in her hand, on her hand was a small cut that was caused by the blonde holy sword wielder in front of her. Yumi carried a sheathed Masamune in her and was gripped in her hand by its scabbard. The blonde stared down at their group's queen as the former clicked her tongue, it didn't take much for her to realize why Xenovia was pushing herself so much.
During their training sessions with one another, Yumi was almost overwhelmed by Xenovia's high spirit. Due to the bluenette always rushing into their match with each other creating a number of opening with every single powerful swipe of her sword. Yumi took notice that all this first started after their mission against the Old-Maou Faction when she wielded Durandal with far better precision than herself.
"Again."
The downed queen mumbled as she stood back up on her feet.
Fixing her grip on Durandal's hilt, Xenovia charged forward at Yumi and began to deliver a number of strong slashes at Yumi using the full strength in her arms. Gathering the strength in her arms, Yumi slashed Masamune's blade in the direction of Durandal and received the attack in an attempt to redirect a bit of the force and she succeeded in doing just that. Their exchange continued on with a winner between the two of them not being determined, seeing her attacks being easily dealt with by Yumi, Xenovia started to become impatient.
Gathering Durandal's destructive aura, she horizontally unleashed a strong holy wave in Yumi's direction. Seeing the attack flying in her direction, Yumi nimbly dodged it by flipping towards allowing the holy wave to pass. Though just as it passed by her, a couple of strands were cut off the end of Yumi's hair. After landing on the ground, she pressed her feet on the ground and charged forward towards Xenovia using her god-speed. Holding Masamune in her hand, she delivered a number of quick yet precise slashes.
Due to the speed of their attacks, Xenovia was left with no other option but to block them using the flat of Durandal's blade. Xenovia is now being chased by Yumi who continued to deliver fast attack after fast attack that even she had trouble keeping up with. Though it was different from their other matches with one another, she still got the answer that she already knew.
"I'm weaker than Yumi."
Their training lasted for around thirty minutes―
"My adorable student~ Your cute adviser enjoyed seeing your training~"
Serafall called out with a bright cheery smile on her face and a towel wrapped around her that also has her breasts covered. After finishing their training, they all decided to take a bath in the hot springs built next to their new training room. Inside the room, everyone had towels wrapped around them as they sat in the hot bath.
"Now, why don't we review today~?" Serafall cheerfully said as she first took a glance towards Irina who stiffened a bit at the look from the maou. "What did you learn today Irina-chan?"
"I can't match Yuuma-san in combat."
Irina said sadly lowering her head since she could barely put up a fight against Yuuma during their fight with one another. Whenever Irina attacked her using her light weapons, the raven-haired girl would either block or destroy her attacks using a far denser light weapon or just by using her sacred gear. No one there could blame her from being overpowered in such a way since there was a wide gap between them in terms of experience.
"Don't worry Irina-chan, you'll soon reach that level soon enough with some combat experience. I can't really see much of a flaw in Yuuma-chan since she was trained in a place like Grigori since she was a girl making her more or less at the level of their top fighters." Serafall had comforted Irina with her words before turning her sights towards Jeanne. "What about you Jeanne-chan?"
"Uh, well I'm actually kind of stuck in a rut at the moment." Jeanne has said with a wondering look her face as if she was wondering what else she could do. "When I asked Azazel-sensei about it some time ago, he said explained that I've had already mastered most aspects of my blade blacksmith to an almost perfect level. He said that I should focus on my sub-species balance breaker since it was made based on my own preference."
"Haven't you been trying to learn more about magic trying to increase your capabilities?"
Serafall asked her with a wondering look.
"I'm not as good as Lance-kun, but I have been learning more about magic. And because of Rossweisse-san, I started to learn about norse magic." Jeanne had said with a cheery smile after remembering the lesson that she was given by the silver-haired Valkyrie. "I heard that norse magic would be difficult to learn since its more advanced than the within our faction, but Rossweisse-san explained it in a way that I could understand. She was even nice enough to leave me some well-written notes to learn from. I had even complimented her about it, but then she mumbled 'If that's true, then why can't I get a man'. I find it hard to believe that she doesn't have a boyfriend."
"Then why don't you combine your magic with your swords. I've never heard of any or the possessors of the blade blacksmith doing that, but I think that it would make your holy swords stronger than they normally are and it might cause a change in your balance breaker. Just think about it."
Hearing Serafall's explanation, Jeanne began to think of the possibility of using her magic like that. It's not that it wasn't impossible since there's no definite limit to the kind of sword that Jeanne could make using her sacred gears. Neither of them could refute the advice that Serafall was giving them, but they were also a bit surprised by all the good advice that she was given them. Knowing that they were the ones who were next, Xenovia looked away a bit with a clear idea of what she was going to saw.
"Now about our two cute swordswomen~" Serafall had said as she turned towards the bluenette and the blonde. "Yumi-chan, I can tell that even without a sacred gear you're still just as talented as good your dear Onii-chan. The two of you also have the same habits when you attack. Now, Xenovia-chan―"
"Hmm."
Xenovia grunted as she looked away in the other direction away from Serafall's glance.
"Xenovia-chan, you have a habit of charging at your opponent with pure strength alone. While those methods can work against a weaker opponent against another [Technique] who especially specializes in using a [counter]-type move can be dangerous. Since you're Lance-kun's important Queen, then it can also put him in a dangerous position."
Serafall had told her something that struck her in an important place since she always said that she would always be with Lance. Knowing that she might be hazardous to that important person. She had to get stronger to that she could become―
CLAP!
Using the clapping noise from her hands, Serafall gained their collective attention of the girls inside of the large bath. The maou then opened her arms wide to the point where her breasts bounced to the sudden movement and wore a cheery smile on her face.
"Well, now that those important matters are taken care of why don't we all enjoy a great bath with one another~?"
Each of them was almost overpowered by Serafall's cheerful nature.
Just as she informed them, each of them began to enjoy the bath with one another, Jeanne currently sat in front of a shower and started to watch out the shampoo out of her hair. Her eyes were closed so that the shampoo soap wouldn't get in her eyes.
"Hah! I'm glad that I came to Japan, I love baths like these."
Jeanne said cheerfully as she raised both hands in the air allowing her long blonde hair down. Since she was little, Jeanne had always enjoyed taking hot baths with Yumi and Naomi who adopted her as her own daughter. It always felt so relaxing that the tension would just leave her body. Though as she was sitting there Jeanne could feel someone running their finger up her back.
"Eeeek!"
Jeanne let out a slight scream as a shiver went down her back, she quickly turned around and noticed that it was Yuuma who had her raven-hair down and staring at Jeanne with a slight smile.
"Yep, as I thought your skin really is soft and smooth~"
"Wh-What was that for?"
"Hmm, this is called skinship between women."
Yuuma answered with a kind smile on her face, something that caused even Jeanne to soften up after seeing. For most times since knowing her, she hadn't really seen much of such a kind smile on her face so it was a bit surprising to see firsthand.
"Would you like me to wash your back?"
"Huh? W-Well, alright."
Jeanne had turned back around allowing for Yuuma to start washing her back.
"…."
"Ara, you're unusually quiet Jeanne."
"Huh? It's nothing, I just didn't think that you would actually be doing this."
"Ah, I really don't blame you. I haven't really been the most…easiest person to get along with." Yuuma had said as she continued to wash Jeanne's back. "I really never get to do things like this with girls who are my age."
From the tone that came from Yuuma, it sounded as if she were a bit sound about the life that she had been living until now.
"You don't like spending time with your dad?"
"It's not like that. I do love that I got to know my dad, I remember when I was sick a couple years back and he became frantic because he didn't know what to do in that situation. I think I heard that uncle Baraqiel gave him a crash course in taking care of a sick child." Yuuma said with a slight laugh escaping her mouth as she continued to speak in a tone befitting someone her age. "I like watching after the special ability users in Grigori, helping my father with his work and the other leaders. Though, I could have gone without Vali-nii trying to get me to train with him all the time…but, I guess I'm happy that he sees me as a worthy challenge for him in the future. It's just that―"
"You wanted a single day where you were a normal girl for a while without having to talk about fighting or get in the middle of a fight." Jeanne had finished with an understanding look, as she placed her hand on her chest. "I always thought of what would my life be like if I didn't have a sacred gear or Joan of Arc's spirit."
"Well, the sacred gear is one thing. But, I'm pretty that if there wasn't a Joan of Arc then there wouldn't have been you."
"Hehehe, yea you're probably right about that."
Both Jeanne and Yuuma continued to talk with one another about any topic that they could think of, it was odd for them to be able to easily talk with each other like this. Which is weird since they never really had much good interaction with one another. After taking a glance over Jeanne's shoulder with a certain gleam appearing in her eyes.
"You know I'm sorry, Jeanne."
"About what?"
Jeanne questioned as she turned her head towards Yuuma.
"I guess I never really got a great look at them."
"Eh? Wh-what're you talking about?"
Jeanne's eyes widened a bit after catching the slightest bit of mischievous mood in her tone.
"I'm talking about…these!"
Yuuma cheerfully explained before placing both hands on Jeanne's growing chest causing the young blonde's face to turn a bright shade of red.
"E-E-E-Ehhhhhh!" Jeanne shouted out loud. "W-W-W-What're you doing?!"
"Hmmm~ I was wrong to say that you were flat chested."
Jeanne began to squirm in her seat as Yuuma continued to grope and fondle her breasts in every way she could with her hands, the raven-haired young woman not letting up not for a single second.
"Ahh~ please stooop that~"
"Aww~ but they're sooo soft. I can also tell that they're just around the size of that beautiful blonde bishoujo Yumi."
"I don't want to hear that! Iya!"
Jeanne couldn't comprehend by Yuuma was being like this all of a sudden.
As Jeanne continued to squirm in her seat, she soon slipped backward around with Yuuma who had continued to laugh out loud cheerfully at the situation.
Sitting in the hot bath was Yumi and Irina who both had their hair undone along with Xenovia were both watching two of them with a wondering look on their face. They thought that it would be a possibility, but to actually see Yuuma getting along with one of them like that was surprising for them.
"Well, I didn't see them getting along so much."
Yumi had said with a bit of a nervous smile.
"Especially since she spent most of the time calling all of us names."
"Uh, she can be so kind. But, scary at the same time."
"Oh, Xenovia. I'd like to apologize."
Hearing Yumi say that caused Xenovia to glance at her with a confused look on her face.
"For what?"
"About the whole me losing it and attacking you like that."
"To be fair, I did kind of do the same thing to you. If anything, I should be the one apologizing."
Xenovia replied back to what Yumi said, though she stared at Yumi for a couple of seconds before the blonde caught her glance.
"What?"
"I don't get how you can fight with your hair that long."
"Well, that kind of why I keep it tied in the back with a ribbon and it doesn't get in the way much if you let it."
"I couldn't do with long hair so I just cut mine this short."
.
.
.
.
.
.
"Eh?!"
Hearing what Xenovia had caused Yumi to stare at her with a shocked look on her face, Irina was the only one who didn't seem too shocked about this. This was due to them being well acquainted with one another since their days training together.
"She's not lying, Xenovia did have long hair before cutting it."
"I had no choice, my long hair caused trouble for me during a mission when exterminating a vampire."
"Aw, but you would look so cute with longer hair."
"I know right, Yumi-san. Even Sister Griselda was disappointed that Xenovia cut her hair."
Irina had added onto what Yumi had implied about Xenovia, but the bluenette pale after hearing the name of her former ward.
"All she did was say her name. Is that really all that it takes?"
"None of you know what she's really like. She's nice when it comes to everyone else, but when it comes to me she turns into my own personal nightmare."
"Sister Griselda is only watching after you."
"How does squishing my face help me?!"
"She was strict with you, but remember how bad you were at wielding Durandal the first time."
"…yes."
"And didn't she help you wield it better."
"…yes."
The usual confident tone that Xenovia had spoken in became overcome by the cheerful tone that Irina was currently speaking in. The bluenette couldn't refute what Irina had said. There were moments where Griselda had acted like an older sister to her.
"Uh, it warms my heart to see Lance-chan's peer…I mean brave saints + Yuuma-chan are getting along."
"Uh, Serafall-sama. I've been wondering about this for a while."
Irina had asked with somewhat of a nervous tone.
"Ask away, Irina-chan."
"Why do you hate Gabriel-sama?" Irina's questioned had caused the black-haired Maou's expression to freeze while causing the others to stop whatever they were doing and took notice of the side of her mouth as it began to twitch. Irina who remained unaware of the normally cheerful Maou's change in demeanor. "I mean, who could ever come to hate Gabriel-sama? Everyone of the angels in Heaven really loves her and all the female angels hold a great deal of admiration for her. She's so beautiful and really―"
"I-Irina."
The sound of Xenovia's shaky voice snapped Irina back into reality, the brunette turned around and saw that everyone was currently shaking where they stood in the bath. It didn't take her long to notice that highly dense level of power coming from behind her. Hesitantly turning her head around in that very same direction, Irina saw something that caused her expression to pale. Serafall was standing behind her inside the bath, while covered in an icy mist formed by the mass of demonic-power that originated from her with unforgiving eyes staring down solely at Irina.
"What did that woman do to me?"
The voice that Serafall spoke in was almost too demonic even for a maou causing the temperature in the hot bath to drop considerably. Irina took several steps back after seeing the water around the maou started to freeze solid.
"That woman just acts like that around others to hide who she truly is."
As her intensity continued to grow, all the girl's knees started to buckle at the sheer level of demonic power that Serafall was emitting.
SPIKE! SPIKE! SPIKE!
Glancing at the water, they noticed that a number of small jagged ice spikes started to pop up from all around her and continued to spread towards them.
"Why did you have to ask her that?!" Yuuma shouted after glaring towards Irina with a great deal of annoyance in her eyes. "You've essentially doomed us all."
"I'm sorry!"
"G-Get out of the water and run!"
Following that order from Xenovia, the rest of them had gotten out of the hot bath that began to freeze over until it was solid. Serafall's fist started to shake before exploding.
"She's made my life miserable since the moment I met her!"
That final shout caused all the water and moisture inside of the hot bath to freeze almost instantly at the very increase of her hatred.
Meanwhile, inside of the laboratory that belonged solely to Lance, after returning to the house he went in his laboratory to clear his head. Placed on the table were a number of parts from the motorcycle after he dissembled them and was planning on replacing if he had to. Currently, Lance wore a pair of black-colored visors protecting his eyes from the heat generated from the heat generating tool in his hand.
Lance already received the metal he needed for the motorcycles framework, though he still needs the parts for the engine. Scrolling down his laptop was the information based on the design for the new engine that he had in mind, though based on what showed on the screen it was still incomplete.
"To do something like that too so many girls."
As that singular thought went through his head, Lance's grip on his tools started to increase until―
Break!
He looked away from his work for the moment and noticed that the tools in his hand had a small dent in them from the pressure that he unconsciously pressed on them. Placing them down on the table, Lance had started to scratch his head while releasing a slight sigh.
[Hey, Lance are you still thinking about what Beelzebub said?]
Taking note of Lance's change in demeanor, Avon had spoken out from his inactive state, while still being placed on his right leg.
"Of course I am. What kind of person wouldn't reminiscence about what he said? There has only been one person in the world that I've ever been truly this pissed off at. How does anyone ever end up like that?"
[I have met and defeated a lot of evil individuals in the past, and even I felt sickened.]
"*Sigh* I think I should take a breather before I accidentally break my equipment."
Placing down the rest of his equipment onto the table, Lance stretched out his arms after letting out a long yawn. He started to walk outside of his lab and towards the downstairs area.
"I wonder what we're going to have tonight," Lance mumbled to himself after reaching the steps that lead towards their living room. "Hey, guys what do you want for…uh, what happened?"
After arriving it to the living room, Lance looked and noticed that every one of the girls aside from Serafall and Sona were there with blankets wrapped around their bodies yet were still shivering. Seeing the owner of the house walking towards them with a worried look on his face.
"Why're you all wrapped tightly in blankets?"
"L-L-Lance-k-k-kun!"
Irina had called out as she ran towards Lance with tears streaming down her face and wrapped her arms around him and started to let out all of her troubles.
"I was so scared!"
"There, there, Iri-chan What happened?"
Lance had asked her as he started to pet her head comfortably, Irina who was this close to him could feel the warmth from him transferring over to her.
"I'll tell you what happened! Your first girl almost got us all killed!"
"I'm sorry!"
After hearing Yuuma's argument, Irina had cowered at the singular glare being sent her way and began to tighten her grip on Lance. Catching what she had just said caused him to make a confused look on his face as to why she would have almost gotten them killed.
"How did she almost get you killed? And wait…." Lance said before getting a closer look at Irina as he could see the top of her bare breast from under the blanket. "Iri-chan why are you naked?"
"W-We were in the hot baths. Then when I asked Serafall-sama why she hated your mother, then…."
"Oh, I see. That's what happened."
Without Irina even needing to finish her sentence, Lance could already tell what happened after that. It didn't take him much to fully grasp ahold what happened afterward.
"Yea, that was a bad call Iri-chan."
"I didn't think that she would freak out like that! After almost freezing us solid, Serafall-sama ran out of the bath crying and shouting at me 'I hate you for siding what that woman and not me!' Kuh! I'm still freezing." Irina said after taking note of the closeness between the two of them and started to blush. "Maybe you could…help warm me up."
The thought of that started to cause Irina to blush a bit as lewd thoughts of that started to flow into her head, but Lance had noticed that her wings had soon come from her back along with the halo that rested above her head. It was then that her wings started to flicker from white to black repeatedly.
"Irina you're on the edge of becoming a fallen angel."
Xenovia had informed her with blank eyes, Irina taking note of what happened started to panic.
"This is my first time! What should I do Lance-kun?"
"Don't fall. You worked too hard to get become an angel."
Lance said as he reached his hand outwards causing his Avalon Syntax to appear on the back of it, soon enough a circle appeared under Irina with a number of angel symbols. This the Anti-Falling System that was used in Heaven to keep Angels from falling due to their impure thoughts. Seeing that this was used on her, Irina had looked down with a slightly ashamed look on her face.
"Come on, don't make that look." Lance comforted her by kissing her forehead something that caused the brunette's facial expression to relax a bit. "Now, who wants some hot cocoa?"
[Me!]
Everyone agreed with what Lance had offered before he glanced around the room and noticed that he could no longer sense Serafall's presence anywhere in the house.
"Uh, guys. Where did Sera-tan go?"
"After leaving the hot bath, she got dressed and went to the Underworld. Something about a meeting between her, the Maou, and Azazel."
Xenovia had explained.
"Well, why don't I make you guys that hot cocoa? Then we can all go to bed after eating dinner."
After saying that to the rest of them, Lance had walked into the kitchen and started to make them their hot cocoa. While the rest of them continued to sit in the living room. From the noise that he heard in there, they were quietly watching TV with one another.
Once everyone had their chocolate hot beverage, they eventually had dinner afterward and they each soon went to bed. Lance, on the other hand, was still away yet looked as if he were already dressed for bed. His own personal magic circle appeared on the side of his head near his ear. On the other end of the magical-communication circle was Azazel.
"So, Azazel. What you're saying is that you're planning on using Rias and the others, which includes my dear cousin and adorable vampire little brother as bait?"
[I can tell that you're a bit upset, but this is the best chance that we have to take out the Old-Maou Faction and get one up on the Khaos Brigade. If anything happens to them, I will gladly give up my life to try and make up for it.]
"Azazel, I can think of several things that can go wrong in the middle of this operation." Lance had said tilting his head to the side. "But, you do realize what will happen if Yuuma-chan finds out about this? I won't be surprised if she decides to hold you under house arrest at Grigori."
[I would attempt not to tell her, but knowing everyone in Grigori they'll tell her in seconds.] Azazel said with a bit of a nervous laugh. [Both Sirzechs and Michael had already planned on stationing their forces behind the scenes. We've also informed Sairaorg, Seekvaira, and Sona who're all planning on lending a hand in their own way.]
"Hmmm, alright keep me informed of any change." Lance had responded before remembering he had remembered something else. "Don't forget that I and my brave saints are heading towards the Greek Faction the same day as the Rias and the others interview."
[Oh, I should probably inform you. It seems that just like every other faction, they've been having their own problems with the Khaos Brigade…more specifically the Hero Faction.]
A/N: And there goes the thirty-third chapter of The Magic Knight, well a lot had happened this chapter. Lancelot had his first interaction with Ajuka, but there was also an unexpected guest along with them. After having a very short conversation with the Green-Haired Maou, Lancelot had the app for Ajuka's game installed into his mobile phone. Though what kind of request did he have in store for Lancelot?
It seems that Lancelot and Seekvaire also had a small conversation with one another, which ended up revealing that they were both into Mecha Anime. Returning back to the residents of the Du Lac Residence, it seems that the girls had a bonding session...until Irina made a very big mistake by mentioning Gabriel causing her to almost freeze the others. It seems that the others are heading towards the Greek Faction. Well, until next time, later.
Lancelot's Harem: Yumi, Jeanne, Irina, Xenovia, Le Fay, Sona, Serafall, Rossweisse, Valarie, Seekvaira, Kuroka, Yuuma, Griselda, Yasaka, Lavinia, Liu Bei, Tiamat, Kiyome.
Issei's Harem: Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Asia, Ravel, Tsubasa, Aika, Isabel, Katase, Murayama, Mira, Kunou, Elmenhilde, Bennia, Reya, Karlamine.
Lancelot's Brave Saints:
King: Lancelot Du Lac
Queen: Xenovia Quarto
Jack: Lint Sellzen
Ten:
Nine: Himari Kirigakure
Eight: Alex Grimm
Seven: Rossweisse
Six: Ariel Light
Five: Chelia Mathers
Four: Percy Mycenae
Three: Yukio Saito
Two: Jeanne d'Arc
Ace: Yumi Kiba
Joker: