Bringing Help of Flame and Undead
"Something is wrong with Shizu?" Opera asked after hearing this from Demon Lord Iruma.
"Yeah, dad was showing her the memories what he knows of Japan's history and suddenly she fell like she was in real pain. She said she was okay, but I just had this feeling that she's still hurting though not on the outside." Iruma explained.
"I'm not sure why, but I feel like there is something else going on from inside her." Iruma said.
"Hmm, that is a tough one. I'm not sure if I'll be able to help if I don't know the exact problem." Opera stated while they prepare a teacup for Iruma.
"Lord Iruma, did you happen to feel anything odd from Miss Shizu? Like say her magic." Opera asked.
Iruma thought about it at first not sure if he did have his magic sense on at the time until the realization came into his head, he did feel something from that moment without even realizing it.
"I think I did, but I didn't know at the time." Iruma said.
"Perhaps your magic reacted when you became worried for Shizu's well-being and must've picked up on something." Opera picked up the teacup and they whispered to the tea making it glow for a second.
"Here, I cast a spell to help you remember what your magic sense picked up from that moment." Opera handed their Lord the teacup.
"It's not going to make me vomit rainbows from my ears, is it?" Iruma worried a little.
"Of course not." Opera answered.
"Well, Derkila did try making a spell to make rainbows appear in front of his enemies." Opera recalled those times.
"Aw, was he trying make them feel happy on the inside and see the error of his ways?" Iruma asked smiling.
"No, the rainbow would form a fist at the front end punch the enemies so hard that they would vomit rainbows out of their noses." Opera explained more about the spell.
"A rainbow of pain!" Iruma gasped.
"Anyway, try the tea." Opera said.
Iruma shook the thought of a painful rainbow magic and drank the tea with the nice taste sinking well into his mouth, then the memories of that moment of when Shizu fell on her knees, and he sensed a strong magic from the young woman as it is now becoming clearer to her.
"I felt… fire." Iruma said.
"Fire?" Opera intrigued to hear more.
"Yeah, but it wasn't like the fire magic you taught me. This fire was different, it felt really bad like a wild fire burning the forest… this fire wants to burn more, to burn everything like a monster." Iruma described of how this fire felt to him.
"A fire that wants to burn everything like a monster." Opera started to have the idea of this fire.
"Do you know something this, Opera?" Iruma asked.
"I have actually been thinking about this for a while, that I may have heard about this Shizu woman from a long time ago." Opera said crossing his arms.
"A long time ago, are you saying you met Shizu before?" Iruma asked.
"No, not in person but I have heard a rumor from several decades ago that one of the other Demon Lords summoned a human child to become his servant but abandoned her years later to a hero and that hero took her until that summoned girl was left alone." Opera explained about this rumor.
"That sounds more detailed to be a rumor." Iruma commented.
"But wait, you said that this was several decades ago? But Shizu doesn't look that old, does she?" Iruma puzzled.
"Now Iruma, you should know better than to question a woman's age. It's bad manners and you'll get a slap on the face." Opera teased with a flat and straight face.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to, but I still can't tell if you're a male or female." Iruma apologized.
"(Still can't take a joke.)" Opera thought deadpanned.
"Anyway, how do you even suspect that the girl from the rumor and Shizu are one and the same?" Iruma asked.
"What's this about Shizu?" Ameri asked as she enters the tent.
"We were just talking about Miss Shizu being connected to something that has our Lord concern and I was just about to reveal a grand idea." Opera answered.
"You're worried about one of the adventurers?" Ameri asked her boyfriend surprise.
"Yeah, I felt fire magic that was dangerous like a wild beast wanting to destroy everything." Iruma explained a little.
"How odd, this remains me of a story I once heard about from my father. The legendary and powerful fire spirit known as Ifrit, but I heard he was captured by one of the Demon Lords." Ameri mentioned.
"(A fire spirit and powerful, could that have been what I felt before?)" Iruma thought wondered.
"Now, it's time we get on with the plan I had in mind." Opera said as they pulled out two little papers each with different symbol circles.
"What are those, Opera?" Iruma asked.
"These are summon papers, and these are the ones the Demon Lord before you had personally selected to help in situations such like this. One of them can help us find out the problem with Miss Shizu and figure out a solution." Opera answered.
"Really? They can help us?" Iruma asked exciting.
"But wait, if one of them is for that task then what is the other one for?" Ameri concerned about this.
"That is a good question. To be quite frank, it's been a few centuries since we had to use these that what demons they are have completely slip up my mind." Opera said with a hidden intention in mind.
"Oh well, I guess the only true way to find out for sure is to try out both of them and see for ourselves." Opera proclaimed and holding the papers closer to Iruma.
"(You really just want to use both of them, do you?)" Iruma and Ameri thought saw right through him.
"Well, might as well." Iruma took the summon papers from Opera.
"How do I use them?" Iruma asked.
"Simple: focus your demon fire in the papers and the rest will happen on their own." Opera instructed.
"Okay, sound simple enough." Iruma nodded.
"Hold on, maybe we should think this through more." Ameri tried to have Iruma be a little more cautious about this.
But it was already too late when Iruma focus the fire magic he learned call La Fire setting the summon papers on fire, and then the purple flames suddenly grew bigger than his head, and they also change from flames to sparklers like tinkling stars and they flew out from Iruma's hands.
"Huh, Opera? Is this normal?" Iruma asked worry.
"It's fine, this doesn't hurt anyone, and it makes for a dramatic entrance." Opera proclaimed.
"You're not making things assuring with a face like that." Ameri stated.
Meanwhile, outside of Iruma's tent as Rimuru and Ranga are coming to the place to let the boy know that dinner is ready though notice the strange light show is happening from the inside.
"Huh, what's that strange light going on?" Rimuru asked.
"Answer: there are two magical dimensional distortions erupting from within the location very close to Iruma and this would appears to have been Demon Lord Iruma's doing since his magic is with those distortions." Great Sage informed.
"(Wait, Iruma is doing that? And what exactly do you mean dimensional?)" Rimuru asked shock.
"There are some new magical energies coming from the distortions as they are being brought into this side of reality and such." Great Sage mentioned.
"(That sounds complicated, but if I'm understanding this right then that would mean Iruma is… summoning something here?!)" Rimuru freaked out.
"IRUMA?!" Rimuru hopped off from Ranga and over to the tent as the light just stopped with a tiny shockwave.
This also got the attention of Shizu and Ghislaine who are walking together, they too notice the strange light along with Sango who was meditation on top of tall wooden pillar and jump off to see this for herself.
"Iruma, is everything okay?" Rimuru asked as he enters the tent.
"Oh, hey dad. You're just in time to meet two new friends." Iruma greeted.
"New friends?" Ghislaine confused.
In front of Iruma as Opera and Ameri are behind him as well are new figures that have suddenly appeared right in front of him.
"Derkila, is that you, my Lord. You finally summon me after all these years!" One woman with two horns greeted smiling.
"Huh, nice to meet you and I'm not Derkila, just so you know." Iruma greeted the new summon woman.
"What the… You're not Derkila? But the power to summon could only be that of him!" The demon woman gasped.
"What you are looking at is the form Lord's successor, his heir Iruma Tempest the Demon Lord." Opera introduced Iruma to the demon woman.
"Wait, heir? Successor? What do you mean?" The demon woman asked confuses.
"It is exactly what I said. Now please introduce yourself to your new lord." Opera ordered.
"Alright then, guess I got no choice." The demon woman decided to go along with this, hopefully to get more answers out of this.
"(I don't think this one likes to be taken order from a kid.)" Rimuru thought worried about this one.
"Greetings, my lord. My name is Heine of the Flame, I am yours to command." Heine introduced herself as she bows at Iruma.
Heine is a beautiful dark skinned demon woman with a pair of horns sticking out of her head, she has white hair, red eyes, generous curves and large breasts. She wears a skimpy, red-trimmed outfit. Breasts sizes: H-cup.
"It's nice to meet you, I'm Demon Lord Iruma as Opera just said. I'm new to the position after the last guy died and I was reborn to be his successor." Iruma said smiling.
"Hold on, Lord Derkila is dead? But that can't be, he's a powerful demon lord and none could ever put an end to his life!" Heine shocked.
"It is the truth, his lordship has passed away months ago and he casted a powerful that brought Iruma to become the next Demon Lord after him." Opera explained.
"I'm sorry if I don't look anything scary or dangerous, but I promise to do my best to be a good Demon Lord to earn your respect and hope we can be friends." Iruma hold out his hand to Heine.
Heine suddenly felt her heart just skipped one beat from that almost he just charmed her with those kind words, almost like that time when she met Derkila.
"Well, if Derkila believes you can be something greater in his place then I guess I wouldn't mind taking orders from you." Heine said shaking Iruma's hand.
"That was easy!" Rimuru gasped.
"So, you must be the Fire Demon that Lord Derkila can summon. Opera told me about you." Ghislaine walked up to Heine.
"Well, then you must know how powerful and respectful I am that you should not mess." Heine smirked.
"Actually, he told me how you've always been an oddball who always finds herself in awkward poses like a pervert." Ghislaine mentioned.
"WHAT?! You told her?!" Heine blushed of embarrassment and screamed at Opera.
"Because you were always the enjoyment of laughter." Opera answered blunt and honest.
"I see you haven't change after all these years." Heine glared at the red hair cat servant.
"So, what's your name?" Iruma asked the other one he summoned, but this young-looking woman doesn't appear to be responding.
"Are you okay? There's no need to be shy, I promise no one is going to hurt you and I won't let my dad eat you even if you try something bad on me." Iruma said.
"Sheesh, make me sound like a bad guy, why don't ya?" Rimuru felt a little hurt from that and Shizu giggles.
The second summoned girl moved her head up showing her face which appears to be very pale and on the rotten looking too, Iruma looks down seeing a collar around her neck with the word he guess could be her name.
"Tae. So, your name is Tae. Nice to meet you." Iruma greeted.
"Ah yes, that one there is Tae Yamada, the Wild Zombie." Opera introduced the second summon.
"Cool, never seen a zombie being summoned. Wait, ZOMBIE?!" Rimuru gasped.
Tae has long and straight dark plum hair that reaches down to the upper half of her legs with two parts that stand out slightly with her bangs and blood red eyes. She wears a loose black dress tied with white rope. She also has gray over the knee socks with black shoes. She also appears to have bandages in most all over her body. Breasts sizes: F-cup.
"Are you saying that girl is one of the undead that could be potential end the world?!" Rimuru screamed.
"Now, now, Rimuru, I think you don't have to worry about that zombie girl hurting Iruma." Shizu lifted Rimuru and show that Iruma is already petting Tae.
"Iruma! Be careful not to let her eat your brain!" Rimuru warned freaking out.
"I have to say, I never seen the dead walking among us before? This new land is quite interesting, but also disrespectful to the nature of life as well." Sango commented while poking Tae's cheek.
"Don't poke her or you'll get bit too!" Rimuru warned to the girl.
Tae doesn't do anything for the moment until she finally looks around seeing her new surroundings and saw Iruma right in front of her for the first time letting out a soft moan sound.
"Ah, it seems she is starting to notice you." Opera said.
"Wait, you mean she wasn't before?" Ameri shocked.
Suddenly Tae jumps right above Iruma before he could react with her mouth wide open and lands on the boy shocking everyone, except for Opera who reminds calm.
"I knew it! It's the end of the world! I got to destroy the zombie before it spreads?!" Rimuru panicked.
"How dare you attack our beloved like that!" Ghislaine angered as she and Ameri are about to attack, but Shizu steps in to stop them.
"No wait, she's not hurting him. See." Shizu gestured to the scene.
True to her words, Tae isn't really hurting Iruma in a way even though it seems like she is trying to bite his head, she is actually teetering like a baby with a smile expression while Iruma laughs.
"Aw, I'm glad we can be friends." Iruma smiled.
"But Iruma, why didn't you dodge her like you always have with other things?" Rimuru confused.
"I don't know, maybe my body feels that Tae isn't dangerous and wouldn't really kill me." Iruma answered the best he can as he stroke her cheek.
"Maybe she's not life-threatening because she's technically not alive." Shizu pointed out, also trying to make a joke, but nobody thought it was funny.
"Yeah, maybe you should do any jokes from now on." Rimuru advised.
"But Iruma, you have to show restrain to this girl since she's going to be working for you from now on, so that means you can't spoil her too much." Shizu lectured to the boy.
"Oh, okay mom." Iruma nodded as he pulls Tae off.
"Huh, what did you call me?" Shizu asked shock with her cheeks blushing.
"Nothing! I hungry now, let's go get dinner!" Iruma hurried out of the tent.
"He's right, let's all try to relax over dinner." Rimuru nodded and hops out of the tent with everyone following him.
But only two remain, they are Opera who grabbed Heine's hand to keep her with him for a moment.
"Heine, now that you're here there is something I need your help that concerns Lord Iruma." Opera said.
"Concern Lord Iruma, is there something wrong with him?" Heine asked.
"No, it's more about someone he is worried about. The woman who seems to be motherly fond of Iruma with the mask, her name is Shizu and I suspect something bad is happening to her." Opera stated.
"Something bad to her, what do you mean?" Heine asked.
"Yes, I believe she was once the property of Demon Lord Platinum Devil, Leon Cromwell. And she is also possessed by the great fire spirit, Ifrit." Opera revealed his theory shocking Heine.
"As a high-ranking fire demon, I believe you might be able to find out the truth for yourself. But what comes after the truth, that even I don't know." Opera said.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
In order for Iruma to find help about what is really going on Shizu, Opera had him perform a double summon, bringing both Heine of the Flame and Tae the Zombie Girl which both have already taken a liking to Iruma as he also already grow fond of Shizu like a mom it seems.
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