"In Japanese, only Inumuta and Ryuko Understand."
The next few days went by uneventfully, almost none of the students dared to oppose Inumuta or Ryuko any further because of the incident with Guiche and quietly accepted the lessons. Cattleya was really enthusiastic about finally being able attend in school and listened attentively to all lessons.
Ryuko and Inumuta quickly warmed up to the staff, the very idea that Ryuko could defeat all those nobles single handedly was a welcome thought to the life long oppressed cooks and maids of the academy. They were not afraid of telling Ryuko any dirt on the nobles, she had pledged to protect them from abuse from the nobles.
Using the information from the staff, she had cracked down on the nobles and forced them to correct their ill ways and actually act noble. There were some who resisted and refused to listen to Ryuko despite the consequences and tried to duel her, believing that nobles were still superior in every way. They obviously lost and were sent to the infirmary.
One day, as Inumuta was patrolling the school grounds after his lesson, he heard a voice call out for him from behind. He turned around to see the head chef, Marteau, running over with tears in his eyes.
"Mr Hoka! Please help us, its Siesta, she suddenly packed up and left. I asked the headmaster about it and he told me that Siesta had been forced to transfer to Count Mott's estate as a Mistress! I know you only have jurisdiction in the school, but Siesta is like a daughter to me, please save her!"
'Hmm, if I help her, it will serve to improve my relations with the staff, but I risk damaging relations with the higher class nobles… Based on what Marteau had said, this fellow Mott seems to be one of the nobles that like to abuse their power, I could claim I did it to clear the name of nobles.'
"I'll see what I can do, try to calm down and just go about your jobs. I need to go see Colbert about this."
"Thank you Mr Hoka, I'll try and calm the rest of the staff down and prepare the meals."
Inumuta headed off to Colbert's workshop and questioned Colbert on the whereabouts of nearby noble estates, claiming to want to get a better lay of the land to avoid suspicion. As soon as he found out the location of Mott's estate, he headed off to confront The Count.
Inumuta was at the doorstep of the large estate, the guard outside the estate halted him and asked for the reason he was here.
"I'm here on official business from the Tristain Academy of Magic."
"You don't look like a noble, many people have claimed that and the guards who let them in were beheaded, I'm gonna need to see some proof buddy."
Inumuta took out his academy seal and showed it to the guard.
"Hmm, well this seems legitimate enough, come with me to the waiting room."
As Inumuta entered the estate, he realized just how wealthy the nobles here really were, there were exquisite paintings all around the home. The dining table had golden silverware laid out perfectly, with maids in revealing uniforms stationed at every room. In the main hall, the chandeliers were made of gold and laced with jewels.
After a few minutes in the waiting room, Mott showed himself.
"So, who are you?"
"I am from the Tristain Academy of Magic, I have come to request that you return the maid to the academy."
"You are not a noble?"
"I'm afraid not."
"Then you have no right to request such a thing. That maid has caught my eye, and as a noble, she shall be mine!"
"I advise against it, maybe we can come to an agreement."
"What could you, a commoner possibly offer me?"
'He seems to be your typical pervert, I guess I have a few things he may be interested in...'
Inumuta reached into his pouch and pulled out a book.
"I can offer you this exquisite piece of literature for the mere opportunity to duel you for Siesta."
Mott snatched the book from Inumuta and flipped through it, immediately knowing what it was.
'What a stupid commoner! He is willing to give me this just so he can try to reclaim that maid when I would have gladly given him the maid just for this book!'
"Very well, I accept, let us go into the clearing nearby for our duel." Mott then turned to a guard and shouted orders, "Guard, get all the servants of the estate to bare witness to what happens to those foolish enough to oppose me!"
At the clearing, Inumuta and Mott stood across one another with the crowd a good distance away.
"Mr Hoka don't do it! You can't beat him, please don't put your life on the line for me!" Siesta shouted from the crowd.
"Hah, you should listen to that maid, peasant, turn back before I lose my patience."
"Hey Count, how about we make this more interesting?"
"More interesting? How?"
"If I win, I get your entire fortune."
"Why would I ever agree to that you silly Plebian?"
"Because if you win, I'll give you these…"
Inumuta flashed five more books before storing them back in his pouch."
'He has no chance of winning, I'll get those books practically for free! What luck to encounter such a foolish commoner, with his books, my collection will grow in value!'
"Very well!"
"Then please sign this Mott, it is the agreement of our duel's terms."
Inumuta had pulled out a parchment from his pouch and handed it to Mott. The Count pressed his seal against the paper and Inumuta kept it back into the pouch. Inumuta returned to his position and smirked.
"Now there's nothing you can do, your fortune is now mine Count!"
"Ridiculous, I am a Triangle mage, Mott the Wave! Theres no way I would lose to a commoner like you, especially not now that you agreed to this battlefield. The river will provide me with an endless supply of water to use against you, not that I'll need it of course. I doubt you would even survive my first attack!"
"Well then go ahead and try!"
Mott was annoyed by this commoner, he had dared to challenge him and was still acting so arrogant in the face of death. He would be sure to completely destroy the damned Plebian.
Mott drew his wand and gathered the water from the stream, he pooled it into a large ball over his head and started to cast his spell. Inumuta made a gun using his right hand and pointed it at the orb of water. Right as Mott was halfway through his chant, he felt the water disappear and an immense amount of heat pass over his head. He opened his eyes to see Inumuta's right hand in the shape of a gun with his index finger open and smoke coming out of it.
"What was that?! What have you done you insolent commoner?!"
"Me? Nothing much, I just boiled away all your water."
"You used Fire Magic? You told me you were a commoner!"
"I am, but there's one thing different from me and other commoners. I have technology!"
"Enough of this nonsense, guards seize him!"
The guards were hesitant to attack Inumuta after what he had just did and gripped their weapons tightly.
"What do you think I am paying you for, seize him now or I'll behead the lot of you!"
The guards around the area rushed towards Inumuta attempting to take him down, not phased in the least by this, Inumuta simply jumped into the air and used his targeting system to aim his finger at Mott. The Count had gathered up more water from the stream and was aiming at Inumuta. The targeting system locked on to Mott's forehead and the Inumuta fired. The laser exited Inumuta's finger and burned straight through The Count's skull and hit the ground where it left a scorch mark.
Mott's orb of water splashed on top of him as his Magic faded and he fell forward onto the ground. Not a drop of blood was spilt as the shaft was instantly melted shut the moment the laser passed through it.
"The Count is gone, you are all free to go, be free!"
The maids who previously had been forced to work for him rejoiced while the guards cheered. The servants all went into the to pack their things except Siesta who came up to Inumuta.
"You killed The Royal Messenger, aren't you worried something will happen to you?"
"Not really, I'm just wondering how I'm going to explain this to Ryuko later. She's definitely gonna be pissed I went off and did something like this without checking with her."
Siesta smiled at Inumuta and kissed him on the cheek.
"Well thanks for saving me anyway."
Inumuta blushed at the sudden move but tried to dismissed it quickly to focus on the task at hand.
"Ugh… Yea… Anyway, want to help me raid the estate?"
"What? How are you going to take everything back?"
"Don't worry about that, just help me put everything metallic or valuable in a pile here."
"Well okay… Oh wait! We can ask them to help us!"
Siesta called out to the maids and guards leaving the estate with their belongings.
"Guys! Could you stay for a bit to help Inumuta loot from the estate?!"
The servants looked at each other and grinned, they had hated that place and would gladly tear it apart to release some anger.
They all ran in and grabbed anything metallic or valuable that wasn't nailed down. The plates, bowls, cups, cutlery, salt shakers, pots, pans, other cooking tools, mirrors, vases, weapons, armor, candlesticks, chairs, tables, dressers, paintings, even beds and other things remotely metallic was brought out and placed in a pile.
Inumuta went to the main gates and pried them off their hinges. He put them on the ground next to Mott body which he looted and scanned. He used the key he found to unlock the safe which had been revealed when one of the guards removed a painting. He opened it and took all the money, gemstones and documents. Upon emptying the safe, a group of guards pulled it out of the wall and carried it out of the house. He explored around the rest of the house, the servants running rampant and tearing apart the entire house, and picked out any precious jewels, documents or loose change.
Under a rug, he found a trapdoor leading to a small room. In the room, he found a plethora of evidence showing that Mott was supporting the rebels of Albion.
'Well there's my excuse for killing him set.'
He took some time to stuff it all into his 'Sparital Displacement Pouch'. Upon exiting the small room, he noticed that the trapdoor was gone and the doors to the estate had all been removed. Even the chandeliers in the main hall were gone.
'How the hell did they do that?!'
Inumuta was shocked by what he had seen at the pile he started. It grew to be as large as a small house. Next to the pile, the chief guard stood smiling with his arms crossed.
"How do you like it God-san? We took everything remotely valuable and metallic from the place for you! Its a little big though, you sure you'll be able to carry this back yourself?"
"Um… Well I should be able to manage, just wait a moment."
'Wait why did they call me God? Hmm… I guess I do sorta seem like one considering what I just did… I'll deal with the issue later, for now I need to focus on getting rid of the evidence.'
Inumuta reached into his pouch and pulled out a small black cube with a red button on top. He placed in on the ground and pushed the button. The cube started to unfold itself and it soon grew to the size of a giant crate with a huge funnel on one side and conveyer belt on the other. On the front was a panel with many figures and buttons. The back was flat with the word "Extractinator" painted on the side.
"Now if you could all help me to put all this into this machine here."
"You heard the man, we're stuffing all this crap in there!"
Shouts of agreement were heard as they all worked to stuff the doors, beds, vases, armors, weapons and other objects into the funnel. Unexpectedly, they even dumped The Count's dead body into the funnel. Inumuta stood at the front monitoring the input and was surprised to discover the purity of the materials.
'They must have transmuted most of it using magic. It puzzles me how the economy is still stable if they can just make gold as they please.'
When everything had been squeezed in, Inumuta pushed a couple of buttons and a strange beam shot out of the funnel that went towards the estate and its walls. The servants looked in awe as their saviour's amazing contraption was siphoning away the estate. Bit by bit, the estate was reduced to nothingness. The land looked like it did before the manor was constructed. Even the paved stone road was absorbed by the machine all the way back to where it had split off from the main path. Inumuta looked through the list of materials and smiled.
Satisfied with his haul, Inumuta pushed a blue button on the side and the conveyer got to work. Platinum bars, Gold bars, Silver bars, Bronze bars, Titanium bars, Steel bars, Iron bars, Tungsten bars, Lead bars, Tin bars, Nickel bars, Zinc bars, Copper bars, Brass bars, any bars that existed rolled out of the machine and into Inumuta's sack. The servants were astounded by this and watched curiously as all the metal bars fit into the little pouch. Next, all the remaining gems and gold coins rolled out in two separate piles and were poured into the pouch. Not emptied yet, the machine spit out a wealth of condensed stone, wood, glass, cloth, paper and other leftovers into the pouch before folding itself back into a cube.
Inumuta picked up the cube and put it back into the sack. He looked over to the maids and guard and pulled out ten gold bars from the pouch.
"Here, you can use this to live well for a while, make sure to split it evenly! Siesta, make sure to head back to the Academy!
Siesta set off first to tell Marteau the good news while Inumuta stayed to take some scans before heading off.
As Inumuta left, all the guards and all the maids got on their knees and bowed as if he were a God. It was the only logical conclusion they could think of. The man had appeared out of nowhere, fired beams of light from his fingers which instantly killed the sinful noble without any bloodshed, confiscated and split the noble's property with them, had a pouch that could fit anything in it without getting any bigger and a machine that turned everything the noble owned back into its materials.
"Wait great God-san! Please tell us who you are!" the Head Guard begged.
"I am known as The Tech-Master. My Religion is known as 'Technomonology'. I leave you with these words my young Technos, May Science Prevail And Magic Fail…"
With that, Inumuta activated his stealth and headed back to the Academy. The worshippers lowered their heads more as they saw their God disappear into thin air.
"He really is a God!" one of the maids said.
"We will spread the belief to the others Tech-Master! 'Technomonology' will be the new Religion of Halkeginia! We only hope one day you will grace us with your presence again to punish more of the corrupt nobles! May Science Prevail And Magic Fail!" the Head Guard declared.
Inumuta headed back to the Academy and scanned the route now that he had free time, he discovered a Uranium reserve under a nearby mountain and marked it on his map for future reference.
'I wonder why I'm not picking up other metal reserves near the surface, it must be because of Earth Mages existing. They probably scouted the area already and extracted all the metals they knew about in the surrounding areas which explains why that Uranium deposit was left untouched. I guess Magic really does stun technology because of how convenient it is. I bet if we had Magic back then, we would never have come up with things like the Extractinator!'
The rest of the trip back was uneventful and Inumuta got back to the Academy without much incident and greeted Ryuko as he entered their room.
'Phew, she didn't realize I left, I'd hate to think about what she would have done if she found out about what I did.'
Inumuta replaced his energy cells and sat down to analyze the data he got from Mott's body.
'Interesting, this data is exquisite, even after death, the Magic in them lingers for some time.'
Next, Inumuta reviewed what he had gotten from salvaging Mott's estate.
'Wow, he was a real rich guy, over 20, 000 New Gold Coins. I wonder how much all this material I've gathered is worth, I should pay a visit to the town with Ryuko tomorrow to sell this off.'
Omake:
Inumuta was enjoying his time in bed after the trip to Mott's when he was awoken by a sudden slam of the door. He looked up to see a very angry Ryuko.
"IN-NU-MU-TA!"
"Yes!" Inumuta whimpered.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Ryuko interogated.
"I don't know what you're talking about Matoi…"
"Oh you don't? Then maybe this will refresh your memory!"
Ryuko grabbed Inumuta by his feet like a club and smashed him against the walls of the room.
"Do you remember yet? No? Then try some of this!"
Ryuko threw Inumuta out of the window, caught him midair and then proceeded to ground-pound him.
"How about now?"
Inumuta did not reply and Ryuko got pissed.
"RAGH!"
She pulled Inumuta up and smashed him against the Academy walls repeatedly, making it crack even more with each hit. She continued doing this for five minutes before the entire building collapsed and the nobles finally remembered that Louise was expelled and it wasn't her causing the noise. The remaining nobles ran around frantically as they tried to escape.
Still pissed at Inumuta, Ryuko used him to swat all the nobles in her way until she reached the capital city where she proceeded to ram his head into each and every building in the city until they all had collapsed including the was made of a Super Resistant Ultima-Alloy and so was relatively unscathed from the attacks. Seeing that all the effort she put into it was for naught, Ryuko got even angrier and decided to destroy the entire country. She systematically jumped from village to village, wiping out all the occupants before she moved on to Guldenhorf, then Germania, then Gallia, then Romalia.
"NOO! SOMEONE, ANYONE, PLEASE SAVE THIS COUNTRY!" Queen Marianne's last desperate words echoed through the Kingdom as she was crushed in battle because of Ryuko.
"IMPOSSIBLE! THE GRAMONTS CAN'T FALL NOW!" Count Gramont's last unbelieving words echoed through his County as he was killed in battle as a result of Ryuko.
"INCONCEIVABLE! THE RULE OF STEEL FAILED!" Duchess Karin's last doubting words echoed through her Estate as she died in battle due to Ryuko.
"NOOO! ALL MY MONEY!" Duke Guldenhorf's last greed filled words echoed through his Duchy as he was executed in battle by Ryuko.
"WHAT KIND OF MONSTROSITY IS THIS?!" Emperor Albert III's last terrified words echoed through his Country as he left the world in battle thanks to Ryuko.
"THERE ARE SO MANY MORE MEN OUT THERE!" Baroness Zerbst's last lustful words echoed through the men as she kicked the bucket in battle faulted by Ryuko.
"YES! I'M FINALLY FEELING SOMETHING! I'M FEELING ABSOLUTE TERROR! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" King Joseph's last joyful words echoed through his Nation as he fell in battle owing to Ryuko.
"BRIMIR HAS FORSAKEN US!" Pope Vittorio's last heretical words echoed through his Empire as he perished in battle because of Ryuko.
With most of Halkeginia in ruins, Ryuko looked towards Inumuta and saw a dent in the place where his face used to be and grinned. Though she was still not satisfied, she did a mighty leap and landed on Albion where she obliterated the place and forced it to fly over the land of the Elves where she proceeded to destroy all their settlements before heading to the Rub' al Khali.
"MY DEAR HENRIETTA, AT LEAST WE CAN BE TOGETHER NOW!" Prince Wales' last love inspired words echoed through his Island as he met his demise in battle by cause of Ryuko.
"THE DEMONS ARE HERE!" Lord Bidashal's last dark words echoed through the Land as he croaked in battle by will of Ryuko.
The final battle approached as the Ancient Dragon of The Rub' al Khali awoke and Ryuko beat the life out of it with Inumuta.
"SOMEONE WOKE UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BED!" Ancient Dragon's last non-existent words echoed through the Continent as he exploded in battle from the wrath of Ryuko.
As Ryuko stood in the wreckage of the Continent, she was still not satisfied and decided to forcefully activate Inumuta's drill and missles to shoot him into the planet's core. Inumuta tunneled without stopping, his systems all jammed from the battles, as he hit the core, all his weapon systems fired and the core imploded on itself. The explosion was enormous and it sucked in both moons before exploding and sending Inumuta through a tear in the fabric of reality where he floated endlessly...
Ryuko was satisfied and went back to Earth where she spent the rest of her days in stasis. Unbeknownst to her, Inumuta's self repair functions were still working, after centuries of solitude, a familiar green portal opened in front of Inumuta's float path and he was sucked into it…
A/N: I found that Omake extremely fun to write, like excessively so. Anyway, moving on to more important matters, it has been confirmed at the Otakon Las Vegas Panel that Cartoon Network's Sister Network Adult Swim will air Kill la Kill starting on February 7th, a Saturday, at 11:30 p.m. EST/PST. Hooray for more Anime publicity in the West. Be sure to check out my Profile and vote on my Poll of which story I should write next! Anyway, Review and I'll see you next chapter, Bye!