Author's note:
Shout out to my first ever reviewer. This chapter is for you.
Lord Gunter Von Christ swapped his usual pristine flowing robes for a plain indistinct pants and tunic and fixed his long lustrous hair in one of Gwendal's cute animal knit hats (borrowed). The reason : Gunter was going deep deep deep under cover.
At this very moment, Lord Von Christ, the remarkable and accomplished beauty, was on his way to commit a crime of the most depraved nature. He was on his way to steal a baby.
" I need you to acquire a small child. No questions and no objections."
Oh Shinou, the depths to which I've fallen under that dreadful Poison Lady's service. Kidnapping! Oh my.
Gunter wobbled in guilt down a quiet path to the first village he'd spotted since arriving at Luttenberg on his trusty steed. He had carefully chosen a place close to, but not too close to his own territory to commit the heinous crime, in an effort to delude suspicion.
He was a bit away from reaching the village, surrounded by thick forestry, when he finally succumbed to his heavy conscience, and, leaning against a heavy old tree with thin low hanging leafy branches, began to sob.
Kidnapping a child was already evil enough, but there was also the issue that they'd be essentially killing it. All children born are already in possession of a soul, if Anissina planned on inserting the Super!Super Ma-powered version of Lady Wincott's soul into the child, then they would first need to get rid of the child's existing soul.
The thought brought a fresh wave of tears streaming down Gunter's face. In his grief, Lord Von Christ felt as if the whole forest was crying with him, echoing his sobs.
Wait.
He lifted his face up from where he'd had it buried between his knees, and craned his head to the side, listening. He was not alone.
Slowly, he crawled around to the other side of the tree he had been leaning against, forgetting to wipe his snot and tears in his curiosity, and came face to face with a heavily pregnant woman sobbing her lungs out. Her face was in much the same state as Gunter's, and in that shared moment of blubbering grief, the two felt a deep camaraderie.
" What has got you so upset my Lady?" Gunter inquired, settling down shoulder to shoulder with the distressed woman. Concern winning out over his other turbulent emotions.
" I-I ..! The ba-baby.." The woman paused to collect herself a bit.
"The baby, I can't have this baby ...oh! I'm simply terrible! But...I'm not sure why I'm telling you this, sir.I had simply wished to inquire as to the gender of the child you see, but the priestess she said: 'Your child will be born a soukoku. You cannot keep this child.'. I-I don't know what to do, I haven't said a word to anyone, who knows how the noble families or Shinou himself would react to a sacred double black being born of this unworthy womb."
Gunter was sympathetic to the woman, he really was, but in her words, Lord Von Christ saw precious opportunity.
"Lady..?"
"Wincott"
Ah!
"Lady Wincott, If I may be so bold as to offer a solution to all your worries..."
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Poison Lady Diary
The Super! Super Ma-Weapon continues to disappoint. Not only does it seem to utterly lack any sort of attack power, it is also a sizable drain on resources that could be better spent on more promising Ma-scientific pursuits.
In fact, the only reason I have not declared it a complete failure is that it does possess a Super! Super amount of maryoku and thus, is usable at the very least as a reliable battery source, if nothing else.
Also, Gunter is very attached, as is Gwendal. Mazoku men are too soft hearted.
I have chosen Gwendal and his brothers as the handlers for the Super! Super Ma-weapon if the need ever arise. The reason is simply because they already come in a package of three and are all easy to blackmail.
The eldest brother has already been ensnared by the cute packaging of the Ma-weapon, he is as some would say ' a done deal'.
The second brother has been steadily gaining a reputation as a dangerous and reckless man ever since losing a certain someone, men took longer than rational women to deal with grief, but I am quite certain that revealing a specific bit of information would gain his complete complacence and dedication.
The youngest brother, known commonly as ' That selfish poo', could prove difficult, if only in the long run. His pride could not be used against him forever, he would mature eventually. Requires further investigation.
"MY LADY ! EMERGENCY! SOS!"
Gunter's loud screech stabbed right through her concentration.
" My cute assistant, what troubles you? "
" I-T'S THE BABY! The p-pr-precious double black Super! Super Ma-weapon! It disappeared!" Gunter yanked at his hair in agitation, snot and tears streaming down his face.
Anissina drummed her fingers impatiently on her desk.
"Explain."
" I was just giving him a bath! He keeps getting dirt on his adorable self wandering around this mucky lab! But! The bath water suddenly started swirling, I've never seen anything like it! Next thing I know...BABY GONE!"
" Hm, so it does possess skills after all."
Anissina removed her handkerchief from her front pocket and offered it to a still sniveling Gunter.
" The weapon is not gone. From your descriptions of the events that transcribed, it can be deduced that my Ma-weapon is merely lost."
"Lost?"
" Correct, or rather, it is currently misplaced. In another world. Not to worry, I know three handlers well equipped to bring it back."
She glanced at the downtrodden expression on her assistance's face.
Sighs
"Safely."
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Wolfram allowed himself a moment, as he lay miserably on the cold wet hard ground he'd landed on, to wonder why on earth a proud mazoku like himself had willingly gotten himself involved in that poisonous woman's insanity.
" I see, the youngest brother is going to stay safe at home while his big brothers go explore strange new lands and suppress a dangerous Ma-Weapon in the name of Shin Makoku."
Waving away the memory of how easy he'd been to involve, Wolfram lifted himself up in one easy movement, scowled at the feeling of his sticky wet uniform, lifted his head up and...black eyes.
The person he'd caught eyes with had eyes Wolfram had only envisioned through stories and legends.
He dragged his gaze away with effort to check...and yes, black hair.
He stood there foolishly, blankly staring at the double black, before it hit him. A soukoku!
He scanned his face again. Cute!
Wolfram had found the Super! Super Ma-weapon.
He allowed himself a smirk at his own efficiency, a few scant minutes and he'd already completed the mission single handed.
He approached the figure without caution, this land did not permit majutsu so the weapon was currently harmless, only now noticing the group of vile looking young humans.
They appeared to be frozen in shock, staring at Wolfram as if he was a ghost or an apparition.
Wolfram, ignoring them as they posed no immediate threat, and ignoring his brothers who seemed to still be going through the 'Why?Where?What?' moment he himself had suffered through, grabbed the soukoku by the wrist and pulled him towards himself, away from the human's clutches.
"You're coming with me." He informed the Ma-weapon, making sure he understood that he had been captured and was now being returned to Shin Makoku.
He expected retaliation at this point, this child was created by the Poison Lady after all, he couldn't be totally harmless. But the soukoku only turned his eyes away, as if embarrassed, his cheeks flushing a distracting shade of pink.
Oddly, Wolfram felt his own face flush. 'What?'. He quickly turned his face away and, tightening his grip on the wrist in his grasp, started dragging the weapon to the portal. He would not allow a cute face to distract him from his mission!
" Wait. Did you rescue me just so you could bully me yourself !?" The soukoku had stopped and was now staring at the portal with dread.
"Shut up. Just come with me quietly."
"No!"
Despite his incredibly loud protests, the weapon seemed to be about as formidable as a struggling kitten, and Wolfram would have been content to just forcibly drag him to the portal kicking and screaming, if only his screaming protests hadn't managed to snap just about every one present out of their personal mental breakdowns.
"Wolfram! What do you think you're doing!?" Older brother sounded irritated.
" Is that really...? " The filthy half human Wolfram was forced to share blood with muttered, staring at the struggling soukoku in Wolfram's arms in wonder. Yes, he understood the feeling.
" Yo! You foreign dudes ! I don't know how the fuck you dudes are here, but that right there .." The supposed human leader pointed towards the Ma-weapon. " ...is our victim, got it? Hand him over and scram if you wanna leave alive! "
"..Oh my god, what on earth is going on right now!?Why am I in a delinquent harem all the sudden!?"
" Shut up!"
Wolfram pushed the soukoku behind himself and unsheathed the sword he'd had the good sense to bring along. Hostile humans seemed to be a pest prevalent in any land.
" What the ...!?"
" Wolfram!"
" That foreigner is crazy! Let's get out of here dudes !"
The soukoku tried to push past Wolfram and escape with the fleeing humans, but stopped dead at Wolfram's blade now pointed at his neck. His lips were trembling, he seemed close to tears.
Hmph! This sort of wimpy weapon was just no good. He'd have to convince Lady Von Karbelnikoff to let him train with Wolfram's troops when they got back.
" Hey...it's alright. You are in no danger as long as I'm here." Lord Weller, shifting into an oddly gentle character, tried to soothe the soukoku.
"Wolfram put that thing away. You weren't supposed to bring it here in the first place. "
Argh! He was going to anyways!
The Ma-weapon seemed to have decided on Weller being the least threatening among them, and was slowly inching his way towards him. Weller was still smiling. Wolfram had to reign in the strange urge to pull the wimp back to his side.
" Um..my name's Yuuri." The soukoku...Yuuri said, eyes firmly fixed on Weller.
"You can call me Conrart. Yuuri...where I come from that's what we call the month of July."
Weller was positively sparkling now, and 'Yuuri' was smiling right back, brightly, using his wimpy wiles to turn Wolfram's brother into a totally different person. He hadn't ever seen Weller behave this way! Well...not since that woman.
" What a coincidence, my mom says I was delivered to her in July! So...Conrad? You guys speak Japanese really well, were you born here? Ah, never mind, what were you doing passed out in the Lady's toilet? That's against the law you know. Well...I was here too, but I was dragged in by those delinquents! Like that blond pretty boy over there! " He pointed towards Wolfram, still not looking away from Lord Weller.
Argh!
Why were Weller and the wimp getting along so well!? They had literally just been acquainted a second ago !
" I'm not a del-in-kit or whatever ! I'm a ...! "
" Be quiet, Wolfram."
Older brother, having been the only other person, besides Gunter and Anissina, to have seen the Ma-weapon before it got lost to another world, scrunched his brows in concentration whilst scanning Yuuri's face in full detail.
He finally turned to stand next to Weller, seeming to have reached a conclusion.
" Yuuri, was it? " He stared down at the wimp, deep frown wrinkling his forehead.
"Ye-yes! "
" I apologize for my youngest brother's thoughtless actions. You are free to leave."
" U-um.."
"Leave now."
Yuuri ran and never looked back
" Gwendal, that child definitely...there's no way I could mistake..."
" Yes, I'm aware. I've reached the same conclusion. But in any case, despite miraculously finding him right away, there is nothing to be done for the moment. It took years of research for Anissina and Gunter to open the portal here, but as predicted, it is not sustainable. "
"What!? Then how are we supposed to get back!?"
"Using Anissina's lost weapon of course, his user manual states that he's a confirmed world crossing device."
"Then why have we allowed him get away? He didn't seem brave at all, if we gently threatened him for a while I'm sure he would've opened up a portal back home for us right away!"
"Wolfram, think, if we turn him against us, what exactly do you think would happen once we get back to our world, where he'd be at full power? I know the packaging is a bit...but he's someone the Poison Lady named 'Super! Super Ma-weapon'. It would be best to exercise caution."
" Essentially, you're suggesting that we earn his trust? " Weller looked elated at the prospect.
"Correct. It would be best to infiltrate a place he spends most of his time at, somewhere he would be forced to interact with us, where he couldn't get away from us even if he wanted to. "
" I believe the place Forehead Wrinkle-san is talking about is called a school."
Oh Shinou, another soukoku!
The new presence, pleasantly smiling at the three of them from outside the entrance of the Ladies Room, glasses glinting, spoke out once again.
" You guys were discussing Shibuya right? I felt bad for leaving him all alone against those bullies so I ran back here, but it seems his new foreign friends already got him out of a pinch. I heard the entire conversation between you guys by the way!"
The three mazoku all tensed at that, but the strange new soukoku continued chattering away as if he was oblivious to the brothers' sudden shift from 'Who the hell..?' to ' Prepare to attack'.
" You guys want to be close to Shibuya right !? Don't be shy~ I can tell you guys exactly how to stick close to him five days a week, from dawn till evening~ "
Author's note:
Sorry if it seemed a bit rushed, I wanted to get the setting out of the way so I could move on to writing the actual story.
Next chapter ~ Errybody goes to High school!
I know how it seems, but wolfram and yuuri aren't already in love or even in like with each other at the moment. The feelings i wanted to convey at this stage were initial attraction. Like the beginning of a crush? Though I guess that feeling got damped down a bit on Yuuri's part because he thinks Wolfram tried to give him a swirly lol
It should be pretty obvious that Murata is still the reincarnation of the great sage. The next chapter will also go into his relationship with Ma-weapon!Yuuri.