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Chapter twenty seven: Path back home
Saya only felt a strong hit on her gut, she doesn't know what hit her, what she knew is that she was flying on the air, that just before she lands on her ass on the hard ground. Luna in the other hand saw what happened, Benji kicked Saya out of the way of Atroce's blade, but that action allowed the monster to strike Benji with an upstroke. Benji's body is launched vertically in the air as if he was a ragdoll because the violent blow.
Benji's arms were now numb and sore, he had once again blocked the attack with his sword; he thanked heavens for his Vassala not being like regular swords otherwise it would have shattered. Benji landed hard on his back, he had enough spirit to hold his sword over his body, since Atroce stomped over him just after he landed.
Vassala as well his arms absorb the impact, the hard sand ground gives him before Benji's bones does, so the damage was minimal, but still hurt a lot. With his upper body buried in the sand Benji is an easy target, or should be, but Benji pulls a thick barreled gun and points up at Atroce, and after cocking the gun he fires.
Luna winces at the loud shot as well the following how of the beast as his entire left shoulder is now a mass of pulsing flesh, bones and blood. As the beast stutters away Benji stands up still holding the massive fuming handgun, his wrist would be broken if wasn't for the sturdy gauntlets.
Benji stores the gun again, and then he swings his sword hard on the howling monster, scoring a massive slash that severs Atroce's left leg, making the massive beast fall under his weight, crushing beneath him his remaining slaves, Benji smiled at that, and it was that smile that freezes the blood in the veins of both Luna and Saya.
Benji raises his sword again and with a second strike as strong as the first Benji cuts off Atroce's right arm, leaving the monster now defenseless, not even Doppelganger-chan dared to say anything, she was terrified, everything was different, there wasn't evil, anger, lust, or anything that she knew, there was just this cold, strong and massive desire to kill, not only kill, but kill in such a way that makes her utterly afraid of Benji, she didn't felt anything that usually was around when he killed, even that was silence as Benji just let it out.
Bringing down his sword for a third time Benji slashes Atroce in the face, hard enough to split in half the monster's face, but stopping before killing it, and the monster howls and flails in pain, unable to do anything as Benji continues to bring his sword down on its massive form, every time making a new deep and vicious cut.
Saya watched in horror as Benji just plays with the kill, purposely stalling the killing process, just inflicting mind shattering pain in his helpless victim, no longer enemy, no longer target, just victim. Blood flies around as it arches following Benji's sword swings, staining the compacted sand with countless sprays of red.
The two girls doesn't know how long it all lasted, but it all ended when Benji threw is sword down hard on Atroce's head, finally killing it, but what followed that horrified them more than everything else.
Benji stretches, with his arms high in the air, his spine popping back in place as he lets out a long sigh of satisfaction and relaxation. "Sometimes it just feel too good let it all go and let it out." Benji commented with pleasure on his voice. "It has been years since I last pounded on something like this, I should do it more often."
Luna doesn't want to imagine the implications of his words, Benji just slaughtered a MVP as if it was nothing; the monster still is a blood spewing mass of torn flesh and shattered bone lying at his feet. If Benji letting it all out means killing things like that then the world would be doomed, since he is not showing regret or even any kind of negative feelings after such gruesome kill.
Saya just soiled herself in fear, not only urine as she threw up sick, she felt the blood splattering on her as Benji swung his sword up and down, she saw rather closely the pieces of flesh and bone flying around as he slashed. And even the sound of his voice frightened her, even as he said. "I am not going to do this on any of you."
Benji wasn't really surprised, but he wasn't caring either, he had too much pent up anger, frustration and other stuff, it felt too damn good to just let it all go, he felt lighter after pounding Atroce to a pulp, he wouldn't regret it. Only twenty minutes later that the two recovered from the shock, on that time Benji was idly waiting, sited on a rock checking on the loot dropped by the now confirmed MVP.
"You weren't like this before." Luna said still wary of Benji. "I never got on this level of annoyance before." Benji replied casually. "I was just venting out. I have been in this desert for months, that means no sex, no stress relief, no nothing. It all builds up you know."
"No I don't." Luna replied. "Anyway what you got?" Benji shows to Luna the items. "I want the sword and the card, you can have everything else." Benji said. Luna nodded at his terms, she wasn't going to defy him just then, she was too shaken up for that, and if Benji wanted to have a sword that was as tall as he is then he can have it.
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Layla remained in silence, Atsuko's news were bad for them, as Atsuko Layla knew very well that Benji wouldn't accept the deal, it would mean more things for them to do. Being a regular would attract even more attention on them, when they fight in the WoE the enemy will charge on them with the vengeance, trying to defeat the guild and making themselves famous for doing so.
"Listen this is still in the stage of rumors." Atsuko continued. "At the soonest the official visit announcement will arrive months from today, and the visit date will be months after the announcement, that kind of thing especially over that fact that we live in another country makes the whole process even more bureaucratic, formal and longer, it requires official permits, gaps in agendas, preparation of a entourage, reservation of lodging, the list is huge, we will know if will happen and when it will happen."
"But if taisho isn't here when it happens?" Erika asked seriously. "We stall." Atsuko answered. "We have four months to make a reason to not accept it. And that will still leave us with several months before we actually have to use it."
"You know if you think a little we already have political reasons to not accept it." Haruka commented. "And what is that?" Atsuko asked confused. "Mutsumi." Haruka answered with a smile. "Remember that even if officially she was disinherited Mutsumi is still a princess, Benji has an alliance with Tomotaka; otherwise the emperor wouldn't have asked Benji to take care of her."
Atsuko hits her forehead with her open hand, she had totally forgotten about that, Benji had the political pull with Tomotaka, the WoE influx of people was bringing to Amatsu more money than ever, the ninja class was also benefiting from that influx, other guilds recruited them soon, thanks to the Seiryu's legions Amatsu's economy had a boost of three hundred percent in few months.
"So it is just a natural assumption that Tomotaka would purposely stall the whole thing as much as he can too." Haruka continued. "A free WoE pass would only make in influx of people lessen; it wouldn't benefit the city, and we all know that Tomotaka is using the Silver Moon as a prototype for new WoE castles that will be built in another area, by Benji's suggestion."
"Benji knew that before hand." Atsuko muttered. "I forgot that he does have some political pull thanks to his alliance with Tomotaka. But how the emperor took the news that Benji isn't around?"
"He accepted well, he understands the risks that come with a high position." Layla replied. "Mutsumi is acting as envoy for Benji in the court for a while now; it is just an excuse for her to visit her family. Anyway he won't say anything about his absence of the castle as long we keep doing a good job defending it."
Half an hour later the meeting is over, Haruka, Erika and Maiko will tell to the others in the circle of leaders about that, the information can't leak but is also too important to remain secret.
"What are you up to?" Atsuko asked after seeing Layla entering on Benji's room. "Something is bothering me." Layla answered while scanning the empty room with her eyes, other than the lack of the owner she couldn't find anything wrong on it, it was the same room that she was used to see when visiting Benji.
"If is the flowers I just placed new ones in the vase." Atsuko commented, other than the flowers in a vase and a potted plant that Benji kept there that the girls made a task of watering daily nothing else was touched, other than Benji's clothes drawer and clothes, Atsuko, Haruka and even Layla were visiting that, 'borrowing' his clothes to feel his scent.
"Not that." Layla replied. "By the way, what flowers are those?" "Amatsu's Sumire." Atsuko answered. "It is a type of violet that grows here. You don't like it? Oddly enough Benji seems to favor it." "I do like it." Layla replied. "I just find odd to see so many flowers in one stem, but that isn't what is bothering me, why you picked such dark purple tone for all of them?"
"Just half of them are dark purple; the other half is light violet and white." Atsuko said with a frown she knew that very well, she picked those flowers in the garden herself. "All of them are dark." Layla pointed out to the vase. "That is odd." Atsuko commented while walking to the desk, Layla was right and all the flowers were in dark purple, but she counted as many flowers as she placed there in that morning. "I placed five stems of light violet and five stems of white ones here to contrast with the ten stems of purple."
"Don't those smell too sweet?" Layla asked walking closer of Atsuko. "It is kind of sickening." "They do, but normally they don't do so, they have a very faint smell." Atsuko answered. "You know the perfume, I place them in Benji's office every third week of the month."
Layla nodded confirming, it was kind of a unspoken thing among Benji's lovers to make the areas where he stays most of his time look nicer, and another part of that is that each one of them was selected for a particular area for one week, and during that time the woman selected would do whatever she liked to make the place lively.
Normally that resumed to adding small and pretty but useful trinkets in his office, flower vases were also a very common thing, you could even tell who was the one taking care of a room based on the flowers in the vase. Layla placed silver bells mixed with red carnations and blue violets in a neat arrange, she had took a liking of Amatsu's ikebana and it showed it when placing flowers in vases.
Atsuko favored Amatsu's violets and cherry blossoms by their delicate fragrance, but if the season was right she also placed orange, apple and almond blossoms, and Amatsu's honeysuckle, Atsuko had fallen in love by Amatsu's flowers and she wasn't ashamed of admitting it, it was almost like the native flowers there had a much more vivid color on them.
Haruka kept simple, she was a city girl and wasn't used to stuff like that so she placed a mix of tulips and roses, mostly red, sometimes white, yellow or a couple more colors, Haruka tried, but she just doesn't have the patience to work with Layla on the silver haired knight ikebana lessons, there was so many formalities and the teacher was so strict that Haruka just gave up, she arranges the flower in the best that she can, places then in the vase with water and a never melting ice as everyone else and places it on the room.
Erika kept things even simpler than that, she made not secret that she was in the relation after Layla, Benji was a bonus, a pleasant one, so she got three flower pots, seeds and saplings and made mixed pots of violets, camellias, daisies and narcissus, by doing that all the work that she had is moving the pots and watering them regularly, with no need of selecting flowers, buying and arranging them weekly.
So the sudden change in color of Atsuko's flowers was something very weird. "It isn't getting dry; the flowers are still fresh and supple." Atsuko said confused, she also knew that it wasn't a prank; it was an agreed thing among them to not spoil the flowers placed by the others, as the flowers represented their feelings of making the area around Benji pleasant and enjoyable, for them it was the absolute offence among them to do that.
Layla sits on the empty bed while Atsuko checks on the flowers. "I guess that tomorrow I will place a new set here." Atsuko said with a sigh, the flowers there were less than two days old. "Did you realize what is bothering you?"
"Not yet." Layla replied with a sigh. "I just can't get rid of this nagging feeling that something is odd in here." "Well it happens." Atsuko commented, while Layla was quite sensitive with things like that, it wasn't accurate in what is, so pressing it would be futile. "I meant to ask this for a while but I usually forget to, why Benji hangs those swords in the wall over there?"
"You mean the don't touch wall?" Layla asked turning to face a wall where three swords are placed over metal pins, over the swords there are large black letters written 'DO NOT TOUCH OR I WILL BE PISSED!' with Benji's signature over the swords. "Benji said that are old swords of his that are broken beyond repair." Layla explained when seeing Atsuko confirming with a nod. "Oddly enough he is more jealous of those broken swords than his other swords."
Atsuko did found that odd, it was okay to keep them as mementoes or even in appreciation of their efforts, but the whole don't touch issue made it odd, Benji didn't seem to mind then checking or cleaning his damaged hats, that are in his office, not to mention that the swords are in his bedroom and not in his office with his other broken equipment display.
"Did you ever saw this kind of hilt before?" Atsuko asked to Layla after studying the hilts of the swords, it was the same for the three swords but it wasn't any hilt that she had ever seen before. Layla moves to the wall, she never paid much attention to the swords; a fact is that she was too busy with Benji to care, and they were instructed to not clean those swords, not even dust them.
"No, I mean it isn't of any style that is common here." Layla said, she saw plenty of swords, as a knight she changed swords a lot before finding a favorite style. The guard of the sword is long and slightly curved upwards as it was a double edged broad dagger split open by the sword edge, the hilt is patterned as it was made of tressed metal and as the guard and fuller is made of nearly black blue metal with a sharp looking pyramidal pommel that seems to me missing its core held only by four metal bars, and inside the empty pommel is a lighting blue gem. "I can't deny that looks nice." Layla added. "But I don't think that I ever saw this before."
"Me neither and I saw a lot of different swords, even rare ones." Atsuko commented. "I fail to see why they intrigue you so badly." Layla commented. "Sure they are good looking swords, the sheathes are solid and sturdy, maybe a tad bit sturdy since they are made of metal, but other than that they look pretty regular for me."
'That because you can see the aura around them.' Atsuko replied silently, she could see how the three swords dripped with poorly contained energy, it didn't do that before, and now they are, before it was almost like the swords were sleeping, and now are awake. "And is better for you not to touch on them." Layla advised. "Even being you or me, I don't think that Goshujin-sama would like or forgive for disobeying him on this."
"I didn't intend to." Atsuko replied. "If you don't know what is wrong we should leave." Layla nodded agreeing and quickly straightens the bed where she sit, after all she wanted to keep his room clean since she hopes that Benji will return at any given moment.
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"If you want to be a front attacker you can't be so shaken up by something like that." Benji said to Saya, the bi-colored haired girl was still shaking violently and pale because the end of the battle. "Even thought I was quite ruthless it is almost nothing compared to what I saw."
Luna had to agree with that, but she was shaken not by the gruesomeness of the final of the battle but because Benji was the one who did all that. "She is still too green." Luna commented. "Cut her some slack."
As Benji returns to his room Luna went to deal with the formalities of the contract, the monster was killed, but it was an MVP, it would eventually return, the only way to ensure the safety of the people was opening a route for adventurers to travel to Rachel and Veins, since those adventurers would kill the MVP for the experience and item.
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"Don't you think that you are going a little overboard?" Luna asked to Benji when seeing a large leather backpack strapped on his back. "No." Benji answered in a flat tone, he was carrying six months worth of dry food and one week worth of water, more one week worth of potions on his backpack, not counting his equipment. "I was going to bring more but it was hard enough to get enough leather to make this pack."
Luna just stares at his pack, she can't understand why Benji was carrying around eighty percent of his weight limit worth in supplies, the ship has more than enough for everyone eat and drink for six months. "I will rule it as paranoia induced by time in the desert." Luna commented. "You should be like Mai and Aysu; they are with a normal amount of luggage."
Benji shrugged at Luna's words, if the worse comes he will at least be ready for it, he even got a pair of fishing rods and a case full with other fishing supplies. Mai is just amazed with the ship and the ocean, as a desert people she had never seen that much water before.
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One month later the ocean lost the novelty for Mai, she was actually sick of blue, blue and blue as far as she can see, while the total lack of what to do forced her to focus harder on teaching Aysu how to speak English she is shocked to see that Benji in the other hand is keeping himself amused by fishing over the rail, the worse is that he is getting too lucky and everyday he pulls from the ocean almost two hundred kilos of fresh fish.
On the bright side meant that food won't be a problem for anyone there. Saya was actually sick of seeing Benji fishing leisurely, still wrapped on his desert gear, sited on a solid wood chair, leaning back and fishing contently, left alone by the ship's sailors and Luna, who was sea sick over sixty percent of the time, especially when Benji decides to have a taste of raw fresh fish.
"Spar with me!" Saya sick and bored to death of not doing anything shouted to Benji. "Come back later I am busy now." Benji replied casually. "And if you are thinking in cutting the line I will throw you over the rail." Saya was both angry and scared of Benji, she knew that he would fulfill his threat, and she was angry that he is dismissing her for fishing.
"Why are you fishing so much? Isn't like we need it!" Saya exclaimed angrily. "Better being safe than sorry." Benji replied, he was using sea salt from drying the sea water to salt some of the fish; he had safely stored fifty kilos of salt dried fish. "Trust me girl, when you starved once you start making preparations to not experience the same thing again."
Saya couldn't really counter that argument, she never starved before, with a sigh she resigns herself that Benji won't spar with her, as much she was scared of Benji she knew how good fighter he was, so she wanted to learn as much as she could from him.
Benji had other reasons to refuse Saya's request, normally he would have accepted it only to help the fellow front attacker, the class were forgotten and he was one of the seven existent ones, now eight with Saya, but Benji knew that his body was on the limit, several things pilled up on it in a short period, while one year sounds like a long time, in other perspectives it isn't.
Benji cursed bellow a whisper when feeling moisture coming from his nose; he quickly wipes away a stream of blood and plugs his nose hard. 'Who would know, the invulnerable dragon isn't all that invulnerable after all.' The doppelganger teased from her corner on Benji's mind.
'I never said that this body was invulnerable.' Benji replied lightly tilting his head back. 'Still your pain tolerance and stamina surely tricks everyone in thinking that.' She said casually. 'But that is a severe drawback, total healing denial, stackable from every time that you use that watch of yours. If I knew that back then.'
'As if that would have changed anything.' Benji replied in a flat tone. 'You chopped my right arm; I was without the watch when I killed you. It wouldn't have made a difference.' 'Fine go ahead, ruin a girl's fantasies.' She said annoyed. 'Sensei she is all yours. Have fun.' Benji thought with a grin and a cry of 'IIIIIAAAAAAA!!' came from the doppelganger as she shrieks in terror at the incoming tentacles.
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"Luna you are sure that you will make it?" Saya asked worriedly to the songstress. "You are throwing up a lot this time." "I will be fine." Luna replied from her bed, her forehead and eyes covered by a damp cloth. "At least like this I can keep something down."
"If you get sea sick this easily why you travel like this?" Saya asked, it was the same thing that happened when they moved to Veins. "No choice was offered." Luna replied. "Flying ships doesn't make this route; anyway there is just two more months ahead of us, it I lie down with my eyes closed like this it won't be so bad."
"And stop bugging Shousa." Luna added recalling how Saya is pestering Benji to spar with her. "Unlike you he is still feeling the aftereffects of my song of heroes." "WHAT?!" Saya exclaimed shocked. "On me the aftereffects went away two hours after the effect ended."
"Unlike you Shousa's body were under a great deal of stress because the journey on the desert, and he took some nasty hits from Atroce." Luna replied seriously. "And that wasn't his first time under a booster song influence, so all that only added to the aftereffects continuance. You keep judging him by your standards, stop doing that, his standards and yours are very different."
Saya remained in silence, she was comparing Benji to herself all the time and expected him to do things that she does or on her ways, which Benji doesn't which make Benji threaten her, just making Saya more scared of him, but at the same time she gets more interested.
On the mean time Benji is alone on the ship's deck, the night is cold and clear, the wind isn't strong, but is enough to fill the sails, and it was very refreshing, Benji sheds the cloak and places it next to his sword, his still abused and battered body was much hotter than normal, and the cold air would help to cool it down.
Benji undoes the buckles of his pauldron and throws it over the cloak, after than his armor and shirts follow, Benji's upper body is covered with bruises, the muscles tense; cuts were bleeding slowly through tightly wrapped bandages.
With a sigh Benji throws a bucketful of cold sea water over his head. The salt water burns on his cuts, but he knows that will prevent infections, and the cold water soothed the bruises and cooled his body, he knows that he still have to change the bandages and wash himself, but for the moment he just want to savor the small relief of the cold air on his wet skin.
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"Sweet land, tasty land, delicious land, lovely land, I love land!" Luna said on her knees while kissing the harbor. "As bad as usual right Luna?" Itsuki asked casually, a smile tracing her lips. "Well a certain someone was making things worse than usual, but yeah, bad anyway." Luna replied while standing up.
Saya is walking down the ramp with the luggage followed by Mai and Aysu. "Who are those two?" Itsuki asked pointing to Mai and Aysu. "I made a deal with a certain someone." Luna answered with a grin. "A someone that I am sure that you will like seeing again." Itsuki frowned at Luna's words; she doesn't have any acquaintances in Arunafeltz so there couldn't be anyone that she would like in seeing that would be from there.
"He is kind of taking a while." Saya commented after half an hour, most of the sailors left the ship, but Benji was still there. Itsuki looks at the much shorter girl. "Listen we have better things to do other than being here." She said in a normal tone. "For heaven's sake Shousa why you took so long?" Luna called while looking at the top of the ramp.
"Unlike you I actually have things to pack." Benji replied in a flat tone. "I have three hundred kilos of luggage to carry alone." "Dump that stupid sword." Luna shot back teasingly.
Itsuki stares at Benji in shock, his clothes were different and his skin darker, but she would never forget his voice or his face. Itsuki is shocked beyond words, the last time that she saw Benji he was covered in blood, driving a knife on Junko's long hair tangling it on the blade, nailing her into a pillar, while he abandoned the clan taking with him half of the oldest members of the clan, it wasn't his desertion that made her mad, it was how Junko took it all, and it was because of that Itsuki lashed out.
She could still remember those last moments, she taught Benji everything that a front attacker should know, she was happy in teaching him, he had the most perfect body for that, and had previous experience in those unfavorable combat circumstances, Itsuki could even remember the pride that she felt when Benji rose to the rank of major even before she did, or when he saved and then started to train Shiranui himself.
Above everything Itsuki recalled how Benji had almost killed her when he deserted, it filled her with pride and shame, pride in seeing that her disciple had surpassed her, and shame for being surpassed by her disciple, and it was the fact that Benji have defeated her in the past that shocks her to see him just being hit by her.
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Erika sighed annoyed, waiting in the Emperium room was boring and tiresome, too many worries run on her mind while she is there not doing anything while everyone else is fighting on the distant courtyard, even with a small group with her there wasn't much to do to keep themselves distracted.
And even knowing that they defended their castle for eight months without ever losing one battle, they still get afraid of the possibility that at any moment enemies would start pouring in the Emperium room and they will be unable to defeat them. A groundless fear since they have protected their castles for eight months without ever losing once, the guild's economy was very high. It was still mid morning, there was still many hours of siege ahead of them.
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"You could have dodged that." Itsuki said with her sheathed sword still pressed on Benji's left shoulder where it joins to his neck. "Why you didn't?" "If I did you would be really pissed." Benji replied, the strike was hard, but nothing that he wasn't used to. Itsuki sighed tiredly while pulling back her sword, she knew why Benji haven't dodged her strike, he still respected her and allowed her to vent her anger on him, thought she is also sure that if she used her naked blade them he would dodge.
The fact that Benji even after everything have some respect for her surprised her, Itsuki looks at Benji taking in more details of his appearance. "You lost weight." She said noticing how loose his clothes were, it also showed on his face. "My stomach is a bit troublesome after months underfed; I can't keep much food down." Benji replied. "But my physical condition aside, you and the others are in a rush?"
"Not really." Itsuki answered. "Why?" Benji sighed. "I have been away for far too long." Benji explained. "I really need to check on few things as soon as I can and I can't leave the strays over there alone." Itsuki nodded while looking at Mai and Aysu, the two women were carrying weapons, but they don't look able to use them, much less interact well with other adventurers.
"And how long you should take?" Itsuki asked. "While not on a hurry, we can't just waste time." "Half an hour tops." Benji answered. "That if I can warp now, for some odd reason I was unable to use warp or teleport on Arunafeltz, if I can't warp then I will head straight home with them."
"We can wait here for two hours." Itsuki said seriously. "There is still cargo on that ship that is destined to the clan, so we are staying until it is unloaded and sent to storage." "It is more than enough." Benji replied. "You two stay near Itsuki, I won't take long." Benji said turning to Aysu and Mai.
"We heard." Aysu replied. "Take your time." Mai said with a smile. "We aren't going anywhere." Benji sighed at Mai's words. "Here I will borrow you this." Itsuki said while handing to Benji a circlet. "Thanks." Benji replied taking it. With a smile he sees the warp portal that he just casted, it was good having all his skills back, he leaves the luggage with the futanari and the former sacrifice, and steps into the portal. "So hitting each other is really a greeting among you people?" Aysu asked to Luna in a casual tone.
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Almost one hour later Benji warps back into the harbor, he is a bit surprised in seeing Itsuki chatting with Mai, and he has feeling that it isn't a good thing; Luna is with Aysu and Saya. "I am back." Benji said while taking off the circlet and walking to Itsuki. "So how were things?" Itsuki asked casually, she had a pretty good idea of where Benji went, she only knows one reason that would make Benji put his guild in second place in things to do when arriving in Rune.
"Surprisingly good." Benji answered, handing the circlet to the shorter woman. "Now I can go to Amatsu without worries on my mind." "Well I hate to add worries on your mind but you really should rush now." Itsuki said in a serious tone, she hated to break Benji's casualness after seeing that things were fine. "But the word is that today there is a massive attack on your guild's main castle."
"They held it until now just fine." Benji replied, not wanting to spoil his mood. "Too fine." Itsuki countered. "Even if you are not worried, your presence will make them better." Benji nodded understanding and agreeing; besides he doesn't have anymore pressing issues to deal with other than his guild. "Since Junko is watching that castle I will be tagging with you for part of the trip." Itsuki said. "Saya will watch over the cargo." Benji nodded while picking on his backpack.
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Atsuko wipes the blood from her lips, things weren't going as well as they planned, the enemy got gunslingers, many of them, all of them armed with large bore grenade launchers, and the effect shells were packing more damage on them than anything else. Bursts of grenades were followed by a rush of foot soldiers charging at the gates, trying to break the defenders' formation with no success until then, but it was still midmorning, the day is far from over and the enemy's attacks are being very well coordinated, wanting or not to admit, without aid they might fall.
End of the chapter twenty seven:
Author explanation corner:
Vassala A.K.A. Benji's unnamed sword: If you are following my other stories with the Outcast 'Label' on it, you are aware that Benji has something that I call universal set, it means a whole set of items, memories and knowledge that I had when the 'arrival' happened. Vassala is part of this universal set, as is the CD MP3 player, the knives, the backpack, clothes and other stuff.
Vassala originally came from an RPG section, she has two versions, one of them she was a normal sword that was boosted with magic and technology during the campaign, the second version she was a powerful magic sword straight from the very beginning with more than a handful of powers.
Her appearance will be described later on the story, as well any other powers that she might have, the one power that is confirmed is that she is unbreakable under combat, more about her later.
Atroce: Since I needed a really strong reason to have Luna and Saya in Rachel I needed a strong monster to be attacking innocent people on the path between Rachel and Veins, so I decided to use an MVP, what better than the MVP native from Rachel?
I know the kill was a bit too easy and Saya didn't do much, that because Benji leveled a lot, had tons of bonuses and Luna's boosting song, among few more things on his favor. The violence was there because the idea just came like that, thought it was supposed to be later in the chapter, Saya was also supposed to do more, but in the end I just couldn't make her take a bigger role in the fighting, nor wanted to write every detail about the fight. Benji's reaction is simple, he was just letting out pending frustration, anger and other stuff, it feels good just let all go and pound something.
Benji's room and the girls' influences: It is common when living together that a girlfriend tries to add something hers to the room/house of her lover, even when not living together. So it felt like a nice detail for their connivance, since there are four lovers it also felt good to add a rotation routine, so no one would feel left aside.
The flowers were randomly selected, some are fictitious, others are real and others are just 'renamed' with an Amatsu on it, though I did do a small checking on flowers language before making the final selection for each girl, trying to find the right flowers for each one, some are just random.
The odd effects in the room are a secret now, the same goes for the broken swords.
About the new characters: I will explain more about them in later chapters, right now I just want to end a certain thing so I can move on with the story. It is enough to say that most of the new characters Benji met in the months between Mana's and Shina's departure and his meeting with Alexis and Isis.