Hello, and welcome to the last of the four part Asia and Jeanne introduction sequence!
Pedro52; Thank you!
Sandshrew master 317; Thank you! And yeah, push Zenki too far, and he'll go all berserker on you, in a Dragon mode no less!
Absolute Mirage; Thank you! I'm glad that you did! Yeah, it does, doesn't it? I wanted to show that he is strong, but he can still be taken down, evident by the last chapter. Yup, she's finally been introduced, and she's not someone you want to mess with. Hehe, don't mess with Illuyanka or her son or you'll know about it. Well, he's gonna mess them up quite bad, you'll have to read in this chapter. That's the added mystery~ And thank you!
Gabriel790; Thank you!
Hellspam; Thanks, I'm glad that you thought so~ Hehe, don't mess with her or she'll lay down a beat down, maybe a trait Zenki inherited from her? She could be based off that, she very well could be. I know, it even made me tear up slightly, and I was writing it, so I hoped it was portrayed as such. He surely can transform into a Dragon~ Something awesome, am I right? And yeah, he's got the Dragon aspect, and it might explain why he's drawn to Asia, who's got the power to tame Dragons more easily, you know?
Dragonsayianblue; Thanks! I'm happy you enjoyed it! Hehe, we surely do know who's on top now~ Illuyanka-chan is someone you don't wanna mess with~ It was quite sweet, wasn't it? Their love for one another is quite high indeed. Hmmmm, he might be doing that, he very well might be~ We'll have to wait and see~ Possibly, he might be trained by him, or even Tiamat. She will be telling him, and Zenki has already recorded what Diodora said to him, so he's got strong evidence against him now. Erm, it shouldn't be long now. We've got Valerie to get, which is gonna be pretty soon, and then I haven't fully decided when Kunou is going to join his peerage, possibly when the Fallen Angel arc is happening, the introduction arc of the LN. They'll be friends alright, Issei will be more like that I think, and you know, since it is Issei, and he despises males that are Bishounen or just genuinely attracted and all, so they won't be getting off to the best of starts (at least from Issei's perspective, Zenki will be neutral on the guy) but their friendship will develop as the story does.
DocSlendy; Hehe, she might very well be~ She might very well be~ We'll have to wait and see, won't we~? He surely is…but not this chapter, he's still got his uses for story wise, but that doesn't mean Zenki and his peerage, are going to let him off so easily.
War historian; Diodora isn't going to die in this chapter…and Issei isn't going to get a crack at him in this fic anyway. In canon he did it for Asia, in this, he doesn't have Asia, which Zenki does, so Zenki is going to be the one that finishes him off in the end.
Harem Master123; Hehe, it's gotta happen sometimes for dramatics and all. Yeah, they've been through quite the ordeal and all, so this chapter they are going to have a happy time together. Eeh yeah she is OC, but could be based off something else with the same name. Hehe, she might just do something like that. And cool suggestions!
RangerElk76; Hehe, I'm glad that you are~
Raidentensho; You've got a point there~ Who indeed did wake up the Dragon~? You never know, he might very well end up being trained by Tannin, or even Tiamat~? Yeah, it might very well be pointed out. I'm gonna try my best and make it as epic as I can. Yeah, maybe she could be a lover if I am work it right~ And here's more!
Katelynn Snow Fox; That's a cool suggestion, I will give it a think!
ShadowUzumaki55; There was very much feelings in this chapter, huh! Zenki and Asia pretty much confessing to each other, not caring about the boundaries that should've blocked their blossoming romance, and sacrificing themselves for each other. You never know with Illuyanka, she might be doing something like that in the future. You know, it kind of is like their relationship huh. Maybe the Maou-sama's are frightened of their significant others. Hmm, she could be, she could be a real Dragon. It will be revealed as the story goes along. It very well could be, his hatred for Zenki is surely going to increase as well.
Lelouch of Zero; Thanks! I'm glad it turned out like that, and here's the rest, hope you enjoy it!
Charli J Lee; Well, it pretty much is confirmed this chapter it is from his Mother's side of the family, but as to what she is, will be revealed in the future.
Blue Eyes Pendulum Dragon; Yeah, it is good that he got to her, and was able to protect her from at least joining Diodora's peerage. Well, he's got those types of girls in his peerage so he might very well have fetishes of that nature, though it isn't going to be so obvious like Issei's fetish for breasts. Imagine Ophis doing that, is quite funny indeed. Yeah, I can imagine Serafall actually doing something like that. you're asking for my top ten girls? Well, I dunno. I'd would have to think about it, and give you my answer some other time. And yeah, I did thank you!
Guest 1; Hehe, here's the update~ Hope it wasn't too long of a wait~
Guest 2; Awww, if that happened, then that means I did a good job with building on the emotions and pulling at the heartstrings. Well, he's got something like that going on, he's certainly showed the ability to turn into a Dragon, he might have other powers related to that in the future. Ooh, I've got plans for that, he's certainly going to be joining that…after getting some punishment. And yeah, Zenki's pretty much gonna be his replacement for the Youths Tournament. And yup, I have plans for it to play out like that.
ShadowKing042; Here's the update! And I did!
Guest 3; Hehe, yeah~ I'm trying to make you cry lol. They will do, eventually, I don't know when though.
Asia lover; I know, it seems like I did, but that's all apart of good story telling, right? Yeah, they'll know each other for a great number of years, from the age of 12 to canon which is about when Zenki is 17 years old, something like that. Hehe, I am glad that she has been well received. Yeah, I can imagine her doing something like that~
Guest 4; Yeah, it's pretty much confirmed that Asia is going to be the first. Akeno being the second? I don't have a problem with that. Hmmm, I haven't fully decided yet. I was maybe thinking him, or Uriel of the holy flames, giving her some holy flames as well, but I haven't decided yet. Gabriel is, Yasaka I haven't decided about yet.
Neonlight01; Hehe, I am glad that you loved the previous chapter! Yeah, a lot happened last chapter, and some more happens this chapter as well, action packed and has a good ending, if not a little more than happy~ Hehe, don't mess with Zenki's Mom or she'll deal with you in a pretty heavy way. Yeah, I guess you can say it is something like that, and yup, he turned into a giant Dragon. Hmm, someone will be doing that in the future~
Yuki Onna; I have thought about doing one before, but I haven't decided on a proper layout for the story yet, pairings, things like that. But that does sound like an awesome idea, I love it. Heh, that would be pretty funny as well, thanks for the suggestion!
Guest 5; You know, I am imagining things on the same line as you are there. That would be quite funny though, I can see it happening~ The Angel Prince, I am sure Asia would approve of that, after calling him an Angel after so long, it would be something she would like to call him. And you're right there, calling him Devil Prince would technically be right as well.
Skull Flame; I loled when reading that first part for the first time. You're right about that though, that's all he's good for. You're right about that, you don't mess with Illuyanka and get away with it, she's going to kick some serious ass. Yeah, I thought that this would be the best way, to show mutual love, sacrifice and other things to make it good. Hmmm, we'll have to wait and see what's going on with his Mom, won't we hehe~ Yeah, I love the ideas! You're right, Koneko is adorable when she's jealous of others. That sounds like an awesome idea for a chapter or two, and even a good way to have them get to know him, I love it! Yeah, that sounds good, I haven't decided if that's gonna happen yet or not, because the reason for it is taken away, and it is resolved later on anyway without really effecting the story. And thank you!
BlueBlade87; Yup, she very well could be something like that, making Zenki a half Dragon. Don't call yourself lowly, everyone starts somewhere, and when I started I wasn't very good, but I believe I have progressed as I have written, so keep your chin up or something more inspiring haha. But yeah, when I get a chance, I will give it a look~ Erm, I usually just sound the name out, like Ill-u-yanka, but maybe I am butchering on how to say it. Who knows. He's gonna be in pain alright~
Lucifer The Archangel; Hehe, unite indeed!
Lightwave; Yup, he's finally saw the truth, and about time as well, it just took Zenki falling into a despair state. Emotionally, he did get wrecked, even more so in this chapter, along with being beaten down as well. He surely is going to get wrecked by the Dragon Zenki now, and yeah, he could be either of those things~
Guest 6; God yeah, poor Asia. She's going to be somewhat corrupted by the girl, though Zenki will make sure she doesn't get too corrupted by Kuroka, and yeah, with her around, Asia's going to be knowledgeable. I can totally see Asia doing that, and the same with Kiryuu when it's revealed that Zenki and Asia have done the deed, though I don't know when that's going to be.
AlphaOmega; It was intense yeah~ Very intense indeed. Illuyanka, she's really quite the strange yet loveable Mom that does love her son very dearly. Hah, yeah, he's pretty much whipped by Illuyanka. You're right about that, neither deserved it, but they'll be getting their happy ending sooner or later. Well, I like keeping people on the edge of their seats, and coming out with new and interesting surprises. He could be either of them, you're gonna have to wait and see~
Guest 7; Yeah, I toy with that idea in this chapter, when Jeanne says some...pretty outrageous things. Hehe, that actually would be quite funny~
ShadeAkami; Yeah, new chapters are always awesome! Yeah, he's Ajuka's son after all, and is very intelligent, even if he has to take risks like that. Yeah, he's a real asshole for revealing something like that, only to make Asia break down from deception (for a good reason) from Zenki. That is indeed dedication, he got basically destroyed from five different directions, and then took another beating only to protect Asia. Yeah, Asia showed her love by saving his, a Devil's life, even knowing that she was going to die, she showed how much she cared for him after everything he did for her, a pure soul. Hehe, he's a huge ass Dragon now! You don't mess with Illuyanka and get away with it. She could be a real Dragon or a member of the Bune clan, it will be revealed over the course of the story. Well, your wish does indeed come true with Gabriel meeting Zenki in this chapter! Even if only briefly, she does help him in her own way. And thank you!
Guest 8; Awesome, I will give it a look soon~ I'm glad that they did, means that I drew the emotions I wanted to draw out, and don't worry, Zenki will see to him.
Anime PJ; It was very intense, wasn't it? I'm happy that you liked it, I wanted to show just what hardships Zenki went through for Asia, including what you said, getting basically beaten up quite a few times, stabbed, cut, punched, and even shot with demonic power and other things like that, only to lose Asia anyway, though you're right about getting her back~ They'll be showing up alright, and they'll be showing Diodora why to not mess with their son, especially Ajuka. Well, here's the conclusion, I hope it is satisfying!
Guest 9; Yeah, I have thought about it before, but haven't thought of a good idea about it yet.
Guest 10; I could actually see that happening. Issei is a good person, even if he is perverted and does some questioning things, and Zenki will see that and like him, despite the perversion, mostly. I can actually imagine something like that happening with Issei, finding out he's a Maou's son and goes into apologetic mode after being antagonistic towards Zenki. Yeah, that would be a good way for them to become friends. Hmmm, possibly, I will have to think about it.
Guest 11; Asia learning Reverse huh. That would be cool. Or even Zenki learning it and using it along with Asia's healing power, a kind of special attack between the two of them, or even Le Fay learning it and using it with Asia. It's a pretty cool idea regardless though, thanks for the suggestion!
Cf96; Thanks!
Guest 12; Aah, I am glad that I could ignite feelings like that. Means I did a good job with it~ Hehe, that would be quite funny. Yeah, she's gonna be like that, with one on that list being seen in this chapter. Hmmm, that's a good question, it is gonna be a little mystery about it, you know~ But if I had to place her in strength wise, well, I'd say she'd be around Grayfia level strength, maybe a little stronger.
Guest 13; I imagine the same thing, Irina is going to be quite shocked, isn't she?
Guest 14; Eeeh, I would have to think about what kind of purpose she'd serve if I did have something like that happen, you know?
Guest 15; Well, I am glad that you were able to catch up, and thank you! They pretty much will be shown to be something like that. I could see Jeanne unlocking it then as well, it is a unique way of doing it, after all. That sounds like a cool idea, I will have to give it a think over, thanks for the suggestion!
Well, with those lovely reviews out of the way, it is time for the conclusion of this arc!
The holy spirit and the holy nun part four
"Owwwww, I'm so late right now! Ooh Zenki-san, Asia-san, please don't do many developments while I can't see! I need to see more and more of the interactions, please wait for me to come and watch what's going to happen!"
Gabriel, with a worried expression on her face, was going through heaven, trying to reach the place where she would often sit and watch Zenki and Asia…but today, she was late. She was caught up with something, and it couldn't be ignored.
She didn't like the fact that she wouldn't be able to spy on her favourite people to watch on the earth.
Though she knew it wasn't normal, she didn't mind.
She liked the fact that Asia and Zenki were all kind with one another, it brought her joy to witness something of a love between the two of them.
She wanted to experience more and more of it.
She wanted to see Zenki and Asia become more and more, yet she was worried about how long it would last.
She recalled when they were so close to one another. She wished it could last forever, but she was also someone who knew that it probably wasn't going to last forever. No matter what she did, or didn't do, the love they shared wasn't going to last forever, and it broke her soul to know that she wouldn't be able to do anything about it, not allowing herself to be too involved with the love that was unfolding on the earth between a Devil and a nun, though she did find it cute.
"Ooh, please excuse me! Ooh, please~"
Gabriel pleaded and rushed through some Angels.
She looked like a headless chicken right now. She was running around like she had her feathers plucked or something. She wasn't sure on what she was going to do, since she was late, and didn't know what was going on.
The lower level Angels bowed their heads towards the large breasted Angel, not wanting to get in her way.
They all knew that the girl was trying to see her favourite couple. Though most didn't know what Gabriel was actually doing, and Gabriel held no interest to tell her thoughts on the matter either, everyone knew Gabriel was doing something that she loved, but they had no clue about the Devil and nun relationship.
As Gabriel was about to step into the room that she uses to observe Asia and Zenki, Michael came into the picture, stepping just before the door, causing Gabriel to stop and pant, having rushed around Heaven like a headless chicken.
"Aah, Gabriel."
Michael greeted with a kind smile.
Gabriel offered him one as well, though it was tired and flustered.
"O-Onii-sama, to come this early, has something happened?"
She wasn't a rude person, so she didn't want to tell her elder brother to move out of the way because she was late. But deep down, she wanted to see what the two were doing and wished Michael had caught her at a later time.
"Of course not." Michael confided with a small smile, a graceful smile on his lips as well. "I was merely wondering if the task I had set for you was completed?"
Gabriel blinked her eyes for a few seconds, wondering what the man was talking about as her mind was merely on what Zenki and Asia were going to be doing with one another right here and now.
Clarity then came to her, and she clicked her fingers.
"Aah yes, I have completed that request. Do not worry Onii-sama, it has been done now. S-So, is that all?"
She attempted to hurry Michael along, wanting to get into the room that she wanted to be in, not talking with Michael right now. Though she loved her elder brother dearly, she wanted to see what was going on with her favourite couple.
Michael noted that Gabriel's attention wasn't on him, and questioned it.
"Gabriel? Is there something wrong?"
Gabriel's brow sweated up slightly, moving her head in rejection.
"N-No, nothing at all Onii-sama. There's nothing wrong."
She assured him with the kindness that Gabriel naturally held within herself.
Michael knew his sister however, and could see that she truly didn't wish to be here. When he saw that she was looking behind him, rather than right at him, towards the door, he jumped to conclusions and knew what she wanted now.
"Gabriel, could you wish to want to see Zenki-san and Asia-san right now?"
Gabriel's face turned upwards into a sheepish smile, as she put a hand to the back of her head and rubbed it gently, her tongue naturally sticking out of her mouth with a silly expression on her face, the face that Michael found to be funny.
"You found me out…yes, I wished to see Zenki-san and Asia-san together again."
She confessed with a strained voice, not sure on how her elder brother would take it, even though he was the one that asked her to watch them, already knowing what he was thinking by the expression that dangled on his face.
Michael thought about what the sister of his was doing and seeing her face, so came to his own conclusions.
"I-I see…so, that's how it is. Gabriel, you've already become attached to the Devil-san, Zenki-san, haven't you?"
Gabriel didn't know what to say as a response.
She couldn't speak, her mouth felt dry and her throat horse as well. She was caught by her elder brother, and shame spread across her beautiful face.
"Onii-sama…Z-Zenki-san is a kind person and all….erm, I don't know how else to say it…Zenki-san is a really kind person so I…I quite like him Onii-sama…b-but n-not in a naughty way…I-I thought that Zenki-san was very kind…"
As if she was a school girl, the Angel shuffled on the spot, trying to appear to be calm and collected, but like a school girl with a crush, she failed to keep her composure, slinking down to the ground in her mind, her real body feeling wobbly from the gaze of her elder brother. Gabriel wasn't sure if it was a judging gaze or an understanding gaze. Whatever the look he had right now, all she hoped was that it was understanding.
Michael kept his green eyes on his younger sister for a few moments, before a light hearted chuckle escaped his lips.
"Fufufu, Gabriel. You seem to have grown attached to this Devil-kun yourself. I am quite, surprised, yet not at the same time. He's quite nice, isn't he Gabriel?"
Gabriel's face flooded with several shades of red, a shamed expression on her face at the thoughts the woman was thinking right now.
"W-Well…Z-Zenki-san is a Devil and all…b-but he's still a kind Devil s-so I am going to say that he's a good person…"
Gabriel spoke with an honest truth, trying to make sure that her feet didn't fail her and she'd fall to the ground. She didn't want to make an embarrassment of herself, yet somehow she felt like she was going to crumble under the intense gaze of the elder brother she admired.
"Gabriel…"
Michael began, but before he could say anymore, Gabriel places her hands together.
"Zenki-san is a nice Devil, Onii-sama…a-and my personal feelings a-are co-complicated…a-and I know that liking a Devil-san might be a difficult b-but I-I won't be in-interacting with Zenki-san s-so my personal feelings aren't g-going to be accounted for…"
Gabriel tried her best to defend her feelings…but she wasn't sure on how.
She wasn't sure how she should do that. She wasn't even sure if she was feeling what she felt or only looked through the eyes of an observer and saw that Zenki and Asia and replaced herself with Asia, to pretend to hear sweet words from the Devil.
She honestly wasn't sure what she was supposed to be feeling right now. But she did know what because of Zenki, she was able to experience a growing love, and admiration that couldn't ever be replaced. She was sure that Zenki was what the best Devils had to offer.
Michael could see her internal struggle, and laid her worries to rest.
"It is okay, Gabriel."
"Onii-sama…"
Gabriel wasn't sure on how she should take his tone.
It wasn't angry, yet it wasn't peaceful either.
It was monotone.
Gabriel didn't know how to take it, honestly. She wasn't sure if she should hate it or love it.
Michael took a few seconds to articulate his thoughts, expressing them to his younger sister.
"It is okay, liking a Devil. Though I personally do not understand the concept. If you're so inclined to like this Devil-san, then I cannot object to your feelings. Of course, I cannot condone your feelings either. They are your feelings, nothing more and nothing less. I shall turn my eyes blind for this particular feeling. Because you're my Imouto, I of course feel the need to protect you. But if you're going to be feeling this for a Devil, I shall allow you to feel whatever you wish to feel."
Gabriel's eyes lightened up with hope, and admiration that she always held for her elder brother, but now was magnified by ten because of the accepting nature Michael displayed to her, even with her own feelings coming into account.
"Onii-sama…"
Gabriel didn't know what to say, so Michael stood to the side, and allowed her entrance to the area that she wished to enter.
"Please go inside, you're late with your daily observations Gabriel."
Gabriel's eyes beamed pleasure and happiness, nodding brightly.
"Y-Yes Onii-sama! Thank you!"
With those kind words, Gabriel entered the room.
Immediately, she went over to the area where she used to observe Zenki and Asia, and looked inside.
For a few seconds, nothing happened…
But then she saw it.
She saw Asia on the ground, blood coming from her, and Zenki with many, many wounds on his body. Shock and horror entered her being, taking over as a few tears gained access to her eyes, threatening to drip from her eyes at any second.
"O-Oh my…w-what happened…?"
She couldn't wrap her head around it, she was confused and unsure of how this happened…
That was until she saw some people to the side.
She saw Diodora, and Marc, and instantly came to conclusions.
She thought (correctly) that either Diodora or Marc had attacked Asia, and Zenki tried to defend her, but she did something to protect Zenki and now she was dying. She was horrified by what she witnessed before her.
[A-Asia-san! No, no, no, no, no! This can't be happening! W-Why…I'm a Devil…I'm a hated existence by you people of the Church…w-why did you do this…? W-Why d-didn't you let me t-take it...I-I would've d-died to p-protect you...s-so why...?]
Gabriel heard Zenki's voice…how broken it was, and she wept for him as well as Asia.
She couldn't control the tears that streamed down her face due to the fact that she wanted everything to work out.
She didn't want to see either Zenki or Asia hurt…but now both of them were hurt, and she cursed herself for being so late, and not being able to help them. That, was something that made regret enter her heart.
[…Zenki-san…if I was born again…could we…have spent more time…together?]
Gabriel witnessed that he complied with Asia straight away, his head bobbing up and down as tears rained off his face, Gabriel having the same expression on her face, trying to control her tears the best that she was able to.
[Yes…of course we could've. We could've been together everyday. We could've done many things together, we could've even…we could still do those things…I mean, Asia-san, you can't die…there's many things I want to show you. There's people in my peerage…I mean, they're weird but you'd get along great. You'd be able to have many friends. You'd be able to do anything that you wanted and then we could've done things together…we could've been…we could've…]
When he couldn't finish, Gabriel knew that his heart was broken.
Witnessing it on his face, melted her heart into mush and she felt like she was the one he was talking with right now. No, she wished that it was her, so she could experience the same that Asia did, and maybe one day still do.
She continued to watch the heart breaking scene before her, barely able to control the tears in her eyes and that ran down her face as well. She couldn't control it, she couldn't control the feelings that she felt right now.
Gabriel noticed that Asia held a paper in her hands that when opened revealed the image of Zenki and Asia together, drawn by the pair at different times, and that did it.
Her gates opened and her eyes broke down with fresh tears in her eyes.
She couldn't help the sobbing that came from her eyes.
Gabriel was a pure and honest woman, and right now, she was witnessing the tragic death of one lover, and the despair filling the other lover.
[Asia-san…]
To Gabriel, Zenki's voice felt so broken that she couldn't see how anyone could cause such despair to fall onto a young boy. She felt like this was awful, a dream or even a nightmare…yes, she thought that this was a nightmare right now.
[…My single wish…is to stay with Zenki-san…forever…Zenki-san…forever with Zenki-san…thank you…for everything…Zenki-san…I wish we…we could've…gotten marri…I love…]
With that and before she could finish her sentence, Asia's hand dropped to the floor, and Asia passed away peacefully, a smile on her face.
Gabriel saw the death of Asia, and felt sorrow for the girl, and for Zenki.
"Asia-san…you wished to stay with Zenki-san forever…I can understand your feelings…you truly did love Zenki-san, didn't you…young nun, you truly found someone that did love you…I am so sorry that you went through something like this…it shouldn't have happened…"
Seeing his face, and eyes, she looked and wished she was right beside him, to offer a comfort. Any kind would've done. She just wanted to make sure that he was alright, that he didn't sink into despair with the death of the girl he loved.
She even held disdain for the person that caused this to happen. She looked at Diodora with a upset face, and Marc as well. She could tell he was human, and he was laughing at Zenki, and Asia as well, feeling disgust that humans would laugh at a child's death, no matter if they were a Devil or a nun human.
Right now, she believed that Zenki was the better person, who cared so much for his friend, compared to the humans that were laughing at him for crying and at the death of Asia. She wanted to go and do something, and she couldn't take it anymore.
She stood up, and was going to get ready to leave immediately…when she saw it.
She saw that Zenki was transforming after the harsh words from Marc, and she could see the pure despair in his eyes, the tranquil fury being unleashed, the devastating aura that was surrounding him and obliterating the area around them, but oddly protected Asia from the devastation. The single thing that he mindless Dragon was capable of doing now.
"Ooh my…Zenki-san…"
Gabriel couldn't watch anymore and did her best to get down there before everything was too late.
"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Back in the forest, the Dragon Zenki thrashes around. The Dragon used his increased strength to mow down the trees that was around him, breaking them apart again and again. It was almost as if they were toothpicks to him.
His cries pierced the heavens.
Asia was dead.
Grief filled the Dragon's heart now, and he was moving on pure instinct. There was nothing in his eyes that showed he had any form of consciousness. He didn't have brain function with the respect that he was thinking.
He wasn't thinking right now.
He was acting.
He was throwing his flames of blue and yellow around and burned up, yet also froze, the atmosphere, and toyed with the trees as if they were something he was able to do without a worry in the entire world.
"Ooh my God…"
"He's a true Dragon…"
"What kind of Dragon is this creature…?"
"It's too powerful…"
"We can't hope to fight that…"
Down below, the humans and Diodora saw the Dragon and were frightened…
Obviously, they didn't know what to do.
Most were worried about pissing themselves, some even doing that. Most just fell to the floor and prayed for this to be over. They couldn't even activate magic to escape, fear etching itself into the hearts of the people around, breaking their souls without even him making a move on them. His presence was just too terrifying, the humans couldn't hope to win against this person.
"Shit…so this is the Dragon form that he's been hiding…s-shit, does that mean he's going to kill me now…I-I don't have enough power to run away…m-my body hurts too much…I-I can't do anything…s-shit, maybe he will leave me alone...I-I didn't kill Asia…he might over look me and kill the people that did kill Asia…"
That was the only hope Diodora had now.
He didn't have anything else that he could rely on.
He was sure that his peerage were defeated.
He couldn't rely on Marc because he was against him as well, and he wasn't sure if anyone was going to come.
The best he could hope for was that Ajuka came, saved him, and he could weasel his way out of it like he always did. That was the only hope that the boy held now, he didn't have another chance in hell. If he tried to attack, Zenki would and could kill him, he knew that now. He had no way on fighting now, he was too frightened to even more anyway, never mind fight.
Marc couldn't stand there, and raised his spirits, bringing out his sword that was wrapped in holy power.
"Damn it…! Even if you're a Dragon now, you're still a Devil with weaknesses and I won't lose to yooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
Marc, in a desperate act, coated his blade with the holy aura and charged forward.
Most thought he was foolish, but Marc didn't and went upwards with his blade. He jumped off his feet and made it to eye level with the Dragon Zenki. Flames of blue and yellow sprang from his mouth in a snarl, aiming at the ground.
Marc witnessed some of the forest burning, while the other half froze.
"F-Freezing flames! A-And hot flames like the sun!? Y-You aren't normal…!"
Though he was terror filled, he still swung down his sword and released a holy wave. Most would say that it was the same type of power that a true holy sword could release, and it headed for the Dragon Zenki, who was still a Devil despite being transformed, and had the weaknesses that Devils had, including that to holy power.
An uncaring look was on the Dragon's face as the holy wave cut deep within his body, and some blood came out, but Zenki's scales were tough. They didn't allow the holy wave to cut too deeply into him.
"W-What why didn't it…!?"
Marc was shocked that his attack didn't work…but Zenki in Dragon form turned his eyes towards the sky high Marc and hissed, growling and even stomping his feet on the ground, cracking it with his heavy footsteps.
"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Zenki turned his rage on Marc's body and showed his large and menacing teeth. Opening his mouth, Zenki went to take a bite out of the man that had killed Asia, showing fire dancing at the back of his throat, the two flames mixing together in a glorious fury the boy felt at the death of his friend, and most would say, love as well.
"I-I don't think so!"
Marc propelled himself backwards, and used his holy sword to swing a large wave of holy power towards the eyes of the Devil Dragon boy.
Zenki growled and before Marc knew it, two types of power was released from Zenki's mouth. The yellow and blue flames mixed together, and burned and froze the wave of holy, it shattered and falling to the ground as Marc's eyes widened in pure terror.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Marc cried and placed his hands out, creating several barriers. They were all sturdy and thick, aura lacing around them, and filled them with Marc's power. He even added his holy power to the barriers so they would be even stronger still.
But…
"W-What!?"
Marc became stunned by Zenki's power smashing through the barriers, freezing and burning his way through the barriers one by one. Marc's eyes fell to the edge of hopelessness, and did the only thing he could, bring up his holy sword.
He concentrated all of his power into the blade, and made a drastic action…
"TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!"
Losing all sense of composure, Marc launched his sword like a spear for Zenki's body, hoping that it would pierce him and kill him…but it didn't.
As the sword hit the flames, the holy aura was frozen away, and the sword was incinerated.
Completely annihilating the sword and its aura, Zenki sliced at Marc, and cut his body, sending him to the ground in a loud cry that pierced most ears around the area, even Diodora heard the person and wanted to cry and run away, but his fear stopped him.
"S-Shit! N-No!"
Marc rose to his feet, as his blood dripped down his face, a wound on his head. His eyes terrified the men that he brought with him, due to the fact that there was actual blood coming from someone so strong, from this Dragon.
"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Zenki's cries on anguish shattered the heaven's and his rage was turned against the person that took Asia's life, his emotions not existing anymore, beyond pure rage and anger. His mind was gone now, only fighting on pure predatory rage and anguish at the loss of Asia's life.
Marc became frightened and placed a barrier around him. He was running low on power, but even then, he was trying his best to defend himself. He didn't want to die, he was too afraid to even do anything like that.
"W-What!" Marc became shocked when his blue and yellow flames smashed through the layers of barriers and burnt and also froze his body at the same time, giving him ice burns, which were very excruciating. "Oryaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Because of the intense flames, Marc cried out, Diodora wishing that this would be over now. He was too frightened to even more, and Marc had been attacked with a very powerful flame that could melt flesh easily…and that's what it did.
His hands had become so burnt that the flesh became to melt off like butter melting. The flesh melted so much that even bone could be seen. Marc cried harsh tears, his hands killing him, but even so he tried his best to stop the pain. He even felt the coldness of the yellow flame, and frostbite tore his skin as well, freezing and burning him at the same time. It was too much for Marc, he felt like he was going to die at any moment now.
"S-Stop it! Stop this! Please stop this right noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!"
Marc's pleas fell on deaf ears, and with his huge claws, Zenki tore off Marc's legs, blood spraying out of him like a geyser, drenching the area with the redness of the blood from the human that killed Asia, and Jeanne.
He fell to the ground while crying. He poured his heart and soul out through his tears, but Zenki ignored the humans cries.
"S-Stop this! I'm fucking sorry! Please don't do this to me! I didn't mean to do this to you! I didn't mean to hurt you! I am so fucking sorry! I wasn't thinking straight! I wasn't thinking at all! I wasn't even doing anything wrong! I was trying to be a good person! Please don't hurt me anymore! Please don't kill me! Please!"
Marc couldn't help but cry. He knew that his life could be over very soon. He knew that he could die very soon. He even tried to raise barriers around him, but Zenki broke through each and every one of them with either his flames or his overwhelming strength.
Even though Zenki wasn't in his right mind, Zenki saw him as the enemy, and mercilessly used his claws to tear the humans flesh. Usually, the normal Zenki wouldn't be so cruel, but the mindless Zenki didn't care and tore through the flesh of the human again and again.
While his lower body was missing, Zenki opened his large jaw, and lowered his head towards Marc who had a face dyed with fear and pain, raised his single good arm and fired off bullets of holy power. They pierced the scales of Zenki's body, but even so the Dragon moved more and more down, snarling at Marc who made a face full of despair.
"Please! Please don't kill me! I didn't mean to kill the Nun! I won't ever come for you again, I promise! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hurt you! Please forgive me! Please don't-"
Before he could finish his sentence, Zenki bit off Marc's head, killing him instantly.
The sound disappeared from the area for a moment, as they watched Marc's lifeless body (what was left of his body that was) fall to the ground.
A heart beat happened…
Then another one…
And another one…
Until…
"Ooh shit!"
"It's a monster!"
"Let's get away from here now!"
"Fucking help us!"
"This thing is going to kill us!"
Marc's men became frightened, panic ensuing and tried to run away from the Dragon…
"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Before they could get away, Zenki's Dragon claws cleaved through their bodies, shredding them to death. Their cries filled the night as Zenki killed each and every one of them without mercy. He clawed and stabbed each of them until nothing of them existed anymore. They tried to fight back, but it was useless, futile. Using different powers like magic, Sacred Gears and even other holy items against him, but they were powerless before the unrestrained wrath of this powerful black Dragon. They were helpless as death came to their former lives, they didn't even exist anymore due to Zenki and his immense rage.
His eyes went towards Diodora who backed away, frightened.
He couldn't be more afraid right now. The Dragon's rage was directed towards him, and he felt weak from the wounds he had received beforehand. He couldn't even hope to face off against this powerful beast and win against it.
"N-Now, dear nephew…y-you don't want to hurt me…r-right?" Diodora cried, and then Zenki spat Marc's head at him with a menacing look in his Dragon eyes that could pierce the soul, Diodora screaming as a result. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I'M GETTING THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!"
Fear was too small of a world to describe the way Diodora felt right now.
He couldn't feel anything other that terror. He couldn't even feel anything. His body felt numb, tears flowed down his eyes with a blank look on his face. He couldn't even make any face other than blank. Not because he wasn't scared. But because he was too frightened to even make his face move, it falling into a neutral face, knowing that he could die at any second now, and that was too worrying for him. He wished this to be over and done with, he wanted Ajuka to be by his side now, but he wasn't sure if Ajuka would come for him now, before Zenki managed to finish him off.
Diodora, despite the horror he felt, got to his feet and tried to run away…
"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRARRRRRRRR!"
Zenki's loud roars made the forest shake, and the next moment, Diodora's path was blocked by blue flames, the ground below him freezing with the yellow flames. He jumped back with a cry, looking towards the large Dragon, fear etched into his heart, something that he didn't want to happen to him.
"Fuck offffffffffffffffffffffffff!"
Diodora did the only thing that he could do, placing his hand outwards and fired countless demonic bullets. Though he was weak on power, he was trying his best to fight off the Dragon that was no doubt going to take his life there and then.
The bullets bounced off the scales like they were flies, and the next moment, with a fluid motion, Zenki used his large sharp teeth and tore through the flesh of the Devil, ripping his arm off his body, his left arm at that, right up to the shoulder.
"IYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Diodora cried as blood shot out of his wounds.
Diodora cried more and more, his tears falling to the ground like raindrops, holding a hand to his stump. Diodora tried to crawl away from Zenki, but Zenki's hand came crashing down onto his body, crushing it under the large hand.
Naturally he screamed out…but his voice was cancelled by the sound of the roars of agony that Zenki cried. He cried for his dead friend. Even in this berserk state, he was crying for Asia to come back, he cried for her death, and cried for the actions he had done when in this form.
Zenki wasn't a killer, by nature. He didn't like doing it, so when doing it ruthlessly like this, his souls cries pierced even the Heaven's and Hell down below. His pain was too immense and it couldn't be contained.
The Dragon lifted his hand to see Diodora still lived. His body had some broken bones and he could move a little, but Zenki wasn't satisfied. The Dragon wasn't satisfied with this, and hungered for Diodora's death.
"P-Please…P-Please d-don't do an-anything to me…"
Diodora cried for his life.
He pleaded for his life…
He didn't want to die.
He showed a pathetic side of him and pleaded again and again for his life, but it fell on deaf ears. The Dragon didn't want to listen to the boy, he didn't want to hear the boys voice anymore, he wanted to be the one who extinguish his voice forever, along with his life.
Zenki as the Dragon snarled and went to attack Diodora again…
"Zenki! Stop!"
Suddenly, seals came around the boy's body and stopped him from moving.
Zenki's body fell to the ground, crashing downwards. Zenki tried to move, but the seals around his body wouldn't allow him to move. He couldn't do anything, he thrashed around but he wouldn't be able to move.
"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
A sea of blue and yellow exploded out of his mouth as he tried to escape, but Ajuka wouldn't allow it to hurt anyone, using his famous Kankura Formula to take control of the power and turn it to the sky, dispersing it into nothingness.
He wouldn't allow Zenki to do it, stepping out of the shadows, together with Zenki's Mother. Her long black hair waved in the wind, her eyes concerned for her son, and her eyes solely on the Dragon form of her son.
"Zenki!" She cried, and went closer to her son, putting a hand on his body. "Zenki! It's me, it is your Kaa-chan! You need to stop right now!"
She ordered and tried her best to calm the beast, so to speak. She only wanted to help him, calm him down…but when hearing his cries, she could tell that there was something wrong and it made her feel bad that her son was in such a state. It made her feel like everything else didn't matter now, only her son and his pain.
"H-He's really tough…"
Ajuka held him back with his demonic power, but had to admit that it was slightly difficult. The power his son unleashed was immense, and he could see it was for the girl on the ground, the girl he assumed that he was Asia Argento, pain residing in his heart.
"Well, he is our son…but Ajuka, this is…"
Illuyanka didn't know what to say.
She wasn't sure if she had a right to say anything.
She was too upset to speak.
Seeing her son in such a state, was something no Mother ever wanted. They never wanted to see their child in so much pain, so right now, he was heartbroken, inconsolable, she felt like she could die because of his own broken heart, her sons broken heart.
"I know, I know."
Ajuka didn't want to admit it…but he hated himself right now.
Not seeing his own sons pain made him feel like a terrible Father, and seeing his son in such a state now, he felt like he truly did fail to keep his own son safe.
"Well…it seems that he's inherited my blue and yellow flames, it makes a Kaa-chan proud. I mean, that's the best ever, he's got my yellow flames that are cool enough to freeze, and my blue hot scorching flames that are unique on their own, my own special abilities and all, what a thing to be proud of. I didn't think he had inherited my powers on this level…but better take him out of that berserker state before he mentally loses himself."
Illuyanka looked at the dazzling flames that Zenki created, and felt grand that her son displayed such power. yet she was also worried that he had to be in this state to begin with, seeing all of the pain and despair within his golden eyes.
As the woman contemplated the boys state, Zenki's strength suddenly grew and he broke out of Ajuka's sealing's, both of them being shocked.
"D-Damn, he broke through...even though I was holding back because I didn't want to hurt him, he still broke out of it..."
Ajuka was more shocked than Illuyanka, as she saw Zenki turning his face and power on his parents, losing all reasoning and attacked whatever was around, even if it was his parents. Even if it was someone who he loved, he didn't have any control now, and was turning his blue and yellow flames onto the parents he loved.
"Ooh no Ajuka-baka, he's going to attack us. What should we do? Since you're like totally smarter than I am, you have to come up with the plan. I'm just glad that Zenki inherited your intelligence, and not my own."
"Don't say that, you're very smart Illuyanka."
Ajuka assured the woman, said woman merely bonked herself on the head and stuck out her tongue.
"Maybe so, but you're totally smarter than I am, not so good with emotions and all, but intelligence wise, yeah you're the person who is better between us, but I am better at being beautiful, that's why he inherited my sex appeal, which is totally better than yours, no offence sweetheart."
The Maou didn't refute what she said, and merely looked at the Dragon Zenki coming towards them, breaking down the trees that remained in the area. Ajuka was worried that the Exorcists in the Church might come out, but to his happy surprise, they hadn't and he wasn't sure why that was, Illuyanka being on the same level of thinking.
"We'll have to seal his movements Illuyanka. Will you please hold off his attacks for a few seconds?"
Illuyanka nodded her head, and stepped forward, as the Dragon turned his flames of yellow and blue onto the duo of parents, the woman coughing into her hand.
"I don't like doing this in my human form, but I guess I have no choice since it is my child."
Illuyanka's mouth opened wide, and from their, a sea of blue and yellow flames erupted. From the density, it was clear that hers were stronger than Zenki's, and proved as much when her blue flames obliterated his yellow flames, and her yellow flames froze his blue flames, breaking them apart with a single attack, the Dragon howling and put more power into his flames...
But Illuyanka was able to keep the Dragon at bay, using her flames of blue and yellow, easily dwarfing Zenki's own.
"Now Ajuka-baka, I am sure that you're done with the sealing techniques, right?"
Illuyanka questioned with a mouthful of flames, Ajuka nodding.
"Yes, I'm ready."
With a thrust of his hands, demonic power shot out in equations, and wrapped around Zenki. The Dragon roared and tried to stretch his wings, but Ajuka's sealing technique was too strong. It restrained the Dragon, forcing him down to the ground, Ajuka could now safely say that he was able to detain the Dragon with his powers.
Illuyanka stopped her flames, and coughed into her hand.
"Damn flames, makes me feel like there's ashes yet also coldness in my throat. So much easier to do it in Dragon form, or my Dragon human form, whatever."
The woman complained, but was glad that her son was being detained for the moment, for his own safety.
Ajuka's eyes went towards Illuyanka, the woman giving him a shit eating grin.
"Illuyanka, if you would use some techniques to revert him?"
"Okay."
She said without complaint...but didn't move.
She twiddled her thumbs, Ajuka merely looking on while wondering if she was going to do anything or not.
When seeing that she didn't move for half a minute, Ajuka naturally became curious.
"Illuyanka, are you going to do it?"
The woman's golden eyes sharpened at Ajuka, and raised a finger, pointing at him.
"Alright, give me a second, we all can't be Stephen Hawkins...Howkans...eeh, Hawkins, yeah that's right. The smart wheelchair dude."
"Who?"
Illuyanka sweatdropped and rolled her eyes, patting him on his forehead.
"You're lucky you're sexy and intelligent, with certain things. People clearly aren't your thing though, are they hunny?" Ajuka became confused even more, but he didn't have time to say anything as the woman walked forward, weird spell patterns appearing in her hands, walking all the way to the Dragon Zenki, placing the hands on the boys Dragon scales. "Now come on sweetheart, don't struggle, I'm here to help you."
Zenki continued to thrash around, but wasn't able to get free. Those flames erupted out of his mouth, Ajuka made sure they didn't get that far. Illuyanka applied a calming presence and clarity to his muddled mind, slowly but surely reverting him back from what he was before, the berserker state, something both parents wanted.
Eventually, he stopped thanks to Illuyanka calming him and using some techniques to revert him back to his human form, and his body transformed back into his human form, thanks to his parents combined efforts.
As soon as he was transformed back, Zenki's naked body was covered in light and his clothes appeared on him.
His eyes looked towards his Mother, the gentle woman looking right back at him. He was confused, he couldn't remember much of what happened, if anything at all. He could only stare at his Mother for a few seconds…but then it came back to him.
It came back to him.
What happened with Asia, what happened with her death…how he wasn't able to protect her in the end.
How he wasn't able to save her life…how she died while smiling at him…
The memories of that flooded into his mind, and it almost destroyed him.
Large tears fell from his eyes, Illuyanka casting her kind eyes towards him, brushing them away with her delicate fingers.
"Kaa-chan…I failed Asia-san…"
He couldn't feel more down right now.
He couldn't do anything…his energies were gone.
Even crying was a chore at this time. He did it though, wanting to get the feeling out of him somehow. He couldn't scream, he couldn't do anything big…but he forced his tears out of his eyes, trying to get them out of his body but knowing that he'd always be affected by this, Asia's death always going to be on his mind now.
Illuyanka looked at her son's eyes, putting a hand to his cheek, brushing his eyes gently.
"You didn't fail anyone. We failed you, Zenki. All of these wounds on your body. Your idiot Tou-san should've believed you. I should've done more for you, but we didn't…your peerage, they came and told us to come. I am so sorry that it took this to make us move, and that little bastard Diodora, he's going to pay for this."
His Mother whispered darkly as she kissed her sons head. He sank against her chest, and openly cried, Ajuka moving closer and closer to him.
"Ooh Zenki, I am so sorry for everything I have done to you." Ajuka apologized, but Zenki didn't respond, staying in the protectiveness of his Mother's embrace and his eyes solely on Asia, unable to leave her dead form. "Zenki…I should've believed in you, my son. I should've taken your words more seriously, and because of my actions, or my inactions I should say, this has happened to you, my son…h-how can you ever…you are…"
Ajuka placed a hand on his son, but he was brushed off. Ajuka could understand why, feeling the urge to shed tears himself.
Ajuka felt it in his heart, how broken his son was. The expression on his face was devastating to say the least. Ajuka could hardly believe that an expression as dark as that worked its way onto Zenki's face, blaming himself for even allowing such a face to be on Zenki's in the first place, on his sons face which is a place where smiles should be, not upset and pain.
He couldn't take it, and saw the wounds on him…and became deeply troubled.
Just seeing his own son in such a state, was too much for him. He never thought that he would witness his own son in such a state, and yet, it wasn't anyone else that he hated, other than himself, for failing his son when he needed him the most.
Diodora, who was bleeding profusely, saw his elder brother there and wept tears of joy.
He thought that Ajuka had come to save him, so he took his body off the ground and walked as fast as he could towards his brother, trying to walk as best as he could.
"Onii-sama! Onii-sama!" Diodora cried as he rushed to his brother. "Onii-sama, Zenki did-"
"Shut up Diodora!" Ajuka yelled and slapped Diodora across the face with the back of his hand, sending him to the ground, Diodora's nostrils flaring in terror and shock. "I have witnessed myself what you've been doing! I have reviewed the footage that Zenki has been recording of you! You dare attack my son with the intent to murder him!? You dare try and upset the balance of this world for your selfish actions!? You're a little brat that needs to be severally punished for your actions!"
Diodora couldn't believe it…Ajuka was turning on him?
Ajuka actually slapped him and was turning on him?
That was impossible.
He couldn't believe it. Ajuka wasn't supposed to turn on him. He was supposed to be on his side indefinitely, but here he was, yelling, hitting and even giving him a darkened glare. That, was a new reality Diodora didn't want to be apart of.
Diodora cried and went to try and plead.
"B-But Onii-sama-"
Ajuka glared down at his own brother, snarling dangerously.
"You're pathetic, my own son taught me that. You are not fit to be heir, trying to break down the factions with your actions. You're truly a disgusting boy, you are going to get punished for what you did to my son. You dare harm him again, and you'll suffer my wrath, now get out of my sight you scum."
Hearing the harsh words, Diodora shed large tears as his world came crumbling down. Now having Ajuka rejecting him, he didn't have a leg to stand on. His wound was hurting him, his body wrecked with pain…but what hurt most of all, seeing his own brother 'betraying' him in this manner, siding with Zenki rather than Diodora himself, it was too much for the young Diodora, and he had trouble on even breathing straight at this moment.
Ajuka waved a hand at him, sent him to a different location, detaining him, already having done the same to his peerage.
Once he was gone, Ajuka turned his sorrow filled eyes towards his young son, who wouldn't stop crying.
"Zenki…"
Ajuka's voice called to his only son, gaining the boys attention.
Ajuka expected the look he got next…pure anger.
"Don't…Don't talk to me…you didn't listen to me, and now Asia-san is dead. She's dead, because I couldn't protect her, and you didn't listen to me…why didn't you listen to me? I told you time and again about Diodora, but you never listened to me, and now an innocent has died, saving my life. Asia-san protected me, when I was trying to protect her. How can I ever face anyone again? If I can't save a single person, what kind of King am I? What kind of person am I if I have to be saved by the very same person that I was meant to protect? Tell me Ajuka! Tell me why she had to die! Why didn't you listen to me and help me save her!? You're a Maou-sama, why didn't you listen to me and help me save Asia-san! Because of you, and your love for that bastard Diodora, Asia-san is dead! She won't ever be able to do anything ever again! She's gone from this world, and she…s-she was such a lovely person, and she won't ever be able to experience anything of a good life now…h-how can this happen…I hate you Ajuka."
Noticing that he was called by name rather than the usual words he used to address Ajuka, he became upset and wanted to cry. Even hearing Zenki say he hates him, brought down his very soul to the depths of despair, but he couldn't blame Zenki at all. If he was his son, he'd hate himself too.
Illuyanka lightly petted her sons face, drawing his attention to her briefly, then returned his eyes back to Asia's form.
"Zenki…I'm so sorry that your friend died…you're right, we could've done more…we should've done more. We're quite failure as parents, aren't we? We have failed you, and now your friend has died. This is our error, and we're so sorry. If we can't do anything like this then what good are we…"
Zenki didn't listen, staring at Asia's body.
Tears flooded down his face at seeing her dead body, and he felt like he was going to die as well. Asia was dead, she wasn't able to come back.
"Asia-san…"
He cried and didn't know what to do.
He got out of his Mother's grasp, and crawled over to her. Despite the fact that he was in immense pain, blood was leaking out of him like rain pouring out of the sky, he didn't care. He wanted to be with Asia, protect Asia, stand with Asia, love Asia…but he knew that it would never happen again, no matter what.
He took the deceased Asia's hand, holding it tightly, noticing the coldness of her hands, his tears coming to his eyes again and spilled over.
It was heart breaking, for both of his parents. They couldn't stand to see their son in such pain, anguish. He didn't even seem to care about the wounds on his body, all he cared about was the nun that was before him, dead.
Even with his exhaustion taking him over, he wasn't going to fall unconscious for as long as possible. He wasn't going to surrender the last chance he had to stare down at this girl's face, this girls final smile that she held for him.
But then suddenly, a figure descended from the sky, a beautiful woman with long blonde hair. She was wearing white robes, and her beautiful white wings were spread out.
Ajuka immediately recognized the woman, walking closer to her with an edgy look to his eyes, as Abzu went to his side.
"Gabriel-san, why have you come?"
Yes, Gabriel had appeared before Ajuka and the others. Ajuka wasn't sure why the Angel had come, half expecting it to be about what Diodora had tried to do with the nun, and somehow had succeeded. If that was the case, he was going to protect his son from her, if she tried to attack him, unsure of her true intentions.
Zenki barely registered the appearance of Gabriel, being too shocked and in pain to even care about the girl that had appeared right now, he didn't care at all.
Gabriel looked at Zenki, adopting a soft gaze for the boy, but she spoke to Ajuka .
"Ajuka-san, that is your son, is he not?"
Her bellowing voice carried over to Ajuka, confusion written onto his face.
"That's right, but why are you…"
Ajuka didn't have time to finish as Gabriel walked past him, and leaned down to Zenki's level. Zenki's Mother glared, wondering what this woman was going to do with Zenki and was prepared to fight the woman if she tried anything dangerous with the green haired boy, but then she saw that Gabriel petted the boys head.
"You're a very lovely boy, aren't you?"
Zenki cast his eyes up, meeting Gabriel's eyes, who displayed kindness, despite the differences in races.
"Y…You're Gabriel-sama…"
He could hardly believe it.
The person that he had been hearing of from Serafall for years now, seeing her face now was surprising. He didn't know if he should bow, or should speak respectfully, or what have you. He didn't know what to do, but he merely kept his eyes on her form, wondering what she was going to be doing.
Gabriel allowed her face to turn upwards at the sweet voice Zenki released from his throat, finding it adorable.
"Ara, yes. That's correct. I am Gabriel, but that doesn't matter right now. What does, is the levels of kindness you have displayed to this nun here. I've been watching with keen interest. You're a very lovely boy. You've been protecting this nun for months, without any hesitation. You stepped in front of attacks again and again for this nun. In the end, she was very appreciative of your actions."
Zenki teared up, shaking his head. He thought his tears were dried up…he was wrong.
"It didn't matter in the end, she died because of my lack of power…I wasn't able to save her…I couldn't even protect her when she needed me the most…"
Gabriel placed a hand to his face, coolly rubbing it as his Mother glared even more, not wanting her son to be subjected to this woman, but couldn't deny that Zenki's face had turned a shade of scarlet because of the woman's kind hand on his skin.
"But, you did your very best. All of these injuries you sustained, you sustained them thanks to your love for this nun. Fufufu, watching your interactions was very sweet, and cute. I found myself waiting for them to come, I got so invested in your relationship, and even though you're from two different worlds, the love that you both shared with one another, was truly the start of what we would call peace. The Factions have something to learn from you children, who put all differences and races aside and allowed each other into your hearts." She paused and looked at Zenki's parents. "Your son has been protecting this nun for months now. He's been raised very well, he's a very good and honest child. I usually wouldn't find myself saying this, but your son is very pure indeed. To put it into the words of this nun, Asia-san, he's a pure Devil that could've easily have been born as an Angel."
Ajuka and his significant other shared a glance, hanging their heads down, feeling depressed by how Zenki had turned out without much of their influence, proud of him, yet Diodora who had much influence from Ajuka turned out completely different.
Gabriel then looked at Zenki again, giving him a comforting pet on his cheek with her fingers.
"Zenki-san, you're very sad right now, aren't you?"
Stating the obvious, Gabriel expected his head to move in agreement with her words, his voice almost failing him, crackling with no hope left.
"I-I'll never see Asia-san again…o-of course I am…"
Gabriel adopted a smile, only a smile that an Angel would be able to use and get away with it.
"That isn't necessarily true."
At that, Zenki became puzzled at the enchanting voice the Angel used.
"W-What do you mean? She's dead…she can't come back…"
He was sure on this. She was dead, there was no coming back from that, his brain not remembering even something most people would think of, the shock of Asia's death muddling his already confused mind from the beating's he received that day, and still could feel the heaviness of the wounds that were on his body.
"Hmmm, but I was lead to believe that you Devils had something called, Evil Pieces? Isn't that right?"
Zenki's, and his parents in turn, had their eyes widened by the words of Gabriel.
"W-What are you saying…? Asia-san wouldn't…"
He knew now that he could do that…but could he?
She was a nun, a girl of the faith.
Asia never said anything about being a Devil.
He felt complex feelings on bringing her back as a Devil. He felt worried about bringing her back as a Devil, not sure if she would truly want something like that to happen. He wasn't sure if Asia would want to be a Devil under his care.
Gabriel however rubbed the top of Zenki's head, ruffling his hair that was stained in blood, his own and others as well.
"Asia-sans life as a nun was over the instance she healed you." Gabriel revealed as she felt Asia's healing aura still on Zenki's form, sighing sadly. "Asia-san healed you, a Devil, even knowing her life as a nun would cease. I can tell she has healed you, her aura is overlapped with some of your wounds. Then she did the bravest act another could do for someone, and gave her own life to protect yours. Even so, knowing she had healed a Devil, she gave her life for that Devil, and had a smile on her face as she passed away, wishing to stay with you forever. What I am saying, Zenki-san, is that once you were healed by her, Asia-san couldn't of returned to the Church. And she said she wanted to stay beside you always…she wants to be with you, Zenki-san. Usually, I wouldn't say to a Devil to reincarnate a member of the Church, or former member I should say, but Zenki-san will be able to care for Asia-san, like he will Jeanne-san who I recently found out you made into your servant, correct?"
Zenki's body heated up, he wasn't sure why but the prospect of returning Asia to life was high. Now he had something to hope for, something to strive for, and his heart wasn't sinking into the depths of self-doubt and hardships…but renewed hope entered his eyes and his soul.
But there was a lingering thought in his mind.
That lingering thought being a very powerful one indeed.
It was immensely powerful, taking over his form, and he had to express his concerns with Gabriel, sure she would understand more than anyone else what he was feeling and thinking right now.
"B-But…w-would she want to be a Devil…? S-She's a…g-girl of the Church…c-could she be happy with…being a Devil…?"
Gabriel nodded with a giggle, a very cute giggle at that.
"Fufu, I believe Asia-san would be happy being with Zenki-san, regardless if he was a Devil or an Angel. You see, Asia-sans death was unfortunate, and even if she can't return to being human, she can still live under your house. In fact, I entrust Asia-san to your care. I know she would be very happy being with you. Seeing her interactions with you, I can tell that while this might've not been what God had planned for her, life had planned that for her, and she wants to be beside you, Zenki-san. Of course, it is entirely your choice, and this won't affect anything between the Factions, good or bad, so please don't be worried about offsetting the balance of the Factions. In fact, you've been protecting the balance by keeping Asia-sans faith strong and tried to keep her a member of the Church. For that, I can only thank you."
Zenki's cheeks turned red as Illuyanka's eyes sharpened at the woman, Ajuka being pleasantly surprised Gabriel was proposing this.
"Y-You don't need to thank me…"
"I do." Gabriel said, her smile growing. "Now, before it is too late, why don't you reincarnate this nun?"
At her suggestion, Zenki's face lifted up from the depths of despair and only saw the light now, the good kind of light.
"Y-Yes!" Zenki announced, but then felt dizzy, his power leaving him. Ajuka acknowledged this, and gave a portion of his power to Zenki. "You…"
He could hardly believe his Father would do something like that, give him power like that.
Ajuka though still felt the guilt at allowing his son to be in such a thing, and only nodded his head at his boy.
"Please, reincarnate her Zenki. I know, it will make you happy."
Ajuka said it while not looking at Zenki, physically unable to do so due to his own guilt.
Zenki, with now added power from Ajuka, summoned his Evil Pieces, and immediately took out his Bishop piece, knowing that it would be the best piece for Asia.
"The Bishop's role is to support yes? Then, that is a good piece to use, Zenki-san. I have no doubt that you'll be able to utilize Asia-san and give her a happy life."
Gabriel's voice made Zenki smile, appreciation on his face for the Angel.
"Thank you, Gabriel-sama, for everything." Immediately, he placed the piece to her chest, and began his flow of demonic power, under the watchful eyes of his parents and Gabriel. "I order, in my name Zenki Astaroth. You, Asia Argento. I, resurrect you back to this soil as my servant, and have you reborn as a Devil. You, my Bishop, be delighted with your new life!"
The Evil Piece entered Asia's body, disappearing inside of her, recovering her of the wounds she received beforehand.
Zenki stops the demonic power once confirming that the piece had entered Asia.
For a little while nothing happened…that was until Asia's eyes opened ever so slightly.
Wonderingly, she looks around, confused by what was going on.
"Huh…?" Asia became confused, then looked towards Zenki, slightly widening her eyes for a split second, then softening her gaze, glad to see her friend, though she was still in a daze. "Zenki-san, what happened?"
Zenki couldn't control himself and wrapped his arms around Asia's body, shocking her and causing her face to turn crimson.
"Don't worry Asia-san, you're always going to be with me now, forever. From now on, I will protect you, and you'll live together with me. Although your life as a nun is over, I promise to show you the world from now on. We'll do everything I promised, you'll live with me now, and we'll explore the world and I will show you many spectacular things."
Asia teared up and hugged Zenki back, as the three adults look on with smiles, and for Gabriel, tears in her eyes.
Illuyanka took one look at the newly resurrected Asia, and turned her head towards Ajuka, whispering in his ear.
"I can see why our son was drawn to her now."
"What do you mean?"
Clearly, Ajuka couldn't see what she could, Illuyanka smiling sweetly.
"She has a certain...something that attracts people like Zenki, so naturally he was drawn to her. I guess, that was what officially happened. Well, regardless, they have to get married."
Ajuka spluttered, not sure what to say, but a single look from Illuyanka caused him to submit, bowing his head in agreement.
Gabriel leaned down and lightly pecked Zenki on the cheek, his face instantly heating up as Zenki's Mother opened her mouth wide.
"It was a little kiss from me, I hope it was good."
Zenki chuckled a little bit nervously, rubbing the place he was kissed as his face darkens a few days, a healthy blush on his cheeks.
"G-Gabriel-san…"
Zenki could barely get the words out as Gabriel rubbed her own cheeks, a blush forming there.
"Fufu, I actually kissed a Devil. What would the Factions-"
"He's under aged you perverted woman!" Illuyanka yelled, and pointed at her. "He's only thirteen years old you creep! Don't come onto my son! At least wait until he's old enough! I can't stop Serafall-chan from touching my son, though I probably could do it if I wanted too, I won't allow some pedo Angel to come onto my thirteen year old boy!"
Gabriel looked offended by Illuyanka, but she didn't care at all, smiling dangerously at her.
"P-Pedo Angel? I-I am not-"
"Listen Goldie locks, you wanna come onto my son? You wait until he turns fifteen you nutter! Right now, he's too young for you! I won't allow you to stain my son until he's old enough for sex! After he's hit fifteen, come onto him! Build a bridge between God's sister…eeh, Gods daughter and my Astaroth boy! You can then give me some half Angel grand-babies and be with him, kay? I know he's freaking adorable, but wait until he's old enough, for the love of Maou. Please don't take his innocence away until he's old enough for it, sheesh."
Illuyanka finished with a wink as Zenki, Ajuka and even Gabriel face palmed. Asia merely was too shocked to understand what was going on, though Zenki and Asia wondered about the little slip Illuyanka did when referring to Gabriel as God's sister, but let that go as they didn't know what to think of it.
And when Asia noticed Gabriel had her eyes on the former nun, and had her mouth wide open, but before she could say anything, Gabriel winked at Asia.
"From now on young nun, you might not be able to return to the Church, but you have a new life ahead of you with Zenki-san here. Please support him."
Hearing the words of the Angel, Asia had no choice but to obey, knowing this was Gabriel from the words of the others, and deeply respected that an Angel was able to come down and see her off into her new life as a Devil, and she was able to meet one of her personal hero's.
"Y-Yes!" Asia cheered straight away. "I-If Gabriel-sama is the one to ask me this, then I will definitely do so!"
Hearing that, Gabriel giggled and stood tall.
"That's fantastic. Officially, this meeting never happened…perhaps, if peace is attained someday, we could, get more acquainted?"
Directing that at Zenki, the young boy blushed, merely inclining his head, unable to voice anything right now, marvelling her beauty and her kind smile, that reminded him of Asia.
Once seeing his agreement, Gabriel clapped her hands together joyfully.
"That's wonderful." She smiled out, and looked towards the adults. "Do not worry about what happened here with actions like this, I have already made sure that the Church there doesn't know much about this, and Onii-sama contacted me...I mean, Michael-sama contacted me and told me about how this won't effect the mutual agreement we have for now to not fight. Since this action was caused by one Devil, and humans who weren't...you understand the idea. What I am trying to say is, this incident won't be held in our hearts, since one Devil, Zenki-san there tried to protect this believer of the Church. This, has been a strange occurrence, but I am grateful for the experience, Zenki-san."
Directing that last bit at the end towards the green haired Devil, the boy blushed brightly, feeling her hand resting on the top of his head, stroking his hair delicately.
Gabriel then cleared her throat, and took a step back.
"Then, if this is the place I depart, it wouldn't be so-"
"GABRIEL!"
An unholy noise made everyone jump.
Turning, everyone saw Sera Voorhees stood there, a machete in her hand, everyone apart from Asia became frightened. Zenki was even wondering why she was here, considering the fact that she told Zenki she was busy today…but once seeing her eyes on Gabriel, the pieces of the puzzle clicked together, and filled themselves in.
"She told me that she had work to do today…"
Zenki caused his voice to carry to the others, Ajuka slamming his hand against his forehead.
"She's supposed to be at a very important meeting right now…"
Ajuka's sigh caused Illuyanka to smile.
"That's Serafall for you. She's going to do something weird, poor Gabriel-chan. She's about to be subjected to some weird ass torture or something akin to that."
Zenki thought he'd hear an answer like that, and though he was expecting it, it didn't make Zenki feel any more relieved than he thought it would.
Gabriel however, couldn't take her eyes of Serafall right now, fear on her face.
"S-Sera Voorhees-san…"
Gabriel cried as the woman herself walked closer, cutting trees as she moved forward. Each tree that fell, felt like her heart was shattering into tiny pieces.
"Gabriel…" Serafall's darkened voice carried to the others, making them shiver. "I sensed that you had come to earth to cause your usual pain and torment, but to find you here of all places, trying to murder my cute Zenki-tan and take his nun away from him? You think that you can suddenly do things like this, and get away with it…? What a thing, you're truly a bad girl, and to kiss Zenki-tan in front of me? Sera Voorhees isn't happy. Actually, she is pissed off right now."
Gabriel gasped, pulling her body backwards when Serafall referred to herself in the third person, adding terror into the eyes of the sweet Angel.
Zenki and Illuyanka found themselves sweatdropping, while Ajuka face palmed, all knowing what was going to happen now, at least each had a sneaky suspicion.
"S-Sera Voorhees-san, I-I was only showing Zenki-san my appreciation…"
That only made Zenki more and more scared as Serafall's eyes clouded with rage and hate for Gabriel.
"YOU GET AWAY FROM MY ZENKI-TAN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!"
"IYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Gabriel ran away with Sera Voorhees chasing after her, swinging her machete.
"GET BACK HERE YOU!"
"WHY DON'T YOU LIKE ME VOORHEES-SAN!?"
"BECAUSE YOU'RE AN EXISTENCE THAT NEEDS TO DISAPPEAR! FOR TRYING TO KISS MY ZENKI-TAN, YOU'RE GOING TO SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"I'VE NEVER DONE ANYTHING TO YOU THOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH!"
"DON'T LIE TO ME AND STAY STILL SO I CAN CHOP YOU DOWN LIKE A CHERRY TREE!"
Ajuka and the others palmed their faces, wondering what the heck they were going to do with this. Even Asia palmed her face, and she wasn't even sure what was going on right now. But Asia didn't care right now, as she was going to be staying with Zenki, always.
"Hmmmm?" As she watched Serafall chase after Gabriel, Illuyanka felt something, turning towards the right. "Was something..."
"Something wrong, dear?"
Ajuka calmly questioned, looking in the same direction as Illuyanka. For a second, he thought he felt something from there as well, but that was soon dispelled when the woman shook her head.
"Ooh no, don't worry. It's nothing."
She assured, but her eyes shot in that direction one last time, and thought that she saw something...but she couldn't be sure.
However, as all of that was happening, Zenki felt faint from his wounds. He bled slightly, and felt like he was going to die at any second, the pain surging throughout his entire body.
"Oh no…"
Suddenly Zenki paled, and his body fell to the ground, blood coming from his body.
"Zenki-san!"
Asia panicked and straight away, she started healing him with her Sacred Gear. Because of the green light that radiated from her, his life was saved from immediate death, but Ajuka knew he'd need more than that, so picked him up, the boy reluctant to be near his Father right now, but didn't have a choice but to stay there, while his Father takes him to the Underworld to save his life.
Unknown to them however, Ophis was looking on, having witnessed the entire thing, and rose a finger to her lips.
"It seems, Zenki has awakened his, Dragon powers, and has strong power. Illuyanka, Ajuka Beelzebub…interesting. Truly, interesting."
With a creepy smile on her face, Ophis disappeared by flying high into the sky.
As that was happening, in the Underworld, Diodora had just been teleported to a certain area.
It was dark, pitch black even. His Devil eyes could barely make anything out, and Devils were supposed to see well in the dark. But he couldn't see anything and it troubled him, not wanting to know what was going to happen to him.
He tried to stand, but his legs gave in instantly…he fell down to the ground.
He could feel the pain of what Zenki did to him and hated it…he hated the fact that Zenki had done all of that to him. He hated the fact that Zenki had done so many things to him, and even made him lose an arm, and blood…that was a wound to his pride right now.
"Kukukuku…"
He heard a noise, a noise of laughter and terror filling his heart from the noise.
"H-Hello…?"
Diodora wasn't sure if he wanted to know what that noise was but he had to try and see.
He wished he didn't however when the lights came on, to reveal that Diodora was locked in a cell…but he wasn't alone.
"Sup, bitch."
"Diodora-sama, seems like you've come."
"…We aren't happy with you."
"Ara ara, what a naughty Devil-kun you are."
Standing there, was Kuroka, Ravel, Koneko and Akeno, all having dangerous faces on right now. Kuroka's face was upturned into a dirty grin, Ravel's face was the most normal looking face but still had a hint of anger, Koneko's face was furrowed into a darkened scowl, and Akeno's face was smiling, but her eyes displayed her dangerous emotions for the boy, all angry for the boy that was their King (barring Akeno of course, who was still pissed off), pissed at Diodora.
Diodora, upon noticing them, all became afraid and pulled away from them.
"N-No…y-you can't be…"
Diodora didn't want to accept it and pulled away.
But Kuroka narrowed the distance very quickly, slapping Diodora across the face and sent him to the ground with a cry, a Senjutsu enhanced slap at that.
Because it was filled with Senjutsu, the slap hurt the Devil immensely, making him shed tears.
"W-Why did you…"
He didn't have time to finish as Akeno moved closer at lightning speeds, gathered lightning in her hands, and slapped Diodora's other cheek, sending him to the ground.
Pain rippled through his body as Akeno laughed elegantly scary.
"Ara ara, to see that Diodora-sama has fell down to being a bitch? What a thing."
Akeno's dangerous words caused Diodora to cease up.
"D-Don't..."
He couldn't finish as he saw Kuroka and the others move towards him, narrowing their eyes menacingly.
"You did something bad Dildodora nyaaa."
Kuroka hissed out dangerously, Akeno's pissed eyes falling upon the Devil.
"To think that you caused so much pain to Zenki-kun, this deserves a punishing like no other."
As she said that, Ravel sharpening her eyes at the Devil boy.
"You attacked Zenki-sama, and did many damaging wounds to his being."
Ravel's glare was very sharp, it could pierce the most protective of shield's and right now, Diodora felt the burning gaze of the Phenex girl on his form.
"…You made Zenki-san cry by luring that man there…to kill that nun…when Zenki-san cries, the world isn't right...so you aren't right either."
Perhaps Koneko's voice was the most threatening, and it certainly did a number on Diodora.
It made him feel like he was going to die. He retracted his body from the girls in question, but he couldn't escape anywhere. He couldn't get anywhere. He was trapped within the cell, he wouldn't be able to leave at all, and he held no power in his body anymore. He was literally drained now, and he had no hope of escaping.
Diodora bent his body backwards, and tried to move, but he couldn't.
Kuroka noticed that Diodora was missing an arm, and smirked.
"Ararara, seems like that you've lost an arm nyaaaa~ Zenki-chan bite the shit out of that arm nyaaa?"
Diodora sharpened his eyes towards the Nekomata who laughed loudly at the boy.
Ravel cautiously looked towards Diodora, and saw the same wound, smiling slightly.
"It seems like justice, doesn't it Diodora-sama?"
Ravel sneered unlike her usual self.
She was quite pissed right now, due to the fact that Zenki had been hurt by Diodora, and indirectly by him as well. What pissed her off even more than before, was the fact that Diodora was laughing and she didn't like that…but now he wasn't going to be laughing for much longer.
"What do you…"
Ravel's cold smile disarmed any words that could leave Diodora's mouth, leaving the man a blubbering mess.
"Zenki-sama turned into something and bit off your arm."
"Y-You say it as if you knew about it…"
Diodora couldn't understand that Ravel seemed to know about it, even Koneko and Kuroka didn't know how she knew and were surprised by the face the girl made, Akeno was clueless about what that meant as she didn't see what the other three saw, but did hear that Zenki was in a life threatening situation so came to dish out some punishment.
"Of course I know, I've known Zenki-sama for years now and always knew it was a possibility. Even Zenki-sama didn't know if he could do it or not. I've been friends with Zenki-sama since I can remember, and he told me once about his Kaa-sama, so I drew conclusions naturally, and when we saw what we did, well it was pretty much confirmed."
Kuroka displayed pissed eyes, hating the fact that Ravel knew something about Zenki that even she didn't know, tempted to slap the girl upside the head for having such knowledge, but for now, she turned to giving Diodora a scare, so she adopted a darker frown and moved closer to the cowering man.
"Diodora-chan~ I'm sorry but this is where you don't get off, because you're about to be fucked up by me, Bitch-chan here, Fallen Angel chick, and Shirone. Since Ajuka-sama gave us this chance to inflict pain, ooooh we are so going to take that nyaaa~"
Ravel scowled at being called 'Bitch-chan' but followed after Kuroka, walking closer and closer towards the boy that looked terrified, Koneko following suit along with Akeno, not showing any compassion for the boy that caused pain to Zenki.
"P-Please have mercy….?"
Diodora begged…but it fell on deaf ears and they advanced on him…
[No…]
Those words broke Diodora mentally, and then they…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
His screams filled the area that night.
The next day, Zenki was resting in a hospital room, recovering from the wounds that he received from Diodora and the others, being hooked up to a drip among other things. Asia's healing was able to heal most of the injuries, but he lost a lot of blood, so had to have several transfusions to save his life, which thankfully allowed him to recover in his hospital room.
Next to him, were Kuroka, Koneko, Akeno and Ravel, all sleeping with him on the bed. Kuroka was on the left, Koneko on the right, clinging to his arms, and Ravel was between Kuroka and Zenki, positioning her head on his chest, Akeno in the same position only with Koneko and herself.
Because they were worried for their King, they refused to leave his side. Koneko and Kuroka even aided with the healing process by using their Senjutsu. Ravel had made personal Phoenix Tears for him and sprinkled them on the wounds that he received the night before, allowing them to close up the ones Asia wasn't able to heal up. Akeno couldn't do anything like that, so she did what she needed to do and stay by his bedside.
"Nyaaa…Zenki-chan…"
"…Zenki-san nyaan…"
"...Zenki-kun...wake soon..."
"Please…recover…"
Kuroka, Koneko, Akeno and Ravel were immensely worried. Even in their sleep, they were crying out for Zenki to be better, wanting him to heal up very soon so they didn't have to worry about him dying on them.
Zenki stirred awake soon enough, and cracked his eyes open to see his peerage members plus Akeno laying on his bed.
He then heard a sharp snore to the side, and looked...
What he saw was Sona, asleep on a chair, having a worried look on her face despite being asleep.
His face widened into a small smile, and raised his arm…that's when he felt a wince of pain.
"Ngh…" He groaned, his arm wrecked with pain. "Seems like I'm still in pain…how long…"
"Only a day."
A new voice entrapped the room, drawing Zenki's attention to the door.
What he saw, was his own Father who had a sullen look on his face.
Zenki's eyes immediately looked away from his Father upon seeing him, unable to face the man.
"Where's Asia-san, and Jeanne-san?"
His voice was barely perceptible, his Father moving towards the bed with bated breath.
"Your Kaa-chan is taking care of them, helping them settle in and all that. They were here early this morning, it seems that Asia-san was immensely worried for you, the same could be said for Jeanne-san. They were concerned for you."
Zenki's face brightened up at the announcement of his Father, dispelling the fears he held when dreaming.
"I see…"
"Zenki…erm, I want to say…erm, I'm so sorry…for the way I've treated you."
Zenki's attention was caught, so he whizzed his face towards Ajuka, seeing that he was genuinely upset, the boy bowing his head, never seeing his Father wear such a face before.
"W…Why do you look like that? Your face is weird."
Ajuka chuckled hollowly, and sat down beside him.
"Zenki…I've treated you so awfully, I did many things an Otou-san shouldn't do. I ignored your own pain, when it was clear as day, and as a result, you hate me now…I don't blame you. I acted disgracefully, the way I treated you was as if you were a stranger. And now, due to my inactions of believing you, you've been wounded like this, and I can't ever begin to forgive myself for allowing these injuries be inflicted on you."
Zenki wasn't sure why his Father was speaking like this.
Was he trying to clear his own conscious, or something else to benefit himself?
Zenki's mind couldn't comprehend that Ajuka actually did feel genuine sorrow, and for once, Ajuka's intelligence aided him when it was due to the fact that he could see the hesitation in his sons eyes to believe his words.
"You…don't believe me."
It was a clear few words that made Zenki's head move up and down.
"Yes…I don't believe you. I'm sorry, but all my life, you've always chosen Diodora over me, and now, you're trying to get rid of the guilt you feel for ignoring and not believing in me. I can see it, on your face. You're trying to get rid of the guilt you're feeling."
"I can't deny that you're right…at least, partly. I do have guilt on my shoulders, but you're wrong about me trying to get rid of my guilt. I'm not trying to do that, nor am I expecting you forgive me for even letting you down like this…you shouldn't forgive me for doing what I did to you."
Zenki's brow furrowed in perplexity at the words his Father used…he didn't quite understand what he was supposed to be feeling right now.
"I don't get it…you're speaking like that…yet I don't know what to feel…you've always just disappointed me, always gone to Diodora over me and always paid attention to him, and never me, no matter what I did…no matter my accomplishments…I never heard praising words from you, or if I did, they didn't sound genuine…"
The confession from Zenki caused Ajuka to develop teary eyes. Ajuka was a man that rarely showed such emotion, but seeing the emotion his son had on his face right now, he couldn't deny that all of the things he did, now he regretted them.
"I did, and I shouldn't of done that. You're my son, my pride and joy, yet I failed you. You know…the reason why I paid more attention to Diodora is because-"
"He's your favourite." Zenki interrupted, Ajuka's eyes lowering. "I've known for years, you're more inclined to be with him over me. He's, the one that you love over me."
Those words made Ajuka's heart break in two. Making his son feel like this, he was ashamed of himself.
"That's not true." Ajuka tried to persuade, Zenki half listening and half contemplating on what he was going to do. "I paid more attention to Diodora…because I always thought that you were able to do it all, by yourself."
"…."
Zenki had a troubled expression, not knowing how to respond.
"Zenki…I always thought of you as very independent. I never thought that my inactions with your life caused you so much pain. Diodora, is very different to you. He's not as intelligent as you are, he's not able to tackle obstacles as much as you are. I mean, you were solving problems for 13 year olds at the age of 5 years old, I always thought that you didn't need me as much as he did. I was, trying to make sure that Diodora didn't disgrace the family, I wanted him to be the best heir he could. You could say, I was trying to groom him in a way to make sure that the Astaroth didn't fall, like you had said to me about Diodora…it seems, even with my actions, he still was a disgrace to the clan, even trying to kill you. I can't believe that he went that far…"
"Well, he's been trying to kill me for years, even before I could defend myself. Didn't you ever wonder why I broke my arm at four years old? Diodora broke my arm and I tried to tell you, but you ignored it as childish nonsense and thought I did it in some kind of natural accident. He threw me down the stairs when my arm was broken and broke my leg as well. He used to beat me up on a regular basis when no one was around and paid off servants that did see it to keep their mouths shut…but you never listened to me. He's always been jealous of the fact that I was alive, that sometimes I got attention, when he got more than I ever did from you and others. I couldn't stand it anymore after those years, and fought back…but when he told you that I punched him, you'd punish me for it, despite the times I had told you he assaulted me…y-you never listened to me…Kaa-chan is never around either…I didn't have anyone to turn to…no adult listened to me…I was left to suffer alone…"
Tears prickled at Zenki's eyes, threatening to escape those eyes of his. He refused to cry however. He wasn't going to cry, he found it stupid to cry about it now and didn't want his emotions to sway anyone, only stating facts, something he told himself was something that was blackmail, emotional blackmail. If he didn't tell himself that, he was afraid that he was going to lose himself mentally.
Ajuka also had tears in his eyes, hating himself, and shed said tears, his heart breaking even more with the declaration of his son, now knowing of what Diodora was truly like. He wasn't afraid to cry in front of his son, he needed to cry, to try and show his flesh and blood what this truly meant to him.
"Zenki…I can't take back…my past actions. I can't reverse time and do that…but I can change my actions for the future…" Zenki's eyes showed confusion, so Ajuka brought clarity to him. "Zenki, I wasn't around much in your past, but I will be in the future…I know my words now aren't going to patch up the relationship I hope is able to mend, but I am going to try my best from now on. I wasn't a good Tou-san to you, I wasn't. But now, I want to be."
Zenki sniffled, and looked away, unsure of what he should do.
He didn't want to be hurt again, he had been told lies before like this. He wasn't going to be suckered in…but this time, it seemed more real, it seemed like Ajuka was telling the truth right now…he wanted to desperately believe that Ajuka was saying the truth and wanted to genuinely be with Zenki now, as a family.
His torn heart struggled in his chest, trying to make one side pick…but Ajuka understood.
"It will take time…I understand. I will show you, that I am by your side now. Diodora…he doesn't even register in my mind anymore. For what he did, he's going to be punished. I wish for Cocytus, but I doubt that would happen…even then, he isn't going to get away with what he did. I spoke with Serafall before, and she told me what you tried to do, and I've reviewed the evidence myself. Whatever does happen to him, he won't be getting off light. And…Zenki, I just want to say, I do love you…no matter what you think of me now, I truly am sorry for my actions…from now on, I am going to be here for you, no matter what. Even the Underworld can't stop me now."
Once saying those words, Ajuka stood up, and allowed Zenki to think about it.
He knew forcing himself now would only be detrimental to the love bond that he wanted to recreate between him and his son.
As Ajuka made it to the door, and opened it, Zenki wilfully forced his head towards the door, to see his Father leaving, and called out "I don't hate you!" just enough for Ajuka to hear…which relieved his heart.
Ajuka turned his head towards Zenki briefly, seeing his sons eyes on him…but didn't see hate.
He saw loneliness, and wanting acceptance, but he didn't see his own son hating him. That, was a good thing in Ajuka's eyes, because he was going to be able to fix his relationship now, Zenki giving him that glimmer of light.
The man soon departed from the room, leaving Zenki with his peerage, most of anyway, along with Akeno and Sona, the boy looking down at them and smiling at each of them, giving their foreheads kisses as thanks for everything they did for him, and since he couldn't reach Sona, he smiled at the sleeping girl, thankful that she came.
A few days later, in Zenki's bedroom, Asia and Jeanne stood behind Zenki, both wearing new clothes now. Jeanne was wearing a tank top with the chest part cut out into a heart, and a blue skirt. Asia was wearing a summer dress, that flowed down to her ankles.
Before Zenki, Ravel, Koneko and Kuroka looked on at the boy with the two girls behind him, becoming interested in the activities that was before them, each of them being interested for different reasons.
"So, everyone! Here's the new peerage members! Asia-san and Jeanne-san, my adorable new Bishop, and my adorable new Knight! This is my other Bishop Ravel-tan!"
"How do you do? It is nice to meet you both, officially that is."
Ravel bowed respectfully as Zenki pointed at Koneko.
"And that's my adorable Rook Koneko-tan."
"…Nice to meet you."
Koneko said blandly as she fiddled with some sweets in her hands. Asia and Jeanne were pretty used to the way Koneko acted now, so they weren't offended by it.
Zenki then points towards Kuroka.
"And that's my Kuroka-tan, my Pawn."
"Sup bitches~"
Kuroka announced with a cheery grin on her face as Asia and Jeanne looks at all three of them. They then looked at each other, Jeanne standing forward with an awkward expression on her face, rubbing the back of her head as gently as she could.
"Mehehehehe, sup everyone~ I'm Jeanne, and I am…eeh, I am Zenki-chan's Knight-chan here! Since he doesn't have one yet, I guess that means it is me that is the first one, and I am glad! I've never been the first anything before, so I am glad that I am the first now! I'm Zenki-chan's cute Knight now!"
Jeanne introduced herself in a manner that showed her childlike adorable attitude, and even though she still held reservations about being a Devil, she learned that Zenki was a pretty good Devil, so it was okay for her to be a Devil, and she liked Asia.
Asia looks towards all of the girls in Zenki's peerage, and her eyes become watery.
"S-So, Zenki-san h-has all o-of these beautiful w-women around him…?"
Asia sounded shocked and didn't know what else to say, seeing all of the girls around Zenki.
"Hehehe, you see Asia-san…"
He didn't get the chance to finish as Asia clasped her hands together.
"It must be! B-Because of these beautiful women, Zenki-san must really have lots of female attention…b-but even then! Zenki-san was my first friend so I will also stand beside Zenki-san! E-Even Illuyanka-sama is giving me guidance on how to be the best wife for Zenki-san now! It must be all thanks to the Lord-Oweee!"
Asia put her hands to her forehead as if she had been struck by lightning, the prayer knocking her back a little bit.
Zenki smiled weakly at Asia, and gave her head a pat anymore, but then he became confused and recalled what she said.
"Did you say best…wife?"
Asia's face turned crimson and faced away, not able to look at Zenki right now, recalling what Illuyanka had said beforehand, grinning to herself.
Kuroka, Koneko and Ravel all had sharp eyes towards the former nun, not liking what they heard, and all made a silent agreement between themselves to make sure that they weren't going to lose Zenki to Asia.
"You can't face God anymore, you know?"
Asia adopts teary eyes, but then she looks to Zenki and smiles cheerfully.
"If I can stay with Zenki-san, then everything else is okay. I do not mind. As this is what fate decided for me. I can stand beside Zenki-san always now."
Hearing that brought a tear to his eye, but he quickly wiped it away and petted her head.
"Do not worry, we're all friends here. Ravel-tan, Koneko-tan and Kuroka-tan are going to be your friends from now on. Even Jeanne-san said that she likes you a whole lot."
Upon the mention of her name, Jeanne leaned her body forward and winked at Asia.
"Yup! Asia-chan and I have totally become friends now! Because she's a very proper and decent girl, we've decided to become best friends! And we even found out that we were raised in similar ways and if you want to punish me with a spanking Zenki-chan I wouldn't mind!"
"Huh?"
He didn't catch what she said at the end, giving a confused face.
Even Kuroka and the others weren't sure on what she said at the end due to the speed she used to get her words out.
Jeanne merely continued smiling and went to Asia's side, wrapping her in a sideways hug, Asia's face turning red from embarrassment.
"Jeanne-san…"
"Awww! Asia-chan is too adorable! I bet if we were still human, we would've become like amazing friends! But as Devil-chan's, we'll be amazing friends! Just think of it Asia-chan! We're cast out from our former lives, saved by the white hearted Devil, and now have a path set before us. As Knight and Bishop, these holy girls take charge and go forward and live a very different life than we had before!"
Jeanne's energy was quite infectious. Zenki couldn't help but smile at her, the same for Kuroka and even Koneko was smiling. As for Ravel, she smiled a little too brightly, that it hurt her face from the amount of smiling she was doing.
Asia though looked very happy about what Jeanne said, agreeing as she held Jeanne's hands.
"Yes, yes! With Jeanne-san, Zenki-san and the others, we'll live a new life now!"
"That's exactly it Asia-chan! We're gonna get along so freaking well!"
The two girls laughed to each other joyfully with Zenki smiling.
"What two great additions to the peerage, so full of energy and life, exactly what I like."
"And the fact that they are pure girls as well, you know with the holy girl fetish you have nyaaa~"
Zenki's eyebrows twitch in Kuroka's direction, a thunderous gaze set on the Nekomata.
"Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh~? What was that Kuroka-tan~?"
Zenki's tone was a little too sweet for Kuroka, she didn't know how else to react…
Kuroka stuck out her tongue and bonked herself on the head nervously at the eyes Zenki was giving right now.
"N-Nope~ It's nothing Zenki-chan nyaaa~"
Once hearing her defiant attitude disappear, Zenki clicked his fingers and a delicious looking cake appeared.
"Well, since this is the best opportunity, since we've come together. Why don't we have a celebration for the two newcomers of the peerage~ With this, I have the best Bishop team I can think of. A cute healer, and a cute Phenex-chan as well~ And with my new Knight-chan who is like adorbs, I think we're on our way to getting the best peerage ever!"
[Yay!]
The girls cheered and rushed for the cake, all of them hungry.
"Here Asia-chan, let me cut you a piece."
Jeanne offered as she made a holy sword dagger appear in her hand, Zenki impressed that she had learned how to do that so quick, and thought that she had some good talent.
"Ooh thank you very much Jeanne-san."
The blonde smiled like an Angel as she was handed a piece of cake from Jeanne, the girl herself having a piece and began eating it, putting hands to their face.
"Ooh wow, this is amazing."
"Zenki-san, did you make this?"
Asia's question was met with a shake of his head, while Koneko and Kuroka both got a piece each, Ravel doing the same.
"I went to a special bakery in the human world, a famous one, and had this made specially for us. It took a little while, but here we are, we've got delicious cake, and Diodora is being punished, truly this is a marvellous day."
The Phenex, and the Nekoshou's each snickered while the last two girls became confused.
Kuroka then looked towards Zenki.
"So, what's gonna happen with him now? Is he being stripped of his heir title or what nyaaa?"
Raising a good question, all of the girls looked on in questioning as well.
Zenki merely smiled and twitched his mouth.
"Let's just say, he's gonna find it difficult to move now with people watching him. Though I can't prove it, I'm sure the others in his peerage were at one point like Asia-san and Jeanne-san, who he corrupted. Since they won't talk, we can't get any evidence about it. And his movements from hereon out are going to be quite limited."
"Well, that's a relief, that Devil with a black heart deserves to be punished for what he did."
Jeanne said with a darkened expression, not liking Diodora.
Asia looked towards Zenki, and smiled.
"Zenki-san was very brave, he protected me with his body and wouldn't move either. Thank you Zenki-san…o-or, do I call you Zenki-sama now?"
Zenki chuckled, shaking his head.
"No thanks necessary, and just call me what you did before."
"But…"
Asia wasn't sure, having learned that Zenki was a huge deal in the Underworld, being a Maou's son and all.
But even then, Zenki was adamant about it and petted her head.
"It's fine, none of my peerage address me with such formalities besides Ravel-tan, which I am going to change in the future." Ravel shook her head, denying that to be the case. Zenki sighed, and continued petting Asia's head. "Even though I'm your King now, our relationship isn't going to change. Still think of me as a friend. In fact, we're going to be even closer from now on."
Asia looked on with happy eyes, glad that they were going to get closer, and Kuroka had to use this opportunity to mess with people.
"Yeah, he's going to fuck you now nyaaa~"
The words from Kuroka made Koneko's, Ravel's, and Zenki's faces drop to the floor, Asia in a state of confusion while Jeanne seemed to be very happy.
[Kuroka-tan/sama/nee-sama!]
Shouted out the three of them, Asia still confused…and saw that Jeanne was twitching her upper body with a huge blush on her face, scaring Asia a little bit while Kuroka whistled innocently…but that's stopped when she saw Jeanne as well.
"Ooh my! So Zenki-chan is going to have sex with us!? With chains and whips!? I've read about hardcore sex, and perhaps if I begin to develop love for Zenki-chan then we can have some of that hardcore sex! Hardcore anal for the win!"
Everyone's (including Asia's) eyes went towards the hyper girl who seemed too happy right now.
"What?"
Zenki asked for the peerage, Jeanne giving a wink as if she didn't say anything weird at all.
"What's wrong Zenki-chan?"
Zenki and the others became a little terrified and backed away from Jeanne, shaking their heads at her.
"…A-Anyway, shouldn't we be celebrating?"
Ravel brought up, wanting to forget what she thought she heard Jeanne say.
"…Yes, cake time is celebration time."
Koneko added as she took a large chunk of the cake. Asia was amazed that Koneko was going to eat such a large piece for herself, but the others barring Jeanne knew of how big Koneko's appetite can truly be.
Kuroka went over to the computer and put some music on.
"Ooh, I will survive! I love this song! Gloria Gaynor for the win nyaaa~"
"Oooooooh! I love this! Let's dance Kuroka-chan!"
Jeanne excitedly rushed and began dancing with Kuroka while singing together, Ravel to the side clapped her hands together happily, joyfully, Koneko watching on with a tiny smile gracing her face, happy everyone was enjoying themselves.
Zenki sat down on his bed and watched the display, and didn't notice Asia sitting next to him until he felt her arms wrap around his own arm.
"Asia-san…"
Asia smiled like the Virgin Mary at Zenki who in turn blushed.
"Zenki-san, I might not understand many things, but I am Zenki-sans peerage member now. Though I cannot face God, I have Zenki-san now."
Zenki smiled, glad she didn't regret becoming a Devil. That was a fear that he had in himself, but seeing her face now, he was glad that he caused her to smile the way that she was smiling at this moment in time.
"That's right. We'll be together forever now, for how many years we have together. I promise that we'll be together, okay?"
Zenki's pure words brought tears to Asia's eyes, hugging Zenki around his neck.
"Since Zenki-san became my friend, I dreamed about being with Zenki-san…now, we can stay together…"
He petted the top of her head, running his fingers through her long hair, and then got lost in the scent of her hair, a bright blush dusting his cheeks.
"T-That's right…we're going to be together from now on my adorable Asia-san."
Asia smiled, and then did something quite unexpected…
She gave him a kiss…
She went to go for his cheek, but she missed as Zenki turned his head…and caught his lips.
Zenki and Asia became shocked that their lips connected. At first, both didn't know what to do. It was an awkward kiss, since neither had done so before…but soon, they revelled in it, enjoying it together. Asia's shy lips met Zenki's more assuring lips, only slightly though, still laced with nervousness at receiving a kiss from the girl he…essentially loved.
He didn't understand love, not really. But most could see that he was in love with her, even the pissed off Kuroka could see that Asia and Zenki were in love with one another, and enjoyed the touch of each other's lips.
Asia's face became beetroot at the touch of the boys lips, feeling soft like a cloud. She never expected his lips to feel so soft, yet at the same time, they felt safe. She felt protected, safe, and secure when kissing his lips.
Gaining the kiss on the lips and when Zenki reluctantly broke the kiss (feeling the waves of rage from three certain females in the room that wasn't Jeanne), Zenki's face turned into a tomato, so red that every redhead in the world would be too jealous to even think straight at seeing the bright red of his face.
"A-Asia-san…that was…my first kiss…"
Zenki rasped out with the truth as Asia became embarrassed and buried her face in his chest, her shyness taking over her body and she wasn't able to even think straight from the intense feelings running through her body right now.
"Ooh shit!" Kuroka growled and rushed Zenki, putting a hand to his cheek. "You're still going to make children with me, right nyaa? Even with that chick there, you're going to do things with me, right nyaaa? I need it, you know?"
Zenki looked freaked out as Kuroka went towards the back of his body, pressing her very large assets against his back, nibbling at his earlobe. She bit down so harshly that she drew a little blood, but she licked it away, as if she was a Vampire or something akin to that, sucking on his earlobe.
"K-Kuroka-tan…"
He moaned as Jeanne winked cutely while making a funny expression.
"Awww! Asia-chan's got a cute crush on our King~ She even kissed Zenki-chan without a worry in the world~ Don't worry Asia-chan, I shall aid you in becoming like super sexy or something~"
Asia briefly looked at Jeanne with unsure eyes, then returned her face to Zenki's chest, Zenki melting at the adorableness that the girl displayed. Jeanne then rushed over and hugged Zenki's other arm, her face turning pink.
Koneko walked over, and sat on Zenki's lap.
"…This is still my lap. …Even if she kissed him…Zenki-sans lap is mine…an-and I will kiss Zenki-san when I want too…"
"A-Ah! Koneko-san! You can't hog his lap!"
Ravel roared as she charged over, trying to sit down on his lap, but the girl wouldn't allow her to sit down, using her legs to drape them over Zenki's lap, so she couldn't sit down, pouting when realizing that Koneko was stopping her. Zenki felt that Kuroka had moved to his neck, and was lightly nibbling the flesh, moans escaping his lips. Asia blushed when she heard the moans, snuggling against Zenki even more, Jeanne following suit to join in on the fun with her new family.
"Hey Asia-chan..." Kuroka began, smiling sweetly, too sweetly. "...Do you know how to have-"
[DON'T!]
Kuroka fell backwards with a cry at the shout of Zenki, Koneko, and Ravel, knowing where Kuroka was going with it.
"W-Why yell nyaaa!? I was only going to guide her in the ways of sex..."
"You are not doing that." Zenki stood firm, showing defiant eyes. When Kuroka showed that she wasn't going to give it up, the King gave her a stare. "If you do it Kuroka-tan...I won't give you...children."
He muttered with a blush, Kuroka crying with real tears flowing from her eyes.
"How fucking cruel. I was only trying to bring your holy girl into the world of sex and suddenly I can't have children with you!? Are you insane nyaaa!? I'm making children with you, one way or another!"
"That almost sounds like you're going to force him."
Ravel noted, Kuroka smiling with a Cherish like smile.
"Not at all. But when we have sex...wait, I just thought, I've not even had a kiss from you yet! You've kissed her, yet we've not kissed! That's it, give me those lips right now nyaaa!"
"B-Baka!" Zenki croaked, jumping away from the pouncing girl. "D-Don't suddenly declare something like that!"
Kuroka twitched her upper body, a flush forming on her cheeks.
"Ooh come on nyaaa~ Give me a kiss nyaaa~"
Zenki sighed and moved closer, and kissed her cheek, which did give her a blush, but she wasn't satisfied.
"There, I gave you a kiss."
"I meant on the lips, idiot!" Kuroka hissed and grabbed his face, puckering her lips. "Now, I want a real deep kiss, tongue me sexy~"
Kuroka leaned forward and went to kiss him, the boy struggling, fortunately Ravel came in, smacking Kuroka away with her hips, and grabbed Zenki's face for herself.
"Now, Kuroka-sama, don't be rude and allow his other Bishop to take his second kiss." Ravel said with a bright smile, a red dusting her cheeks, facing Zenki. "Z-Zenki-sama, I-I also want to...I-I am going to kiss you!"
Ravel, with a red face, moved closer to Zenki, the boy stuck within her grasp, still recovering from what happened with Diodora, he couldn't move all that right and couldn't get away from her.
Koneko's eyes sharpened her eyes, and lunged forward.
"Zenki-sans lips belong to me."
Using her enhanced strength of the Rook, Ravel was thrown down by Koneko, and the small girl herself inched closer to Zenki, Asia and Jeanne watching on in surprise.
"K-Koneko-tan..."
Zenki blushed out, Koneko inching closer and closer to Zenki's lips, an innocent look on her face.
"I-If it is Zenki-san then...Since I love...I wish for Zenki-san too..."
"Ooh no you don't!"
Ravel recovered and went for Koneko...
"Don't touch my Imouto bitch!"
...But Kuroka saw it and charged Ravel, tackling her to the floor.
"HELP! SHE'S GOT ME IN A HEADLOCK AGAIN!"
True to her words, Ravel was caught by Kuroka and trapped her in a headlock, straggling her, Ravel banging on the floor for someone to help her, unable to breathe properly.
"Ugh...they are at it again."
"Zenki-san...you shouldn't expect anything different."
Zenki and Koneko shared a look, running over and tried to pry them apart.
As they did, Asia and Jeanne watched on, noting that despite fighting, it seemed that they were having a good time, and were very close, Asia especially noting the closeness of all of these girls to Zenki.
"S-So, Zenki-san has all these girls...a-and they love Zenki-san as well..."
"Seems like your only hope is polygamy Asia-chan~ That's the Devil thing anyway~"
Jeanne sang out, Asia placing her hands together.
"Ooh Lord, please bless Kuroka-san, Koneko-san, Ravel-san, Zenki-san, and myself as we lead this new life into polygamy."
[Owwwwwwwwwww!]
Because she prayed, it felt like lightning struck Zenki's, Asia's, Ravel's, Koneko's and Kuroka's heads, causing each of them to fall to the floor, Jeanne exploding into laughter.
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha! Ooh man, this was the best ever! I'm gonna love it here!"
Jeanne yelled happily, as Zenki slowly looked at each of his peerage members, smiling happily.
With all of his peerage now growing into what he had imagined, whether that be with boys or girls, he didn't care, them growing into strong, capable people that had the best hearts now, even Kuroka was someone he could say had a big heart with love in it. He felt good, his family growing more and more. He felt that finally, things were going his way for a change, and he could finally breathe again.
In a dark desolate place…laid Diodora, in the darkness.
Darkness covered his form, the single window not shining any light into the room.
His eyes were almost lifeless, he looked crushed.
He kept replying the same thoughts again and again in his mind…
He couldn't forget what happened with Zenki, with Asia, and with Jeanne…and he was enraged.
His rage was so large that it was breaking him down mentally.
His mind was destroying itself, replying the thoughts in his mind again and again.
He tried to move, but he couldn't…his heart was breaking at the thought of losing Asia and Jeanne to Zenki, and now losing the respect of Ajuka, and his trust, knowing that his life was going to be very difficult from now on…
And he wanted revenge.
He wanted Zenki to die for this.
He wanted to make the boy suffer for what he did to him, and how he wasn't able to have Asia and Jeanne.
All he wanted now was for Zenki to die. He cried his soul out in his sleep that Zenki would perish, making it his life work that Zenki would suffer for this, for doing what he did to him, what he wasn't able to do anymore…
[Diodora…]
Suddenly, as Diodora was being in his own mind…he heard a voice.
The voice was in his head, he believed. He wasn't sure if the voice wasn't able to be seen with a body.
It called out to him, and he looked around, unable to see anything.
"Who…"
His voice couldn't work properly, becoming raspy and hoarse from strain.
[I'm a friend, Diodora…don't you want revenge on Zenki Astaroth…don't you want power to crush him and claim your rightful girls again? If you join with us…you'll have the power you need, to kill Zenki Astaroth.]
Diodora's tired face broke out into a wide smile, a disgusting evil smile.
"Zenki, you'll die."
It was a spec of hope that Diodora longed for.
The chance of a lifetime, the power…he needed to get Zenki.
The chance to kill Zenki…to gain power to get Asia and Jeanne back…to get the person that he needs to murder his nephew.
This deal, was a deal of a lifetime for Diodora, he was…very excited…
End chapter!
So, all well that ends well, possibly! Asia has now joined Zenki's peerage, even with the offering from Gabriel and even got a kiss on the cheek from her! But even Ophis turned up, what does she want? Though Serafall showed up as Sera Voorhees, it's like she can sense Gabriel getting closer to Zenki, and she doesn't like that.
But Zenki showed some of his Dragon powers! Having blue flames that were very hot, and cold flames that can freeze, I got that latter one from reading a certain manga, and liked the idea for it to have it for Zenki, the blue flames might also have a power beyond just burning, possibly, though right now, he can't control the transformation and kinda like how Issei does when he goes into Juggernaut Drive, he loses all sense of reasoning and even his mind, attacking and destroying whatever is in his sight, friend or foe. For now, he was calmed down by Illuyanka and Ajuka...he might not be so lucky to have them next time.
Even Ajuka and Zenki are beginning to make up, even if it is little by little, and Zenki lost his first kiss to Asia! What else is he going to lose to her, if you all catch my drift hehe~ Though I don't know when to do the lemon between Zenki and Asia, suggestions would be cool to have~
Though Diodora didn't go with the Old Maou Faction, yet, that bit at the ending is only the beginning of Diodora's path, with that last part being quite the indication of future events.
Well, until next time, thanks for reading! Valerie probably is going to be introduced next chapter!
Zenki; Asia, Koneko, Kuroka, Jeanne, Valerie, Xenovia, Serafall, Ravel, Irina, Sona, Ophis, Le Fay, Kunou, Akeno, Gabriel.
Issei; Aika, Tsubasa, Kiyome, Isabela, Rossweisse, Gasper (fem), Raynare, Rias.
Zenki's Peerage
Queen; Valerie.
Rooks; Koneko, Xenovia.
Bishops; Asia, Ravel.
Knights; Jeanne, Irina.
Pawns; Kuroka (5 pieces) Le Fay (2 pieces) Kunou (1 mutation piece)
Rias Peerage
Queen; Akeno.
Rooks; Aika, Rossweisse.
Bishops; Gasper (two pieces)
Knights; Kiba, Raynare.
Pawns; Issei (8 pieces).
