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Chapter 116: Lies

Of course Maple would go around changing how her body's fundamentally functions just to reconnect with her Legendary weapon and restore her stats, that sounded exactly like the sort of reckless thing that Kaede was one to do. Tanya just let out a sigh at the newest development, followed the instructions on how to open up her meridian channels again, they had half the equation down now to figure out the other half, power. While that question was all well and good...

"So you're the guy that Naofumi brought in to help us with the Sacred Gear development?" The person in front of them was just into his twenties by Tanya's estimates, the fact that he was wearing a red high-school uniform though made her think him younger, brown hair and brown eyes of Japanese descent. "What makes you so special?" The man smiled as he held up his fist, the entire thing glowed in a red aura and was soon clad in a red and yellow gauntlet, an emerald green orb in the back of the hand. "Issei Hyoudou, I should've known." Tanya stated crossing her arms as she let out a sigh.

"You mean that pervert that awoke his balance breaker by grabbing women's tits?" Kuro asked legitimately taken aback.

"What does Naofumi want us to learn from this pervert?" Katarina asked scratching the side of her head.

"'This pervert' could've beaten all eight of you into submission in the time that you've spent insulting me and still have time to go out and get a sports drink." Issei explained looking at them bored. "And speaking of which why are all of you lolis?"

"Excuse me!?" The Legendary Heroes were told to come here in order to receive a lecture concerning how to operate their Sacred Gears, Maple was off with her father so that only left seven of them. Goll in particular took offence.

"Do those weapons have a fetish or something? I'd rather be training with the busty raccoon lady." Issei stated as he dug his finger into his ear. "That at least appeals to my beast girl and big breasts fetishes."

"Okay now I'm officially mad!" Goll snapped as the familiar form of the demon dragon appeared next to her.

"Oh even you're offended! Okay let's beat him up!" They knew already that Issei was part dragon, even Goll can kill a dragon!

"Alright let's make a deal." Issei stated finger waving in the air. "'This pervert' will take all seven of you on at once in balance breaker, plus any familiars you may have, and beat all of you into submission, and afterwards you have to accept my teachings no questions ask. Or insults given."

"And if we win?" Jade asked while she was cracking her knuckles.

"Then 'this pervert' shall admit that there's nothing he can teach you to the Mirror Hero and go back to his world to grope the tits that awoke his Balance Breaker." Issei stated smirking knowingly.

"Why does it sound like you win if you lose?" Sakura asked looking at Issei with a face full of blatant suspicion.

"Basic rule of negotiation." Myne seemed to have been wholly disinterested in the contents of the conversation instead having her nose in a book. "Ensure that you're set up for success no matter what. It's the same on our end. If we win we get rid of this pervert and find someone more qualified to teach us what we need to know. But if we lose we get a hyper competent mentor in Sacred Gears."

"You say that..." Katarina looked over to see that their opponent was in the middle of doing several stretches. "But why does it feel like we lose no matter what we do?"

"Because you will." Issei stated simple as that. "Whip them out already, you all got balance breakers don't you?"

Why they outta!

""""Balance Break!"""" Tanya's body was wrapped in the White Tiger armour. Katarina in the Phoenix robe. Jade a Brown Turtle Armour. Sakura in the White Tiger Cloak. Goll instead released her dragon with a snarl. A shelf from a library appeared next to Myne. Several people in heavy armour popped up around Kuro. And while all of this was going on, Issei simply vanished.

"Should I praise some of you for at least coming up with something that doesn't revolve around armour?" Issei shouted from behind the group before he snapped his fingers. By the time everyone had turned around a red magic circle appeared between their eyes. And then the sound of shattering armour and tearing cloth echoed as suddenly all seven of the Heroes were stripped naked.

"Kyyyaaahh!" The various girls made a number of different moves to cover themselves up, Myne helpfully moved her book case between them and Issei and the girls quickly fled for cover. "Do you have no shame!" Jade shouted only to suddenly feel a foot resting on her head.

"Lesson one: A Sacred Gear's miracles are fueled by danger, but desire is how they take form. The stronger the desires the stronger the forms that they take." Issei was now sitting on top of the book shelf, using Jade as a footrest. "Shame is useless."

The girls scattered, Kuro immediately traced cloth's onto the others while she implemented her own plan of attack.

"Now let's just implement a little bit of summery!"

Suddenly seven figures appeared to surround Issei, each of them summons from Kuro. In the Lancer category there was one Artoria Pendragon. In the Sabre Category Artoria's identical daughter Mordred. From the Rider category Minamoto No-Raikou a lavendar haired woman with large breasts. From the Castor category Tamamo No Mai a Kitsune yokai. In the Archer category Tomoe Gozen a white haired samurai. In the Assassin Category was Cleopatra of the River De'Nile. Their individual powers, various Noble Phantasms, personal history, these were not the criteria by which Kuro had summoned the four of them, no the only thing that Kuro needed from them was for them to be very good looking while absolutely naked. While the seven of them were wondering why they had been summoned like this Issei promptly whipped out his phone and quickly took pictures, even more surprisingly while some moved to cover themselves others, particularly Tamamo and Cleopatra, posed of all things.

"I don't know which one of you is more sick: you for coming up with this or him for going along with it." Even though Tanya said that, she already got her bow out and opened fire, as the others had with a variety of magic attacks.

"Collect." Suddenly all the attacks pooled together into Issei's hand, were wound into a tight ball, before he finally threw them all back where they came from and then Kuro and company got blown up.

And that was how Issei became their new mentor. The seven of them were gathered together in a training field later, looking over to the other side of the field and Tanya observed that the Raccoon woman was lecturing the vassal heroes, Tanya applied a pinch of wind magic and listened in.

"Right now your gears are in a weakened state, your weapons know how your Sacred gears are structured and function. In the world you came from all that your weapons have to do is tell the world the necessary details and they can give you that power. In their own way the Legendary and Vassal weapons are like Sacred Gears, albeit ones that are only limited to one world. In order to augment this power back to it's peak you need to replace this lost power..."

"But the details over there are different from our case isn't it?" Tanya asked looking at Issei suspiciously.

"Now you're starting to understand." Issei stated letting out a smirk. "They have 'The Blueprint of a Sacred Gear' but what you have is 'legitimate sacred gears.'" Issei explained walking back and forth in front of them.

"Then is what they're doing applies to us as well?" Katarina asked holding her hand in the air.

"Yes and no." Issei replied bluntly. "The fact of the matter is the less Miraculous a Miracle needs to be the more powerful that it is." Issei explained in simple terms.

"What does that mean?" Katarina asked while scratching her head.

"The Illegal Move Triana, I'm told you guys know about it?" Issei asked holding up his gauntlet.

"You mean that Chess thing?" Katarina asked sounding mildly suspicious. "What does that have to do with anything?"

"My power, born as a reincarnated Devil taking on the role of a pawn in the evil pieces system, combined with the power of my Sacred Gear the Boosted Gear." Issei explained bluntly. "Well even Miracle generator might be a bit inaccurate, the Mirror guy thinks that their real job is to prevent the appearance of desperados." The same circumstances that would make a sacred gear grow in power also creates desperados, this way they can get power and stay sane.

"So if we give the Gears something to work with on top of the power already inside then we'll be able to make them stronger." Katarina asked as she raised her hand in the air. "Correct!" Issei replied snapping his fingers.

"How does a self proclaimed devil have one of God's miracle makers anyway?" Kuro asked the nonsensical situation making her head spin.

"I was born human, and with the Boosted Gear already inside of me, then I was fatally wounded and then reincarnated as Devil to save my life." Issei explained simply.

"Well I might be having a hard time generating a Miracle or Such." Tanya stated letting out a sigh. "My biggest desire has already been fulfilled."

"Oh come on don't be like that!" Issei snapped waving his hand around. "There has to be something, what's this big wish that you had that you were already able to fulfil anyway?"

"I killed the God responsible for reincarnating me and making my new life hell." Tanya stated bluntly smiling in self satisfaction. "Yahweh, it hasn't been nice knowing you!" Tanya gave a one finger salute to the air a big grin on her face.

"Yahweh? As in the God from the Bible Yahweh?" Issei asked looking like he already got a headache just by mentioning the name.

"Yeah? I made a bow combining together the seven magics into a conceptual magic, Yahweh's name on it and told him to go die. So?" Tanya asked looking at Issei suspiciously.

"Oh!" Issei smacked his fist against his hand as if he had finally received an answer that he had been wondering about for a while.

"'Oh' what?" Tanya liked absolutely nothing about where this was going.

"Yahweh has been dead in my world for thousands of years." Issei explained simply. "He died after killing the four great devils, everyone assumed he just died from his injuries but by the sounds of things your arrow must have by-passed that laws of time and space to find him when he was at his weakest." Dead for thousands of...

"But the one who reincarnated me was the god from the bible." Tanya stated sounding like something might snap inside of her.

"Do you think he might've just lied?" Issei asked looking down at Tanya suspiciously.

"Gods aren't supposed to be able to lie..."

"Did you not consider that he might not be a god?" Issei replied bluntly. "There's a ton of ways to reincarnate someone, and most of them involve jumping between worlds. What else has he been doing?" Tanya went quiet, real quiet. 'He spoke to a mad scientist in his dreams and changed his beliefs' Tanya could do that much with the bow of Pride. 'He was able to stabilise an out control computation orb' Tanya could probably do that much now that's she's gotten training with the dragon's pulse. "Has he demonstrated any sort of reality warping magic that implies that he has access to conceptual magic?" Tanya's eyes twitched, her fingers cracked as her hands balled into fists.

"Tanya calm down." Katarina moved in front of Tanya waving her hands in front of her. Tanya's body radiated magical power. That Bastard, actually made her swallow her pride, and admit that he was a god! Tanya's hands were twitching out of control, filled with a bottomless, mind numbing rage the likes of which few can imagine.

"Don't worry Katarina..." Everything about Tanya, every fibre of her being, radiated with the power of 'be worried, be very worried!' "I'll have calmed down by the time I get back." And then Tanya screamed. "RRRAAARRRGGGHHH!" The mana swirled around her and shot into the sky in a tunnel of rainbow light and soon Tanya had disappeared.

"Well that was... should we be concerned about that?" Issei asked indicating the mass of scorched ground where Tanya used to be.

Raccoon walked up to the area in question, looked down at it, and sighed.

"Someone will be by to chase after her in a minute."

Tanya opened her eyes in her hospital bed and looked beside and around her. The trey of mashed potatoes and meatloaf she got for her supper on that day was still fresh off the stove warm the files she had been given to read was sitting next to it, and the book she had been reading was open on her lap. Tanya went for the book first, reading through the details. It was all here, Maple's numerous rampages, Kuro's craft's, Katarina's dark magic, and her.

"'On the eve of the final battle, the four heroes had to return to their world's, and finish what they started.' 'The Bow Hero's home world was put under the control of a evil pretender god, and the bow Hero knew that before anything else, she had to eliminate the pretender and free her world from it's influence.'"

Tanya finish the story and by the time it was closed she was holding not a book in her hands but rather a Mauser pistol with a single yellow gemstone on the cartridge where she would load ammunition, or to put it more accurately, she was holding a weapon appropriate for this world. Tanya closed her eyes as she assessed her own body. Right she had just finished healing, she was set to be discharged today. Picking up the files Tanya read through them, she's supposed to go back to the facility to finish testing the type 95 computation orb, or rather the magic bomb. Then a familiar scene played out, time frozen, the world got a little brighter as if in the presence of some holy figure.

"How very odd, but for a moment I lost track of you. I thought you had gone somewhere for a moment." Tanya got up and went for the door. "No biting remarks? No curses? No challenges to my divinity? Now this is new." Tanya grabbed hold of the handle and giggled it, attempting to open the door. So she couldn't leave until Being X left? Fine. Tanya simply went up to the nearest chair and sat down in it. Opening the folder Tanya saw not her report but new words that had appeared. "Now I'm curious as to where you went." Tanya closed the folder and crossed her legs as she entered the lotus position and went deep into a meditative state.

She hadn't tried it before, using conceptual magic to have a look at herself, at everything she was, to peel back the layers of the soul and see what she could find. She went by the Hr. Manager who died on the train tracks, went past a million other possible persons, until she arrived at the first. The area was cold, unfathomably cold in fact surrounded by mist. So seemingly having hit rock bottom, Tanya walked, and to her surprise arrived at a figure sticking out of the ice their arms nailed to a cross.

"This a sorry state to find someone in." Tanya stated looking up at the figure that she described in her head as being gender neutral. Their body had been starved of nutrients and was effectively rail thin, aside from that though was the pair of curved horns and stump like appendages coming out of the back, possibly where a pair of wings use to be. "Excuse me for not knowing who you are, I never sunk much thought into the affairs of angels and demons."

"...Lucifer." The figure hissed between his teeth.

"King of Hell? That Lucifer?" Tanya asked cocking a suspicious brow. "And what a mighty kingdom it is!" The figure hissed as Tanya looked around. "Here I sit in a lake of my own tears frozen by my own wings, even they have left me." Tanya looked behind the other figure, at the frost bitten stumps and the pair of wings that had fallen behind him. "Do I look like the king of anything or anyone?"

"Can't say that you do, no." Tanya stated as she walked back around to face the creature kneeling before her. "So what did happen to your kingdom?"

"I left it." The half frozen figure stated as if it was the most normal and obvious thing in the world. "What is a kingdom of suffering with a throne of pain compared to even a taste of freedom?" Lucifer replied as if the question was obvious. "Even this is only an illusion, a temporary existence while my present self finishes with her dream."

"'Her' dream?" Tanya asked looking up at the creature. Suddenly something emerged from the ice to separate them, a mirror. And yet they weren't separated at all, after all Tanya saw the figure nailed to the frozen throne, and the figure on the cross of ice saw her right back.

"Yes her dream!" The figure stated putting emphasis on the word to make their point.

"Let's say that I am you. What should I do now?" Tanya stated already letting out migraine. "People say to do some soul searching, I did and now I'm here." Tanya sat down and put her hand on her chin as she puffed out a sigh.

"A Sacred Gear, how quaint." Lucifer stated looking down at the weapon that Tanya wasn't even holding at the moment. Apparently it hadn't followed her into this place. "And how ironic, and yet it would appear that you have broken off your connection to it. Not before you managed to acquire father's toolkit and used that to kill him of course. I only wish he was dragged down here so that he could suffer too."

"I would like you to help me re-establish my connection to it if at all possible." Tanya stated looking up to the other figure in suspicion.

"That is going to be tricky." The former angel replied bluntly. "The solution to your problem is possibility."

"'Possibility?'" Tanya asked suspiciously.

"At the moment the 'Possibilities' that you possess have been reduced, symbolised by my restraints." The Demon explained wiggling decrypid fingers while emphasising his body.

"So in order to free my possibilities I have to break those restraints off?" Tanya asked while gesturing around to the nails in the demon's arms.

"Again no." The Demon replied bluntly. "Possibility isn't just good things, there's the possibility of being a saint, but also a tyrant, you could be hero, but you could also be a slave. But if you break all of them off, that's like being everything you could be at once." Tanya nodded her head in response. "Remove these restraints and replace them, then we'll be in business."

And so Tanya went to work. Attempting to perform surgery on your own soul seemed like a bad idea to her but she didn't have a lot of time to go get someone to do it for her. For starters she already knew what she wanted to be, so she wasn't going to let anyone decide differently. The items she needed appeared as she worked, the ones she didn't need disappeared. When Tanya removed the nails she replaced them with two arm guards, when she took the cross away she replaced it with a throne, when the ice melted she created a robe.

"So what you're telling me is that I was always skinny is that it?" Tanya asked watching as the figure popped ancient joints back into place.

"If you want muscle, my advice is to work for them." The Returned king of hell explained as he sat down on his throne, if only temporarily. "Come. We have a pretender to kill."

Tanya returned to her hospital room.

"Ignoring me? I must admit you keep finding new ways of being rude."

"Leave my sight Shinigami." A voice echoed from the room, but not Tanya's or Being X's. "Or I will have to take drastic measures." Looking down Tanya realised the source of the voice, a Mauser Pistol that she had on her person.

"Who are you to-"

"Someone who doesn't have the patience to give second chances."

"GGGAAAHHH!" Suddenly an ear-piercing cry of agony echoed out, and then Tanya was back in her bed.

"So, he was just in my head." Tanya stated as she looked down at her gun. "Emiya or Cian?"

"Both, neither, does it matter?" The voice coming out of the weapon sounded vaguely feminine.

"Cian it is." Tanya decided as she went through her weapon list before the army came looking for her, while she got dressed of course. "No stat bonuses, well that eliminates the usefulness of like, 90% of the weapons here." Tanya stated as she let out a sigh.

"If that's the case we can start folding them into the weapons that are useful. It'll give more room in the Thought Sea and increase their power." The pistol explained however its wielder had a thought.

"Thought sea?" Tanya asked looking at the pistol suspiciously.

"Another common name is 'Quantum Realm.'" The weapon explained.

"You can think of it as 'the world of information.' To break it down into how it affects us it's where all the skills for the weapon are."

"Get to work on that. We'll have time." Tanya finished getting dressed in her familiar military uniform. "The world is at war after all, we'll have no shortage of situations where we can develop you after all." Tanya got all the appropriate paper work filed with the hospital as she left, and met a car waiting for her outside. Climbing into the back of the vehicle Tanya observed her fellow passenger. Enviably tall with dark hair and familiar Japanese features, which in this world meant...

"You're from Akitsushima correct?" Tanya asked looking at the man who was busy reading through a folder, the Type 95 to be precise.

"In this world yes." The man spoke simply reviewing the information. "I understand that this world is a little behind compared to mine but that's no excuse for shoddy workmanship." Tanya was visibly concerned but the older man stopped her. "I'm speaking Japanese, you might not be able to tell because of your weapon's auto-translating feature, but for now they just think I'm speaking in another language." A pause as if the other man was rearranging his thoughts. "Shiba Tatsuya, I'm on loan to your government from Akitsushima."

"Lieutenant Tanya Von Degurechauff." Tanya held out her small hand for the older man to shake whom gladly took it and shook. "What are you on loan here to do?"

"Fix your shoddy computation orb's mostly. I heard a rumour that they tend to explode." A yellow light attempted to enter Tatsuya, albeit not a light that anyone but him was able to see, after all not even Tanya can see Being X when he chooses to hide from her. "Piss off." Back to Japanese again, Tanya watched as Tatsuya grabbed hold of the entity he just spoke to and squeezed it, his hand emitting an unknown magical power. "Anything else I should know?" Tanya's eyes went to where Tatsuya's hand was now making motions as if swatting a mosquito.

"Nothing important." Tatsuya stated simply. "For now you just have to worry about doing your part." Tanya just let out sigh as she accepted her fate.

"How much time do I have?" Tanya asked sounding defeated.

Review Section:

RonaldM40196867: I don't know why. She has. I don't think it's important. All of them in their own way, but probably Maple.

Nightshadegirl: Naofumi took the damage, the rest went to the sacred gear.

Flamegoboom16: 'Looks at over a hundred chapters of ripping off different light novels and making up random crud along the way that I now have to try and blend together into a half way decent ending.' Thank you for the high praise.

xerad: I'm sorry my refusal to give spoilers is inconveniencing your ability to enjoy my story. You've severely underestimated Medea if you believe that talking to her is enough to defuse this situation. And perhaps the sacred Gears are a clutch, but they're a clutch that keeps people from going insane, and they'll only be a clutch if Medea can separate them from their hosts, and this story arc is mostly about making that impossible.