Chapter 7: You did all this for him.
Nagumo expected a lot of things, first thinking this new member was someone noteworthy, or being in someone's house, while he would meet the new member and new piece then walk away.
But he wasn't expecting this.
"Is that Issei?" Nagumo asked, seeing the now dead member of the infamous perverted trio before them, lying in a puddle of blood with a large hole in his stomach. Unless the killer used a huge drill or a cannon to kill this wasn't done by normal means.
"Sadly" Rias said, look calm as ever as she looks Issei over,
"He was attacked by a Fallen," Nagumo said as he looked around, feeling the holy energy around him.
Hang on.
"Wait a tick… was this why you didn't stop those fallen angels early? Killing Issei off so you can claim him without doing the dirty work yourself?" Nagumo accused her, it makes sense in a way, devils can turn anyone, dead or alive. Why convince someone to turn to a slave when you can turn their corpse.
But why would anyone become a slave to the person that killed them, no better let another; an enemy preferably kill them and gave them a 'second change' in life, make them feel grateful and that shit.
Very devilish of Rias, Nagumo will give her that.
This stops Rias as she was approaching the laying body with evil pieces in her hand.
"No…... It wasn't supposed….to be…" Rias tries to say as she is not sure what to say, that way her servant said that makes her sound evil, she didn't want her new servant to think of her like that.
"Seriously, you did all that, for Issei?" Nagumo pointed at the dead pervert.
"Was it that hard to convert a well-known pervert to become your slave?" Nagumo asked, seriously? Issei boob obsession is so well known he is labelled a molested at this point.
Rias has the biggest boobs; how hard can it be to make a boob obsessed moron a slave.
"Well, I was going to talk to him with the card, but the fallen angels.." Rias tries to make an excuse, but Nagumo shakes his head.
"Did you let the fallen angel track the scared gears here, so you can rescue then after they suffer?" Nagumo said, looking at her, Rias looks down.
"This isn't how I wanted it to be" Rias said, yeah that's her excuse.
"Just turn the pervert, honestly just promise him to touch you boobs and he murder for you at this point" Nagumo said arms crossed as he looks around as Rias signs at him.
He most likely right at this point but she has to save her new servant.
Nagumo watches as the president takes her time, implanting all the evil pawn pieces, one after another.
This shouldn't take long.
"Does it always take this long?" Nagumo asks to watch her progress, having been more than a minute, he doesn't know what she is thinking but Nagumo can see her panicking for some reason.
"Something wrong?" Nagumo asked, seeing Rias trying to stuff all the prawn in the pervert.
Wait Nagumo recalls evil pieces only change someone depending on power levels, if they're too powerful then it won't work.
If she doesn't have enough pieces, oh shit.
Don't know if he should be thankful Rias can't kill him to recover the pawn piece she used on him,
Wait, can she kill him to get a piece back?
Looking at Issei, seeing he is somehow worth eight pawn pieces, meaning he's somehow stronger than everyone else in the Rias peerage.
Nagumo doesn't feel guilty at this, not his fault for getting killed by some supernatural bullshit, but it also not Issei fault either, or is it?
Nagumo is not sure, but he doesn't want to deal with Rias getting depressed because her plan didn't work, honestly why use it on a dumbass like Issei.
Wait, that pawn piece he has early, he was going to test it on someone but why not use Issei's body right here.
If it works Rias gets the prawn she always wanted, if it doesn't work, he can't say he didn't try to help.
Wait would they have to clean up the mess if it doesn't work, shouldn't Fallen angels clean up after themselves.
Whatever time to save the pervert.
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Rias Gremory was very distressed at this moment, cause their no way in hell did she ever think that the boy she thought had hidden potential would cost this much, the more pieces she gave him the better her mood became, she very desperate for strong members for her peerage if she wants to escape her predicament.
Her mood plummeted when even seven pieces were enough. Rias looks down sad at the boy, would she succeed if she had all eight pawn pieces with her? Or was the hidden power in this boy so grand that she wouldn't succeed either way? She doesn't know.
Nagumo was right she should have just talked to him instead of taking advantage of the fallen angels in her territory, at least she could have thought of a way before he passed on.
'This... can't be' Rias grieved has given into despair, all her enough was for nothing, cause Issei was worth more than seven pieces.
"Give me that pawn piece" Nagumo called her, causing her to jump back at his suddenness.
"Nagumo..?" Rias calls out her new servant, not sure what he is doing?
"What are you doing?" Rias asked him, seeing him.
Nagumo didn't respond, he picked up one of the pawn pieces and started to toy with it, rotating it left and right, observing it with sharp eyes as he waves his hand over it, blocking her view a few times like a magician show she watched once.
Rias continued to stare at Nagumo as he played with the piece, blinking as she tried to see what he was doing. Then she heard Nagumo uttered a word she couldn't hear.
"Transmute," Nagumo whispered as her chess piece lit up in a crimson light.
He eyed the piece a little more before handing it to her.
"Try it now" Nagumo said giving her the piece as Rias caught it with bewilderment.
"You might want to hurry, he's losing a lot of blood," Nagumo said, stepping back as blood was about to reach his shoes.
"This is...!" Rias is baffled at the prawn in her hand, the chess piece in her hand felt stronger, it had the same feeling as a mutation piece but not at the same time.
'This doesn't make any sense' Rias thought as what Nagumo had done shouldn't be possible. Such thoughts plagued Rias's mind.
"How did you?" Rias asks but sees Nagumo pointing at Issei.
"He's dying," Nagumo said casually, which stopped her, seeing there was a far more important thing to do than standing and figuring out Nagumo.
She quickly rushed over to Issei's unmoving body and performed a ritual one more time.
It succeeded, all the wounds have been healed and Issei was breathing rhythmically, but still looks pale from the blood loss but alive, in a sense of the word at least.
"Haha...haha" Rias laugh to herself in amazement,
Fate has been kind to her, not only did she obtain someone with incredible potential, but there more to her other servant than meets the eye.
"How….did you do that?" Rias asked Nagumo as he shrugged.
"I just messed around with my own prawn piece until it started glowing red, guess it works for Issei" Nagumo explains as Rias gets worried.
"What? Nagumo was very dangerous! You could have seriously hurt yourself" Rias scolds him but Nagumo narrows his eyes at her.
"Sorry, after a day I went to sleep and found a prawn piece in my body, what was I supposed to make of it?" Nagumo asked her, explaining he wasn't aware of the piece until early; Rias looked down at that reminder.
Thanking whatever deity Nagumo didn't kill himself by messing with his piece.
"Do we have to clean up his mess, cause his blood is bound to get attention" Nagumo points at the blood still on the ground as Rias signs at the clean-up.
"Sadly, we have to ensure no one knows about us" Rias said as she starts to clean the blood with her magic.
"That bullshit, so the fallen makes a mess and they leave us to clean it up, isn't there a rule for supernatural to not involve the rest of the world or is its last person leaves clean up deal" Nagumo can't help but say, serious the fallen go to an enemy territory and don't clean the evidence.
No wonder heaven kicked them out if they're this incompetent.
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Nagumo signs as he walks home, lucky the experiment works for Issei.
No, he didn't make a mutation piece, he's not sure how it works and neither does the devils.
But what he did do was put an extra prawn piece and fuse it with Rias prawn piece, the glow was just a side effect, Nagumo sees that fusing an evil piece to another won't kill him as Issei now has eight pieces instead of seven.
Is it cheating? Now Rias has an extra pawn piece.
Who gives a shit, it's not like everyone checks the pieces or anything, why do devils limit themselves to chess pieces anyway, why not make more than 16 pieces.
Now Nagumo can continue his plans to get stronger, now he is going to find a way to hunt down more Stray Devils himself.
Nagumo went to his house as he goes to the garage; he does around the area. Seeing the expanded garage with a shooting range, Nagumo made some modifications to the garage at home, lucky his illusion helped cover his parents.
It was weird how he knew how to structure and build the area, but one of his dreams showed himself working with a friend from class, a different class with a few different people, he made friends with a few of them as one of them was a builder and that Nagumo helped his friend construct buildings.
Nagumo grabs his pistol as he stares down the target, the target was a shape person with you found at the standard shooting range, Nagumo printed a copy out of metal.
Nagumo aims his pistol down the sights as he aims down the target. Aim with one eye as he channels electricity to the gun.
BLOOOO WWW
A shot fires at the shoulder of the person, as he clocks the gun.
BLOOOOOW
Another shot in the stomach this time as he pulls both hands on the pistol.
BLOOOW
BLOOWWWW
Two shots this time and one hit the head, but the other is behind as he signs, hoping to get his shooting skill up by practising every night, he is not missing as much but he still has a long way to go before he can headshot every time.
Maybe he should make another gun, as he takes out the clips to load more bullets and take aim.
"Nagumo, is that you?" His dad calls out, Nagumo takes a deep breath as he turns to see his dad opening the door.
"What are you doing?" His Dad asks to see Nagumo working on something in the workbench, something he always sees, just what Nagumo wants him to see.
"Just trying to build something for a school project" Nagumo said, thinking of an excuse as his dad nodded, thank God.
Owwwww
Nagumo holds his head in pain, right no thanking the big man upstairs.
"You alright son" His dad asked, seeing Nagumo hold his head in pain, his son just waves it off.
"Nothing dad, just a headache it all" Nagumo said, seeing his dad looking concerned.
"Well take some medicine, then come for some dinner now" His dad explains as he closes the door to the garage.
As Nagmuo let out a breath, lucky he got over the god thing otherwise his magic illusion would falter, he needed to work on that as he pocketed his gun and made his way for dinner.
Right, Issei going to the club now, honestly how that pervert is worth 8 prawns is beyond him, not that it's going to be hard to control him.
Issei can't think if you flash boobs in his face, so he'll never realise that he only die because the devil let him die, to reincited him as a slave forever.
Why Rias made that plan for Issei of all people is just sad. Issei would sell his soul to touch someone's breast, now he lost his soul for nothing.
Nagumo can only pity his new member as he eats with his family.