TRANSHUMANIST IN HELL
Chapter 16 – The melancholic siren
I will first answer the comments on Chapter 15, but first I want to say Happy New year to all of you
Black reaper17: For Belial X Astaroth I had already thought about it. it will be in the Omake at the end of the first Arc together with other bonus scenes in chronological order.
Spell master2023: Already on it for Maria's suit. Already what she used in the battle for Miami was a good ground for what she is going to use.
Sword master92: They are surely more than simply friends with benefit. Especially because I didn't like how their relationship in the anime was completely one-sided up until the very end, especially if they have known each other for who knows how many years, even more so if you think that Astaroth was the only one to remain loyal to her through the whole anime. As such I wanted them to have a more wholesome relationship between them, especially as foreshadowing of what is going to happen in this mini-arc.
Silverwarrior80: Considering how much power Maria is going to have by the end of the first arc, I don't think so. Bear in mind, when Asmodeus and Mammon gave a part of their core to Maria they didn't simply give her a finite amount of power. As of now Maria is capable of, and passively doing so, tapping on all the Lust and greed of mankind in its entirety. And if not for the fact the Lucifer as yet to become a full Devil Lord she could obtain energy from humanity's Pride. As such a situation like the end of the anime is very unlikely unless something drastic happens.
Death mage23: Indeed, Indeed. I also find the lack of a proper sequel to Seven Mortal Sins quite sad(except for a gacha game that is not available in the west, that from what I have gathered should be the canonical sequel to both Seven mortal Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues, while completely throwing out of the window any possible semblance or chance of character growth). Then again Sin Nanatsu no Taizai had one job and one job only, catering to its male audience by showing lots of sexy demon girls fighting between each other and ending up less dressed then they already were, the plot was, and still is, secondary to the real "plot". Highschool DXD suffers the same problem in my opinion. Currently I am collecting all the 25 volumes of Highschool DXD so that in the future I will create a new/remake/reboot version of it. because believe me there are so many plot holes and inconsistencies in DXD that I can make an entire new story simply on what is wrong in each one of them; and you know what, I will do it in the future, once I have all the 25 volume of it.
Now, with all your comments answered.
Here we go.
Liberty Prime in is plane form is flying above the American mid-west. The passengers inside are already sleeping. All of them, except for two.
Said two are inside John's bedroom already kissing passionately between each other.
"*kissing* I thought I would *kissing* not be able to contain myself *kissing* if I had to wait any longer*" Maria says in between her kissing with John, the desire inside her body already having reached the limit.
"*chuckles and kissing* I know, I know. Besides *kissing* it is my fault *kissing* for making you wait so much.
[Lemon scene start]
Deciding to follow the flow both discarded their clothes, or almost shredded them in the case of Maria. The two of them could barely stay seconds away before restarting their kissing.
John gently guides Maria and lay her onto the bed.
He then separates his lips from hers, a trail of saliva still connecting the two of them. Not being glued to her lips gives John the opportunity to feast his eyes with Maria's new body, further enhanced by absorbing Mammon's core.
"*giggles* It seems I can't call you a girl anymore" he then whispers in her ear "But there is one last step before you are a fully grown woman", he says with a smirk on his face.
Maria, for her part, is as much embarrassed as she is both horny and eager to finally reach the finish line.
Without a word they both restart they loving kissing session, but John sneaks his right hand towards Maria's flower.
One of the most important indicators of a woman enjoyment of a man sexual prowess is how wet she is, the wetter she is the more she is accepting the man in question.
The "investigation" shows that she is very, VERY mush enjoying it, is his completely wet hand is a sign of it.
Not wanting to left her hanging he puts himself into position. Because this is their first night, and he doesn't want to make things to difficult and simply enjoying one another he goes for Missionary.
And so Maria has the chance of having a better look, and this with a mind not obfuscated by lust, oh the member of what is going to be her man that now sits on her tummy between her leg, already at full hardness and ready to go; which translate with approximately with 40 cm of human "indomitable spirit".
Now, normally a dick that is above 30 cm in length is to heavy and to taxing on a human heart to become fully erect without "external help", but of course, like many things in life, John looked at this problem and said "Fuck it, I will do it myself". Which equals to a bio-mechanical heart, which pumps/can sustain double the amount of a normal human heart of the same dimension while being only some centimetres larger, and a new improved blood with more oxygen carrying capabilities and way faster in travelling through his blood vessels.
All this brings to the ram that is going to show Maria of what the best part of Heaven is truly made of.
John doesn't waste time, his woman is already in position, completely wet and with her legs open for him to enter. Like a pendulum he starts to charge his move, each oscillations going deeper and deeper.
Until, on the third one, he goes back the furthest and aim to hit, and with deadly accuracy he centre his objective.
In a single second Maria's sacred ground envelope his shaft from the crown to the base. The bulge of his ramming visible from the outside.
Not that Maria cares. She is to busy moaning her soul out of her body to care.
John then starts slowly, more akin to singing a bell in a church. Each times he returns to bury his member inside her Maria can't help but helplessly moan and/or saying John's name with all her strength.
John slowly but surely starts to increase his speed, both to answer the desperate cry from Maria to ram her harder and faster, and to satiate the desire to fuck her brain out that his boiling inside his body.
The latter is a side-effect of Maria merging with the two cores. As she is possess the core of Lust and Greed, which also equals unyielding desire, and because the latter contains a small part of the concept of Fertility.
All of this means that Maria is practically not only the peak, but the very ideal embodiment, of what a Human Female can be. Which translates in what every single solitary Human male on Earth would gladly lay down their lives for even the slightest chance to breed her and having her birth their children.
John can also feel this, this relentless and unquenchable desire raging like wildfire inside of him, threatening to strip him of his reason and transforming him in a raging beasts. But he resists, if barely so.
This is a very important moment for her. They are not beast in heat. Right now they are a man and a woman expressing their love in the earnest and most ancient way possible.
Nevertheless, he starts to go faster. Not only because he has to fight against such a dangerous foe, but also because not ending the session, with her climaxing would bring total shame on John's bloodline and on the very concept of male virility.
And so faster, harder and deeper he goes. Not so long after his movements are less of a singing of a bell, and more akin to a ram desperately battering against the last door to reach the deepest and most sacred part of the fort.
Maria simply enjoy this feeling of liberation, of finally having expressed the feelings that she had to supress for so long. She never told to him, but she was heartbroken when she heard that his parents were killed and that he was missing, that is, until John's uncle contacted her parents to tell them that he was alive and would find a way to return back home in Europe. That was a week before John's uncle and aunt were killed and less than a year before her adopted family was also killed in "car accidents".
She thought to have lost him forever, until he found him again on the New York Times in an article describing his comet like ascension on the Pantheon of the most influential people on the planet. But even after that she always thought that whatever chance she had at a relationship with him was already gone, until he went to find her inside that church and from that moment on, everything went so fast in this last weeks that she had very little time to think besides what to do the day after.
But now, nothing of this matters. Not of the imminent apocalypse, nor of the fate of the world. Right now, she is a woman finally enjoying a moment of peace with someone dear to her. Nothing else matters.
And so in the secrecy and privacy of the soundproof room, nothing could be heard, outside of the moans of a satisfied woman and the relentless wet splash of meat against meat at an ever increasing intensity.
It was not long before John reaches a fast and stable ramming speeding, battering directly against Maria's cervix with barely containable hunger.
But all good things must sooner or later end, in this case, he could feel her walls starting to tight against its shaft, like a snake around a prey, but its member was also throbbing with ever increasing strength and impatience.
Both of them knew that they were close to the final climax, but to end the night with a slam dunk John would need to go the extra mile.
Two pairs of eyes looked into each other. One with barely maintained awareness resisting against relentless waves of desires, the other already drowning in said desire without a care in the world, and John could swear that heart shaped symbols were inside her eyes, but it was probably his lust-filled mind making him see hallucination.
No words were exchanged, nor they stopped, they simply looked into the yes of the other and she gave a final nod.
This was al that he needed.
He straighten his backs, gently raising her butt, anchoring her by holding her hip bones with his hand.
Finally a single phrase passed through his head 'Redirect energy to hips muscles and abdominal muscles. Increase hips speed by 300%'.
If before the movements of his hips were similar to singing a bell, and then of a ram battering a fort, now he was the most akin to a jackhammer that a human could ever hope to be.
His hips are a blur of movements were you can only know of it thanks to the overwhelming sounds of meat beating against one another, his balls, hefty with specially thick seed made for her, slapping without remorse her butt like whips.
For her part Maria has lost any semblance of rationality and awareness. Every single surviving neuron inside her brain concentrating only to savour the feeling of cervix being relentlessly battered like tofu. Such a strain would have put any other woman in pain and almost certainly damaged her body, but thanks to her new enhanced Fallen Angel body, she can only feel indescribable pleasure flowing in her body. With the last bit of motor functions she has, she locks her legs behind John's waist.
John notices this, and understands what she is saying. She wants him to blow his load inside. She want s him to breed her, to claim her. Honestly he would have preferred a safer approach, but now doing anything different would be a disservice to her.
And so he breaths out and he breaths in, and with one deep thrust he goes balls deep inside of her. A barely contained grunts of pleasure escaping his mouth, while load after load of hot seed are being shoot like a cannon inside Maria's womb. At the exact same time Maria's also climax, a powerful orgasm that makes her womb completely free, so that she can fills the empty space with his seed, at the same time her contracting walls, like the spires of snake, massage John's shaft all over his length creating a vacuum like suction that incentive his seed to reach her womb even faster.
In mere seconds her womb is filled to the brim, not even a single drop escaping it.
John then gently falls on her chest, the sweat of his labour visible all over his back, and so the two love birds restart their kissing sessions an after play to conclude their first night tighter while waiting for John's pole to finally relax.
In her post-nut clarity John starts to think that the bed will need a lot of cleaning, but that an wait tomorrow. Finally, after his dick has calmed down, the two of them can separate their lower halves.
Now separated, John can admire his handiwork, in the form of the Horny, sweaty, cum-filled woman that is now his girlfriend.
Unfortunately he hasn't time to ponder on it for much longer, because a strange luminous and strangely kaleidoscopic light appears between the two.
[end of lemon scene]
After the blinding light was gone between John and Maria there is now a new object, or better a person with cat ears and a cat tail in the room. John is the first to react.
"Schrödinger?! What are you doing here?!".
The new girl now named Schrodinger looks around her. She has short blue and purple hair in a spiky style. Her eyes are in constant chaotic colour change with a vertical split like a cat. From her mouth two small, and kind of cute, canine poke out of her lips. Her skin is fair, if a little pale, with an athletic physique that show her G-cup breasts and her fairly big hips and juicy ass. Her cat fur is of the same colour as her hair and she stands at 1.75 m tall.
"*giggles* Sorry, boss, but I couldn't hold back after seeing you and Maria-chan all lovely dovely. I have this itching feeling in my belly, and it is becoming quite frustrating". She then throws herself at him like a dead body almost glueing her tits to his chest and looking at him from down up with such lustful and needing eyes.
She is clearly in heat right now.
"As the boss you should take responsibility for it". she says, with her arms already locking his neck onto her while she goes for kissing him.
Only for John to put his left index finger on her lips and saying.
"Don't worry, I will, but first and foremost one should not forget good manners about introducing oneself".
John then eyes Maria, who is now recovered from the initial shock. Schro-chan gives only a cute pout with her mouth before looking back at Maria so that she can be introduced by John.
"Maria. I want you to meet Schrodinger, and while she can be a bit of a troublemaker…".
"Ehiiii!".
"*giggles* she is still our best field agents and my eyes and ears all over the world".
"Pleased to meet you Maria-chan!". Schrodinger says with a massive smiles at her and her chest out with pride for being considered the best by her master, with a solar smile on her face.
"W-well a pleasure to meet you too".
"Indeed, indeed. Now, with that out of the way". Schrodinger looks at John with a primal, and very much carnal, hunger in her eyes "I think that it is time for me to receive my reward for a job well done".
John simply sighs and smiles back at Schrodinger while also patting her. She replies with an energetic moving of her tail and purring like a cute little cat.
"Sometimes I think I spoil you girls too much".
"Wroooong" Schrodinger says with a cheeky tone.
"Oh well, far from me to not satisfy the desire of my cute subordinate".
And so the night went on with another couple of rounds of lovemaking. Talking about it is simply redundant, but one thing to notice about Schrodinger is that the way that her moans sounds so incredibly submissive always make difficult for John to control is more "domineering" side.
Oh well, nothing new for his strange daily life.
[The next morning]
When the sun finally rise up John and all the members of the crew find themselves at the table of his airplane to fill their stomach with a wonderful breakfast.
In this occasion John introduces Schrodinger to both Lucifer and Leviathan. Scilla and Selina are not happy that she sneaked inside John and Maria sweet moment, even if it was already over. While Helly and Karin simply giggled thinking of how the scene must have gone in their minds. The only one to greet Schrodinger is Inaba.
The reason being that Inaba herself is under special training to become a member of John's spy squad, as such she sees Schrodinger as her "cool" senpai in this new role.
Schrodinger for her part can't hide her satisfaction in being seen in such high regard by one of her junior, and as such she has decided to consider Inaba her kouhai.
Nevertheless, outside of greetings and eating Schrodinger had some important news about the Therianthrope army as she and the other members of John's intelligence have started to move on them already from a couple of months, but the information were so little and contradictory that they could not put together the puzzle. Obviously everything has become more clear after Miami, a place where Schrodinger revealed to have been during the battle.
In particular how she has started to follow a group of Therianthrope that had clearly superior equipment in respect to the rest that were fighting in the city.
She didn't succeed in capturing the group, but she was still able to acquiring some useful intelligence on how the enemy operates.
First and foremost it is confirmed that the attack on Miami was never meant to succeed. It was done for two reason: 1 to make a lot of noise and put the entire world in a state of disarray so as to make the humans wary of each other and more unlikely to collaborate; 2 to eliminate elements inside the army that were not loyal, while also weaking the position of the two leaders of which said armies were part of.
Unfortunately there were no information about a next attack or a location, but it was implied that a new attack would begin sooner rather than later. As such they have to be way more wary of possible therianthrope infiltrators, especially as Astaroth is going to make such a big event to honour the victims of Miami, a perfect objective for a group that uses terrorists tactics.
In the end, the information answered some questions and brought up other questions that need answers. Nevertheless, they are in the final route for Los Angeles. Whatever Shidou and God are going to throw at them John is sure they will be able to deal with it.
[Meanwhile in the secrete base of the Therianthrope]
In a small dark room, illuminated only by the dim artificial light of a dozen big screens showing images taken from what seems security camera, sits Laura, the Insect seat and one of the four representative of the new Therianthrope race.
She is currently looking at them, with very little focus. Instead she is holding a small photo which shows her with various others people. She then moves her hands upon the face of one of them that is on the right of the photo. A very bulky man with a somewhat comically serious face that is clearly a little bit embarrassed of being there. Laura simply let out a heavy sigh.
"*sighs* Antioch".
But then the door behind her opens showing the silhouette of a man with a lab coat.
Shidou himself.
"How are you Laura? I hope in health if nothing else. Sorry, for the somewhat "restricting" room, but it is important to make everyone understand that contrary to the petty Humans no Therianthrope is above the law, especially the law of The Lord himself".
Shidou says while walking towards Laura. For her part she doesn't even bother to stand up and greet him, the only small act of defiance that she is allowed to do in the confine of her isolation.
Shidou then notices the photo with Antioch, and a wicked smile appears on his face.
"Oh yes, Antioch. Quite the sad loss for you. I knew the both of you were quite close, considering that he was a member of the first ten insect therianthrope that you brought under your tutelage and the first that you promoted as general. You have my . . . condolences. He says without even bothering to hide his gleeful joy for such an event.
Because Shidou is coming from Laura's left side he isn't capable of noticing the small, almost imperceptible, change of her right hand that was almost forming a punch, nor the flows of rage that comes out for a brief moment from her immaculate mask. She simply grits her teeth and says.
"Your concerns are welcomed Creator. I am sure Antioch would be happy to hear them, wherever is soul may have go".
"Indeed, indeed". Shidou finally reaches her position and throws his right arm over her shoulder bringing her closed to him, while he uses his left hand to play with her hair, and in some cases sniffing at her hair.
Through a titanic effort Laura is capable of hiding both her disgust and stopping herself from moving her hand to punch him in the face. 'Not now. . . Not yet. The moment is not ripe for it'.
"Which city are we looking right now?". Shidou casually says by looking at the dozens screens on the wall, but continuing to play with her hair".
"Los Angels, Sir. The operation under the jurisdiction of the Bird Pillar will begin soon".
"Oh yes, yes. I remember it. Who knows if the Lord will be merciful with him and I will not be obliged to punish him? What do you think about it? Do you think that the Lord will grant us victory in this next operation?".
Laura maintains a bronze mask on her face and with an emotionless tone she says. "I don't know Sir. I am a soldier. It is not my job to ask such questions".
"*sighs* you are not funny Laura. Not funny at all". Shidou says in a totally fake defeated tone. He then let go of her and starts to move out of the room, but just before going out of the room, when the door is already open he slightly moves his head back towards her.
"Say Laura. In your opinion, What is the worst enemy of an animal?".
Laura is somewhat taken back by this question, but she tries to answer with honesty.
"The other animals. Nature is a constant state of warfare between each other, as such every animal outside of oneself is as an enemy as it is sustenance, but I don't think this is the answer you desire Sir".
"*chuckles* You have always been the most acute of everyone indeed, and to answer your question, yes. In my opinion it is not the other animals that are their worst enemies of themselves, but fire".
"Fire, sir?".
"Yes, but in this case fire is an metaphor for what the animal doesn't know, can't know and, more importantly, can't understand. In the end when said animal tries to play with fire, it is inevitable that it will burned because of its ignorance, Don't you think?".
For a couple of very intense seconds there is only a deafening silence between the two. A silence of warning, a silence of threat, a silence of understanding.
"Yes Sir. I think so".
"Good, good. I am happy we are on the same page". And with a smug smile Shidou finally goes out of the room closing the door behind her.
But for Laura the situation is not good. No, one could say that it is now worse than before. And in the silence of her cell, and in the private sanctity of her mind only one phrase repat like a drum.
'He knows. He knows'. Laura looks at the screens of another city that is going to be the set for another pointless and mindless bloodshed, but in between the sea of people he recognize a small group of individuals moving like a single entity, almost all of them are women, but there is one man at the forefront of the group. One man he knows way too well.
'John, I seriously hope that you are somewhat capable of resolving this situation. For the good of both of us and the entire world'.
[Meanwhile outside of Luara's room]
Shidou, after walking outside of Laura's room, continues to do so for another couple of meters. Then he stops and while continuing to look forward and almost like he is talking to himself he says.
"Continue to maintain a strict watch of her movements and report to me for suspect actions on her part".
After saying that he restart to walk to wherever he needs to be. But behind him on the roof of the corridor, a figure humanoid in shape with chameleon traits can be seen for a split second, doing a very small nod, and then vanishing again like a ghost.
[Back to Los Angeles]
It is already 22:00 pm. The sun is already down and tonight is a moonless night. On the road in front of the beach Belial walks following the direction of the road going towards the south.
She had the chance to observe John private "jet", touch the ground early in the late morning. After that she simply followed them from the distance while remaining in contact with Astaroth for further news.
She stopped following them when they reached their hotel between 16:00- 17:00 pm. After another meeting in person with Astaroth to discuss further actions and the latter confirming that the concert will be done tomorrow night, and also that Belphegor will help with the technical compartment as a sponsor of the show to boost the popularity of her gaming company.
After all of this Belial has decided to take one moment for herself and go to the beach looking at the sun setting to leave centre stage to a moonless night.
Her face betrays her worries and trepidation for Astaroth's Concert that will happen tomorrow night, but while her head is filled with all kinds of plans and counter plans to protect her she abruptly stops and without moving she says.
"*sighs* and here I thought that I could have a moment for myself. Oh well, I suppose we had too meet each other sooner or later".
The person to who Belial is talking is none other than Lucifer.
While Belial still remain in her elegant blue dress, Lucifer has opted for a more casual/beach style attire.
"You were never one to adapt in the art of subterfuge and stealth, neither before nor know. Isn't it, Satanael".
"*sigh* of course you knew, why should I have expected something else. Sometimes I don't know if I am simply deluding myself, and that I am simply playing the part of the Devil Lord, and that I haven't changed".
"You are not too wrong about it, nor correct. I admit, at first I didn't recognize you when I first met you in Hell. Then again, for a lot of time whatever happened all around me was meaningless. But, right now I don't want to talk about what happened in Hell, nor I have intention to attack Astaroth".
"Then, why are you here?".
"I am here to talk to you. Too many things are happening at a rate that honestly speaking is exceeding whatever I was planning or I had planned. In all honesty, I think you are the only one between Hell, Earth and Heaven that can understand what I am talking about".
With another heavy sigh Belial looks back at Lucifer right in the eyes and says.
"There is a small bar not so distant in that direction. At least we will have a good background while we talk and something to fill our stomachs".
Lucifer simply nods and the two Devil Lords walk towards the bar.
The bar is humble, but offers a good view on both the beach and the city. The two Devils order some beer and a couple of sandwiches. And while they wait they start talk, if only to break the awkward silence that has fallen between the two.
Lucifer is the one to do the first move.
"How much time has passed, from the last time we talked?".
"A lot of time, too much in a way. I didn't had a lot of time to talk with any other angel after being imprisoned during the XI century, because I naively thought that going out of my way to spread the verb of God was a good idea".
Lucifer doesn't react in her normally smug and annoying way, instead she simply stares at the beer can in front of her, her face showing the signs of understanding and regret.
"Idolatry was the crime for which you were put in prison".
"By a court of not my equal, in which I didn't even had the chance to defend myself and were none stood up for me; and yet, even for such a crime I was not immediately casted out from Heaven. I was obliged to remain entire human centuries, up until the start of the second half of the 20th century (aka 1950/1960). I have always asked myself why it was so".
"Because God would not allow another of his angels to fall *chuckles* or better, it should be rephrased with he couldn't accept that another angel disobeyed him, after what happened with my Big Sister".
Silence again falls between the two, but then Belial continues.
"You know, when I went to that European village, I truly wanted to help God, because I couldn't understand why, as his angels, his literal emissaries, we weren't allowed to spread his name on Earth. Then again, I suppose that my "origin" can also be considered a factor in his decision".
"In regard to your first point, you should very well remember the story of the golden lamb, and what happened to the people that were the literal God's chosen for one single day of transgression. Humans, for their nature, while being able to think something beyond their life experience, they still need a base in their empirical world, in what they can see and touch. As such, the moment you showed up, they identified you with God, to the point that the prayers for him were undistinguishable from that for you, the final results is that in their eyes you were God and because they now knew that someone listened to their prayers, they ended up in a life of debauchery. For the second point it is a no brainer, I think he feared you out of all of us to take up arms against him. Satanael, the only angel that was not created by God. I still vividly remember that it was quite the shock in Heaven because it was something that none thought was possible, but this only continues to show how frightening is the human power of belief and faith".
"In that we can agree. Sometimes I still find absurd that a small sect of Christianity that rejected God by thinking that he is an evil deity that is blocking us from reaching the true God, and so, with the power of their belief, the Gnostics created me. Satanael, the angel that was destined to fight the Demiurge (aka God) to find The true GOD. *chuckles* You know, maybe is also because deep down I felt to have failed my mission that when I was casted in Hell I took the name Belial".
"You mean for the meaning of the name?"
Belial nods. "Yes, Belial is an ancient Devil name that I found out while looking in an ancient Devil Library. Its meaning is worthless *grim chuckles* I thought it was a fitting name for one such me. Someone who failed his original mission and was casted out from anything I ever knew because of something I couldn't comprehend, and basically left for dead in hostile territory. How could you not define someone like me, if not as someone without worth".
"Yeah, the "mission" that was "implicitly" attached with your final sentence of being casted out to Hell. Do you still remember it?".
"Yes, how I could not? *heavy sighs* my mission was to infiltrate the Devils that were fractured because if the civil war and basically becoming what the Humans call "the fifth column" by reaching as high in the hierarchy as possible. *chuckles* I think God himself was a little bit impressed of my results".
"Yes, then again, it only confirmed his fears. So, I suppose you were contacted by Michael at some point after you became the ruler of Hell".
"Three months ago to be exact. She took her sweet time".
"As she always does. Then again, she is too busy being God's favourite bootlicker to care about anything else".
"*laughing* On that we can agree, but as you have already noticed, I refused her and by extension God".
"And for that I thank you. At least I know that the entirety of Hell will fight united against God".
"That said, you also have changed quite a lot from the last time we met. You almost seem like a different person".
"*chuckles* in a way you are correct. Yes . . . . so correct.".
Belial notices lucifer touching her left(right?) cheek and the ruler of Hell notices the scar that she is hiding with her magic. It doesn't need a genius to put the dots together.
"John, isn't it?".
Lucifer nods in silence.
"let me guess, just after you and him were casted out of Hell and back on Earth?".
Again a silent nod from Lucifer. "I have done something that made him really angry, and this scar is a memento of what he can become if I let his inner monster come out".
A small shiver moves along Belial's back thinking of what type of man could be someone capable of striking fear in the heart of she who has decided to fight against the entire of heaven by herself.
"You know, it almost feels absurd *forced chuckles*". Lucifer says "I, who have so brazenly decided to rebel against God, for something I don't even fully understand. I, who without fear have stood alone against the endless waves of angels and was only stopped by God himself. Even at that time the concept of fear was alien to me. How it could be different? We are angels. We are not birthed we are created to be the soldiers of our Creator and to die whenever he feels like to do so. Even after being casted out from Heaven fear wasn't with me. I don't know, maybe deep down I knew that God would not kill me, maybe me going to Hell and even all this struggle I am doing is its plan to finally have the decisive battle that will make him the undisputed ruler of the world. But then, he, a mere human, someone that has not even a tenth of my lifetime, put inside of me this emotion. This alien emotion that makes me uncomfortable whenever I am beside him. I am able to supress it when I don't think about it, but over the course of these last nights without exception I always return back to that blasted church in Japan. I always return at the spot in which I was standing, saying the exact same phrase at him, and finally him, simply taking out his gun and without a single moment of hesitation he press the trigger and shoots at me then a wake up and the cycle restart the next night."
Silence follows Lucifer, as she retakes breath after the long monologue. Belial for her part simply waits, she learned in the past that when a "patient" is in such a state, one must not interrupt his/her train of thoughts.
"*heavy gulp* and every time I repeat the scene, in that moment I understand" Lucifer continues "I understand that for that briefest of moment he has more control over my life than God has ever had, and that knowledge scares me. *chuckles* I have started all of this for what can, and must, by all means and accounts be considered a selfish reason, and yet through this journey still in its infancy I am finally starting to understand it, and this only makes the actions of that day worser every time I go to sleep."
Lucifer at this is point is crying, not much, but trails of tears can be seen on her cheeks.
"*sad chuckles* truly, what a great Devil lord I am. Completely at the mercy of her emotions and afraid of even going to sleep because of a single human. And yet, here I am, only the silence of the night to overwhelm me with the knowledge of what I have almost lost and how powerless I still am".
An awkward silence falls again between the two
"When I first arrived in Hell. I hated everything and everyone." Belial takes a deep breath, psychologically preparing herself "you can even say that I was still naively thinking in a very small part of me that God would forgive me, but in the end I was simply a hollow husk following an order from someone that is the direct cause of her misery. *chuckles* In the end I was more than likely hoping that some demonic creature would arrive and attack me to put an end to my suffering. Instead, I found something of much greater value, in the form of a stubborn and melancholic little devil".
"Astaroth".
Belial nods. "I found her in the wasteland of the Ninth circle, casted out from her family and ironically because of that she is the only surviving member of the Paimon family. I still don't know the reason why I picked her, or she decided to follow me, but that was the start of our adventure and as the say the rest is history. Nevertheless, she has grown way beyond a simple subordinate, she is my friend, the best and the only true one I ever had".
"I understand" says Lucifer. "Maria has also become something similar to me. She is what allowed me to break the shell of my emotionless state after the death of my sister, if nothing else I will protect her by extension this world for no other reason than the fact that she gave me a reason to live again."
Another wall of silence falls between the two, only the whistles of the sea wind broking the silence.
"Truly, we are a mess as Devil Lord". Belial says.
"*chuckles* Yeah, you are right". Answers Lucifer.
After that the chuckles become small laughing and then blossom in fully belly laugh. The magic barrier making the people all over them unaware of what is happening, while the two Devil Lord and former rivals laugh to everything that has happened to them so far feeling a massive rock falling off their hearts. After a good minute of laughing they retain control of themselves. Then Lucifer notices that she has to go back to the Hotel, but before going she gives a little advice to Belial.
"I think you were planning to not remain in the city tomorrow, correct?".
"Yes, you are right."
"Then I would ask you to remain. I think it is time for you and John to have a little talk. Besides, I don't think you personally will see much action tomorrow".
"Even with the looming threat of a terrorist attack".
"Even more so, considering that he is now the head of the security of Astaroth's show".
"Ah, I see . . . Wait WHAT?!". Belial asks completely baffled by Lucifer statement.
"See, you tomorrow". But Lucifer doesn't give her a chance to reply, instead she immediately flies away towards the Hotel. Leaving Belial alone to contemplate what has happened and this last minute change of plan.
"*sigh* after all the pain in the ass to not see them so soon *heavier sigh*" Belial then looks at her outfit. "Maybe I need to change my cloths". Her lips forms a smile unable to hide the little excitement she feels in meeting the strange human around which the worlds seems to rotate in this moment.
And so the night of the two Devil Lords ends here, with hopefulness for the future and a lighter heart, but for other the night watch still hasn't ended.
[Meanwhile – Centre of Los Angeles]
On the top of one of the skyscrapers of Los Angels two feminine figures in black bodysuits could be seen looking down on the streets.
"People from up here truly looks so small, don't you think so kouhai?" Schrodinger asks to Inaba.
"*!* eh? Oh…0h!. Y-y-yes they truly seems so*uncomfortable chuckles*". Inaba says, but for Schrodinger is clear that her subordinate has other things in mind.
"You are thinking about the Killing Bites, isn't it?" Schrodinger says bluntly.
Inaba doesn't answer immediately, but then she gives a small nod to answer her senpai question.
"Still preoccupied of participating in it?".
Inaba gives another nod "I mean, why should I not be? Up until some months ago I was your average Japanese highschooler, without money, that has made the dumb decision to subject herself to an untested medical procedure because she needed money and if not for the master I would have end up as a slave gladiator for a corporation or even a sex slave for some spoiled man as a "gift". "I . . . . I am truly grateful to master to have taken me out of that rabbit hole (pun intended), but the more the date for the killing bites comes near, the more this horrible sensation becomes more and more unbearable. I fear . . . . I fear that master is not making the right choices in making me go as a member of the team for the Ishida Zaibatsu. I mean, Hitomi-san has secluded herself in special training after being sorely beaten by Master to become stronger and Ichinosuke-san has already modified himself and is ready for the match to defend her lady. Each of them has a strong motivation to fight, and . . . . I don't think I have something similar".
An awkward silence falls between the two, until Schrodinger stands up, goes near Inaba, without the latter notice, and slaps her on the back of the head.
"W-w-w-w-w-w-WHY?!".
"Because you were saying stupid things" Schrodinger says with a deadpanned face.
"Stupid things?!".
"Indeed! Now, as your super-duper-cooler senpai it is my job to put some common sense in that baka head of yours" Schrodinger declares, and she points her left index finger at Inaba " So, do you want the truth. Then this is the absolute and undisputable truth . .CARES!" She screams with an authoritative, but calm voice "Stop thinking about useless things a put your shit together! *sigh* listen none of us are here because we wanted it *chuckles* honestly we would not even be in this world, we would be food for worm 6 feet underground if not for John.".
"Even you senpai?" Inaba asks looking up to Schrodinger still on her knees holding her head from the slap.
Schrodinger simply smiles at her and goes on knee to be on her eye level while head patting Inaba.
"Yes, kouhai. I, Karin, Selina, Helly and all the rest of us. Master has given us something none has given us before. A second chance to live a life that was taken from us, and if I know something about him is that he always know what he does. So, if he says that you must be in the team with Hitomi and Ichinosuke then you just simply have to do it and believe that our Master has already everything prepared".
"B-b-but, if Master's instincts is correct, then on the moment that the Killing Bites starts . . ."
Schrodinger gives a solemn nod. "Yes, Killing Bites will be the place where the final battle between our Master and Shidou will happen; and we must be prepared for it. As such Inaba, my silly kouhai, you only have to follow the plan, and the rest will simply falls into place.".
"Do. . . Do you seriously believe so?" Inaba asks, still worried inside her heart; but when she looks into her senpai eyes, all her worries vanish almost instantly, and the next words of her senpai brings shivers to her very core.
"It is not that I believe it will happen. I have seen it happen and I know it will happen. Such is the strength of the Master we serves, but again, words can only convince people up to a point. Actions speaks louder than words as they says. So, don't take your eyes from what will happen tomorrow, you will understand what I said tonight".
And with that both Schrodinger and Inaba return to the Hotel almost at the same time as Lucifer.
The night brings a strange sense of calmness with herself that seems to wash over our protagonists that happily join her embrace relaxing both mind and soul waiting for what tomorrow will offer them.
It is better you don't take your eyes off of them, the show is going to start and there will be a lot of noise.
END
A.N.
Hello everyone Ghostfire here.
After being able to move my lazy ass I have finally completed this chapter. Way longer than I thought, but I personally believe it is quite the good one.
In this chapter we have finally seen the finalization of the emotions between John and Maria, don't worry, the harem route is not closed just yet *wink*.
In other news, I want to say to the ones that have read the lemon scene, that I don't plan to use "writing sounds"; like *SPLURT*; *SMOOCH* or anything like that. I personally find them not very appealing, as such I will only describe the scene and I will let your minds go wild with what is happening.
Secondly, I am quite happy to how the Belial X Lucifer and the Inaba X Schrodinger dialogues went out. This are very important points for the character arc of both Belial and Inaba.
It is also very important to me to be able to put the scene between Laura and Shidou. Originally it should have been put in the chapters just right next the battle of Miami, but I never found the right moment (and the revelation of John backstory was more important), but nevertheless, that scene between the two is something I had in my mind since day one, maybe even before that. So I am very happy to finally have to put it in words.
To conclude it, if you have read the new chapter of Breaking News (Because FFN still doesn't show the ones that have seen it in December, so I don't know if everyone of you has seen it), I would like to read your comments on it. if you could review on Chapter 4 of breaking news to have your feedback it would be awesome.
Anyway, this all for me for today.
See all of you next chapter