Chapter 16.
Reach for steel. Crafted by the Omnissiah, who is man and machine made one.
Maéva continued her work and enjoyed how the hands were making her life easier in every single way. She was cooking in the kitchen when Issari showed up around mid-afternoon. Along with Akeno and Kiba. Both looked wide-eyed at the mechadendrites. And how they moved seamlessly for Maéva. Issari smiled there and asked.
"You done hiding things, Gregor-kun?"
Kiba was watching the hands, and his eyes continually following them. Akeno was looking at them and then grinned sadistic while watching Issari. Of course, that's what she thinks of. I just answered Issari.
"Yes to most. If I'm going to be what you and she call me, then I need to stop the hiding. I want to hunt today, and while I still hurt a bit, it's better than yesterday. You practiced with your thing?"
The two younger devils looked confused, but Issari nodded.
"I have. It's weird. I have always had a slight limp in my left leg, and it fixed that. I cut myself on accident, and my mom worried about it, ran to get bandages, and then by the time she got back, I was healed. You are good at spotting us."
That had been the eventual story we agreed on. That I was able to spot perpetuals. Akeno widened her eyes at Issari. She was in pure shock. Then extreme happiness because she ran to Issari and twirled the pervert around, burying Issari in her chest, which made the pervert's life wonderful there. Kiba just kept watching the hands. Rias finally arrived at the home, and she froze at the sight of the mechadendrites. Her eyes looked at me, begging to have a pair. I chuckled and nodded my head there. Rias squeals, and then she charges towards me, beaming, and I stop her from kissing my cheek.
"Not till I break it. Then, I will do the deed properly. I have another way that Riser can't do. The packs and more. I will get you your freedom, Ria. I will do anything for you and them."
Rias looked at me with disappointment. Then her eyes focused again on the mechadendrites. Akeno finally set Issari down, and the pervert was drooling openly, getting fufufuing. I then led Rias and the others down the stairs. Once there, I summoned my anvil, and Kiba watched in wide eye shock. I then swing and make MIUs. The drain from the gear is no longer as strenuous. I then help apply the MIUs to Issari and Rias. Issari eeped when it burrowed into her, while Rias only whimpered softly. Kiba was watching in shock still. Akeno asked what I was doing, and I continued to explain while making the packs.
Once they are made, I help apply them to Rias and Issari. Kiba watched with more interest now, and Akeno begged for a pack. I agreed and warned her not to shock herself, channeling lightning into them. Kiba asked finally after just watching.
"This gear is completely unknown. What the hell is it?"
I smiled and answered.
"I'm calling it the Standard Template Constructor. Or STC. I think it's completely new. I imagine something, and I can make it. I have ideas, and I believe they can do a lot of good."
It really will do that. Rias played with her arms, as did Issari. I quickly make Akeno her arms and MIU. Kiba watched that, and then I made Rias a sword. A Macabian dueling sword. Then I make myself and Issari one. I hand the swords out and Rias takes it and I smiled there.
"I promised to teach you, Ria. Now show me what you know. I'm sure Kiba can help, too."
Rias smiled so brightly and beautifully. I felt another brick there. Kiba was ecstatic to see his king happy. He and I slowly work getting Rias into a very sloppy stance, but Kiba said it's actually not bad. When Rias is settled, I show her the beginning of a sword style taught on Terra for nobles. Kiba watched that, and he smiled, seeing that I kind of knew swordplay, too, because Rias was taking to it fast. Maéva came down with her mechadendrites still out, and she asked what I would like for dinner eventually.
Fish was the reply, and Maéva beamed, promising she knew a delicious fish recipe. I plan to hang out with Kuroka tonight. Rias is setting into her footwork, as I and Kiba keep helping her. Kiba asked.
"Your main weapon, Gregor. What is it?"
I pulled my axe after putting my sword in the armory while Rias continued practicing. I show Kiba the axe and he didn't like it immediately.
"That's a barbaric weapon. No honor there."
Rias was about to get pissed for me, but I shook my head.
"Honor is for ratings games and dueling. War is barbaric. It's hell, and you must be ready to do anything to win. I want to live."
Kiba doesn't like it still. He looks at the weapon more.
"Perhaps. Your axe also contains a bit of that spirit. It tells me that I am wrong to criticize it because this weapon helped deliver justice for it and more. It says it was not given a chance to plead for its life. Why should the beings you fight be given that? Your spirit is blood thirsty."
I remember Tsuda and her body. I get mad for her and say to Kiba in a small voice while she tells me what the beast said to her.
"The reason it's that way is because she was dragged underground by a rapist that loved kidnapping people. He said to her that prey should accept the predator. Never fighting back against them. He took her when she was getting milk for her brother's kids. He, after he was done, gutted her and stuffed her dying body in a maintenance closet. He watched her eyes go dim, smiling down on her. Her last thought was of her husband, who would break down hearing her disappearance. She has every right to be bloodthirsty."
Kiba paled there. He looked at the axe again, and Tsuda activated the axe, making it roar for a second. Akeno and Rias watched that immediately. Issari shrugged. She was used to Tsuda and her ways. She told me something.
"My sword has one, too, now. The spirit said it will stand with me because the ninja did cruel things to him. Why I am more insistent on calling you that because I understand. He calls you that too. I will slap you every time you dishonor those who choose this. You stupid bitch."
Rias and Akeno are watching us now in shock. Kiba showed that he was shaken. That spirits were crowding around me in support. I gape. Issari just stared me down.
"You are that truly. You give them justice. They don't get it from normal hunters because the hunters usually only care for cash and go after easy prey. We go after the ones who hurt others without hesitation. They will have that now because you are the Omnissiah. Accept that. Or else I'll take your arms with my sword."
The way she said that means she will do it without hesitation. Her brown eyes are hard, and I hear Tsuda tells me that she has told the other spirit of me. How I am the one who brings the sun to the world. The other spirit chimes in now, saying he is not afraid to help Issari hurt me despite being the Omnissiah. Because the ninja had stabbed him a million times with the sai and tortured him that way. He wants to make me know that I am a hero, and though I didn't kill them, I made the tools of his justice. Akeno was now more interested. As was Rias. Kiba just looked at me with both shame and admiration now. He said.
"I won't judge. Tell me why the spirits insist you are that word. Omnissiah. What does that mean?"
Akeno barged in there.
"Why does your deity not hurt devils, Lex? He's real because I can feel him and his divinity. All deities hate us because we are unnatural in their eyes. I have never heard of him either. New gods don't just form."
I can't explain the warp to them easily. But I got to be braver than before. Trust people again. Issari doesn't say anything, but I start.
"The gods are interconnected to us humans, yes?"
Akeno frowned, as did Kiba. Rias shows her brain here, and oh, it's hot.
"They are. The entire supernatural world is like that, though. We depend on humans entirely in many areas. What does that have to do with it, tho?"
I started.
"Everything. Are there multiple dimensions?"
They are not getting it. Issari again stayed silent while flexing her mechadendrites. Rias got a strange look in her eye before she confirmed it.
"There are. What are you getting at Gregor-kun?"
I have a story.
"When I died in the crash, I think I entered something like that. I saw multiple realms and was not dragged towards any of them. Something looked at me in the void, then focused on me. It was a sliver, and it continued to watch as I was dragged down again. I didn't remember when I returned, but I slowly started feeling weird as the weeks passed like something was following me. I don't know what till I uttered my made-up name for the deity, and then I felt the watch grow stronger. I did things, and it grew. It evolved, and I think it formed into my deity. It doesn't do much. Just watch. But when I learned that there was the other side, I did more research, and I found nothing to support or disprove my theory. When I learned you were a devil, Keno, it evolved again. This time, it spoke and said that it didn't care because you are human too. Just a little more sinful. It has started talking to me more and more. Telling me that it is different in many ways. It confirmed my theory. It showed me that it and the other deities reside in a realm it calls the warp. It's a mirror realm to our own; we feed them faith and belief. However, It has done things I don't get for a new god. It doesn't want to spread fast. It only takes a logical reason for you to be accepted by it."
They all look in disbelief, except for Issari, who chimed in now.
"I converted because I was saved and logically thought through things. Gregor-kun tried to dissuade me from it, but I chose to. Hearing my spirit and his, I'm more convinced than ever that he is the Omnissiah, our deity's desired champion. I had a friend in my childhood who was an ardent Christian, and she shoved that down my throat, so I understood many of the ideas. I believe in the Machine God, and he has grown stronger with me believing reinforcing Gregor-kun's theory. He is more active now."
That made Kiba and Rias prepare for pain instinctively. They felt none. Akeno looked at her friends, and she started to shake. Oh, she shook hard. Rias is amazed, as is Kiba. Rias looked at the symbol on her mechadendrites and her sword. She looked at me and put more together.
"You're a thing we have never had before. A potential champion of a deity."
Akeno looked at me, and she must have felt something. Before she approached me, she touched my face. Her eyes were looking into mine, and she searched me for something.
"I would like to hear all of it because they threw me out when I reincarnated. Mom was a loyal priestess for them, and yet that was not enough for me when I did this to save my life. I want it again. I missed it so desperately. They even rejected a request I made to them to have a temple to remember her. I want to believe in the deity that looks at my cousin and accepts me."
The Machine God informed me that it was rejected because they could not give devils more territory than they already had. They do that, and they piss off the Principle clans and the Youkai. Less faith would reach them and, thus, less protection for the people of Japan. The needs of the one to the many. I feel horrible there for both sides. The Shinto had been put in the corner, and they couldn't do it even though they wanted to. Shuri had been an extremely good priestess. I tell my cousin the reason.
"They couldn't do that even though they wanted to Keno. Give you the shrine. They would lose faith if they did that. Don't hate them. According to the Machine God, they loved you both and regret letting you go. As for the faith, please don't do it unless you can give him a logical reason. He is shaped by me and with who I am."
Akeno had tears, hearing why she was denied the request. The fact I didn't lie made her start crying because the Shinto did not truly hate her. They just had to do that to keep faith going. She was just screwed over by how the warp works. I hugged my cousin, and I told her,
"I will make a shrine here for him. You're welcome to remember her here. He said that you would be fine to enter it. He likes you, Keno, but he's biased because of me."
Rias has tears for her adoptive sister, as does Issari. Kiba looked at me, and he got more. His exorcist training seems to do something for him. Akeno said while still crying.
"I will believe in a deity that is like my brave cousin. That accepts me. That will let me have this denied me for ten years. I logically say this."
I immediately felt Akeno's truth and logic there. She became one of us. She heard the spirits of Tsuda and the man in Issari's sword. Her eyes seemed to understand me, too, at that moment. She said now with the tears drying.
"Omnissiah. Lex, that is you. Oh, Machine God. Thank you."
Kiba is now deeply interested. As is Rias. She is not there, but she instead focuses on her sword. The symbol. She asked.
"Why is it split? The skull."
I am about to answer when Akeno does instead while understanding why I said the thing yesterday.
"Because the machine is immortal and like man in the struggle against adversity. The flesh is weak. But together with machines, we form a symbiotic relationship. Thus, the split. Together as one. I understand now. Why you said that."
Issari looked impressed there. I am too. But I don't get why she knows that. Akeno smiled and answered.
"Mom taught me how to understand them. Priestess tricks. I understand him. But I'm not his priestess. You are his first and foremost priest. You make him into what he is, as you said. Thank you, Lex. And you as well, Machine God."
Kiba is now so fascinated that he looks at the symbol. Then he surprised me.
"I want to hear more. A deity that accepts us. A whole new field of looking at the ways of deities. I get the title more."
Issari showed her perverted self there, and she slithers over to Kiba. She smirked, and it's evil.
"I'll explain what I understand Kiba-kun. But I'm not him. I'm just an ok swordswoman. Can you teach me some of that? I have a good style for me and my gear, but I'm still eager to learn forever."
Kiba smiled, and he and Issari moved to the other side of the basement to talk. Akeno said as she turned my way.
"Please make the shrine now, Lex. Mom deserves to be remembered properly. She loved the temples, and when we were all together, she would make us recite prayers. I have missed this so much. The comfort and the acceptance. He will not be disappointed in me."
Rias asked while split between happiness and pure curiosity.
"I'd like to see it too. I'll stay outside the room, but I want to see more proof. I'm not there. But I think that he must have sent you to me."
In a way, he did. Very abstract way, and in truth, this One Above All did that, but I will never control what people think. Free will is and will always be respected. I led Akeno over to a small, unused room next to the teleporter room. I summoned my pocket spell and took out my candles and the cog of Mars. Akeno frowned at seeing so little, but she understood immediately it was because the Machine God wasn't big on extravagance, like me. She summoned her own pocket spell and, pulled out a picture of Shuri Himejima and then placed it at the foot of the cog. Then Akeno froze. She then smiled wide with many tears flowing, and I got why. The Shinto had sent a boon to the woman they failed and a reward for my work. They really do care. Shuri was now with my God. Her presence hugged her daughter, who was so happy, and while Shuri looked at me with critical eyes, her attitude softened. She said to me.
"You're not my nephew. Not the old one. You're my new nephew, and I thank you and him for this. My baby has been so lost this past decade. You are my hero for this and now my Omnissiah. Please help her reconnect with my stupid bird husband. He didn't, as you know, leave us to die. He tried desperately to return to us. You are the one I believe can do it. He's not good either. He drinks and doesn't show signs of stopping. It won't kill him, but it's how he gets by. Please reunite them. And as for my father and mother, I ask that you gut them. They did the same thing to all of us. The abuse. They wanted to break us into loyal members of the clan. Instead, they made us take a different path. One that led to you and this. Your mother here is desperate to know you who is her son yet not. The fact you honored him and gave him vengeance against them has won her over to you. She will come eventually. But kill them for what they did to us and our kids. Make them regret what they did. Omnissiah."
Shuri went back to hugging her baby. Akeno heard only bits of that. Shuri hid the fact I was not truly Alex from her. Akeno, however, kneels to the shrine and prays for her mom. Rias watched from outside the room. I leave my true cousin there and exit the room, closing the door. Rias commented softly while we walked away.
"I didn't feel pain like I would near any holy place. I felt accepted. This deity. He is strange."
I snort because she's not wrong. But he is vastly better than the original. Issari does not want to lose flesh. I still kind of want a cyborg part, but I like flesh despite everything. We walked to the medical room, and Rias looked at the bed. She scowled at it. Hating the fact that it hurt me. I eventually will upgrade myself more like the Genators who were often forgoten. Make the human body the temple standard. However, machines can help people who want that. Symbiotic. Rias looked at everything, and she once again looked at me, finally saying.
"I want to believe in something like that. We only have the Morning Star, and he is beloved by the Pillars. But my brother says that we should stop that. He told me the Morning Star did terrible things to our ancestors and that we were just tools to him. Grayfia doesn't believe that. Neither does anyone else but me. Heniya is kind of there, but she, however, has her boy toy, who is deeply devoted to the Morning Star. But this deity accepts us. Like how you accepted me. You believe that there are spirits in technology. Show me some please."
I slowly pulled out my axe and handed it to Rias. She holds it and feels Tsuda. I then gently extended her hand to a machine that was for enhancing bone density. There is a spirit there. It says hello and that it's a being that was hurt by the samurai. It returned to help us and would gladly go to another machine. It asked to go into my mechadendrites. The spirit was a teen. One that the samurai had murdered because he had looked like their king. The teen said he was happy to serve the Omnissiah and to help a Doctor Octopus guy. He said he could help the pretty redhead, too, by being in her mechadendrites.
Rias connected with this spirit. It and she seemed to become something more. She said to it.
"I would like that."
The spirit called me a lucky bastard. That made Rias giggle and intertwine her arms with mine. I tell the spirit and Rias.
"I'm the luckiest bastard on our planet."
Rias leaned into me, and the spirit just smiled. It said that the Omnissiah deserves to be lucky for how he gives up things. It flowed into Rias's pack and then into mine in my holder. The enhancement machine went silent. Rias looked at her mechadendrites in wonder, and then she used them more. I smiled.
"I will try to hunt all weekend, Rias, and into Monday. Please don't worry about me. Im going to be ok. I have several new plans for us. One is I'll get half the money, and then once I meet my grandfather, I'll get the other half and offer your parents a large stake in my new company that I will make for the underworld. I'll let them know that you will be protected, and I will reveal myself as the Gorgan. That should break it, and I promise I will leave better outs for you if you ever want that. But please let me have tonight and this weekend for my work."
Rias looked at me, both hurt and understanding the request. I take her real hands, and I tell her.
"I said yes at first to help Keno. But getting to know you, Rias, I will give you a hundred twenty percent for this because you are wonderful and worth everything I do. I want to have this utterly with you. When you're free, Rias, we can do everything together. I want to know the real Rias Gremory. Like how I want you to know the real Gregor Astaroth. Together."
Rias smiled there so brightly it was like a super nova. She looked ready to give a full-blown kiss there and then. She held back because of who I am. She instead wrapped her arm around me, and I took it. She remarked while we shared this moment.
"My noble Lord of Iron. But I would not have you any other way. When I am free, you will be spoiled like no tomorrow. I'll let you do your work."
We enjoyed the moment for us two. I hear swords being used, so Rias and I peek out to see Issari and Kiba dueling. Issari is losing, but she is giving as good as she gets, as shown by Kiba having a big smile on his face. Kiba's sword is a long sword that has demonic power flowing up the blade. Issari finally got tapped, ending the fight, and the tap left a small cut on Issari that healed fast. Rias looked at me in question, and I tilted my head yes. That surprised Rias, and she tilted her head in question. I pulled back into the room, and she followed while still playing with her new hands I tell her.
"I felt weird when we first met. Like we were kin, I watched her, and when she cut herself one day, it healed faster than normal. I immediately asked, and she said she's always been like that. I think I might know when they are like me."
Rias was very curious.
"This ability. Is it a gene?"
I leaned against the wall and shrugged.
"I think it might be, but I'm not sure. However, we are still learning stuff about it. I know mine is getting faster with each injury and or missing limb I lose."
Rias was not happy about hearing that. But she can't stop me. I'm not happy, too, because I will hurt more now that my nerves are on a new level. Maéva called from the stairs leading upstairs.
"Young master and guests' food is ready."
I got up from the wall, and the two of us made our way towards the stairs, but I did tell Akeno that food was ready. She didn't seem to hear me, and I tapped her. She said to bring her food later. She's busy still praying while Shuri watches on. I slowly backed out of the room and let Akeno have this. When I go upstairs, I see Issari and Kiba debating sword styles on the island. Rias walked over to me with food, and we moved to one of the tables and just talked. She and I talked over things up top and below. Rias knew stuff about Japan but not much else about the world. I told her about the United States, and she was deeply interested in the fact it's extremely liberal compared to the underworld.
Especially that all people can vote. I'm still horrified by how backward the underworld is.
It's a total feudal society. The subjects of the various pillars have next to no legal recourse for airing disputes or grievances. I'm even more horrified as Rias tells me that the most conservative pillars carry out a ritual they call the First Moon, where a lord can take a commoner woman and then. 'Enlightened' to their status. It applies to men too. The commoners couldn't fight that. Sirzches had desperately tried to destroy the tradition a hundred years ago and had failed because even the most toned-down version of the bill proposed was shut down by the GKF. The NKF had been split badly there, and they had infought over it, with the most liberal ones refusing to support it because of how toned down it was, thus crippling the chances more. I explained to Rias that no one does that up here.
She almost couldn't believe it. But Maéva heard bits, too, and she and a sickened Issari backed me up. Kiba was just sad there because there was absolutely no honor there. He, it seems, has long accepted that fact. Rias also doesn't get that humans have gone to space. She called that an impossible thing. Most pure blood devils don't acknowledge the fact we have been to the moon. To Mars. They still believe in Earth-centric ideas and the fact that the sun rotates around us. I'm horrified at that, as is Issari. I ask Rias something. And the answer showed me a new thing.
"How can you believe that if you have been to a human school?"
Rias just shrugged.
"I came into Kuoh Academy in the last part of the last year, as did everyone else. I just faked it there because humans are silly. It, however, is better up here than near Riser and his near-constant attempts to bully me."
Oh, fuck that's scary. They are so damn far behind. Even Koriel, who was used to the uneducated masses, came from a civilized world where heliocentric had been beyond confirmed. I looked at Kiba, and he sighed.
"We have been trying to fix that. As has Heiress Sitri. She wants to start a school that actually teaches people rather than the crap the current noble ones spew now. No, not all the nobility believe what Rias was taught. Just a large number of them. She was taught that by a tutor directly placed on her by her grandfather. A concession by Lord Lucifer for a bill that passed."
Poor Sirzches. That sucks having to do that. Oh. I don't like that thought I had. Was this a way to abuse Rias by her grandfather? Because Lord Bael and the great king are not stupid people. Was this a taunt at Sirzches to watch his beloved sister be corrupted there? That's fucked up, and I get a bit madder. While I considered that, Rias just shrugged, not getting why I was upset. I suddenly get extremely angry because no redhead wife of mine will be stupid!
"Ria. You will be corrected on things. You're not stupid. No stupid person can do wards. No stupid person gets people as well as you do. If you're teaching me devil things, I will teach you human things because my wife will show the underworld how smart she is!"
Rias and the others looked shocked by how angry and full of fire I was there. Rias shivered again, proving once more she was built differently. However, she quickly gets hearts in her eyes at hearing me call her smart and my wife. Issari sweat dropped with Kiba joining her. Maéva grew ultra determined too because she said angrily.
"I will help you, young master. Young mistress, your teacher abused you by giving you extremely wrong ideas of the world. You are indeed not stupid, and I will follow my lord in correcting this."
That was when Akeno finally showed up.
"Rias, you barely scraped by with grades last year. You say you love it up here away from Riser, but the terms your sister gave you for staying here were good grades. Lex beat the stupid out of my sister. Her tutor was extremely horrible and deliberately did that to taunt Lord Lucifer. Kiba and I have tried to do what we could to fix the damage, but Koneko started undermining us after the incident."
Oh, that makes me dislike the cat more. Rias looked ashamed by the dressing down. I, however, have a question that has been burning in my mind. I ask Akeno.
"Devils have computers. Don't you guys have an internet?"
Akeno grew more pissed, as did Kiba. The sadist answered.
"We do have one, but it's restricted to the nobility. Commoners and reincarnated are forbidden from using it on pain of death. The underworld clamps on the human one. They control the ideas that spread, and when reincarnated devils try to speak up, we are ignored by the commoners because of the fact they are purebloods, and we are us. They accept the shit that's shoveled down their throats. Machine God, take the scum who perpetrated that."
Maéva prepared for pain from that while I get more pissed. The internet is the greatest thing humanity has ever made. All our collective knowledge is there. Good and bad. The nobility uses this against the commoners, who are so indoctrinated into following the nobles that when they hear the reincarnated protesting, they support the nobles unconsciously. I bitterly hate the GKF. Oh, I'm going to war with them in the entirety. This shit holds people back and is ineffective and inefficient! I'm going to rip Lord Bael apart. Maéva has finally realized there was no pain, and Kiba shrugged at the maid. Issari gets angrier along with me. She now realizes she missed a bullet by not becoming a devil here.
Rias is weirded out by the looks of anger on my face. She asked very cutely, like Asia.
"The human one isn't like that. Restricted?
We all except Akeno looked at Ria's as if she had ten heads. I am now very not impressed. Akeno just moved to me and patted my shoulder.
"Like I said, beat that out of her."
Rias tilted her head like Asia does at not getting something. I sighed because I had to fix this. Issari just shrugged before informing me.
"I am helping you here, Gregor-kun. This is horrific, and I'm happier to be like you than ever. I will definitely not regret that. Red, you are going to learn so much. We really have been to Mars via a buggy that has collected rocks and other samples. We have those here on Earth. We have people in space right this very moment in the international space station. We have hundreds of satellites orbiting the Earth, and no, don't give me that look because he's right. You are not stupid."
Rias had again tilted her head like Asia in pure disbelief. She looked at all of us, trying to find a lie, and I just shook my head. I'm getting a pc just for her. I opened my pocket spell and grabbed out money. This will hurt, but I'm giving Maéva instructions.
"Maéva, I want you to take this and buy a pc. Nothing fancy or special, just a regular computer. You and Rias will sit down tonight. Teach her. Destroy her bad teacher's crap with evidence and pictures. Hell, use everything that you can and make sure the references are beyond good and sourced. Rias no arguments."
Rias shrinks and then went stiff. Maéva immediately nodded.
"Yes, milord."
She departed with the money, and Akeno just whacked Rias, who eeps. Kiba sighed, and Issari said now.
"I am glad I'm me. I couldn't live without my porn! No way am I ever going to reincarnate. Red, I'm going to make you cultured. I get to be the senpai!"
I sweat dropped along with Kiba. Akeno laughed deeply while Rias was just so lost, and she looked horribly cute there. I glare at Issari while pulling Rias towards me protectively and unconsciously.
"You will stay away from her with your garbage. Understand me Issari. She is innocent!"
Issari glared at me and then growled her dragon growl, shocking Kiba.
"I'd be helping you asshole! She will be shown the way!"
The tic mark that Issari usually gets is now on me. I moved faster than I once did, thanks to my scion stuff, and I slammed into Issari, and I started to choke her like she did me in a Simpsons moment. The chair falls, and Issari gasps and gasps while everyone else looks on in shock. I snarl at her.
"You will not corrupt my future wife, you pervert! I will kill you if you attempt it!"
Akeno is fufufuing now while this is happening. Rias has the hearts again because I can feel them. Kiba moved to stop me, and he attempted to do so for two minutes.
Issari glared at me, and I glared back. The bruises are fading away from Issari, and I hate her now. Kiba has a demonic sword facing each of us and is the one meditating on the situation. Akeno was still fufufuing while she whispered something to Rias, who was blushing. I turn the glare on Akeno.
"Don't corrupt her more than you already have."
Akeno smiled evilly at me. Then replied while Rias is just blushing up a storm.
"No. I think I will continue. You will be happy I did, Lex. But please don't choke my dragon girl. She'd come back, but I'd rather she not have to."
Issari has smug superiority there, supported by Akeno. Kiba is confused and asks.
"Dragon girl? Come back?"
I sighed and was about to reply when Issari manifested the gauntlet. She said to a wide eyed Kiba.
"I am the Red Dragon Empress of Mars. And I will be here forever. Suck that Gregor-kun!"
Akeno now looks at Issari with true lust, and Kiba just fainted. But this gave me the opening, and I jumped at the idiot again and caught her off guard before strangling her once more. Rias, having seen the gauntlet before, just went to help Kiba. I snarl out to my idiot friend.
"You troglodyte! Think with your brain! Every person who knows is another potential leaker! Or are you truly this dumb!"
I'm about to slap her when I feel lightning enter my body, and I shriek and let go, hitting the floor and twitching. Issari gasped and takes in air. Akeno entered my field of vision, and she patted my cheek, saying.
"No strangling my dragon girl. She can't do it to you, so it works vice versa. Now, my little kohai. I will show you the way to victory."
Issari beams after breathing again, and I hate her so very much. Akeno picked up the pervert, and she just smiled and then set Issari on a chair and started spoiling the pervert. I glared at Akeno and said to her while still feeling tingling in my arms.
"She's your responsibility. Fucking dragon tamer."
Akeno giggled and then petted Issari, and the pervert didn't know if she should be offended by that or pleased. The sadistic queen smiled and then replied.
"I'll tame this dragon. When you two enter the school, she will be a perfect kohai. Isn't that right, my little Issari-chan?"
Issari looked extremely torn. Between her pervert nature and her dragon nature. Ddraig doesn't say anything because he feels my glare at him to stay silent. Kiba finally woke up and blinked a few times before seeing the gauntlet again. He looked ready to faint once more, and I just slapped him to keep him awake.
"Don't faint, pretty boy. Welcome to my world of pain."
Rias was amused by the words, as was Akeno. Issari was offended. Kiba looked at the gauntlet, and he said something that surprised me.
"The Red Dragon appears again. The last time it was with the church. Now it's with devils. That's ironic, innit."
That reveals that Kiba is British. I slapped him now because the British are evil. He yelped, and I snarked.
"Going to get tea and crumpets there, governor. You probably make your money by stabbings. Question is do you have your stabbing license?"
Kiba huffed in offense.
"What are you going to do, American shoot me? We are at least civilized and can pronounce words correctly."
I snort because I could shoot you, and you're the uncivilized ones because we didn't steal artifacts from places and then refuse to return them. Akeno is amused, and Rias just tilts her head again. Issari, being a pervert, lusting for swordsmen and, as a Japanese person, is torn between supporting me against the British and helping her swordsman. She yo-yoed back and forth, trying to decide what side to pick. Rias just asked, showing her uninformed nature.
"I thought Britain was a colony of America."
I belly laugh at that while Kiba is now ultra offended. Akeno and Issari are laughing, too, because that's funny. Rias jus kept being confused. She's adorable doing that. Kiba, however, agrees there because he didn't correct that. He looked at me, and I him. Devils are the real enemy, not the British or Americans for now. That's the scene Maéva walks in on, and she is just confused. She has a box levitating, and it's the pc. I wince because it's an expensive one. I prepare waterfall tears, and I reluctantly ask Maéva.
"How much did you spend on that?"
Maéva seems to understand my pain. She answered a good thing, stopping the tears.
"I found it in a savings store, young master. The person who sold it was not the brightest because they couldn't get it on. It was cheap too."
Oh, thank the Machine God for anime logic! Thank you! Maéva returned most of the money to me, and I threw it back into the pocket spell. Akeno looked at me with pride, seeing me budgeted as did Kiba. Rias tilted her head understanding that this helps her get closer to freedom in terms of money. I immediately began to move with Maéva to set up the computer, and I gestured to Rias to follow. She does a little too eagerly. Issari moves to follow us, but Akeno keeps the pervert there with head pats. Issari seems to be extremely pleased. As we leave, I hear a new thing. Purrs. Kiba just followed us to escape the weird dragon.
We climbed up the stairs, and Rias showed me her room. On the right side of the hallway. I entered to find the typical weeb room anime posters everywhere and a whole bookcase of manga. Along with two books, I immediately don't like. I ignored that, looking to see a desk, which I approached and immediately started setting up the computer. Rias watched, fascinated. The person who sold this computer was an extra stupid person because the reason it would not turn on was because they didn't plug it in right. I shake my head and put the monitor on the desk before I say to Rias.
"My first gift to you in terms of an item. Maéva save the redhead. Kiba, I'll forgive you for being British if you help her."
Kiba is not impressed by that. But he shrugged saying.
"I will help her, not because of that, but because I'm sick of being told by the GKF that humans are beyond primitive. They shove so much shit down people's throats. I'm not surprised we have as many strays as we do. I love you, Rias, as my king. I and the others want you to show the world that you're not stupid. We have tried so hard to show you that. We stayed silent on Koneko because she was your first piece and because we felt horrible for her after the incident. But I'm not stepping aside anymore when she tries to lie to you about stuff. I don't do conflict because that's what my trainer did to us, but I can't stay silent here."
Rias is ashamed by that, and Maéva just pats her. The PC boots up, and then it's ready. I logged into it, and Maéva began her work by saying.
"It's alright, young mistress. We will get you through things, and you will be amazed by what we have achieved."
Maéva begins with a video taken from the ISS, and Kiba starts explaining things to a shocked Rias. I tell Rias and Maéva.
"I'm going hunting. Rias get taught. Maéva, she runs away. I want you to use your mechadendrites and keep her in that chair. Kiba your cool."
Maéva had attached the pack while Rias was looking at the screen in shock as the camera turned towards our planet, and I saw something switch on in Rias. She just watched the planet slowly spinning around in the black void. Kiba said to her while I left the room.
"Rias, the world has and never was flat."
I sweat dropped there because that's bad too. What the fuck kind of tutor was she given! I go down the stairs, and what I find next with Issari and Akeno is equally disturbing. Akeno has Issari purring up a storm while Akeno tells Issari something. I just sweat dropped again. Akeno smiles and, seeing me, just chillingly chuckles.
"My little Kohai is such a good dragon. She will never be bad again, will she."
Issari purrs more, and I don't know what was promised, but I'm equally impressed and disturbed. I don't want to know. I do say to Issari.
"Are we going hunting, or are you going to keep purring?"
Issari gets out of the chair to follow me while still purring. Akeno once again pats the pervert's head, and she smiles wickedly. I don't ask because I'm afraid to find out. Akeno smiles and then takes fish with her upstairs to see Rias get good. Issari whines about losing the head pats, and I don't like this. I go down the stairs, and Issari gets ready to fight. She says as we enter the wine room.
"I'm so happy I didn't reincarnate. Not just for the porn. I can't stand the fact their society is like that. How can you still believe any of that? I get that it was a taunt, but that's just horrifying. What's the term you used for the far future?"
I responded as we hit the teleporter.
"Grimdark. I will destroy that. All of it."