Babyls was a place where the newest generation of the leadership of all the devil factions will be taught, it was the place where the foundation of talents, ideas, and plans to archive their future goals will be formed. In other words was the perfect place to make alliances from one own childhood, make waves that would affect Underworld for a very long time, where the kids will not have much of their parents supervision and can be influenced by ideas and actions of their peers, where the innocent children lacked any form of control over mouths and would gloat all the plans of their pillars that they could have overheard... in other words a place filled with opportunities for you to push your own agenda.
An excellent way to spend your time away from home, this wasn't a place of study but of learning the most important lessons before you reached your maturity and become a true Pillar head, and for that, you needed the influence to allow your pillar to rise once again. Many of your studies has taught you that many pillars died off because of the Great War and Civil War of the devils, with the number exact of survivors being something that hasn't been decided because many reasons but was mostly political and excuses to seize lands and resources of those too weak to keep them from other pillars.
A danger that many houses were still facing, be lack of power be personal or political, or something even worse lack number of suitable devils to count as a Pillar of Underworld. It was an issue shared with many other pillars, they were many pillars that were being declared extinct because of mixing blood with low class, humans, or other species. In most of the cases, such acts did make the bloodline powers weaker too, rarely a half-blood was worth something even with sacred gear. A reminder that there was a reason why most of your species didn't bother to train, power inherited always is the trump card so in cases like these they are left adrift without help.
Or in other cases, the houses experiences a great number of losses and never recovered completely their original numbers
An example of one that was very close to dying off was your own as you discovered in your preparation for Babyls. Sirzechs, Dad and you were the only ones on all Underworld who still possess the blood of Gremory, there weren't side branches in your pillar. And worse, the ascension as Satan from Sirzechs ended with Pillar of Gremory having only you as a possible replacement for your father taking any resource or achievement of your elder brother out of the familiar register weakening the position of your Pillar.
So Gremory was at the mid-place, not even bronze of your kind but firm on the place of those losers that don't get a medal in the Olympics. There were options, with the easiest one being marriage to share resources with another pillar to strengthen our position.
But you had to find a good fiancee by yourself or contact an ally, if your gender was different then there would be many options as many devils of old blood still believed in a side superiority of the male gender allowing an easy take over of your pillar, the Gremory wasn't in a strong position so if misogyny there was a good amount of idiots going into a trap and allowing your Pillar to seize resources and stall a degradation for another generation or two.
Your Intuition was a double edge sword as it allowed you to understand the true position of your family in all this mess, your parents should be more sincere about these issues or any other less perceptive would have overestimated their position.
It was kinda frustrating having so much in your back... if it didn't make a fire in your soul begin to burn, a grin grow in your face and make your eyes shine with emotion! It was such much fun! So much to do and so little time, your mind just now was making plans and to make sure that by the end of this school term.
Then again you had Jack, which means that you were overqualified already and had an insane amount of advantages on any possible idea that you will have.
"So much to be planned and so much more to implement." You ended voicing your throughs at the gates of Babyls waiting for So-chan alongside Jack, as your eyes saw so many students entering and being hurry up or nervous because of the entry exams, your intuition gave you the mental image that this school a place where the childhood dreams, hopes, and goals of an uncountable amount of devils.
Their job is to study and do their best, after all, most haven't entered into the political game board and reached the value of a pawn. Age was the weakness and strength of devils so younger they are less interested are those above as they have become arrogant of their experiences and pass glories to try.
And so your job was to abuse those weaknesses born of dreams, hopes, and goals from children that haven't gathered a good genre-savvy mind to advance your agenda before those old farts begin to pay attention.
You were going to use them, all of them as your connections and extent slowly your influence through Babyls and beyond. This was your board and pieces were already in place, so you needed to give them a reason why they will want you to move them.
"So are we going to search for the strongest?" Jack asked for her orders, and you had to head pat your loyal Knight even when you ended choosing a different manner of gaining power. Beowulf was nice at giving you the fastest way to get a reputation as devils are who respect strength above anything else.
The biggest problem with Beowulf's path is that it was something that would affect things very fast in a short time and give you respect but also cost time as you would have to defeat the other devils that smelled blood on the water, so you would spend the rest of the year maintaining the newly made pecking order.
"No, we will make sure that I get soft power and ear on the rumor mill." Having a good foot on Babyls before doing anything else, information, resources, reputation, allies, etc. All you need to do is use your first year to make sure that everything was perfect and build up your influence by putting everyone else into absolute bankruptcy!
"Can we just do the same thing that we never did on Dis?" A good denial! She showed why she was your favorite. It may be unfair for your future peerage members and Nezuko but you adore her as your first one.
"Because we can't forget about the territory that we will manage for the next years." You were a King and a Pillar, before anything else even the warrior that Beowulf tried to forge you into. "Those devils that I want to lead are people instead of life stock with their own throughs, so I can't make a dictatorship, I must make them want to follow me out of their free will if I want this to last." That was one of the reasons why tyrants often end as failures.
A legacy needs to last a long amount of time, the title of the Strongest Youth would last less than a decade out Babyls... Okay, all that was bullshit. You just wanted to be Kaiba on all the collective asses of your generation instead of trying to live a martial arts manga.
If you have to choose between being Joey or Kaiba, always be The Seto Kaiba and do ridiculous things that are incredibly expensive and take money by overpricing everything. The lesson of this day, do illegal activities that will make you rich and then humiliate others.
"Kakun!" That was the ancestral war cry of the magical girls! So-chan was here. "Why aren't you inside?" The question symbol above her head was just too powerful combined with her hand on, her powers have grown that much!?
"Obviously I was waiting for you, this is so important that we can't begin without you." You could see flowers blossoming around the smile of the magical girl. "Right Jack?" And just after your knight nodded the flowers withered and the smile of So-chan turned hollow. Ah, So-chan didn't notice Jack until now.
You wanted to test something up, so you head pat your Knight, and took mental notes of how much you could change the expression of So-chan.
"Where is my head pat?" So-chan eyes looked they had lost all their luster, and darkness around her. Your childhood friend looked just out of energy and became a void.
"You are just too precious." Her glamour spells were good but if focused could see beyond them, very similar manner to Jack's illusions. But you weren't going to that, her magical girl power just got up! You need to do this reveal mid-season or around the latter half of this school term so she has to do a training arc to power up.
Naturally, you entered the examination room with two girls glaring at each other. You weren't the biggest weirdo and could feel something... it wasn't wrong or dangerous but was something when you stepped into the academy, secrets probably lots of them inside your new turf just waiting for you to be discovered and abused thanks to the lack of attention to just actions. How many hidden passages and rooms would you find alongside Jack and maybe So-chan if she wanted?
That made you feel relatively happy about having entered Babyls, a new place to play for you three.
The exams passed fast and you cute little Jack celebrated with many of hers doing a conga line while So-chan was trying to snap her own wand just by reading the position of the desk, you and Jack were side to side while So-chan was at the other side of the room.
You two managed to get a perfect mark at theoretical parts. Jack fell short by a little bit was enough to be in the same class as you were instead of the commoner ones, so your childhood friend got the chance to gloat with an honest to Satan 'Ohohohohoh' but Jack was very happy and skipped with happiness in her feets as she got to the practical side of the evaluations. In other words, practical use of violence because devils thrive on that and was an excuse to throw away nerds to the commoner side.
So-chan and you ended waiting because you both auto passed by wielding the almighty power of nepotism.
But wasn't a problem because your peerage was made with only the best and Jack made clear that this separation of King and peerage should be illegal and it was human treatment for devils, so being the mature and patient girl that she was, your knight made an instructor go into a fetal position and cry with a broken voice. Many adult devils just decided to make her happy and just remember their personal happy places... or at least you understand from their traumatized whispers. Many commoners and peasants were made of weak stuff, Jack wasn't even going serious and you think that she feels bored out of her mind so she made a game.
The power gained with a Mutation Piece and her talents made her just beyond any of your peers would be capable of reaching this point of their growth. Jack was just too powerful for the standard of those that were going to test the possible students.
And such, every single commoner won as finding a replacement wasn't possible and emotional scarring will keep them from doing their best, this year the part two will be way easier than the previous ones. But is probably that many would retire as they began to scream out of pure fear when So-chan came to see what happened, if they feared someone as cute and adorable as So-chan then they did develop a severe phobia towards girls.
Jack-chan is the hero of Underworld. Two weeks of vacation as many people of the staff of Babyls retired because they couldn't look a girl fearing for their lives.
You spend your short vacations doing a lot of theory-crafting, researching class schedules for your class and the ones of your senpais, looking at pictures of Babyls through Devilnet and a documentary about the school. All of it, as you began to see patterns, there were many things that Babyls was serious about was and had a very long list of forbidden items to make sure that the students focus on their classes.
Smuggling became possible if you mixed the illusions of Jack, your charisma to get manpower and maintain a supply line using your own pocket money. Part of you through to smuggle Nezuko with you to school so she could help as a bouncer, having her enhanced sense help the traffickers from being caught and overall cuteness to attack clients alongside the extra protection but that would mean that she will have to awake early every day, get to hear the teacher drowning them all with boring stuff, and pretty much get into your bag every day to infiltrate Babyls.
It was better that Nezuko was left at home while you cultivated an image of a top-tier student that was focussed on your studies, a mask to use so they didn't get their noses in your personal business. You will have to study many times with So-chan and keep a high amount of academic achievements. And isn't totally an excuse to beat your childhood friend and make sure that she knows that her place is under you, just like your Intuition was telling you if you keep trying to become a better devil and part of you likes the idea of defeating a magical girl in her own game, that was the devil way.
Jack decided to just be average and didn't care much about her studies besides it didn't matter much, Jack did prove herself to be smart and motivated when things were important for her.
Naturally, now that you entered your classroom and at a good hour as your image was important! There was a lot of waiting to do, you spent that time on a very important duty of checking all the details that the classroom haves, that allowed you to discover the ventilation entries of this room and their connections The ventilation was a good place to move through the academy and send a group of Jacks to map everything for you.
While the main Jack was resting in your lap, abusing the fact that your desks were close and putting them together was allowed by the student's guidebook of Babyls. The excuse was sharing books and notebooks but weren't rules against combining desks besides those situations. So you just spoiled your knight while she keeps updating you as you draw a map with her data in your mind, paper trail after all was something dangerous.
And so while Jack and you worked hard to make sure that your illegal activities become successful the classroom began to be filled completely, first with the entry of So-chan who has a depressed aura around her because the classroom placement as you two wouldn't be capable of talking during class. Silly So-chan, classrooms are for domination and make others discover their inferiority in comparison to their betters.
Then after your silly friend, it came the dog girl who presented herself as Roze Naberius who then turned into a noddle as she took her place beside you. One of Acchan's cousins with the name of Latia Astaroth, decided to arrogantly proclaim that after this year she will be the number one but ended embarrassed in the middle speech as Iryuka Glasya-Labolas came and began to head pat her friend while saying 'Yes, yes you are pretty so let us sit down', truly a person of culture. Her cousin Zeph was useless and your intuition told you that he was worth absolutely nothing with a will as firm as a house of cards.
The green-haired girl that came rolling from the door was interesting, and her antics made you laugh a lot. She truly acted like a devil having the freedom and power to do what she wanted, it was interesting as not many devils just didn't hold back. Most of the time you had thought that you were walking on a minefield that you had to map to avoid messing things up while out of home, so it makes you curious about what pillar she belongs to be allowed such amount of freedom.
But you got that her shoes were alive in some manner and had personal names, the rest escaped out of your mind because she speaks too fast and you couldn't get all the information organized when Jack was giving you information about her exploration.
There were just limits for multi-task.
Kerori Crocell came after, a normal person amounts many 'powerful' pillar devils. But your intuition told you to pay attention to her in the future, you aren't going to be blinded by just a mere temporal state of lacking personal when things like that could come later, talents and value come in all sorts of ways and she was talented.
After that came a cocky dick that you wanted to kick his sorry ass in the manners that Beowulf kicked yours because he constantly was pissing you out, Hecadoth Beleth. He is someone that you will clash with in the future but not right now, you have more important business to deal with. All the desks of the classroom filled up completely soon after, the gremlin thankfully wasn't in this room. He would have ruined the experience, that shit was just more irritating than Hecadoth by existing.
Seek-something Agares was around too but you knew nothing about her.
You learned more as the teacher made you all begin to introduce yourselves.
"Hellooooo~ I am Kane and this one is Jack, my Knight." Your Knight lifts one of her arms in a boneless salute without any intention of moving from her resting place in your lap. "Never call her Jacqueline and everything will be well." You warned them all, because it was better
"So Kane and Jacqueline." That poor fool, the school will have to replace him.
The teacher was surrounded by burning indigo knives, illusions a lot of them but basically too close to the real thing from the perspective of others that there wasn't a difference between the use of the indigo misty flame or the purple cloud flames of Jack at this point.
Jack was feeling merciful. And looking how the teacher pissed himself off, this truly was the best first day of class.
Days turned into weeks, weeks into a month, and before you realized it Nezuko and Beowulf burned off a part of the Familiar Forest! Apparently, Nezuko wanted to eat some of the creatures that she saw on the Tv and they ended going on an adventure with Beowulf who then fought against Tiamat while Nezuko raided her refrigerator, sadly the food there wasn't recent so she didn't get any new traits besides no having the need to eat for the next few years.
She still would eat a lot more, because Nezuko is a devil of Gluttony and Overindulgence is her nature.
Beowulf also survived his encounter with Tiamat, his back was scratched off, he was dehydrated by the heat of the flames, and ended having his whole lower body in a cast. But he smiled and told you that he would do it again and again, all the whole night if it was necessary. Because this was a sacrifice that the Dragon Slayer was willing to do for all his brats.
Your Intuition was silent but you feel the trust that you had towards Beowulf grow towards new boundaries.
But besides that, your mom wasn't fat anymore after she decided to go to the hospital one day, you had heard the screams out of the room and reminded you of those that you eat Mexican dishes when you were younger. But in a few hours, your mom returned with a tiny devil covered in a little pajama.
You have a little sister, you were a big brother like Sirzechs too. So that means that you were better than Sirzechs!
What you understood of the explanation was that dad gave mom lots of love to the point that she began to carve to eat lots of things and become fat, so at some point she decided to eat a baby and then when she decided to go to a bathroom a day she ended pooping a baby instead of poop. So that was the reason why she looked constipated so many times! She was holding back the biggest piece of poop of her entire life and somehow took life.
Wait.
IF that was where the devils came to be... then were Sirzechs and you a big shit and little shit respectively? Everything that you know is a lie! But that makes you think about Grayfia, Sirzechs does love her a lot and you have see him spending lots of time together and Grayfia was getting fatter too. Does that mean that she has a little shit inside her and was eating babies to make it bigger?
Jack is going to eat babies too? It may be a little biased that your first through was Jack but in your defense, it was hard to remember when she wasn't beside you at home or school, and you gave lots of head pats, hugs, cuddling, etc. If that isn't lots of love you don't know what you were doing wrong. But your worries were met with poorly hidden laugher and messing with your hair! How dare them!? Your hair was perfectly well cared for and took time to grow up into a ponytail.
But still a mess, but was your mess and they will not make it worse than it already was!
But back to your newest sibling.
Your sister was a poop machine, always crying for any reason, always asking for food with screams that could be in the whole manor, always keeping you from your plans because she likes to watch your flames, always keeping you from your precious peerage and throwing things at you to call the attention of anyone or else would cry unless she trying to pull hair from Sirzechs and your heads until she gets tired. While your father laughed, with a clean shin as Rias did manage to make him lose his well-cared beard.
You gave her a chance from the second that she threw her first diaper into Sirzechs mouth.
Enku wasn't a person anymore as he was who used Sirzechs as a shield. Poor McGregor, he will have to share a room with Enku who farts a lot. You think also think that Enku has an addiction problem, no living being that wasn't Nezuko could consume so much lasagna and be okay.
Looking back to your sister, it was only her trying to grab every single one of the flame figures that you made for her, which was something that gave you a weird sense of warmth.
"You will be a great and proud devil." You promised, there will no force that will make you break this promise. "Don't worry Rias, you have a Familia to depend onwards." You didn't promise protection, you didn't promise to her that she will never be injured or that never will cry.
You will make her great, just like you promised to yourself.
"Jack, I need to make sure to not eat too many sweets." You told your greatest ally, with the most serious voice that you could manage. "I don't want to end like mom and poop a little devil."
"'Kay." Jack seemed pretty off looking at Rias.
You didn't know what Jack looked at while she was looking at Rias, she just was a poop machine from your own perspective but one that you will make strong, Satan knows that she will need all the help possible when Sirzechs was their elder brother.
You were crushed all that you believe to be true resulted be a lie, your greatest weapon was defeated completely as your intuition who assured you that your victory was yours to come! Your body dropped to the floor, you didn't have the strength to do anything more than rest on the floor that feels like it was mocking you out for your weakness, be Jack or Nezuko... they couldn't help you here, in this challenge as it was a one vs one fight. One that you sadly loss even with the use of all your powers and training done, there wasn't doubts that your defeat was imminent but you fought with all your will to try to change this fate written on stone.
Today, you lost and what was worse So-chan...
She...
...She-!
She defeated you once again on the Class Ranking!
"Kakun! I won once again!" The greatest evil of Underworld, the Magical Girl So-chan's gloated!
"Only by the barest margin!" You declared, it was just a pair of points! Just two!
"And I keep doing it! Myahahahaahaha!" Damn you adorable laugh! How you can feel bad when she has so much power in her smile and voice.
But it was because you were busy! If you gave your all there weren't any doubts that you would have won! Jack wasn't even trying and look at her So-chan! She isn't even paying attention to you, because it was obvious between the three of you all, that your knight was the true winner of the competition.
Jack was in the middle of everyone in the class, something amazing because she basically comes here to sleep at class, explore Babyls, and help with the smuggling as they were intimidating many stores of Dis so they had prioritized deals to keep the merchandise flow going through without problems. It does cost a good amount of time and effort to maintain your operations but you are selling overpriced stuff and bartering for different goods be more of the physical side of the items like a good book to the old diary of a sibling or cousin, common entertainment like games, or photos/videos of favorite shows.
Also information, it can't be a black market without offering information brokering in the form of 100% honest and confirmed rumors, with your intuition helping you to manage this system as lies are very easy to perceive and others of your age haven't managed to trick you before you managed to get a good reputation, 40% of the time you were asked to confirm that Nagga Forneus was in fact a boy and not a girl dressed as a boy.
It took weeks to get a stable flow of clientele, making sure of moving the market to the right places to be 'found' accidentally and avoiding the rats that would try to sell you out to a teacher. Let the rumors spread, get more clients, do sweeping of suckers wallets or childhood treasures, get more merchandise available to attract even more suckers, and more importantly
Your Black Marker is where you managed to get her sunglasses, a very useful item capable of a very interesting power of injecting mana it to make them 'transparent' and imitate the eye color of the user. The Glasses of Lacking Attention for Study Sessions or G.L.A.S.S. was a revolutionary artifact for any child of Babyls, the name could change but it allowed Jack to enjoy far more her time at school and have the energy to maintain her duty as the security of your smuggling operations on class hours.
Jack had her priorities straight and you accepted that very well.
And while part of you wanted to be happy that you corrupted a Magical Girl because they strive towards virtues like... okay you were too focussed on the different colorfully clothes and panty shots to remember any of those things. What was happening to you? Before you had more or less those things memorized thanks to So-chan but now your mind just moved towards one of your greatest treasures and the photos inside it.
You had teddy bears, you had plush toys, you had a good amount of things that it looks that your Black Market was made by stealing everything that wasn't nailed to the floor of an orphanage... that was a bad metaphor, orphans don't have that much compared to your Black Market.
Most of it was thanks to the Dragon Apples, those were the greatest treasure of your market, only placed for the sake bring attention and interest to your little piece of Babyls.
"Kacchin!" You just love this nickname, Clara was very nice at giving it to you. "Let's go to play!" The second child of Valaac Pillar declared with a smile on her face.
The teacher made Clare be someone that was your responsibility as your capabilities to handle people was confirmed by making sure that Babyls didn't have to replace teachers every week because of suicide by Jack. In your opinion call her Jacqueline is basically a manner of suicide to anyone stupid enough to say that name after you had bribed her to give the warning shots first.
But well back to Clara, it was a good form of spend time playing around helping you keep your mask, good exercise as you couldn't go a full training course while at school and take off the stress of managing your business where you have to deal with suckers and more stupid suckers that think that they can trick on any sort of manner, it gives headache have to use your intuition that much.
"Clara." You greeted her, in a polite way that she didn't care about but you had to try. "Sorry, but I can't play with you." After all, you needed to close your Black Market today to do what you planned.
"Oh." Clara looked like you killed her puppy with acid. It made you feel bad.
"Instead you will help me explore!" And then you spread a map that you made out your discovered pathways and possible secret ones. "Look! Secret Passages! Babyls is filled with them!" You had ignored the upper floors because your main clientele was made by elementary/primary students.
But now you can really explore the top of Babyls! To see the life of middle schoolers and rooftop.
"Oooooooooooooooooooh!" The eyes of Clara were shinning at the map, you have discovered so much and researched a lot for this, with Jack's help because So-chan would be a party pooper if she knew this.
So you brought one of your newest minions? Classmates? Friends? To be honest, you didn't know how close you were with Clara and the others devils of your classroom, So-chan are friends with other girls but you kinda only had Riser as your friend. You will make more friends today! Your Empire of Evil can't lose in numbers to the magical girls' allies.
"Want to come with me as one of my Generals of Evil?"
"Like bestest friendos!" Clara's smile was filled with hopes dreams... if it didn't remind you of a shark, so was devilish smile now!
"More or less, for the chaos!" You shouted as Jack was in her programmed rest was today.
In other words, your mothers missed her too much and decided to do a full Jack's day and you couldn't skip
"For candies!" Well, she has her god and you have yours, the almighty Lulkz.
Your adventures began with the ventilation, with your Flames as illumination the both of you made your ways into the classes of the older kids who still were busy studying and getting lessons while you and Clara were spying them,
"What do you think that the older kids are studying Kacchin?" As she tried to focus herself to hear it apparently something that wasn't possible from their position.
"Advanced Magic lessons? Anime culture? I honestly don't know." What did older people try to learn? "Let's see."
"Oooooh." Her eyes slowly widened, as she began to notice WHAT truly was happening.
Within your now better position, the both of you managed to see the class more detailed and it was full! There were a bunch of teenagers dancing or touching their bodies in some way, some even trying to eat each other out otherwise they wouldn't be licking each other a lot, seriously there were a lot of naked women and almost no men around... wait that woman was a boy, you almost didn't notice because his mini-himself was too small. You just through that was a particularly flat
Clara reaction was a bit different than you, her green eyes just drank everything she saw, your intuition was telling you that these were important lessons but you don't know why but a class of Babyls had a lot of people wearing tight looking black clothes while holding what looked like whips or why that guy on latex mask was shouting out for more as he was being hit by the whips.
"I don't know what I am watching but I can't see away Kacchin!" Clara whispered heatedly.
"Hmm we should keep going." It was probably one of those forbidden magical rituals with that guy being the sacrifice, sacrifices of pain were commonly found in your library rituals. It's good to see the tradition of rituals continuing even without using souls, it was just too wasteful.
From there Clara and you saw a different series of weird activities, it got you curious about what they were doing in many of their classes and saw many things from people being set on fire because, a girl throwing back a chalk missile at a teacher and imploding in an amazing manner, a cool looking badass stealing wallets with the power of his mind who noticed Clara and you... so you gave him a salute and the teenager saluted you back!
Sadly doing that made you lose all the grip and turned the climbing of ventilation into a slippery roller coaster!
Moving through many things like a Hotwheels' car you were shot out of the ventilation and out of Babyls!
But it wouldn't do anything to you, your flames worked to stabilize you and so you began to look for Clara to catch her, you just had to keep looking up and down for her safety and when you turned around-!
Ass. [Tanned with rabbit panties]
Ass. [Amazing Jiggle.]
AAASSS. [Could bounce coins.]
There was something mystical about watcher that senpai bend over and shower those flowers. [I like and can't lie~] Your Intuition agreed, all you needed to do is just watch this, just continue watching, and everything will end well. Clara was a devil, her wings will save her. But then you feel something hit your body and throw you into the roof, it didn't hurt your body was just too adapted towards the training of Beowulf to feeling pain from so little distance and the body that fell into you.
"You are soft like a pillow Kacchin!" Clara apparently was uninjured, and very soft butt pressing on your back.
You had some self-respect so you very politely were going to ask your new general of evil aka your friend to get out of your back.
"A-Are you alright?" A voice a bit nervous for some called for you and so you separated your face from the floor to look at her.
But what you saw was a sweaty shirt, clinging to the good parts, and transparent showing brown skin.
And that is how Kane jr hardened for the first time.
Your intuition screamed to you to calm down or don't let anyone look at the destruction of your pants if Kane jr keeps fighting for it's freedom and needed to focus on something else, you focussed on Clara but no changes the fight didn't abandon Kane jr.
"I am alright!" Your voice was a little tighter than you would like it. "My trainer throws me from a ravine all the time!" Were you throwing Beowulf out? Yup, and you didn't care.
"That... is... good?" The beautiful senpai said cautiously (?), you didn't know as your intuition was searching ways to make Kane jr's return to sleep. "Why do you choose to do that?" She was on her crouched and you could see her face and her panties!
...She was cute! That marks on her face looked like was permanently blushing and those horns? They were like bunny-like her panties! A giant bunny-shaped like a devil! And her hair? That means that she was competent too!
Focus! This is a new voice talking! Kane jr needs to sleep again.
"A strong body foundation is important otherwise a King wouldn't be capable of recruiting an exceptional peerage." You remembered, so much pain as weakness in your body as you took upon yourself the goal to be stronger. "The personal power of a King influences the Evil Pieces, and a greedy devil like me wouldn't aim anything less than increase the value of their treasures as much as possible." Those powerful memories of your training took away the heat that you feel in your lower body replacing it with the will to grow stronger..
"You really think like that?" She turned back showing that she had also a bunny tail!
Kane Jr returned to life with extra revenge! Too powerful, that face and that body! The bunny tail in her jiggling ass? All are making part of yourself too strong to be contained by your pants.
Think on Jack or So-chan, they would help... Bad idea! It was a terrible idea!
...It made Kane jr even stronger!
"Kacchin, why do you want power?" Clara was curious? Oh, it's probably because the 'being throw out of a ravine' thing wasn't important anymore.
"My brother was born strong, I wasn't." For some reason, you could feel the two girls stiffen for a second. "Then a day he made me dress like a tomato, so I wanted to punch his face but I knew that he was just too strong, fast, and tough for me to do it, so I decided to work for it and then realized that could benefit me on more ways in the long run." And that was it, spite and ending liking getting stronger.
"That is?" Senpai, looked confused about it? Oh, it was because most devils didn't get gud with training.
"What other reason do I need? I realize that even a little spiteful thing needed power and I wanted it, so I worked for it." It was simple, and not rocket science. Also very fun, pushing your flames and intuition gave you so much to discover. "Devils must follow their desires and want something, power will come when you have a need for it." That is your personal opinion about power, goals were needed.
Your first goal was punch Sirzechs stupid face and even if things changed, it was still the first thing that passed through your greedy mind.
"What is your desire Clara? And yours too Senpai?" It was a fair thing to ask, after all, you did tell them why you began to desire power.
"I don't know Kacchin." You couldn't help but imagine Clara posing like the Thinker.
"How about getting out of my back?" It was a good suggestion, she has to walk to become strong.
"Nah, you are too comfy." Such flawless logic! As expected from one of your evil generals!
"...A desire?" Senpai sounds confused.
"Hmm, you sound like you don't have any." You hmm'ed a second as you realized the problem, she needed a goal or else would touch her true potential. "Then you could join me while you figured your own." You offered, your only friends at school were So-chan, Jack and Clara at the moment.
"You want me?" Why did Senpai sound so unsure? Doesn't she realize that she was around the 1% of the population in terms of ass... devil quality?
"You are good company for Clara and me." You began to explain your choices. "You haven't sold us to teachers when is obvious that we shouldn't be here." It was good to have someone that wasn't a snitch around.
"Oh, my Satan Kacchin!" Apparently you committed a big error from Clara's perspective. "You shouldn't have told her, what if she gets ideas?!" Clara chastises you by slapping your butt!
"Then we take her with us and make her our accomplice." Your flawless logic didn't have a single hole, and Clara looked at you like you were a genius. "Looking at her, from my still less than acceptable position, makes obvious that she is pleasant company." To your eyes... okay who was using control mental at you? This subtle influence is making it hard to think.
"Oh, I am Clara Valaac!" Clara saluted very happily and grasped senpai's hands. "This one is Kacchin." She pointed at you... and you didn't wait for even a second to rise from the floor.
Thanks to every Satan that died like a bitch that Kane jr wasn't erect like yourself.
"Kane Gremory, a pleasant lady?" You corrected as your minion wouldn't say your name.
The senpai apparently recognize your name, it was very well known because your brother was placed as a figurehead and beatstick.
"Zest Zagan." Zest was shy and cast revival on Kane jr just a time for the school bell sound declaring the beginning of class for kids. Clara and you jump out of the roof to return to your classroom after a promise to visit her later.
Nobody noticed that Kane Jr tried to rise again before you were out of view, truly your Luck was your greatest weapon and without it, there would be a great number of words that you were rather glad to avoid as your intuition told you.
But it doesn't change the fact that you need someone to explain this to you!
You are Kane Gremory and have a problem, a problem that began with meeting an older woman and has been affecting every aspect of your life. Since that day, things like eating, sleeping and even relaxing became increasingly difficult tasks.
Mainly because you are noticing girls far more and the side effects are too much.
Your body was acting weird, different type of usual sensation of heat, many times you have been awakened in the nights because Kane jr was acting too strange because those weird dreams keep infesting your mind and your very own intuition has been awaking you to make sure that you didn't pee yourself in the bed. It was making you feel cranky, and harder for you to sleep in the same bed as Jack. You couldn't sleep alone anymore! Why is your body betraying you?!
And to make it worse your intuition is keeping warning you that this act of your body would make Sera-nee make you stay away from So-chan!
Only your willpower keeps you from being driven insane as you interact with many of your friends that keep triggering the awakening of Kane jr. But you have endured all! From Jack's subtle but continuous attacks, So-chan being a very bad magical girl that takes enjoyment in your reactions, and Zest-senpai... everything who is always careless around you and giving some privileged views that make you feel weird!
Clara was the safe one, a safe place. No danger of Kane jr sudden taking over your brain's functions. A moment to rest at school, she helped you more than you dare to say. Riser was an effective countermeasure to avoid the girls too and their 'bro time' has done wonders on getting the loyalty from Riser alongside giving him some advice to improve, but today you weren't going to visit to take a nap or just see your business prosper.
Some fucker was messing around in your turf, truly there wasn't respect for one property, Riser called out of your classes because there was some asshole causing problems in the zones that you were using as a scapegoat these days, and this was making the heat and attention of the adults sooner or later they would discover the true extent of your smuggling business.
"This is bad, this is really bad Master!" A whole sentence without saying his own name, you are proud of your minion for finally dropping that habit. "Riser doesn't know how to fix this and we will lose clients if this continues!" And you still are a little proud of him being a good secretary, you will take those small victories.
"I haven't dealt with this to keep my alibi." You told Riser, annoyed by this interruption when you managed to get Jack to borrow her glasses and sleep. "Just tell me where is the suicidal bastard." You weren't polite anymore and just want to make this ends.
Until you finally saw who was the troublemaker. It almost took you by surprise and you ended signaling Jack to not attack the bitchface that set on fire one of your tiny stores.
Well... in the words of your teacher, this was a big ugly, and fat lizard. A young dragon, a devil because of one or both of his parents.
And a difference of his looks the asshole was as big if not bigger than Beowulf, and was strong. Far stronger than yourself, at very least someone that would make Jack spend some effort on dealing with. Your eyes narrowed with annoyance, trepidation was thrown aside when this fucker was messing up with your stuff.
You continued your walk, your blood began to boil at the waste of resources, at least this will give you a good tale to tell your Rook and Beowulf when you go back home.
"Hey, brat are you sure? Bova is strong." A teenager interrupts your path by opening his mouth.
It was a good warning, for any other devil it would basically be an act that would save lives.
"Fuck that." You told the teenager, making his eyes wide at your response. "He messed up my turf and will get stitches." But you will not give a shit about power levels when this bastard was messing with you.
"I can respect that." The teenager grinned putting his Shonen Jump down showing you a familiar face. "If you survive I will give you a beer the next time that we meet." Ha! You were right, this one was a pretty cool guy of before.
"Consider that jacket a first visit gift." You commented no looking back as the teenager froze for a moment. If he really thought that you didn't notice him stealing them he really underestimated your senses.
But your good mood dissipated once you caught the attention of this dragon.
"Bitch face, get the fuck off from my turf." Was your very polite salute using the draconic diplomacy lessons of Beowulf.
"You!" The dragon shouted and glared at you.
"Me." At this sass 'Bova' ended pissing out.
"You are the devils who stole my apples." ...It doesn't really surprise that this ended being Beowulf's fault.
"And you are the lizard that is fucking my business." You admit that most of these words' meanings were lost to you but Beowulf and your intuition supported the message. "So what is going to be a fight? Because you are going down."
"Do you think yourself hard enough?" The dragon glare and power almost made you react but this was your turf, fear was something that doesn't exist here. "How about I beat the shit out of ya right now."
"No." You weren't going to play in his terms, this will not make your side the weaker one.
"No?" Bova was taken back.
"We will do this properly like devils." Your parents didn't raise a coward but they also didn't raise a brute. "You and me, one to one after school hours in an arena." You gave your terms, you were going to fight but only through the proper rules of Babyls.
"And what stops me from breaking your baby face?" The dragon looked down on you.
"Are you scared of others seeing how I made a pair of shoes with you?" Lesson 1 of Beowulf's How to deal with Dragons 'When someone tries to avoid your terms, call them out of their pussy out.'
"So be it, don't run." Bova Tannin glared at you before spitting fire in your shoes.
You snuffed them with your own flames keeping looking him in the eye, the dragon tsk'ed before retiring from your territory.
It took some time to calm yourself down, there wasn't a doubt that your intuition told your chances of winning this was close to zero. But fuck it, if there was 0.00001% then you were overqualified with your own Luck and this risky bed is something that will pay off.
"What is your plan?" Your secretary and only male friend that you have asked you, he was scared and worried but tried to trust you on this.
"I am going to kick his sorry ass." Was your automatic response, bring it out of your turf tired your mind.
"As excepted of..." Riser began to say before his brain caught up with your words. "Master are you crazy!? He is going to eat you alive!" So fear and worry make Riser not talk in third-person, good to know.
"I gave my word." You had many bad flaws but your word is gold. "If you are going to make deals is important to hold your side."
"He is Bova Tannin! The Son of a Dragon King! One of the top even Riser knows to no mess with him!" Panicking isn't going to help, the only thing that will cause is getting your flesh to get burned and boiled all over.
"I. Gave. My. Word." You ended repeating slowly, putting weight into your words. "I can lie, trick, and cheat but my word given is law." Your flames ignited and layered on your words.
"...Is there something that you needed me to do?" Riser wouldn't fight you in this anymore.
"Make sure of cheering me out from the stands." Your orders were given.
Your return to class was simple, you use that time to relax and think about a strategy. There wasn't time to make research and figure out the capabilities of your opponent, and you has to work with the information that you knew. He was big and ugly. That was it.
The word of this fight also ended spread like fire on gasoline, and many got out of their classes to look at you like you were a crazy madman for picking a fight with a dragon. Some with interest, others with worry, and a good amount with amusement at your supposed beatdown. Rumors about why this was going to happen were mixed and you didn't pay much attention to them, So-chan already said that she wanted a pair of dragon gloves for her new costume and that was enough support.
When classes of the day finally ended, you walked directly to the administration room of the elementary side and asked for information about the available places to fight and... Bova apparently claimed a whole arena for himself and threw everyone else away. Tryhard Dragon, you had to get a deep breath to take the frustration away from your head, migraines weren't strange these days but one made of sheer condensed stupid made you mad.
Taking another deep breath you entered the prep rooms, you know that even if Babyls was a rich school the measures of safety were at the level of official Rating Games, any injuries here would be your own to deal with. You blinked as you feel something enter the room, hear the steps and with a heavy heart, you had to be firm in this choice of yours.
"Jack, don't help me." You voiced out.
For a second nothing happened but then the flames of indigo color began to blur and revealed your knight, present ready for battle and with that uniform of hers that made Kane jr really happy,
"You want to fight alone?" She asked you with a worried expression, she was going to help you cheat this battle and it didn't a genius to know that she was going for the kill.
"I caused this and I will finish it, as a Pillar devil I have to live with the consequences of my choices." Those were your reasons,
"I did eat some apples too." That was her excuse and you just head pat her, she release her tension under your ministration she has been worried all day because of this.
"You did, but that doesn't change the fact that I get the first turn." You were going to keep fighting on this, your duty was important.
Jack pouted at you and stared at you with a kitten-like expression while taking a page of So-chan book and making two cute cat ears and tail move to maximize the impact, something that normally managed to convince you but this time it was different, your very own pride demanded you to fight no matter what.
"You could get hurt." Jack was going to protect you, she was going to fight Bova.
"Then I promise you this, I will win without getting a single solid hit." You were pure bravado, there wasn't logic in your words but you trusted your intuition.
"I have never lied to you and will not do it now." You continued, and it was almost painful lying to Jack. "Trust me." You asked her.
There was silence, you could see many changes in the expression of Jack as she tried to decide what to do.
"Show the lizard that Beowulf's way of dealing with overgrown snakes." Those were her last words before leaving you alone, trust was given and there wasn't doubt in her mind that you would win.
You just began to move acknowledging a new weight in your back, it was interesting how much a few words began to weigh. But it gave you more reasons to win, you will not be defeated here and make those words that you say become a lie.
As soon as you got outside you began to notice, that the arena's stands were full of people.
"No bad thief, I thought that you would have run away to your mommy." If this was the attempt of trash talk then Beowulf overhyped the dragons.
"Who of all of them? Be more specific." Half sass and half genuine asking, because things change according to who you ask. "And second on the immortal words of my teacher I just have four words before doing this."
"And that is?" The youngest of Tannin asked.
"Bring it on bitch." Your really polite salute pissed out the dragon.
[Move!]
The alarm from your intuition almost came too late.
A claw has almost torn your clothes into pieces, a warning attack. Bova was playing with his prey. Your intuition told you that he saw your best through his instincts, you were found lacking on any possible aspect to make this being take you seriously. No matter how fast your mind moved the answers to this situation were the same: Defeat. It was something imminent and your mind supplied just ways to make sure that you didn't suffer too much.
Faster than you but slower than Jack, but it was something similar that a lion was smaller than a tiger.
Your intuition was only showing you ways of pure mitigation even when you force it towards the battle instead of passive guiding you.
But was that something that you would truly accept!? Hell no!
You didn't surrender because you were born without natural weapons and gained the fire of your soul and this intuition of yours, you didn't surrender when you had to break that jail and gained the loyalty of your Rook, you didn't surrender at the stupid challenges of Beowulf gave you and gained the strength, you didn't surrender your Knight because your body was already exhausted and gained insight that your flames could break those pesky limitations.
And this time wasn't different, logic and reason weren't what moved you but sheer pure greed. If you couldn't win then you will obtain what you need for it. You will grow up, you will force your own fire to burn stronger, and your completely insane Greed roared for new toys. The movement of Bova's body was broken and tells of his actions were something that you tried to read, it was something that you are forcing yourself to adapt towards, to understand for your own desire, to fucking parry his attacks even if it made your bones shake from the after effect got complete cared for by your internal flames rising of their sleep, all of you wanted for more.
The expression of the dragon changed as it couldn't defeat you and land a true solid hit-
You lasted 2 minutes, and realized that this was tiring you way more than the ravine that Beowulf's made you climb. Pushing that away, your soul lift in flames when you noticed the first opening of the dragon of this whole fight, one born of frustration at a lack of progress on a task that was expected to be easy. But that weakness was capitalized just as the dragon repeated the same attack of the beginning.
You moving evading the claw and punched the damn lizard in his stomach using his own weight against him. You feel the skin of your fist break under the flames, the action was something that ended only hurting yourself more than the dragon and you couldn't feel anything more than a single emotion.
Pure. Raw. Anger.
"That tickles." Bova mocked as he scratched his own scales on a mockery.
Strong, fast, and tough, the dragons were a species that by far surpassed you by birth and experience. Was this what Beowulf had to defeat? A difference of strength so massive that you couldn't truly surpass through the weapons that you had acquired?
But so what? You tried to focus again on the battle. And almost lost one of your eyes as your Intuition almost failed on avoiding the claws of that scaled leg. Bova just tsk at that, wings spread wide and began to fly around you leaving after images like those animes where the protagonist was surrounded from multiple sides. Your intuition triggered and realized that your opponent disappeared, the after images were just a distraction and the asshole just wanted to keep you at the same place. A feint and looking up you almost cursed yourself for not noticing early as you ignite your soul and increase the intensity of your flames to prepare to avoid the next move.
The dragon tried to dive-bombed at you after igniting himself like a bad parody of Tannin, and your only reaction was to get closer and feel the aftereffect of the flames, your flames in comparison were by far colder and less intense. Lacked the destructive savagery, it was less violent and calmer? No, it was more complete? Balanced? Like burning and heat emission was just a side effect instead of the goal.
Your flames were put out to make you fall and avoid a hit at your, and notice your hands clear from the scratches from hitting Bova's scales, the lack of scars made from heat to seal possible injuries made your confusion grow as you returned to the floor, and sidestepped
...Their function was completely different!
A realization that makes your connection to your flames grow stronger and your intuition become crazy and gave a hole in your defense.
"Got you!" The smelly breath of Bova Tannin was what stunned you and not that you stopped still like an idiot before the lizard grabbed your arms and took you out of the floor.
He trapped you but it wouldn't last, the freaking idiot forgot that you had legs when he prepared to unleash his breath.
Flames born from the heel of the feet were used as propellers for a kick in the jaw of the beast, then flexed the knees to stomp the face of the dragon from this awkward position, more irritating than effective, Bova opened his mouth to curse you but from the sole of your shoes, you send your flames directly into his throat. Drops of sweat began to form by exertion but you didn't stop as you forced your flames to grow far more than before again and again, increasing the intensity until the grip in your shoulders stopped of holding you back and you flew out of the claws of the dragon until you had a good distance.
Smoke that you saw it coming out of the mouth of Bova, he fought your flames with his own breath, and the dragon won as the damage was minimal.
There was rage, burning hot and reaching the momentum of a rampage.
You shared his frustration, no words needed to be exchanged as your trump card began to activate a particular raging fire born from your forehead as you lunged at the dragon.
You wanted to win. No just survive. No being uninjured. No being capable of enduring. No being someone just lucky enough to be in a piece.
You wanted much more than all that.
What was a dragon compared to the immensity of the Sky? How could anyone compare themselves to that? How the world could consider a single aspect superior to another?
And so you threw away the desire for safety for the sake of victory
One, two, three. Bova tried to keep the rhythm of his attacks and trick you by adding feints as he continued getting closer and closer to tiring you out completely, all the dodging and counter-attacks from your side were barely making him frustrated. If you go out of sync, you could be defeated instantly or die if it wasn't a... fuck it, you always have been serious in this duel, you have given your all in this very second, you will treat this as a fight to the death.
And if the interval changes of his as well, your will die and at that instant, the world changed.
It was exhilarating to do this, to truly feel like you make your whole body burn even more as if you were going to die if you were defeated. The rage and frustration that you feel just began to disappear when your own Intuition and Flames began to fill your world as the desire to grow wasn't only you. The mind and soul also wanted to grasp the essence of victory, it was the Greed that always burned with your soul that made step even further into both sides just to increase your chances in a 1%.
Your vision broke, and you stopped seeing Bova Tannin. The storm that surrounds you keeps becoming stronger but what you feel was just a moment of calm.
As you saw a whole different challenge instead of a dragon you saw their predator.
The shadow of Beowulf the Hunter replaced Bova as he began to attack you once again.
Instead of claws, you saw gauntlets with claws that made them larger and fiercer.
Instead of the mouth of a dragon, you saw the crushing hand of the hunter.
Instead of a tail, you saw a whip or a morning star used as a battering ram.
Instead of Bova Tannin, you keep watching the shadow of the pawn of your elder brother repeating the same motions as you were learning the basics of all the weapons that could pass through your head and moved by memory and instinct to deflect, block, and avoid as your mind was getting lighter the pressure was just disappearing as you began to move just like your own training, attacks that would defeat you were broken apart by the image of the Dragon Slayer. A rhythmic, a patter, a song, a dance, a picture, or even the natural flow of actions, no matter how you wanted to call it, all this was a natural thing that was similar to your experiences training.
And you found Bova lacking compared to the ferocity of Beowulf.
You understood, a single instant the world changed as the enemy in front of you wasn't someone to fear anymore.
Dragons were Chaos.
You were Harmony.
And you took a look at what was beyond the lessons that were taught to you, what was the essence of the man who force you to reach your limits for the sake of strength.
And you knew now, just like your Knight could Propagate with her Purple flames and Create illusions with her Indigo flames that those two qualities were born from the both that you two shared, and your flame was the fusion of both of them and many more.
Your Harmony was the balance of different aspects of the world.
And when Bova tried to hit your head off.
You hit back, clashing fist with a fist of your own. The wind was displaced, flames burning hotter than ever impacting against the scales, and the own fire born from speed and acceleration caused the air to ignite as he began to attack with renewed passion as you stopped of evading attacks to hit every single one of those fists bigger than your head. It was stupid, it was insane, it was something that nobody with any shed of common sense would try and continue with renew vigor clash after clash.
But you were someone that trained with Beowulf by your own will.
It was so damn fun!
Something broke moments after the clash ended, the sound was so clear and strong that could be noticed even from the stands.
A scream resounded soon after but it wasn't from you.
The scales cracked, the defense that made Bova Tannin impossible of injuring through the battle was broken. A feat that was met with silence as a drop of blood fell into the floor, an instant where all the chaotic energies of a dragon were just calm and Bova moved backward in an attempt to make sense of the insanity and regain his balance as you follow up and hit him in his nose, getting rewarded with the blood falling from there distracting the dragon even more.
Twice it happened, twice the impossible made itself exist, and twice a devil made a dragon bleed.
You saw the truths, hear the whispers, learned those lessons that many weapons grasped when those warriors didn't manage to understand when they did but still just knew the reason for it was for the sake of killing a dragon. A truth that power can fail beneath the purpose and beyond the emotion was a point where there was just a static instant that wouldn't protect. Dragons... they could bleed, they can be hurt, they can be defeated, they can be broken, their domain breached, their blood can mark the floor and bones end mercilessly crushed, for is the weakness that all the living shared but needed just a bit more to use against a dragon.
And now belonged to you, a trait that made you the sword/predator of those that lived on the Apex.
"How!?" The dragon bleed, there wasn't doubts that he knows that you couldn't with your best.
"I figure it out." You smiled, there weren't doubts that your expression caused fear in the dragon, you could feel it now how his very existence knew the danger of your actions.
But there was doubt, there was confusion, he knew what you have become but didn't dare to acknowledge.
"There isn't a way that a Dragon couldn't recognize a Dragon Slayer." You taunted your opponent... no, it was your prey. The being that would finalize this transition into making you a peer of Beowulf.
Once you see the eye of the storm of their chaotic existence, the act of killing a dragon isn't different from eating or breathing. It was something that will always be on the back of your mind. Weapons, tricks, or even magic, if it was you who do it then it will gain an advantage against the dragons.
"You are lying." The dragon raged but you knew that he believed your words.
"You just need a little bit of luck." Your body feels so relaxed now to the point that you could give yourself the right to trash-talk and gloat a bit, Bova was just too easy to read now. "Opportunities that only come once many lifetimes occur randomly if one just has the will to grasp it, the Strength of Gremory is the Luck to find those treasures."
The forceful evolution of your Intuition to last a second more, the Harmony of your flames that opened the path forward when there was darkness, the realization of what was a dragon as you couldn't understand the strength of your opponent, and grasping the truth of those that defeated those monster. All of them were opportunities that couldn't occur even if it was one on a million and came just one after another to clear the storm and force the light of the sun to come once again in your sky, the blessing born from the bloodline that you inherit from your father.
It was time to test it.
You moved faster than him and took your blazer out, and spin it into a rope, this was going to be one of the most insulting ways that you could but with your flames as a jet thrusters in your feet. And put the anti-dragon muzzle in his dumb fucker as your legs forced Bova's back to arc. Your blazer infused in your flames and pushed to the limit to maintain your Dying Will mode at the same time, it will not break, it couldn't break so close to the end. And not even the fangs of a dragon will break the infusion of harmony, his spine will snap before this 'rope' of yours break.
Bova just spreading the wings forced himself to fly as you increased the pressure with your blazer in his maw forcing his neck to back and change directions but Bova didn't surrender trying to fly into the sky, the dragon planned to crash himself into the floor with you first.
"Oh no! You will not!" You stomped the wings, your position was just the worst to get enough strength and weigh, but you just keep weakening bones of the shoulders out of pure spite.
It didn't matter what it took, be timing, precision, or just aiming the cracked scales you didn't let out your advantage, this dragon wasn't going to win as you keep forcing it to fly up by using involuntary reactions to pain.
Crack!
One of the wings finally snapped and you let out your blazer fly away as you hit the other one with your strongest fist to repeat the action just as both of you were becoming victims of the gravity. You had to laugh at the reaction of the dragon at this insane moment. Wings broken, many fangs broken, scales damaged and burned across all his body.
He still has the balls to glare at you and tries to fry you with his breath.
Sadly for him, you still were capable of flying in the sky and avoided his last shot.
The arms of Bova were almost broken and useless to him but for you? They were your next set of handlers! Crossing both of the dragon arms, then placing both knees behind his head.
"What are you doing!?" Bova shouted, panic in his mind as you were grinding like a complete madman.
"Honoring my teacher!" Your response changed dread to full blow terror as it finally hit him who taught you.
You let your wings out and ignited them with the strongest Sky Flames, your wings like a pair of meteors adding as much acceleration into the fall as it was possible, instants before the impact turned into minutes as for a moment you could see the expression of your classmates' with a mix of incredulity, surprise, and astonishment, with some other emotions that you didn't have time to look away for the first time in this compact and check something important.
Jack, Sona, and Riser, your Famiglia.
So-chan screaming support with all her lungs, constantly burning with her glamor as she threw constant
Riser tore up with tears of happiness as he laughed in vindication moving a flag with your face on it.
Jack with a smile and nodding as she never stopped believing in your words filled with bravado.
You were just like your teacher Beowulf, it was something that you realized as the world in yours just became a sea of flames as your wings feel like tearing up out of stress that you put them through. That pain didn't stop the bloodthirsty smile that grew in your face, didn't stop the excitement in your chest as the battle was at its climax, didn't stop the boundless emotions of your soul as you began to feel your own flames licking your body as they couldn't hold back anymore and didn't stop the shout that was escaping out your mouth!
"Bova Buster!"
And ram the fucking dragon into the ground like a meteor of the sky!
It was a blast, the biggest inferno that their eyes could have observed. Vibrant flames of Orange color spread through the arena, a cataclysm of destruction that didn't look like a dangerous thing, a beautiful end for a battle that pushed both sides.
A figure was moving through the flames, the appearance was hidden completely until it reached the border.
Bigger than the child, the shadow of this existence that only could be considered as a King of the flames.
The dragon won. That was what everyone decided.
Or at least that was the image projected of your silhouette until you grabbed the blazer that was flying away and made the inferno dissipate as you put it again as your flames keep that piece of your clothes dry from the dragon's spittle, only a burned smell but you deal with it. You had to do it, your body barely was conscious, mind barely seemed to move as your Intuition partially moved your body forward, the fire in your soul was barely embers now, and honestly, it almost make you laugh how damn stupid you were at showing off if you didn't feel so damn empty now.
Your opponent was passed out at ground zero of the impact, his scales were burned or melted but you didn't care about that, the lizard looked like a big piece of coal now and was defeated completely.
You could...
You barely managed to keep yourself from dropping out and just sleep from how tired you were and just yawned as you got out from the view of everyone, you had your pride and couldn't ruin your victory even more after this moment.
One step, more, and your eyes failed you and just began to fall to the floor. Just to be caught by a pair of arms. You couldn't see but you know who was the one who caught you.
"You didn't lie to me." Her voice sough to take the fight out of you. "Rest, you deserved it."
"Thank you..."
...
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Jaclyn.
Note: Finally over. Dragon Slaying took me so much to get it done well and Bova isn't dead... Kane made him Black instead of Grey. Going to make edits and check for errors later. I am tired, hell, someone do it for me and I will reward it. Here is your gainz from this madness. The Funny thing, Kane managed to keep his word. Bova didn't hit him even once on the whole fight and just passed out of pure exhaustion. And also can discern the main personalities of Jack with stage 2 of Hyper Intuition.
Traits Gained:
The Royalty of the Sky: Dragons, they were allowed into your kingdom and became arrogant because of it, lacking predators and hunters because their chaotic nature made an illusion of power and invulnerability. But you can show the truth to all to see when you are against a dragon, as the True Immensity of the Sky is just beyond any lizard. Those so-called Rulers of the Sky beware as their match has awakened. Bonus towards actions involving Dragons.
Harmonization Lv 1: The true nature of the flames of Sky, your flames represent a state without contradiction nor flaws in which the balance of the whole is maintained, neither conflict nor contradiction is accepted in your core. There are so many mysteries involving this quality but the main one is acquiring traits and specializations, forcing different qualities to help each other or even fight each other. Can be more, as this is your will made manifest.
Trait Revealed-Half Awakened:
H*p*r Dying Will Mode: You have touched the next level, there are more requirements that you have to meet to fully realize the potential of your Flames, you lack the raw power to ignite your flames and a body strong enough to handle it, isn't something that you can trigger at will but now that you know about its existence mastery will come with the time. Triggers at Imminent Defeat of DWM. Passing out imminent after use.
Requires: Harmony Lv 2, True Flame Resolution, Minimum Total Price Reduction of 3.5, and Hyper Intuition Stage 2 to use at will.
Effect: Add once again the mods of Harmony, Flame, and Hyper Intuition.
Note: And if anyone noticed it, this makes Kane wings be like the Crimson Glow Valstrax.
Trait Advanced:
Nascent Hyper Intuition Hyper Intuition: The true form of your intuition, the power to see what is beyond, of understanding, of having a perception over everything up and beyond the Sky itself that covers all. The sixth sense beyond any other sensorial manner. Be techniques, be a lie, be illusions, be falsehoods, be emotions or even plans, your perception can see through these things. Your eyes have opened and now is the time to look at what is beyond.
You had weird feelings and your body was acting strange since meeting Zest and is involving all the girls that you know. Ask someone to explain to you the secrets of the universe!
Note: Every single damn roll, ended with lewd subtext. Meeting Zest was basically living the manga Amano Megumi Ha Sukidarake. Kane wasn't prepared and the crack was made possible for any other girl to capitalize easily, minus Clara and Nezuko. But a difference of Issei, Kane has the willpower to defeat his newly found libido.
Chrismas has come, time of the gift exchange and the annual Santa's hunt. Girls are acting weird and competitive, you should get close to one or try to figure a way of action.
