Beowulf Ademtrum.
When life gives you lemons, you put those lemons in a bag and hit a bastard with it, so then when you hit them enough times it would break and lemon's juice will come out to enter in those eyes causing a painful burn that no a single one of the hits is capable of equal be on amounts of violence or humilliation. It doesn't matter if the head of the bitch or the lemons is what is broken, is stupid painful as he the great hunter of the plains as managed to test a few decades ago. Human, motivational speeches were rare and strange for him but when one put them to test there wasn't doubt the veracity of it, but sometimes they needed a little work into making sense.
Sometimes he notices the separation that he has with the recent generation of the human world, but it fit as he has truly outlived his human self multiple times over.
That world was just too different compared to the age that made him someone that caught the eye of the moron that he called boss, human children were just playing around instead of training to fight for the sake of surviving and thriving in the chaotic world where monsters like his old rival Grendel's lived and called their turf. Not all lived, not all made their mark on history, and even now he still remembers those times fondly now that he has a squad of brats to train and put in shape.
Beowulf didn't expect the pampered prince to have a pair of balls as big as his name, he had to give it to McGregor some dick jokes were fun but only in private.
So here he was at the top of a ravine close towards the mansion, the first step for the path of becoming a badass begins with a strong body and determination (Alongside a lack of common sense) to do what was needed for the sake of rising to the top of the world. Beowulf will leave the brain muscles to others but he will do what his favorite brat asked him and make sure that the hips of the brat are unbroken when he reaches puberty.
This is the minimum that Beowulf can do for the sheer amount of entertainment that Kane has given him through the years.
But that doesn't mean that he has gone fucking soft, if they want him to keep doing this then they better manage to earn his respect at the end of the day, Beowulf was a man that does many things but a thing that he doesn't waste time training pussies... Nice, and a reminder to get laid after pulling the kids to sleep.
His training was quite easy, make them climb up a mountain without magic and then make them fight against him until lunch or they managed to make him bleed.
That was how Beowulf was taught, nothing of weak shit of the power of believing in yourself just a strong body and fight until you fall to the floor, normally when your face is deep in the solid rock is when Beowulf's own teachers deemed that it was time for a rest.
And just like them, Beowulf was a man that gave as hard as he takes and wasn't someone that would limit himself by notions like age, gender, sexuality, species, or any other weird shit used as an excuse by others to hold back just because it could hurt feelings or bullshit like that. In his days, when he was at their age when someone hurts you grab a rock and slam their skull into it. So he made the children climb the ravine while he waited for them in the top to beat the lessons of his people into their bodies, if they fall in the try... there was a lake at the bottom and the brat has a Phoenix Tear so Beowulf wasn't worried.
So when a spiteful little girl with great amounts of knives attacked him with murderous intentions he couldn't help but laugh aloud at the sheer balls... ovaries of Jacqueline!
The younger brother of his boss did choose well for the first member of his peerage, that also doubles as a harem, Beowulf had a working brain and didn't escape from his view the amount of interest that the harem of Zeoticus was given to mini-Grayfia in some form of bridal training and lessons to act like a lady with most of them ended with Jack running away with only a pair of panties to cover her bottom to the eternal happiness of the brat that was her King. The brat wasn't nearly as subtle with his blatant attraction towards the tiny murder machine and was very much mutual as the albino was turned into a head pat slut.
Truly those brats made the manor a chaotic mess, and Beowulf would pay someone to make a show out of it. Brothers had similar tastes, but instead of pure simping from the part of the miniature Sirzechs was a chaotic little madman and a loyal girl who would follow to any stupidity that comes out of that brat head. Satan, why does he pay for pay per view at the Rating Game Channel when he has this at the manor? Being a babysitter was far more fun than anyone would expect when involved devils in the mix.
And just now he was blocking the most recent assault of Jacqueline who set her knives on a purple fire, she was fighting in a far more dangerous manner than on her usual murder attempts against his life, her mist was produced faster and taking into his own passive traces of Touki to increase their density, her throws turned from individual knives into swarms of blades whose number increased in middle the air, and when it came to the army of bodies that she threw at him... So many albino lolis who, he admitted that he had truly lost the count of how many there were at the beginning and increased in numbers alongside the position of the original.
But was an easy thing to fix.
Beowulf smirked as he pulls back his arm before breaking the sound barrier with his fist!
The sound was paired with the shockwave as the impact came fast and dispersed the mist completely alongside destroying the trajectory of the knives away from his body and sending the lolis to fly away. Don't underestimate an Ultimate class, bastards like him are some tough sons of bitches that have lived what would kill hundreds and have learned tricks to deal with many situations, the girl was lucky that he was holding back or it would vaporize her like the left testicle of Grendel by the pressure of the wind.
But he had to give her a few more points of respect, the girl was using her dissipating extra bodies as platforms to come back and stab him in the face.
Jacqueline was truly a monster for her age, if she was born a little early there weren't doubts that Sirzechs would have recruited her into their Peerage. Her body with a set of abilities that would make her a nightmare to deal with and not a single part of it belongs to Sacred Gear, perfect for an anti-Rizevim killing squad. But well, it was to be expected that she was incredibly lethal for her league and many inexperienced devils would have problems with the next set of tricks that she has developed through their sparring.
It was because of his hard-gained experience and the lack of mastery of Jacqueline that truly allowed him to check what was real and what was an illusion, tellings were easy to get as there were many imperfections in her tricks, the lack of shadows, the coloration being slightly off, the lack of creativity and knowing how the different pain stimulus truly feel in his body that he managed to keep more than a few steps above her tactics to push her enough to develop her talents.
This budding illusionist was so filled with talent that Beowulf doubted that there would be a brat as dangerous as her around Underworld,
That and she sucked at magic, Beowulf knew that well enough to the point of letting any fireball made by her hit him in the face... except the ones that she uses to hide her knives. He made that mistake once already.
She was just a beginner in this newly discovered talent.
But she also learned in a few hours how to hide a knife behind the illusion of a knife to try to pierce his eyes, so Beowulf can mark it as a lot of progress and annoying her works incredibly on increasing her performance and once she begins to slow down Beowulf just needs to trash talk about her little prince to give her an extra boost. Truly kids were incredibly easy to deal with and a girl with a crush was even easier to manipulate into doing her 200% when calling her by her full name wouldn't.
But he had to move, a six-year-old kid's head almost reached for his junk! For reasons that need to be given context because the said girl was a cannibalistic creature that aimed to rip out his body parts! Worse the poor girl would break her jaw too and then his salary would be reduced to pay for it... it was one of the risks that he is willing to take to be allowed to bully children.
Ah, the Rook reached the top too. Two checked, now it was just the brat. She probably was hidden by Jacqueline's mist and stalked for a chance to attack.
The practice of putting many brats in their place when doing shit for Sirzechs helped him to deal against the sneak attacks of the cannibal, the sneaks weren't half back when teaming with Jacqueline but... it wasn't that good, both girls weren't used to teamwork to already have something prepared and he can hear all the plans that Jacqueline is telling to the cannibalistic Rook. But he had to give it, the savage girl does follow very well the orders given.
But wasn't loyalty or the gay power of friendship that they understood each other just pack mentality, the wendigo girl knows who is the stronger of the two so she would obey without giving any doubt, it's unknown how things will be once both get stronger but at the moment the Rook's accepts Jacqueline as Kane's Beta while her King is her Alpha. Smart, isn't the strongest who is the leader but the one that knows the best path to dealing with a situation.
So keep dealing with their tactics, let them try new tricks, and force them to improve in their teamwork. Squads of many cannibalistic girls formed with illusions, some tricks like fake attacks, and some other things. He deals with all of it, and so he gave a punch at the last copy of Jacqueline.
The clone dispersed but instead of the mist or cloud-like substance that he has been getting used to, and instead he saw the Rook of Kane's vomiting blood on his fist as her muzzle disappeared.
Shit, he hit her with too much strength and the damage in her clothes made it clear, but the girl recuperated fast and keep a good grip on his arm. No bad, loyalty and team tactics, for many that would be a good strategy to keep someone in place allowing the others to finish the battle. Shoes destroyed by clawed feet that pushed themselves deep on the rocky environment, muscle mass increased in her arms, and froze the blood with her own breath to make sure that he didn't get away.
Not bad, he could respect this girl. Her name was Nezuko right? Yep, that probably was. She is going to be worth of remember, but he wasn't going to give them a freebie.
But instead, he lifts his arm ripping her from her place.
"Lesson one, that works on rookie leagues way better than against Pros." He told her and she responded by expelling a frost breath to his face but sadly to her, his facial muscles broke the ice easily with a blink. He aimed with her body and threw it towards the Knight alongside a piece of rock that the clawed toes were gripping.
He closed his eyes and put a hand on his ear, as the sound of flesh hitting flesh with a good 'splat' sounded around the mist as it began to disperse.
Heh.
Works every time, beat enough Jacks and the main one will get tired to work. Just now the main one was barely on her legs and her stamina was already completely spent, the little cannibal girl was down by a mixture of damage received, being used as a weapon, and hunger from repairing the damage of her body, he made sure of push that last one the best that he could to gain better durability without ya know killing her by accident.
Here he was training brats, and having fun kicking their asses.
He could feel his age.
Sadly their King apparently surrendered, it has been a long time since he began to train the girls in the way that he was taught and he still hasn't made an appearance. Truly a pity but no completely unexpected many brats just enjoy their latent abilities and never push themselves. His own King was like that, but well for Sirzechs training was basically fight and kill things and then kill the next one faster, a few hundreds of years ago in the civil war of devils.
Beowulf hopped that the brat wasn't lazy like that but sadly it seems that he returned already to the mansion... were they making time? Better rip this out of the bud, the brat better man up after disappointing his peerage or will never grow up.
"Now brats, your King will not come back. Any new trick? Or are you going to give up like him?"
Jacqueline just smirked at him, looking beyond him and considering that he already knew that Jacqueline was already tired he turned back and saw the reason why she looked at him in such a smug manner.
A hand reaching to the top, a bloody hand covered with scratches. Failing to grip and drop, just to have the other force itself to carry the weight of the whole body refusing to fall after reaching this point until the rest of the body finally reached the top of it. The crimson hair was clear of who was trying to get up and complete the initial challenge that he gave them.
It was painful. He could look it in the face of the brat, there was frustration and it looks like he was going to fall until he used his mouth out of sheer condensed stupid to no surrender and managed to get one of his legs up and then roll his body to get out of the border. A ridiculous scene that would have made him laugh aloud if it wasn't for a single fact that he noticed and became more apparent the closer he got to the devil child.
But not a single drop of magic was used.
Kane did it, the kid finally reached the top, his clothes and hair were drenched in water and sweat. That really should have to weigh him down a lot, a different of the girls Kane absolutely refuses to change into workout clothes.
Ah... he forgot that the kid never once in his life has trained, the brat was a devil blessed with genetics and that would someday reach the level that so many devils were just incapable of do dream towards by just growing up. But, at this moment, the brat was just a small and weak kid without his magic and Pillar ability doing the heavy lift for him. A horrible error in his judgment, Beowulf could see now that he really overestimated the younger brother of his boss and gave a challenge that was impossible to accomplish, the kid was different from the pair of monsters that made his peerage.
But the pampered prince managed to accomplish it, he overestimated the flesh but underestimated the spirit that this young devil. A weak-willed man wouldn't gain the loyalty of those two, even now Beowulf could see the raw force of will that was screaming to continue when his body should have passed out already. Beowulf could see it easy for Kane this was painful, it was tiring and fatiguing. For a golden spoon brat who had never truly worked for something in his life, it was an impossible challenge to take head-on without surrendering until he finally claimed the win.
It burned lungs, it burned arms, it burned his legs and any part where he pulled the strength to move once again.
"Beowulf? How do I make a good fist?" The brat didn't surrender and asked for more. So he told the child, it wasn't hard so he could do that before kicking his ass as he did to the rest of the peerage.
He facepalmed at how horrible was the form, how utterly bad was the posture, and how utterly lacking he was at everything. Beowulf at some point ended biting his own cheek trying to figure a way to teach the brat.
Beowulf got closer kneeling to be at the size of Kane, looking things way more directly and giving more detailed advice until he began to lose hope at Kane being capable of giving a decent punch without months of effort. Frustration grew and bites harder his own check almost drawing blood, it was then that he saw a glint on the eyes of the brat.
And received a burning fist of the brat in his chin making his own teeth draw blood, which hurt far more Kane's hand than anything. Beowulf looked at the flaming fist, it managed to draw blood
"I wanted to hit your smug face off for messing with my Peerage." The grin would look good if it didn't like a strong wind would K.O him. "But making you bleed was what you asked."
But Beowulf will give some points for the sheer balls that Kane had, truly the kid has paid all his attention to all stories that would make him a man instead of a walking noodle. But Beowulf gives as much the brat could take, it wasn't much compared to the duo of monsters that he managed to recruit but would improve his body into one own worth as a warrior.
...Kane will really need a strong body, Beowulf has seem many good men die because crushed pelvis.
Truly is the time to step up everything planned out, and give hell once again with his true face.
After all, you were one of the first reincarnate devils.
Kane Gremory.
Your mind sadly was stimulated by the sheer amount of agony to make you return to the land of the living.
Many memories of why this happened began with your order of telling Jack to kick the ass of Beowulf while you climb this... torturous device of mother nature, fall to the water, seeing Jack and Nezuko's bottom before figuring out too late that you were falling to the water again, having your grip failing you because of the earthquakes and fall to the water, catching Jack that was throw out from the ravine and protect her with your body... only to discover that it wasn't her main body and dissipated soon after. So many falls that ended head fist into the mass of liquid that made every climb of the ravine far harder than the previous one, you could barely feel your body.
You still refused to leave your friends waiting for you and if your body couldn't give you the results that you wanted then you had your will and mind to do it.
But the problem was the second phase wasn't possible to beat in a frontal manner, you knew how strong was Beowulf and your peerage wouldn't get a chance with your help or without your help and that was the trick. It wasn't something that could be beaten with power, the fight was to trick and so to win you had to make Beowulf hurt himself if you wanted to get your peerage out of a battle that they can't win.
You managed by knowing the bad habit of Beowulf when he was frustrated and the explosive fast impact of your Sky Flames just to make him bite himself by adding a little pressure. A perfect plan, only possible because you know how to lie very well and were too tired for proper concentration. Your reward was making Beowulf give all his focus to you. If you stop he focuses on your peerage who already passed enough time with Beowulf... and the answer was ended being obvious. Pure training until your body stops moving, that doubles as a lesson about coercion/blackmail putting something important in danger to twist someone to do what you want.
You regret everything that brought you into this! Curse you Beowulf!
But you couldn't feel the bruises accumulated from the tutoring of Beowulf as he put you through the 'if you want to fist good then feel the fist in your flesh first'... he was right at it being a very effective form of learning but you passed out from it. The pain also feels wrong, you didn't even feel that hurt anymore and just a little cold on your left side that makes the aches feel far less painful like a block of ice on tender flesh but far more comfortable.
You expected many things when you woke up, but this time... it was one of the best moments of your whole life, with your head on Jack's lap and semi-naked Nezuko cuddling with you, thankfully she was using something different from her usual outfit a school gym uniform that was damaged by the battle with Beowulf but you didn't truly see the true extent until now.
She was basically only wearing a pair of bloomers. And nothing more.
...
You regret absolutely nothing! All hail Beowulf! The best teacher and you fully approve his methods!
"You should thank Nezuko, she managed to learn the method of healing after you collapsed." Beowulf's words were filled with amusement but what was amusing? Your Rook learned her first spell!
Nezuko raised her head, foggy pink eyes filled with fatigue looked at his orange eyes before widening as her whole body began to become red with vapor going out her head.
"Thank you Nezuko." You told her and kissed her on the forehead, smiling at her you feel nothing more than gratitude towards her for healing you from your bruises.
She smiled at that and closed her eyes passing out of sheer happiness as your intuition told you.
You tried to move around to give a head pat to Jack for being a good girl, but soon discovered that
The spirit is willing but the body has had its hips almost broken from a few falls and has your jaw was still exhausted from using it to bite out rocks just to make sure that you didn't fall a few times, it was dumb and stupid but it did save you a lot. Your Intuition is telling you that it will become something that you will have to get used to and will make your Peerage very happy at the same time, but now you only feel an aching feeling passing every single part of your body.
By Satan... why your Intuition was telling you this? Haven't you suffered enough?
Apparently, the answer was: Nope! Training needs to continue and Beowulf's gets an evil pleasure at putting your body through the grinding.
You asked for this, nobody could blame you but yourself. And if you awake the next time that you pass out in the same situation then you will have to ask your brother to increase Beowulf's salary.
"Jack, can you help us return home?" You commented with a weak smile, it was a miracle that you could talk. "I am too tired to give you head pats." You even tried to lift your arm to show her that you didn't have the energy to reach her head.
You could hear how something broke at the back of your head and prepared for the explosion.
The resulting scream of Jack was only rivaled by the laughter of Beowulf.
Your Knight was unconsolable but you ended promising to give head pats before the training, then after you recover your strength, and after dinner to compensate her for this. All by your own will because you feel guilty for making your adorable Knigth feel distress.
Additionally, Beowulf was guiding you all back to home as Jack was the only one capable to move she helped you walk, while two Jacks were dragging Nezuko's unconscious body whose top was now covered by his blazer. You had some bad feelings about this... You really think that following an adult-like Beowulf was going to end badly as your intuition was telling you. But you trusted Beowulf, he was a brilliant man whose actions ended with you being spoiled by two cute girls.
You were going to follow this man to the end of the world, you had good company with Jack around.
"And now I will go back to the manor, good luck to return there." Beowulf declared after a few... okay you don't really know how much time passed, you just indulged in talking with Jack to pay attention. "Boss lady would come to find you around the eight to nine if you aren't already back."
Wait, what?
"Beowulf, why is it a good idea to leave us in the forest?" Surely Beowulf can't be that irresponsible.
"It was supposed to give you motivation and training your willpower doing survival training by living on the, as my boys did with me when I was training." Even beyond that new helm of his you could feel the full smile. "You all already showed that, so it's unnecessary."
'Thank you, Satan.' You through with a smile, today was a new episode of Yugioh.
"But I honestly don't feel like modifying the schedule, so I hope that you find your way back to the manor soon!" Beowulf crushed your dreams and hopes of not missing the new chapter of your favorite series.
And with a jump that would put Hulk on the N00b zone, the strongest Pawn of the Underworld abandoned three children.
"We hate him so much." Jack murmured glaring in the direction where Beowulf jumped off.
"I don't know, I like him, and is hard to hate him." That doesn't mean that you aren't trying really hard to do that. "This just means that I will be more time with you." You gave a smile at your partner in crime... complete legit business.
A groan at your side made you remember the duo of Jacks that were dragging Nezuko around... how is she still unconscious?
"And Nezuko." You added, by Satan you are a terrible King for forgetting about your Rook.
"Thanks." Jack still let it pass, and trusted you to guide you back home.
It was something that you could only depend on purely on your own Intuition and Luck, in other words, you were overqualified to guide the three of you back to the manor. In the way, found something to eat a few fruits that your intuition told you that were comestible. It was a Dragon Apple, they were a rare thing to eat as it was more like a stabilizer agent than food but still good, you took a dozen and shared a meal with Jack.
Nezuko didn't wake up to eat and just moved to throw away the apple that you put close to her. She is really picky with her food when it didn't involve rare meats or some specified types of fertilized fried eggs.
A waste, Jack and you had fun by making candy apples with some honey that you found once you rested enough to move and use your flames. You rested and were fine again, Jack on other hand had tried to hide it but she was tired, she has been doing a lot, and the only rest that she had was eating apples with you.
"Cute horsey." The voice of Jack took your mind out of your throughs and immediately your Intuition began to activate like crazy.
A Unicorn, your studies told you a lot of this type of creature that symbolizes many things including purification but also being a fierce beast that could be enemies depending on many factors like respective intelligence and breed, that also could make their blood be cursed to make sure that they aren't killed by others creatures, that and many things that were mostly ignored because of the appearance and aura of these horses.
And this particular unicorn was allowing your Knight to play with it.
Your Intuition told you the truth, the intent of the Unicorn became more clear as you forced yourself to move. It didn't need to show murderous desire, its nature of Purity and cleansing makes the species perfect for ambushes but it doesn't trick you. Your intention already told you about the intent to 'cleanse your Knight.
You were going to give her a warning when the worst thing happened.
Jack lowered her guard.
And the unicorn lunges forward with all the strength on the legs, an attempt to get the kill in a single moment.
The bastard was stopped solid mere centimeters from piercing Jack's body by one of your hands, you don't know how or why you managed to reach at time. On any other day your attempt to protect your Knight would end as a failure, today you learned and had to acknowledge that you were the weakest of your Peerage. That you lacked the strength of Nezuko and Jack, that you didn't know how to fight, that you weren't capable of doing anything that would keep them safe, but you wanted to be that person, and know that you will fall many times until you do it.
But you didn'tfail this time, your flames came from the outside and forced the breakdown from any single barrier inside your body. Calm, patience, manners, properness, or any other mental limitation that holds him back your desire to make this facial dicked bastard that wanted to become glue yesterday pay! Pay for what it tried to do to your Jack! Sheer rage and fury assaulted your mind and you let it take over because fuck this damn piece of shit!
You refused to allow this weakness to continue, if your body couldn't then your Flames will force it to be capable of providing protection to your precious Familia. A fire burns in your soul and you will feed it all what you are for the power to fight now.
You stepped forward, pushing the facial dick horse backward using the phallus that makes their species be known for sunshine and rainbows that they shit out of their holes. One stepped two and any other that comes after you began to speed up putting all your
You feel some cracks begin to form because the strength of the grip and the expression of this piece of horse shit was beginning to understand too damn later what you were planning to do as you pushed deeper and deeper into a tree with the legs to the sky, and then break the trunk with its body, then the next one and the one after that creating a line of fallen trees until the body was darkened with injuries and screaming out of pain.
It was shattered when the horn-like phallus finally break out from the base thanks to massive stress that you forced into this bastard, who then shout, cursed, trembled, and showed its true face off a rabid beast that wasn't different from things that needed to put down instead of a symbol of things that you could give a single fuck.
And you silenced that fucker by giving it back the phallus through one of its eyes. The flames of rage finally calmed down soon after, and the burning feeling that keeps your body from feeling the aches of the training stopped so you were hit back by all pain of the training!
No, it was just worse. The stress of your actions just accumulated and added to the aches that you felt now, your flames banished the feedback of what Beowulf calls 'GAINZ', all the caps, over your body. Zero agonies, only emotion, and the goal that you put your whole self into accomplishing to the point that it could compare to a burst of the strength of the last will of a living being... that was a good name the Dying Will mode! A power to keep your Familia safe, but it ended dissipating soon.
"...You... alright?" Like a puppet without strings, you fell into the grass.
"Kane!" But Jack caught you. Flames of Purple and Indigo touched your skin and feel so well. "Are you alright?... Are you hurt?... Do you need water?!" You are missing lots of her words, fatigue really makes your brain slower.
"Furious... Nobody... hurts... you... in... my... watch." The brain works but the mouth regressed to caveman level. "Just... Tired... Jack..." And this time you had powered through everything to give her head pats.
A blushing Jack is what does good to your soul.
But the sound of something sniffing around took your attention as both Jack and you looked in the direction just saw the sleeping beauty of Nezuko rising from her sleep with her eyes close and her nose cutely moving as was smiling something and once it was confirmed her pink eyes showed themselves to the world with stars and energy that looked like a puppy. Even running around excited on her smol form celebrating about something really good occurring to her.
"HHMM! HMM! HMMM!" She shouted through the muzzle and you didn't need your intuition to see what she wanted when your Rook was pointing at the corpse of the unicorn.
"Go... wild... and... fest." You told her and took her muzzle.
The excited shriek was something similar to a creature that you couldn't put a name on, was that a wendigo? Many told you that her sacred gear was basically a dog pound for those things, and it kinda fits Nezuko because she was like an excitable puppy when there was something tasty to eat and as cute as one. Should you try to give her more walkies? You should do that when you get used to training with Beowulf in the mornings.
...
...
It was just when you got to see the manor when you finally realized that Beowulf didn't abandon you all and was keeping watch all the time, when he commented that you needed to practice more using a dagger. He could have helped you all but didn't because he wanted to see how you all worked under pressure, Jack a very good points about Beowulf and considering everything that you learned through the years about him.
You will help Jack to shank Beowulf from now onwards. You weren't an idiot and retrieved the horn once Nezuko finished her meal and shank Beowulf will be the first use on the list for this.
Sometimes being the heir of a Pillar comes with sacrifices, duties, and those things that you had to do for the sake of your Pillar. And that means that you had to use part of your free time that you weren't using training with Beowulf to gain swolenes (Beowulf's words) for the sake of long-term survival. You think that is just an excuse to hit you in the heat with a morning star and make you use random things to defend yourself like a shotgun... like the one that threw you out of the ravine.
If you didn't have your intuition to help you avoid those things... you were sure that you would have grown fish-like traits like the Forneos Pillar to survive all the time inside the water. And it was one of the reasons why you threw yourself into the studies, to remind you that you were a devil and not part of the fish people. And help Jack, because you want her to be with you at Babyls and that requires you two to pass some exams to be in the same classroom. Some High-Class Devils can use the power of nepotism to bring peerage members to Babyls if the Low-Class had a good knowledge base to gain the appropriate education, so you had to prepare your peerage for it.
The Corrupment didn't want to make things easy for Low-class, so the Mid-class and High-class' Rank up exams had a lot of difficulty in the theory part making them impossible to pass without years of preparation. But how would they pass if they never entered a place where they could acquire education of quality? Schools like Babyls were rare in accepting peerage members and simultaneously possessed a limited number of slots every year with Pillar heirs like you getting a free pass even if you failed the entrance exams, but other devils needed to claw their way with good marks and talent.
You think that is mostly a place of recruitment for different peerages too, sometimes you would like less political thingly but well, it was a place to stack your deck if you wanted to get a good power base.
And so your goal was to endure this torture, acquire your knowledge from books and prepare to cheat like a complete bastard with Jack to make sure that she passes. As you know very well that she didn't like to study and avoided it at every single chance that she got after joining your peerage, but to your surprise, she was putting her whole will into passing her exams with pure hard work and only using cheating as plan B. A plan that looked like would never see the light of the day with how much effort your Knight was putting for the sake of going to the school together and to spite So-chan who was smug about going to Babyls.
And Nezuko was... giving them spiritual support after trying to eat a book. You blame your ancestor for having a book written on human skin and using blood for letters and making your parents prohibit her from entering the library.
While Jack and you were on limited time, Nezuko was mostly free to do what she wanted but considering her young age. So while Jack and you were cramming as much knowledge as possible before the exams. Nezuko on other hand was trying to slowly write letters, the amount of concentration in her face was comparable to a martial artist of the animes, her state of zen was clear, there weren't doubts that she was progressing on the devil written language and recognizing some letters already.
And threw away the book towards her tutor and jumped out of the window.
Fifteen seconds later she was returned by Souji who put your Rook back in a table with a brand new book of calligraphy. Truly Nezuko is learning... the wrong things. And you being the greatest King ever fully approved it as she was having fun, trying to escape just like you did when you were in her place but such methods would work against the Knight of your brother. Souji was the only man with enough discipline to keep the three of you the study room without getting bored, and impossible to bribe like Enku or Surt II who would prefer doing other stuff.
Nezuko really needs to step up her game because faking being an angel before escaping wouldn't work, you did that two years ago, she is going to ask you for ways to avoid studying otherwise all her plans to escape will end in a complete failure as you already have tried everything to visit So-chan and play games.
Jack on other hand was still fresh and motivated, her desire to accompany you to school gave her the strength to continue reading book after book in an attempt to follow you to the prison called Babyls, hours of wasted valuable time that you can spend watching anime, spoil your Peerage, playing a few video games, and reading manga but all was lost because the torture camp created by humans to abandon their children for a few hours to do their weird adult stuff.
Damn those humans they ruined the humans!
Why can't they just make the great thing of life without making things like school or dentist? They were much better off when you didn't knew that devils also implemented those things too and just were things that existed on the series that you watched. Why can't you be like Yugi? He never goes to school, his friends never go to school and Kaiba would buy that school.
But no, your brother had to be responsible instead of abusing his power and influence.
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At least you could set your dominance over So-chan once again, it kinda feels like she will have to learn to enjoy if you keep doing things like this.
Gained items:
Unicorn Horn: A rare item, it feels a little curse by the way that you obtained it but it still carries the purifying properties of an unicorn horn.
Dragon Apple x2: Dragons like them, tasty and sometimes they are used on alchemy things.
Gained Traits:
Multi-Weapon Fundaments: Through the weeks of training under Beowulf, you have formed a foundation in your body to use fight using the weapons. From cutting, crushing, and piercing. From short, mid, and long-range. From your own body to man-made ones. But only the basics, you know how to punch in a manner that isn't pathetic to watch but aren't going to win any fisticuff anytime soon. A foundation was made, your job is now to decide what to do with it.
Note: Beowulf imparted this skill into you, he rolled well enough to do that while bringing Kane's body to the point of being of using his Hyper Intuition without being overwhelmed completely and having something to base his intuitive fighting style on.
Dying Will Mode: A manner of internalizing the Sky Flames to accomplish a goal, this gives you a raw increase of all your physical aspects in exchange for sealing the external use of your flames, this mode also takes all your energy and turns it into fuel for a burst of pure power. Massively tiring and fatiguing, once dissipated your body couldn't fight more and your reserve of Flames will be dry for the rest of the day.
Note: Even when the Halping roll fails somehow it ends helping you all. Lucky fucks.
