If someone asked you 'what was the absolute best thing that ever happened to you?' you would answer, 'why choose?'. You were blessed to be the heir of Gremory, and since the past year there wasn't doubts that your effort has given fruits as you saw your Knight work around the black market, Riser who was flirting with a customer and not having pepper spray in the face, Clara was doing so many tricks around as the main entertainer, in fact, everything was going absolutely perfect this day with absolutely no problems and to your eternal happiness and Kane jr enjoyment candy lab ended exploding and covered Zest-senpai in white liquid candy.
You saw the future and didn't regret a single word said on holidays.
But until this day you never had discovered one of the greatest mysteries of your market, for some reason, Bova was again here working as an unpaid bouncer to keep your business safe and without troubles rising.
Working without benefits? It was anti-natural! Why didn't he ask you for a salary? You even paid Riser and Clara for their work while Jack gave you the money back in exchange for head pats. You feel like someday she would try to escalate in her request, but is a double win for you. And triple if she escalates, the victory was always your with your personal 'Jack'pot... but enough thinking about your Knight as you need to ask your intuition why Bova is here.
[Dragons are weirdos.]
Always the same answer from your intuition.
It was proof that your intuition wasn't perfect all know the source of secrets and information. For now, he knows that it can improve and develop further so limitations were temporal, and grinding it on a stone called effort is how you will keep sharpening this weapon.
But for that, you only had two ways to train using lies and combat. So that is why you deal with an information network directly instead of subordinates.
"You wouldn't believe this boss!" The newest information broker said with an expression of fear in his voice. "The heiress Sitri is in talks with another house for her marriage."
...What?
You blinked, put one of your fingers, and set it on fire to clean your ears.
"I am sorry can you repeat what you just said? I think that I had something on my ears." Your smile was pleasant you keep the same expression, you maintained your composure.
Your informant already peeped himself, pale and trembling like leaf.
"Sona Sitri has a fiancee... my lord." His lies were rather obvious, you were kinda amused by it so you just fell back to your intuition and then send him back.
[Truth.]
...
[Zero Falsehoods]
...
"My Lord?" The informant asked, it seems that you have been silent for too long.
"I see thanks for the information, you choose your reward." You told your informant, releasing some tension in your voice. "Anything in fact." That make him break the chair as he tried to run away, why he would? You weren't angry, in fact, you were quite calm by So-chan being desirable to others.
You let out a sigh and stretched yourself.
All your Flames spread completely into the surroundings and consumed a great part of your reserves, your things were safe from being devoured if it were regular fire but the heat was real. So deep and intense that could melt everything that wasn't covered on them, your emotions were turned into complete chaos and your control slipped. Going so far that you could even see losing the deep orange and turning into other colors for an instant. Many things were destroyed from that lapse of control, the damages were secondary as you tried to tone it down completely with the mental image of So-chan's perky ass.
That stopped them, as the orange tone reaffirmed itself.
It affects you far more than you thought was possible, losing her was something that...
It...
It made you feel fear, true fear.
But your mothers didn't raise a coward.
You collected yourself, any negative emotion was set ablaze by your own flames, and let the Harmony property do its job. You needed your best face, your best and most honest emotion, take all the frustration and turn it into drive for the goal that you aim to make a reality.
You are going to claim her before any idiot gets ideas about touching a single hair of So-chan.
"Riser, close the market while I am out, I will be busy today." You gave your orders to your most loyal subordinate.
"So-chan is getting a fiancee." Your explanation was short and concise. "I will stake my claim in front of that thief."
"Yes, master." He was going to do what was ordered. "Are you prepared for the possible backlash?"
"She is way more important than any of that." You reminded your secretary of what truly matters in the world. "Clara, make sure that Bova and Riser don't end up doing something stupid." You called the second lieutenant of your operations.
Riser looked at you with a look filled with betrayal, but he knew that he would do something stupid if you weren't around to imprese 'Peepeep'.
"Leave it to me Kacchin!" Clara gave a salute, truly she was a great friend. "Claim her and make her addicted to you!" She advised and decided to bring a particular thing in the inventory to your hands.
...That was a very good idea.
"Thanks." She will be rewarded greatly for this idea.
It was that you missed the obvious stuff, if Kane Gremory couldn't then an evil general of the forces of evil could!
Truly your genius didn't have limits, and even if you didn't know what to say when you do the deed there wasn't a way that you would be prepared a complete speech in so short amount of time and you will not try while changing yourself into 'working' clothes.
So you just winged up, everything that you learned from anime and manga will help you now.
That and dressed like a true evil persona, your cape moves with the wind, your hat hides your glorious red hair, and your mask fits perfectly to your face while easy to retire. The metal armor on one side with chambers waiting to be filled with flames like a revolver.
Damn you look great.
"Jack." You called your partner in the crime, no matter what you needed her at your side for her support.
"We are going to bully Sona?" That wasn't very surprising.
"All the bully." And only because that is the natural habit of So-chan, how she would survive without being bullied?
You took one of the skateboards and took out the parts that you didn't know the name of but were what keep the wheels in place and added them to a surf table, both things combined with your sky flames to create the greatest vehicle known to devil kind.
A flame propelled flying motor surfboard, a design that was revolutionary.
Jack hugged you and then both of you began to surf through the clouds, looking at your market you knew that the activity ended and your Famiglia returned to their homes just as you keep increasing the intensity of your flames to reach the manor of So-chan. And simultaneously at that moment, you remembered that you didn't tell Bova... meh he would go away anyway.
The territory of Lord and Lady Sitri was close, just half-hour of travel, and you ended up killing a few birds in the process. Truly speeding up was dangerous for the aerial ecology of underworld and if you cared about it. But because you didn't there were more than a few fried birds falling from the sky this day, probably feeding a few homeless or giving brain damage to them by hitting their heads like meteors, it didn't matter too much when you were busy with something way more important.
As you reached the manor, there wasn't a doubt that your eyes narrowed under your mask. Truly this was what you had prepared yourself (This morning) all your life, your brilliant mind ended up going through all the possibilities in a bazillion of nanoseconds. There weren't any doubts that your plans were perfect and you were going to implement them.
You saw a party, you needed to absolute ruin this by kidnapping the future bride.
You knew how to ruin this.
"Jack unleash your mist and prepare to eat all the food on the buffet!" You ordered as you began to descend alongside the mist.
Screams and shouts began to come out of the servants alongside a tired voice of 'here we go again.' from auntie Sitri but you may have heard it wrong out of the echoes inside the mist, Jack jumped out of the flying surfboard and began to attack the aperitives, the foundation of every party ever made without them any form of nuptial action or meeting couldn't continue.
But didn't join her and instead you moved out of the mist and took So-chan out of the table and fleed away in your surfboard!
And while leaving the rest away, you needed to leave a message!
"You can't stop Kane Gremo-! I mean the Bloody Shepherd!" You declared loudly! But you let a slip of your identity out! "Ka-Shepherd go!" Curse your devil's pride!
You managed to avoid an Ice barrier almost freezing your transport doing a barrel roll and looking back at your attacker.
"Why are you kidnapping my sidekick! Magical So-chan isn't a fully trained magical girl." Sera-nee, your greatest obstacle shouted.
"Three things, first this magical girl has been owned by the law of dibs before everyone else had the chance to learn how utterly invaluable she is." You have dibs on this, even Satan won't deny this to you. "Second, she is incredibly needy, with constant attention to make sure that she doesn't get jealous and committed something stupid, so I don't trust you to make sure that she gets her walkies instead of just watching anime." She was incredibly needly and easy to influence, hell she almost acted like a human the past year!
"Stupid Kakun." So-chan glared at you from her side on the board.
You were honest on this, who else would endure the horrors of dressing like a Kaiju so she doesn't end up accidentally killing her coworkers? You knew how much the monsters of the week earn by surviving a single round with Sera-nee and So-chan isn't far from becoming an addict for the overkill.
It was a trait that all magical girls shared.
"What is the third?" Sera-nee narrowed her eyes and prepared her magic just as you prepared your flames.
You weren't going to allow others to have her, a devil-like you was too greedy to share the same happiness that she brings to your life, it was something that was unique. What you feel for her and everyone close to you couldn't be described in the same manner.
"Because I don't want to see anyone else loving her the same way that I do." Just plain selfishness, you didn't want anyone else having the same happiness that So-chan brings you. That was something that you treasured so much that you don't know.
Your confession made So-chan incapable of reacting as her usual self, what you saw was the girl hugging you with a bright red face.
Sera-nee apparently was stunned too while you send back your surfboard like a missile.
It was weird just good it feel just saying those words, as you hug your childhood friend and flew away while others were panicking pulling out flames that feel hot but didn't notice that they didn't burn. So-chan keep 'eeeeep-ing' as you flew away, your mask was slipping out of your face at some point but you didn't care if your mouth was showing how big your smile was and your heart was beating so hard that it was almost hurt if it wasn't for all the euphoria.
You didn't know what to say or do anymore, it was an answer that even your intuition didn't tell you.
So you kissed her.
It was soft, it taste like strawberries, it was short -too short- but it made your heart feel so warm and flames move in a manner that you feel that it was how it should truly be. Trying to grasp that feeling was but never got close enough to truly understand what it needed to truly burn. If logic matters here, then it means that you have to kiss So-chan more in the future to truly get it, a win-win situation where everyone benefits.
"I will not let anyone else have you." You told So-chan, that was something that you promised. "So I came to steal you away."
"You always keep overdoing everything." So-chan smiled, she enjoyed this too.
"Guilty of the charge, but I am evil and need to have an impact." You are a shameless show-off. "You are guilty too for making me fall in love with you so much."
"More than Jack?" So-chan was getting cheeky.
And you kissed her again for it.
She glared at you with that little blush of saying 'you can't avoid this.' and that only made you kiss her once again.
"Because you are so cute when you are jealous." It was honest, your own feelings talking instead of you. "I love you, that is never going to change you are my first friend, my first treasure, my first love. Nothing would change that, you are mine and that never is going to change." Your feelings, which always are on the surface of your throughs, there wasn't a doubts that you loved her so much that this wouldn't change much your nature.
As always a devil must be ambitious.
"I am greedy, don't think things through when caught in my whims, and without doubt a complete full-blooded criminal." You weren't blind about your flaws, if you changed it would be something that will take you by surprise. "But if one thing is clear is that I always honest with my desire." That was your greatest strength and weakness, your Greed.
You loved magical girls because So-chan was one, you loved So-chan because of all those emotions that she made you feel.
"Let's be a mess together." You offered, you didn't knew where this is going to take you but you weren't going to regret any of this.
"Let's." She initiated the kiss this time.
...
Were you forgetting about something? Meh, it will be the problem of future Kane.
...
...
Meanwhile on Casa di Sitri
Once it was figured out that the orange fire in fact didn't burn or spread things began to calm down, so the attention of all the present began to move towards the sound of someone eating through all the chaos, munching what was left of the buffet was little girl, everyone present looked at her while she put her plate back and began to move her hand slowly on the air. Completely weirded out their minds the girl gulped what she had on her mouth.
"Youuuu saaaaawww noooothing~" Jack the Knight of Kane Gremory said with a ghostly tone before she dissipated on the air.
The Lady and Lord of the Sitri just saw the scene with a tired face.
"Gremory." They said simultaneously.
Days after your claim, there weren't any sightings of the thief. You looked around and searched for him while keeping an eye on So-chan that it looked like you were joined to the hip and made sure of kissing her a lot in front of big groups of devils to make sure that nobody get ideas of who her cute little ass belongs towards, but you haven't found the little shit. Probably was crying like a little bitch in a dark room as you enjoyed yourself with a magical girl, truly Beowulf lessons are the most important thing because you aren't a bitch like that other guy who doesn't dare to punch you in the face to get her back.
"Fuhahahaha." You laugh at your complete superiority.
At least until you received a cold touch in your back.
"Neechan why?" You asked to your responsible older sister the reason why the great betrayal in your persona? You were enjoying yourself!
"Don't laugh maniacally on the streets." Grayfia chastises you! Is super effective! "I have enough with your brother, so don't imitate him."
Oh right, you were on Lucifaac now.
Whoa how fast the time passes since you are getting things done, your first anniversary with Jack will come soon and you had to find a good gift to give to her. Nezuko was a whole different matter as she would like a good meal and recently has spent all the days hunting and eating since the holidays because she wasn't being tortured but just hearing the old men in her sacred gear giving her story lessons and learning the traditions... wait it was basically the same thing.
But at least it was just a single-time thing instead of having to repeat it by not paying attention.
Back to Jack, you knew her preferences and deepest desires so even if you couldn't make her a mommy, at the moment, you can do the second best thing and give her a gift that she would enjoy using. That made things complicated, you had to find something that your knight would enjoy, more importantly, something that all of her would like because you loved all her sides, and took no preferences between the motherly Jaclyn or the dangerous and sexy Jacqueline. If you had more time and connections would be far easier to just buy many gifts, something around between one and two thousand's gifts.
So you had to do plan B, give her a single item that you cute Knight would like more than anything in the world and you have a guide for the perfect gift, must help her defeat So-chan, must be sharp, be easy to throw, and recover, can help her to beat witches (So-chan), easy to hide and easy to clean. In other words, it needed to be a knife, but a special one to give a special girl... okay that sounded really bad no matter how you think about it.
But you had some hopes, very good hopes on finding something in a flea market.
It was a pretty good educational experience, you were learning the lies from masters of craft and suckers that buy sand on the desert, truly your mind was being expanded by all these life lessons and if some poor fool wastes their life savings then it's survival of the best devil. And Grayfia keeps her eye on you so you don't waste all your money on Yugioh cards or return to the manor on only your boxers, a good precaution.
You walked around for a few hours, observing around seeing a few good weapons but nothing that truly called your attention or made your intuition tell you that you found a good gift. Until finally, it happened, your intuition acted like crazy and you feel your very Greed moving your body as you were directed towards a treasure so valuable that the mere thought of getting it made your body shudder in a way that was almost impossible to truly understand how damn well it sang in your very soul and called to the Treasure Hunter instincts of the Gremory blood coursing through your veins.
A sensation that you could only compare to how hard you got when you saw Zest on a Christmas outfit.
And you saw it, a piece of crap an edgeless dagger, filled with so much rust that humans would need vaccine of tetanus after touching it if it disintegrated at the touch, there was also many damages that you didn't know that was possible to accumulate in a single thing, it was amazing resilience that it didn't break at this point.
Also cursed as the toilet after someone gave laxatives to Beowulf.
"What about this one?" You asked the merchant, naturally you keep your eagerness and just asked like a normal person.
"Blah blah blah! Blah... Blaaaah Blah 6000 Lilims blah blah blah." The merchant said through your Sirzechs filter of unimportant stuff. About twelve times the price of a brand new knife, it was a complete scam for some uninformed idiot that doesn't know jack shit about how the world worked.
This poor fool doesn't know that it was less than 1% of the true value of this one.
You don't know how this weapon came into the position of this merchant but you weren't to miss this opportunity... Oh, Satan was the guy still talking? You were monologuing internally and moving your head every few seconds but seriously you expected him already giving you the weapon instead of just keeping bullshiting his way to sell you the thing.
"Shut up and take my money!" You told the merchant and threw the exact monetary quantity into the counter.
And from that moment you heard Grayfia's hand hit her face.
Oops? You will have to tell her as soon as you are out the view of the poor fool.
As they go away from the little shop Grayfia made a ward to keep others from earing or seeing their conversation, apparently wanting to hear your reasoning about the weapon that looked like a complete waste of money.
"Kane... why just why?" She looked tired.
You only took the knife out, at this point, it was just following your instincts.
You set it on fire, cleaning the weapon from the impurities and the piece of steel began to beat like a heart as it began to drain your body from the flames that circulated like blood inside you, the deep black coloration broke apart with cracks filled with heat until it finally showed what was hidden away.
Balanced, heavy, resistant, sharp, intimidating, etc. There were hundreds of ways to describe this weapon.
The dagger of a King, a weapon made for their influence in the shadow, a weapon made to kill the magicians, a weapon made to kill the seducers, the weapon whose nature is stacking properties to bring death to others. In your hands it was the greatest weapon that you could ever wield as it greedily drinks your flames, it refuses to accept you as the True Owner but that refusal would break with the time as you keep harmonizing with it.
With a movement of your wrist, your body disappeared by triggering a latent power on the dagger and with a flex of your flames you returned back.
"A good weapon, what you think Neechan?" You took a few stances, the lesson of Beowulf imparted into your body let you use this weapon correctly without problems, it didn't made you a master or expert like Jack but at least it wasn't an impediment.
Fundaments were the important part, skill can come later with experience.
"How did you..." Huh, you never have seen that expression on her face, apparently you are more ridiculous than your own brother for a moment.
"Intuition, you know the gut feeling that tells you things? That thing but better." And your own intuition told you that this weapon needed some repairs, lots of material, time... or you could kill a fuck ton magical beings and use Harmony to repair it.
At the very least should make this dagger independent from your own flames to keep itself from turning into scrap again.
Looking back at your sister-in-law, Grayfia was in her little world trying to figure things out while murmuring 'Luck', 'Mutation', 'Power of Destruction', 'Mix', 'Assimilation' and some other words. It seems like your explanation made her mind work as you keep searching through the market and even buying a giant red crocodile to feed Nezuko for her snack, honestly a little weak thing a low class in terms of danger.
But you had to find a way of making your purchase become a perfect gift for Jack without her knowing about it to make it a perfect anniversary.
So because of your own lack of ideas when you returned with Grayfia, you began to search for the most cultured and worldly person that you knew in the entire underworld. A man whose sagely advice you had followed day after day for almost an entire year and from it you have grown as a devil nay as a person and man should be, a true genius whose conversion to the devilhood ended as one of the best ideas that your elder brother could ever have.
"So in conclusion." Beowulf began to nod as you finished your story. "You wanted to ask me for a way to kill a fuck ton of supernatural beings to feed the cursed dagger that you bought for the little murder loli and in such manner get a step closer to be balls deep inside her."
"Basically." You were going to do that eventually, you weren't blind towards eventuality the wholesome things would turn when you both are ready for it.
Love was complicated but so damn enjoyable.
"Well, tell your bros that this Saturday will be a day where every single one of you become men of action." Beowulf grinned under the helm. "It will be a nice bonding activity and all of you will become blooded enough that never once will buy hair care products." ...That was nice? You plan more on getting the dagger blooded than your hair.
"What exactly I should tell them?" You wanted to give Riser a good idea of what he should prepare for.
Beowulf's aura changed, there wasn't a devil in front of you there wasn't a man. It was a Hunter, the very core of your existence acknowledges him for this weight. The existence who hunts a monster that most wouldn't have hopes of scratch, that was the sensation that he gave to you.
"It's time to kill Ladon."
Of all the days that Bova Tannin decided to include himself in your activities this probably was the first time that you were glad of having him around without any hint of sarcasm. His presence made it possible to advance faster through the waves of enemies than if only Riser and you could do alone, seriously what was thinking Beowulf when he left three devils alone without supervision the second that Ladon's appeared? Surely he should have told you something but no, it was just a matter of reacting and doing shit immediately.
The dagger of Jack buried itself on the cranium of the beast and ripped the organs as you took it away in seconds, your flames explode on your side, and with a twist of your torso another dragon was decapitated, seconds after more than half dozen of dragons followed as you keep killing them moving the bladed weapons through the scales taking more and more lives. Your intuition and mouth moved faster than your mind as a second ago you were talking shit about Beowulf and the next you were already killing the first wave of enemies while telling Bova and Riser how to kill them in the most efficient way.
You could begin to appreciate your nature Dragon Slayer as killing the first waves of spawns became a bother instead of a challenge compared to the effort that Riser and Bova put in to kill any of them. The traps that were appearing on the battlefield were visible to you and so used to kill a larger number of enemies turning ambushes against those bastards that tried to hurt your Famiglia, it was funny how the modus operanti of Ladon and the most dangerous thing in this chaos was something that you were getting used to putting in your favor and getting good at it.
[Shit! Shit! Shit!]
Your intuition shouts as you feel the eyes of someone on the battlefield, but you bite out the curse and moved forward with your friend and Bova at your side. Fear is only something that helps the enemy if you let it overcome you, and so you keep pushing your nature forwards as Dragon Slayer as much as you could with anything that could put your hands on to increase the survival chances, pushing your senses to the limits and become a Hunter like Beowulf was, acquiring the mindset of Beowulf showed you before coming here.
And so tactics began to appear, and the hunt truly began.
This wasn't a matter of survival anymore but thriving inside this battlefield, the three devils smiled and unleashed their flames at the frontlines and only to come out of the same fire to unleash chaos like the crazy bastards that you were. Laughing and having fun, all while fighting to the dead it was just making their own blood boil as the three keep comparing killing counts. But all the fun and games stopped when your intuition stopped telling you where the next prey would come.
"Let's negotiate devil." A feminine voice called for you.
Your group was surrounded, even in this chaotic battle other women were fighting the crazed descendants of Ladon were pushed away so you could get a time to talk.
"Let's, what is the reason for your group interruption." Your intuition told you that they weren't enemies at the moment
"An alliance, you are a passable tactician and assassin." It pissed you out being called an assassin when you kill 'efficiently' this event was a marathon instead of a race. "But you are lacking numbers." A clue that makes everything click.
"And you have been dividing your attention between fighting and commanding as the strongest." You haven't seen her face or body but her sheer presence made it clear to you. "You want me to be a safety net so you all could indulge in this hunt as my Famiglia do."
There were pros and cons to this choice, but looking at Riser fighting side to side with what looked to be bikini armored and very fit woman and needed to him.
"I accept, I will do my best but they will trust me as I will trust them." That was your condition, you could push it but there was a reason why you accepted this deal.
You were a bro, and you need to support your bros at the time of getting laid by the law of brocode.
"Amazons follow the tactics of the midget!" Was it too late to refuse?
But before you could tell the bitch to eat shit the sound of battle returned once again and your side of the deal came, as you made sure to keep the group of crazed Berserkers in the shape of women from killing themselves as the difficulty spiked massively from what you were used when you were working only with Bova and Riser. The squad of amazons was five times bigger than your group, didn't trust you with their lives, and you didn't have a clear understanding of their capabilities to push them as you did before with your friends but you had a way around it.
Your bros and by the sacred brocode you all going to live after this.
Until you get the complete trust of the amazons you will depend on Bova and Riser to make your tactics work, when you noticed someone in particular willing to be used like them you added her to the list of know variables. It was a process continuous where more and more began to fall in line and follow you as the quality of the enemies increased as this alliance of devils and amazons reached where the veterans were reuniting and the strongest of Ladon's blood have made their territory.
You had to admit it, you ended bitting way more than you could swallow. This was something that you had to admit, there wasn't a second to rest, there wasn't a chance to gather back and retire and there wasn't mercy in your strikes as you fought with the intention to kill once again. The bodies and blood were filling this battlefield, be humans or any other species that came to stop Ladon's spawns from escaping their graveyard.
[Dead]
The feeling that accompanied your entry into the most active part of the battlefield.
Your intuition registered the opportunities of survival, guiding you as you fought alongside Riser and Bova. Advancing slowly step by step as more and more enemies died because of your actions and those that didn't fell by the traps of their father as you used them too. The three of you fought and made them bleed, you weren't fine fatigue was accumulating and your muscles began to burn but you moved forward as surrender and mercy weren't options for your or your enemies.
Your latest enemy was just failing down with a hole in his chest. Your hands marked the emblem of your Pillar on the carcass, to claim it after Ladon was dead.
"...Why?" A quiet question that once again showed you the strong vitality of a dragon as even a newborn like this one could survive enough time to want an answer.
"I am sorry, but I am far greedier than you." You told the spawn and crushed his brain with your feet. The strongest ones were gaining wisdom fast, killing them was necessary before they became a threat. Power without direction was easier to deal with and easier to kill, but in end, you told only the truth.
You were far greedier and wanted to live much more than them.
With your opponent defeated your attention returned to the rest of the world. Seconds turned into minutes and then into what looked to be hours as all fought their way through the battlefield.
You called orders continuously shouting more and more as the influence of Ladon grew and turned into an invisible slaughter that pushed your intuition to its very limits, it was becoming harder to fight these waves of enemies while keeping your attention on the encroaching domain of Ladon as his barriers and traps keep expanding, zones considered safe turned into blenders of organs and body parts, as his spawns moved from the air and land killing and eating anything that they could see, acting more serpents slithering even with their wings and arms stretching over to bring anything into their hungry maws.
You melted the neck of one of them and left your mark as you moved to the next one, taking a weapon from the numerous corpses of the fallen warriors and using it to break the horn of your next prey, it made you tch with your tongue as it was just too short so you threw it into the eye of the spawn that tried to attack Riser. Kicked the corpse of the unmarked body beyond Riser and showed a trap that melted it.
"Thank you Master Kane." Riser's words were unnecessary as it was your duty.
"Go back, support the Amazons a strong bastard is going to clash soon with our party." You ordered and expanded your senses to see what else you could do.
"Understood." Riser accepted your orders for what it truly was more opportunities to flirt with that amazon that he likes.
"Riser, don't dare to advance more than fifty meters from their position there is another of those spikes of Ladon." You told him before you forgot about that sick trap of Ladon, you are beginning to hate how creative was this dragon.
Your minion nodded and returned backlines to offer more support to the warrior women of SuperPussy land in the words of Beowulf.
The battle keep raging, your alliance was frail and could become enemies after the battle, may Riser's dick get wet after this otherwise you will end up disappointed in him.
On the good news, your hair probably will be glorious after this day!
And there were ten to twenty minutes for the next group comes, the most probable direction was subterranean so you will need to have Bova use his breath on the holes to get the bastards out. A good time to rest and recover energy from all this shitfest, where was Bova? You looked through the area and found him, doing something that was disappointing but on the line with the mental image that you had of him.
"Bova just... stop eating these spawns, you are giving us a bad image." Those racists of the church were already getting ideas and trying to pull some moves, and... they are dead now. It was interesting how many of your annoyances this day were resolved by Ladon or one of his descendants.
The amazons were already looking at you with a morbid curiosity to see you would join him too, they were slightly racist for not having met someone with a penis before today.
"We have been here for hours, I am hungry!" He responded, his focus was still on making a good seasoning but at least he talked back. "And is only half cannibalism I doubt that Ladon fucked another dragon to make them!" With that done he continued eating his 'food'.
You hate how much sense his argument has, Bova was a glutton for battle and food. He was a devil and denying him this was like denying you from getting the future threesomes of black and white combo that you have been dreaming about since you got the talk.
"...Just save some of the remains for later." You have to give him this and take small victories. "And don't consume enough to make an impediment or I will assign you to another place." With fewer battles, it was left unsaid but Bova understood and stopped eating.
"Got it." Bova saved a few bodies too.
Bova had a point, so you took one of the protein shakes of Beowulf made by putting living chickens on a blender, it wasn't tasty but was a fast protein source.
"You need to make him understand his position under chain of command." And there was it, the newest pain in your ass. For being a princess she was a complete hardass who is "Such insubordination is disgusting and should be punished." And her manner of leadership was militarist compared to your Famiglia.
You didn't even direct your eyes towards her, she isn't going to respect a weak drive or excuses for your actions. She was allowing you to be a tactician out of your insight being better but she wasn't going to forgive mistakes in your judgment if it put her amazons in danger. And for that, you respect her but that doesn't change your opinion of her being a pain in the ass by her continuous critique to get you to 'mature' more.
"That isn't how a devil works, we aren't humans and I shouldn't threat Bova like one." You denied, devils should be devils and accept their nature. "A human gets to ignore that side or just hold back themselves but a devil chooses the direction of their sin." It was better to let Bova's fest in private but you don't know enough about dragon biology to see if this would hurt his capabilities.
And a Famiglia is a place where everyone can be themselves, as the boss is your duty to make sure that they can be true to themselves.
"Princess, collect your amazons we have a few minutes before the next wave." You told her, it was petty as fuck to call a warrior like her that but she called you short.
"You have the direction of the ambush?" There wasn't a way that you could miss the growl in her voice, truly you were under her skin now, and you love it.
"Subterranean, we will use Bova's breath to get them out once a hole is made." It was simple to get them out, and if they didn't well less work for you all.
Naturally, your plan was a complete success and the poor bastards ended at the mercy of the amazons, you took a step back this time and enjoyed the show as you began to bleed the tension out, you were tempted to let out the dagger already as the bruises in your hand made clear that you had been bleeding on it from the overuse, but things weren't ending because some discomfort and you wouldn't be a bitch in front of biggest bitch that you have to meet in your whole life.
She was amazing. Her passion, brutality, and sheer skill were a masterpiece. Something so beautiful that put into words was an insult to her skill and power. You weren't a trained warrior, you were fighting out of pure muscle memory and your intuition polishing your motions into a passable fighting style, but her? She was the real deal, a human that surpassed the limitations of her own species through sheer skill and brutality.
And she was an absolute moron too, with a heavy sigh you took a rope from one of the dumbasses of the church that died and aimed at her, much to her surprise you managed to pull her back and directly throw her into the overgrown sperm of Ladon. It was an example of how used you got to her bullshit that you didn't blink as she crushed the cranium with her thighs... part of you wanted to be that spawn. You are strong enough to survive it. [You aren't] ...You would still try.
Or get brain damage by that morning star of hers as the worst-case scenario.
She gave you a glare through her helmet, you knew that she couldn't read your throughs so it was for interrupting her, by satan doesn't she know what is a double standard?
You took the corpse where you got the rope and throw it to the place where she was moving towards and to your utter lack of surprise was cut in half by one of the barriers of Ladon. The amazon paused and looked at you with a different expression.
"I appreciate your actions, for taking our alliance with the adequate... commitment." It must have burn admit that, now what is the problem? "My prey belongs to me, and yours are your own."
"In the words of Beowulf 'Fuck youuuuuuuu and your desires'." You didn't give a shit about that, the bitch asked you a favor so you aren't going to be stingy about it. "This is a war, your enemies are mine and mine are yours, my people and yours became allies and will survive." And if she doesn't like it then she can choke on your dick.
"Your arrogance knows no bounds devil." And she doesn't understand how devils work and see the world.
"Is called Greed, deal with it." You were a greedy devil, a difference of Pride it means that you want things. "Life is the first treasure given to us, my famiglia will not lose theirs and your warriors will return with you."
"They should be proud of having a warrior dead." That was a very weak excuse.
"Proud of dying? They should be proud of making these bastard die instead!" You almost laughed at those ideals, but you had goals that you were capable of dying for. "But enough is enough, someday I will beat my ideals into your moronic head." You will make sure to teach her that your way was better.
"You fool... you absolute fool." She says that but you know that she was smiling under that helmet of hers. "Better put action on those words of yours."
"A dance? I surely never had disappointing first dates." It was probably your first one with a human.
"Will you take this seriously male?" And back to call you using your gender.
"When this stops being so damn fun!" You finally admitted that you were enjoyed yourself.
Plan after plan, trick after trick, battle after battle, pushing yourself and your allies until there wasn't doubt that you all were advancing and progressing through this chaotic world.
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You stopped moving, as your whole body froze for an instant. Your mind was just paralyzed and instinct was out of control while all your mind screamed in absolute terror, words were unheard, taunts of the Amazonian princess were silenced, your orange eyes became dizzy as the sensation began to eat you and consume your sense of self. Your flames ignited, you keep your focus on it, the battlefield was becoming more and more blurry as your perception of reality was being damaged.
For an instant, you almost saw how everyone beside you was half eaten before the reality returned to what was before.
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It was The Bloodlust, one so deep that your body was beginning to bleed into your subconscious in a manner that you couldn't shake it off. It was like a weight hammering, again and again, the possibility of death itself if moved a single step more, but you couldn't stop moving the amazons and your famiglia was advancing towards the origin of that feeling and you could do nothing more than continue, constantly hearing your own heartbeat instead of others. You didn't know how you keep commanding or acting like a leader when you already were cowed by this feeling that made your own bones feel heavy.
This feeling that you could only compare to the idea of losing was getting just deeper as your intuition was becoming insensate.
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You saw the origin of it, the first time your eyes were directed on the image of the enemy that so many allied to defeat without matter if they were enemies or if grudges were thorn apart if this thing was defeated even a second earlier. And in the center of it was an abomination born of wood and flesh joining together in a macabre manner, you couldn't figure out when the tree part began or ended, and in a similar manner were the scales fused with the leaf and branches. An unnatural monster that wasn't the middle point between the animal and vegetal kingdom but an insult to both sides of nature.
Ladon, the Insomniac Dragon.
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A dragon wasn't only a beast, they were a concept and theme, a nature that they followed, an obsession, and just now you got a taste of it, you got to finally see and understand with your own manner how utterly insane was the difference of power between him and everyone in the whole battlefield, a game that no a single soul noticed that fixed from the very beginning the deck was stacked against them. An invisible nightmare that everyone was lucky of being incapable of seeing the twisted world that it was being crafted while you saw this world move as weapons so twisted and depraved that you wanted to vomit.
You saw the true essence of a twisted mind that only could be described by the title that others have been calling this creature for so long.
An Evil Dragon.
You finally understood why they were something that so many enemies would ally themselves to eliminate and why those arrogant gods didn't dare to step out of their thrones to stop, they feared them, they feared these existences and understood more than anything why the dragons were at the peak of creation.
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You were going to die, you absolutely didn't stop a chance in this conflict between Behemoths, the world changed shapes twenty-seven times in what it took you to blink without anyone else noticing the transparent world that Ladon made around himself, the barriers shaping and breaking were his swords and shields death came in so many manners while these warriors fought against an enemy that they couldn't see against something that comes closer to crush them and still fought the tyrant of an entire world of its own creation, that encroach the reality and turns it into a weapon instead of a shield.
[Invaluable]
You stomped on the head of a spawn that tried to ambush you, without looking at it you immediately killed it for the sake of watching Ladon and Dragon Slayers fight to kill each other. The Raw Strenght of Beowulf who rips and breaks everything on his path using so many things from sword and chains to even a shotgun to cause mayhem, the Sheer Trickery of Nezha who constantly changed to pressure Ladon, the experience of Vasco Strada who became the peak of what a human was wielding Durandal's destructive power like a brush painting the transparent world as he wanted turning what was a picture complete into colash of blood and scales.
And the Skill of Lancelot du Lac. Something happened, you couldn't even see it with your intuition helping you.
You only knew that he hurt Ladon and seconds after the reality finally noticed it.
The scream of Ladon as Lancelot's sword cut deeply into his flesh made your ears bleed as you could feel how the insides were destroyed making you completely deaf, your attention wasn't in your body, wasn't in the constant reminder of dead from Ladon capability of crushing like a bug by accident or his spawns consuming you, it was only the injury of Ladon caused by Lancelot as your eyes widened and your senses exploded by an Overwhelming Greed that consumed your whole mind.
[Greed.][Treasure][Mine][Claim]
Now your intuition was speaking the language of devils, the moment that the Heart was noticed by your senses was the second that you feel your mouth moving and air escaping from your lungs. As laughter grew from the deeps of your chest, this was your nature even in the greatest dangers turned into opportunities in your perception of reality, when there was a treasure in from of you there wasn't doubts that it drives you mad to the point that you lost any other sensation that attacked your sense of self.
A devil should be ambitious.
Wings became unfolded and fire danced on them, preparing and accumulating for an exponential change. Intuition and desire mixed, a chance will come with failure ending with dead or worse the loss of the treasure in front of you. Instincts of a hunter gained from battle and your very own nature as Dragon Slayer began to burn, it was something that you could do and even if it ended damming you there wasn't doubts that you always would choose to do this.
For a long time, your Flame didn't reach the zenith and now it was again by the nature.
But as a mad and absolute deranged grin spreads on your face, that fire once again returned to the same intensity.
'What are you doing!?' Her expression under the helmet told you and almost made you laugh the break of the stoic character of the princess that you fought alongside.
"Something really stupid!" You laughed as you shot yourself into the sky moving through the ever-changing and moving barriers, dancing through a world that nobody but you could see but knew that could tear you apart at the minimum error, but the idea just made you accelerate even more as you got closer and closer to Ladon's body.
The pressure increased and your eyes feel like they were to explode, the world began to lose all the colors, oh well you are already deaf so it doesn't matter if you get blind. You just wanted the most valuable thing that you saw in your life, the barriers began to break and pieces fly in the air as Ladon's life was coming to its end, barely holding on to a single thread of that heart of his. A source of vitality, of his power and essence, something that you just had to get more than anything.
You increased the speed, avoiding pieces of the breaking transparent world tearing your wings. The ignition needed to be Stronger! You had to make your flames burn so much more before it is too late, you had to be faster so much more than a second ago as your whole body ignited just follow the commands of your Greed.
The strongest barrier of Ladon just over his heart, the last act of desperation from one of the strongest beings on the planet.
Something that would kill anyone who touches it, but you aren't going to be deterred by that when you knew Ladon's true intention.
It was a feint, a game of chicken it didn't matter how strong it looked. It wasn't possible for Ladon to maintain something like that now. It was words that your intuition told you, and even now you knew that your intuition could fail you and misread Ladon.
You were at this point, so close to the greatest thing that your eye has caught to fail by a moment of doubt.
It was early enough to change directions, to stop your suicidal charge if you didn't feel like risking your life for the sake of a treasure. But even then you smiled at this bet, because if there was something that you always put your trust into since the day that you earned your flames.
There weren't doubts that you trusted your intuition, far more than you feared dead.
It was only before the impact that the barrier broke without any energy left to be maintained, it was too late to stop you as you entered into the gaping wound and caught the heart into your arms before the last beat was made you ripped it out of the place ripping the veins and arteries from it as your moving through all the internals wounds cutting and burning your way on the already dying tissue of the evil dragon, rip and tear your own body in the process as the toughness surpassed your own more than you could have imagined but that feeling stopped as your mouth caught something that grew inside the body this dragon.
It pissed you off as your whole body ignited for the sake of piercing through a scar from Ladon.
You twisted your body, the saliva and stomach acid already piercing through your flames, only a single chance before you were consumed by a corpse already in decomposition. And you took with a mad grin on your face because this was where a Gremory's truly enjoyed themselves with a treasure in arms, you didn't feel fear and only feel your blood pumping even faster.
And kicked down the last barrier that separates you from the external world!
The wound begins to expand in size as you explode with orange flames, and your body began to feel the hot air of the battlefield, the sound of barriers keep assaulting your mind as you began to fly back to the floor, almost crashing if it wasn't for your intuition saving you once again.
Folding your wings back, the heart was saved in your hammerspace, and the fire around you was snuffed out by the wind. You don't allow yourself to make mistakes and allow others to get a glance, you weren't a moron to gloat about how you got the best loot in the middle of a place filled with members of multiple factions!
Your intuition told you to consume what you got, by the sensation that you got it was an apple.
...Seriously? Ladon grows these things inside his body? Even now the insanity of Evil Dragons' biology baffles you.
You took a bite of the apple and feel your senses coming back, the flame that was embers returned on full force, fatigue was a thing of the past, and his muscles that were tearing returned back to normal shape, and fractured bones were put back in place under your skin. Blindness and deafness were fixed as your intuition began to calm down, Ladon was dead and the spawns' morale was broken, soon the battle will end and you could go back to relax on the sweet embrace of your Knight, Rook, and what the hell you decided to make Maria.
[Spawn]
You turned back ignited your fist and hit the face of a particular smart bastard that tried to play dead. This time it was a break of the face but the mutilation of the skull was the result of your attack. The proof of your advance, minor and young dragons were easy to kill now, part of you think that you could even kill Bova if you hit him like this or break his arm if you don't tone it down.
"Beowulf Jr!" And Beowulf came and lift you in his arms. "You are the best boy that a Dragon Slayer could have raised!"
"I will be dammed, another one." Lancelot... he looked like a fucking skeleton how the freaking hell is he alive without a brain?
Nezha was a moronic bitch, Beowulf advised you to not look directly or bitchiness would be contagious, so you were glad that Nezha decided to go away like a bitch already.
"A Dragon Slayer, a young one but I can see how he could pierce Ladon." When you saw the next guy, your eyes widened.
"Just how many steroids did you consume daily?" Sadly your mouth said what everyone was thinking but didn't dare to ask until you were a complete moron high on adrenaline because you survived your suicidal charge. "Ah, sorry. You must have to keep a strict diet of dragons... please don't eat the moron that came with me." You said the last part incredibly fast because you knew that if this man flex hard enough it could extinct you.
Thankfully Steroidicus just laughed out and retired to see how many mooks that the church send died off.
That honestly scared the shit out of you and talking about shit...
"Beowulf jr let's go." Beowulf was carrying towards one of the trees that were close to the corpse of Ladon. "Is time to piss on Hera's trees."
"You do that, I will take a shit." That apple ended up making your stomach feel ill, maybe that was how Atalanta lost her race these things were filled with laxatives. "A-are you crying?" The moment that you looked back at your teacher MANLY tears came out of his eyes. A tearful expression of pride on his face grew as he put his hand on your shoulder.
"I have never been so proud in my entire life." He told you before retiring to do his thing.
You follow him. Riser and Bova, too joined on marking the trees of Hera.
You didn't have doubts in your mind that you are going to be grounded after this, be it because you entered a battlefield or got overwhelmed by your own nature as Dragon Slayer and Devil to get the greatest treasure of the whole battle. A thing that wasn't discovered at the moment and probably wouldn't ever be forgotten.
At least the Amazons were nice enough to help you recover the bodies of those that you killed and prin-Penthesilea at least was honest on the loot division in your negotiations with her... and you only had to pimp Riser to one of her amazons in the process of getting that incredible 30% of the bodies. You wouldn't say that both of you were friends, but she was ruthless and brutal at this part as she was at the battle, you think that both of you reached an understanding and scare the crap out of your respective subordinates as you two began to crackle a few laughs in the middle of the negotiation.
The reactions to your brotime with Beowulf, Riser, and Bova was varied, for the very first time you meet Grayfia looking at you angry from worrying her, Sirzechs was crying because you didn't invite him, your moms made you feel guilty from having kept it hidden from them but it was obvious that they wouldn't have allowed you go, dad asked you if there was a cute girl and had his ear twisted, Nezuko took her clothes off and jumped to the pile of corpses that you brought with you for a binge eating, and Jack... she looked strange for having missed this.
But you didn't tell her the truth, it was a surprise.
You were grounded, for the rest of the month, it was quite tame compared to the punishment of Beowulf who doesn't have a single gram of regret for his actions. But you got the heart and made the dagger reach the point that it didn't need to use your Harmony and flames to keep itself from turning into scrap. It was a good weapon, you could even feel a bond that the dagger trying to be forged but you dispersed it again. It wasn't your weapon, and only used it to make sure to give the best gift possible it didn't feel like this dagger like the idea of being used so much only to be given away.
It was almost like you were looking at an orphan hugging his knees and saying 'please mister Gremory adopt me', but that wouldn't make you adopt the dagger as your personal weapon. It kinda was pathetic in your perspective, even if it enjoyed taking the fourteen different variations of the Flame it wasn't something that would change the fact that it was an anniversary gift first and shouldn't act so fatalistic.
...Fourteen? When they became fourteen instead of seven?
Where did came the additional seven?
Your intuition told you that the number wasn't wrong, but it was against what you saw when you pieced Jack. Seven elements were the Sky, but were the other seven? The Ocean? The Nature Kingdom? The Earth? Or the Stars themselves? Your Intuition was silent and didn't give you the answer. It was just like always, you think that you got the Sky Flame figured out, and then you find that there is a bit more.
At least it was something to think about while the rest of the family compete to see who will name the newest poop factory, you had mixed throughs about this half-sister of yours. On one hand, you were happy about having another sibling and extremely glad that your other moms weren't sterile as it was a worry in the back of your mind for the lack of half-siblings in comparison to the number of moms that you had.
But on the other hand, you feared no man... but that poop factory makes you nervous.
Almost like she was more chaotic than you.
"Grimnirhild, a powerful name for a girl born to sow disgrace to her enemies." Who had the brilliant idea to allow Sirzechs' peerage to participate again?
Surt II was powerful but most of the time you don't understand what he was saying without the help of your intuition, what the hell did it even mean that name? [The Hooded/Masked One in the Battle.] Your intuition told you the answer.
"That is a weird name." You couldn't help but say.
"What name would have given to her?" At the question of your good old dad.
"Fiamma." Your response was clear and concise without a nanosecond of waiting to get your mind clear, because it was the perfect name.
"A truly appropriate name." Surt II gave his approval but didn't change the name that he gave your sister.
"...You wanted to name your little sister 'Flame'?" Your parents surely raised you well.
"Is the most fitting name." You knew that many things will set on fire when she begins to cradle around or your name isn't Kane Gremory.
So many things could be said about your choice of names, but everyone decided that it was the obvious thing coming from you.
Celebrations and parties were the usual things used to celebrate something like this but after the disco ball fell into Sirzechs' head when he pinched Grim's cheeks it probably for the better that it was a quiet affair, this newest little sister truly inherited the Luck or a variation of it. That wasn't an accident and you could feel the smugness coming out from the baby, how something so tiny could be so evil wasn't something that you could understand.
She almost became your favorite sister, Rias better step up her game because Grimmy is fun to watch.
And talking about things fun to watch there is Nezuko with her face glued to the floor smelling something and moving on four legs like she was a hound trying to find a trail until one of the servants began to clean in the middle of the passage and eliminating the trail that she was following, her eyes narrowed and the servant is a very smart devil, dropped the cleaning supplies and slowly moved away from the know cannibal.
The young girl waited for a few seconds until the servant was out of her view taking a deep breath.
"...!" Nezuko screamed to the heavens out of pure frustration.
It would be very impressive the amount of colorful language that your intuition could discern, Beowulf has been a very big influence in her life, or were the wendigo who taught her all those words. Your money was at the Pawn of your brother, Beowulf was so savage that orphan wendigos want to be raised by packs of him... jokes aside she really is lucky that her muzzle was still in her mouth otherwise your moms would end up cleaning her mouth with more than twenty bars of soup to be sure.
Oh well, at least nobody else understood it.
"Nezuko?" You asked, she was a single step of beginning to hit the floor out of frustration and damaging the manor.
"...! ...~ ...!" Nezuko's story was basically resumed to 'the white bitch stole my nest' and 'I will recover it or eat her when this day ends'.
Your near year of proficiency in muzzle communication really gave you a weird skill at understanding your Rook, this wasn't even your intuition helping you but natural skill.
"So now that I don't have additional used shirts you are searching for Maria." You wanted to confirm.
"...!" Nezuko nodded proudly of herself.
"You could have asked me." You smiled at her while head patting her. "I am always willing to do anything for you."
Nezuko froze as the realization truly hit her, she could have the direct source of warmth or help her search for the (apprentice) succubus maid. You knew that she was ripping apart your sweaty clothes from the laundry, but didn't think that she would also take the ones that Nezuko used as her makeshift bed.
Maybe you could teach her how to do things? You didn't know how to clean or do anything related to servant work but you had your intuition.
So with a plan made you took the frozen Nezuko and began to move to your room, leaving Nezuko outside you took your used boxer out and before getting out took a leash as sadly as it was you knew the first thing that Nezuko would do when she finds Maria. And you weren't going to allow your cute little Rook to eat her when you knew her name and amused you so much with those antics who knows if you end up making her part of the Famiglia like Zest, this year was barely beginning and everything was possible.
...And you found about sex, sue you for wanting to cover as many bases as you could for the future.
It was honestly a very surprising affair that Jack hasn't come out and ask you what were you doing by making Nezuko smell your boxers for tracking, but you will accept that your plan is working and you were having a wendigo guiding you the lair of a loli succubus all while using your boxers to track her.
But as soon as you almost reached the secret hideout of Maria on the servant wing of the manor you ended up realizing something.
This counts as the most mundane and sane thing that you have been done in months!
Even Sera-nee acted incredibly when you sleep with So-chan and her, sure Kane jr probably touch her but isn't like she was one of those that like kids and was mature enough to not blame you for something that any male devil would have if they were in your situation.
When the door opened up, the image of a succubus with her face deep on one of your sweaty shirts, inhaling deep why nose and her grip strengthed ripping into pieces the clothes.
"No! That was the last one!" Maria looked genuinely hurt for losing the shirt. "Why does it have to be so fragile!? Why I can't enjoy the musk!?"
Correction this is the second most mundane thing that you have done in months. You don't know how you managed to keep your face straight without laughing.
Thankfully your intuition warned you about the exact moment when Nezuko was going to leap and go for the kill, with a movement of your wrist the clawed hand that was going to pierce the eye of the succubus only hit the air and you returned your wendigo back to your side, the flame reinforced leash truly made it difficult to break if resisted, something that Nezuko's didn't and had a teary eye in response to your betrayal as you picked her up so she doesn't try to kill the succubus again.
"No, no, and no, members of the staff aren't food." That was a very important lesson to be imparted to her. "I did bring you lots of bodies for you, so don't try to make me feel guilty when you enjoyed them and the crocodile." With that said you gave your attention to Maria the little succubus who...
Was munching your blazer's sleeve, no she was sucking it since the moment that opened your mouth and she noticed that you were around. Was she trying to get the passive traces of your flames from your clothes? She was very light too... nope she was floating with her little wings to get a better position.
Purple eyes looked at pink and orange, then the cheeky girl waved one of her hands as greeting. All without stopping the sucking... truly this one would become a Lust devil or one of your people if she was pieced. In the end, it took all your skill at negotiations to keep Nezuko from mauling Maria and get Maria to stop taking your dirty clothes for her pleasure, the succubus drives a hard bargain that was condensed on head pats and allow her to kiss your cheek multiple times until she was satisfied alongside visiting her.
Truly she was a master negotiator.
"Bye bye Husbando! Thanks you for the gift." Maria goodbye almost makes you crack and lose it completely as the succubus was your boxers as a crown right now.
Nezuko glared hard at the cheeky succubus, she was jealous but you knew what to do.
So you kissed Nezuko on the cheek, it was fun how red she became until she passed out but maybe you need to spoil her, even more than usual, to get her used to physical affection.
For your anniversary you planned so much, did many preparations, spend many favors, use all your resources, and organized your schedule in such a perfect way that there wouldn't be interruptions planning from things like Clara being busy taking care of her siblings, Riser fucking his harem, So-chan training with Sera-nee, Bova being grounded by his father, etc with everyone else that you knew in similar positions with Sirzechs thinking that his son will be born today from the tabasco sauce that you put Grayfia's food and Beowulf doing spreading chaos with Nezuko to make sure that many responsible adults were distracted.
All for a full Jack Day.
Tomorrow may be what was chosen to be her birthday, but today? It was a day that you wanted to just spend with Jack alone because it was how everything only the two against anything that the world could offer, truly one of the best days of your whole life and you wanted to repeat it once again.
Beginning by an awakening on each other arms.
The rest of the day was filled with a laugh as both of you sneaked out of the manor and go directly to Dis.
Those gangs have been happy for too long.
This time a difference from the previous year, both of you weren't in a sugar rush or grabbing straws to avoid getting grounded and instead mess with all your victims in a systematic manner. It was an act of complete total destruction and taking away the dreams and hopes of someone else, but they were gangbangers and pain in the ass to every devil of Dis so fuck them and should be bullied harder by Jack and you.
When you were a rookie in the arts of subterfuge and criminal elements that you missed so much that Dis could offer to both of you. From very cheap labor force in the form of homeless children, the true deeps of the criminal world, taking everything from the roots wouldn't be possible but that wasn't your goal. What you were planning to do with Jack is unleash the biggest nightmare of their lives, kill their reputation and teach them that Dis belongs to Jack.
Oh, that was a nice gift. The city where the both of you meet, it would be a good anniversary gift in the future!
But once again you distracted yourself, it wasn't time for work and you should focus on enjoying your day with Jack. So you shelved that idea for later, and just focussed on just getting the blood out of your hands, you didn't find much difference between Ladon's, his spawns, or this random devil blood. But you didn't kill this one, or the members of his gang after breaking the legs and arms it was just too pathetic for it.
That didn't stop Jack from inserting his own weapon for threatening her about kidnapping her and raping you... yeah, normally was the girl who gets that one in most of the shows that you watched but you were the one was flirted out, it was confusing because Jack was very attractive.
"Want to get candy?" You asked your partner.
"They deserved it, shouldn't we punish them more?" Ah, good old Jacky she was talking about herself and the others 'her' instead of him.
"Because I wouldn't waste a free day that I can spend with you because some low lives." Seriously, she was way more important and they just don't matter.
But at least got you a quite nice blush in her face, and with a smile, you took her hand to just play around.
Walking around, eating random things, getting into a few stores to read a few book series only to run away when the owners realized that you weren't going to buy anything, fly to the sky and just enjoy the feeling of freedom, crippling a few delinquents under your knees and infiltrate back to home for dinner without being discovered.
It was just a fun day, a fun afternoon, and a fun date.
What else could you do to make it better?
"Happy anniversary, it took me a lot but here it is." The obvious thing.
In the privacy of the room that Jack and you shared you gave her the dagger that you have been using and served you well in battle. It didn't fail you and it wouldn't fail Jack now that it was fixed. You gave her the box containing... dagger, by Satan you never gave the weapon a name and broke the tradition of giving bullshit weapons a name that was related to their skill set or just sounds amazing when you kill someone.
"A Dagger." For some reason, Jack had a strange expression on her face when she saw the dagger.
"The best dagger! It was quite hard to repair it and took lots of dragons to repair it." It was a hard thing to do too, you doubted that without Ladon's being the perfect mook maker you would have found enough things to kill. "You wouldn't believe how much this little thing can drink." Could compete with Nezuko in terms of appetite at very least.
"You decided to go with Beowulf for me?" She asked you, her mind was a chaos
"Well, I think so." You feel a little blush, it was very clear that you committed mass murder of an entire army for your Knight. "I can multi-task, and wasn't going to waste perfectly good bodies but I killed them to make the best anniversary gift for you."
"Y-You why?" Jack-chan is confused! "Why do you?..." She is so confused that she lost a turn!
"It has been a whole year since we meet and you became my partner." A whole year since you didn't have a single day where you had a smile on your face and laughing on the crazy funny days. "So this is my manner to thank you for all those memories that you helped to make and fill my world with those beautiful colors of yours."
"I didn't get you anything." She confessed, ah she forgot truly she was bad managing her time.
You brought her close and claimed her lips, it was different from So-chan but it was still the best gift that you could receive from her.
"Then I will take this from you." You told the very red Jack. "And will take everything treasure from you because I am just too greedy to don't want everything from Jack."
The greediest devil alive, that you were.
"Now, can you change to Jacky? I want to kiss her too." You told Jaclyn, after all you did wanted everything that she could give you.
That made Jack snap from her lalaland and looking at you with shock, Jaclyn must be panicking~
"Do you really think that I would miss any of you?" You did miss a few things, but someday you. "You can't trick my intuition."
"I-We-You!" Ah, she was panicking.
You could resist kissing your adorable Knight again, and to the greatest glee, this kiss feels different from the previous one. This was the absolute best!
"Silly Jack." You breathe out after separating. "I don't care anything else but that you, every aspect of you, is the Clouds of my Sky." You confessed how you truly feel, it didn't matter what happened before, in what they would become, or how much time passed over.
You want to become someone that would make everyone in your Famiglia happy of having a place to belong.
And your flames grasped that feeling like a lifeline, a True Resolution that burns more than your very own Greed.
Because you are the Sky and your elements will always belong to you.
"So what do you think about this?" You asked, feeling blazing enough to attempt something this insane. "Jaqueline?" And so you threw a gasoline tank into the volcano.
You moved reacted way before she could and crashed into the bed, your hands on hers, your eyes looking how the green twisted into something that you barely recognized. A giggle was her action, a simple and short giggles to herself as the expression of Jaqueline was hollow and asked you.
"So what you really think of little old me~?"
"That you are incredibly attractive and just made me hard." Damn your brain! It had only a single job!
"Eh?" She is distracted! An opening was made!
"Too late for regrets! Kiss!" And you kissed her too!
It was direct, sloppy, and messed up. It was just perfect for both of you.
"If you don't love this side of you." You barely could say while out of breath. "Then I just will love that side enough times for two, three or even thousands more to outclass that."
"You are too greedy." Jack's voiced your biggest flaw.
"That I am." And you are shameless about it.
"I didn't tell you to stop~" And Jacqueline called for the army!
And so you spend the rest of the night and part of the morning kissing your Knight. You were tired, barely awake, exhausted and so many other things but there wasn't a way that you weren't absolutely satisfied with your life choices.
And better get used to sleepiness nights. Your intuition is telling you that this is just the beginning,
Trait Gained:
Seas that Swallowed the Sky: The deepest love, so big and immense that you couldn't help but be swallowed until you couldn't notice it, it was the natural state of your life to love her. A world needed oceans and you needed Sona in your life. Can't crit fail actions involving Magical Girls.
Tittle Gained:
Crimson Shooting Star: The newest rising star devil of the devil faction, slayer of Ladon. A True Natural Dragon Slayer. A star that leaves a blazing trail in the sky.
Note: You are known and overestimated as the next Sirzechs. Many think that Kane's kill steal is legit by the fact that it could pierce Ladon's scales and flesh of Ladon like an arrow but Kane didn't he moved through the internal injuries and the path of zero resistance from a gaping wound to another. So basically you are now the Vali of the Devils.
The Heart of Ladon, the core of an Evil Dragon's existence. Earned not out Power or Glory of combat but sheer Guts and Opportunism, Beowulf said that you earned it and what you do with it is something that you only can decide. What is your path? (Choose 1)
You have gained too much attention, it was time to choose a fiancee. Your time limit was a single year, where you had to find a pureblood devil like you to maintain the Pillar relationships and keep it strong.
