In the middle of the darkness, a seductive voice begged for more, and the ragged breath resounded in your room. Your hips were giving up, your mind was getting fatigued, and only your will kept you going as you were close to reaching the climax once again. Indeed, this was the biggest challenge that only the manliest devils would dare to do, and you would breed the bunny even if you were cursed or ill! Thankfully, you had someone to help you with this task!
"It's still tight; I must forcefully open it." The seductive chuckle of the succubus MILF.
"AH, Shelia, wait!" Zest begged, but the naked desire in her eyes was clear for the succubus.
The tail of the succubus inserted deeply into her asshole, driving Zest into the last climax of the night. With a wanton moan, your Pawn finally dropped herself as she milked the last load, painting her womb with your seed.
"Thanks for the help." You wondered if you could satisfy Zest fast enough without help.
"You are welcome." The lewd grin on her face showed that she didn't take it as a favor. "What changed?"
"I am trying a new method, improving my technique instead of depending on only my body and Kane Jr." You admitted that just using your stamina and body doesn't win the war.
"You cursed yourself." She noticed very quickly.
"That I did, I almost forgot what it was to be weak." There wasn't anything wrong with what you did for the sake of improving… but your Intuition was triggered by extreme danger. "Can we just cuddle?" You asked Shelia, whose attention was now directed to you.
She laughed at that, and then you learned the true meaning of Femdom; having a harem wasn't all fun and games sometimes a King ends with the balls empty and feeling like the woman; after too many rounds to count later, you ended as a sweaty mess that was almost was a mirror to Zest's situation as your succubus lover stretched herself with a satisfied expression.
Similar to Nezuko after a good meal.
"Now, if you excuse m-Hmm?" The succubus MILF was interrupted.
You kissed her slowly and passionately before dressing up. You loved the gap that Shelia had when you were surprised like this. And when she huffed and went out of your room, there weren't doubts that you felt pride in making her react.
You have learned a lot about your lover. To court a succubus, there needed to be fewer words and more meaning behind actions. Dating her wouldn't work on courting this woman, but lovemaking and unlocking that seal on her womb would earn her heart… even if she was challenging you.
Sure, you almost knocked her up, BUT it isn't like you were going to ignore responsibility or marry her anyway. Your father was an excellent example of what to do after Grimmy was born and how he interacted with all your moms to know what to do if a true devil wants to succeed. And talking about your father, it was probably the broken condom curse because you didn't have elder siblings (Sirzechs doesn't count). The Civil War and the aftermath weren't suitable for the species.
Wait a second. Did Dad curse Lord Sitri and other Lords on his side so you could have a childhood friend born in the same year?
[He did.]
…You have the best dad.
That realization helped you to continue your studies. For the sake of honoring your father, you put all the drive that you had to learn to progress without the help of Clara, but the fact that you had a curse moving through your body every second of every day of your life and your Intuition bringing a constant influx of information into your brain.
Well, technically, two, the broken condom one will be helpful when the drawback hits you to knock up a woman. You probably will take it off when you have enough fertility saved or choose to make an heir because you are a…
[Complete suicidal moron]
And sooner or later, it will end up flirting with death itself or trying to murder a representation of it.
Grimmy, Rias, and your niece/nephew… gender?
[Unknown]
You pinched your nose. Your intuition was strengthening, and soon, it would advance again, making clear that you had to take a big risk to achieve the qualitative change. Jack's illusions were beginning to become hard to see through, and you knew that you were going to end up stagnating if you didn't begin to take matters as seriously as you had been.
"Train smart, train hard, train more than anyone, and then dream more than fiction so it becomes your reality," you murmured to yourself as you took one of the books from the library.
You still had so much more to learn, use, and improve.
A pair of books open, a few sheets of papers used up with many different pointers written over, and magic circles drawn into was what you ended up creating after working; Jack brought you a few cups of espresso that you consumed for the taste as there was just something magical about this type of beverage that filled your very existence with the sensation of 'This is my ambrosia and everyone that thinks different possess shit taste.'
Could you live on it instead of pure water and 'non-alcoholic drinks? It was a mystery that you wanted to find the answer, but alas, your Intuition activated just at the time to look at the perfect ass of Miyu moving as she tried to find some books.
"Miyu? What are you doing alone in the Library?" Even if part of your soul believes you were committing a sacrilege, you still leave your espresso alone to help your bishop.
"I am trying to prepare for school, Kane-san," Miyu responded, but her head was still deep in a lower book stash, and she moved her bottom as she kept searching.
Is she?
[She genuinely doesn't have secondary goals besides finding books]
Nobody would blame you for trying to confirm that Miyu was lewd in a conscious or unconscious manner. It feels like she was trying to seduce you instead of following the natural order of the world… You don't know if your penis would survive without Phoenix's tears if she was a Lust devil instead of Greed like you.
"What are you searching for? I can give you a hand; I am good at it." In multiple forms, nobody can blame you.
To your regret, it brought her out of her search, and she turned around to look at you with a severe expression.
"Magecraft, I have been having problems with Serafall-sama's lessons." Miyu-chan is trying her best! "As your Bishop, I must correct this fault before entering Babyls." She nodded resolutely.
More than you like to admit, at this moment, you feel like a captured target of the magical girl animes as your heart skips a beat. So much earnestness in her eyes is almost impossible to resist, but you manage to keep focused on your task and ask for the answer to your Intuition, and the answer surprises you.
[She is like a Acchan]
You couldn't help but have your eyes widen as you got this particular answer; Acchan was a devil whose manner of using magic was a rarity. Even with the inclusion of devil pieces, there wasn't a single devil that could use magic like him is just out of the question that you never thought about asking Acchan if he could help you with magic.
"We must meet Acchan!" You all but shouted as you took Miyu's hand and ran to ask your father permission to go visit the smartest devil.
But why stop there? You could bring all your girls and get some help unleashing the Dying Will Flames;; it was an advantage that your peers couldn't ignore.
Acchan should help; your peerage needs to know how to strengthen their flames instead of only working on their quality. You couldn't help on that, the only reason why your flames have grown is that your stupid as fuck desire to... have a will strong enough to get going when your legs are literally broken and crippled.
That was the only thing that you needed.
Whether you draw it from logic, hot-bloodedness, or sheer obstinacy and refusing to die is not important, you just need to be able to say "no and fuck you" to death, rules, and everything else when they stand in your way.
That is what you did to become a Dragon Slayer, that is what you did to get Ladon's heart, that is what you did when fighting Penthesilea, and that is the best method that you had to improve yourself was to reach that mindset and push forward.
You smiled as your path forward was finely crafted and now just needed to give Miyu's magic that she could cast to abuse the shit out of her insane reserves and then…
Then you all will do something extremely stupid and suicidal for the sake of power!
Your curses have improved massively through the sheer… stupid and moronic acts done this year. Choose the next focus to add.
[][Curses] Enhancing. You already had a good base maybe forcing a deeper connection between the user and item would be a new curve of learning.
[][Curses] Forbidden. Maybe you could affect your own (Physical) age if you learned how to use this to affect your appearance then many possibilities would be open for you.
[][Curses] Affliction. If you can affect yourself in a 'positive' way, then how about others. You understand yourself very well so other bodies wouldn't be much problem now.
Naturally your plans had to stop a minute when you ended so tired that you vomited your own breakfast for breaking your limits, the curse of weakening was incredibly effective when you casted it on your body! You didn't notice the stress and fatigue accumulated until the pain reached a point beyond the first session of training with Beowulf.
A weak body was fun and this interesting challenge was just the newest thing to overcome! If you couldn't then it would be a waste of your blessings.
This is Acchan, he is the smartest devil that I know
"I am sorry Head Director, he randomly input all the passwords of the lab."
"Even the special one?" Acchan asked with caution and seriousness.
"Including the special one." The secretary repeated with the same tone of seriousness.
To be fair, the numerical binary equivalent of 'Sirzechs' sucks and Ajuka's rulz' is something that you never expected from Acchan. But you supposed that it was something that only best friends would do and little bits like this shows the deeps of the bromance of your brother and Acchan's born from centuries of giving shit to each other.
"He has Luck." Acchan nodded. "At least we could work on confirming Grayfia's hypothesis." He commented as he pressed a few bottoms.
"Head Director." Called out the secretary. "Is highly illegal and completely immoral to keep a child around because is an interesting experiment with a child!"
"And?" Acchan lifts an eyebrow.
"When we can begin?" Now you understand why Acchan keeps her around but there was something extra, something that was clear in her actions.
How the eyes of the secretary moved towards the Acchan jr of Acchan was the last piece of the puzzle that you needed.
The secretary [Magellan] Maggie… was in love with Acchan! That was lucky, never once in your life, there was a chance of Acchan reproducing until now! That was something that you didn't believe possible as it was basically just anti-natural for Acchan to have a girlfriend, much less end up making a family with part of your mind even thinking that he legally married his very own lab in a private wedding centuries ago!
"Don't worry." You whispered to Maggie giving her a thumb up. "Keep fighting, I will give you an opening." You were Kane Gremory and you will wingman your dense friend!
Four hours later you regret those words, Acchan made extensive research over your flames and even managed to separate your Sky Flames into the six qualities of your spectrum mirrored with those of Earth, albeit in a state that was illusory and completely intangible formed by Kankara formula in the process of teaching Miyu's how it worked as she could somehow keep with him as he talked and asking questions that Acchan was very happy to answer.
You moved your head, the rest of your peerage minus Miyu was more like you. Multiple tests were done or questions asked that would leave them stuttering even Jack wasn't immune to the sheer power of improper questions made about our relationship and experiences since the flame awakening!
Poor Zest was taken by Maggie and returned as a blushing mess while Maggie had a bottle filled with… Is that?
[Is it.]
…Did Zest keep your seed inside her all day? That was both incredibly hot and embarrassing, as Acchan now had that in his possession.
You couldn't stop it.
You were too busy having a seizure and being tied up to a table from the talk of two super nerds, your Hyper Intuition was getting caught up trying to understand the undelaying concepts of their talk and keep up with the situation simultaneously. The theory was engraved inside your brain but wasn't usable and didn't fucking stop talking, digging more of the metaphorical nail in your brain!
"Strange… A mating pair?" Acchan murmured, he keeps checking the data.
Maggie perked up at that and gave a grateful smile that only you could see. Don't do that Maggie, this is Acchan and you doubt that it's possible for him to get a clue.
"We will keep the session short today, I will keep my schedule open and make some hours to keep up with your lessons." Acchan told Miyu and… Holy shit he is head patting her like a proud father?! What the…?
"Thanks, Mr. Beelzebub, is really fine to use Kane-san's nickname? [Can I call you dad?]." Did Miyu somehow form a paternal bond with Acchan out of all people!
"Don't worry, Acchan its fine [Father, but sure]." …Okay, what the fuck happened while you were having a seizure?
The only thing that you could truly understand was that now Miyu is going to spend a good amount of time with Acchan and her records are going to be altered soon. Acchan is also going to visit more to retrieve Miyu for her lessons and what you could understand to be a father-daughter bonding activity.
This was one of those days… but you are pretty sure that Acchan and Miyu pretty much adopted each other in a way that only you could figure out through your Intuition.
Was this something that only the ultra-smart people could do? Multiple conversations in the middle of nerd stuff? Could even be called nerd stuff when is basically magic?
You still gave your all thanks to Acchan and retired with Miyu and the rest of your peerage who was in a similar state of fatigue, you didn't doubt that most didn't get a single thing from what Acchan said and his experiments as his power of boring others to a coma were just beyond any form of attention from a young devil.
Maria even looked like her own brain was melting from second hand information,
All of you dropped into your room, looking like different snails or another species that lacked bones as all of you decided to just become part of it, Acchan was just too much and the mechanics were something that you couldn't truly see.
"Did anyone understand Acchan?" Maria, the snail succubus asked. Come on body just list a hand and touch the booty!
There were just murmurs of denials through multiple places in the bed… it was a bad idea to ask Acchan, he was more worried about Miyu's lessons and vivisecting your familiar than making sure that every one good a clear idea of what to do.
Wait, a second, where is Miyu?
"Dying Will Flames divided into seven archetypes in the two Spectrums that are Earth and Sky. Both being also the flames that rule over them." Miyu-chan became Miss Exposition!
She even was dressed like a teacher Kane Jr reacted but being mentally tired wasn't full size, so you gave yourself a pat on the back for how much your skill on curses has grown without the one coursing through your body it would break your pants already.
That pencil skirt is something beyond this world!
"Every single one has a color and property for Sky is Harmony and is formed through the balance of all the flames. The Purple Cloud is Propagation, the Indigo Mist is Construction, the Green Lightning is Hardening, the Red Storm is Disintegration, the Blue Rain is Tranquility and the Yellow Sun is Activation." Miyu probably explained with more detail but you ended losing yourself on her cosplay.
You didn't think that glasses would fit her so well.
"Every single time a Guardian Flame is added to the Peerage a connection is formed on the Sky's soul and permanently bond to the each other." Miyu words made you focus on the newest Mist and Lightning inside your Sky. "And allows them to bring up the natural desire and manifest the Will of the guardians, the Sky is high conceptual and their function augments the actions of the user."
You were awesome, praise me more Miyu-sensei!
"The same occurs with familiars who attuned themselves to the Dying Will flames." Miyu brought out the importance of Familiars, truly you have to get some for your peerage "They change and can bring out different capabilities from the attribute." And 'Little Bitch' was almost finishing your own weapons.
Having a crafter was really useful when it just wants to do amazing stuff… Acchan did force the poor thing to learn into becoming almost every single tool and electronic in the lab.
"The Earth side is way more unknown because Acchan's [Father's] couldn't go deeper from Kane-san's Sky Flame alone." Miyu explanation was clear, you needed to make an Earth flame your woman for the sake of many members of your peerage. "What I know is that Maria's affinity is Swamp and is the counterpart of Storm while Zest's affinity is Mountain who is the counterpart of Lightning."
Many things were incomplete but still was a good exposition from Miyu-sensei who awakened something into you, was teacher fetish or just cosplay in general? It didn't matter as you would greatly reward the person who put this idea of normality in Miyu's head.
"There are also additional proprieties like the highly explosive power of Sky flames or more solid consistency of Lightning." Miyu finished her lesson and smiled proud of herself. "Questions?"
"My question is, why the name?" So-chan asked… when did she get here!?
Moving your head you could barely see Fi-chan searching through your underwear before slowly closing it… She almost found your secret stash and agenda! Truly you underestimated her.
"Because the trigger is an emotion as strong as the last desire that one haves before dying. For me is my Greed, to protect what is mine and the will for what I desire to reach ignites my flames." You answered instead of Miyu, your flames came forward easily as your resolution was already unshakable. "A devil must be ambitious, that sort of resolution is why I am strong and nobody will take you all from me." And you included everyone in the room.
"Touch it, would give you a better idea of how to trigger yours." Jack was helpful from her place using your lap as her pillow.
"You sure? Bova's scales burned after." Oh, Fi-chan saw a recording of your fight? Neat, this would advance your plans.
"Because he will not hurt us." That voice was one that you didn't recognize and 'loud' unspoken 'dumbass' to the magical girl made clear that to bully them.
So you slowly moved your head to the direction and saw who talked.
Did Nezuko take her muzzle off to call someone about their stupidity? More specifically the one of a magical girl?
[Yes, she did]
You never have been so proud of her, you are going to spend so much time kissing her and fuzzing over her!
"I already have mine." Zest confessed showing an interesting little thing of stones and magma covered in flames.
"Since when?" You couldn't help but ask, sure you were focused on your own training but you surely would notice if she
"…" Her blush intensified and your Intuition told you why.
…Her resolution came out when she was shouting at you to impregnate her while milking you a load. That was incredibly hot, and you didn't have an idea if she could end up beating your broken condom curse if she had that amount of motivation.
[Could happen, Dying Will Flame is about willpower to fuck with reality.]
…You should be preparing yourself for possible surprising paternity.
With that decision taken you decided to go towards the babysitters and ask to have time with Grimmy and Rias to train your talents as caretaker with your own little siblings and use that experience in case of unplanned paternity of a few centuries earlier than expected.
Later.
Way later, Miyu was in that cute outfit and you will be dammed if you didn't figure a way to save this figure into your mind and porn glossary. With a look at Maria, you communicated all your ideas by the power of sheer horniness as the young Succubus nodded seriously at your unspoken orders and completely accepted to accomplish her duty.
With the bonds of two perverts united by the same cause, a promise that didn't have words to be understood was made.
Of your two little sisters, Grimmy was your favorite.
How couldn't she not be the favorite when you saw so much of yourself in her? Both of you lacked the Power of Destruction after you did make you feel a little connection with this particular sibling while Rias was more like Sirzechs talented and all that she needed to triumph from the moment that she came into this world.
Rias was calmer when there was something that could distract her, while Grimmy was actively making herself a living nightmarish monster.
But there weren't mistakes Rias was the type that was easily influenced and Grimmy was in the perfect position to turn her older sister into her minion if you didn't put your foot down to stop that before it becomes too late to change the ingrained instincts.
Rias and Grimmy were in need of learning that the peeking order of this family was Mom's Army, Grafia, You, Dad, Rias/Grimmy, and then Sirzechs in that perfect order.
"What." The red-haired Knight deadpans at you as you bounce Grimmy softly as she was laughing happily.
Surt II looked like he was having an aneurysm.
"Now who is the best?" A laugh leaves you, just as Rias climb your back to look at her sister. "This is easy!"
"What." Surt II didn't have more words, he looked like you were breaking the laws of decency and common sense by just being a good brother.
You took the bottles with baby milk formula out of your inventory and heated them up with your flames, perfect temperature and with Harmony the mix was more than adequate. You had to change brands for your sisters, they didn't like minotaur origins and soy types of the human were something that you refuse to buy when there were better options on Underworld.
Grimmy preferred Lamia's blood mixed with hydra's bone powder and milk of the more feline type while the canine type like dog-based species was a secondary option. You marked it as a Pooka thing, as she had a rather exclusive taste.
Rias, on the other hand, needed Royal Honey from the Demonic Hornets mixed with some alchemical herbs and milk from cows of non-supernatural origin so the taste of the latter is overpowered. She has a very impressive sweet tooth.
Feeding your sisters was easier than you thought, just put the bottle close and they will take them from your hands and drink like a pair of sailors.
"What is happening?" You hear the babysitters ask aloud.
The pair looked like they had an existential crisis while watching you do their jobs, they were bitching a lot and Beowulf was right, babysitting is easy and nothing compared to the life or death fight as they made it look.
"Kaka. Ana tadr mae." Grimmy tried to say something but naturally didn't understand a single word.
[She wants more time with you and to see what you like to do.]
You probably should be training, it probably will be good for your sisters the look how you lived your life and how amazing was your peerage.
"Surt, can you train my peerage on flames again?" "I will be busy with Grimmy for a while to teach them."
"Don't worry I will do my best." The fire giant responded with a smile before running away taking Souji with him.
You waited a few moments until your intuition told you that you three were out of the adult's earing range before you looked at your sisters with a complete look of seriousness.
"This is called coercion and blackmail." You began to teach the hard-earned wisdom from being born in this Pillar. "There are multiple forms of using this power and once you master it they will completely follow your words without thinking about it."
Grimmy clapped and smiled happily while Rias' eyes shinned at this 'power' that you were imparting to them.
You made a sort of routine soon after, by taking Grimmy and Rias from the Babysitters hands they were more than motivated to teach your peerage the best that they could, Gremmy loved every second of it as she learned that subtle actions that could make others squirm of fear and Rias is a sleepy child when her sister didn't call her.
Apparently, your name was Kaka or caca from the babies' perspective, you had mixed feelings when your sisters were called you 'shit' with a smiling face.
But things changed when you decided the best method in existence to grow in power fast and with the appropriate fundaments.
Piss out someone stronger than you!
And so your whole peerage began to fight against the pissed-off army of pestilence Yokai that Souji's summoned while Surt II tried to calm him as your sisters watched with a lot of attention and protected with a group of Jacks.
Truly, this was one of your best ideas!
You could very well feel how much your personal fighting style was being refined, less wasteful in terms of energy and movement, reaching faster and stronger with an improved technique, your familiar constantly changing shapes from a gun to blow the brains off to a hammer to break the skulls as you send some poor son of bitch back to the Yomi itself.
Calling orders on the battlefield made your voice feel so damn energized and your Intuition improved as you keep planning and effectuating different moves in this improvised battlefield keeping attention on multiple individuals of your peerage to use perfectly.
[Bishop moves to a better position.]
Miyu began to acclimatize to the use of Kankara Formula, her magic continuously moving from a spell matrix to another changing as was required from barrier magic to the creation of water before a flash-freezing as a temporal measure or disruption of the spell formation, she was improving, once she found a flow to follow her skill with Kankara formula and augmenting with her own flames as possible.
You made sure of giving opportunities to use Construction and Hardening properties.
[Pawn to Bishop. Support and control]
Zest's own spell craft accompanied her as your senpai keep making different structures and control the battlefield, perfect for the role of supporter be slowing down the enemy or making sure they didn't reach Miyu or give her time to regain her footing and counterattack, openings for Maria that allows a safety net.
Not many orders were given, she was already good and experienced in battle. She was getting used to using her flames and the concept of Tuning.
[Pawn to Rook. Destruction and Delay]
Maria was lazy, talented, and undisciplined, much potential that was being unleashed from her own blood made sure of it on both sides. Just needed to be forced out and then just trigger her natural instincts, something that was happening incredibly fast as she was improving at a visible rate from pure constant battle and having fun in the process of refining what she already had into the best possible form.
Naturally, discovering that the Swamp flame was capable of doing means that you probably committed a terrible error against the sense of decency by giving a succubus with the blood of Asmodeus, the power of destroying clothes.
[Knight takes over the offensive.]
Jack didn't need order and already acted as your second, no words were exchanged and she already knew what needed to be done, the other Jacks acted as additional mouths or anything else that you could end up needing, by herself she keep a whole third occupied, her skill and power was top tier and not much attention needed besides making sure that she didn't over spread and keep some Yokai from Souji for the rest of the peerage.
At this point, she was just establishing her place in the dynamics of the peerage and taking over the duties of Queen… She is turning into a very good mastermind.
[Rooks break enemy lines and make an opening.]
Nezuko was a juggernaut, just destroying and killing using electrifying claws, her mouth taking pieces of every single enemy, taking heat from many other members in the peerage and finally using as many tools of her macabre toybox of biological weapons to test what worked better including the Lightning frost barriers and creation of Hardened frost shots made by her own poisonous spit, you were glad on having her at your side but she was getting distracted with the dissipating dead bodies so you ordered her to eat them while they were 'alive' to make the most of this chance.
She needs to work on her accuracy, many of her long-range attacks are only hitting by being focused on AoE, and was wasting a lot of energy by doing that. More training in her flames would help with it.
[Fatigue threshold reached]
That was your limit, until now you didn't notice when your body became a sweaty mess, the vision was wavering now, but it didn't take the smile in your face as you could keep fighting like this and keep up with your peerage… it was getting easier, much more than you expected as your body just moves without waste anything.
It took time, a long time before the battle finished and you almost forgot about the babies watching, and when you turned to something that made you wish that Jacqueline didn't enjoy spanking and any other of punishment that you could imagine would only give her some encouragement.
"Surt... how are the babies…?" You could complete the sentence and just ask the giant that was keeping Souji in a full nelson and incapable of moving while he rages.
"They are literally hell spawns, young fire giants do some spars with weapons at their age." Correction, Surt II isn't a responsible caretaker!
They were playing with weapons while Jacqueline was making sure that they don't poke their own eyes.
"Daabay." Grimmy stopped Rias, apparently planning something.
"Da Da." Rias was too stubborn.
"Kaka mou." Grimmy continued, she doesn't accept the 'words' of her sister.
"Suga mommy pyu pe." Rias pointed at you… and you feel existential pain that Rias called you a 'mom'.
"Kaka! Riri?" Gremmy asked her sister something after greeting you with the oversized weapon in her hand, you didn't miss how her own magic weaves around her sister.
Rias through for a second, focused before her face and the dagger lift up!
"Grigri, mi ka!" Shouted your full-blooded sister as she throw the weapon at Souji with… Unholy Satan raping angels in afterlife! Did Rias just use a sword laser?! That was awesome!
It was a blast of power of destruction condensed on a dagger, she shouldn't be capable of even triggering mom's bloodline much less doing something that almost took the eye of Souji… who apparently was shocked enough to get out of his berserker rage.
"They are related to our King." Surt II said the obvious and just now you were feeling a bit more worried.
"Grigri mimir." The sleepy Rias told Grimmy, she must have used all her reserves on that.
"Riri mimir. Grigri melly haha." Grimmy told Rias with a nod.
"Kane." And then she began to snore.
...Okay, Intuition do your job and translate what the hell was said.
[Translation: Mimir: Sleep, Kane: Luck, Kaka: Kane, Riri: Rias, Grigri: Grimmy, Suga Mommy: Kane, Pyu pe: laser, Mi Ka: I can!, Da Da: Nah ah!, Dabai: Yabai!, Melly: Very, Haha: Funny.]
…Inner Kane you are a smartass dick and know perfectly that this wasn't asked this, you had to spend a few rewinding the conversation, acquiring a new life lesson in the process babies are dangerous and you really shouldn't reproduce for a long time if this is what you will be expecting.
In the end, you were right and thankfully you didn't have to sacrifice the weapons that your familiar made a pair of pair of black and red gloves, that change form after channeling flames through them into gauntlets. Mostly red, with a G Emblem in the middle with an orange circle around it reading 'Gremory' and 'Famiglia'.
A nice touch from that little bitch, Caelum Ardor would fit too but well Family and Famiglia are something invaluable to you, putting both is a good mid-point.
It also helps that it gave you the idea to trigger a Wrath devil off.
By reminding Okita Souji of his former boss Hijikata Toshisou and how said boss fucked his sister and then died while telling Souji that if she is pregnant then is his and the breeding hips alongside the lifesaving thighs of her sister were worth it.
You could respect Hijikata for using his last moments alive to give shit to one of his best friends.
You lost your leadership privileges for group activities and relaxation.
That was absolutely fair, you enjoyed it but your tastes weren't something that was universally shared by everyone. It was effective and everyone got access to their flames by the end of it, Maria specially managed to get something resembling to fighting skills instead of just doing random things.
You were a Skill type specialist, by word of Beowulf was your specialty and greatest focus in the regular categories, just incredibly hard to get gut at it with how much you focus on keeping up your training on every single weapon and form of fighting. What can you say? You liked your options open and always be prepared for anything instead of depending on a single thing.
Going back to the point, you wanted at least some basic competency instead of pure raw power.
If you had to sell your privacy and accept Maria will show porn videos of you and any member of your harem that agrees, mainly Zest and Shelia, to her best friend… Okay, the price was way lower than you thought, it was something that you already did and the only difference is that it will be shown to a girl that you will marry in the future.
"Moore-!" She wanted it roughter.
Huh, you forgot that you were experimenting with Marnie, Miku (white doggo), and the pervy dog girl. You could change 'deres' with a good enough application of headpats.
[Is foreplay and you know it]
Having a new friend[pet] was relaxing, and you could see the sister tackling each other to get a turn. The cause was the latest breakthrough inside your candy labs, the discovery of one of the substances that could be classified as one of the most valuable and powerful ever imagined whose existence resulted from an experiment that you 'interrupted' while checking off your pawn.
[Zest enjoyed the surprise butt sex don't worry.]
The discovery of the Fourth Flavor as the namesake of the fourth state of matter in the sweethood, was something that caught everyone by surprise a flavor of Ice Cream so perfect that couldn't be sullied and if something like sprinkles is added then it would conceptually dissipate itself into nothingness. This wasn't just Ice Cream but one that reached the status of supernatural and began to work under its own laws as the perfection of what could be reached for Ice Cream.
A very regulated substance as a single taste managed to affect massively the devils in your organization, Clara, for example, has been trying to reproduce the fourth flavor with her bloodline but failing for the last few hours skipping all the classes so she could learn the secrets of this creation of the family… she who had the tamest reaction.
Marnie and her Queen showed you why you needed to limit the consumption, the cat that she had ended in a state of complete enlightenment as her brain basically melted after the third cone while having the expression that was drugged out more than peace and hippie throughs… maybe being high as fuck was better for cats?
Marnie on other hand ended up suffering a triple regression to doghood, she hasn't gotten used to sweets and was overwhelmed by the waves of pleasure from the Fourth Flavor entering in her mouth, it was just too powerful for her, and ended up acting on pure instinct. Then the other two decided to taste to see why their 'sister' ended 'barking' and 'woofing' instead of saying words.
The rest is history, you skipped classes to keep Marnie from making a fool of herself and worked on getting her back to reconstructing her mind from complete collapse.
With a mind broken heiress in your lap changing appearances and hair colors in the response to your touch, you meet So-chan again who entered into your domains to check the true reason of her defeat as you planned when you managed to bribe the principal and teachers with children to allow Maria in Babyls through the use of their mayor weakness the debts that their sons and daughters had with you.
You had a speech prepared, you practiced it a few times with Jack and Miyu as preparation for it as you had waited a whole year for your victory. A whole year of working as a Criminal Mastermind to improve your mind only for a chance to gloat like you haven't done in all your life because your continuous defeats just made it sweeter.
Then she watched the scene around your black market and decided to do a 180 twist and run to call Sera-nee while Fi-chan murmured things of 'Oh, this is worse than expected', 'Just like those doujins' and 'Maybe if I…' before becoming too red to continue and run away with So-chan.
[Smart girl.]
You had to agree with it, you had become just too powerful and knows
[…Yeah, sure, let's go with that.]
You ignored that last snip, and began to check out the balance of your operations, including when your incompetent subordinates included that one who cosplay as Rex Raptor was defeated by someone called Mary H. Watson when they began to expand in her Turf.
You will have to do a lecture, if that territory was already claimed they shouldn't have tried to expand there.
It wasn't truly important in the long run, your business already reached Lucifaad and showed a strong foundation through your own territory and partially in Belial, no bad at all even if you ended losing London to this 'Mary' the sheer quality of your important investment do more to tip the balance to your favor, now how many of them ended dying in the turf war?
[No one.]
Huh, apparently she followed your rules while hunting down that branch of the Caelum Ardor Famiglia.
That was interesting, many times things were decided with violence, and unfortunately, almost nobody tries that but…
What is her name?
[Juliette Moriarty]
Your Grin grew, your Greed began to burn, and the girl in your lap began to tremble. You have been a little too rough in your petting/caressing and driving her into edge instead of relaxing her, it puts in perspective how much you have changed from the beginning of the year that you could notice things like that without your intuition.
Shelia was a good teacher, but sex was secondary to the emotional orchestra that you could see and understand, maybe that is why you liked so much expand your relationships.
[You are just a natural manslut]
"Jack report." You choose to ignore the truth.
"As the deal made with the staff Ravel was put in the same class as Nezuko and Maria, Nezuko didn't eat anyone as she took a stance of too weak to have taste, and Maria ended undressing three different teachers with her flames."
"Was she discovered?" Today was a calm day in comparison to what has been done this year.
"Her skill on Mist Flame is second to Miyu." And completely outclassed by Jack "Two me have been reinforced the illusions to keep the honor of the teachers, blackmail was gathered as always." With that smug smile on her face, Jack shows how happy she was.
[Pervert Jack vs Closet Pervert Miyu]
Your right hand was very good at her job, things are going perfectly continuously and without doubt a with her at your side there was nothing that you could…
[DANGER!]
Ladon? You couldn't help but ask if the level of terror that invaded your body was something that reminded you of that moment in your life.
[No. Strong but bellow Ladon. Ultimate turned High Class.]
Dismissed too, weakened and Shadow of former self. More skilled than should be for the tier but less than it was originally. More data was acquired by your Intuition beginning to analyze more and more of the enemy that was getting closer as you prepared for the battle.
[Not true body.]
What does that mean? Your Intuition wasn't making sense. What does that mean?
[Imitator? No. Reincarnation? No. Possessed or Copy? Yes.]
You decided to put the gloves made by your familiar, they turned into gauntlets with a burst of flames, Hyper Mode triggered, curses broke, enough? No. Your intuition confirmed that it wasn't enough by an incredible amount of power you are surpassed.
[A True Hero. Church Affiliation. Holy]
"Jack get everyone out." You gave your orders immediately, Marnie awakened and moved away, there was clear fear on her face.
That cat had her hair spiking like a hedgehog as the survival instincts exploded, you had less time than you through.
"Kane?" She asked worried, she read you well to know that you were feeling fear.
"Miyu is in the library, Zest in the lab, Maria with Ravel, and is trying to eat the pets from the clubs." You continued talking, trying to keep strength in your voice. "Tell Riser to organize a retreat and get as many that you can out."
"We can help." She begged.
Allies? You asked for a moment before the data came.
[You fist hits a shield, spear pierces the head of your Rook, Nezuko is dead a few seconds later revived as she struggles from the holiness and double-tap instants later.
Zest defensive measures last enough for an opening, no much more before the piercing.
Jack...]
You closed your eyes and calmed yourself, despair turned into determination as this was a solo, no duet or trio. Your peerage wouldn't be sacrificed, much less a worthless one. You didn't question why the danger wasn't the same to you and didn't care at the moment.
"…you can't, focus on getting Sera-nee, Sirzechs, Baldy or Acchan I don't care who, just do it while I stall." Stall, never mentioned anything about winning. You can't promise that, and Jack noticed it.
"Kane!" She shouted, your focus wasn't enough to truly see her.
No, when there was an enemy getting closer by the second and you needed to get everyone away as soon as possible.
"Is an order, not a petition or favor." You gave a side-eye look as you got out of your office, and her expression changed very fast into acceptance.
It hurts having this trust and not knowing if you could...
"…I will come fast. [Don't die]" Jack's expression made it clear that you didn't need help to understand that.
You feel how the students of Babyls retiring from your territory, the presence of a few particulars lingering before one per one disappearing from your range. You were truly alone, except by those in the buildings.
You took a deep breath, and closed your eyes to focus once again on your intuition, the wind was moving a few leaves, the birds were chirping, the sound of your flames and the smell and so…
You hit a bitch in their face before your head was pierced by a green spear.
You didn't feel the familiar feeling of bones cracking, be yours or from your enemy, the heat from life, or anything else that you truly related to the breath of life. This was what your intuition means as you finally could take a good look at your enemy.
It was a puppet, a shell of magic was around it in the shape of a woman but you couldn't truly see her appearance, it was shadowed there was the silhouette of a beautiful woman, one that you would like to see truly smile instead of a fight until one of the two ends dying.
But that was just a silhouette… there wasn't even dead.
"I am Bradamante." Lies, you had to put your will into closing your mouth and let it keep talking. "And I come to save the world by retrieving the Holy Grail." That smile was fake, a motion preprogrammed.
Your mind goes through different possibilities, first one is making sure that she is distracted by talking and doing a monologue.
"Then you are very lost, my Faction hasn't found that particular treasure, and I am pretty sure that." You answered without a single lie, all the factions search for it and if the devils had it then you wouldn't know.
"Don't worry isn't The Holy Grail of this World, the one that I want is someone that came from my world." The close eyes and smile would touch the strings of any man with her beauty but not yours. "It came here a few hours so I was going search here." Oh, those fuckers are dead, they will trigger Acchan or Sirzechs... so that means that you are fucked and need to survive even longer.
"Like you trying to kill me and everyone on my turf to skip wasting time?" You have to keep talking don't allow the battle to continue as much as you could.
She looked a little sheepish at your snarky shot, but you knew that it was fake and used to lower guard from others.
[She wasn't going to answer as isn't part of her program, there isn't regret because of lack of true emotions and sense of self.]
"One can't ever know with Phantasmal Species like yours." Racist puppeteer? Well, fuck you too. "That you are willing to talk shows intelligence and capability to negotiate." The more this thing talks, the more annoyed it is.
"You want a parlay, sure tell your thing."
"The world is heading towards destruction." Well… shit, you didn't expect that. "We came here to try to prevent it and save all the people in the world."
[Truth.]
"What do you want?" You asked, information could be valuable.
"The end of the world that I come from needs the Holy Grail, my mission is to find Sakatsuki Miyu." You feel your heart stop, as the realization that your Bishop was being targeted.
No the devils of Babyls, no your famiglia as a whole, not even yourself… It was Miyu who brought this danger.
[Famiglia protects each other.]
Miyu was powerful, she was beautiful, she was talented, she was smart, she was blessed in so many ways that it was easy to figure out that she was someone special… that so many factors existed for a reason. But you didn't know why she was targeted, did they discover the Kankara Formula? Did they want their reserves? What is the reason for this?
"…Miyu?" You voiced out from the shock, this was much.
"Marvelous, you know the Holy Grail. Just like The Son of God, her sacrifice will allow the rest of humanity to live." Once those words were said, you only cared about a single one.
Sacrifice, they wanted to kill her.
"Your world and everyone there deserves to die." Were the first words that come from your mouth, the most honest response possible for you.
Ducking to avoid decapitation was a pain, but it made clear that you touched a nerve.
"How dare you!?" Oh, the puppeteer is pissed off.
"You wouldn't understand; I get it sounds nice that thing of exchanging a single coin for billions of dollars." You truly do, you control a nascent organization with more and more people putting their trust on you. "Even if we wouldn't see it. That amount is quite simple, a deal that would change life for good." The type of deal that you would agree on in many cases.
This wasn't one of them and just smirked at the puppet.
"I am just too greedy, she is worth it to me and much more than that." She was your Bishop, and a King would never betray his peerage.
You couldn't even think of a single day where you didn't want to make her be happy, you wanted to see her smile, to wanted to see her cute blush, you wanted to be the home that she deserves, you wanted to see her feelings grow and admit that she feels the same as you do every time that you saw her.
"I am a devil since when I should give a fuck about humanity?" You admitted to the holy warrior, you didn't care how many enemies.
For her, you had to be the Sky beyond any of them.
And she was just more than enough to kill all inside Babyls if you weren't here today, her spear is a magic spear that has the ability to knock people off their feet with every blow it deals, and only your Intuition and flames keeps you from giving her an opening to go for the killing no many of your fellows could truly stand a chance. But combined with the magic shield, she can use blinding attacks to harm her enemies, shooting rays of light that would incinerate so those weak enough, and leaving a trail of heavenly flame that purifies if your flames didn't fight them off.
It was a nightmare made real, a being that your mothers told you about when it was time to sleep as the boogeyman so children learned to not imitate the progenitors of the pillars, the First Generation would live but the kids just will die like the Old Satan Faction.
The more her assault continues, the more your fear grows inside your very soul.
You fought with your all, you avoided and parry with the gloves that saved your life while you avoided.
Your hands feel so heavy, the blows could be felt through the gauntlets and the natural fear of your species keeps the adrenaline going through your body. Most of your tricks to predict using your enchanted senses were useless here and only depended on your Intuition to see
You pushed beyond and broke the limits to truly see.
You predicted the soul, the telegraph motions that the puppet follows and the shell tries to imitate. The true Bradamente manner of fighting, was something that would kill most of your kin and comparison was laughable as you took that guide and use it to survive more than you should really be capable off.
You have to admit that you are scared beyond even Ladon now, you wanted to run out of here, you wanted to cry about how unfair this all was, you wanted to do many things to show how much this was affecting you as you keep fighting through a nightmare as you keeps growing into something that will follow you if you didn't keep fighting.
[You blood was going to stain the soil and walls if you retreated]
You refused to flinch and allowed yourself to be stabbed just to keep the weapon in place for a moment, a suicide as you knew how Holy would affect you but your grip was strong as you refused to allow the pain beat you and inserted your free hand on one of the eyes of the puppet. The disadvantage of the mimicry was that the shell of mana around the puppet couldn't fix that without breaking the illusion of life.
Your wings unfolded as the cry of pain came from her, the thrusters aimed at her and the Hard flames were unleashed as her remaining eye opened on show.
The blast came, you forced your wings to give more than ever before and didn't care when you crashed on the building as the result of your attack.
You needed to be brave, you wanted to discover what was happening, and you wanted to protect no matter how you scared you were-! Your eyes widened from shock.
That last attack It was-! You cursed as you feel a tiny crack forming from a counter.
It was an error to use your wings she didn't take damage from the short-range burning and recovered her spear. You need something even stronger if you wanted to truly hurt her, your blows were barely doing any effect, and both are getting used to the other tricks with you getting used faster out of having to earn them instead of just copying them from a soul battery.
Multiple plans came forward with a single thought your mind moved through them as your burning fist clashed against the shield, being blind of a side affected the performance but not enough to have a clear weakness to exploit as your needed to make the opening in the defenses grow enough to crack.
An assault came and you flew into her like a meteor aiming to bring her down.
But her reflexes were beyond your max speed.
One of the wings was cut off in the exchange, the spear cut severed it and so you smiled as the colors changed to a deep green from your mimic covering Bradamante's body. She tried to take your familiar off from her body but you swiped her legs a moment of distraction used to destroy her balance, so you could hit her in the stomach to drive her away.
The skills stolen were more than enough to for her to recover and ignore your little bastard tendrils grasping her body as it was acquiring a better grip.
Many would-be distracted by what could be considered porno but they were morons this puppet didn't have sexual organs and the body reactions were all wrong, a pity you needed all possible advantages here.
[Three]
The strength of Elttil wasn't enough to obstruct her movements and was ignored while you keep fighting to avoid any outcome as your very skin began to burn for a trump card.
[Two]
Her attention into you, Elttil turned into a bomb with a smiley face and exploded unleashing a torrent of flames, she was a rocked now and directed to you. Respect must be given, she positioned and reacted to kill you in the instant that both meet.
[One]
You only needed to use her blind spot for the perfect position for your checkmate, her lost eye was used to give you this chance and the last one that you will have if you wanted to win instead of just surviving.
[Zero]
You lost control of the emotions so your Harmony pushed the fuel, the flow of your wings inversed to absorption and what is used, the flow of flames and aura move to condense on a single point, the nature of World Breaker compress and break defenses while the Sky gives help to aim this single shot. Blood boils, under skin veins, and arteries of one of your arms were pressured by blood getting close to evaporating.
[Ignite]
Your open palm touched the stomach. The stream and heat found the discharge route. All while you looked directly at your opponent's eye as for the first time you had an attack that she couldn't defend or ignore.
"Soffio Esplosivo."
All was unleashed on a focused beam, a burning inferno that was capable on set on fire a castle was unleashed in a single place, the flames passed through the insides and you could see as the 'clothes' were reduced to ashes.
You smirked as the impact of your own physical might followed and send her into the inferno behind her.
"Rest in ashes bitch." You whispered, only to feel regret moments later. "Fuck, I should have a prepared better one-liner for this."
Your body began to be hit with the fatigue and began to relax your flames only to have them self-trigger to move you without any mental command.
[Round 2!]
With the alarm of your Intuition, you managed to avoid impalement from an attack of your opponent. Was this sheer frustration what others feel when their spells don't do shit against you? A second-grade burn was all that you managed to get, and it was just a visual thing instead of a true thing!
You put your frustration into the burner to get more fuel to ignite your willpower. Only melee will be something that would truly work if you wanted to kill this bitch.
Little Bitch reformed into your hand, a great sword was something that your familiar turned into. Different from your preferred style, your balance was destroyed by the extra weight but you knew how to use at your favor.
An important lesson of Beowulf was always fear the madman that does a summersault in the air with a zweihander. And you with an added speed and acceleration highly explosive flames impacted into the shield like that.
[Keep going crazy]
And you did, pulling stupid shit after stupid shit that was impossible and improbable, that looked just 'cool' and lacked substance to annoy but then turned into a highly brutal attack. Your small size was an advantage to performing aerial maneuvers, but never fly as your intuition warned you against. You laughed like a mad man to hide how much of a big risk you took, you lied constantly in your actions to make you look strong, and you bluffed and bluffed because you didn't find a manner of winning.
You are Kane Gremory a liar and faker when found a true strong enemy, instead of showing how much you truly feel keep fighting to not allow the other side the satisfaction of seeing you squirm as you desperately try to survive a second more.
You will fake be a strong and tough devil until the day that this mask becomes reality.
"Enough! Helix restraint!" The doll shouted, patience was broken with just two flaws in her body without a single injury besides those that you risked everything to make.
The magical surge blew you away from Bradamante, there wasn't a strength of conviction or pleasure in winning, there wasn't anything that showed that she really cared about what she was doing instead of following motions as the magic envelops you in a prison made of storms.
"With all I have! With my very soul!" The chant of this power just made you sick.
You hated it.
The world was getting distortional and turning around on impossible ways from the beginning to the end but you could still see it and feel the danger as Bradamante was gaining speed.
You Hated it.
"Leaving billions of people to die, remember villain the more danger the innocents of the world are, the more powerful this attack becomes." You didn't care about that, you still fought against the world. "You can't escape the judgment of Justice. Bouclier d'Atlante!"
YOU HATED IT.
So infuriating that she… this puppet keeps repeating those words… always others… always void… always just a meaningless set of words that lacked any sort of resolution as you were fighting while your soul burned until the last moment.
Memories of past opponents came, the death was a moment when you saw it flash and understood their sides of the conflict.
Bova's wrath as you took something that belonged to him. It was righteous and something that you would do too if someone take something that was yours.
All the spawns of Ladon's had their very own desire to live and keep trying to fight even seconds after being born. The desire to live was always why you fought so hard, you loved this life and refused to surrender it.
Ladon's desire was something that you understood and made you as repulsed as you grudgingly accepted his strength of will to fight the whole world to make his own.
Penthesilea's own wrath at your words was crazed with such an amount of emotion that you couldn't but admire.
And you were going to lose to a puppet without feelings or emotions, just a phantom that doesn't even share a single memory whose blows lack the weight of desire or the drive of living to smile the next day?
[The storm needs to be broken.]
You still pushed your arms against the storm of magical power that keeps you trapped, wings already spread and the hard flame as you tried to make an opening,
"I still don't like this part of myself that still refuses to lose hope." You admitted that you couldn't help but keep your flames burning to force a miracle. "This stupid and utterly hopeless need to just give even more than is possible to just I feel that I am not enough!" You admitted it was the truth that you were scared to the shitless, that you knew that the difference of power was so big that you… were just an insect.
"Then surrender and die! What is worth so much that you are willing to sacrifice the lives of an entire world?!" The shout reminded you of why you were fighting here.
You promised something.
You promised to someone.
You promised… because…
"What man needs other reason than looking cool in front of the girl that he likes?" The intensity of your flames burned further, avoiding was impossible and you could only hope to tank this and survive the best that you could.
"You are just a little bastard that doesn't know anything!" The 'Hero' shouted, not caring anymore of putting off the snarl. "You don't understand the weight that we carry, you don't want to understand the fear of losing everything or the will that I am carrying."
…That… Was…
"You don't care nothing more than satisfy your own ego, to beat down the odds and keep going." Her words… made you grid your teeth as you feel the impact of pressure. "Because in the end you just are a kid that couldn't get out of his head that isn't special and just accept his place in the world."
Something that just pissed you off.
"That is not my weakness, because the type of devil that I want to become is capable of being greater than the current me!" The flames ignited they were still weak and undeveloped compared to what we're capable of doing others like Sirzechs, Acchan, Dad, Baldy, Sera-nee, Grayfia, Beowulf, and Souji… Your Ancestor Zekram… you were just too far from any of them.
The gauntlets cracked as the weight of the world proved too much for them to endure.
"There are many things that I am missing!" You weren't as smart as Miyu, So-chan, or Fi-chan, you weren't as talented with your flames as Jack, you weren't capable of recover from a lost as Nezuko, you weren't capable of enduring like Zest, your growth wasn't as fast as Maria without putting effort… You weren't a genius like your brother and sisters, who could use their traits already.
Your arm was feeling like peeling itself as the sleeves of your clothes were being disintegrated from the sheer pressure.
"So I train until I bleed out!" So you will put more effort than anyone else to reach that point, until the morning comes, until your body couldn't answer anymore to rise once again. What you didn't have something just means that you had to try again and again by refusing to acknowledge your own spot and aim higher.
The gauntlets fissures covered the G fracturing it.
"So I stretch myself to reach for anything that gives me an edge!" For anything, for anyone, for any future opportunity, for any sort of hope, to go forward you wanted to take all that you could get to change things for the better.
Your feet sink into the ground, you were pushed back leaving trails of blood in the process as your beings began to burst.
"So I scheme to try to create that dream beyond what the current me can't do alone!" That was what you were, that was your pride, that was your very own Greed making your very soul burn. Even if she was still stronger than you, even if there wasn't a chance of victory… you refused to allow her to defeat you and will keep struggling in this battle that you hated.
Beyond your flames the skin of your arms was beginning to be torn apart your working clothes too, the pressure was getting too much for your body.
[It's Useless.]
Heh, it was funny your Intuition was making things go slower to understand the futility of your actions. In a moment or another, your body will just snap and Miyu was going to be taken away by just the little fact that Bradamante was stronger than you.
[You will still fight.]
Because she was only a marionette, no matter what words were said as they are just recordings and pre-programmed answers, the truth, and ideals that she keeps spelling over were just the justifications of a puppeteer too cowardly to fight by himself.
You refused to lose against someone like that… to lose someone of your famiglia because a coward likes that can't face you and sends tools to do his dirty job.
[So be it.]
Even if you have to defeat the World itself, for Miyu today you are the World Breaker!
[Landon's End: Spaccarsi del Mondo.]
The world's colors changed to black and white, the same event that Penthesilea's caused. You could see it happen now, so slow was everything silent as you couldn't avoid the attack or block this attack and you didn't need to do that even if you couldn't help but admit what a monster, even now that the time seemed frozen from your perspective Bradamante was still moving slowly.
To her own end.
Your hand incased on the soft flames, any remnants of the weapon that your familiar made was already destroyed up to the last thread, but you could see it now the weapon that Ladon's heart gift you to hunt down the Evil Dragon. The technique that was inborn into your existence and the answer of your flames after the choice to become a True Dragon Slayer was made.
Harmony to overlap dimensions and split them to scatter everything in middle, to take away everything that wasn't part of the world, to go through the twisted world of Ladon.
Your hand moved, and the void formed between you and the shield as the strike of the world itself was busted like a soap bubble, without the tension the movement just continued.
A step, just a single move of your hand, and the last embers of your flames are extinguished.
You dropped to the floor and the world was back, 3/4 of your life force and all the flames in your reserve for two seconds in real-time.
You still had to move, you still had to rise again, you still had to fight, you still had to win. Your breath stopped a second when the shield almost decapitated and grinned once you saw the severed arm attached to it.
Luck will never betray a Gremory.
[Grasp the mana.]
One of your hands touched the shield, the rejection came from the weapon but also your Harmony began to work, you could feel so many things but your tired mind couldn't understand what your flames were doing as they drank the remains of the magic in the weapon but you aren't satisfied with just this!
You mentally grasped the connection, they tried to take everything from you and you will do the same!
Sparks began to flow and were devoured by a burning inferno, be your flames be you will be your very nature as a Gremory or just your sin of Greed!
This shield is yours!
With it as support, you rose to your feet, the flames snuffed over and showing the crimson stardust as the affiliation changed.
A burning cut, a whole line coursing through her torso.
"…Ruggiero?" A whisper.
A single word, something that couldn't come from the puppet but from the fuel that was used to move it. So full of emotion, so full of hope and happiness, an expression that could belong to a maiden that was watching.
A truly beautiful image was engraved on your mind.
"I am so glad." Tears came from her eyes as the flames dissipated, showing a hollow inside with a card torn apart.
The image was broken, and the puppet stopped showing Bradamante and just showed its true form as the pieces fell to the floor. It received almost no damage with the exception of Ladon's End, it was frustrating as now you, kind of, understand how those that specialized in magic fights against you again.
It feels so frustrating when your effort fails.
The Shield, it was still on your arm.
You were still bleeding a little.
And feel weaker, 2 seconds undoing progress and growth from so much effort and the strength that he forced himself to obtain. A curse, you realized now. What Ladon's gave you was a curse that could consume pieces of yourself to feed into the greatest tool that you could wield a flame that burns so bright and strong that it consumes itself in the process.
Typical Evil Dragon.
You cursed for the last time as you force yourself to go back to your turf and took one of the medical supplies to patch yourself up, only when you reached for the alcohol was that a few teleported to your turf. Devil, but you didn't lower your guard until you saw who they were.
Acchan and Sirzechs, followed with Miyu and many others of your Famiglia.
You laughed and collapsed out of sheer relief.
"Kane!" You didn't care who shouted it.
You won!
The stress, the frustration, the hate, the powerless, all the shit that the bastard made the puppet say as pre-recorded message to mess with your mind… just got out.
You burned yourself out and still managed to win.
"I am alive!" You celebrated with an imaginary fist up.
"Don't make me worry like this again!" Sirzechs shouted as he dropped his guard.
"By Satan I am a moron! I didn't even understand my trump card for most of the year or how I was supposed to kill Ladon for round 2!" You shouted and almost wanted to shout while covering yourself like a burrito!
What type of bullshit it's that you didn't even notice that you could do that!?
[Too much of a basic bitch for it]
"He is alright." Acchan declared with a tired smile.
"You managed to defeat a Servant?" Miyu was surprised, but if their name was Servant then obviously you would defeat them.
"A weakened one, didn't take me seriously until I annoyed too much and the strongest attack that the puppet could use was something that my trump card had an advantage over hers." All true, not going to mention the last second power up bullshit. "But I got a shield over it, learned that to protect something important I can truly be invincible!" You boasted, you honestly feel like a shit.
"What was what you wanted to protect Kane-san?" Ah, Miyu, you are so easy to read.
It was almost like you had a conceptual advantage at this now!
"Your smile obviously." Ah, the blush of Miyu heals your soul.
"Nice! I am going to steal that." …Thanks for the cockblock Sirzechs.
"Steal what exactly Lucifer-sama?" And now comes the Queen of the Devils!
"Grayfia! You look..!" Did something happen to Grayfia!?
"Not pregnant anymore?" I AM AN UNCLE NOW!? "I just had Millicas when that explosion shock everything."
[Is a boy, congratulations!]
You almost laughed once again at the hilarity of the situation, in this world that you were born into was just too great in reminding you of the reason why you wanted to grow so fast and catch up in the best way that you could.
Now you had a taste of it without Landon's End.
The true Bradamante was by far much more than the hollow puppet, you hopped someday meet the one whose fragments gave you the toughest fight of your life. A whimsical desire, a wish that maybe will never be made but until then you will have to carry.
This was a pain in the ass.
Why couldn't you just fight a version of Achilles? His loot could at least give you reasons to flirt with Penthesilea instead of having your mind conjuring ideas about what if? Damn you, Kane jr, this is the fault of your lower head.
"You need to rest." It was an order, Miyu wouldn't accept any other response than acceptance.
Miyu put your head on the lap of Jack as you just were to ask what is going on to your knight ended with you being face to face with a magical girl who had a very determined look on her face, like she was prepared for a battle that she wasn't going to lose no matter how long, dirty or tiring it ended.
"Don't worry, I know Prana transfusion." Those were the last words that you managed to get before your brain melted.
She kissed you and began the lengthy process of recharging all your reservoirs by a constant exchange of fluids. Her hand moved towards your lower side, and your eyes widened as your mind finally connected the points.
You had the realization that you almost died for this.
Worth it!
And darkness, you are a fucking bitch for cockblocking me!
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Later on the day, you awoke inside the infirmary and had beside you a red pirate hat with a note saying 'You risked the life for the Famiglia, and all what you got was a hat! – With respect Ban.' Making you laugh a lot as you decided to put it in your head just above the damaged top hat, it was a silly thing that you wanted to do.
You then turned the note for the second hidden message.
'PD: Bova wants to talk about someone called hunting of fat bastard and invited me, I didn't know that he watched hentai. – Again, Ban.'
Ah, yes that fucker. Another card appaared.
'PDD: Should I kill your friend? My bestie wants me to try but I don't feel like. - Last one, Ban'
...
You should just do a contract, a tradition for every devil, and with a little luck, you will earn something from your contractor that will give you an edge to catch Santa Claus this year. You just don't want to be involved in Riser's love life again.
Traits Gained:
Magical (s)Layer: Through stupid amounts of luck, making a Magical Girl feel danger in your very presence and corrupt another in a single day. You have managed to trick the reality into believing that your very existence has a narrative effect on them. They will be fear the Dick-! Kane! Obviously! Isn't only their virginities what is in danger... Okay, that is what it will be mostly used for. Conceptual Advantage against anything along the lines of the concept 'Magical Girl'.
Eromancy: You have the power of Hentai Villain on your side. Get better for more details you are barely a grunt now.
Trait Advanced:
Adept Cursemeister: Curses for the self and using yourself as the fuel. Two aspects that you understand without problems, and like Yugioh you learned that is highly exploitable and completely broken. You can manipulate your own age now! Suck it Sirzechs now I will never be smaller than you! At least you will do that when you learn how to age and rejuvenate yourself more than a year, is a work in progress.
Eternal Mastery of Arms (Novice) Eternal Mastery of Arms (Adept): There are badass and One Man Army Badass you have become part of the later through sheer big balls to pull the most insane shit ever done by a man. Will you continue this path, or will you pussy out at the challenge after reaching here. Your soul is beginning to awaken and sooner or later it will make you used it to hurt people with it, because only a true badass can punch souls to their second death with their fist and weapons!
Hyper Intuition Advanced Hyper Intuition: Through the shells and covers, the truth is laid. What is real? What is fake? What is said is different or the same as you saw? The hidden nature of the truths that others ignore now can be seen even if it is a mere glance you saw many wonders and horrors, is truly wrong to be direct with these things? You lack understanding, but you just are going to keep watching until you will finally do.
Item Gained:
?: Reforged through the Flames of Sky and Right of Conquest the role of Ruggiero was taken and added. Worlds converged, Justice was defeated, the desire for the happiness of those that are precious has given this shield a new life the demonic shield that once was wielded by evil mage Atlante has regained the power of taking darkness into itself without losing the capability of taking light into it. Light and Darkness mixed to form a new path for Kane Gremory, the Judgement now belongs to the Sky and innocents stopped influencing the greatest power inside this shield as their purpose is to protect the Famiglia and everything that is precious to them.
A Pirate Hat: There are many types of hats but you know that this one is special, you like to wear it sometimes to get luck as you clearly need to be a Sky Pirate and hunt Santa!
