Draconis: Whew...
Rias: Tired again? We can room you with Kenshin
Draconis: Nah, Just letting out a sigh. Besides something I have planned will make that kinda awkward.
Rias: Huh? What do you have plan-
Draconis: Let's get started!
Kenshin: Zzz
Dragon of the Elements
Chapter 108
Returning Home.
Draconis: Begin!
(start)
Azazel was walking down the hall of the Senate Chambers. "Aaah...I know these talks need to happen, but didn't they already hammer everything out?" Azazel said rubbing the back of his neck before bumping into someone.
"Oh?"
"Huh, didn't expect to run into you here, Ryuushin-San." Azazel said.
"Yeah, same, but while I got you here." Ryuushin said before glaring. "I had wanted someone else to deliver this message, but seeing what's happened...I'll tell you myself. Treat her right."
"Eh?" Azazel said.
"What I mean is, no harems unless she allows it...no neglecting her needs...and make her happy even though I'm going to be leaving soon." Ryuushin said.
"Hahahahaha." Azazel chuckled. "Ryuushin, relax. You've obviously heard of the hundreds of harems thing, they're all defunct or not a thing anymore. As for your other two conditions, they're good."
"Hmn..." Ryuushin nodded before smiling. "Thank you. I'm sorry if I'm seeming like an asshole, but."
"Hey don't worry about it, you just wanna make sure your sister wife is left in good hands. Don't worry. I got this. Honestly Kenshin did sort of the same thing with me, wanting his mother to be happy." Azazel said slapping him on the shoulder. "After all this time, a guy like me wants to settle down."
"Hmn." Ryuushin smiled. "I'll hold you to that."
Meanwhile Rias was walking around the hospital when she bumped into Koneko. She blinked before smiling. "Koneko, I want to go check on everyone else, could you please check on how Kenshin is doing for me?" She asked with a smile.
"Alright Chief Rias." Koneko said with a smile.
Rias giggled as she and Koneko walked away from each other. "I hope you have fun. I know you've been waiting for this and I know Kenshin will take care of you."
Koneko walked into the room that was earmarked for Kenshin, the citizens all having been brought back slowly, starting with the healthcare workers. "!" Koneko paused, seeing an obvious pitched tent sticking up out of the blankets Kenshin was covered with. "..." Koneko stared.
"She just kinda went for it." She recalled Kenshin saying.
"Kenshin isn't doing it on purpose" Rias said. "You just have to put yourself out there...you could say his Lust Dragon essence is responsive to those who want to be with him." She remembered Rias saying.
"..." Koneko smiled and pressed the lock key on the door panel before unbuttoning her Kuoh uniform, leaving her in her lingerie. "Kenshin-Senpai...you're mine today." She said before lifting up the blankets and crawling under them.
She arrived at Kenshin's crotch, pulling his pants down, exposing his cock. "...This scent..." She said as her ears unfolded. "It's so potent...I...can't hold back." Koneko said as she latched her lips onto the head. "Mmm..." She moaned around his head. "Mm...Senpai, you taste so good!" Koneko thought as she lapped up the precum that leaked out. "Mmm!" She moaned in delight, loving the taste as her lips took Kenshin's phallus deeper.
"Mmm..." Kenshin moaned out, his eyes cracking open. He felt a pair of lips around his cock and lifted the covers only to gasp in shock. "K-Koneko? !" He said, seeing Rias' petite rook in only lingerie, her barely high B cup breasts rubbing against his hips as she sucked him off.
"Senpai...you've...ignored me long enough..." Koneko panted out. "It's my turn now. Please give me this chance."
"..." Kenshin smiled and nodded. "OK Koneko. I know you've been wanting this for awhile...but..."
"I know." Koneko said, taking her lips off his phallus with a smile. "I'll accept until my underdeveloped body is capable of having your baby." Koneko said. "But until then Kenshin-Senpai...please love me, both physically and emotionally."
"Kenshin smiled at her. "Absolutely Koneko, but did you get me hard?" Kenshin asked.
"Mnhn." Koneko shook her head. "You were already hard when I got here."
"Ah, I was sporting morning wood." Kenshin nodded. "Anyway, come here." He said pulling her head up, kissing her deeply.
"Mmhh!" Koneko moaned softly, wrapping her arms around his neck, their tongues swirling around each other. Kenshin pulled away. "Do you wanna keep going down there?" Kenshin asked.
"Mmn." Koneko nodded, kissing Kenshin one more time before going back between his legs. She stroked Kenshin's shaft gently. "Haaaoouumm..." She took Kenshin's head back into her mouth, sucking gently on it, her tongue flicking back and forth across the the slit at the top, lapping up the precum.
"A-Aah...Koneko...you're...surprisingly good at this." Kenshin said.
"Mmmh..." Koneko only sucked harder after hearing this. A blush on her face. "Mmhh...Mmmhh..." She moaned, sucking strongly while one of her hands fondled his sack.
"Nnngh..." Kenshin grunted. "Take it deeper...if you can...Ravel was only able to take this much."
"Mmn!" Koneko nodded and took more of his cock in her mouth, she managed to relax her throat and take it deeper. "Mmmghh!" She both moaned and grunted.
"Nnngghh..." Kenshin grunted and moaned, feeling the tightness of Koneko's throat.
"I'll do better than her!" Koneko thought with a determined look as she bobbed her head back and forth along Kenshin's shaft.
"K-Kone...ko!" Kenshin moaned out, holding her head with one hand.
As if to tease him, she brought her cat ears out. Kenshin looked down at her only for Koneko to wink, pulling away for a moment to smile and flash a peace sign, winking. "Please enjoy yourself with me Senpai. Don't hold back."
"Mmmh...OK Kone-"
"Shirone." Koneko said.
"Eh?" Kenshin said.
"..." Koneko closed her eyes. "I forgave Onee-Sama during the final battle against Ialda Baoth...so...during intimate moments like this...I...I want you to call me Shirone." Koneko said.
"Hmn..." Kenshin smiled. "OK Shirone-Chan."
"..." Koneko's or rather Shirone's face darkened with a blush, but she smiled radiantly. "OK...here I go." She said, pressing her lips against the tip of Kenshin's head.
"Hey...I've noticed you've been growing, your body is growing taller and becoming less petite, especially around the legs and chest." Kenshin said.
"I've noticed that too...I'm so glad." Koneko said, her lips still wrapped firmly around Kenshin's head.
"Heh. Looks like the late bloomer is finally blooming." Kenshin smiled.
"Mmh." Koneko nodded pulling away to slip Kenshin's cock between her small breasts. "Mmh..." Koneko said, thrusting and shifting her chest along Kenshin's shaft. His cock held in place by her bra.
"Wow...it's...so soft." Kenshin moaned softly.
"Mmmh..." Koneko nodded and went back to licking his head wrapping her lips around it again.
"Mmgh...S-Shirone-Chan..." Kenshin said, holding her head with one hand, even going as far as to rub her cat ears.
"Mmmhn!" Koneko moaned loudly, sucking harder and stronger, while she shifted her breasts hard against him. "Senpai! Please don't rub my ears like that!" Koneko said. "It feels too good!" Koneko said.
"You girls go to my ears all the time. It's time I got some payback." Kenshin said.
"Mmmgh..." Koneko responded by taking Kenshin's cock deeper into her mouth, her chin almost touching her breasts as Kenshin's cock slipped into her throat again.
(slurp...slurp.)
"Mmmhh...god..damn it's so tight." Kenshin grunted, feeling Koneko's throat stroking his cock as she sucked strongly on him.
"Oh...I'm...making Senpai feel good...I'm...so happy." Koneko thought as her sucking got stronger and faster. One of her hands slipped downward, under her panties. "Mmmmhhh!" She moaned, her fingers rubbing against her maidenhood. Her tails swishing happily, almost in excitement for what was going to come.
"S-Shirone, I...I don't care how much you've grown since you made your feelings known, I'm still applying to contraception spell." Kenshin said.
"Mmmhhhaaah..." Koneko pulled her lips away and smiled. "I understand, Senpai...this isn't about babymaking...I just want you to love me, physically and emotionally. I can wait, just...I hope Mating Season doesn't trigger before then."
"Well if it does, I can just ask Kuroka to take it off you, and she can have a free round with Issei." Kenshin grinned.
"Hehehehe." Koneko giggled. "I bet she'd like that. OK...I'm going again." She said taking Kenshin's cock back into her mouth. "Mmmhhh...mmmhh..." She moaned, then mumbled. "Please feel good with me Senpai." Koneko moaned, out, one of her fingers slipping inside her wetness. "Oh...I don't want to cum like this, I'll try to hold back as long as I can. I want to feel what everyone else felt!"
"N-Nnngaah!" Kenshin gasped out. "Haa...Shirone...unnngh...keep going...mmmh..."
Koneko lapped her tongue against the tip of Kenshin's head. "Mmmh..." She moaned in content, tasting a liquid seeping out of the ureathral slit. "Mmm...what is this taste? It's bitter, but somehow sweet...is this precum?" She thought.
She pulled away again to ask him about it, genuinely curious due to her own virginity. Kenshin chuckled a bit. "Aaah, yeah...on the way over here I kinda pigged out on some sweet food and drinks and paid for it in training I guess, but if guys do it enough, the taste comes up in their cum, pre or otherwise."
Koneko smiled, laughing a bit. "Well you know how much I like sweets Senpai."
"Indeed." Kenshin smiled, petting her head. "But Shirone...if I gotta call you by name...then could you do the same?"
"Call Senpai by name alone?" Koneko asked with a blush.
"Yeah. I believe Akeno told me before that there's no such thing as Senpai or Kouhai in the boudoir." Kenshin said with a smile. "Just a man and a woman."
"Well...I'm a woman...or am about to become one." Koneko smiled referring to her virginity. "OK, when we're alone...I will...Kenshin..." She said, her face lighting up in a faint blush, liking the the feeling of it on her tongue.
"Alright, now I believe you wanted something from me?" Kenshin said with a winking smile.
"Ehehe~ Indeed." Koneko said before latching her lips around the ridge of Kenshin's thickly stemmed mushroom, swirling her tongue around it. "Mmmhh...mmmhh..." She moaned softly, the precum drooling onto her tongue. Her finger slipping deeper inside her wet core. "Oh lord...what's...this rough patch?" She thought as her middle finger grazed it. The effect was instantaneous as she moaned deeply, taking half of Kenshin's cock into her mouth on pure impulse, moaning deeply.
"Mmmmgghh!" Kenshin groaned, feeling her sucking hard on him. "Sh-Shiro...neeee!" He moaned, not cumming yet, his back arching forward slightly.
"Mmmhhnn...Mmmhhn..." Koneko reached back and unclasped her bra, pulling it away with one hand, before wrapping her arm around them, shifting her body against Kenshin, stroking her petite breasts against Kenshin's phallus. Her finger rubbing against the rough patch in her vaginal wall.
"G-Ghhhh! Sh-Shirone...fuck...here it comes!" Kenshin said pushing her head back as his seed fired into her mouth.
"Mmm...mmmhhh!" Koneko moaned as her lover's seed shot into her mouth.
"Aaahh...haa...haa..." Koneko panted, pulling away as she accepted and swallowed all of it. "Haaa..." Koneko opened her eyes and smiled. "That tasted good." She said.
"I see...I'm glad." Kenshin said as Koneko sat up, her small B cup breasts bouncing a bit as he smiled. "I think I should return the favor." Kenshin said leaning forward, looking to kiss her on the lips.
"K-Kenshin, bu-but you just." Koneko said with a shy blush.
"I don't care." Kenshin said as their lips met, he pushed Koneko back onto her backside as his hands fondled her breasts.
"Kenshin, you're a pervert like Issei aren't you." Koneko moaned softly, feeling her hardened nipples dig into Kenshin's palms.
"Not at all, but I do appreciate the female form...and yours is so cute. It just makes me want to tease it a bit." Kenshin said before kissing her again, kissing his way down her neck, down to her petite breasts.
"D-Don't stare." Koneko said looking away with a shy look. "I-I know I'm not as great as Chief, Vice Chief, Xenovia-Senpai, Yukari-Senpai or even that Yakitori."
"Shirone...don't put yourself down like that." Kenshin said. "You're great the way you are." Kenshin said before kissing her left nipple. "Let me prove it."
"Mmmmaaah!" Koneko moaned as Kenshin suckled on her left nipple, her body beginning to glow, "Mmmhh...! Kenshin!" She moaned out.
"..." Kenshin switched nipples, licking and sucking on her right nipple.
"K-Kenshin-S-Sen...pai!" Koneko cried out in rapture.
"What did I tell you Shirone-Chan?" Kenshin teased.
"I-I can't help it, it...it just feels so good!" Koneko said. "My disappointing, petite body is feeling it so much!" Koneko moaned out.
"No...your body is great the way it is...it's cute." Kenshin said his tongue swirling around her right nipple.
"Mmmh! Oooh...!" Koneko moaned, holding his head. "K-Kenshin, please...keep going! Please. Please sear this knowledge into my mind!"
"Mmh, as you wish." Kenshin said as he kissed his way down her taunt belly, down to her wet core. "Hm? I'm surprised you have hair down here." Kenshin said seeing a small patch of white hair above Koneko's clit.
"Mmm..." Koneko smiled. "Despite my size, I'm older than I look Senpai. Chief Rias and Sona-Kaichou just had me take an aptitude test and the first years are where I ended up because Rias asked me to hold myself back as she wanted one of us in each year of classes I think she asked Gasper and the Yakitori Musume that too. You were right about me. I am a late bloomer." She said, cupping her hands over her small breasts. "I can't wait until I actually grow into my Shirone form...I know I asked you to call me that during this, but."
"No, it doesn't bother me." Kenshin said. "Back before I went backward in time...I had...actually done it with my friends Kono-Chan, Secchan, Evangeline, as well as Yukari and Miyuki, and as weird as it sounds, Mom, just to pound out my heat cycles." Kenshin smiled. "That said, waiting for you to come into that form naturally...it excites me too...As for my past exploits, well people that age are active like that anyway."
Koneko smiled as she placed her hand on Kenshin's head, while she used her other hand to spread her pussy lips. "Alright...Senpai...please lick me." She said.
"Right...and hey, you wanna make this more fun?" Kenshin asked.
"Huh?" Koneko asked curiously.
Kenshin grabbed her hips and flipped them around. Koneko blushed, seeing herself hovering over Kenshin, her maidenhood hovering over Kenshin's face. "Why don't you grind your vagina over my face." Kenshin said with a smile. "Just give me a second to get my tongue out OK?" Kenshin asked.
Koneko smiled with a dark blush. "You're really trying to make it up to me for letting the Yakitori Musume go first huh?"
"No." Kenshin said, making Koneko pout a bit. "I'm just giving you the love you deserve Shirone-Chan."
"!" Koneko blushed brightly, but she smiled. "'Kay...here I go..." She said lowering her pussy onto Kenshin's face. "M-Mmmh!" She moaned, feeling Kenshin's tongue once again, one of her hands grabbing Kenshin's hair as his tongue lapped against her maidenhood. "Kenshin! I-It feels so good! !" She moaned out.
"You're using my power on her?" Not only Sylph, but Salamander asked.
"I'm just making up for lost time. She's right...I've been unfair to her...I want her to enjoy this as thoroughly as she possibly can." Kenshin thought. "I'll apologize later if I scare her."
"Mmmn..." Kenshin moaned as the white haired nekomata's juices leaked onto his face.
"Senpai! Senpai!" Koneko moaned and panted out, her tongue hanging loosely from her mouth. "Please don't stop! Please! I...I want you to make me yours!" She cried out.
"Huh, that's out of character for her." Undine said.
"Given what I'm doing to her, can you blame her?" Kenshin thought. "Shirone-Chan, it's Kenshin, remember?"
Koneko's hips relentlessly thrust against Kenshin's face, her body shaking, her lips quivering, body aching for release. "K-Kenshin! K-Kenshin! Ooooh! Your tongue is rubbing against that hardened nub!" Koneko moaned out.
"Well if you like that." Kenshin said slipping a finger inside Koneko, coated in wind magic.
"? !" Koneko's eyes widened, as her back arched in released, feeling Kenshin's finger rubbing her every fold. "S-SEEEENNNNPAAAAAIIII! !" She cried out, her body seizing up in absolute bliss.
Koneko slipped down Kenshin's body, settling on his waist. Koneko smiled lazily. "That...was...amazing..." She said.
"..." Kenshin smiled, "Well, do you wanna go to the main event or call it here Shirone?" Kenshin asked.
"!" Koneko shook her head. "No, please let me become your woman fully Kenshin!"
"OK." Kenshin said. "Eh?" He said as Koneko glew brightly. "Huh?"
"Eh?" Koneko said looking down at herself. She was wearing a white kimono covering her D cup breasts and more voluptuous body.
"I...only got a brief look at it before but wow." Kenshin said.
"?" Koneko rose up and looked down at herself, but then smiled down at Kenshin. "I take it you like it?"
"Hmn." Kenshin smiled back. "My precious Shirone going from an adorable girl to a beautiful woman? What's not to like?" Kenshin asked.
Koneko blushed, but her smile widened. "You're so sweet Kenshin." She said with a giggle.
"Well I mean, you'd know. Having sampled some of it earlier." Kenshin joked.
"Hehehehehe~!" Koneko giggled as she got undressed again. "I suppose I did." She said before her expression became serious. "Uhm...what position will cause this to hurt the least? I don't think my powers as a rook will help me here."
"They probably won't." Kenshin said. "Just one question...that door's locked right? Cause I think only Rias and I can actually touch you like this. I wouldn't want somebody, like Ravel for instance coming in here, seeing us in the act and trying to stop you or join in only to get burned away."
"Mmh." Koneko nodded. "I locked it when I came in."
"Clever girl." Kenshin grinned. "Well...it really depends on how you wanna do it. You could put it in yourself and just throw your hips down, piercing it through you like ripping off a band aid, or you could lay on your back, or get on all fours and let me do it for you."
"It's really up to me?" Koneko asked with a curious smile.
"Yeah, you were right earlier before, a few days ago I mean." Kenshin asked. "I had been ignoring you a bit in favor of others and I'm sorry for that Shirone."
"Well." Koneko glanced away with a smile. "Chief did say it was more about putting myself out there, which that Yakitori Musume did, and you were worried about getting me pregnant too early during Mating Season, any other time, you were busy or gone, or worrying about your recently settled past."
"Well, you're not wrong...sorry if I've seemed unapproachable to you." Kenshin said with a smile.
"Well, there's what I said, and the other girls always being around you, makes it hard to ask y'know?" Koneko said, looking at him with a blushing smile. "That said...I'm starting to think ChiefRias planned this."
"Probably. She loves her peerage like her own family." Kenshin chuckled. "Like I wouldn't be surprised if she and Sona set Kiba and Tsubaki up sometime down the line. She probably wanted you to finally get your time with me...now enough talking about other women...have you decided?"
"Hai...I was actually using our conversation to think about it." Koneko said. "I want you to line it up for me, but I'll put it in myself."
"OK." Kenshin nodded as Koneko raised up her hips, letting Kenshin align himself. "Alright, lower yourself until you feel it press against the entrance, I've got it lined up perfectly."
"Kay..." Koneko said, lowering her hips down, until she felt the tip of Kenshin's cock press against her maidenhood. "Here goes." She said raising herself up a bit before throwing her hips down, taking Kenshin's cock to the base. "Hnnnnn!" She gasped, biting her bottom lip in pain. Her hands pressing against Kenshin's chest.
Kenshin brushed her hands off his chest and brought her into a comforting kiss, his hands gently massaging her breasts.
"Mmmh..." Koneko moaned into him, the kiss lasting for a few minutes as the pain slowly subsided. "Thank you." She said after the kiss ended. "But...why were you rubbing my chest?"
"Just something to combat the pain." Kenshin said. "You can start moving whenever you want."
"Mmh." Koneko nodded and started moving her hips. "M-Mmh!" She moaned, feeling Kenshin's cock shifting inside her as she absentmindedly wiggled her hips around.
"Nnngh..." Kenshin grunted.
"D-Does it hurt?" Koneko asked, seeing Kenshin's face twist in what she assumed was discomfort.
"Huh? No...it's just...really tight...don't worry Shirone..." Kenshin smiled. "It feels great."
Koneko smiled. "OK." She felt emboldened by what Kenshin said, rocking her hips a bit faster. "Mmmh...Mmmgh...ummh...mmgh..."
"Aaahh..." Kenshin gasped out, feeling the folds of Koneko's vaginal wall stroke him.
"S-Senpai...i-is it OK if I don't last long?" Koneko asked.
"Sure, why wouldn't it be? Are you already close?" Kenshin asked.
"N-Not yet...I just...don't wanna feel embarrassed if I climax before you." Koneko said as her hip thrusts slowly got faster.
"Shirone, it's OK. It's your first time." Kenshin said. "Everything's new to you. You'll get used to it with practice." Kenshin said.
"Ok..." Koneko said before extending her hands toward his. Kenshin reached forward and interlocked his fingers with hers. "Mmmh...umgh! Mmghh! Mm! Mm! Aaah! Aaah!" Koneko gasped and moaned. "Ooohhh...! I-I can feel it...it's like your manhood is kissing my womb!"
"Well let me do more than that." Kenshin said pulling Koneko down into another kiss, the two wrapping their arms around one another as Kenshin started meeting Koneko's thrusts.
"Mmm! Mmm! Hmmnn! Mmhh!" Koneko moaned as their tongues dueled in each other's mouths.
"..." Kenshin took his right hand and placed it against her waist, casting the contraception spell on Koneko.
Koneko responded by using her strength to pull them up to a sitting base before falling onto her back, letting Kenshin go. The kiss ended and she smiled. "OK Kenshin...go ahead."
Kenshin started bucking his hips toward Koneko, who gasped and moaned while smiling. Kenshin smiled back, then looked down, seeing her currently large breasts bouncing slightly.
"D-Don't stare so much." Koneko moaned out with a blush.
"I'm not just staring at that...I'm just admiring how beautiful you look right now." Kenshin smiled.
"S-Senpai." Koneko said with a blushing smile.
"You've been...ungh...calling me that randomly. It's Kenshin during times of intimacy remember?" Kenshin asked. "I've been keeping up my end, or trying to at least."
"I-I'm trying too, it's just...I'm pretty used it." Koneko said.
"Heh, I understand. " Kenshin smiled as he slowly upped the tempo.
"Mmhh...Kenshin...this feels amazing." Koneko sighed out, her hands at her sides, starting to ball up into fists, grabbing the bedsheets.
"Haa...haa..." Kenshin panted softly as he looked upon Koneko's gasping, yet smiling face. "She's wanted this for awhile now, since before I got offed and brought back by Ophis, Great Red and Ragnarok." He smiled. "Well, I'm glad to fulfill her wish now."
"K-Kenshin...harder." Koneko gasped out.
"Eh?" Kenshin said.
"Please...fuck me harder...I can take it." Koneko said. "Especially in this form."
"Alright." Kenshin said as he bucked his hips harder, a lewd, wet skin slapping sound filling the room along with the deep, pleasured moans of a certain white nekomata.
"Aaahn! Aaahnn! Ooohh! Ooohh! Mmmmmmh! Mmmhhh!" Koneko moaned, pulling Kenshin into her arms.
"Nnngh...w-what?" Kenshin said.
"I'm so hot right now, but I want to feel even more warmth!" Koneko moaned out. "Kenshin! Kenshin! Kenshin!"
Kenshin slipped from her grip and leaned down, pushing her breasts together and sucking both her nipples.
"Aaahhh! Aaahhh! Mmmmnnn! It's...too much!" Koneko moaned out. "I-I'm..."
Kenshin felt Koneko wrap her legs around his waist and smiled. "Go ahead Shirone."
"A-AAaaahhhhhnnnn!" Koneko cried out in orgasm.
"Nnnnnnghh!" Kenshin grunted as his seed fired off into her womb.
Kenshin fell to the side of Koneko and smiled. "I could...keep going but I don't think you can."
"You're...right." Koneko said as she shrunk down into her base form.
"..." Kenshin leaned in and kissed Koneko. "Are you happy now."
"Mmh." Koneko nodded with a smile. "...I love you Senpai."
"..." Kenshin smiled back. "I love you too Koneko."
"Eh?" Koneko said with a curious, dark blush.
"I love all the girls who love me." Kenshin smiled. "You know, granted I get to know them first. I'm sure Issei is the same way."
"Hmn..." Koneko smiled and snuggled herself into Kenshin. "Yeah..."
"Koneko...I promise we will have a child together someday, but just have some patience OK." Kenshin said.
"OK." Koneko said before kissing him on the lips.
"Alright, come on, let's get dressed." Kenshin said. Koneko nodded and Koneko got off of him and Kenshin got out of bed, the two got dressed and left the hospital room. Koneko wrapped her arms around his left arm. "Heheh." Kenshin chuckled at her as she smiled back. As they moved toward the exit of the hospital, Kenshin paused.
"Senpai?" Koneko said.
"..." Kenshin looked on in trepidation. "I...should have known...that the evacuation protocol was easily reversed." Kenshin thought.
"..." Koneko smiled and pulled Kenshin out of the hospital and out into the public.
"A-Aah! K-Koneko!" Kenshin said.
"Just follow me Senpai." Koneko said.
"..." Kenshin nervously nodded and walked alongside Koneko.
"Whoa it's really him."
"The Strongest Man in the World..."
"The guy who defeated the LifeMaker..."
"...?" Kenshin glanced around. "Wha?" Kenshin whispered.
A child crashed into his leg and fell down. Kenshin knelt down. "Are you OK?"
"Y-Yeah." The child said shaking it's dizziness off. "!" They got a look at Kenshin. "Whoa! It's really him! The Hero of Mundus Magicus! The Dragon of the Elements! I can't wait to tell my friends!"
Before Kenshin could respond, the child ran into the crowd. "W-Wait...what?" Kenshin said before a crowd started to form around him. "Koneko get behind me!"
Koneko shook her head, but did as he asked with a smile. "Senpai...it's OK."
"It's really him! Everyone, let's hear it for the hero who saved the world!" One man said.
"Here here!"
"Kenshin Kuroshi! The Hero of Mundus Magicus!" The crowd said. "The Dragon of the Elements!"
"..." Kenshin stared, wide eyed as he heard the cheers spread through the city. "Wait..." Kenshin narrowed his eyes. "You all can seriously cheer and celebrate me after what you all did?" He said.
"We all felt guilty for what happened to you, but...we had to protect ourselves from the Consul's wrath. Most of us anyway." A woman said.
"Yeah, especially after your first fight with that bitch. The one that was shown on TV." A man said. "Watching you bleed your guts out about everything that happened."
"The point is...we know it's extremely hard to forgive us, but...thank you for saving us all."
Kenshin closed his eyes and smiled. "I see. Well...I'm probably going to stay at the new Mundus Vetus. So I'll have plenty of time to think about it, but please don't crowd me."
Everyone nodded and the crowd dispersed. "Mundus Vetus?" Koneko asked.
"It's what the people here call Earth." Kenshin said. "All the humans here, their ancestors were brought here from Earth by Ialda Entheofushia, Mundus Vetus means 'Old World'"
"Oh." Koneko nodded.
"Kenshin." Kenshin looked over, seeing Ricardo approaching.
"What's up Ric?" Kenshin asked. "You're not here to take me in are ya?" Kenshin said with a small joking grin.
"Hahahaha, no like I said yesterday, you're free...besides...a Katensho you launched at Ialda ended up blowing Noctis Labryinthus straight to hell, the entire thing's gone!" Ricardo laughed. "We have nowhere to hold you anyway."
"Wait...seriously?" Kenshin asked, surprised.
"Yeah, it's completely gone." Ricardo said.
"Well, good. That place was an inhumane prison anyway, if it wasn't for my seals. Mom, Theodora Arika and I probably would have starved as food rarely arrived." Kenshin said.
"About that...how the hell did you manage time travel." Ricardo asked.
"My Granddaughter from Negi and I came back in time with spare time machines and gave Negi and I both one. Negi and I used them to cover our overloaded schedule during an event known as the Mahora Festival, or the World Tree Festival, Yukari at the time wanted to prove herself to me so on the third day, when my granddaughter, Chao Lingshen tried to reveal magic to the world. Yukari and I fought, and during this fight my time machine activated without my control and blasted us backward 40 years." Kenshin said.
"I see..." Ricardo said. "So the ones who were responsible for causing the political fall of Old Ostia was..."
"Us." Kenshin nodded. "Victor had been killed by the now former Demon King, Forbesii and Hottan Ialda and replaced with an artificial lifeform called a Homunculus, with orders to make it seem like Victor had gone mad...however the only vicious intent in my heart that night was retribution."
"Why?" Ricardo said.
"..." Kenshin went silent.
Koneko spoke up. "Because the bastards forced Kenshin-Senpai and Yukari-Senpai to massacre their family save for their parents who were infants at the time."
"!" Ricardo's eyes widened. "Wait...th...that was..."
"..." Kenshin closed his eyes and nodded.
"..." Ricardo closed his own eyes and nodded back. "I see..." Ricardo said. "I know you'll just tell me to shove it so I won't bother apologizing on our nation's behalf...but as a man...I am sorry you had to go through that."
"...Hmn." Kenshin nodded. "We were...at least able to make sure they died with as little pain as possible."
"That's good at least...it's a shame what happened to Victor, the real one. He was the one brokering for peace." Ricardo said.
"I know." Kenshin said. "Arika would meet with your nation while Yukari and I would meet with Daiken-ossan, but Ric...if you and this nation want to make things up to me...then through your lives, please...work to protect the peace that I have secured...that we of Rikudou worked so hard for, please...that's all I ask."
"Hmn..." Ricardo smiled and bowed his head. "I give you my word as Praetor, Kenshin, but if I may...after what this place did to you...even if you were using them to hide...why would you want to protect the peace...of this nation anyway."
"I hated most of the people in charge." Kenshin answered. "The War Council, the Senate that I took out, those who were replaced. Both the Ferdinands...but the common folk? They were caught in the middle just like I was...between Ferdinand the First and his racist mind and hatred toward my father, Myself caught between Daiken's Rewrite by Hottan Ialda and Sanderson's mind control of the head of the War Council Sakara...My rage was never directed the common people."
Ricardo nodded with a morose smile. "Kenshin, you really are a man of honor."
"No..." Kenshin shook his head. "I just see the bigger picture and treat people fairly. I could see the fear in people's eyes, looking back on everything...yet...it wasn't directed at me. During those long four years...the common people's fear was never aimed at me. I may have some honor, but I am not a man of honor." Kenshin said.
"Yeah, I think that's a better way to put it." Ricardo nodded. "Anyway, I was just on my walk through the city and spotted you, so I'll be on my way."
"Enjoy." Kenshin and Koneko said.
(break)
Later.
Kenshin and Koneko walked into the Senate Chambers to find Ryuushin and Akeno starting a chat. "You said your name was Himejima right? Your last name?" Ryuushin asked.
"Yes?" Akeno said. "Why?"
"Oh, because I know your mother in the afterlife. I've been down here for a hot minute so I just wanted to make sure." Ryuushin grinned.
"You know my mother?" Akeno asked with wide, shocked eyes. "She's in the Pure World?"
"I...would assume so." Kenshin said as he and Koneko approached them.
"Oh hey Kenshin." Ryuushin waved.
"Um, not that I'm not happy to see you Dad, but why are you still here?" Kenshin asked.
"Yuurei said he has enough power to let me settle my affairs." Ryuushin said.
"Oh." Kenshin nodded solemnly.
"Hey...this was always going to happen. Buck up." Ryuushin smiled. "You're finally free to live your life."
"...Y-Yeah..." Kenshin said with a morose smile, looking into Ryuushin's eyes.
"But wait, you said you know my mother...h-how is she?" Akeno said.
"Oh she's great." Ryuushin said smiling at Akeno. "Shuri's a wonderful woman, despite us being souls she cooks for me a lot and it tastes amazing."
"Eh?" Kenshin and Akeno both said.
"What? We don't need to but we souls like to eat too." Ryuushin snorted. "We met around the time you defeated Loki, she reappeared after visiting you Kenshin and saw me, we hit it off pretty well, from there we kinda just started checking in on you together. She was so disappointed when times came where you weren't together, but delighted when she did see you two together."
"..." Kenshin and Akeno glanced at each other before Kenshin smiled. "Well...I guess Shuri-San approves."
"Hmhmhm." Akeno giggled. "I-I guess so!"
"Haha." Ryuushin chuckled. "That said...I do get...a little unnerved when you come on to my son...because she comes on to me in return."
"Huh?" Kenshin and Akeno both said with surprised looks.
"Anyway..." Ryuushin looked over and saw Koneko. "Hmn..."
"W-What is it?" Koneko asked.
"Is your name Shirone?" Ryuushin asked.
"Y-Yes." Koneko said.
"Shirone, there you are, I haven't been able to find you all day." Everyone turned to find Kuroka approaching with a smile.
"S-Sorry Onee-Sama. I was with Kenshin-Senpai." Koneko said.
"Oh...Oh I see...you finally mated with him." Kuroka giggled.
"...Mmn..." Koneko nodded with an embarrassed blushing smile.
"Oh my, congratulations Koneko-Chan." Akeno giggled.
Ryuushin pulled Kenshin to the side. "Isn't she a little small for that Kenshin?" He whispered.
"She's older than she looks and she used an ability she has to grow to a more suitable body Basically she's a late bloomer that's finally blooming." Kenshin said. "Nonetheless I used the contraception spell."
"Hmn...good man." Ryuushin nodded before turning toward Kuroka. "You're her sister?" He said pointing at Koneko.
"I am, why?" Kuroka asked, curiously.
"Well, I know a woman who looks like you both named Fujimai, we met in the afterlife too." Ryuushin said.
Koneko was confused, but Kuroka gasped in shock. "Kuroka?" Kenshin said.
"Y...You know...our mother?" Kuroka asked.
"Well...I knew she was Shirone's mother, we only met recently." Ryuushin said. "She comes to watch over the living with me and Shuri. She's quite the playful woman. I kinda feel like her and Shuri have a rivalry going."
"Wait wha?" Kenshin said.
"Eh?" Akeno said.
"What?" Koneko and Kuroka both said with surprised looks.
"But uh anyway, she's doing fine too. I-I gotta go!" Ryuushin said walking away.
"Um...Akeno, Koneko, Kuroka...why do I feel like if we ever arrive in the Pure World...we might all be related?" Kenshin asked.
"Mom is with Kenshin's Dad in the afterlife?" Akeno said.
"Huh...so Mom moved on from her relationship with our despicable father...that's good." Kuroka smiled.
"Um...I'm lost here, can you explain Onee-Sama?" Koneko asked.
"You want to know about Mother?" Kuroka asked before smiling. "What I know is a little limited, but I'd love to." Kuroka said taking Koneko's hand.
"Kuroka." Kenshin said making her turn to him. "If Shirone has really forgiven you, then your full name is now Kuroka Toujou."
"!" Kuroka paused with a faint blush, but she soon smiled widely. "I accept."
"Onee-Sama." Koneko giggled at her elder sister as they walked away.
"Seriously though...I thought Dad was one for monogamy." Kenshin said.
"Ufufu. Well if beautiful women keep trying to throw themselves at him, he might not have much of a choice." Akeno giggled. Kenshin looked over at her. "Even in the afterlife I guess everyone needs someone, I'm sure Mom still loves Dad a great deal."
"Yeah...like my Dad loves my Mom." Kenshin smiled.
"Yes." Akeno said before embracing Kenshin. "Welcome back Kenshin-kun."
"Hmn..." Kenshin embraced her back. "Glad to be back Akeno."
"Hmhmhm. I'd kiss you, but I feel you need to get going." Akeno said.
"I don't so, let me do it instead." Kenshin said leaning in, kissing Akeno on the lips.
"Mmm..." Akeno wrapped her arms around his neck and deepened the kiss.
"Mmh..." Kenshin felt her breasts pushing against his chest as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Haaa..." The two finally broke the kiss, neeing air. "Haa...haa...Kenshin-kun...I love you."
"I love you too, Akeno." Kenshin smiled.
"!" Akeno blushed. "W-Wait...wha? I-I'm sorry, I wasn't-"
"I told Koneko this earlier, but if someone loves me...I love them back." Kenshin smiled, cupping her cheek. "I mean, Rias is letting me have this harem after all. So why wouldn't I shower my lovers in...well...love?"
Akeno smiled radiantly. "Thank you Kenshin-kun."
Kenshin leaned in and pecked her on the lips. "You're welcome."
Akeno hugged him tightly before walking away, but not before turning toward Kenshin with a smile. "Kenshin-kun...you've been giving out a lot of 'solo' turns lately...so." Akeno paused to flip up her skirt, revealing her thong clad backside. "Maybe we should go on another date...and consummate it."
"Heh." Kenshin grinned. "Whenever you're ready my darling, sexy fallen angel."
"Ufufufu~!" Akeno giggled as she walked away.
"You know, I feel like you're getting more provocative." Kenshin turned to see Azazel.
"You're still here?" Kenshin asked.
"Yeah." Azazel shrugged, kicking himself off the wall.
"Well...I think I'm just still riding the high of being free from my past." Kenshin said.
"I guess that fits." Azazel said. "Well, I just happened to be passing by so I'll be going.
"Azazel..." Kenshin said.
"Eh?" Azazel paused, starting to walk away.
"Please treat Mom right." Kenshin said.
"Eh?" Azazel said curiously.
"Azazel...over the months, you've proven you care about her, maybe even love her. Just please...she's been through enough..." Kenshin said.
"..." Azazel paused again, staring at Kenshin. "Kenshin..."
"But! Just know...I'm NOT calling you Dad." Kenshin said.
"Hahahahaha! I don't expect you to." Azazel laughed. "But in all seriousness Kenshin...thanks...I'll take it a little slow to start, but...your mother is a wonderful woman...and I wanna be there for her, especially now that she's about to say goodbye to her husband for the third time."
"..." Kenshin smiled. "That's all I ask."
Azazel extended his hand. "Thanks for your acceptance Kenshin." He said.
"Hmn...you earned it, Oyaji." Kenshin said.
"Old man?" Azazel said.
"That's all you're getting out of me." Kenshin said as he walked away.
"So...are me and that idiot about to be in laws?" Azazel turned and found Raynare smiling at him.
"Heheh...who knows. It all depends on Hikari." Azazel chuckled.
(break)
A couple of days later.
New Ostia.
"So you gave Ricardo the location of all our caches?" Yukari asked.
"Yeah." Kenshin said. "I also told him I forced Ferdinand II to relinquish his fortune or die and told Ricardo that could go to the repairs. That should cover everything.
Yukari smiled. "It should." Yukari said. "Still I wonder why the Satans, Michael and Azazel left early?"
"Serafall said that brokering the alliance treaty with Hellas would be good practice for me." Kenshin said. "I don't know why they left Venerana, Zeoticus, Grayfia and Millicas here." He turned his head seeing Fuuka, Fumika, Haruna, Makie among others fawning over the boy, but Millicas took it in stride and smiled at them all, chatting with them normally.
"So, where are we going Kenshin-Sensei?" Yuuna asked.
"To the Ostia Onsen." Kenshin said.
"Yay!" The Ala Alba members all cheered.
"Is that supposed to be special?" Rias asked.
"It's a treat from me." Kenshin said with a smile. "I kept one cache I'd already collected to pay for it with some left over. So please everyone, enjoy yourselves on me!" Kenshin said.
"OK!" DxD and the Ala Alba all cheered.
Negi walked by him with a smile. "That's awful nice of you Kenshin."
"Well, I feel like being nice." Kenshin said before glancing at her in concern. "Are you OK?"
"Oh, I'm fine, I think when we did Ialda Baoth in, it burned off a good portion of the mana poisoning." Negi smiled. "I can at least walk and cast low level spells freely now."
Kenshin brought Negi into his arms. "I see...I'm so happy."
"..." Negi smiled. "I know, I am too, but I'm not your number one anymore..." She said.
"You're not, but I promise I will try my best to love you all equally." Kenshin said with a smile.
"Hmhm..." Negi giggled. "That's all I can ask."
"Thank you Kenshin-Sensei!" The students of class 3-A all shouted with smiles.
"Hmn! Enjoy yourselves." He said yelling after them. He saw the ladies of the DxD organization entering too and smiled. "All of you enjoy yourselves too."
"Mmmhmhm, We most certainly will!" They all said while the men entered their own bath. However, when they entered they found a surprise waiting for them.
"Huh? To think we'd be seeing you here."
"Heh, Kenshin you've settled your past, let me send you to the afterlife."
"Heinrich, don't...if you do I'd be forced to step in as Indra's representative."
Standing outside the changing room after they all got changed was Crom Cruach, Heinrich and Cao Cao. "What the? ! I thought I killed you!" Issei shouted.
"Well, it seems death didn't quite take." Cao Cao said with a demure smile.
"Well, let's get ready to fight." Sairaorg said cracking his knuckles.
Kenshin glowered at Cao Cao "What?" Cao Cao said. "Indra asked me to be here."
"Whatever." Kenshin said.
"Hey, what are you two doing here? !" Issei said glaring at Heinrich and Crom.
"That idiot Rizevim sent us here to assist Ialda Baoth, but we just weren't interested." Crom Cruach said.
"We bumped into Cao Cao here and traveled here together. We didn't even know you'd be here." Heinrich said. "But if you're looking for a fight."
"Alright, we still have to get you back for Auro-" Sairaorg was cut off.
"No." Kenshin said.
"No?" Everyone, Crom, Heinrich and Cao Cao included said.
"Look at us you idiots." Kenshin said. "Do any of us look like we're dressed for a fight?"
Most were either dressed in robes, yukata or had a towel wrapped around them. "I guess you have a point." Sairaorg said.
"I'm not really in the mood anyway." Crom Cruach said.
"Me neither actually." Heinrich said standing straight up.
"I'm technically on your side now as Sakra's right hand man alongside Sun Wukong." Cao Cao said.
"Good, because after dealing with Ialda. I want a chance to fucking relax for once." Kenshin said. "Besides there's a saying in Ostia."
"And that would be?" Saji asked.
"The Onsen is asylum for all." Kenshin said. "I just have one question, is Walburga here?"
"No." Heinrich said. "I refused to work with the bitch."
"Indra managed to get Jeanne released into his custody so I brought her with me. Heracles is taking a bit longer than I'd hoped." Cao Cao said.
"I see. As long as she doesn't start anything, Yukari should be able to defuse an arising situation." Kenshin said. "Let's head in." He said, holding up two boxes. "I wanna relax and drink."
"Aren't you a little young?" Heinrich snorted.
"Due to the Sixteenth Demon King blasting me and my sister through time with the Tsurugi no Kami I'm actually older than I look, besides if you're recognized in this world as an adult, which I am. You receive all adult rights and privileges. Seriously they let me into brothels when I was younger, I just never did anything. The women seemed to adore me though, saying I was Rikudou's mascot."
"Their deadly, deadly mascot." Saji drawled with a grin.
Everyone entered the baths and Heinrich and Kenshin ended up sitting next to each other. "Can I ask you something?" Heinrich asked.
"What?" Kenshin said.
"What's with the blonde haired vampire? He acts like a girl." Heinrich said pointing at Gasper.
"He's a crossdresser. You know...a trap." Kenshin said sipping some of his sake. .
"Hn. Interesting." Heinrich said.
Meanwhile Crom was speaking with the vampire in question. "Hrm..." Crom Cruach said. "Balor used to hold dominion over me, to see him devolved to such a state is...interesting."
"R-Really?" Gasper said. "Y-Yeah...I-It's just a piece of him."
"Well, get strong then boy." Crom Cruach said crossing his arms. "I won't have my former master's host be weak."
"R-Right...!" Gasper said in fright.
"Take it easy on him Crom Cruach. According to my master this one saw a harsh upbringing from Vampirekind." Rugal said. "He's a devil so just give him time. Rias-San, Issei and Kenshin won't let him wallow in weakness."
"Good." Crom Cruach nodded.
"So, you killed Siegfried huh?" Cao Cao asked Kiba.
"Hrm..." Kiba closed his eyes. "Not exactly. I managed to steal the Garm's allegiance from him and then Rias-Sama's peerage and I all attacked him, then I ran him through with Ascalon and the Garm." Kiba said. "I know he was your comrade, but I'm not sorry."
"It's OK...we were at war at the time. Siegfried's death was regrettable, but he would understand." Cao Cao said.
"I see. " Kiba said.
"Heh..." Heinrich said as he smirked at Kenshin, enjoying the sake Kenshin had ordered. "Shame that the next time we meet, I'll be bouncing your head off the ground."
"Heh!" Kenshin smirked. "No no no Heinrich...after our next and final battle. I'll have kicked your teeth so far down your throat you'll have to shove a toothbrush right up your ass to brush them." Kenshin said.
The two stared at each other for a few moments before they both burst out laughing.
"You know...if you and me had been born in the same timeline we'd have probably wrecked the Divine Realms." Heinrich chuckled.
"Yeah, just outside of Ilias herself, she'd have fried us both!" Kenshin laughed.
"Yeah probably!" Heinrich laughed loudly.
Kenshin rose his arm and reached into one of his seals. "I have something for you."
"Hm?" Heinrich said. "What's this?" He said as he held a recorder letter.
"My Uncle Albireo Imma was a habitual world traveler. He said he spoke with a Demon Queen of the past and she requested that this letter end up in the hands of an Elemental Master. It can't be Alice, because well, she's with us and currently expecting my two children. If she wanted to say something to me, she'd just come to me and say it. Now Ragnarok had Alipheese the First and I don't think any words needed to be conveyed between them. Shin Tatsu secretly would visit Alipheese the Fifteenth after he became the Dragon God and that's how my Alice was conceived and my Dad doesn't know any Demon Queens past my Alice...so that just leaves you." Kenshin said.
"..." Heinrich said nothing. "You mean to tell me this is from my Alice? The villified Black Alice?"
"Yeah." Kenshin said. "I haven't looked at it, because they are words for you." Kenshin said. "To view it, press your finger against that sign right there." Kenshin said pointing at the 'Play' sign.
"..." Heinrich placed the letter to the side. "I see. I'll look at it later."
"Now I have a question for you." Kenshin said.
"What?" Heinrich asked.
"Why the hell do you hate me?" Kenshin asked. "I only met you when you attacked Kuoh, I feel like your loathing of me is highly unwarranted."
"..." Heinrich drank down another dish of sake. "If you beat me when next we meet, I'll tell you then." He took one of the sake bottles and got up, walking away with the letter.
"Haa.." Kenshin said as he sipped another dish of sake. He turned to Cao Cao. "So, Indra brought you back? Tch, I trust him as much as I would Yama. He supported you when you were a group of ironically named terrorists." Kenshin said.
"You're never gonna let that go are you?" Cao Cao asked.
"No, I'm not..." Kenshin said. "You and Jeanne and the others were attempting to end the world, because spoiler alert, Great Red would have wrecked your shit before you could have summoned Samael, which I'm still convinced wouldn't have done jack shit against Great Red."
"Why do you say that?" Cao Cao asked.
"Because he's the being that's supposed to fight Trihexa to end the world...Trihexa was a beast that not even God could beat, only seal and Samael was turned into what he is by God. You really think Samael is stronger than his creator? Samael's venom probably would have given him little more than a tummyache before he shit it out. Hell, Samael didn't even kill Vali, Ophis or myself."
"So that's your theory." Cao Cao said before waving him off. "That's out of the cards now anyhow. After having to battle Lucifer Sirzechs using his full power...Hades wouldn't dare risk bringing your alliance's wrath on him like that again. Then again I even doubt that was the Devil King's true, full power."
"It probably wasn't." Kenshin said. "I've got a match with him in the near future and I don't even think my new form will be enough, even after I've trained it."
"You challenged your own master to a fight?" Cao Cao asked.
"Cao Cao, if there's one thing I can agree with you on...it's that I too want to see how far my strength will carry me." Kenshin said taking a sip of sake before sliding him a dish. "Drink?"
"Why not?" Cao Cao said accepting the drink as the box of sake floated between them. "Mm? Interesting, you picked one of my favorites."
"Oh really?" Kenshin said. "Juyondai is hard to find, yet this onsen always seems to have it."
"Yes, it is hard to find and quite expensive which is why I don't drink it often, but I do rather enjoy it." Cao Cao said. "Tell me, do you warm or chill your sake?" Cao Cao asked.
"Both, I just go by what the bottle says." Kenshin said.
"Same." Cao Cao chuckled as he drank another dish.
"Cao Cao, if this partnership is built to last you and I may just become drinking buddies." Kenshin said as he sipped his sake.
"Honestly, I wouldn't be unwelcome to that." Cao Cao laughed.
"Well then, Kanpai!" Kenshin said raising his dish with a smile.
"Kanpai!" Cao Cao said doing the same.
Issei watched this with a narrow eyed smile. "He goes from being enemies with him to drinking sake with him like old friends."
"You and I also have a kindred spirit here with us." Kenshin said before pointing at Sairaorg. "He is the Bael clan's heir, but didn't gain their trait ability, the Power of Destruction." Kenshin said. "He trained his ass off since he was a child and is damn powerful to boot."
"Oh? How interesting. I might challenge him someday." Cao Cao said.
"That said. I never got a fair crack at you in your Balance Breaker thanks to Forbesii. I'd like to challenge you one day as well." Kenshin said.
"Haha." Cao Cao chuckled. "Since I heard about your power evolving, honestly I've thought the same thing."
"Heh!" Kenshin said. "Also, I want to thank you for breaking us out of that barrier in Auros."
"Hm? You knew it was me?" Cao Cao asked.
"I saw your True Longinus and thought 'Wait, it couldn't have changed hands already.'" Kenshin said.
"Well Sakra was holding it for me while I was in the Land of the Dead...and the place he dropped me into." Cao Cao said with an eye roll.
"Ahh, so I take it Georg and Leonardo are there too?" Kenshin asked.
"Yes, we would regularly receive rations from one of Sakra's servants." Cao Cao said.
"I see." Kenshin nodded.
"My oh my I was worried when that Shinigami showed up, that I'd have to have my seal broke." Zeoticus said.
"I hear ya there Z." Draco said.
"Huh?" Kenshin said hearing their conversation and coming over to sit with them, bringing his sake, leaving a cup for Cao Cao. "Seal?"
"Oh, Kenshin. Yeah remember when I gave you that folder on the Malak seal? When you were drinking with your darling white rose?" Draco said.
"Yeah?" Kenshin said.
"Well, we didn't want to potentially cripple ourselves during the war so we asked around and Z here offered to help us by letting us apply it to him. Ragnarok and I would help him train back up over those next few months and we were pleased that it worked."
"Hrm...and you say I've surpassed you Zeoticus." Kenshin said taking a sip of his sake.
"Well I haven't unbound it in awhile." Zeoticus said. "I only have enough time to train for one hour a day."
"Yes, before you go off to either deal with Gremory clan business, go to a council meeting or nail one of your haremettes." Kenshin said. "I wonder how Venerana deals with the neglect."
Zeoticus chuckles. "Hahaha, Kenshin you wound me. I focus on Venerana the most. The other women don't seem to mind."
"OK, just don't be surprised if she decides she wants to do it with another man every once in awhile." Kenshin shrugged.
"If she does then it's my own fault." Zeoticus shrugged. "It's only fair."
"True, that said in the meantime I could teach you something that could help with that, a couple of things actually." Kenshin said.
"Oh? Well if you're offering to help me improve my marriage, I wholeheartedly accept." Zeoticus smiled.
Meanwhile with the women. Yukari was chatting with Ku Fei. "So, you want me to tell Kenshin how you feel?"
"Y-Yes...s-seeing as he's going away." Ku Fei said.
"Ku...why don't you just tell him beforehand." Yukari smiled.
"Well the next time I saw him, he was my teacher...and...well you know. I didn't wanna be one of those girls who fucks her teacher for good grades." Ku Fei said. "I mean I was Baka Yellow."
"Hmn." Yukari smiled. "I get it, still I think that was more your difficulty with Japanese as a Chinese transfer student."
"Probably-aru!" Ku Fei laughed.
"Besides." Yukari said leaning in to whisper into Ku Fei's ear. "Negi might be Chao's grandmother, but you could just as easily be that as well."
"!" Ku Fei blushed, realizing the implication.
"Onee-Chan, don't tease Ku-Chan like that." Miyuki giggled. "She means that you could be on the other end of the equation."
"O-Oh..." Ku Fei giggled nervously.
"But still..." Miyuki giggled. "It isn't written in stone that Negi is the one who birthed Chao's mother or father."
"!" Ku Fei blushed again.
"So you two are Kenshin's childhood friends?" Rias asked, Konoka and Setsuna sitting at the sides of her.
"Yeah, I've known Ken-kun since I was three." Konoka smiled.
"I met him when I was five." Setsuna said with a shy look.
"I see." Rias said with a smile. "Well...I thank you both, as his future wife."
"Hmhm!" Konoka giggled. "You don't have to thank us for that!"
"Yes." Setsuna smiled. "We should be thanking you for loving him."
"So, are you really gonna marry Ken-kun?" Konoka asked.
"I am...he saved me from a previous engagement and has been nothing but good to me since...I love him so much." Rias said closing her eyes with a smile, her hand over her heart.
"I see." Setsuna said with a smile.
"To be honest, my family put me through the same thing." Konoka said.
"How did you get out of it?" Rias asked.
"Well for one...Kenshin and I did 'it', not that my dad and grandpa ever knew, but...they eventually just stopped when Grandpa noticed how close I was to Ken-kun." Konoka said.
"Are you sure you don't wanna come with us? We could always use another healer, no offense." Rias said, seeing Setsuna's look sour.
"We'll think about it." Konoka smiled. "We might just want to be around Ken-kun."
"H-Hai..." Setsuna said. "Besides. It sounds like this Trihexa situation is an all hands on deck kind of thing..."
"Besides...I heard you Konoka...you want to have Kenshin give you a baby." Rias giggled.
"Well, like I said after, Secchan and I are happy to sit in the back." Konoka said kissing Setsuna on the cheek.
"Yes..." Setsuna said with a blush before kissing Konoka on the cheek.
"Hmhm~!" Konoka giggled.
Rias smiled. "I'm happy for you two. I hope Kenshin gives you healthy children."
Konoka smiled. "I know he will."
Setsuna smiled as well. "I do as well...so...um...even if we don't decide to come live with him, don't be surprised if we pop up."
Konoka giggled. "Oh come on Secchan! You and I both wanna live with Ken-kun!"
"W-Well!" Setsuna said before being cut off.
"Hmhmhm." Rias giggled. "We certainly have the room, just...keep it down will you?" Rias asked.
"!" Setsuna blushed darkly.
"Hehehe! We'll try." Konoka giggled.
"W-We don't do it everyday!" Setsuna exclaimed.
"Hahaha." Rias laughed. "I know, I just felt like teasing you both. Seems Konoka-San caught on. Anyway, let Kenshin or I know if you want to live with us." Rias said walking over to Negi.
"Hello Rias-San." Negi smiled.
"Hello Negi-San." Rias said sitting down next to her.
"Haa..." Negi sighed out with a smile.
"What is it?" Rias asked.
"Oh nothing." Negi said shaking her head. "I'm just...still taking it all in is all. Ialda Baoth is gone...I'm still here...and I can tell Kenshin's happier than he's ever been." Negi said.
"Yes." Rias nodded. "...Thank you."
"Eh?" Negi asked.
"For loving him like you did." Rias smiled. "It allowed me to meet him."
"Well...I don't like how you worded that." Negi frowned before smiling. "But I will never feel bad about loving Kenshin."
"Hmhm~" Rias giggled.
"Though...I know I'm not his number one anymore." Negi said. "While I was in the afterlife and even now...I could tell how much Kenshin cherished you...so really, it's me who should be thanking you." Negi said taking Rias' hands. "For cherishing him just as much."
Rias smiled and wrapped her arms around Negi. "You're welcome...I'd do it all over again, everytime."
"So would I, except...for 'that' part." Negi said with downcast eyes.
"Hey...you did what you had to do." Rias said. "Kenshin understands, and is probably just happy to have you back." She said with a smile.
"Hmn..." Negi smiled with tears in her eyes. "Yeah, you're probably right. I'm happy too."
"So am I..." Rias said, squeezing her tighter. "You know, in your spare time, while recovering from Ialda's poison, you could ask for a position at the Grigori."
"She's right." The two looked over, seeing Raynare approach them. "We would love to have a brilliant mind like yours and don't worry about compensation, we would pay you beautifully." Raynare smiled.
"U-Um, I'll think about it...but what if Kenshin needs me? We made the magician's pact before we left Megalomesembria." Negi said.
"Your pact with him overrides your obligations to us." Raynare said. "If Kenshin needs you, we really can't help it, but someone like you, you'd love it there. Free to study magic as much as you want." She said with a smile.
"OK, I'll still think about it, but your offer is enticing Raynare-San." Negi said with a smile.
"Hey." A voice called out as Raynare left. Rias and Negi both turned to see Sona.
"What is it?" Negi asked.
"Yes? Is there a problem Sona?" Rias asked.
"What are you going to do?" Sona asked.
"What do you mean?" Negi asked, her eyes becoming black dots.
"I mean will you just live at Issei-San's house with Kenshin, or will you enroll? I'm the Student Council President of Kuoh Academy, so it wouldn't be much to get you in, even if the year is close to ending. I'd just have you take the same aptitude test Koneko took."
"Well...I've never...attended normal school as a student before." Negi said. "I went to the Welsh Magic Academy then became a teacher at Mahora."
Sona smiled. "I see, well when we get back, I'll get to work on it."
"Just remember, I don't need to take an english class." Negi said. "If you want me to attend...leave that for me as an extra elective."
"Preferably in a class with Kenshin I'm sure." Sona said.
"Ojou-Sama." Rias looked up and saw Grayfia. "May I speak with you over here?" She said pointing toward an uninhabited part of the female's onsen.
"Eh? OK?" Rias said as the two walked through the onsen. The two both sat down. "What is it Grayfia?"
"...Look, I don't know how to say this...but you know about my arrangement with Sirzechs-Sama right?" Grayfia asked.
"Yes?" Rias said with a curious look.
"Well...Sirzechs has Marissa...and he said I could pick whomever I want...so..." Grayfia said with an uncharacteristically shy look.
"Grayfia...do...you want to choose Kenshin?" Rias asked with wide eyes.
"I-If I do...will you allow it?" Grayfia asked.
"..." Rias smiled. "Everyone needs someone, and if your someones are Onii-Sama and Kenshin...who am I to stand in the way, but remember, if I want it him first, I go first."
"I understand Ojou-Sama." Grayfia nodded with a smile.
"But...if I may ask, what caused you to fall for him?" Rias asked.
"Well, I don't know if I love him yet." Grayfia said. "I just want the chance to find out. I'll go at my own pace."
"Oh, I see." Rias nodded before smiling. "Then as his fiancee I give you my blessing."
"Hmn." Grayfia nodded with a smile. "Thank you."
"That was sweet of you Rias." Rias turned and saw her mother.
"Before I started attending Kuoh Academy. I noticed how lonely Onii-Sama and Grayfia looked, but couldn't do much about it because of Onii-Sama being Lucifer. That's why they even came up with this deal in the first place. Marissa-San's was crushing on Onii-Sama for a long time, so he decided to give her a chance."
"And Grayfia?" Venerana asked.
"Well, they started off on the wrong foot, Kenshin and Grayfia, but since then, they have been very good toward one another or at least tried to be. Our first visit to this world withstanding, but they made up."
"Hm." Venerana glanced at the wall with a smile, knowing the men were on the other side. "Who knows...maybe in the far future even I will want a shot at him."
"M-Mother? !" Rias exclaimed with a blush.
"Rias darling relax, we devils live very long lives and are also pretty polyamorous." Venerana giggled. "Besides we're talking theoretically and possibly years from now."
"I-I know, but it's still weird to think that my mom will want my husband." Rias said with a blush.
"Well it is just a maybe." Venerana said with a smile. "Besides, I'd be fine, sitting in the back forever. We're talking the far off future, not right now." Venerana giggled.
"True." Rias said with a nervous smile.
"Hey!" The two looked over to see Xenovia, Koneko, Irina, Raynare, among others surrounding a worried and scared Jeanne. "You're supposed to be under arrest, how are you here?" Irina said.
"Seriously, what the hell? !" Xenovia shouted.
"You've got a lot of guts walking in here." Koneko growled.
"Everyone wait." The girls surrounding Jeanne turned to Yukari who approached Jeanne. "What are you here for?"
"S-Sakra-Sama sent Cao Cao and I here, but the order came late and your battle was already through when we arrived." Jeanne said.
"I see, that's unfortunate, but Cao Cao is alive?" Yukari asked.
"Yeah, Apparently the venom from Samael's blood bled out of Cao Cao's eye before he died so Georg nursed him back to health while continuing his studying of magic down in the Greecian part of the Underworld." Jeanne explained.
"You realize it is dangerous for you to come here alone right?" Yukari said crossing her arms.
"I-I didn't know you all were here?" Jeanne said.
"Well, none of us are dressed for a fight, but still." Yukari said leveling her with an even glare. "You took a child hostage after we defeated your allies in Lilith."
"I-I wasn't actually going to hurt him!" Jeanne said with fear in her eyes. "I-I just wanted to get away, after that I would have left the child in a safe house and took off!"
"Hmn..." Yukari looked into Jeanne's eyes before nodding. "She's telling the truth." She said to everyone else.
"..." Everyone that was surrounding Jeanne relaxed, but still glared at her.
"I'll just sit over here." Jeanne said sitting at the edge of the baths.
"..." A figure approached her. "Hey."
"You...aren't you Kenshin Kuroshi's younger sister?" Jeanne said.
"Yeah." Miyuki nodded as she sat next to her. "It's OK, I'm not going to hurt you."
"Whew..." Jeanne sighed.
"It's going to be rough. I won't lie, but if you work hard and be earnest about it. I think everyone will accept you." Miyuki said with a smile. "I mean we accepted Vali and his team well enough."
"Cao Cao is now Sakra-Sama's servant." Jeanne said.
"That's how he earns our trust because he would never betray Indra." Miyuki said before wrapping her arm around Jeanne, making her gasp and blush. "Just give us some time, and be a hero for the Alliance, instead of a group of terrorists." Miyuki said with a smile.
"Miyuki Tsuki." Jeanne said before closing her eyes, smiling gratefully. "Thank you."
"Of course." Miyuki said, smiling back.
Yukari looked at this with a smile. "Miyuki, your ability to cheer people up and make friends is amazing." She thought.
(break)
In Hellas.
Theodora was walking along the corridors of her castle. She knew she should be there to see them off, but something in her couldn't bare it...she couldn't witness the first boy...or rather man she ever loved walk out of her life again. She let out a sigh. "I'm sorry Kenshin...I...just don't want to..."
While she was walking around her castle. Kenshin and the DxD group were standing behind him. "Make sure Theo-Chan remembers our requests." Kenshin told Somo.
"She will, She will." Somo said. "Will you be coming back anytime soon?" Somo asked.
"I'll be sure to visit every now and again...if only to give Issei a chance to nail Yasaka in Kyoto." Kenshin said with a snide smirk.
"Hey! I wouldn't nail just her. I'd do it with Kunou-Chan in her true form!" Issei said before covering his mouth.
"Hahahahahaha!" Everyone laughed.
"Alright everyone...let's get going." Kenshin said turning toward the gateport, but he paused before entering.
"Kenshin?" Rias said.
"Go on ahead..." Kenshin said. "There's something I have to take care of!" Kenshin said running out of the gateport, taking to the skies.
"!" Theodora gasped, stepping back, her long blonde hair swaying as Kenshin landed in front of her. "K-Kenshin."
"Heya Tomboy-hime." Kenshin smiled.
"Grrh!" Theodora glared and pouted. "Stop calling me that!"
"Stop being a Tomboy-hime then." Kenshin said with a winking smile.
"Grhh..." Theodora growled before smiling. "What are you doing here you idiot? Go home...with the people you love."
"Oh I will..." Kenshin said before stepping in front of her. "But...I realize I'm leaving a few people I love behind here too."
Theodora blushed. "Ken...shin." She said with a sigh.
"Come here you beautiful tomboy." Kenshin said, pressing his lips against hers
"Mmmmhhh!" Theodora moaned. "Kenshin...Kenshin!" She thought.
"I'm sorry..." Kenshin said after breaking up the kiss with a smile. "I was an idiot."
"No..." Theodora smiled. "I was the one who kept reminding you of Dad's rewrite which was similar to death...I can see how that frustrated you." Theodora smiled.
"Here." Kenshin said holding out a black sphere, which he proceeded to shove into Theodora's ear.
"W-What was..."
Kenshin cut Theodora off. "It was a devil communication spell, it will last as long as I am alive." Kenshin smiled. "I gave one to Ricardo Kurt and Seras too, but if you need anything, as long as it's within reason I'm there." Kenshin pulled in. "Though in your case, within reason encompasses a lot."
Theodora blushed a bit, but smiled. "Don't you think that's showing favoritism?"
"Not at all. Ric and Seras are dating, Kurt is single and not currently looking, and as soon as I report our successful alliance, everyone will understand." Kenshin said.
"I see." Theodora said before wrapping her arms around Kenshin's neck. "Come here you nekomimi pervert!" She said before crushing her lips against Kenshin's.
"Mmmh..." Kenshin wrapped his arms around Theodora.
"Mmh..." Theodora smiled, wrapping her arms around Kenshin. "I know...that I can't join you as one of your lovers, but I do love you Kenshin." She said.
"I know...and I love you too." Kenshin said. "I mean it this time...I know what I'm talking about."
"Hmn." Theodora smiled, snuggling up against him. "I won't call often, but I will call."
"That's fair." Kenshin said, pulling away with a smile. "I gotta go."
"OK." Theodora said with a smile. "And Kenshin."
"Huh?" Kenshin said, about to take off.
"Congratulations." Theodora smiled. "You're finally free to live your own life."
"Heh." Kenshin smirked. "Thanks."
Theodora watched Kenshin fly off with a smile. "I hope you live the life you deserve, Kenshin."
When Kenshin arrived back at the gateport. Only Ryuushin remained. "Hello Kenshin." Ryuushin smiled.
"Dad..." Kenshin looked down solemnly. "It's...time, isn't it?"
"...Yeah." Ryuushin said with a sigh.
"Well, tell Shuri and Fujimai that I and their daughters are doing well." Kenshin said with a pained smile, tears welling in the corners of his eyes.
"Yeah." Ryuushin nodded. He extended his hand toward Kenshin. "Live well Kenshin."
"Hmn." Kenshin nodded with tears slipping down his cheeks. "I'm sorry we didn't have more time together...Dad." Kenshin said with a sad smile.
"I am too." Ryuushin said. "Kenshin..." He said.
Kenshin reached over and grabbed his father's hand, shaking it solemnly. "Yeah?" Kenshin said.
"Treat them all well, your sisters and lovers...they deserve it after this." Ryuushin smiled.
"Yeah." Kenshin nodded with a smile as he raised the butt of Kuroi Jigoku. "Farewell...Father." Kenshin said with a smile as he butted the hilt of Kuroi Jigoku against Ryuushin's forehead.
"Hmn...see you on the other side...or at least I hope not." Ryuushin said as he dissipated into particles of dark light.
"..." Kenshin looked up at the sky with tears rolling down his cheeks. "Partner..." Yuurei said.
"No...it's...it's OK." Kenshin thought wiping his eyes. "I...I got to say goodbye this time." He thought with a smile.
"Well, as long as you're sure." Yuurei said.
"I am..." Kenshin closed his eyes with a smile. "It's...time to go home..." He thought as he walked through the gateport...to be with his family, his lovers and his friends.
(Chapter end)
Draconis: Well Koneko, did you enjoy your lemon with Kenshin?
Koneko: (smiles and snuggles against Kenshin) Loved it.
Kenshin: (Embraces her with one arm.) Thanks, she's been getting pretty upset.
Draconis: Well I'm glad, and I'm sorry for waiting so long.
Koneko: (too absorbed into Kenshin's warmth to care.)
Draconis: Anyway Next chapter we actually finish off the arc, and continue on with Volume 18.
Draconis678 out