Welcome to the next chapter of DxD – The Last Amagiri, but before starting the story. Let's answer some reviews:
Rider126: You would be correct, that is the image that I wanted when I started making both Kensei's and Lingqi's characters. There has been a lot of legends used in High School DxD, and the rivalry between an Eastern Dragon and Tiger, eternal rivals whose matches end in a draw despite being different. It is one of my favorite legends in China.
shephawk: I'm glad that you're liking Lingqi's character, and there's going to be more revealed about her as time passes. That would be a hilarious arm-wrestling match, considering the two have been compared to and is actual feline animal.
Altair95: Thanks. Yep, the Hero Faction has started their assault on Lingqi during the last portions of the chapters with Heracles starting things off. And I'll do just that.
Slimereader11: That's going to be a fun fight to write when I get to it. And Lingqi might end up doing that before he gets the chance.
Guest: I thought about making a female main OC, but I have enough going on with the Twin Dragons and Last Amagiri. So, I think that I might not do another High School DxD one.
Challenge Issued
"Uh, where the hell am I?"
Kensei thought, looking around the area, based on the location, he was standing near the concession stand that their snacks were bought at. But, the oddest thing was that he couldn't sense a single civilian or animal around. A lot of mist, which was giving off an odd presence was on the ground too. He could sense Claire, Alice, Kunou, and Lingqi. Standing near Lingqi, though, there was a familiar presence that he received from the giant he met before.
"Uh, I guess that would be Hera-chan," Kensei noted, recalling the nickname that Jeanne had given to Heracles, not that he knew his real name. "Well, I guess that this calls for our peaceful vacation to end."
Kensei pulled out his Oracle Phone, then started going to an app named "Clothes Change" and tapped it. After it was done, a magic circle appeared underneath his feet, as he was bathed in bright light. Once it vanished, his normal clothing was switched to his combat outfit.
Beep! Beep!
Kensei stared at his phone, noticing that Claire, Kunou, and Alice were all calling him at the same time, causing him to open a multi-call.
"Hello, are you three fine?"
[Yes, but I have no idea what happened. All of us were teleported here just as we were talking to Lingqi. But, I'm at the aquarium based on what I can tell.]
Claire stated.
[I look as if I'm standing alone inside of the museum.]
Alice added.
[Ken-chan, Kunou is standing inside of the Panda habitat without any pandas to snuggle.]
[Ignoring Kunou-san.]
[Don't ignore Kunou!]
Kensei almost laughed at their interactions even in this serious moment.
[So, I can assume you noticed the same thing before we ended up getting teleported to this dimension, Kensei. It is also around the ground too.]
"Yea, I noticed it. A special mist able to transport people and things inside of another dimension, there's no doubt about it. This is the High-Tier Longinus, Dimension Lost."
Kensei replied, recalling that one of the previous Amagiri Clan Heads has the same Longinus, which became the source of the clan's special barriers able to produce spaces like this. Almost all information related to the Longinus was recorded alongside the other journals written.
[I can assume that none of was the intended target. And Lingqi didn't look surprised when she noticed that we were being covered in the mist. So, I can assume that she knows the current wielder.]
Claire surmised while the others listened in.
"Well, we can ask her as soon as we meet up with her," Kensei noted as he could sense a battle starting around the same location near the Siberian tiger exhibit. Several explosions could also be heard from the same location too. "I think that you don't need to be a sensor to know where she is. Well, let's head out there. On second thought, I think that you three should head out there if no one intervenes."
[I assume you ran into someone there.]
"Yea, and I think that this is going to be an interesting meeting. I'll remain in contact if something happens. And I don't think that I need to tell you all to be careful."
[Same here.]
He heard one final response from the three young women before returning the Oracle Phone to his pocket, then brought out a sheathed Kurogane.
"So, are you going to introduce yourself? Or are you going to play a game of Hide-and-Seek," Kensei asked, as a joking sound could be heard from him. "I don't want to be that guy, but I kinda have an unfair advantage when it comes to finding people."
"As you pointed out before, this was an interesting meeting. I never thought that I'd run into the illustrious Kensei Amagiri, the Dragon Child."
Just then, Cao Cao walked out from behind the corner, resting his armor divine spear on his shoulders as Kensei looked at it wearing a curious expression.
"Well, this is awkward. You know my name, and I have no idea who you are," Kensei said as Kurogane still rested at his side. "But, based off the sheer overwhelming presence coming from that spear, which I assume is the True Longinus. You would be Cao Cao."
Cao Cao appeared surprised that Kensei knew what his name was, and was aware that he was the owner of the True Longinus.
"It looks like there's another surprise. I knew your name, but I never thought you'd know mine."
"I happened to have heard your name from a monk before coming here. I was on a vacation, but I always seems to find myself facing off against either some legendary monster or someone wielding a legendary weapon. At this point, I consider whether or not it might be a blessing or curse sometimes."
"I can assume that monk would be Xuanzang Sanzang, considering that he's close to Sun Wukong. You should find yourself lucky to fight against some of the strongest creatures out there in the supernatural and come out of it alive. I think that it's admirable considering you don't have a sacred gear of your own."
"So, is there a reason that you or whoever works with you brought us here too?"
"It was more out of curiosity. Since you all happened to be in the same spot as Lingqi," Cao Cao said, tapping his shoulder using the True Longinus looking as casual as a normal person. "But, there was one reason."
"Is that so? What a coincidence, there's something that I wanted to do after meeting the True Longinus owner."
Kensei and Cao Cao remained silent for a time as both of them read the other's intentions, as their hands made the slightest moment. And in a literal second later, the two charged at one another at speeds that normal humans couldn't follow. A single, powerful shockwave was produced from their weapons clashing against one another as soon as the two reappeared in front of one another.
""I wanted to see if you're as strong as I heard.""
Although, neither of them uttered a word, the smirk that formed on their face, revealed the intentions that both of them had in mind. From the shockwave produced from the clash, the building around them started to crumble to nothingness.
In the battle between Lingqi and Heracles, the human giant aimed a straight-forward punch straight, which the far leaner woman planned on returning. Under normal circumstances, it would be ridiculous for a woman with thinner arms to attempt to meet a punch from someone whose muscles were several times thicker than even a trained man. However—
Following the collision between their fists, a notable shockwave was generated from their clash. Instead of being blown backward, Lingqi's fist remained in the same position, maintaining a neutral expression, while Heracles' was started to distort into a wide smirk. The two seemed to be attempting to overpower one another in a contest of pure strength and seemed almost equal despite their differing builds.
But, in the end, Lingqi removed her fist, causing Heracles to fall forward, surprising him, but stopped as soon as a hard impact was felt from behind. It came from her as she moved behind him, then launched a kick right at the human giant's back. A gasp could be heard escaping from his mouth from the sudden surprise, as he caused him to stumble backward.
An instant later, Lingqi launched a barrage of punches aimed at him, all of which had a decent balance between strength and speed. At the last punch aimed at him, a white aura covered her punch, which blew him back a good distance from her current position. Some blood could be seen leaving out from Heracles' mouth as he smirked.
"Hahahaha, those were a good couple of hits from you, Lingqi. So I guess all those rumors about descendants of Lu Bu being born with special bodily structures was true. For someone with thinner arms compared to mine, you can dish out as much physical damage as I can."
Heracles declared.
After being dragged into this alternate dimension, both of them had been trading blows with one another for what seemed to be a couple of minutes at most.
"But, that's in terms of a straight fistfight!"
Heracles declared, slamming his fist against the ground, causing it to explode around Lingqi, causing smoke, and rubble to surround her.
"Hahaha, unlike yours my sacred gear, Variant Detonation adds much greater explosive power onto my punches, something that could blast apart supernatural beings! So, I doubt that it should have trouble handling some traitorous girl!"
Heracles added.
Lingqi didn't move from her spot, but stomp heard from the same position, blowing away the smoke from around her. Her figure couldn't be seen as Heracles realized, she appeared right in front of him with her fist bulled back a bit not that far from him, preparing to punch him. Lingqi's fist was tightened, then propelled it forward towards him as casually as a regular punch.
"Byakko Kenpo: Senda."
Lingqi uttered, landing a punch that smashed against Heracles' stomach.
"Gah!"
Heracles felt the punch dealing much greater damage than a regular punch, feeling as if it penetrated him rather than dealing blunt force. Blood escaped from his mouth, as he was blown backward, causing him to place a hand on his stomach still feeling from it.
"You and I have different opinions about what it means to use strength. I learned from training in martial arts that it should be used in not just causing physical damage, but it should also penetrate a person's defenses," Lingqi said as she pointed her balled-up fist at Heracles, who narrowed his eyes at her. "But, you're more durable than a normal person of a similar build. And I can feel that the others have been dragged in here too, so I should go to use mine too."
After that, a lustrous white light covered Lingqi's arms and legs, before it started taking shape as something. Once the light faded, what materialized around them were white gauntlets and greaves that resembled a tiger.
Her Sacred Gear was the same one Naoto and Akari have, Spiritus Armiger, which manifests a weapon from their soul. Whereas theirs manifested katanas, Lingqi's had manifested this set of white tiger-esque gauntlets and greaves.
"Let's head out, Shimon Mouko."
Lingqi uttered while smashing her gauntlets together as a smirk could be seen on her face.
"You think that a common sacred gear that manifests a weapon from your soul can defeat mine, which can make things explode?"
"For someone who'd joined Cao Cao's crusade in testing the limits of humankind. Don't doubt the strength of the souls of humankind. You and Jeanne inherited the spirit of heroes. But, you should consider that mine resembles and has the power of a beast within them too."
"Eh, a beast. I inherited the soul of Heracles, who defeated one of the strongest mythical beasts from Greek. So, what could you do."
"You and your ancestor are two different people Heracles. You might've inherited his soul, but you aren't close to reaching his strength," Lingqi stated, getting into position to take off towards him and her attention was directed straight at Heracles as if he was the prey. She pressed her feet onto the ground as the soles of her greaves also scraped across the ground underneath them. "I hope you're prepared."
"…?"
Heracles couldn't help admitting that he felt a light pressure coming from Lingqi's words alone, resembling that of a beast staring straight at him. He prepared his hands beside him as both were covered in an ominous aura, all of which with the intent of making her explode. Soon enough, Lingqi propelled forward, cracking the ground underneath her foot, and appeared closer in front of Heracles without letting him react to it.
"Byakko Kenpo: Gessou."
Lingqi started spinning around forward, before landing a downward heel kick on top of Heracles, resulting in him being knocked downwards to his knees. A grunt escaped from Heracles' mouth as he felt a good amount of pain traveling throughout his entire body, as the ground cracked underneath them from the pressure on him.
"Damn you!"
Heracles endured most of the attack, then extended his hand forward towards her. From both of them, there was an explosion generated in the same location as them.
"Well, this is something I never expected."
While heading out to meet up with Lingqi, who seemed to fight against Heracles, Claire ended up with a similar issue. She started moving again and jumped, avoiding a drilling whirlwind and sharp slash sent towards her direction. Both the attacks blasted through the building beside her, leaving a massive hole inside of it as she started a barrier from demonic powers in front of her.
Just then, it blocked the second whirlwind blast aimed in her direction, which continued slamming against it and soon subsided.
"Didn't anyone teach you at the Church that it's rude to interrupt a woman?"
Claire asked, as her opponent began approaching her, it was revealed to be Siegfried standing there holding two demonic swords in his hands.
"Please don't mention that place around me. I don't have the best memories about the Church."
"Well, that's at least something that we have in common at the moment. I never thought that it'd be someone else from the Sigurd Institute."
"Oh? And would this person to a friend or foe to you."
"One a friend, the other one a foe. Despite their belief system, certain people in the Church made it a habit to do things like messing with life."
"You're not wrong," Siegfried shrugged his shoulders in a light-hearted manner in thinking about it. "It might have been rude, but I couldn't help being interested in the daughter of an Exorcist and Pure-Blood Devil, who inherited the soul of an angel. I never thought I'd meet someone born with the power of an angel and devil at her disposal. It would also mean that demonic or holy swords can affect you."
"Never expected to receive such praise from a former Exorcist. So, is there a reason for this attack?"
"I thought that it would be a rare chance to fight against someone with such powers flowing within them. Neither of us thought we would run into such people when all we planned on doing was giving former members of ours a proper send-off."
"I think that person would be none other than Lingqi-san."
"It might be better if you asked her yourself. But, I want to test and see what kind of power you wield. And I think that Nothung and Tyrfing would be the perfect test."
Siegfried uttered with greater vigor, releasing fighting intent towards Claire while rushing forward towards her as she began to respond in kind.
"Well, I never thought that I'd attract this kind of attention. But, I hope that you're not going to be looking down on me because that'll be the biggest mistake in your life." Claire looked as Siegfried ended up appearing right in front of her wielding Nothung and Tyrfing. "Nemesis Aegis."
She held out her defenseless left forearm, then manifested a thick-looking white angelic shield. It held back both the demonic swords in Siegfried's possession, while the demonic and light powers released from both seemed to be colliding against one another.
"Nemesis Cherub."
Claire uttered under her breath.
As she defended herself from Siegfried's demonic swords, around both of them multiple blue lights appeared and took shape as small angelic-looking drones. Sensing them behind him, but a second too late as there was a blue light manifested in the portion where the barrel. From the Nemesis Cherub, several light beams were released at Siegfried.
"Hou, it's quite the versatile sacred gear."
Siegfried complimented while moving in an attempt to avoid the light blasts.
Because of the speed that Siegfried trained at the Church, in addition to the training since then, he managed to block the light blasts using either Nothung or Tyrfing or avoided them. However, it became more difficult for him as the Cherub moved into different positions while converging together. In that instance, Siegfried started to get hit by the light blasts, damaging his clothing and gaining injuries.
"Kuh, this is better than I thought it'd be. Never thought that you could use different creations at the same time, in addition to using different tactics too."
Siegfried smirked at the amount of damage that Claire was dealing while putting him on the edge using multiple kinds of tactics using her Cherub.
"Hmm, never been praised by another man aside from Tou-san, Kensei, and Diehauser-ojisan. And I must say," Claire said aiming her hand right towards Siegfried, then altered Nemesis Aegis into an angelic recurve bow. As Siegfried was too preoccupied with dealing with the light blasts fired around him, keeping him from moving from one specific spot, a blue light arrow radiating a good deal of power was manifested in the bow. "I don't quite like it, far more since it reminds me of that other exorcist, Freed."
Claire released the light arrow as it sailed towards Siegfried at high-speeds, appearing in front of him in almost a split second. An explosion of light was produced from the light arrow making contact, but she wasn't aware of the thing it came in contact with.
"Hmmm…?"
Claire hummed as she looked at the smoke.
"Now, that one hurt."
She heard Siegfried speaking from the smoke it cleared, holding a vibrant red demonic sword, which released an ominous aura incomparable to the other demonic swords in his possession.
"Being compared to Freed is the worst insult I've ever heard."
Despite that, Siegfried continued looking straight at Claire maintaining his smirk. From appearance alone, it could be seen that there was a silver dragon hand growing from the silver-haired young man's back, holding the newly revealed demonic sword in its hand. But, that explosion did some more noticeable damage to the former exorcist who switched Gram and Nothung between hands.
"I can guess that would be Gram, the Demonic Emperor Sword."
"Ah, someone has done their homework. You're correct, this would be Gram, and I never thought that I'd have to use it this soon. You might not be a dragon and resistant to demonic powers, but its destructive powers and sharpness isn't something you can resist."
"It's a shame that Zane and Kensei aren't here. Zane would've loved seeing Gram up close, and Kensei wanted to know what it felt like wielding Gram," Claire uttered to herself as she brought some Cherub towards herself, while creating dual angelic katanas in her hands. "I'm not on the level of swordsmanship as you, but I got used to fights against superior swordsmen because of Kensei and Maria."
"Ah, then let's see it!"
Both Claire and Siegfried rushed at one another at high-speed, which both accumulated from training.
"Ah, this is a bit unfair. I knew I should've taken that right."
Alice mentioned, staring forward with a blank expression on her face as she stared at the people standing there in front of her. She found herself leaving the museum moments ago, and soon found herself standing inside a clear space before Jeanne, dressed in a female gakuran uniform with armor on top of it, holding a rapier beside her. And standing next to her was a spectacle young man wearing magician's robes on top of his uniform.
But, the oddest thing was the animal statue covered in a strong defensive barrier, which both of them seemed to be guarding.
"Oh, looks like we have a guest. And she happens to be a beauty~"
Jeanne cheerfully said.
"Uh, I'm sorry, but I'm not into girls," Alice seemed to have taken that claim seriously, but for some reason, she had gone back towards the time she and Claire kissed. She didn't show it on her face or other times, but that moment was still stuck in her mind. "…."
"Ara, I didn't mean it like that~ So, Geo-chan, what're we going to do?"
"You know how much I hate that nickname. I'm defending the device, so why don't you fight her?"
"Hmm, it is kinda boring here," Jeanne looked to be thinking about it to herself. "I wanted to see Rei-chan, but Hera-chan was being a meanie and ended up there instead. How about it, do you mind keeping this Onee-chan over here company?"
"Rei-chan," Alice thought about it for a moment, then came up with the conclusion of Lingqi, whose name when put in Japanese would be Reiki, and thus Rei. "Hah, I might as well. Not that I have much of a choice."
Around Alice, her shadow started expanding around her as a Gladius came out from it, wielding its sword in hand, and stood beside its master. Staring at the creature, which came from Alice's shadow, Jeanne and Georg wore a surprised look.
"Ah, this isn't a normal monster. It doesn't appear to be something that you could find in the world and just tame."
"It might be Annihilation Maker, a High-Tier Longinus like mine and Cao Cao's. It was among the Longinus, that we showed great interest in finding, but couldn't locate its wielder."
"Ara, she created a sword-wielding monster. This Onee-chan is impressed. So, let's go!"
Jeanne propelled herself forward, wielding her rapier in her hands as Gladius followed its master's intentions and rushed forward. It brought its sword downward, but she avoided it, causing it to break the ground underneath the two. Seeing this, Jeanne stepped back, realizing that she couldn't defeat it in a contest of strength, and then aimed her rapier at its chest.
"Oh?"
Jeanne felt her rapier's tip touching its skin, but couldn't penetrate much deeper than that. She moved back knowing that anything else wouldn't do much.
"That sword isn't a normal one. It almost resembles…."
"Sorry, but this Onee-chan has more tricks up her sleeve!"
Jeanne swung her rapier, striking nothing but air, however, a wave of swords, releasing a holy aura was released towards Gladius. Standing before its master, Gladius blocked and broke all of the swords heading towards Alice, without one reaching her.
"So, it's Blade Blacksmith, huh."
"Ah, so you know about my sacred gear?"
"A friend of mine has it too. But, not to sound rude her usage of it is better."
"Muuu, that's so rude. So, how about continuing to play with Onee-chan?"
Jeanne asked, pointing her rapier at Alice, who didn't appear worried at all.
"I have a better idea, 'Onee-chan'? Alphard!"
"Alphard? Who's th…eh?"
Jeanne looked on as Alice's shadow started moving again, then from it, multiple tentacles started coming out from the shadow too. And from it, Alphard, a monster bigger than Gladius came from Alice's shadow, which had all its tentacles wiggling around in the air. As it turned its red eyes towards Jeanne, who was aware of something a lot like this from anime, a disturbing sound escaped from its mouth.
"Goooooou!"
"Iyaaaah!"
Jeanne screamed as she started running as Alphard chased her around, its tentacles were aimed over towards the blonde-haired young woman. Georg looked on with an odd expression as his partner for this situation started being chased around by a tentacle monster.
"Don't aim those disgusting things towards me! I've seen a situation like this before!"
Jeanne couldn't handle the situation and avoided the tentacles from either running or throwing swords towards it squealing. It didn't make matters worse as aside from the tentacles regenerating, it started secreting something on the ground.
"Why is there a monster like that?"
"For situations like this, where I'm fighting someone like Jeanne," Alice answered, showing no reaction at all as Jeanne continued running around. "It might look a bit perverse, but that secretion was meant to melt armor and weapons. It kinda melts clothes too, which was unintentional. But, it doesn't do anything else. I doubt that there's a woman like Jeanne who would want to fight him."
"I don't think that a woman would ever come up with anything like that. You might think that taking out Jeanne will make this fight easier, but you're mistaken," Georg stated, giving Alice an odd look. "It'll be difficult for you to fight against me though."
"…."
Alice knew that those words couldn't be doubted as she recalled that Georg mentioned something about him also having a High-Tier Longinus. It would be either the True Longinus or Dimension Lost, while the Zenith Tempest is in the possession of Dulio. Handling either would be troublesome for her considering that she might lose the monsters if it teleported somewhere else.
"Hah, I might as well bring them out."
Alice sigh, not liking direct approaches like this, but if Dimension Lost is involved, then she'll need more monsters if most of them are going to be vanishing. So, from Alice's shadow, several monsters she created over the years started spewing out from them. Georg looked on surprised by the number of monsters being summoned out of shadows.
"I didn't expect that much. But, a fight between two High-Tier Longinus users is going to become quite the show."
From around Georg, a strange mist started manifesting around him, in addition to two magic circles right beside him too. At the same time, Alice sent her monsters towards Georg, which as Georg stated triggered a battle there between two High-Tier Longinus users.
"Argh! Dammit!"
Heracles declared after being sent into a building, then stood back up, his fighting spirit not wavering at all. There were notable wounds on Heracles as blood leaked from his mouth, while an angered groan left from his mouth. His hands touched the ground as an explosion was sent over toward Lingqi, who looked to have taken some damage too. In an instant, she moved aside avoiding the explosive line, before it could reach her, and then noticed Heracles rushing at her.
"I tend to forget. Despite those muscles, you're quite fast."
Lingqi uttered under her breath as Heracles arrived close enough to her.
At that moment, Heracles started aiming multiple strong and wide strikes at Lingqi, who similar to a genuine tiger, avoided the strikes using flexible and nimble movements. As Heracles aimed a straightforward punch toward her while she was moving around, Lingqi aimed a kick and clashed against his punch. From the impact, both Lingqi and Heracles were blown backward.
Despite being blown off-balance, because of her martial arts training, earlier on, something of this wouldn't even deter her at all. Lingqi fixed her posture mid-air, then landed on her feet like a feline, similar to what someone would see from Hisui. Around them, the area was a near-complete wreck from the explosive battle between them, while being almost unrecognizable.
"I thought that you were going to end this, Lingqi?! But, I'm still standing here!"
Heracles stood up, still wanting to continue fighting against Lingqi as a smirk could be seen on his face.
"…."
Lingqi breathed as she stood into position again.
She didn't want to admit it, but despite not seeing eye to eye with Heracles, there was some part of her that didn't want to fight against a former comrade. But, from this battle and his attitude the entire time, while realizing other battles were occurring around her, Lingqi started resolving herself. She realized that normal attacks wouldn't be enough to down Heracles, because of his high defenses and wasn't holding back this next punch.
"Fuu."
Lingqi breathed as she prepared herself.
"Alright, let's continue this!"
Heracles declared while approaching her.
However, Lingqi propelled herself forward, appearing in front of Heracles, reeling back her left fist, infusing Qi inside her left gauntlet. Before he could react to what was going to happen next, Lingqi thrust her fist into Heracles' stomach. Aside from the punch causing direct damage, qi penetrated Heracles, causing a great amount of blood to escape from his mouth.
"Gah!"
Heracles was blown from his previous position.
He came in contact with a building, slamming against and breaking the wall, Lingqi stood there getting in a more relaxed stance. A breath escaped from her mouth, noting that Heracles was shaking from that last punch, which was better than the rest.
"…he won't be able to stand up for a bit. I have to see if I can find…."
"Yo, Lingqi."
Before she could react, Kensei landed right there in front of Lingqi, waving his hand. She looked on noticing that a lot of damage was done to him from a previous battle as blood could be seen leaking from a cheek wound.
"Huh, Kensei, what're you…?"
"Sorry, no time to explain."
"Huh?!"
Lingqi was surprised as Kensei lifted her from off the ground, and jumped in another direction using Shinsoku. Just as he moved from that spot, a blast of light was released towards their position, destroying that area. Kensei appeared in another spot, still holding onto Lingqi, letting a breath escape from his mouth.
"Well, he's as strong, if not more than I thought the first time. So, Lingqi are you…?"
Kensei looked on but was surprised about what he was seeing.
"Uh, huh, huhn, uhhh…aaah," Lingqi started letting multiple groans escape from her mouth as her face turned a noticeable shade of red, looking as if she couldn't comprehend the situation. "H-H-He's holding me…like one of those princesses that Chao liked reading about. H-His face is so close to mine. K-K-Kensei is…."
Because she had been training in martial arts for as long as she could remember, she hadn't experienced being around the opposite sex like this. The closest thing that she came to this was whenever her father or grandfather picked up and carried her around as a child. Almost a thousand different thoughts seem to be going through her head at the same time and her heartbeat was rising.
Kensei was staring at the expression she was making, which seemed almost out of character for her.
"Uh, Lingqi are you…?"
"Kyaaah!"
Lingqi let out a cute squeal.
At least, that's the first thought that entered Kensei's mind, the second thought came from the feeling of Lingqi's left first coming in contact with his face. From that hit alone, he was sent into another building as Lingqi landed on the ground. An instant passed as she realized what she had done while looking forward to the person she punched.
"Eh! I'm sorry, Kensei!"
Lingqi called out while heading towards him worried.
After finding him on the ground, Lingqi noticed the blood leaked from his mouth and nose as a groan escaped his mouth. Kensei almost couldn't comprehend what had happened as he was holding Lingqi for a second, then he was blown into another building. To be honest, it was the strongest punch that he had ever taken from anyone up until that point.
"Ah. What hit me?"
"I'm sorry. I just reacted like that on instinct. I didn't mean to punch you like that!"
"I'm fine…ah, I think so…no."
As Kensei was standing, or at least attempting to stand back up, his head was still spinning from the punch. And it got so worse that he started circulating ki to alleviate it.
"Geez, that one almost knocked me senseless."
Kensei said as more of a joke but was serious at the same time.
"Uh, I'm sorry about that. But, that blast before came from a person wielding a spear, right?"
"Oh, you mean, Cao Cao? Yea, he was a lot stronger than I thought when I heard about him, but the two of us at this point are getting a little bit acquainted."
Kensei replied, before turning his attention towards Cao Cao.
Among the clouding smoke, Cao Cao brushed the smoke aside using the True Longinus, revealing himself to be about as injured as Kensei.
"The feeling mutual, I heard rumors about Kensei Amagiri was a powerful combatant, but I didn't think you'd be able to go this long against me," Cao Cao said amused before noticing Heracles on the ground. "Lingqi sure did a number on you, Heracles. Can you stand?"
"Ugh, j-just give me a minute."
Heracles said, feeling unable to stand up because of that last blow.
"Well, it has been a while since we last saw each other, Lingqi."
Cao Cao stated, turning their attention towards Lingqi and Kensei.
"About a week. But, I didn't think you'd come here just to find me."
"And I didn't expect to hear such a cute scream from you. Never thought that you'd be capable of having such an ordinary girly response."
"…shut up."
Lingqi in response to that obvious teasing tone from Cao Cao, despite maintaining a calm look, her cheeks were red from remembering it. But, her response alone and the expression she had made was enough for Cao Cao to become more amused. Cao Cao started spinning around the True Longinus in his hands, then pointed it towards Kensei, who was still holding Kurogane.
"So, shall we continue this?"
"As much as I would love to continue this? How about a short reprieve, because this was kinda short notice? And you lot were a bit rude in disturbing our vacation and downtime? So, how about something that sounds far more interesting than a sudden challenge."
"Ho, this sounds interesting. And what would be this challenge?"
Cao Cao seemed interested in this idea and rested the True Longinus on his shoulder.
"Counting you, there are five members of your team here. And I counting me, three others would be interested in fighting against your team. Since you seem to want to test and see what humans are capable of. As someone who carries such intentions, wouldn't that sound more interested?"
"Some of these people would happen to be Maria Lancelot, Zane Wayland, and Hisui Aozaki?"
"Sheesh, you even know them by name. What're you a stalker?"
Although, Kensei noted that out loud, he knew that he and the others started making big waves across the world, following the formation of the Kibou Alliance. There was also the fact that Kensei was well aware that the original Cao Cao had a knack for locating talented people.
"I tend to keep my attention on those who can cause such a stir across the supernatural. But, fighting against the three of them, in addition to you is an interesting offer. Alright, it would be a match between the main members of our Hero Faction and your Kibou Alliance."
Cao Cao replied, showing no hesitance in accepting that offer.
"How about the match be held in two days at the Forbidden City? In that period, Heracles could be healed up," Lingqi suggested as Heracles narrowed his eyes after hearing that as it was a direct hit to his pride. "And the location is big enough to accommodate multiple people."
"Two days, huh," Cao Cao noted that Lingqi interrupted Kensei and chose the time herself, despite him being the person initiating the challenge. "Fine, that works out for us. So, would you for me to suggest that Georg send you all back to the zoo?"
"No, that's fine," Kensei said as he pulled out a unique-looking talisman from his pockets, then placed a hand on Lingqi's shoulder, causing her to react. "You should know that my clan studied this Longinus."
A light shone from the talisman as himself and Lingqi vanished from in front of Cao Cao and Heracles, surprising the True Longinus wielder.
[Cao Cao, the person Jeanne and I were handling vanished.]
[Hah, thank god, Alphard caught me.]
Cao Cao heard a report coming from Georg and Jeanne, the latter seemed exhausted and a little bit scared.
"Who's Alphard," Cao Cao wondered out loud, but thought that it was Jeanne being Jeanne. "Yea, it looks as if we ended up meeting someone who has extensive research on Dimension Lost. So, it appears as if you've got some work ahead of you Georg."
[…ugh, hearing that makes my head hurt. A Kyuubi even arrived here to assist the female Longinus user that I and Jeanne have been fighting. She seemed quite skilled in using Senjutsu and Youjutsu.]
Georg complained while sounding annoyed.
"Well, that's rare. How about you Siegfried?"
[That half-devil girl that I fought against was stronger than average High-Class Devils, she was skilled in combat and demonic power. In addition to the fact that she is also possessed by a high-ranked angel, making her immune to demonic and light powers.]
Hearing the information received from his teammates made him more interested in fighting against the people he would be encountering in two days.
"Looks like we'll be fighting against some interesting people in two days."
Cao Cao replied smirking.
Having returned to the normal world, Kensei and the others stored their weapons as soon as the group returned, but it was difficult to hide their injuries. Claire used demonic power to change the memories of those around them and left the area. Having left the area, her powers were used to repair their clothing, then started returning to the Jade Dragon Hotel.
During that entire time, Lingqi explained she'd explain things in private inside Kensei's and Kunou's shared hotel room. Until that time, she remained silent the entire time and neither of them tried pushing the situations further and decided to wait until then.
Arriving inside their shared hotel room, Lingqi took a seat on the couch, while Kensei and the others took a seat on the bed. She hadn't spoken a word for a couple, but no one forced her to speak about the matter further. Another second passed as she sighed, then started speaking.
"I'm sorry, I ended up dragging you all into the trouble of me and my old teammates."
Lingqi said, bowing her head to them all as an apology.
"You don't need to apologize to us, Lingqi. Believe it or not, it wouldn't be the first time that some random group targeted us. But, it seems as if those people, the Hero Faction aren't your typical group."
Kensei stated as Lingqi nodded her head.
"Yes, that is the group I belonged to until a while ago. The Hero Faction, what you'd expect is a group composed of humans with special powers ranging from sacred gears and other strong weapons. Some of them consist of a collection of as you'd expect, descendants of famous heroes or those who inherited their souls."
Lingqi replied.
"So, based on your name alone."
Claire thought about her name and came up with a comparison.
"Yes, I am a descendant of Lu Bu, the Warlord from the Three Kingdoms Era," Lingqi nodded her head. "Almost the members experienced something related to the supernatural that left them unable to live normal lives. It was either because their sacred gears made them outcasts among normal humans. Most of them were either targeted or lost their families from supernatural beings."
"That sounds a bit familiar. Most of the people from ours experienced the same thing, and couldn't lead anything that resembled normal lives. It wasn't after a lot of trials and tribulations that all of us managed to live somewhat of a normal life for a time."
"Yea, but I don't know whether it was good or not for them. But, Cao Cao ended up meeting them and convinced many humans to join the Hero Faction to test the limits that humans can reach. I thought it was a decent enough idea, so I decided to join them too and remained for a bit. I remained with them for about a year, and within that time, I noticed how different it was based on what I thought."
Lingqi explained, with her facial expression shifting a bit.
"What was that?"
"It wouldn't be correct to call them evil, misguided might be closer to the definition. Cao Cao wants to test out the limits of humans and does so using dangerous methods. None of the members appear to consider what's ended up happening to them, because of it and continue going along with it. It could either be due to admiration or due to brainwashing of some kind. And there's their belief that all supernatural beings are evil and should be erased."
"Hmm, I guess that explains the reason the Hero Faction is composed of humans because heroes have always been humans. Even the legendary creatures mentioned in folklore have been defeated by humans. Despite that, I can't agree with using and brainwashing overs like that."
Kensei stated, crossing his arms, and felt irritating after hearing that explanation from Lingqi.
"But, Lingqi-san, you don't appear to be the kind of person who'd need to join a group like that. Before you said it was those who had no other place to go or those who experienced something involving the supernatural. During our conversation, you mentioned that you had a family before."
Claire mentioned with her usual sharp intuition, which was something that Lingqi was surprised about.
"You're not wrong. My reason for wanting to join them was because there was someone that I want to defeat…," there was a slight pause as the group noticed Lingqi looking more serious compared to before. "…no, there's a person that I wanted to kill and needed help."
[…?]
At that moment, Kensei, Claire, Alice, and Kunou were surprised as she looked serious at that moment. From the look in her eyes, she looked dead serious.
"She looks as mad as Kensei would be."
Alice thought, thinking about all the times that Kensei got mad whenever one of them was hurt in some way.
Noticing her change in expression, Lingqi calmed down as she looked to have calmed down a bit and allowed a sigh to escape her mouth.
"Sorry about that. There are multiple reasons that I want to defeat this person, one of them being because that's the mission assigned to me. It's also the reason that I asked for two days instead of being tomorrow while giving an excuse like letting Heracles rest."
"A mission?"
Lingqi's response was a surprise neither of them expected.
All of them soon recalled hearing she hadn't been home in a couple of years during dinner, so it might be related to that. Based on the expression, it might also be something serious for her.
"There's a dangerous and ambitious man who started making preparations and gathering numbers in an attempt to control China," Lingqi revealed, causing Kensei to recall what they had heard from Xuanzang at his residence. "To reach that point, he did several heinous things for nothing but wanting to become the warlord who managed to conquer an entire nation. To prove that, he wants to bring down the gods too and issued a challenge to them in the most active of aggression."
"An act of aggression?"
"The Chief God, Yu Haung managed to maintain a good relationship with the dragons from our faction in earning the respect of one noble dragon the others respected. But, then that man did something that caused a great stir, which angered the dragons. That man, Wu Jun, killed and beheaded that dragon, then placed his head in a place that the Chief God would see it. At that point, the one thing that could quell them is one thing."
"Wu Jun's death. But, what does that have to do with you not being able to return home?"
Kunou asked, looking forward at Lingqi who looked down.
"As you know, angering a dragon, no matter its class is something that no normal person would attempt to do as it would incur their imperial wrath. But, compared to humans, their normal perception of time differs from ours, as some dragons could quell their anger for some time until their target is in their sight. But, the act of killing one that others respected and the act itself from a human wouldn't quell their anger for long," Lingqi explained as she still recalled the time it occurred. "So, there was an agreement between the dragons and the person who could be in charge of hunting down Wu Jun. Until he's killed, that person won't be allowed to return home…and that was five years ago."
Hearing that caused Kensei, Claire, Alice, and Kunou to stare at Lingqi wearing a saddened and understanding expression on all their face. All of them could relate to that feeling a bit, as the four of them had experienced the feeling of being separated from loved ones before.
Kensei knew that dragons could have moments of anger that were comparable to the gods, more so in Outrage. It experienced a long time ago, the kind of power that a low-ranked dragon could exert. But, for certain dragons, once a deal was formed with them, as long as it was kept, then the dragon would keep their word.
"Don't look so sad. I think that we should continue talking about the incident at hand."
"Right, so about the Forbidden City. You mentioned it for something aside from being a big enough location, right?"
Kensei asked, recalling the time that Lingqi suggested the fight being held in two days and it is held inside of the Forbidden City.
"Yea, among the people that Jun gathered, one of them owns a Space-Time Sacred Gear, which allows them to create doors that leads from one location to another. And it's one of the reasons that tracking him has been hard since he can move from location to location. But, after some time and help from the Hero Faction, I managed to find one hidden in the Forbidden City. It might be a faint lead, but it's the closest one that I got at the moment."
Lingqi replied, showing almost no hope reassurance about whether or not she would find Jun there. However, as she said, it was the best lead that she's gotten thus far.
"Well, then while we're fighting against the Hero Faction. You can lead Claire, Alice, and Kunou into the base and find whatever or whoever you're looking for."
Kensei spoke in a confident and sure tone.
"Eh? But, I can ask for you to let me lead them inside there. I don't even know what's inside of that base."
Lingqi was surprised, knowing that Kensei looked close to the three young women beside them. If not him even being in a relationship with them considering the fact the three are vacationing together.
"I mentioned this before, but this isn't the first time that we had to deal with something like that. Believe me, all of us have a habit of going down a path and following leads without a definite end. It was because of that, that we've managed to even make it here in the first place."
Kensei's statement caused Lingqi to feel a bit hesitant as she dragged them into the situation involving the Hero Faction without intending to. So, dragging them all into a situation involving something even more personal to her with unknown dangers was something she shouldn't ask.
"Lingqi-san," Claire gained Lingqi's attention, knowing the kind of expression she was making well. "You chose to join the Hero Faction because you knew it'd be impossible to fight against Wu Jun and the people he gathered. You spent five years preparing to fight against them, so it would be best if you take all of the help you could get. A mission assigned to you by a Chief-God is something that should be taken as the utmost importance. So, there shouldn't be an issue accepting our help."
Claire's logical and rational words caused Lingqi to, in fact, think about it like that in the same kind of sense too.
"Yes, I can see it from that angle too. I'll accept the help, and I'll make this up to you all."
"Don't need to. But, seeing as your as honorable and also as stubborn as Kensei. I doubt that you'd let it go even if we tell you there's no need."
""Ah.""
Lingqi and Kensei let out a sigh while glancing to the side, ironically in the direction opposing one another.
"Well, I might as well contact Zane, Maria, and Hisui later, then tell them about what happened. It's getting late and all of us have had a long day too. So, let's get some rest and think about what to do tomorrow."
"That's a good idea. There are three of my colleagues who trained under my father and treated me with the utmost amount of trust."
"Do you need something to heal those injuries? We have a couple of Phoenix Tears with us and Kensei is good at healing someone."
Alice suggested, but Lingqi held up her hand and shook her head.
"That's fine. I trained in using Qi ever since I was a little girl and learned to heal my injuries to a good extent without needing to concern healers much. But, thanks for the offer though."
Lingqi replied, showing a genuine smile, and started exiting from the shared hotel room between both Kensei and Kunou. She closed the door behind them, leaving Kensei and the group inside the room alone, taking in what she informed them about.
"There's something more between the question between Lingqi and Jun. She looked too mad for someone who'd been assigned a mission to defeat him. So, whatever he did in regards to her, it pissed her off, because Lingqi at that moment looked prepared to rip him apart."
"Yea, she almost looked as mad as you'd normally look, Kensei."
Alice pointed out, something that Kensei couldn't at all refute considering he's had several moments like that.
"I cannot deny that. It can wait for later, I think that all of us need some time to rest and think about things. A lot has happened, so we could all use some downtime and something to eat."
Kensei suggested as the three young women around them nodded their heads in agreement.
"That's a good idea. There was some room service that I was interested in ordering after reading the menu."
"Same, there was a sweet-looking desert that Kunou couldn't take her eyes off of."
Claire and Kunou liked the idea of ordering something from the room service menu, with Claire and Alice getting up from the bed. Seeing how things were turning out, the moment the two left from the room; while Kunou looked at the menu, Kensei contacted the others.
Some time passed, Kensei found himself preparing to take a bath, getting undressed, while thinking about all the incidents that transpired. It was normal until the moment he was transported inside of a replicated space, where he fought against the Strongest Longinus owner. Amid him thinking about that, he could hear the water inside the bathroom, meaning that Kunou was preparing to take a bath for herself.
And then, it went to the conversation that he had with Zane and the others via holographic conversation.
[So, out of all the people that you could have had a run-in with, while on an apparent vacation. It had to be a hero descendant wielding the first and most powerful Longinus.]
Maria was surprised about the information she received.
[I have to agree with Maria, Ken Ken. You could have the worst and best luck sometimes in encountering new people sometimes. The name itself isn't familiar, but I heard rumors about there being a gathering of humans. It's all the information that I could gather, though.]
Hisui added.
[Hmmm, the Hero Faction. I didn't think that we'd be faced with a faction composed of humans, some with sacred gears or other weapons. Didn't think that I'd hear the name Gram at the same time too, either. If there wasn't any mention about them, their group could be remaining low and not causing much trouble to catch attention.]
[Might as well accept the challenge and see what we can gather about them. Don't know much about them, but I hate the methods used on their people in an attempt to produce stronger results. It goes against what we've been attempting to accomplish the entire time with people like them.]
Kensei, Zane, and Hisui could hear the distaste for the methods that the Hero Faction uses against the members who're supposed to be comrades. Not surprising considering her Knight lineage and genuine compassion, which is shown towards the others around her.
[I'm interested in also meeting this new girl, who happens to be a female version of Ken Ken. Lingqi sounds like a good and decent person if Claire has no issue helping her like that.]
[Well, all of us can relate to Lingqi to some degree. It looks like we're going to have our first experience fighting with the Hero Faction. So, let's show them how the Kibou Alliance does things.]
[Right!]
Hearing Zane's confidence, the others found themselves agreeing with their plan in confronting the Hero Faction.
"I think this is one of the first times those three looked forward to a fight before. Well, I guess that fighting against hero descendants wielding either strong weapons or sacred gears would be an interesting experience. And it has been a long time since we last fought against a serious group."
Kensei stated, thinking back to the last time that their group had a serious fight against someone.
"Uh, Ken-chan."
Kensei turned his attention over toward Kunou, who was peaking her head outside of the bathroom door, while at him. Based on what he could see, she was still dressed in her underwear
"Yes, Kunou?"
"Would Ken-chan like to share a bath with Kunou?"
Kunou cutely asked.
Because her Kyuubi parts were out this time, she looked cuter than normal, more so as her ears were twitching, showcasing Kunou's feelings. He never had an issue in sharing a bath with either of the girls he loved, and it had even become a casual thing.
"Ah, sure thing. I'll be there in a second."
Kensei replied, showing a casual smile.
Hearing that response, Kunou's ears twitched from happiness and excitement as she slipped back inside of their shared bathroom. Smirking at her reaction, he approached the bathroom, taking off the shirt that he was wearing at that moment. Kensei picked up the essentials that he would need when entering the bath, such as a change of fresh clothes.
Inside the bathroom, Kensei could see Kunou removed her bra, then moved onto then removing the panties she wore. Having removed them, in addition to the fact her youkai parts were out, Kensei couldn't help, but admire the young Kyuubi's beauty.
"So, would Ken-chan want to enter the bath first?"
Kunou bashfully asked, showing reddened cheeks at the thoughts entering her head.
Chuckling, Kensei stood beside Kunou, who was standing beside the bath smiling to herself a bit. She noticed him removing his pants and boxers, revealing his naked and well-built build in front of her. Not wasting him, he'd entered the bath, which reached a relaxing hot temperature.
"Ah, this is at a good temperature, Kunou."
Kensei spoke in a relaxed tone, as Kunou entered the bath.
Entering the bath, Kunou moved backward as she leaned her back against Kensei's chest. Because of the contact, she wore a faint blush as she felt a familiar thing rubbing against her from behind. But, she managed to relax as she leaned against him.
"This feels great, Ken-chan~"
"Yea, after what happened. It feels good relaxing a bit. Thanks for suggesting that we share this "
Kensei agreed, resting his right arm on the bathtub's rim while placing the left on top of the Kyuubi's head.
"Hmhmm, Kunou loves sharing a bath with Ken-chan."
Kunou added, becoming more comfortable in her position.
"I sensed that you went over to assist Alice in fighting against those two members from the Hero Faction. So, did you think that it was a difficult fight?"
"Hmm, it was hard for Kunou to fight against that magician, but that blonde-haired girl was preoccupied running from Alphard," Kensei gave a slight laugh from that, knowing that most women wouldn't want to fight against that monster, in particular. "He attacked us using magic while sending Alice-chan's monsters off into different places. He tried doing the same thing to Kunou, but I sealed the mist inside different barriers that I created."
Kensei could tell that Kunou was proud of herself for being able to do that, and knew that if the mist was sealed in a barrier, it wouldn't be able to send them elsewhere.
"Yes, Kunou was being quite smart in doing that."
Kensei replied, placing a head on top of her head and ended up brushing up against her left ear.
"Hehehe," Kunou laughed before starting feeling herself heating up a bit as she started feeling Kensei's part start rubbing against her from behind. "Uh, would Ken-chan want to spoil Kunou a bit? Nnn~"
Kunou moaned a bit as Kensei's right hand brushed against her right breast as his fingers started to dig into it, as a smirk could be seen on his face.
Lime Start!
"What a naughty girl thinking about that."
Kensei whispered into her ear, then kissed her neck from behind.
"Nnn~"
Kunou's moans started becoming loser as she started feeling Kensei's right hand becoming much more active in groping her right breast. His fingers moved upwards, leading towards her pink peaks, pressing down on them as ki could be felt entering that point.
"Kyaaa~ Uhhh~"
Kunou felt a decent amount of pleasure spreading across her as her knees bent and started rubbing against one another. It didn't help as he started using his left hand to start working on the left breast, then from both breasts, he started messing around with Kunou's nipples; his fingers even started pinching them.
"Uh, Ken…Ken-chan has been getting better at this."
Kunou moaned while feeling Kensei start to run his tongue across her left ear, causing her to shiver.
Since started a physical relationship with Kunou and the others, Kensei continued progressing in being able to do a lot of things with them and make them feel pleasure.
"You know, this reminds me of the conversation Kunou and I were having, but couldn't finish," Kensei said, removing his right hand from her right breast. Kunou blushed as she started feeling him moving it across her waist, starting inching towards her right thigh. "I also remember waking up just to hear some moans inside our hotel room, then noticed a lump underneath the covers. And I thought that I heard a certain someone mentioning my name."
"Uh, Ken-chan don't tease, Kunou."
Kunou's cheeks started turning redder as Kensei's hand started massaging her inner thigh.
"Come on, I doubt it's that embarrassing," Kensei whispered in her ears as his fingers started inching far closer to her private part, which was opened to him. "So, would Kunou mind sharing it with me?"
"Ahh," Kunou moaned as she began feeling Kensei's fingers closer to her lower entrance. "K-Kunou starting to d-do it far more often, thinking about K-Ken-chan d-doing things with her. B-Because, Kunou heard Ken-chan with Claire-san and Alice-san."
Kunou's face turned red from that reveal, as Kensei realized what Kunou was referring to.
"I-I see."
Kensei couldn't help feeling a bit flustered himself, realizing it meant Kunou heard him, Claire, and Alice, having sex with one another as a threesome. He wasn't aware of how long she was listening in, or when, because of the fact the three continued for a couple of hours.
"K-Kunou didn't think that Ken-chan would be that rough. And Kunou started thinking about the moment that she and Ken-chan would start doing that too. Kunou couldn't help thinking about it, then started…doing that thinking about Ken-chan."
Kunou kept talking as she felt her feelings spewing out at that moment too.
"Hmm, I see. So, would Kunou want to do it now?"
"Hmm, no. Kunou doesn't like the situation now, and doesn't feel like it."
Kunou replied as Kensei heard that it was her genuine feelings about it.
"Then how about this?"
"Huh, iyah."
Kunou was surprised as she felt Kensei picking her up, while inside of the bath. After stepping outside of the tub for a moment, Kensei took a seat on the rim and had Kunou placed on his lap.
"Uh, what're we going to…iyah?"
Kunou let out a surprised gasp as she felt Kensei's finger brushing up against her lower entrance, and it kept on at the same spot. Not that he could notice since the two were just in the bath, but the Kyuubi became wetter as a result of the motions of his fingers; then started reaching deeper.
"Ahh~"
Kunou moaned as she felt Kensei pushing one of his fingers inside of her, while he felt her inner walls starting to tighten around them. Feeling as his fingers started pushing in and out from her, the golden-haired girl wasn't able to stop the moans leaving her mouth. As she relished in the feeling of Kensei fingering her, Kunou's hand ended up brushing against his enlarged member.
Wanting Kensei to feel as good as her, Kunou reached her hand out and wrapped it around, then started moving her hand up and down his length.
"Ngh."
Kensei groaned from the Kyuubi's hand motions, noting that she started adding in ki to make the sensation much greater. It was a slight use considering Kunou was still learning about using Senjutsu.
"Ah, that was a good one, Kunou. But, let me show what a real one feels like."
Kensei said, then his fingers started giving off an aura, sending a sudden great surge of pleasure across Kunou, who jerked backward a bit.
"Iyaaaah!"
Kunou moaned and stared straight at the ceiling, while not letting go of his member.
She reached an intense climax that traveled across her entire body, as Kensei felt her cum, making his hand and made it stickier from the splash.
"Huff huff huff."
Kunou started breathing more intensely than before as she started settling down, but the feeling remained.
"If you ever feel frustrated or built up like that, don't be afraid of coming to me."
"O-Okay."
Kunou couldn't help feeling happier, having heard those words from Kensei, which had nothing aside from pure love and compassion for her. Her hand was still touching Kensei's member and could feel that it remained just as hard as before.
"Ken-chan is still hard. Do you want me to…?"
Kunou asked, pointing to her mouth and Kensei nodded his head.
Noticing that, Kunou moved off his lap, kneeling in front of his enlarged member. Not wasting him, she moved up close, wrapping her mouth around the top portion.
"Mmmm."
Kunou moaned as she started lowering her head down on his length, wetting up that section of his member. She continued proceeding performing the same movement as her head. As she lowered her head downwards, Kunou couldn't help smelling the scent coming off of him.
"Ahhh, Ken-chan smells too good as always."
Kunou couldn't help feeling aroused from the scent coming off of Kensei.
She started becoming more energetic in her emotions as she used her hands to add to the motions she began doing at that moment. Kensei started feeling himself starting to come closer to reaching that climax, then she had reached a point and….
"Kuh!"
"Mmmm?!"
Kunou felt Kensei cumming in her mouth, as a good amount of semen flowed inside her mouth, and began going down her throat. A deep sense of warmth started spreading across her entire behind as Kunou removed her mouth from his member, which sprayed some cum on her face.
"Haaah, that felt so good~ It tasted so good~"
Kunou couldn't help feeling a deeper-seated pleasure, which couldn't compare to the previous masturbation she had done herself. Realizing the cum on her cheeks, she brushed it aside using her finger, then licked it off of her finger and smiled at him.
"So, want to finish bathing?"
"Mhmm!"
Kunou happily said as she and Kensei continued the bath, with the latter reheating up the bath a bit, returning it to its former temperature. Both of them took turns bathing one another, with the Kyuubi laughing as Kensei used shampoo to wash her hair while tickling her ears. Once that was finished, the two cleaned themselves up, then decided to share a bed for the night.
Meanwhile, inside Lingqi's hotel room, staring straight out the window of her room, looking at the moon as it was beaming down at her. She wore a blank expression, thinking about the events that happened, involving the Hero Faction. Dressed in nothing, but a simple, plain white shirt, where the black straps of her bra could be seen from her shoulders, and black shorts.
"Hah, I didn't think that things would end up turning out like this," Lingqi said, going back toward her confrontation with Heracles and afterward. "I never thought that Cao Cao would come after me, considering that I knew that he didn't trust me in the first place. Neither did I ever think the people that I joined for dinner would get involved too. It ended turning into things that I never expected would happen, but I can't reject what Claire said about it being an important mission. And for their sake, I can't fail."
In Lingqi's mind, her thoughts went back to her mother, despite the situation, she gave her a gentle smile and the faith in her firstborn never wavered. Her mother even gifted her the precious, special blue jeweled earring, a gift that her mother inherited from hers. At first, Lingqi would've inherited it when she became a mature woman and started to wear it after turning eighteen.
Even then, it was the right earring, and her mother still had the left earring. Lingqi would receive the left one after seeing her mother again. In the end, the short-term farewell from her siblings, her three brothers, and her younger sister who was the saddest to see her leave.
And in her head, the image of her father entered her mind, through training in Byakko Kenpo, to the moment her sacred gear awakened. A stern training and a kind father, a man who acted as both as a means of ensuring that his children were raised to become decent people and disciples to become true masters.
The last person, an imposing and threatening man, whose presence she could still recall entered her mind almost caused that. At the memories of that person entering their lives, things turned upside down, and recalling what he did at that time caused Lingqi's first to tighten.
"I'll never give Jun that chance ever again."
Lingqi declared to herself as she stared out the window, releasing an aura for a moment that shook the room. It wasn't long until she calmed down, realizing that if she flared up like that, it might cause Kensei and the others to believe something happened.
"Calm down, there's a chance he might not even be there. So, there's no need to get heated," Lingqi said as she started heading towards her bed, then flopped down laying her head down on the pillow. "Hmmm, I'm grateful for Claire, Alice, and Kunou for wanting to assist me in raiding this base. Whether he's there or not, I want to thank them for it no matter what happens there. Kensei and the others offered to hold back the others, while we plan on raiding that base. Kensei…ahhh!"
At that moment, Lingqi became flustered as her mind went back towards the previous incident where Kensei had picked her up like a princess.
"I can't believe something like that happened! I can't believe that I reacted like that! Ugh! This is so embarrassing I can't even comprehend it!"
Lingqi started thrashing around her bed, kicking around and hitting the bed using her hand. Although her moves seemed casual and harmless, the strength behind them would be enough to break apart the entire room. But, her training allowed her to have precise control over her strength, making it easier to use it as she wants.
There was no doubt that Lingqi was, in fact, a mature and confident person, she trained in martial arts since she was a child. Similar to Kensei, she was a strong person in body and heart too.
However, the main difference was despite training with male disciples too, those times spent were all focused on sparring and nothing else. Aside from her father and grandfather, she hadn't experienced such a thing from any other male before. So, even as she traveled, there hasn't been a single man who had done or attempted to do a single thing like that before.
Lingqi was confident, but wasn't overconfident and realized what needed to be done in different situations. In her travels and training, she became strong enough to be an independent person. In this situation, however, is being carried with tenderness and care, as if she was an innocent and defenseless princess that needs to be protected.
"Ugh, what was that?! And why is my heart beating this fast?!"
Lingqi, who had no experience in dealing with men outside of relatives on a personal level wasn't something that she could comprehend at the moment. It would be embarrassing for her if anyone saw her, a master martial artist rolling around in her bed like any normal girl. Having finished thrashing around, Lingqi stopped moving around as she was lying down on her back, while a pillow covered her face.
"This is so confusing for me. In this situation, I would've talked to Jeanne and asked for advice," Lingqi removed the pillow from on top of her face and stared at the ceiling. "No, even if I did ask for advice, she'd have a field day teasing me about it. Is this what mother mentioned in liking someone else? No, this isn't what that is. I don't even know what it means to like another person. It was just an experience that I hadn't gone through before. But, I…."
From her first encounter with Kensei, Claire, Alice, and Kunou, despite the three women being more special and having different traits to them. Claire, a half-devil who has the powers of a high-ranked angel via her unique sacred gear, housing an angel. Alice, despite being a normal human has one of the High-Tier Longinus. And Kunou is a Kyuubi, who has Youjutsu and Senjutsu.
But, for some reason, her attention was aimed at Kensei throughout the entire time since meeting him. Even she could feel that his attention was on her the entire time too. Lingqi rolled over towards the side as she looked out of the window.
"He's a master martial artist as good as I am, and he must come from a strong bloodline too. He didn't have even the slightest opening in his stance during that time against those drunks. He was able to fight against Cao Cao, despite neither getting serious and were messing around," Lingqi kept thinking about the first time that she began interacting with Kensei. "I haven't seen him fighting up close, but he moved around like a dragon. And I fight like a tiger. It's almost ironic."
Lingqi almost laughed at the irony behind the feeling the two were having towards one another. There was an ancient Chinese idiom mentioned, the Tiger and Dragon, two creatures mentioned as being creatures of Yin and Yang. Both creatures were mentioned as being different and similar to the same time, eternal rivals, who had confrontations that ended in a draw.
"Heh, it looks like I'll be fighting another dragon," Lingqi stated while staring at the ceiling and smiling to herself. "Even though I owe him a debt, I can't help wanting to fight against him."
A/N: And there goes the next chapter of DxD – The Last Amagiri, Kensei and the others seemed to have been dragged into the same alternate dimension as Lingqi. And all of them ended up meeting the others from the Hero Faction, Cao Cao, Seigfried, Georg, and Jeanne. But, the main focus was Lingqi vs Heracles who both appear to be similar power-type fighters.
Lingqi's Sacred Gear, Spiritus Armiger was revealed, which manifests Shimon Mouko, a set of gauntlets and greaves similar to what you'd see from Devil May Cry. I thought that it would fit her most since it is focused on manifesting a special weapon from her soul. There were also some revelations on her martial art and bits of her past, which involves someone named Wu Jun. She is also on a mission from the Chief God himself to defeat this warlord, the same person Xuanzang mentioned.
Near the end, there was also a Lime between Kensei and Kunou, I felt that I had to add one, while the two shared a hotel room on a vacation in China. And last, but not least, there was Lingqi's reaction to being carried around like a princess by Kensei. Despite her strength and skills, she never had much experience in terms of dealing with the opposite sex if it didn't involve training.
Translations
Lingqi
Shimon Mouko – Four Gates Fierce Tiger
Byakko Kenpo – White Tiger Fist Law
Senda – Flash Hit
Gessou – Lunar Phase
Kensei's Harem: Alice, Claire, Hisui, Kunou, Yasaka, Lu Lingqi, Sarah, Minako, Koneko, Kuroka, Ravel, Amaterasu, Brynhildr, Rossweisse, Ophis.