Kapitel 23: Training Part 8 of 14 - Cool, Cooler, Coolest
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('Ddraig speaking telepathically')
("Ddraig talking out loud")
['Albion speaking telepathically']
["Albion talking out loud"]
{'Bahamut speaking telepathically'}
'A character's thoughts'
Chapter 21: Training Part 8 of 14 - Cool, Cooler, Coolest (58)
As the feast ended, Thor told the trainees to follow him while Akame was still eating a seemingly endless supply of food despite her perfect looks. She's one of the rare few who has a black-hole for a stomach; nothing changes.
"So," Issei said, "what did you want to talk about, Thor?"
He smiled politely. "Follow me. There is something I want to show all of you."
All of them, even Rossweisse, who was out cold drunk but is now awake and somehow sober, followed him out of the dining hall and up multiple flights of stairs. One set of stairs split into two different paths ending in two massive wooden doors. They know where the one on the right leads to, but not the left one, which Thor opened, revealing a grand library.
Thor looked at them. "This is the library... Obviously." He gestured to the closest set of aisles. "Here, you can find all sorts of books that allow you to learn everything there is to know about Asgard and the other realms." He then pointed at a relatively small section of aisles in the back-right corner. "Over there, however, are books that have been locked away via a magical barrier so that only those that my father and I permit can enter it, that being you. Those books contain lots of information on how to learn magic, such as the basics of Earth, Fire, Water or Ice, Wind, Spirit, and Void, as well as other advanced levels of magic."
"Woah," They all chorused.
"Exactly where is this library in the castle?" Vali asked.
"11th floor. Let me explain the layout of my humble abode for you."
He showed them a small billboard of the layout of the castle:
Mysterious Basement. Only the royal Aesir family are allowed to traversed this place and have told no one of its contents.
First two floors are open to the public, the rest are not.
1st Floor: Shopping Mall, Business Sector, and Royal Guard.
2nd Floor: Royal Guard, Guild Admissions for adventurers, and Teleporter To Hall of Trials. Here, you take a teleporter to a building, the Hall of Trials, wherein you face real life-or-death combat against monsters. Monsters contain beasts such as Giant Spiders, Giant Bees, Giant Crocodiles, Zombies, Gargoyles, Demons, Wind Dragons, and Fire Dragons. Your only options are to die, advance as many floors as you can before calling it quits, or beat all 1,300 floors and all 13 bosses. Prize is a very wealthy sum of runes and uru as well as any one wish granted by Odin himself. Number of winners in its history= 0. Recommended for adventurers and soldiers only, as supernatural beings will find this too easy. Current record for furthest someone has proceeded is 666 floors, where multiple people have died to Demons. Average Deaths Per Earth Year are about 200.
3rd Floor: M ultiple offices with lounging recreational areas.
4th Floor: Guest Dining Hall, Kitchen, Museum, and Royal Guard
5th Floor: Royal Guard Security Checkpoint.
6th Floor: Royal Guard, Royal Family's Personal Dining Hall where trainees eat, and the Kitchen.
7th Floor: The trainee's master bedrooms out of 18 master bedrooms as well as the hot springs.
8th Floor: Aqauarium of Asgardian fish.
9th Floor: Throne Room.
10th Floor: Space Observatory Catwalk Bridge.
HALT! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED PAST THIS POINT UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIAL PERMISSION FROM AN AESIR GOD!
11th Floor: Royal Library. You need an appointment or special permission to be here.
12th Floor: Royal Guard Security Checkpoint.
13th Floor: Teleporter To Jötunheimr.
14th Floor: Teleporter To Muspelheim.
15th Floor: Teleporter To Svartalfheim.
16th Floor: Teleporter To Helheim.
17th Floor: Teleporter To Niflheim.
18th Floor: Teleporter To Nidavellir.
19th Floor: Royal Guard.
20th Floor: Teleporter To Alfheim, Foreign Embassy, and Royal Guard.
21st Floor: Teleporter To Netherworld, Foreign Embassy, and Royal Guard.
22nd Floor: Teleporter To Grigori, Foreign Embassy, and Royal Guard.
23rd Floor: Teleporter To Midgard and Royal Guard.
24th Floor: Teleporter To Mount Kailash, Foreign Embassy, and Royal Guard.
25th Floor: Teleporter To Takamagahara, Foreign Embassy, and Royal Guard.
26th Floor: Royal Guard.
27th Floor: Teleporter To Vanaheim, Foreign Embassy, and Royal Guard.
28th Floor: Teleporter To Valhalla, Foreign Embassy, and Royal Guard.
29th Floor: Teleporter To Olympus, Foreign Embassy, and Royal Guard.
30th Floor: Royal Guard Security Checkpoint.
31st Floor: Bedrooms for Princes and Princesses and Royal Guard. This is where Thor, Baldur, and Loki live.
32nd Floor: Lord Odin and Lady Freya's Master Bedroom and Personal Royal Security Guard.
33rd Floor: Security Vault, War Room for planning military operations, Bedrooms for royal Asgardian soldiers, Military Chow Hall, and Royal Guard.
34th Floor: Military Defense Platform
35th Floor: Military Crow's Nest.
36th Floor: Emergency Bifrost.
Thor spoke. "I suggest spending an hour or two in that section of books on magic every day after training, but don't get carried away and lose sleep." With that being said, he left.
They made their way to the magic section with excited grins on their faces, and Issei said, "Akeno, Kuroka, do you think it's possible that you can teach us Holy Lightning and Senjutsu?"
Kuroka tilted her head. "Nya? It depends on the individual, nya. Arisu-nya already knows Senjutsu and is close to mastering her skills. I could teach you, Vali, Raynare, Akeno, and Ravel-nya, but not the rest who are too weak, nya. Nyo offense."
He nodded, and they all turned their attention to the Priestess of Thunder.
Akeno, who was looking through an aisle of books about Fire magic, put a finger on her upper lip. "Hm. I could train the same group that Kuroka said, but the rest... For Holy Lightning, add Irina and Rossweisse to that list."
Issei nodded. "Alright, here's what we will do. We will train the people Kuroka and Akeno suggested with Senjutsu and Holy Lightning. We'll also come here to read each book together when the clock in the dining hall strikes 9:00 PM every night. Every night, we will read for an hour and a half, and then train our magic for the same amount of time before we all go sleep at 12:00 AM. Over the course of our remaining training days in Asgard, once we have mastered our max potential of Senjutsu and Holy Lightning, Murayama and I can teach all of you Ice and Fire magic, and as we go along, we can learn others as well. Sounds good?"
They all nodded, relieved to see the Aesir have clocks in this library as well.
"Good. Murayama and Tsubasa, you can go read any books on magic you are interested in. Just make sure it's something you are able to learn, not the impossible. Akeno and Kuroka, please find us some books on Senjutsu and Holy Lightning before you bring them to that table in the corner. Everyone else, follow me. Let's go reserve our spot."
Murayama went to the aisle on Water while Tsubasa went to the section on Spirit.
After a few minutes of waiting, the other nine trainees began reading their first book together with Kuroka narrating out loud. While Kuroka checked out two books, Akeno got three.
"This book is called Senjutsu 101. This power is the nyability to control the life force, or ki, in and around a person, nya. Users can very nyaccurately sense the presence and aura of a person, letting them track targets at huge distances. Senjutsu is also capable of dealing interior damage to others by targeting their blood vessels and internal organs, nya. Through disrupting the ki of their opponent's or severing it, it is possible to cause direct damage to their spirit, and using this as an nyattack could result in killing their opponent, nya. As such, there are very few ways to defend against Senjutsu, nya. Senjutsu is capable of forcefully putting others to sleep. It also has healing capabilities that are effective for either physical or mental conditions, relieving any fatigue and restoring one's lifespan." Kuroka stopped reading and looked up everyone. "I have to say that going off my knowledge, contrary to popular belief, Senjutsu does nyot require physical contact to heal."
Issei scratched his head. "Wait, so it's basically like using the force? This is like Star Wars, then. Well, before the dark times... Before Disney. Kuroka, who is known as the most powerful Senjutsu user?"
"Nya? Well, that would be the Kyoto Youkai known as Yasaka, a nine-tailed fox, but if what Gabriel-nyan said is true about you-know-who being back, then it would easily be Satan Lucifer, nya."
Akeno grunted. "Hm. What would be Satan's attack range?"
"Nya? I'd say about the anything within the same size as the dimensions of hell, nya. It is rumored that hell is nyo bigger than a country the size of Nyaustralia, nya."
"I see. Australia is like hell, so that's a good analogy." Arisu nodded.
"I meant it is nyo bigger than Nyaustralia in terms of minimum size, nya."
"Eh? You coulda said that sooner! What's the maximum size?"
"The diameter of Jupiter, nya. Nyo one knyows for sure, nya."
Irina's face paled. "T-That's got to be thousands of miles! Issei, please look it up."
"No, my phone is almost dead."
"You irresponsible child!"
Vali deadpanned, "You're not one to talk, Irina."
"S-Shut up! Fine then, I'll look it up."
Irina pulled out her phone. "Hey Siri, what is the diameter of Jupiter?"
The female voice responded. "Sorry, I can't find any search results for, 'the duration of viagra.' You would have to experience it yourself to find out."
Issei burst out giggling before he put a hand on his mouth, as did everyone else, doing their best to muffle the sounds of their laughter. He laughed so hard that tears covered his cheeks, which the rosy-cheeked sniggering Raynare kissed and wiped away, a warm smile on her face. Even Arisu, who usually finds perverted jokes to be distasteful, had to stifle a chuckle as best she could. Being in the library, they know that they have to be quiet since there are other strangers, mainly Aesir students and Vanir tourists trying to read, but the group couldn't help but laugh quietly.
Irina half-laughed, half-cried dramatically while laying her head down. "Siri has betrayed me!" Then, she sat up, a smile creeping onto her face, DETERMINATION (59) filling her eyes. "I'll just have to look it up myself! Let's see... The diameter of Jupiter is 86,881 miles." She gasped. "I JUST REALIZED ASGARD HAS WI FI! SUGOI!"
A fat, middle-aged woman by the checkout counter shouted, "Hey, keep it down or I'll have to kick you out... for the day!" She grumbled to herself, "Damn you Thor for giving these little shits permission to be here."
Irina raised her hands. "S-Sorry."
Tsubasa, who was reading a table over, shook her head at Irina with playful a smirk. Murayama, who sat next to the bluenette, had her face hidden in her book, her shoulders trembling with quiet laughter due to Irina's behavior.
Ravel clapped her hands, "Back to the subject at hand, Kuroka, does Senjutsu have any weaknesses?"
Kuroka nodded. "Humu. Senjutsu has a fatal flaw. While it lets the user read and handle spirit power and emotions, it could also take in the malice and ill will that flows in the world. Therefore, if an amateur used it incorrectly, then the malice will end up corrupting the user."
Issei hummed. "Hm. I see. Senjutsu sounds very difficult to learn, so let's not rush learning this ability. Anything else we should know, Kuroka?"
"Nyes. Kasha and Touki. Kasha is the nyability to purify some of the most wicked of souls, such as vampires, and meownipulate the souls and life energy of others, nya. Touki can be utilized by those who have trained in Senjutsu through controlling their life force, nya. In other words, creating an aura of life-force around their bodies, nya. As such, it results in a tremendous increase in their strength, toughness, reaction time, and overall speed, nya. If one trains their body to the utmost, they can use Touki to permanently increase their vitality, nya. This allows the user to counter magic nyattacks by literally hitting them in anyway they see fit, such as slapping away a fire ball, and they don't even have to physically make contact with the magic, nya. Touki has also shown to be usable on weapons, nya. That is all, nya."
Issei leaned back and stretched. "I'm already tired. This is so much information."
Kuroka tilted her head. "Meowster, I think the one way to immediately limit-break everyone's potential, other than yourself, Arisu, and Vali, is to turn us all into pure-blooded Dragons, nya. Doing so would make even Mura-chan and Tsu-chan capable of Senjutsu and Holy Lightning, nya."
Akeno nodded. "I agree. As a matter of fact, we can learn about Holy Lightning tomorrow or the day after."
Issei raised an eyebrow. "Are you guys sure about this?"
They all nodded including Murayama and Tsubasa who were now standing next to their table after hearing their conversation.
"Of course!" Ravel said. "We'll do anything to get stronger!"
Arisu stared at the Phenex. "Are ya sure?"
"Eh? What do you mean?"
She sighed. "Sayin' you'll do somethin' versus actually goin' through with it are two different thangs. The process to convert yerself into a pure-blooded Dragon, when you weren't born one like me, is extremely painful. It's a matter of your willpower to overcome the pain. Do ya have what it takes to become stronger, to take the fight to our enemies, to Their Land, Their Blood? (60). To make them pay for what they have done, are doin', and will do? To take an eye for an eye? To become a murderer?"
Silence ensued as they all pondered it, but one-by-one, they stood up and nodded.
Arisu gave a smile mixed with battle-craze and delight. She turned to Issei. "How 'bout it?"
Issei sighed. He teleported them all back to his and Raynare's room. "Vali and I, with the help of Ddraig and Albion, can combine our auras and channel them towards you to turn you into Dragons. The only thing I am worried about is Raynare."
Raynare's eyes widened. "That's right! Ddraig, how would this process effect my unborn child? Would it hurt the baby in any way?"
("No, it wouldn't. The only situation in which it could is if you were pregnant for more than a month while doing this process, which could cause complications at birth and genetic mutations or defects in the baby. Because you aren't 1 month in, you can do it and your baby will be safe. It will especially do you good to do it right now since Issei's seed that attached to your egg is relatively fresh. The quicker you do it, the stronger your full-blooded Dragon baby will be.")
She smiled. "Thank you."
("No prob!")
["What an interesting host you have, Ddraig. Honestly speaking, he could become the greatest Red Dragon Emperor ever."]
Issei smirked. "Heh. Thanks, Albion." He turned to the girls. "Shall we begin?"
That night, the eight girls not named Arisu in Issei's peerage became full-blooded Dragons. Their auras exploded outwards, intimidating all in the realm of the Norse. Several floors up, Loki and Baldur felt it.
"Tch!" Loki clicked his tongue.
Days 27-38 of 120 Training Days
At the soccer field, all the adult Dragons involved have now gathered. Ophis, Great Red, Bahamut, and Tiamat watching from the stands. And of course...
"Let me introduce myself to those of you who don't know me. I'm Tannin, Issei's great-great-great grandfather, or as he refers to me, gramps!" The orangette gestured to himself with a proud smile. "Also one of the five Dragon Kings, as well as your trainer for the day. I can tell by your auras that, since the last time I saw you, Issei and Vali have worked together to convert all of you into one of my kind, but... It won't be enough. If you thought everything your previous seven trainers put you through was hard or was enough to make you strong, you would be wise to not continue that way of thinking, for you are about to endure true hell with your remaining trainers."
They gulped.
He threw his arms out and began speaking with the mannerisms of one Hououin... Kyouma! (61) "Come now, my minions! Let us bask in your pain for the next eleven days. Hahahahaha. MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Issei held his arm out in front of the other ten trainees. "Battle formation, now!"
As they readied themselves by fanning out, Tannin transformed into his Dragon form, a 49 foot tall dark purple Dragon with a beige-colored chest and stomach, red eyes, golden horns, and wings almost as big as him.
Issei stood at the front with Arisu, Raynare, and Vali beside him. Behind them stood Kuroka and Murayama leading Rossweisse, Irina, and Tsubasa with Ravel furthest in the back.
Tannin breathed a torrent of flames towards them.
"Scatter!" Issei shouted as everyone ran, splitting the group in about half, not stopping. He summoned his shield, which deflected some of the flames back at Tannin.
"Come on, Issei and Vali! I'll even allow you to use your sacred gears and their different Balance Breaker forms."
Issei grit his teeth while exchanging looks with Vali, who nodded at him, so the two began chanting together.
"I, who am about to awaken, am the Heavenly Dragon who has taken the principles of supremacy from God. I envy the infinite and I pursue the dream. I shall become the White Dragon of Supremacy, and I shall take you to the limits of white paradise!"
"I, who am about to awaken, am the Heavenly Dragon who has stolen the principles of domination from God. I laugh at the infinite, and I grieve at the dream. I shall become the Red Dragon of Domination, and I shall sink you to the depths of the crimson purgatory!"
"JUGGERNAUT DRIVE!"
Issei looked at his fellow Dragon. "Hey Vali, won't you go insane?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Issei, I may not have that Stonehenge ability of yours, but you're not the only one who can spend Skill Points."
"I see."
Suddenly, Tannin opened his mouth and began spitting balls of fire at the two Heavenly Dragons with the speed of an MG-42. It was D-Day all over again. All they could do is dodge.
BRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTT!
Away from the line of fire, Arisu tried to charge at Tannin, her figure a blur to most. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" She war-cried with her sword out, jumping as she tried to slash down at the trainer, but Tannin simply rotated his body and hit the girl with his tail, sending her flying backwards, crashing into the stands with an explosion.
"Arisu!" A worried Issei shouted.
She coughed as she slowly emerged from the stands. The six-piece Pawn put her sword away, pulled out her bow, and primed an arrow to fire, her ponytail a little messy but somehow still fine for the most part, making her look like a true warrior when combined with her current weapon and stance. "I... I see. So this is the difference between being among the 10th most powerful beings in the universe and the 9th most powerful. Heh. I cannot even begin to imagine how huge the gap is between 1st and me."
Before Arisu fired the flaming arrow, she shouted a spell. "Ulysses!"
Issei sensed what type of spell it was and shouted, "Everyone, retreat to my position immediately!"
The arrow flew towards the Dragon King, who was preoccupied harassing the other ten trainees, giving half his effort as he swatted away the two Heavenly Dragons while attacking the other girls. A few seconds before impact, the arrow broke apart into several dozen golden lights that gave off the sound of screaming fireworks, and then they exploded into a massive, fiery ball, enveloping the Dragon King who was half way in between the barrier that protects the stands and audience.
A cluster bomb. It was like a mini-nuke. At the last second, Ravel acted out her support role and casted a powerful bubble-shaped barrier around herself and the other ten trainees.
While Bahamut clapped and cheered. "WOOOOOOOH! THAT'S MY GIRL! GO ARISU!"
She blushed and glared daggers at the Dragon God King. "Shut UP, dad! You're becoming a running joke!"
Tannin roared in agony and rage as he emerged from the fire, terrifying most of them aside from the three Dragon trainees. "Oh, that's it you little daddy's girl! You've done it now!"
Despite being smothered in flames and still burning, the Dragon King flew at unmatchable speeds towards Arisu, chasing the now running girl as he spat the hottest balls of flame as numerous and fast as he could. She calmly but barely dodged all of them, but eventually tripped on a small pebble that blended in with the dirt.
Just as Tannin was about to attack Arisu, he was abruptly stopped in his tracks and thrown to his left side when he felt Issei connect a punch to his face.
Issei howled in agony as he held his hand. "Ow! Jesus, what are your scales made of gramps?!"
Tannin cackled and immediately gave no time for his grandson to recover from his broken hand, firing a beam out of his mouth while taunting him. "Woah there, motherfucker! Best to mooooove bitch, get out of the way! Get out of the way, bitch! Get out of the way!"
He aimed the beam at everyone of them, rapidly changing targets again and again as they frantically tried to dodge.
Seeing this, Murayama stabbed her sword into the ground and channeled her mana into creating a massive dome of ice to serve as a shield for everyone. Tannin tried to shoot through the ice at Murayama, but his beam didn't penetrate because of Murayama's constant attempts to enforce the dome. She was getting more and more tired due to how much mana she had to use, but she finally got a break when Tannin flew at the ice dome and smashed right through it.
While Kuroka healed Murayama using Senjutsu, Ravel cast more protective barriers.
Taking a very deep breath, Tannin exhaled a massive ball of fire and cast it all around him. Of course, he infused it to not be lethal like all of his attacks. Suddenly, his fire was extinguished and the temperature turned cold. Stupid cold. All the molecules in the air had been frozen aside from any living beings.
Murayama grinned weakly with one eye closed from fatigue. "When fire meets water, the flame goes out." (62)
Tannin looked at her. "You froze all of the molecules in the air without touching anyone. How did you do that?"
"I studied a few basic concepts about combining the elements of Water with Wind. No big." She closed her eyes and gave into the exhaustion, passing out, falling into Issei's arms who caught her. The ice dome she created disappeared with a magical sparkly TWING sound.
Issei smiled at the two-piece Pawn as a panting Vali and a limping Arisu approached his backside. "Natsuki has gotten so strong."
Tannin transformed into his Human form. "Go teleport her to her room and then come back so we can continue training, Issei."
They all groaned, making Tannin cackle.
. . . . . . .
After dinner where everyone, including Murayama, ate, their energy was somewhat replenished.
"Um... Guys?" Ravel spoke, holding up a red vial. "I have some Phoenix Tears I can use to heal all of you. This one vial contains 0.75 liters of Phoenix Tears, or 20% of a gallon. One drop of this on your skin, and all your injuries will be healed except for damage to your organs. Your mana will also be fully replenished, and your fatigue will also disappear."
They all nodded, so one by one, Ravel began restoring them to their fullest strength.
Issei stared at her, his tired eyes quickly regaining energy. "Ravel, aren't those valuable like a rare commodity?"
"W-Well... Yes, I suppose they are."
Kuroka's cat ears perked up. "Hang on, nya! I think I may have a solution, nya! Give it here, nya!" Ravel, confused, handed the vial to the nekoshou. She watched as Kuroka began channeling her Senjutsu into and around the vial, and then she tapped her index finger on the dining table where another vial appeared.
"W-What?! A copy?!"
Kuroka smiled mischievously. "Yes, nya. I call this rare Senjutsu technique, 'Torikki,' which means trickery since it feels cheap and unfair, almost like I'm cheating, nya."
She then made a third vial, wrote something down onto a sticky note, stuck it onto the glassy container, and then teleported it away.
Ravel was astonished. "What did you do?"
"I sent another copy to VEGA back at Team Holy Trinity HQ, nya. If what he said is true about being able to make something out of nyathing, he should be able to mass produce the Phoenix Tears, nya."
The note read: 'For VEGA. Please mass-produce this liquid of Phoenix Tears, about a crate a day full of a thousand of them, but make sure you do not tell anyone about it except those you know that we can trust. - Kuro-nya, servant of Issei Hyoudou.'
Ravel smiled, tears of joy welling up in her eyes as she pounced onto the nekoshou.
"Nya?!"
"Thank you so much, Kuroka! It's so hard to make the Phoenix Tears, but thanks to you, I will never have to force myself to cry again!"
Kuroka grinned and hugged the younger girl back, petting her blonde hair. "You're welcome, Ravel-nya~"
. . . . . . .
Now in the library, they began reading about Holy Lightning with Akeno narrating.
"Holy Lightning 101. There are three types of Holy Lightning. From weakest to strongest, we have Storm Lightning, Angelic Lightning, and Zeus Lightning.
Storm Lightning is the weakest and is a normal blue shade. It is named this because it is the most common type of natural electricity seen in the sky during storms.
Angelic Lightning is an extremely powerful electrical discharge that is a golden shade combined with a few blue bolts. It can kill anything not strong enough to survive within a few hundred feet simply due to its temperature. Only supernatural beings would have a prayer against this.
Zeus Lightning, named after the leader of Olympus, Greek God of Lightning and Thunder, is a blinding white shade. It is rumored that the only beings that survived this bolt were the two Heavenly Dragons Ddraig and Albion at the end of the Great War, which they seemed to shrug off but were dealt a very minor amount of damage."
"Is that true, Ddraig?! Albion?!" Issei almost shouted, settling for an excited but soft voice.
("Yes, it is.")
["Indeed. You should have seen the look on Zeus' face. It was priceless."]
("HAHAHAHAHA! He basically said fuck this shit, I'm out!")
Akeno continued without looking at the book, "Holy Lightning combines light magic and lightning together, meaning Raynare should have an easy time with it. It is one of two elemental holy powers, the other being Holy Fire."
"Holy Fire?" Vali asked.
She nodded. "Yeah. The only people I can think of that are capable of using it are the Seraphim Uriel and the exorcist Lint Sellzen. She's artificially Freed Sellzen's sister, by the way."
"Sellzen..." Raynare growled.
Akeno smiled at her reassuringly. "From what I have heard, Lint is quite popular for being very kind and caring, wanting to make up for the crimes for Freed." She received a nod from Raynare.
Murayama looked over at the table. "Is it possible to learn this power?"
Akeno slowly turned her head to her and ominously replied. "Not from a Human. Holy Lightning is a power that some consider to be... unnatural." (63)
"She IS the senate!" Issei shouted.
"Keep it down, ya little shit!" The checkout lady yelled, earning a few snickers. You're not you when you're hungry, after all.
Akeno continued reading. "In order to learn to learn this power, one must experience the pain of it at its fullest, but be careful to not kill those who seek this knowledge by keeping it brief."
Issei teleported the nine of them to his room. He got on both knees and, with his arms spread out while giggling, he said, "Zap me, mistress Akeno."
Vali laughed way harder than he should have. "I knew you were a masochist!"
Akeno licked her lips. "Fufu. Finally, Issei. You have finally realized my need to make people bleed!" She zapped Issei who writhed on the ground in pain. "UNLIMITED POWAAA! POWAAAAAAAAAA! (64)" After seeing him go limp, she fell back onto the bed in ecstasy. "Ahhhh..." She moaned.
Somewhere far away, Baraqiel shivered for unknown reasons.
Let's just say that Issei had a tingling pain all over for the remainder of their training days with Tannin.
To Be Continued
I had way too much fun writing Kuroka's dialogue lmao.
References:
(58) Sakamoto Desu ga?
(59) Undertale
(60) Call of Duty: World at War
(61) Steins;Gate
(62) Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 1 English dub.
(63) Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
(64) Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Issei's Harem (same as peerage members, most to least powerful, will not change):
Issei Hyoudou (Mutated King)
Arisu Yamauchi (OC, Six Mutated Pawn Pieces)
Raynare (Main Girl, Queen)
Akeno Himejima (Knight)
Kuroka Toujou (Bishop)
Irina Shidou (Rook)
Rossweisse (Rook)
Ravel Phenex (Bishop)
Natsuki Murayama (Two Pawns)
Tsubasa Yura (Knight)
Yeah, I'm making Murayama more powerful than Tsubasa. Ice is OP. Just ask Todoroki. XD
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