"...weiss-san! Rossweisse-san!"
Rossweisse finally heard Kisuke's urgent calls, "W-what!?"
"Concentrate!"
The Magic Power within the Magic Circle was already on the verge of going wild. Rossweisse bit her lips and hurriedly put her hands on the ground and tried to control the raging waves. Soon enough, she was able to take it under control and followed Kisuke's lead to connect certain points of the spell to Great Red's body while also encircling it within its own barrier.
Rossweisse thought that it was going smoothly despite her initial response but all of a sudden, the space above where the corpse of Great Red emerged began cracking and a second later, a pair of hands forcibly pried their way into it and parted it apart, [So this is where it went.] a metallic voice resounded and was heard beyond the confines of the island while also revealing the Dimensional Gap.
A seven-meter tall mechanical humanoid with five eyes in total, two on each side and one on his forehead that shined with gold, peeked through the gap. His body had a tint of black and purple with thick limbs, but the most striking thing was the oppressive aura he was releasing that even Issei, who had been watching from a distance, couldn't stop himself from shaking.
Naturally, as one of the two nearest to him, Rossweisse also momentarily lost her focus from fear and seemingly lost all hope.
"Rossweisse-san! Wake up! If you don't want to die, ignore that guy and continue the linking!" Not just raising his voice, Kisuke also used her own aura to offset the aura that was crashing on them. Although he had to put quite an effort into it contrary to the latter who was only casually standing over the Dimensional Gap.
Thanks to that, Rossweisse managed to gather her sanity back but she was still nervous if the barrier was going to make it in time.
[Hoh? What is this amusing thing?] The terrifying Evie stretched his arm out, attempting to reach out, and made Rossweisse almost disgrace herself in front of many people.
Nevertheless, her worries proved to be worthless when a pair of twins suddenly appeared standing on top of Great Red's corpse.
The black-haired pair instantly grabbed the Evie's attention, [Now this is interesting. Let's get started.]
However, Ophis and Lilith have no plans of playing along with him and joined their hands before pointing their free palms toward him, "Begone."
In the next second, an unimaginable amount of energy gathered between their hands as the symbol of the Dragon of Infinity floated up.
The Evie stopped reaching out and felt the threat of these girls. Without hesitation, he crossed his arms in front of his chest and balled himself. At that moment, a 20-meter wide jet-black beam of annihilating energy blasted from the 'twins' palms and destroyed the boundary between space and enveloped the horrifying mechanical lifeform.
The pillar of most destructive black light lasted for about ten seconds before it dissipated. Although it went towards the Dimensional Gap, the residual heat from it started melting the ice caps in its surroundings.
The 20-meter hole began healing itself to stabilize the world but those who were at the right angle could see that the Evie had been pushed back for about 100 meters, but aside from a few scorch marks, there was virtually no damage on him, [Fuhahaha! That's it! Show me more!] his screams of glee reverberated throughout the whole area.
'Even though just a few seconds of that is enough to fully vaporize most of the Gods... Such a disgusting amount of defense.' Thought Kisuke while finalizing the barrier. That came from someone who others thought had a 'disgusting amount of defense'.
A golden blade made out of pure energy then sprouted from the Evie's left arm and it continued extending until it was 50 meters long. From Kisuke's estimate, that 'casual' blade had the same amount of energy that Ophis and Lilith just released and made him sweat a little. Thankfully, it was already too late for him to act as the pair had already bought enough time for him.
Just as he was about to dash forward, a transparent membrane with a myriad of colors rapidly expanded out from Great Red's body. The Evie tried slashing this membrane with its blade but he was shocked that he was only able to make it ripple like water before being pushed back until he couldn't be seen by native eyes anymore.
But before he could disappear, Kisuke saw its 'eyes' full of rage while looking at him. It's as if Kisuke had just snatched a toy out of his hand, 'Now that's scary...'
The translucent barrier went on to continue expanding beyond everyone's perception and a dome of black covered Great Red as if acting as his monument.
However, those were the least of everyone's worries as they scrambled to report everything that they had seen today. After all, they were just quietly and peacefully watching Kisuke complete his enormous project when it was suddenly revealed that Great Red had died, used as the core of the spell, and the appearance of who may be his killer.
Contrary to their expression, Kisuke just sighed in relief and stretched his numbing arms, 'That went more smoothly than I hoped.'
He then approached Ophis and Lilith, silently staring at the black dome, and asked, "What are you thinking?"
There was no answer for a few moments and since no one could enter the island now except for Rossweisse who chose to take some distance after reading the mood, Kisuke just waited.
Eventually, words escape Ophis' mouth, "...It'll be quiet from now on."
Kisuke smiled and sat down next to them and asked next, "You won't ask why I didn't help him?"
Ophis looked at him and returned a question, "Why would I?"
But Kisuke just quietly stared at her with a small smile on his face. As for Lilith, although she was able to synchronize her memories with Ophis, she didn't have any direct interaction with their 'rival' so she could just curiously stare at their now lifeless adversary.
After a few moments, Ophis opened her mouth. However, she didn't know what she should say as this was one of the instances where a complicated feeling fogged her thinking. Although she always looked at Great Red as her enemy for the longest time, it also meant that he was the only one who could even remotely understand her as someone sitting on the peak. As there were only two of them in this world, the two of them developed a unique connection that the two of them could appreciate.
Now that he's gone, Ophis doesn't understand where this unknown feeling is coming from even though she always thought that she'd achieve peace when he was gone.
Thinking about Kisuke's question, she understood that there was no way he could help him in the face of that being. Even then... She hoped. She didn't know why but even though it's logically impossible to help Great Red, she hoped that Kisuke could have done something and not just strike a deal with him to use his body.
As such, the second question came up, "Can you?"
Kisuke stood up and patted her head but refused to provide an answer. But from that, Ophis got an answer and it was a 'no'.
Turning around, Kisuke went to Rossweisse's side and explained the ordeal they went through. But the latter could only grimace as Kisuke didn't provide any information beyond 'Great Red was killed by an Evie and I used his body as the core to keep them out, just as he wanted.'
While evading further questioning, Kisuke returned to his Mars base and went straight to one of the rooms where Ophis's clone is located.
Editors:
28th00: Ah, Ophis doesn’t know what to think right now, but it’s not happy thoughts. Great Red should’ve alpha striked that Evie with everything he had, even if they have disgustingly high defense. Oh well, time to put him back together in the clone body. It’s super obvious.
As soon as he reached the room, Kisuke flipped all the switches that would release the clone and placed it on a clean bed, "I already gave you the way to this place. Stop wasting time and take it." Kisuke said out loud while taking some distance from the clone.
Immediately after, the clone was caught in a deep red fire and floated up. And while this was happening, a suffocating amount of Draconic Aura instantly welled up from the body and began destroying everything within the room.
Kisuke just watched this calmly while thinking, 'So no one really knows this guy's true nature of existence. Not even Ophis-chan... Well, no one would really think that he might be an immortal since no one could kill him in the first place.'
In a span of a minute, Ophis' clone began to grow until it reached a late teen stage if Ophis could age. But unlike the transformation Ophis did before with a huge chest, this one remained modest for the most part. Aside from that, the black hair also grew longer until it could reach its knees and a bright red color tinted it.
A few more minutes later, the clone opened its eyes revealing a deep red iris and golden pupil while also releasing a massive amount of Draconic Aura that caved in the sturdy walls of the laboratory, "I'm back, babyyy~~~!!! Fuhahahahaha!!!"
Her loud voice prompted Kisuke to cover his ears, "You're loud. Pipe down and stop destroying my stuff."
The red-haired 'Ophis' slowly floated down on her feet and reigned in her aura, "Ah, boss! Sorry about that!" Alas, she wasn't able to fully understand what Kisuke meant and created shockwaves with her voice.
As she started laughing out loud once again on her own, Kisuke could only keep his mouth shut and wait out this storm. He, however, noticed another stark difference she has from Ophis and that is a lively exaggerated cowlick (ahoge) dancing left and right on top of her head, 'How does that even work? Is that the replacement for her horn?'
A minute went by and the grown 'Ophis' finally stopped, "What do you think of my plan this time, boss? Isn't this worthy of praise!? Now I can finally properly act like a boss from the shadows I am! Fuhahahahaha!!!"
And another laughing spree, 'Where did the consciousness break? When he's killed? Or is it when he fuses with the body?'
Returning the time to a week ago, Great Red felt the Evie called Regalzeva trying to break through the thick chaos of the Dimensional Gap and concluded that he wouldn't be able to win against him. With that in mind, Great Red immediately started making plans and the first thing that went into his mind was the fact that he's the 'secret boss' of Kisuke's 'organization'.
Seeing the light of finally fulfilling his role, Great Red immediately contacted Kisuke and started making demands that are borderline unreasonable.
First, was for Kisuke to create a new body for himself as fast as possible. This isn't a problem if Great Red could provide his own flesh but since the enemy was already on his doorstep, Great Red had no way of doing this because it might've alerted the enemy. Even then, Great Red still forced Kisuke to do it one way or another.
Although Kisuke still had bits of flesh and blood of Great Red from reconstructing Akeno and Irina's bodies, it was already too old and too few that it might've caused significant errors trying to replicate the Dragon. In that case, Kisuke could only opt for the nearest possible available substitute and that would be Ophis's flesh and blood.
Even then, that clearly had its own set of problems. First, despite being as strong as Great Red, Ophis' attribute doesn't go along with Great Red's so he first had to clear out the 'Infinity'. Second, Ophis is a true shapeshifter and whatever form she takes, it's her true form. In other words, if Kisuke gets the flesh and blood of the current Ophis, it'll be that of a 'little girl' and Great Red won't have any way to change that even though he's technically genderless.
So the moment Great Red's consciousness entered the body based on the 'little girl' Ophis, he locked himself into a biologically female body and the only way to change this is to discard it.
Nevertheless, this isn't really a problem for Great Red and her body changing into a mature form is his attribute setting in.
The very reason he could do something like discarding his body is that he's the lord of dreams making his existence closer to a spirit or ethereal and his body was only made out of convenience and a long, long time. As long as 'dreams' in this world exist, he'd never truly die unless he was separated from them.
As for the next borderline unreasonable, Great Red wanted to hide the fact that he was alive with Kisuke's help. With Kisuke's help because he won't be able to reliably do it on his own and his insistence on this because he wanted the 'secret' in secret boss to come true.
Thankfully, this is also a relatively advantageous situation for Kisuke so he agreed.
"Yeah, yeah. It was a good plan to escape the spotlight and lurk within the shadows." Kisuke flatly replied after her laughter ceased, "Put on some clothes."
Of course, not having any facility for shyness or even understanding the concept of shame of exposure, Great Red proudly placed both of her hands on her waist, "Clothes? I have no need for such inane things!"
Kisuke already expected this response so he took out a fashion book. More specifically, a very rare fashion book aimed at those suffering from a certain middle-schooler disease could also be considered a cosplay book.
Although she had no direct human experience like Ophis, Great Red was still fully aware of what she's looking at. Not about the disease, but the aesthetics that captured her fancy.
Great Red hurriedly grabbed the book but as she's not yet used to her body, her touch instantly disintegrated the paper, "...Ah..." A sorrowful sound escaped her mouth.
Expecting it again, Kisuke took out another copy of the book, "Be careful this time."
"Boss!" Great Red almost cried tears of joy as she slowly and carefully handled the book this time.
Great Red directly sprawled on the messy floor to browse through various fashion attire with shining eyes when a certain question entered her mind. Since she would be hiding the fact that she's alive, she would need a new name. However, after a few seconds of trying, she gave up and delegated the task to Kisuke like the true secret boss she is.
Kisuke thought about it for a moment before saying, "Let's go with Flanna."
"Flanna?"
"It means something very great and red." Finding it troublesome, Kisuke lied through his teeth. In fact, Flanna only meant red-haired in Irish.
"Really!?"
Kisuke nodded with all seriousness, "Really."
"Fuhahahaha!!! From now on, I shall be named, Flanna!"
Great Red, or rather, Flanna was in a celebratory mood when she saw Kisuke pointing down. As she followed his finger, she saw the book was shredded by her shockwave laughter, "...Nooooo........"
Editors:
28th00: Ah, it’s weird when Ophis is the mature one…
Goyya: The society doesn’t need him to mature.
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