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.
Hours had gone by but Flanna still couldn't decide what to wear and Kisuke couldn't keep waiting for her to choose so he forced her to move to the training room to get accustomed to her strength. Kisuke planned to toss her at Claire and her group but he couldn't let them meet her if she ends up destroying everything around her whenever she feels excited.
'I wonder how things are going down there?' Kisuke asked himself and couldn't help but chuckle at all the chaos that surely was happening right now.
And just as he thought, all of the factions were very disorganized as they tried their best to make sense of what just happened. Naturally, their attention was solely focused on the man who was the center of all of it but when they couldn't hold of him, their scrutiny turned to the Belial House and Rossweisse.
While the Belial House just gave a nonanswer citing that they too don't have the full scope of the events, Rossweisse was under the full protection of the Underworld. Because of this, the fear of being in the dark turned into anger that was pointed towards the ones supposedly managing all three parties, the Tri-Faction Alliance.
"Nothing is going as planned... For better or worse." Azazel muttered while massaging his temples, "Although we lost Great Red, that barrier with his body as the core should give us a few years of time to prepare, if not decades."
"But this is a problem, isn't it?" Sirzech said under his breath.
Ajuka, while quietly listening to their whining beyond the screen, was analyzing the barrier that Kisuke deployed. But the only thing he could gather from it was its range and approximate strength, 'It locked the whole Dimensional Gap and covered the whole Earth 'till midway to the Moon. As for its strength, it's at least a hundred times higher than Trihexa's base defenses... But will that be enough? It's Kisuke Urahara's work so there should be something else.'
All of a sudden, Azazel addressed him, "Hey, don't just bury yourself in that. Give us some input here."
Ajuka calmly turned his eyes to him and nodded, "It is indeed a problem, for the Alliance, that is."
Not just the Tri-Faction but all of the other Factions around the world for the simple fact that they are not the owner of this barrier that's keeping the world safe.
Just this single thing brings Kisuke into one of the highest seats and leverage within the world's 'negotiation table'.
"It's just when his trust in us is at rock bottom and he's also basically the hidden leader of the current Olympus under Athena's management." Azazel scratched his head in frustration.
"Have you already figured out who passed it on to him?", Sirzechs asked.
"There is no evidence beyond the circumstantial.", answered Ajuka.
"And who is it?"
"Yasaka."
Sirzechs and Azazel both sighed in defeat. They were already expecting her name to come up, but still couldn't help but feel betrayed when Ajuka revealed it, "She made a bet and won.", muttered the former.
Azazel also added, "I might have considered the same thing if I were in her position. It's hard to feel secure when she can't even leave her territory."
Ajuka continued fiddling on his console to resume his review of the barrier while saying, "As I only have circumstantial evidence, I can't confront her. Instead, we should focus on building back the bridge. Thankfully, we still have a bridge called 'Issei'."
"Issei? I disagree!" Azazel strongly rejected Ajuka's suggestion, "We can't use Issei. If we make a mistake somewhere, not just the mutual respect and trust, we might as well become that guy's enemy! I don't know about you, but I definitely don't want to be on the other side of his sword."
"We can't use Issei." Sirzechs immediately seconded Azazel's statement, "But what should be our next course of action? We can't just sit down here and talk without doing anything. Others will surely take advantage of this. Even now, Michael is having a hard time keeping the others at bay. He'll soon reach his limits."
Azazel thought about it for a few seconds before slapping the table hard, "Fuck it! Let's just tell him everything! Since it's very clear that we can't beat him in this game, maybe sincerity will do."
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"I'm home~!" Kisuke, without any other urgent things on hand for the first time in a while, arrived at the Belial Mansion and saw the extremely tight security outside.
However, the first thing that greeted him was a nodachi traveling at high speed aiming directly for his face. Even then Kisuke still had time to think and could properly watch the 'raging boar' behind the nodachi, 'Hoh? She coated her blade with dense Reiatsu-Ki to make it blunt. When did she learn to do something like this? It's too precise to be just for this specific application and learning that should be harder than most Kidou.'
While thinking of random things and refusing to address the current issue, Kisuke was hit squarely on the forehead and was sent out of the estate as soon as he got in.
Kisuke flew over the small city of Belial all the way to the mountainous region where he traumatized Erebus.
The guards of Belial thought that it was an enemy attack, but thankfully, Sakura immediately went out and reassured everyone that everything was well.
Aika, on the other hand, had already caught up to Kisuke who was lying down on the ground, and pointed her nodachi at his chest while looking at him with a grave expression, "Do you have something to say?"
"Are you hoping to hear an apology from me?" Kisuke immediately replied, "But at times like these, I don't really like issuing empty apologies."
"Then do you mind getting pummeled for a few hours?"
"Of course I mind it! I also don't like being in pain, after all... But if that can do something about your frustration, then I won't do anything for a few minutes at least."
Aika silently stared at Kisuke who had already closed his eyes without any remorse for a minute or two before her expression mellowed out and sighed, "I guess that's the best concession you could give." Keeping her nodachi back, Aika slowly sat down beside him and observed the scenery around them.
"Oh? You're not going to do it? Aren't you mad?"
"I am... But you're not really guilty of anything. If anything, I just assaulted you for no reason."
Kisuke doesn't know why, but the current Aika seems a lot calmer even prior to when she lost her memories. But that query was promptly answered by her next sentence.
"You see... I've been dreaming... For at least four years."
Editors:
28th00: This chapter should be just named “Karma”. For those 3 and Kisuke. She didn’t even break his nose! Aika, you’re too much of a good girl…
Goyya: Damn, I was wondering why this chapter has a title but this is good. (Sidenote, I can’t see the color of edits cuz I’m using darkmode.)
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