Chapitre 3: Chapter 2: Knowing Yourself
A/N:
" " : Dialogue,
' ' : Thought,
"Italicized text" : Telepathy,
[ ] : Spells, Techniques and Sacred Gear Casts.
Hey, everyone. So I remembered a particularly annoying part of the DxD novels, the use of the word 'class' to signify one's aristocratic position as well as their power level. So I'll be using 'rank' for power level and 'class' for aristocratic position.
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Haruki POV
It is now Wednesday and classes have finished. I'm currently walking away from school, when suddenly I smell a faint scent of corruption and debauchery. I turn my face to its source and see Issei standing on a bridge with a girl wearing a school uniform different from Kuoh Academy's confessing to him. Seeing this, I easily know that she is in actuality, Raynare, one of the low-rank fallen angels under that pervert Azazel and the one who kills Issei, leading to him being taken into Rias' peerage.
Shaking my head when Issei accepts her confession, I walk away, heading home. On the way back home, I keep my perception up and eventually detect other fallen angels about 3km away. Choosing to scare them off, I use my senjutsu to bolster my killing intent and concentrate it on just the fallens, causing them to back away much further.
As I keep walking, I detect a strong, or rather, thick concentration of corruption, and I touch a tree, choosing to use the connection to vegetation as my eyes. I find the source, and see that it is the abandoned church that goes some distance into the woods. Retracting my sight from there, I walk back home with a single thought on my mind; I have got to fully assimilate everything about myself before Friday, otherwise I will be unable to keep Issei from dying when Raynare attacks him.
A few minutes pass and I reach home. Sensing my parents inside, I open the door and greet them. "Mom, Dad, I'm back." Hearing my greeting, my dad comes to me from the living room. "Hey, champ. So, how was school?" Thinking about the events that went on in school, I lightly shake my head. "It was boring, but I happened to find out some things." I say as I take my shoes off.
"Find out what exactly?" My mom says as she comes out in some casual wear and an apron. "For one, devils run the school, and not just any devils. They're Rias Gremory and Sona Sitri, the sisters of Satan Lucifer and Satan Leviathan respectively." Now, one would think that I'm crazy for letting my parents know something like this, but it's fine really. They've known about the supernatural for most of my life, at least, otherwise they'd have freaked out over the images of me with komainu and kappas.
"That's something, but what else did you find out?" My dad says with his touki coiling around him. "Let's see. Oh, yeah. Issei might either have dragon slayer magic or he's got one of the few dragon type Sacred Gears that exist in the world. And there are fallen angels keeping an eye on him. Apart from that, nothing much else was interesting today." As I finish telling them of my day, I head upstairs to my room and tell them that I'm going to meditate and shouldn't be disturbed.
When I reach my room, I undress and take a shower, before returning to my bed. Seated in the lotus position, I begin my meditation, going through a more mystical form of introspection. Looking into myself, I see what looks to be a perfect copy of my current self. "I take it that you are the personality formed over the past 15 years." I say to the other me and he chuckles. "Yep, that's me. I honestly wouldn't have expected that my body and all that I am would just be kind of taken over, but from what I've seen from your memories, I understand that it was just meant to be." He says solemnly, but with a smile on his face.
"So, how does this work? Do I have to defeat you or something like that?" I say and he chuckles in response. "No, you don't need any of that. It's not like I'm a Zanpakuto or anything like that, no. What you have to do is accept and assimilate me, and after that, you'll have truly unbridled access to my powers, memories and techniques, be they physical, mental or spiritual." Hearing that made me sigh in relief, as I knew for a fact that he would mop the floor with me multiple times over if we ever fought.
"How do I start?" I ask and he puts out an arm and tells me to grab it. I grab his arm and immediately knowledge on things I didn't have even an inkling of knowledge on rushed into my mind. Magic, runes, advanced usage of senjutsu, touki, draconic language, martial arts, science, magitech, training methods and even politics. I gained knowledge on every single one of those subjects and more.
Some time passes and finally the flow of knowledge stops and I fall to my knees in exhaustion. Heaving a few breaths, I look up at him and see that he is fading into small motes of green colored energy. "I'll be honest, from what I knew about you, I thought you wouldn't be able to take it. Glad to see you proved me wrong." He says with a smile. "Well, this is the last of it. You might want to grit your teeth for this one." He says as he fully dissolves into energy that rushes into me.
Then I felt it, pain, pain unlike anything I'd ever felt or even imagined. It felt like someone was taking a white-hot iron poker and writing on my entire body, eyes included. Then I felt the pain in my lungs as well, then my bones, then my muscles, tendons and ligaments, then my heart, then directly in my brain. It took all of my willpower not to pass out from the sheer agony. Some time passes and eventually the feeling of the writing stops, but the pain is still quite strong. It was now that I understood.
The memories I had that were of myself being the Nature Dragon Slayer were not false, they were just not of this life, rather, they were of the combined mess of the life of someone who had been the Nature Dragon Slayer and had taken it to its peak and the last 7 years of Haruki's memories. What I received now was the actual draconic inscription of the spells to make me a dragon slayer. The affinity I had with nature was simply a result of this body's high affinity and achievements in senjutsu. My ability to identify a dragon by smell was a result of my time with a few unexpected friends, Tiamat and believe it or not, Ophis. I was riding on the former Haruki's coattails and I didn't even know it.
Standing up in the mind space, I look forward and see 'it', the thing that would normally spell doom for the sanity a dragon slayer, the Dragon Seed. Mine was green with some gold undertones and had little branches growing off it. Another thing about it was that it wasn't a normal Dragon Seed. As for how I knew this, that is owed to my extreme senses that helped me detect danger from anything. I detected absolutely no danger from the seed, if anything, I felt drawn to it, as if being called to embrace it and take it beyond its former peak. I also felt power close to that of a Dragon God emanating from it. I really should have slapped the past Haruki for doing something as stupid as asking Ophis to show off her full power to him.
As I walk closer to the seed, all my energies start spilling into the mind space, funneling into the seed, causing it to grow larger and grow more branches, until it grew to about 1m³ in size. "That's a pretty fucking big ass seed." As if responding to me, the seed cracks ever so slightly, and it floods the entirety of the mind space with a perfect amalgamation of draconic energy, mana, touki and senjutsu chakra.
Drawing my consciousness back to my body, I start to notice the stark differences in my body from before I entered the mind space and after I left it. For one, my senses have multiplied in intensity and distance covered. I can actually see everything in the electromagnetic spectrum. "So I've got x-ray vision now, sweet." I say as I inspect my body for even more changes. I hear my parents' footsteps approaching frantically, so I open the door before they have the chance to blast it down.
My dad rushes in, his body coated in dense touki, my mom follows with mana flowing through her body and magic circles ready to cast multiple attack spells. ""Haruki, are you alright?! Where's the bastard of a dragon that tried to attack you?!"" They shout as they barge into my room. "Since when was I a bastard, or is there something you haven't told me?" I say mischievously, causing them to whip their heads to face me.
Their eyes widen in shock as they look closely and feel the aura of a dragon at the mid-ultimate rank. "Haruki. Explain. Now." My mom says as her magic circles start to grow in complexity and size. "Yeah, what she said." My dad says as his touki concentrates into an energy blade on his arm.
"Okay, I will. Just calm down, okay." I say and they look at each other for a bit then deactivate the spells and drop the energy to just a thin cloak over their skin. "Remember when I was about 6 and we happened to meet Ophis?" I ask them and they nod, saying how, for someone so smart, I had acted unbelievably stupid. "Remember that she said that I had the potential to help her regain her silence?" I ask and they nod, still wondering where I'm going with this. "Well, as it turns out, I've had a dormant Dragon Seed in me for quite a while now and it just so happened to activate as I was meditating."
Immediately I said that, my mom heaved out a relieved sigh, before sitting on the bed and checking my body to see if there were any negative changes to my body, while my dad sat on the chair at my reading desk. "Phew, well at least it doesn't seem like anything bad is happening to your body. So, you say you've had a Dragon Seed in you. What's the element?" My mom asks with the same knowledge hungry eyes that she had all those years ago, when she was still a part of Grauzauberer, the magician organization run by Mephisto Pheles.
"Well, after reading the draconic runes that were engraved onto my body, I now know that I am apparently the Nature Dragon Slayer." Hearing the words 'dragon slayer' come out of my mouth made my mom go from a happy mom trying to hear about her child's achievements to a person horrified about something like their child having stage 4 cancer.
"There's no need to worry, though. From the memories I got that were embedded in the seed, even though I'll be able to achieve dragonification, I won't lose my mind or humanity." My mom looked sceptical but reluctantly accepted my explanation. "Well, I'm going to the pocket to test out my powers. I need to get my power fully under control, as I've always done before." I teleport to the pocket dimension that Ophis had gifted me all those years ago.
Arriving in the pocket dimension, I nod to myself, thinking that my past self had talent in making environments, as this one was extremely compatible to deal with my current needs. A wide, open space that can restore itself given time and energy, calm enough for me to think without interruptions and test out spells without the danger of killing someone.
Sorting through my memories, I try to find out which people/organizations/races I have connections to. Firstly, there's Ophis and Tiamat, giving me a connection to dragons, then there's Azazel giving me some connections to Grigori. On a side note, thank goodness my past self didn't allow him to corrupt me. Then there's my connection to Grauzeberer via my mom, my connection to the Aesir, if my mastery of Nordic runes is taken into consideration. There's also the fact that I have a considerably friendly relationship with the Yokai on both sides as well as Sun Wukong, otherwise I don't think my mastery of senjutsu would have been as high as it is.
From what I know, Dad was taught to use touki and senjutsu by Sun Wukong, and Sun saw talent in me and offered to teach me how to use senjutsu, which Dad reluctantly accepted, and before he knew it, I was matching him in power, and that was before my rank increased by 3 whole levels, ie, today.
After making sure that I know who I know, I turned my mind toward the techniques used by the Nature Dragon Slayer in my memories. It turns out, I am now the only dragon slayer capable of combining multiple elements without necessarily changing my magic's attribute, due to the fact that most, if not all dragon slayer attributes are part of Nature. Taking a breath, I prepare myself to use a fire attribute attack.
[Nature Dragon's Blazing Hammer]
I chant the spell and punch the ground, causing a massive explosion in front of me. After the fire slowly subsides, I take in the view of destruction that I just wrought on the environment. Much of the ground had become molten, there was now a crater spanning several dozen metres in width and over 10 metres deep. Taking another breath, I release a small bit of frost from my mouth. [Nature Dragon's Blizzard Bellow] I let out an ice breath attack that turned the smoldering environment into a frozen landscape with jagged icicles all round. "Looks like I can at least work with the basics." I say as I return to my room.
Chapter End.
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