I've been in weird situations but this one takes the crown at the moment, I'm sitting in front of thousands of lunatics Kurumi clones and a strange Kurumi cosplay convention while a adult naked Kurumi is on my back as a White Kurumi and the rest of the clones do nothing... so without further ado I simply turn around and take Zaphkiel and lay her down next to me, her burns seems to be resurfacing...
The 'potion' that I am preparing is almost ready, it just needs to be dissolved in water, although I am still waiting for it... now that I think about it I really don't think I'll find that kind of thing here... so I take a bottle of water from my inventory... no, I better take out a mana potion, and I dissolve the contents of the mortar in the bottle.
*DING!!*
*New Recipe Learned*
[Blue SP Syrup: A potion made from soul recovery items, Blue Herbs and tree of life plants. Recovers a large amount of HP/MP and Spiritual Power. Price: 170,000]
I quickly place myself in front of Zaphkiel and make a motion to drink the potion in my mouth and give it to her again, although something that surprises me is that Lucifugus doesn't really do anything to stop me... she's upset, terrified and everything but why doesn't she stop me..... I can't help but think about what I read about her thoughts before.
'When I gave Zaphkiel the juice mouth to mouth she thought literaly 'how you dare to kiss her'... it can have two real meanings, because I kisses that girl, or because he kisses her, does it mean they are they are same entity?' I touch her waist and see how Lucifugus reacts... now I get it, but I don't have to make her understand that I know her secret, although there is something else that is really bothering me much more...
"Lucifugus... are you blind?" Immediately, as if I had stepped on her tail, she jumps and turns to see where she heard my voice, her thoughts betraying her. Under normal circumstances I will teaser her a little longer but we really don't have much time to waste. So I get up and walk to the front of her.
"Wh-what are you saying? I-if you're going to talk nonsense, I'm only letting you work because it looks like you can cure Zaphkiel!! Don't waste my time, idiot." Lucifugus continues talking so I stand in front of her and take her hand... surprising her a little.
"Look.... sorry, listen we don't have much time, I've already finished a potion, I want you to take a sip of it and give it to Zaphkiel or I'll give it to her again." I quickly put the potion in her hand and pull her so that she is in front of Zaphkiel... and she really doesn't seem to have much of a problem with it.
It's a shame that Zaphkiel woke up at that moment and she turned to see me, Lucifugus, who acted like a shy little girl when I take her hand and looked down with her somewhat lost gaze, immediately turned to look at me and shook her hand to release mine, advancing towards Zaphkiel and giving her the potion... at least she didn't destroy it, she probably felt it was going to help her.
"How do you feel Zaphkiel? It worked or at least helped you somehow?" Lucifugus ask as Zaphkiel that takes the potion but it doesn't really do anything to her... she just shakes her head so I need to find the Original and Zaphkiel loses consciousness again... sigh...
"Lucifugus I have to go with the original now, surely she is the answer to heal both of you..." I got up and walked to my right where the arrow on my system was pointing, but I noticed something again...
"I will not allow you to see the Original, even if it means our death, we-." Lucifugus refused, but she is threatening me towards the place where I was standing before, even if now I 'm standing at the side of her... "Fuunyaah~" I notice how Lucifugus makes a strange noise when I touch her head, so she really is blind...
"We have to go now, we don't have time to be arguing." Without saying more, I move towards Zaphkiel, cover her and lift her up, she is really light and I hear Lucifugus make another strange sound and her face turns completely red and starts thinking about how I'm touching her... with nothing else to do I immediately use [Body Recollection] towards the Original place.
Upon arriving I see a clone of Kurumi, the one wearing a black and white dress and a white eye patch, who when she sees me bends over a little and cleans another stone where I place Zaphkiel, moving towards the Original who does not seem to be hurt either.
"Kurumi.... Black and white Kurumi...? I need you to help me get the Original to take this," This Kurumi, unlike the others, simply takes the potion and proceeds to give it to the Original Kurumi without asking. For my part, I turn to see a crystal that is floating next to original body, a black rhombus-shaped crystal.
[Sephira Crystal (Unsealed). Mysterious gems that act as the source of a Spirit's powers and are responsible for turning humans into Spirits.]
The black crystal is floating there, although I can clearly see that a part of the crystal is being consumed by fire... but because I feel that this crystal is... strange, maybe it is because of the modifications Mio made to its power for humans to assimilate? I don't know why it is but it really bothers me to see it like that...
Kurumi's clone finishes giving the mouth-to-mouth potion to the Original and of course I recorded it and will use it at some point in the future, and as I see from the Crystal in front of me that it worked, at least the consumption of a part of the crystal by the flames stopped. They are still present but they stopped, or rather it is taking longer to consume the strange energy it obtained.
"Ugghh..." I hear Zaphkiel groan and wake up.
"How are you feeling Zaphkiel?" I asked her but she didn't answer me, after a few seconds she opened her eyes and turned to look at me. Something very interesting however is that when she opened them, unlike Kurumi, she has the clock eye on the right side, although after blinking it returned to normal.
Immediately after Lucifugus appeared and pointed her weapons at me although she doesn't move anymore when she sees where I'm standing... Also looking at her eyes I can see that only the right eye seems to be able to see... since even she move the left pupil it really doesn't focuses on anything...
"How are you feeling Zaphkiel?" I asked again and again I noticed something a little strange...
"I'm being burned alive, so I really don't think it's something you should ask taking into account that you already know..." Zaphkiel answers, while trying to get up with the help of Lucifugus.
"So you are who see and Lucifugus is the listener...." They both just freeze and turns to look at me. "Heh, you are the knowledge that can only see and she the one who went blind to not see the light.... now I understand why you are together and love each other." I look at them and see how Lucifugus smiles in resignation.
"We don't have a chance against you from the beginning, right?" An answer that really surprises me, I expected denial, threats, attacks but simple acceptance...
"So you are in more serious trouble than I thought, let me see if we can.... resolve the situation we are in." This time they both really cooperated and I started trying anything I had to stop the fire with my skills, to no avail... another thing I noticed was that I stopped hearing Druniikylaas's voice.
No matter what skill I used, the flames did not stop, nor could I transmit the damage she received to me, I could only continue to barely heal her, although her soul continued to be consumed and sooner or later that would have consequences. Running out of options, I remembered someone who could help me, so from my inventory I took out a Valkyrie egg, which both women noticed with amazement.
"Lord Leonhard, do you need my help? And if I can know, where are we? " Randgris asks me as she watches Zaphkiel and Lucifugus cautiously as well looking with curiosity at their surroundings , her body is gaining physical form..... Why the hell does Zaphkiel take out her wings when she sees Randgris's wings...
"Randgris, I apologize for disturbing you, but I need your help regarding a... soul." Now that I think about it this is actually the first time I've talked to her...
"We are your servants Lord Leonhard, we are at your disposal whenever you wish, however we really do not have much knowledge about the soul. We are combat valkyries so we really have no more functions apart from that.... " She says, but then I feel movement in my storage and I see another Valkyrie egg that is moving,,,,
"Sarah?" I take her out and ask with some hope.
"I can help you, however what will I get if I do?"Sarah Irine ask me, while she crosses her arms and our surroundings, observing the clones that arrived and the rest of the people in the place stopping their gaze attentively on Kurumi.
"Whatever you want, the price doesn't matter but it will only be one thing." I don't see much problem in fulfilling her wish, since according to her thoughts it really isn't difficult.
"Hahahaha, don't make promises you can't keep! I may ask you to destroy Payon or even your life, would you really give it?" Sarah laughs and looks at me defiantly.
"What do you want my life or the destruction of Payon decide now?" I answer defiantly, this woman, this Valkyrie will be a real problem if she does not understand my position.
"Heh, you keep bragging, since I can't know if you destroyed Payon, I want your life, but not just a suicide, I want it to be the most painful wa-!!! WAIT!" Immediately Randgris, Sarah move to stop me and strangely enough even Lucifugus and the loli Kurumi with cat ears, must-resist-pat-urge....
All stopping my sword, Excalibur, which I still wonder how I brought with me if I never put them away and don't really remember bring them in my hands, I don't know where Longinus stayed but I know very well that it is close... now my sword is going through my stomach and coming out through my back, while I was lowering it towards me under my abdomen.
They all start insulting me, including Sarah who is healing and punching me in the stomach. "Moron!" "What are you thinking!" "Stop!" In reality, I know very well that she didn't mean it seriously since she never thought about forcing myself to do it and for some strange reason they have another stat called loyalty and currently Sarah have it at 70 out of 100. Randgris is at 95/100.
"You asked me to take my life in a painful way... or was it not painful enough? Besides your orders were vague, I require that you give me instructions on how you want me to end my life." I say it with a monotonous and serious voice.
"WHAT!? NO! Just... don't take your life! I do not need it." At that moment I try my best to look depressed let's act more depressed.
"Yes, it's true, what value can the life of mine have, it's not something that someone like you really need... " I shrug and look at the ground, crouching down and putting my hand in the dirt.
"WAIT!? WHAT!? What do you mean with that!? STOP!" It's funny to see how Sarah finally took off her bitch face and showed a worried face but well we must stop playing, time keeps running.
"Then, what do you want?" Sarah just stares at me and with an annoyed face turns around and moves towards Kurumi.
"No matter what I want, at the end of the day I have to obey your orders without being able to resist, now let me work, I have to see what is wrong before I can know if I will be of help or not." So I have a tsundere Valkyrie... according to what she thinks she just wants to explore the world so it really isn't difficult.
"Very well then, Now, while Sarah takes care of this... both of you want to tell me what's happening on your own or I'll have to get violent?" I turn to see Zaphkiel and Lucifugus, and ask them, they both only see each other and all the Kurumi clones disappear around us.
"We don't really want to fight...in fact we don't even know what is going on." Lucifugus she responds, as she finally lowers her weapon, Zaphkiel likewise calms down and continues looking towards Kurumi.
"Thank you very much for cooperating, so if you do not want to answer a question, I would like to know the reason why you cannot or do not want to answer, so first question... who are you?" I ask them while trying to ignore the emptiness I had when I lost my loli Kurumi , whom I don't pat on the head... sitting down and I just remembered that I still have a sword in my stomach...
"We are the power of Kurumi --" I immediately interrupt Zaphkiel's explanation by raising my hand in a stop sign, even stopping the extraction of the sword that seems to have gotten stuck on something.... I hope its not that bad...
"First strike, I told you that if you couldn't answer, you should say so, I don't want lies, Kurumi's angel is Zafkiel, you are not her angel." I know very well, after all I have the subtitles implemented, Kurumi always calls it Zafkiel, not Zaphkiel. They both look at each other again
"We don't know what we are." Lucifugus says and according to whats she thinks they really don't know... they have suspicions but nothing specific
(Hahaha, it is rare for a weapon to gain consciousness and even more so for one to gain two consciousness at the same time.)
'And you are?' I raise an eyebrow when I hear a female voice in my mind...
(As I thought, you actually manage to hear me, even the last Nerevarine couldn't do it... I can know that you are a very skilled craftsman as you are being able to hear me, if you are confused about these two, you only need to see them as objects not as people.)
'I assume you are the shield, right? Can I know your name? Mine is Leonhard Hauser at you service.' I change my Job to Mechanic and open my eyes as much as I can when I see both of them....
(Hehehe... since Auri-El, no one bothered with us, they just wanted to use our power... for now call me Shield, if you manage to prove yourself worthy I will tell you my name and maybe where my twinned weapon is located)
I hear the voice of my shield but I am more impressed by what I am seeing in front of me, something I didn't expect, I can clearly see lines or paths in Zaphkiel and Lucifugus bodies, seeing how they manage to exist, what they are made of... how they must be repaired... that is why I couldn't cure her, there is no way to cure her an object with healing items!