บท 41: Prelude
AN: And i am back from the dead, just kidding combine writer's block with some Re:Zero fanfic and you get this kind of inconsistency. Though no worries i will get back to my usual schedule now, my other fic will also get an update soon. But seriously though the rabbit's hole known as Fanfiction is very deep.
Third Person PoV
"Young girl, it has been a while since I have chased such lively prey."
"Sorry, you are nearing your use-by date, ola man. Mesarthim-Adamas!"
The divine sheep stopped the spirit flame and rushed to ram the monk, its speed far too high for something of its size.
The collision sent the monk into the other side of the road, his shriveled body embedded in the concrete.
"Woah!"
Still not used to seeing such strength, Asagi exclaimed. Most of the times she used the familiar was when she was high on adrenaline, but now she was sober.
It was different to see such power in Kojou's hand and use it herself, even if she knew exactly how strong the beast vassal was.
It is like the information was printed on her mind the moment she gained its powers. But her joy didn't last long as the temperature of the surroundings rose and the concrete became molten.
"I knew I should have hit him harder!"
The monk with a beast appearing behind him glowered at Asagi and rushed at her. But was unable to touch her at all, the shield which could stop even the dimension eater, could not be breached by the monk.
"Now, grit your wrinkly face, old man!"
Asagi said smugly before the shield shattered into dozens of pieces and pieced the skin of the monk-like shotgun shells.
"Aaaggghhh!"
The monk screamed in pain as diamonds dug into his skin, but it was overshadowed by the anger he felt.
"You youngling dare to injure me? I shall show you my power!"
The spit out undigested food of an anaconda raged as the flames doubled in intensity. Asagi only strengthened her determination but the intense standoff was broken by a shrill shriek.
"Mama!"
The blonde digital worker turned around and found the little Sana-chan dangling in the air by the hands of a scandalously dressed vampire.
"Ara~ It would seem the witch has been finally caught."
Asagi glared at the purple-haired diva, and once again fired her expensive shotgun at the monk, who finally was weakened enough for the Prison barrier system to capture him again.
This gave Asagi a little room to breathe but not for long as her attention was on the scared Sana-chan.
"You will be fine Sana-chan, Mama will save you!"
"You shouldn't lie, little girl, because the witch is going to die by my hands now!"
And the sharp claws of the descendent of the Primogenitor moved towards the slender neck of the little witch.
Asagi ran as she couldn't use her normal means of attack, as it would hurt Sana-chan too, but she was too slow.
But you know what isn't slow? A body thrown by a massive beam shot from the mouth of a fake metal god with a heavy narcissistic personality, boosted by a witch imprisoned for war crimes.
Now if the body was indestructible, anything in its path would most certainly be paste, whether human or vampire.
By fate or destiny, Kojou's unconscious body crashed into Gigliola's body and in a short instant caused enough damage to her to be sent back to her cell in the dimensional prison.
His body crashed into the building tore through It like paper and created a large trail on the concrete ground.
Due to the thing known as the inertia of rest Sana-chan's body simply fell, instead of being thrown, making her not much hurt.
Asagi was confused, at one moment she was running towards a dying Sana-chan, and the next moment the little girl was on the ground, still crying but no existence of an escaped inmate.
"What was that?"
Asagi muttered as he consoled Sana-chan by rubbing her back and patting her head.
Before she could go and investigate, a Nun and a pumpkin came up to her and spoke in familiar voices.
"Miss Aiba."
"Aiba-senpai!"
"Kanon-chan? And Astarte?"
"Affirmative." A voice came from the pumpkin, with sparkles in the eye sockets.
Thankfully that now she had someone to watch her back, Asagi moved to find the projectile that crashed near her.
And what she saw made her blood run cold. Kojou was lying at the center of the crater, his body bleeding heavily, his limbs twisted in ways they weren't supposed to, and he was unconscious.
Asagi knew what she had to do, his natural regeneration would take too long for him to get back up. He needed sustenance, and she had it.
"Kanon-chan, Astarte, please take care of Sana-chan and keep a lookout, I will be back soon."
Asagi slid down the trail and landed near the almost-dead but not killable guy cum her boyfriend.
"Seriously, even if I know you are immortal, it doesn't make me less scared when you get hurt."
Asagi muttered before kissing Kojou and intentionally made a cut on her tongue using his fangs, which were still out, an unusual happening but a welcome one for now.
She let her tongue rest on his own and waited for his instincts to respond, and she wasn't disappointed.
Fast as lightning, his hands snapped back into position to the back of her neck and her waist and her position shifted from his side to the top of his lap.
He broke the kiss and latched onto her nape, none of his usual gentlemanly behavior present today.
He sucked vigorously and soon a miracle happened, his body to repair itself at a fast pace and soon his reason came back, and so did the uncontrollable urge to suck the one in front of him dry, the drawback of using an unawakened familiar.
With great difficulty, Kojou pulled out his teeth sunk into the tender neck of his girlfriend and loosened his hold on her.
Asagi came back to her senses as the ticklish sensation of a tongue on her nape reminded her that the feeding session was over.
She straddled Kojou and started to hit him in the chest repeatedly and shouted.
"DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT!"
Kojou didn't respond, as he still didn't know how he came to be here but he regardless comforted Asagi.
"Fine, I won't. Now let's get going."
Asagi still didn't move and Kojou felt a familiar wetness on his lap and looked at Asagi, who now not crying looked very horny.
As much as he would like to continue this, his instincts were really not in good control so he lifted Asagi and put her aside before standing up and helping her stand too.
"So did Kanon and Astarte reach you?"
"Yes, they did just after you."
"How does that make sense?"
"I don't know, we will talk about it later, but what is with your wild appearance? Isn't your thirst satiated?"
Asagi asked, seeing his still red eyes and the protruding fangs. Kojoh shifted nervously and said in a murmur.
"-new familiar."
"A what?"
"I used an unawakened new familiar."
"YOU DID WHAT!"
"Alright, sorry! But don't raise your BP now, we have other things to worry about."
"Just this once, but once we are back home, we will talk in length about what you did wrong. Do you understand, mister I'm Immortal so I can fuck around?"
"Yes."
They met up with Kanon and Astarte, who held a sleeping Sana-chan chan and started to go toward their home.
"Is she?"
"Yes, she is the little version of Natsuki-chan, Sana-chan, short for Osana, which means little, isn't it cute?"
"Tell them to Natsuki-chan after she gets her magic and memories back and remembers these moments."
Kojou snickered as Asagi winced at the mental image of her getting whacked by the goth loli while she got a shit ton of English work.
"Ugh!"
Kojou didn't use his familiar as he was still very weak, and he wanted to save his power for emergencies not to use it for a convenient Uber.
…
Yukina came back to find Sayaka and La Folia sitting in a seiza position while Nagisa instructed them on a peculiar topic.
"Listen, Kojou-kun is a man of varied tastes, to him your sizes don't matter, your personality does!"
While Sayaka looked mortified but also interested, La Folia didn't even try to hide her willingness to remember the stuff Nagisa uttered.
"Ano, Nagisa-chan, I have updates about Yuuma-san."
"Are? Yukina-chan, you look so cute in that nurse outfit, finally Mimori-chan's cosplay tendencies get a chance to shine."
"So what is her status?" Sayaka asked.
"Her wounds have been healed and she is fine for the time being, but her condition can't be fully cured, a witch's contact is very rare, and hard to analyze magic if we wish to save her we need to find a witch equal to Tokoyogi Aya in strength and rely on her."
"That means finding the Witch of the Void, who is missing, and if Kojou is to be believed she is with Aiba Asagi." La Folia said.
"Indeed, then we need to meet up with Aiba-senpai, she must be headed towards Akatsuki-senpai's home after meeting up with Kanon-chan and Astarte-san." Yukina said.
"So we need to go there, we can also presume Kojou is also going to go there?"
"Don't be so sure, Ojou-sama, Kojou-kun might not even be awake as we talk, we have to go there on the basis that he isn't there."
Nagisa said, shocking the ones present, but it was the grim reality they had to deal with.
"So we are going to Akatsuki Kojou's house?"
Sayaka asked, even though the answer was already answered.
"Yes."
With Yukina's answer, they got ready and quickly set out with a short farewell to Kojou's mom.
Their ready-made tank was very helpful.
…
On the roof of Saikai Academy a woman dressed in a dark Kimono watched the city. The entire building was covered in purple glowing letters.
She had just disposed of two members from the Library burning her last connection and leaving her truly alone.
"Is this the Dark Oath Grimoire?"
A sleek voice startled Aya from her monologue. She turned around and frowned her eyebrows.
"You are an escaped inmate? I remember."
"Just nobody attack mage, that's all I am. I don't see your handcuffs though."
"What of it?"
"If you took Minamiya Natsuki's memory that means you have the decode program for the Prison barrier, but you still let the other inmates go chase the witch of the void."
"Are you here to take the decode program?"
Aya asked, ready to take care of the loose end. But Meiga raised his hands in surrender and said
"No, No. I just want to see what you are doing."
Hearing that Aya ignored the shady man and continued her plan.
…
Akatsuki Mimori was lying down knocked on her couch, as Yuuma made her way towards Kojou.
"I will not let you take away my only friend, Mother."
With renewed determination, Yuuma made her way towards Kojou.
…
"So you are the tank?"
Asagi said, looking at a ten-year-old girl standing on top of a red tank. Kojou looked confused at Asagi calling a human girl a tank.
'Does she hit like a tank or what?'
Kanon and Astarte were also looking at the weird image in front of them.
"Yes, My name is Lydianne Didier, I have come here to pick you up, Empress-dono at the request of Mogwai-dono."
"No," Asagi said resolutely.
"But the island would sink if you do not help!"
"You should be able to handle that yourself, you are good enough."
"No, this is a repeat of the incident from ten years ago. A weird space is present around Saikai Academy, which prevents any form of magic use."
"So the magic keeping the island float is also disabled?" Kojou asked.
"Yes, and within an hour it will cover the entire island, after which soon the island would sink."
"Then we have plenty of time, I can stop that easily once I am ready to fight."
Kojou said, he can just turn the entire island ethereal and be done with it, he just needs a new spiritual medium to calm his vampiric side down and he has his eyes set on one.
Before the Tank could try to persuade Asagi once more new members joined their party.
"Senpai!"
"Akatsuki Kojou!"
"Kojou-kun!"
"Kojou!"
"Oh, you guys, How's Yuuma?"
Yukina and Sayaka pouted at hearing him ask for Yuuma before them, while Nagisa answered while giggling, La Folia looked curiously at the tank girl.
"She is fine, we need to somehow get Natsuki-chan to help her."
"Is that so? But to do so, we need to somehow beat Aya or get her here."
"Why do we need her, senpai?"
"Well, it is complicated to explain."
Kojou said by then Natsuki-chan stirred awake and jumped down from Kojou's arms.
"Natsu-kyun! Main personality transfer to sleep mode confirmed, Locked in non-REM sleep, connecting subconsciously to the backup memory domain, initiating a restore, estimated time 1 hour and 59 minutes."
The little girl said with one arm on her hip and the other pointing up.
"Please give me a break!"
Kojou groaned.
…
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