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章節 573: Dragon Pride

Of course, they weren't fine with that. They hated it and could only feel rage when thinking about such a future. However, the fear that was inflicted on them was on the heavier side of the scale. So much so, that moving forward immediately went to the corner of their minds.

But that tiny glimpse of fighting spirit didn't escape Kisuke's eyes and he smiled, 'They're the people that Sona chose herself, after all. She has a good eye for people. Unlike Rias who has some strange ability to gather unusual people, Sona has an ability to gather steadfast people that would be able to work hard without many problems.'

However, Kisuke's smile only looked like a terrifying demon's judgment to them, so they started to panic again.

Without minding this, Kisuke sat down in front of them and asked, "This training, did you think that I designed it just to torment you?"

After much hesitation, all of them nodded.

Kisuke's smile grew even larger, which scared them even more, "That's great~ Because you focused so much on surviving and not getting hurt any further that you failed to realize what's really going on. But that also sped up your improvement without any one of you noticing."

They didn't know what Kisuke was talking about. If they were really improving, then they wouldn't be as helpless as when they first started. They gave up because they couldn't take it anymore, as the fear of getting killed got stronger each time their limbs were almost torn off.

Kisuke stood up and asked before walking towards the frozen dummies, "Can't believe me? Why don't you try it again?"

Immediately after, they started shaking their heads. If an outsider were to see these highschool girls, not only pity, but hate for Kisuke would come from them due to his maltreatment.

Serafall frowned at this but didn't interrupt him, as she already agreed with him. So instead, she unfroze the dummies and they started moving again towards the girls.

The girls screamed and scrambled to get away. But before the dummies could go any further, Kisuke stopped them and started tinkering with them.

After a few seconds, the dummies were standing in front of Kisuke without moving, before turning his sights towards the girls who're hiding behind Serafall, unwilling to come out.

Kisuke didn't think badly of this and just said, "Why don't you try it again? As long as you're brave enough, you're not going to get hurt."

However, he received no answers.

"Anyone? Just a try?" Kisuke then pointed towards Saji and Tsubaki, who're still fighting the dummies in the distance, "They can do it, right? Why can't you?"

Still no response.

"Besides, when did I lie to all of you? I told you that you're going to get hurt. This time, I'm telling you you're not going to get hurt. And if you're going to step forward, you can partially leave this hell. Isn't that great~?"

Thanks to his last words, he finally got a response. After a few minutes of great hesitation, Ruruko Nimura, Sona's pawn, stepped out.

Despite her innocent appearance, she actually had a brash attitude like Xenovia, so he already expected that she'd be the first one to step out of the bunch.

While looking at the ground with wobbly steps, Ruruko slowly approached Kisuke, "...I... I'll... t-try it," she muttered in a very soft voice.

Kisuke smiled and stepped aside, letting one of the dummies take a step forward.

But once she came face to face with her tormentor, the trauma from earlier instantly came back, even after suppressing it to the best of her abilities. Her legs started shaking, rooted in place, and her expression became terrified as she looked at the faceless head of the dummy taking a stance.

'I can't do this...! This is impossible!' She thought and stepped backward, turned around, and almost bolted away if not for Kisuke standing on her way, "P-please! Let me go! I can't do this!" she pleaded.

However, Kisuke just grinned and suddenly tossed a small candy towards her open mouth. Due to the suddenness, Ruruko inadvertently swallowed it whole and choked a bit.

While she was coughing, a hand suddenly grabbed her by her collar and threw her towards the dummy before hearing Kisuke's voice, "Of course you can~"

"Ki-chan!" Serafall shouted at him, but Kisuke just ignored her as he watched Ruruko drop and lay down in front of the dummy, ready to stomp her head to death.

At that moment, Ruruko could only watch the dummy's foot as it dropped down to her face in slow motion with her thought process speeding up. Her life flashed in front of her and she was very unwilling to die like this. Although she wanted to avoid it and fight back, she couldn't find the strength to do it.

However, just as she was about to resign herself to her fate, her heartbeat suddenly sped up and her eyes turned red. All the fear she was feeling right now seemingly and suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by her magnified rage and unwillingness.

It was then she was able to straighten out her thoughts and moved her head to the side just before she was stomped and grabbed the dummy's leg, twisting it.

The dummy lost its balance and dropped down while Ruruko used this chance to stand up and retaliate.

Of course, as a dummy that Kisuke programmed, it wouldn't be easily outdone. It immediately stood up and met Ruruko's fist with its arm guard before counter-attacking.

Ruruko saw this coming and immediately jumped to the side and threw her left foot towards it. It was then that she noticed that the dummy was moving slower than last time and was more predictable.

At that moment of realization, she suddenly heard Kisuke's voice, "Before you started, I didn't tell you one thing about it. As you improve, the movesets of the dummies also get better. You didn't notice since you were too busy protecting yourselves. And by the way, the current dummy has the same configuration that you started with."

Although rage was filling her mind, strangely enough, Ruruko was able to understand his words and finally understood it when he said they didn't notice it.

Still, despite this, she followed her feelings and started beating up the dummy, pouring out her frustrations on it.

'My~ It looks like it's working well~' From the start, this is what Kisuke wanted to test out, which also served as his backup plan, the candy he developed and named 'Dragon Pride'.

In the past, Kisuke already noticed something was influencing Aika's behavior when her Sacred Gear was activated. He suspected it had something to do with the draconic part of her Sacred Gear, but wasn't able to pinpoint exactly where.

After some time going through records and researching the topic, he not only discovered a state called 'Outrage' among the dragons, but also found a way to replicate it. However, even if he were able to replicate it, it was too dangerous to use and the chances of the user's mind-breaking was 9 out of 10 times, so he shelved this project until further improvements or discoveries were made.

Nevertheless, the opportunity to improve it didn't take too long to appear. When Sona, Koneko, and Aika were fighting off the Minotaurs, Kisuke saw a similar state in Aika, but on a much smaller scale.

Using that as his guidepost and the data he'd collected from Samael's blood, Ophis' power, and Great Red's flesh, Kisuke was able to create the 'Dragon Pride'.

Although it didn't improve the power of the user like Outrage could, it could temporarily disable 'fear' and magnify 'pride'. Thanks to his adjustments, its usage was not limited to those who're connected to Dragons, and with the right situation, 'Dragon Pride' would become incredibly useful.

In this situation, after Ruruko took a small dosage of 'Dragon Pride', she was able to push herself beyond an incredibly difficult bottleneck, and hopefully, even after the effects wear off, she'd be able to get over her fear properly.


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: Yeah, Outrage Mode is straight up “What if we put all the Super Saiyan states into one move?” For DxD. If a Dragon is pushed far enough emotionally to enter Outrage Mode, pretty sure almost every God would straight up flee in terror. The multipliers on that thing are just stupid, and this is the series with the Boosted Gear! I wonder if reality would collapse if Ophis or Great Red used Outrage? I think it has some pretty hefty demerits, considering it’s a berserker rage and all that, but it let Fafnir bat Lilith aside, who is a Dragon God. Really big multiplier right there.

Goyya: Kisuke, in this case, extracted the emotional imbalance that the Outrage Mode causes. It works wonders for suicidal attacks~

Staz Irvine

章節 574: New ‘Victims’

"W-what was that?" Asked Serafall.

"Nothing much. Just a bit of something to push her. Though it wouldn't have worked if there was nothing to push," Kisuke answered, before turning to the rest of the Student Council members, "Who's next~?"

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.

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Although they were extremely hesitant, one after another stepped out to continue their 'training' after seeing Ruruko perform, and noticing the dummy's movement was a lot simpler than they remembered.

After half an hour, everyone was already back to fighting the dummies, and this time, with more enthusiasm after realizing their improvement. They knew that it's going to get harder as time goes on, but that's exactly the reason why they're training.

Although they had received artificial Sacred Gears from Azazel and took a bit of training from the Devil Kings' subordinates, they are very much aware of their weakness and very large gap in talent compared to Rias' peerage. Just when they were about to give up chasing the group since they knew it would be for naught even if they worked their hardest, Kisuke gave them an option.

But after experiencing all of this, they didn't actually know if they should be thankful for that 'Demon' who offered a deal way worse than actual Devils.

The effects of 'Dragon Pride' on Ruruko had worn off, but she still continued fighting the dummy, now with much calmness and finesse in her movements. Seeing this, Kisuke nodded in satisfaction and took a peek at Saji and Tsubaki, who were still doing their best before turning his attention back to Serafall, Irina, and Akeno, "We can leave them for now."

"B-but... It's still dangerous for them," replied Serafall.

"Please don't worry about that. I already dialed down my configurations and those dummies won't be going for the kill anymore. Though they'll still aim for a fatal injury if given a chance, they can manage themselves with the hot spring," and a harsh reply came from Kisuke.

Serafall furrowed her brows and said, "I never really thought that you're this harsh."

Kisuke instead turned around and started walking towards the lodging, "Unless there's a good reason, I never slack when I give someone training. Besides, compared to this, wars are harsher."

"...Well, that's true," muttered Serafall and followed his steps, 'I don't think any recent large-scale war has happened, but why does he sound like he's already experienced one firsthand?' She asked herself. But strangely enough, she couldn't voice it out. She has this inkling of a feeling that she shouldn't ask this and followed her gut.

Akeno and Irina looked at each other with complicated expressions before following the two.

The four of them arrived at the living room and Kisuke served some hot tea and snacks for them before going into the topic, "I called Sera-chan over here to oversee their training, but what are the two of you doing here? If it's for your bodies, I'm sorry, but it'll need two more days to be ready, so you'll have to wait until then."

Akeno shook her head, "No. We didn't come here for that. Besides..."

"Hmm?"

"No. It was nothing. We're actually here to give some news to Serafall-sama since she's been in here, not knowing what's happening outside."

"We were also curious about what the Student Council members were doing!" added Irina, "Though we never expected it to be so brutal!"

"Well, they don't have much time. This could have been a low priority option if there were still a few years of peace," Kisuke sighed. Although he's the one who designed this training method, it's really only if there are no better options left as it's still too risky despite the safety measures he added, "By the way, what news are you going to tell Sera-chan? Mind if I listen in?"

"Sure... Rather, it's about you and the mess you made. Even if you didn't listen, you already know what happened," replied Irina.

"Ah, that's what you're talking about. I don't know how the others reacted yet since I was busy with my stuff, so I'll still listen."

"The mess he made?" asked Serafall.

Akeno nodded, "Yes, Serafall-sama. This guy just went and declared war with Olympus. Right now, he's the highest-profile terrorist outside of the Khaos Brigade."

It was then Serafall recalled Kisuke's plans, "Ah, this guy indeed had some plan to attack Olympus, but what did he do exactly."

"About that, we have footage that was leaked and it contained the entirety of his actions. Though some people are still questioning its authenticity due to its..." Akeno's voice slightly trailed off, "Overwhelming contents." She then took out a terminal that is capable of displaying holographic footage which was invented by the Grigori and gave it to Serafall.

"Haah... Considering it was this guy, I wouldn't really be surprised if he did something awful to them," Serafall grabbed the terminal and started playing its contents for everyone to see.

Within the first few minutes, Serafall couldn't help but giggle at Kisuke's antics, 'I'd also like to introduce myself before I go on a destruction spree like that,' she thought.

Serafall thought that this was the 'overwhelming' part of the footage since who would be in their right mind to suddenly and openly assault the central base of a big Mythological Faction like that? Even the Khaos Brigade had to scheme a little bit before going for an attack, and never alone.

However, the moment the footage reached the latter half, where all the serious stuff took place, Serafall could only stare silently at Ares and Kisuke's battle with a dumbfounded expression.

At the start of their second round, Serafall even had to slow down the video so that she could properly see their movements. But even then, there were not enough frames to see the movements of their weapons. All she could see were injuries that would suddenly appear on both of them when they jerked their arms a little.

At the end of the second round, Serafall stopped breathing momentarily in shock as she saw Kisuke gets impaled by the spear and become extremely weak. But recalling that the person was right beside her now and doing just fine, she sighed in relief.

However, her heart was caught yet again at the last moments of the battle, and couldn't help replaying it multiple times just to understand what had happened.

After getting satisfied, Serafall closed the terminal and sighed, "This is more than overwhelming."

"Really? I think that it was a very close fight."

Serafall glared at him, "Not that! The fact that you went toe to toe with one of the strongest people in the world, almost killed him, and partially destroying an ancient and strong pocket realm is very alarming! The fact that there's someone like you moving alone will make a lot of factions change their current status quo and will scramble to recruit you in secret despite the risks! Even two of me can't hope to defeat that Ares, you know! And I'm a Devil King!"


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: Did she experience the suspension bridge effect vicariously through that video just now? Woah. Wait, what’s Phis-chama been doing so far?! She’s absolutely unsupervised again! He’s not got a counter to Sirzechs yet, and is still pretty unstable from the magic wish rock, but he’s over twice as strong as Serafall… Does this count as being strong enough yet, Levia-tan?

Goyya: For Serafall, it isn’t enough, hahaha. As for Ophis, Claire is taking care of her. Claire is officially Ophis’ new caretaker.

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