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章節 664: Astraea Familia

April carefully laid Liz on her bed before facing Yoruichi with an almost tearful face, "Thank you very much! If it wasn't for you, Liz would have died and I wouldn't know what to do!"

Astraea also approached Yoruichi and expressed her gratitude, "Thank you for saving my child. At least please tell me how much that Elixir cost. I'll be sure to pay it back one day."

Hearing that, Yoruichi immediately shook her head, "Please don't think about it. That Elixir was not much for us. If it was able to help the child of our benefactor, then all the more reason not to ask for anything in return."

While April's eyes widened, Astraea's face became filled with hesitation, "But I've never done anything for you aside from offering a place to stay. This isn't even our place."

Chuckling, Yoruichi replied with a small smile, "That may be the case. However, in certain situations, I greatly appreciate small gestures of kindness without any trace of malintent or calculating moves. In this case, you offered us what we really needed and even offered potions. Although the cheap ones, it's also all that you had. So wouldn't it just be fair to offer something of similar value from my perspective?"

Smiling wryly, Astraea asked, "So you're saying that Elixir is of the same value as our potions?"

Yoruichi answered with a big grin on her face, "Correct~!"

"It's really hard to accept that."

Touching her chin, Yoruichi thought of something before continuing, "Then how about this, in exchange for that Elixir, we made a good friend like Astraea-sama. Besides, I have a feeling that you'll get along really well with our Goddess."

"Your Goddess? Who is it?"

"Hestia-sama."

Astraea's expression instantly changed from a complicated to a shocked one, "Hestia!? That shut-in actually decided to descend, leaving the comfort of her Hearth!?"

"Oh~ So you actually do know her~ But please don't worry. She hasn't actually changed and is still just a lazy bum."

At that moment, Yoruichi was the first one to hear screams of fear getting near and looked towards that direction, "Looks like they're here."

Astraea and April became confused but soon enough, they also heard the screams and it was from familiar voices. Running out of their lodging, Astraea and April saw a small dot in the sky before it became bigger, forming a silhouette of a person dragging two other people. "...Are those Mildred and Cecil?", asked April.

The screams became even louder and worse as they approached the ground. Even April and Astraea became pale at the rate they were descending at. But before they hit the ground, multiple shockwaves exploded out from under them, slowing their descent considerably, and they were able to land softly.

Releasing their collars, Kuroka greeted them, "We're back, nyaa~!"

Meanwhile, the tall and slightly tanned Half Dwarf woman with dark red hair called Mildred, and the black-haired Human woman, Cecil, were wheezing on all fours on the ground. "...I thought I was going to die...", muttered the former with a muffled voice.

After taking several deep breaths, Cecil looked up and saw two familiar faces which reminded her of the fate of their youngest member. Hurriedly standing up, Cecil grabbed April's shoulders in panic, "April! Where's Liz!? What happened to Liz!?"

Mildred also hurriedly stood up when she heard that, "Right! Where's Liz!?"

"Calm down, you two. She's already safe and resting.", answered Astraea while stepping up and patting their shoulders to calm them down.

"R-really?"

"Yes. She's currently inside."

Mildred and Cecil then immediately went inside their temporary lodging and saw a peacefully sleeping Pallum. Cecil slowly and quietly approached Liz while trying to muffle her sobbing sound, "...Thank goodness..." Crouching to her side, Cecil gently held her hand as tears of relief fell down.

Mildred, on the other hand, stayed back while wiping the tears that were about to fall from her eyes. She then faced Astraea and asked, "Astraea-sama... How... I mean I was not optimistic of her survival, even after luring the monsters away."

April immediately pointed towards Yoruichi, "This lady here saved Liz! She's..." However, she realized in that moment that she didn't even know her name and turned to Astraea.

Astraea's face blushed a little in embarrassment as she also realized that she hadn't even heard of their names.

Yoruichi giggled at her reaction and proceeded to introduce herself, "My name's Yoruichi Shihouin."

Kuroka also raised her hand and added, "And I'm Kuroka Toujou, nyaa~! Nice to meet you!"

Mildred offered her hand and introduced herself, "I'm Mildred, the Captain of the Astraea Familia. Nice to meet you too and may I ask how you saved my precious friend?"

Yoruichi grabbed her hand with a grin and said, "Nothing complicated. Just with an Elixir."

Hearing, that, Mildred froze with the corners of her mouth twitching, "E-Elixir you say... How much was it?"

"Its quality was top-notch even compared to those circulated in the market so its estimated value was around 700,000 Valis."

Mildred wiped her forehead now being covered by cold sweat, "7-700,000 you say... We'll be sure to pay you back, but please give us time."

"You're charging them, nyaa?", Kuroka asked Yoruichi.

Yoruichi separated her hand from Mildred before saying, "Of course not~ I just wanted to see what kind of expression they'd make."

"I almost forgot... You're cut from the same cloth as that guy, nyaa..."

That said, Mildred could only slack her jaw at Yoruichi's words, "Y-you're not going to charge us!? I'm very thankful, but why?"

"I already explained it to Astraea-sama, but to put it in simpler terms, she helped us out and it's only right that we help her out, too. Aside from that, it also looks like she's a friend of Hestia-sama."

"T-that's true... Aside from Artemis and Hephaestus, I'm one of Hestia's few close friends.", Astraea confirmed her words.

Yoruichi then shrugged her shoulders, "Then all the more reason we shouldn't ask for anything back."

"But..."

"You see, that Elixir came from that guy.", Yoruichi pointed towards the unconscious Kisuke, "He tends to spoil Hestia-sama a bit too much, and if that guy were to know that you're close friends with our Goddess, he might just give you a case containing a dozen of those Elixirs as a 'Thank you' gift."

"Please don't. We wouldn't be able to accept that.", Astraea immediately retorted.

"In other words, that guy's pretty well off so you don't really have to sweat it."

"Allow me to express my sincerest gratitude. Thank you. If not for you, Liz might have already left this world. However, we'll still return this great favor someday. Please don't reject that or we might not be able to properly sleep.", Mildred bowed her head to Yoruichi before turning to Kuroka, "To you too, Kuroka Toujou. Thank you very much for saving us from danger."

"Fine. If we need something in the future, we'll be sure to ask you. Of course, it'll only be reasonable requests that you may or may not accept so you don't have to worry.", was how Yoruichi settled things.

"It's fine, nyaa~! Happy to help~!"

With everything seeming to be finally settled, April raised her hand to attract their attention, "By the way, I'm April! It's very nice to meet you!"

Immediately after, Cecil's voice also rang out, "And I'm Cecil, the Vice-Captain of the Astraea Familia. It's a pleasure to meet you and thank you very much for saving our Liz.", she said while wiping her tears away, "Yoruichi-san and Kuroka-san... I heard about you the last time I went to Pandemonium. You're the famous rogue Mercenaries that appeared out of nowhere and laid waste to the unreasonable members of the Aruna Familia."


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: I thought she was familiar! This is Ryuu’s familia! I wondered where they went, I guess it’s here though. Yep, Kisuke knows to spoil Bestia. She’s the best babysitter for them after all, even if Ophis is damn near impossible to keep an eye on if you LITERALLY BLINK! Great with the kids though!

Alexander: Astrea and her family really sound like ideal targets for teasing. So, I expect great comedy from them in the future.

章節 665: Waking Up

Three days later, Kisuke finally woke up. Immediately sitting up and raising his arms, he shouted out, "I'm alive~!"

But as he did so, the veins and muscle tissue in his arms suddenly ruptured, spurting blood everywhere before his forearm bones made snapping sounds, "Oya?"

Around him, everyone was present and were making two distinct expressions. While Yoruichi and Kuroka were shocked, the rest of the Astraea Familia and Astraea herself were horrified at the sight of his arms suddenly being mangled.

The first one to move was Yoruichi with her immediately taking out two Elixirs and pouring both of them on Kisuke's arms while Kuroka hurriedly used magic to clean up the splattered blood and bits of flesh that were scattered around.

While Yoruichi blocked everyone's sight of Kisuke's arms with her body, Kisuke promptly went ahead and did a quick self-diagnosis. The first thing he noticed was that the Elixir wasn't actually affecting his wounds and would just slip off. However, as if he was in his full Vasto Lorde form, his arms started regenerating themselves without any input from Kisuke, and after a few seconds, his mangled arms were no more.

Going wider with his diagnosis, he immediately came to know that he couldn't use any Magic, Ki, or any of his Soul techniques. But after thinking about it, Kisuke thought that was normal. Even though the new type of energy coursing through his very being was a congregation of Demonic Power, Ki and Spiritual Power, it still followed a different set of rules.

As for his body, when his arms were broken like frail twigs, it didn't actually mean it got weaker. In fact, his body became a lot stronger in addition to his improved regeneration even outside of his transformation, making him invulnerable to most things. It was just that his new energy's circulation was too wild even for his vastly improved body.

By just simply swinging his arms and subconsciously using the method of control he was using for his Reiatsu-Ki, the new energy immediately exploded and mangled his arms, 'This is going to be tough...'

All of a sudden, however, Yoruichi flicked his forehead. Nursing his forehead, Kisuke looked at Yoruichi, "What?"

"You've got a large grin on your face. What's up?"

Touching his face, Kisuke felt that the corners of his lips were curled upwards before replying, "Nothing much. It's just that I'm about to learn something new again~!"

Technically, Kisuke became strong after the transformations that the Hougyoku had done to him. However, thanks to those transformations, especially to the type of energy that he used, he effectively became weaker as he couldn't use any of his techniques and could only rely on his durability, but was easily mangled through accidental self-destruction.

He could, of course, always relearn everything. However, unlike with Magic and Ki, Kisuke didn't have any references that he could use as this new type of energy transcended all the properties of Spirit, Magic and Ki. It would take a short while to regain his former combat prowess.

On the flip side, Kisuke estimated that even if someone were to cut his body into a thousand pieces, he still would be able to safely regenerate without any problems, making him almost an immortal. On top of that, even if he were to recover his former combat prowess, it wouldn't just stop at that. His progress would continue until he hit another bottleneck.

As such, the disadvantages and advantages of the transformation, or more accurately described as a chrysalis, became very clear. For Kisuke, however, the disadvantages were the ones that actually made him happy.

If he needed to learn something, then it means that it was something new. And learning about this new thing meant that new perspectives, insights, and discoveries were soon to follow, which would in turn increase the things that Kisuke could actually do outside of combat.

But much less than all of that, Kisuke really just enjoyed learning new things. Unlike Aizen who sought more power, Kisuke was a person who sought more knowledge.

Yoruichi sighed at his answer and said, "Take it easy... It seems really dangerous."

"My case is actually very safe...", replied Kisuke before grabbing his Zanpakuto.

Now that he couldn't control his power, it was actually Benihime who was keeping the blade's shape. If she were to leave it to Kisuke who couldn't do anything right now, it would just uncontrollably expand to suit his energy reserves.

Kisuke tried talking to Benihime but all he got was an angry aura reply. Benihime, compared to Kisuke, was in a much more difficult state. Even when Kisuke had changed his energy reserves to that of Reiatsu-Ki to also accommodate his physical body, it didn't affect Benihime who was a purely Spiritual Being.

But after the incident three days ago, Benihime had to accept the change or risk Kisuke dying from his physical body and soul body fusing permanently. As she had to become the linking bridge for the two, she had no choice but to be converted to suit the new energy type more.

Of course, this change didn't just bring advantages but also similar disadvantages to Benihime. Compared to Kisuke, however, Benihime didn't have any prior experiences with controlling a different type of energy, and much worse, this change technically overwrote her entire existence as a Zanpakuto. Both Kisuke and Benihime thought that they were extremely lucky that Benihime was able to keep what makes her, 'her'.

As such, Benihime was also having a tough time controlling her own powers to such a grade, that she couldn't even speak to Kisuke and could only let out an angry and frustrated aura.

With his arms fully healed, Yoruichi separated from him and Kisuke also slowly and carefully stood up, facing the people he was unfamiliar with, "Good afternoon, everyone. My name's Kisuke Urahara. It's a pleasure to meet you, ladies."

As he couldn't materialize his Shihakusho, Kisuke was currently wearing an attire that was typical of this world, linen clothing, that Yoruichi and Kuroka had put on to him.

"N-nice to meet you, too, Kisuke Urahara. I'm Astraea. It's great to see that you're finally awake after three days of rest, however, those arms... Are you truly fine?"

Even as he moved and spoke, Kisuke was trying all sorts of things to control the wild energy inside of him. So to not cause another explosion of blood and flesh, Kisuke carefully raised his left arm, but fast and fluid enough to not to warrant any unnecessary worries, "Astraea-sama, is it? Sounds really familiar. Thank you for asking, but I'm really fine. See?"

Still not convinced, Astraea asked, "B-but what happened earlier?"

At this point in time, Kisuke finally recalled where he heard Astraea's name. However, instead of mentioning that, he answered Astraea's question, "You see, I was cursed before coming to this land. This curse would spontaneously hurt me, but it would also cure me. Until this curse is lifted, I'll be suffering from the pain it will continue to bring."

Astraea's children became even more horrified by his story. As Mercenaries, they've already experienced breaking a few bones, but they couldn't imagine the torment they would receive if they were in Kisuke's shoes.

Of course, Astraea caught this lie but she didn't point it out as it was not her right to know what it truly was, "Is that so... If there's something we could do to lift that curse, please don't hesitate to ask us. We'll do our best to assist you."


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: Ah, I can just see comments where people are going to absolutely fucking SCREAM about nerfs, but here I am going “But, he’s pretty much OP and immune to damage right now though?” seriously. Kisuke is fine, if a bit explosive currently… Once he figures out how to control his new energy without accidentally making himself explode or rupture, he’ll be pretty much untouchable in melee combat at the very least. Magic or w/e we’re gonna call his esoteric abilities though? That’ll take a bit longer, just a bit. GOOD THING WE ALREADY GAVE MEDUSA HER NEW BODY FIRST! That’d be bad.

Alexander: Wow, the Princess’ pride is really hurt now. I really hope that her yandere tendencies don’t enter legendary rank. Although, seeing Kisuke being in a pinch is amusing in its own way.

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