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章節 889: Chapter 889 Mother of all Devils

While Kisuke and Runeas were still having a standoff, Benihime silently pulled the stunned Riveria to the side. After the former sent a stream of energy to the latter to help her block the oppressive aura, Riveria was finally able to recall how to breathe and panted hard while holding her chest in pain.

Benihime patted her back and comforted her, "There, there... Take it easy. You're safe now."

Still confused about what was happening, Riveria returned her blurry sight back to the confrontation and the first thing she saw was Kisuke's monstrous form, "W-what... What... is going on?"

Benihime didn't say anything and just allowed her to stare at Kisuke, wanting to know what was going to be her initial reaction. Knowing her origin, Benihime didn't think she'd have a positive response to this.

"What... is he?", Riveria softly asked while trying to focus her mind.

Benihime got closer to her left ear and whispered, "You don't know? In your world, that's the very definition of a monster."

Riveria's expression instantly became darker as she calmed the rhythm of her breathing. Under the mask, a small smile formed on her mouth, however, her eyes didn't say the same as she gave her a stare full of disappointment. But that's until she felt the movement of Demonic Power on Riveria's arm and a Magic Blade instantly extended from her hand.

Benihime bent her back away to dodge the blade that cut the corner of her mask before jumping away to secure some space from the angry Elf, "My~ How rude of you to attack someone who'd just saved your life."

Riveria shook her head to shake away the dizziness she was feeling and stared back at the fox-masked woman, "I'm just returning the rudeness of you calling a friend of mine a monster. And if someone saved me, it would be Kisuke, who went in front of me."

The disappointment immediately left Benihime's eyes with a chuckle, "Well, I guess that's true." She then looked at Kisuke who was already looking in their direction and winked at him, "Ufufufu~ And now that I've brought this interesting thing, my job here is done." After saying that, Benihime disappeared with a very familiar Flash Step, instantly leaving the scene after bringing Kisuke some trouble.

But before her aura completely left, Benihime left a few words only for Riveria to hear, "Aren't you one lucky girl? For him to reveal some of the cards he had been keeping for an emergency just to protect you from a bit of danger."

Riveria's eyes went wide open and her mind went blank.

'She didn't know, but that didn't mean that she didn't have any ideas about what was inside the coffin. She'd brought this thing here knowing it might cause problems.. Hahhh... Just where did she inherit that fondness of messing with everyone?' Meanwhile, Kisuke didn't want to admit it himself.

'But even if that's the case, it's a good opportunity to meet an original Devil.' Kisuke returned his sights to the already restless 'young' Devil.

A few seconds more passed and then the oppressive aura Kisuke had been releasing finally receded, with him returning to his original form. But instead of talking to Runeas, Kisuke placed his right hand on his nape to grab something before throwing it toward Riveria.

As it traveled through the air, the thing he threw sparkled in a green light, and when it reached in front of the Elf, it stopped before forming a series of green hexagonal shields around her, "Stay there for now. But if things go south, those shields should be able to protect you for a good while."

But instead of being glad, Riveria only felt bad and frustrated, 'This helplessness... It's been a while... But as I expected, I still hate it.' She thought while looking at the hexagonal shields revolving around her. She recalled Benihime's words and got a bit embarrassed before sighing in frustration, 'I will have to apologize later. But the better thing to do is to work on myself so that I won't need any saving in the first place.'

After making sure that the 'Millón Escudo' was properly integrated on Riveria and changed its state into automatic activation, Kisuke turned back and raised his right hand, pouring out the unique energy that he'd finally decided to call Origin, since it's a mixture of everything he knew how to use, "Kurohitsugi."

The oppression momentarily returned and Runeas prepared to defend herself as she saw jet black walls rise up from the floor, covering both her, Kisuke, and the coffin, "What are you doing!?"

Runeas was about to bash through the forming walls but Kisuke stopped her by saying, "Making a private place to talk."

The claws and wings she'd brought out again were taken back and formed into a thin film of dense Demonic Power around her.

As soon as the black walls connected, they also extended to form a ceiling and a floor, completely sealing the two people and the coffin away from the world, "I understand that you would want to protect your mother, but why did you suddenly attack?" Kisuke started while stepping away from the coffin. At this point, Benihime's seal on it was already gone.

Runeas approached the coffin and answered, "Because I was half-asleep. The moment I felt my mother's presence and how someone unknown was beside her, I automatically assumed the worst." Opening the coffin, Runeas' beautiful face couldn't help but grimace, "...How awful."

Kisuke returned and took a peek and even he couldn't maintain a stoic expression, "I think it's a few more degrees than that. This is quite the distasteful torture."

With only a few strands of black hair hanging from her scalp, Lilith was a half-dried-up 'corpse' with her flesh gone from her lower stomach until her feet and her almost rotting organs hanging out. But despite all of this, she was still breathing and her was heart beating, albeit, very softly and slowly, "Whoever did this to her, did a great job in keeping her alive.", added Kisuke in a sarcastic tone.

Runeas gritted her teeth and gently touched Lilith's face, "Unforgivable..."

Kisuke stared at the shaking Runeas for a few moments before saying, "My companion grabbed her from the depths of the Realm of the Dead, but I doubt that it was Hades and his happy friends who did this considering the age of the spell placed on her."

"...Why are you so sure it wasn't them who did this?" asked Runeas with glowing lavender eyes.

Kisuke closed his eyes and answered, "Because they are using her to create more Devils that will work under them."

The moment she heard that Runeas' aura exploded outwards, cracking the jet-black walls just from the initial impact.

Kisuke sighed and patted her shoulder, "Calm down for now. The fact that they've only started doing this recently meant that they didn't have her that long. Though that doesn't really change the fact that they're doing something nasty." But while saying this, a certain individual entered his head, 'Kurotsuchi-san would have done it too, I guess?'

Runeas' aura abated but the intensity around her hasn't disappeared, "I'm going to destroy them."

"That sounds fun, but the issue here isn't them, but Lilith-san." Kisuke then looked towards Lilith and said, "I present you two choices. One, and the easier one of the two, is death. The other one... Well, I can see a way for restoration. It's not going to be easy or cheap, though."

Runeas looked at him in shock, "Restoration? You mean healing her!? You can do that!? Please-"

"Hold on." Kisuke interrupted her by putting his hand in front of her face, "I'm not asking you."

"Heh?"

"I told you, right? This is distasteful torture. What is torture if you can't feel it?"

While still confused, Runeas suddenly heard a woman's voice resounding in her head, [What's the price of restoration?]


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: Ew, yeah, that’s really distasteful. It’s been centuries or millennia for Lilith too… 

Peter M

章節 890: Chapter 890 Hope for Restoration  

"EH!?" Runeas snapped her head back to Lilith and saw that nothing was different and thought that she was just imagining things, until Kisuke answered, "Your full cooperation. Without sugarcoating it, I'll technically be your new 'owner'."

[I'd like to negotiate.], Lilith replied back, making Runeas further speechless and confused.

"Please go ahead and tell me what you think. I'm willing to make a few concessions."

Runeas head finally caught up and jumped towards Kisuke while grabbing his collar, "Wait, wait! What do you mean you're the new owner!? What are you trying to do!?"

[Runeas...] Lilith called her name but she still didn't let go of Kisuke, "I won't allow it!"

Kisuke stared down at her and replied, "I'm not asking you."

Naturally, Runeas couldn't accept that kind of answer and raised her voice, "Even if you're not asking me, taking full control of her just because you can heal her is too much!"

"I'm not running a charity here.", Kisuke replied coldly, "Besides, you don't have the right to decide for her."

"I don't! But that doesn't mean we have to listen to you!" Runeas turned to Lilith and said, "Mother, we have a lot more options than what he's offering. Not to mention, there's no guarantee any of what he's saying is true!"

From this point on, Kisuke decided to stay quiet. If they want to, they can indeed seek help outside of their own. However, Kisuke also knew that Lilith was aware of her surroundings despite her current state.

[Aside from him, I don't know anyone that could help me or even want to reveal my current situation to.]

"What!?" Runeas let go of Kisuke, "How can you be so sure, Mother!"

[I'm not, but I'm sure that I know more than you.]

"W-" [Runeas.], Lilith didn't allow her to interrupt, [Looking at you right now, you probably put yourself into deep sleep after the Great War. You haven't changed much since then. I see that you're still that playful kid.]

Runeas became quiet as that's exactly what she did. To preserve her own mind and maturity, she slept for centuries, only waking up when there was something going on. It was unknown why she chose to do this, but this was the main reason why Kisuke was weirded out by her, 'No wonder...' Thought Kisuke while looking at Runeas and also figuring out how he could make use of this to his advantage.

[I don't remember how I ended up like this because it was only recently that I woke up to Rizevim holding on to me and Hades just now. Both of them tried to restore me to some degree because I'm more useful to them 'complete', but their researchers that came from various backgrounds failed to do anything. In which case, I doubt anyone else out there could properly help me.]

"B-but..."

[But while they weren't able to do anything, Hades has been very vocal about a certain individual that he wanted to take in from at some point.]

"I suppose that's me?"

[Dark green oriental clothing and striking green and white striped bucket hat covering his pale blonde hair. Hades would often mention a genius that could help him progress in a lot of things relating to the soul. But alas, the two of you are enemies due to a certain prophecy that a God beside him kept mentioning.]

'Hades thought of that? Looks like the documents I passed to both Azazel and Dylan were leaked to him.' Kisuke thought for a bit before replying with a chuckle, "I never expected him to think so highly of me."

[So please, let me ask this before we start our negotiation. Do you really have a way to restore me?]

"Hmmm... From the looks of it, you're currently in a Time seal which binds you to the very state you're currently in. Any attempt of healing or even killing you would be very hard as you would only revert back in time. Still, it allows you to retain your consciousness and sense of mind, so you're not entirely covered by this spell."

[That's also what Rizevim's men and Hades figured out, except for the latter since I never revealed that I'm conscious of what's happening around me.]

"With that in mind, the first thing I could think of is to take advantage of that hole and break the seal from there." added Kisuke. Nevertheless, he doubts something like that would work since the seal was sophisticated enough to leave her mind alone, so it probably had a failsafe around there, and probing that part may cause some accidents. Even then, Kisuke had to give her an answer that was concrete and believable to gain her trust, 'If that doesn't work, reversing causality should work, since it goes directly against the concept of time.'

"After that, the restoration itself can be started. It'll take many tests and experiments to achieve this but it shouldn't be impossible."

[Is that so... Then if you're successful in restoring me, I'll give my all to you and only you.]

"Mother..." Runeas muttered on the side while gritting her teeth. She never hated her immaturity until now.

[But in exchange... Please allow me to roam around on my own feet. I want to see and experience the world, even if it's just a small part of it.]

Kisuke could finally understand her desperation, 'So she just wanted a bit of freedom. Just how shitty was her life for her to request something so small in exchange for fully controlling her.'

Kisuke nodded, "How about we talk about this more once we are sure to succeed in your restoration."

"What!?" Runeas reacted strongly, "Mother was just asking something very trivial yet you want to delay this!?"

Kisuke's hand moved so fast and silently, without any hints of malicious threat, that Runeas failed to react when Kisuke flicked her forehead, sending her flying back, "OUCH!!!"

"Are you an idiot? I'm delaying it because she's asking for too little. While I'd take all the advantages that I can get, I'll never sell an overpriced 'product'. And besides, even though I want her to have a positive outlook on this, I also don't want her to have any false hope. I was able to give an answer, but that's just after my initial observations."

Runeas slowly stood up and pouted as she nursed the lump on her forehead, "...Can you really help mother?"

"It might prove difficult, but I can. At least from what I'm seeing now."

"...Who are you anyway? And why are you at the heart of my territory?"

"Kisuke Urahara. I can at least say that I'm on friendly enough terms with the Gremory Household to be invited over."


創作者的想法
Goyya Goyya

Editors:

28th00: Lilith’s life is really messed up, if you wanna get real with it.

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