13 Chapter 13 - Scrapyard's Guardian

A few weeks after Okita's visit Koko... was a bit bored. The thing is, while she didn't really care that two heiresses had moved in, they also had a few responsibilities since they were technically managing the city. One of them being the extermination of nearby stray devils which meant that Koko didn't really have anything to fight anymore.

Pondering this problem Koko eventually decided to go on another trip around the world to fight other supernatural beings.

However she also had another goal in mind, finding and fighting something above the Ultimate-class. She didn't know if she could go against something that strong at present though, which made her decide to start really working out since she had found that her body didn't seem confined to normal human limits whatsoever and she was a bit curious about how far she could push it.

To start with she made a huge white space dedicated to training connected to her underground base with the help of a few robots she had made before that was just laying around, deciding to also install another gravity amplifier. Standing in the middle of the room Koko equipped her mask and mentally started increasing the gravity on herself until she was on the verge of collapsing and kept it there.

As she stood there she could feel the sweat running down her body as it started breaking down, her muscle tissue slowly but surely starting to tear as her bones creaked dangerously. Turning off the gravity again after a few seconds, Koko went into thought. Although she was convinced that gravity could help her get stronger, it required her to wait until her body recovered before it had any effect.

The solution was simple, she just had to make her body recover quicker, train under gravity and then go find something above the Ultimate-class and fight it.

Plan made, Koko set out in search of a certain animal.

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A few days later Koko had built a chamber like room with emitters and sensors dotting the walls that would scan anything put inside and infuse it with mana, slowly reinforcing it's nature while also gradually changing it into a magical being. Walking through a corridor towards the room with a cage in her hand Koko looked down at the rust brown axolotl staring back at her.

Arriving before the door leading into the chamber Koko opened the cage and picked up the axolotl before bringing it up to eye level with a serious face.

"Don't you worry Beo this won't hurt a bit and you'll get much stronger afterwards, so you can also protect the scrapyard while I'm away." Making the axolotl nod back slightly with her hand, Koko steeled her resolve and opened the door gently placing Beo on the floor before closing it again. Walking into another room nearby where she could see into the chamber, Koko pressed a few buttons on the console activating the scanners.

A few seconds later and the lights flashed green, seeing this Koko pulled down a lever to the side as the room started getting saturated with mana before the emitters got to work.

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A few minutes later Koko was standing in front of a monstrous lizard like creature. It's 7 meters tall 25 meters long quadrupedal body was covered in tough sand colored hide with a few copper colored metallic scales protruding in rows along it's length that gave of a feeling of sturdiness while it's head had taken a more triangular shape and sprouted two massive horns pointing forwards. It's body was rippling with muscles shifting beneath it's skin when it moved, it's previous docile temperament had switched to that of a predator befitting it's stature as it lumbered around, getting used to it's new size.

"Beo!" Koko called out as she started waving her hands trying to get it's attention.

Turning around the creature's now sharp slitted eyes locked onto her figure and slowly made it's way closer before plopping down when it reached her, it's previous aggression nowhere to be seen as it practically went limp as it exhaled, the force of which made Koko's hair blow back.

Excitedly running up to it Koko started rubbing it's snout while cooing at it.

"Who's a good Beo? You are, yes you are. You're so cute now! No one will mess with my scrapyard with you as my guard!" Koko eventually scrambled to climb on top of it and sat down between it's horns as she gave it's head a few slight taps while pointing towards the exit.

"Onwards Beo!" The creature let her do as she wanted as it followed her command and started lumberingly making it's way to the surface.

Breaking through the ground a few minutes later Koko guided Beo to where she had made a massive staircase leading up to a block of metal tall enough to see over the wall where it could sit while looking for intruders. Jumping back down to the ground once Beo slumped in it's new post Koko looked up, and seeing how menacing it looked she placed her hands on her hips as she wore a smug smile.

Basking in her genius for a while Koko eventually remembered the main reason she had gotten Beo in the first place. Jumping to the top of the metal block it was perching on she took out what looked to be a gun with a needle attached to the front and a tube in the back before reinforcing it with her TT, an electric purple aura flaring to life around it.

Walking closer to Beo she tapped it's leg a few times to get it's attention making it turn it's head towards her.

"Beo I'm gonna need some of your blood for something, it'll sting a bit but nothing dangerous kay'?" Koko said while inserting the needle into it's leg, waiting a few moments until the container was full she took it out again while the wound instantly reknit itself and disappeared. Removing the tube with the blood she casually threw the nail gun over her shoulder at a scrap pile.

"Thanks Beo. Oh right, I have something for you. Wait a bit and I'll go get it." Jumping down again Koko entered a scrap pile leading into her underground base for a few minutes before returning while carrying something in her hands.

Jumping on top of Beo again she placed her gift down onto it's brows before jumping over to a nearby scrap pile to get a better look.

"Looking cool Beo!" Koko gave a thumbs up before going back into the underground base to get the regeneration thing sorted out while Beo continued sitting on it's perch, it's new metallic sunglasses slightly glinting under the sun.