Delusions

When he reentered the space-time orb that night Alex was feeling a fair amount of mental exhaustion from the day's events, so much so that he was completely caught off guard by what was waiting for him the moment he appeared.

"How was your day dear~." Anne asked him the moment Alex appeared within the orb, her attitude completely that of a typical housewife. Though normally Alex would go along with her, his mind stalled slightly when he saw Beth standing right behind her, glaring at him intensely even as she fidgeted in her unusually cute clothes.

With his confusion growing as he took in Beth's pink blouse and short skirt that only went to her mid thighs, Alex tiredly asked, "What exactly is going on here?"

Naturally Beth's anger flared as she watched Alex scrutinize her attire, but before she could say anything Anne piped up, "I gave a Beth a choice between being able to leave the island she'd been locked up on with extremely limited freedoms, or us doing something to her that we'd rather not have to resort to, naturally she chose the former option." When he heard that Alex looked between Anne and Beth curiously, before asking,

"And you're sure that she can't do anything to anyone now?" Anne nodded before saying while offering a metal cylinder to him,

"Yep, we gave her several commands through your slave magic, and had her agree to a series of magical contracts that will automatically activate if she breaks them! On top of that we even removed her stigmata!" As she said that Alex accepted the metallic cylinder she offered, which he assumed had the aforementioned stigmata inside.

Satisfied with the measures taken to prevent Beth from acting out, some of the tension in Alex's body faded as he stored away the stigmata before pulling Anne in for a kiss. The dark skinned beauty eagerly reciprocated his affections, wrapping her arms around Alex's neck and shoulders even as he shamelessly moved his own hands down to fondle her ass through her bottoms.

Of course Beth gagged when she saw the overly affectionate display, and was about to leave when she heard Alex say, "Remia will be here soon along with Mizore, Tsurara, and the children, I'm going to practice a bit after the day I've had before they get here. After they go to bed though, you and me will...." He then leaned in closer and whispered into Anne's ear, making her giggle with a light blush on her cheeks while he continued playing with her butt cheeks shamelessly. After a second he separated from her, though not before giving Anne's ass one final smack, and turned to Beth before saying seriously, "You're coming too."

***

Later Beth found herself in one of the sub-space orbs that Alex and his girls used for training, except Elaine was also with them and the trio were within what appeared to be a giant crater several miles wide, which was marked with several dozen smaller craters as if from some kind of battle. As Alex changed and started warming himself up for the practice ahead, Beth couldn't help but glance around curiously at the ruined landscape until Elaine, who appeared unperturbed in her maid uniform, approached and explained,

"This area is a part of a powerful formation I set up to ensure that the effects of our matches don't impact our surroundings, namely the space-time orb itself." She then went on to explain some of the details regarding the barriers system she had set up, until Alex called out,

"Ok, I'm ready." Before Beth could even begin to blink Elaine was already at her place in the very center of the crater, where she waited impassively for Alex to move.

"Ha, aaah...." Alex took in a deep breath and then let it out slowly, before turning a firm gaze onto Elaine. Beth felt her skin start crawling as the power surrounding Alex began to intensify, before he shocked her when his hair suddenly turned golden from the Super Saiyan transformation, and even the ground around him started rumbling from the raw power. He didn't leave things there though, as the power Alex was putting out began to arc in bolts of lightning while various bits of rubble at his feet began floating around him when his golden hair suddenly became longer, and wilder.

That was only the beginning of Beth's surprise that day though, as, faster than she could follow, Alex suddenly disappeared before a concussion of air and pressure assaulted her with enough force that she was fighting to stay standing even with what strength she still had. Leaning forward to keep from flying back, Beth used one arm to shield her face while the other tried to keep her stupidly short skirt down in the wild wind, making her curse Anne once more for not giving her undergarments to wear under it to 'increase her awareness' supposedly.

When the wind finally died down though she was dumbfounded to find Elaine calmly standing in her original position, a mere finger raised to block Alex's stupidly powerful punch. She then just barely had enough time to register what she was seeing, before Alex's image faded away and a series of blasts of force and concussions similar to what she just experienced started one after another. Among these blasts Beth could only just barely make out Alex's blurred form during the brief seconds that he'd attack Elaine before he vanished once more, while the unflinching maid seemingly moved her arm at even greater speeds.

Amazingly, despite the repeated blasts that assaulted her surroundings, Elaine's hair and clothes looked as if they hadn't even been disturbed during Alex's merciless assault, both remaining pristine and undisturbed by the turbulent dust and dirt. Though Beth hadn't been keeping track of the time, as soon as five minutes passed from the moment of Alex's first attack, Elaine suddenly moved from her position at impossible speeds without even disturbing any of the dust around her, right before Alex was suddenly sent flying.

Then began a complete reversal of what had just been happening, as Elaine delivered attack after attack onto Alex, all of which he had been unable to either dodge or block. Even with his Observation Haki alerting him as to where the attack was coming from, either Alex couldn't even react to it in time or Elaine would just change where the attack was coming from without him being able to tell before impact.

If his instincts warned him of an attack coming from the right, it would land before he could even lift his arm to block. If he sensed a kick coming from the front, Elaine would suddenly deliver it from behind without him being able to keep up. And even if Alex somehow did manage to have an arm in place to defend whatever place Elaine planned to attack, or Armament Haki, Elaine would smash through either his defenses or limbs without a second's hesitation or effort, before he was sent flying and whatever part of his body that she had smashed would be repaired right before her next assault began.

Despite all of her suddenly and impossible to follow movements, not even a single hair was out of place as Elaine mercilessly attacked him. This one sided assault continued for another five minutes until, right on the very second, Elaine suddenly appeared back at her place in the center of the crater as she awaited Alex's next attack. Bruised and bloody, Alex fearlessly faced his opponent before he raised a hand and summoned the most intense and powerful flames he was capable of producing, without relying on his Divine or Demonic fire.

That triggered the start of a mixture of magical and physical attacks as Alex either tried to use spells to act as a smokescreen, or spammed several powerful magical/energy attacks one after another. As before, Elaine didn't even budge from her starting position as Alex delivered attack after attack onto her, none of which even seemed to effect her in the slightest either.

If she was engulfed in a storm of hellfire she'd appear after the flames died down without even a singe or single spot of soot or ash. If he froze the area around her then she never even seemed to register the cold, or the ice crystals forming in the air around her. Even gales and blades of wind that made tornadoes and hurricanes seem mild appeared to be little more than gentle breezes before her. And if Alex used energy based attacks, such as the Kamehameha, or the Destructo Disk, then Elaine would simply flick the attacks away as if they were nothing but bothersome flies.

As Beth watched the apocalyptic level exchange of blows and attacks, she felt her mind become increasingly numb at the power of the individuals before her. Though she never cared about the competition they were in, she always figured that if another reincarnator attacked her world that she'd at least be able to defend it and herself. When 'that' man attacked she reasoned the only reason she lost was due to her own ignorance, and his stupid ability to turn women into his obedient playthings, but watching Alex now Beth was forced to realize that she had severely overestimated herself.

'This can't be allowed!' Beth thought to herself as she started thinking that maybe Alex's strength was due to his regular sparring with Elaine, but then a feminine voice suddenly spoke up in her head and stated with what sounded like mild annoyance,

'While you are technically right that Elaine can't actually train Alex, even if he ordered her to, it is perfectly acceptable for him to attack her and for her to simply retaliate; and if he becomes stronger from fighting with her, then oh well. And the majority of his strength was from the monstrous amount of hard work Alex has put into his training since day one, so don't belittle it.'

Surprised at the sudden interjection from Lauren, her new 'Angel' after Alex made her his slave and her former 'Angel' passed her onto her, Beth was silent as she considered what she had told her, while Lauren hummed in mild annoyance. Though she was just his silent observer, Lauren still couldn't help but get slightly annoyed when Beth tried to belittle all of the effort she had seen him put into his strength since day one.

Since he hadn't chosen any abilities that granted immediate results, such as a certain power or weapon, Alex had to claw his way up to his current position step by step through intense training from the moment he could first walk. Though he had certainly started getting even stronger and better at fighting since he started sparring with Elaine, it was only a few drops in the proverbial bucket compared to the effort he'd put in in his life. That was why even she couldn't help but feel a slight amount of pride as she watched him exchange blows with one of her own comrades, despite the sometimes excessive brutality that Elaine would show when attacking him.

And so the duo continued their barrage of relentless attacks, with Alex alternating between various methods of fighting such as when he started with pure physical attacks, before moving on to mixing his attacks to include magic/energy along with punches and kicks, and then Beth watched as he took out a brilliantly golden sword along with a menacing looking scythe. Despite the powerful weapons pointed at her though, Elaine didn't even flinch as she was surrounded by either pitch black or beautifully golden flames, or when there was suddenly a storm of spectral figures that appeared from the jewel within the scythe, which contained the souls of those that had been killed by it.

Alex wasn't the only one to alternate the way he attacked his opponent though, as Elaine utilized any fighting style she decided to use as if she had mastered every single one that existed, though she seemed to stay away from grapple and throwing based fighting styles due to a certain skill Alex had that she had fallen victim to a time or two before. The same skill that appeared to have activated when they transitioned to their last exchange of the day, exactly an hour after they started, when Elaine accidentally sent Alex flying directly at Beth.

"WATCH OUUUUUUUUT!" Beth cried out as she tried to avoid the body flying directly at her, before Alex impacted the ground with enough force that she too fell to her hands and knees.

"Idiots...." Beth swore as she tried to stabilize herself once the world around and below her stopped moving. "Watch where you're throwing each other..."

"Well it's not like I can control where Elaine....throws me.... Beth..." As he was speaking from somewhere behind her Alex suddenly trailed off before saying her name questioningly, making Beth's entire body tense as she suddenly recalled something very important.

With her head turning back slowly as if it was on a rusty swivel, Beth was horrified to find that her skirt had been flipped up so that everything underneath was visible, and Alex had apparently face planted in such a perfect position that the first thing he saw when he got up was her unspeakable place a mere few inches from his face. She suppressed a shudder as Alex's breath gently tickled her privates, before he finished his earlier question with deadpan voice and expression, even as he seemed to be staring intently at what was before him.

".....why aren't you wearing any panties.....?" As the final word left his lips, more rage and embarrassment than she had ever felt before surged to the surface. Beth then brought one leg forward, no longer caring what the movement did or didn't expose to him, and kicked back at Alex's face with all of the force her 'Superhuman Strength' ability allowed.

Thankfully for her Alex still had the capability to dodge her sudden attack, as the slave brand would have activated otherwise, but that didn't stop Beth from trying to tear him apart while screaming, "YOU FUCKING BASTAAAAAAAARD!!!" at the top of her lungs.

Meanwhile, off to the side, Elaine watched Beth chase Alex with a complicated expression, as the current situation was technically her fault for sending Alex flying in Beth's direction to begin with. However she also knew the current situation was also the result of Alex's 'Lucky Pervert' skill, of which she'd also been a victim of several times, and ultimately decided to simply watch the show.

***

The next several days within the space-time orb passed relatively uneventfully with the exception of a few changes, beginning with Beth's liberation from her floating island prison. Though she had already been free for a couple days before Alex arrived, she now had to deal with Alex and his harem openly flirting in front of her almost constantly, which typically resulted in some kind of disagreement.

The other big change was that, after word spread of Alex taking Ringo and several Pandora into his bed, many of the women that had been abused by 'that' man were starting to approach him. Basically amongst the Pandora there were three different groups, those who actually did look outside the space-time orb for a relationship, and then the other two more less wanted to get into Alex's bed for one reason or another.

The second group consisted of Pandora who had simply concluded that they would never be able to find another man as great as Alex, especially after what they had been through. Not only did Alex check every single box they had as women from wealthy or influential families, but he also cared for each and every woman he was involved with without treating them as a simple outlet for his lust. As such not only could these particular women not imagine being with any other man, but many felt more than willing to even have Alex's children in the future.

The final group had more or less given up on finding their personal happiness after their abuse, and simply wished to be left alone by men in whatever position they decided on. However that didn't mean they wanted to give up being held by men for the rest of their lives, and so they were more than willing to let Alex 'use' them every now and then after everything he had done for them. Either group had also arrived at this conclusion due to the fact that it was fairly obvious whenever Alex interacted with his women he showed genuine care and affection for them, which they felt more than a little starved for.

As such, after sending his children back to the Misty Manor from the space-time orb, Alex had to endure a seemingly endless assault of beautiful women desperately trying to appeal to him. Of course what didn't help was Momo taking this as the chance to go full throttle in her newfound 'harem plan', after she spent months discretely improving Alex's image in the eyes of the damaged women.

Over the course of several days it seemed as if every time Alex turned around he was finding himself in one outrageous situation after another, from both his 'Lucky Pervert' skill and Momo working overtime. The most common trap that kept getting sprung onto Alex though was Momo using Lala's Pyon-Pyon Warp-Kun to randomly send him somewhere within the space-time orb, which his 'Lucky Pervert' skill almost always ensured he ended up in some kind of promiscuous situations. The worst of these situations was when Alex fell onto the victim in such a way that he ended up burying his face into their naked crotch, while their face ended up rubbing up directly against his cock, something he was sure the victim, Elaine, would never forgive him for.

That was why Alex wasn't at all surprised when he went to eat dinner on his last night in the space-time orb, and he found several Pandora laying naked on the table around his seat with bits of sushi on their body waiting to be eaten. Alex had just started shaking his head wryly in undisguised exasperation, when a voice suddenly cried out from behind them,

"How shameless can you get?!" Everyone turned to find a red faced Kotegawa Yui glaring at the arranged Pandora, before she finally blew up, "I've been holding it in this entire time, but why is everyone suddenly acting like total sluts all of a sudden?!"

There was dead silence as everyone took in the profanity that just left the prim and proper Kotegawa's mouth, though no one could truly blame her. As the former chairman of the Public Morals Committee at her school, she was obviously the one who had the biggest problem with the way Alex behaved with his harem, aside from Beth and Elaine of course. However she was aware of the fact that she was technically a guest in Alex's home and kept her mouth shut, enduring the shameless going ones of Alex and his wives day in and out, as well as the shameless actions and behavior of Kuroka when she worked on her personal floating island.

However the behavior of the Pandora for the last several days, along with this current stunt, had been the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back though, and she couldn't hold in her outrage any longer, not that anyone could truly blame her. In response to her outrage though, one of the Pandora that had been setting the tables up, who was wearing nothing but an apron, demanded,

"Well how else are we supposed to get his attention?! It's not like any of us actually believe we have a real chance against any of the wives he already has!" The rest of Pandora that had been acting out nodded their heads in agreement at her words, as it had practically been a unanimous agreement that they had no chance competing against any of Alex's wives, not that they'd want to do so and risk angering them. And so, the solution they had come up with was to simply do these risqué things to try and grab his attention, even if it was only momentarily. Kotegawa however wasn't going to have any excuses, as she continued,

"That may be, but all of your actions are getting to be too much! You're even troubling Alex with how much he's had to endure this entire time!" When she said this the Pandora looked at Alex as if for confirmation, only to see him look somewhat awkward at the inherent truth in Kotegawa's words.

While it was true he enjoyed having so many beautiful women trying to appeal to him, as well as such an erotic home environment, he couldn't argue that it was more than a little annoying to be constantly ambushed or teleported when he just wanted to train or spend some time with one of his wives. He then tried to explain this very thing to the now downhearted women, before showing that he wasn't completely upset by their actions by sitting down, and using a pair of chopsticks to pick up a piece of sushi off of one of the Pandora's nipples. He then maintained eye contact with her as he put the sushi in his mouth, and slowly chewed as if he was savoring every single bit of flavor it had.

When they saw this the rest of the Pandora that had been acting out let it a collective sigh of relief that Alex wasn't truly upset with them, though they did silently promise themselves to try and act a bit milder in the future, while Momo in particular looked away pointedly when Alex shot her a brief accusatory stare. The person who was the most relieved though was of course Kotegawa, as she now didn't have to deal with so much shameless behavior if the Pandora started behaving themselves. Her relief was short lived though as she took her seat at the dinner table, and Mea suddenly said as she sat down next to her,

"Master truly is incredible to woo so many women without even trying, I can't help but wonder how many children he'll have in the future~!"

"!!!"

Kotegawa's body suddenly jolted as if she'd been electrocuted at Mea's words, before she then devolved into a coughing fit as the food she had just swallowed tried to go down the wrong pipe. Several of the surrounding girls looked at her weirdly as she tried to catch her breath, before demanding,

"Children?!" Mea nodded slowly and said as if it was obvious,

"Well yeah, I think it's pretty much expected that every one of the women in master's harem will have a child or two of his someday, which I heard that the only reason he currently has so few children is due to his reproductive rate being really low as a reincarnated devil." Mea then went on about all of the juicy gossip she'd heard about Alex's family, but Kotegawa didn't head any of it as a certain scene began playing out in her head.

***

"How shameless! To approach a woman like this!" She cried out as Alex slowly approached her menacingly, his lips curling up into a wolfish grin.

"I'm shameless? What about you with that provocative body?" As he said that Alex uninhibitedly ran his gaze over her body, seemingly undressing her within his mind. He then placed one hand on the wall behind her, effectively pinning her between himself and the wall, before continuing,

"And besides, isn't the person who calls other people out on their shamelessness usually the truly shameless one? Aren't you the one who wants me to attack you?" She offered no resistance as Alex slowly ran his free hand up her leg as he spoke, before it ultimately disappeared up her skirt. Even as his fingers started to lightly stroke her over the thin layer that was her panties, Kotegawa neither refused not resisted Alex's actions. Instead she could only meekly ask,

"What if I get pregnant....?" Alex's wolfish grin widened when he heard that, before he leaned in even closer to whisper into her ear,

"You don't need to worry about that after only one time, but then again I suppose I'll have to attack you several times before I can breed you!" His declaration was then followed up with the tearing of clothes and Kotegawa's soft scream/yelps of surprise, before they turned into sensual moans as Alex followed through on his declaration and began breeding her.

Several months later she sat contently in a comfortable chair, rubbing her swelling belly softly as Alex's adoptive daughter Myuu suddenly ran over and asked with wide eyes, "Can I feel for the baby?!"

***

BANG!

Suddenly everyone sitting at the dinner tables jumped as a loud bang sounded out, before it was promptly followed by several more. They turned to see Kotegawa repeatedly banging her head against the table with a crimson red face, shouting at herself mentally,

'WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! IT'S ALMOST LIKE I ACTUALLY WANT IT!'

This continued for several minutes as the people around her tried to get her to calm down, all without knowing what was even wrong, until Yue finally had enough of her meal being disturbed and used magic to dump freezing water onto Kotegawa's head. Shaking his own head at the display, Alex went back to his meal as he used his chopsticks to once more remove a piece of sushi from the girl's body before him, before using the utensils to absentmindedly play with one of her nipples as he chewed.

"What was that about?" Rias's asked dumbfoundedly as she watched Kotegawa try to calm down, even after Yue soaked her. Alex however smiled knowingly and said,

"Maybe it was some kind of delusion, she's prone to them if you hadn't noticed." Alex's smile then widened as he recalled some of her delusions from the original series. This was soon followed by another series of bangs as Kotegawa glanced towards him to see his reaction to her actions, only to see him smiling in her direction as if he knew exactly what she had been thinking. This time it was Rias who started shaking her head at Kotegawa's actions, before turning to Alex and saying seriously as she tried to change the topic,

"By the way, you'll have a certain surprise waiting for you upstairs tonight, so no 'peeking'!" Even going as far as to point her finger at him menacingly, Alex smirked and put his hands up placatingly before saying,

"Ok ok, I won't 'peek'!" Rias narrowed her eyes at Alex as he promised not to use his 'Domain' to spy on his surprise, which he was practicing becoming more proficient in after being caught off guard so many times recently. Though he was curious of what was being planned for him, Alex focused on his meal until he had eaten his full as more sushi was continuously added to the living platter in front of him until he finally said he was finished.

Alex then made his way to the baths along with his excessive entourage, where he experienced having several beautiful women compete in trying to wash his body. With his surprise in mind though, Alex didn't give in to the temptation surrounding him other than bringing the women washing him to heaven with his fingers.

Once that was done Alex finally made his way to his room, where he heard voices as he approached the door.

"I don't think we should do this after what happened at dinner...."

"Don't worry! We already got permission from Rias and Ravel so it's fine!"

"Maybe for you...."

Already suspecting who was in there based on the voices he heard, Alex opened the door and was surprised not to find Haruna and Lala waiting for him, but by the fact that both girls were only wearing a ribbon that had been wrapped around their entire body. With their most precious areas guarded only by the thin and narrow strip of cloth, Alex couldn't help but nod his head approvingly as he looked them over, even as Haruna suddenly overheated from his sudden appearance. Then, despite supporting Haruna who had steam rising from her head, Lala cried out,

"Surprise!" Alex's smile widened he heard that, before he said,

"Well this certainly is a pleasant surprise, but what brought on all of a sudden?" As far as Alex could tell Lala and the rest of the women from her universe were still saddened over the loss of Rito, so he had figured that it would take a while longer before something like this happened.

Surprisingly, Lala then adopted a somewhat uncharacteristically serious expression before she said, "After you left for the day miss Grayfia spoke to us, and explained to us that the longer we waited the harder it would be to sort out our feelings. And so, I talked to Haruna and we decided to show you our resolve together tonight!"

"Ahhh." Alex replied in understanding as he recalled Grayfia saying something similar before their first time together, lest her resolve to join his harem later waiver due to her waiting for Sirzechs to return.

Deciding not to cheapen the girl's resolve like he did Ringo's, Alex stared walking towards them as he slowly undid the robe he had donned after his bath, before letting it fall to the ground to leave him completely naked. While Lala looked at his now exposed nether region with curiosity, Haruna looked as if she was about to pass out at any moment. Right as he was about to pull on the ribbons covering their private areas however, Lala suddenly made an 'oh yeah' expression, and pulled out a tablet she had brought with her.

She then pulled up what looked like the design for an invention, and explained, "I also want you look at this really quick, it's an invention I think you'd like!" Though he was slightly annoyed that the mood had been interrupted, Alex still looked at the design Lala wanted to show him before his brows shot up in amazement.

"You thought of this?" He questioned curiously, as it was an idea far more 'mature' than one would expect the fairly innocent seductress to come up with. At this though Lala adopted a slightly awkward look, before saying,

"Well, I got the idea somewhere else and started designing it, but never managed to finish it and rediscovered the design in my files recently." As she trailed off Alex couldn't help but wonder what Lala was hiding, but the thing she didn't want to admit was that the one who originally wanted her to make this was 'that' man. Deciding not to press the issue if Lala of all people was being secretive about it, Alex dropped it by saying,

"Yeah I'd like you to make it, but let's get back to the original topic." He then took the tablet from her and lightly tossed it like a frisbee out of the way, before unhesitatingly reaching up and pulling on the knots holding the duo's ribbons together.

(A.N. I'm planning to jump ahead a few months in the next chapter to move the story along. Going through the aftermath of the battle and 'that' man is taking longer than I thought, so I'm going to jump ahead in the story and try posting the occasional side story to cover the slice of life and smut scenes I'll be skipping. They'll be like the holiday specials and side stories that manga occasionally have in that they won't actually impact that part of the story they take place in, and I'll hopefully give everyone more screen time other than just occasionally mentioning them in the story. I'm hoping that I'll occasionally post one with a chapter, or if it's taking me a while to post the next chapter. I'll try to include one with the next chapter so let me know what you think.)