chapter 11

Walter slowly opened his eyes and saw two figures.

To his suprise, they were very familiar figures.

At least, familiar to his anime mind.

Mereoleona vermillion

Sujin lee

'well. I didn't expect even my zanpakuto spirits to be abnormal. Sujin lee... she's wearing her attire from when she became the leader of the anti world government. Mereleona vermillion. A prideful woman. Usual attire too.' He got up from his sitting position against the lone tree.

"so you're our wielder? Talk about a passive looking individual. You've got no pride. A worthless excuse of a dragon." Walter could only frown at the confrontational comment.

"appearances can be deceiving you know. Anyways, what's your name. Let's see if you're worthy to know ours." A much calmer response from sujin and Walter internally smiled.

'alright. I think I understand now. Sujin represents calm and mereoleona is pride.' The Quincy king stood up and placed both arms behind his back before gently smiling.

"Walter Newgate, at your service." A vicious smirk spread itself across mereoleona's face.

"it seems like you're not just a gutless coward. But I don't sense enough pride, not enough ambition. You're a dragon aren't you! Show some pride! Embrace your instincts!" Sujin firmly planted her palm into her face.

"we're here to test him. Not make him into a witless caveman. Stop with the antagonising."

"I understand." Sujin disappeared from walters sight.

"then let's begin!" Walter found sujin's foot firmly planted in his chest before being launched backwards.

The young Quincy landed flat on his face.

"right... I forget that my overwhelming spiritual pressure and magic will be of little use here. They're exactly even with me. It seems I also can't use the visionary or the almighty. This may actually be difficult." He pushed himself up to his feet.

"fire magic: calidus brachium!" A punch of pure and condensed fire magic flew right past his face.

"focus!" Walter grabbed the lionesses wrist before delivering a swift jab to her chin and then to the sternum before headbutting her.

Sujin swept in with an axe kick at his left side but was blocked with his forearm.

Walter kicked the vermillion in the chest and grabbed sujins leg. Thinking quickly, the inexperienced warrior swung sujin right into her ally.

The two were launched backwards and sujin didn't get up. Mereoleona however, well... that was different.

'damn. I forgot how resilient she is.' The savage grin on her face didn't help walters nervousness.

"mana zone!" Walter wasn't about to let this happen. He was not about to get hit by purgatory.

A single movement from hirenyaku and the distance had been closed. One strike to the chin. And another. Another. Another. Another.

You get the idea.

Walter kept swinging until he could no longer see the consciousness in her eyes. Each swung splattered blood on the once clear water, each swing portrayed pure, primal violence.

The purple haired girl struggled to stand back up but managed it, only to see mereoleona out cold.

Sujin took a flamingo stance and walters instincts screamed at him to dodge, no movement wasted in her kick.

As the kick happened, so did a great tsunami. The power of his zanpakuto was amazing.

The visionary barely made it out with hirenyaku.

Another use and he was right behind the taekwondo user. One chop to the back of the neck and she was done, though the sickening crunch didn't get past his ears.

"I... really didn't expect that to work. Well, I think I need to wait for them to wake up now."

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Mereoleona and sujin woke up at pretty much the same time.

Walter watched the two slowly get up but a question came to mind.

"there should be someone representing a fragment of yhwach's soul here. So where are they?" Sujin dusted herself off and pointed to the tree.

"it's in the tree. We have access to your memories and when you made sure yhwach couldn't use the auswhalen on you, that had already predetermined the fragments fate within your inner world." The vermillion lioness stumbled over.

"since you've proved yourself, our name is Nijū yōso. Individually, refer to us however, but together, we are Nijū yōso."

"for simplicity's sake, I'll call you mereoleona and you sujin. For now, I'm going to find ophis." The two watched him disappear from the inner world but mereoleona made a comment.

"he's violent. I don't think he realises it himself but the more seriously he takes something, the more he loses sight of how violent he's actually being."

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In the history of dragonkind, there was a major turning point in dragon history.

That being when humans began to hunt dragons.

So many innocent or misunderstood dragons were lost during those times, but even more importantly, it spawned the trend of evil dragons.

An evil dragon to put simply is only able to become an evil dragon at the height of a dragons immaturity.

It only occurs within young dragons, one's under two hundred years old. But, the conditions for it to occur heavily involve emotion.

At its core, its a decision. Much like how in video games there is a decision you're able to make that drastically alters the story, the decision to become an evil dragon is the turning point in an dragons life.

To become an evil dragon is to embrace the bloodlust, the murderous desires, the need to slaughter.

Everything that a dragon holds back in their infancy.

Not even dragon gods are exempt from this...

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So soothing. Peaceful.

This lake, so quiet. One of the few bastions of silence yet to be destroyed by the humans.

But that man... Walter was his name. In such a short span of time, I learned many new sensations. Confusion. Intrigue and this strange throbbing in my chest.

It... is not unwelcome.

I enjoy being around him. But no matter how hard I think, I can't describe this throbbing.

This yearning feeling to be near him.

Maybe baka red knows...

But have I really sunk so far as to ask him for help?

No...

But I have grown enough to ignore my grudges.

A tear in space opened in front of me, the familiar scene of the dimensional gap on the other side.

A purple haired man caught my eye. Why is Walter here? For what purpose? My heart sped up, why? Such phenomena is impossible to answer for something like I.

"how have you been, ophis?" His voice soothed my ears, my heart pumped even faster.

He looks... so attractive. I... I want him!

Walter placed a hand on my head, I won't be able to restrain myself for long.

"Walter. I'd suggest you get away from her right now. Or you'll send her into heat. Dragons are a strange race. They don't have specific periods where they enter heat but if they spend extended periods around potential mates, depending on their feelings, they may fly straight into heat." The red goatee'd bastard commented towards my mate

Mine. He is mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.

And I will be his.

That... that is what I want. Silence. That was my desire.

But... he is Silence. He is my peace. He is my solitude.

And he is everything I desire.

"to think ophis, the infinite dragon god, would fall for a man so quickly! This is ludicrous. You fell for him in what, a day? I know you're whimsical, but still." I growled at the moron.

"quiet. Baka red. I've chosen. I've been lonely for so long. I ignored it because all I sought was my silence. But after being away from Walter, I felt incomplete. It felt... wrong." My gaze drifted to Walter who, despite reds warning, was walking towards me.

I was... in awe. Despite the danger I posed, he's ignoring reds warning.

Red himself was in shock. A former human, who became a dragon god, isn't scared of the infinite dragon god. Not even flinching.

He could only smirk, he truly has the pride of a dragon. Not showing even an ounce of fear.

A hug. That was the only thing he could give her.

"I didn't realise that you felt incomplete without me. But if you believe you are a danger to me, I will stop you and return you to your senses. As many times as necessary. Whether that be once or thousands of times. No matter how damaged I am, I will."

Her eyes opened wide, the sincerity of his words left her agape. No one in all her years had ever tried such straightforward tactics.

Plots, plans and all sorts of tricks. That was all to familiar to the dragon goddess.

People often believed she was gullible, easy to fool and even stupid.

Incorrect.

Ophis knew, but she didn't know what to do. Never once had she thought of a reason to respond to treachery.

They couldn't harm her after all.

But this... ophis felt a similar feeling, she didn't know what to do. Pure confusion but also... nervous?

Ophis could only guess.

His grasp was so soothing, the dragon shut her eyes before drifting into slumber.

Walter looked at her peaceful figure. How could she just fall asleep in his arms?

Red whistled at the sight.

"damn. She's gained at bit of common sense and more actual emotion. Walter. Take care of her will ya? I seem like an asshole to her but it was the only way she'd show any emotion. It's... just not a way to live. She's a puppet to one single desire." Walters face went blank.

To think great red pushing ophis out of the dimensional gap was an attempt to help her.

"I will. I care about her a lot. It would break me if I lost someone close to me. I... I'd end myself. I would blame everything on myself. I know myself too well." The true dragon sweatdropped.

'he's serious. A bit unhinged isn't he? Well... we're all a little mad.' The third dragon god carefully lifted the girl into a bridal carry...

And dissappeared

Walter had teleported back to his cabin. A quick kick to the door swiftly opened it.

On an awkwardly amiable scene.

The four women were all calmly drinking tea.

Too calmly.

"there's a lot of tension in here. What happened?" Walter stared at the positively glowing rose who now sat next to mitsuri.

"just, some friendly conversations. Between friends. Right?" Rose looked irritated at the snake demons very existence.

He looked to derieri for clarity who was sprawled on the couch with a cup of tea held in front of her face.

The demon noticed.

"after leaving, we introduced ourselves. That led to a heated argument from rose and Melascula. Mitsuri probed rose a bit about you but it was mainly those two arguing over even the smallest things." Her flat, unbiased tone made it clear how done she was.

"that's slander!" Rose threw her cup aside and had slammed the table between the two couches.

"I don't care. I'll tell the situation how I see it. And I see that you two are being petty." A vein on Melascula's head was throbbing, her smile becoming more dangerous.

Her magic even began to raise.

"don't bother. I won't allow you to fight inside the house. If you want to fight, do it outside. Settle your argument whatever way is easiest to the two of you." He was surprised that no one questioned ophis sleeping in his arms but it made things easier.

Melascula and rose wordlessly walked out at the same time, the desire to fight was clear within their eyes.

The door hung open behind them causing Walter to sigh.

"mitsuri. We... we need to talk after this." Mitsuri smiled, a smile that unnerved him slightly.

"yes. Yes we do, Walter."

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