[ Great Jura Forest, Dwelling of Treants ]
"So Lady Ramiris is the surprise?" Doris asked with a curious smile, making Treyni's expression twitch.
"Yeah~" Aria nodded with nonchalant smile, finishing her explaination regarding how she purified Ramiris and is now more or less at her prime, something that even the Elemental Queen or any other being in the world could currently do.
'Yet she treats it as if she's done it dozens of time.' Treyni turned to Ramiris to see her reaction, but all she got was pitiful, sympathetic, and knowing look, making the Dryas confused.
"You'll get used it," was the only response she got from the Elemental Queen.
'What impossibilities has Lady Ramiris witnessed for her to be so resigned?' Treyni couldn't help but wonder, unaware that Ramiris hasn't even witnessed the tip of the iceberg of the capabilities of the being known as Echidna Tempest.
"Hmm? Is there something I'm missing?" Aria tilted her head in confusion, seeing the Fairy Queen and the leader of the Dryas' communicating with their eyes.
She was too busy thinking about how she wouldn't be able to mess with Ramiris now that she was smarter than before, and also the one who had all the juicy knowledge that she hungers for.
Summoning magic…Ever since she heard of it from the Elemental Queen in labyrinth, she had this urge to learnt it, but since it wasn't as strong as the feeling she previously felt from her Sin, she left it for later.
But maybe that was a really bad idea. Why? Well, first her Sin of Gluttony was going haywire, second; she didn't know if she was going insane, but she could hear faint whispers in the back of her mind, and lastly,
"Fuck me." Her vision darkened, and the last thing she felt was Fenrir's fur and heard the distraught shouts around her.
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[ Unknown Location ]
Aria's consciousness floated in a void, unsure of where she was or what had happened. The last thing she remembered was the darkness encroaching around her, followed by the sensation of being pulled into some unknown abyss.
Was she dead again? The thought lingered in her mind, familiar yet unwelcome. After all, her new life going good for her, she basically had everything.
Power? Enough that she wouldn't even be winded even after destroying a whole universe.
Beauty? Her new looks could easily cause entire planets to go to war.
Wealth? If she wanted something she could take it.
Women? She literally had a Yandere High Elf with her, a date with a Dryas, a night to spend with a Vampire Queen, a possible Fairy Queen.
Family? She had Fenrir and Elaine who loved her a lot, and a hyperactive Storm Dragon as a 'brother'. And that wasn't even the end of it…Her worries had been relieved, and she had just found out that Maya was alive.
There was no mistake about what she had experienced, she seemed to have had an out-of-body experience and saw Maya meditating in a cave.
Everything had been going well, too well in fact that now she was wondering if all of that, all of this, was something her mind conjured up in the stomach of the Eldritch Spawn.
Just like what the side-story Clayman's Revenge, where the Demon Lord got a redo, but many reditters said it was the last moment or something that he saw in Rimuru's Stomach.
"You're saying your thoughts aloud little sis." A voice suddenly sounded making Aria pause her thoughts for a moment, before she brushed it off.
Now she was definitely sure that this was her final moments, how else would she be hearing Maya's voice?
"Maybe because you're not dead."
It must be the affect of the Eldritch's presence and madness, after all, how else would she be hearing something she dearly wants to hear.
A soft sight sounded, and Aria felt a hand wrap around her gently, "It's time you wake up, Aria, this isn't a hallucination, what you experienced wasn't a hallucination. You have everything that you mentioned; Power, Beauty, Wealth, and most of all, a family."
And then, as if emerging from a dream within a dream, Aria felt a shift in the darkness. It was a subtle change, imperceptible yet profound, as if the very fabric of reality had been gently nudged aside.
Slowly, she felt herself "opening" her eyes, though in truth, her consciousness simply became aware of its surroundings. And there, amidst the void, stood Maya.
"Maya?" Aria's hesitant voice echoed, making sure that what she was experiencing was true.
"You haven't changed a bit, Aria, you're still a crybaby." A tender smile graced Maya's lips, as wiped the tears that begun spilling down the Echidna, no, the teen's face.
Since, for all her power, for all her strength that could rend the very fabric of existence, Aria remained a nineteen year old girl at heart. A girl that missed her sister a lot.
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"You're finally done bawling, eh?" Aria snorted at her teasing remark, leaving Maya's embrace yet still holding her arm, and now getting a good look at her appearance.
With neck-length brown hair glowing with a subtle red sheen, and piercing red eyes brimming with confidence, her childhood friend was a beauty in her own right. Though Aria focused on one thing and one thing only,
"Midget." A smug grin made its way across the Echidna's face, seeing that her best friend's height only reached to her shoulder.
"Oh~?" The sudden amused smirk on Maya's face made Aria regret her words, but alas, it was too late.
Maya's body started to shift and grow, the subtle red sheen on her hair intensified, transforming into a deep, bloody crimson that cascaded down her lengthening locks until they reached her waist. Her once petite frame filled out, curves becoming more pronounced as her stature increased, now standing at an imposing 190cm, 3cm's taller than Aria.
The sight left Aria momentarily stunned, yet Maya's playful smirk remained unchanged, her crimson gaze sparkling with amusement as she looked down at Aria.
"Nobu—Mmmph!" Aria couldn't even finish her words before Maya who towered over her squished her cheeks together.
"Looks like someone's got a lot to say, huh? Did all the power make you forget about respecting your big sis?"
"Shhtop it~" Aria's words came out muffled and slightly distorted, her cheeks pulled taut by Maya's playful gesture.
"I didn't hear you properly~ Speak louder Aria." Maya's eyes sparkled in amusement, seeing the Echidna's distress.
'Am I not supposed be the one with a Moderate Sadist flaw?' Aria couldn't help question the injustice she was facing.
Despite her attempts to maintain composure, she couldn't help but let out a garbled protest, her cheeks flushed with embarrassment as she said,
"I'm showwy big sis."
Maya chuckled at her indignant expression, releasing her grip on Aria's cheeks. "Good girl." She patted Aria's head, treating the cosmic level threat like a child.
"Okay, okay, enough!" Aria swatted Maya's hand away in embarrassment, the proud and dominant behaviour she showed in the Central World was nowhere to be seen.
"Alright," Maya smiled softly, happy that Aria was still herself even after gaining all that power. "Though, I have to say little sis, you got a real good makeover." She glanced at the Echidna's inhuman features, her three horns, slitted pupils, and pointed ears.
"Heh! I know right." Aria grinned smugly, folding her arms under breasts, emphasising them, "And your not doing bad yourself Maya, or should I say Demon King Nobunaga?"
Maya smiled wryly, "Of course you would know."
Aria nodded, "Yeah, I happened to check her out on wiki after reading this one Fate manga called Fate/Type Redline."
"Makes sense," Maya nodded in understanding, unsurprised, she was the one who introduced anime and the stuff to Aria after all. "By the way, what world did you reincarnate into, Aria?"
"Slime Boi's universe."
"…."
"Are you alright, Maya?" Aria asked in worry, seeing her sister's hardened expression, but to her surprise, Maya hugged her.
"It must have been tough."
"Eh?" Confusion was written all over Aria's face as she heard her words.
"For you to be this strong, how many years did you have to fight?"
'I see what's going on now!' Her best friend was misunderstanding! A wicked grin spread across Aria's lips, it was time to get revenge for having her cheeks pulled.
"*Sniff* Big sis…*Sniff*…It was hard…I had to fight against the whole world…*Sniff*…I was born as an Echidna, I had a skill that allowed me to *Sniff* create monsters, so I was the human's number one enemy *Sniff*."
Maya's embrace tightened as she listened to Aria's fabricated tale, her expression softening with empathy. "I'm sorry, Aria. I didn't realize..."
Aria fought to suppress her laughter, her shoulders trembling with the effort of maintaining her facade. Though if she was being honest, Maya's genuine concern tugged at her heartstrings, making her reconsider, but the prank was too tempting to resist, and she had already begun, even if she admitted that she was messing with her, the damage would already be done.
A silence lingered for a moment, with only Aria's sniffles sounding. It was at this moment that Maya felt that something was amiss, and she replayed everything that has happened so far.
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"Aria," Maya began slowly, "You're messing with me, weren't you?" She pulled back from the hug, allowing Aria to see her lips curved into a knowing smile and her eyes sparkling with amusement.
"Maya, I..." It was at this moment that Echidna knew that she fucked up.
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A/N: Hope you enjoyed the chapter. I bet you guys weren't expecting the sudden reunion were you? Even I wasn't to be honest when I first started writing this chapter, it just somehow flowed out.
Also, I had this chapter from another fic I started writing, it's called 'Eldritch's Slice of Life', which I have wrote one chapter for—might add more to the chapter but consider it as the whole chapter for now—I'll post it down below so feel free to read it and give me your honest opinion.
Also I'll put the description of the main character's chest in the paragraph comments where it is mentioned.
Anyway, here you go lucky bastards, you get a preview and basically an extra chapter.
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"Why am I not surprised that my own ancestor was able to use magic tricks?" Klaus Philips Lovecraft cracked his neck, curiously eyeing the two men before him who's who looked like rejected extras from a gothic superhero movie.
Their arms and bodies were covered in some weird blueish-black energy, like they had a bad reaction to blueberry jam.
"We're going to exorcise you both, Special grade curse or not!" One of the men shouted, trying to sound heroic but ending up sounding like a constipated squirrel.
"Special grade? Curse?" Klaus blinked, glancing around, half-expecting to see Pikachu battling Godzilla in the background. But alas, it was just him, a bunch of magical men, and…
"Who are you?" The silver-haired teen tilted his head, turning to the mil—*ahem!* older woman standing behind him in a subservient manner.
(Image)
"I was created by you, Master." The tentacle-haired woman bowed, making a certain part of her body tremble.
"Ah, you must be my lovely Shoggoth assistant," Klaus lifted her chin, staring into her bewitching green eyes, "I don't know how I created you, but I must say, I've outdone myself this time. Quite the masterpiece, if I do say so."
The Descendant of Lovecraft thought back to what could have caused his current situation.
He happened to be visiting his Great Grandfather's vacation home, as it was in the area, while he was at it, like the good descendant he was, he decided to clean up the place.
Yet who would have guessed that he would find a dusty-looking box with a letter and three vials with liquid.
"Essence of Eldritch Soul, Essence of Empress Shoggoth Slime girl and Essence of Home.
Drink them if you're a man of culture Klaus.
Yours Sincerely,
H. P. Lovecraft."
Was what the letter read. So like the normal person he was, Klaus drank the two suspiciously looking liquids that were over a century old, without even questioning how his Great-Great grandfather knew of him when the guy was dead before he was born.
Only for a magic circle to appear under him the moment he drank them, whisking him to the world of Jujutsu Kaisen, if the blueberry coloured aura on their body was anything to go by.
Shrugging at the absurdity of his situation, Klaus turned his attention back to the ragtag duo of Jujutsu Sorcerers before him. "So, gentlemen, care to explain why you're trying to exorcise me? Last time I checked, I had the flesh bag known as a body."
The men exchanged glances, clearly taken aback by Klaus's words. "Now that he mentions it, isn't our mission to only exorcise a Grade 3 Cursed Spirit? Why did we assume he's a Special Grade Curse?" one of them asked, confusion written all over his face.
Slap!
"Ow! What was that for?!" The younger of the two men complained, why did he get slapped for asking a reasonable question?
"Look behind him and tell me what you see." The older man motioned to the Shoggoth.
"A beautiful woma—wait don't slap me! Maybe the tentacles are just her Cursed Technique?" The younger one voiced, seeing that he wasn't going to get slapped.
"Hey! How about me? Why are you guys ignoring me? Can't you see that she's obeying me? Shouldn't that make me more dangerous?" Klaus really couldn't understand their thought process, shouldn't they be thinking of offing him?
It's common knowledge to kill the supporter first.
'Not like they could kill me even if they tried.' And he was right, the essence had completely altered his soul, while granting him several abilities.
Abilities that he couldn't perfectly control that is, but it shouldn't be a problem as becoming an Eldritch Soul had granted him some other nice perks, one that he will use in a moment.
The younger of the two sorcerers scratched his head, "Uhh…Cause you don't have Cursed Energy?" The dude awkwardly smiled.
The older sorcerer furrowed his brow, as he clearly heard how the woman said the young man created her, yet now that he looks at them both, one had no Cursed Energy, while the other's was Abysmally low.
If it was before, he would have thought the former is impossible, but everyone i the Jujutsu society is at least aware of the 'stain' of the Zen'in—Toji Fushiguro.
'How could they call such a monster a stain, truly traditionalist's have a backwards way of thinking.' Scoffing mentally, he focused on the two, he didn't want to believe that the young man was like the Sorcerer Killer, but his instinct as a veteran Grade 3 Sorcerer was warning him that the two before him weren't simple.
This situation was far beyond his expertise, so it was best to avoid conflict until further information was obtained, glancing at the newly promoted Sorcerer next to him he said, "Call headquarters and tell them about the situation." The seriousness in his gaze made the young man comply without asking questions.
"Hey!" Klaus' shout made them stiffen, was he going to attack them now that they're calling for reinforcements? The teen oblivious to their thoughts admonishingly said, "Don't you know that snitches get stitches?"
The older sorcerer, attempting to maintain some semblance of confidence, spoke up. "Regardless, we cannot overlook the potential danger you might pose. A lack of Cursed Energy or not, you're an unknown entity."
Klaus nodded at his words like they were some universal truth, "You're right, but the question is, do I care?" He grinned, alarming the two sorcerers. It was too late; a dark transparent barrier had already enclosed upon them.
"What did you do?" The old dude asked with a constipated expression, once again attempting to summon his cursed energy, only to be met with an unsettling void—a complete absence of the familiar power that had always coursed through his veins.
"Rune of Imprisonment." Klaus replied, stroking his chin with interest when he didn't feel the barrier strengthen. His gaze shifted to the Earth, and 'it' too stared back at him, the fear and confusion was palpable from 'it', something Klaus found amusing.
"Rune?" The word was a first for the older sorcerer, but he understood that it created a barrier that sealed, or rather didn't allow him access to cursed energy.
The question was, "How can you even create a barrier, you don't have cursed energy?!" The younger sorcerer shouted with a agitated expression.
The silver-haired teen rolled his eyes at their incompetence, he didn't blame them for not noticing the rune, as he done it with his hand behind his back, while layering another rune over it, but how could they not sense the change of the cursed energy in the air?
"Just go sleep." Klaus lifted his hand, and this time both sorcerer's saw as the cursed energy in the air shifted as he traced his fingers along the air. Moments later, a symbol appeared, which was sent their way, attaching onto the barrier.
The next second they both dropped like dead logs.
"Now," Turning to the other person with him, the teen blinked when all see was a writhing mass of protoplasm with eyes, mouths and wriggling tentacles snacking on what he assumed was the cursed spirit that these meat bags had come for. Blinking again, the beauty he previously saw was back in all her mother-Titty glory.
Seeingde the gaze her Master was giving her, the Shoggoth blushed, "My apologies, Master, the insolent thing was trying to sneak up on us, so I took matters into my own hand."
"Well done," Klaus said, making the Slime girl ecstatic, as she literally orgasmed from the praise, something that the eldritch teen didn't notice as he had more important things to think about.
Like, "Can you return to that form?" The orgasmic expression disappeared from the Shoggoth's face, and she returned to the mass of flesh without question.
Why the azathoth did he find it cool?!
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"Life is weird," Klaus muttered with a shrug, no point in thinking about the existential crisis his own bizarre preferences might induce. Instead, he focused on the task at hand—what to have for dinner.
Walking over to the fallen sorcerers, he stopped before the dark see-through barrier, his eyes wandered over the two overlapping runes on the floor which only he could see; Rune of Cloaking and Imprisonment.
The former's ability was pretty obvious since the sorcerer's didn't notice the latter rune. As for what made them fall unconscious, it was the Rune of Sleep.
"Master, can I absorb their memories and dna?"
"You can do that? Of course you can do that, Ai." Klaus nodded as if he heard the most normal thing, while the Shoggoth froze on the spot. "Aishioth'drhu is your True Name, but since it's a mouthful I'll stick with Ai." He smiled in satisfaction, seeing her back in her human-form and kneeling before him.
"Thank you for the name my Lord!" The reverent tone of Ai made Klaus pat her tentacle hair, which was unsurprisingly stress relieving—being a slime and all.
"You're welcome, Ai. Now, let's see what these sorcerers have to offer in terms of memories and DNA. Might be interesting." He motioned to the sorcerers, and Ai got onto it, as both her index finger's turned to thin tendrils before entering their ears.