Chapter 52: Potential

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"Get it off, get it off!" Asia's voice sounded as she squeaked for mercy. Lelouch was about to direct the Void Orb's attention to Asia's predicament before it exploded above them.

The Devil Knight looked above and saw flecks of Void slip down from the sky before disintegrating.

'Huh, apparently after it fulfills my condition it detonates like my Void Shot.' Lelouch deduced silently, realizing that had some potential. His attention was quickly diverted as Issei rushed over and held Asia tightly to protect the remaining slime.

Koneko, Lelouch, Rias, and Akeno all walked over slowly as they prepared to eradicate the last of the slime. "Move Issei, the only way to deal with that kind of parasite is to destroy it completely." Rias declared boldly, though it was a statement that may have had more gravitas were she not damn near naked.

Lelouch flexed his fingers, preparing to summon his gauntlet in order to rip Issei off of Asia if he had to, but something drew his attention. A small dragon spewed lightning to free the former nun from her entanglement, both from Issei and the slime.

A smirk graced the Devil's face while Koneko snickered quietly next to him as Issei collapsed, smoking from the rather shocking experience. 'So, this forest has dragons as well then.' Rias comment regarding the "Sprite Dragon" simply confirmed his earlier observation.

It seemed all manner of mythical creatures existed in some form in this world. Though, Lelouch had a feeling this one was a very young dragon considering he doubted beasts of that size would have spawned so many heroic tales of glory.

Issei was promptly shocked again as he mourned for the slime before turning his focus to blaming the tiny blue dragon. "Do you seriously think he's a "good boy" Rias?" Lelouch murmured dryly under his breath, having heard her earlier comment while Issei had been attached to Asia to defend the pest, as the Familiar Master had called it. He was beginning to have doubts regarding Rias' ability to judge those who served her.

"That was dope." Koneko spoke, a smirk gracing her face as she crossed her arms in satisfaction. A scent rose to her nose and she pulled the collar up slightly to hide a blush and a small smile. 'It still smells just like him.' Her actions didn't go unnoticed.

Lelouch observed Koneko out of the corner of his eye, noting her slight grin as her nose twitched while one of her hands held up his collar, the other still crossed under her bust. 'Is she… taking in my scent?' He thought, almost dismissing the thought as ridiculous before remembering she had never been human.

'Perhaps being a Nekoshou makes her more catlike than I had original thought.' Koneko had the habit of ending with a mewing sort of sound when she was happy or excited and twitching her ears and tail when she spoke as a way to denote her mood, but this sort of behavior reminded Lelouch of Arthur back when he had lived in Ashford Academy.

"Now that your Familiar has been chosen, it is time to bring it in!" The voice of the Familiar Master spoke with his irritating gimmick, drawing Lelouch's attention. "Now, you there boy, a Familiar is not a toy." He looked at Lelouch seriously, taking note of the bird and the wolf.

"Between the two you must choose, which means one of them you must lose." Bonding with two Familiars wasn't impossible, but it was uncommon as both would need to be bound at the same time.

"They have both accepted me. I shall not divide them." Lelouch felt that, as they had both chosen him, it would be wrong to deny them when he had granted them the choice to follow or not. "I would be disrespecting their decision if I abandoned one for the other.

" That sort of decision should be honored, choices were what marked the path one walked and if that was taken away… Well, Lelouch had done enough of that in his lifetime.

"Very well then, speak this chant in your name and your Familiars shall become tame." The Familiar Master spoke after a moment to ensure the young Devil's choice. He found it almost amusing, one Devil seeking a pest and losing it while the other returned with two and claimed both for himself.

And yet another Devil being chosen by a dragon over one who housed a dragon's spirit. With that, he broke with his rhyming shtick for the moment in order to share the chant with his young guests.

Lelouch froze at the mention of having to declare his name in the chant to bind his Familiars. 'Shit, shit, shit.' Names were a powerful thing, but he had been concealing his. While Lamperouge had been his name for almost half his life at one point, it was merely an alias.

A name given to a mask invented by him to grant himself and his sister anonymity. And what of the name Zero? A name he had chosen for himself that had allowed him to act more freely than the name Lelouch vi Britannia had when he had been but a young Prince. Even that name was tainted by the mask of the Demon Emperor.

"Does it have to be our real name?" Lelouch asked, unfortunately drawing the attention of the rest of the Peerage and Rias. He hadn't wanted it to come out like this, but he was unwilling to share his name with these people right now. There would be far too many questions, questions he was unwilling to answer at this time.

"Yes, it is important to use the true name if you want the Familiars to be tame." The Familiar Master stated with a frown, taking into account the dissatisfied features of the dark-haired youth. This was the first time he had been asked something like that, and it made him wonder just what this young Devil wished to hide.

"You mean Lelouch Lamperouge isn't your true name?" Rias spoke, hurt that the name of her Knight had been hidden from her.

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