Chapter 23: Dealing With a Hooligan and a Pest

A/N :

" " : Dialogue,

' ' : Thought,

[ ] : System, Akasha, Minerva,

"Italicized text" : Telepathy,

{ }: Parallel Wills,

« » : Artificial Intelligence,

// // : W System announcement,

: Majutsu/Conjuring usage.(Using MA energy for skills, spells, etc.)

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Dante POV

It's been a few days since we arrived at the duke's mansion and life has been monotonous. It's just been a cycle of cooking, eating, training Sophia and Wrath and sleeping for the hell of it. As for the clothes that Ariel asked us to make, we were done with them by the morning of the day after she asked us, with over ten thousand unisex clothes made with a simple size altering feature.

Having left some excess threads around, we handed them to the puppets, who rolled them up into balls and used them to play. I had put up some of my nanobots to reinforce the door and serve as soundproofing and a better lock to keep people from barging into the room. Through the nanobots, I hear a man shouting in the hallway heading to this room with fast, heavy steps.

I ignore it and hug Shiro, who is cuddling up to me, tighter while leaving a few kisses on her head.(A/N: I'm totally not jelly 😭😭.) He eventually reaches the room and starts banging on the door, not that anyone in here heard it. «What should I do, Boss?» Aurora asks while projecting a hologram that is cycling through some objects, one of those being spikes. "Hey, you! What the hell is this stuff?" A maid responds to his question, telling him that the guests currently using the room put it there and that they have no clue what it is.

The head butler arrives and reprimands him, telling him to respect the guests and only enter when given permission. The man tells the head butler to stop treating him like a child to which the butler responds, "I believe I have stated that I will stop as soon as you behave as an adult, my dear boy.", chiding him and causing him to grumble in resignation. "Forget it! Just tell me what the hell this is." He shouts, pointing at the nanobot covered door.

"As the good lady here has told you, it is a material provided by our esteemed guest." The head butler tells the intruder, who just shouts back in annoyance, saying, "I got that already. I'm asking you why the hell you're allowing them to do whatever the hell they want in a room in our house, not to mention, they're just holing up in there doing their fishy business. Damn it! Why would my brother let a buncha sketchy weirdos stay here?!" The head butler still tries to calm him down, telling him that we have been been given permission to do whatever we want, but he's just not having it and he continues shouting.

"Ugh, he really is a hooligan." Shiro says from her position on my chest. "Well, at least he can't hear us, and we can tune him out." I looked at Aurora's projection as Shiro said that, and saw her cycling through different items than those from before. Tesla coils, flamethrowers, mist dispensers loaded with liquid nitrogen, needle guns were among the few things I saw her cycling through. "We might be able to tune him out, but Aurora is probably going to kill him if we don't do something soon." Shiro looks at Aurora and sighs. "Just let him in."

As I say that, the door disperses into a black mist and the hooligan falls face first to the floor. While grumbling, he looks up at the both of us, ready to begin shouting again, but upon laying his eyes on our faces, catches his breath and freezes like a deer in headlights. By the side, Aurora and the puppet taratects were preparing to drown him in fatal attacks, with the puppets releasing an oppressive aura at him.

The head butler, noticing how close the man was to death, rushed forward and began pulling him away. "Young Master, I must insist that you withdraw before things get any more out of hand!" The 'hooligan' nods dumbly, with all his violent energy drained away, replaced with pure astonishment at us.

Turning to the maid, the head butler asks her to guide him away and she complies. "O-of course. Right this way, Master Bloe." The name of the brother of the master of the house, Balto Phthalo and the future Commander of the Seventh Demon Army, is Bloe Phthalo. Unlike his brother who is a lot more organized and strict, Bloe is a lot more like a ruffian, but he still has a good heart despite being rough around the edges.

Turning to us while wiping the sweat on his face, the head butler apologzes to us while bowing deeply. "There's no need to apologize. If we hadn't allowed him in, we won't have heard him." I tell him, but he insists on apologizing either way, so we just accept the apology and let it go, after which he leaves to attend to the rest of the mansion. Aurora reforms the door and the room returns to being soundproof once more.

"So, when are we finally going to get that bitch?" Shiro asks while looking into my eyes. "We'll be going there tonight. I know how much rage you've been holding toward her ever since I showed you what had happened in that timeline. So we'll be acting on it today." I tell her and we kiss for a few minutes, then fall asleep.

By nightfall, we both wake up and take a quick snack before gearing up, her with her scythe, Aranea, as she calls it, and me with the sword I'd gotten as a reward from my Killer achievement, the Laevateinn sword from Fate TYPE-MOON.

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Locking on to Earth's coordinates, I look at Shiro and she nods, letting me know that she is ready. Locking on to D's exact coordinates on Earth, I open a portal to the room that she is in. Huffing out a sigh, Shiro lunges through the portal and into the room, and I walk in behind her.

Upon reaching the room, I see that it is bare bones, with nothing but a sizable computer on a desk with a chair, a TV, a few clothes, a buttload of snacks and a bean bag chair. Also, Shiro has whacked D into the wall and is now dragging her out of it by her hair. "Hey, quit it. Do you know how much effort I put into keeping my hair straight?!" D says with a frown. "None and I'm sure of that." Shiro says then slams her head into the floor, then throws her onto the bean bag chair.

Looking at me with hate in her eyes, D spat out her words with vitriol, strangely different from the emotionless tone one would expect her to have. "It was you, wasn't it? You were the son of a bitch that got in the way of my fun. No matter, now that she's here, neither of you is going back." I let her finish talking the walk up to her, then place a Nullification rune on her, sealing her powers and causing her eyes to widen in shock.

"You really thought that you were in control here. Just how dumb are you?" I say as Shiro punches her in the face with electricity running through her hands, shocking her in more ways than one. "You've been enjoying it, haven't you? Casting people to suffer, toying with their lives, causing the deaths of their loved ones, all for your entertainment." Shiro uppercuts her in the belly with an Agony rune on her hand while placing a Silence rune on her mouth, causing her to release a soundless scream.

Shiro then grabs D's shoulder and sends Agony-infused lightning into her body while keeping her restrained with threads. "I know that I wouldn't have been without you, but that gives you no right whatsoever to toy with me. I understand that without challenges, I wouldn't have grown anywhere as strong as you would have expected, but you didn't have to make me suffer." Shiro says while holding D's head up. "It is the tiny bit of gratitude that I have toward you for giving me life and providing me with the Wisdom skill while I was still in the system that is keeping me from killing you. But I want you to understand that you have no power over me or my life, so I'll punish you to make you understand." Shiro says as she brandishes Aranea, then slashes down, not harming D, but cutting off most of her connection to the W System, reducing her to an inactive spectator.

Upon noticing the broken connection between her and the W System, her lips began shaking. "No. No. No. No. Do you know what you've done?!" She says to Shiro while gripping the bean bag chair, of course with no sound coming out of her, but reading lips is pretty easy for us. "If you want to fake concern for the other worlds that you're connected to, don't worry. We only cut your connection to that world." I tell her from the seat in front of her computer. "It's good to see my handiwork is still intact." I say, referring to all her altered game accounts and saves, causing her to try flailing about in anger, but she's still being held down by Shiro.

"There's not much for you to worry about, D. You'll only be disconnected for the next 3 years on that world, which is only about 3 months over here, so you'll be fine with those other worlds." I say as I continue looking at the damage I caused to her game characters. D struggles to remove the rune on her lips but her actions would remain futile. "Don't worry, babe. You can let her speak." Shiro dispels the rune from her mouth and she immediately asks me why I'd only separate the connection to that world.

"I'll be a hundred with you when I say that I don't care much about those other worlds. I only care about you fucking with my or my loved ones' lives." I really wasn't lying when I said that. Most of the stuff I've done since I took control of my current life was simply out of selfishness or a whim. Joining Shiro at the beginning of her journey, keeping her from killing Mother or making an enemy of Ariel, strengthening her, still choosing to save Sophia and Merazophis, every single action I have made to change this world was all a result of my whims.

"You won't be doing much for the next 3 years, and being honest, neither would we. Well, except for destroying all possible advantages that humanity could possibly have while bolstering the demons, we're not really going to be busy doing much." I say with a grin. "We would have done more than this if your involvement wasn't so important for so many worlds, so be happy that you have your job as an administrator, as otherwise, you'd be dead." I tell her and we walk back through the portal, happy with the knowledge that D would be unable ro mess with us until the final moment.

Upon returning, I opened a small portal to the current position of the Hero's Sword, a weapon created by D that has the capability to kill an administrator in one hit, thereby possessing the ability to kill Ariel in a single hit, and stole it from this generation's hero, Julius Analeit, then instructed my nanobots to consume it for material, basically removing the last advantage that humanity had against the demons.

"So, I take it that you're going to do it now." Shiro asks and I nod. "Yeah, I said I'll give the demons a great deal of advantages, and I'm going to keep to those words. For one, I already know the absolute minimum level of stats that we need to get the demons to, and we are going to get them there." I say and fly out to the stratosphere.

Creating multiple runes into an array, I set it to affect the entire Demon Realm as well as the outposts that border it, I activate the array, and immediately, a transparent dome appears over the Demon Realm. If someone outside the dome looked in, they would notice that the things inside it were moving about 5 times faster. Yes, I just made a time dilation array over an entire country, that makes time flow 5 times faster than the rest of the world. "Well, let's get cooking." I say as I teleport back to the room and jump into the bed with Shiro, the thoughts of what I'll do to the Demon Realm racing through my mind.

Chapter End.

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