LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 12: Settling in
After being interrupted by Yami, Grim and Luck were forced to postpone their fight for another time. While both of them were in a battle crazed state, they knew better than to disagree with Yami unless they were confident they could beat him.
Shortly after that, Grim recieved some brief medical attention for his ribs before he and Asta were both given their Black Bull's magic knight robes by Magna and Luck.
"With this, you guys are now full-fledged members of the Black Bulls!!"
"Heck yeah!" Asta cheered bursting with energy.
Ignoring him, Grim's attention was fully focused on Luck who funny enough, was also looking at him with a creepy smile on his face.
"Lets fight again."
"Can't wait."
Not breaking eye contact, the two of them kept smiling and started to freak out the other members of the black bulls.
"Should we say something?" Vanessa asked Finral.
"As long as they're not killing each other we don't need to intervene."
"Now then!" Magna suddenly spoke up. "Since you guys are now offical Black Bull members, you get to be taken on a tour by yours truly!"
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"So this is the mess hall."
"Ooohh." Asta gasped.
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"This is the bathhouse."
"Ahhhhh."
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Next up, Magna took the two to a deadly looking corridor that had several traps laying about.
"This is the hall leading towards the women's sleeping area, if a guy tries to approach it the traps will activate and he'll die."
"Wait what!" Grim finally spoke.
"Moving on."
"Hey wait! Don't just brush it off!"
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"And this is the wild beast dungeon!"
Standing behind a weak looking gate we several shadowy monster that clawed at the new members.
*RAWRRR!!*
"Why the hell does such a thing exist inside a magic knight's headquaters!" Asta yelled over the roar.
"Yami likes it." Magna shrugged before heading to another area.
'What the hell is wrong with this place...'
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"And here we have-
Before Magna could finish introducing them to the next place, a girl with silver hair suddenly showed up in front of the trio.
"There you are!" Magna suddenly said to the girl before turning to the two newbies. "Asta, Grim, say hello to the other rookie who just joined."
'Other rookie!' Asta's eyes sparkled again while Grim looked at her from top to bottom.
'A lot of mana...' For some reason, he got a similar feeling from her like the one he got from when he first encountered Asta and Yuno.
"Hi! I'm Asta from Hage village! Lets work together to reach our goals-
*Slap!*
"Eh?..."
Slapping his hand away, the silver haired girl made a repulsed face and looked at him like he was beneath her.
"You little insect, how dare a filthy ant with such little magic power talk to me."
"Eh?"
'This haughty tone... Why does it sound so familiar?'
"My name is Noelle Silva, a member of house Silva of the Clover Kingdom's royal family."
"R-ROYAL FAMILY!!"
'Ah, no wonder her tone sounded so familiar, she and that fat guy from the exam are birds of a feather.'
"And you." She turned to Grim. "How dare you not bow in the presence of your betters!"
'Is she talking to me?'
"Hey! Are you listening? Maybe the words of a human is too much for such a low born beast such as yourself to understand."
'Okay, this bitch has got to go.'
Feeling the corner of his mouth twitch, Grim surrounded his body with an orange aura and released an absurd amount of magic power.
[Breath of Flames]
"What the!"
Feeling the temperature around Grim suddenly increase, Noelle, Asta and Magna had no choice but to step back.
Ramping it up to another level, the heat and the glow around his body intensified.
"T-This magic power!" Noelle looked at him with wide eyes.
"Too bright!" Asta yelled as he and Magna shielded their eyes.
"H-HOW DARE A LOW BORN COMMONER LIKE YOU ACT SO DISRESPECTFULLY IN FRONT OF ME! Noelle suddenly screamed before pointing her hand at him. "I'll show you the overwhelming difference in our status!"
[Water Magic: Sea Dragon's Waterball]
Activating one of her spells, a powerful torrent of high pressure water shot out from her hand and headed straight for Grim.
"Know your place commoner!"
Looking at the high pressured stream of water approaching him, Grim merely sneered at the attack before materializing his Breath of flames sword into his hand.
[2nd Form: Rising Scorching Sun]
Holding the sword in both hands, Grim slashed upwards in an arc like motion allowing the flames on his sword to shape itself into a fire-wheel that slammed into the water jet that resulted in the area being filled with steam.
"Eh?" Noelle made a surprised expression before being forced to cover her face with her hands to avoid any scaldings.
[Breath of the Beast]
While the piping hot steam exploded into the surrounding area, Grim switch to breath of the beast and used his enhanced sensory and physical abilities to launch himself into the air and find Noelle's position.
'There you are.'
Finding her location, Grim let gravity do its job as he fell feet first towards her chest.
*BANG!*
"URGH!" Slamming straight down onto her chest, the air was knocked out of Noelle's lungs as her entire body was forced to the ground.
Summoning out his giant sword, Asta swung it at the steam and created a small gust of wind to blow away the steam and reveil the sight before him.
"Huh?"
Once the steam had been cleared away, the sight of Grim kneeling down on Noelle's chest came into view.
'What the hell?'
While he and Magna were both confused by what they were seeing, Grim was too busy focusing his attention on the silver haired girl beneath him.
"Submit."
"YOU!!" She grit her teeth and was about to release a barrage of insults.
*BANG!!*
Summoning out his jagged beast swords, Grim stabbed them into the ground mere centimeters away from her head.
"I said... Submit."
"I-I will do no such thing!"
"Then burn." Switiching to breath of flames, the jagged blades vanished and in their place came a beautiful blade with a flame shaped handguard.
Being so close to Breath of flames Grim caused Noelle to bear the full brunt to the amount of heat his body was giving off.
Seeing that she was uncomfortable, Grim repeated his previous words.
"Submit."
"Never!" She refused with large beads of sweat starting to appear on her face.
Smiling at her reluctance, Grim upped the heat to the point that it was becoming harder for Noelle started to choke from the humidity.
Watching all of this take place from a distance, Asta and Magna were thoroughly shocked by Grim's actions.
It was only after the humidity reached them that they decided to act.
Gritting his teeth together, Asta charged towards Grim ignoring the intense wave of heat that he was giving off.
"Hmm?" Hearing Asta's footsteps, Grim knew that it'd probably be best to stop before Magna called for the others.
*Sigh*
'I'll deal with her next time.'
Jumping into the air before Asta could tackle him, Grim watched as Asta tripped and fell face first into Noelle's no-no place.
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After freaking out and firing off multiple misdirected water spells at Asta, Noelle gave Grim the dirtiest look he had ever seen before walking away.
"...What the hell was that?!" Magna turned to look at Grim.
"She told me to know my place... I was just reminding her what hers was." He shrugged.
*Sigh* "I'm to tired to deal with this shit, let me show you guys to your rooms."
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"And here we are."
Walking into what could only be described as a cupboard sized room, Asta and Grim both marveled at it for different reasons.
For Asta it was excitement. Due to him growing up in an orphanage, he always had to share with the others, so for him having a room that he could call his own was quite a nice change.
Grim on the other hand was feeling downtrodden, in fact he felt like he had regressed. Compared to the room he had previously been living in, this place was a shoebox.
"Why are our rooms next to each other?" He turned to ask Magna.
"You two seemed to get along so I thought it'd be nice."
'Makes sense.'
Nodding his head, Grim continued watching as Asta started cleaning his room while shouting something about making it sparkle.
Now that he thought about it, both he and Asta used swords to fight... And to make things weirded, his breath of the beast swords and Asta's black sword were quite similar. While his slashed through magic, Asta's seemed to not only be able to cut through magic, but also reflect it with flat part of the blade. It was honestly kind of intriguing.
"Hey Asta." He suddenly called out.
"Hmm?" His head popped out from under the bed.
"You okay? That silver haired girl hit you quite hard."
"Haha! I'm fine, no way something like that would stop me." He laughed loudly.
"Good to know." Grim smiled. "You said you have no magic right?"
"Yeah." He nodded.
"So how can you bring out that grimoire?"
"Anti-magic."
"Anti-magic?"
"Yeah." Asta nodded. "Its like magic that gets rid of other magic."
"So its magic huh? But you have no mana."
"Its not magic, its anti-magic. I don't need mana."
"But you just said its magic that gets rid of other magic."
"Yeah. Anti-magic gets rid of magic" Asta nodded again.
"But anti-magic isn't magic?"
"That's right!"
Feeling like he was going around in a circle, Grim decided to drop the topic for the moment.