LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 162: Side
"Make yourself at home."
After the preliminary round, <Fairy Tail> entered the floating castle belongs to Erza H.
They are not that surprised seeing the flying castle since magic exists in this world. What they're surprised about is the newcomer who tagged along with them earlier.
"Hee... Your dad sure knows how to spoil his daughter." Irene S. chuckled at the sight of the castle: "As to be expected of him, I guess."
Natsu and the others might not be powerful enough to notice this flying castle might but she could.
This single flying castle alone could easily fend off any attack from anyone she knows. Including Zeref who's currently waiting for her call.
"Is that our Erza's mother? They look really similar..." Lucy whispered curiously.
"...She smells like a Dragon! I wonder why teacher Erza's smell isn't as strong as her though..." Natsu muttered.
"That's because she's stronger than me, boy." Irene S. smirked at Natsu: "And consequently, she's far stronger than you. If you're not strong enough then you can forget trying to measure her true strength, even her 'scent' won't be noticeable."
"Make sense... Teacher is even stronger than Gildart after all." Natsu nodded understandingly.
"What? Do you want to sense my true strength? I don't really mind though." Erza H. said with a blink.
Erza H. closed her eyes briefly before she re-opened them. When her Draconic eyes are opened, all her strength comes out in full throttle.
"!!!"
"Er-chan. That's enough." Not even three seconds passed, Irene S. chuckling voice resounded.
"Mm? Oh..." Erza H. at first feels confused but soon she understands.
Not only Natsu, but the other members of <Fairy Tail> have passed out. Even Makarov and Mavis are not spared...
Only Erza S. still left standing amongst the <Fairy Tail> members.
"*Whistle* Looks like our big sis grows stronger than we have expected." Sorano whistled in awe.
"I thought we have grown stronger over the years but it looks like we're still nowhere close to her." Kagura nodded in agreement.
"Well, she is foster father direct descendant after all," Yukino said with a sigh.
"True that, nya!" Milliana who also joined them midway said. She's another Issei's foster daughter in this world.
She has a cat-like appearance, possessing cat-like eyes, nose, and mouth. Her brown hair is stylized in a messy way and she also styled her hair just like a cat's ears.
It's safe to say that she loves cat.
"Anyway, Er-chan. You must have your father's cooking with you, right?" Irene S. said with a clap.
Kagura and the others had their bodies jerked at the mention of Issei's cooking. Their head swiveled in her direction at the same time.
"Mm? Yes, I have." Erza H. readily nodded: "All of you can have some if you want."
"Splendid! The food I have been eating after all this time is basically tasteless in comparison... It has been a torture for your poor mum here..." Irene S. sighed bitterly: "It's your father's fault for spoiling our taste bud... I'm sure you girls and boy also feel the same as me, right?"
She looked at the drooling Kagura's group.
They nodded quickly at her words.
"Well, let me prepare it for a bit... Oh?" Erza H. was about to take out the food when she realized something.
"What's wrong, Er-chan?"
"Hmm... There's no more food..."
"WHAT?!" Irene S. and the others exclaimed in shock.
"I guess we ate too much for the last few days, sis." Erza H. said towards Erza S.
"Ummm... I guess we did..." Erza S. scratched her cheek.
"Erza, Er-chan!" Irene S. grounded her teeth in anger. Kagura's group also started to become grumpy knowing that the two of them basically hog all the food for themselves.
"W-Wait! Let's ask otou-sama for more food instead!" Erza H. said hastily.
"...Really?" They stopped in their tracks.
"Yeah! W-Wait a little bit. I'm going to pinpoint his location now... Got it! Now, you guys wait here a little bit..." Erza H. hastily created a portal and entered it.
Irene S. eyes flashed before she used her magic to maintain the portal.
"Hehehe..." She gives a happy laugh: "You girls wanna come as well?" She asked Kagura's group.
They looked at each other before giving an obvious devilish grin: "But of course!"
...
"This is the second time you have tried to 'peek' on me..." Issei said with narrowed eyes.
Lucretia who heard his words finally snapped out of her stupor. She immediately kneeled on the spot and said respectfully: "This lowly witch beg your forgiveness, your excellency. I was just curious about your honored self and your honored wife, I can assure you that I have no ill intention to both of you."
Erica and Liliana also followed suit but they didn't say anything.
"I know you don't have ill intention... If you do, you won't be standing here right now." Issei scoffed: "The only reason why I let your magic trick works against me in the first place was because I want you to 'see' that I don't have any interest in this world. I don't like being bothered but it seems my message was not clear enough. Now, let me make it crystal clear..." Issei's eyes glowed briefly and he looks straight at the kneeling Lucretia dead in the eyes.
A few seconds later, Lucretia covered her mouth and her whole face turns pale. Cold sweat pours down from her whole body and it even makes her lingerie soaked almost instantly.
Her wet lingerie made her body visible to the naked eye but she didn't have any leeway to pay attention to it.
She felt her body turned cold... freezing cold... She even thought that she might die just from the sheer cold alone.
Erica and Liliana are also having a cold sweat but thankfully they didn't know what Lucretia just saw. If they do, then perhaps they would pass out on the spot... Talented as they are, they still lack some proper experience.
"Do I make myself clear?" Issei said in a cold voice.
"Y-Y-Yes, y-your excellency!" Lucretia stutteringly said. She lowered her body even more... Her whole body is shivering.
"Good. I will take away your spiritual vision as a penalty." Issei made a grasping motion towards Lucretia's eyes.
Lucretia flinched and her face scowled in pain. A streak of blood flows from her eyes...
"Hn?" Issei notices that Brynhildr is starting to awaken. He wastes no time before he disappeared from the spot.
Sensing his departure, Lucretia's body dropped to the ground while gasping furiously. It's as if she's having trouble breathing.
"What's wrong, Lucretia? What did he do to you?" Erica asked in concern.
Liliana also hastily went forward to support her body.
"Hehe... Hehehehe... Ahahahahaha!" Lucretia suddenly laughed out loud.
"L-Lucretia?!" Both Erica and Liliana exclaimed.
"To think... To think such God, no, such divine existence could exist in this world! Ahahahaha!" Despite her spiritual vision has been taken from her, Lucretia doesn't seem to mind at all.
If anything she looks very excited instead.
"Lucretia!" Erica shouted.
"Listen well you two..." Lucretia turned her attention to the two of them and said with a serious tone: "Whether it's the Campione, Gods, or even the Heretic Gods... None of them matters anymore. If... If that personage wanted to then he could easily destroy our world with just a snap of his finger!"
"Wha-!?" They gasped in shock.
"Rather than worrying about the Heretic Gods out there, we should be more concerned about him! One wrong move and our world will meet its end! Not only the humans... but even the Gods of this world would cease to exist!"
"...You're joking, right?" They become utterly stupefied at her words.
"Do I look like I'm joking? There were many Gods calling themselves 'God-King' but he's the true 'King' all along! What he showed me earlier was something unexplainable by words... but you just need to know that no matter what happens, never... ever... provoke him! You can provoke any other Gods but just not him! You better tell your respective organization about this. If they still didn't listen then... We can only hope that our end will be quick and painless." Lucretia muttered helplessly.
"...Just what kind of existence is he?" Liliana said incredulously.
"An absolute existence. No Gods in existence could hope to face him... Even if all the Gods of this world band together, they still won't be able to defeat him... That sword he 'showed' me was too powerful. It shouldn't have existed! But yet, there it is... Heheh, I don't know such man could exist until now..." Lucretia laughed once more.
She kept laughing like she has lost her mind... Other than her reddened cheek, her eyes also become glazed over like a drunken person.
Erica and Liliana looked at each other feeling uncertain about the whole situation...
...
"So you're basically saying that idiot accepted a random request from a beautiful woman and they got lured into a trap because of it?" Setsuna said while looking at Chiyuki.
"Yes..." Chiyuki nodded tiredly.
Looks like her worry has come true... Reiji's weakness against women has finally cost them.
"How come you're here? You didn't go with your friends?"
"I didn't accompany them... I got a magic signal from one of my friends. They said that they needed help... I wanted to help them on my own but for some reason... I can't seem to channel my magic like I used to. It's like... It's like most of my magic has disappeared..." Chiyuki said sadly.
"Hmm... Looks like it finally happened." Setsuna muttered after she sensed that most of Chiyuki's magic power has disappeared.
"What finally happened?" Chiyuki asked.
"You and your friends lose your magic power because your strength is borrowed from that boy called Reiji." Setsuna said.
"Huh?" Chiyuki let out a dumbfounded voice since she doesn't really understand what Setsuna's trying to say.
"Remember when I mentioned the ring he has? The one he said was gifted by her mother or something?" Setsuna pointed out.
"Yes? That ruby ring Reiji always had with him? What's that has anything to do with everything?"
"It has to do with everything actually. That ring most likely belongs to a fallen God... I sensed a <Chaos> energy residing within that ring belonging to my other mother. The God who originally owned that ring must have been 'marked' by her in the past and since she basically lost interest with the said God, she killed him." Setsuna explained.
"...Are you saying that Reiji's unnatural strength comes from that ring?" Chiyuki finally realized.
"That's right." Setsuna gives a faint nod.
"But... But that's just..."
"Impossible?" Setsuna sneered: "What's more impossible is for a normal human who never trains themselves would somehow gain strength on par with the Gods. A human who didn't know anything about magic nor mana suddenly become able to kill a Demon and monsters just like that? Where's the logic behind that? Did you think just because you and your friends came from another you all would suddenly become powerful? How laughable, actually it's quite a miracle that you didn't lose all of your magic from the get-go but that most likely because you have been training your magic a little bit."
"..." Chiyuki become stupefied at her words.
Indeed... Back in their world, they never even heard about the concept of magic being real...
They always thought it only exists in fantasy...
When they got transported to another world, they thought it's only a given that they become more powerful than most people in the new world just like in the stories they've read. Otherworlder's privilege and such.
But it looks like they're badly mistaken... They never really become stronger out of nowhere...
"...May I ask the details about Reiji's ring usage? Other than making him more powerful? I mean, how come we also got affected by the ring's power?" Chiyuki asked.
"Nothing really complicated really, the <Chaos> energy is infectious. Since you and your friends stay with him the longest, you also gain some power that he received from the ring. At the same time, if you were to stay with him for a longer period of time, you will also get infected by the <Chaos> energy making you went mad or something similar... Well, in the end, those who are consumed by the <Chaos> energy will die sooner or later." Setsuna casually said.
Chiyuki's body shuddered greatly at this revelation.
"Y-You're saying that Reiji will..." She paused.
"Die? Of course he will." Setsuna scoffed: "Why do you think it's called <Chaos> energy in the first place? Only a few exceptions are capable of wielding it freely. And that being my royal father and a few others... Not even me are capable of controlling it perfectly. So far, only a few of my mothers and my eldest sister could perfectly control it."
"Fufufu, just you wait, Setsu-chan! Your Tamamo-kaa-chan here someday will also enter that list!" Tamamo who has been silent the whole time said with a giggle.
"Um." Setsuna nodded at Tamamo. She believes that given enough time, all of her mothers and sisters would be able to perfectly wield the <Chaos> energy.
Their father has been helping them after all. Little by little, he will make their body get used to the <Chaos> energy so someday they don't need to fear it any longer.
"I-If this <Chaos> energy is so dangerous, then why don't your father erase it from existence?! This kind of corrupting strength is so volatile and evil!" Chiyuki shouted.
"Strength has nothing to do with good or evil." Setsuna glared at her: "Strength, Power, Magic, Mana, and even <Chaos> energy itself... all of them are just a means to an end, a tool, no more no less. Those who wield them are the one who's responsible. My royal father is someone who could control the <Chaos> energy that you deem as evil but he managed to save millions of world and those very same worlds now serve him as their King!"
Chiyuki cowered under the cold gaze of Setsuna.
"Your friend Reiji borrowed a strength that he couldn't hope to comprehend and now he's paying the consequences for his ignorance." Setsuna continued.
"B-But Reiji surely didn't know about the consequences of wearing that ring!" Chiyuki reasoned.
"Perhaps he didn't fully know its side effect, but did he really never question himself how come he's so strong? Even a 5-year-old child would feel weirded out if they could suddenly bend a steel pipe with their bare arms. It is impossible for him to not know of the source of his inhumane strength. His own mother probably already told him about it. Anyway, his life and death have nothing to with me. If you want to save them then go somewhere else." Setsuna waved uninterestedly.
"P-Please! I'm begging you! Please help my friends!" Chiyuki begged desperately but Setsuna doesn't seem to be interested in helping her.
"I don't see any benefit from helping you. Not to mention most of my servants have some grudges against you. Me helping you would be detrimental for our trust with each other." Setsuna said calmly: "Why don't you ask for the other human's help anyway?"
She didn't ask about Rena since the person in question is probably too maddened by her "desire".
It would be a miracle if she's willing to help them.
"The other humans are too weak to help us... and I also couldn't pinpoint Reiji and the other's location. I only know that they're in trouble..."
"Hmm, is that so? Well, my answer is still the same. I won't lend you a hand." Setsuna said dismissively.
"No way..." Chiyuki slumped back to her seat.
But then she notices the grinning Tamamo on the side. She remembered what Tamamo said in the past...
'I guarantee that you will need our help in the near future~' Looks like she could already foresee this outcome...
"..." Chiyuki bit her lips in contemplation.
"Hmhmhm~" Tamamo hummed to herself while looking at her fingernails: "Long ago, when humans and gods, Dark spirits, and Oni would show with the moon. In every corner of the wishes would whirl. Desires rumble louder as the night would progress~🎶" She sang a tune happily.
She could already predict this outcome just like Chiyuki imagined. She can see through that boy named Reiji's true nature as plain as a day.
Actually, it's already a miracle that they haven't fallen into this kind of trap. Is the Demonkin of this world really that incompetent? How sad... or should she say disappointing instead? No wonder they're losing against these brats.
If it were her or Shuten-Douji, the boy in question would've been dead a long time ago.
They might be powerful but they're just brats in the end... If they could use their brains properly then they wouldn't have to get into this situation at all.
"...Tamamo-sama." Chiyuki finally uttered.
"Yes~?" Tamamo responded.
"...Please help my friends."
"Hmm, you do know the payment for your request, right?" Tamamo smirked.
"That's..." Chiyuki hesitates.
To say that she would have to give away his humanity just to save her friends... She's quite unwilling. She also already advised Reiji and the others to not listen to that woman but like always, Reiji said not to worry and the others basically followed suit.
Only she alone resolutely stay behind despite what they say.
"Humm, how about this... Since the one who's needing help is your friends, then what if we ask them if they're willing instead?" Tamamo throws in a suggestion.
"But... how can we ask them when we don't even know where they are?" Chiyuki asked.
"Oh, you don't have to worry about that." Tamamo snapped her finger and a unique shaped mirror appeared before her.
"Now let's see~" She chanted some words and the mirror flashed brightly before it reflected Reiji and his party location.
"Oh wow... Looks like they've been had~!" Tamamo gasped in 'shock': "Setsuna-chan, you can't look!" She said before she wrapped her fox tail around Setsuna's head.
In the mirror, Reiji and his companions are in a dangerous situation... especially so for Sahoko and the others.
They're currently being cornered by a group of drooling goblin. Their clothes are in tatters and they're screaming while also crying towards the goblin.
They are in utter despair... After a brief mouse and cat game, one of the girls, namely Sahoko seems to be caught by one of the goblins.
The goblins waste no time before it licked her body and face marking her with its disgusting saliva.
"R-Reiji-kun! Help me!" Sahoko screamed for her beloved name while crying and begging for his help but alas...
The person in question seems to be in an entranced state while wildly humping on a big green humanoid creature. And seeing her features, it's safe to say that she's a goblin albeit a little different compared to her kin.
Her body is quite big and fat. Her facial feature undoubtedly belongs to a goblin albeit it looks more exquisite. But she's not by any means beautiful.
She has long hair and looks a little better looking than a normal bald goblin but that's about it.
And that same female goblin is enjoying Reiji's 'company' while laughing gleefully.
"To think it was this easy! I just need to disguise myself as a beautiful woman and the hero immediately agreed to my 'request'! The artifact I received from the God Alphos has been a great use! It's too bad that he's impotent though... With his look, I would assume he has a lot of women." The female goblin said regretfully at the end.
"Gob gob! Your Majesty is wise!" The goblins cheered.
"But why did the hero and his companions are this weak anyway? They're strong but not as strong as the rumors... Well, whatever, at least I can have this handsome hero all for myself!"
During their battle, the heroes suddenly got tremendously weaker. They are still strong but they're at most on par with a hobgoblin at this point.
In fact, the hero Reiji is the first to 'fall'. The goblin Queen used a little bit of aphrodisiac magic and he's basically down for the count...
"My lady!" Kaya, the maid of Reiji and Kyouka who came from the same world tried to save her Master from the hands of the goblins but even she herself also has her hands full.
"Gigigigi! Beautiful girls! So many beautiful girls!"
"My Queen, it is fine if we do whatever we want with them, right?"
"Guhihihi, of course. I have no interest in women, this handsome hero is great! Harder, hero! Harder!"
"Gyihihihi! Your Majesty is too kind!"
The goblins laughed jovially after hearing their queen's words.
"This is just... plain pathetic." Tamamo uttered with a groan: "Your friends' so-called attempt to fend off the goblins are so pathetic. It's like a bunch of children fighting instead of a honed warrior... There is some basic movement of martial arts here and there but in the end, it is nowhere close to an expert. Looks like the ring helped you to cover your weaknesses huh..."
Chiyuki bit her lips since it's true... While some of them learned kendo, judo, karate, and the like back in their original world it is nowhere near the expert level.
They're able to win if they're facing against those who are in the same year as them but to ask them to face off against a true expert is practically impossible.
They could defeat their opponents this far because of their speed and magic strength. With that gone, they've basically become the same person as before... a bunch of children.
While they learned new magic and skills during their stay here, without their explosive speed and strength, it has practically become useless.
The other goblins slowly crept upon them...
Sahoko has already been buried under a group of goblin and her fate is... uncertain at this point.
Soon, her friends would also follow her fate.
Chiyuki is too shocked to speak at this point. The situation is far worse than she thought.
"Hmm, the humanoid races of this world, for some mysterious reason, have similar aesthetic senses as humans... I wonder why... Are the Gods who created them a pervert or something?" Tamamo muttered to herself.
Not only the goblins, basically almost all of the races who have a humanoid feature would lust over a beautiful woman mainly human race.
Even the centaurs who have a lower body of a horse is the same. Their race doesn't have a female so they resort to kidnap other races female. Their favorite target is also human.
Probably because they're quite weak.
"What was that, kaa-chan?" Setsuna who has her head covered with Setsuna's tail spoke.
"It's nothing dear! Nothing you need to worry about!" Tamamo said hastily. If her hubby were to know that she almost let their daughter saw something unbefitting for their age, her poor butt would suffer... Not that she hates it but still...
"Why am I not allowed to look anyway?" Setsuna asked curiously.
"U-Umm, let's wait a little bit more when you're older, alright?"
"Alright...?"
"Please help them! I'm begging you!" Chiyuki finally spoke seeing her friends are being slowly being overwhelmed.
"No need to rush." Tamamo chuckled.
She then channeled a little bit of divine energy into the mirror...
On the other side of the mirror, when the goblins have finally laid their hands on Shirone and the others, Tamamo's projection comes through.
"Hello, hello? Testing~"
The goblins, Shirone's group, and even the goblin Queen's body froze on the spot.
"G-Gob? What's that gob?" One of the goblins shouted.
"T-Tamamo-sama?" Kaya muttered hopefully.
"The one and only~" Tamamo affirmed: "Now I'll make it quick. Do you girls want to be saved? Uh uh, don't be so hasty to give your answer." She stopped them when they're about to say something.
"You need to remember the payment for my assistance. And knowing all of that, do you still agree?"
"""We Accept!""" They didn't waste any time before shouting in agreement.
"Anything is better than our current situation! Please, help us!" Rino said desperately.
"Please save Reiji-sama and Sahoko-sama!" Kaya said next.
"Well then... The contract is done." Tamamo's grin widened and the glint in her eyes is obvious to all.
She snapped her finger and their body disappeared from the goblin's nest. The goblins become utterly confused seeing that their prey has disappeared right in front of their eyes...
"And done~🎶" Tamamo clapped her hand.
Reiji's group appeared in their room but Tamamo still wrapped her tail around Setsuna's face since Reiji and Sahoko's condition is not 'presentable'.
"Everyone!" Chiyuki shouted happily.
"C-Chiyuki?" They muttered in disbelief.
"Sorry to stop your reunion short but you owe me something~" Tamamo stopped their 'reunion' and said with a foxy grin.
Then her eyes narrowed dangerously. Her eyes turned sharp just like that of a beast.
"Tamamo kaa-chan, remember to hold yourself back. Don't let royal father admonish you again." Setsuna who's finally freed reminded.
"...Ah. Sorry about that, Setsu-chan. It's been a while ever since your okaa-chan here get a new toy." Tamamo laughed wryly.
"Mm, I don't really mind." Setsuna chuckled.
"...Toy?" Chiyuki and her friends had their faces twitch a lot when they heard what she thought of them.
"Anyway... Your <Vital Origin> is mine~, kon kon to~" She made a fox gesture with her hands. The mirror she has shine once again... And in the next moment, Shirone and the others felt something being pulled out of their body.
They don't really feel pain but the discomfort is truly unbearable.
Something shaped like the face of a human emerged out from their body and then it entered the mirror.
At the same time, Shirone's little group felt their bodies become smaller and smaller.
After a brief moment, they turned into a humanoid figure at the height of a 5 years old child. A pair of dog ears appeared on top of their head.
They also grow some whiskers around their faces and a tail also appeared on their back.
Their arms and hands also filled with fur. Only their faces still retain some similarities in their old human appearance.
While most of them transformed into the same thing, only Sahoko turned into something else... She turned into the very same thing that just assaulted her earlier... A Goblin.
"Oya? What a surprise... To think that you still retain most of your human features... I thought all of you would turn into a goblin just like your friend over there." Tamamo said.
"They turned into a... humanoid dog?" Setsuna curiously said.
"They turned into a bit-! I mean, yes, a dog!" Tamamo coughed at her little slip-up. She almost couldn't stop herself from blurting out her little pun seeing that they basically become a dog: "And that little goblin girl over there most likely become a goblin since she has some fun time with the goblins earlier." She pointed out.
Shirone and her friends looked at each other in dismay. Sahoko seems so distraught that she doesn't say anything in return...
Chiyuki is too shocked to say anything... What's she supposed to say here? When her friends basically turned into a walking dog!
"Woof woof! Woof?!" They tried to say something but could only let out a barking sound.
"Giiiiiii!!!" Whereas Sahoko let out a goblin screech.
"Wh-What? Why did they..." Chiyuki said in a confused voice.
"Ara? Didn't I tell you before? They will stop being a human. A dog and a goblin don't speak human language." Tamamo said with a smirk: "I have already warned them time and time again of the consequences so you can't blame me~."
"Guuh... Woman... Beautiful woman..." Reiji who's still a human groaned. Taking his vital origin disgust Tamamo hence why she didn't bother.
As for why she saved him, well... It's to watch another 'show'.
"R-Reiji? Wh-What's happening to him?" Chiyuki took a step back seeing the crazed look on Reiji's face.
"Humm, probably because of the aphrodisiac still hasn't disappeared yet. Oh, how disgusting!" Tamamo has already wrapped Reiji in a 'cocoon' of blanket since he was naked but the way he squirms around in place really disgusts her. Especially seeing the way he looks at her and Setsuna.
"Why is he seems to become thinner?!" Chiyuki realized the hollowed cheek of Reiji.
He seems to become thinner and thinner and even his hair started to become gray as time passes by.
"G-Giii!"
"Woof woof!"
Sahoko and her friends let out a sound seeing the current state of Reiji.
"Hmm, so that's what happened once one loses the 'blessing' of the <Chaos> energy..." Setsuna muttered... She started taking a mental note to herself: "His appearance is also changing it seems? His 'essence' as a whole is fully contaminated by the <Chaos> energy... He's almost one with the <Chaos>... albeit not in a good way. No wonder he could last this long despite being contaminated with the <Chaos> energy..."
From what she knows, those who are contaminated by the <Chaos> energy shouldn't be able to last this long. It looks like her mother giving birth to him made him resistant to the <Chaos> energy by a little bit. Not that it really matters now though seeing how the <Chaos> has finally consumed him.
His appearance changes from a handsome young boy to that of a young boy with average features. He's not really that bad looking but compared to his previous appearance, it is like night and day.
That, coupled with how skinny he becomes, really makes him look like a walking skeleton now if they could see him standing straight.
His blue eyes become muddy and his previously shiny blonde hair is nowhere to be seen... From blond to gray to white until they fall off his head making him goes bald. Next, it's his teeth... his nails... his skin looks like a bag of plastic barely hanging onto his body.
Purple miasma started to ooze out from his now skinny body.
The girls held their breath at this sight. They couldn't believe what they're seeing...
Chiyuki who has already been informed beforehand looked to the side while biting her lips. Looks like it's really true... The <Chaos> energy seems to be the source of Reiji's strength and now he is suffering the drawback.
"Aghh... Aahhhhhhhh!!!" Reiji screamed in pain.
Looks like the pain he's experiencing has nullified the aphrodisiac effect.
"It hurts! It hurts! Make it stop!"
"G-Gii gii!" Sahoko stepped forward wanting to help him.
"Nuh-uh, I don't recommend you going anywhere close to him. Less you will be consumed by the <Chaos> as well~" Tamamo stopped her advance.
Reiji struggled harder and harder within his binding. Blood started to pour out from all of his orifices. His whole body started to turn black.
Black substance also started to pour out replacing his blood.
"Now pay attention... This is what happens to those who are consumed by the <Chaos> energy... You girls should be thankful that you don't share the same fate as him." Tamamo grinned at the pale-faced group of dog girls and a goblin.
"Okay, I've seen enough," Setsuna said with a faint nod.
She has observed enough, it's time to put this poor idiot out of his misery... Well, she just doesn't want his disgusting pus to stain the floor though. Setsuna doesn't care what happens to any of them.
She stepped in front of Reiji before she absorbs the <Chaos> energy out of his body.
A visible miasma left Reiji's body and then it entered Setsuna's body.
Reiji's expression turned from painful into a dazed state... His eyes started to lose focus and when Setsuna's finished extracting the <Chaos> energy, his body turned into dust...
"Setsu-chan? Are you okay?" Tamamo asked in concern.
"I'm fine, kaa-chan." Setsuna nodded.
Being the daughters of Issei helped her a lot to contain the <Chaos> energy. Although her mastery over the <Chaos> element isn't perfect, absorbing a little of them is a piece of cake.
She still needs a little bit more time to reach her eldest sister's level... and then, the level of their parents.
"G-Giii..." Sahoko slumped to the ground seeing the love of her life turned into dust.
"Do you regret it now?" Setsuna looked down at her and asked.
"..." Sahoko dumbly looked at her but she didn't say anything in return.
Setsuna snorted before she set her attention to something else.
"Now then... Let's discuss what will happen to all of you, shall we?" Tamamo flashed a calculating smile at the shivering group of dog girls.
Chiyuki chooses not to say anything else and can only cast a gaze full of pity at her friends...
If she wasn't being adamant back then... perhaps she would be one of them by now...
"Oh, right. You still have to pay something to me, Chiyuki, was it?" Tamamo's voice suddenly resounded.
"Huh?" Chiyuki let out a dumbfounded voice at her words.
"Why do you look so surprised? Even though you're not directly the one being helped, you still requested me to help your friends. And for that, you need to pay something in return~" Tamamo squinted her eyes.
"B-But you said before-"
"I know what I said... but that doesn't mean you're free to go either. You can't seriously think that you can come here as you please right? Think of it as an entry payment if you like." Tamamo chuckled: "You girls might be considered a 'hero' by this world inhabitants but in this kingdom, you're nothing but customers, isn't that right, Setsu-chan~?"
"Indeed." Setsuna nodded along: "I was thinking of making you pay some tribute in return before but since my kaa-chan wanted a new toy then she shall have one."
"Aww, thank you so much, Setsu-chan~." Tamamo's foxy grin emerged once again when she looks at her new toys.
Chiyuki face paled tremendously at this revelation... The foxy grin Tamamo currently has sent shivers down to her spine...
...
"Hm?" Issei who was currently preparing breakfast noticed a disturbance in the void.
He was alert until he realizes this presence aura.
"Little fairy?" He muttered.
"Otou-sama!" Pops out Erza H. from the newly created portal.
"What's wrong, little fairy?" Issei said with a smile: "I thought you're waiting on the other world?"
"U-Ummm, can you make some more food for me?" Erza H. said wryly.
"More food? I thought I gave you a week's worth of food beforehand?"
"Well... The thing is..." Erza H. was about to say her reasoning when the two of them notices another presence.
"Uhh... Did you bring anyone with you on your way here, little fairy?" Issei asked.
"Eh, no?" At first, Erza H. shook her head but then she remembered something: "Oh no... I forgot to close the portal on the other side!"
In the next second, Irene S. and the others also pops out from the same portal Erza H. used.
""Dad/Foster Father/Dear!""