The judge and Bawl are both fighting off the minotaur's. The judge uses his shields to reflect the attacks and is doing relatively well fighting them off, but not enough to destroy them; only enough to push them back.
The same is true with Bawl, punching them and throwing them into each other but they just get back up and continue their assault.
The 2 are surrounded on all sides, unable to find any gaps to escape through.
“Damn, we can’t fight them off forever, if this wasn't a trial, then I wouldn’t have this chip inside me. I would be able to use more of my power to fight them off. That must be why this person attacked.”
He surrounds the area with spears that shoot upwards, pushing them back. He also summons even more than our shields and surrounds the small area that they have in shields, giving them both a double barrier.
“Bawl, get over here!” Bawl hears this and complies, jumping into the area that the judge closed off. His clothes are, for the most part, ripped and barely holding on.
“We won’t be able to beat them, we’ll need to wait for help.”
Both Bawl and the judge look around, seeing the transformed minotaurs, being pushed back by both the shields and the spears surrounding them.
Both of them don’t know what to do, but that’s when multiple yellow scarves wrap around multiple minotaur and throw them around, causing them to disintegrate in the process.
Belle enters the sense now wearing a black crop-top shirt with light blue jeans and sneakers, her body wrapped in her yellow scarves and, having the ends of her scarves in all four of her hands.
“Annoying bastards.”
Belle wraps her feet in her scarves and jumps towards the minotaur, she wraps all four of her hands in scarves.
She punches 1 and this causes it to dissolve. She forms her other scarf into a giant spear and strikes a couple more, dissolving them too.
“Heh, the power of Belle Clothrone, ain’t this a sight to see.”
Belle is effortlessly handling all the minotaur, she dances on the field like a Ballet dancer or a Cloth dancer, maybe even both, she even uses some of the minotaurs as dance partners to help her kill the others by wrapping them in the scarves.
Bawl claps at the performance, enjoying it.
Belle extends her nails, now in the color of green and glowing lime green.
She cuts through the minotaurs with ease as well as creates now lime color strings from all her fingers, she cuts through them and smiles with glee.
After the carnage, all the goo of the minotaurs merge into 1 giant minotaur of 3 heads, and 6 arms, all have a pink ax in each hand.
Belle seems unimpressed by this display and uses something else
“Soul Amplification, Yinyang, The Dragon of Equilibrium!”
Belle's soul suddenly starts getting larger, Bawl is able to see her soul grow and takes a good look at it, her soul is that of a ball of cloth, strings, and ribbon, wrapped in multiple multicolored layers with needles, foods, cooking utensils and hearts sticking out of it. It gets bigger, surrounding her completely and growing to the size of the giant monster.
Belle creates 2 extremely long scarves, 1 long being white and the other being black. “Yin,” when she says this, it creates a large dragon from the black scarf and it takes the form of a smooth dragon, with no teeth, and an empty mouth and moves rather smoothly, like a snake. “Yang,” the white scarf takes the form of a spikier dragon, appearing as if it does have scales and sharp teeth, and moves suddenly, seemingly unable to keep still.
The minotaur charges towards the dragons, trying to attack them both. The white dragon charges at the minotaur, wrapping around it and squeezing it tightly.
The minotaur tries attacking the white dragon, but the black dragon gets in the way and tanks the attack, breaking the ax upon contact.
“Poor fool.” Belle stands there at a distance, watching her dragons deal with the monster.
Bawl and the judge are still in their area, sitting there in astonishment at the display of power.
“Cool,” Bawl says. “I know, she’s awesome.” the judge says.
The minotaur now has all of its arms ripped off and only its head left. The white dragon bites the head of the giant monster and the monster dissolves completely and the leftovers disintegrate, disappearing.
Bawl and the judge clap in astonishment at the display that Belle presented.
The dragons unravel themselves and enter back into her body and her soul returns to its normal size. She walks to the two and the judge removes his spears and shields.
The judge tries shaking her hand in congratulations, but she pushes him to the side, causing him to fall on his shoulder, and goes to Bawl who is still sitting.
“You okay buddy.” She says crouching down and creating a sweater for him, knitting it using her nails extremely quick and sliding it on him.
“Judge, you gotta pay attention to the kids!”
“You’re acting like you’re not a kid.”
“I’m not, I turned 18 3 months ago! I’m a fully-fledged adult!” She says confidently.
“Yeah, well I’m 23 and I know I’m not a full-fledged adult.”
“You know what screw you; I’m out of here.” She says this while wrapping Bawl in her scarves, wrapping him as if he were a baby, grabbing the judge and wrapping him fully, head to toe, and getting them both out of the dungeon.
As they exit, Belle unwraps the judge but keeps Bawl wrapped up, they see the guards are being tended to by doctors.
“Did the intruder do this?”
“From the looks of it, definitely.”
They both stand there for a good minute before Belle breaks the silence, “Well, I’m taking the boy, fill out the paperwork for his release.”
“Sure, I guess.”
Belle walks away with Bawl and he waves at the judge and the judge waves back.
Belle creates wings from her scarves and flies into the air.
–25 Minutes Past–
It is nighttime and they both reach a large mansion, and she lands at the door. She finally wraps Bawl, who stretches after having been restrained for quite a long time. Belle opens the door and Bawl walks in seeing how big the place is, he looks around in astonishment at all the different items and portraits of Belle and her family. Belle grabs Bawl’s hand and brings him to the bathroom.
“Take off your clothes, you gotta bathe.”
Bawl looks at her in confusion, not knowing what bathing is. “Clothes off.”
Belle turns on the water and lets the tub fill, she puts a bath bomb in the tub takes off what is left of Bawl’s clothes and throws him into the bathtub.
Belle throws Bawl’s clothes away and starts washing him. Bawl doesn’t retaliate and just lets her because he is a bit tired from the battle.
She finishes washing him and dries him up with a towel. She walks him to another room, still naked, a room full of different kinds of fabrics and clothes.
At the end of the room in the middle is a sewing machine, only it has a strange floating core on its side and seems really advanced.
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Belle creates strings from the fingers of her lower hands and has the claws of her upper hands extend and glow. She activates the machine and gets to work; she starts sewing up an oversized white sweater and brown baggy pants.
Bawl was standing there the whole time, a bit cold but he is finally given clothes by Belle. Belle slips on the sweater and helps him put on the pants. She holds his hand again and pulls him towards her bedroom, which is very big.
Bawl jumps into the bed and goes onto one of the big pillows. Belle walks into another room and Bawl doesn’t know why.
He looks around the room and sees different clothes, scarves, hats, and more. He sees multiple trophies and badges on the wall and various photos of Belle with other people, one of them being with the judge.
“Awesome, she’s cool.” He thinks to himself.
Bawl’s stomach growls as he sits on the large pillow, “I want Wafer.”
Bawl hears the door open; he looks towards the door to see Belle in a nightgown, nearly identical to her bodycon black dress with white dots, except it has White Z’s on it and it stretches a lot more. Belle gets into bed and under the sheets.
“You ready to sleep?”
“I want food, hungry,” Bawl replies.
Belle summons her floating cooking furnace again and releases a large Black and White Cookie from it, “Here you go, it's a Soul Cream Sugar Cookie.”
“Soul Cream Sugar Cookie?” He takes the large cookie and observes it for a while, flipping it over and smelling it. Before he takes a bite out of it, his teeth become sharp and he gains fangs, he takes a bite between both the chocolate and vanilla sides. Belle was quite surprised at the sudden sharpness of his teeth.
Bawl is mesmerized by the taste and eats it up. After he finishes, his teeth return to normal.
“Good, have more?”
“I can have more tomorrow, let's go to sleep first, okay?”
“Okay.” Bawl curls up in the Pillow and Belle gets into the covers and lays there for a while.
“I’ll need him to get mom off my neck, yeah, I’ll make him pose as my child then leave him with food, I don’t wanna feel guilty.”
Belle looks at Bawl, who has already fallen asleep as if he is a pet. She moves towards him and pets him on the head, he actually reacts to this and unconsciously moves into it while sleeping.
A moment where in that instance, Belle's cold soul, covered in an ice cube, cracks the ice completely, her soul now taking the form of a heart, “This must be what having a so-no, a pet is like.” She stares for a bit longer before laying down, “Nah, I’m keeping him as my dog.”
Belle grabs a mirror that is near her and presses a button which removes the back of it and shows Bawl on the other side.
This shows some of Bawl’s life and Soul, his soul is rather simple, being a simple squishy cube with a relaxed face on it and it states that its property is slime and indestructible. It also shows that he is 15 years old and has no skills or technology as well as a Mana level of zero. However, it blurs his last name, and it says that the name Bawl was recently added as an official name. His race also appears blurred out.
Belle is weirded out by this information; she also sees that he has natural skills.
“Natural Skills, those are skills our bodies can do.”
She looks through them and sees three:
Pheromones: Females will feel attracted towards him and will see him as cute and even want to touch, hug, and love him, as well as animals will feel more trust and comfort towards him
Animialintics: His eyes glow red and hair changes white and gains sharp teeth and fangs as well as an increase in all his natural skills
Soul Radar: He can sense souls from anywhere, no matter the distance, if he desires, he can think of a person he has seen, and he will be revealed the location
“Wow, so he doesn’t only have muscles, that's good, he is more than useful.
“Although Soul Radar is very unique, not many people can really see souls, especially that easily, based on what it's saying. I usually need to focus really well on a specific person and know some information about them, it seems all he needs is something tied to a person to find them. Really useful indeed.”
Belle, having seen enough, puts the mirror down, closes her eyes, and goes to sleep.
–Dream Sequence Begin–
“You can’t hang out with your so-called friends, you need to study and train your skills, besides, they’re only using you because you are royalty, understand?”
“Yes father, I understand.”
The man walks out of the room and the little girl looks out the window to see other kids having fun. The girl is revealed to be a younger Belle. She walks to the same machine and starts knitting while crying.
Her mother walks into the room and turns off the machine, she looks around and sees that Belle has made high-quality scarves with various effects added to them, one lighting on fire, another generating electricity, and more.
“This is...nice honey, you can stop for today.”
“But Dad said I had to do this until 7:00”
“Well, I don’t care what he says, you need your free time.”
Belle's mother creates a much larger cooking furnace and creates pies from it.
“How about some pie?”
–Dream Sequence End–
Bawl wakes up from his dream, and yawns but is a bit sad, “Sour Cream Sugar Cookie,” It seems that his dream was about Sour Cream Sugar cookies and eating a lot of them.
He looks around and sees that Belle isn’t around, seemingly having already woken up. He gets off the Pillow and runs off the large bed, jumping out.
He sees that Belle has arranged some clothes for him as well as a new workout attire.
“Here, put this one first.” Belle holds out a pair of clothes for Bawl.
He takes them and puts them on, his previous attire destroyed, he now wears a black skin-tight long-sleeved turtleneck shirt, red metal armbands that look like French cuffs that have a bolt where a button would be, light gray sweat shorts with black laces and high compression foot sleeves.
“And you don’t need to worry about it as much, these ones I made are much more durable and are very flexible and can stretch quite far.”
“Thanks, babe.”
Belle freezes in place and looks at Bawl, who just said the weirdest thing she has heard all day. “Don’t say that again.”
“Okay, babe.”
Belle just puts her hands on her face and gives him his other set of clothes which will go over the ones he is wearing.
Bawl takes them and completes the fit.
He has on a black jacket with buttons going down, a sky-blue stripe across from both arms and the middle, sky blue cuffs, a thick sky-blue collar and straps on the side on the inside hanging out, and a necklace made from fabric with a Bawl’s name on it. He wears a headband that has a large lapel pin that says “PUNCH!” and a sticker that has 3 hand gestures of rock, paper, scissors, gray baggy pants, loose socks, and blue sneakers with black laces to complete the fit.
“These clothes are made especially with some extra comfort and softness for you. I made the necklace using Wool and gave it some protection effects for you.”
“Cool, I like it.”
“Good, oh right, here you go.”
Belle walks towards Bawl with yellow hair ties and puts them on his hair strands near the bottom.
“There you go, make sure you keep those with you, I took a good amount of time to make those.”
“Okay.”
“Good, now let's get breakfast.”
“You still in those clothes?”
Belle looks at herself, still in her nightgown, “That doesn’t matter right now, just go to the table. “
Bawl walks out of the room, leaving Belle to go into her large changing room.
She thinks about Bawl when she remembers the night before when he acted like a pet.
“Hmmmmm, so adorable!” Her soul jumps out of her body and is steaming a lot in a heart shape, “I can dress him up like a pet, so this is what it's like to have a dog.”
“Huh, HEY, get back in me!”
She grabs her soul and puts it back into her body. She changes out of her gown into a white tight shirt that says “Glaze Me or Die” with black shorts and slippers.
She goes to the kitchen table to see Bawl sitting on top of it.
“Why are you sitting on top the table, you get off!”
Bawl complies and gets off the table, unsure of where to sit. Belle pulls out a chair for him and he sits in it, Belle goes to the stove, gets the pans using all four of her arms, and grabs all the necessary ingredients.
She gets bacon, eggs, bread, and waffle mix. She starts cooking, flawlessly mixing the waffle mix, cooking the eggs, frying the bacon, and putting the bread in the toaster. She fixes up two plates of breakfast in a matter of minutes, she grabs whipped cream from her fridge and puts it on the pancakes, she gets some cut strawberries and puts it on the whipped cream as eyes and chocolate chips as a smile for Bawl’s dish. She has her soul come out of her body to take 1 heart out of itself and put that heart on the pancake for Bawl, which causes it to glow pink.
“Alright, here’s your breakfast.”
She sets the plate down and Bawl immediately gets to eating it, he enjoys every last bite of the waffles, bacon, and eggs.
“Good.”
“I know it's good, I made it.”
The 2 finish up their meal and Bawl whips off the syrup and oil off Bawl's face.
“Come one, be clean, idiot.”
Bawl gets up and walks out the door, running out but is pulled back by a tether leash that attaches to him.
“Hmm?” Bawl looks at the tether leash, pulling on it. Belle walks out of the house, wearing a strapless white crop-top shirt with blue shorts, knee-high socks, and sneakers, with multiple scarves around her hips.
“Don’t try to run off, you need to stick with me.”
“-Okay.”
The scene switches to 2 men, one man has blond hair and a muscular build, shirtless and wearing baggy pants, boots, and large gauntlets, the other has black hair and a ponytail, he wears a loose jacket with a hoodie, loose pants, flip-flops and has a large smoke pipe with him.
“Oi brother, it seems this Bawl boy has a bounty on his head, we should take it.” The shirtless man says.
“Then how much money?” the man with the large smoke pipe says.
“500,000,000 dollars! We’ll be bloody rich, and we’ll be appointed to higher mercenaries as assassins!”
The man puffs a smoke, “Very well, that's our new target.”
The 2 men appear to be outside the skirts of a large city, in the distance with blimps and tall towers. Maybe this city is where Bawl is and it seems Bawl is in danger, now hunted by these mercenaries who appear to be quite formidable.