Phew~ I finished chapter 4 yay! I feel accomplished?
This chapter is much different from others so far because there is a first combat scene of this story. It's still a bit mediocre at best but I'm learning. Also thank you to everyone who gave me suggestions and stuff on the comments. I am reading all of them and trying to improve my story based on you comments, so just know that this novel is not written just by me but by every one of you, my dear readers. Without further ado, let's go!
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-Takasugi’s Mansion, San-gatsu 43, 7564-
~Momoe’s P.o.V~
Hello everyone, Momoe here! It's been more than a dozen day since our new ridiculous teacher came to our house. My life has been very hard with training, training, and training… *Sniff* why do I have to do all this strenuous training while it's such a nice day outside.
-flashback to the day we met sensei-
After our new sensei, Kuro Maou or Maou sensei, introduced himself, our jaws dropped. Our teacher is going to be the former demon king who is known to be one of the most powerful being in the Arixar is going to be our teacher. He is joking, right? Our sensei is just a prankster, right? TELL ME IM RIGHT! If this guy is really the demon king then our training exercise made by sensei is going to kill us!
“You two seem quiet skeptical, so I'll show you my status card! After all I can't have my students think that I'm a fool. Buhahahaha.”(Maou)
His way of speaking seriously die not match his good looks…
Name:Kuro MaouLevel:247Race:DemonAge:163HP:5,468,904MP:2,356,643STR:47,435Def:32,469INT:24,847WIS:48,930DEX:52,490Charm:50Skills:
HiddenTitles:
Former Demon King:
The all powerful former demon kingChampion of Kurono:
Champion of Kurono and savior of Abaddon
What the?! I expected something ridiculous for a demon king but isn't this too ridiculous?! Oh my, I'm about to faint, this guy surpassed common sense completely…
Oneechan knows I hate that nickname. Hah, whatever, but why did I feel a sudden chill when Oneechan said let's have lots of fun? She was smiling while transmitting the thought and I felt something like…. Fear? Oh well, must be the demon king’s presence… yup that is definitely affecting my awareness. I mean there is no way Arisu-Oneechan will be scary, right?(Author’s note: Momoe-chan, run away! It's your sister’s sadistic aura! Ugh, she can't hear me…)
“Alright, let's start your training right away. We are gonna start with building your stamina and leg muscle. Go take thirty laps around the house, buhahaha.”(Maou sensei)
Thirty laps? Our house is wide around he size of a football field… Ugh… At least stop that stupid laughter of yours. While complaining in my head I started to jog.
Five laps…. Ten laps… Fifteen laps… Seventeen laps… WHAT THE HECK! This is impossible for three year olds! And that dumb sensei is drinking tea while reading a book! Uuuu that Baka, is he even teaching us anything?
We started running at the start of noon and by the time we ran thirty laps it was night time. My legs are very shaky and I could barely walk while Oneechan can't walk at all! We barely even finished thirty laps. You dare work Oneechan hard?! I barely made through the laps with my higher strength and effect from true siscon, how do you expect my Oneechan to make it through?! Though I was surprised she even finished thirty laps, I guess that's because of vampire’s vitality? Well whatever, I hope Oneechan will be okay tomorrow.
We had quick dinner after coming inside and got ready to go to bed.
Eh?!
My face heated up again. Oneechan saw my face and her mouth twisted upward in a wide smile. And… I felt another chill… It must be the cold night air…
In the end, I was dragged to Oneechan’s room and we slept together. The whole time, I was restless and I couldn't fall asleep until really late at night. What is long with me?! We are three year old kids, so why am I so restless?! Arisu-Oneechan cuddled with me the whole time petting my head and rubbing her cheek against mine.
-flashback end-
We repeated doing laps everyday, increasing every time we get used to it. After several days, Maou sensei started to teach us more about the art of dark magic system, weapon usage, and hand-to-hand combats. We were forced into a heavy schedule of physical training such as, running, push-ups, sit ups, pull ups, weight training and so on… As well as magic training mostly consisting of mana control through meditation and image training. The way to circulate mana throughout the body for better circulation were improved by meditation. Image training helped us empower our magic with more strength.
In addition, he taught us how to hide our titles, blessings, and skills on our status card. This way we are able to hide some of our power, but we can't hide our stats, levels, or fake our name, race and age. We also obtained the skill called appraisal, which is a common skill in fantasy novel, but apparently only a handful of people can learn this skill. We just happened to be able to use it probably because of our blessings, or is it because we were reincarnated?
Hah, as long as I could hide my title, I don't really care…
Today will be our first training out in the forest near the outside of our town area called Sopp, what a strange name for a forest. I learned over the past few days that the town we live in is called Ghyst. It's a very lively town where everyone is very friendly to each other. Of course, like every other nice town in fantasy novel, there are some black sheep and greedy humans, but it's mostly a nice town. Today, we are going to the forest to hunt for games. Maou sensei told us that real life combat is needed in order to become stronger. Practice isn't everything, not like in the fantasy manga or novel where the main character trains a little and become OP and kill the bad guy. If you don't have experience in killing, you are not able to kill during your real combat, so sensei is making us hunt and get used to blood and guts. So right now, we are riding a carriage heading out to the Sopp forest
“Alright! My cute little students! Let's go hunts some wild animals, Buhahaha, we are going to have good wild meat tonight!”
Wait! Is that the reason why we are going to the forest?! You damn tyrant! You make my frail Oneechan go through training and now you want us to hunt just so that you can eat meat. Grrrr… I admit my stat went up by a margin but this is ridiculous… If only if he wasn't level 247, I would have ripped him apart for all those harsh training me and Oneechan had to go through.
*Thump* “Everyone out of the carriage and take out all your precious belongings and women!”
What the?! We are being ambushed by bunch of thieves?! Seriously, why does this feel so cliché. I used appraisal skill to analyze our opponents.
Thief 1: lvl 5
Thief 2: lvl 4
Thief 3: lvl 4
Thief 4: lvl 3
Thief boss: lvl 8
Slavemancer: lvl 3
“Sensei, can I take care of those maggots, Nyah?”(me)
“Well, they are completely weak compared to either of you so if you want to play with them, be my guest. Of course I'll watch closely and intervene when it becomes dangerous. Just remember to be vigilant, careful, and most importantly, have fun. You can even dispose of them if you want.”(Sensei)
“Okay, Nyah!” I smiled savagely and went out of the carriage. Oneechan tried to follow me but I told her, “ I'll be fine by myself so please stay in the carriage, Oneechan, Nyah.” Muhaha, after practicing for a painfully long time, I was able to master my way of talking. Now I won't have to worry about mixing a word with Nyah and make it incomprehensible. I still have to say Nyah but it's better than putting it in another word. Wait, wasn't I level one just few days ago? Well you see, during our training session, we had lots of combat sparring and even though it didn't raise my level as much as killing a monster would but right now I'm level five.
Name:Takasugi MomoeLevel:5Race:Cat-kinAge:3HP:32MP:105STR:29Def:26INT:54WIS:49DEX:69Charm:32Skills:
Kitty Talk: (passive) (Curse)
Fire Magic: (Level4)
- Fire ball
- Fire bullet
- Fire breath
- Flame armor
Water Magic: (Level 4)
- Water ball
-Water bullet
Wind Magic: (Level4)
- Sonic blade
- Levitate
EarthMagic: (Level 4)
- Earth cage
- Rock slide
Enhancement Magic: (Level 4)
- Herculean strength
- Detect
- Appraisal
- Iron defense
- Song of calm mind
Light Magic: (Level1)
- Heal
Mana Manipulation: (level 3)
Dark Magic: (level 2)
- Shadow ball
Ice Magic: (level 3)
- Ice spear
- Freezing wind
- Hail stormTitles:
Bizarre Genius
True Siscon
Disciple of Maou:
You are the disciple of the former demon king Kuro Maou. The gruesome training and his approval of you brought you this title.
Even so, the opponents are mostly my level or above me, so why am I so confident? Well first, my abnormal stats allows me to beat someone higher level than me, I'm sure Maou sensei’s training can't be underestimated, and the levels of the thieves are around similar to a normal grown man.
There are two reasons why I wanted to fight them. First, I wanted to test my strength against these idiotic sacrifi… Ahem, I mean these bad guys. Second and the most important reason is that one of their comrade is a slavemancer. Those filthy fucker animals wanted to turn the women into slaves and sell them to the kingdom of Xervy… I gonna kill that necromancer because he was thinking about laying his dirty hands on my Oneechan, you can take my sister OVER MY COLD DEAD BODY!!!
I exit out of the carriage in a graceful manner.
“What the hell?!”(thief 1)
“Her hair is pure white… Isn't that rare for a cat-kin”(thief 2)
“If she was only fifteen years older, I would have done her”(thief 3)
“Hey, dude what do you think? Can you enslave her?”(thief 4)
“Hmm… We already have several women in our base so we might be short on food… Maybe we could throw out the less prettier ones to be dealt by wild animals”(slavemancer)
“I think she will be worth more than all of the girls we have so it should be fine.”(thief boss)
My vision turned red and my blood started to boil, those bastards… They already kidnapped bunch of girls from our town, I will kill every last one of them. A huge amount of hatred and killing intent started to leak out from my cold and calm mask. I smiled sweetly at them and spoke out loud.
“I'm going to kill every single one of you and free the women you kidnapped, you worthless pond scums, Nyah!” I know it was less dramatic with the Nyah at the end but… That's just how life is…
With that I unsheathed two knives and dashed toward thief number one. I instantly went behind him and in a flash, I stabbed his back with both knives, each knife piercing a lung. Afterward, I drove the knives inward and toward each other to slice his heart in half. Letting the dead man drop, I quickly went toward my next victim and lunged toward him. The man I targeted, thief number two, unsheathed his giant sword and swung toward me. If it was an ordinary person, they would have been sliced in the mid air do to the lack of maneuver but I was different from an ordinary. I twisted my body mid-air and dodged his attack skillfully. The idiot thief’s eyes widened when he realized that his sword was dodged without much effort. I didn't waste time and slit his throat with one knife while throwing the other toward thief number three. Number three had his head pierced by the knife I threw at him and he fell to the ground becoming motionless. I threw the knife, which was now free from the throat of number two and threw at number four piercing right into his heart.
“My, my, you did quiet well to take out my henchmen, however how will you fight me without your weapons little girly?”(thief boss).
My vein on my forehead popped out when he called me a little girly, but I calmly answered him.
“You see, weapon isn't actually my specialty, Nyah. Why don't you look behind you to see what I mean, Nyah.”
The thief boss looked behind him out of curiosity to be greeted by six long sharp icicles. That's right idiot, while you were mocking me, I conjured six ice spear and also used earth magic to bind your feet. Muhuhu, no one calls me a little missy and be able to escape alive! Not being able to escape, the idiot boss tried to deflect the spears in front of him but he couldn't protect himself against all of the spear and his sword hand was pierced off. For the grand finale, I pour down forty of the same ice speared down like a rain, however I made the spears smaller to save mana by shrinking them to the size of a pencil. Still, that should be enough to kill him. The rain of icicles poured down on him and created a cloud of dust to form. When the smoke cleared up, the only thing left was a lump of meat and blood.
During the confusion, the slavemancer tried to escape but I created an earth cage around him to stop his escape. With everything ended now, I went up to the slavemancer. The man started to whimper and begged for his life. Telling me I could have all the money I want. However, money wasn't something I needed since I am the daughter of a viscount.
“Slavemancer-San, I won't kill you but you have to tell me where you keep all the slaves in.”
“Yes! Anything, please let me live! The slaves are at the cave close where we are at, it just over there.”(slavemancer). While sobbing like a baby, he pointed toward south and I could faintly see the cave.
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< I'll be fine, please stay in the carriage.>(me)
I walked toward the cave leaving the slavemancer in the cage. I actually don't have enough mana right now to kill him in a very painful way which that bastard deserves. So instead, I decided to free the slaves while my mana recovers. Even if there were anymore thieves, they are likely just small fries so it won't be to hard. However, when I got to the mouth of the cave, I activated an enhance magic called detect to see if any thieves were hiding and check out all of the living things by using appraisal. Nope, no thieves just slaves. Seriously? You send out every thieves you have just to rob a carriage… How sad.
My whole body is covered in blood right now, the whole one-sided slaughter brought forth rain of blood. There are so much blood so why didn't I let Oneechan drink their blood and take their power? First, it won't really make much of a difference to Oneechan’s stat. Second, for some reason, her blessing from the vampire God doesn't work when she drinks from the sentient species. She needs to drink the blood of monster in order to raise her stats. I guess even OP skills have restriction in reality…
I walked in nonchalantly as if it was natural, and went up to the cage where all the slaves were placed in. They are all women from different Demi-human species and also few humans. In total there were nineteen Demi-humans and five humans, all young and beautiful.
“Hello, Nyah! I'm Momoe and I'm here to free you all from this hell, Nyah.” Everyone looked up in surprised and what they saw was a three year old kid telling them that she is here to free them. In addition she is soaking wet with blood… Will they even follow me out?
After a long moment of silence, it got awkward so I summoned out a sword made from ice, used strength enhancement spell and sliced the cage into pieces. Turning around I started to leave the cave.
“ If you want to be free, follow me, Nyah.” With that I slowly exited the cave. After awhile, I started to hear foot steps behind me. I turn around to see that all slaves walked out and came toward me. I went back to where the slavemancer and our carriage was only to find the carriage. Did that slavemancer escape?
Then I saw Oneechan and Maou sensei coming toward me.
“Yo! You did beautifully my student! Not only you overwhelmed your opponents but also saved slaves from the wretched clutches of those sick humans. Buhahaha, I am proud of you.”(sensei)
“But the slavemancer escaped, Nyah.”(me) My ears drooped down and my face puffed up while I pouted. Oneechan ran up to me and hugged me while also petting my hair, purrr…
“Ya didn't let him escape, I just took care of him for ya, I thought it was about time you ran out of mana.”(sensei)
Yes, yes I know, I still have ways to go before I could properly call myself an archmage as my blessing entitles me. My mana reserve is too small so I was only able to use that much magic. I guess it's pretty good for a child my age but I'm still far away compared to Maou sensei.
“You must be tired, so let's head back home for today, we could go hunting tomorrow.”(sensei)
Yay, free day! After we started training, we never got rest beyond bath time, suppers, and bed time. I have so much I need to read and there is a pile of saved newly arrived books in the library that I forbid anyone to touch so that I could be the first to read the books.
With that positive thought in mind, I entered the carriage only to remember, “Sensei, what about the slaves, Nyah?”
“I will teleport them to Qplarsis police station to report about the illegal slavery and undo their slave contract. So I'm going to have to leave the two of you to take the ride in the carriage alone.”(sensei)
“Eh?! Can't you teleport all of us together, Nyah?”(me)
“Sorry, can't transport large inanimate object. Best I could get through is clothes, equipments and people. I can't teleport with something like a carriage, so take you time. Now everyone hold hands together!”(sensei)
Uuu, sensei left… Oneechan and I was left with the carriage. The carriage works by magic and allows the user to get to there destination without coachman but isn't it too careless to leave two three olds by themselves.
We got into the carriage and it started moving toward the direction of our home. Oneechan sat down and beckoned me to come to her.
She motions me to lie down on her leg. Using her lap as a pillow like usual, I closed my eyes thinking through what happened. I didn't feel slightest bit of guilt nor remorse. Instead, I felt very satisfied. Something bugged me in my mind. What if I do become a monster? Not physically but mentally.
Her words were very soothing and my negative thoughts all disappeared. So why is there tears streaming down from my eyes, why do I feel relieve. Then I realized I was not afraid of becoming a monster, but I was afraid of Oneechan hating me…
<*Hick* I'm not crying…*hick*its just there's sweat in my eyes…>(me)
Oneechan smiled gently and hugged me until I stopped crying. Someone who will truly always love me and whom I could love back no matter what kind of monster I become. I realized that Oneechan was the one I can always be together with, I once again swore in my heart to protect her with my life. Back then it was me swearing as Matt a year after meeting Leah, but now it is as Momoe swearing to protect Arisu-Oneechan. I will always stay by her side, even if she finds a lover and get married, I will protect her. I shall be her guardian, her Valkyrie, her sword and her shield.
I drift off to sleep while swearing an oath over and over. I could feel Oneechan’s warm hand caressing my head and the all so familiar tune hum through the night air.
-same night-
Oneechan gently shook me awake. I woke up sluggish from the fight and crying out my heart… I have really became a girl, not the fighting part but I been crying more than I did in my previous life. I'm unconcerned with female nude but instead gets flustered when I see an male nude. I don't make a big deal about wearing panties and skirts. I'm actually starting to enjoy wearing dresses, I think they are cute. orz… Hah… I guess it's a natural thing so I'll not worry too much about it. My eyes must be swollen and pink from crying but that's fine. Not like I care about my appearance… Yet.
When we arrived Otosan and Okasan greeted us waiting this whole time at the front of our house. Otosan scolded sensei for leaving us by ourselves but he just scratched his head and shrugged while saying, ‘Even if another group of bandits or thieves appeared in front of them, I bet the thieves and the bandits would be the one in danger, after all, as long as there aren't any with level higher than ten, those two can take care of them since they were train by yours truly, buhahaha.’
Really though, can you stop with that weird laughter? Geez, it's so annoying.
Just like the first day we started training, we had a quick dinner and went to bed. Of course, I went to Oneechan’s room and slept together. That night, I embraced my older sister and let her spoil me. I know it isn't like me to get spoiled… Wait it is likely?! Well it's not like I ask to be spoiled by her… She just does and I don't mind it. It's not like I enjoy being babied and spoiled by Oneechan is six months older than me or 288 days older. What? There are only ten months in this world and each month is 48 days long, so what? Before I drifted off to sleep I checked my stats to see how much change occurred from fighting those thieves. After all, I fought six of them in total so I should have gained a level.
Name:Takasugi MomoeLevel:7Race:Cat-kinAge:3HP:42MP:127STR:33Def:29INT:59WIS:53DEX:74Charm:32Skills:
Kitty Talk: (passive) (Curse)
Fire Magic: (Level4)
- Fire ball
- Fire bullet
- Fire breath
- Flame armor
Water Magic: (Level 4)
- Water ball
- Water bullet
Wind Magic: (Level4)
- Sonic blade
- Levitate
EarthMagic: (Level 4)
- Earth cage
- Rock slide
Enhancement Magic: (Level 4)
- Herculean strength
- Detect
- Appraisal
- Iron defense
- Song of calm mind
Light Magic: (Level1)
- Heal
Mana Manipulation: (level 3)
Dark Magic: (level 2)
- Shadow ball
Ice Magic: (level 4)
- Ice spear
- Freezing wind
- Hail storm
Bloodlust: (level 1)Titles:
Bizarre Genius
True Siscon
Disciple of Maou
Merciless One:
You killed all those thieves without showing mercy. Gained skill bloodlust.
Bloodlust: by emitting your hatred and killing intent, you produce an aura that inspires fear.
True Ancestor’s Valkyrie:
You have sworn yourself to become the True Ancestor’s sword and shield. Gain 10% of strength during combat.
I got two new titles, leveled up twice, and raised my ice magic level by one. It much better than what I expected but I'm a little worried about the title merciless one, but I guess it's fine since Oneechan won't treat me any differently no matter what. I think I like the title True Ancestor’s Valkyrie though, it's very useful to gain 10% of strength during combat and it shows proof of my royalty toward Oneechan.
I'm so tired, I guess it's time to sleep…zzz goodnight…
-3rd P.o.v Takasugi household-
In the living room while the two sisters were sleeping, Kakuei Takasugi, Yukari Takasugi, and Kuro Maou held a private meeting. Maou put up a sound barrier and locked all entrance with magic.
"What the hell were you thinking sending my daughter to fight those scum bags?! You could have done it yourself."(Kakuei)
"Old friend, I had to do this. They must get prepared to be able to fight against others, they have to witness the spilling of blood. They can't protect themselves in the near future if we do every it'll thing for the little ones." (Maou)
His usual jolly and ridiculous style of talking changed to that of a dignified and regal voice. He was actually worried about his two little student whom will start going to the magic academy in three years.
“We need to prepare them for their future. After all with the blessings and their abnormal stats, there will be those who will try to kidnapped them out of greed for power and money. They might not be stronger than a soldier for now but imagine how powerful they will be when they grow up. They have potential to be stronger than me or the human hero. So in order to not let such powers fall into the wrong hand, we need to teach them how to kill in order to protect themselves.”(Maou)
“But they are just kids! Two three year old children should not have to worry about such a gloomy things! They should be able to play with other kids their age, spend time with family, and not worry about training to become strong or fear being kidnapped or assassinated!”(Yukari).
Yukari, the mother, cried out in despair realizing the cruel fate installed on her children. Tear flew down her cheek and she clenched her hands tightly, turning her knuckles pure white. Without saying a word, Kakuei used his hand to wipe away her tears and embraced her in his arms.
“I think they already realize the whole situation at hand. After all they both have high intelligence and wisdom stats so it shouldn't have been very hard for them to notice. I have put them in harsh training that even elite demon soldiers have problem with. Yet they never gave up once, not once! They are strong, and they can take care of themselves. Hahaha, I could see in Momoe’s eyes whenever I act the part of a fool. She might have actually saw through my façade even. That girl is so loyal to her older sister, I sometimes wonder if they are sisters or a princess and her knight… As for Arisu, she has a certain aura around her that is different. Her sister might not have noticed but even though she only shows gentle side toward her, there is a cruel side to her that is hidden. It's hard to understand but I can conclude that out of the two, Arisu might actually have more power than she is letting us know…”(Maou)
Yes, Maou has been faking his personality to portray a fool in order to ease the two children at first. He thought if he appeared to be friendly, he could get closer to his two students. However, Arisu probably saw through the façade the first day they met and Momoe not soon after. Those two children are frightening, they are not children in Maou’s opinion but warriors capable of following their own path. He is just here to teach them the basics for their long journey ahead.
“From now on, I am going to raise the level of the training they are going through. I will personally make sure to strengthen them before the magic academy exam in three years. Also, might I recommend the magic academy for my two pupil?”(Maou)
“Yes, please tell us which one you recommend.”(Kakuei)
“I suggest sending them to the Wenar Academy of Magic, I personally know the head master there so I will put in a good word for them.”(Maou)
“THE PRESTIGIOUS WENAR ACADEMY?! Will they be okay?”(Yukari)
“Don't worry, they will be prepared and they can kick ass by the time three years pass. I make them the strongest first year duo, huhuhu.”(Maou)
Maou prayed to the God Kurono for his pupils trials to come…
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Yay! My first 5K words chapter. This one took me a while hahaha, the next chapter won't be posted till maybe next week if I don't feel like writing and if I feel like writing it should be up by Friday. Thank you all again for comment and just know, this story is written by me but my inspirations are you, my dear readers! Next chapter will have three year time skip with few flashback and off we go to Wenar!
P.S: I might write in Arisu's pov sooner or later... I just got too attached to Momoe... Anyways the chapter might show why she doesn't have title, or does she,*wink, wink*
Alright! See you all later!