CHAPTER 355: RESOLUTION (8)

0% Obviously, such a phenomenon didn’t only happen to Yuria.

If someone were to tell Riru Garda to ‘Please act more like a woman,’ her face would’ve turned sour, as if someone had told her to ‘Grill your heels and eat it’.

Because that sentence was probably the most distant sentence from her so far.

“-Oh my...”

Hence why...

When someone who looked exactly like her said those words in such a feminine way right in front of her like this, an indescribable emotion came washing over her.

“This...is the first time I’ve experienced something like this. This never happened in all the timelines I’ve experienced...”

“...Y-You...?”

As Riru said so with a stunned expression, the other person—who was examining their body curiously—looked at her while blinking.

If Riru were to build her body properly for a few years, she’d probably look exactly like this person.

Hence why she was so taken aback. After all, someone who looked exactly like her suddenly appeared before her eyes. But, the thing that surprised her even more than that was because she had ‘seen’ this person’s behavior somewhere before.

“A-Are you... U-Um... T-The one who was floating around me...?”

“Mhm! Well, we talked with each other more often than the other Devils and Vessels, didn’t we?”

“...”

She casually admitted it...

Seeing Riru opening and closing her mouth in bewilderment a few times, the Blue Devil exhaled through her nose, making a ‘hm~’ sound while squinting her eyes for a moment.

“My Demonic Aura...is almost sealed... It feels like I’ve turned into a human being with Divine Power in my body...”

“...What?”

“He made my main body half-useless by ‘purifying it’. Then, he separated the Fragments and put them back inside the main body and rendered it ineffective... He really racked his brain, huh? This way, anyone would see me as a human with a strong body instead of a Devil.”

“-What the fuck are you on about—”

“Try to use your Demonic Aura. Will it come out, or not?”

Riru didn’t understand what this person was on about at all, but she still followed her instructions anyway. Probably because she was cowed by the atmosphere that she gave off.

Because the person felt like a senior in the Tribe who she often saw when she was a kid.

Like herself if she was much more ‘experienced’ and ‘mature’.

“-?”

But, such thoughts were instantly swept away by the shock caused by what happened after.

She tried to use her Demonic Aura, but it didn’t come out at all.

“W-W-What the...?”

She unknowingly stammered.

Since the time she started to use the power herself, she was well aware of how high the rank of the Devils was.

While she could remember the situations where she couldn’t use their power on her opponents due to one thing or another, she never experienced a situation where the power was ‘completely blocked’ like this.

Does this mean the power is erased? A Devil’s power? There’s no way in hell!!

“It’s not erased, it’s just... Since I, the source of the Demonic Aura you used, am now separated from you, you basically turned into a normal girl who worked out a lot.”

“...”

“Devil’s Fragments would enter another body and turn it into a Vessel when their current host dies, you know that, right?”

“...Um...”

“It’s similar to that. My body has become ‘dull’, I have no Demonic Aura I could use. That means this body needs to die before I could ‘act as a Devil’ again. But, it is still a Devil’s main body. Even with its remains, it could still turn the world around it upside down, so there’s no way it would die easily. This is basically a permanent seal.”

“...”

With all this information being poured all at once at her, Riru couldn’t understand what she was even saying.

Seeing her eyes shaking as she listened, the Blue Devil giggled before pinching her cheeks.

If this was some random guy, Riru’d immediately punched them in the jaw, but somehow she felt that she couldn’t do that to the Blue Devil.

For some reason, it feels like I’m using violence against my mother...

“You’re so cute like this! It feels like I have a younger sister! Is it a little weird if I say it feels like I’m looking at my past self?”

“...U-Um... W-What...?”

“What I’m trying to say is, you’re going to be like me when you grow older! You’ll turn into a proper lady!”

“...”

At this point, she felt like it wasn’t only her eyes that were spinning, but the whole world was.

W-What is she even on about...?!?!?

“A-Are you kidding me—?!”

Fortunately for Riru, she wasn’t the only one who had to deal with this confusion.

From right next to her, Seras’ shout rang loudly in her consciousness that she barely managed to keep.

She seemed to have heard the same thing Riru did; that the Devils’ appearance would be how they looked in the ‘future’.

“...I-I’d turn like that in the future...?”

“Of course. Even now, you feel the happiest when you’re being all submissive, no?”

“...”

Usually, Riru would’ve been the one who laughed the loudest if she were to see Seras’ in this state; shaking body as she clenched her fists, unable to refute. But now, she felt an emotion that was close to relief.

Normally, they’d hurl insults at each other, but in such a situation, she felt like crying at this weird sense of belonging that she felt.

But soon after, a horrifying scene unfolded, blowing away even such emotions.

It was when the Blue Devil’s eyes, who had been touching her own body here and there, trying to understand both the condition of her own body and her surroundings, met the eyes of the Purple Devil’s.

The two Devils’ eyes widened.

As if they met their lifelong close friend who they thought they wouldn’t be able to see again.

“...Big Sis?”

“...Little Sis?”

They said in a daze.

Soon, the two Devils jumped to hug each other tightly at the same time and began to roll around on the ground.

“Oh my God, oh my God! It’s been hundreds of years since we saw each other, no? Have you been doing well?”

“Big Sis! Big Sis—!”

“...”

“...”

Of course...

Upon seeing the Blue Devil and the Purple Devil squealing while hugging each other, spinning around crazily like this, Riru and Seras made an expression as if they had just experienced a cosmic horror.

“...Hey... I-I’m asking just in case...”

Riru said in a trembling voice.

“If you guys are...‘us’ in the future, does that mean that the relationship between that fucking beastkin and me is going to be like that later...?”

“How can you say that to your younger sister, Riru? She’s so nice and sweet, you know?”

The Blue Devil said so with a smile as she pinched the cheeks of the Purple Devil in her arms.

Meanwhile, the Purple Devil who was smiling while entrusting her body to the Blue Devil like a pet being spoiled by her owner, nodded.

“Of course! There’s no one else closer to each other like Big Sis and me in this world!”

“...”

Seras and Riru’s face went pale at the same time.

The former even covered her mouth as if she was about to puke.

“W-Why... H-How did you two...?”

“Well, it started after we got fucked in turns by Mr. Dowd on the first night after our joint wedd—”

Hearing that, Riru held the back of her neck as if she was going to pass out, but the one who usually made a snarky comment at her—Seras—didn’t do that this time.

Because she was reacting the same way as her.

●

“-This much will do, no?”

When I said so while taking my hand off the Fallen’s Seal, the Prophet stared at me silently.

Red, Brown, Blue, Purple, White...

Every Devil’s Vessels nearby was probably experiencing the same phenomenon.

Them being unable to use their Demonic Aura. It was all because I had combined the Devil’s main bodies with a foreign matter.

This would let the Devils maintain their uniqueness, it was just their ‘Demonic Aura’, the core of their power, would be tightly sealed inside their bodies.

“...Did you just ‘inject’ Divine Power into them with the Fallen’s Seal as the medium? Just how did you come up with that method?”

“Well, I myself have ascended from a human to a Devil. I’ve experimented more than enough to know what’s gonna happen when Divine Power and Demonic Aura are used together.”

I said while stroking my chest with a sigh.

“-Thanks to that, I also managed to figure out how to ‘incapacitate’ the Demonic Aura.”

Ever since I first guessed what the Fallen’s Seal was, I had been continuously estimating its exact value over and over.

And this method was something that I had been cooking up for a long time.

“...I don’t think it’s a perfect solution, though.”

The Prophet muttered, narrowing her eyes. Hearing that, I casually nodded.

“Of course. This is basically just me making them behave like an ostrich for a while. Their Demonic Aura won’t be sealed like that forever.”

What I was trying to say was...

Unless the medium that was paralyzing their Demonic Auras disappeared, their Auras would stay sealed.

“-In other words, to unseal it, someone has to kill me first.”

“...”

“So, I just need to not die. I just need to stay alive and keep injecting Divine Power to their main bodies. That way, those punks will be able to keep living as normal human beings.”

They wouldn’t get into trouble because they were Devils.

In other words, they could live as normal human beings and gave birth to lots of children with me.

“...”

The Prophet, who had been listening while standing quietly, soon raised her head.

“...That sounds good and all, but...”

“Hm?”

“I’m sure there’s someone who won’t like that...”

Ah...

Right...

“Yeah...”

She was right, that one stubborn punk wouldn’t just accept this easily.

“-There’s indeed one.”

After I said that...

The ‘Gray Aura’ that didn’t disappear even under the pillar of light, appeared while tearing the surrounding landscape to shreds.