Chapter 162

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-- Chapter 162
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Lol, well that was interesting.

borisdrakoni (Spoiler):

Myuu got the full line up of the seven deadly sin series of cyborg golems, who have started acting on their on will and call her princess.....Also kick rabbit and Shia fighting over which rabbit is suitable to be by Hajime's side. And poor Ryuutaro who gets to be the first recipient of Donner Mk 2's rubber bullet.

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Still a setup chapter but amusing nonetheless...

El Rue (Spoiler):

His demon hybrid golems were pretty nifty so he built more of them for battle. Myuu of course named them "Lu-chan" (Lucifer), Bal-chan(Baalzebub), etc. etc. & such (She's his daughter alright). Oh, and they are indeed sentient now w/ Myuu as their 'Princess' (that fixes the possible kidnapping problem).

Shia came back successfully trolling our favorite troll liberator & also bringing treats. Miledi will come to their aid at the day of battle it seems.

Suzu brought back an interesting rabbit. One that has evolved through its own interesting trials & development somewhat reminiscent of Abyss Hajime.

Shia & Hajime share a tender moment as the eve of battle approaches...which she then ruins (you horny estrus rabbit). GJ girl~

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borisdrakoni (Spoiler):

Nostalgic Orcus, Latter Part

Shia energetically greeted Hajime while passing through the gate into Orcus.  Though she had gone to see Miledi before at Raisen Labyrinth, she had now returned safely after completing her mission.  Seeing the Hajime's new artificial left arm, Shia seemed to be glad.

Hajime welcomed Shia back smiling.  She reported on Miledi's status.  Since she can't leave her labyrinth easily she will conserve her energy until the day of attack.  Instead Shia was given some items that would probably be useful.

Hajime asked her how she had gotten in, wondering to himself whether the fountain that they had been flushed out of like a toilet acted as the shortcut back into the bottom of the labyrinth.  Guessing his thoughts, Shia shook her head and told him that though she had partly thought the same thing, the fountain near Brooktown had been unresponsive.  When she went to the regular entrance to break through by force again, the proof of capture had reacted in the first room and she had been flushed down to the depths.

Imagining what Shia is recalling by her far off expression, Hajime invited her back to the workshop to hear the full details.

As soon as they entered the building from where the gate had been set up outside, the sound of mechanical steps could be heard.  At the same time, Myuu's voice sounded, happily welcoming Shia back.  Looking toward Myuu, Shia saw her sitting on the shoulder of a golem whose multi-armed and multi-legged form she had never seen before.  There were a total of six golems surrounding her in total.  Had Shia encountered them in the labyrinth, she might have attacked them preemptively on sight.

While in the workshop, Hajime had made various improvements to the golems, finally upgrading them as war potential.  Since the amount of arms being produced was too much for just Asmodeus and Belphegor, Hajime had increased Myuu's number of pets.  Myuu introduced them to Shia:  Bel-chan(Belphegor), Sa-chan(Satan), Lu-chan(Lucifer), Ma-chan(Mammon), Levi-chan(Leviathan), and Bal-chan(Baalzebub).  Naturally Hajime had a cramp on his face.  He determined that it was necessary to seriously examine Myuu's odd behavior sometime.

As Myuu introduced the golems, each of them struck an individual pose, seemingly on their own without Myuu's instruction.  Their appearance made them look like a sentai warriors team, “Great Sin Battle Squad Demonrangers”.  Red, as expected, would go to Satan of Wrath.

Since it doesn't seem to be causing any trouble for the moment, Hajime and Shia moved on to the workshop.  She let out a voice of admiration seeing the Hour Crystal, automatic transmutation circles, and mass of weapons being produced.  While she was sitting in a chair in the corner of the room to be debriefed, Shia took some artifacts out of the bag she was carrying that she had received from Miledi.

The first was a countermeasure against God's Word, although it was still incomplete.  If Hajime worked at it he should be able to complete it.  To his magic eye, it appeared that it had been given Spirit magic.  It could act to interfere with the God's Word trying to impose itself on a person's spirit.  Thinking about how he could improve it, Hajime arbitrarily named the artifact Spirit Wall.  He praised Shia for it since it was annoying to express any gratitude towards Miledi.  Shia was happy since she felt the same way.

The next thing she passed him was a 20 cm double-sided dagger wrapped in cloth.  This was in fact the concept magic the Liberators had created to kill a god, which had been in Miledi's possession after all.  Hajime clicked his tongue, saying she should have passed it to them sooner.  Shia told him that when she had said the same thing to her, Miledi had responded in her usual annoying manner, so out of spite Shia had wrecked the place that had been destroyed earlier by Hajime's grenade, causing Miledi to apologize while crying.

Shia chuckled evilly.  It was the advent of Black Shia.  Hajime had a cold sweat.

Incidentally, there had also been a concept magic to enter the gods' realm, but it had been lost when the Liberators had been defeated.  Also, since the dagger had never been able to be tested against Ehito, its effectiveness was unknown, but since it should not cause any harm to Yue's soul it should be useful.  Hajime decided that if he was able to get Yue back with it he would show Miledi his gratitude.

Shia continued her debriefing.  Miledi was gathering the golems in her labyrinth to fight in the decisive battle.  She did not actually control all of them directly, as those that had Transformation magic applied to them acted on their own with orders.

After Shia finishes her report, Hajime takes various artifacts out of his new treasure warehouse to give to her, including Doryukken's replacement, Viredoryukken.  Shia happily received her new weapon, muttering scary words about splattering her enemies.

While explaining the new features of the artifacts, the door to the workshop opened slowly and Kaori along with Suzu and Ryuutaro entered.  Actually, the two of them had come before Shia and had gone off with Kaori for material collection in order to obtain battle experience.

Kaori greeted Shia, saying that by her appearance she seemed to have been successful in her mission.  Shia responded that she had just gotten back, and then asked Suzu and Ryuutaro how the Haulia and other demihumans were doing.  Suzu responded that they were ready to take action.  Then they tell them how the Haulia had all burst into tears crying and had gotten worked up about finally being able to fight by Hajime's side.  Their killing intent had caused surrounding creatures to faint and fall out of the trees.  Both Ryuutaro and Suzu were pale recalling it.  The Haulia's fanaticism toward Hajime was practically a mirror image of the lunatics who believed in Ehito.  Shia, with her ears drooping, reflexively apologized.

Changing the subject while smiling wryly, Hajime asked the two of them the results of their training and whether they were able to get some good monsters.  Whiles Suzu looks away with a bad expression, Ryuutaro laughingly said “Not really!”, prompting Hajime to pull the trigger of the new Donner, shooting him with the rubber bullet.  Ryuutaro fell to the ground writhing with Hajime looking down on him coldly.  Kaori panicked and said they had gotten results.

Suzu started to tell him about the various monsters she had gotten, causing Hajime to reminisce.  A large centipede that spits acid, a big bee that shot explosive stingers, an ant that swam underground, a praying mantis with six arms, a spider and a butterfly.  Hajime asked why it was only insects.  Suzu burst into tears, saying those were the only ones she could use the Transformation magic on there.  Kaori comforted her, saying she was able to get at least one fluffy monster, causing Suzu to panic saying that was supposed to be a secret.

Just as Hajime narrowed his eyes and was about to get them to talk, Myuu came in riding on Belphegor. (Ryuutaro was walked on, though no one paid it any mind.)  She told him there was a rabbit there, putting her hands up to her head like rabbit ears going pyonpyon while inclining her head. (Caramelldansen, Myuu version!  Can't wait for the amv.)  Hajime looked over at Shia whose ears were also twitching, but Myuu told him it was a different rabbit.  It was currently fighting with Lucifer and the other golems.  Hajime asked her if she had attacked it, but Myuu told him the the golems had attacked on their own since the rabbit had seemed to be provoking them in front of their princess. (Belphegor on the other hand seemed to want only love and peace.)  Hajime had to restrain himself from firing off a barrage of tsukkomis.

While they followed Myuu to where the fighting was to put a stop to it, Hajime got Kaori and Suzu to talk.  They told him that the rabbit was special and had a yearning for Hajime.  Since he was also part of the cause, Suzu begged him not to kill it since it was the only fluffy monster she had.

Hajime was confused, but when they got back to the workshop he recognized the rabbit as a kick rabbit.  Kaori and Suzu had been afraid he might shoot it out of hand due to his past experience, but he was mainly confused about their earlier words.  Before he could ask for an explanation, the rabbit jumped toward Hajime.  He easily caught it by the ears in mid-air, but judging from the cries it let out, it seemed as if it had not been trying to attack him.  Hajime looked over at Suzu for a translation since Transformation magic allowed communication between monster and tamer.

Suzu started her explanation, though Hajime tsukkomied right away about why it was in Kansai dialect, which is apparently how she hears the rabbit's thoughts.  Continuing, since the monsters at the 90th level still seemed too strong for her to tame, they had gone to the 80th level.  From there various insect monsters were collected.  As they were about to head back they encountered the rabbit.  Since it was obviously an unusual occurrence they were extremely cautious, but the rabbit did not seem to have any ill intent.

Suzu, despondent over becoming an insect queen, threw caution to the wind and determined to make the rabbit hers.  Then the master-servant contract was established after she persuaded it.  Communicating with it through magic, she learned that it had been a normal kick rabbit that had strengthened itself through training and managed to make it down 80 floors on its own.  The reason it was able to do that was because of the holy water Hajime had left behind.

The rabbit had actually witnessed Hajime defeat the claw bear.  With the defeat of the previous king, Hajime had become the new king.  The rabbit then found the place Hajime had stayed in with the god crystal.  There it found traces of holy water collected in the hollow where Hajime had placed it.  Drinking it, the rabbit received a significant power up.  It even managed to defeat the claw bear that had respawned.  After that, the rabbit had decided to follow after Hajime and fight many strong opponents.

Wrapping up the explanation, the rabbit wanted Hajime to give it a name.  Looking down at the rabbit resting on his knees before he was aware, Hajime muttered, “Mi*i” (Miffy – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miffy)

“Rejected”

Settling down, Hajime tried it again, “Peter Rabbi*” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rabbit)

“No good”

“Udo*ge”  (Probably a Touhou reference.  http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Reisen_Udongein_Inaba)

“I don't understand why, but that's probably no good.  Be serious about this!”

Getting fed up, Hajime finally just named the rabbit Inaba.

Kaori and Suzu wanted something cuter, but the rabbit, Inaba, liked the name, so it stuck.

Shia, who had been just watching the whole time, moved toward Inaba out of interest since they both had rabbit ears and tried to pat it.  However, Inaba just knocked her hand away, seeming to snort in contempt.  Shia, with veins popping out of her head, turned to Suzu for an explanation.  Frightened, Suzu reluctantly relayed that Inaba thought that Shia wasn't qualified to be the rabbit by Hajime's side, and that she should come back after polishing her rabbit ears some more.  A fight broke out between Shia and Inaba, which Hajime put a stop to with his rubber bullets.

Afterward, Hajime gave Suzu her fan artifact, as well as one to transport her monsters. (Pok*ball...wow, so many iconic references these last couple of chapters.)  Incidentally Ryuutaro received his artifacts as well.  His own Transformation magic seemed to have been learned while referring to Tio. (Foreshadow to ogre form?)



That night, just before midnight, Hajime and Shia were talking.  Shia was worried about Yue's state since the three day deadline was supposed to have been when Ehito would fully take over her body.  She thinks that if Yue dies from this that she also wants to die beside her.  Hajime told her he won't let that happen.  Embracing the impression others have of him as a demon king, he will obtain everything he wants and crush anything that gets in his way.  Shia's mood was lifted, and she said that she wanted to hurry and get Yue back so that the three of them could do lewd things together, making Hajime amazed.

Finally, having finished the mass production of arms, Hajime and the others left Orcus to go to the battle front.


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