Guy Shonin Quest Part 6

“Now then Ms. Shoujo, this vial of perfume has all sorts of fragrances, like lavender and such to make him want to fall for you.”

“Hmm…Are you sure? The last perfume you gave me made him gag.”

“Oh believe me Ms. Shoujo, my aunt used this very same brand years ago to attract my uncle. He hasn’t left her side since.”

“Ohhhh, how adorable! Okay, I’ll-“

“The hell is going on here?” You ask.

“Ah, Guy!” Gal jumps up and squeals.

You weren’t planning on passing by Gal and Io selling stuff, but you know fishy stuff when you can see it.

“Gal, are you seriously going to believe this girl?”

“Wellll-“

“Oh Mr. Shonin. I have something that might interest you as well.” She goes underneath her stall, fumbling around, clanking noises being heard before she pops up. “Here it is.” A lump of brisket is laid on the table. Despite the plastic covering, you can see the fat and the meat glisten in the sun, as if it was blessed by the holy God.

“W-w-where did you…” You try to continue to speak, but your mouth is watering too much, you wipe you mouth and you feel drool.

“America is great, isn’t it? Texas had good sales three days back. Just arrived this morning. You could enjoy a good barbeque with this right, Mr. Shonin?”

“Shit, no, but brisket, but my money, but…” You grip your head, your brain and greedy heart fighting for control.”

>”Fuck it, Gimmie!”
>”N-no, I will not fall for this, and neither will Gal!”
>Try to haggle


>Try to haggle: 47

“If you’re interested, I’m willing to sell to sell it to you for 10000 yen.”

Your mouth swallows as you try to contain yourself. “7-7000.”

“Oh, trying to haggle are we, Mr. Shonin? I’m game. Still, my offer stands at 10000.”

“….7500.” She only waves her hand at you. “8.” Her smug look is enough to make you want to smack her. “8500.”

“Mmm, getting closer. 9800 because your cousin is such a cutie and is also staring at it like a wolf.” You turn and see that Gal drooling up a storm, her eyes wide and tongue out.

“8700.”

“Nope.”

“9000.”

“Sorry.”

“….9500.”

“That your limit?”

“Dammit, fine.” You pull out your wallet and pay the 9800 yen. “This better be good as the price says.”

“Oh it is. It’s from a place called ‘Lockhart’ last I-“You quickly slap the money down and sling the slab of meat over your shoulder and bolt off.

“FINALLY, SOME GOOD FOOD.”


Gal was about to run after Guy before Io coughed. “Excuse me, Ms. Shoujo, but are you going to pay for that perfume?” She turned and saw Io pointing to the bottle still in her hand.

“O-oh right, sorry…”


Back at your shed, you quickly try to build a pit as fast as you can. “Okay, got the drum built, now I just have to get the charcoal and spices for the rub and I’ll be ready, and the brisket will be fine in the cooler for a bit. Oh, Dad, if only you were here. Then we’d have a real barbeque. Damn Japanese and their shitty barbeque.”

“Cyclops?”

“WUZZAT?!” You turn and see Chris looking at you. “Oh, it’s you. What do you want?”

“I was wondering what in the world all that racket was, but I see it was just you. Don’t you normally build in your shed?”

“Chris, I’m about to do something very important.”
“?”

“Something that will mean the life or death of me in this country.”

“What are you-“

“If I don’t get this brisket right, I will die. So I will say in the nice words possible, Fuck off.”

“Brisket. Meat. That is what has you riled up like this?”

“It’s not just regular brisket.” Chris motions for you to continue. “It’s TEXAS BRISKET.”

“What does that have to do with anything?” You quickly grab Chris’ wrist. “Hey, let go-“

You fling open the cooler and reveal the slab of meat. Chris’ eyes go wide like Gal’s did. “Look at it. The meat, the fat, it shines. This is Texas Brisket. This is what I hoped for all this time. And soon, it will be mine.”

“….C-c-“

“NO. None for you.”

“Greedy fuck.”

“What could you even offer?”

“The ring of the Gunner we got from Nyx.” She pulls out the ring, holding it up.

“Hmmm….”
>”No.”
>”Fine, you got a deal.”
>”How about you throw in some baked beans and we got a deal?”



>No

“No.”

“B-“

“No.”

“Fine, I didn’t want any of your shitty meat anyways.” You try to stifle a chuckle. You only hear her walk away, grumbling all the time until she fades away.

“Now then, I need to head into town. Let’s just make a basic list...Alright. Time to-“

“Guyyyyyyyy!”

“Gah!” You fall forward, the ground as hard as ever. You try to get up but you feel something sitting on your back. “Gal, get off.”

“Only if you share.”

“No, mine.”

“Aww, come on, I miss uncle’s food. Just shareeeee.”
“No, I paid for it. Mine.”

“I’ll bring baked beans.”

“….N-“

“Io probably has some sausage we could get.”

“……N-n-“

“Maybe even soda that’s in a glass. Like when uncle would bring us that restaurant all the time. Smithy’s was it.”

“YOU CANNOT TEMPT ME GAL.” You try harder get up, feeling yourself raise up before she wraps her arms around your neck.

“Not even with,” she whispers in your ear, “Texas ribs?”

“What did you say?”

“Io saw how you were when you ran off, so she offered me something else. A full rack ribs from Texas. Don’t you want to taste them? It’s not a proper barbeque, but it’s better than nothing right?” Her voice, oddly sultry, worms its way into your brain, your mind reeling at speeds even Rei would impressive.

>”F-fine.”
>”N-no, I-it’s mine…” (Requires a roll)


>”N-no, I-it’s mine…”: 72

“I-it’s mine I-I won’t give it up!” You rise your face towards her, hoping your voice would deter her enough.

“Guy. You’re drooling.”

“Shit. Fuck it fine, you can have some.”

“Yay! I love you.” She hugs you tight, allowing you to feel her breasts on your neck. “I think someone deserves a reward.” She picks you up and spins you around before kissing you, shoving her tongue down your mouth. You try to struggle away, but her grip is strong enough to bend iron. It’s nearly until you’re blue in the face that she lets go.

“Just give me a moment to get changed and we go, k?” She quickly runs off, nearly skipping.

The second time this has happened. You just got caught up in her flow and she takes what she wants. You sigh, reaching in to your coat pocket and pulling out a stress ball. “I need to teach her to not do that.”


It takes a while for her to come back and you audibly gulp. A corset looking top that hugs her chest and a skirt with frills on the bottom all with a jacket to cover her shoulders. God, why you tempt me so, you think.

“Okay, I’m ready!”

“S-sure, let’s go.” You both start to walk side by side to the town, Gal snuggling up against your arm. You start to see a few other couples like you-you nearly slap yourself. You’re not a couple, just two cousins going to the grocery store. Yeah. No incest here.

“So Guy, you really like my outfit, don’t you?” You quickly turn to her, to the point you hear your neck pop. “You’re very obvious with your tsundereness.”

“…..I’m not a tsundere…..”
“Sure, sure~” God, you can nearly see the squiggle at the end of that.

“So what first?”

“Let’s see…”

>Spice for the rub
>Charcoal
>Beans
>Decent Sausage
>Drinks


>Decent Sausage

“Let’s get some get some sausage. I hope there’s at least some that’s half-way decent.”

Into the market and the meat section you go, quickly browsing through and trying to find the links that are good. Problem is…

“It’s mostly shit. I knew Japan was shit, but this is just…Gah.”

“Aw Guy, don’t be like that. We just have to look harder don’t we.” A mumble is all that comes from you.

You quickly exit and try another market, but its shit too. All these markets are shit with shit sausage.

“Damn you, Japan.”

“Sorry Guy. We still have to get other stuff don’t we?”

“Yeah. Let’s get some other-“you turn and see a meat market at the end. “One second.”

You enter and-“Finally. Something good.” Quickly, you buy a few links and in an alleyway, stuff it in your item box. “That should make it last until we get home.”

“Hey, at least we found some. What next?”

>Spice for the rub
>Charcoal
>Beans
>Drinks


>Spice for the rub

“Now that we got this, let’s get some spices.”

Pepper, kosher salt, cumin (Gal and you had a chuckle), chili powder, sugar, brown sugar, and cayenne. Just like Dad makes it.

The pepper, powder and sugar were easy to find, nearly everywhere in this day and age. The others…

“Out?”

“Yes sir, we ran out of cayenne pepper the other day.”

“Damn. Thanks. This is the 3rd store, what’s going on? And we still have to find the cumin, and the salt.”
“Well, at least this is a nice day for a date~” You groan as she presses up against you, your arm feeling the softness of her breasts. “But I know you’re mad. I’m getting there myself.”

“Well, we can probably pick up the other stuff while we’re here. You grab the soda, I’ll get the beans. We’ll meet up by the front.”

“Okay.” The two of you split up to your respective places. You pick a few cans of beans, didn’t have time to make homemade ones, but oh well. You wait in front by the magazines for Gal, but she hasn’t show up after, after checking your COMP, it’s been 15 minutes. What’s taking her so long?

A look into the soda aisle tells why. A small group, probably no more than 5, of what seems to be college kids are surrounding your cousin. “Come on, baby, just have a drink with us. We’ll show you a good time.” Seems like the leader is trying to pick her up

“I’m not interested.”

“Don’t be like that,” said another one of the goons. “Just have sing some Karaoke with us. We’ll laugh, drink, you know, good fun.”

Well shit. Do you just go in and try to get your cousin out peacefully? Do you go in and just grab her? Or should you let Gal handle this? She’s stronger than these guys multiple times over.

>Peacefully
>Grab her and leave
>Let Gal handle it


>Let Gal handle it

You’re pretty sure Gal has it. She’s tough. Kills demons and doesn’t afraid of anything. Except the wrath of your mother and Aunt. Yeesh, those women.

It seems during you trip down memory lane, one of the goons though it was a good idea attempt to grab her shoulder. Which you think is dumb as she’s 6’7” and the dude was probably no taller than 5’8”, a near foot difference. Either way, Gal seems to have taken it as an attack as she punches the guy and his nose just explodes into blood as he falls. Doesn’t seem like he’s getting back up.

“Bitch! Get her!” The leader shouts as two others try to punch and kick her but she dodges in what a way that looks like dancing to you. Again, another punch to both takes them out. Seriously, Gal, could you be any more violent?

The leader seems to have the bright idea to push his last goon at her, to which he gets a chop to the neck. Seems the leader tried to give him up so he could escape, but then he ran into you.

“U-uh.”

“Oh hello.” You look down at him, your singular red eye staring back at him. “Seems like you were trying to pick up my cousin.”

“Uh-uh.”

“Is that all your pitiful brain can say? You sound like a monkey. No, I’m sure even monkeys can say more intelligent things than that.”

Seems like that made him upset as he tries to swing at you from your left side in hopes of catching you off guard. Sadly, you’re already used to that tactic, so a simple block and punch to the chin is all that takes him down. “Thank you Dad, for teaching me how to throw a good one and where to hit.”

“Guyyyyy! Why didn’t you come save me?”

“You looked like you had it under control. Now come on, we’re burning daylight.”

“Mmmmm. I’m still mad at you,” she says, puffing out her cheeks.

“Yes, yes.”

Paying for your items and a handwash later and still you are looking for the remaining spices. You found the cayenne and the salt, but goddamn cumin is evading you, the bastard.

There are still two stores you haven’t checked yet, a chain grocery store and what seems to be a local grocery.

>Chain store
>Local grocery


>Chain store

You enter the store and head straight for the spice department. Pepper, salt, etc., etc. Ah, there we go. “Finally. Now we can-Dammit Gal.” You turn and see that Gal has disappeared. Let’s hope it’s not another repeat-

“Goddammit,” Is all you can say as you wipe blood off your hand. The leader whose ass you kicked seemed to be pretty pissy at you two and got more of his friends to try take you down. Problem was their hits were weak and Gal was both too strong and fast. Granted, she held back a lot, but she was more of a match for them. “Come on, let’s grab the charcoal and go.”

Making your way back to the academy, Gal snuggles against you as you both carry the supplies. You look at your COMP and see that’s it’s after 2. It will take at least all night for the rub to seep in to the brisket. At the very least, you can get that done. Hopefully by then, you’ll get some good brisket.

“Gal, stop trying feel me up.”

“No.”

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It’s been a week since you made the brisket. Good as shit, not as good as your father’s but still damn good. Even Gal enjoyed it, but said that maybe a little less salt. Oh well.

Currently enjoying a brisket sandwich from the leftovers, you were sitting back in your shed, looking over the scrolls you found from the Darkworld Forge. Armor, weapons, rings like the one that held the Gunner and once again, beast like machines with Darkworldian script are in the parchments. You managed to find a few words similar to the magic you use, like enforce and pierce, but most of it is gibberish. You have a few magic books to see if you could decode it, but it’s not helping much. You’re about to give up for the day before you get a message on your COMP.

*It seems you are having a bit of trouble with those scrolls.*

[It’s hard not to when it’s in a language I can’t understand. What, can you read it?]

*No more than you can, but it feels that there’s something fuzzy in the back of my mind, as if it was incomplete. Perhaps if you were to complete it, more information might be gleaned.*

An interesting proposition. You have been meaning to work on Thanatos one of these days. Maybe you could even upgrade one of his systems while you’re at it.

>Try to figure out the script by yourself
>Upgrade Thanatos to help (Increases chances of success and gain an Upgrade Point)
>Screw this, maybe get some air

If you do decide to work by yourself or have Thanatos help, which scroll will you look at first?

>Armor
>Weapons
>Rings
>Beasts


>Screw this, maybe get some air

[Sorry, Thanatos, maybe later. I’m too pissed off to do anything right now. Maybe later.]

You get no response, but you think it’s a bit saddened. You can only click your tongue as you exit, the sun shining bright down you, a light breeze going on. You lock the door, turning around and seeing Armos pad up to you, what seems to be a bird resting on his head.

“You know you-“

{Yes Master, I know. It just rested there and is currently not moving.}

You wave it off, but it just flies back to his head. Guess it seems he has a friend. You can only shrug before you start walking, your feet taking you to no particular place.

The track has the likes Rei and Isamu still training, but you also see Ukon and Mai. You wonder if those two are dating. The library just had Kaiya, sitting down at the front desk eating jerky. You look to at any of the spell books for any hints for the scrolls, but find nothing. Nice refresher though. The courtyard is where Io set up shop and looks like Anakin is trying to hit on her, but you can tell by Io’s face that she’s just wishing he would go.

Eventually, your walk leads you to the small pond in the back, empty. You lay back against one of the trees and Armos lays his head in your lap, as if asking to be petted, the bird moving down to nest in his back. Scratching behind his ears, you look at the bird to wonder what kind it is, a small one with an orange head and back, and a black belly and wings. A robin of sorts? Ah, well.

You spend an hour near the pond, throwing sticks for Armos to catch. Seems like the transformation boosted all his physical capabilities. Before, he rarely could catch the stick before it landed on the ground. Now he’s plucking them out in the air at quick speeds. Not fast like Gal or even Rei, but faster than you certainly. You poked at the bird, trying to find out what exactly it is before a quick internet search reveals it’s a Japanese Robin. Huh. Eventually, you think you had enough time wasted and make your way to the shed.

During your walk back, you think that you haven’t seen Gal all day. She couldn’t have gotten sick, she’s had a perfect bill of health all her life. She didn’t get any backlash from her Demidemon powers because she didn’t use them at all. You swear, she’s going to pop out at the wrong time.

You settle back to the scrolls in front of you. How exactly are you going to tackle this?

>Try to figure out the script by yourself
>Upgrade Thanatos to help (Increases chances of success and gain an Upgrade Point)

Which scroll will you decipher?

>Armor
>Weapons
>Rings
>Beasts


>Upgrade Thanatos to help: 87+17=104

You think that maybe you should get Thanatos fixed up. It is due for an upgrade. So plucking it off the wall, you connect your COMP got to work. Your hands fly over the keyboard, taking in the code and deciphering it like a madman, finishing lines, deleting useless ones, adding new ones. Before long, you have nearly completed it before you hit a snag.

Every time you try to finish the program, you just get an error message in gibberish, but there are some words you can make out. “Insuffi&%ent p#$er. Insufficient power? Huh. Maybe if I ran off Thanatos’ battery.” Taking out a screwdriver, you pop open Thanatos’ front, the black pulsating flesh still there. You search for any type of ports you can hook up to, but find nothing. Scratching your head, you grab the cable and wonder what will happen if you poked the flesh ball with it.

As you do so, the mass leaps out and swallows it, like a moray eel. “Jesus! That scared me.” You check your hand, hoping you still had all your fingers and thankfully, you do. You exhale in relief and see that one end of the cord is still sticking out. Connecting it to your COMP, you press enter and see that program was accepted. “Nice. Now let’s finish upgrading Thantos and get to work.”

YOU HAVE ONE UPGRADE POINT.

Choose one from either list
>>Weapon types
>Axe (Slashing)
>Hammer (Blunt)
>Shield (Defense)
>Other
>Charge Blade LVL 2

>>Movement Options
>Limited Boosters (Limited Flight)

>>Additional Options
>Transfer Gate (Transfer to any previous place in the Darkworld. Have to have been there first. Can also forcefully eject out. Limit: 2 additional people)
>Drones (Can either fire out swords or wield them and physically attack. Will attack any enemies within 5 Meters. Runs off Thanatos battery)

Which scroll will you decipher?

>Armor
>Weapons
>Rings
>Beasts


>Transfer Gate (Transfer to any previous place in the Darkworld. Have to have been there first. Can also forcefully eject out. Limit: 2 additional people)
>Beasts

This transfer gate looks interesting. Being able to hop in and out of the Darkworld at will? Sounds great! Maybe you’ll even be able to go back to that temple and see what else is around there. Perhaps even some of those rings… It takes you a while to get the transfer system up and running, but you should be able to get pop out the Darkworld when need be.

Putting your tools away, you look at the scrolls on your desk. The weapon scroll looks intriguing, but there’s still a few left you can unlock from Thanatos. Armor wouldn’t be bad as well, but you don’t think you’d be able to do much without training. And the rings are tempting, gut your memories of how quickly you brought down the Gunner makes you rethink. No, what you open instead is the scroll of the beasts. You saw firsthand of how powerful they were. Armos was able to take down Nyx in a quick amount of time. If you could have that kind of firepower on your side, why wouldn’t you take it?

Browsing through the scrolls, you compare the symbols and words with your knowledge of magic and piece it together.

A vessel, a shit load of metal and a design. Which, thankfully, you have 1 of. The scroll has multiple designs on it, ranging from a fiery Wyvern, a metallic Nightstalker, a raging Devilsaur and what seems to be a Large Thunderbeast. Question is, which one do you pick?

>Wyvern
>Nightstalker
>Devilsaur
>Thunderbeast


>Devilsaur

You decide on the Devilsaur. The “Bio Beast” whatever it was seems like a good all arounder, but if you need power, the Devilsaur is the only way to go it seems. There seems to be two different variants of the Devilsaur: Regular and Red. Red seems to be the strongest, but according to the scroll, is the hardest to control. Regular is the easier, but still goes beserk at times. However, it seems there is a way to force it into submission. As for how, the scroll seems to have lightly faded away. Seems like time was not kind to the ink.

But to even get your beast, you need a spell to get the living Devilsaur under your control. Thankfully, the scroll should be able to tell y- and of course the spell faded as well. Goddammit.

“Fuck. Is there anything in the books?” You look through the spell you have at your disposal and nothing is found. You can only sigh as you sit back down, staring at the scroll. There has to be something that you can do figure it out. You sit back in your chair, grabbing a small rubber band ball on your desk and tossing in the air and catching it. It normally keeps you calm.

“Maybe…magic? I mean, this a Darkworld scroll. Wouldn’t be out of left field if it was.” Thinking you have nothing else, you grab the scroll and run your magic through it.

ROLL 1D100+5


>97

The magic runs through the material, flowing and making the faded symbols glow, filling the shed with light, before fading away, showing not just one spell, but two that you quickly memorize.

>LEARNED “Control”: After defeating a Darkworld monster, you have a chance of getting it under your control. Will require a roll plus your INT Stat.
>LEARNED “Summon”: Your monsters need a place to survive after all. You are able to force your monsters into Thanatos’ storage and are able to summon them at a later time. Currently, only Armos has link to this storage to be summoned later.

Excellent! With this, you’ll be able to get the needed vessel. Now, you just need more metal-

“Guyyy!” The door to your shed slams open as Gal comes rushing in, leaping into your chest, causing you to fall back in your chair and land on the ground. Groaning, you looking up and see her straddled over your chest. “Come on, it’s almost time!”

“Oh, right, it’s a Darkworld night, isn’t it?”

“Yep!”

Even more perfect.

>END OF EPISODE