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Chapter 29-Malarkey

(A/N: I was getting tired of the arena nonsense, so I decided to skip it. Sorry if you were looking forward for some monster hunting!
(Your POV)
After the second round, it was declared all of us had won. Of course, Doctor V was confused beyond belief about this, but he was seemingly excited that someone managed to trick him, so we all just went along with it, not wanting to get thrown into the stratosphere. Sadly, I wasn't able to rejoice in the victory because I was still in my zanpakuto's realm, trying to learn her name, or their names to be more exact. Unfortunately, my prayers went unanswered as both of my zanpakuto spirits were crazy in their own ways, and had extremely contradicting personalities. The black odachi was apparently a full grown woman with a fiery temper and sadistic tendencies. As the wakizashi, she was a younger girl who was meek and quiet, often the subject to the odachi's bullying.

"C'mon (Y/N), this shouldn't be too bad for a big, strong man like yourself!" The odachi woman yelled excitedly.

"You can d-do it M-Master!" The wakizashi half meekly cheered on,

Apparently, my spirit world was a beach, that much isn't surprising. However, it was divided in half for some reason. On one half, was a beautiful ocean with silver sand and dark gray rocks decorating the area. On the other half was where the sand turned to its normal color, but the same quickly replaces itself with soil and dirt. Growing from this dirt is wheat surprisingly, an endless sea of wheat, with the only visible thing in the distance between great stone mountains that were far off in the distance. There were also a few lush oak trees decorating the field from place to place, which provided some shade in the vast desert.

Yet the sky is even weirder, it was also split in half with a gray cloud dividing the two skies directly above the area where the sand turns to normal. Above the silver sea, was a beautiful night sky, decorated with stars that danced across the sky. Accompanying the stars were the aurora borealis, accompanying glimmering stars with it's own waltz. As for the moon, it looked way bigger than it does in the real world, watching over me on the beach.

On the other side of the spirit world, I saw that the sky was bright blue, with clouds lazily drifting across the sky like it was nothing. However the sun was bigger and black, as compared to its real life counterpart. Strangely enough, everything that went past the long gray cloud that divided the sky just vanished into nothingness.

As for me? Well I was busy using [Lostvayne] to fend off two giant knights on either side of the world. On the sea side, there was a knight in all white armor with a strange looking sword. This moon knight was fast, and froze everything it touched, so trying to outpace it was my best bet. As for the knight on the sunny side, it was an all black knight with interesting gauntlets and a sword. This sun knight used its sword as a secondary weapon, primarily using it's fists to fight, and everything the knight punched burst into black flames. At the same time, my odachi was sitting in one of the trees on the sunny side, watching me from her elevated seat. Meanwhile, my wakizashi did the same on a rock in the moonlit side.

My only real tactic as of this moment was to keep dodging and pray that these knights get tired of chasing me around, which didn't seem to be working in the slightest. So I tried a new approach, I kept on dodging to see their behavior while shooting at them with [Soda Popper] and using [Dead Ringer] to leave a substitute whenever I die.

As I kept up this strategy, I noticed something peculiar about these knights. Neither of them went out of their space, and both seemed to stop where the sand changes color. Another thing I noticed is that whenever a knight gets damaged, the opposite knight gets the same injury. Followed by the opposite knight quickly repairing the injury by either walking into the wheat or water. This, in turn, leads to the injured knight healing as well. Which means I'd have to destroy both knights at once, perfect.

With that in mind, I dodged a slash from the moon knight, I fired a shot into the knight's chest before jumping atop one of the dark gray rocks, giving me the high ground. The moon knight slashed at the stone, somehow getting it stuck in the rock, allowing me to switch the [Soda Popper] for a [Sticky Bomb Launcher] and finding three bombs into the knight's chest. However, I didn't plan on detonating them just yet so they just stuck there.

Even after it got the sword dislodged, the moon knight didn't react to the sticky bombs on its chest. So I quickly warped by summoning [Lostvayne] above my foot and kicking it towards the sun knight, followed by me warping over to it. I quickly leapt from the blade and over the sun knight to dodge the volley of punches from the knight. Sadly, punching things can't do anything to a sword, unless you're Mori or Jotaro.

The sun knight tried punching the sword, but [Lostvayne] was never meant to hit it's target. So the punch not only did nothing, but it also allowed the sword to fly by while I slid underneath the legs and fired four more sticky bombs onto the sun knight's chestplate. I then proceeded to run over to where the dirt met the sand, dismissing my [Sticky Bomb Launcher] and [Sodapopper], while also using [Rain gate] to dismiss [Lostvayne].

After dismissing my weapons, I waited until the knights were on either side of me, both of them had their swords raised above their heads. I snickered at their arrogance before quickly summoning [Direct Hit] and my [Grenade Launcher] before using [Direct Hit] to rocket jump above the two knights. Followed by me sending three grenades in the place where I once stood, causing a large explosion to engulf the area.

After the smoke cleared, I looked down at the ground to see both of the knights were blown up, leaving behind their legs. Both the legs fell in sync after the three of us saw their remains, allowing me to dismiss all my weapons as I landed on the ground with no damage. Shortly following my landing, I heard clapping coming from the odachi's direction. So I looked at her to see the woman was walking up to me, making her pale thighs more noticeable.

"Well done, Master (Y/N)." The odachi congratulates before gripping my collar to bring my face closer to her own, liking her lips as she flashed a gleeful grin. "As a reward, feel free to ask both of us a question."

"Okay." I nonchalantly responded before gently removing the odachi woman's hands from my collar. "My question for you is if we were to go out, and you live inside me, would that be considered incest or masturbation?"

"What?" The odachi woman dropped her seductive act and just stared at me in a questioning manner. "Out of all the questions you could've asked, you chose that one?"

"Yep." I answered, still awaiting my answer from the Odachi woman. "By the way, your names wouldn't happen to be Black Sun Queen and White Moon Princess, or Kuro Taiyojoo and Shiro Tsukihime?"

"How did you already figure out our names?!" The odachi, who was supposedly named Taiyojoo shouted.

"Well for starters, your personality behaves like a Queen, you're dressed in all black, and you're only able stand on the side with the black sun." I answered while crossing my arms in a matter-of-fact voice. "Plus Tsukihime is the exact opposite; wearing white, being humble, and only standing on the moonlit side. So answer the question Taiyojoo."

"HAHAHA!" Screamed a familiar laughter, causing me to turn my head to see Joker was sitting on a large rock that was between the two sides. "He got you two! HA!"

"Quiet, you glorified clown." Taiyojoo ordered, causing Joker to laugh even harder. "As for your question Lord (Y/N)...I have no clue as to answer that."

"I have no idea either..." Tsukihime replied as she placed a fingertip on her chin.

"Alright, well that was useless." I commented on their answers as Joker's laughter only increased. "As for the clown, why the hell are you laughing so much?!"

"You haven't realized it?" Joker got out between laughs he pointed as the two horizons that were divided by the cloud, showing there was a gold and White Castle on one side, and a japanese fortress on the other. Both of which were far away from us. "There are four directions here...North, South, East, and West. Can you guess which is which?"

"Why would I be able to tell the difference? I just got her-" I then realized that I was able to tell the directions, somehow. "The ocean is north, the mountains are south, the castle is west, and the fortress is east. How do I know this?"

"That's an easy as hell question to answer! HAHAHA!" Joker laughed excitedly, making me question his sanity. "We aren't the only ones here! Remember, you have a sacred gear, ancient power, a hollow, and even a god inside you! Take a guess as to where each of those things are!"

"I'm sorry, did you say a GOD?!" I started sweating bullets, finally remembering the disappearance of the black turtle. "Xuanwu?!"

"Bingo kid!" Joker pointed over to the ocean, kind of fitting for the turtle of the North. "

"Why the fuck is Xuanwu sealed inside me?!" I screamed, obviously confused by this fact. "Better question, why don't I see him around?!"

"I won't answer that first question, but the second one is because you haven't earned his attention yet!" Joker explained, while Tsukihime and Taiyojoo glared at Joker like they were 100% ready to kill him.

"(Y/N) Darling, perhaps we should focus more on your newly obtained Shikai." Taiyojoo advised as she walked up to me, with a metal gauntlet on her left arm. "This is my shikai, Kuro Taiyojoo, and like you saw with my knight, it summons black flames. However it only works if the gauntlet touches it's target, but you can still control the flames once they're sparked, even if the gauntlet is no longer in contact with the target."

"As for my shikai, Shiro Tsukihime, it's a sword that grows stronger by devouring the mana of it's target." Tsukihime informed me as she walked up to me with the same sword the knight was using. "The sword won't do much damage to your opponent, but it will cause a frostbite wherever it cuts."

"Wait, you gave your knights your shikai?" I asked the two girls, who were now on either side of me, unable to reach me where the sand turns to dirt. "Wasn't that little extreme?"

"You're a walking armory, you can take it." Taiyojoo smirked as she handed me the gauntlet, which I put on. "Besides, I was a little jealous of Akeno last night, so I wanted my turn to play~"

"H-Here." Tsukihime nervously handed me her sword, which I gripped in the opposite hand as the gauntlet. "Please don't allow the gauntlet and sword to come into contact, that'll activate your Bankai, which you're not ready for. Activating your Bankai in your current state will result in your burning half of your body while freezing the other. Plus it will also result in scorching and freezing everything within a 20 meter radius."

"Wait What?" I turned my attention to the moon princess, who avoided eye contact.

"Looks like someone is calling you." Taiyojoo said out of nowhere, looking up at the sky for some reason. "You'd better visit soon, or you'll be in for a punishment~"

"B-Bye, Master (Y/N)." Tsukihime meekly said her goodbye, not really answering my question. "Remember, our calling is :The rain drags the Black Sun down, but the White Moon dries the rain, Kuro Taiyojoo to Shiro Tsukihime'

After saying this, the two girls pecked my cheeks in a different manner from one another, Taiyojoo was more like reminding me who owns me, and Tsukhime was quick and shy. Quickly following the pecks, I woke up in my clanhouse's dojo, with Esdeath lying her head on my lap. I looked around, obviously confused by this, but then I remembered that it was possible that my team won. So I looked around the room, curious to see if anyone else was in the room with me and Esdeath, who's eyes slowly opened to look at me.

"Good morning, Prince (Y/N)." Esdeath cooed as she placed a hand on my cheek. "Did you sleep well?"

"I was meditating, learn the difference." I jokingly smirked, hiding my obvious annoyance with all the flirting. "So can you bring me up to speed on what's going on?"

(Timeskip, brought to you by Taiyojoo and Tsukihime ignoring Joker, who was telling awful jokes)

After Esdeath explained everything, I met up with my peerage in the living room. I was sitting on the couch with Yoshino at my side, while Shiyeon sat between Jihan and I. Standing behind me were John, Joe, Seraphina, Raynare, Mittlet, and Kalawarner.  On the couch across from us, were Dawei, Mori, Mira, and Ilpyo all of whom were trying to focus on the situation at hand, meanwhile, Seungchul, Sujin, Rak, Khun, Bam and Endorsi stood behind them.

There was also a chair that was to the side of the couches, which now held Sung as he decided to sit on that chair with a magazine in his hand. Of course, we had to move the coffee table off to the side, but now it was the seat of Ethan, Dark, and Sora. The reason all of us were sitting together was because of a certain issue that sat before us, with their hands tied up for obvious reason, the issue was Homura's Crimson Squad.

"Jihan, why are they still asleep?" I asked the sorcerer, while Yoshino was trying to process who these girls were. "I thought you had a skill for this?"

"Well excuse me if I don't know how to wake up people we're using for interrogation, I'm new to the whole war with gods thing." Jihan replied in a somewhat annoyed voice.

"You straight up told me you had a skill for everything when we first met each other." I responded to Jihan's statement with facts, kind of like a lawyer, but I then felt Yoshinon poking my cheek. "Yes my favorite daughter?"

"Dad, are you going to do anything to these girls?" Yoshino asked as she looked at me with tears threatening to spill out. "I heard you say you were going to interrogate them, so does that mean you'll torture them if they don't comply.

"What kind of Devil do you take me for?" I asked my daughter in a joking tone. "If they don't comply though, I'll make the sound of nails on a chalkboard though. Does that count?"

"Please don't." Raynare politely requested, but her request fell on death ears because I will do it.

"Can you even do it?" Kalawarner asked, more curious than afraid.

"I can and will do it, watch." I then proceeded to cover Yoshino's ears and make the noise, forcing everyone to cover their ears and Shiyeon to cover my mouth.

"Why don't you do that more often?" Mori asked, adjusting his eye mask as he did so. "Wait, if you just adjust your voice, does that mean you can burst the eardrums of your opponents?"

"Simple, I change the sound of my voice, but I can't change the volume." I explained in my normal voice, I then proceeded to start talking in Mori's voice. "I may sound exactly like you, but the volume is still the same as my own voice, no?"

"Well that's creepy." Mori commented before putting his eye mask on his eyes and falling asleep, something he likes doing during meetings. "Wake me up when the meeting's over."

"Fine by me." I responded before turning my attention to Yoshino, who was now leaning against my arm. "Also, Yoshino, how was staying with Uncle Sung?"

"He wasn't here that often but he was fun when he was here, plus I made some new friends!" Yoshino smiles brightly, making me slightly worried before turning my attention to Sung, who had a smug smile. "Their names were Igris, Tank, Iron, and Tusk!"

"Oh great, my daughter befriended dead people." I sighed before looking at the five prisoners, then realizing all of them were wide awake and looking at me with curiosity. "Erm...how long have you guys been awake?"

"We've been up for a while, (Y/N)!" Haruka gave me a smile as if nothing was wrong, causing Homura to growl a little. "We just wanted to see what you would do if we didn't."

"So you heard all of that?" Sung asked, finally setting down the magazine as he did so. "Great, now we look like a bunch of idiots."

"But we are." Sera replies as she takes a sip of soda from the fridge. "I thought we agreed to run a malarkey."

"You guys are aware a malarkey means meaningless talk and nonsense?" Mirai asked, genuinely worried now, but he question was followed by a minute long awkward silence.

"We know." Ethan responded to break the silence, crossing his arms as he did so.

"So what are you really going to do (Y/N)?" Homura growled at me, giving me a ferocious glare as she moved in her restraints. "Are you going to cut us open, pull our nails from our bodies, or maybe you're gonna ra-"

"Yeah..I'm just going to stop you there for multiple reasons." I intentionally interrupted Homura before pointing at my daughter. "Please watch the tongue, we have a child here with us. Another thing wrong with your logic, why on Earth would I do that to you guys now when I could have done it ten times by now? I just want some intel, and I'm just going to be annoying until you give it to me."

"He's not lying." Hikage added in a monotone voice, why are there so many emotionless people?

"Thank you Hikage." I thanked the girl, who nodded as she continued to stare at me. "Also, please don't attack Yoshino if you girls do break out, you're free to attack me, but my daughter is off limits."

"Why would we attack a child?" Yomi asked in an insulted tone. "We're not animals you know!"

"Well I've never met any of you before in my life, and I can't read minds." I reminded the girls, but then I noticed that Mirai was glaring at Ethan for some reason. "Mirai, are you mad that Ethan kicked your ass?"

"No, I'm mad he took my gun." Mirai responded, cussing all of us to look at Ethan, who gave us confused glances.

"What?" Ethan shrugged in a confused manner. "Her gun was positioned and designed to look like a giant...um...how do I say this with Yoshino in the room...a human male's lower antenna."

"Why did you just say p-" Mirai asked before she heard a click coming from me, looking over at me so see I was holding [Soda Popper]. "Nevermind."

"Thank you." I then proceeded to dismiss [Soda Popper] and turn my attention to Homura, moving closer to her face while staring curiously into her eyes. "So, Crimson Squad, what was your goal? Why were you at the tournament?"

"Why would we tell you, idiot!" Homura blushed and turned her face away from mine, is she a tsundere? "It's not like we'll just tell you anything without getting anything in return!"

"What are you talking about?" I asked the girl, mimicking a confused and concerned tone to pull off the act. "If you comply, you'll be granted free housing, meals, and allies. All you need to do is give me all the intel you can, occasionally help around the house, and help everyone else when they need it."

"What's the downside?" Hikage asked, taking the bait and causing me to give her a questioning look.

"The only real downside is that people will only help you if they like you, so maybe you have to talk to everyone else living here?" I guessed, not really sure of the exact downside to living here, plus there's enough space in this clan house to house my entire class. "So what do you girls say, deal?"

"F-Fine, just get out of my face." Homura turned red and I sat back down to respect her wish. "There's not a whole lot we can tell you anyways, we were just hired by someone."

"Any descriptions of the person in question?" Jihan asked, using his ability to see the girl's magic signatures, making sure they aren't lying.

"There were two people, but the person who gave us this assignment was a girl who looked to be around our age." Haruka answered, trying her best to remember the details of the girl. "She was wearing a brown cloak that covered most of her body, but her hair and eyes were a dark golden color. Oh yeah, she also had freckles!"

"The other woman was a bit older though." Hikage informed, having no trouble remembering the woman's appearance. "She was wearing a gray fedora, trench coat, brown hair and eyes, and a dark gray mask covered her mouth. The older woman also had a black briefcase which contained our reward."

"However the assignment was a dark one...it was to kill you, (Y/N)." Yomi informed, causing the atmosphere in the room to become darker and full of fear, and Yoshino quickly cling to my arm in fear.

"So how do they know if I died?" I asked, trying to form a scheme as I talked.

"They asked for your head as proof, and we only accepted because your intel said you have no ability, aside from basic ocean demigod stuff." Mirai informed, causing me to grin. "Are you smiling at someone trying to kill you or are you just insane?"

"Jihan, do you have a bomb I can use?" I asked the boy, who just responded by giving me a concerned look. "I have an idea."

So Jihan reluctantly reached into his inventory and pulled out a C4 bomb, which gratefully took and held it carefully in my arms. I then used [Disguise] to summon a paper mask with my face on it, which only had a thin wire to hold it to the face. So I wrapped the wire around the C4 bomb, followed by the bomb turning into an exact replica of my decapitated head.

"Now I see what you're doing, clever." Khun commented, while everyone just stared at the head in shock.

"Alright girls, so here's the deal." I carefully held onto my 'head' as I explained my plan. "Hand the reward to these two girls and accept the reward, once you do that you can keep the reward money. You're also free to live here if you like, but you have to tell me now if you want to. So what will you do? Live here or go back to your lives?"

"I think the answer should be obvious." Haruka teased as the ropes on all of the girls suddenly fell off them, as if they were never tied in the first place, which was followed by all of them standing up and surrounding me.

'Why do I get the feeling I'm about to get ara ara'ed?' I asked myself in my head before Haruka dived down at me and hugged me, forcing my head into her chest. 'Oh, that's why.'

"We choose to live with you, so take care of us when we get back." Haruka gleefully said as she started resting her legs in my lap, still with my head in the same position.

"I'll just take this so Haruka doesn't damage it." Homura grabbed the 'head' from my hands as she gave off a jealous vibe, while Yoshino just looked concerned at me.

"Hey Crazy Lady!" Yoshinon shouted at Haruka, who turned her attention towards the rabbit, but still remained in the embrace. "Not only are you choking my friend's father, but you're forgetting there's a kid around!"

"Yeah...any chance you can get off him, you're making all of us uncomfortable." Dark deadpanned, forcing Haruka to get off me with a huff. "I also recommend going to meet up with those two right now, (Y/N)'s making dinner."

"I am?" I asked, finally being able to breath through my face again, but I was still able to breathe while getting smothered.

"Looking forward to it." Yomi gave a sweet smile as she started to make her way to the front door. "C'mon girls."

"Bye." Hikage waved to me without emotion as she walked to the door before opening it to exit.

"Thanks for the offer, but tell Ethan to give me my gun when I get back!" Mirai shouted as she joined Yomi by the now open door.

"See ya, (Y/N)." Homura said, but I stopped her to hand her back the swords I took off her when I first put her in the instant dungeon. "Thanks."

"Can't wait have a taste~" Haruka licked her lips before winking at me and leaving with Homura.

After the five girls left, all of us were stuck in an awkward silence, not really knowing what to say about each other. Dawes decided to shake Mori awake, which was followed by Bam briefly explaining everything to the monkey king. However the peace was ruined by a certain nerd in the room.

"I'm placing 10,000 won in Haruka." Seungchul stares, not looking up from his book in the slightest.

"5,000 in Homura." Jihan countered, making me slap my forehead once more.

"I'll add them to the list." John replied as he pulled out his phone and began typing.

"Dad." Yoshino asked curiously, causing me to look at her, hoping for a break from everyone's betting. "Please choose someone, I'm getting confused as to who I'm supposed to call mom."

(A/N: Ha! You thought the Crimson Squad was going to be added?! Well they're not, that only works on opponents you've killed, just like in Shogi! Also, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and tune in next time!

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