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Chapter 16: Pizza Time

(Your POV)
A couple days passed since Kiba's disappearance and the two girls stayed at our house. Irina may have been a little hesitant to trust a devil, but she's started opening up after she caught me watching one of those spaghetti western films. To get the two girls to trust me more, I decided to get something called a pizza. Issei told me these kinds of foods were incredibly popular with people our age, and he would know more than me, I just ate clams, muscles, fish, crabs, and whatever else I can find. Still, this pizza thing smelled nice, and it was my turn to cook dinner, so I suppose this would be okay. I can always make something tomorrow if this doesn't count. It was dark tonight, but the moon and stars weren't visible, so I assumed there were clouds above us.

As I walked, I heard the sound of metal clashing against metal, and it sounded like a fight. I didn't want to drop the pizza, but I also wanted to help whoever was fighting. Was this what they called a dilemma? Wanting to help someone but not wanting to sacrifice what you have? I wanted to know what was so special about this thing called a pizza, yet I also wanted to help whoever was struggling. It wasn't that easy to choose who to save until a sword suddenly cut my pizza box in half, causing the now-cut pizza to fall out. I looked in the direction of the sword to see an exorcist who just lost his sword.

Welp, guess it's time for me to kick some ass.

I took out my brass knuckles, Kazekami, since I don't like walking around with Genbu on my back. I decided to gain three charges by punching my right leg, causing it to break in three places. I didn't expect it to recover immediately, but it did, and before I can figure out why, Kiba cut the exorcist in half. Leaving me with a jade scale-covered right leg that looked like a dragon's.

"Hi Kiba." I greeted awkwardly, not knowing what to do, causing the knight piece to look at me surprised.

"(Y/N), what are you doing here?" Kiba asked, causing me to point at the pizza with tears comically pouring out of my eyes. "You came into exorcist territory to grab a pizza?"

"I wanted to see why it was so highly praised." I answered bluntly, but then I caught onto what Kiba said. "Wait, did you say exorcist territory?"

"Oh yeah, there's an exorcist base not too far from here." Kiba informed me as a gunshot could be heard, forcing the two of us to get into a battle stance. "Sorry to drag you into this, but I doubt I can take them all on my own."

"Mind if I ask why you're going around killing exorcists?" I asked before taking another gunshot directly in the forehead, causing me to stumble as the wound began regenerating. "Ugh..."

"These exorcists know where a fragment of excalibur is, but they refuse to tell me." Kiba used his sacred gear to summon a sword in his hand. "Kill all of them, except for one."

Once I was fully healed, I used my regenerated leg's superior strength to send me towards a large group of exorcists, who were horrified by the sight of my regenerative capabilities. Once I was in the middle of the group, I punched the ground and used three charges, causing a large tornado to engulf the entire group of exorcists. The sheer force of the tornado managed to knock some of the exorcists back, but the ones who didn't get blown away plunged their swords into my back. The pain was immense, but I ignored the pain and upper cut one of the closest exorcists.

"For your own sakes, I recommend telling us where the fragment of excalibur is." I kicked another exorcist in the chest with my enhanced foot, sending him into the ground. "If you don't, we'll be forced to kill you all."

"For the last time we don't have that damn excalibur, we have no idea what you're talking about!" One of the exorcists spoke up, and something in my stomach was telling me he spoke the truth.

"Kiba, I doubt he's lying." I commented, I always did have a good sense as to whether or not people are lying or not, but it's more like a gut feeling instead of an actual ability. "He knows that he can't kill me and lying would be pointless."

"Don't trust what they have to say." Kiba warned me as he impaled another exorcist with his sword. "We expect the truth out of them."

"Just because it's not what you want doesn't make it not the truth." I reminded my friend as I caught another exorcist's sword in my hand, causing blood to gush out from my palm. "Kiba, maybe these exorcists don't really possess a fragment of excalibur."

"Don't listen to them (Y/N), they do nothing but lie." Kiba informs me, but if he's correct, then this entire fight is pointless.

"But if they had a fragment of excalibur, why don't they use it?" I asked as I used my scaled leg to block a sword slash from another exorcist before breaking the sword I was holding. "They're clearly outmatched."

"Because not everyone is compatible with an excalibur like me." Kiba informs me, and he flinches like he revealed something he shouldn't have.

"Wait, you're that kid Valpler wanted dead!" The exorcist from earlier point at Kiba as I put my brass knuckles in my pockets, at this point I think it would be better if I didn't aim to kill right away.

To protect Kiba, I jumped into the air, pulling out my desert eagle and shooting three exorcists in the head before landing atop of the exorcist's leader. My foot stomped against his chest while my spare hand caught onto his face as I landed, crushing his head against the pavement. Some of the exorcists started to run away, while others tried striking me with their swords, but it was like cutting a brick wall. None of their swords can pierce my body anymore so it was pointless, and I did a roundhouse kick to knock the remaining exorcists unconscious. I turned my attention to Kiba, who just finished killing the last of the exorcists.

"Kiba, are you doing this just to let off some steam?" I asked as I walked towards him and pulled the swords out of my body, since the exorcists just left their blades inside me. "We couldn't get any intel on excalibur, yet you don't seem bothered."

"I won't deny that is the case." Kiba thought about what I said, as the scales on my body began disappearing, signaling that the fight was over, to reveal perfectly fine skin. "Still, you decided to help me."

"Because you're one of my friends, and don't friends help each other?" I answered Kiba's accusation with a question of my own. "By the way, Rias is worried about you. Due to the fact that you didn't file the paperwork, you're being classified as a rogue devil. If you want to quit, you just need to fill out a two week's notice so we can prepare the ritual to remove your piece."

"You seem very educated despite only being a devil for three weeks."

"I'm a fast learner."

"It's not that I want to leave Rias' peerage, it's just that I need to stay on my own for a little while." Kiba informed me, and I was glad he wasn't leaving us entirely.

"Are you sure you don't want me to do it?" I asked, and I know it was stupid of me to suggest it. "You're a devil hunting holy weapons, on top of that, Issei surpasses you in terms of defense. It would be better if I were to do it because I literally can't die, so it's 100 times safer for me."

"It's fine, this is something I need to take care of." Kiba then disappeared, and he was way faster than me, so I decided against trying to catch up to him, but now my attention was focused on the fallen pizza.

Guess I have to buy another one.

(Timeskip, brought to you by (Y/N) apologizing to the cashier, who is trying to process the situation)

I arrived back at my house with a new pizza, which was free because I proved to them that my other one was defiled. I held the pizza in one hand as I reached into my pocket to pull out the keys. I unlocked my house door and walked in, closing the door behind me to see Irina, Xenovia, Natalia, and my father sitting on the couch, watching the television. I walked towards the dining room and put the pizza box on it before sitting down at a chair. Xenovia sat on my left while Irina sat on Xenovia's left. Natalia and my father sat across from me, and I think they know what this pizza thing is.

"The pizza is here." I pointed out the obvious, since I had no idea what else to say. "I have no idea what's so special about this, other than the smell."

"You have no idea what pizza is?" My father asked in shock before a gloomy aura appeared around him. "I truly am a failure of a father."

"I never have had pizza before, either." Xenovia joined me in the 'first ever pizza' club. "What about you, Irina?"

"Same here, the church never really let us eat greasy foods." Irina informed me, so I guess they were in the same boat as me. "What about you (Y/N), what did you eat up until now."

"Before Issei introduced me to fast food or convenience stores, I just ate whatever I could find and kill in the ocean, with the exception being seals." I answered before Natalia pulled out some paper plates and slammed them on the table.

"Oh Dios mío will you three just eat it already." Natalia sounded annoyed and handed us plates. "You three may be church officials and a rook piece, but you three are still young. So you three better act like it and enjoy your youth!"

Not wanting to invoke her wrath, I opened the box and the smell of the meal was even stronger. Me, Irina, and Xenovia all grabbed a slice of (favorite topping) pizza in sync and bit into it. The topping my father likes only enhanced the flavor of this substance that I was unfamiliar too. It was infinitely better than any crab I've killed, possibly even better than lobsters. Irina and Xenovia seemed to enjoy this new food as well. Upon seeing our reaction, Natalia took a picture while Asger grabbed a slice and smiled.

"Why'd you take a picture of us?" I asked, wondering what was going through my mother's head.

"You hardly ever display any emotion, so I decided to take a picture every time you smile." Natalia informs me, but what really caught me off guard is that she said I smiled. "Usually you're all stoic, kind of like a samurai from one of those old movies you like watching."

"I apologize." I bowed my head after setting my slice of pizza back on the paper plate.

"Example A." Natalia responded to my comment by using it as an example for her earlier statement. "Look, you kids go through a lot of stress before even graduating, so just take tonight to enjoy yourselves."

With that said, us three students finished off the pizza while Natalia only had two slices and my father had three. I felt bad that they got so little, but they told me that they've had pizza before, so it was fair that us three students eat it all instead of them. After we ate, we didn't have to do dishes on account of us using paper plates, so we just threw them in the trash. Irina then went off to go take a bath, allowing Xenovia and I to watch a Chuck Norris film I found in the cupboards. As we watched, Irina came out of the bathroom, signaling she was done. I insisted that Xenovia goes to the bath before me, but Xenovia insisted that I go instead. We argued for a bit, but Irina evidently got annoyed and told me that I should go in.

The bathroom was not incredibly spacious but it was nicer than your average bathroom. I took off my clothes and tried taking a bath, since before I just poured a couple buckets of seawater over me and called it a day. Rias told me that baths are a nice way to unwind, so I might as well try taking one now that I have the chance. I placed myself in the empty bathtub and started filling it with water I warmed up earlier. I decided to awkwardly relax with my head resting over the edge of the tub, the warm water was different than what I'm used to, so I didn't know how to act.

It was weird to be sitting still for so long, so I looked around and found something called a rubber duck. This rubber duck looked like a typical sea captain, with the navy turtleneck, captain's hat, a white beard, a smoke pipe in it's bill, and a small anchor in its grasp. I grabbed onto this rubber duck and examined it before placing it in the water. I watched the rubber duck float aimlessly in the water before giving it a light squeeze, causing it to squeak. I was mildly amused by this inanimate thing before the door suddenly opened to reveal Xenovia wearing a towel. In response to this, the two of us just stared at each other in complete silence.

"Didn't I lock the door?" I distinctly remember locking the door to prevent people from entering while I was using the baths.

"I lockpicked it open." Xenovia was just as blunt as I was, which made things easier in my opinion, honesty is the best policy.

"Cool, can you teach me that skill?" I wanted to learn as many skills as I could to be more versatile for Lord Issei...I can see now why he doesn't like being called Lord Issei.

Xenovia shut the door behind her and entered the bath, while I placed the rubber duck outside the bath. Xenovia took off her towel before she sat right between my legs and rested her back against my chest. As weird as it was for this situation, I've decided to just go with the flow no matter how weird things got. I started thinking that way ever since my first mission, involving the devil with laser nipples. Though I am curious as to why Xenovia decided to barge into the baths.

"So why did you come in here?" I asked, curious as to why this situation was happening in the first place.

"I wanted to have your children." Xenovia didn't miss a beat, and even this level of weirdness I wasn't prepared for. "You don't have to raise them, but I want you to be the father."

"There's so many levels of wrong in that sentence, but let's begin with the first one." I actually protested for once, which is something I never do. "If I'm having kids with anyone, I'd like to be there as a father to protect them. Starting a family is actually something of a dream of mine..."

"Then we can start right now." Xenovia was about to grab the 'eel in the bath', but I grabbed her hand first.

"My next point, we aren't married, therefore, no baby making is allowed." I demanded, I may be a devil, but I have standards. "And the last point is that we're way too young to be having kids. My personal opinion is that we should at least graduate college since balancing college and children is quite the ordeal."

"Understandable." Xenovia got back in her original position. "I assumed you were okay with it because I feel something poking against my back."

"The only reason why a man wouldn't be like this in this situation would be if they weren't attracted to women." I commented, accepting reality as it is. "So anyways, what's it like living in the church? Is it one of those 'all girls' things or are there boys in there too."

"You know those schools that only house one gender?" Xenovia asked and I nodded to show I understand. "The Church is like that, separating the two genders to ensure nothing happens."

"I would have guessed as much." I began relaxing, resting my head on Xenovia's head. "By the way, how did you know what to do?"

"I read that erotic novel in your room." Xenovia informs me, but I don't recall buying any such novel, but then I remembered Issei's gift on my birthday.

"Oh yeah, that book, I never got around to reading it." I recalled getting that book, but I never learned it because I spent all of my free time reading my spellbook, trying to memorize the spells.

After I said that, the door opened once more to reveal Irina, wearing nothing but a towel even though she just bathed. Xenovia and I stared at Irina, who stared back for a moment before going red. I had no idea what Irina was doing in here, since she just bathed a little while ago. Unlike those usual anime tropes, Irina apologized and left, leaving Xenovia and I confused. After that little incident, Xenovia placed the rubber duck in front of her and the two of us simply watched the duck float to pass the time. Xenovia commented on how the duck looked like my father, so we decided to name it Asger the Duck.

Overall, a pretty good night.

(A/N: I apologize for not 100% accurately depicting Irina in the last chapter, in my defense, the last time I watched DxD was in 2014, and I'm not even sure if the series itself is still ongoing. In other news, (Y/N)'s height compared to everyone else. This seal boi is 6'6 (198 CM), while Kiba, Rias, and Best girl Rossweisse are all 5'8 (172 CM), Issei is 5'7 (170 CM), Akeno is 5'6 (167 CM), Xenovia is 5'5 (165 CM), Irina is 5'4 (162 CM), Kuroka is 5'3 (160 CM), Asia is 5'1 (154 CM), Ravel is 5'0 (152 CM), Gasper is 4'11 (149 CM), and Koneko is 4'6 (137 CM). Does this affect you in any way? No, but now I realize I made the MC way too fucken huge.

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