The place I, Hyoudou Issei, woke up is on top of red ground. I saw a weird dream. A dream where I was encouraging Kiba who was fighting against Siegfried. He seemed like he was in trouble so I think I lent him Ascalonā¦.. The others also didnāt look happy so I encouraged them as well!
ā¦ā¦Huh. Where is this placeā¦ā¦?
When I looked around, there were red rocks that areā¦..spiky? Is it a desert? Iām not sure, but Iām on top of red ground. When I look at the sky, the scenery is mixed up because it has a mixture of different colours. It feels like Iām looking through a kaleidoscope. Wait, is this hell? If I remember, I went after Shalba who took Ophis and I tried to save herā¦ā¦. And then what happened? I was trying to go homeā¦.. I beat Shalba andā¦ā¦huh? Did I get beaten instead? My memories are blurry.
[Did you open your eyes? I didnāt know what was going to happen to you.]
I can hear my partnerās voice.
[Ddraig? Yeah, I lost consciousness andā¦ā¦.huh? Weird. Somehow my body feels weird.]
I realised the change in my body. ā¦ā¦Weird. I donāt have any sense of touch! I donāt have the sense of touching anything! Iām wearing the armour right now but I donāt have the sense to feel that! What is going on!? I tried to put my mask back into my armour like I usually do andā¦ā¦ I canāt do it! Th-then how about this!? I made the armour on only my hands disappear. Then-
Handsā¦. I donāt have my hands!?
My arm, which is supposed to be inside when I take my armour off, isnāt there! W-Waitā¦.. Are you telling me itās the same with my whole bodyā¦.? I didnāt know what was happening to me and then Ddraig talked to me.
[Your body was destroyed with Samaelās curse. You are in a state where your soul was taken out of your body and put into the armour. You can say that just your soul is left. But it was a hard decision whether this was actually possible or not.]
ā¦ā¦ā¦..Eh?
My body was destroyed? Is a state where Iām just a soul? And you put that inside the armour?
I thought about it and I realise right away what this means.
[ā¦..How can this be!? If I donāt have my body, I canāt have sex with Riaaaaaas!!]
I screamed while holding down my head! Holy sh*t! I canāt touch any oppai if I donāt have my body!? None of Riasās and Akeno-sanās oppai and Asiaās oppai which is still developing!? You must be kidding me that I canāt touch them anymore!!
I started a relationship with Rias! At this rate I canāt have sex with her!
[ā¦ā¦Eh? T-thatās your reactionā¦ā¦?]
My partner made a dumb response. Then I told him!
[Itās not āEh?ā! This is a matter of life and death! I got into a relationship with Rias, but I canāt do erotic stuff without my body! Touch those breasts with my hands! With bare hands! I canāt grope them! It was better if I dieeeed!! How are you telling me to have sex with just my armour!? Dullahan is the only one who can do such weird play!]
Not just Rias! I still havenāt touched enough of Akeno-sanās oppai either! Asiaās and Koneko-chanās oppaiās are getting started right now you know? Just looking at them is the worst thing that can happen! Maybe it might not be bad if they go inside my armour and say āAaaah, Iseās inside is so cold that Iām feeling itāā¦ā¦? No that isnāt good!? I want to feel them with my own skin!
[You are telling me I canāt make babies with Xenovia anymore! Sh*t! I also wanted to make babies with Irina! Geez, I donāt care if I can only do armour sex now! God damn it! So it should be okay if I can feel oppai with my armour right!?]
[Ahā¦ Ummm. You know Partnerā¦.]
Ddraig made an amazed voice. What is it!? Iām in a shock right now because I lost my body! What else can there be!?
[What is it Ddraig!? Iām really depressed right now! Talk to me afterwards! Shiiiit! I thought I was going to go home after beating that fraud Maou Shalbaā¦ā¦. Ah. Where is Ophis anyway? I remained in the artificial dimension to save her.]
Yes, Ophis. I regained my memory. I did beat Shalba afterall. I then saved Ophis and was going back home and I went down after my body was at itās limit after taking Samaelās curse. And when I regained consciousness I was on top of Red ground and have lost my body. I look around finding Ophis.
āHit hit hit.ā
When I got close to her, Ophis says this.
āI shall defeat Great Red.ā
Heā¦ā¦? W-What are you sayingā¦.. Then, I realised it. Where I am standing, that is! I thought they were rough looking rocks, butā¦ā¦!
I ran on top of the red ground! It wasnāt that large and soon I found the end. But what I found wasā¦. an enormous sharp thing! No this isnātā¦..! This is a horn!?
I walk a bit more. And I appeared on top of the head of something! Iām on top of a familiar creature.
Yes this red ground is a gigantic Dragon, Great Red! Uwaaaaaaah! Iām on top of Great Red!
[ā¦..W-Why am I on top of Great Redā¦ā¦?]
Ddraig says it while making a sigh.
[After you defeated Shalba Beelzebub, you used up all your strength in the artificial dimension which was crumbling. After that the artificial dimension collapsed completely. Great Red passed by coincidentally. Then Ophis rode on Great Red while taking you with her. This is the dimensional gap. By the way several days have passed since then.]
So now its like this huh. To meet Great Red by chanceā¦.. I am really lucky. So this is the dimensional gap. It is a mysterious placeā¦ā¦
Wait, several days have passed!? ā¦ā¦Ah man. Everyone must be really worried.
[Thinking about how you attract others, I can only think that you attracted Great Red naturallyā¦.. Your chance of meeting legendary beings is already abnormal. To avoid danger by your power of attracting others. You are very hard to read like usual.]
Donāt say thatā¦ā¦ Iām also concerned about this.
I just want to have an ecchi life peacefully and so why do weird things like these come to me! Itās more than serious. This is a very dangerous thing. I did lose my body, after all!
ā¦..Maybe I should get purified. Ah, I will receive damage if I get purified! I canāt do anything about it!
ā¦.Well nothing will start if I say that now. Anyway Iām fine with Great Red coincidently passing by, and being saved.
Ophis stopped hitting Great Red and looked up at the sky.
[What. You didnāt return to your world?]
I say it to Ophis. It wouldnāt have been weird if she went home leaving me behind.
āTo me, this is my original World.ā
Oh yeah. This dimensional gap is her motherland.
[ā¦ā¦I said it in a wrong way. Didnāt you return to the Underworld or human world?]
āYou said "let's go home together". Thatās why I am here. I will go home together.ā
What an honest Dragon-God-sama. She really isnāt bad. Sheās pure.
[ā¦..You really are weird. But you werenāt bad after allā¦ā¦ Haaa. By the way, am I able to go home? Wasnāt there a summoning by Sensei?]
[There was. But only your evil-pieces inside you returned. It was a rare phenomenon. Evil-pieces are items with lots of mysteries.]
Ddraig says that! There was a summoning!? But just my evil-pieces returned!?
[Are you serious! Ah, it is true. I canāt feel the response of my evil-pieces!]
This makes me feel downā¦. Seriously. Even though my soul was saved, I lost my body and evil-piecesā¦.. What remained was my soul, Sacred Gear, and Ddraig? So I am in a state where it is amazing that I am alive. No, even being alive in this state is more amazingā¦.. Seriously, what am I? ā¦ā¦Are you telling me this is the blessing of Chichigami-sama?
[Your power source was because of the evil pieces. Right Partner?]
That is right Ddraig. Triaina and True-Queen were possible because of the evil-pieces. Because of that, I was able to get different powers from the previous Sekiryuuteiās.
[Anyway, I need to tell everyone that I am safeā¦.though I am actually notā¦ā¦ W-Well I want to tell them that Iām at least alive. But am I safe staying like this?]
The inside of my armour is emptyā¦.. Can I call myself alive? Oh I am. I do have my conscious.
[You are borrowing Great Redās power right now. So for now you are.]
Ddraig answers. T-then that means I have to be with Great Red!
[Either way I canāt return normally! Man Iām totally trappedā¦ā¦]
[Can I change back the subject again Partner?]
Ddraig says that.
[Nn? Was there something?]
[Yeah. Reconfirmation of the current situation.]
[Current situation you sayā¦ā¦ I have to go on a trip in the dimensional gap with Great Red in this state right? You are telling me to live in a World where there aren't any girls' breasts, butts, and thighs for eternity, right?ā¦ā¦.. Itās hell. My road to becoming a Harem-King is far away.]
[Hahahaha! Not giving up on becoming a Harem-King even in this situation! As to be expected from my Partner!]
Ddraig laughs heartily. This isnāt something you can laugh about! This is very serious for me! Itās my dream! The truth is it will be hard to become a Harem-king now since I donāt have my body anymore! No, I have to think of ways to do erotic stuff with just my armour as my last resort!
[Thatās it. I can understand why the remaining thoughts of the past hosts left everything in your care.]
ā¦..What are you saying? What do you mean? I then send my conscious to the depth of Sacred Gear. ā¦ā¦I can see that white World. ā¦..There are tables and chairs. ā¦ā¦But no-one is there. There isnāt even a single Senpai there! What is the meaning of this!?
Ddraig speaks quietly.
[ā¦..Partner. Your soul was at risk of disappearing because of Samaelās poison. It was too late for your body so we had to discard it. What would be affected after the body was your soul. At that rate, your soul was about to be eliminated by Samaelās poison. Even I thought there was no way out. I was even prepared to go to the next host.]
ā¦ā¦Wait. So how did my soul survive?
[Their remaining thoughts protected your soul from Samaelās curse. While they became your substitute for receiving Samaelās curse, I pulled your soul out and attached it to the armour. It was perfect timing. If my judgement was slightly slow, you wouldnāt have been here now.]
ā¦ā¦..
ā¦ā¦Whatā¦ā¦ Then that means Iām here thanks to the Senpaisā¦ā¦.! Still, havenāt I barely talked to them!? They started to put on good smiles by being released from the curse of Sekiryuutei! They even gave me advice at the artificial dimension! I even thought we could get along from now on as well! Thisā¦ā¦.. A farewell like this is too muchā¦.!
[ā¦ā¦I can understand how you feel. Thatās why can you please listen to their last words? They left their words behind. āThis is their last message to you.]
Yeah please let me hear it! The words they left behind for me!
ā¦..Waitā¦.I think there was a similar situation like this beforeā¦..A bad prediction crossed my mind. Then a vision appears from the jewel. It has the recording of the faces of my Senpais. They said it to me with very refreshing smiles.
[[[[Pochi and Pochi, Zoom Zoom, Iyaaaan!]]]]
ā¦ā¦ā¦
There was nothing I could say. Itās just like how I imagined! I knew it would turn up like this! How much do you guys, the past Sekiryuutei, love that song!? From the side of the vision, Hakuryuukou-senpai shows his smile.
[Butts are also wonderful, current-Sekiryuutei.]
Tell that to Vaaaaaaaaaaali!!
Ah the vision disappeared! Are you serious!? This is it!? Nmoooooooooooou! How come you Senpaiās arenāt leaving any nice words to your Kouhai[1]!! The only thing I can say to them is āThank you very much! I will do my best!ā while holding down my head! No, Iām really grateful to them for saving my life! So make it more emotional then! I made a sigh and Ddraig says it to me.
[Look at the far end to the left.]
I looked after Ddraig said that. āThere is a swollen block of flesh. ā¦ā¦Did Great Red get bitten by a mosquito? Ah, it has a pulse! Is something inside?
[Whatās that?]
[That is a cocoon. No, you can say that is a cultivation capsule.]
[Cocoon? Cultivation? Whatās inside?]
[Yeah, your body. Your body which has been destroyed once is receiving new flesh in there. Itās giving birth to your new body with a part of Great Redās flesh and Ophisās powers.]
ā¦ā¦.
ā¦ā¦.What did you sayā¦ā¦.?
I was speechless, and Ddraig laughed heartily.
[Kukuku. You will be revived by the True-Dragon and Dragon-God. āPartner. Letās prepare for the counter-attack.]
Notes:
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