Mitarai's whole body stiffened as the charging cannon relinquished its intent and subsided back into the chest, somehow calming his outrage into submission.
With the attack no longer the issue, Ilulu's tail pinned him down. "ASIA IS FINE, MASTER!" She burned her scream into his mouth, bending her neck enough to show the teary-eyed nun.
"I'm sorry for making you worry! P-please come back!" Asia confessed with ocean-lit eyes, tugging at his heartstrings.
Rossweisse and the others looked at Mitarai when they heard the noise. 'It's cracking,' the Valkyrie thought, inching closer.
CRACK!!
Like a thousand mirrors at once, the anarchy armor disappeared as Mitarai was once again himself.
The first thing he came to was staring at Asia in shock, only to tackle her and embrace the short girl. Kisses peppering her frame.
"Forgive me!" Mitarai sincerely said, his head bowing down, only to be cradled by the others as the group shared hugs and kisses; Vali's team was the exception, though Vali bore a smirk and Bikou was grinning.
Mitarai then turned to see his familiar acting reticent, a snort coming from him as he realized Ilulu's reaction.
"Thanks for your help in waking me up from my temper tantrum!" Mitarai patted one of her massive horns, making her beam in happiness and relief.
"I want lots of sex as a reward!" Ilulu called out, making Mitarai laugh, with Bikou and Yuuto laughing; Vali had no reaction along with Arthur, and the other girls sighed.
Vali shook his head as he approached the group of them. "You're wild, all of you," Vali said with a mixture of both amusement and annoyance.
"To think that you actually managed to get him back from that form," he added.
His light blue eyes tracked the fellow Satan descendant. 'Still, just who is she and what was that power I felt?'
Such thoughts were ended when a titanic roar paralyzed everyone to the spot, their eyes all turning to the sky as a rip in space-time introduced a red creature coming out slowly.
A Western dragon with a horn on its snout and two sets of wings.
Mitarai looked back in forth in confusion at everyone's almost fearful reverence at the creature's appearance.
"So... can someone tell me what that thing is?" Takashi asked, trying to hide the shaking of his body at its presence.
'Am I scared?' he repeated to himself, not even used to such an experience.
"He's Great Red. The Dragon God of Dreams."
Everyone turned around to find themselves double tensing the fuck as two of the mightiest entities were present all at once.
'Ophis is here, too!' Vali thought, his dragon instincts going haywire at the presence of the pinnacle of his partial species.
Once again, Mitarai found himself blinking in confusion. "Why are you wearing duct-tape over your nipples and lacking almost everything else?" he asked.
"You cold?" Mitarai added, ignoring the WTF looks the others were giving him.
Takashi only found himself being stared at, before his dull, dark eyes landed on Great Red, whose body had only just finally gotten out of the rip in space-time.
Ophis pointed towards the source of her discomfort. "I will reclaim my silence," she spoke, making a finger bang pose.
"Can you not communicate?" Mitarai asked, finding the young-looking girl to be so enigmatic that he could only ask simple questions.
"The Red Dragon Emperor of this era is interesting," she said, getting off the small rock she was sitting on and vanishing through a portal with the infinity symbol.
"Someone educate my dumbass!" Mitarai groaned out.
Vali put his hands in his pockets as he looked up at the sky. "She's Ophis, the Dragon God of the Infinity. As well as someone whom I strive to defeat. And soon after Great Red—"
"Yeah, yeah, that's enough, man. I've had enough for a day," Mitarai muttered out, his eyes slanted from exhaustion, missing on Great Red vanishing back into the Dimensional Gap.
The White Dragon Emperor smirked. "Not going to put the middle finger at me?" Vali questioned, knowing how Mitarai could get.
"Didn't know you were into that?" Mitarai joked, making Vali roll his eyes and begin to walk off with his group.
"But I've had too much shit for one day!" he added, only to fall down and stop moving.
"Mitarai! Wake up!" Rias said, nudging his unconscious form. Her best friend was also there to give support and lift his head up from the ground.
Koneko's tails were wagging with concern as she hugged him, trying to use Senjutsu. 'If only I were better at Senjutsu!'
"Master!" Ilulu jumped in worry.
Asia immediately went to using her Twilight Healing on him. "Please work! Don't die!"
Ingvild, Valerie, and Kuroka were too exhausted to go further. Shuri and Fujimai were holding them so they wouldn't fall to the ground.
Rossweisse narrowed her eyes in concern. "I believe he'll be fine! He's a true hero! I shall have faith in him!" she called out, blushing as the others looked to Takashi Mitarai.
"I agree!" Xenovia and Yuuto chipped in.
"You can do it, sempai! There's still so much I have to learn!" Gasper muttered.
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In a flower field, a young Chinese man lay down to rest. His repose was disturbed by a silver-haired man with red eyes, garbed in a Gakuran with a priest coat over it.
"Cao Cao, Shalba died as well, and Vali has refused to become the Khaos Brigade leader."
"Is that so?" the man muttered, pulling himself from the ground.
"Well, it looks like it's time for the Hero Faction to rise up!" Cao Cao spoke, raising an ornate spear in the sky with a calm smile.
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Some days later, Mitarai was back and running again after his little stint.
It is how he won the 3-legged race with Asia. Everyone was worried prior, but a long rest was all he needed to be seemingly fine.
Though he did have to deal with the loss of a lot of life energy, some treatments were in place for him.
"Well done on your win, Asia, Mitarai!" she congratulated the two close members of her family.
Mitarai looked in mild surprise as Asia reached up to him for a kiss. "I'll make sure to never make you worry again, no matter what it takes!" Asia determinedly said, blushing at his smile and the ruffling of her hair.
From a distance, Azazel watched the interaction as his eyes then travelled to the Downfall Dragon Spear in his hand, the purple orb shining as if it were speaking to him.
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