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—Is something wrong, Marco-sama?—.
—...Nothing. Tell that idiot Kai to stop wasting time and come back before I come for him!—.
-Yeah!-.
With no one else in the fitting room, only his reflection in the mirror, Marco turned around, not paying attention to a small-sized blouse lying on the floor.
Carrying Sayaka unconscious and Rinka held by the neck, no one noticed a small movement in the fitting room curtain, belonging to the silhouette of a trembling girl.
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—Hey, be gentle with me, I'm a girl! Ouch! It hurts, you idiot!
—Shut up, there's nothing you need to think about other than worrying about making your master feel good.
-Idiot, you'll see when Javier Onii-chan finds out... I hope Shio-chan is okay and does what I asked her to-.
No longer trying to fight the way she was treated, they leave the mall, and Rinka finally realizes the anomaly she finds herself in.
"There's no one here. What exactly is going on here? Where did everyone go?"
Contemplating a sinister city, where the noise of cars and people was normal, they were no longer heard.
—How long is it taking that idiot to take care of the maids!—.
Rinka, trembling with fear like the others, a subordinate in a submissive attitude approaches to explain to Marcos, annoyed by the delay.
"I already sent Kasaka to..."
Boom!
Taking up a defensive position in a semicircle, Sayaka was lying unconscious in the center, next to Rinka, who was caring for her, and Marcos, who was calmly watching. Seeing a body lying on the pavement, blood splattering, one of the men cautiously approached and checked.
—...—.
-Alive?-.
—...—.
Marco asked, cutting his gaze, seeing one of his own confirm the obvious.
—Is it Kasaka?!—.
—Kasaka, ninth-grade elemental magician, how he died!—.
—I-I don't know, his body is pierced all over!—.
—What are you babbling about? Find the enemy and…—.
Without time to finish speaking, Marcos's gaze falls upon the silhouette of a woman dressed as a Maid, with long mustard-colored hair and a loose skirt that now clings to her long legs, outlining her thighs and V-zone.
Yami shows no interest in the kidnappers after jumping from the second floor of the mall. Looking past the twelve kidnappers, Rinka notices Yami watching her and waves her hand to confirm they're okay.
"The maids? That means Kasuki died along with the others. Hmm, it seems the information wasn't wrong and Mantiz's group didn't run away with their tails between their legs for nothing."
Clan! Clan!
Showing arrogance in his manner of speaking, as if he didn't care about the death of his subordinates, the sound of metal against metal is heard instantly.
Attacking from four different points: Achilles heel, femoral artery, eyes, neck. Four men disappeared and attacked.
Facing, immobilizing, bleeding out, a sure blow. Breathing in unison, moving as one. Having received training to kill with the most precision possible, without even communicating. At that point, Yami lowered her upper body slightly without even taking her eyes off Rinka and Sayaka, who were loading her into the cars.
A formless, dark mist instantly enveloped Yami's body. Like a thorny body, thousands of needles pierced the four men, who didn't see such an attack coming. They were riddled with bullets.
—Hmmm, so that's how Kasaka and the others died, she's an Armor-grade mage. Step back—.
The eight men under Marcos' command, knowing what they had to do, put Rinka to sleep with a blow to the neck, who wouldn't stay still, tearing off two of the four parked black cars.
Yami disappears, appearing on the moving vehicle that was carrying Rinka and Sayaka.
Gathering a thin layer of mist in his hand, Yami was about to cut without holding back, when suddenly a shadow appeared above him.
—A good girl should know how to behave.
Hit! Bann!
Kicking Yami in the face, she crashes into the wall of the mall, passing through it. The man, with a neat appearance, short black hair with gray already visible in his sideburns, and a piercing gaze, giving him an unapproachable, conservative air, approaches Marcos, who bows respectfully.
—Excuse me for disturbing your fun, Loter-sama!—.
—... You'd better go, and get the merchandise safely, this is going to get a little hectic.
—Understood, but Loter-sama? I'm not going to finish her off anymore, she's just an Armor-grade mage, you're a mage—.
—Who gives you the right to ask, you insolent fly?!—.
—I'm so sorry for my boldness!—.
—Hmph, get lost—.
-Yeah-.
Marcos, like a lapdog afraid of a real predator, retreats with his head down so as not to bother the man named Loter again.
—So, how long do you plan to keep playing hide-and-seek, girl?—.
Disdaining Yami, Loter approaches and sees Yami's shadow approaching.
—Uh, mmm, I never expected this kind of situation to arise from a simple shoplifting. I don't dislike it either, but I don't like it either. You could say it's a middle ground.
-... Who are you?!-.
Loter startled by the relaxed voice and looked at Javier who suddenly appeared, along with two girls who were Rinka and Sayaka, still unconscious and floating, and Marcos with a hole in the front of his skull.
—Who I am, you don't deserve to know, since you're going to die. Yami, release your seal, finish him off.—
—F—.
Unable to respond, Yami appeared in front of him. His bare hand resembled some kind of sharp sword formed from the mist. Loter felt fear at the sight of that simple attack, yet it held such great power.
-I'm going to die-.
Like a single thought, Loter followed Yami's hand that was five centimeters from his chest.
Plin!
—Ahhhh!! Don't underestimate me, brats!—
Appearing from somewhere, an exquisite navy-blue armor appeared on top of Loter. It covered his torso, shoulders, arms, forearms, legs, and head. Designed to resemble an ancient sea creature.
Responding with a three-finger attack, Loter strikes Yami's body in succession without letting her think for a split second.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
-Hard! How can a woman have a body as hard as the Miralta?
Loter, sensing the danger, even though he heard bones breaking, did not neglect for a few seconds, and saw a fish like an eel, except its head was flat, surrounding Loter's body.
—Cutting wave!—.
Leaping back, shouting the name of her technique, she throws a kick, which reflects a furious wave. Yami, who stared unblinkingly at what was happening in front of her, begins to envelop her.
Booooooom!!
With a loud crash, the arcane energy {slicing wave} lashes out, slicing and sweeping away everything in its path.
Rising a thick smoke, the walls of the commercial building were no longer along with the signs, stretching for more than a kilometer around. Loter, looking at the devastation of his technique with a tired face, looked back to where Javier's presence kept bothering him.
—A great show, I never thought I'd see something like that live. As expected from a magic world, it's fascinating.
—... How come they were okay? No. Who are you? You know who's behind us, and you dare to oppose us.
Javier was having fun like a child riding the roller coaster, unlike Loter, who looked at him with fear in his eyes, which he tried to hide with a superior attitude.
—Woo, I was scared—.
—There, there, there's nothing to fear, I'm here, Shio-chan, good job calling me—.
Holding Shio in his arms, trembling with fear as she sobbed, Javier looked at Loter wearing a transparent blue cloak with barely visible lines of the prehistoric fish.
—If I'm not mistaken, you're from the Radiant clan, which is in the slave trade.
—You know it and you oppose it!—.
—I don't give a damn what you guys are. As long as you don't come looking for me, I have no reason to worry about you and your operations.
—You ignorant fool! Who do you think you are, to look down on my radiant clan?—.
Javier, regardless of Loter's indignation at insulting his clan, calmed Shio down while not letting his conversation with Loter reach her.
—Yami, how long do you think you'll continue? You've become lazy from not doing anything at home.
—!—.
Pa!
Hearing what was once a concrete wall fall, Loter stares stiffly at a female figure covered in jet-black light armor with ruby lines.
Yami appeared with a radical makeover. Her soft, pearly, vibrant skin had changed to a bluish hue as if she were lacking blood, and although it was strange, she displayed an attractive charm.
Her long, now black hair was pulled back into a bun. A thick, symmetrical headband ran from her forehead to the back of her head, revealing a thin violet veil that began at her ear.
Her usual maid outfit had also changed, now a white one-piece dress with a turtleneck, showing off her shoulders and with red laces holding up the tight waist.
On the forearms, up to the fingertips, was a jet-black gauntlet with two ruby-colored images printed on it. The left one depicted a bird. Its head was on the middle finger, its wings on the thumb/pinky finger, and its two claws on the index and ring fingers; its long, savannah-like tail rested on the forearm.
Unlike the right gauntlet, which featured an image of a snake coiled around the forearm and a large shark mouth on the hand, strange tentacles sprouted from its body.
Her breastplate covered her bust, making her look smaller. A plant was carved between them, its shape obscuring. Protecting her lower body was a waist protector on both sides of her hips and thigh-high boots.
Tin! Tin!
As they walked, the soles and 2cm-high heels echoed in the perpetual silence. Loter, unable to believe his eyes, winced in fear. Javier, on the other hand, stared, fascinated, at Yami's silhouette as it moved from side to side.
"A Goddess descended to this earth. Oooo, to think that the cold armor and succulence of a lady were enough to move me like this, I feel like my heart is going to burst out of my chest. Damn, whoever gave birth to such a beauty, I have to thank her."
-Beautiful-.
A single word was enough for Javier to unleash everything he felt inside her. He had no idea that his murmur had made a stranger, Yami, smile at him.
—!—.
Going crazy with that smile, Javier's thoughts had vanished, while a tent had risen in his pants, but Javier himself nor anyone around had noticed.
—Gmmmm!!, die damn bitch!... Repressing collapse!!—.
Crushing everything at his feet, Loter lunges at Yami with a psychic in hand.
A head shorter than Loter, the Seer's body is filled with frenzied arcane energy, reaching the point of magical saturation. His lower body collides with the ground, causing a slight tremor nearby and tearing the ground apart. Failing to advance, Loter repeatedly smashes his lower body into the Seer.
—...—.
Without even running, Yami slowly walks to the attack, along with his left hand raised, with his index finger, while the others remained closed.
—You look down on me, but that will be your downfall!... Take my final attack!—.
Loter without stopping after attacking 12 times, his arcane energy at its highest point, leaps up above Yami and the aquiferous primitive being appears.
In the seer's throwing position, the body and the two tips transform into the crushed eel head, throwing it with all its power.
Still unfazed, Yami's index finger transforms into a bird's claw. Looking up at the sky while ignoring the ground, he lifts his foot and stamps on the ground.
Grrrrrrrr!
Forming a wave in all directions, like a stone had fallen on one side, the twelve watersheds that had come were destroyed. Without stopping, the wave of earth reached the nearby cities, destroying everything in its path.
At the same moment that the wave destroyed the water breaks, the last attack, the crushing head of the eel collided with the bird's claw.
Hearing a ripping sound, then a shattering sound, the spear evaporated in the bird's talon, and it moved on. Before Loter could react, he was swallowed up, vanishing from the world.
All of this happened in just a few seconds after Loter began his attack. For Javier, everything went slowly, watching each move from both sides.
—...—.
Looking at Yami who had arrived in front of him with his armor still on, Javier swallows without hiding the tent in his pants that did not stop throbbing, seeing how the blue hand, but, still maintaining the softness in plain sight, heads towards her.
—Hmm, the bad guys are gone now—.
Shio stops hugging Javier, looks around and sees Yami back to normal and Javier still sweating.
—Th-the bad guys have already left, Shio—.
… [Teacher, I want ice cream, I need ice cream, now]
Going back to his usual routine, Javier sighs in defeat for some reason and leaves Shio on the ground, who stares in surprise at a wasteland stretching out to the horizon.
—M-mommy! Onii-chan!...—.
Scared Shio of not finding anyone and only destruction, Javier, not knowing what words to say to her to calm her down, scratching the back of his head, an hourglass comes out of the ground.
—Mm, this is the device they used to create the replica of the world, it's very... monotonous and crude, wouldn't it be easier to create it with the laws of the universe, that would be the most basic logic, this makes the fight turn into a natural disaster—.
—...—.
Inspecting the device, Javier feels a tug on his shirt sleeve and it was Yami pointing at Shio, crying.
—... Don't cry, Shio, this is all fake—.
—Woohoo, fake, liar!—.
—That's true, look, now we'll get back to reality.
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By manipulating the hourglass, the world changed from a wasteland of rubble to a bustling scene of people gathered outside the mall, with the murmur of people and authorities talking on people's cell phones.
—At this time, the possibility of a tsunami off the Japanese coast cannot be ruled out. The earthquake measured 7.9 on the Richter scale.
—Prime Minister! Where was the epicenter of the earthquake and what damage did it cause?
—Yes, the earthquake struck near the Katsura coast of Chiba Prefecture, about 12 kilometers away. As for casualties and property damage from this natural disaster, we will inform you in the coming hours. For now, I'm urging calm…—
While the emergency conference was being heard, Javier had taken Rinka and Sayaka near the wall to lie down.
—Yami, can you go find Asahi and Yuuna, they must be worried about looking for us—.
—...—.
Without saying anything, Yami walked away, getting lost in the crowd, staying with Shio who didn't let go of his hand.
—Excuse me, your friends are fine, they need help—.
—No, don't worry, it must have been because of the scare from the earthquake, that they fainted, but nothing serious.
—Mmmmmm—.
—Look, they're already waking up, thanks for asking—.
—It's not my job—.
Going to the young mall employee, Rinka who was sitting, looking around sleepily and Sayaka who was beginning to wake up.
—Ouch, it hurts, what happened? I remember some men appeared and…!—
—Calm down, it's all over now, you'll decide for me which men want to take her, your pain is gone—.
—Uh, yes, thanks, Javier, it doesn't hurt anymore, that's convenient.
—Javier Onii-chan, who were those men? Shio-chan, good job, you were scared.
—Mm, Shio was super scared… but like Rinka Onee-chan said… I called Javier-kun.
-Well done-.
Burned, Rinka and Shio, Sayaka who had been able to stand up, looks at the crowd and then looks at Javier for an explanation.
—...—.
—... You know you don't have to look at me like that, I'll tell them what's going on. For now, let's meet up with Asahi and Yuuna, let's go to the car, we'll be more comfortable there—.
Saying this with a forced smile, Javier looks into the distance for a second before turning his gaze back to the girls.
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—"Ojo-sama, it seems we have been discovered. Ryuto-sama's friend, he doesn't seem to be ordinary, what do we do?"
—Mm, seeing everything that happened inside the area, it's better not to mess with them without knowing what their intentions are—.
—Mm? Ojo-sama isn't being too submissive in this decision. We should tell her…—.
—Permissive, not submissive! Hmph, besides, there's no need to talk to Oto-sama. The day I met Javier, I didn't sense any malice, even though he seemed to know who he was.
—Do we still not know what he could be up to? Yes, in some cases he's targeting Ryuto-sama.
—He won't. He doesn't need to beat around the bush when he has the power to have that woman in his pocket.
—... You're right, Ojo-sama, if someone with such power endured the consequences within the zone, he is not someone weak, even more so when he was protecting three civilians.
"With that in mind, we can't let him get away with it either. Although we've done a thorough investigation into Javier's background, we don't know if he approached Ryuto intentionally or if it was just a coincidence."
—Yes… Ojou-sama, we've been here longer than we thought. Although this won't affect the purchase, it's best to hurry.
—Let's go, we have nothing more to do here. I thought about repaying Ryuto for the help he gave you, but it seems it was unnecessary. Now let's go buy my first slave. I hope it's good quality.—
—Nothing to worry about, Ojo-sama, I did a thorough job, so you can train your first slave—.
The Asai princess disappeared from the rooftop of a building, along with her servant Lola. Javier was already in the car, and everyone had gathered to explain what had happened.
Everyone having a bottle of water, while Shio slept on Yuuna's tired legs, Javier begins his story, which took half an hour to explain.
—Let me get this straight, one of the families or clans, whatever you want to call it, wanted to kidnap Rinka-san and Sayaka-san along with Yami-san. But Yami-san killed them all, and now we could risk that clan coming for revenge, is what you're trying to say.
—That's the summary—.
Javier nodded with his arms crossed.
—You got it very well, Asahi, hahaha—.
—That's nothing to laugh about, Javier Onii-chan.
—Rinrin-chan is right, and Yami nee-san you have to control yourself, look what your fight caused—.
—Stop, there's Sasa-chan—.
Everyone inside the car, feeling the atmosphere becoming tense, Javier looked at Sayaka angrily, causing her to tremble.
—I will not allow anyone here present to criticize Yami's actions in the special about you two that ended with him saving you—.
Glud.
Swallowing saliva instinctively, Sayaka lowers her head in fear.
Pa! Pa! Pa!
Tapping the steering wheel with his finger in frustration, he watches the long line of cars getting gas and leaving the city.
-Long-.
—... it can't be helped; a quake of that magnitude will leave anyone uneasy. It's only reasonable that people would start fleeing the coasts and heading inland.
—Do you think there will be any fast food places open?—.
—I highly doubt it.
—You see what you caused, Yami! You should have held back a little or finished it quickly.
—...—.
I don't understand Javier's reasoning in accusing Yami when he had previously stated the opposite. Yuuna, seeing Shio still asleep in her arms, looked out the window at the traffic jam trying to leave the city.
—Rinka-chan, can I ask you something?—
—Mm? I don't care, but what is it?
—Shio told me that some bad people took you away, but Mr. Javier said that only the three of you were taken to that space and no one else, then—.
—Ah, you mean that, well, I don't know either, I only realized when Sayaka raised her voice and I heard that man in a suit speak. Shio-chan was next to me, but her body was glowing with a light pink color. I thought it had something to do with Javier Onii-chan.
—Uuu, it's not what you threw at Shio-chan this morning—.
—... It must have been the barrier I put up for Shio earlier. Rinka-chan, when everything happened, some part of your body touched Shio.
—At that moment… I remember I had taken off her blouse while Shio was trying on the new one, I must have touched her… I think—.
Shaking his head from side to side, trying to remember, Asahi clenched his fist.
—Well, it doesn't matter anymore, and what happened next—.
Javier said, as he moved forward at a snail's pace.
—I tried to look through the curtain, when…—.
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—Who are you?—
—!—.
—...—.
Startled by Sayaka's voice, Rinka put her index finger to her lips as she tried to strain her ears and listen.
—Insightful…. It looks like it will be a valuable item…—.
"High-value item, what do you mean? What's going on here?"
—Who are you?! What did you do to the people here?!—.
-Saya-chan is helping me... for now I have to do something. Shio-chan is here, although I don't know why her body is transparent, for now let's not think about that and keep listening-.
—...Do you want us to take you out by force or are you coming out voluntarily?—.
-She knows I'm here, but alone, she doesn't seem to know about Shio, it's better that way-.
Smiling weakly, Rinka takes out her cell phone and, knowing that Shio can't read yet, she quickly sets off and signals for him to understand.
Hearing the loud noise, Rinka, knowing she didn't have time, rubbed Shio's head to calm her down. She left, leaving her cell phone in Shio's hands.
—I wonder what the scandal is, Onii-san—
"Well, well, two high-quality products, with good heads, will be very good auction items. Now do you want to follow your friend's fate or do you want to walk alone?"
-Kimi-chan was knocked out, I don't see anyone or hear anyone either, that's what she meant when she said: {The people thing} earlier. For now let's keep smiling-.
"Hmm, I'll continue alone, but you're mistaken about one thing, Onii-san, that girl is my cousin—.
—Hehehe, excuse the rudeness—.
-I don't like this, keep looking at the fitting room, it seems like this will be worse than my previous life-.
—I'll go with you, Onii-san, but don't hurt Rinka—.
—What happened to the second team? Did they catch the maids?
—They don't answer. But knowing Brother Kai's temperament, he's having fun getting close to the maids.
"Tsk, so we're the three of them, he's targeting me. I can't move since they grabbed me by the neck, so other than continuing to walk, I just hope he doesn't walk into the fitting room and see Shio."
Even in that situation, worrying about Shio like a big sister, Marcos entered the fitting room and found nothing. But in the corner of the fitting room, Shio was trembling with fear, like the gaze of a snake. Clutching the cell phone Rinka had given her, Shio closed her blurry eyes, unable to control the tears without making the slightest noise.
—...—.
Shio, who no longer hears anyone nearby, with no strength in her legs, just crawls and sticks her head out a little while she grabs the curtain to hide.
—... R-right, I-I have to call Javier-kun, like Onee-chan said—.
Shaking and with her voice cracking with fear, Shio took a few seconds to dial Javier, as Rinka had shown her.
—...Hi, Rinka-chan, is something wrong? They're done shopping.—
—Javier-kun helps—.
—Shio…—.
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—After he told me what was happening, I came right away and here we are.
—That reminds me of how you managed to get us back. Saya-chan was already in the trunk, and they put me to sleep because I resisted getting in with them.
Sayaka, also wanting to know what happened while she was unconscious, looked to Javier to continue the story.
—After saying goodbye to my friends, I transported myself out of the mall. That's when I realized there was a different space. After that, I entered easily and saw that they were being taken in two different cars. And since it was a nuisance, I put everyone inside to sleep and got them out. After that, they crashed, and since the destruction was so great after the fight, they must be dead.
—So it was a hassle to save us one by one—.
—Don't say it like I'm a lazy person, I just thought: it was better, this way, to avoid future questions about who my favorite is—.
Blushing, the two teenagers chuckled at their reaction.
—Rinka-chan, Sayaka-san, how can you remain calm when you were about to be kidnapped by that evil clan?—.
Looking at each other's faces, Rinka and Sayaka looked at Javier who nods and looked back at Yuuna.
—Will you go first?—.
Sayaka asked with her arms crossed, under her tits, making them stand out.
—Mmm, yes, I'll go first. Listen, and don't be surprised, but we had a past almost identical to yours, but darker, you might say.
—Hey, w-wait what are you saying—.
—It started when I was 8 years old, it was five in the afternoon, I think, I was with my real Onii-chan and a childhood friend. That afternoon we fought over who would be my Onii-chan's wife and our friend Otome-chan won. The two of them left as if it were a game, I was left crying inconsolably, hehehe what memories it seemed like yesterday. At that moment a man came from behind, took me to the deepest part of the park and raped me. After that, the old man called more friends and they raped me right away, already at the age of 11 to 12, I had tasted the darkest pleasures of a woman.
Until I was 16, when I freed myself. Of course, during that time I had to have many abortions, and my family didn't even notice. My onii-chan also didn't notice that I had sex with an old man across the room... hehe, now it's your turn, Kimi-chan.
—... My stepfather is a billionaire man who separated me from my real father when I was 7 years old. I grew up in a rich lady's environment until I was 13. My father took me to one of the unknown clubs for a rich girl like me. In that place, there were perverts of all kinds, having abnormal, wild sex. My father recorded my rape while they did whatever they wanted to my body from behind and front, millionaire women and men—.
—How can you two speak so lightly? Why do you act like nothing happened? You were raped?!
Yuuna screamed hysterically when she saw how calm they were.