AHH, I'm an IDIOT! I MEANT ASMODEUS not ASTAROTH. I've changed it to Beelzebub, for another reason mwahaha. Anyways I'm glad I could catch it before anyone else did lol.
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Working in the night could be seen as a big mistake but the men had too much vigor to simply wait for tomorrow. Shirou could see them sweating and could tell that they were getting tired, so he finally called it off. They had gathered enough wood to start the repairs of many homes.
Along the way back to the town, he picked out many herbs and spices specifically for the bears meat. There were a lot of flaws with bear meat which were parasitic infections, diseases, toxin accumulation and many more however, this was magical bear meat. Shirou didn't want to assume that it would be safe to eat but he would check for parasites and try to burn off any negatives of the meat.
Arriving to town, all the woman and children were waiting for them like they were staring at heroes in action. Shirou nodded to everyone and saw that the bear had been untouched which is a nice addition. "I will prepare the food now."
A wife offered to cook it herself, but he denied her saying that they should get some rest from the previous heart inducing event earlier in the day. It was already night, so he had to work fast and get these people some dinner.
Tracing a knife, he managed to dissect the bear perfectly into chunks of meat. He traced a pot and began creating a makeshift cooking pot lighting a fire on pieces of wood. There wasn't much to do except start searing the bear meat.
He asked what kind of crops they grew, and it seemed that they mainly grew carrots, asparagus, and rice. These options were quite limited, but it would do for now. Shirou asked for a big quantity of these crops, and he was delivered the items in a few minutes.
This was when Shirou began to truly cook, and an amazing aroma began to emerge enticing all the villagers. Time passed smoothly and finally the dinner was ready for everyone. Mid way the cooking session, he realized that he hasn't been cooking enough, he was too used to cooking only for the people back home.
It wasn't too much of a bother, he simply projected bigger and bigger cooking pots placing them next to the original cooking pot he created and began the process once more. Slowly he gave everyone a portion.
The town began to heartily eat the food, Shirou even heard moans from the side which creeped him out slightly, but deep satisfaction welled up knowing that they were enjoying his cooking.
Everything went amazing through the rest of the night. Everyone offered Shirou a space inside their broken-down homes, but he rejected them all saying that he would keep guard during the night.
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It has been a week since Shirou had arrived in this new brave world. He wondered how long it has been in his original world, a few hours, a day? He knew that it hasn't been a very long time because knowing Rin, she would've already tracked him down.
A small proud smile appeared on his face as he watched the townspeople interact with each other, in a week through hard work they have managed to change this run-down place into a proper looking place. No longer were the houses looking like they would break down in any second.
Even he had a small house, a lot of the villagers asked if they could expand it, but it would be too much working living alone. All Shirou needed was a place to sleep.
"When do you think they will arrive?" Shirou questioned the person next to him; it was Alexander the leader of the town. He had been told a lot by this person or rather Devil.
Shirou had no idea that what he was protecting were Devils, but they didn't seem like the Devils like from his old world rather just another species that were capable of having emotions. He had no regrets in saving them.
The biggest problem in this world was the Civil War that was ongoing, Shirou was told by Alexander that he could leave them behind and participate in the war through the New Satan Faction, those who wished to stop the Old Satan Faction from restarting the war once more.
He rejected that notion, Shirou knew that he couldn't save everyone. There was a reason why he had been summoned here and he was going to protect this group.
"Should be in a few days, I'm sure the clan has gotten word of the death of their clan member." Alexander responded with a nervous expression, peace had finally arrived in the town and soon it was more once going to be jeopardy.
Shirou nodded in advance grateful for his answers. He looked back in the town; he hoped that it wouldn't be a giant army. He couldn't protect everyone if that was the case. "Do you think it will be an army that's marching here?"
Alexander shook his head, a self-deprecating smile appearing. "They won't bother bringing such manpower here, we are just a tiny village after all."
The two stood in silence, this was their usual. Waiting for the Beelzebub Clan to arrive and they assumed that they wouldn't, but they were both wrong as an obvious presence was making their way and fast.
Shirou furrowed his brow, the power he felt coming was much stronger than the one from the previous member. Would he lose though? Nah he'd win.
He gestured for Alexander to fall back; he didn't want him to get hurt at all from what he assumed to be an upcoming battle. Thankfully the towns leader did just that.
The presence had arrived, and it was a young woman with black hair dressed in noble clothing. Five pairs of wings sprouted from her back, screaming powerful and nobleness. "So, you are the one who killed Viktor." She stated nonchalantly.
"And how do you know that it was me?"
The woman scoffed and pointed at Alexander, "Do you think that sorry sack of shit could've killed my dumbass brother? Obviously not."
"What are you doing here, for revenge against your brother?" Shirou questioned the woman.
"Why would I, Slyvia Beelzebub get revenge on my brother, that absolute weakling who couldn't participate in the war?" The now-named Slyvia stated with deep arrogance.
Shirou had a confused expression etched into his face, "So why aren't you in the war efforts right now?" Surely, she hasn't left the battlefield to deal with him, right?
"I got a letter from my Clan telling me that my brother died to some nobody, and I was originally intending to slaughter the person that dared sully my Clans name but you, you look strong, stronger than my brother at least. and even better you look handsome, good enough to be my new toy!" Slyvia explained licking her lips looking at what she deemed an attractive man.
Again, with being handsome, it got to a point where getting called handsome would annoying no? Shirou thought so but he wasn't anything but normal though.
"If I joined you, would you let the village go?" He questioned the woman, off the side Alexander had an expression of small panic.
"Shirou-what"
"Silence weakling, to answer your question. I would let the village go." Slyvia exclaimed holding her hand to Shirou.
Shirou thought that she was trying to show how much a "great person" she was, but he could smell the lies. There was no way that Slyvia would let the village go, he had already seen how many Magus from the Clocktower wouldn't even glance when killing innocent normal humans.
She was one such people, but Shirou could argue that she was even worse than that. "I can tell that you aren't telling the truth." He said in a monotone voice even if he wasn't intending for it to come that way.
Slyvia felt her cheeks redden from embarrassment, how could someone call out her lies like that. "Y-You" She took a few breaths in order to cool herself down. "Then I'll have to take you by force!"
That was one of the most cliche things that Shirou had heard but he was unable to comment it as she had disappeared from his sight before a punch towards his chest was seen.
Fast was what Shirou thought, barely able to reinforce his body for impact. When the punch connected, he was sent meters away. He coughed a bit of blood from the hit. Yes, having the World's Evil was an advantage but ultimately, he was still a human. It was a miracle that he had managed to survive to reinforce himself fast enough.
Slyvia didn't relent and instead rushed forward for another attack intending to knock out the Devil in front of her in one more clean hit. Her punch to his side sadly for her missed hitting clean air as the Devil turned his body away. She watched in surprise as he unfurrows his wings, but they were made out of mud?
Shirou shot in the air and the Beelzebub woman followed shortly with her own 5 paired wings. In the sky he traced Kanshou and Bakuya in both hands. He heard the woman whisper about Sword Birth but ignored the implications.
He propelled his body forward and slashed at the woman's abdomen. Her arrogance was clear as she let the attack connect. Shirou saw her flesh get split open but before he could cut her horizontally, she kicked him away. It hurt but with the Noble Phantasm's passive physical resistance, it hurt less.
Slyvia couldn't believe that a weapon had managed to hurt her. She had pushed her physical resistance to the near limit by enhancing it with Demonic Power and yet the weapon was able to pierce through easily. It angered her but it wasn't enough anger to delude her judgement.
Instead of going for any close attacks she instead chose to rely on what she was best at, ranged attacks. Magical circles flooded behind her and magical beams shot at the teen.
Shirou did his best to dodge but some would successfully hit him causing burns to appear on his body. Even with the passive magic resistance it wasn't doing too too much to help him in this situation. He willed the mud and shot it at Slyvia who dodged the attack however this small moment was enough for him to throw Kanshou straight to the woman directly stabbing her in the stomach.
He watched the woman clutch her abdomen and look at him in a rage before glancing down at the town. A bad feeling arose from his chest, and he knew that he had to do something quick. A huge wall made of mud was created, instantly making a barrier between Slyvia and the village.
Sadly, Shirou had been outsmarted, instead of targeting the town, she struck Shirou with a huge magical beam, burning his body with multiple third-degree burns.
"You're an idiot aren't you, you really think I would've structed the town?" Slyvia said with a cruel smile knowing that she would definitely play underhanded like that.
A sly smile appeared on Shirou's face; he nodded along what she said ignoring the pain coming from the burns. "You're right, I wanted to protect the town, and I would have rather take the attack upfront."
"An idiot protecting weak-"
Shirou chuckled weakly, "I know exactly what you're going to say, but that wasn't the only reason why." His body began to become one with a shadow as slowly but surely a wolf shadow monster emerged.
"It was to end this..."
"Verg Avesta!"
With the activation of the Noble Phantasm, Slyvia soul began to burn in an excruciating way. Her screams could be heard from miles away. She was unable to think because of the pain but her body knew exactly how to respond, she needed to escape.
Using the Beelzebub Clans primal ability, her body began to split into a multitude of flies and tried to scatter away. Nonetheless this was all for naught as a huge amount of mud swallowed up all the flies and began absorbing it.
Shirou heard her distant screams in the mud before it got lower and lower before finally silence was all left. He descended to the ground where Alexander was, who was clearly worried at the injuries he had.
He had long stopped being a wolf shadow monster and reverted into his normal self, mud began to cover his body before scraping off leaving behind healthy skin. "Nothing to worry about." He muttered to Alexander who only had the energy to nod.
"Do you think that they will come back again?" Shirou questioned and saw Alexander shrug. Well, the Ally of Justice hoped that they wouldn't come back.
Time will tell....
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Webnovel peeps, I see that this fanfic is gathering a lot of views but is that actual people or bots, I hope it's people. Anyways please spare one dragon stone for this pookie?
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