NOVEL NEXT Chapter 39 – Experiment 1
The stray devil’s expression turned ugly and let out a loud shriek. I looked at Kuroka and shouted.
“Let me handle this alone!”
I grinned and run towards the stray devil who throw a punch towards me. I sidestepped to dodge his punch and jumped on his back. Because of his big size, I could stand with extra space around me.
“How dare you!! Get off from my back!!”
The stray devil shouted and began to trample around, trying to throw me. I must admit, that his effort is not really useless. I have a rather hard time staying on my feet on top of his back, so I stabbed him using my Nenekirimaru, causing him to scream in pain.
“AAAAHHH! You bastard!!”
I jumped off his back and landed in front of a tree not far from him. The stray devil’s face contorted into an ugly shape as his mouth opened wide in four directions.
“Yikes, you are ugly.” I said with a disgusted expression while shaking my hand in front of my nose.
The stray devil swung his arm at my provocation and a red magic circle appeared in front of his chest. Right after the magic circle appeared, an acid was shot at a high speed.
The acid seems dangerous, and I don’t want to get my blade dirty because of it so I dodge it to the left. As soon as I dodged the first acid, he sent the next acid shoot, then twice and thrice without stopping.
“Oi oi oi, can you stop that!” I complained to him as I kept dodging the incoming acid shoot and closing my distance to him slowly.
“Can’t hit me? Try harder!” I kept provoking him so he will get angry with me.
The angrier he is, I will have an easier chance to beat him without killing him. Our goal here is to get him back to the Kanto with us and experiment with the evil piece using him.
I am no Ajuka Belzeebub, the original creator of the evil pieces’ system. So I need to experiment with how to extract it before actually doing it. The stray devil is the best subject to experiment on. Although their evil piece is not the perfect one because they had changed form, but it is an evil piece nonetheless.
I managed to close my distance and stood in front of him, or rather below him as his head is around 2 meters above me.
“Yo.” I said shortly before swinging my sword vertically with one hand, slashing his leg cleanly.
Once again the stray devil screamed in pain as his demonic energy gushed out from his wound. His body turned smaller as his demonic energy left his body. I was watching his change with interest, his abnormal body slowly turned small and human-like as his demonic energy depleted.
“This is interesting. So the stray devil is the devil that was drunk by his demonic energy? Or did my Telos Karma do something to the probability since I need him alive and well? But well, him having a human-shaped body is good. The success of the experiment would be higher than leaving him in that ugly form.”
Riku picked up the legless body of the stray devil and walked towards Kuroka and Shirone.
The body of the stray devil was that of a man with black hair. Kuroka and Shirone were still pinching their nose in disgust as Riku approached them.
“Let’s go to Kanto, the faster the better.”
Kuroka nodded her head repeatedly and made a magic circle to teleport us back to Kanto. Once again, the magic circle engulfed us and we are standing in front of my mansion in the Kanto region, Tokyo.
I spread my senses to find my old man and walked inside the house once I found him. He was with Tsura and Tsetsuna behind the mansion, more specifically in the backyard that he made. There is a Sakura Tree planted there with a pond underneath it, so I guess Tsura just informed him about the devil and they are relaxing while waiting for us, huh.
Well, it’s good. I walked towards the backyard while carrying the stray devil over my shoulder. Kuroka followed me from behind with Shirone who was looking around the mansion.
Maybe because it is her first time in this place, she’s curious about the new thing that she saw.
We’ve arrived at the backyard and I saw my old man sitting on the wooden terrace while sipping a cup of green tea with Setsuna on his right serving him.
Tsura was sitting a little bit away from them while peeking occasionally. That’s also why she saw us coming from a distance away and shouted.
“Riku-sama!”
My old man and Setsuna looked at us and I greeted them. “I have come to visit, old man. Setsuna.”
“Yo, Riku. What brings you here after only leaving this morning?” Asked my old man as she saw a stray devil on my shoulder.
But after a while, he saw Shirone who was walking behind me, and said. “Fujimai?”
I raised my eyebrow at his question and looked back at Shirone.
Ah, I see, Shirone’s appearance is similar to Fujimai, the mother of Kuroka and Shirone. I turned back to my old man and said.
“She’s Shirone, Kuroka’s little sister.”
“O-oh, I see. Her appearance is like Fujimai, so I was a bit surprised.” Said my old man as he put the cup of tea beside him.
He smiled at me and asked. “So, what’s bring you here, with that corpse?” He pointed at the stray devil on my shoulder as he said that.
I walked in front of him, stepped on the sand of the backyard, and throw the stray devil to the ground.
“Well, first of all, Tsura? Can you call Magari for me? I need her help for something.”
Tsura stood up and said. “Certainly, Riku-sama. Please wait for a while.”
Tsura ran off through the hallway with a smile on her face and I turned to look at my old man again. Kuroka and Shirone were still standing on the terrace, besides my old man as they looked at me.
“Shirone over there wanted to leave a devil’s peerage but unfortunately her king didn’t allow her to even after her king promised me to allow anyone to leave her peerage if that someone wanted to leave with their own will.” I said while pointing at Shirone.
My old man's smile dropped from his face as he heard me. Well, I’m sure he’s dissatisfied with how easy the devil broke their promise, but that didn’t matter now.
“So I wanted to destroy the evil piece inside her with my own way.” I smiled at my old man when I said that.
“Oho, interesting.” Said my old man as he stroked his chin. His smile is back on his face and he jumped in front of me.
“Destroy, huh. I will lend you my strength too.”
We smiled at each other before bursting out into laughter. Magari arrived with Tsura not too long after we are laughing and asked.
“What do you need from me?”
Because all necessary members are here, let’s begin the experiment.
