Chapter 346 – Shiroe’s New Friend.

Chapter 346 – Shiroe’s New Friend.

"Okay, so now we're off on another wild goose chase... great..." Akagi put her head in her hand and sighed. "Ahhhh. Can I just kill all of you and go home? Please."

{Just blowing this world up and forgetting about it would be so much simpler.... Hmmm. Its starting to sound like a better idea the more I think about it.} (Akagi)

{Bad kitty! No mass genocide out of sheer exasperation!} Yumi scolded her with a laugh.

"She... She wouldn't actually... Would she?" Kanato asked Halifax and Amakusa.

"At this point, I wouldn't put it past her." Amakusa shrugged.

"At least do it in kitty form so that it's cute." Halifax laughed.

{Why are you, the Divine Blade, just acting so calm when she says stuff like that?!? Shouldn't you at least protest the destruction of your homeworld a bit?!?} (Amakusa)

"Don't worry, Boss. We'll find it!" Ro and Zo straightened up and saluted. “It will be done faster than you can blink!”

{Well, I can blink faster than you can probably think so...} (Akagi)

"Please don't tell me that you're going to let these two run around unattended?" Elariel sighed, imagining the chaos that the two Primordial twins would cause if let loose. "You should know by now how idiotic and childish they are. If you send them off on their own then I'd wager they'll cause far more trouble than they are worth."

"We'd never do anything to harm Boss or her interests!" Zo huffed.

"Exactly! She's our Boss! Why wouldn't we be her faithful subordinates?!?" Ro agreed with his sister.

{Oh my God, they really are delinquents from anime...} (Amakusa)

{I approve of their enthusiasm!} (Yumi)

"Hmm... If I kill them, then the cringe stops, and I don't have to worry about them causing more cringe in the future. But then I lose out on very nice tools. Hmm..." Akagi thought about it for a bit.

{Both are tempting arguments. Quashing cringe is always good.} (Akagi)

{Says she who is very cringe...} (Yumi)

{Yes, but when I do it I get a laugh out of it, so its fine.} (Akagi)

{Oh, just stop acting stupid and take them in already! We both know you want them under your thumb so that you can use them for schemes!} Yumi's eye roll was audible.

"Having two basically Gods as my servants would be nice..." Akagi eyed them both up, debating if it was worth the hassle. "But the problem I'm facing is their reliability." She sighed. "Unlike Silfana or the others, I have nothing actually stopping these idiots from flipping on me the moment I turn my back. Nobody in my camp can actually stop them if they decide to go rogue and I just don't like variables like that."

{The last thing I need is for them to turn on me and start killing my people or worse.} (Akagi)

"We'd never do that, Boss!" Zo tried to assure her of their loyalty. "Honor demands that we be eternally loyal to the one who so convincingly defeated us!"

"Yeah!" Ro nodded.

"Out of morbid curiosity, did you happen to see these kinds of things from Hitomi's memories?" Akagi sighed as she tapped the side of her head.

"Yup!" Zo nodded with a big smile. "That kind of survival of down and dirty yet honorable life that those 'delinquents' lead was exactly what bro and I are all about."

{Of fucking course...} (Akagi)

{It could always be worse. At least the Yakuza and the like tend to have honor.} (Yumi)

{I'd imagine this was to hold down whatever power was latent within her and prevent it from coming loose. Judging by how deep she's sleeping I'd bet she's been asleep for years.} (Akagi)

"What power?!? Alm was just a helpless child!" Amakusa retorted. "She couldn't even use magic!" She'd never seen Alm use any power before.

"At the time you knew her, perhaps not. But it's clear to me that this girl is far more powerful than one would expect." Akagi shrugged. “I can detect quite a bit of latent power within her.”

{Though I've got a hunch as to why that is.} (Akagi)

"Can you wake her up?" Kanato asked if Akagi could undue the curse.

"Sure." Akagi snapped her fingers, dispelling the curse with ease." She'll wake up at some point soon. So you can calm down a bit, pet." She said as she walked over and pat Amakusa on the head. “Your little sister is safe and sound.”

"No, I won't calm down until I get my hands on that bitch!" Amakusa pulled Zo closer, punching her in the face with her other hand. “Bring that fucking familiar here, NOW! Otherwise, I'm going to run Inori straight through your fucking skull, and I can assure you that even if you can't die I'm going to make it hurt!" She gave a slight cackle that caused Kanato's skin to crawl.

{Shiroe, were you always this fucking scary?!?} (Kanato}

"Boss. A little help here." Zo looked to her leader for help but found no sympathy.

"This is your mess, so you clean it up." Akagi replied, not caring. "I don't really care what she does to the fox."

"Bring. Her. To. Me." Amakusa said with a horrifying smile on her lips. “Now.”

"Well, I suppose that she is just a familiar." Ro gave a wry smile as he turned to Akagi. "I'll summon her here if you give me a bit more power."

"Have at it." Akagi waved her hand and released a bit more of his power, which he used to make a purple summon circle that called forth Rafferty in a puff.

"Master!" Rafferty smiled as she appeared. "I was so worried about you! Did you manage to-" She stopped mid-sentence as Amakusa's blade dove through her chest.

“Ack!” Rafferty coughed up blood.

"Hi there!" Amakusa smiled as she pulled her blade out and kicked the fox to the floor. "Did you forget about me?"

"You..." Rafferty tried to heal herself with magic but was stopped by Amakusa cutting off the arm she was using to cast. "AHH!"

{Such a good little pet.} (Akagi)

"So, remind me. Familiars can be resummoned by their master even if they get destroyed, right?" Amakusa turned to Akagi and the twins.

"Ummm... Y-Yeah..." Ro started sweating as he backed away nervously.

"Well then, happy birthday to me!" Amakusa started cackling as she dove her blade into Rafferty again and again until she vanished in a purple cloud of energy. "Bring her back, please. I'm not done."

"Ummm... Should we stop this?" Halifax asked as she walked next to Akagi just in time to see Rafferty get summoned and torn apart again. “This can't be healthy...”

"What? And miss this? No way!" Akagi laughed as the fox-girl was summoned and killed dozens of times, only finally being spared because Akagi wanted to head home rather than because Amakusa was done.

"Oh Rafferty, I have a feeling that you and I are going to be great friends." Amakusa smiled at the trembling girl, who knew that she was in for the worst hell possible. "I look forward to working with you."

{It looks Like I trained the pet well.} (Akagi)

{Well, they do say they take after their owners...} (Yumi)

{Shiroe...} (Kanato)

{SAVE ME!} (Rafferty)