Chapter 645: It's time to build houses! It's Fun, Right? Right...?
Victor was standing in front of a vacant lot with a serious look on his face. He took a deep breath and brought his hands closer together, and with inhuman speed, he started making hand signs.
"Wood Style-."
"Stop!!" Roxanne materialized beside Victor and hugged him, preventing him from saying anything.
"Roxanne?"
"Idiot, do you want to be sued for copyright!?"
"Just use your Power normally! Stop messing around!"
"Ugh, fine."
Roxanne looked at Victor with suspicious eyes but slowly backed away from him, but soon a vein bulged on Roxanne's head when she saw Victor's next gesture.
Victor clapped his palms together and said:
"Mokuton-."
"Stop!!"
"Eh? But, I spoke in Japanese now!"
"That is much worse!"
"Ugh."
"And for starters, you don't even need hand signs or anything; just use this Power like you use your Bloodline's other Powers!"
"But hand signs are cool!"
"They are useless!"
"Tsk, don't you appreciate the beauty of making a hand sign and spitting a wave of fire at enemies! Just like Madara!"
"Ugh, making you watch anime was a mistake; Ruby completely messed up! Consuming that media just made your battle-maniac brain go even crazier!"
"How rude. Just because I like characters who smile while fighting just like me, it doesn't mean I'm crazy or anything!"
"Oh really? So tell me what this wallpaper is!" Roxanne approached Victor, took his cell phone, opened it, and the photo as his wallpaper was very familiar.
Victor looked at the image of Unohana Retsu, a character from Bleach, or rather Kenpachi Yachiru, in her 'killer' mode.
Victor snorted, "Only a fool would not like this woman. She is a Waifu, and it is a pity that the author did not know how to develop her character. Then, just when she seemed to become an interesting character, she died! It's such a waste!"
Roxanne rolled her eyes, "She's a psycho, sociopath, crazy, battle maniac, and possibly obsessive. What's so good about her!?"
"That just makes her even better!"
"GAAAHHH!" Roxanne screamed in frustration as she pulled at her own hair.
"..." Eleonor, Natalia, Ophis, and Nero, just looked at this scene with neutral eyes alongside Leona, who was kidnapped by Victor while on her way to visit her brother.
"He is bored," Leona said. As someone who grew up with Victor, she could tell his emotional state very well.
"Yes, he is bored," Eleonor spoke while nodding. Just like Leona, she got to know Victor very well in the days they spent on the expedition.
"Father, bored?" Ophis spoke as she tilted her head to the side in confusion.
"Indeed, he's bored," Nero said.
"Yep, he is definitely bored," Natalia said.
"Out of boredom, he is acting just like Fred," Leona added.
"It's more like a form of entertainment. After all, there's nothing here but wasteland..." Eleonor spoke while looking around.
"He probably wants to be fighting right now, but he's stuck here... So he's having fun with Roxanne." Natalia added.
"Indeed." Everyone nodded in agreement.
The girls looked at Victor performing a very familiar hand sign and said:
"Fire Style-."
"I said, STOP!" Roxanne jumped on Victor and knocked him to the ground with her body while covering his mouth with her hand.
"No speaking the forbidden words here!"
"HmmHmm" Victor tried to say something, but it was muffled by Roxanne's hand.
"Yes, we should ignore it." Leona nodded.
"Indeed." Everyone spoke at once.
"... Hmm? Oh, they're back at last." Eleonor spoke.
The girls looked in the direction where Eleonor was facing and saw a group of 7 women in full armor, each one had different armor, and they were being led by the woman in front who had a western sword on her waist and burgundy hair.
"Lady Eleonor, all monsters around this area have been annihilated-..." Rose trailed off and looked at Victor lying on the ground with Roxanne straddling him.
"…Should I even ask?"
"Just ignore them; they're just bored."
"... I see. He has sex when he gets bored, huh."
"Yes-... Huh? Wait! Of course not! Look closely!" Eleonor yelled, "They're just playing because they're bored!"
"I know, I know. No need to say it twice."
"I already told you that's not it! They are just having fun!"
"... Ohh... Good. I thought that one completely lost his shame and was doing it in front of kids."
"How rude; I would never do something like that." Everyone heard Victor's voice, and the girls looked at him and saw him separating from Roxanne.
Soon, they saw him helping Roxanne up and dusting off his clothes. He cracked his neck a little, and a neutral expression appeared on his face.
"You apparently have a rather low opinion of me, huh."
"Of course not. I think you're an amazing man... Just very horny; how many women do you have anyway?" Rose asked with a smile on her face.
"Well, in my defense, I was Blessed by a Sex Goddess, and she is my Wife, not to mention that you saw how proficient I am in night 'battles' during the Natashia incident… So…" Victor displayed a small smile. He didn't need to explain because the girls' imaginations were so wild.
"...." The Valkyries, Rose included, gulped.
A woman with short blond hair approached a woman with long light brown hair and obsidian eyes:
"Anrietha, is that plan about Solomon's Harem still standing?"
"…Of course not, Dorothy. After all, Lady Eleonor finally accepted her feelings… But I was thinking of revitalizing that plan again."
"Hmm, I completely support it," Dorothy agreed.
"Ahem."
Dorothy and Anrietha opened their eyes wide and looked at Eleonor, who was smiling gently at them.
"What were you talking about?"
"N-Nothing."
"I see. That is good, then."
"..." An imperceptible smile appeared on Victor's face when he saw Eleonor's attitude. But as fast as that smile appeared, it disappeared just as quickly; the only ones who caught that smile were, Ophis, Nero, and Leona, who were watching Victor the whole time.
'This man... He really is going around raising Yanderes.' Leona was condemning the past Leona for showing the anime with the pink-haired girl to Victor.
'I know it wasn't because of that anime, but something he already had in him, but even so, I should've kept him away from that anime!'
"Back to the subject! We can begin now that the monsters have been eliminated," Eleonor announced.
"Hmm, let's finish this quickly. I still have something to do later," Victor spoke while looking at Leona, who blushed slightly and turned her face away.
'I wondered why he kidnapped me... Will t-that happen?'
Nero sniffed the air and looked at Leona with disdain: 'Bitch in heat.' She snorted.
Nero wasn't as innocent as all the girls had hoped. After all, her past forced the girl to grow up. Although she was more 'calm' now and happy because of Victor's influence, it didn't change the fact that she'd seen the darkness of this world, and that experience marked a person forever.
"You make the structures, and I'll make the houses like Vlad said?"
"Yeah. I will make the land they will live on."
"Okay, let's step aside, Girls," Victor spoke as he grabbed Ophis and Nero by the arms, jumped into the air, and began to float.
Roxanne just disappeared as if she never existed, back inside Victor.
Rose approached Natalia and supported the Maid's shoulder.
"Thanks."
"You're welcome." Rose smiled, and soon she jumped up and started floating in the air too.
Dorothy approached Leona, intending to help her, but Leona just said, "I do not need help." in a neutral tone.
In the next moment, the girl started to change, her features began to get wilder, as white fur and claws grew on her arms and legs, and soon she was in her Hybrid Form.
Leona looked at Victor and jumped in the air, a small crater in the shape of a spider's web appeared below her, and the next moment, she was next to Victor with her arms crossed, an almost imperceptible white Energy leaking from her body like an aura.
"…I forgot that Wolves could do that."
"Humpf, this is basic stuff. Wolves who can't control their Bloodline are just failures."
'It seems that the personality becomes more aggressive in this state too...' Victor thought.
"Bloodline, huh…" Victor spoke while observing Leona's Hybrid Form. He had few interactions with 'high-level' Wolves with special Bloodlines like Leona. The last ones he remembered were Anderson and his father.
In the Anderson fight, he didn't have the senses he had today, and with Volk, the King didn't show his Werewolf side.
'Interesting... What is this Energy?' Victor wondered while looking at Leona.
[Hmm, it's very similar to my Energy, are they Nature beings?] Roxanne wondered.
[Nature beings, like Fairies?] Victor asked.
[Like Fairies and Elves, yes.] Roxanne agreed.
[Hmm... Could it be that the Progenitor of Werewolves came into contact with a World Tree in the past?]
[Probably. The Energy that Leona is using to strengthen her body is very natural and very similar to mine, only in a much lower purity, and mixed with other things, probably the 'Bloodline' she talks about.]
[Hmm... Interesting... I really should go to Samar someday.] Victor looked back at Eleonor, who was alone now on the floor.
[I agree, I'm also interested.]
"What?" Leona asked as she looked at the one looking at her with very concentrated eyes.
"It's nothing… Just curious."
"Hmm... Okay."
Before Eleonor could start anything, Rose spoke, "Eleonor, when making the structures, make them strong enough to withstand an invasion of monsters, but don't make them as strong as The City of Babylon you used in our expedition."
"Why not?" Eleonor asked.
"Precaution," Rose responded with a serious look.
Seeing her teacher's gaze, Eleonor understood that the woman had a good reason.
'Probably distrust of our new neighbors, considering that the reputation of the Amazons is not very good.'
"... Okay," Eleonor said as she looked straight ahead.
She took a deep breath, and Eleonor's presence grew exponentially.
"... Oh? She's gotten stronger."
"Of course she has. She can't stay on the same level forever, right?" Rose smiled.
Victor looked at Rose, who was holding Natalia.
"That's not what I meant."
"...." Rose's smile trembled a little as she understood what Victor meant.
"You are becoming as boring as Scathach about these matters."
"Well, she is my Master," Victor spoke.
"... Dragon...?" Ophis turned her head in confusion.
"She reeks of reptiles..." Leona and Nero spoke at the same time.
The two didn't even look at each other and just kept staring at Eleonor.
"What is happening?" Natalia, who didn't understand anything, asked.
"Eleonor got stronger, but not in the normal way. Her presence is more 'overwhelming', almost 10x stronger than before; increasing that in such a short time is impossible with only training. There are only two ways to increase that killing intent, become a Higher Existence, or do like me and kill thousands of Beings."
"Most likely, what happened to Eleonor was the former."
"Are you saying she changed her Race or something?" Leona asked.
"It's something like that. You remember about Clan Adrastea, right?"
"Hmm, the Snow Clan library says they are Vampires who have acquired the characteristics of monsters for themselves..." Leona's eyes widened.
"Correct. Eleonor's monster characteristics have become more prominent, and since her monster is a Dragon, it strengthens her pressure. After all, even if they are deadly, some Dragons are feared even by Gods of a High Level."
"...What happened, Rose?"
"This is a secret. Only when you marry Eleonor will you be able to know."
"… I see. There is a way for monsters' characteristics to become stronger, huh."
"...." Rose's eyebrow rose a little for milliseconds, and the feeling of anxiety grew in the woman, and that was more than enough reaction for Victor to confirm his theory.
"This method is probably quite risky too and cannot be done multiple times."
"…I hate it when you do that."
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