DXD : Cheat Command (R-21)

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"Hmmph..."

Days had passed since I'd allied with Gabriel, during a peaceful routine where thunderclouds rumbled, rain poured down as if to pierce everything, and wind raged as if to blow everything away. I then realized a certain fact.

"The angels aren't coming..."

Not the women, but just the men. It wasn't because of today's bad weather, they hadn't come yesterday either, even though it was clear. I didn't know why, but they simply hadn't shown up.

What a waste of umbrellas, it felt like all my efforts were for nothing. And speaking of which, the weather is pretty rough today... Though for some reason, it feels quite clear on the other side .

"Yo."

When I entered Grayfia's church, there was an unfamiliar young man standing alone.

I suddenly noticed that despite the fierce weather outside , this guy wasn't carrying an umbrella, and his clothes weren't even slightly wet. I wondered how long he'd been there. Well... there's no way he's human.

"You're—"

This wildly stormy weather was so bad that things like signs and roof tiles, light and hard objects, were flying around, so it was a special warning for danger. My mom had disappeared somewhere without me noticing. To be able to arrive here unscathed in such weather, there's no way he's human. Or he possesses a weapon with superhuman power... It's one or the other.

Therefore, regardless of which it is, I'll stop time and brainwash him with the controller to make him an ally. However, I have a memory of seeing this guy's face somewhere... Not just seeing, but... what was it? Uhm—

"!"

"Tsk!! Missed!!"

My usual intuition warned me of danger, and I moved away. Where I had just been, a man in black armor swung down an arm burning with black flames. It was clear that touching those flames would be dangerous.

"I'll never forgive you!! MyPresident... my comrades... you!!"

"...Hm?President? And that voice... are you Saji?"

Saji Genshirou, indeed, a servant of thePresident who harbored the cursed Dragon King Vritra within him... Why is he here? Or rather, being in the church means... he's an ally of this guy who's currently stopped by time stop. More importantly, how is he able to move when he's not even a Heavenly Dragon?

"Your power won't work at all!! My and Vritra's cursed flames will burn everything away!! Prepare yourself!!"

Ugh... he's completely enraged... And what, can his cursed flames do anything? If I look closely, he's indeed burning with a lot of black flames, so he looks like a black haze.

"Saying my abilities don't work is an exaggeration... or maybe not? The fact is, my time stop isn't affecting you."

Those flames... aren't they cursed flames that won't extinguish until they burn everything they touch? And I know those tentacles coming from his armor are incredibly dangerous, capable of cursing one's very existence just by touching them. I know all of it.

Well, it's certainly troublesome that they don't work, but he's currently not making proper judgments because he's so hot-headed. So, I guess I'll just provoke him more and make him go berserk.

"......Well, but I know about you too, you know? Your abilities, your quirks, how you fight—I've been taught all of it...... on the bed by your belovedPresident-sama."

"—I'll kill you!"

Whoa... that's amazing. Just hearing "President" made his anger practically seep out.

How much does this guy love thePresident? Even if he asked her himself, there would have been no chance since she only thought of him as a younger brother.

"Damn it!! Hit me!! Just hit me already!!"

He wildly swung his arms and tentacles, fighting solely driven by rage. With such attacks, even if they were meant to hit, they wouldn't. For me, who knows his movements, avoiding his attacks is incredibly easy when he's fighting purely by instinct. 

Originally, my physical potential as a devil is easily superior to that of a human. Furthermore, I've been training recently, so I can easily avoid Saji's current movements. However, it's still game over if he even grazes me, and I still can't touch him. 

This means I might have no choice but to use the power of the White Dragon Emperor that I stole the other day, which I've adapted to my own style. But summoning it in this situation leaves too many openings. If he can just touch me and it's game over, isn't this guy stronger than the White Dragon Emperor or Red Dragon Emperor?

"Kill! I'll curse you to death!! I'll curse and burn every last fragment of your soul forever in the cursed flames of karma!!"

"Oh, scary, scary. I never thought you loved thatPresident-sama so much. But hey, do you really think I brainwashed them?"

"......Huh?"

Whoa, he's making a huge sound. Even with that armor on, you can tell he's putting too much intimidation into that "Huh?". 

More importantly, you should learn how to talk to people when listening to them. Are you planning to go to an interview with that much intimidation? Are you an idiot?

I continued speaking, a little intimidated inside .

"It's true that with my power, I can put anyone under my control, right? But if that alone made everything possible, I wouldn't stop time. I'd just quickly brainwash that nice young man over there and unleash him on you or something. Before that, do you really think I brainwashed everyone? Maybe they all fell in love with me, and I just said yes to all of them—"

"I don't care about that!! You forcibly subjugated thePresident's will!! That's everything, and it's all I need to kill you!!"

He's not listening!! This guy isn't listening to anything I say!! What!? Did he burn it with cursed flames?! And wait, dangerous!! More tentacles than before!! Who benefits from my tentacle play?! No, but if I touch them, I'll die?! I can't have my soul burned by a curse!!

"You're always being told to listen to your teachers, aren't you?! It's common sense to listen to people, even if they're your hated enemy!! Are you an idiot!!"

"I don't care!!"

Damn it!! Persuasion won't work either!! At this rate, there's no other choice but to defeat him, but I have no means to do so!! No, I do, but to use the power of the White Dragon Emperor, I need to stop him first!!

"!! It can't be helped... Come on!! Let's settle this outside !!"

As I kept running, my back hit the church door. I had no choice but to go outside and run through the rain. It's too narrow in there, I can't do anything! I'll keep running until I reach a wide-open space!

"Wait for me!! You scum!!"

And as expected, Saji burst through the door and came running towards me. We were both running in a time-stopped space, but there was a crucial difference. Anything touching me while time was stopped could move just like me. So, in a heavy downpour, raindrops would wet my face and clothes, but... in Saji's case, everything he touched was burning. I've never seen raindrops burn before. I want to take a picture, but now's not the time. So, where's a wide-open space—

"Here... might work."

"You... what...!? This is...!?"

The first wide-open place that came to mind, not too far from the church, and in a way, the most familiar place in the neighborhood.

"Kuoh Academy...!?"

Yes, Kuoh Academy. Well, it's a bit risky since it's also a familiar place for Saji... but for me right now, I needed a place to activate my ability, so it's not a problem. Now, how to stop this guy...

"......Are you trying to take the teachers and club members hostage!! I won't let you do that!!"

"Huh? Eh? Whoa, dangerous!!"

He suddenly picked a fight and punched me. Isn't this guy having too many delusions of persecution!? I wasn't even thinking about hostages!! Oh, they are there! I just noticed now!!

"You piece of trash! Forcibly making thePresident your own... and not satisfied with that, trying to forcibly make the Sitri peerage and the Occult Research Club your own too, that's just scum! There's no room for you to be forgiven! I'll burn you to death with my flames!! Don't think you can go to heaven or hell!! The only place you can go is 'nothingness'!!"

"......What, you're so great you can decide someone's fate? Are you some kind of god of destiny? If so, I might actually respect you, but do you really think a cursed dragon can decide someone else's fate?"

I like the expression "go to nothingness" because it sounds cool, I'll try to use it if I remember it next time. But right now, that doesn't matter. This guy is being too persistent, and I'm starting to get irritated.

Well, from his perspective, I'm probably the bad guy.

"What did you say?"

"Even if it's said you're not a Heavenly Dragon, to me, you're both the same, too strong to understand. But hey, as someone who works as a hero of justice... why do you assume I'm evil? I heard, didn't I? Hyoudou took Rias from a devil named Riser a while ago, right? Why am I condemned when he's revered for what he did? He forcibly took Rias from Riser, and while claiming to be honorable, he used holy water and crosses, weaknesses of devils, and defeated him with a trick using a dragon's arm, didn't he? So why am I condemned for using a similar trick?"

For now, I just casually strung together some plausible arguments.

For the first time, Saji showed confusion at these words I'd carefully crafted. I don't know if his confusion was because I suddenly started talking or about the content of what I was saying.

"Tch... S-so what about it!! What you're doing is still a crime in this human world! And that crime—"

"The human world has nothing to do with it, does it? What happened was in the Underworld. Hyoudou defeated the immortal Riser using holy water, which is considered a devil's weakness. As a result, Riser became traumatized by dragons... though he apparently overcame it. I defeated Rias... and took advantage of her. I believe it's the way of the world for the victor to subjugate the defeated. Even small children do it. The victor plays with the toy they've won, and the loser has to play with a different toy. That's how it is, right?"

"Tch... Are you trying to treat Rias-senpai like an object!!"

"Yeah. Because I won, you see... Well, I do have affection for her, you know? Like a pet."

"You!! And thePresident too!! Can you say the same thing about thePresident when you treat her like that?! Answer me!!"

He's so persistent... My face is probably showing a mix of exasperation and irritation, which I rarely display. But I'm not skilled enough to completely hide my expressions. Honestly, it might be time to get serious...

"After you win... try to make me answer. Though you'll probably never win... Well, for now, I'm going to take you down.

'I awaken—'"

"!! Damn it!"

Whether he understood what I was about to do or it was just an instantaneous judgment, Saji lunged forward, swinging perhaps the most tentacles he'd ever unleashed, and also using his fists. But perhaps because he was calmer than before, his movements were a little harder to read. So I kept backing away relentlessly. Occasionally, tentacles would fly at me right after I stepped back, but I avoided them with even shorter backsteps.

"'—the one who gathers the principles of supremacy and destruction into one—'"

"Damn it!! You shouldn't be chanting that!!"

"'—subjugating infinity and seeking illusion—'"

"Stop it, stop it, stop it!!"

What is he shouting? I don't know. I probably had a fearless smirk like Vali as I continued to weave the words of power.

"'—I become the white conqueror within the overwhelming shadow—'"

"Damn youuuuuuuu!!"

The moment the incantation was about to end, he lunged forward as if losing his patience. Indeed, if he pushed forward, he would definitely graze me unless I backed off significantly. But I no longer needed to dodge.

This incantation was coming to an end.

"'—I shall reduce you to a white that surpasses black—'"

Degeneration Overdrive!!

—In an instant, the world began to be tainted white—

POV ?

"Tch... huh!?"

"......I see, so it's like this. I expected it to look monstrous, but it's good that it's not like that at all."

The incantation I used when I stole it and the current incantation are different. The current words are my own arrangement.

As for its appearance... from the feel and sight, it's not much different from Vali's Juggernaut Drive... but somehow, the armor has almost no radiance. Should I call it dirty white? Well, it's fine.

"......As expected, when a fake uses it, the White Dragon Emperor's radiance disappears. From what I saw, it was incomparably brighter than that."

"No, I know that already... The problem is the ability."

From what I've heard, Juggernaut Drive seems to consume an incredible amount of power... but that's not the case. Is it indeed a different thing?

"And Degeneration... means 'regression.' That means you're wearing regressed armor!! If you carelessly try to use power, it will backfire!! The schemer falls victim to his own scheme!"

He's chattering beside me, but I'm busy grasping the ability right now.

...Hmm, hmm, if a little more time passes, my body will get used to it, and I'll be able to use the ability a bit more.

Alright then, for now—

"I'll test my ability on that Dragon King over there."