Slip on the squid

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Rias woke up with a shudder. "There's great evil in the air... No, not evil. Perversion."


"Is Issei back?" Asia piped up instantly and her head popped above the sea of blankets and pillows that made most of the bedroom where the two, or rather, seven devils were resting or sleeping.


Rias had finished her nap, checked outside the window and came to a conclusion that the world hadn't ended nor had it turned to strawberries and chocolate, fortunately and unfortunately, so she had merely extended the now-crowded bed using [Power of Imagination] so it encompassed the whole room and tossed a lot of pillows on top of it, intending on building a pillow fort and diving under it before another Momon-related apocalypse would come.


"Issei?" Irina popped her head up from the sea of pillows as well.


"No, not that kind... Not the innocent, lovable and kind of cute perversion, this is more... insidious." Rias sniffed the air. "My nose may be blind, but the third eye still sees... It sees tentacles, beings past our reality... Wait?"


She blinked a few times and then patted her temple. "I don't have a third eye, right?"


"Ufufu, Rias-chan is losing it..." Akeno emerged from under her pillow fortress and tackled Rias under the sea of pillows. "Just embrace the insanity, ufufu... Join me in the Deep, let's become one..."


"Akeno! That's super creepy!" Rias's words became muffled as Akeno put her hands on her mouth.


"And now you've snapped out of your delusions before they start! Mission successful!" Akeno announced victoriously while lying on top of weakly struggling Rias. "Ufufufu... But seriously, you need to cut back a bit, Rias-chan... You're so high-strung all the time."


"I... am?" Rias sighed as she once again realized that she was getting incredibly worked up over something she barely knew about, and something she'd likely have little chance of influencing outside breaking her own head over it. "...You're right. It's just... I'm not used to being this much outsider to the events taking place around me. I'm a leader, or at least that's how I've tried to be... Until Momon rode along and waved his hands, and everything went to Crazyville faster than a Dragon stomping on someone that was insulting their pride."


"Accurate." Xenovia popped her head up from the pillows, as the girl had managed to shake off her drunken state likely due to her conditioning as a holy sword wielder. Most of it anyway. "I was supposed to just go and fetch some... hic, Excalibur fragments, now I'm a devil and a paladin of the True God's holy order, I think. Maybe. Erm, at least I was blessed by an Angel calling Momon the True God."


"Ara? See! This is a good opportunity for you to train relaxing! Ufufufu..." Akeno chuckled as Rias was gasping for air after the news. "I've already stopped trying to rationalize what happens around Momon, you should too. You're going to get wrinkles otherwise, Rias-chan!"


Rias took three calming breaths before she straightened herself, smiling her normal time-before-Momon smile that was perfectly official and equally fake. "You're right, Akeno-chan. So, Xenovia-san, can you reiterate what you just said?"


"We, that is Irina-chan and Asia-sama, went to see an Angel baptizing and resurrecting devils, who proclaimed Momon-sama as True God, and blessed the Devils who prayed in his name, and anointed us as his Champions." Xenovia waved her hand above her head, ignoring Rias's rising blood pressure. "The three of us walked on water and had halos on top of our heads."

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