Beyond Critical - Chapter 25.2 (Patreon)

Sorry guys, had some pretty bad writers block over the last few days.

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With Hyoudou over one shoulder and Asia in his arms, Kaito made his way back to the villa they were staying at in something almost akin to a drunken haze.

His pants were painfully tight over his crotch, and the scent coming off of Asia was so pleasant, so alluring.

His instincts were practically vibrating within him.

To just dump Hyoudou's ass in the bushes and rush off with Asia somewhere nice, quiet and private. Wake her up.

And mount her.

He grit his teeth and ignored ever fibre of his being wanting to claim the beautiful blonde girl.

Thankfully, it was a lot easier after she fell unconscious and the boost he'd given her faded away. The allure coming from her, had weakened massively somehow in the process.

'…Meaning I probably boosted her dragon tamer abilities in some form.' he shuddered.

God he was an idiot.

Thankfully it didn't take him long to reach the massive mountain side villa. As soon as he entered, he dumped Hyoudou's ass on one of the large living room couches unceremonously without breaking stride.

Before continuing on to the downstairs bedrooms where he knew Asia was, her own assigned room being right next to Hyoudou's.

He bumped her door open before making his way over to her large, soft bed and set her down gently.

He wanted to leave right away, but he was rooted in place as he stared down at her beautiful face, peacefully unconscious.

So innocent.

So beautiful.

So pure.

Mine!

A flash of an image came to mind. Of him, in this very bed, relaxing against the headboard, a victorious, dominant and smirk atop his face. While Asia, naked as the day she was born rode his cock, bare back facing him, her head thrown back in rapturous pleasure while that bodacious, perky round soft ass of hers clapped against his body, rippling and jiggling like the most sublime of jello.

Kaito shook his head, pushing the thought away immediately. Instead, the only thing allowed himself, was to reach down and gently brush away some of the golden blonde locks framing her face.

Before he turned on his heel and left, making a straight beeline out of the villa. He needed to cool off a bit.

If he was paying a little more attention, he might have caught sight of Hyoudou rolling his hips against the couch, grinding his crotch into it.

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Kaito barely even put any thought into it as he made a straight rush towards the nearest open clearing.

He practically dived and rolled, rushing into a handstand and began doing push ups.

'1!…2!….3!' he began to crank them out. Physically training here wasn't going to do him all that much for gains, there wasn't any real equipment with which to push himself. Especially considering just how massively his physical abilities had skyrocketed in the last two days.

Even his home away from home, the glorious gym would be useless to him now. Until he found a way to get much heavier and better equipment somehow, or had Yanagi with him, physically training like this wasn't going to do him much good.

'Maybe I can get Akeno or Rias to teach me how to use earth spells?' he forced his thoughts onto the topic of training. Not even the principles of domination could contend with the grind after all.

If he could learn that, he could maybe shape earth into weights. Compress tons of rock together maybe? Making it super extra dense and heavier?

He'd managed to pick up the basics of what Akeno was teaching him last night pretty easily even while they were fucking like animals.

How to use teleportation circles, basic hypnosis, even some tips on shaping his raw energy better as well which would go a long way to helping him shape his touki and other abilities as well.

'Actually…' he hummed, speeding up his hand stand push ups as he passed a hundred, a thought coming to mind.

Sairaorg had those resistance seal things did he not? Which not only suppressed his physical abilities but was constantly putting him through a state akin to resistance training, making everything that much more challenging and much more hard to do.

He would love to get his hands on something like that, but had no idea how to go about it. Perhaps Akeno or Rias was capable of it?

If not Serafall could do it, surely?

She was stupidly physically strong, so she had to have gone through absurd training like that too right, or at least something like it?

'Well all things considered, even if she can't I could probably get a meeting with Sairaorg pretty easily, he's a decent guy.' Kaito mused, a pretty awesome guy actually, he would to meet him even beyond trying to get those resistance seals.

He wondered what kind of training routines Sairaorg had come up with and was keen to meet him and trade ideas.

If he could and combined them with say, his idea to train under Yanagi's Gravity Jail, his gains would surely skyrocket.

Speaking of special abilities though.

'Just how can I use Arondight the way I want?' Kaito clicked his tongue in annoyance, he'd been thinking about it since he got it.

And while he had an idea as to what he wanted to do with it, he didn't have much of an idea on how to accomplish it.

If he relied on it too much currently, at some point in the near future no doubt he'd have to use the absorb function, and that would get rid of the flames of Canis Lykaon.

He was prepared for that, because as his luck was currently, there was no way he was going to be able to avoid high level fights forever.

But before then, he wanted to…take the flames into himself and make them his own. If Ddraig was to be believed, he had inherited his god killing dragon fire that could burn even the soul from existence.

If he could take intake those cursed black flames for himself and merge them with his dragon fire, his own dragon fire could become even more potent than Ddraigs!

The only possible way he could think of to do it, was to do the same as he did with Satanael's corpse and the gem from Boosted Gear.

But to do so he would have to make one of his Sacred Gears devour the sword, and there was no guarantee it would even work as he wanted. Or maybe it did and he got the power of the flames as he wanted, but lost the other functions of Arondight.

He'd been thinking about it ever since he obtained his evolution of his Twice Critical using Satanael's corpse.

'Well aren't you ambitious?' a familiar voice he'd just heard not long ago chuckled, reverberating through his mind.

Kaito froze mid-way through a push up.

…Eh?

No way.

Was he hearing things?

'No, no you are not,' the voice snorted, 'I would have spoken sooner, but well, you were in the middle of something not long ago, and I'm still adjusting to this, it's a welcome change don't get me wrong, especially with what I've learned since I figured it out, but it's still quite the abrupt change from I'm used to.'

There was no doubt about it now.

"Ddraig!?" Kaito goggled as he held his position midway through a push up, "How are you speaking in my head?"

Telepathy of some kind?

'Not quite, I thought it would be obvious though,' Ddraig laughed and sounded actually cheerful compared to earlier when he spoke to him for the first time, 'The Twice Criticals were made through my flesh, the Boosted Gear contains my soul. Through adding the gem you took after beating the crap out of my current failure of a partner, a link was established and allowed me to simply put, manifest my consciousness within your Twice Critical.'

His mind whirled, rushing a mile a minute as he processed that, and just exactly what it could mean.

'Did…did you jump Sacred Gears!?' Kaito gaped in shock.

'If only,' Ddraig huffed, 'I'm still bound to the Boosted Gear and that shitty brat. I can simply manifest part of my consciousness here within your Twice Critical, kinda like one of those clone things Vritra used to use. I used to not get it, it seemed like such a weak power but now I'm understanding how useful it is, Vritra was a real genius!'

That was….something alright.

Kaito wasn't really sure how to react to suddenly having one of the Heavenly Dragons inside his head.

Actually….wait!

His eyes widened, couldn't Ddraig see into Issei's mind and shit!? And didn't that mean he could-

'See your memories?' Ddraig finished for him drily, before a low, almost menacing chuckle escaped him, 'Yes….and what a horrible fate it seems I'm in store for. Boob Dragon Emperor? What a pathetic state I ended up in within your memories. Quite frankly, it would be a mercy to kill me for good at that point.'

Kaito's thoughts ground to a halt.

He wasn't sure how to process that now. That Ddraig could see his memories now, and had his knowledge of the world, or at least some form of it. The DxD world he knew of after all, didn't have any connection at all with Ikki Tousen and whatever else might be different.

Wasn't it ludicrous….that a guy like him was even here?

'Not really, so a human from this world fused souls with a human from another world, where this world is some sort of fiction? Or at least some of it?Hardly the most shocking thing I've seen or heard of,' Ddraig snorted, 'Perhaps there's a seer in that world the other half of you came from and saw into this world, perhaps something else. It's nothing that grand, though it's interesting you got a Twice Critical twice over. Our compatibility must be extremely high, if you were born before that foolish brat I have for a partner right now, most likely you would have been the one to obtain Boosted Gear. Pity that.'

Honestly, Kaito wasn't sure how to process all of that. He could admit he'd envied Hyoudou for getting the Boosted Gear, but it wasn't like he was ever unhappy with his Twice Critical.

Just somebody like Hyoudou getting Boosted Gear, rankled him.

Still, Ddraig was taking this extremely well.

'Does it sound like it? Trust me, I'm not, in fact I am absolutely seething with rage,' Ddraig scoffed, 'Even putting aside your memories gained from the fusion, if you had gained Boosted Gear in place of your first Twice Critical, by this point you would no doubt be in the top ten strongest beings of this world! The strongest Red Dragon Emperor in history! Instead, I'm destined to become a laughing stock….Boob Dragon Emperor!? Just thinking about that…that atrocity to my reputation makes me want to bite that useless brat in half.'

Well…Kaito wasn't going to humbly deny the praise or anything like that, but there was one weird bit that stood out to him.

Despite all that crap, the Ddraig he knew of seemed a lot more chill and seemed to actually like Issei.

'…I honestly cannot comment on that, I have no idea why this apparent other me isn't seething with rage….the fact this other me is a crying loser attending therapy of all things though, means my pride was broken, how pitiful,' Ddraig growled, 'Hey why don't you kill that brat and take Boosted Gear? Stealing a Sacred Gear isn't all that hard honestly, I can walk you through it.'

He wasn't even sure how to reply to that, beyond.

No?

While having the Boosted Gear would be amazing, he quite liked Rias, and Asia…and Akeno he supposed. Killing Issei would make him their enemy, and by proxy Sirzechs. And probably have Serafall out to kill him as well because of the shit he caused.

He didn't give a shit about Hyoudou but the clusterfuck that would come about from killing him wasn't anything he was interested in, especially since it would drag Irina and Yanagi into it all.

'Tch,' Ddraig clicked his tongue, 'Why is this useless brat so lucky!? Damnit, then I suppose my only hope to keep my reputation is hoping the brat dies somehow, or….you as my legacy I suppose. Fine, that'll do. Kaito, from now on, you're the Black Dragon Emperor! The legacy of me, the mighty and legendary Ddraig! And make sure to tell everyone that shitty brat has no right to the name of Red Dragon Emperor!'

That sounded so chuuni and edgy though. He wasn't gonna go around calling himself the Black Dragon Emperor!

That was a real brass neck!