Highschool DxD: Crawling x Chaos-Chapter 94: Snake Eater

Gacha, I love you, but fuck you for making me choose between these options.

Urgh, that's Ridley, man! He was my main in smash brothers! He is a cool ass pirate space dinosaur! Sure, I didn't exactly play Metroid, but he was a goddamn badass.

But, I had to consider this situation rationally without bias from my previous world and...

I'm sorry Ridley, but I cannot see a reason to pick him over Medusa. He was fast, strong, ruthless, and experienced yes. He would probably beat my ass unless I picked up higher forms of Devil Trigger and even then I cannot see myself having positive odds against a veteran monster like that.

Despite all of that, he was clearly ranked for his raw power. And that was a problem because I really did not need someone with more muscle by my side.

Grayfia, my personal maid and Serafall, my soon to be wife were, to put it mildly, laughably strong. It escapes my attention often, but they are quite literallu godlike beings, stronger than a good majority too. I firmly believed that even a hundred Ridley's attacking together wouldn't stop Grayfia.

Either of the two could probably devastate Japan, a country that was fairy large, into an inhabitable state by the time it took for me to go to the toilet and take a shit. Some of the stuff online I read about them online make nuclear weapons look like firecrackers.

You can devastate one city? Tough luck buddy, Serafall can flash freeze all of Germany with a single spell.

So the out of the list of things I desired in a familiar, power did not make it very high up.

Sorry Ridley, perhaps in another world we could have been the real Ultimate Smash Brothers.

I quietly wept a tear for what could have been before moving onto the other choice.

Now, Medusa Gorgon, I have watched Soul Eater before, I know how busted she could be. A completely amoral, evil, scientist witch specializing in Souls. The morality part does not concern me too much, the benefits of getting her were completely undeniable.

First and most obvious was having my own pocket scientist, and one that has lived longer than even Grayfia and Serafall if I remember correctly. Her skills were proven too, her creations like Ragnarok and Black Blood were genuinely insane. I could only imagine the things she could make with the materials found in this wonderfully fucked up world I am in where every mythology seems to exist together at once.

Second, her unique magic or skill of manipulating her own Soul Wavelength, basically manipulating her own soul was something that greatly interested me.

Something that I have had but have used for practically fuck all recently was my first ever Elite Ability - Ghost Form and my rare trait Spirit Affinity. Which means I could potentially learn a lot from getting taught by Medusa.

Third, she was a hot milf- 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

So, she was the obvious choice.

Taking a deep breath, I affirmed my decision, and barely a moment after, space in front of me shimmered, and a certain someone came to be before my very eyes.

"Oh... this is rather curious, isn't it? It's a pleasure to meet you, young devil, or should I call you master?"

Appearing in front of me as if she were always there was an attractive adult woman with blond hair with bangs that twisted into a braid down to her torso. She had captivating snake-like eyes and snake tattoos that ran down her arms, and her nails were painted black with yellow arrows.

She had a pleasant, athletic figure, yet still somewhat voluptuous figure that was accentuated when she stretched with serpentine grace. She wore some kind of black sleeveless jumpsuit whose legs were cut off at the calves.

Medusa Gorgon, it really was her. She tilted her head and gave me a slight smile.

I did not reply immediately, and Medusa seemed to catch onto my nervousness. Sure, I could probably paste her with a single fist if I turned on Devil Trigger, and still deal with her easily even without it, but my nervousness stemmed more from how she would respond to me. Unlike my other sentient familiar, she was less... familiar-esque.

"You don't have to look at me as I'm about to bite you. I won't unless you want that. As you are aware, I'm a familiar, I have neither the capacity nor the intent to harm you, or the capacity to feel it in the first place I suppose. It's a strange existence, but to me your word really is law. If you really are so worried, you know commands are absolute for a familiar, just command me to stop me from doing whatever you don't want me to do."

She said languidly, I couldn't help but do a double-take at just how smoothly she was taking all of this.

"You seem awfully comfortable and aware about all of this for having been a familiar for all of 10 seconds."

Medusa chuckled in a slightly sinister and knowing manner.

"Are you surprised? I'm rather experienced, and my experiments and knowledge gives me insight into these matters you may not have. The moment I came to be, I was given knowledge by your 'Chaos Gacha' and I could deduce the rest from the patterns. Chaos Gacha, such an incomprehensible subject, it gave me the knowledge required, about what a familiar was, what your Gacha is and the world we are in."

Yes, I am quite surprised thank you very much. I think I forgot that age equals experience since I've just gotten used to half of the women in my life being over 10x older than me and not acting out of the ordinary. Though that may just be how the Devil Brain is built.

Still, I guess its best to take her advice even if I know Loyalty and Obedience are assured.

"Medusa, you are forbidden from hurting or working against me or my loved ones, and otherwise take any action that you believe that I would forbid you from doing."

She assented to my conditions rather casually.

"That sounds right, I'm impressed you chose your words that well. With your insecurities out of the way, what do plans do you have in mind for little old me? This world is quite... ripe with potential, I'd say, it's rather different from the world I come from, but I think I can adapt quite well. I have to say, I'm quite glad you have brought me into this world master."

...You know what? I was going to ask her to call me Yuta or something along those lines before, but now I think I'll have her stick with master after hearing her say it like that.

It did make "plans" race across my mind for a second before I used my mental meditation technique of thinking of tickets to distract my mind and answered.

"Plans? I can't really say. I don't really have concrete plans in mind to be frank. I'm thinking of building a mansion in this place and letting you set up your lab or workshop or whatever here. Afterward, I could give you some herbs, corpses and other stuff to figure out what you can do with them. Thoughts?"

"I can definitely work with that, an isolated realm as a base of operations is not one I will complain about. I'll detail a list of essentials that will be required. In the meantime, I hope you'll retire me the familiar space,"

Medusa quickly and efficiently drafted up an easy-to-follow list of what she'd need for her Workshop and then promptly returned to my familiar space.

The task at hand remaining was pimping up my pocket dimension, the best bet would be to hire either some Leviathan Workers or better yet Sitri or Gremory workers to do it for me. If they were the ones who handled it, it would all be done in less than a day.

Do not underestimate decades old supernatural workers with magic that take pride in their craft. Those guys are good at their jobs.

In the end, the Gremory workers were who I decided on, I didn't feel like calling in a favor from my Father-in-law-to-be and any Leviathan worker was prone to be interrogated by Katerea and I did not feel like dealing with her brand of bullshit anytime soon, or ever actually.

I dialed up Venelana, and she picked up almost instantly as expected, we made a bit of small talk, talking about how Rias was doing and such before I breached the topic of my new brand spankin' pocket dimension to her, which in retrospect was not that impressive compared to Devil's making pocket dimensions for one time rating games.

She said she'd readily arrange a construction team to construct my third mansion in the pocket dimension. But after that, she breached a topic I did not expect.

<<"That aside, Yuta, would you like to join me for tea?'">>

With her tone of voice, I can't tell if that's supposed to be a double entendre or not, she liked to use those quite often, often enough that I had to look up the meaning of the word.

"...Tea or tea?"

Venelana chuckled slightly over the phone.

<<"Actual Tea, though I wouldn't mind having some of the alternative later.">> Nice <<"I wanted you to properly meet my friend, Rayne Phenex, she is coming over today, and it would be pleasant if you could join us.">> Not nice.

I was about to retort but held my tongue, Venelana knew about these matters better than I did. If she was calling me about meeting the Phenex family, of all things, she must have had a good reason.

"Guess I'll have a few hours to waste while the crew gets to work, but why the Phenex family?"

Venelana let out a thoughtful hum over the phone.

<<"Someone having been your enemy once does not mean they have to be your enemy forever, Yuta, especially when they are willing to apologize and make concessions. It's better to burry the hatched and turn them into allies, it's never good to have enemies when they could be friends. Does that make sense?">>

It indeed did, hearing that the Phenex family were willing to apologize was a surprise but a welcome one. I'd have been perfectly fine never receiving one and continuing to ignore them but this was the better outcome.

Because receiving an apology from the Phenex family after utterly demolishing their son was sure to be a feat.

Personally anyway, if they want to apologize, I won't say no. Just because Riser was a piece of shit doesn't mean his parents were. Sure they pushed for an arranged marriage but that's just expected.

"Alright, when should I be there?"

<<"Be here in an hour, and make sure to dress well Yuta, you will need to make a good impression. Oh, and bring some of your wine.">>

...Kinda hard to make a good impression when you are the reason why the other parties son is a loser in life but I'll take her word her for it. At least the wine will probably help.

"All right Venelana, got it, love you, see you later."

Venelana chuckled warmly from across.

"I love you too Yuta, I'll be seeing you later."

With that the call closed and I took a deep breath.

Let's go see what the Phenex family wants.

A/N: C'mon, it was a Milf, you really think Yuta wasn't going to pick the Milf? That being said, Medusa will be absolutely cracked in this world, Soul Manipulation is OP in DxD, and I bet you guys forgot about Soul Affinity, it seems like these recent chapters are just payoffs of previous forgotten things huh? What did you guys think about Medusa's introduction and the plans? I'd love to know.

It finally time to tackle mama bird, and maybe pick a particular pretty fiery chick along the way, Yuta could really use a secretary to save him from headaches and he has that Fire Boosting Ring weighing down his pockets if you catch my drift. Next chapter will be hot for sure.

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