BXBX NOVEL Chapter 7 - Beast Growth.
The bell rings announcing the end of the school period and the start of the lunch break.
Students walked out of their classes before heading towards the school cafeteria or going somewhere else if they already brought their lunch.
When all the students started moving around the school, there was a student on the rooftop staring at the crowds through the metal fence.
The student was wearing a boy uniform, but unlike the others, he was wearing headphones on his neck.
Leo stood there facing the fence normally, but his hand that was twisting the metal slightly and the unpleasant expression on his face is telling something else.
"It stopped... I knew it. A beast like this can never be created easily" Leo mumbled as he was feeling the beast inside of his soul next to the Longinus.
Inside Leo\'s soul, the sphere that represents the container and the beast inside of it was beating slowly, but this time it wasn\'t glowing.
When Leo finished the conversation in the Chat Room, he leaned on his chair while waiting for the lesson to finish. But the moment he did that... The beast\'s growing progress stopped at 70%.
Leo tried to put some Ki inside it a few times, but no matter how much he put, the beast didn\'t grow more.
After realizing that truth. Leo stood up from his desk slowly before moving normally toward the door and walking out of the class in the face of his teacher and classmates that didn\'t even notice him.
Leo walked in the hallway at a fast pace, but a teacher spotted him before asking him what he\'s doing here at this time. This teacher was able to spot Leo because the spider ability wouldn\'t work on strong people if they were focusing or when there\'s nothing to switch his presence with.
But before the teacher finished his words, Leo snapped his fingers, as a blue butterfly appeared in front of the teacher. The moment he saw the butterfly, the teacher\'s eyes lost focus as Leo passed him easily, and only regained sense after Leo was out of sight.
That butterfly is a beast that applies a simple illusion which only works against normal people.
After passing the teacher, Leo reached the rooftop door and unlock it easily with a key-shaped beast before walking forwards to use this place to check on his beast.
Then the checking started with Leo communicating with his Longinus and sending Ki while receiving detail from the container beast.
In the end. Leo realized the beast didn\'t fully stop growing, but it just got very slow. Like he had a normal connection, but now he\'s using McDonald\'s WIFI. That because he doesn\'t have enough knowledge about how does this beast work or enough power to complete it normally.
"I need a new source of energy, the park wouldn\'t work... It seems I have to take a trip" Leo frowned slightly while looking at the distance.
In Leo sight, there was a long giant trail of light passing the entire city before splitting into different directions but at one point, there was a separate trail of light in the forest outside the city.
Those are the Dragon Viens that span all this planet and the carrier of most the Ki in nature which is Leo target this time, but he isn\'t after the normal Dragon vein that could kill him if he dares to touch it.
The separation from the original vein is Leo\'s goal this time. Unlike the big vein, the separation doesn\'t have that big energy, but for Leo, it more than enough, and because the Ki in it is chaotic nobody will come after it.
"I don\'t have a lesson in the afternoon and the clubs will begin their work so I\'ll go now... After I finish this" Leo raised his hand, as a black light flashed before four dragonflies appeared and flew in a separate direction before landing.
Leo is going to create Kazuma weapons, so he needs to secure this place first because of the scanning wave that has been going once every half-hour in this school.
"One devil is doing his job properly and one is just sitting without doing anything" Leo sensed the school using Ki as he was able to spot a dark energy scanning the school and from his understanding, it\'ll probably be Sona.
While there was an unmasked violent dark energy in a part of the school that made Leo realized its Rias Gremory.
"Honestly, I don\'t care about those devils..." Leo lowered his hand as a white aura ignited on it mixed with black light.
Leo doesn\'t have a feeling for those devils, he doesn\'t hate them or like them, nor he cares about their actions.
Everyone has their goals and ways in life. Who is Leo to judge them? Leo doesn\'t care that much about them except he\'s a Longinus user, so he\'ll eventually be pulled into this battle. But his friend will enter this circle, which makes Leo a little helpless.
From Saji\'s question, Leo understood that Sona asked him if he wants to be in her peerage, which refreshed Leo\'s understanding of this Devil.
Honestly, if one day Leo knew that Saji was turned into a servant without his will or he was forced to, then he\'ll first find a way to take the evil pieces before having a \'Friendly\' meeting with those Devils.
But even if it seems funny. The Devil named Sona had morals and gave the choice to Saji.
"The Chat Room and the Devils... I need to become stronger" Leo said as a sword appeared in his hand.
"I guess this\'s enough for him..." Leo swung the sword a few times before nodding.
This\'s a beast in the shape of a sword made for Kazuma. It doesn\'t have an impressive ability except because it\'s a beast it can correct the user stance and allows them to learn swords faster but Leo added another ability with an interesting trigger.
"I really want to see his face after this..." Leo smiled before using his Longinus to create a paper beast with a note and tie it to the sword handle.
"He isn\'t online, I\'ll send it later" Leo dropped the sword, as it sank in his shadow.
Leo stood there feeling the wind blowing his hair slightly while looking at the clouds in the sky.
"I still do not know what happen to me or why did I become like this..." Leo closed his eyes as he whispered." When did it start? Since far, far into the past? Maybe it was from my past life? Or maybe it was this life?"
"That doesn\'t matter anymore" Leo opened his eyes as he smiled slightly before saying "... And besides. This\'s just me"
Leo doesn\'t know when he became like this. But it may be his regret in his past life.
Leo remembers the life that felt like a machine for him. Everything comes and goes, no goal, no ambition. Leo felt more dead than living during those times, so he wanted to make up for it... Maybe this\'s his look for freedom.
And this is also his reason for helping Kazuma. Because he saw his self in him. Just two guys been disappointed by life and got another chance, so they\'ll use it to the fullest and be them self.
At this moment, Leo started to hear voices in his head, or rather he felt them from the Ki in the surrounding.
Leo closed his eyes as he sensed the whole school, Humans or Devils, nothing was hidden from him nor anyone noticed him.
\'I\'m hungry\'
\'I\'m tired\'
\'This\'s funny\'
The Ki carried the thoughts and will of the students all around the school, and Leo was able to feel every one of them easily. Small grains of golden light was flowing with the air now while circling around Leo as his hair moved slightly, forming a beautiful picture.
Leo didn\'t notice the grains of light because he was busy with this mysterious feeling that the KI brought him. For Leo, this\'s almost fascinating.
It was like nature was playing a song with all living beings participating in it.
\'When will this school end?\'
\'The line is too long\'
\'Breast\'
\'I need to study\'
{Hold up...} Leo that was feeling the Ki sensed something wrong.
\'We can win this match\'
\'I need more coffee\'
\'Breast\'
\'The lesson was long\'
\'Breast\'
{Breast? What in the hell?} Leo was puzzled by this will in Ki, but before he understood anything a horde of wills hit him directly.
\'Breast\'\'Breast\'\'Breast\'\'Breast\'\'Breast\'\'Breast\'\'Breast\'\'Breast\'\'Breast\'\'Breast\'\'Breast\'\'Bre-
Leo stopped his Ki instantly as he leaned on the metal fence while breathing heavily. Leo almost threw up his lunch at this moment.
"What in the fuck was that... The Ki actually turned into a breast!" Leo that faced an absurd situation was looking for the reason.
Leo felt that Ki was pure, very pure that almost became poisons like pure Oxygene, but it was filled with one thought and that\'s lust.
"You..." Leo found the reason in a place next to the girl\'s locker room.
There were three boys trying to peek through a hole in the wall, but Leo\'s attention and anger were directed towards the brown-haired boy with the wretched smile on his face.
In a place people couldn\'t see, the boy was releasing a lot of thoughts and wills which carried by Ki that turned into breast shape the moment they contact them.
Activating his Longinus, Leo created a small ball and threw it towards the boy.
The ball flew directly towards the boy but the moment the ball almost reached him; it opens up and turned into a wasp.
The wasp flew directly to the boy\'s neck before landing and raised his stinger that was larger and longer than the usual wasp.
"Hm?" The boy felt something on his neck but before he checks it a wave of pain hit him like a train."AHHHHHHHHH!!!"
"What are you doing!?" the boy two friends tried to stop the boy, but when they heard girl\'s screams and angry yells, they run away while leaving the boy rolling alone in the ground.
The boy that was holding his neck in pain felt something above him as he raised his head to see girls holding wooden swords.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!!" the second wave of pain came before the poor boy passed the first one.
"... Protagonist or whatever. Never fucking mess with me!" Leo said as he shook his head to clear those thoughts from earlier.
"It seems I really need to follow the rules and find a way to separate something from his soul" Leo looked at the boy getting a beating from girls as a weird aura was appearing from his hand.
"Red Dragon Emperor doesn\'t need a breast word in front of it!" Leo took a deep breath before moving toward a bench and sitting down.
Leo swore he\'ll never read the Ki of someone like that again or he\'ll throw up blood rather than lunch.
Sitting for a while, Leo felt his mind back to normal before he wanted to stand up, but he noticed something coming towards him.
A petite girl with white hair and golden eyes with a black cat hairpin appeared from the door as she was carrying a bag of cookies in her hand.
The girl was walking normally until she spotted Leo that was staring at her.
*Awkward Silence*
Leo and the girl kept staring at each other for a while without blinking until the girl said. "That my place"
The voice was low and faint with a lack of emotions, but Leo was able to understand, so like any young boy in his age he said "It occupied"
The atmosphere returned to silence at that moment, but it was much more awkward.