Dxd: Master Of Shadows - Volume 1 Chapter 3 3 Rewrite Maximus
*5 years later, Lionheart Castle*
A young boy was running through medieval looking streets, he was wearing an average brown shirt and black knee-length pants that had a little Lion eating a Dragon on its side, this was the symbol of the town and the royal family. But despite being royalty, this boy ran around the castle and everyone greeted him as he ran pass them with a smile.
“Oh, Victor! Good morning young lad!”
“Morning to you too Mr. Alfredson!”
“Oh my, Victor are you going to hunt outside once more?”
“Yep! I might give you some fruits I find later one Mrs. Atteberry!”
He had a bright orange hair that was styled similarly to Lake but the difference was that his sides were clean, making him look like a fire on first look. This was none other than Victor Malum Noctis Lionheart, the crown prince of Lionheart. After getting pass the district, he sped up towards the gate, several sparks of orange lightning could be seen around him as he went up to a speed that was faster than a knight could run.
On his way towards the gate, 2 men blocked his way out. These two knight guards smiled as Victor approached and one of them tried to grab him, while the other prepared behind the other.
“Boy! You won’t be getting anywhere until you pass us!”
Victor saw the two and his eyes lost their previous sparkle and became hazy and lifeless, this was the skill [Instinct EX] at work. In his eyes, he already saw all the possible moves that he could do and picked the best one out of them, (AN: It’s like picking a scenario cut scene in some games) just as he chose, his body immediately ducked and rolled as he approached the first guard, he was in a position where he could cannonball himself and strike the man at his abdomen and cannonball he did.
“Uguhk!”
The knight felt the impact of a young demigod’s kick and flew a few meters up before falling back down again with a loud crash, the 2nd guard on the other hand was ready and predicted the path where Victor would land, but in a battle of prediction, Victor was always the winner.
“Too bad Mr. Bardsley~”
Victor crawled up into a ball mid-air, making the knight who clamped at the now empty air lose balance while Victor landed safely beside the out of balanced knight, using instinct he didn’t need to see and just raised out his feet and did a flying kick that accurately hit the side of the knight, making him fly a few meters and and crashed into the wall.
“Hehe! Good morning Sir. Bardsley and Sir. Aston!”
Leaving the now recovered knights quickly, Victor went to his destination, the forest, to hunt some beasts on the list his mom gave him. The 2 knight guards was now back into their post and sighed in relief.
“That kid got even stronger, hahaha! I wish he grew up soon!”
“Yeah, I kinda want to pay him back for striking me at the same spot every single time, when that kid grows up I’m spanking him to hell!”
Of course, these 2 were holding back when blocking Victor, their king gave him the permission to go out whenever he wanted but only if he could pass the 2 knight guards, however Nyx warned the 2 knight guards that if they hurt Victor they would go to hell. Between their king and their queen, the queen was scarier.
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“Hum~ Hum~ Humhumhum~ I’m gon~na eat a bear! I’m gonna eat an ea~gle! Yum~Yum~!”
I walked around the forest lush with green and hummed my favorite song, it was a song that my father thought me when we were training and he told me, I should always sing it while hunting. I had this weird skill of mine where if I focused a little bit than usual, I see stuff in a weird way, it was like a window and there was me doing something related to my situation, there was many of them but each of them were correct. If I focused even more, the windows would shuffle on their own and choose for me, I usually chose that method.
Another thing was that my father forbade me from using any weapon whatsoever, he called me a walking armanent and could only wield a weapon when it was really needed to. That’s the also the reason why I can hunt just like this.
“Now, now, where could I find bears again? Hm…”
There’s another thing that the weird skill allowed me to do, it was to guess with almost 100% success despite any odds, downside of it was that it took me 2 minutes to guess, if it was any less than that then it would become a normal guess. I tried it once when I was choosing which horse would win in a race, my father gave the money back to the bet dude because he was the king and money wasn’t his problem but the look of my dad was one of jealousy.
“Oh! There, okie then!”
I marched towards the deeper parts of the forest and by habit hid behind the trees while walking, it was taught to me by an elf lady hunter who I occasionally hunted with. She gave me weird looks from time to time but overall she was a safe person to be with, my head says so. After walking for a few more minutes, Victor heard a loud roar, and immediately silenced his steps.
“A Heracles Bear? Hm, my mother wanted the stronger one but I guess she won’t complain if it was close…right?”
I sighed while looking at the bear standing on 2 legs while threatening a…girl?
“What’s a girl doing here?”
I went near the bear slowly, keeping in mind not to step on anything that might make noise, again the weird ability does it for me and I could step with reassurance that I won’t attract it. If it was anyone I knew, I would’ve ran straight for the girl and saved her but my mother and father always told me that anyone from outside the town is dangerous until my mother officially allowed them not to be. To be honest, I never really followed that rule, tee-hee~
“You there! Stop sneaking around and help me remove this log stuck on me! You can’t hide from my sense…huh?! Curse it, just another kid!”
She sensed me? I hid behind the trees and used my weird ability, in my mind I saw only 3 windows so I used the other method, after that I moved my body and climbed up the trees. The girl was stuck by under the log, it would take me roughly 3 seconds to get to her, 1 second to remove the log and another second to kill the bear, 3 if the bear wasn’t taken by surprise.
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‘Crap! Why did I disobey mother and went out on my own!’
I looked at the bear that was approaching me, it was technically my fault that I was in this situation but it’s not really my fault as well beca-
“Gyaa!”
The little griffin cub beside me didn’t run away, of course she wouldn’t~ her cute roar against the bear was taken as a cute roar but rather a challenge so the bear stood on 2 legs and roared louder at us! I nearly wet myself but I noticed a hidden presence just behind us, I looked towards the general direction but what I found was some village kid! No! Darn it!
If only I didn’t get stuck on this log and dropped my witch wand, I would pulverize this bear with my ice spear! I now know why my mother hated Gods so much, they’re ugly and likes to mate a lot, even worse they cause bad luck! I saw the bear get even closer and I closed my eyes, I opened them again though as I realized the presence of the kid didn’t run away but rather climbed the tree?
And just like that, I fell in love. Or more like the next events made me.
The boy in the tree jumped and arrived in front of me, he then took the log with one hand and threw it at the bear! The bear dodged it though but he took a stick beside me and used it.
“Hey! That stick isn’t going to deal damage to th-”
The head of the bear fell off with a single swipe. With a stick, he sliced the bear’s head off, his gallant figure with his fire like hair as he held the head of the bear and smiled at me with absolutely no blood on him made me feel slightly warm, he was about the same as me but his strength was of no village boy class, and his looks despite having a rather cuter looking face was bound to be handsome someday! Score, I stood up as quickly as I can but found my ankle bruised and hurting. Darn it.
“I’m sorry, I can’t bow to thank you at the moment because of my injury, may I know the name of my savior?”
Got to act like a clean and proper girl! Screw you mom but thank you for these lessons. His already smiling face became even brighter as he now had a toothy smile, he approached me and grabbed me taking me into~ a~ purinsesu kerieu~
‘Kyaaa~’
I blushed, I know I did! What’s this? My knight? Is he my knight? He’s my knight now right? KYAAA~
“My father once told me that if I ever find myself in a situation where a girl had an injured feet or leg and I saved them. I need to give them my name and it’s meaning after picking them up like how I am doing now”
Oh, he’s a bit of an dummy but I guess you can’t have a perfect person right? No, isn’t that even better? He won’t be so cunning and cheat on me?! Kyaa~ Screw you mom! A man perfect for me has come!
“My name is Victor Malum Noctis Lionheart. Word for word Conqueror, Evil, Night. My mother means it as Victorious Evil Knight with night as the pun. My father means it as Conqueror of the Evil Night because he said, I was the son of the man who bedded the goddess of the night, or as he claims.”
Huh?
“L-L-Lionheart? Goddess of the night? Your mom?”
Oh crap, why is the crown prince in here? OH GOD NO! ME A LOWLY WITCH IS BEING CARRIED BY THE PRINCE OF MY OWN COUNTRY?!
“P-please! Your royal highness, forgive me for not knowing, please unhand me, I’m just the lowly daughter of a witch, if you touch me you might get me pregnant!”
I’m sorry my prince, I have to take advantage of your seemingly low intelligence, I’m sorry for both that and you carrying me-!
“Ouch~”
He dropped me suddenly, and looked at me with panic. Oh no, I know this now.
“Darn it!”
‘Crap, is he gonna execute me now?! Curse the Gods!’
“I can’t be the father of your daughter yet! I’m sorry for touching you!”
Ara? Ararara? YET?!
“Oh, I’m sorry for dropping you, but still, I haven’t heard your name yet? Is being a witch cool? Do you shoot fireballs and stuff?!”
Despite dropping me, knowing I’m a witch, and being the crown prince, he still talked to me normally and now he even had the look of admiration? What’s this prince of ours? Isn’t he too cheery? I heard tales of him being able to talk at the age of 2 and by 4 he was qualified to be a knight strength wise, we witches live away the noble district but have our own district but why have I never heard of him being like this?
“Gyaaaao!”
I made my griffin go away for a bit, it’s my date. Guuu~
“I…yes, my wand is right there. I-Is it something you really want to hear?”
He tilted his head and looked at me with a look of disbelief before smiling even brighter and nodding his vigorously.
“Eh…It’s Elaine Reni your royal highness. I specialize in ice magic but it’s more of being on our blood, we are part of the witch faction as opposed to the more noble mage faction.”
“Heh~ I don’t understand the difference actually, can you tell me that and show me the spear afterwards?!”
Ah, he’s cute, too cute. I can’t do this, I need to relax, yes breathe in, breathe out.
“The mages are more of the…nobles that can use m-magi-! PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, STAY BACK FOR A BIT!~”
He smiled and did so, but before he did listen he asked me to wait as he went to that huge log and dragged it back with him as a seat, he gestured me to sit with him but I refused it and kept standing instead.
“The mages are more from the nobles and us witches are from the commoners, if we gain magic powers we can be placed in the witch district, which a little bit better place than the commoner district, but other than that us witches usually are left with only dark arts to learn while the mages get all the cool spells, some of us are still skilled though, but pure magic wise, we will always be inferior to those with blessings”
I said the last bits with a bit of melancholy and took the wand before making a standard ice spear with it. It hit the tree a few meters away from us and it was actually a little stronger than what I normally use to impress the prince, he on the other hand had a big, a really big smile, he seemed for of a puppy but I ignored that, he’s the prince after all.
“Hey, want to be my personal magician?”
Oh God, he’s a clueless person alright.
