Dxd: Master Of Shadows - Volume 1 Chapter 5 5 Rewrite Maximus

“What’s a flea witch doing in here? We’ll get cooties”

From behind me, I heard Kyle say that. I already knew what the people thought of her but I wanted to make sure she was really saying the truth about the mages and witches, this confirmed it so I spoke while facing opposite from them, it was just a light warning. But they ignored it and even said some stupid stuff like threatening them was pointless. I took the paper from a nearby poster and folded it before thinking of it as a weapon, the paper was covered with a dark aura and this was the first time I understood why my father forbade me from using weapons, a paper was already this monstrous in my hands, how about an actual sword?

Anyways. I cut his wrist. She looked a bit apprehensive but took my hand when I offered it, this girl was someone who’s gonna be my personal magician and if she was this easy to push around, my future might just be the end of Lionheart. I took her quickly to our household, no need to worry about the knights, they can heal Kyle. I brought her to a nearby bench in our garden and sat her there.

“What’s your thoughts about the district?”

“Disgusting”

I sighed, this girl already had this to say about the noble district at just age 5, I wasn’t really that keen on politics and stuff but I usually see the unfairness in the system. I tend to butt in from time to time, but I usually see the people I helped run away from me after I’ve helped them, I figured they were threatened to not say something to me or something. But today, I might complain to my father for once.

Just as I was thinking of it, my dad did really come from the door and my mom was with her and another family. They had silver hair, so I assume they must be from another important noble family that my dad was close to.

“Oh? Victor! How was the hunt?”

“Easy, though I had some help from Elaine here”

He took a look at the Elaine who bowed her head and knelt, this I understand, he was my dad after all, the king of Lionheart. My mom gave a slightly teasing smile and the 4 others from the back cringed a bit after seeing her outfit. She was wearing a regular black buttoned blouse and her skirt was black and white with the symbol of the Lionheart on the front of it’s pocket. The mages wore something similar but white and more high quality, and the girls usually wore a full white dress, just like the silver haired girl from the other side.

“Dad? Who are they?”

“Hm? Oh they’re the Rosenkreutz, a family of mages on our castle. They just came to get their daughter an official mage badge, and possibly~ your~ personal~ magi-”

“Nope, I got mine already, meet Elaine Reni”

I pointed at her and everyone quieted.

…

A sharp, pregnant silence made the mood go sour, that proclamation made my father’s mouth open wide as he stared back and forth towards her and me but he kept his gaze at me after a bit though, my mother probably already knew and she licked her lips, her child like face did not help and I could only sigh.

‘I really like it when I can just smile and enjoy stuff’

The first to speak was the, older brother Rosenkreutz, he had a hairband on his head to push back his silver hair.

“H-How preposterous! A witch as your personal magician? Although, for her to be an official witch at that age is indeed something, to be your royal highness’ personal magician? Too much jokes!”

After that the father guy came and brought her daughter in front of me, the girl was blushing, I don’t know why, since I already got a new shirt after I asked some for the guards, so her blushing was something really weir-

I looked at my side and saw a wild Elaine hugging me, oh, so this was the reason why they went quiet!

“What are you doing?”

I asked her, calm voice and with a smile, however my threatening smile didn’t go across and they started squealing, or no it was just my dad.

“YOU ENJOY HER HUG SO MUCH?! KYAA~”

That was my dad, he started covering his face like some young girl and and squealed none stop while peeking at the open spaced of his fingers. Why is my dad like this? I like him more when he trains me.

My mother came closer to me and smiled at me, her height was larger, so she had to kneel down and…hug me a little too intimately, I can smell her, she smells like dad’s sweat. They did something just before this.

“Hey~ Hey~ If you want to be with my son~ You have to hug him li~ke this~ and also kiss him~ Muwah~ Muwah~”

“O-Oh! Muwah! Muwah!”

What the? Elaine as well?! From the corner of my vision, I saw my dad try to- NO! WAY!

“WHY ARE YOU KISSING ME?!”

I pulled them away from me, I wouldn’t be able to pull away my mom but she willing let go and Elaine was feather. I quickly hid behind the bench and took a nearby rose and thought of it as a weapon before grabbing it by the flower and used the rose’s sharp thorns as the blade and I swung it randomly, I had to hide my blushing face, this was the best course of action!

“You guys are insane! People can get pregnant by kissin’! I don’ wan’ a sibling yet!”

Everyone laughed, I don’t like them all! The mood lightened but I was officially titled by my father as the-

“Kissing Baby-Maker”

After that weird event, my mother agreed to have Elaine as my personal magician and the silver haired girl has successfully got her badge, the whole thing about her being my personal magician was just a running joke in their family, they were actually a family of vampires, as weird as it is. My father was friends with vampires, well he is…something like a demigod already and his fame was also something.

“Oh and how’d you know you were going to have a sibling soon?”

“Huh?”

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*A year and a few months later*

In this room 3 people including me, were watching as a woman with a child-like face gave birth, the room shook due to her godly strength but the man, my dad, was professionally keeping up with her. An orange spark surrounded him and his clothes were ripped apart showing bulging muscles, this was my dad again, Lake Lionheart and the woman was my mom Nyx Lionheart.

The 3 of us were none other than me, the crown prince Victor Malum Noctis Lionheart, the next was a prodigy witch and my personal magician, Elaine Reni, the last one was the supposed nurse who was supposed to help my mom give birth but for some reason my little sister was a bad girl and was fighting back against the nurse and my mom, she was even in the stomach far longer than me so father had to take over!

“Nyx! Nyx! Just keep pushing her! That little devil would come out soon, I can see her!”

“Nguuuu! UNGUUUU!”

Finally, a bright light shined upon my mom and the baby was successfully brought out, she was crying, I could feel the ‘Why did you bring me out mongrels!’ from her, a brat to be, ok.

Also, should I note how we have the same birthday? Weird, huh? Almost as if it was supposed to be- ARGHH!

I grabbed my head in pain, the others around me who was laughing and smiling at the sight of my sister also found me laying on the ground, my head started bringing visions, finance? Lying? What the f.u.c.k? ?! I’m swearing?! What the hell? ARGH! The pain continued until a black light came from inside me and a scarf materialized around me, I grabbed it and tried to remove it but my [EX Instinct]- what the hell is that? WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!

…

I woke up in my room, my mind felt like I just watched a million windows from my weird abi- no it’s [EX Instinct], according to what I can remember. My weird skill of applying black aura to weapons was something called [EX Knight of Owner: A Knight Does Not Die with Empty Hands] there was an exact meaning to it but I just don’t know-

(Yet!)

“Who’s there?!”

(I’m here! My friend!)

I heard a voice, it was weird mix between a male and a female. I looked at the source of the sound and found a scarf, a black scarf that wrapped itself around my neck, I felt a sense of longing and familiarity from it and I knew it wasn’t evil so I laid back down to the bed.

“Hey, who are you?”

(That’s a secret~ my friend, if I tell you then there’s no point to…something)

“Okay, then can you just help me with a question?”

(Sure!)

“What’s the EX and how do I see the purpose of those skills? Yeah, it was [Skills]”

(Ask that to yourself! But, since I know EX wasn’t part of the knowledge you had. I’ll explain it~ EX is simply the highest rank a [Skill] can get, they’re all ridiculously over powered that even the Gods will smite you for one! So keep it a secret, okay Ale- Victor?)

I sighed and stood up from my bed, I opened my drawer and sighed once more as a rain of gifts and different toys just rained down on me.

“I skipped my birthday, that sucks.”

They were all probably with my mom or with my sister, either way I knew that there was something a bit different about me.

“Oh, wait, there’s a…3rd one? 3 Wish? What’s that? What’s a sacred gear?”

I bombarded the voice in the scarf a bunch of questions and he just gave me a hearty laugh, I think I imagined someone n.a.k.e.d with a toothy smile and before I knew it, I was smiling myself. Well, no matter, I like smiling after all.

(You can answer those all on your own! Why ask me, geez, you wis- I gotta learn to stop saying confidential stuff now don’t I?)

“Umu, I think you should”

‘Umu? Oh, it’s an…expression of agreement?’

(Your learning to tap into that knowledge huh?)

I ignored the voice and picked up some clothes from my drawer, I wore a black shirt on top of a long sleeve white shirt, I had the liking to do so, it looked cool with my scarf. I also went with a pair of black pants that reached up to my shin, they both had the symbol of the Lionheart. I went out of the room and my first destination was…the kitchen.

“Oh, Sir. Edgar! Are you doing the cooking for today?”

The knight, who had a big scar from the top right of his face downwards looked at me and smiled with a nod, I smiled back. We understood each other with just that. He doesn’t talk much by the way, something to do with trauma, but my dad said it was just him being shy of his voice.

(Oooh, fancy breakfast in here! It’s well cooked, he must have a [B Cooking] cool!)

I ate my breakfast and ignored the talking scarf, after that I went to the training area and walked in front of a dummy, this was a dummy made specially for me since I had the habit of destroying most stuff, accidentally. It was painstakingly made from the hair of my mother and magically enchanted by her, herself, she said it was so I can get ‘suitable practice’ I love my mom, my dad also since he sacrificed himself to pull her hair.

I took a nearby sword and, I’d have to say this but ever since the [EX Instinct] showed me the instant [EX Knight of Owner] I practiced it and was now able to cover most things in an instant.

“Lionheart Sword Arts: Fangs of a Mountain Lion”

I held the sword with both my hands and raised it just above my forehead, in a blink of an eye, the sword landed and cut through the dummy, leaving barely a scratch on it. I sighed and took another weapon but when I was about to attack again the voice called out.

(Try using me and enveloping the weapon with the scarf! It’ll go through that dummy!)

I raised an eyebrow and did as he said, though I don’t know how, I just knew, [EX Instinct] probably. I went into a state of trance as the [Ex Instinct] chose for me what to do.

“Lionheart Spear Arts: Sky Splitting Bite”

I held the spear in my hand an moved back both my arms and positioned my self in a low crouch position but ready to jump, I used the scarf to add another layer of blackness to the already black spear and using the momentum of my fraction of a second run, my bulging muscles, the orange sparks, I launched and stabbed the dummy in front of me. It caused a tremendous shockwave that by the time I realized it, my mom, dad, Elain and even…a weird girl who looks like my mom was there along with several knights, they had their mouths open and I looked in front of me.

“What the f.u.c.k are you?”

(Me? I’m the strongest Sacred Gear of course! God’s Left Arm of Black Authority!)

In front of me was a mess, stretching towards a few kilometers as it went pass the walls, everything disappeared and the dummy? The supposed God-like invincibility dummy? It’s gone, dusted.

(I’m technically a longinus after all~ A literal one plus the anti-divine part)

“Victor! MALUM! NOCTIS! HOW DARE YOU DESTROY MY HAIR DUMMY LIKE THAT?!”

My mom came and grabbed me by the ears, the little girl on the side grabbed her dress and- No way.

“Say hi to your brother Nyx~”

“How?!”