After a few hours, having finished his business, Kaito looked out the window.
The midday sun had disappeared from the sky, turning into a starry night sky.
Kaito simply stayed there for a few minutes, watching the sky, feeling that the rest he expected after the last world would take quite a while to arrive.
Finally, after a while, a female voice broke the silence.
"You're inclined toward domination, huh?"
"Am I?" Kaito turned with a smile, genuinely curious about that.
"You are" Makima affirmed. "But luckily for you, or maybe it's an ability, you also have an aura that makes people want to submit to you."
Kaito simply nodded, although he was not sure if it was true.
At the same time, he looked at Makima, who was stretching with her hands together above her head on the sofa. Her body, still completely naked, was on full display for Kaito, especially her ample breasts, which Makima's movement lifted forward, drawing Kaito's gaze.
"What? Want another round?" Makima asked with a seductive smile when she noticed Kaito's gaze, without any trace of shyness.
But Kaito shook his head.
"Not for now. I was just wondering, how did you do that thing with the clothes?"
"The thing with the clothes?" Makima asked before realizing. "Oh, you mean when it adjusted? It wasn't really the clothes, you know? The clothes stayed the same, it was my body that grew."
"You can grow your body?"
"More or less. It's actually my natural figure, I just usually hide it so I don't stand out as much. I can control my body completely, some things a bit like my figure or body fat, and others perfectly like eye color or hair color, that kind of traits" Makima explained naturally.
"Control your body" Kaito repeated, remembering that Makima had said before that she was the control devil.
Now it turned out that maybe her powers went far beyond simply controlling other people's minds a bit.
'Maybe, just like me, she has some kind of barrier that suppresses her power' Kaito wondered. 'Maybe Kaguya could break that barrier, although definitely not now, I still don't fully trust her.
Does that mean all devils can become stronger using this method, or is it only in certain specific cases? After all, my improved luck is still active, so randomly meeting and bringing one of the few special devils to my side is not out of the question.'
However, after analyzing it a bit more, Kaito did not reach any conclusion, mostly due to the lack of information he had about his own race.
'I need to find information about my race' he decided to himself.
Although he knew it would be difficult, his race was not a common devil and could come from anywhere in the multiverse, if there were simply books around with information, he would have already read them.
With that idea, Kaito asked Makima about it, but she knew even less than him.
According to her, she was the only demon on Earth confirmed by the Union. The only reason she knew her species was because she was born directly with all the information.
"I see, then I should get going, see you soon, I'll need your help."
Having nothing else to do there, Kaito prepared to leave.
"Wait!"
But Makima stopped him.
"One last thing you should know before you go. By tomorrow, both you and the Shinomiya family will probably become public enemy number one in the world."
"That exaggerated?" Kaito asked, surprised.
"It is. You should know two things.
First, having that Shinomiya girl by your side you probably already know it, but the government has been trying from the beginning to turn the general population against the Lords.
For this they used many small excuses, however, now it's no longer necessary. A Lord who destroys one of Japan's four megacorporations is enough" Makima explained. "Also, the reason why the Union has not panicked at the appearance of the Lords is mainly because they have an obvious weakness, their territory.
They are not Lords, they are territory Lords.
There will always be a way to destroy a territory, no matter how strong the Lord in charge is. Or at least, that was what was believed until yesterday, now the Union knows that your territory and subordinates are just as powerful even without you in it."
"More problems, huh..." Kaito sighed helplessly.
"Do you regret what you did?"
"Not at all."
...
Once outside, Kaito noticed some suspicious looks from people, which was not surprising.
If his appearance did not already stand out in the place, having spent more than five hours inside an office with a woman certainly did.
But Kaito simply ignored everyone's gazes as he left, except one.
Because although it was a suspicious look, it did not seem to suspect the same thing as the others.
Kaito followed the origin of the gaze toward a nearby girl, whom he easily recognized.
And as soon as their eyes met, the girl exclaimed in surprise.
"Kai..."
Before she could finish speaking, Kaito was already in front of her, he covered her mouth and took her out of the place, stopping in a nearby empty alley.
'Damn it, Makima definitely confirmed who I am with that,' he complained in his mind.
"to... huh? Where?"
"Nino, sorry about that, but I'm in disguise and I'd prefer if you didn't reveal my identity." Kaito explained. "Speaking of that, how did you figure it out?"
"Umm... a girl has her secrets?" But although Nino tried to sound mysterious, from her expression it was obvious she had slipped up by showing that she recognized him, clearly connected to something she could not reveal.
"Fine, I won't ask. But Nino, you cannot tell absolutely anyone that it's me, do you understand?" Kaito said it completely seriously while holding her shoulders.
"I understand. You're really close!" Nino said, stepping back before blushing a little and showing a shy expression. "By the way, what... what do you think of my new hairstyle?"
"Your hairstyle?" Nino's words made Kaito notice that her hair was different, no longer the long red hair from before, now it was cut to shoulder length.
"It suits you, I like it."
"You like it? That's good" she murmured almost in a whisper before turning to Kaito with determination. "By the way, when will you do guild missions again? You haven't come in a long time."
"Probably in a few days" Kaito replied, not really sure.
His plan of joining the guild as an affiliated Lord was simply to enter the enemy side, but now, with Makima on his side, didn't that seem a bit pointless?
The reason he said "in a few days" was simple, based on Makima's words, he felt that soon the mission would be himself.
"Alright, I'll wait for you" she nodded.
"You'll wait for me?"
"That's right, as long as it takes" Nino replied confidently, and Kaito, feeling that for some reason it was something important to her, simply nodded in agreement before leaving.
...
"You know, you smell like a woman."
"Really?"
Back in Gaia, Kaito went to talk to Kaguya, to his surprise, it was not difficult to find her since she was also waiting for him.
However, her first words caught him off guard.
"It's not really the smell, it's more like a kind of... presence?... or something like that.
Maybe it's just a woman's sixth sense? Do I have that?" Kaguya replied, more surprised at herself than actually speaking to Kaito.
"You look a bit different" Kaito said, noticing the change in Kaguya.
"I know, the evolution improved all my traits to perfection. In fact, not just me, after your evolution, I assure you that you are the most perfect version of yourself in terms of appearance."
"Yeah, that's not what I mean" Kaito said immediately. "I mean your personality."
Kaguya blinked in surprise, remaining silent for a second before finally speaking.
"I see. But about that, how about before I tell you what I discovered in 40 years, you tell me what you discovered in 7 hours?"
"Fine."
Kaito spent the next half hour explaining everything Makima had told him, along with the fact that she had joined his side.
"I see, you slept with the enemy in exchange for her loyalty. Thank you for the sacrifice" Kaguya said with a clearly fake grateful expression.
"You know, the previous Kaguya would never make that kind of joke."
"That's right, maybe the previous Kaguya was not real" Kaguya replied with a smile. "Alright, jokes aside, this situation is quite serious. If it's true, then by tomorrow we will be the enemies of the world.
It would be best for me to start rebuilding the Shinomiya family, recovering the loyalty of the secondary and subsidiary families. Not only that, I need to make it even more powerful, turning it into the kind of entity the government would not dare touch unless they are prepared for total war.
It would be best if we start developing in the real world as well, although some of us are still very powerful in the real world, we are very few.
Compared to literally the army of the entire world, we have no chance.
Since there is no way to do it with abilities, artifacts are the best option, if we use the backpack to bring artifacts from Gaia to the real world, our strength will improve drastically" Kaguya explained what she had been thinking for a while, realizing that it was time to start implementing it.
"What do you think about Sacred Gears?" Kaito asked at her idea.
"Sacred Gears?"
"Yeah, I have a portal that can connect two worlds as long as neither is Earth. The next time we go to the world of gods and dragons I can connect it to Gaia."
"That's a great idea, I trust that you know where to find more Sacred Gears. Besides, with your current luck it's enough to just want that to be the next world" Kaguya nodded, excited.
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