Gnome

Hessian POV

We headed to the desert and got kicked out of the city for dissecting the King's daughter. Damn ungrateful bastards, he even gave me the perfect opportunity when he locked me in the same room as her. I saved your daughter! I felt one session of dissection was the perfect reward for my efforts! Of course I would become interested in dissecting someone who had monster blood in them while still being human. I wanted to see if I could forcefully trigger the transformation and I did! But that's no reason to kick us out! I even turned her back to normal! Plus it's not like she's dead! I'm a professional!

After that, eventually Alice and I reached the area where the next spirit resided.

"So you're gnome?" I questioned as I looked down at the earth spirit who was holding a little mud doll in her arms.

"Yay! It's Gnome! Gnomy you gotta get in here!" Wait since when can spirits materialize outside of me at will? "It's sooo cool and there's this big mountain and this other guy who doesn't talk much like you!" Sylph flew around playfully as she described everything in my inner world.

"Oh, I guess you have a point." She seemed to be responding to Gnome. I'm confused, is Gnome communicating mentally? Because she literally didn't say anything.

Sylph flew back to me and seemed to nest up on my head. "She says it's fine if you want to contract with her but you need to beat her too!"

"So do all spirits require you to beat them into submission for their power?" I raise a brow at that. Honestly this is just weird to me.

"They have to like you too." Sylph informed "Anyway, hurry up and beat her so I can introduce Gnome to the guy on the mountain!"

"His name is Nanashi." I sighed at her. Nanashi really does have the patience of a saint.

I see Gnome narrow her eyes. I think she took offense to the fact that Sylph insinuated that I could quickly beat her.

"Well, let's begin." I said as I took out a book. Haven't used magecraft in awhile.

"Gnome is mad that you're fighting her with a book." I hear Sylph translate. Well, I guess in a way it does look like I'm underestimating her. Oh well, I'll just make this quick. Pages began to magically flap through the air.

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Gnome magically materialized within Hessian's inner world. She was not expecting pages to magically rain down attacks. She knew the one known as Hessian was strong, but that was just a completely one sided fight! She glanced around to see way too much water for her liking. Undine would probably love it here though.

Then she saw it. The mountain which reached so far that it pierced the sky. It even went above the clouds that floated through the air. Melding her body through the earth, she had never felt so at peace with the world. She could feel the minerals, the rocks, the power that exuded from the mountain itself.

Quickly reaching the peak, she saw the man who's body seemed to be one with the universe. His eyes opened with resplendent light, as if he could reveal the secrets of the universe. When he glanced over towards her, Gnome felt herself become a little wet. He was just so perfect to her, nothing could possibly ruin this.

"Hahaha! You finally made it to the top Gnomy!" Sylph flew around at top speed, only to get buried into the earth. Nothing could ruin this.

The earth spirit took small steps towards the white haired man. She nervously raised a mud doll up to him. Nanashi stared at the earth spirit without a change to his expression. Before Gnome could continue her nervous trembling, he accepted the mud doll and gently stroked her head.

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"Wow, Gnomy really likes him! Hey Gnome, why are you getting naked?"

Hessian blinked as he continued to listen to Sylph talk about the kuudere earth spirit. He ended up cutting off his connection to his reality marble, but Sylph's voice was still somehow able to get through to him. Honestly he didn't know what to think about the earth spirit trying to shack up with his sword spirit. But he wouldn't intrude on them if Gnome actually managed to get freaky with Nanashi. It could help him lighten up, because Nanashi was too serious sometimes compared to Hessian's nonchalance.

"I've come to a conclusion that spirits are weird." Hessian commented out of nowhere. Alice looked at him oddly since to her, it looked like he was just talking to himself.

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Hessian POV

I have no idea how I ended up here. I think to myself as I languidly gazed at my opponent on the other side of the colliseum. Although I admit that I'd like a good fight sometimes. I don't think there's anyone in this world who could actually challenge me, besides Ilias. And even then I'd probably win now that I'm also a god. I bet I could hold Bankai indefinitely with my soul being divine now.

"What a looker that one is!"

"I hope he loses soon, I want to see him get r@ped!"

Wait, did I just hear that correctly?

"I just love the part where the monsters r@pe the men!"

Yep, I definitely heard that right. Huh, so humans get screwed when they lose. Literally. Good to know, that explains why there are so many females in the spectators area.

"Oh my." I turned back to my opponent. From what I can see, she's a dullahan. I've never done it with a dullahan before. I wonder when she eats something with her head, how does it get to her body? Is there just a portal at the base of her neck? "If I had known I'd be fucking someone as good looking as you, I would have brought my good armor." she said sultry

I can't help but feel a bit ticked off that I'm being underestimated so much. I'm generally very chill, but this is actually making me a bit... mad? I usually don't experience strong emotions anymore. At least not truly. I've sort of lost the ability to truly despise, hate or feel disgust after my emotions fixed themselves back then. It's a wonder how Eresh was able to make me feel love.

"Don't worry cutie, I'll try to be gentle when I give the crowd a show." she continued to be so assured of her victory over me.

"You know what." I spoke

"What? Are you giving up already?"

"No, but you made me feel some type of way." I give her a smile that wasn't really a smile.

"I'm about to make you feel much more tha- EEAAAH~" Transcendent groping technique, truly my greatest skill

"Oh what was that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of your fluids hitting the ground."

"Wait! That's not supposed to go in the-AAAHH~" I listened to her moans as they echoed throughout the colliseum. Music to my ears.

"Oh don't worry, that's not the only thing that's going in there" I say as I shoved the handle of her weapon deeper.

The audience wanted a show? I'll give them a show.