The Act Pt.2
(POV POV)
As Akihito and Mia held eye contact with Milim he made a mental link with himself, Mia, Milim, Carrion and Frey who was above the clouds watching them.
Suddenly they all appeared in a white room everyone with the exception of Mia and Akihito were looking around cautiously.
"Calm down, this is a separate mind space that I made. It's completely detached from reality." Akihito said. Milim was quick to catch on and she ran over to Akihito with a smile and hugged him with her face in his stomach.
"I thought I would have to actually fight you." Milim said as she released Akihito and hugged Mia. Both Carrion and Frey were surprised to see Milim like this. They haven't seen her this close with anyone or anything.
Akihito put his hand on her head as she stood next to him and they looked at Carrion and Frey.
"I brought you all here so you guys can let us in on why Milim has been acting like this. You can start now." Akihito said.
"Well Clayman planned on using the church's army as a way to attack Tempest, gather souls, and awaken as a true demon lord. Right now he's only a demon seed, so he's lacking the requirements to commence the Harvesting Festival." Milim said.
"That sounds reasonable. So he was hoping to cut down Famas's manpower as well?" Mia asked.
"Seems like it, but why would he make you attack me?" Carrion asked.
"To get you out of the picture. He knew controlling you would be hard, but he didn't plan on Milim to be how she is." Frey said.
"So what fo you have to do in all of this?" Akihito asked Frey. She basically had no ties at all in this and she didn't seem to be controlled.
"I'm was paying him back. Because I owed him for something." She said.
"You need to be more-" Akihito was cut off by Mia who tapped his shoulder.
"She can keep it to herself for now. We know who's behind this and why they're doing it, so let's find out how to adapt with it. I say we keep the act up, so he thinks his plan is still working." Mia suggested.
"I agree." Milim added as she nodded her head with a smile.
"Great, continue the fight like you would have and Mia will jump in. Make it seem like you're loosing, so that we can have a reason to retreat." Akihito said to Mia. She nodded and after a quick briefing he disconnected the mental link.
In the real world all of this happened in an instant and so everything played out as they planned up till now.
….
Mia was flung back by Milim's sword and she darted forward. This time Akihito had to come into the play. The plan was to make it look like they were getting completely overpowered and to "leave" Carrion to die.
Thus they would fake Carrions death just like they planned. So Akihito has to act. He used his body control to make his skin like normal human skin so that he could take damage from the sword.
As Milim dashed towards Mia, Akihito got in the way and delivered a punch which was blocked by the side of Milim's sword. In one swift movement Milim swung her sword and cut Akihito's arm off.
Blood gushed out as he flew back to Mia's side. Holding his arm he grit his teeth and made some fire in his hand and put it right on his arm.
He let out a groan as everyone watched in shock. Mia looked around with a worried face and she grabbed Akihito's arm, opened a portal made of dark force and bolted through.
"TCH!!" Carrion gritted his teeth as he looked at Milim skeptically. Suddenly his eyes came to a realization.
"Don't tell me you're-"
"So you caught on?" Frey's voice said behind him. He felt a blade at his neck as he said his last words.
"Even you, Frey?" She then slit his throat as Carrions body was fell from the sky.
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(Akihito POV)
"I'm never doing that again." I said as sat down on my couch. After that little act we went through the portal and back home to make it seem like a we retreated.
"It was so out of character, I hated it." I complained.
"Stop complaining, it had to be done." Mia said as she sat next me me.
"What do you? Should we tell Rimuru and the rest about this or what?" I asked.
"Nah, let's let them continue thinking how they do right now. Remember she needs the perfect performance." She said as she start messing with my hair.
It was oddly comforting in a way.
"What's been happening since I've been gone?" I asked as I closed my eyes. Mia got behind me and it felt like she started braiding my hair.
"Well we found and killed the armies that were around Tempest, Rimuru's in the process of becoming a demon lord and he said he's gonna be one in name and status. He also summoned some demons. That's it really, oh right, we also captured the king of Famas." Mia said plainly. At this point she was just rubbing my hair now.
"I see, well let's head to Tempest. I think I have a faint idea of what he meant by being a demon lord in name and status. He's going to go to one of their annual meeting things." I said.
…
Once we got to Tempest we noticed everyone beside maybe five people were sleep. There was also a huge sun of magiculs around the center of Rimuru.
A/N: I mean the capital name not Rimuru himself.
"To the east are three demonic presences'." Mia notified me. I nodded and we decided to go see what that's about first. Once there we saw Gruicius, three demons, and Ranga, who was sleep.
"Are you perhaps Akihito and Mia? We come with no ill intent. I'm but a servant fulfilling the wish of his master." Said the demon with a red streak in his hair.
"You do seem butler like." I said as we floated down to them
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"What's wrong with Ranga?" I asked seeing him in a deep sleep.
"He's going through his evolutionary Slumber. He's evolving." The demon answered.
"I didn't get your name." Mia said as she looked at the demon in front.
"Ah, excuse my rudeness. You can call me Black, but as of now I'm an unnamed summon of master Rimuru. Nice to meet you." He said we an elegant bow.
"Nice to meet you too." Mia said. Suddenly the barrier started crackling like it was being hit with something.
"Ah, it seems something of great power is moving inside." The demon named Black said. Gruicius saw this and ran off inside the barrier.
"Might as well see what's up." I said and teleported us all into the barrier. Once inside we saw what looked like Rimuru combining large amounts of magiculs.
Suddenly the swirl of magic was condensed into a ball of magic in his hands. He crushed it as he muttered a few words.
"From now, the secret art of revival will resume." With that these orb like balls of light came down and one by one they sunk into the bodies of the dead.
Suddenly Rimuru turned back into a slime. The and everyone was still sleep. I went and put Rimuru on his throne and wrapped him in that white blanket.
After that a week went by. Everyone was up and stronger. Mia, Shuna, and Shion had fun as usual. The town basically went back to normal like nothing happened. Of course Myulan still had her sentence pending since Rimuru was still sleep.
While this was happening I was experimenting with my concept magic manipulation. I gave Mia Primordial Light, Darkness, and Chaos manipulation, because I thought it would fit with her holy and evil vibe.
While messing around with my magic, I thought of something. What if it's not magic that I'm using, but something like divinity?
Within this week I've just been meditating in my astral form. In my domain I had a few souls in them and I would be doing experiments with them. First I wanted to see if I could absorb them into my spirit as pure energy instead of a soul, which worked.
Secondly, I wanted to see if I can put souls into something. I can do that only by encasing in on my "Divinity" then putting the into the body.
Lastly, I just wanted to know if I can give souls to the rider. Which I could. We decided to link a separate dimension with hell and I can toss souls there.
While I say this was in a month I was in the eight rings of hell so it was like 10,080 years for me.