Rescue|Imposter|Reunion|Teacher|Ascension

*Maniacal chuckles*"You think you can kill me!? You must be on drugs!"

"Oh, we don't think so. We know we can."

"Is that so, then come-"

Heleh is boosted by Kamesh and tries to decapitate the man. He blocks him but is hit in the liver by Kamesh. He drops to the floor and coughs up a bunch of blood.

"So you have the anatomy of a human."

"No shit he does."

"Shut the fuck up man!"

"Focus on your enemy."

"Shut up!" Heleh and Kamesh in synchrony.

Heleh walks up to the man and points his Odachi at him. But a spike of metal is formed from the floor and stabs him in the back. The man gets up and laughs maniacally.

"You don't remember me? Your savior." His voice transitions into the voice of a woman.

"What!? No, it can't be."

The man was now a woman with blue eyes and long black hair.

"Blue eyes, black hair, and an angelic voice. You bitch." Heleh starts to laugh out loud. He starts wheezing and puts his head down.

"What's so funny?"

"I trusted you, you saved me from the bandits. How did you know to target those two?"

"I've been watching you ever since that day. Through the happiest times, and through your days when you were dead inside. Even when you were you know, doing the deed."

"This is no time for jokes! If that's how then why, why!"

"To help you, if you fought something far more powerful than you could handle, you would become so much stronger."

"Yeah, yeah I know." Heleh looks up at her with a blank face. It looked like he had no emotions, like he had nothing left for people to take away from him. Like he was ready for death.

"Those are the eyes I would expect you to have. With everything you've been through, you would want to die."

"Oh, I don't want to die. Now there is only one person that I want dead, that's you."

A pulse of mana reverberated throughout the room. Like a high level demon was right above them. But then, the hand of a demon comes crashing down through the ceiling. Once the dust cleared out, there stood a tall woman with a black robe. She had blue eyes and black hair. And an angelic voice, the real savior of Heleh.

"An impersonator?"

"About time you got here."

"Yeah yeah, long time no see!"

"Wow, you have not changed one bit."

"You've gotten taller I see. Oh, I see." She noticed the spike through Heleh's chest, a scared Kamesh, and Lucia and Suzuni laying on the ground all beat up and tied up.

"Scum like you don't deserve death. But since I get to see my favorite kid, I'll kill you."

A heavy pressure then pressed everyone down to the floor, even Heleh had trouble staying up. The woman walked up to the imposter and blew her body into ash.

"I will not forgive you for angering my disciple."

She then burns everything left of the imposter's body. She helps untie and heal the girls. The girls wake up shortly after and are introduced to Rya.

"Kamesh, Lucia, Suzuni, this is my teacher Rya. Rya, these are my squad mates and friends."

"Hello ma'am."

"Thank you for helping."

"Thank you."

"Why aren't you guys cute!"

"Ahem!"

"Oh right. Heleh has instructed me to train you all. I will warn you right now, Heleh has gone easy on you. But I'll also go easy, but if I do it will feel like Heleh's full strength. Are you willing to take the risks?"

*All*"Yes ma'am!"

"Good, starting in 2 days, I will be training you."

Rya then takes Heleh to talk to privately.

*Whispering*"So, have you dated anyone yet?"

"Why are you asking me?"

"Because I want to know if my student is living his life to the fullest."

"No I haven't."

"Well you should."*Speaking normally*"Guess I can't make you."

"Yeah, anyways. Guys, I was thinking of using all of our combined income to purchase a house. Where all of us can live with each other, so, how about it?"

"We girls have one condition!"

"What is it?"

"We all get separate rooms."

"Ok, is that it?"

"Yes."

"Ok so all of you can go back now. I'll search for a good place."

*All*"Ok"

"There are 2 good choices in your party."

"Bro I don't care. You're supposed to be training them. Oh, and tell them that I'll be away for a long time. I don't know how long, but at least 5 months."

"Ok, I'll make sure to tell them."

"Thank you."

After the incident, Rya has gathered the party except for Heleh to train. They go to a flat area covered with grass and flowers, it looked like a setting out of fairy tales.

"Rya, where is Heleh?"

"Yeah I thought he would be training with us."

"Yeah."

"Ummm, about that. He told me to tell you that he would be training on his own. And that he would be gone for at least a few months."

"That long? But why?"

"I don't know. Maybe he has some special training or something."

Lucia, Suzuni, and Kamesh all look at each other and nod.

"What will we be doing for training?"

"Has Heleh told to just fight him?"

"Yeah, he has just been sparring with us."

"Well in that case. My training will be much better, things like mana reserves, spell casting, and just like physical strength we will be working on. And not to be rude, but you guys are all weak as fuck!"

"Yeah, we know."

"Anyways, by the time Heleh gets back, you will be as strong if not stronger than him."

"Woah really!"

"Yep."

"Let's go!"

For the next year and a half Rya had trained the party to be as strong as possible. At just 6 months through the training, they were as strong as Heleh used to be. They could instantly cast spells, and their physical strength had grown exponentially. But one day during training, a strange man showed up when they were training. Rya could sense that he had a ton of magical power, even more than her.

"Who are you and what do you want!"

He said nothing.

"Answer me or el-"

"Wait what? I can't hear you over this wind!"

"I said who are you!"

"Oh, wait you don't remember me!?"

"No way, Heleh is that you?"

"No."

The mysterious man seamlessly teleports to Rya and stabs her in the chest. Rya coughs up blood and looks at the man. There was no man, he was a demon.

"Remember the grade 2 demon you killed more than a year ago?"

"Yeah, why!"

"That was my father, you will pay."

Then from above, a familiar voice would be heard.

"Is that so?"

Everyone looks up, and they light up with joy. Heleh was floating over them. He wore a torn up robe with a long sleeves shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He wore long pants with black boots.

"Heleh!"

"Who are you!"

"Why should I tell you when your hand is inside of my teacher. Wait a minute, that doesn't sound right. Anyways what are you gonna do about it?"

"I will kill everyone associated with this woman, in order to avenge my father."

Then from behind the demon.

"Is that so?"

Heleh then snaps the demon's neck. The demon falls to the ground and removes his hand from Rya. Heleh rips off a piece of his to wrap around Rya's wounds. He then casts a healing spell on her.

"I am not dead yet! Don't turn your back to the enemy!"

"Stop yelling!"

Heleh grabs the demon by his jaw and squeezes tightly.

"Shut the fuck up. No one wants to hear your raspy, high, annoying voice! You sound like a whining toddler who didn't get the candy they wanted! Just shut up!"

"Ow man, we have feelings too."

"Does it look like I care?"

"Well no but-"

"Then shut up. Here, I'll make you shut up."

Heleh heats up his hand enough to the point where the demon's face starts melting. He melts his lips and they fuse together making him unable to open his mouth.

"Perish."

Heleh blows the demon's head to ash with a single beam of mana. After doing this, Heleh drops to the floor due to exhaustion.

"Get him back to the house."

"Ok."

Suzuni picks him up and they go back to the party's home. It was a humble home with two floors. The bottom floor was like the living room, kitchen, storage closet, and then the stairs to the second floor. On the second floor there were just bedrooms and bathrooms.

Heleh then woke up in the boys room on the second floor. Rya was over him, she noticed that he had woken up and smiled at him.

"Hi."

"What the, where are we?"

"Where in the party's home, remember?"

"Oh yeah, thanks for bringing me back. Wait did you change me?"

"Yeah, and we saw everything."

"I don't care what you saw. Thank you."

"Don't thank me, thank Lucia. She was the only one willing to change you. And Suzuni brought you back here."

"Oh, I'll make sure to thank them."

Heleh sits up from Rya's lap and rubs his eyes. He notices something strange. He looks back at Rya, looks down at her lap, then back up to Rya who was smiling. But he just shrugged it off.

"Goddamn her thighs are soft."

"What did you say?"

"Oh nothing, oh, thanks for taking me back."

"No problem. And did Rya tell you that Lucia changed you? When she did she screamed so loud!"

"I don't care. Speak of the devil. Hey Lucia-"

Lucia notices him and blushes and runs off somewhere.

"I guess shes nervous after what she witnessed."

"Shut up bro."

"But we're glad to have you back!"

Suzuni hugs Heleh, it was the first time she hugged him on purpose.

"Ugh, my heart. Such kindness."

"Shut up before I smack you."

"Oh no, not the smack. Woo, I'm so scared."

"Why you! We have been training you know. I could beat you up."

"Chill, I'm just playing. Anyways, where is Kamesh?"

"He went to the blacksmith."

"How much of the city has been rebuilt?"

"Practically all of it."

"Yes finally."

"Why, was there a building you liked?"

"Well yeah. The adventurers guild, a year ago, was only part built. But now it is complete, so I can rank up."

"Oh yeah, wanna go there now?"

"Sure!"

The two of them go to the Adventurer's guild to reassess Heleh's rank. When they got there, Charge was at the front desk.

"Chare?"

"Oh Suzuni, how's it going?"

"Good, did you transfer buildings?"

"What do you think dumbass."

"Shut up, I wasn't asking you."

"So, what do you need?"

"We came here to reassess his rank"

Heleh waves at Chare.

"Well ok, do you know the process?"

"Yes."

Heleh puts his card under the black orb and puts his hand on it. The orb lights up and is bright enough to light up an entire house.

"Oh my god! Sir, you're above an S rank! There's not a lot of levels above S I could give you. But just from this, you are definitely at Demon level."

"Well, ummm. I don't wanna be the center of attention so let's go."

"Ok."