"Oooi Shirou! I really need your help, here!" When I was walking to my class, I saw Issei running the me while the hologram that was made by Azazel's was half broken because right now Issei was showing "his" true form that was changed into a girl.
"The hologram projector that was invented by Azazel-Sensei suddenly broke, and right now, half of my body was changing back into a girl!"
I sighed. I can help Issei fix the hologram projector easily. Ot cure him from the effects of the medicine that Matsuda and Motohama give him to kill him. But what's the fun in doing that? Maybe I look like a masochist, but I want Issei to suffer more and longer so he can learn to be a better man for himself and the women he loves, and not only that, I also want him to become stronger to protect himself and his family.
But it will be bad if someone sees "him" having a half-girl and half-girl body. So it looks like I must do something to help him, if only temporarily. Because at least I want Issei to suffer until the rating games against Sairaorg end, because those rating games will be the last rating games that I will have as a member of the Rias Peerage.
"Issei, eat this pill."
I give Issei a pill that I specially made for Issei for this chance. The recipe of this pill has came from Zelretch himself and that pill has an effect like an elixir but only lasts for three days. I didn't know where that troll got this pill recipe. But to think he got something like this is a proof that he was indeed a very knowledgeable sorcerer of the Second Magic, gathering and collecting a lot of things from a lot of dimensions that he visited.
Well a medicine making was not my forte, but in my long life as a Counter Guardian I have a lot of experience in making a simple medicine to cure a wound plus making a medicine is almost like a cooking from my own opinion. So as an expert in cooking, by following Zelretch's instructions, I can make that pill just fine, even though it's not that easy.
"This pill will change you back to your male form, but it only works for three days, so after those three days have passed, you must come see me for another pill."
Issei took the round pill from me with a face full of doubts. I think he still has a big doubt in his heart—or even a suspicion—about the pill that I give him.
"Ooi Shirou, are you sure that this pill can change me back to my male form? And weirdly, why is it only for three days?"
"Well, I guarantee that pill will work, and why is it only work for three days? Because that pill was only an experimental drug that I concocted to cure your condition. Until I or Azazel-Sensei can find a permanent solution for your abnormal condition."
Issei looks disappointed that he cannot change back to his former self quickly and permanently, but I don't really care if he is disappointed or not. Because this is so that he can become stronger. He may think that he has successfully hidden his true strength, which is almost on par with the Ultimate Class Devil.
But sadly, his attempt to hide it was futile in front of my advanced structural analysis.
"Hey Shirou, can you give me a more permanent solution? Because I didn't want to become a girl for much longer. You have a lot of treasure inside the Gate of Babylon, right? Ddraig told me that Gilgamesh thought collecting all the treasure in the world must have some kind of very precious medicine that could be used to cure me."
"To tell you the truth, Issei, I can change you back to normal by using a drop of elixir from my Gate of Babylon. But that Elixir was so precious because it can cure a human any disease, bad alignment or even growing a limb and bringing back someone that almost death to life once more a drop of it also can extend human life to a thousand of year. And unlike any weapon inside my arsenal, that weapon can be repaired instantly inside the Gate of Babylon after it is broken. The Elixir of Life is different, because that medicine cannot be restored at all when I'm using it, even if it's only one drop."
Issei once again looked sad and disappointed, but it looked like he understood that the Elixir of Life was so precious. So he was only silent and didn't say anything right after I explained to him about the Elixir of Life.
I feel a bit guilty for lying to him. But this lie is necessary because if everyone knew that I have an unlimited supply of the Elixir of Life, then I will have a disaster, a very big disaster. My life is already full of problems, and I don't want to add another one to it.
Issei then swallowed the pill that I gave him, and in an instant, his half-male, half-female body was finally gone. And he looked very relieved after he saw that his body was back to normal.
"Finally, I'm back to normal! And all the weird feeling that I got all this time because of that stupid projector is gone!"
A flood of tears, like in anime, came out of his eyes. It looks like he is very happy to have his true form back, but the thing that makes me feel weird is: how did he cry like an anime character like that?
That was really weird, as if the world in which I live is some kind of anime world.
[Archer, in another dimension or in a higher dimension, our lives might be just a fanfic, a novel, a manga, or just a crossover anime. So don't feel weird if something weird that doesn't make sense is happening in front of your eyes. Because that was a glitch that happens every now and then in a lower dimension like the one in which you are living right now, and for your information, Archer, you can see the glitch because of the high level of human blood inside your body.
The glitch is normally impossible to see for a native of the lower dimension.]
***
In a higher dimension, inside some kind of mysterious building that was surrounded by a very thick mist.
"Hmm, it looks like your son was already realizing the advantage that he has as your son, Midou," Akabane said, who was watching Shirou's condition through a fraction of a mirror that was floating in front of him.
"Maybe one day he can break the barrier to our dimension and give you a challenge that even I cannot give to you.""
Maybe, but that will be a very long time until he can reach me in this dimension," Ban said while sighing at the sight of the body of his wife Mizusu that was placed inside a giant glass tube that contained his wife's body and also a special liquid that provided nutrition to his wife.
"But until that time has arrived, what I will do right now is watch him, help him occasionally like I did a couple weeks ago, and wait for Mizusu to wake up like always."
"Your wife will wake up in one or two months; her body was healing at a high speed right after I added the special liquid into the glass tube," Akabene said. "To think you could get a whole lake of the Elixir of Life, that was really insane."
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