"Welcome, dear customers!"
The restaurant Griselda had chosen wasn't anything extravagant like a three star Michelin restaurant, nor was it a fast food chain like Macronald's. Instead, she had picked a pleasant restaurant that was reasonably priced while still being good enough to qualify as a proper dining establishment.
Although she had never gone on a date before, she still possessed basic common sense.
Taking him somewhere overly fancy would be completely inappropriate and would only make things awkward. More importantly, it would expose the fact that she had carefully planned this 'date' beforehand and had been following him all day.
That would completely ruin the impression she was trying to create. Inviting him to a meal was supposed to look like a spontaneous decision she had made on the spot..
Because it was a small restaurant, they didn't need a reservation. The waitress quickly led the two of them to a table near the window and handed them their menus.
"When you're ready to order, please ring the bell."
After saying that, she tactfully left, giving the two of them some privacy.
Once she was far enough away, the waitress couldn't help glancing back at the stunning blond mature woman a few more times.
Although foreign customers occasionally visited the restaurant, this was the first time she had seen someone this beautiful.
Griselda's skin was flawless, her bright blue eyes seemed to sparkle under the light, and her expression carried a soft, gentle charm that made people instinctively feel comfortable around her.
For a moment, the college student working part time as a waitress even felt her heart skip a beat.
She suddenly found herself questioning her orientation.
Shaking her head vigorously, she hurried away and rushed toward her coworkers to tell them about the blond bombshell who had just entered the restaurant.
'How unfortunate.'
The moment the two of them sat down, Griselda became disappointed when their hands separated. She held up the hand that had been holding his and stared at it for a long moment.
'I won't wash this hand until he holds it one more time!'
That seems a bit too much. What if he feels disgusted if he notices that I didn't wash my hand?
Griselda anxiously glanced at her hand, torn between her sense of cleanliness and her desire to treasure the place he had touched. After a short internal struggle, she came up with an extremely ingenious idea.
'I will rub one out with this hand and think about cleaning it later!'
The entire way, Griselda had been unbearably turned on. Her pussy, no, her entire body had been working overtime. Love juice had been flowing out of her unceasingly since earlier. Fortunately, she was wearing a bra; otherwise, her stiff nipples would have long since poked holes through her shirt.
Once the naughty idea took root in her mind, Griselda could no longer wait. She suddenly stood up and said, "I need to go to the restroom."
"Yeah, sure. Take your time." I blinked and nodded.
I watched her leave before picking up my phone and starting to chat with my girls, thinking, 'What the hell is wrong with her?'
[Who knows. Maybe she couldn't take it anymore and went to discharge herself.] 2B responded sarcastically. Even she herself did not know how accurate her words actually were.
'Do you think everyone is as horny as you?' I replied calmly while answering Xenovia's barrage of messages. She seemed to be very concerned about his "date" with Griselda.
'Good thing I maxed out Observation Haki. Future Sight is available now.'
Future Sight was a good ability when it came to combat. It made it incredibly difficult for anyone to land even a single hit on you. At the same time, by knowing your opponent's next move in advance, countering them became much easier.
To me, however, its greatest use wasn't in battle.
It was most beneficial at dealing with women!
Earlier, while chatting with Griselda, I had decided to test it out. With Future Sight, I could peek into a future where I said something and see her reaction beforehand.
It was absurdly useful.
The only frustrating part was the cooldown. I couldn't use it repeatedly and had to wait a short while before activating it again.
The trivial chat I had with Griselda on the way, made me have a shallow idea about her personality, but I was stil far from knowing her completely, I didn'tknow her entire personality completely, her habits, disposition, ideas, etc, these things are very important for him to formulate a plan on how to raise her submission without too much drama, if her personality is stubborn, and willful like Rias for example, then I was in for a long quetes, but if it were like Irina then a bit of bullshit would be enough.
'There is no hurry. I can afford to take it slow.' I thought as I clicked on the image Rias had sent me.
Instantly, my eyes turned serious and sharp. I stared at the image with utmost concentration.
It was a photo of Rias wearing an extremely revealing black and red devil girl outfit. Her devil wings were spread behind her, and she had an attached devil tail swaying behind her. She held a devil's pitchfork in one hand and faced the camera, making a "V" sign in front of her mouth while sticking out her tongue in a seductive pose.
On her lower abdomen was a glowing purple tattoo that added an even more provocative touch to the outfit.
Below the image, she wrote, "Come home quickly, honey! This devil is waiting to be punished by her Master~"
I felt blood rushing to my lower head. I stared at the image for a full five minutes before reluctantly tearing my eyes away.
Only then did I begin replying to her provocative messages. After exchanging a few messages with her, I finally put my phone down.
"What the fuck?!"
"Bitch! Ahghh!"
Suddenly, a loud commotion attracted my attention. I immediately stood up and hurried toward the source of the noise.
When I arrived, I found two grown men writhing on the floor, crying out in pain. One of them was clutching his broken hand.
"Ah! My hand is broken! Call the police!"
"Disgusting worms!" The culprit was the blond, sexy nun. Looking down at the two men sprawled across the ground, she spoke in a disdainful tone.
"Pitiful, miserable monkeys. Where did you get the audacity to hit on me?"
Her expression twisted with disgust that said, 'Do I look like a female chimpanzee to you? How disgusting!'
Griselda gave one of the groaning men another kick. The way she looked at the pair was as though they were wastes of breath, beings unworthy of even sharing the same air as her.
These two were lucky she wasn't Raynare or Murayama. Otherwise, the lightest punishment they could have hoped for would have been losing a few limbs.
After taking a couple of steps away, her cold expression suddenly crumbled the moment she spotted me.
"Eh? Yusuke? What are you doing here?"
"What's happening here? Are you okay?" I quickly pulled Griselda behind me and stared at the two men lying on the floor, "What did these two do to you?"
"It's... It's nothing. They asked me out, and when I refused, one of them tried to grab my arm, so I beat them up."
Griselda answered in a soft voice. She looked so meek and gentle that it was hard to believe her previous appearance had been real.
The sudden transformation left the restaurant staff and the two men on the floor staring with eyes so wide they nearly bulged out of their sockets.
What happened was that after she finished masturbating in the restroom, which was the best orgasm she had performed since she discovered this lost art, Griselda reluctantly and painfully rinsed her hands and left.
The moment she walked out, she ran into these two men who seemed to have been waiting for her. They tried to ask her out, but Griselda completely ignored them. When one of them reached out to grab her arm, before he could even touch her, the man suddenly found himself kissing the floor.
"These two are brave." I glanced at the two men lying on the ground.
"Let's go." I closed my eyes and then opened them again. Taking a deep breath, I grabbed Griselda's hand and walked away, leaving the restaurant behind. As I walked, he silently cast a spell, wiping the memories of everyone inside.
I was no longer in the mood to eat, and I certainly wasn't willing to stay there.
I wasn't confident I could hold myself back from doing something if I remained any longer.
-x-X-x-
Walking out of the restaurant, the anger in Griselda's heart had long since evaporated.
All her yandere mind could think about was the hand holding hers and pulling her away. Naturally, she didn't struggle. Instead, she obediently allowed him to lead her along, following behind him without resistance.
'He got angry because of me, and now he's taking the initiative to hold my hand!'
Griselda was completely in love-struck mode. All she could think about were the scenes that had happened in the restaurant, especially the moment when he looked ready to murder someone.
And then there was his strong, manly hand holding hers.
'He's getting so protective! He must love me! Kyaah! I knew it! This is all arranged by fate! We're a match made in heaven!'
On the other hand, I began to consider how should I act next.
"Yusuke-kun, Yusuke!"
Once they stepped off the main street and into a less crowded area, Griselda suddenly called out to me, pulling me from my thoughts.
"What is it?" I turned around and asked.
"I want to know something."
Griselda raised the hand I was holding. With a slight nervous smile, she looked into my eyes and asked, "Do you like me?"
'I said it! I said it! Kyaah! Quickly, say yes! I know you love me! Hurry and say yes!'
The orchestra in Griselda's mind erupted into action. She was screaming, cheering, and panicking all at once.
Before she even heard his answer, the busty blonde nun's imagination had already run wild.
In her mind, Yusuke looked at her with affectionate eyes and confessed his feelings. He pulled her into his arms, kissed her deeply in front of everyone, then whisked her away to the Civil Registry to get their marriage certificate, before heading to a love hotel to fuck and have lots and lots of sex. After that, they would go on a honeymoon trip around the world that would last an entire decade. They would see everything together and abandon everything else.
She and Yusuke would build their own little world.
A world that no one else could intrude upon.
Just the two of them!
No one!
No one would get between them!
I showed a stunned expression. I quickly composed myself and was about to answer her.
However, the moment I opened my mouth, both we suddenly sensed a barrier enveloping them.
My expression immediately changed.
A dark purple barrier suddenly appeared around them before quickly fading away.
When Griselda looked around, she discovered that aside from Yusuke standing next to her, no one else was there.
Her expression darkened, gritting her teeth, she hissed, "Who is it? Show yourselves!"
A powerful and chaotic aura erupted from Griselda. Her eyes were slowly turning bloodshot as a crimson red color spread through her originally sapphire blue irises.
She was angry, absolutely furious!
If this had happened at any other time, Griselda wouldn't have cared if someone ambushed her. That sort of thing happened to her at least once a month.
What truly infuriated her was the timing these bastards had chosen.
They had appeared at the exact moment when she and Yusuke were about to confirm their undying love for one another.
And now everything had been ruined because of these tactless pieces of rat shit.
"Griselda Quarta, we are here to take your life." Five figures dressed in black suddenly appeared, floating high in the air. The one in the middle spoke in a low voice, his tone cold and indifferent, as though he were passing judgment upon her.
"Who are you?" Griselda asked as yellow holy power began radiating from her body.
Beside her, I floated into the air. I glanced at the five figures and smiled.
My smile was very wide.
"No need to ask," I said. "Those five are most likely from the Khaos Brigade."
I wasn't certain about it, but this style felt very much like theirs.
Then again, it didn't really matter even if I was wrong. In fact, I was quite happy that they had appeared.
I had been looking for a punching bag to vent my emotions on anyway.
"Khaos Brigade?!" Griselda floated into the air as well and took her place beside me, "So that's your goal! You want to kill me in Kuoh Town, the Devils' territory, in order to affect the peace treaty?!"
"Hmph! So what if that is the case?!" Seeing that there was no point in hiding their intentions anymore, the man in the middle snorted coldly. Magic circles began forming behind him one after another.
"You will both die here today! We will make sure all the evidence points toward the Devil race!"
Although Yusuke had killed one of the leaders of the Old Satan Faction and massacred many of his subordinates, news of his actions had spread far faster than his appearance.
These five human mages didn't recognize him.
They had received a request from someone on the Devils' side to assassinate Griselda and sabotage the peace talks between the three factions. Without wasting any time, they had come directly to Kuoh Town to carry out the mission.
They believed that since the first attack had only recently taken place, the three factions would be less vigilant after the Khaos Brigade suffered such a heavy loss.
As it turned out, they were right.
Kuoh Town was completely unguarded. There wasn't even a single barrier surrounding it. They had easily slipped into the town and prepared their ambush without anyone noticing.
Although Sirzechs, Michael, and Azazel had considered setting up a barrier around Kuoh Town, they didn't view it as an urgent matter with Yusuke guarding the area. They had planned to wait until the meeting in the Underworld concluded before making a final decision.
[Ignorance is bliss.] For some reason, 2B felt a trace of pity for those five people.
Perhaps they believed they had successfully infiltrated Kuoh Town without anyone noticing. The poor fools had no idea that nearly twenty people besides Yusuke had already detected their presence. More than one Satan Class powerhouse was merely waiting for a signal to erase them from existence.
I had naturally sensed their presence the moment they teleported into Kuoh Town. I simply hadn't reacted.
Instead, I waited for them to come to me.
"Stand down. I'll deal with them." Griselda summoned a glowing bow formed entirely from light magic. Nocking a magical arrow, she aimed it at the five figures.
Before she could fire, I placed a hand on her shoulder and spoke in a somber tone, already thinking about how convenient the situation is. "Just watch."
"Eh? Yes, Yusuke-kun~!"
Griselda blinked in surprise, and in the next instant her eyes turned into heart shapes.
The boundless fury she had been feeling only a moment earlier disappeared.
Her attention immediately returned to him. With her eyes fixed on his back, she felt her heart thumping wildly and butterflies fluttering in her lower belly.
Wrapping her arms around herself, she whispered dreamily, "He's doing it for me... subarashi!"
Her yandere mind naturally interpreted his actions in the most favorable way possible.
In her eyes, he was doing this for her; he was angry that someone had tried to harm her, and he wanted to personally punish them.
'He must be afraid that I'll get hurt!'
'Yusuke-kun is so romantic! I love him!'
'I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you! I love you!!'
It had been less than three days, yet Griselda's entire world had changed.
She had become so obsessed with him that her whole existence seemed to revolve around him.
"Our target is Griselda Quarta, ignorant kid. Since you want to die first, I'll gladly oblige!" The man who had spoken earlier laughed when he saw the scene before him.
He pointed a finger at me and coldly uttered, "Die."
The magic circle behind him spun rapidly.
A huge green ball of energy shot forward, tearing through the air as it flew toward me.
The five of them were magicians, and judging from the quality of their magic power, it was clear that they were all Ultimate Class Mages.
For humans, reaching this level of strength was extraordinarily difficult. That fact alone meant that each of them was a renowned figure in their respective fields, someone who should have been famous and well known.
BOOMM!
BOOMM!
I floated in place. When the energy sphere reached me, I casually swung my arm and slapped it away with the back of my hand.
The massive ball of energy was sent flying into the far distance before exploding.
Before the five mages could even react, he vanished.
In the next instant, I appeared behind the man. My hand shot forward and pierced straight through the mage's chest.
"Ugh... ugh... w-what?!" The man looked down and saw a hand protruding from his chest, holding his still beating heart.
His eyes widened in disbelief.
Then, right before his horrified gaze, the hand clenched.
Pop!
His heart burst into a mangled mess of flesh and blood.
"You talk too much for a side character," I pulled his hand out of the man's chest and spoke calmly. I always wish to re-create the scene from my favorite anime.
The man's lifeless body dropped from the sky, drifting downward until it slammed into the ground. His still warm corpse twitched a few times before becoming completely still.
I then turned toward the remaining four mages. "Don't worry. I won't kill you that quickly."
Now was the time to act and acting I will do.
-x-X-x-
I was strong, so incredibly strong. If I were to fight Sirzechs at this very moment, perhaps I would be the one who came out victorious.
A group of Ultimate Class human mages were nothing but sandbags to test my strength.
"Monster!"
"He killed him! He killed him!!!"
"Run! Run!!!"
Without any hesitation, they all picked random directions and fled.
I lightly swayed checking the speed, and in the next instant, I was standing behind one of the fleeing mages. Grabbing the black robed figure by the shoulder, I yanked.
Pufft!
As though it had been made of a fragile, expired biscuit, the man's shoulder was torn cleanly from its socket. Blood sprayed out like a small waterfall.
I held the arm and shoulder in one hand. Then he clenched his fingers, and the severed limb exploded into a shower of flesh and blood.
"Agh!!! Haaaaaa! My arm! My shoulder!!!" The mage's hood fell away, revealing a face twisted by agony.
Clutching the bloody stump where his shoulder used to be, he roared in pain. Tears streamed from his eyes as they gradually turned bloodshot.
The poor mage had arrived in Kuoh Town full of confidence to assassinate Griselda.
He had expected that his team might run into some trouble. However, they had always been confident that as long as their opponents weren't Satans or the leaders of the other factions, they could easily escape.
Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that he would encounter someone even scarier and crazier than they were.
He glared at the monster with pure hatred and growled, "You crazy bastard! Even if I die, I'll take you with me!!!"
A magic circle lit up beneath the man.
With a ruthless expression, he lunged forward and tried to grab me with his remaining arm. Dense magical energy began erupting from the desperate terrorist.
He already knew that his death was certain.
It was obvious that begging for mercy from this ruthless madman would be pointless. Rather than die helplessly, he would use his own life to drag the true villain down with him.
At the very least, people would remember him as someone who had died valiantly while fighting a powerful enemy.
I casually slapped the incoming hand aside before grabbing it.
Then I repeated the same motion.
Crack!
With a brutal yank, I tore the man's remaining arm from his body, his flesh, blood and thin nerve visible in front of me as I did.
Pa!
Holding the severed arm, I casually used the detached hand to slap the man across the face.
Pa!
Pal
Pa!
"How... how dare you! Don't insult me!!!" The man roared.
The magic circle beneath him blazed with intense light as he poured all of his magic power into it. The glow grew brighter and brighter until it reached its peak. Despite losing his arm, the mage grinned.
He was already picturing the look of despair on this monster's face.
But less than a second later, his smile froze, "Wait, w-what?"
The explosion never came!
Why wasn't his magic working?
I didn't even bother to answer his foolish question, tossed the severed arm aside.
Then I casually swung the back of my hand.
The instant it connected with the man's face, his head was violently torn and scattered from his neck and sent the remains flying into the distance.
I tilted my head, analysing my controlled strength.
Taking a step forward, I instantly appeared in front of another fleeing mage.
"Why aren't you running? Your partner sacrificed his life to buy you time, you know." I tilted my head slightly and smiled in mood for a short chat, "How ungrateful."
"Eugnnn! Eugnnn!" The man struggled to move, but he couldn't move even an inch. He tried to open his mouth, yet only muffled sounds came out.
He was completely frozen in place! Only his terrified, trembling eyes could still move; a strange and powerful force had bound him where he stood.
"Speak clearly, I don't speak rubbish language." I placed a hand on top of the man's head.
Fire erupted from my palm and quickly engulfed the man's entire body like a thin dress.
When I removed my hand, nothing remained except a small pile of ash that slowly drifted apart in the wind.
I pointed at the two remaining men, who were still held in place by Telekinesis. I clenched my hand like Ainz doing "Grasp Heart" as I turn their whole body into small marble as it roll.
Before looking at myself who had bath in red blood.
"Yusuke-kun!" Griselda rushed over and interrupted me.
Griselda looked at me and took in my current appearance.
His clothes were stained with blood, and traces of it remained on his left cheek. Combined with his calm expression, he looked like a serial killer who had just finished dismantling his victim.
I calmly stared back at her. One of the reasons I had killed the five terrorists, aside from venting his anger and testing my new strength, was so Griselda could watch. I was deliberately showing her how cruel and brutal I could be as a clear warning.
Of course, I was 99% certain that even if I displayed ten times more cruelty than this, it still wouldn't stop her if she ever decided to pull some yandere bullshit. Assuming she even had such a plan in the first place.
"Are you going to answer my question?"
Griselda's entire attention was locked onto Yusuke. She did not care at all about what happened to the terrorists, nor that their goal had been to kill her. The only thing occupying her mind was the question she had asked him earlier, "Do you like me?"
Honestly, Griselda was far more timid than Irina and Xenovia. She had been beating around the bush for so long. Compared to her, the other two church girls had confessed their love to him the moment they met him. Hell, one of them had even proposed to him right away.
Dealing with so many yanderes one after another in such a short period had twisted my standards so badly that what I considered normal had become completely warped and twisted.
"What if I do?" I answered vaguely, keeping my expression calm and unreadable. Waiting for some kind of reaction, but nothing came.
"..."
Griselda stood completely frozen, like a stiff statue. It wasn't just her body that had shut down. Her mind had gone entirely blank. Every thought and every worry she ever vanished in an instant. Only one sentence remained, repeating endlessly inside her head like a broken record, growing louder and more overwhelming with each loop.
'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.' 'I love you, Griselda.'
The words flooded her entire being, drowning everything else until her mind could no longer function. Her heart slammed violently in her chest as if it wanted to burst out. Her breathing stopped, and her vision became blurry.
All she could hear was that single sentence echoing louder and louder.
Yusuke had said he liked her!
He loved her!
Just as always, yanderes had an incredible talent for twisting the words of the person they loved.
If she had been speaking with anyone else, Griselda would have instantly noticed the loophole in his answer. He had said, "What if I do?" not "I do."
Unfortunately, when it came to matters involving their beloved, yanderes tended to abandon logic entirely. They ignored the parts they didn't like, overlooked the details that contradicted their desires, and interpreted everything in whatever way made them happiest.
As far as Griselda was concerned, there was only one possible meaning behind his words.
He loved her.
The case was closed.
Any evidence to the contrary would be immediately rejected by her brain before it could even be considered.