"What do you want?"
Velzard was acting arrogant and cold, which was the personality I was expecting from her the first time we met. What I wasn't expecting was everything else from her.
I got down on my knees and bowed down, full dogeza style, "I'm sorry Velzard!"
Velzard was caught off guard by my sudden apology, " wha- you…Fine."
I lifted my head up to look her in the eyes. Velzard felt disarmed by my puppy dog eyes, until a thought occured, "Wait, do you even know what you did?"
Simon: "no."
Velzard was baffled, "Then why are you apologizing for something you don't know exist!?"
Simon: "You won't talk to me, how am I supposed to know what I did you wrong when you won't even talk to me."
"Look…if I've ever done something to hurt you or insult you then I'm sorry. I just… I just want us to go back to the way we were. Is that too much to ask for?"
Velzard was taken a back, not because of his declaration but because she could not detect any lies in his words. Her expression slowly changed into a gentle smile, "ok then. You are forgiven."
'It seems that he truly has no idea. I thought it was because of some unique or ultimate skill…but maybe… no, if it is a skill than he most likely isn't aware of it.'
"Velzard?"
Velzard was brought out of her thoughts, crouched down and kissed my forehead.
Simon: "Oh, do you know where Misery is, I need to test something out on her."
" Are you going to use her as a test dummy?"
" Yep."
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One thing to note after I woke up a week ago was my status in the palace. Every demon treated me with respect, in fact some of them bowed down to me like I was their king.
I asked a random demon about my new form of address, "hi there, mind telling me something."
"Uhh… go ahead lord Simon."
"Why is everyone treating like I'm royalty?"
"Well…" he began to explain the two reasons behind my new royal position. The first reason was my battle with Leon, going toe-to-toe with a demon lord and beating him elevated my status the hearts (or souls) of these demons, to monsters, power=status.
The second reason is that Guy had actually ordered all his subordinates to treat me as their prince, 'Yeah…that's not weird.'
"Ok than one more question, where is Misery?"
"Ah. Lady Misery had overheard your talk with lady Velzard and had instructed one of us to tell you she is waiting for you on the courtyard should you ask."
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Misery: " You took your time to get here."
"Is that anyway to speak to your prince?" I spoke in fake arrogance.
Misery seemed a bit annoyed, " just get on with it already."
Simon: "ok then." Suddenly bluish-black energy emanated from me, the resulting spiritual pressure caused Misery to lose focus, her body began to disintegrate but she didn't seem to react.
I immediately stopped, the moment I did her body went limp and she looked dizzy as hell. I rushed to catch her.
" What happened." Misery asked while her body began regenerating.
" I used a skill… what did you feel? You looked like you were in a daze."
" I... couldn't feel anything, my magic sense stopped working, I couldn't feel, hear, smell, all I could do was see." Misery could see that I wanted her to continue, " What I saw was the cosmos it self, countless planets and stars gracing my vision." She looked down at her regenerating body, "I couldn't even feel anything. What was that?
I awkwardly smiled at her, " That was a new extra skill, it's called Celestial haki."
A familiar voice came from behind me, " That's quite the interesting ability." I turned around to Guy and Rain walking towards us. I immediately let Misery back into her feet the moment she finished regenerating, "Why not test it out on me?"
"Sure, why not." I enveloped him in my haki. Guy explained that even while using his spiritual body to think, he was still quite disorientated. Guy also said that the haki prevented him from sensing anything past the haki, like a sensory barrier.
From the information gathered, I noticed the difference between Celestial haki and other haki's. Other haki's can be said to have two things they do, damaging those you want to and exerting a domineering pressure on them. In the case of Celestial haki, the ability to exert a domineering pressure is replaced by the ability to completely dull senses and it even works on sensory based skills such as magic sense and sense heat source.
Guy voiced a frustrating question on his mind, "Simon, why can't I copy your skills?"
I simply gave him a sly smile and put a finger over my mouth, "it's a secret."
Guy: "Really, your not gonna tell me?"
"I will under two conditions. First, tell me why I'm regarded as a prince."
He smiled, "Why, you don't like it. I did it because I believe you deserve a status befitting your power."
"Feels like you've made me a bastardised version of a surrogate son."
"What is the second condition?"
"I want to learn spacial magic."
"Deal, now tell me what is causing this."
I sighed in exasperation, "Fine. When I evolved, one of my unique skills evolved, granting the ultimate skill Elysia. One of its sub-skills prevents it from being stolen or copied. Happy now?"
Misery and Rain were stunned by this, they knew that becoming a spiritual life-form carried the possibility of attaining an ultimate skill but that possibility was still low.
This fact means that Simon must have a ridiculously strong will and soul, Rain and Misery were a little jealous by this.
Guy also understood and asked, " Simon, what is your goal in life."
"Mmmmm…Survive, get stronger and create."
Guy: "how interesting. By the way, I'll be gone in two days for a meeting."
"What for?"
" Walpurgis."
"Ah…HUH!!!"