True Magician

Chapter 4

Kuoh Academy. Medical room.

The next day.

I sat in the medical room and sipped my coffee, happy to be alive. Why? I managed to get away from a certain clingy loli. I'm not arguing that Ophis is cute and so on, but when she won't budge from you 24 by 7, it gets wildly awkward. Ophis is a child with all that entails. She wouldn't leave my side, or at least tried to stay with me when I was sleeping, showering, or even going to the bathroom. No privacy, you know?

BUT! I'm free now! Thanks to whom? Tiamat, of course! Somehow I was able to dump Ophis on her, more or less satisfying the need for hugs from both a troubled mother and an even more troubled daughter.

By the way... After talking to both of them for a bit, I realized something. In the sourcebook, Ddraig once mentioned that both Ophis and Great Red may be from another dimension. I mean, the strongest beings in the DxD world came from the freaking Nasuverse! And they are also both Tiamat's children from there as well!

I even asked Ophis how she was born. To which she replied, "I was born in the void". As far as I understood, she was referring to gaining consciousness rather than birth itself. That is, she was born of Tiamat Nasuverse, gaining the concept of the Void, or more accurately Infinity, since the Void is essentially infinite, because of her birthplace and fell into the Space between the dimensions of the DxD world. Which corresponds to the story of Tiamat's imprisonment by her children into another dimension from the Nasuverse.

Then you ask, where is her local counterpart? The answer is simple. She was murdered. Tiamat from the DxD world was not a Beast and thus did not have immortality on a conceptual level, unlike the same Ophis or Great Red, who got their own concepts in another world and developed them already in this one. I found this out by activating the 3rd True Magic and finding her soul. I talked to her for a while and suggested that she merge with her counterpart from the other world. She thought for a long time. A REALLY long time. And finally agreed, saying she wanted to see her children, even if it wasn't entirely her anymore. In the end, Beast II became, if not twice as strong, at least one and a half times stronger.

Too stuffy, you say? Well, I'll answer that.

Nothing can interrupt my s...

- "Romani Archaman, please report to the Student Council Room," I was interrupted by a voice on the speakers, "Repeat. Romani Archaman, please report to the Student Council Room."

Pfft. Of course Murphy is still as effective as ever.

- "Fou?" came the voice of Fou, who was asleep in one of the bunks.

- "Uh-huh," I replied, "Now get in. If I'm suffering, somebody's got to suffer with me."

- "Fou, kyu," he objected.

- "Then you'll be out of dinner," I said, "I am Emiya's Master, not you."

- "Fou, fou, kyu!"

- "Stop whining. You don't get paid at all, Primate Murder," I said, "Besides, even stone is more expressive than Goetia, isn't it?"

- "We're not interested in your opinion, Romani," Goetia said.

Wow, he's shy.

- "Fou!" Fou exclaimed, but he got under my robe.

I left the infirmary and headed towards the Student Council room.

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Kuoh Academy. Student Council Room.

KNOCK KNOCK

- "Come in."

I opened the door and after entering the room, I sat down across from Sona. She only raised an eyebrow at my actions but didn't say anything.