Chapter 6: The Dark Destruction God
After school on the day of the practice match, Shion was helping his homeroom teacher, Restia, prepare for her class.
Restia had asked Shion to “go fetch some equipment for the class experiment.” He was now standing in front of the equipment storage room where the instruments were kept.
Shion unlocked the door with the key borrowed from Restia and entered the storage room, mentally reviewing the list of equipment and quantities he needed to prepare. As he did so, he noticed a figure in the back of the room.
When Shion turned his gaze towards the figure, he saw a female student.
More precisely, he saw a female student partially exposed in her underwear, apparently in the middle of changing.
The girl was frozen in a slightly bent-forward posture, in the process of putting on her skirt.
Likewise, Shion stood silently, staring at the girl.
“……”
“……”
A few seconds passed with both of them frozen in place.
However, the silence was abruptly broken.
“Guaaaaaaaaaaaah!!”
The sudden scream came from Shion. While shouting, he clutched the left side of his chest tightly with his right hand and crouched down on the spot.
“Ugh! Calm down, calm down…!! I won’t let this control me! I… I don’t want to destroy… this world!!”
Shion suddenly cried out in anguish, as if strongly resisting something. However, his voice gradually weakened.
“I… I absolutely won’t be consumed by the power of darkness…! Ugh… calm do-“
Shion’s words were cut off, and silence once again fell over the storage room.
“……”
A few seconds passed in complete stillness.
“…Kukukuku. …Kakaka…”
This time, a small, eerie laugh echoed in the storage room.
It was Shion’s laughter, still in a crouched position.
“Haa-hahahahahahaha!!”
Shion suddenly raised his face from the ground and let out a loud laugh.
Both of his eyes were now dyed an ominous purple color.
“The time has finally come!! This body is now mine!! Fuhahahahaha!!”
Shion laughed loudly, as if unable to contain his excitement.
“…Kuku… Fuuhahahahaha!!”
After laughing for a while as if he couldn’t hold back, he finally let out a satisfied “…Haah.”
“To think that humans would be foolish enough to try to suppress me, the Dark Destruction God Vasago-Deus-Gregor, within a single human…”
Shion muttered as he slowly stood up.
“However, this accursed body put up more resistance than I expected… It took longer than anticipated to revive…”
Shion muttered with a somewhat resentful expression, but quickly switched to saying, “Well, no matter.”
“…………”
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Throughout Shion’s strange behavior, the female student in the same space showed no notable reaction.
…A series of sudden actions without any explanation. From his words, it seemed as if he had suddenly been possessed by someone else.
However, such a phenomenon hadn’t actually occurred. The current mind of Ichise Shion was still his own. While it might seem that he had truly lost his sanity, that wasn’t the case either.
He hadn’t been possessed by anyone, nor had he lost his mind.
It was all an act by Shion to escape this critical situation.
Although unintentional, Shion had found himself in the situation of “peeking at a female student changing.” At that moment, for some reason, an abnormal danger signal went off in Shion’s mind. A premonition of major trouble was instantly born within him.
To get out of this situation, the action Shion chose in that split second was this series of performances.
Suddenly screaming, crouching in pain, bursting into laughter, changing his eye color with “Bright Eyes,” and then spouting nonsensical words.
By doing so, he created chaos in the equipment storage room, making it difficult for the female student to process the information.
Whether he tried to quickly escape from the scene or desperately explain himself, the possibility of him being suspected as a peeping tom was extremely high.
That’s why Shion chose to mess up the entire situation in this space, making even the fact of peeking at someone changing ambiguous, and then leave.
To carry out this plan, he created an imaginary personality with the setting of “a dark destruction god who once plunged the world into terror, sealed within himself as a human pillar, has now taken over his body despite futile resistance.”
Shion Ichise then gave a breathtaking performance, faithfully following the setting of his own delusion.
All that was left was to retreat from the equipment storage room before the female student could regain her composure, leaving behind this storm of confusion.
“…Well, it’s been a while since I’ve been in the human world.”
Shion continued his lines naturally, fully embodying the dark destruction god.
“First things first, destruction and slaughter. Ah, I can’t hold back! This exhilaration!! What should I destroy first?! Who should I kill first?!”
Saying this, Shion turned towards the storage room door.
“I know… As a start, I’ll kill the descendants of the royal family who sealed me. I’ll kill the king and make the royal palace my stronghold. Kukukuku.”
Shion smiled, laughing ominously.
It was hard to tell whether he was acting as the dark destruction god reveling in imagined destruction, or if he was simply enjoying the act of performing itself.
“Foolish humans, you’d best enjoy what little time you have left… Until the time comes when you’re trampled and eradicated by me, the Dark Destruction God Vasago-Deus-Gregor…”
“Fuuhahahahahahaha!!” Laughing loudly, he naturally walked towards the storage room door as part of his act.
If he could exit the storage room like this, Shion’s plan would be complete.
–However.
“Fuhahahaha–Veh!!”
Suddenly, Shion fell on the spot. He had slipped on the icy floor beneath his feet.
The floor of the storage room hadn’t been frozen originally. This freezing had just been done artificially, by magic.
The person who cast this magic spoke to Shion from behind as he crawled on the frozen floor.
“Did you think you could just peek at me changing and then run away?”
…Unfortunately, Shion’s planned strategy had completely failed.
While his acting was convincing, it was too much to expect anyone to believe such nonsensical behavior as a dark destruction god suddenly awakening in this situation. It was only natural.
“…Hmm. This fresh body doesn’t move as I wish. Well, it’s only a matter of time before I get used to it.”
Still, Shion persisted. He uttered lines suggesting that he hadn’t slipped and fallen, but had fallen due to lack of control over the body, as he stood up avoiding the frozen floor.
“Anyway, it’s time for a test of strength. I’ll head to the royal palace right away and see how powerful I am now by testing myself against the royal knights… Kukukuku.”
Shion walked towards the inner door of the equipment storage room, still maintaining his act as the dark destruction god. At this point, he had no choice but to force his way through.
And just as he was about to grab the doorknob…
—-Zaguu! A sound echoed in the storage room.
It was the sound of an icicle about thirty centimeters long being forcefully launched from behind Shion, piercing the area next to the doorknob.
If Shion had grabbed the doorknob, his hand would have been pierced by the sharp icicle.
“……”
“Hey, why are you ignoring me?”
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