Chapter 52: Escape as she pulls out a strap-on

Rias sighed hard.

"Honestly, I feel like I just want to crawl under something and sleep until next week." Rias confessed to Akeno who nodded her head.

"...I feel the same, Rias-chan." Akeno sighed in an unusually serious way. "It's been… a week? A bit less than a week, actually, since Issei 'died' and became Momon… Well, I can't say it hasn't been entertaining but... "

"...But this is getting ridiculous." Rias finished Akeno's speech and the raven-black haired girl nodded.

The two girls were sitting beside Gasper's bed, as the petite cross-dressing vampire boy hadn't woken up with the rest of Rias's ex-Peerage and now-Momon's Peerage. Rias had gathered from the people sane during the combat episode that apparently Gasper had dived into the maddening ink, somehow having shifted into some kind of mad deformed dragon, and had pulled the group out of it and then eaten a whole group of undead 'Death Knights' alone.

Both feats made Rias honestly flabbergasted, as it indicated that Gasper had acquired full control over his Sacred Gear and all its powers, that until now had been next to useless due to its overwhelming potency and Gasper's lacking control over it. 'Just… What did Momon and Gasper chat about, back when he disappeared for ten minutes from the student council room and somehow recruited Gasper?'

The door opened and the enigma in question slipped in as if he was avoiding something, at least based on the way he slammed the door shut and panted hard while leaning against it. "Haaa… I think I lost her… Good, I must have lost her… This is bad, invoking my Chuuni is reaching critical levels, I can't hold it back much longer…"

"Ara? That's… ominous." Akeno commented, causing Momon to jump a bit after stabilizing himself.

"Greetings, Akeno-san, Rias-san. I didn't expect you two to be here." Momon commented after pausing to catch his expression which had grown quite ominous after noticing Rias, and causing the red-head to pause as well.

"Ah, is everything alright?" Rias asked as Momon's formal words caused her quite a bit of confusion. '...It's odd he's this reserved, considering… well, that we're now married, sort of…'

She shook her head mentally, attributing Momon's seriousness to Gasper's state, which must be causing him at least some stress. Rias knew that it caused at least her quite a bit of stress- knowing that one of her family members, even if Gasper was technically no longer in Gremory's Peerage, was suffering.

"No, it's just, umu, some things happened." Momon nodded, his face practically plastered with confused, resigned and tired emotions. "Just… When we retire for the night, don't be surprised if there's more girls there. I have no clue either."

"What?" Rias paused from the words, then shook her head. "Right, I'll ask them then. I honestly feel like my head would explode if I asked you right now."

"That's acceptable. And in regards to recent events making your head feel like exploding, then know that I feel the same." Momon sighed while taking a seat beside Gasper's bed. "How is Gasper-san doing?"

"He's bee- eh?" Akeno's words were cut short as Gasper twitched when Momon placed his hand on Gasper's. "Ara? Is this the fabled power of love? Momon-san! I know how you can bring Gasper-kun to consciousness…. ufufufu…."

Rias's face turned bright red as she turned slowly towards Akeno. "A-ke-no. No."

"Tell me. I'd prefer if Gasper was alright." Momon turned towards Akeno, completely missing the raven-haired girl's insinuation.

"Why, a kiss of course! A gallant prince coming to kiss a unconcious princess… or a cross-dressing prince, ufufufu…." Akeno chuckled to her sleeve, causing Momon to pause visibly.

"A- u- e- ae?" Momon's mouth seemed to suffer a malfunction. The same seemed to apply to his head as well, and it felt to Rias as if his shock hit some kind of threshold and fell back to normal as Momon shook his head, back to normal.

"Right, of course, what was I expecting… This ero world…" Momon pushed both hands against his face, then slid them down in a way that would perfectly suit a businessman who was already overworked and had been assigned a new project.

Rias double-took her observation as she realized how specific she had been, then narrowed her eyes at Momon. 'Is it just me, or is Momon feeling… A lot more familiar all of a sudden? It feels as if he's an entirely different person after I saw that maddening vision… Or is it because we did it so much last night?'

Rias's thighs closed as she remembered the feeling, the heat, and the 'full' feeling she had after the act. Akeno seemed to notice, however.

"Ara? Rias-chan is also getting into the mood. So, how about it, Momon-kun? Wanna be the prince charming, or wanna let Rias-chan be the princess charming?" Akeno teased, causing Momon to sigh like an old man.

"Yes, of course, I figured as much…" It seemed that Momon hadn't heard Akeno's words as his eyes looked glassed over, almost as if he was struggling internally.

He then leaned over Gasper, and placed a quick peck on the unconscious feminine half-vampire's temple, causing Rias's face to blush up to her eyebrows.

And then she let out a groan, synchronous with Momon, as Gasper seemed to stir from his unconscious state.

"Ufufufufufufu…. ahahahahah!" Akeno's chuckling turned to full-blown laughter as she looked at Momon's face. "I- I can't believe that worked- ahehe! Ara, ara… I didn't know Momon was a dual-wielder! Ahahaha!"

Rias sighed, synchronously with Momon, as Akeno fell from the chair while trying and failing to hold back her mirth.

"Uwwaaah… Momon-kun… don't die..." Gasper wailed as 'she' woke from 'her' unconscious state, then spotted the people present, and promptly jumped at Momon. "MOMON-SAAAN!"

"Greetings, Gasper-san." Momon pat the boy a bit awkwardly, considering that 'her' billowing nightgown was making moving around a bit difficult. Rias had asked the boy to be clad in one of her old nightgowns, as she knew them to be of high quality and feel good against the skin as well as being feminine that'd suit the boy's preferences. Not that the clothes got much use anyway, since Rias preferred to sleep naked but had the clothes at hand just in case. However, because the clothes had been fit for Rias, they left quite a bit of space around the chest part when worn by Gasper.

Or should have left quite a bit of space around the chest part, as Gasper seemed to suddenly fill the gown quite nicely. And the moment afterwards it billowed like an empty bag again.

"Ah, is everything alright, Gasper-san?" Momon seemed quite wary of the boy, which in retrospect was probably justified as Gasper's physical shape seemed to 'flicker' in place, going from one shape to another like oil swirling on top of boiling water.

"Gasper-kun? Are your powers, um, the [Forbidden Balor View] working as it should?" Rias guessed the source of the problem.

"Rias-senpai!" Gasper seemed to notice that the room had other occupants beside Momon for the first time since waking up. His expression froze in shock and...

The boy 'flickered' and the room became filled with tentacles and an eye opened in the distance, staring right into Rias, who stood on top of icy-cold lake…

"No." A calm voice seemed to break through the sudden vision, and the vision disappeared.

Rias gasped for air after it seemed to have left her lungs, and the same seemed to be the case with Akeno who was flopping like a fish on the mattress.

"A- ah! No! I'm sorry! I- I- I was just, surprised, um, I didn't… Uwaaah! Don't hate me! I'm sorry!" Gasper seemed to mentally backtrack to her earlier mindset as the half-vampire had released some sort of power against Rias and Akeno.

"There, there. I'm quite impressed by your power, you've done well, Gasper." Momon's voice, which Rias recognized had been the one which broke the vision, caused Gasper to visibly relax. Although it might have something to do with the hand stroking his hair, which seemed to cause quite a bit of pleasure to the 'boy'.

Rias put mental quotation marks around the concept as the nightgown looked quite nicely filled when the hand was stroking 'her', and less so when it wasn't stroking 'him'.

"Momon?" Rias turned to address the boy.

Momon turned his head towards Rias.

"I'm going to lie down." Rias's voice was flat.

"Ah, understood, dear."

"Don't turn the world into fluffy things, chocolate, strawberries and ice-cream." Rias continued.

"A- erm, I, guess I won't do that then?" Momon visibly sweatdropped.

'I wonder if reverse psychology works on him… I might as well give it another try.'Rias walked up to Akeno, slapped her a couple of times to snap her from her fish-roleplay, and after the girl had gotten her bearings and stopped trying to choke herself with the mattress, led her from the room.

Rias turned by the doorframe and looked at the duo in the room. "Listen, Momon. Get Gasper pregnant."

"UEEEH?" A girly shriek came from one mouth, and a deeper one from another.

Akeno, fortunately, was still recovering so she couldn't break Rias's attempt at reverse psychology. 'Take that, you… you… Momon!'

The fact Rias was starting to use Momon both as verb and as subject was making her worried about her mental state after repeated exposure to whatever the maddening ink had been.

She did not want to think about the implications of Gasper being able to produce the 'insanity' as well.

Or how Momon managed to resist it utterly.

'Aaaah! Why does this happen every time he's in the same general vicinity as me!'Rias growled as she marched to her, or rather her and Momon's room with Akeno in tow, opened the door, and…

Saw unconscious Lady Phenix in racy clothes on the bed, Ravel hugging her with a lewd expression on her face, Asia cuddling Xenovia while both were completely blackout drunk, and Irina spread-eagle and doing her best imitation of letter X on the bed's unoccupied part.

Moreover, the window looked as if it had been opened recently, and someone had jumped out through the window next to the opened one and left a very distinctly magical-girl shaped hole in the glass.

"...Oh, he did mention that… Right, I'm officially done with all this." Rias sighed, rolled Irina to the side, pulled her clothes off and slid under the sheets with Akeno in tow.

She wondered if, by the time she woke up from her mid-day nap, the world would have corrected itself and she'd wake up in her own bed, realize that she had eaten something expired before the Rating Game during which the whole mess had started, and had passed out.

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"Right, um, would you like to dress up and we'll go see how the others are doing?" Momonga lifted violently flickering and vibrating Gasper from his lap, only for the half-vampire to re-materialize on his lap. "I still need to check up on Yuuto-san, Koneko-san, Yubelluna and Xuelan.

"O-only if, um, if, um… if you hold my hand…" Gasper demanded cutely, while 'her' appearance went from cute crossdressing boy to a more feminine one, and then to a squid's maw complete with a beak. And then back to a cute cross-dressing boy.

Momonga paused for a while to calculate the possibilities. 'Did… Gasper do something? That one felt a bit like the [Aura of Madness] that most Outer Gods- expansion creatures from YGGDRASIL spread. At least I guess so... '

"Gasper? Your abilities seem to be, hm, malfunctioning." Momonga noted and Gasper looked away, embarrassed and frightened.

The half-vampire pulled his legs against his chest and wobbled. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I, I was just too happy to know you were alive! And, but, when Rias-senpai and Akeno-senpai were there, I was surprised, and… and… Don't hit me! I'm sorry! I didn't wan- uwah?"

"There, there…" Momonga sighed while patting Gasper, allowing him to calm down. "Rias and Akeno knew to let me help you so they left, I'm sure they won't hate you. Can I look into your memories for a while and see what happened? [Ultimate Disturb] should still limit your potential, but something might have happened to increase it. Remember, the seal won't seal your power away, only reduces its potency to mere percentages of what it was before."

Gasper nodded his head multiple times in a desperate fervor, then turned to hug Momonga's chest so the two were almost kissing.

Indeed, while the half-vampire was engaged in the hug, an internal battle was once again fought internally as Peroroncino-plushie had counter-attacked while Suzuki Satoru's guard had been down upon learning the 'resuscitation' method for Gasper.

Touch Me-plushie had washed his hands off the whole affair and was poking the sealed but dangerously wide rift in Momonga's mind with a long stick, causing the fur-covered paw that occasionally reached from it to withdraw.

Meanwhile, the skeletal form of 'Momonga' was holding up the conversation front to best of his abilities.

Peroroncino-plushie had gained a neck-hold on Suzuki Satoru from behind, and was in the process of choking his sensibilities out with his bird-biceps while giving a thumb up towards 'Momonga', who in turn sighed and tried to convince Suzuki that the half-vampire's increased loyalty would justify the sacrifice, and that Suzuki, or rather, the whole group making a singular whole needed to sacrifice from their personal morals for the greater good.

Momonga sighed as he placed his hand on Gasper's head, feeling incredibly confused. "Right, stay still… [Control Amnesia]."

The world turned dark as he dived into the boy's memories, looking at the feeling of incredible fright after getting separated from 'Momon', the almost idolizing way the boy considered him, noted the way the feminine vampire-boy's idolizing had apparently made way for something a bit more intimate, and finally came to the vision of [Ultimate Disturb] breaking at the same time Momonga guessed he had activated the [Scroll of Dark Wisdom] back in the swamp.

'Huh, so Gasper managed to beat two Death Knights after shapeshifting into some sort of local variant of a 'dragon'... And dove in after the Deepkin? Hm… It's good I have undead immunity to mental ailments, witnessing this would drive a regular human mad…' Momonga scratched his metaphorical chin as he witnessed the events that had taken place, peering into a sunless realm of non-existence that had touched all time. Suzuki Satoru part of his mind was stuck in place, horrified, but 'Momonga' had taken over and was observing the situation calmly. 'Fascinating. I'll have to be careful when summoning something from that Outer Gods expansion. I'm guessing that they are very much real here, so poking them unnecessarily might lead to tragedy.'

'Still, I'm honestly surprised with Gasper's abilities. That Deepkin, when buffed with [Awaken the Dreamer] becomes close to level eighty-ish summon even if it's mostly crowd-controlling one instead of damage dealing or tanking one. He's growing frightfully strong... ' Momonga noted a bit warily. 'I wonder it the abilities conferred to him by eating the Deepkin are 'abilities' that consume no 'mana' and thus are not recognized by [Ultimate Disturb]... Hmm… [Weaken] should probably lessen his abilities' potency as well as general stats. Although, I hope it won't cause too much harm to his other abilities like walking or holding his bladder…'

Momonga pulled himself out of the memories. '[Silent Magic: Maximize Magic: Weaken]... Now, let's see…'

Gasper slumped against Momonga's chest like a limp noodle. "Uwaah…"

"Hm, I might have overdone it." Momonga noted. "How are you feeling, Gasper-san?"

"Weeaak…" Gasper drawled in an adorable way, almost as if he was drunk. "Woosh… Is dish realsies? The lights awe so pwetty…"

'Yeah, I might have overdone it… It seems that magical crutches won't work in his case. His mastery of his new abilities require some training.' Momonga sighed as it became clear he couldn't take a shortcut as he could with Gasper's more 'normal' abilities. "Well, your abilities should be, umu, suppressed for now. Can you wait here while I check up on the rest of the Peerage and arrange some sort of training for tomorrow? I originally meant to have us train today, but it seems that it's too early for that, with most of us still recovering from the whole ordeal that was the swamp."

"Imsh… okays beimf wifouth yous, Momon-semmnpai." Gasper wobbled. "Buth! Only if I gets… A kwis!"

"Excuse me?" Momonga hoped he misheard the cross-dressing feminine half-vampire, but was unfortunately proven correct as Gasper leaned in and placed a sloppy 'kiss' that was more like 'her' opening 'her' mouth and mashing it against his than there being any real attempt at any form of proper kiss.

"Weee… I kished Momon-seenpaii…" Gasper giggled and would have flopped over on the floor, had Momonga not caught him instinctively midway through.

Momonga automatically placed Gasper on the bed, tucked the cross-dresser in, and wobbled out of the room in a severely confused state.

It seemed that even [Emotion Suppression] was confused as it took quite a while for it to hammer his emotional state back to calmness.

'Right, I hope I won't end up seducing Koneko or something… Or Yuuto. I don't want to become a pedophile, or in case of Yuuto, swing that way.' Momonga sighed while Suzuki Satoru despaired and Peroroncino-plushie was pulling the strings of hundreds of party-poppers, covering the cracked-dry mental image of Momonga's mind with glitter.

'And thinking of glitter…' Momonga glanced up. 'Pink, how am I not surprised… And why am I focusing on things like that?'

"Whoa! You work fast! And indiscriminately! Man, are even animals safe from your evil mastermind charm? On second thought, Ra-tan said that you have a lewd mind-control aura that causes girls to throw themselves at you! So now it all makes sense!" Serafall Leviathan was, naturally, posing herself against the ceiling with legs on either wall of the hallway to support her, which also gave a certain camera view a good look at a certain side of her attire.

"Ahem." Momonga wasn't sure how to comment, so he just cleared his throat since that was now something he could do with a fleshy body as opposed to an undead one.

Serafall's face then scrunched in confusion. "But! Isn't Gasp-kun a boy? No way, is the lewd mind controlling aura omnisex?! I have to warn Grayfia-chan before you seduce Sirzechs-tan from her! You already have Netori'd Phenix-momma, so no-one's safe! Also, do the mind controlling lewd auras come in pink?"

'If I ignore her, will she go away?' Momonga thought, resigned, even though he knew that getting to the Maou's bad side would not end well. "Hi, Sera-tan."

"Whoa! New pet name! I love it!" Serafall fell from the ceiling, landing nearly on Momonga's shoulders as if she was riding him. Only, she fell the wrong way around on his shoulders, with her legs locking against his back.

"Mfh." Momonga's short complaint of the fact his face was filled with pink panties didn't go missed by the owner of said clothing, who blushed and grabbed his hair.

"Ooo! Can you recite Shakespeare like that? No! An opera choir! Wait, the opening theme of Magical Girl Milky Spiral Seven! Yes, this is the Wa- Owoowwwaaaaa!" Serafall's grip on his hair became a lot harder as Momonga told her that she was being ridiculous.

Or rather, Momonga told her lower head that. Face-to-face with nothing but a thin cloth in between. 'Why do I bother nowadays? Can I just dig a hole in the ground and bury myself? If I rot for a hundred years or so, then surely everyone forgets about me and I can start again?'

However, considering that shovels existed, his plan was foiled before it started. "Mghg-hfb. Bhwh. Howhwhw- cnwh Thw?"

"Hyaah! Ra-tan forgot to add your language expertise to her list of your 'dark evil mastermind' cover persona! You speak fluent cunnilingus!" Serafall thrust her hips against Momonga's face, causing his nose to rub against a certain place. "Whoo! Even the shape of your face is the best for sitting on! I'm totally going to make a silicone mold out of your face and make a copy of it for my seat in the Maou council room!"

'...This girl is utterly insane.' Momonga sighed, then felt something twitch in his mind and committed all his mental resources into damage control of his mind-scape as the furry hand reached to break a few planks in the sealed chasm.

Since the 'power' was being unleashed anyway, Momonga decided to tap into it and used the chuuni radiating from the now-nearly opened chasm to deal with Serafall.

So, to that end, he struck a picture-perfect salute (which was literally picture-perfect, as he had only seen someone do so in a picture).

Serafall squeaked at the sudden motion, and then squeaked again as he swung himself around with a 'cool' pose which caused the girl to slide down his body as if it was a fireman's pole until she finally came to stop, sitting on top of his thigh as he kneeled in synch with her slide.

'Well, I told her this before, but I never specified the details, so I might as well… ' Momonga used a silent [Create Lesser Item] to create a small box in his hands, and offered it to Serafall with both hands, and her eyes opened wide.

She placed her hands on her mouth. "N-no way!"

Momonga opened the box, which caused a letter to spring open which read "Let's go training- I challenge you to a one-on-one duel!"

"Yes! Yeeeees! I accept! This is the happiest day of my life!" Serafall jumped up and down while holding the challenge letter. "Finally So-tan will have a formidable andawesome suitor! If you beat me, that is!"

'...What.' Momonga froze, still holding the small box open.

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Sona Sitri rubbed sleep from her eyes after waking up in the Sitri castle in the Underworld and going to check her sister's room which was adjacent to hers.

She found that the room was abandoned… And the bedsheet was rolled into a rope, tied across the leg of the bed and was hanging partially out of the open window. '...Serafall-chan knows she can just use wings, right?'

The mental image of Serafall striking a cutesy pose and chiming 'I forgot, teehee'with a cute but mischievous voice haunted Sona's thoughts.

Then she sneezed. 'There is a foul wind in the air… I wonder if it has something to do with that whole 'Supreme Being' situation?'

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