26 26 Getting A Job
"That's all?!?"
"Yup," Otto replied bluntly, as he stopped in his tracks seeing that Ddraig turned around to look at him with a dumb expression.
"Then you should've just asked me politely if you wanted to wield my power!" He was slightly angry and confused as to why Otto needed half of his soul specifically.
"If I did you'd probably just transfer your Sacred Gear to me, instead of your soul. What I want is a part of your soul, not the Sacred Gear itself." Otto didn't want another person who could converse in his head, not to mention. He was sure that Ddraig could look into his host's memories, which he wasn't fond of.
"Well, yeah." Ddraig considered that process safer than getting his souls split into two.
"But no, I don't like my head getting intruded." Having Brynhildr speaking in his head is already enough for him to deal with.
"..."
"Sooo—" Otto leaped towards the dragon, grabbing its tail to prevent him from running away.
"AAAHHHHH!" Ddraig screamed as he let his guard down, and thought he had convinced Otto to make him the host instead.
"Don't worry. I'll be gentle." Otto crept up to the red dragon while grabbing its tail.
"PLEASE DON'T!!!" He was scared shitless of the human slowly gonna penetrate his scaleless spot.
"I don't like this either. But what must be done, must be done." Otto stated as the spear burned brightly threatening to burn his insides.
"ALRIGHT ALRIGHT, I'll give up half of my soul! Just don't stick that thing on my ass!" He gave up as Otto stopped in his tracks.
In reality, Otto didn't intend to shove the spear into Ddraig's asshole, because he find it improper to stick his "Lover" into someone's ass, and found it disgusting.
"Good, we finally got to an agreement." Otto sighed.
Ddraig then forcefully split his soul, where he secretly made the main soul be the one that would be absorbed by Brynhildr.
"..." Otto was silent since he didn't know the process would be that fast and simple.
The remnant of Ddraig's soul disappeared from the inner world.
"His soul was weaker than I had expected." He commented before his consciousness was back to his main body.
Unknown to him, his providence as a Buddha protected his soul from being overwhelmed by Ddraig's soul.
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"Um, Otou? Issei? HELLOO???" Irina shouted at Issei who passed out and Otto who froze up. Their sudden change gave Irina the creeps.
"Oh... I was just thinking." Otto said as he fixed himself while looking around finding Issei who was sleeping and Irina's father sitting at the bench.
"Oh hi, Priest." He waved at Touji who was sitting at the distance, giving him a suspicious expression.
"Hello, Otto." Touji didn't have his usual friendly tone to him.
'Is it because I'm near his daughter?' Otto thought, as it was time to go away from this small town since he got Ddraig's soul there wasn't anything here that was worth his time.
'Not that I want to involve myself further with the main casts from High School DxD.' He thought.
"Where are you going?" Touji asked with suspicion as he could slightly tell that Otto's magic had become larger in a day.
"To Tokyo." He said without an ounce of lie.
"What are you going to do there?" He started to question Otto, whether or not he was a threat to him whatsoever.
"Obviously find a living and a house." The houses around Kuoh Town were small as he had already expected.
"Are you coming back here?" Touji raised his eyebrows.
"Probably not..." Unless Otto is forced to come back to this town.
"Hmmm, I see... Then goodbye boy." Touji was slightly regretful as he had lost the opportunity to recruit someone like Otto.
'And stay away from my daughter.' He screamed inwardly as he found Irina and Otto in the park, too close to each other.
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Otto Now arrived at Tokyo City, via train since he got bored walking. He decided to take his time traveling in transportation to do some research about this messy world.
"..." He felt frustrated...
"What's wrong?" Brynhildr asked.
"I think I wasted my time coming here in Tokyo..." After he did his research, Otto didn't take into account that Nene Saikyou and Kurono Takizawa were still in their 2nd year of high school.
That would mean that Nene Saikyou wasn't even in Tokyo at this time... She was on Bukyoku Academy, which was in the Kansai or Kyoto region.
"..." If there wasn't anyone present Otto would certainly vent his frustration on the ground or something around him.
"So you're going back to Kyoto?"
"No, I'm going to find a place here in Tokyo for now—" Just then Otto felt a gaze behind him.
"... What are you doing here?" Otto asked Phantom, who had her usual distorted appearance, which made her invisible to everyone except the person whom she wanted to be seen.
"..." Hearing no answer, Otto thought that she would get back the Sephira Crystal that he had stolen some time ago.
"Hello?" He tried reaching towards her undiscernible figure, as his hand felt something soft before the phantom dispersed.
"Hey watch where you're touching." A woman complained as Otto cupped one of her breasts.
"Hey!" An angry voice sounded at Otto's action as he slapped his hand away.
"Huh?" Otto who just now realized what he was doing to the girl in front of him immediately pulled his hand out like it never happened.
"Oh sorry..." He apologized, before looking at the familiar girl who looked at him with a strange expression.
'Is she Kurono Takizawa?' Otto had seen her photos that spread in the media, which were all just them praising how strong she was and gained the nickname 'World Clock', which he thought sounded cool.
"Hey, apologizing won't cut it, at least give some compensation to her and don't you know who she is?" The man beside her said boasted.
"Uh—..." Otto felt his Dharmachakra turn for an unknown reason when he didn't even get attacked.
"Don't uh, me he kid." The man yapped, as Kurono's face grimaced, since she did something with her noble art as Otto as the target.
Otto looked at Kurono who he concluded. Used her time manipulation powers on him, since that was the only reason he could come up with that would trigger the wheel's adaption.
And once again, the Dharmachakra turned once as he now felt something was amiss.
"I think we should leave now. Be careful next time." Kurono suddenly stated as she grabbed her boyfriend's hand.
"Hey wait-" Takumi still wanted to teach Otto a lesson for grabbing his girlfriend's buxom, before Kurono shot a glare at him.
"Okay, ma'am." He immediately turned docile at her warning.
"..." Meanwhile Otto was secretly joyful since if Kurono did use her time manipulation on him. That would mean he was able to adapt to time-related powers.
"You feel happy for some reason. I wonder why?" Brynhildr felt jealous as to why Otto suddenly grabbed someone's breast for no reason and thought the boy couldn't restrain his desires anymore.
"It was just an accident..."
"If you can't stand it anymore, then just find a one-night stand... I promise I won't hold you accountable for cheating on me." She said while thinking, what woman in this world would give her lover permission to sleep with some woman.
"I told you it was just an accident." Brynhildr might not have sensed phantom since it didn't have any mana signature.
"As long as there is no love attached I won't be jealous." She stated and was jealous if he were to sleep with some stranger.
"..." Otto just sighed as he didn't want to cheat on his "lover" who didn't have a physical human body.
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Otto was now looking for something better to do in Tokyo as he wandered around Shibuya.
"You are my special." Otto hummed making Brynhildr feel sweet at his singing.
"You are mine too." She giggled.
'Oh... She mistook it as me flirting with her.' Otto thought as he looked around the bars in Shinjuku.
He wanted to be a bartender or a chef since he had some experience in those things.
Otto could see several women trying to reel in customers to their bar. For some reason he felt weirded out whenever those women came up to him. Making remembers the woman who killed him in his previous life.
'I wonder what happened to her... Did she die too?' He could vividly remember Shakyamuni's words about her being the closest neighbor in his life, that she even appeared in his deaths.
"You feel worried. Are you worried that you won't find a paying job to fit in society? If so then you might just go to school for now, I doubt that someone would hire an 11-year-old kid to their establishment."
"No... Just remembering something that had happened in the past."
"Is that right? Then I should be relieved." She acted like she had something to do with it. "After all we're going to be together for eternity..." She mutters.
"Hmmm?" Otto heard someone say 'he has potential' and thought that they were hiring. He was now in Kabukicho, which was a fairly popular entertainment district in Tokyo.
'Hope it's not human traffickers.' He thought as he slowly approached the two ladies who were smoking outside the bar.
"They're blazers, Otto." Brynhildr said as Otto suddenly stopped.
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"What's wrong? Don't tell me you're going to fight them?"
"No. It's just that. I— don't know how to start a conversation with them..." This is the first time Otto felt troubled trying to speak with someone without coming out as a weird person to the other person.
"Seriously???" Brynhildr didn't think he would be like this. 'Where was the confident Otto that I knew?'
"Hey there, handsome." The lady with purplish red hair and eyes approached Otto who was dumbly staring at her.
"My eyes are up here." The lady reminded as she covered her buxom from his gaze.
"Ah-yes right... Are you perhaps looking for employees madam?"
"Looking for a job are we? Of course, we are. Want to apply? We treat foreigners the same as locals at our establishment." The lady secretly grinned.
"Then are there any requirements?" Otto prayed there wasn't something like showing his identification to them, as he might just walk away awkwardly if she requested it.
"Nothing big of sorts. Just look good and attract customers that makes them want to come back." She said.
'Mmmmm... I'm not going to be a male prostitute am I?' He wondered as he didn't want that.
"It's not prostitution is it?"
"Fufufu, of course not. Those are illegal nowadays." She giggled as thought that it was his first time in Shibuya.
"But if you want to have a good time with female customers, then as long as both parties have consent they could have some fun time together." She giggled.
"Otherwise you could just stick to being a bartender at the counter or a cook."
"..." Otto was conflicted about whether or not he should take this, as it doesn't sound bad. Since he can just reject those advances if he wants to.
"But with your handsomeness, I'm sure you'll reel in a lot of female customers." The lady stated that their business was running low on hot male workers.
"Hmmm. Alright..." Otto accepted the job.
'How bad can it be?'
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-Chapter End-
