Tortus

A/N: Im gonna make some changes in the way dialogue is presented

{Luna(Aka system)}

"Character speech"

'Inner dialogue'

[Telepathic communication]

Also i decided to change how I would make Akio appear to the rest of the world, leaving him mysterious instead of slightly strong.

Last time:

The plot had changed a lot since he arrived at Arifureta, Kouki although being in the same dojo was not as close to Shizuku. His importance to Shizuku dropped a lot compared to the original story and he was closer to a stranger. Akio made sure that Kaori didn't see Hajimes begging to save an old lady, and instead helped him by getting rid of the loan sharks. Daisuke and his entourage directed their hostility at Akio but were too afraid to do anything about it. They could only grit their teeth and curse him behind his back.

Like this time passed until the day of the summoning finally came

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While sitting in the class talking to his lovers a magic circle suddenly appeared. It engulfed the entire classroom without exception. The students were in a panic with the strange occurrence. Soon a light started to surround each individual student and they were all being transferred.

Akio simply let it happen with a smirk on his face. 'Its about damn time'. These were the last thoughts he had before he was transferred as well leaving a now empty classroom.

When he next opened his eyes he was greeted by the sight of a huge cathedral made of white marble. At the middle of the wall hung a portrait of what Akio assumed was this worlds fake god Ehit. Beneath the picture stood one man of considerable age surrounded by a few kneeling people. All were dressed in a white and gold embroidered robe. The man stepped forth and spoke in a clear yet loud tone "Welcome to Tortus, Hero-Sama and his companions. We were expecting you."

The rest continued as the plot did initially with Kouki the idiot blinded by his ideals of justice going on about how they needed to save the people of this world, to which all of his mindless classmates agreed. The only difference is that this time next to him only stood Ryutarou while Shizuku stood at Akios side. Akio during his time in the void lost a lot of his emotions especially the one that made him care for human life, and while his time being reborn had regained part of his lost emotions he wasn't kind enough to go out of his way to save an entire world. Shizuku, Kaori and Komi were different however, they still had the innocent desire to not see anyone hurt, but they weren't as suicidal as Kouki.

Akio didn't interrupt and simply watched as things progressed. When it came time to view status plates Akio was curious to see how his would be shown.

Soon Captain Meld made his way from student to student making the same shocked reaction when seeing Kouki's hero class and stats. When he viewed Akio's however…

Name: ???

Age: ???

Gender: ???

Level: ???

Strength: ???

Resistance: ???

Magic: ???

Vitality: ???

Agility: ???

Magic Resistance: ???

Skills:

-Unknown

The status plate was made to view ones soul to determine their parameters. Akio's soul however cannot be tampered with or even seen through if he does nor permit it. Melds face was incredulous, never has the status plate ever failed, how could it, its a creation of their god, their should be no mistake. Yet at the same time if it isn't broken why the hell is everything coming in as unknown. Melds thoughts raced through his head, he now saw the man in front of him as both mysterious and dangerous. He had a gut feeling to not piss this guy off. In the future he would come to know that he was right in listening to that feeling.

With that Meld slowly walked away from Akio choosing to confront Ishtar the pope of the holy church to find answers. When the matters of status plates were over and done with students were guided to their rooms, to sleep for the night and train the next morning.

While this was happening Meld slowly walked to the cathedral, walking down a long hallway until he was face to face with a door. He knocked and was soon let into a lavishly decorated room by a maid who was standing nearby. On a chair sat pope Ishtar his attire the same as previously. "Your Holiness" Meld bowed to Ishtar before taking a seat on a chair across from him. "What is it Meld you look rather concerned to say the least." Ishtar raised and eyebrow to Melds actions.

"Sir its about one of the hero's companions…" Ishtar narrowed his eyes, "Has something happened to gods chosen". He spoke in a slightly rough tone. "No sir but, the status plate of one of the children was not able to pick up anything about him, everything remained unknown." Meld spoke his tone lowering towards the end. "Impossible! these artifacts were made by God Ehit himself, are you saying he has made a mistake." Ishtar shot up from his seat his tone showing anger. "No your Holiness! I was simply telling you what happened." Meld shot back, he had no doubt of the absoluteness of his creator. He although not as much as everyone else was fed lies after lies about his gods greatness and fell into his brainwashing.

"There must have been some mistake, have him redo it in the morning". Ishtar dismissed Meld who lowered his head before taking his leave. Little did they know their plan of re-evaluation would never come.

In a well decorated room after dark, a young man can be seen sat on the bed. He was reading through a few books he was given to familiarize himself with the world. He knew most of it as it was covered a lot in the anime, but of course there was always more to be learned. Closing the book he stood before creating a portal to Kaoris room. Entering he saw her laying on the bed eyes open as she stared at the ceiling. With a small smile on his mouth Akio decided to play a prank.

Silently Akio walked over to Kaori before jumping on her and covering her mouth muffling her scream. Kaori panicked for a but before finally seeing the face of her attacker and calming down, before her mouth was let go of. "Idiot! you scared me, don't just randomly appear in my room like that" She semi shouted while still keeping a low voice. Akio laughed a little "Sorry, sorry you just looked so defenseless, are you worried?" Kaori sighed "Of course we were all just randomly teleported to this random place and told to fight." Kaori was above all a kind and caring girl, she of course felt a need to help the 'innocent' lives that were being taken. However she didn't want to do it while risking the lives of all her classmates and friends. Akio gave a soft smile before bringing Kaori into his chest "Thats just like you worrying more for your friends than for yourself, can't say I hate it, but that doesn't mean I like it." Kaori stuck her tongue out at Akio to which he responded with even more caressing.

"Lets bring over Komi and Shizuku and make plans I have figured out some information that I think will help us." Akio parted from Kaori before standing up and opening up two portals ushering for Shizuku and Komi to come, which they did a few moments later. Once they all gathered Akio started talking about what he had figured out.

1 hour later…

After listening to Akio's retelling the girls sat in silence, they were reminded to keep an open mind and not believe everything thats in the book, as it was clearly biased and view it from a outsiders point of view. The girls listened to him and were able to understand and what they were told by the pope was twisted to make it seem as if the demons were in the wrong. They had finally been able to give up their ideas of helping humans in the war especially after hearing how they treat the race called Demi humans.

"These labyrinths that are mentioned in the book I want to challenge them." The person who spoke was Shizuku. Shizuku wanted to get stronger and this notion was shared among the girls. Despite the many times Akio claimed that he would never leave them, the girls had thoughts that if he was to continued achieving more and more they would be left behind. That is the absolute last thing any of them want, they want to stand by him no matter what it takes and being brought to a world where magic was actually real they would take full advantage of it.

"I want to do the same"

"Me as well"

Kaori and Komi said, responding to Shizuku.

Akio showed a loving smile to which made all three's heart race. "Great then lets go now"

"Huh, now" All three said in unison. "Why not I doubt their is anything here that I cant provide you, there is a large amount of food in my inventory and I can still access our dimension." Akio was prepared for anything so moving out at a moments notice was no problem. "But what about our classmates?" Kaori asked with a reluctant look on her face. "They have mr Hero with them they will be fine." Akio replied with a mocking tone. It was soon agreed they would all leave that night. The three got dressed in clothes that Akio took out from his inventory, they were all tailored made for battle. Looking at the questioning look on the threes faces as if asking where he got them from, he decided to tell them about the system at a later time.

Confirming the coordinates the book showed, Akio made a portal leading to the nearest accessible labyrinth, The Great Orcus Labyrinth. The four making sure everything they owned were with them walked into the portal leaving the room devoid of people.

A/N: this was more of a world building and character development chapter. I tried to give some time to Kaori as I feel I didn't before. Next chapter will be about traveling down Orcus and the girls getting stronger. I also tried fixing the unwanted way the dialogue used to be presented do you guys like it?