Chapter 8: Showtime
"So you three are still up and at it?"
" "Eep!" "
Ton, Chin, and Kon turned around to see Chris looking at them with a bored expression yet him being present only caused them to be terrified as they ahd assumed he had left the capital for good, after being forced to work for two weeks the trio of petty criminals were back at their crimes and when they heard that Chris was apparently working for a noble now the believed they could start thieving again and when they saw a red blonde noble girl alone in the streets they thought they could catch her for ransom.
But instead she would insult them and CLAL them weak and just before they could do anything to her Chris had seemingly appeared like a knight in shining armor.
"Two choices, I kill you now or I cripple each of you. I've already given you so many chances that it's getting annoying."
Now Chris's threat were far from empty back when he was still living in the orphanage many thugs would try to kidnap the children and sell them, but everytime Chris was involved he would kill them in cold blood. That's why he was feared and praised by the people in the slums as he made that place feel more safe as the knights didn't even bother doing anything that's related to the slums.
"H-Hey man were just trying to-"
But before Chin could talk any further he heard a thud and saw that his left hand was split in two directly in the middle strangely he didn't bleed but instead he seemed to have just lost his arm, what Chris did was 'Heal' Chin after splitting his arm he wasn't technically healing him but stopping the blood from flowing out of the stump using a layer of DT which covered Chin's stump.
"Shit!"
"R-Run"
Sadly before Ton and Kon could run away they had both lost at least one of their legs causing them to fall over while Chin himself fell to the ground terrified of Chris, and he knew he couldn't do anything and reporting Chris to the knights wouldn't work as soon as they even tried reporting something they would be arrested as they technically didn't leave their sentence of force labor legally.
Suddenly a glowing red thread had tied each of them up before throwing them further into the alley past the young lady who was looking at Chris with a wide smile.
"You're an interesting fellow!"
'Great a noble.'
Chris didn't remember her name but he knew she was someone of importance to the story, but before he could pull out the save button he felt a gaze of fear and worry coming from behind him. He turned to see someone he recognized.
"Goblin Slayer?"
This caused the new comer to turn tense as if he got the reference but immediately they seemed to have calmed down before looking at the Noble Chris had just saved.
"Lady Priscilla please don't stray off like that again."
"Ho!? Are you commanding me Al"
Chris watched the two bicker for a few minutes before the one handed man named Al turned to him, Chris could see how the man was basically tense around him and he didn't know why.
"Thank you for handling those thugs, the name's Al"
"Chris."
For Chris he had just told his name but for Al it was something else as if memories from his youth were coming back to him, but he only shook his head before grabbing the arm of Priscilla.
"Take care of her Goblin Slayer"
Chris began walking towards in a different direction away from Al and Priscilla but as he did he heard something that confused and caught him off guard.
"Have a nice day Human."
It would have been normal if it weren't for the fact that no one would just say the race of someone they had just met and the only time it would be acceptable was when the one saying it wasn't human but a Demi-Human, But from what he see's and senses Al was human so Chris could thought of a reason why he acted weirdly when being called Goblin Slayer but he didn't think of it any further as he began walking to the direction of the building they were going to be staying at.
[Re:Human]
Status
Name: Chris
Lvl: 12
Soul Trait: DETERMINATION
A normal human knight.
Abilities:
Soul Magic
Mana Enhancement
Goa Magic
Pyromancy
Current Strength: Undyne(Genocide)
Here's his stats for now and no he doesn't get skills when leveling up, he just gets stronger in a whole so no separate attributes.
[Re:Human]
It was safe to say that Chris was bored, it was the next day and he was currently right beside Emilia. After arriving at the castle for the Royal Election meeting he beg to zone out despite his job being specifically the knight of Emilia but he didn't care as he felt no threat to her in the castle full of Nobles and Knight's who hated her guts just for being a half elf.
*Yawn*
He couldn't help but yawn due to the amount of boredom of just standing around and looking strong and knight like, sure he enjoyed the few looks of admiration he would get as most of the knights here weren't all high ranking knights. Some of them used to be either from the slums or have known of Chris so despite him being the knight of what they believed to be the witch of envy's reincarnation they were still amazed by him for being made a knight of a Royal Candidate.
But after a few minutes of waiting around he saw Al and Priscilla arrive with Al laying down a red carpet for Priscilla, the bratty Noble just looked at Chris with a mischievous smile while Al stood beside her which was coincidentally right beside Chris as Emilia and Priscilla were close to others seats.
"So Goblin Slayer, how's priestess"
Chris tried to make small talk with Al by starting with a question that would seem weird but for Al who had a better memory than Chris despite being a gladiator and 40 years old he replied quite quickly.
"She's alright, how about you Frisk did you finally defeat the man who speaks in hands?"
Chris who heard Al's question could only chuckle, their words may be confusing for everyone else but for the both of them they already understood what it meant.
'He isn't from this world.'
Now what Chris didn't know was Al was part of the story of Re:Zero being one fo the few people who were transmigrated Into this world around 18 to 20 years ago and was someone who actually cared for his past life so would always try his best to remember as much as he could, while Al on the other hand remembered Chris from an old fan animation he had watched back on his version of Earth. But for Al on the other hand assumed Chris was actually X!Frisk when they first met but with the few brief conversations they had he concluded that he was just someone with his appearance. He looked at Chris for a brief moment before asking.
"How many years?"
"18 years was born in the slums."
"20 Years got hit by a truck woke up at a gladiator arena."
After that Chris and Al didn't Say anything further and continued acting like knights of their respective Lady's, but in truth they were both utterly bored. Thankfully though after a few more minutes of waiting the rest of the candidates arrived with felt being the last to arrive.
"As all of the candidates have arrived we shall begin!"
[POV Chris]
One of the elders stood up and began saying some type of speech that I didn't even bother listening to, I looked around the room and saw that almost all the Knight present were acting all proper and were listening to the words of the elder. But I ignored them as I was too focused on trying to find a way for me to kill Julius, but remembering how Subaru stood up for Emilia during this event I could only sigh on what I would need to do.
'Might as well make an act'
Soon enough the candidates began saying their promises, goals, and reason for them to be placed on the throne, but once it was Emilia's turn they all found her naive and didn't even listen to her. And thanks to my hearing I could hear most of the knights and nobles present mocking her and with another sigh I made my move.
[POV Chris End]
Suddenly a heavy pressure surrounded the entire room causing the knights to get into a battle position while the nobles and elder being the weakest of the bunch in the room could barely keep themselves from passing out, the source of this pressure was Chris who was using his DETERMINATION for them to feel his LOVE.
"You're all nothing but idiots."
With his eyes glowing red he looked at the knights present in the room and with his cold expression the every knight present in the room had their soul appear infront of them, Al who saw this took a stance infront of Priscilla.
"All you knights think of yourselves like saints but in truth you're all pathetic, isn't one of your duties is to protect the citizens?. Then why are the people of the slums being ignored? Only the low ranking knights who came from the slums were lending a hand to them but they can't even do anything, not to mention the fact that you nobles are the most hypocritical idiots in the room."
Everyone present in the room were listening to Chris the candidates were intrigued and curious on what he would do, while Emilia wanted to stop this but she couldn't as even with Puck she knew she had no chance against Chris.
"I can count twenty-five of you nobles here and if you were all to donate a hundred holy coins which I know isn't that much for all of you the problem of the slums would be fixed in a few months, hell if you all even hired the adults in the slums all your businesses would be thriving but no. You're all to busy being fat pigs who only cares on how much money there is in your pockets nobles my ass. "
It was safe to say the nobles were furious but they couldn't do anything as with anothe look the pressure in the room doubled causing them to start breathing rapidly and since some of them were quite overweight fell on their knees.
"And you elders are the worst of the worst, just because one of your candidates looks like the witch of envy doesn't mean she is the witch of envy, I can tell that all of you are racist to anyone not human and the proof of it is that there hasn't been a single demi-human in your ranks since the sage was still alive."
Chris didn't even bother looking at their response as he stopped with his pressures in the room and began making his way to the doors to leave but before he could he felt someone behind him and once he looked he saw Julius pointing his sword towards him.
'So this is how Aizen felt when his plan worked.'
[Re:Human]
Trying to mix character POV's in the story share your thoughts about it.
[Re:Human]
"Chris when I first met you I thought of you as a gentleman."
Right now both Chris and Julius were across each other in a small colosseum with the spectators being Emilia accompanied by Rem with the other candidates present watching while their knights were standing guard, the knights of Lugunica were also watching the duel between Chris and Juliu with them screaming for Julius's victory.
This was Chris's plan he just needed to act like the cold slum born knight of one of the candidates and bad mouth everyone in the room like Subaru, but unlike Subaru he had strength to back up his words so instead of a wooden sword fight challenge Julius challenged him to a duel saying how his pride as a knight was at stake.
"But I see now you're nothing but a commoner playing knight!, most of the knights here may also be commoners unlike you they trained for years! So I will not allow you to tarnish their reputation. And what is a knight without a weapon!?"
Julius was pointing out the fact that Chris didn't have a weapon, this caused the spectators that he wasn't taking the duel seriously but they could only watch as with a wave of his hand glowing red knives appeared in each of Chris's hands.
"Shall we begin oh great lord Julius?"
Chris mocked Julius with a small bow, but Julius kept a cool head and prepared his rapier like blade and readied himself against Chris before taking a single step and for those who couldn't see his movements they saw Julius seemingly appear infront of Chris. They thought that with a single move Julius would win but what shocked them was that Julius was flung back to the other side of the colosseum.
[FIGHT]
[Short POV Julius]
'I underestimated him...'
When I appeared infront of him it seemed that he could follow my movements but as I was about to strike him with my sword his eyes immediately turned to me and with his left Knife he sent an attack towards me, I blocked immediately but what I didn't expect was that the force of his attack would send me flying into the other side of colosseum.
"I suppose you wouldn't be so weak for being appointed as Lady Emilia's Knight."
I said as I got up from the rubble but before I could a floating white heart radiating multiple colors appeared hovering infront of my chest, I looked at it for a brief moment before I saw it being covered in red strings and along with it I was immediately pulled towards Chris.
But soon after I felt pain in my jaw and I looked to see Chris smiling.
[Short POV Julius End]
The spectators all saw Chris launch Julius into the air but as Chris leaped towards the now falling Julius his strike was parried by him and as they both fall they engaged in a clash of blades, even when they both landed on the ground and caused it to crack and cave in they didn't stop.
Julius parried another strike from Chris before launching a barage of piercing strikes at him, Chris gripped his knives and they both shattered and formed a barrier infront of him blocking the barrage of strikes sent at him.
"El Goa!"
From point blank range with a snap of his fingers and a loud chant, Chris sent a wave of fire towards Julius who reacted with his own spell.
"Dona!"
Suddenly the earth below Julius rose to a wall which he used to block the wave of fire, and with a flick of his wrist the earth spirits around him moved the earth wall towards Chris in an impressive speed.
Chris who saw this increased his barriers output of DT and strengthen it blocking the incoming earth wall, as it made contact with the barrier both the wall of earth and the barrier shattered. Julius who saw this took it as a chance and dashed towards Chris.
"Dumbass!"
The shattered DT energy began forming into a bright red ball at his palm, and with a small smirk Chris the ball began glowing brightly.
"Grand Ray Cero."
Mimicking something he remembered from bleach he released a large wave of DT at Julius who was able to block it by using Ul Dona, but sadly for the knight he didn't expect for the wave of energy to strengthen and thus he was struck with pure DT and since he didn't have anything to defend himself from the soul aspect of the attack it caused him great pain.
*BOOOM!!!!! *
A loud explosion echoed at the colosseum yet their were no cheers but everyone was in silence as they had just seen one of the strongest knights being beaten by a stranger who bad mouthed them, and now Julius played on the floor with his clothes gone only leaving him with a torn set of pants as multiple burns covered his body.
[SAVE]
Chris quickly saved as he crouched infront of Julius before laying a hand on his head and in the next second exploded into a bloody mess, but before anyone could react Reinhard Van Astrea the strongest swordsman in the kingdom and the knight of felt dashed towards Chris in such speeds that as soon as Chris pressed the reset button he felt a palm land on his face.
But thankfully he was quick enough and was back in a crouching position just above a heavily injured Julius, but this time as he laid his palm at Julius's head instead of killing him he was covered in a wave of SOUL magic and his injuries were now slightly better.
"It was a good duel."
[STATUS]
Name: Chris
Lvl: 13
Soul Trait: DETERMINATION
A determined human
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