Chapter 12 - Settling in (2/2)
[Breath of the Beast]
While the piping hot steam exploded into the surrounding area, Grim switch to breath of the beast and used his enhanced sensory and physical abilities to launch himself into the air and find Noelle's position.
'There you are.'
Finding her location, Grim let gravity do its job as he fell feet first towards her ċhėst.
*BANG!*
”URGH!” Slamming straight down onto her ċhėst, the air was knocked out of Noelle's lungs as her entire body was forced to the ground.
Summoning out his giant sword, Asta swung it at the steam and created a small gust of wind to blow away the steam and reveil the sight before him.
”Huh?”
Once the steam had been cleared away, the sight of Grim kneeling down on Noelle's ċhėst came into view.
'What the hell?'
While he and Magna were both confused by what they were seeing, Grim was too busy focusing his attention on the silver haired girl beneath him.
”Submit.”
”YOU!!” She grit her teeth and was about to release a barrage of insults.
*BANG!!*
Summoning out his jagged beast swords, Grim stabbed them into the ground mere centimeters away from her head.
”I said... Submit.”
”I-I will do no such thing!”
”Then burn.” Switiching to breath of flames, the jagged blades vanished and in their place came a beautiful blade with a flame shaped handguard.
Being so close to Breath of flames Grim caused Noelle to bear the full brunt to the amount of heat his body was giving off.
Seeing that she was uncomfortable, Grim repeated his previous words.
”Submit.”
”Never!” She refused with large beads of sweat starting to appear on her face.
Smiling at her reluctance, Grim upped the heat to the point that it was becoming harder for Noelle started to choke from the humidity.
Watching all of this take place from a distance, Asta and Magna were thoroughly shocked by Grim's actions.
It was only after the humidity reached them that they decided to act.
Gritting his teeth together, Asta charged towards Grim ignoring the intense wave of heat that he was giving off.
”Hmm?” Hearing Asta's footsteps, Grim knew that it'd probably be best to stop before Magna called for the others.
*Sigh*
'I'll deal with her next time.'
Jumping into the air before Asta could tackle him, Grim watched as Asta tripped and fell face first into Noelle's no-no place.
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After freaking out and firing off multiple misdirected water spells at Asta, Noelle gave Grim the dirtiest look he had ever seen before walking away.
”...What the hell was that?!” Magna turned to look at Grim.
”She told me to know my place... I was just reminding her what hers was.” He shrugged.
*Sigh* ”I'm to tired to deal with this shit, let me show you guys to your rooms.”
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”And here we are.”
Walking into what could only be described as a cupboard sized room, Asta and Grim both marveled at it for different reasons.
For Asta it was excitement. Due to him growing up in an orphanage, he always had to share with the others, so for him having a room that he could call his own was quite a nice change.
Grim on the other hand was feeling downtrodden, in fact he felt like he had regressed. Compared to the room he had previously been living in, this place was a shoebox.
”Why are our rooms next to each other?” He turned to ask Magna.
”You two seemed to get along so I thought it'd be nice.”
'Makes sense.'
Nodding his head, Grim continued watching as Asta started cleaning his room while shouting something about making it sparkle.
Now that he thought about it, both he and Asta used swords to fight... And to make things weirded, his breath of the beast swords and Asta's black sword were quite similar. While his slashed through magic, Asta's seemed to not only be able to cut through magic, but also reflect it with flat part of the blade. It was honestly kind of intriguing.
”Hey Asta.” He suddenly called out.
”Hmm?” His head popped out from under the bed.
”You okay? That silver haired girl hit you quite hard.”
”Haha! I'm fine, no way something like that would stop me.” He laughed loudly.
”Good to know.” Grim smiled. ”You said you have no magic right?”
”Yeah.” He nodded.
”So how can you bring out that grimoire?”
”Anti-magic.”
”Anti-magic?”
”Yeah.” Asta nodded. ”Its like magic that gets rid of other magic.”
”So its magic huh? But you have no mana.”
”Its not magic, its anti-magic. I don't need mana.”
”But you just said its magic that gets rid of other magic.”
”Yeah. Anti-magic gets rid of magic” Asta nodded again.
”But anti-magic isn't magic?”
”That's right!”
Feeling like he was going around in a circle, Grim decided to drop the topic for the moment.