41 The war is over (1/2)

So it's been a week since I last talked to all of you, and honestly I feel much better. I'm still not completely there, but I don't need to force myself to smile anymore. For the whole week I would come to the orphanage and help the kids learn how to cook with plenty of food. I ended up spending around 10 SP on ingredients every day so, it took me about 70 SP in total? Well considering that it also includes the first day it ended up pretty well.

Plus, with how much food they made with me well, I now have a stockpile of 7 different meals and even more ingredients, so you know what that means~? No more of only having pancakes, bacon, and sausage for me! God, I was starting to get sick from it honestly. Like I know I was sick of it before, but I was getting to the point that if I smelled a sausage I would vomit. I got lucky that Alucard will basically eat anything, especially if it tastes good. Got rid of all of those pancakes and sausage that I had left.

Anyway, I now have come to terms, more or less, with everything that happened. Like I said, I'm not 100% there, but I am here for the most part. I don't know if I'll ever truly recover after that, but seeing those kids smile so much and cry to me because no other adult would give them the time of day made me remember that though I am not from this world there are those that I am willing to protect in it, as goes for any other world that I go to, I may not belong there, but there will be something I want to protect. That isn't an excuse though to tell everyone everything about me.

I know I'm not perfect, and have a lot to learn since I've only ever been raised in a world filled with peace, and had friends and people surrounding me that were helpful. Well except for my Ex, but I've been coping with the Trauma that she put me through as it comes up, thankfully with the help of Tsunade and not alone. Though she is making the memories pop back up... well it's better to deal with the memories than to repress them, as much as repressing them sounds good.

So to update you on everything else that's going on, when I was on my way back an Anbu showed up and asked for me to go see the Hokage and that it would be a quick visit, so right now I am sitting in the Hokage's office with that same girl from Hanzo's people. After sitting down on a chair across from where she is standing she looks to me and bows, ”I have been elected as the leader of my people after Hanzo's death, and I came here to sign the contract. The Hokage requested something for me to do within the contents that I am not opposed to and would, in fact have done so regardless of the contract.”

I sit forward and raise my eyebrow, ”And that is?” I ask her since I don't quite know why I am needed here. I mean it's a contract right? In fact shouldn't it be those Daimyo or however you say it being here?

Next thing I know she gets onto her hands and knees in front of me, uh hokage what? I'm not into prostitution, especially forced prostitution... Before my thoughts can drift too far though she puts her head to the ground and speaks to me, ”Not only am I sorry for the sins committed by me and my people, but so is my country. That is why I sign this contract now, to show not just how sorry my country and I are, but because I wish to show you that my country and I are loyal. We ask not for forgiveness as we know we are undeserving, but we wish that you keep your word in the things you promised to us at the very least.” She's Kowtowing? I can't help but remember that this is something really important?

'Informing host, it is one of the highest forms of reverence that someone can give to a person, at least in the eastern culture of host's old world.'

Huh, so she's... what?

'System believes she is declaring fealty to host and recognizing host as her superior. Also can be inferred as deeply apologetic. Chances of both being represented are high.'

Ah, okay. Uhh... ”Well, I appreciate the face that you are considering my emotions through all of this, and if I am being honest I had no intentions of accepting an apology from you or your people, though it would be fair to also say I wouldn't blame the many for the actions of the few. Right now I am feeling much better, or at least as good as I can after going through that torture, so I will tell you that I shall keep my word as even when I was upset I planned on keeping my word so long as you do not betray those that gave you this chance.” Yes, my bullshit ability is coming back to me slowly but surely.

She looks up from her position and nods with some tears in her eyes before nodding, I look to the Hokage and see him smiling while nodding. Wonder if he's just happy knowing that I went and am now feeling better? No, knowing him he's probably thinking of some sort of plan again. Wonder if he's going to go and get me wrapped up in the middle of it again and if he's going to keep me out of the loop, AGAIN.

I sigh, guess I'll have to find out for myself when it comes time. After she stood up she went to the Hokage's desk, signed the document, and both smiled and nodded at each other before she turned around to leave. Before she left however, she bowed slightly towards me and nodded with a smile on her face then quickly left.

After making sure that she left the room I looked at Sarutobi and raised an eyebrow, ”What was that about? Or is this going to be a plot that you aren't going to tell me about?”

He smiles and laughs, ”Haha, seems like your sense of humor is back a bit, or so it seems. Well this was to let you see her sincerity and another secret test. You passed though so don't worry. You may leave after I finish, the other 2 countries did not appear so I will be sending out envoys to meet with the leaders of their countries, however I do consider that this war in all terms of the word, is over. Now is just a matter of settling these last 2 matters. Also I have some big news for you tomorrow, so look forward to it.” I sigh and wave at the Hokage as I wave him goodbye. I'm not too much in the mood to deal with his plotting since I'm getting tired.

The next morning I decided that I had enough energy to mentally go through with summoning Darkness and Esdeath. Wait I just realized something, Esdeath is a sadist and Darkness is a masochist. Oh god what kind of fucking draws did I get? I shiver a bit, no Joe you gotta do this, I can go through with this. On the bright side Esdeath should be absolutely loyal to me, so that's a pro. Don't have to worry about her flaying me alive.

I sigh, I'm going to summon Darkness first, I'm doing this in the living room with Ezio and Olivier so that they can see the process, Alucard just wanted to know if I had any food so I passed him a large bowl of mashed potatoes. Yeah, he really likes potatoes strangely enough, especially garlic ones. I feel it's a way of him making fun of 'fake vampires' as he calls them. After I summon her I can see that she looks pretty much just like in the anime and is comparable in height to Tsunade at around 5'5” (5 foot 5 inches), I think. I'm just eyeballing it here really. I'm actually surprised at how short she is, but then again, Kazuma was probably pretty short in the anime too then. (A/N: Okay just looked it up and holy fuck, I was right. Check this link here . She is at 170 cm and I put it into a converter, got 5.5 . Which is well, 5 foot 6, but I'm not going to change it since I was making the MC eyeball it and feel proud for being close.)

She looks around quickly before stumbling backward a bit, ”Wh-who are y-you people? Are you going t-to do th-things to me!?” Oh jesus, she's already turned on.

I look to Olivier, ”Think you can handle this?”

She smiles and shakes her head, ”Not my job. You get the pleasure.” Oh you don't get any of my cooking tonight! You get to eat what Tsunade makes! Darkness starts mumbling some more stuff while getting redder and redder, god help me deal with this.

”Hey, uh, Darkness. So, to cut the story short, well, you're my summon! Ta-da.” Yeah that didn't beat around the bush at all. Me doing jazz hands definitely didn't make it smoother at all.

”S-summon? But aren't monsters supposed to be the only things magicians can summon?” Well, thankfully she's not brain dead, makes this a bit easier.

I smile a bit and sit down on the table in front of her, ”Well this is a special power that I have, I can't tell you the specifics of it but I can summon things, and not just things but people too! Before you ask, you don't have to be worried about your friends or anything because, the simplest way to put this, is that you are now 2 people. The one that is here and the one that is there.”

She looks at me nervously, ”S-so you summoned me to do dirty things with me?”

This girl and her one track mind... I sigh, ”No Darkness, I did not summon you to do dirty things to you, I summoned you so that you could be useful to me. Help me, well basically go on adventures. Like don't you wish that you could go and see the world(s)?” I try to appeal to her sense of adventure in the hopes I don't have to deal with this too much longer.

She looks up to me with a glimmer in her eyes, ”So you need a crusader? Then I am the very best! So long as I can be at the front lines keeping the monsters away from you and your party!” Yup, she found a way to get her masochism in there. God dammit.

I sigh. Can my default setting just be me sighing? Or is that too common? Should I start face palming then? Cringing? Let me know and I can fucking do it, because holy shit do I feel exasperated a lot. God these people...

I put on a smile and give her a thumbs up, ”Sure thing, but you'll need to get even stronger if you want to fight the enemies that we are going after!”

She gasps and starts breathing heavily, ”You mean... the demon lord? Are you going after him? I've always wanted to go against him... see just how strong he is and how much of a brute he is and how he treats women! I bet he's a monster!” You know, she would sound oh so noble if she wasn't bright red and seemed to be getting close to the edge just by going and thinking of it.

I turn around, god this is going to be a long day and I want to just summon Esdeath. Ignoring Darkness who just keeps going further off the deep end I go back to the center of the room before summoning her. Once she appears my heart skips a beat, man she was one of my first, well put in normal terms crushes. In weebaneese, she was definitely one of my waifus. Now it wasn't because of her being Yandere, well the first anime I watched was mirai nikki but that's besides the point.

Where was I? Oh yeah, holy shit is she pretty! She turns and looks at me before talking, ”Hm, you must be Joseph and... are apparently my master. Now I have been informed of everything by that voice and I can feel that it change some things about me so I can't do like it said and hurt you or betray you. It also was kind enough to share with me some of your memories and I can't help but chuckle at that mans poor torture technique. He was an amateur in many ways to the point that he almost drove you insane. Though for surviving that I must applaud you for your willpower. Due to that single fact I decided to actually follow through with this voice, at least for now. So don't disappoint me.” Yeah, overbearing like I thought she'd be... god dammit. Well at least she can't hurt or betray me... right? Right?

I'm going to regret this aren't I?