Chapter 1111: Enemy detected, Shadow Garden, move out!

Actually, there was another reason why Eiji had gone to such great lengths to strengthen his home’s defenses.

And he decided to use this ability—

“!!!” The women.

They saw Eiji’s figure glow slightly with a golden light, and split into two… three… four…

His figure kept multiplying, gradually forming a group.

Ruka: “E-Eiji has turned into so many!?”

Levi: “A cloning technique!? Just as you’d expect from Eiji-san. He’s finally seen the light and embraced his talent as a ninja!”

Cloning!?

As soon as Levi mentioned the name of the ability Eiji was using, Nana, Momo, Haruna, and the other women all thought the same thing.

So, the forbidden ability Eiji was referring to was his ability to create clones of himself.

Why is something like that forbidden?

Many of them were confused.

Only the women who liked to fantasize about lewd things or draw doujinshi, like Eriri, suddenly imagined something. “C-Cloning… I-If Eiji used something like that in bed… Hah… Hah… That’s crazy. Can the gangbang genre be used that way?”

The young blonde woman’s face flushed, almost as red as Lilith Asami’s hair as she stood beside her. She also began to pant, holding her cheeks with both hands.

Lilith’s lips twitched.

“Eriri, what kind of crazy thing are you thinking about?”

“Eh? Eh? N-No! I… I wasn’t thinking of anything!”

“Eriri-senpai, did you get some inspiration?” Mea asked innocently.

“No! I didn’t get any inspiration at all! Don’t get the wrong idea!”

Eriri protested frantically, but the blush on her face made her seem anything but convincing.

The stares from Lilith, Mea, and the other women made her feel embarrassed and worried that they’d think she was a slut.

Isn’t that true?

What doujinshi artist wouldn’t be a pervert and have a vivid imagination in this situation?

To be honest, many of them also imagined things when they saw so many Eijis and shuddered.

However, there were also some women like Freya, Aphrodite, Musashi, Serafall, and Shuri who were excited by it.

By the way, not all the women who got pregnant in the past gave birth at the same time. For example, Serafall is still standing there with her bulging belly.

The women currently in the delivery room are Lala, Rias, Sona, Akeno, Tsubaki, Mio, Yuki, Kurumi, Zest, Utaha, Ravel, Koneko, Irina, and Xenovia. Chisato and the maids, including Grayfia, were the ones assisting them during labor.

Back to the previous topic.

Another reason why Eiji created so many clones of himself was because of the future he had seen using .

Nana was wrong to think that no idiots would show up looking to pick a fight with her today.

“You all know what you have to do, right? Now, go.” Eiji commanded his dozens of clones.

Without a word, each clone teleported and vanished at ninja-like speed.

Levi’s eyes sparkled.

“Eiji, are you the real Eiji?” Nana asked as she poked at Eiji’s bicep with her finger.

Eiji gave Nana a flat look. “It’s me. The real me, of course, has to be here to see my cute daughters as they’re born.”

“O-Oh.”

“Nana, you’re an idiot.” Momo teased her older sister.

“Take that back, Momo! I was just asking to be sure!” Nana growled at her younger sister.

The two of them started arguing.

However, Eiji didn’t stop them.

He went back to pacing back and forth in front of the delivery room door, which amused the other women.

“Um… Eiji, can you calm down a bit? I’m sure everything will be fine.” Lilith Asami asked.

“Not right now, Lilith.”

“….”

Lilith didn’t expect to be rejected.

Is this still the Eiji who’s crazy about beautiful women?

That was unexpected.

However, she wondered what was really making Eiji anxious? He had already sent many of his clones to reinforce their home’s defenses, but he still couldn’t relax.

If Eiji had to answer, he was actually racking his brain over his daughters’ names.

[I think the task of naming them is best left to your women, host.]

‘Huh? Why?’

[Right now, you can only come up with terrible names like Golden Lala, Red Gremory, and… Should I list all the names you’ve come up with?]

‘Is it really that bad?’

[Very.]

Miss System’s honesty made Eiji feel a little hopeless. And was it just his imagination, or did every second feel so long?

Should he speed up time so he could see his daughters’ faces quickly?

Forget it.

He didn’t dare to do it and could only wait patiently.

…

You might be wondering where Eiji’s clones went.

But before that—let’s pan the camera toward a beautiful elf in a Shadow Garden uniform (a tight-fitting black bodysuit with gold accents), who’s standing on the roof of a building.

Her silver bob-cut hair sways slightly in the breeze. With a long bow in her hand, she’s aiming at someone in the distance.

“Target locked. There’s an insect that looks suspicious and is heading toward Eiji-sama’s residence.”

Beta spoke to the other Shadow Garden members through a small magical communication circle near her ear.

“I’m going to eliminate him.”

The expression on the beautiful elf’s face would make most people shudder. Beta was furious, but her rage was as cold and calm as a hunter zeroing in on her target.

Anyone who is Eiji-sama’s enemy deserves to die!

She didn’t bother to confirm whether the other party truly harbored malicious intent toward her lord.

That’s because, with her perception, she could sense that the man wasn’t human. He—or more precisely, a short, old man wearing a dark red cloak and walking along the sidewalk—was radiating a massive amount of magical energy from within his body.

He had long gray hair and a long gray beard, as well as eyes that looked gloomy.

He didn’t look like a good person.

An enemy! He must be an enemy! I have to kill him! thought Beta.

“How strong is the target?”

Alpha’s voice came from the other side.

Beta replied, “I hate to admit it, but Alpha-sama… The other party doesn’t seem to be an ordinary insect.”

“Understood. In three seconds, all civilians within your attack range will be evacuated using my teleportation magic.”

Alpha’s voice came from the other side.

Beta smiled menacingly.

She began counting in her head.

By the fifth second, all the ordinary people within the range of her attack had vanished, leaving the area looking like a ghost town.

The next second, Beta released the bowstring she had been holding with his fingers, firing an arrow engulfed in flames.

The arrow flew at a speed that exceeded the speed of sound; the magical energy contained within it was immense, raising the temperature of the flames to an extreme level with a destructive power comparable to Sukuna’s Divine Fire.

Every pane of glass in the buildings the arrow passed through shattered into pieces, and even the trees lining the street caught fire.

The old man who was the target of the attack narrowed his eyes. Seeing the attack suddenly appear before his eyes, he extended one hand forward, seemingly intending to block it with sheer physical strength alone.

*BOOOOOOMMM!!*

With him at the center, a massive fiery explosion spread in all directions.

The entire city was engulfed in flames; many buildings and vehicles vanished, and objects were reduced to ash.

However, one figure still stood atop the crater, not having moved an inch from his previous position.

The old man was still alive.

After the dust around him cleared, Beta could even see that he wasn’t injured in the slightest. His robe was also undamaged and unburned.

“What the… Who exactly is this insect? Tsk!”

She clicked her tongue, annoyed that her attack had failed.

As if hearing her voice from a distance, the old man glanced in her direction.

“Insect? Young woman, I don’t know why you suddenly attacked me. But you’re the insect.”

“How dare you attack this emperor, even though this is the human world…”

The old man who called himself the emperor suddenly vanished. In the blink of an eye, he appeared, floating in front of Beta, who was on the roof of a building.

“You’re not human. Killing you won’t make me violate the law of non-intervention.”

“!” Beta froze.

She leaped backward at lightning speed just as the old man was about to grab her face.

“You bastard! Don’t you dare touch me with your filthy hands!”

Beta was furious, her eyes brimming with disgust. The magical power within her—surpassing even that of an ultimate-class creature—exploded instantly, causing a blue aura to surge from her body and her silver hair to float in the air.

With two short swords made of black slime connected to her bodysuit, she attacked with a speed that surpassed her previous strikes.

“Hoh?”

The old man’s expression shifted slightly, but there was no panic on his wrinkled face.

He neatly dodged every slash capable of cutting through the buildings behind him.

Beta’s form resembled a bluish light that radiated in all directions, attacking the old man from various angles. With her extraordinary control over magic, she was even able to use the air as a foothold during her super-high-speed maneuvers.

However, none of her attacks managed to hit her opponent.

Beta was surprised and began to feel a little frustrated.

*Clang!*

The sound of metal clashing rang out.

Her eyes widened. The old man stopped dodging; even though both of her short swords struck his body, he didn’t flinch at all.

His skin or body was so hard that the attacks couldn’t hurt him.

What kind of creature is this old man, anyway!?

“Tsk!”

Beta clicked her tongue again.

“Die.” The old man said coldly. He thrust one hand forward as if to stab his opponent in the heart.

Beta tried to dodge that itchy attack, of course, but it seemed she was too late.

She wasn’t fast enough to dodge the attack from where she was standing.

*BAAM!!*

“Kuhh…!”

That wasn’t Beta’s groan, but the old man’s. Before his hand pierced Beta’s heart and triggered the automatic barrier of the Master-Servant contract, two figures suddenly appeared as if teleported, and one of them attacked him.

With physical strength dozens of times greater than Beta’s—and brutal, to say the least—Delta punched the old man in the stomach with brutal force.

However, it was enough to break through the other’s defenses and send him flying hundreds of meters away.

“Grrr… Mom, that guy is bullying Beta. Can Delta go after him?”

The wolf Beastkin growled, her beautiful face contorted with rage. The other person who had appeared with her and whom she addressed that way was Alpha.

She wasn’t her biological mother, of course, but she had long regarded her as the leader of her pack.

As for Eiji? He’s her boss and her mate.

“Sure. Hunt him down, Delta. Or rather, let’s work together to kill him.” Alpha spoke calmly, but her gaze toward the old man in the distance was icy.

“Hunting the same target? It’s been a long time since we’ve done that. Delta is really excited!”

After saying that, Delta immediately leaped from the top of the building and ran toward their target like a wolf. Her speed surpassed that of any wolf in the world.

Alpha then glanced at Beta and gave her a gentle command: “Beta, just use your best skills. Close-range combat will be left to me, Delta, and the others.”

“As you wish, Alpha-sama!”

Beta recreated her longbow using black slime. This time, she was certain to injure the old man because when all the members of Shadow Garden worked together, they were unbeatable!

On the other side.

“It seems it’s not just me and my daughter who’ve come to the human world at this time. There are also many other quite powerful beings here.”

He rolled on the ground and braked using his own feet. Feeling pain in his stomach, the veins on his forehead bulged.

He was both angry and humiliated.

“Good! Good! You’ve managed to make me, Damocles, the Emperor of Demise, truly furious! I’ll kill you all!”

His scream was like the roar of a monster sending strong winds in every direction.

Dark magical power also radiated from his body; the clouds above the city gradually darkened because of him. Anyone who’s ever watched the series *Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid* surely knows who Damocles really is.

He is the leader of the Chaos Faction and Tohru’s father! In other words, he’s a dragon!

From another world, he came to the human world to search for his daughter and bring her back. A wizard named Mr. Magatsuchi told him that his daughter was living in the home of a man named Eiji Seiya; he even gave him the address.

However, addresses in the human world are foreign to him.

In the end, Damocles could only rely on his keen sense of smell to track down his daughter.

“Kill us? Are you even worthy-desu?”

“!?”

Delta’s voice rang out behind Damocles. Before he could react, his head was kicked to the side.

Damocles was thrown back again, but this time he wasn’t thrown very far and managed to stop his body’s movement in midair.

“You little insect…”

His head was a little dizzy from the kick. Before he could counterattack Delta, who was charging wildly toward him, his vision was suddenly obscured by a fog.

*Slash! Slash! Slash!*

While he was suspended in the air, someone slashed at him repeatedly in the blink of an eye. The attacks pierced his skin, causing him to bleed.

Damocles’ expression turned grim.

Without seeing who the attacker was, a sharp pain struck his stomach. Delta punched him in the midst of it all.

*BAAM!!*

Damocles was once again thrown far backward, his body crashing into the ruins of a building in the distance.

Who else could it be?

Was it that blonde elf from earlier (Alpha)!?

Damocles was wrong.

The person who had shrouded him in mist and was capable of making several deep cuts in his skin was…

It was another Beastkin in a tight-fitting bodysuit, who was currently strolling casually down the scorched highway and standing beside Delta.

The two crescent blades in her hands were still dripping with Damocles’ fresh blood. Unlike Delta, she had blond hair and large cat ears because she was from the Golden Leopard Clan—a Therianthrope.

“I wanted to behead him during that attack, but his flesh and bones were too hard. I failed to land a fatal blow—it must have been because some stupid dog was near me.”

Zeta said coldly, her words brimming with provocation toward Delta. She didn’t even glance at her at all.

Delta was offended and glared at Zeta.

“What!? Why is Delta being blamed!? And no, Delta isn’t stupid! You stray cat… Blame yourself for being weaker than Delta!”

“My attacks made him bleed. My total damage is clearly higher than yours.”

“No! Delta is clearly stronger than a stray cat! Delta is number one!”

As the two argued with each other, tens of thousands of arrows shrouded in blue lightning fell from the sky and rained down on the building ruins where Damocles was buried.

*BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!*

Beta pulled the bowstring nonstop, unleashing a barrage of penetrating attacks.

Not only that—

“Zeta, Delta, get away from there.”

Alpha’s voice rang out through the magical communication circle in their ears. The two beastkin did as she said.

They could also feel Alpha’s magical power enveloping the area within a radius of several miles.

Soon, the ground and debris from the ruins—and even from buildings that were still intact—were lifted into the air. The ruins covering Damocles were no exception.

With him at the center, all those objects flew toward him until he was buried alive inside a structure shaped like a small planet.

Beta gazed at Alpha, who was standing not far from her, raising one hand toward the sky with admiration in her eyes.

‘Just as you’d expect from Alpha-sama! Only she could replicate that one spell of Eiji-sama’s. Next—as long as Alpha-sama clenches her fist, the old man’s bones will surely shatter and he’ll die!’

Beta didn’t know what she was thinking—it was like raising a red flag.

*Crack!*

From that spherical object, resembling a small planet, a dragon’s head with red scales and a long neck emerged.

“GRAAAAAAAWRRRRRRR!!”

Damocles had returned to his true form.

His dark magical power seeped out from the cracks in the planet-shaped object.

“I TOLD YOU….! YOU’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!”

His loud roar and his words in human language could be heard from dozens of miles away.

At the Seiya family home, Tohru jolted and her expression turned grim. She heard her father’s voice and clearly sensed the fluctuations in his magic.

‘What is that man doing here!? Don’t tell me, he’s looking for me!?’