Chapter 847: Naming Conventions are weird
*Bing-Bong*
Alright…what’s up with these chapter titles?
|Pardon?|
This is the third time you’ve used the word, “weird”, in the title.
|And…|
Have you read your own book? This entire thing is the embodiment of weird. It seems a bit redundant to mark certain chapters as “weird”, don’t you think?
|I understand where you’re coming from, but there’s no way I’m going to tell…wait a minute…why is that light blinking?|
Uh oh.
*Bing-Bong!*
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Kaijin Name: N/A
Core: [Vice? Virtue? Unknown]
Aether Formula: ???
Ranking: Based on Host
Strength: Based on Host
Dexterity: Based on Host
Endurance: Based on Host
Intellect: S
Speed: Based on Host
Aether Arts: Based on Host.
Special Abilities: [Advanced Lust Enhancement: Zako], [Advanced Wrath Enhancement: Zako], [Minor Lust Enhancement: Kaijin], [Minor Wrath Enhancement: Kaijin], Aether Flame Manipulation – Host dependent, other skills TBD once name is finalized.
Description: A non-corporeal kaijin able to infuse the power of the [Seven Heavenly Virtues] or the [Seven Deadly Sins] into [Chaos] based beings with ease and mortal beings with greater effort. Unable to exist outside without a physical host of some kind.
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‘Alright…this gives me zero inspiration. Godsdammit.’
Zhen Liu had figured re-reading the stat block and description of his newly minted kaijin would help him determine a name.
It didn’t.
Instead, it just made him even more confused because whenever he tried to see if any of the abilities could be further elaborated upon, all he got was a big all warning message telling him to screw off.
Technically it required him to name the kaijin before further action could be taken, but it was the same thing.
Sort of.
‘Come on brain, you don’t normally struggle with this, so why now?,’ Zhen Liu griped to nobody but himself.
It would normally take Zhen Liu all of a minute to come up with a name for his kaijin, but he was having trouble with this particular kaijin because it’s traits. it’s origins and even the materials were were just…weird.
From originally a part of his soul going out of whack because of a swallowed core, to a weird parasite that could turn zakos and kaijin into weird mutations to finally being back inside of himself as it’s own kaijin, whatever or whomever this spiritual body was going to be had a lot of history and details to it.
Which was what made naming this bastard all the more difficult.
‘Para…whatever they are now, doesn’t just use [Wrath]…or [Lust] anymore…and technically has no basis other than flames…hold up…’
Most of his previous kaijin had some incredibly obvious trait or had an animal theming going on that it made super easy to just give them a name.
The Ragnarockers: Nepherage, Frosttusk and Hurricroak were all essentially elementally themed with some additional things mixed in to help make them more unique. Granted, Zhen Liu at some point realized that they might’ve been mythologically or Heavy Metal themed but he had no idea where that came from.
‘Wasn’t there some kind of judgement deity from my old world with a name that meant flame? What was it again…’
The Insecterrors (name pending), consisting of Lacerage and Arachnidame, were all bug themed and Zhen Liu didn’t even have to stretch his brain too hard to give them names based on the insect parts he made them from. Granted, that might’ve also been the reason why they both came out female kaijin, but that just meant the next member was going to be a dude…probably.
‘Tenma? Kenma? Gemma? That sounds like but that can’t be it…’
Granted, there were a few exceptions to his naming conventions, i.e., the kaijin that were born accidentally or had developed themselves without his intervention. This grouping included Spring Brawler (who was figuring themselves out), Razorstella(who chose her own name), Screamira (who used to be a modified zako), Kit(Taffy based kaijin who’s naming rights were given to their adoptive mother) and Amazona (a mutant kaijin that technically shouldn’t have existed).
‘Wait a minute…seriously?!’
It was at this point thought that Zhen Liu realized that he had a majority of kaijin have their names end with a vowel, with a great focus on the letter “a”…and he was about to do it again.
‘Fuck it, fuck it! I guess I can use Enma and…wait a minute…sins…virtues…I got it. I fucking got it!’
However, at the eleventh hour and his creativity being dangerously considered bankrupt, Zhen Liu came up with something…interesting.
‘A good chunk of this guy came from flames, this shit is like spiritual fire that enflames certain desires…in that case…your name is now: Blazejudicator!’
Once Zhen Liu had figured out a name for this new kaijin, a wave of energy came over him.
‘HOLY SHIT!’
Then again, that could’ve been due to the literal spirit flames coming out of his body and enveloping him.
Thankfully it didn’t hurt, but still.
‘Whoa! That’s really-wait a minute…why do these flames feel…incomplete?’
…
|Blazejudicator has been designated. Reestablishing abilities to better suit name and identity…confirmed.|
|Error. Kaijin: Blazejudicator is missing key desires necessary to complete ability condensation. Please provide necessary desire cores or equivalent aether treasure to complete. Normal functionality however, will now be restored.|
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Now that Zhen Liu had his abilities back to normal, the first thing that came to him was his connection to all the kaijin, the zakos and the library all coming back to him at once. However, there was something…weird mixed into those connections.
‘Dafuq does that-oh shit, never mind, I am now detecting everybody again, thank the gods! Now I don’t have to be so ill-infor…wait a minute…who the fuck are these guys?’
More specifically, he could feel three distinct energy signatures being connected to himself…wait…
‘It’s not connected to me, it’s connected to…huh.’
In this moment, Zhen Liu realized that his new spirit buddy was a lot weirder than anticipated.
‘Actually…isn’t this the part where they start talking? Why so quiet?’
…
[What the…oh, shit! Am I alive for real this time? But why do I feel…less randy? Actually wait, why do I have all these other things in me? I’m gonna have to sort this all out…boo…or I could just use this time to develop the power of Sloth and worry about this later…yeah, let’s do that.]
…
‘Whatever! I’ll take care of it later, for now I gotta-‘
|Blazjudicator is now deepening their understanding of [Sloth], as such, Kaijin Lord will now be actively using [Diligence] to counter.|
‘What the-whoa!’
The next thing Zhen Liu knew, fire started shooting out of his feet.
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“Oh would you look at that,” Jin Fang said with smile after finally getting some form of pay-off from watching her man sit around like a stump for who knows how long.”It appears Xiao Liu finally figured something out…and is now glowing with multi-colored fire.”
“Woo, wait…did you just say darling is on fire?,” Jinju Ren asked after stopping herself from celebrating. “Shouldn’t we go and stop that from happening? You seem weirdly unfazed.”
“The amount of times I’ve seen Xiao Liu do something weird when his abilities reach some sort of threshold is kind of absurd at this point,” Jin Fang admitted. “As long as he doesn’t suddenly transform into a dragon or an…elephant at this point, I just assume everything is going to be okay.”
“That’s…a weird mindset, not gonna lie.”
“It’s either that or 24/7 panic.”
“Fair enough.”
“Hey, girls,” Rianna interjected. “You guys should probably know that Zhen Liu just decided to rush out of the theater with fiery determination in his eyes.”
“That’s normal.”
“And jet propelled feet.”
“That’s not.”
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[Wait, what?]
[Oh shit, I have siblings?]
[Didn’t we come up with a term for that?]
[I think so, but I forgot what it was.]
[Logos, Pathos. Mind telling us why they’re in the back halls or bother telling us in the first place? I thought evolving zakos were a good thing since they translate into kaijin like us?]
=That’s normally the case, but these ones are a little…weird.=
[Weird as in y’all can’t connect to them, or weird as in they’re strangely powerful?]
<=Yes.=>
[What the fuck?]
<=We don't...wait a minute...=>
…
<=Milord? Is that you?=>
‘LOGOS! PATHOS! GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN’
=Don’t disconnect like that again!=
‘No promises, quick request: Can y’all track and make sure I don’t run into any shelves?’
<=Uh...sure. Why?=>
‘Because fire is shooting out of my feet!’
<=Oh. OH SHIT!=>
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Meanwhile…
[Chaos around me, I’m stuck!]
[See, I told you that building yourself to have a fat ass would be a detriment!]
[The word you’re looking for is “phat” and that is besides the point! I would weight the same if I went with a petite build, so can you two please just pull me out?]
[Ugh! Fine! Grab her other arm, wood you?]
{Was that a pun? Seriously?]
[It doesn’t matter, now pull!]
[Hyah!]
