Chapter 853: Reprimanding the zakos
‘No, seriously. What?’
[Well, you see the kaijin as more or less, being your children because you built them, right? Including yours truly?]
‘Yes…,’ Zhen Liu reluctantly agreed. While he did actually see the kaijin as his creations, he was beginning to have trouble seeing them as his own children. Especially when certain…dreams…began to seep into his sleep…and now that he had a spiritual body kaijin attached to his soul, he had a feeling those dreams were about to get a lot more vivid.
[Well, in the same manner you perceive us as your kids, I see the zakos I modified back when I was known as Paralust as my children. I honestly can’t wait to see how Screamira changed since I last saw her in person.]
‘Aren’t you connected to her via me?’
[I am, but it’s not the same. It’s like…just because you can video call someone, it doesn’t mean you why the same feeling as seeing someone in person, you know?]
‘Fair enough…I think?’
[Don’t think about the details too much, for now, you have zakos to reprimand and figure out why three of them went rogue.]
‘Well…I have half an idea as to why it’s the case…I just need confirmation.’
[Oh? Really?]
‘Really.’
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With both sets of zakos thoroughly zonked out through exposure to flames of [Chasity] and [Patience], Zhen Liu proceeded to dismiss the flames so that he could properly talk to them. Well, so he could talk to the “Gal-em Force” since they were the ones who went rogue. The Paleo Punks was an entirely different matter altogether, so he would be addressing them later.
“And…snap!”
Running on instinct, Zhen Liu simply snapped his fingers and caused the wall of blue and white flames to disappear just as quickly as he made them appear. As soon as he did, the zakos began to go back to “normal”…well, normal zakos that is.
[Uhh…whoa! What happened?]
[I…don’t know? I think my brain is back to craving violence.]
[Big Boss turned off the flames, so our brains are back to what it’s usually doing…craving violence.]
[Oh…yay!]
The Paleo Punks perked right back up as soon as the flames went away, their [Chaos] returning to their usual natures.
(Un)fortunately(?), the same could not be said for the Gal-ems. Despite the flames being turned off, the trio of feminine zakos still looked as if they had somehow downed a gallon of beer each and had normal human livers to work with. In other words, they were looking rather trashy.
[Whoa…I think my libido came back…alongside a fuck ton of nausea-HRK]
[That…wait, what the fuck did you just throw up? We don’t even eat!]
[Girls, I love you both, but please shut the fuck up. My head feels like it’s been hollowed out like a china doll and filled with pudding,] MarbleGal complained.
Unsure on how to process that weird turn of phrase, Zhen Liu opted to simply ignore it and continue with how he was originally going to address the Gal-Em. Namely, like a disappointed parent.
“Alright, so…I’m not mad about the internal conflicts, lord knows that is one of the oldest tropes in existence, but I am curious. Why did this incident occur in the first place?,” Zhen Liu said with a generous tone of voice. He had a good idea as to why this happened in the first place, but he was a firm believer that people must be able to own up to their mistakes and desires in order to grow.
Especially when the “people” happened to be monsters that were the embodiments of human desire.
Zhen Liu stared at the trio of feminine zakos for quite some time, hoping for at least one of them to crack and explain in full detail why they opted to do this weird espionage backroom shit. Unfortunately, the Gal-Ems opted to stay mum on the matter.
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“Really? Not going to say anything to me, despite being your creator. I’m hurt…but I can just stand here all day if I have to,” Zhen Liu informed the trio.
Unfortunately, this got him nothing more than continued silence and huffy expressions…which was surprising to say the least.
“Huh…actively rebelling zakos…how peculiar.”
From what Zhen Liu could recall, any zakos or kaijins created by his power were supposed to be completely loyal to him. While this was technically a fascinating phenomenon to witness, Zhen Liu didn’t exactly have all evening to just watch them until they said something.
Luckily for him, he didn’t have to.
[Aight, I guess I’m going to have to talk to them myself,] an androgynous voice echoed out from Zhen Liu’s body. A voice that caused all three GalEm zakos to perk up and stare at Zhen Liu in pure disbelief,
[Wait a minute.]
[That voice…doesn’t sound right…]
[That sounded like Paralust, but…not? What the fuck?]
Fwoosh!
“Whoa,” Zhen Liu said in surprise.
Shortly after making their presence known a pair of flaming, spectral hands jutted out of Zhen Liu’s chest like it was the most natural thing in the whole world.
Zhen Liu would’ve had a stronger reaction to this sudden appearance, but he had finally reached that numbed state of mind to all of the bullshit he had been dealing with today. It might’ve been weird for hands to stick out of him…but at least he was conscious about it this time.
[Let me just…sorry about this, Executor.]
“Ain’t no thing.”
He didn’t even react when the spectral flaming hands began to grope around him until finding someplace sturdy enough to push themselves out.
[Alley-oop!]
Mere moments later, a strange specter of a kaijin appeared from Zhen Liu’s body, like a genie coming out of a lamp. In this case, it would be more like a demon ghost out of a human host.
[There! Much better.]
[P-Paralust?]
[Mmmm, used to be. You can call me Blazejudicator now.]
‘Huh…not as different as the initial image in my head. Cool.A bit more mechanical than anticipated, but still.’
The evolution leading up to Blazejudicator was a strange one to say the least.
They initially started out as a lump of living [Lust] that was screaming innuendos in his brain 24/7. It was like being a teenager again, except the hormones had their own voice.
The next time they crossed, that weird lump of [Lust] somehow merged with a mechanical [Chaos] parasite that Zhen Liu accidentally created when he had to fight in a shipyard against some face stealing opera singer and her merry band of assassin assholes, and turned into a textureless succubus demon thing, tentatively named Paralust, that could modify zakos into being evolved zakos.
Of course, there was the added risk of her hijacking one of the kaijin and turning them into some kind of weird vessel, but that thankfully never happened.
But now, after all this time, and merging with Zhen Liu’s soul and absorbing two different types of aether flames, the kaijin known as Blazejudicator was born and they looked…incredibly androgynous.
Then again, it was kind of hard to assign sexual characteristics to a being that looked to be a mix of a clockwork automaton and will-o’-wisp flames that seemed to burn with every color of the rainbow.
[Then again, perhaps you’d be more receptive if I looked more like my original form? One moment…]
Prompted by nothing more than pure feeling, Blazejudicator’s flaming body suddenly took on a deep pink hue as the mechanical bits that made up their external body began to transform before everybody’s eyes to take on a more…exaggerated feminine form.
As this transformation occurred, Zhen Liu couldn’t help but to notice the sheer amount of [Lust] being pumped through his connection to Blazejudicator…to the point that the connected kaijin started to feel different!
‘Wait a minute…’
On a whim, and on a feeling building in his core, Zhen Liu briefly summoned the descriptor window for Blazejudicator.
While he did, Blazejudicator finished their transformation back to how they looked when they were Paralust, albeit, without the weird textureless features. Instead, she appeared to have replaced all of them with bright pink flames that smelled of vanilla and sex.
[There. That any better?,] she said with a smooth voice that seemed to be loaded with lewd intent. [Or would you prefer it if I made certain parts of me bigger and softer?]
[Uh…]
Needless to say, it wasn’t just Zhen Liu who was shocked at this sudden transformation.
However, unlike the thoroughly confused zakos, Zhen Liu had access to way more information…that just confused him even more!
‘Okay…so Paralust didn’t outright disappear…good to know…,’ Zhen Liu concluded after looking at the status window. ‘Things are going to get even messier now…fun…’
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|Notice: Blazejudicator has activated [Vice Form: Paralust] and has essentially become the entity once known as Paralust. The stats will be changed to reflect this transformation.|
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[Now then, my adorable little sluts,] Paralust said with a weird amount of matronly behavior. [Mind telling me why you decided to make a mess of everything without the proper protection? Or do I need to get physical?]
Evidently, now that Paralust was “back”, the GalEms were a lot more cooperative.
However, Zhen Liu was not expecting their answer in the slightest.
[We just wanted to reclaim our husbands!]
‘Fucking what?’
Thankfully this wasn’t the weirdest thing to happen to him…but fucking still, what?!
