After trying for about two hours, I tried to go where Nix is, I'm not sure how she did it, but a rift opened in space and Shiori and I entered, as soon as we entered through the rift in space we appeared in a beautiful sun-lit plain.
I see the Goddess Nix sitting at a table drinking tea as if she was waiting for me to arrive, I ask Shiori to wait here while I approach to speak with Nix.
"..."
"It's been a while..." I say to her.
"Yes, it's been a while, I see your negative Karma has increased quite a bit, and the negative Karma of that girl you brought is also quite high," she says with a gentle smile as she gestures for me to sit in a chair.
I do so while looking at her, waiting for some answers to the questions I have and that I know she knows.
"Thanks to you, I've regained a good amount of power, enough to reconnect with many of my followers and regain a large portion of my strength," she says, placing the teacup on the table.
"With that, I believe our agreement ends, I gave you a new life and you helped me, but I believe it would be regrettable to end our partnership now, don't you agree?"
"I believe you have some troublesome future enemies if they realize that you are the one responsible for the end of a world," she says with a little smile.
"You're right."
"So I'm willing to renew our agreement with some changes, how about it? Wouldn't you like to become even stronger? Currently, you have enough power to destroy a planet on your own, but that's equivalent to a grain of dust compared to stronger beings."
"Wouldn't you like to become even stronger? After all, I believe you'll need the strength to stay safe and to defend your girlfriend over there," she says, looking at Shiori, who is waiting patiently.
"You're right, I wouldn't want my life to be threatened, what do you propose?"
"How about destroying other worlds more or less the way you did now? We can go to increasingly stronger worlds and you'll gain more and more power," she says as if it's nothing.
"Aren't you afraid I'll become stronger than you?" I ask.
"Of course not, I'd love to have a stronger ally than me, what I fear the most would be having enemies stronger than me, I'm always open to having a powerful ally," she says as if it's nothing.
"Are you willing to do that? I have several perfect worlds for you, each world has its own 'protagonists' or sets of them that you can manipulate or make similar to what you did with Shiori."
"You know, it would actually be funny if you built a harem with the most important ones from each world," she says with a little laugh, as if imagining it.
"..."
"Don't you find the idea interesting? Well, it all depends on you, I've gained a lot of your help and I'm someone who usually returns favors."
"I'm willing, but can I take Shiori with me?" I ask with some interest, there are many risks involved, but there is also a lot of profit if it works out.
"Of course you can take your girlfriend to most of them, but I'm sure you wouldn't want to take her to some of those worlds, mainly because most of the most important ones for the destiny of those worlds are men."
"And if you use the same approach of transforming them into women and conquering their hearts to make them destroy the world, Shiori would get jealous, or rather Mukuro who is inside Shiori could get out of control," Nix says, knowing perfectly well about Mukuro.
"I'm not sure if I'd use the same approach, I think it would depend a lot, but I'm willing to accept a new agreement, after all, having more power seems great, and now that you've recovered a bit, you can provide more support," I say, agreeing to this.
"Great that you agree, and you're absolutely right about what you said, turning everyone into girls wouldn't work for some, but that interesting approach would work for about 80% of them, you know?"
"A large part of them are practically blind to love and lust while pursuing their 'innocent' desires like helping others or achieving something, it's like a destiny pattern."
"If they're not naive, they become problems, so as a standard, they're strong in a certain way, they can be smart, but they're totally oblivious to romance even if it's being rubbed in their face."
"Like Shido, who had many girls around him, but never did anything beyond kisses, and the kisses were all out of obligation since it was part of his power," she says in a somewhat derogatory way.
As if she doesn't like it, saying it's like a standard cliché that's repeated with a large part of them.
"But Aurelio, what I can say about our new agreement is that things will become increasingly dangerous, mainly because many worlds have gods watching over them."
"Even if they don't notice an anomaly like you within their world, they can still perceive if you cause too much damage, basically going to other worlds requires you to follow the same pattern."
"...Others have to destroy the world for me..." I say, a little dissatisfied with that. It's tedious to manipulate even the smallest details of others' lives for this.
"Don't be dissatisfied, Aurelio, know that you did an impressive job, many couldn't do what you did in your own unique way, and besides, I'll only send you to worlds that can be destroyed by the inhabitants of the worlds themselves."
"It means there will always be the possibility you need to manipulate them in your favor, of course some of these worlds have people stronger than you, so caution is essential."
"But if your girlfriend Shiori is with you, it will be much safer, after all, you yourself ensured that she would have some very powerful abilities, you practically gave her the best skills."
"And above all, you have half of Beelzebub, the book that collects information from the world, not to mention Nibelcole, which is undeniably useful in gathering information," Nix says with a smile.
"...You are very cunning," I say to her, as she is already trying to make me work for her again.
"Hahaha, thank you for the compliment," she says with a soft laugh.
"So let's close the agreement this way for now, I'll destroy other worlds and get stronger, and in return I'll continue being your follower to provide you with power through Karma."
"But if I see that things are getting out of control, I'll back off, my life is worth more than that, and I've already fulfilled the first agreement," I extend my hand to her, stating my terms.
"Of course, I'm totally in favor of that, if you decide a world is too difficult, you can come back here to this place and I'll send you to another world."
"Moreover, you and your girlfriend can live here in this place, and if you form the so-called harem, I'd love to invite them all here, but be careful, protagonists don't lose their destiny's favoritism even outside their worlds or with negative Karma."
"If you gather too many girls favored by destiny, it may be difficult to handle them all," Nix says with a huge smile, as if imagining the scene of me being disputed by various strong girls favored by destiny.
Honestly, it's kind of creepy to think about, having so many strong and destiny-favored girls fighting over me, or worse, uniting to get me together, and it's obvious that since I use strong feelings to conquer them, sex would be the most used standard.
"I don't think I can handle a harem like that, so the chances are low," I say to her.
"You think? And the chances are low? So that means there are chances of this harem arising? And you also think you can handle multiple girls at the same time?" She uses my own words against me.
"...Okay, there are chances, turning most of them into girls would make it easier to manipulate them," Manipulating a girl who loves me romantically and cannot resist sex is easier than manipulating a guy I only have common friendship with.
Moreover, most of these protagonists have no experience in love, so just like for Shiori, sex is an irresistible temptation, so undeniably repeating the same plan is the most efficient.
After all, if it's working, I can keep using it until it fails, and if it fails, I just need to readjust until it works.
"Okay, stud, go have some spicy time with your girlfriend, I'll just wait until you two are ready, and by the way, I suggest you tell Shiori most of the truth about how you manipulated her and how you deliberately want to destroy the planets."
She says as I get up from the table and go to Shiori. Nix just watches as I talk to Shiori, revealing some extra things. I reveal to her that we will be going to another world and that I made an agreement with Nix.
However, I decide to go further, agreeing with what Nix said and explaining to Shiori what Nix wants. If I'm going to do the same in more worlds, then inevitably Shiori will know the truth.
That's why I decided to tell her the truth now, as Nix said. I told her that Nix asked me to destroy the world we're going to, and I explained many things and the processes. Of course, with that, she herself reached some answers.
And in the end, she asked if I was the culprit of some things, and I decided not to deny it, but her reaction was not as expected.
She asked me if it was me who transformed her into a girl and if it was me who made her destroy the world pretending to die, and when I confirmed it, she just sighed and said she already knew.
It seems I underestimated the powers of a protagonist. She said she started to suspect it after time went back, in other words, after I altered time with Kurumi, although she doesn't know it was me.
She explained that after knowing that, she found me suspicious, but just ignored it and said that while I was talking to her, her spear told her some extra things.
In other words, at the same time that I was telling her the things now, Mukuro was also telling her some things, and with that, Shiori reached the most obvious answer of all, which is what my power really is and what it does.
After discovering what my power is, it's obvious that the answer to why Shido became Shiori would be my fault, but incredibly, she didn't get angry. Of course, she doesn't know the full extent of everything I've done.
But she understands that I have some blame in various things, the most ironic thing is that this is due to being a protagonist, because she said she just felt without explanation that it was like that.
However, she accepted it quite well. She said she's a little hurt that I lied, and asked if I really love her, but that's something I can say for sure, so she just decided to forgive me right here, giving me a kiss.
And I clearly felt Nix's gaze of irony, who apparently expected something similar to this, maybe that's why she asked me to reveal the truth to Shiori, it seems I can't underestimate a protagonist's intuition.
Fortunately, Shiori doesn't know and has no idea that it was me who messed up her personal life, she knows I had some blame in some things, but only the big ones, and she even blushed in embarrassment that I did so much for her out of love.
In other words, she confused things, and I couldn't help but laugh, protagonists can be bizarre in their deductions, but they are so naive that they easily confuse right and wrong.
Since I never manipulated her because I love her, I manipulated her for my personal goal and only after I really started to love her.
With that, I think things have been resolved and Shiori even agreed to help me in the next world if she was properly rewarded with dates and "hot" nights together.
And as a responsible boyfriend, I only agreed, in a way this was the best outcome, if she already knows big things and doesn't care because she's too dependent on me, she won't doubt when it's time to follow me.
I just found it strange that after saying it was okay, she said that if I transformed someone else into a girl, I should take responsibility and not abandon that person.
To me, it's strange how protagonists can be altruistic, like for Shiori it would be better if I just abandoned the others, but even so, she agreed that I could be with another person as long as I didn't put her aside.
And of course, this made Nix burst out laughing and say that I'm entering the beginning of a harem route, which made Shiori shyly avert her gaze. I just rolled my eyes and ignored her while Shiori and I decided to spend a little more time talking and detailing some things.
Since everything ended well, I came out on top. I have Shiori, a girl who still loves me even knowing what I've done, and a plan for the future, and after hours and hours of wasted conversation, Shiori and I decided to continue.
Shiori even seems excited to go to another world to have some fun. It's great that she's not jealous.
"Nix, we can go," I say to Nix, who opens one of those rifts.
"I wish you good luck, Aurelio, and just come back here with another beautiful girl and a world in ruins, okay?" Nix says goodbye in a strange way as Shiori and I pass through the rift and go to a new world.
This time it's slower, as if we're floating in space.
"A-Aurelio, I really don't care what you've done, but don't abandon me even if you have other girls, okay?" Shiori says with a small smile. I give her a hug.
"Of course, you're the first of all in my heart and I really like you. I'm sorry I've caused you some problems, but I can say that you'll be very happy with me," I say, kissing her. She accepts the kiss with great happiness.
Now that she no longer has her world, there's no reason for me to manipulate, deceive or psychologically hurt her, so all that remains for her to stay with me is the happiness I can provide her.
Soon we both appear somewhere embraced while we kiss, it seems our life in another world is starting now.
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