How To Survive In The World DxD With Fragment Memories

Leading Sona and her peerage downstairs to the underground training space, Masaru was already considering which ones to put up against who, it was quite easy to choose but he also needed to consider a few other things. He looked over the girls then made his choice, "First we are going to train everyone together with this little guy" Showing the familiar metal ball the girls of Masaru's teams felt pity for Sona and her peerage who will also fall prey for this hated yet addictive toy, Masaru started to explain the mechanisms behind the toy and allowed the girls to start training with it.

"My god! Urk! Headache!" Momo was the first one to feel frustrated at how fast it can change patterns, even Reya who was always smiling had a serious look focusing on the lights flashing. The ones who struggled the most were the Knights and Rooks since they did not have the Queen or Bishop characteristics to train. Masaru allowed his pawns to promote so they could start getting used to their bishop promotion traits, even Sona could not stop playing with the ball. 'Ingenius! Whoever made this training ball is simply a monster genius to figure out a gaming style to train energy control...' Sona thought

Once a hour of battling to win against the beloved Taunting Ball Masaru called it off and then let the girls towards the fourth training room that had puppets stationed as targets, each of them had a signboard on it, "Low Defense: Kill", "Low Defense: Kill with Minimal effort" or "Low Defense: Incapacitate" and it will go all the way to "Ultimate Defense: Incapacitate". Seeing these signboards the girls finally understood the training phase was actually two. "As you girls have noticed, using what you learnt with the ball. Attack each puppet according to their description, no need to worry it will automatically be replaced and it also gives you a score out of 10"

Masaru went to the back looking at the girls, Shirone who was proficient in controlling her ki managed to pass the first two puppets but when it came to incapacitate, she failed miserably. Masaru did not give her any tips as this is something that needs to be found out by themselves for this hour before he can explain the true hidden functions behind these puppets. Similar to the ball the puppets became another addictive game for the girls since the remarks that came with the score infuriated them. Like [1/10: Are you trying or are you too dumb?] [2/10: At least you improve to a baby level]

"Destroy!!!" Everest was the first to snap and vent her anger on one of the puppets because she had to micro-control her strength otherwise she will simply kill. 'Well dragons have it hard, but having extreme control over the body will promote their growth further. Training Sona's team motivates my team to train harder while Sona's team who feels already threatened by the information I hold will push and thus the two groups can have competition while I can now officially start my training I have been putting off for a while'

After a few hours Masaru stood up, "Once you girls had enough you can continue the training with the balls, I will be cooking dinner for everyone" Sona realized it was late but Masaru extended an invitation she was hesitating to accept but because there was a lot of girls it was acceptable, "You girls can sleepover, I will be sleeping in the lounge" Masaru went upstairs.

"This puppet is annoying the hell out of me!" Momo felt frustrated that the puppet 'dies' too easily, Ingvild nodded, because her sacred gear and bloodline boost her talent with water magic to a large degree she is not yet capable of shooting micro-controlled water magic to incapacitate her targets. "How did he get these balls? It's really an amazing idea" Akeno who heard this smiled, "That is one of the equipment Master and Elizabeth neesan developed for the future schools" Sona realized Masaru was showing her many things today to make her seriously consider his deal with her.

"I hate this ball but it's too addictive!" Stephani was playing with the ball together with Reya, Shirone, however, kept hitting the low defence puppet to incapacitate it. "Nyan?" She tilts her head to the side thinking what if she attacked a human at school and used that amount of force shocking the surrounding girls [10/10: Are you trying to break my scoring board with your godlike performance!?] "Eh!? Shirone is the first one to manage to pass it?" Some of the girls surrounded Shirone to hear the condition to clear this game.

"Is your master confident to the point he would allow us to train with you?" Akeno shook her head looking at the girls laughing while training hard together, She answered Sona's question. "What you see there is what Master looks for, yes we are rivals. But before everything else we are allies, having good competition promotes growth to both sides since I am sure you know we don't want to lose to you girls and you feel the same to us" Sona sighed with a smile "So I have to give him a fight that he approves of?" Akeno smiled "Master already approve of you Sona, but what he wants is for you to show how resolved you are for your dreams. And also good opponents after all, since he too has a goal"

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"You dare steal my So-Tan, besides what is your motive?" Serafall's projection is displayed in the Kitchen while he was already doing prep work before he will start cooking, "No, I am giving her an opportunity to use my team to stimulate her team's competitiveness which is the same for my team. I also challenged her directly to show the devils how serious she is about her dream, and I need a dangerous opponent to push me harder. I know how strong my father and his team his, so I need a decent amount of pressure including my team for us to reach his level or I fear I will never be able to reach it in four hundred years..."

"Well I guess I can let this go, so why have you called me?" Masaru stopped cutting the vegetables "I need information about Kyoto and the Yokai faction, we will be going for a school trip there and I rather prepare myself with information than heading in there like a chicken without a head" Serafall looked at Masaru sternly, "What do I get out of it?" Masaru nodded "I will owe you one favour, and I will ensure Sona and her team's safety during the trip"

Serafall was a bit surprised but smiled thinking she got him to owe her one, "Very well, I accept the conditions but you can't tell So-tan!" Masaru looked at the siscon, "You don't have to worry I doubt she will be happy with me either so I rather not have that right now since I only recently got my peace at school" Serafall said her goodbyes and went off, Masaru gazed at the window for a moment before resuming to cook.

"Ma-kun we finished!" Masaru nodded at Akeno "Lead the girls to bath and get clean, dinner should be done by the time you girls are done" Sona looked at Masaru sternly, "No peeking" Masaru said nothing and continued to cook, the sight of Masaru wearing an apron cooking was quite a precious sight for the girls even Tsubasa muttered "Won't the girls at school go nuts if this kind of view becomes spread out?" Tsubaki nodded "It will but don't, we just managed to quell the situation thanks to Akeno and them reading specific books in public" Momo added "It really is effective when you want to keep a boy away, there is already a rumour among the boys saying that once they see Yaoi steer clear no matter what"

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"Delicious! What food is this?" Masaru who heard Reya's compliment began to give a short introduction of some dishes he made during his stay in South Africa in the past, "Your so lucky, you get to travel the world already!" She complained but Masaru only had a wry smile thinking those trips were actually dangerous missions, everyone was enjoying their meals and when it was time to sleep the girls went up while Masaru went to the Lounge to relax his mind for the upcoming training he had been stalling for a long long time now.

[So you are prepared?] Masaru thought for a moment, "Can you just give me a retake of the reason I am doing this?" Drago sighed thinking this boy was probably a bit edgy when the topic is about the soul because one mistake and it will not be just a simple death but a true death. [You have wondered about the fact your power is not stable (1), sometimes you output even to an Ultimate Rank but that is naturally with the grimoire the highest you can go alone will be about high-high class. The worst part is no matter how hard you train you can't increase that output limit (2) that keeps going up to Ultimate rank and down low to low High-class rank, this is excluding the restrictions placed on you to stabilize your condition] Masaru nodded,

(AN: This has been proven in the Novel that people misjudged the MC's power because of this hidden issue I have not mentioned it because I did not want to. Since topics about the Soul gets complicated enough for me to feel like I can throw up a rainbow)

[Your body is that of a pureblood Devil and your soul is a human, if you had the same soul characteristics as the first Masaru then the soul would have began mutated into a pure devil soul to be able to bring a balance. The unstable balance between your soul and body is what is preventing you from completely tapping into the power you have been training hard to gain, the worst part is the medicine Ajuka gave you is healing you but slower] 'Although I can't tell this boy that the Spellbook has been taking most of the medicinal effects for itself' [The best way is to devour the soul of the first Masaru]

"I was certain he was gone by the time I woke up" [Naturally I did not sense him until we had a battle against that Ancient creature on the aeroplane and the spellbook protected you] "The spell book hidden this from me?" [I don't know, can't say either. But the solution to your problem is that soul that has devil characteristics within it, once you devour it your soul will naturally strengthen but with the newly gained Devil Characteristic the body will start to aid the process of making your soul more compatible for the body]

Masaru calmed himself since he was already aware that the dragon can't share information about the spellbook but secrets about it keep coming up that it was unsettling, the only thing the Dragon kept telling him is that the book is on his side. But is that really the case? "How do I start the process?" [It would have worked if your sacred gear was awake it could have pulled you easily in your soul space, but luckily you have me] Masaru closed his eyes and allowed Drago whom he summoned through their link to rest over his ŀȧp. [Remember your mindset boy, if you wish to survive you have to be cruel....]'Sigh... This treatment will be able to speed up the healing progress several times, I guess this is why that woman did not attack me when we spoke about her... So she too is getting impatient huh?'

The next moment Masaru could somehow see or it functioned similar to a sight sense looking at his surroundings, on the left he saw a door decorated as black as the night sky dotted with numerous stars, on the right he saw a door decorated like a jungle theme with plants, animals but there is one particular animal that stood above them with it's back facing the west. The current room he was in was pure white with black cracked and some parts broken like a window being shattered by a ball, 'So this room must be the state of my soul huh? No wonder...'

Since it was not yet time to enter either of these two doors he began to look around but it was difficult to see far in the white room as there is mist floating higher then he reach standing on his toes as if to show him the borders of his soul space, he first went over to the jungle theme door not daring to open it but tried to see if there are any details he could glean off to what is behind it. But the feeling he felt when approaching the door was like as if he was walking towards a King, he was not certain why he gets this feeling but he remembered it very well. This was the similar feeling he gained when he first met Tiamat who suppressed him, the power came to reach out for him also had a strong dignity feeling of a king.

"Sacred Gear huh?" Masaru looked at the door gently ċȧrėssing the door, "I will come to play soon... But first I need to find the other one who is hiding here" Masaru moved over to the Dark door but if he was never observant he would have never spotted the hidden door handle on the white wall, it was so well hidden that it could pose an extremely difficult challenge to spot it from a distance. The feeling it gave him was insecurity... Helplessness, sadness, anger... But at the same time, he felt a throbbing feeling within him as if telling him to enter this door. Little did he know that in order to devour the soul, he has to experience it's pain, grief, everything it experienced will be made part of him as well.

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The next morning Yui came down the stairs not hearing Masaru who is usually up early busy prepping breakfast, she actually woke up early to help him cook breakfast but this silence was disturbing her as she walked towards the Lounge yet there is no sound other than calm breathing. When she entered the Lounge she saw the back of Masaru's head sitting upright, as she walks around she noticed his eyes were closed as if he was sleeping with his sword that he only use against strong opponents was on top of his ŀȧp.

"Masaru?" She called out but he did not respond back at all, she was about to shake him but a voice she never heard nor was familiar with scared her to the point she immediately gathered her energy to cast magic any moment, [Girl, calm down for satan's sake] Hearing the voice again she looks around vigilantly, [Girl, I am the bloody sword!] "EH!?" [Guess that is the first reaction I will get after gaining the ability to talk with others thanks to the boy's spellbook huh?] "Wha!? You're the sword?" [Yep, I am Drago the soul of the sword Deadheart]

'This is really too shocking just how many secrets does Masaru have!? But his safety comes first I can ask anything else later' "Why did you stop me from waking him up?" [Because the boy is undergoing treating for his damaged soul, I know you since you were the one to help Ajuka scan the body and his memories Ajuka tried to erase in a hurry was incomplete so you regained them haven't you] "This!?" This is was a safely guarded secret Yui decided to take to her grave, such information will only cause chaos in the peerage which is not needed that is why she never shared it before.

[Well not that it matters, right now I want you to tell the girls Masaru is undergoing a training to awaken his sacred gear. Currently, he is actually in a deep sleep to fix or should I say place a few pieces together to help his soul heal much faster otherwise not even me will know when it will be fully healed... Can you do this Yui-chan?] "Ye-yeah wait how you know my name!?" [I have been watching over you girls together with my partner Masaru ever since I have been connected to him]

'Is he a pervert? or is it because of him that Masaru is slowly becoming honest to his feelings?'

Later that day it was quite the hassle to explain the situation to the girls but after agreeing that two girls will take shift patterns to look after him while the rest train, even Sona decided to stay for another night as she too felt a bit worried about Masaru.

Meanwhile in the soul scape of Masaru, within the room of the dark starry sky door, the woman was looking over Masaru who was shocked and standing still looking in front of him, the woman's feelings want to move yet her reasoning is holding her back. She who is known yet remains unseen is currently experiencing a feeling of a mother, yet her existence compels her to stay back for the sake of her continued existence the boy's growth is required... And for the boy's survival, she needs to stay back

"Please don't get swallowed up instead of Masaru... This is after all a battle for survival and the end will determine which soul will be the King and which will be the subject, for you to heal your soul faster you need to win and consume the subject."