Chapter 40 - Friend

Tatsuya stared at Ophis for a while and then said, "What?". Ophis who heard him stood still and said, "Kill baka-red for me."

Tatsuya looked at her with a deadpan expression for a while and then turned to the other and said, "what does she mean by that?" Though Tatsuya knew about what she was talking about he pretended that he didn't knew about it.

Ophis was about to say what she said earlier but before she could Tatsuya took a block of chocolate and fed it to her. Ophis simply ate the chocolate that Tatsuya gave her and didn't said anything.

The others who saw that had a sweat drop and were thinking how easily Tatsuya was able to tame the dragon god.

After a while Arthur gave a fake cough and said, "What lady Ophis means to convey is that she wants you to help her in defeating Great red, the true dragon or the dragon of dreams. That is also the soul purpose of her in forming the group KHAOS BRIGADE."

Tatsuya looked at them blankly for a while and then looked at Ophis and said, "why do you want to defeat great red?"

Ophis looked back at him and said, "he took my silence away and I want it back."

Hearing her answer Tatsuya gave an annoyed sigh and then looked at the others. As if getting what he was asking Arthur adjusted his glasses and said, "You see Ophis used to live in the dimensional gap but one day great red also arrived in the gap and started living there. Though at first she didn't minded it but as the years passed by she started to get annoyed by the the dragon and now wants to move her away from her home."

Tatsuya nodded in understanding and said, "Though I understand your reason for your request but I humbly decline it." He then looked back at Ophis with an apologetic expression and patted her head and said, "Sorry"

Though Ophis was enjoying the petting she looked at Tatsuya and tilted her head and asked, "why?". Tatsuya who saw her tilt her head thought 'cute' but soon shook his thoughts away.

He crouched down to her level and said, "you see I am not interested in fighting that much I just want to enjoy my life and joining you will not give me that."

Ophis stared at him and asked, "even though you can get a lot of power from me?" Tatsuya nodded and said, "yes, even though you can give me a lot of power(which I can easily create with skill creation) I will still not join you."

After listening to his answer Ophis looked blankly at him for a while but was brought out of her stupor when Tatsuya took another block of chocolate and placed it on her mouth and said, "Though we can still be friends right?"

Ophis unconsciously took the chocolate and then asked, "friend?" Tatsuya nodded his head and said, "yes friend, afterall it is better to be on each others good side, or is it that you don't want to meet me again."

Ophis shook her head and asked, "will you give me more of that(while pointing at the chocolate) if we became friends."

Hearing him Tatsuya and the others(except Vali) started laughing. After controling his laughter a bit later. Tatsuya looked at Ophis and said, "Of course I would give you lots of chocolates. So friends." and moved his hand forward.

Ophis took his hand and shook it and said, "Friends." Tatsuya shook her hand for a while and then stood up and said, "Well I think it's very late, I should be heading home now."

Tatsuya turned around to leave but suddenly he felt someone tugging his shirt from behind. Tatsuya turned around and saw Ophis tugging it and asked, "what happened."

Ophis still in her emotionless tone asked, "you leaving." Tatsuya gave a small smile and patted her head and said, "sorry I have to go now, but we can meet each other later afterall we are friends and whenever you want to meet me just ask Kuroka and she will bring you with her." Ophis nodded and let go of his shirt.

Tatsuya again turned around to leave but was again stopped, this time by Vali. "Hey wait before you go how about we have a spar I also want to see whether you are as strong as Kuroka tells you are or not."

Tatsuya gave a tired sigh and said, "Look I am very tired today and I am not in the mood to fight so just leave alright."

Hearing him Vali snorted and said, "you cannot be that tired, those devils you just fought must only be small fries seeing that even your clothe are completely clean."

Tatsuya looked back at him with a neutral look and said, "You didn't hear my conversation with Ophis I guess. Didn't you hear I am not interested in fighting. I even rejected the chance to fight the great red, so what makes you think that I will agree to fighting you."

Vali got a bit angry and then gave an evil smile and said, "if you only require motivation to fight me how about I kill your fam-"

Just as he was about to say anything further he was thrown away by an invisible force at an insane speed and he crashed through ten walls turning them into ruble in the process.

His teammates were vey shocked on seeing that even Ophis was a bit surprised by it. They all looked back at Tatsuya whose hand was aimed in Vali's direction.

Tatsuya looked coldly in Vali's direction and asked in a cold voice, "I didn't quite hear you wanna say it again."