Ficticious Chaos

Side Story: Vacation, Part 1

Added 2025-12-17 19:09:22 +0000 UTC

Apparently, for all their hard work and training (torture, Issei translated in his head, it was pure torture) Buchou and Kaichou's peerages were being given an afternoon's worth of vacation. How generous. So here they were, spirited away to that Satan guy's giant country in the sky while his super sexy secretary - Issei was so jealous - led them through the winding corridors so that they could first pay their respect to the Lord of the Citadel.

But Issei could start to feel an uncomfortable itch in his chest growing stronger and stronger.

Ddraig had told him that all Devils were naturally subservient to the Crown Princes of Hell because, apparently, that's how they were first made way back in the day. Luckily Ddraig kept the feeling from getting too strong, but the rest of his friends weren't so lucky. They were visibly getting nervous and uncomfortable as Satan's presence grew closer.

Eventually, Miss Meril opened a pair of large doors and led them into one of the coolest looking gaming rooms Isei had ever seen! There were arcade booths, a pool table, pingpong tables, even a model of Gamecryst Issei had never seen before! And on the other side of the room, there was bar with a strange reptilian looking bartender polishing glasses. There was even a buffet with all sorts of different kids of food on the counter!

This Satan guy must have stolen a piece of Heaven!

However, everyone's attention quickly fell on a small table where sat the reigning Demon in question, and Buchou's older brother.

"Lord Sirzechs?" Kaichou asked in surprise.

"Onii- Lord Brother?" Buchou said just a beat later.

The red haired Devil King smiled at them and - seriously, Issei found it creepy just how identical he looked to Buchou. If the Devil wore a dress, Issei would think him an older, more mature Buchou! Heh, a milf Buchou... that would be so amazing.

Pay attention.

Issei startled at the sudden ancient growl in mind. Oops, sorry Ddraig.

Lord Sirzechs waved them over with a big smile. "Ria-tan! Little Sona! How lovely for you and your peerages to join us!"

"What are you doing here?" Buchou asked, confusion coloring her voice.

Lord Sirzechs winked at her. "Oh, I'm not really here. This is just an avatar - I had some quick business to discuss with Ichigo."

"Business?" Kaichou repeated doubtfully.

And as Issei followed her gaze to the table the Crown Princes were sitting at, his jaw fell in disbelief. Two of the most powerful Demons in the universe were playing... Yu-Gi-Oh?

And as if to accent the ridiculousness of what he was seeing, Lord Ichigo said, "And I banish three to..." he trailed off as he brought out some dragon looking monster.

Buchou's brother leaned forward, his eyes widening, but then his expression quickly morphed outraged. "Are you kidding me!? Protos?! Bad enough you're playing a Swordsoul-Tenyi engine, but you're going to Protos me too, you floodgating brat!?"

Lord Ichigo just scoffed. "Who told you to play a dogshit deck like Burning Abyss?"

"It's on theme! I'm the Devil, of course I'm going to play a Dante's Inferno inspired deck!"

Lord Ichigo replied incredulously, "And a deck named Swordsoul that has a bunch of dragons isn't on theme for me? I'm literally sleeping with one. Speaking of which," and he turned towards the sexy secretary, "Meril, can you make sure the gardens are cleared out? Tiamat went hunting and she's bound to bring back her kill soon."

As the beautiful woman gave a light bow, and Issei may or may not have sneaked a look at how her skirt tightened over her backside as she did so, she said, "At once, my Prince." And with that she turned around and left.

Lord Ichigo tapped his dragon looking card and said, "I call dark... which basically shuts down your entire deck."

"Fuck!" Lord Sirzechs threw his hands in the air, but after a moment, he let out a sigh. "Well, that was a nice distraction. And it was good seeing you as well, baby sister and little Sona! Alas, I must be off! Anyways, thanks for handling that business with Paimon for me, Ichigo." At Lord Ichigo's nod, Lord Sirzechs then gave a small wave. "Ta-ta!"

And the Devil disappeared.

Lord Ichigo then turned towards all of them and said, "As for you lot, I think I promised a reward for all your hard work?"

They all nodded eagerly and Issei's eyes immediately went towards the glowing, magical virtual reality simulator. Lord Ichigo must have noticed his gaze because he commented, "That's a prototype, you know?"

Issei blinked, he didn't expect to be addressed directly. "I'm sorry?"

"Ajuka hasn't released that model yet," the Demon said as he crossed his arms and cast an appreciative glance at the floating magical cube with a purplish glow. "He got inspired by 4X strategy games. Particularly, sci-fi ones. This Gamecryst prototype can generate an entire galaxy. Hundreds of billions of stars, millions of explorable habitable planet, unique flora and fauna, and trillions of NPCs - each with their own unique dialogue that evolve in real-time in response to the events of the galaxy and player choices. A fully simulated virtual reality on a galactic scale."

Issei was practically drooling.

"That sounds amazing," Kaichou said, her eyes wide in amazement.

Lord Ichigo nodded. "Yeah, Ajuka comes up with some wild stuff in those labs of his. Anyways, none of that has anything to do with you guys."

Issei froze... wait, what?

"I can't play with the new Gamecryst...?" He mumbled weakly.

"No, of course not," Lord Ichigo said as he looked a touch surrpised. "Oh, I'm sorry, did you all think that you'd be having your free time in my personal arcade?"

And it was in way the bastard said it that made Issei realize they had all been baited. Gah!

Satan smirked. "No, I've arranged for all of you to spend some quality time in Kelbek."

"Uhh, Kelbek?" Buchou asked nervously.

The Demon stood up to his full height and stretched his neck, an amused glint in his eye that made Issei very, very nervous. "Kelbek is an oasis city in the far east of Infernity - it's primarily a mining settlement, but it does have some tourism. Anyways, you guys will be going there to help out on a friend's worm ranch."

"A worm ranch?" Kaichou asked with some degree of confusion.

"Yeah, she raises a bunch of Titan Sand Worms; you all will be helping her as ranch hands for the day."

Akeno-san looked down right heartbroken. "But-but... our vacation?"

The bastard of a Satan gave her the fakest sympathetic look Issei had ever seen. "Brand new place, brand new people, brand new experiences; that's a whole vacation in of itself, no?"

No, absolutely not! A vacation was about rest and relaxation and having fun! Not playing with worms in the dirt! ...but Issei didn't have the guts to complain to the literal embodiment of anger so he simply pushed down his own feelings of growing resentment.

"By the way," Lord Ichigo suddenly looked very serious, "and this one is for the boys, but Kelbek is home to a large population of Anglidae, it's even goverened by one." He must have seen the question in their eyes because he quickly added. "Anglidea are a species of all-female humanoid mantises that were created by the original Sin of Lust several thousand years ago. As such, they're all hyper aggressive when it comes to sex and, if you even give them the slightest hint of positive reciprocation to their advances, they will one hundred percent sleep with you."

Issei perked up. Okay, maybe this wasn't so bad after all? After all, roping a few giant worms to get some fun time with a bunch of sexy monster girls made by the literal Sin of Lust sounded fair to him! Praise be to Kaichou's big sister!

Lord Ichigo's eyes fell squarely on him and his mouth twisted wryly. "They will also one hundred percent cannibalize you post-coitus."

Feeeeeeeck!

Shaking his head, Lord Ichigo said, "Have fun." And he then waved his hands and Issei felt the world tilt upside down and all the colors in his eyes swirled mad. And the next thing he knew, Issei landed face first onto scorching hot sand.

"Gah!" He immediately shot up and spat out the sand from his mouth. And he wasn't the only one either, everyone let out curses as they brushed off the coarse grains from themselves. s he continued to spit out remnant grains angrily while cursing out the orange-haired Demon in his head, Issei turned towards Saji who suddenly made a choked sound.

"Uhh...guys?"

About to ask his fellow Pawn what, Issei followed Saji's gaze and all the color drained from his face.

Sand dunes.

A seemingly endless expanse of sand dunes. They had been teleported to the middle of a desert, without any sort of markers or signs of civilization as far as the eye could see. They were basically stranded...

Man, Satan is such a dick!