Chapter 9: The Angry Banshee

                                    

                                          
A/N: Eris is one of the best girls, you can't convince me otherwise!
I sighed as I was dragged to sit next to Ghislaine upon her request while my brother slept. "What do you wish to talk about, Ghislaine?" I asked, glancing over at her.
She smirked down at me, "I'm simply curious. You-" She pressed a finger to my shoulder, "-seem to be gifted with abnormal physical prowess. Even without refining your body with Battle Aura, you still possess enough physical might to overwhelm an Advanced swordmaster. That is simply unheard of. So what happened?" 
I shrugged, "I was born without magic and the ability to use it. In exchange for the likely massive amount of mana I would've had based on my brother, I was instead given something called the Heavenly Restriction of the Body. In other words, in exchange for not possessing any mana whatsoever when the rest of this world does, I was given a supernaturally powerful body that grows in power with each second until I've reached adulthood." I stated. I smirked at her, "Enough so to contend with those at the Sword Saint level without any form of Battle Aura augmenting me." I declared.
Ghislaine's lone visible eye widened. She lifted her eyepatch and scanned me. She gasped, "You really don't have any mana..." She set her eyepatch back over her eye and regarded me. Then she blinked as if she remembered something, "Don't you also have some kind of new energy that you use too?" 
I sighed, Damn it. Oh well... it wasn't something I really hid. "Yeah. It's called Cursed Energy and it's what I use to create a faux version of Battle Aura for myself. It's also what allows me to summon a Cursed Spirit creature named Rika who can aid me in battle." I explained.
If she asks me to tell her anything else, I'm just going to steer the conversation elsewhere. I'm only revealing what I've already revealed in front of my family. I thought.
Ghislaine sighed, "I don't really understand, but I get that you use that... energy of yours to create a version of Battle Aura with it." She said.
I looked up at her with slight annoyance. Lady, I just told you what the energy was called, though? I can understand you not understanding my saying with Rika, since you were never the smartest person around, but god damn. I thought before internally shaking my head, Nah, I could still use it to my advantage. The less that people know about my abilities, the better.
Knowledge is power and it can be a very deadly one in the right hands. If I just spammed all of my abilities then it would put a target on my back. Not only that, but my enemies would know how to deal with all of them once they found out all I could do. Most people don't tend to think about that though. 
I'm an anomaly of the greatest magnitude in this world. I'm a reincarnator, like my brother. Unlike him, I possess zero magic or mana within me, when it permeates this entire world. Not only that, but I have access to two types of energy never seen or used before in this world. Cursed Energy and Reverse Cursed Energy. Not only that, but my abilities are... less than orthodox, so to speak. 
If someone found out all that I was capable of, I would put a lot of attention on me. A lot of attention I was trying to avoid right now, especially since I had plans to become the King of the Central Continent, starting with the Asura Kingdom, which now held my Second-in-Command as their ruler.
I sighed internally as I was actually kind of relieved for Ghislaine's idiocy. Hm... that's something that Eris shares with her, isn't it? That's the whole reason why I even have the job, isn't it. I thought, This will be an annoyingly long ride to the Kingdom.
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I sighed as I sat down on a decently comfortable sofa. My brother, Rudeus Greyrat, sat next to me on my left. I glanced over at the maids in the room. They're all therianthropes. Or, in other words, beastmen. Or beastwomen in this case since they're all female. I realized. I quirked my brow. They seem to be lightly dressed with... interesting... undergarments. Seems the reports on the Asura nobles and lords being mostly perverts was an understatement. Based on all the beastwomen here, this particular lord must have a thing for them. I deduced all in the matter of less than a microsecond.