A couple of months later, after Rika entered the relationship with Zeno, Zeno decided to fix Rika's unfortunate unemployed status and granted her the position of his bodyguard/secretary. But it was just a job for show without much actual work involved since Zeno's actual job of reviewing reports has already been automated thanks to his Shadow Clones and AI, who do most of his work for him.
At first, Rika felt dissatisfied with the arrangement—she'd always been a woman of action who thrived on adrenaline and clear purpose. Sitting around in an office or following Zeno around felt like a waste of time, a gilded cage in the midst of a world still suffering from a zombie apocalypse. She wants to be out there slaying undead and bandits with the Freedom Guards, damn it!
Yet, as the days blurred into weeks, something shifted. The boring duties suddenly morphed into frequent "intimate sessions," as her new job allows her to spend most of her time alone with Zeno in "various ways."
It started innocently enough: random dates here and there and some Q&A of Rika's curiosity towards him, where Zeno revealed bits and pieces about himself. Then, before she knew it, Rika was already looking forward to being bent over by him or just to bruising her knees for him at any time, even if he didn't explicitly tell her to.
Zeno, with his enigmatic charm and inexhaustible sex drive, easily corrupts her body into his little obedient kitten. Rika was mortified by how easy he made her body crave him, but she can't really do anything about it, and it feels really damn good, so… yeah...
"Damn you, Zeno, you made me like this...!"
Rika cried out with a flushed face as he bent her over his desk with her butt bare for him to use as he pleased.
"You're mine now, so of course I'll take good care of you~."
What followed was a whirlwind of passion that filled Rika's schedule with multiple hot sessions every day as she experienced the full sexy secretary and handsome CEO scenario that she had watched before in the spicy R rated series with Shizuka in the past. The sexual power dynamic really hooked her—the way Zeno oppressed her and domineeringly made love to her caused Rika to change her mind right quick and embrace her job fully, her initial dissatisfaction evaporating like burning gasoline in the sun.
"Waah~ so lewd~"
Shizuka, who was observing them, was glad that the two of them were "getting along" so well; from behind the door gap she was peeking through, she saw the two of them going at it rather wildly with a blush on her cheeks. She is really glad that Rika became Zeno's lover just like her so she can have a trusty alliance when she eventually meets with the other lovers of his when the time comes. She is secretly still a bit afraid of being bullied by Zeno's harem, so the presence of Rika is making her feel more reassured to face them without showing weakness.
÷×÷×÷
As time passed, so did the influence of the FDC, which grew around the globe at an alarming speed. What began as a sole city-state in Japan had ballooned into a great network of cities spanning across continents. A city-state with a towering wall, like in feudal times, dotted every region and country, rising from the ruins of old metropolises.
In North America, the CSLs sprawled across the west coast, their walls welcoming hundreds of survivors daily, and in Europe, a great extermination is underway against the great undead hordes in central Europe as faint explosions could be heard in the distance day in and day out. Even in the harsh deserts of the Middle East and the frozen tundras of Siberia, FDC outposts were already established in preparation for the construction of the CSLs.
The city-states of Liberty accepted many survivors and refugees as citizens, offering not just shelter but a semblance of normalcy—schools for children, jobs for adults, and even free internet to connect once more with the other citizens of Liberty worldwide. These cities not only served as a safe haven for the survivors but also as bases for zombie and hostile extermination forces, which the extermination missions was carried out in a systematic manner by the Freedom Guards, some brave volunteers, and citizens who took up the mantle as exterminators.
Such missions were usually carried out by first utilizing the spy drones to scout ahead before the helicopters cleared up the fortification or large horde of zombies, while ground troops were then deployed later with heavy weapons to clean up the stragglers with advanced technology and superior firepower.
The FDC usually only carried out extermination missions within a 100-kilometer radius of the cities, as there was no need to do more than that unless there was a great horde nearby. Beyond those perimeters, nature quickly reclaimed their space back without human intervention as plants grew freely and wild animals started to thrive once more.
To draw in the living people, the FDC broadcast their presence through radio waves 24/7 with an enthusiastic radio host voice that was being translated into the specific region's native language around the world.
"This is Freedom Radio host. Safe havens await in FDC cities! There's enough space for everyone! There's free food, there's clean water, and there's internet! What are you waiting for?! Coordinates follow…"
Thousands heeded the call, caravans of desperate souls trudging toward the light of hope, braving the danger of zombies and raiders for the promise of safety.
While the influence of the FDC grew unimpeded, so did other small factions that formed from the survivors or the remnants of the government and military who refused to come under FDC rule around the globe. Scattered pockets of independence communities with various names clung to their power and independence. They preached autonomy, decrying Zeno's generosity as a new tyranny masked in benevolence.
"We won't bow to some random self-proclaimed savior!"
One such faction leader broadcasted defiantly before his community soon got overrun by zombies because of internal conflict, which amused Zeno for a while.
Yet, there was no major conflict happening yet, as the difference in power between them and the FDC was too obvious. FDC's arsenal was just too terrifying, and so was their surveillance system that was almost omniscient, which ensured every malicious action of the people in their territories was observed and quickly dealt with. Lastly, there was Zeno, who was the main driving force of the FDC, as he could create more than ten thousand superhuman soldiers and unlimited resources daily to ensure the FDC expansion remained at a peak speed.
So from the other factions' perspective, this super faction is like an unstoppable natural disaster that you can only avoid or inevitably get swept away by…
And to no one's surprise, the other factions did steer clear of FDC presence while trying to grow their communities, but unfortunately with little success.
Why? Because the FDC offered a more stable and safe place to live. Clean water, abundant food, medical care, and most importantly, no tax or harsh demand. Survivors, upon learning of it, rarely stayed with the ragtag groups for long.
"Why scrape by in the dirt when paradise is open to all?"
That is what most people would think, and this is also the number one cause of some factions crumbling.
Zeno understands the sentiment of the skeptical people, as FDC does indeed sound too good to be true, but sometimes reality is just strange like that. It's the survivor game about luck at this point.
Zeno then decided to leave the other factions alone to their antics for the time being since he doubted they would last forever. With how many ways anything could go wrong for them—zombies breaching their places, internal conflicts over personal relations, lack of resources leading to starvation, and raiders preying on the vulnerable—it wasn't looking good for them, to be honest.
It's really a game of luck, Zeno thought with the air of a smug asshole in the comfort of his office.
Right now, everything was stable, and there was no need for Zeno to oversee anything personally anymore. The FDC is fully autonomous organization and can operate without him. So, he was thinking that it's about time he went back to the DxD universe, his home world. Nostalgia tugged at him—the girls, his new family in this life, are waiting for him back at DxD.
"Well, it's not even past 24 hours for them though…"
Zeno chuckled while thinking about them warmly with a smile on his face.
And by the way, the dimension gate was also already finished constructing on the offshore base off Tokonosu shores and ready to open anytime with his order.
"Well, there's one more thing that I have to do before going home…"
Zeno muttered as he turned to look at the three girls, Shizuka, Rika, and White Dream, as they sat together on the couch while watching the first movie that was filmed after the apocalypse that was just being aired today on the hologram screen.
÷×÷×÷
Some time later on the moon of HOTD earth.
"It's really pretty up here, huh?"
Zeno muttered as he looked at the blue planet in space through the window inside the moon base, which was recently just finished being constructed and is now operating at full capacity.
The base was a marvel: a large white domed habitats burrowed into craters with artificial gravity generators installed. Behind Zeno, many Shadow Clones in white space bodysuits could be seen moving around the place as they currently moved in the furniture and all manner of machines from the main teleport point.
"It's so beautiful~!"
Not far away, Shizuka exclaimed, pressing her body against the reinforced glass, her eyes sparkling like the stars beyond the solar system. The earth in the distance was a big ball of blues, greens, and clouds veiling continents as she admired her home planet.
"That's right…"
Rika murmured in awe, standing beside her "pole sister"—a nickname she grew to tolerate but was still annoyed by. Rika's expression softened, her hand absently touching the window as if to caress the distant world while feeling how small she truly is in the universe.
Today Zeno finally brought them to the moon as he promised after Shizuka, who waited patiently for months, discovered that he'd forgotten about it, so she did a sensible thing and made sure to complain a lot about it, and she kept complaining about it some more until Zeno finally brought her and Rika to the moon.
As they stood there, Zeno wrapped an arm around each of the women's shoulders, pulling them close to him as they relaxed and leaned against his body while they watching the slow spinning earth together.
"There's something I need to tell you two..."
After a minute of pleasant silence, Zeno began to speak in a measured tone. Shizuka and Rika turned to him, their expressions shifting from relaxing to curious. They see his icy blue eyes staring out of the window past the planet to something far, far away.
"I'm going to leave this world."
He said, the words hanging in the air, which confused the two women a bit before he clarified what he meant exactly.
"I am going back to my home universe."
Which... doesn't really clarify anything to the two women in his arms.
"Eh...? Are you an alien?"
Shizuka blurted out, her eyes wide with shock and excitement. She leaned closer, poking Zeno's cheek as if testing if his flesh was actually fake.
"Is that why you're so strong? Do you have tentacles? Oh! Or maybe you're from a planet where everyone has antennae on their head?!"
She asked him a series of questions with an excited expression, while Rika just rolled her eyes at her silly questions.
"Technically... you can call me an alien, but I am not exactly that kind of alien..."
Zeno chuckled as Shizuka's fingers explored his face with childlike curiosity, trying to pull his human skin mask off or something. Rika remained silent beside him, her mind racing as she tried to process the revelation. The implications were not so surprising—his superhuman physique, the ridiculously advanced technology. It all clicked into place, and the more she thinks about it, the more she is convinced of her forming hypothesis.
"Are you a time traveler...?"
Rika finally spoke as she stared at Zeno with narrowed eyes. She didn't pull away from his embrace; her heart and body are already with him, so the revelation didn't shock her or make her wary as much as it should have—after months of witnessing his reality-defying abilities and feats, this felt like the final puzzle piece snapping into place.
"It all makes sense…"
Her gaze flickered to the distant Earth, then back to him.
"That large gate-like structure... it wasn't just for show, was it?"
"Yes, and I'm a dimension traveler, to be exact."
Zeno said, finally revealing his identity to the two women, his hands caressing the two women's hips gently.
"That gate? It's a dimension door that will open a path to my home, a world filled with dragons, gods, angels, devils, and all kinds of supernatural species that are hidden from the mundane."
"Really~?!"
Shizuka's initial disappointment that Zeno is not an actual alien vanished instantly as her eyes widened from the renewed excitement, her mind spinning with images of winged beings and giant fire-breathing lizards.
"Angels? Like... with halos and fluffy wings? And devils with bat wings and pointy horns and tails~?"
She bounced on her toes as she once again kept asking questions in a burst of childlike fascination.
"Does your world have Yokai as well? Can I meet them? Are they nice or scary? Do they have cities too? Is it like a fantasy world?!"
Zeno smirked at the excited dizzy blonde before deciding to show off to his two lovers as two pairs of large black feather wings burst from his back and enveloped both women in a blanket of obsidian silk. Shizuka squealed as the impossibly soft feathers brushed her cheeks, while Rika stiffened instinctively—her combat reflexes reacted to the sudden movement before she melted into the feathers' embrace.
After Zeno broke through to the heavenly dragon class, his fallen angel wings also underwent the evolution as they merged into just two pairs of wings that were larger and much stronger than the normal wings of the angel kind.
"I guess you two don't have any problem leaving this world with me, huh?"
Zeno's voice caressed the two women's ears as his wings playfully moved around them, while the two women were quite fascinated with the fact that their boyfriend had had wings hidden on his back all this time.
"Yes~!"
"I don't mind."
The two women answer in unison to him with a smile. It's not like they have any reason to stay here in this world without Zeno.
"We'll finally be able to meet your adorable daughter too, right~?"
Shizuka's voice trembled with excitement as she pressed her entire body against Zeno's chest, her fingers tangling in the black feathers of his wings. She might not be looking forward to meeting the other girls of his, but his cute daughter is an exception!
"I've been practicing things! I can braid her hair! And tell her bedtime stories! And bake cookies for her without burning them... mostly!"
"Yeah, Zia will definitely appreciate that."
Zeno said with a chuckle, his arms and wings tightening around them in an embrace. His lips brushed Shizuka's temple, then turned to kiss Rika's cheek, making the two women smile.
"Let's go home..."
Zeno whispered as his two lovers nodded their heads in agreement while they anticipated the future to come…