The pawn had no time to react as he saw Keisuke charging down on him with one of the spears piercing through the torso. Keisuke pulled out his spear and began walking away from the dying pawn.

"Before I die…" he heard the pawn whisper. "…I'm going to take you with me." He held out his left arm and shot a fireball from his palm.

On instinct, Keisuke rolled away from the attack. He heard a sudden scream. He then turned around and saw that the fireball was making its way towards Saya who stood there in shock.

"Saya!" Keisuke shouted. Damn it, what was she doing here? He needed to get to her now!

Saya instinctively tried to protect herself, but she knew that would be futile. She thought of one thing, 'Someone help me!' A flash of light shone between Saya and the fireball. The fireball itself was engulfed in the light.

Everyone was surprised when they saw the light dying out. Pink sakura petals that were glowing were flying around her protectively. The sakura petals absorbed the fireball, leaving Saya unscathed.

"No way…" Keisuke gasped. He wasn't the only one surprised, everyone in his team including Sylvia were surprised.

Serena's eyes went wide. "She has a Sacred Gear?" How did she not realize this?

Saya opened her eyes and gasped too. "What is this?" she asked out loud, hoping for something that can made sense to her but before anyone could say anything, she felt a blow in her stomach. She lost consciousness.

"Saya!" Keisuke cried.

Souta held her under his arm. "I'm honestly surprised, to think that this girl possesses a Sacred Gear."

Keisuke was pissed, "You bastard, give her back! She has nothing to do with this!" He roared.

"We will be using her as a little insurance." Souta countered. "Plus this girl is a Sacred Gear user, she'll be bound to cross paths with us sooner or later. No use in trying to delay the inevitable."

Zhang Yue jumped beside Souta. "We're wasting time here. Let us retreat, everyone!" Zhang Yue ordered.

"Then let us meet in the abandoned church on the edge of town for our final battle at 12 midnight!" Souta announced.

-x-x-

Life 4: Black and White.

-x-x-

A short silence overlapped the halted battle.

A declaration to end this pointless battle, a chance to finish this, in spite of this Keisuke roared. "If that's what you want! Then let her go! Let Saya go!"

"That's right! If you really want to end this, then why take someone who has nothing to do with this?!" Sylvia added. She was pissed.

"What pointless arguments! As I had said before she is just our insurance for a clear passage out of this fight." Souta answered, his temper rising at the constant annoyance of this group.

Keisuke was now vivid as he began stepping forward. "Why you! When I get my hands on you I'm going tear you limbs one by- OW!" He grabbed his wounded shoulder before he looked to see who punched him. "Hey! Don't interrupt me when I'm making a threat."

Sanosuke sighed before he said. "Right now, we can't do anything as long as they have her in their grasp."

"That's why we're going to save her right now-OW!" Sanouske had just punched his wounded shoulder again. "Will you stop doing that!?"

"Then calm down! Have you considered the possibility of the dangers you're going to put her through if you continue to act like this!?" He then looked to Sylvia who was acting the same as Keisuke and shook his head, signaling her to not do the same. He turned to Serena who nodded, agreeing to what Sanosuke had said.

"We'll let you go for now." Serena said. Keisuke was surprised by his master's decision.

"Then we shall go" Souta nodded. "Oh, we only want the swordsman and the king to come." He added.

"Fine! But!" Sanosuke added. "If you hurt her…you're going to wish you had died right now. And I keep my promises."

Zhang Yue smirked, "I'm sure you do, tough guy."

"I will see you at the appointed time." Souta stated before a large magic circle teleported the Stray devils and Saya away.

"Serena-sama! Are we just going to let them go?" Keisuke aggressively asked his master.

Serena looked to Keisuke with a stern look on her face. "Keisuke-kun, please calm down."

"How can I-" She slapped him in the face.

"You're getting way to emotional!" Serena scolded. "I know that Nanase-san is your friend but she is also our friend, we're just as worried about her as you too!"

"Then…we need to plan our next attack." Sanosuke looked to the group.

-x-x-

Valshion sighed as she waited in the house alone. After Sylvia ran after Sanosuke, she basically finished the washing up and sat in the living drinking tea.

"Hey I didn't know you guys would be back so early." Valshion said before she noticed that Sanosuke and Sylvia weren't alone as they had six people behind them, three of them she already saw earlier today. "And you brought company." She added.

Sylvia bowed apologetically. "Sorry Valshion-obasan! We have a big problem and we are just trying to figure it out."

Valshion was surprised by the sudden events. "Oh…um…Then please come in and explain the situation to me."

Serena stepped forward. "Hello there, my name is Serena of the House of Asmoday and thank you for your hospitality." Serena bowed.

After explaining the situation to Valshion, the group managed to discussed a way for them to save Saya.

"And that's that," Serena concluded the discussion. "Are there any objections?" Serena asked around.

Sanosuke turned to Sylvia. "Sylvia, I think it should be better for you to stay here," Sanosuke said. He had hoped that Sylvia wouldn't be involved in this.

Sylvia however was rebellious to this. "Yeah right, I'm not going to let you guys do this alone. I part of this as much as the others are! Besides, they've taken my friend too, you know!"

Sanosuke was taken back by this reaction; honestly he had hoped that she didn't take part in this fight what so ever but he can't deny her request then.

"Fine, but you would have to do this under my terms." Sanosuke said sternly.

Valshion thought it was time for her to speak. "Then let me join you."

This time the whole group, minus Valshion, were surprised.

"Are you sure?" Sylvia asked.

Valshion nodded. "If I'm there with you, then the chances of saving the girl would be higher. Plus they seem to be a handful for you so let an adult help you!" Valshion winked and gave a thumbs up.

"Now she says she an adult…" Sanosuke said under breath.

-x-x-

Kaoru and Keisuke were left in the kitchen after the meeting. Everyone else was busy with preparations for the upcoming battle. Christie was drinking tea in the living room, Xarin was meditating inside the dojo, Sylvia was with Valshion as the two were busy with fixing up Sylvia's sword, and Serena had gone looking for Sanosuke who seemed to be practicing something, leaving Kaoru busy with healing Keisuke for the upcoming battle.

As she continued to heal Keisuke, she noticed how quiet the silver haired Pawn was. "What's on your mind, kouhai-kun?" Kaoru asked but he was still quiet. "Keisuke-kun?" she asked again, this time he reacted to ther call.

"What is it, Kaoru-buchou?" he asked.

Kaoru sighed. She could only guess that sometimes boys have selective hearing. "I was just asking what was on your mind, that's all."

"Oh," Keisuke replied before he added. "I was just wondering if what Serena-sama is doing right now is right?"

"You're still worried about your friend, Saya Nanase?" Keisuke nodded. Kaoru stopped healing Keisuke. When Keisuke turned to Kaoru, she placed a hand on his head and patted it. Keisuke couldn't help but blush. "I guess since you've joined the Peerage the latest, you don't really understand Serena-san yet." Kaoru said, smiling. "Serena-san, is a woman who wants to do the right thing when possible and for her that is protecting those she cares for and the things important to her. That's why, she slapped you, to show you that she cared."

Keisuke kept quiet because he knew it was true. She was doing all she can to protect them as she continued to lead them. It was as she said to him when they first met. 'I will seal your sadness away.'

"I'm sure it's the same for Kiriya-kun. He may not show, I'm sure that he would try and work out the best way without losing anyone." Kaoru added.

Its true, or else he wouldn't have asked for an alliance. Keisuke smiled. Kaoru always seemed to know how to cheer people up. Keisuke stood up from his seat and turned to Kaoru. He pointed his fist at Kaoru.

"Then, let's save Saya!"

-x-x-

Sanosuke stood outside, holding a normal black bow in his hand and pulled back the arrow locked in its string. He aimed the bow and arrow at a straw target in front of him.

Its only just another hour to the promised time, would their plan work? Surely enough there will be traps laid out for them but could they defeat them and save Keisuke's friend?

He directed his light energy into the arrow, hoping that this would work. When he thought it was enough, he released the string sending the charged arrow at the target. But the energy build into the arrow was too much and it broke apart before it could hit the target.

He sighed, he had hoped that didn't happen. To have a strong effect without putting too much would be hard to do.

"I was wondering where you might be and here you are pretending to be Robin Hood." He heard, he turned around to see Serena smiling at him.

"I guess you're right." Sanosuke laughed slightly. "I just have a lot on my mind." He pulled out another arrow from the quiver beside him. He loaded the arrow on to his bow and took aim, building up energy into it.

Serena shifted her focus between the arrow and the straw target. "So, what are you doing?"

"I'm trying to see if I can build up my light energy into the arrow." He fired and as luck would have it, it broke apart again. He sighed again before he looked at Serena. "I'll end it here for now." He went to put the bow down and sat on the wooden floor of the corridor behind him.

"You don't mind if I sit here?" She asked.

"Its not like I will say no." Sanosuke answered.

She sat down. "I've been wondering. Although you are a Fallen Angel, I've never seen you create light based weapons. In the previous battle, I saw you create two swords and here you are using a real bow and arrow instead of a bow of light."

Sanosuke took a deep breath before he stood up, staring into the full moon above his head. "Its because I cannot generate light weapons, its always been like that. It may be because I'm a half-Fallen Angel." He spread his only wing and looked at his right hand with a single swing he had summoned a single edge wing like sword to his side. "But If it's a sacrifice for a Sacred Gear like the Blade Blacksmith, then it's a worth-while sacrifice." He turned around smirking. He then folded his wing back and the sword disappeared "But more importantly, how's Keisuke?" Sanosuke asked, wondering how the silver haired pawn was doing.

"He calmed down for now, along with Sylvia-san. Kaoru-san is trying to make sure they both don't go mad yet." Serena answered, slightly surprised by the question about her pawn. "Why the interest in my subordinate?"

Sanosuke sat down, "The guy has a lot of heart. He's a nice guy, but he's too passionate. We need every bit of cool-heads we can get."

"You know after this whole business with the stray Peerage is over, are you going to stay here?" Serena asked.

Sanosuke looked down to the ground. "Yeah. I moved back here to live with Valshion. Of course, I still have some jobs coming in and out from here to there, but for most of it I'll be here." He answered.

"So that means you're not going anywhere…" Serena whispered herself.

"Huh?"

"Its nothing!"

A small silence fell between them. Should she leave or should she say something else?

"You have good people around you." Sanosuke suddenly spoke up, looking up to the moon.

"Eh?" This surprised Serena suddenly.

Sanosuke repeated. "Your Peerage. They are good people. You are a lucky King, treasure them."

Serena chuckled, Sanosuke looked to her confused. "As I thought, you are a weird person but you're also too kind."

He chuckled back, "Say what you want, I'm a mercenary."

She stood up, "We've got to finish preparation. I'll see you then."

-x-x-

It was time for the exchange to happen, Sanosuke and Serena arrived at the entrance of the church. From the outside, the place looked empty but Sanosuke couldn't help but feel an enormous amount magical energy seeping from it. He heard a small hiss from Serena.

"You ok?" Sanosuke asked as he saw her grabbing her head in pain.

"Yeah…its just the aura of the Church, even if abandoned, is giving me a slight headache." Serena said.

Sanosuke understood what she meant. Places of holy origin as a dangerous element for the Devis. "For Stray Devils, it must be affecting them too, since they also picked a place like this."

Serena nodded, agreeing to his statement. "But I think I can understand why they picked this place. No one would dare twice to be looking for devils in a church."

Both entered the church. It was dark inside the church,

"Ok! We've come. Now give us the girl!" Sanosuke shouted. They both waited for a response.

Its was Serena's turn to call for them. "We came as per requested. I'm sure that you can't sense any of our comrades."

"As you can see, I'm unarmed!" Sanosuke shouted again.

"I'm honestly surprised! You two actually came!" a voice echoed in the room, it was the Bishop, Souta. "As promised, we will release the girl." They heard chains rattle and they looked up to see Saya, who was wrapped around the waist by the chains, being lowered to the ground.

"Saya-san!" Serena called but Saya didn't respond. She seemed to be unconscious. When she reached the ground, Serena ran up to the girl and checked for any traces of magic on her.

"Now if you two don't mind, then die along with that girl!" They heard the gushes of wind, burst of fire and lightning rushing towards them. Serena held onto Saya tight as Sanosuke encased the three of them within a box made out of Holy Swords, covering them from the elemental assault. But the continuous barrage of magic has made it weak as it went on with a final blast breaking the box apart.

"Sano-kun!" Sylvia cried as she immediately rushed through the open door straight towards the source of the assault. But before she could even do anything, a massive fireball had engulfed Sylvia in its blaze.

"Sylvia!" Sanosuke roared.

"Sylvia-san!" Serena gasped.

But they couldn't do anything as the Stray Devils took up the moment to send a sudden barrage onto them, instantly killing them.

Souta couldn't suppress his laughter any longer as he saw the two main threats to their fun perish in the flames. Oh how easy was that. But from within the flame came an arrow that pierced through his shoulder, the force of the arrow made him fell to the ground.

"What?!" Souta gasped as he held his shoulder. He waited till the fire had died out to see that the human girl, the high-class devil and the swordsman still alive. "How?!" It was not possible.

"Souta!" the other Stray Devil, a female Bishop gasped before an unknown assailant from within the shadow knocked her down from the top of the organ.

"Amanda!" the third Stray Devil, the last pawn, who was also the twin brother of the scythe wielding pawn, shouted. A stream of lightning struck the concrete under him. He cursed as he managed to jump off in time.

Souta saw the exorcist girl landed on the floor safely. "But you…I saw you four exploded right before our eyes!" Souta gasped as he looked at the three

"Now that's where you were wrong!" They heard and walking through the door were the remaining members of the Peerage and Valshion.

"Now since I am a succubus, I have the ability to cast illusions onto my target, making them see what they want to see." Christie stuck her tongue out. "Looks like you feel for it!"

"Now then, Former Queen, Savalia!" Sanosuke called. "Come out, I know you're here!"

Clap…clap…

The clapping reverbed through the room. The Peerage looked from behind the altar a tall, tanned, voluptuous young woman. What she wore would make people call her an exhibitionist. Her body was basically bare if not for the thin straps of leather that covered her private areas. Bits of armour placed on her right shoulder, left thigh, and both forearms along with kneepads, and elbow pads. She had long silver hair and crimson red eyes. Hanging by the waist was a sheathed scimitar on her left and at the back was a dagger. She held a villainous smirk as she stopped clapping.

"Impressive, to be able to sense me even though I had suppressed my demonic ki. You are truly as formidable as they come, swordsman." She commented.

"And you're as perverted as my client told me." Sanosuke retorted, not impressed. "This time all of you are dead!" He took a stance after he drew his Kokusen out.

He heard the stray devil queen laughed. "Like little kids like you can defeat us! To my side!" She commanded and the remaining member's of the Stray Peerage appeared by her side. "We will end this now!"

"Just as we desired!" Serena declared.

Savalia snapped her fingers at this. "Kill them." She held a smirked as both sides went into war.

Sanosuke jumped in and clashed swords with Savalia who brought out her scimitar. "You just can't wait for our little tango, couldn't you?"

Sanosuke smirked. "The faster this ends, the faster I can rest." He said jokingly. He jumped back, allowing Serena to rain demonic bullets at her. Savalia created a barrier and blocked the attack. She returned her own barrage of demonic bullets at Serena.

Sylvia faced the remaining pawn of the Stray Peerage. She turned to Valshion who held Saya in her arms.

"Valshion-san, I'll leave her with you for now. Right I want to vent some anger." Sylvia said as she looked to the scythe wielder. "Isis!" The rapier appeared in his arms. She unsheathed the sword before she took a stance. 'No one kidnaps my friend and survives through this.' She charged towards the final pawn.

Kojiro and Keisuke stood across hall, glaring daggers at each other as if waiting for the other to start fighting. Both have their weapons ready at their side.

Keisuke flicked his hair to the side. "Ready to settle things?" Keisuke took a battle stance.

Kojiro grinned before he took a stance and shouted, "I hope you've said your prayers, boy!" with that the two dashed forward, clashing blades.

Xarin opened a magic circle underneath him and produced his Zanbatou from the sub-space. He picked up his weapon and pointed it at Killboar which unsheathed its own weapon.

"Ready for round two, bull? I'm gonna make beef ribs out of you!" Xarin exclaimed.

The Minataur roared before it charged towards Xarin.

Kaoru jumped back from the sudden attack from the ground below. Pillars of earth came at her before she summoned barrier strong enough to block it. She felt a presence to her right and used her khakkara to block the punch coming at her. Both were locked in a battle of force in the air.

Zhang Yue smirked. "I guess this is where we dance again, Ms. Queen."

Kaoru hissed. The element of surprise took her by surprise. She will have to keep her wits up for this battle.

Christie lunged for the female bishop, claws outstretch looking as though they were about to rip someone apart. The female bishop managed to dodge

Christie smirked. "Oh what a fine game we're having! Now," she went in for a slash. "if you don't mind…" she went for another. "I'll kill you!" she went with another. She missed again as the Bishop jumped back. She smirked as she tugged a bit of her hair behind her ear. "Or you could just surrender, a lot more easier." She placed a hand on her hip.

"Who would want to!?" The Bishop roared before she created a lightning ball and fired at the red head.

Christie spread her wing and took off, dodging the lightning blast before opening up a magic circle and fired shards of ice at the bishop.

Valshion was left with Saya and she decided to place here on a wooden bench inside the building.

"Might as well finish the girl off." Souta said as he walked towards Valshion and Saya. "You!" He addressed Valshion rudely. "If you want to live, you best stay away!" He tensed when he suddenly saw a spear of light thrown directly at him. He ducked under the spear. "Looks like I get to dance with a little beauty like you." Souta commented before he noticed Valshion standing up with one hand to the hip.

"Sorry, I missed." Valshion said casually as she summoned sword of light. "Let me warn you, compliments like that will earn you a sword through the heart. Especially since you took my niece's friend hostage!" Valshion warned as she aimed a thrust to the chest but with his fan Souta pushed it aside.

-x-x-

Savalia jumped out of the way of another of Serena's bullet barrage. With one hand, she created a barrier between her and bullets. Sanosuke then came from the side and both locked swords.

"You have a Sacred Gear, don't you?"

"Oh," Savalia smirked. "You've researched quite a lot about us, then?"

"My client was your master's wife. Of course she would know about you." Sanosuke admitted. He kneed her in the stomach

She tucked her hair behind her left ear, "You know two on one is not fair. How about were even things out?" she asked playfully as four yellow magic circles appeared in front of her. The magic circles moved up to reveal four green skinned creatures with helmets, wearing light brown skintight shorts, a shoulder guard on their left shoulder and carried sabers in their hands. These were lizardmen.

"Be good boys and entertain our cute guest over there." She ordered the lizardmen as she pointed at Sanosuke. Sanosuke placed up his guard in reaction as the Lizardmen charged at him.

Serena created a huge pink magic circle from which shadow like wolves appeared from the ground. She directed the wolves at Savalia but she failed to notice the fact that Savalia was smirking.

"I humbly accept that technique," Savalia said before a pink magic circle appeared and shadowy wolves appeared and clashed with Serena's own wolves.

Serena gasped at this. "What?" Just how could she use her family's Power of Darkness? Serena created falcons of darkness and they rushed towards Savalia, but Savalia countered with her flocks of darkness falcons easily.

Savalia grinned. "What's wrong? I was expecting more from a member of the King Asmoday family!" She taunted.

Serena cursed. This was going to be tough.

-x-x-

Sanosuke dodged the swipe from the right; he parried the next blade before kicking the lizard away. He locked swords with the third Lizardman before breaking off and slashing at it, but only managed to lightly wound it as it jumped back in time.

He cursed. For familiars they are well trained and this fight is just dragging out. He had to finish this fight now. "I have no time to play with you," he stated as his gazed intensified. Without another word, swords started to burst out from the floor. These swords were different in shaped, size, colour and ability, and they surrounded the five in a field of swords.

The Lizardmen were confused by the sudden appearance of the swords.

"We'll finish this in one go." Sanosuke said as he sheathed the Kokusen and placed it on the ground before he dashed forward, grabbing an icy cyan longsword in his right hand and fiery curved red short sword in his left hand. He blocked the first Lizardman's strike with his short sword before stabbing the longsword into the chest. He left the sword and spun around slicing off the Lizardman's head with the short sword. Using the same short sword, he threw it like a boomerang that sliced off the right leg of another Lizardman at the knee. Sanosuke took out a greatsword as tall as him with a long handle and swung it around to ward off the other two Lizardman before he jump high, cleaving the Lizardman through the shoulder. He turned around and rolled over a horizontal slash from the remaining Lizardmen. He took out another pair of swords, identical in shape and size, from the sword with a golden hilt and a red jewel on the hilt. He charged again, parrying off a slash before he roundhouse kicked the familiar away. He roared as he slashed the other with his other sword. He stabbed the both swords into the lizard's abdomens. He took out his final sword from his Field of Swords, a tachi that radiated with crimson lightning. He blocked the slash from the final Lizardman as he sidestepped, he then threw two slashes that created a cross mark across its back. With a final slash, he cleaved into the Lizardman's body.

Sanosuke released a heavy sigh before he looked at the battlefield around him. The dead bodies of the Lizardmen, the swords that stood out like graves. He shouldn't have wasted time on them. Sanosuke picked up his katana before the Holy Swords around him dissolved into light that gathered in front of him. The light particles began forming to create a single handed, single edged straight sword with an axe shaped guard, his strongest sword, Holy Avenger.

-x-x-

Kojiro threw a slash that had missed Keisuke's neck by a couple of inches. Keisuke went onto the offensive and the two exchanged blows before they were locked in a battle of supremacy.

Kojiro couldn't help but grinned, "This is the most fun I've had, boy!" he said. He was already torn up, bleeding from his head, the wound from earlier didn't seem to heal properly, so his reaction time would be slower. His advantage but he also had an emergency first aid, so he too would be impeded in this battle.

Keisuke was growing tired of this fight, so he broke it off. Kojiro charged again with his sword raised and this time Keisuke knew what to

Keisuke gripped his left spear underhanded and blocked the downward slash with it. The edge of the sword just inches away from the back of his head. He twisted his left wrist, locking the sword into place as he brought down to his waist level. In a blink of an eye, he sliced off the blade with his other spear. He kicked the pawn away and threw the blade away.

"Damn you!" Kojiro stood up before he surrounded Keisuke with four purple magic circles that were building up massive fireballs.

Keisuke held his left spear up high, infusing his demonic energy to the spear before he stabbed the spear onto the floor. This created a magic circle under him and it formed a barrier around him. He used the left spear's ability to cancel out magic to its fullest, as it canceled out the massive fireballs aimed towards him. He enveloped the blade of the right spear in a black light and aimed the right spear towards Kojiro. He cursed as he felt the pain from the previous battle creeping back.

He can do this.

He threw the spear. The spear itself pierced through the left shoulder of the pawn like a bullet. Keisuke saw the magic circles disappearing before he started running up towards the samurai with his remaining spear charging up with black light.

"Take this!" Keisuke roared, with no hesitation. He rammed the blade straight into the sternum of Knight, killing him instantly. Keisuke pulled out the blade from the stray devil's body and went to pick up his other spear. He closed his eyes and tried searching for the auras of his master and the swordsman.

-x-x-

Kaoru held her Khakkara high before spinning around to create a fiery tornado around her. With a roar, she threw the tornado at Zhang Yue who was literally blown away from the blast.

Zhang Yue grunted, "So this is the Firestorm Queen." She is as strong as the rumours say.

Kaoru continued spinning her khakkara, gathering more flames one it. "By the flames of hell itself. Die, Rook of Aim!" Kaoru roared. The flames took shape of a dragon that roared loudly before it charged at Zhang Yue, devouring him in a fiery blaze.

When the fire died out, Kaoru dropped to her knees, using her khakkara to support her. She had obviously used too much against the Rook. She breath was shallow, but she had regained it properly after a short while.

-x-x-

Valshion was up high in the air as she threw another spear of light, sending it straight to Souta who used his barrier to efficiently block the attack. When the light faded away, Valshion landed and looked up to Souta.

"I admit, for a Bishop, you have a good magical competency," Valshion stated.

"And yourself, a strong Fallen Angel such as yourself." Souta said, smirking.

"But I guess its time for me to get serious." Valshion said before she spread her black wings, revealing the three pairs of wings. She summoned about 50 light spears above her.

Souta gasped at seeing this. To summon this many?! A very annoying ability to be fighting against.

"Lets see if your magic can hold out against this many Light Spears?" Valshion taunted before she rained the light spears on to Souta.

Souta curse and began opening his barriers as the light spears rained on him. The spears one by one began breaking through Souta's barrier as cracks appeared on the magic circle. The cracks grew bigger and bigger as Souta cursed, he was using everything he had to block this attack but its starting to show that it wasn't enough. The spears of light finally broke through the shield, and stabbed deep into Souta's left shoulder, stomach, right forearm, and left thigh. Souta fell onto the floor. His breathing became shallow. Valshion released a huge sigh before she began walking away.

"Wait…" he struggled to say. "Are you going to leave me here?" Souta asked.

"I'm sorry, I wouldn't want to save a heartless coward like you. Plus you'll be put for death even if I let the kids capture you." Valshion stated.

"Then kill me quickly." Souta requested.

Valshion shook her head, "For someone like you, this is more suitable. If you'll excuse me." And with that Valshion left.

Souta couldn't help but laugh in his last moments before his life force faded away.

-x-x-

Xarin shouted, "Twice!" He called before the crystal glowed. He felt his power double in output. It was the power of his Sacred Gear, Twice Critical, the Arm of the Dragon, a Dragon type Sacred Gear the doubles the power of the user for a give time. The Zanbatou felt lighter than ever. "Let's end this!"

Killboar roared. He didn't want it to end it like this though, so with the last of his strength, he charged. But Killboar didn't realized the sudden speed that Xarin gained from his double power. Xarin swung his sword horizontally, the brute power he had double and sent the Minotaur flying. He dashed forward again, this time brought the blade up high and made a downward slash that broke the Minotaur's weapon in two when the bull brought it up to defend himself. He didn't stop there, he continued driving the blade downwards, cleaving the Minotaur into two when he finished.

-x-x-

Flash, bang, crash.

Christie cried as she create another magic circle in front of her and fired two high pressured water at the Bishop who blocked it with fire magic. The Bishop fired two more blasts of demonic energy at Christie who jumped away. When Christie landed, she cursed as she saw the magic circles surrounding her at the last moment.

The Bishop surrounded Christie with many magic circles that wrapped chains around Christie. The Bishop then created a huge magic circle under Christie before the young succubus was enveloped in flames.

The Bishop smirked. "Now that's one down." But before she could walk away, she heard a clicking sound. She turned around to see Christie appearing behind the flames with her arms folded.

Christie smirked. "Where were you aiming at?" she taunted. Christie then threw sharp metallic nails that had pierced the Stray Devil in many places. Christie made another magic circle and fired out blast of demonic energy that devoured the Bishop.

When the bishop had disappeared from existence, Christie fell to the floor. She was tired and if she hadn't used her illusion magic earlier, she probably would've died.

-x-x-

Sylvia blocked the swing from the final pawn, the edge of the scythe mere inches away from her neck. She pushed forward, driving the pawn back. She pushed the scythe off before elbowing the stray in the stomach. The devil hissed before he realized too late that Sylvia was about to drive her sword through his chest. The pawn cried in pain before he tried pushing Sylvia off but Sylvia continued driving her blade deeper into the chest until it reached the hilt. She pulled it out with the pawn dropping to the ground dead. Sylvia looked around for where everyone else would be before she ran off.

-x-x-

"I am the strongest Queen! There is nothing I can't do!" She threw a giant bird like shadow at Serena who made a similar bird the two birds canceled each other but from under the clash, another bird came straight for Serena. Serena realized too late and braced for impact but to her surprise, the bird was sliced away by Sanosuke who held both Kokusen and the Holy Avenger in his hands.

"Sanosuke!" Serena gasped. She was about to go up to him but he held out his right hand, telling her to stop.

"Stand back!" Sanosuke ordered before he charged towards Savalia. Sanosuke raised the Kokusen for a straight downward slash. Savalia was quick and blocked his attack with her scimitar. He came with the Holy Wing but she jumped away. Sanosuke leaped towards and performed a double downwards slash. Savalia blocked the attack and both were locked in a battle for supremacy.

Sanosuke noticed the white glow in her right eye. "I knew it, that's the Sacred Gear, 'Imitation Real'," Sanosuke deduced. This was the most annoying Sacred Gear anyone could actually have.

"You're right! This Sacred Gear allows me to copy anything I see." Savalia boasted.

Sanosuke once fought a man who wielded the Imitation Real before. True to Savalia's words, the Sacred Gear allowed her to copy any magic she sees with her right eye. There were limits though, like the 'Invisible Force', this Sacred Gear requires magical energy in order for it to work, and if the thing she was copying required more magical energy than she could provide then it won't work. But due to her status as a Queen, her magical energy must be considerably high.

He felt a sudden presence and jumped back. Keisuke leaped in for a thrust but she deflected the spear away. He turned around and aimed another thrust with his other spear at her. She grabbed the spear with her free hand and raised her sword high for a downward slash. Sanosuke blocked the slash and kicked her away with Serena firing magic bullets with her fingers. When Savalia landed, she made a barrier that blocked bullets before she dispelled the shield and fired her own magic bullets. Keisuke blocked the bullets with ease with his left spear as he stabbed it to the ground and made an anti-magic barrier.

Sanosuke took the moment to energized his swords with light energy before threw them at Savalia. He readied himself and charged.

Both himself and Savalia clashed blades twice before Sanosuke kicked . "Destroy!" Sanosuke said before he shattered the scimitar with the Holy Avenger. He aimed for another slash with the Kokusen but Savalia was quick as she created a Lion of Darkness that roared and tried to maim Sanosuke but he blocked the claw before slashed at it.

"We need to make her switch off that Sacred Gear!" Serena said. "The problem is how?"

"Why don't I just cut off her magic flow?" Keisuke asked.

"The problem with that is the fact it will give us only a 5 second window, it will hardly be enough time for us to take her down." Serena argued.

Sanosuke jumped back.

"Maybe that five second window is all we need. I have an idea," Sanosuke said, somehow managing to hear all that during the fight, before he started to explain. "Open her up for Keisuke so I can make sure we can deactivate it."

Keisuke charged in first aiming one of his two short spears at Savalia but she blocked with her barrier. Keisuke came in with another strike with his other spear, hoping to crumble the barrier, but she block with her dagger. He cursed. 'Did she figure out which spears are which and how they work? No matter!' Keisuke gritted his teeth before he increased his attack speed, trying to throw her off before she kicked Keisuke away.

Serena fired a demonic bullet to which Savalia dodged but when she landed, she cursed as she saw that her legs were wrapped around by darkness. She had landed into a trap. No matter, she could easily-

"Gotcha!" Keisuke roared before he stabbed his left spear into her shoulder.

Savalia winced at the pain and couldn't help but feel like her magic suddenly disappeared from her body. The next thing Savalia realized was that the swordsman was aiming his bow straight at her. Without any show of mercy, Sanosuke fired the arrow and the arrow pierced her right eyeball. Savalia screamed in pain as blood was spurting out of the wound. She dropped to her knees, her right hand was on her right eye as if trying to do something to stop the pain.

Sanosuke took a look to his bow. High regenerative capabilities? He had guessed so, a perk of being a devil. A human would be dead if they had an arrow to the eye.

Sylvia and the rest of the Peerage arrived in time.

"Its over then?" Xarin asked with Serena nodding at the question.

"Sanosuke-san, would you like to do the honours?" Serena asked.

Sanosuke sighed. "I'll leave it to you, Serena-san." He said before he looked away.

"For killing your master, I sentenced you to death along with the rest of your Peerage." Serena decreed before darkness started to envelop Savalia. Savalia tried to pull herself away from the pool of darkness under her but it like quicksand, the more you struggle, the more you will sink into it. Her scream became muffled as the darkness had erased her from existence.

"So this finally concludes this chapter." Kaoru said before the group walked back into the church.

"The problem now is what to do with her?" Christie said as she pointed at sleeping Saya in Valshion's arms.

"If it's possible, I don't want her to be a part of any of this," Keisuke stated his opinion. He knelt down and proceeded to lightly touch Saya's cheek. "She too pure for this. Even if she can be a bit of tsundere, this life is not something I want her to be involved in."

"But what if she wanted to be apart of this?" Xarin asked.

"I would still say no, but I will protect her all the way." Keisuke said.

Serena spoke up, "But…the fate of a Sacred Gear user is bound to make her lead an unordinary life. This could be the first of many times that her life would cross with the dealings of the supernatural."

Keisuke stood up and faced Serena and Xarin. "A life of a Sacred Gear user would be too hard for her. And if she was ever to find out about her power then I'll be there to help her." She had always tried her best to be there for him, but he kept pushing her away. He never wanted her life to be ruined by his own life.

"Then if you want, I can wipe her memories of this incident." Valshion suggested as she looked to the young girl in her arms. "I'm a little bit rusty but I promise you, she will not remember a thing about this incident."

Keisuke smiled and bowed, "Please do."

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