The entire room looks at me in shock.
"Ise; I must have misheard you. Did you say that you were going to destroy the church?" Raynare asks me, looking nervous and sweating bullets.
"Not in a literal sense, that'd be too hard to cover up to the rest of the town." I explain, slowly inching my way towards the door. "Instead, I'm just going to destroy everything and everybody in the church."
Rias notices my advancements and moves to cut me off, standing firmly in front of the only exit with her arms crossed.
"Come on, Rias, I've got some stuff to take care of before I go off to church." Remembering something, I tap my fist against my temple. "Oh! That reminds me of something. Ray, could you do me a favor?"
"That depends on the favor."
"I need you to tell Azazel that he owes me a new house."
"And why, pray tell, does the Governor General of the Fallen Angels owe you a house?" she sighs, blatantly showing the fact that she's had enough of my antics.
"Well," I chuckle "it's a bit of a long story; and I wouldn't ask him about it, he's still not too pleased with how the deal turned out."
I lightly push Rias out of the way and open the door.
"Well, thank you for patching me up," I call behind me "but I really should be going now. You know the deal: places to go, people to annoy, etc."
I close the door behind me; making much more sound than I'd fully intended.
Standing in front of the church, I pick up on the presence of an extreme amount of holy energy.
"I'm glad that nobody else came along." I mumble under my breath.
"And why is that, partner." Ddraig asks.
"Because we're probably going to get our asses handed to us in there. Wait, if you're just in my brain, do you even have an ass?"
"Priorities."
"Hey, I'd say this is pretty important! If you do have an ass, then you'd be dropping all your deuces inside my head!"
"You're nervous, aren't you?"
"Is it that obvious?"
"You always act like this when you're stressed, partner. The important thing to remember is that you're not going into this fight alone."
"I'm pretty sure that you and I still only count as one in a headcount."
"I'm not talking about that."
"What, did you pick up on Rias or Koneko?"
"No, but I highly doubt that the two of them would be able to sit by."
"Then what are you talking about?"
"From what your little girlfriend told us, there are two more fallen angels who would help us."
"Kalawarner and Mittelt?"
"Correct."
"Maybe Kalawarner would; but we won't be able to get Mittelt's help unless Donhaseek's taken out first."
"Then we know who to target."
"Our primary objective is rescuing Asia; Donhaseek and Kunopegos are secondary."
"Growing soft?"
"Not in the slightest. She could be useful in the future; though I'd be lying if I say I approve of and innocent being killed just for their sacred gear. If the Fallen get away, then we can just hunt them down again; but if they take her with them, then she's as good as gone."
"I'm surprised to see you put your revenge on the back burner. I suppose you've really matured."
"Don't get me wrong, Ddraig; I fully intend to kill them. But also; I'm twenty seven; it's about time I grew up a little."
"The sun is setting, it's time."
"If we don't make it out of this, I just want you to know; it's been an honor."
"Likewise."
"Well well, I never would have guessed to see you so sentimental. How very out of character, Issei." Calls out a voice from behind me.
Turning around, I see a figure silhouetted in a tree, definitely female; a very shapely one at that.
"Judging from the shadow, you're too tall and busty to be Mittelt. So, Kalawarner, what brings you outside your fortress?" I taunt.
Jumping down and landing in front of me, Kalawarner stands up and brushes off her shirt.
"Don't let her hear you say that, it'll be the death of you."
"Please, I'm already taking on an entire squad of exorcists alone; but you already know that. I assume Raynare has filled you in."
"I can't believe that you'd do something so unbelievably stupid!" She shouts.
"I'll take that as a yes." I mumble, preparing for the nagging of a lifetime.
"I mean seriously! What could possibly have possessed you to just think 'Oh, it's Tuesday, time to go fight an army'!"?" She shouts at me.
"The leaders are the men who killed my parents." I say somberly. "I wouldn't attack a force this big on a whim. Besides, these men have acted in defiance of the Governor General for years, and I have been ordered to put them down."
"Ordered? You're a devil! You don't need to listen to what Azazel-sama says; you're not under his jurisdiction!"
"I've had enough, are you going to help me or not?" I snarl, trying to hide the fact that I don't have a decent rebuttal.
"Do you even need to ask?" She walks forward and stands next to me.
"Here's the plan, I'm going to mask my aura so they can't find me. I need you to go and try to get the nun out of the church. She's the first priority. If you can, try and convince Mittelt to switch sides; but remember that your main objective is the girl. While you're doing that, I'll hunt down Donhaseek, Kunopegos, and whoever is leading the exorcists; do you know who that is?"
"His name is Freed Sellzen; I believe you two may have met each other."
"Freed? That's good; he thinks that I'm dead."
"What did you do this time?" She sighs.
"Long story, tell you more if I've got the time. Anyway, we've put this off long enough, it's time."
Kalawarner nods, then unfurls her wings and flies to the bell tower of the church.
Casting a spell to dampen my aura, I open the door of the church and slip inside.
Scanning my surroundings, I see the interior of the church is small, dusty and unlit; perfect for a stealth attack. Looking up at the altar, I draw a quick breath.
Standing atop the steps is a fallen angel wearing a trench coat and a fedora: Donhaseek.
"Hey, Donnie!" I call out in a loud whisper; trying to draw his attention and ruffle his feathers.
He snaps his head downwards and begins to scan the pews. While he does so, I sneak around the wall and climb into the rafters. After maneuvering myself to the point where I was right above him, I set up an imprint of my magic energy trace behind a pew about three rows away from the front of the altar. Being the experienced fighter that he is, Donhaseek notices right away; summoning a light spear and hurling it at the pew. Using a small amount of magic, I spice up the impact of his spear with a little explosion; nothing big enough to destroy the other pews, but enough to send splinters flying out.
He peers into the smoking wreckage, trying to see if he killed his target.
Taking advantage of his distraction, I jump down, grab his head as I fall, and slam it into the floor.
The marble is decorated with gray spider webs as cracks form from the sheer force of the impact of his skull.
"I wasn't behind the bench." I snarl as I summon a fire and hold it next to his head.
With proper light to see, I notice that there's now a rather large pool of blood forming around Donhaseek's face, and there's also a slight dent in his skull that takes the form of my hand.
"Well, that was a little overkill…" I chuckle to myself.
"You think?"
"I was trying to look cool." I say, sounding as pompous as I possibly could.
"Well, bravo for that. What happened to your big vengeance speech, you've spent months preparing this whole spiel about the ghost of his past come back to haunt him; and now you go and do this!" He say, unable speak because of how hard he's laughing.
"Are you going to be like this the whole night? Because we've still got work to do."
"You brought this upon yourself, partner."
Deciding to be the better man and ignore him, I look behind the pulpit and see a set of stairs leading down underground.
Reaching the bottom of the stairs, I come to a large cavern with a raised Dias at the western end. Also, the cavern is filled with exorcists.
"Well this makes things fun." I grumble as I choke out one of the exorcists in the back of the chamber.
Suddenly, the sound of footsteps echo in the passage where the stairs are, judging by the sounds, I'd say that there were a total of four people running full sprint down into the cavern.
"Looks like the cavalry has arrived" I think to myself, standing up to full height, opening my wings, and forming a fireball in my hand.
Everybody in the room looks at me, then the fireball, then at my wings, back at the fireball, back at me (I'm pretty sure one guy's checking out my crotch), and then they all duck.
Looking up at the altar, I see Asia attached to a cross, too defeated to even attempt escape.
"Asia! Just sit tight, I'll be up there in a moment to cut you down!" I shout.
She looks up, hope and relief filling her eyes.
"Ise-san, thank god! I thought that you had been killed!"
"Hold it right there, Devil. You make another move and she dies!" shouts a figure, probably Mittelt, who steps into the light dragging Kalawarner's limp body behind her.
"You don't want to do that, Mittelt!" I call back, letting a harsh edge slip into my tone.
"And why would that be?" she asks, clearly reveling in her falsely perceived victory.
"A couple of reasons, actually. One: Because while yes, Kalawarner is your hostage, if you kill her; then there's absolutely nobody you can use to assure that I won't absolutely pulverize everybody in this church. And my personal favorite, Two: You don't have to stick around with these traitors anymore because of some stupid blackmail, because Donhaseek's corpse probably can't do jack squat to you."
"What do you mean by that?" She asks shakily, obviously nervous about what I mean.
"About three minutes ago, I crushed Donhaseek's skull. I'm completely aware that the only reason that you even joined up with the dynamic duo is because Donhaseek was blackmailing you; so I thought that you might like to know that it's no longer an issue."
I begin to walk forwards, snapping the neck of every exorcist that get's in the way; and then promptly stepping over their corpses.
"And three:" I continue, still moving forwards. "there's a small force of about five more devils that should get here right about… now!"
Rias and her peerage burst through the doorway in an explosion of rock, dust, and lightening.
"So? Do you give up now?"
"You know, Issei, you really only had to say the Donhaseek thing." She says.
She conjures a light spear and impales the nearest exorcist.
"Get up, Kalawarner! There's no way you died after what I did." She says, leaping down off the platform.
A dark figure descends to take Mittelt's place.
"BE QUIET! A traitor like you shouldn't be allowed the right to speak!" The figure yells as he impales Mittelt's head with a light spear.
"You there, devil, do you really think that you can stand against me? Against Kunopegos, one of the greatest fallen angels ever to live? Especially now that the transfer of the girl's sacred gear has begun?"
Asia's body starts glow a bright green, and she screams as if in terrible agony. A bright orb of light appears on her chest, the rings of Twilight healing barely visible within.
"Watch, devil, as I become unstoppable!" Kunopegos shouts as he pulls the rings from within the sphere.
Asia shrieks once more before falling silent, obviously on the verge of death from having her sacred gear removed.
"You son of a bitch!" I scream as I launch myself at him.
AN: I've been planning this part of the story since before I even wrote the prologue, so I'm really excited to finally put this out. Feel free to let me know what you think about how I did. (Good or bad)
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