High School DxD: The Divine Magical Rider

by Keybladewielder97

Takeshi Fuyushima is a young Magician who struggles in developing his magic skills. If that wasn't enough, he has to juggle his high school life, his dealings with the supernatural world, and for some odd reason, finding out about his unknown heritage that he possesses. Honestly, he can't just catch a break.

10. The Warmonger

Disclaimer: I do not own High School DxD or any other elements/characters.

Hey guys, it has been a while, hasn't it? Again, I apologize for such slow updates. College, once again, demands my full attention. Especially being a Pre-Med student of all things. Yeah, things aren't going to be easy for me. So asides from that, I'll just get right down to what needs to be said and you're right back to your fanfic time.

So after taking account every vote in the Polls, opinions in Reviews, and especially PMs, it seems I have reached a verdict on where I'm taking this story. It seems that a majority of you want the harem route, with the single-route being kind of small. So like I said last chapter, I am going with what the majority want.

So I guess the Harem route is where this fic is going.

To those who wanted the single-route, I apologize. Even if you came up with really good reasons, I'm afraid you are outvoted. I'm sorry that I'm not able to meet with your demands. Hopefully, though, that does not deter you from reading my fanfic. But if you choose to stop, I guess I cannot change your answer, and I shall respect that.

With that being said, please respect my choices and no hate Reviews or PM messages. I have no doubt that Flamers will take the chance to use this against me. I literally groan and face palm every time I see them, seeing how I can simply delete them.

With that being said, let's get down to what you guys truly want.

Chapter Start!

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Chapter 10: The Warmonger

(Park)

After the battle with Freed, the group, minus Yuuto, Irina, Xenovia, and Yukina, the group took their meeting near the fountain. It was then the Peerage members were forced to do a seiza.

"…Destroying Excalibur. You two…" Rias said with an unpleaseant expression while putting her hand on her forehead.

"Saji. You were doing something like this behind me? You truly are a troublesome child."

"Auuu…I…I'm sorry Kaichou…"

Takeshi just blinked at Saji's reaction towards Sona. He is honestly confused why Saji is turning so pale upon facing his King. Sure, he is in trouble, but this type of reaction tells him that Sona is going to punish him severly after this.

It's rather odd, considering the facial expression he sees on Sona. Over his past interactions with the Sitri heiress, he usually dealt with her neutral, calm, and/or professional character and expression. Seeing her put on a slightly more colder expression didn't really seem much of a difference to Takeshi. To him, seeing this expression only told him that Sona is currently mad or disappointed.

'I'm honestly confused why Saji is acting so scared towards her. She doesn't look that scary...maybe its because he is in trouble.' Takeshi thought to himself. He blinked when he saw Sona turn her head towards the two humans.

"I cannot deny that I am surprised to you two involved in all of this. Especially you Abe-san. You usually choose to stay out of all of this." Sona pointed out. The Beast Tamer simply huffed while crossing her arms.

"Well, if you must know, I did little to get involved in this. The only reason I am here is because I want to make sure a certain troublemaker doesn't find himself in deeper trouble." Kiyome answered while giving a gaze at Takeshi, to which the young Magician sweatdropped at her words and look.

'I'm a troublemaker? But trouble finds me...' Takeshi mentally retorted.

"Is that so?" Sona said while turning her head towards him. Takeshi offered a small awkward smile.

"Well, there's no denying that I did it for a good cause." Takeshi reasoned rather weakly. Sona simply sighed while pinching the bridge of her nose.

"Honestly Fuyushima-kun, does our last conversation about the last time you got involved in the Three Factions mean nothing to you? Or do I have to take disciplinary measures to make sure you remember them?" Sona said while narrowing her eyes at him.

"No no, I perfectly remember every single word you said. I can prove it to if you provide me paper." Takeshi offered with a chuckle.

"Is this a joke to you Fuyushima-kun?" Sona replied with an unamused tone. Takeshi simply shrugged.

"I'm just trying to lighten up the mood here. The atmosphere is rather heavy with what's going around. It's not mentally healthy." Takeshi answered. Sona stared at him for a short moment, before she shook her head.

"Never mind that. Fuyushima-kun, if you remember what I said to you, then why did you decide to get yourself involved in this once more?" Sona questioned.

"Well, in my defense, I'm human. My actions doesn't have any significant effect on your politics or relations with the Angels and Fallen Angels. Plus, I'm just an novice Magician. I honestly don't think I'm that significant to you guys." Takeshi started off, before he gave a resolute look.

"But that's not the only reason. I've learned of Kiba-san's harsh past, and seeing all of this burden that he carries on his shoulder doesn't sit well with me. So I've decided that I will help bring closure to him by finding the Excaliburs and destroying them." Takeshi answered.

It was then Sona gave a rather skeptical expression.

"You decided to risk your own life and get involved with the Fallen Angels and Excalibur fragments...all because you want to bring closure to Rias's Knight?" Sona repeated with a raised eyebrow.

Kiyome sighed tiredly while rubbing her temples.

"It's Takeshi-kun's own troublesome principle. He strongly believes that as long as you exist, your role in life is to make others happy. He just happens to take that ideal to a whole other level." Kiyome explained.

"There's nothing wrong in making sure that everyone achieve their own happiness." Takeshi stated firmly.

"Look how happy it's making me..." Kiyome said with a dry tone. Takeshi gave a sheepish smile.

"Sorry Kiyome-chan. I can make it up to you by treating you to sushi." Takeshi offered.

"That's not going to make things better!" Kiyome responded with a indigent tone.

"Then what do you want me to do then?" Takeshi asked with a puzzled tone.

Before the two could continue their little argument, the two heard a certain someone clearing their throat. The two turned their heads, and saw Sona standing their with an unamused expression.

"We have no time for your arguments. Right now, we have more important matters to discuss, specifically Fuyushima-kun's actions." Sona told them, making Kiyome huff at her.

"Well if you must know, I've been already telling that to him. But unfortunately, once he sets his mind to something, he just won't stop." Kiyome told her.

Sona's eyebrow slightly twitched upon hearing what Kiyome said. Not at Kiyome brushing her off, but hearing the part where Kiyome said "setting his mind". Those words reminded her of her own certain eccentric family member. But she put that in the back of her head and focus on the real matter at hand.

"I see...regardless, Fuyushima-kun, it seems you have acted quite reckless once more, once again risking your life in this. This sort of behavior is something I do not approve. Honestly, no matter how many times I tell this to you, you can't seem to listen." Sona stated.

"I'm ready to accept whatever punishment you may give me. But I believe we have more important matters at hand. Such as the Excalibur and the possibility of Kokabiel in this area?" Takeshi reminded.

Sona simple gave out a small sigh in response.

"Unfortunately, this is true. We have more pressing matters at hand." Sona said, before she turned her attention towards Saji. "But first..."

Saji immediately paled upon seeing Sona turn her attention towards him once more.

It was then Takeshi blinked owlishly upon seeing the sight before him. Kiyome simply raised an eyebrow upon what she witnessed. Issei winced upon seeing the sight as well.

'I think...I understand why Saji is scared of Kaichou. Because he's afraid of...this.' Takeshi thought.

[SLAP!] [SLAP!]

Before Takeshi's very eyes, Takeshi watched Saji getting his butt spanked. Rather hard with Sona covering her hand with demonic power.

"Looks like you need to reflect on your behaviour."

"Uwaaaaaaan! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Please forgive me Kaichouuu!"

"No. 1000 spankings."

[SLAP!] [SLAP!]

"...As I thought, Devils a very weird and disturbing people." Kiyome muttered.

"...I believe you are stereotyping Kiyome-chan." Takeshi told her.

"I don't think so with the evidence right before our very eyes." Kiyome retorted.

"It's called generalizing Kiyome-chan. Not necessarily a good thing. But Kaichou is rather...unorthodox, to say the least." Takeshi commented, wincing was he watched Saji receive another spank. It was then he watched Rias pulling her two servants into a hug.

"…You two really are stupid children. Making me worry so much…" Rias said with a gentle voice.

"Uwaaaaaaan! Kaichouuu! They finished with a good atmosphere! And why doesn't Fuyushima get the same punishment as well!?"

"They are them. We are us. And Fuyushima-kun will be punished, but that doesn't excuse you from discipline."

[SLAP!] [SLAP!]

If there is one thing that Takeshi learned from tonight...It's that Sona gives rather painful spanks as punishment.

He partly knew why Saji is afraid of her now.

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(Home)

After wrapping up everything at the park, Takeshi and Kiyome decided to call it a day and head home. Takeshi sighed tiredly as he opened the front door to his house.

"Well...that happened." Takeshi commented as he and Kiyome entered into his home.

"Honestly...this is the reason why I stay out of the Devil's business. You have no idea what is going on with them. Because I certainly want to forget a few events..." Kiyome said while shuddering at the memories.

"At the very least, we managed to get some things done. Unfortunately, Kiba-san and the other Exorcist ran off on their own. I hope they're safe." Takeshi said with a bit of worry.

"Rather than worrying about them, why not focus on getting rest yourself?" Kiyome told him. Takeshi gave a tired sigh while stretching his body.

"I guess you're right. I can't do anything at the moment, and all I could do now is rest." Takeshi said with reluctant agreement.

"From the sound of your voices, I can tell that you two encountered some interesting events." Erika said as she walked into the room. Looking at the state at the two, she could only nod at this. "And it seems like I'm right."

"Unfortunately, we ran into some trouble. Turns out Kokabiel is in this area, because we ran into his henchman. Especially Freed." Takeshi told her, making Erika click her tongue at this.

"That Stray Exorcist? Honestly, that slippery bastard should've been taken care of already. Would've been nice if we were able to take him down at the Church." Erika commented with an irked tone.

"Even if Freed was taken down, I believe that Kokabiel would've been able to find a new henchman to control the Excalibur swords. Still, I would've gone with the other person rather than Freed. His mentality and personality is disturbing and dangerous." Takeshi said while slightly shuddering at his memories with Freed.

"Even beasts are more tame than that psycho." Kiyome agreed.

"Well, if that is the case, I better go report this to Azazel. Hopefully, he'll be able to act on this and prevent the worst from happening." Erika told them.

"Good idea. We better get our rest before the storm comes." Takeshi agreed.

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(Bedroom)

Takeshi gave a tired sigh as he collapsed onto his bed, tired from all of the events that have happened today. He lets his arm cover his eyes.

'Jingzhu...why do all of these dangerous events keep happening around me?' Takeshi wondered and asked.

[I'm afraid life isn't all about peace. Conflict will eventually arise, and you will face one. However, I've never met someone who has terrible luck as you. You keep on getting dragged into all sorts of trouble, intentionally and unintentionally.]

'That...doesn't make me feel better at all...' Takeshi sweatdropped Jingzhu's words. Jingzhu merely chuckled.

[You keep on looking at the negative aspects of your encounters with the supernatural. Think of all the positive aspects. If it weren't for you encountering the Fallen Angels for the first time, you would would have never met Erika, which in turn revealed me to you. You've learned more about your childhood friend and have a closer bond. If it weren't for you delivering that package, you would've never met the true side of your Shinobi friend. Your progress in Magic came forwards thanks to the help of the Sitri heiress, all thanks to one certain encounter.]

Takeshi blinked upon hearing this.

'...Wow. I never thought of it like that. To be honest, I just took it in stride and simple accepted what I was given. But when you put it like that, I guess there are some benefits from these...' Takeshi thought, before he chuckled. 'Honestly, does this mean I always have to get into trouble to find more opportunities? That's a rather risky and dangerous road for me.'

He heard Jingzhu snort in mirth.

[This is coming from someone who disregards his own safety to help a Devil he barely knows? Twice might I add.]

'Touche.' Takeshi simply responded. 'I guess...my own principles tell me to do this. Even though I want to avoid danger, bringing happiness to others is part of my goal. Honestly, this just makes things way too complicated for me.' Takeshi thought.

He then felt some weight on his chest. Peeking from his arm, he spotted a familiar animal.

"Oh, hey Blair. How is your day?" Takeshi greeted his cat. The car simply meowed while swaying her tail. He simply chuckled as he petted his cat behind the ear. Blair purred at the contact. He gave a slight chuckle.

"Honestly Blair, sometimes you're a sight for sore eyes. Seeing you just washes away all of my troubles. Takeshi said with a soft smile. He then stretched to get the kinks out of his body.

"Well, I guess it's time for bed. Night Blair." Takeshi said as he lifted the cat off of him and gently placed her on the floor. He gave a small yawn and rested his head on the pillow.

Just as he was about to close his eyes, his ears picked up a few ringing noises from his phone. Takeshi sighed, before he got out of bed and get his phone. When he looked at the phone, he blinked at the text message he received.

"...Issei?" Takeshi said with confusion. Unlocking his phone, he read the rest of the message from Issei. Once he finished reading it, his eyes widened.

"Oh no..."

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(Family Room)

After receiving a message from Issei, he gathered Kiyome and Erika into the family room to tell them some rather grave news.

"Kokabiel is invading Kuoh Academy right now!?" Kiyome asked in shock.

Takeshi gave a troubled look and nodded. Erika clicked her tongue in annoyance.

"Damn, I didn't expect him to act this soon." Erika commented with a bitter tone.

"I know. According to Issei, Kokabiel intends to wreak havoc at the school in order to reignite a Great War. With that being said, Erika-san, I need you to contact Azazel immediately and tell him of the situation." Takeshi told the Fallen Angel.

"You got it. But there's a problem to this." Erika told him with a troubled look.

"What is it?" Takeshi inquired.

"Kokabiel is a Cadre, so a lot of us know how powerful Cadres are really are. The problem is that each Cadre has the power to easily wreak havoc on a town. No doubt the Devils reported Kokabiel to the Maou, and their reinforcements are coming. However, Kokabiel probably predicted this. Knowing him, he'll set up a single spell that will destroy this town." Erika explained. Takeshi and Kiyome's eyes widened in shock.

"Wait...you don't mean that he's...but he's dragging humans who aren't even involved in this! I thought humans remain out of the question when it comes to the Three Factions!" Takeshi pointed out. Erika shook her head.

"With Kokabiel wanting to start up the Great War, he doesn't care who is involved. In his eyes, humans are nothing more than fodder and trash to him." Erika told him.

"This isn't good...!" Takeshi said with a troubled tone. "We need to stop that spell from happening! If only there is some way that we can cancel that spell!" Takeshi said to himself, before his eyes widened in realization.

"Wait...it might be a long shot, but it might work...!" Takeshi said to himself in realization.

"What? What is it?" Kiyome asked. Takeshi then turned to the two.

"I think I have a way to cancel the spell. The only risk is that Kokabiel is probably going to target me, and the process will take a while." Takeshi told them. Kiyome's eyes widened at this.

"Wait...are you saying that you're going to where Kokabiel is!? Are you crazy Takeshi-kun!? You're heading straight towards death if you do so!" Kiyome told him. Takeshi frowned.

"This is the only way to save this whole area. Kiyome-chan, I need you to get as far away as from the area as poss-" Takeshi tried to tell her, but was soon cut off.

"Out of the question! There is no way that I'm letting you go fight Kokabiel just so you can protect me! Rather than doing that, we can both escape this area together!" Kiyome told him.

"But what about the people here! Don't tell me that you're just going to leave them to their doom!" Takeshi responded. Kiyome bit her lip upon hearing this.

"Even if we did warn them, would the honestly believe us? And even if they do believe us, we can't get to everyone in this area." Kiyome told him.

"That is more the reason I should go! I know this is risky, but this whole area is at risk! We got nothing else to lose!" Takeshi replied.

"It's impossible to succeed in this suicide mission of yours!" Kiyome shot back.

"We won't know unless I try!" Takeshi argued.

"Um, guys?" Erika intervened.

"What!?" Kiyome responded with an aggravated tone.

"While you were arguing, I just reported to Azazel about Kokabiel being here. And I have both good news and bad news." Erika told them.

"What is it?" Takeshi asked.

"Good news, Azazel sent someone to take down Kokabiel, and he happens to be our White Dragon." Erika informed.

"Dragon?" Takeshi responded with confusion.

"Our Hakuryuukou. He's kind of like the rival of the Sekiryutei. You know, the guy that holds the Boosted Gear." Erika informed. Takeshi blinked upon hearing this.

"I didn't know you had him on your side." Takeshi said with surprise.

"We don't exactly make it public news. And the bad news...well, we don't know when exactly the Hakuryuukou will arrive. He will appear, but we don't know how long he'll get here." Erika told them. Takeshi grimaced upon the news.

"So there is no guarantee that the Hakuryuukou will make it in time. That means I definitely need to stop that spell no matter what." Takeshi said with a focused tone.

"Takeshi-kun, this is crazy! You're seriously going to fight a Cadre!? This is stupid! Even someone like you should recognize it! There is too much of a gap in power for you!" Kiyome practically yelled angrily at him, as if she is seeing the most stupidest decision she has seen in her life.

"Maybe so, but I'm not doing it alone. Kaichou and the others are fighting Kokabiel, and the best I can do is provide support with my powers." Takeshi answered with a firm tone.

"And he's not going alone. He has me with him." Erika told her as she hefted up some sort of weapon that was covered in cloth.

"Even so, chances are that Kokabiel can kill him in a blink of an eye! Even with all of you there, you don't have the power to fight on even ground with him! There is no way I'm allowing this!" Kiyome argued.

Seeing that his childhood friend was stubborn once more, Takeshi sighed.

"...I see you're not that set on allowing me to go. I understand your reasons Kiyome-chan, but..." Takeshi said as he raised his hand in front of her, making her blink at the gesture.

"...Forgive me Kiyome-chan. I promise I'll make it up to you after all of this." Takeshi told her as a soft green light begun to glow from his hand.

"Astral Hypno." Takeshi chanted, making the spell takes it effect on its target. Kiyome's eyes grew heavy, and soon felt herself drifting to sleep.

"Takeshi...kun..." Kiyome tried to say out her next words, but soon collapsed forward as the spell took affect. Takeshi managed to catch her, and gave her a sorrowful look.

"I'm sorry." Takeshi told her sleeping form, before he sets Kiyome on the sofa. He gave a tired sigh, seeing what he just did.

"She's going to be mad after she wakes up." Erika told him.

"I know. But this is for the best, and there isn't much time to be wasted." Takeshi told her.

"I guess you're right. We gotta get moving if we don't want to waste anymore time." Erika told the young Magician.

"Right."

Opening the front door, he and Erika walked out. He took in a deep breath and exhaled, and summoned his Sacred Gear. Raising the whip up into the air, he whipped down the Whip of the King of Horses, and a short flash appeared.

Once the flash died down, it revealed to be a be horse-like creature. Its hind legs and lower body resembled that of a horse, but its front, front legs, upper body consisted that of an eagle with sharp talons.

"You know...when it comes to your Sacred Gear, it's honestly pretty weird. As long as you think of a creature that is at least horse related, then it can be summoned." Erika commented.

Before them was a creature known as as the hippogriff, a legendary creature told from various tales, ranging from Latin poet Virgil's Eclogues to by Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso.

Takeshi climbed onto his steed, and Erika jumped right on it and sat behind Takeshi. Takeshi took a deep breath, before grabbing the reigns. He then casted multiple Spider spells to attach to his body while binding to the hippogriff itself.

Takeshi's experience with flying steeds is little to none. However, Jingzhu told him that flying steeds are just like regular horses, and simply use the basics that he knows. With Takeshi's proficiency over the basics of horse riding at this point, the only thing Takeshi can do is leave it up to chance and help him get to Kuoh faster.

"Ready when you are!" Erika told him.

"Right! Let's go!" Takeshi said as he pointed forward, making the hippogriff give an eagle like screech before flapping its wings and taking off for the sky. The two made their ways towards Kuoh Academy.

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(Kuoh Academy Entrance)

After soaring through the skies of Kuoh, Takeshi managed to get to Kuoh faster than he imagined. Takeshi blinked when he noticed a barrier around the whole school, and squinted his eyes to see a bunch of people in front of the entrance of the school. Deciding to get closer to the ground, the hippogriff descended towards the ground. Once his steed landed, Takeshi gave a breath if relief.

"Made it." Takeshi said to himself. He then got a good look at the people behind the barrier, and blinked when he recognized that it was the Student Council in some formation, while concentrating on what he could guess the barrier. He then noticed the person in the center recognized who he is, and looked at him with a bit of surprise.

"Fuyushima-kun." Sona said with surprise. She lowered herself to the ground, and blinked at what she saw.

"...Is that a hippogriff?" Sona asked with a slightly surprised tone.

"In the flesh. Sort of." Takeshi answered, before he gave her a serious look. "What's the status of the situation right now?"

Sona frowned while glancing behind her.

"Rias and the others are off fighting Kokabiel, even now as we speak." Sona said, and the two heard explosions going off in the background. Sona frowned further.

"It's unfortunate we can't help in the battle, but we need to focus on maintaining the barrier so we can make sure that no danger will come in our out of this battle." Sona explained, before she turned to Takeshi.

"What about you? What are you doing here? And who is she?" Sona questioned while looking at Erika. Erika simply smiled while waving.

"Hello there. Just a friend of Takeshi-kun here. I'm here to help. Don't worry, I'm stronger than I look." Erika simply answered.

"Another cute chick around Fuyushima?" Saji muttered while having the energy to give an small annoyed and envied look at Takeshi, not that they noticed.

Takeshi gave a confirming nod towards Sona.

"You can trust her Kaichou. Erika-san and I decided that we will help in this battle. Kokabiel is an opponent not to be underestimated, and we need all the help we can get. I believe my powers as an Enchanter must give the group an edge." Takeshi told her. 'Not to mention, stall the Cadre before the Hakuryuukou shows up.' Takeshi thought.

Sona frowned upon hearing this. "...I won't question who exactly is she, considering the time we have. And unfortunately, you may be right. We need all the help we can get before reinforcements arrive. Even though I'm supposed to keep you out of trouble, I'm afraid with the situation, it's forcing my hand." Sona said with annoyance. Not towards him, but more at the situation. It was then a hole formed in front of them. Seeing the entrance granted for them, Takeshi whipped his reigns, making the hippogriff move forward.

As he moved past the barrier, Sona turned her head towards him.

"Fuyushima-kun...despite your past actions and what I've told you multiple times in the past...do no be reckless." Sona told him. Takeshi simply gave a small smile towards her.

"Honestly, if I had a dollar for every time I heard that, I might buy myself a new grimoire." Takeshi joked, before he commanded his steed to take off towards the battlefield.

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(School Courtyard)

"So what's the plan?" Erika asked as they glided over the school and on their way to Kokabiel.

"Kokabiel is someone we can't defeat easily. Right now, our best bet is to stall him while I prepare a way to nullify his spell." Takeshi told her.

"Well that certainly lighten the load off of mine. But I highly doubt Kokabiel will ignore if you so much as go for his spell." Erika told him.

"That's why hopefully, the others are fine. If I can coordinate them into distracting Kokabiel, then I might have a chance to do it." Takeshi commented, before he nodded to himself.

"Right now, the best way is to fight him in numbers. I'll even use my Sacred Gear to provide support." Takeshi told her.

"Sounds solid. So how are we going to enter the battle then? We can't exactly just show ourselves without a little flare if you know what I mean." Erika told him. Takeshi hummed, before he nodded.

"Good idea. I know the perfect spell to enter the battle." Takeshi told her.

With their short strategy meeting ending, Takeshi and Erika soon found the battle taking place, and saw Kokabiel standing right in the center of it. Meanwhile, behind him was a huge magic circle currently glowing with power. Rias and her Peerage, along with the Exorcists, were standing on the opposite side of the field. But it was to Takeshi's surprise that he didn't see Yukina there.

As soon as they saw their target, Takeshi raised his staff.

"Electrical Fuzz!" An electrical orb formed in front of Takeshi and launched towards Kokabiel.

Kokabiel looked up, only to see multiple electrical orbs flying towards him. He simply raised his hand to block the incoming projectiles, only to be caught guard when the results he expected didn't come.

FLASH!

The electrical orbs soon glowed brightly, bright enough to be considered a powerful flash bomb.

This is another modification that Takeshi made to his Enchanter spell list. The Electrical Fuzz, with all its intents and purposes, was specifically designed to deal electrical damage while having the orb continuously stick around the target and damage it over time. The spell itself is weak, so Takeshi decided to use that fact to his own advantage. Rather than having the spell focus on damage, he has the electrical orb focus on shining brighter, to the point where its considered an equivalent of a flash grenade.

So he focused more on blinding the enemy rather than damaging the enemy. A more useful and effective attack.

Kokabiel, being caught off guard by this blinding attack, was blinded for a few seconds

And those seconds were all Erika needed.

Erika soon jumped off the steed and headed towards Kokabiel. She then grabbed the handle of the sheathed sword, and soon took it out of its cloth. The blade she held is about 180 cm long, with the blade alone being 140 cm long.

It was then energy particles soon glowed around her, and Erika accelerated into higher speeds towards Kokabiel. As soon as she closed in on Kokabiel, she swung her blade down.

SLASH!

"Gh!" Kokabiel grunted in pain, feeling a large slash on his upper arm, despite him guarding at the last possible moment when he was blinded. Seeing that he was attacked and regaining his sight again, Kokabiel then swung behind him to deal with his new opponent, only to be met with nothing. He looked only to see Erika leaping back while having a small sly smirk on her face.

Before he could even say something about her, his sight soon picked up a faint glow beneath him. Looking down, only to see multiple orbs floating near him.

"Meteora!" Takeshi signaled his explosive bullet spells to explode.

Kokabiel was soon engulfed in a large explosion with the nature of the spell, enveloping him in energy and smoke afterwards.

Seeing that their surprise attack worked on Kokabiel, Takeshi then landed himself onto the ground near Rias, her Peerage, and the Exorcists.

"Takeshi-kun!?" Rias asked with surprise.

"Takeshi!" Issei responded with relief and joy.

"Sorry I'm late. I did my best to get here in time." Takeshi apologized to them.

"While it may be true, your timing is rather good." Akeno pointed out with a small giggle. Takeshi gave a small sheepish smile, before he frowned when he turned his head towards the smoke cloud and the large magic circle.

"...I've heard about the situation from Issei. How much time do we have before the spell detonates?" Takeshi asked. Rias frowned in response.

"Unfortunately, the spell started 15 minutes ago. We only have 15 minutes left before this whole town is leveled." Rias answered, before she looked at Takeshi's hippogriff.

"...Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that a hippogriff?" Rias couldn't help but ask when she looked at what Takeshi is riding on.

"Technically, yes." Takeshi answered. When he was met with questioning looks, he could only sigh. "It's a story that can be explained another time. Right now, I'm afraid all I did to Kokabiel was just merely stun him for a bit." Takeshi said as the smoke started to clear up.

"Unfortunately, Kokabiel does have some impressive endurance compared to other Cadres." Erika commented with a flat tone as she got near the group. Rias and the others looked at her with surprise.

"You're that Fallen Angel from that incident...!" Rias said with surprise.

"A Fallen Angel...!" Xenovia said with alarm as she attempted to grab her sword and ready herself, before she winced and fell onto her knee from her injuries.

"Yo, long time no see Gremory and Peerage. And hello to you Exorcists" Erika greeted with her usual chipper tone. "While I would love to stay and chat, I have some unfinished business with Kokabiel here. So don't worry, I'm not your enemy in this situation." Erika reassured them.

Takeshi saw their skeptical expressions and decided to defend Erika.

"Trust me Gremory-senpai. Erika is here to help. And even if it weren't the case, would you really want another opponent to fight." Takeshi reasoned. Rias narrowed her eyes upon hearing this, and gave a sigh.

"It seems I do not have much choice in the matter. However, that brings up another question. Why is there a Fallen Angel with you?" Rias asked. Hearing this question, Takeshi gave a nervous chuckle and small awkward smile.

"...Long story?" Takeshi answered with an unsure tone.

Before Rias could question Takeshi even further, another voice entered the scene.

"If you are done chatting amongst yourselves..." Kokabiel spoke up after being silent for a good amount of time, and walked out of the smoke. His clothes were slightly singed by the blast, but other than that, he was completely fine.

"I believe we have a battle to attend to." Kokabiel told them, before he noticed the two newcomers to the battle.

"And what is this? I was told there was a Magician in this town by Freed, and for you to be here. Amusing." Kokabiel said with amusement, before his went to Erika.

"Oh? Another Fallen Angel that intends to oppose me? Are you a siding with that fool Azazel?" Kokabiel questioned. Erika gave a small smirk as she prepped her sword.

"Well yeah. If I didn't, would I really attack you just now?" Erika retorted. Kokabiel then sneered at her.

"Pitiful. A Fallen Angel such as yourself choosing to stay dormant, where we're just on the brink of victory against those two disgusting factions? Such wasted potential, only to be wasted on the likes of the fool Azazel." Kokabiel said with distaste, before he his eyes widened a bit.

"Wait a moment...I recognize you now." Kokabiel said with recognition, making the other surprised upon hearing this save for Takeshi and Erika. He then began to chuckle while shaking his head.

"You're that pathetic excuse of a Fallen Angel, even for you to exist even among us proud and superior race." Kokabiel laughed at the fact, making Erika narrow her eyes upon hearing this, while Takeshi narrowed his eyes while clenching his fist, as he exactly knew where this is going.

"Oh here we go." Erika muttered to herself while rolling her eyes, hearing this sort of thing over and over again.

"So Azazel sent you of all people to thwart my plans? He must've been pretty foolish to send you of all people to stop me! He could've send a mere common 2 winged Fallen Angel to do the job, but he sent you? Ha! That fool never ceases to amuse and piss me off!" Kokabiel sneered, before he produced a sword of light in his hand.

"Well now, I'll have more of pleasure wiping out your pathetic existence rather than feeling disappointment!" Kokabiel said as he raised his sword, preparing to attack.

"Well then, sorry to say Kokabiel, but I'm afraid you won't enjoy that type of feeling." Erika retorted.

"Oh, and why is that?" Kokabiel said with amusement.

"Because your attempt at trying to insult me just scored us enough time for Takeshi-kun to set up this." Erika revealed.

Kokabiel then noticed a glow underneath him once more, but was all around him. It was then multiple azure thorns wrapped around Kokabiel. Kokabiel raised an eyebrow at the magical thorns wrapping around him.

"Do you really think simply thorns will bind me? It doesn't bother me in the least." Kokabiel said as he was about to break the thorns. However, Takeshi knew to act immediately.

Takeshi immediately dismissed his summon, making the the summon fade away in gold dust. The others were surprised by this, until the saw a flash appear in Takeshi's hand. Raising his whip, he then swung it down.

This new figure had the body of a regular horse. However, rather than having the neck and head of a typical horse, it was something different. Instead stuck out a body of a human man. It had the appearance of a calm-looking man. He wore an archaic style of dress, and had long grass green hair that was tied in small pony tail at the end of his hair. In his hand was an elegant looking bow.

Everyone was surprised by the sudden appeareance of this new figure, but Takeshi simply pointed forward Kokabiel.

"Shoot your bow, Chiron!" Takeshi commanded.

Chiron simply nodded, and pulled back the string of the bow, shooting the arrow at impressive speeds. It was fast enough to cut through one of the magical vines. And with the vine being cut, it led to its effect.

A magical explosion soon engulfed Kokabiel, making the Cadre actually grunt in pain upon receiving intense damage from the Enchanter spell. And with him being occupied by the damage, Erika soon sprung into action and closed in a Kokabiel.

"Wait...Chiron...as in, the legendary centaur from Greek Legend!?" Rias exclaimed with surprise, along with her Peerage and the Exorcists. Except for Issei, as he didn't know too much about mythology.

Chiron is indeed the legendary centaur from Greek mythology. The wisest of all centaur and teacher to many Greek heroes, especially the renowned Achilles. He is especially known for his medical and archery skills.

Takeshi didn't bother answering her as he dismissed Chiron, making the legendary centaur fade away in gold dust. Instead, his mind was already focused on his strategy, as he raised his whip once more, he whipped it down, resulting in another flash.

He only needed Chiron for his long range capability, able to cut through the thorns to damage and distract Kokabiel. The rest of the battle, if Takeshi predicts correctly, will not suit Chiron's battle style.

Replacing Chiron is a horse with a body similar to the Tikbalang. It had the head of a horse, and an upper humanoid muscular body. It's body tone is brown. It wore blue and golden bracelet. It had a tribe skirt. Its lower body consisted of horselike legs and hooves at the end, and it had a polearm axe.

"Assist Erika-san Mezuki!" Takeshi ordered.

The humanoid horse neighed loudly and sprinted forward that surpassed speeds of the Tikbalang on Overunner.

"Wait...Mezuki!? The Mezuki from Chinese Buddhist mythology!? Since when did you have a Mezuki as your familiar?!" Rias asked incredelously.

"I'll explain later!" Takeshi replied back while focusing on the battle at hand.

The horse-like figure he summoned this time is the Mezuki. This particular horse related creature did come from, like Rias mentioned, from Chinese Buddhist mythology. Along with the Gozuki, an ox headed humanoid demon, he works in the underworld under King Enma, where the creature punishes the damned, and also guards the gates to the Chinese afterlife, or Diyu in correct terms.

With the Mezuki joining the fray, the two weapon users engaged Kokabiel in combat.

Kokabiel produced two sword of light and raised them to defend himself. The Mezuki went first as it swung down its polearm, the blade clashing with Kokabiel. Kokabiel effortlessly, pushed back the guardian of the Chinese underworld, sending it back flying. Erika then followed up the attack by swinging in an upper diagonal slash. Kokabiel managed to shield himself from the attack, and simply smirked, seeing how easy it is.

However, he was soon caught off when an intense glow appeared underneath him once more. He once again grunted in pain upon feeling the impact of the spell.

Erika smirked, see how catching Kokabiel off guard with the Thorn Bind Hostage worked. She then decided to follow it up by going in once more, this time aiming for the thorns that are easy to hit. Mezuki followed that notion as well and followed Erika.

The two then slashed the other thorns, causing more magical explosions to follow up, making Cadre actually cry out in pain as he was taking this damage, and soon roared in frustration.

"How annoying!" Kokabiel roared as he created a shockwave of wind around him, pushing back Erika and Mezuki from the Cadre. The warmonger then looked down at the remaining thorns and grabbed hold of them.

"I'll just tear them off then!" Kokabiel then grabbed hold of the azure thorns and was about to tear them off. However, Takeshi knew this was going to happen as he charged up another spell.

"Electrical Fuzz!"

Takeshi then shot forth another Electrical Fuzz spell towards Kokabiel. Kokabiel looked up to see the spell coming towards him, and reflexively raised his arm to shield himself from the flash.

However, it never came, much to Kokabiel's confusion. He lowered his arm, only to be met face first with an electical fuzz to the face. It didn't do that much damage the Cadre, but he growled in annoyance.

"It was just a-!"

Kokabiel didn't get to speak another word as saw another Electrical Fuzz Orb coming at him. Seeing this, he decided to backhand the annoying orb so it won't be in his face again, but was again caught off guard when an Electrical Fuzz flashed brightly in front of him, blinding the man once more.

"GAH!" Kokabiel cried out in pain while he was blinded once more.

'Alright! Seems like my psychological tricks are working on Kokabiel!' Takeshi thought while pointing his staff at Kokabiel.

Takeshi's main aim is to catch his opponent off guard.

He knew Kokabiel is going to shield himself from another flash. That is why he tricked Kokabiel with using a regular electrical fuzz orb, hitting the man directly in the face with an electrical fuzz spell. Takeshi then followed it up with the second Electrical Fuzz orb this time with the flashbang effects.

'No matter how strong you are, as long as you can get caught off guard, we'll have an advantage!' Takeshi thought. Seeing how Kokabiel was occupied with Erika and the Mezuki, he turned to the rest of the group.

"Everyone, I need your help at the moment if we're going to stall Kokabiel and have reinforcements arrive." Takeshi told everyone, and frowned at the battered conditions they are in. "But seeing your conditions, it seems you guys aren't exactly fit to fight."

"Don't be too assuming Takeshi-kun. My Peerage and I can still-" Rias tried to protest, but she winced she grabbed onto her arm, probably due to an injury.

"I was afraid of this." Takeshi grimaced a bit, before he shook his head. "Listen, I have a plan to stall Kokabiel and stop that spell of his. That way, we have more time for backup to arrive."

"True, we don't have to defeat Kokabiel. We have to stall him till Maou's forces arrive." Yuuto agreed with that.

"Right. I have a plan that might work, but its pretty much a 25 precent chance. Unless you guys have better strategies." Takeshi told them. Rias frowned upon hearing this and looked at the condition her Peerage is in.

"Unfortunately, we are not in the most ideal condition for my plans to tackle the Fallen Angel." Rias responded while looking frustrated upon letting this happen to them.

"Don't worry. You guys don't have to do much." Takeshi answered. "I'm running low on magic as well. However, I need to ask. How much magic do you guys currently have?"

Everyone blinked at the question he asked, and Rias was the first one to answer.

"I used up a lot of energy after my last spell against Kokabiel." Rias answered.

"Same for me." Akeno followed.

"I have a decent amount." Yuuto spoke up. Koneko silently nodded in agreement as well.

"I can boost and use Gift to everyone, but that'll take time." Issei answered, making Takeshi blink at this.

"Gift?" Takeshi asked with a bit of confusion.

"It allows me to give my multiplied power to my allies or objects." Issei simply explained. This made Takeshi's eyes widened upon hearing this, and many ideas flew through his head at that moment.

"I see...alright, that's good! This is perfect!" Takeshi said with elation, making Issei blink in surprise upon hearing this.

"With Issei's ability, this might make my plan more effective and easier to pull off! This increased to a 75% chance that this will work!" Takeshi said to everyone.

"What plan are you talking about?" Rias asked with a confused tone.

"I'm going to use a spell to evenly distribute magic among us. This'll give me a recharge in my current magic reserves. This should allow me to use my magic to stall my battle with Kokabiel longer. Meanwhile, Issei..." Takeshi said as he turned to the Boosted Gear Holder.

"I need you to boost as much as you can and use Gift on me." Takeshi instructed, making Issei blink in surprise.

"Eh? But why?" Issei couldn't help but ask.

"I need all the energy I need if I'm going to put a stop to that spell. This is something you have to trust me on Issei." Takeshi asked with a determined tone. Hearing this, Issei simply nodded at him while also giving out a determined expresion.

"We got nothing else to lose! Alright! Boosted Gear, c'mon! Give it all you got!" Issei exclaimed while clenching his gauntlet.

Boost!

The Boosted Gear's green jewel shined upon this. Seeing how his plan is in action, Takeshi raised his staff to the air.

"Mana Channeling!" Takeshi casted, and soon, a blue ball formed on top of the staff.

It was then everyone around Takeshi soon glowed with a blue aura, and the blue energy soon flowed towards Takeshi's energy ball. All of the energy flowed into the ball, before flowing back out to everyone, including Takeshi.

Mana Channeling is an Enchanter spell that essentially drains all of the energy of the party, and then equally redistributes it to the party members, including Takeshi himself.

When he finished the spell, he clenched his fist and nodded to himself, seeing how this spell managed to restore a good amount of his reserves.

'Yosh! I'm recharged!' Takeshi thought to himself as he focused back onto the battle. Taking a good look at the battle, he couldn't help but frown at the conditions his summon and Erika are in.

Erika looks like she sustained a few light injuries from Kokabiel during their clash, but she is otherwise moving strong. Mezuki was in a similar state as Erika, and kept ignoring the wounds sustained on it.

Meanwhile, Kokabiel was simply fending off the two's attacks, all the while having injuries that were built up from the earlier battle and the damage done from Takeshi's spells. But Kokabiel was able to shrug all of that damage off as if it was nothing.

"Alright! Time to try this technique!" Erika said as her body glowed with energy, and suddenly charged forward Kokabiel with high speed. Kokabiel simply raised his sword to block her incoming attack.

"Yamatsunami!" Erika swung down her sword towards Kokabiel with full force.

CRASH!

It was to everyone's surprise when Erika's sword immediately broke through Kokabiel's sword and cuts cleanly and diagnolly across Kokabiel's torso, making the Cadre cry out in pain upon the unexpected damage he received. Seeing this, Erika just gave a small smirk upon the damage she dealt to Kokabiel.

Yamatsunami is a technique she developed where she utilizes the second type of magic she wields: Inertia manipulation. This is where she minimizes the inertia of her and the weapon while closing in on a target at high speed. At the point of impact, the sword technique amplifies the transfer of inertia with the weapon's inertia to strike the target. The overlapping false values of inertia could be further enhanced running from a farther distance. The speed received from the transfer of inertia is coupled with the weight obtained from increased inertia. At its maximum strength, Yamatsunami can be compared to a giant, 10 ton guillotine crashing down. This amount of force allowed Erika to cleanly cut through Kokabiel's swords.

Mezuki attempted to follow Erika's strike as well by raising its weapon to behead Kokabiel.

"Damn you!" Kokabiel roared before he folded his wings and blew back Erika and Mezuki with a great amount of force, making a distance between them. Erika grunted upon the force, but soon stopped herself when she dug her feet into the ground. Just as she did, her instincts screamed at her to look up, and she did.

When she did so, her eyes widened when there were a bunch of spears of light floating in the sky, all pointing towards her.

"Since you lack in the long range, you shall die by my spears!" Kokabiel then launched the spears towards Erika.

"Oh crap-!" Erika as she prepared herself for the incoming strike.

"Erika-san!" Takeshi cried out to her, trying to quickly think of a way to get Erika out of there, but he was too far away to cast a barrier spell to protect her.

Just before the spears could reach their target, Erika soon felt a sudden for pulling her body. She was soon pulled back by this sudden force, narrowly avoiding all of the incoming spear strikes as they call crashed into the ground.

"What the-?" Erika muttered to herself in surprise before she looked down at her body. Her eyes widened when she saw waist was wrapped with what appears to be wires.

"Where did those wires...?" Takeshi quietly asked himself while looking shocked by this as well. They soon heard a voice enter the scene.

"Honestly Takeshi, you REALLY have a knack of getting into troublesome situations. What am I going to do with you?" said a voice with amusement, making the others turn their head towards the voice.

Takeshi turned his head to the wide where the trees were, and his eyes widened to see who it is.

"Lubbock!?" Takeshi exclaimed in shock.

It was indeed Lubbock, who stood there while wearing long green jacket with a fur trimmed hood over a white and red ringer shirt and blue jeans with brown shoes.

"Yo!" Lubbock greeted with a cheerful tone.

"L-Lubbock, what are you doing here!? I though I texted you to evacuate when this town was in danger!" Takeshi told him.

Lubbock waved his finger while giving a "tsk tsk tsk" noise to him.

"See, that's a problem right there. Dude, seriously, look at the situation you're in right now. I think you need help in getting out of this situation than I do." Lubbock told him while giving him a flat look.

"But-!"

"Ah ah, not buts! I'm here, and I'm helping out, and that's final!" Lubbock told him while giving a stubborn look.

Takeshi could only look at Lubbock with his jaw slightly dropped, seeing how Lubbock is acting stubborn in helping him out of this situation. Lubbock then turn towards the Fallen Angels.

"I believe we haven't met, which is a same since you're pretty cute, but I'm afraid our uninvited guest has crashed the party. So I'm going to have to...!" Lubbock said before he pulled his arm like he was tugging something.

Kokabiel, who didn't say anything until now, was about to retort to Lubbock's words before suddenly felt his body being constricted, especially around his neck. Kokabiel just made a choking noise while trying to move his body. His strength seems to work against the wires, but the wires themselves were actually cutting into his skin. However, Kokabiel ignored the pain as he managed to grab onto the wires and was about to tear them off. Just as he did, however, Lubbock just smirked.

"By the way, I also ran into a friend of yours." Lubbock added while pulling on the wires to add more force.

'Friend?' Takeshi thought in confusion.

"Dual Slash!"

A figure spun into the air in front of the moon, and soon headed towards Kokabiel. The figure crossed two blades in an X-formation, delivering two slashes to Kokabiel's unguarded back, making the Cadre cry out in pain upon receiving the damage. The figure soon jumped away Kokabiel and landed in front of Takeshi and the others. When Takeshi saw who attacked Kokabiel, his eyes widened in shock once more.

"Asuka-chan!?" Takeshi exclaimed with surprise. Asuka simply turned to Takeshi while smiling.

"Hey there!" Asuka greeted.

"W-What are you doing here? I thought-!" Takeshi was about to repeat the same thing what he said to Lubbock, but Asuka answered his questions.

"When I received your text, I've decided to help you and protect this town! It's my duty as a shinobi to protect the innocent and bring justice!" Asuka told him with a resolute tone.

"B-But-!" Takeshi tried to reason once more, before Asuka puffed her cheeks cutely and gave a look that she won't change her mind.

"No buts! My decision is final!" Asuka told him.

Hearing this, Takeshi could only sigh tiredly while his shoulders slumped a bit.

'Is anyone else going to show up?' Takeshi couldn't help but think about it.

It was if fate decided to answer his question, as a figure closed in on Kokabiel from behind and attempt to attack him. However, Kokabiel simply created a sword to deflect the attack, making the figure than flip into the air and land in front of the group.

[...You were saying?]

'...I really need to stop thinking about these things.' Takeshi thought tiredly, before he felt relief and surprise on who he saw.

"It is unfortunate that I'm late. However, it is a good thing I am here." Yukina stated as she prepped her spear.

"You know her dude? She's pretty cute." Lubbock said while giving Yukina a good look, making Yukina slightly blush in embarrassment and gave him a light glare in return.

"She's an Exorcist I've met and worked alongside in a group. I was kind of wondering where she was when I arrived." Takeshi said while giving the young Exorcist a raised eyebrow.

"Unfortunately, I went off into a different direction when I confronted Kokabiel and the others. I then got a bit lost on trying to find this place." Yukina said while looking a bit ashamed for this to happen to her.

"Well, better late than never." Takeshi said with relief, before he looked at Lubbock and Asuka with a bit of worry, seeing how they're putting themselves into this situation.

"Well Takeshi, looks like everyone here wants to lend a hand." Erika commented with a sly smirk.

"I just want to keep everyone safe. Why would they...?" Takeshi sighed.

"Well, we want to keep you safe as well. Is that a crime?" Erika returned, making Takeshi open his mouth, before closing it realizing that he couldn't come up with an answer to that.

[You should accept it Takeshi. Just as how I desired to fight along and protect my comrades, I accepted their desire to fight alongside me.]

'...It's...It's feel kind of weird to be honest...' Takeshi thought.

[You better start getting used to it then.]

"ENOUGH!"

Kokabiel managed to tear of the wires, deeply cutting his fingers in the process, and soon gave out an aura of power.

"I have had enough of this! You people keep showing up like insects! It seems like I have to exterminate every single one of you!" Kokabiel yelled stormily.

"Looks like my wires couldn't hold him very long." Lubbock muttered.

"Even after all that, we still couldn't take him down!?" Asuka cried out in shock.

"It seems our opponent isn't called a Cadre for nothing." Yukina said as she prepped her spear.

"Unfortunately, Kokabiel is one tough bastard to put down. Even with those wounds, he'll still keep fighting on." Erika commented while prepping her sword once more.

Takeshi narrowed his eyes as he analyzed the situation.

'Alright...even though its dangerous for Lubbock and Asuka-chan to be here, they can actually help a lot. So with me, Erika-san, Lubbock, Asuka-chan, Yukina-san, and Mezuki on my side, we're a group of six. Erika, Asuka, Yukina, and the Mezuki are close range fighters. Lubbock and I are long range support at best. However, Lubbock is move offensive than mine, so that means...' Takeshi thought while strategizing what is the best thing to do.

Deciding what to do next, Takeshi raised his staff in the air.

"Overunner! Haste! Keen Edge! Reflex Boost!" Takeshi casted his three Enchanter spells onto the close quarter fighters of the group. Erika was given the Overunner, Asuka with the Haste, Keen Edge to the Mezuki, and Yukina with Reflex Boost.

"Lubbock, use your wires to keep Kokabiel's accuracy off. A second can count." Takeshi quietly told Lubbock, making Lubbock nod at him.

"Erika-san, Asuka-chan, Yukina-san, just wear Kokabiel down! You don't need to necessarily defeat him!" Takeshi told the two.

"You got it!" "Right!" "Roger!"

Takeshi didn't need to tell Mezuki anything as he can mentally command it.

With this strategy in mind, everyone sprung into action.

Erika was the first to close in on Kokabiel with her enhanced speed. Kokabiel responded by launching spears at her in order to prevent her close quarter skills of being any use. Erika used her agility to dodge every single one of them. Asuka and the Mezuki were flanking Azazel on both sides as they closed in on him. Kokabiel then hardened his feathers and used them to deflect the incoming strikes from them, making their blades bounce off.

Erika was within range with her sword and swung down her sword. Kokabiel then formed two swords that glowed intensely with light energy, strengthening them for Erika's technique. Just as he did, however, he soon felt a tug on his leg, and looked down to see wires pulling on his leg, making his balance slightly off.

Erika's blade collided with the two blades, not breaking this time. However, with the wires pulling on his leg, this forced Kokabiel to take a step back. Kokabiel growled as he pushed Erika off of him and then cuts the wires. He soon hovered above the ground and decided to deal with Asuka first. When he closed in on her, Asuka simply prepared her blades while they gave off a green aura.

"Hanzo Style: Blooming Slash!" she then spun herself to create a cyclone of blades, making Kokabiel to block the incoming storm of blades with his two swords. The cyclone grind against the blades before Asuka had to end her technique. When she ended it, she soon went on the offensive as she was slashing at Kokabiel with swift strikes thanks to the enhancement Takeshi gave her.

Kokabiel then deflected the blade and attempted to strike her, before he simply blocked a strike coming from his right side with his right wing, blocking the strike from Mezuki's polearm, while also using his other wing to block an incoming strike from Yukina.

"Yamatsunami!" Erika used this chance to close in on Kokabiel once more as he occupied with the other two, closing in on Kokabiel. Kokabiel, seeing her incoming, formed a spear of light in his hand and was about to use to to stab behind him. However, he soon forced himself to block an incoming strike, deflecting an incoming projectile.

Looking to his left, he saw that it was in the shape of a spear. The strange part was the this spear looked like it was entirely made up of wires.

Lubbock simply used his gloves to pull back the wires, making the spear break apart into many wires and returning back to him.

Erika used this chance and swung down her sword to strike Kokabiel. Kokabiel used a gust from his wings to push off Asuka, Yukina, and the Mezuki off of him and made himself move forward, making the strike miss.

Seeing that she missed, Erika simply gave a small smirk when she saw this.

"Tsubamegaeshi!" Erika's blade surprisingly bounced off of the floor and headed straight towards Kokabiel, landing a direct cut on the Cadre's back, making the Kokabiel cry out in pain.

Kokabiel then roared with rage and frustration and blew away the fighters with his wings.

"Someone sure is pissed..." Lubbock muttered while trying to figure out the best time to deploy his wires.

Takeshi on the other hand, narrowed his eyes.

'I wish I can help more in this situation with my bullets, but I need to reserve my magic in order to stop Kokabiel's spell. The thing is, I don't know if Issei is...'

"Takeshi!" Issei's called out to him, making Takeshi turn his head towards the Boosted Gear holder. He blinked when Issei was struggling to hold the power he has.

"I'm at my limit! I think I've boosted enough times...!" Issei told him, making Takeshi realize now is the time to execute his plan.

"That's good enough Issei! Now Gift me!" Takeshi told him.

"You got it! Transfer!" Issei held out his gauntlet towards him, showering Takeshi in a green light.

Transfer!

Takeshi's eyes widened when he soon received the energy from Issei, and he felt overwhelming energy flow through his body.

'A-Amazing...! Issei's been storing this much power...!?' Takeshi thought to himself in shock.

[That's a Longinus for ya. As must as I hate to admit it, the Boosted Gear is a rather powerful Sacred Gear whose power surpasses even yours. And its a Dragon Type...] Jingzhu huffed, a bit miffed before deciding to put aside his pride while focusing on the battle he witnessing.

Takeshi clenched his hand, before he nodded to himself as he looked at the magic circle before him. Takeshi turned to Lubbock.

"Cover me!" Takeshi told Lubbock as he soon sprinted towards the circle.

"Takeshi!?" Lubbock said as he was surprised by Takeshi's change in action.

With the given energy from Issei, Takeshi's body felt more lighter than he ever felt, as he found himself running at speeds he never thought before. Within a few seconds, he found himself at the center of the circle.

'Alright! Here goes nothing! Guys, please hold out a bit longer!' Takeshi thought before he slammed his staff onto the ground.

"Mana Leak!" Takeshi's staff soon glowed with a blue aura, before the aura began seeping into the magic circle.

As soon as the energy went into the magic circle, the large magic circle itself soon flickered a bit, before yellow energy began leaking out of it at multiple parts. Seeing this, Takeshi's eyes widened.

'Alright! It's working!' Takeshi thought, seeing how his plan is working.

It was then the magic circle itself began to slowly shrink in size, the spell itself losing energy.

Kokabiel then noticed what was going on and looked at Takeshi.

"So that was your plan along! You damn brat!" Kokabiel said as he turned his attention towards Takeshi.

"Don't forget about me!" Erika said as she closed in on Kokabiel with her sword prepared. Kokabiel simply swung his sword with enough force to make Erika's blade move to the side.

Before she could do anything, she cried out in pain when Kokabiel planted his foot on her sides, sending her flying right into a tree.

Mezuki went in to cover for Erika, but was soon pushed back by Kokabiel's strike, sending it grind on its hooves on the ground. Just as it stopped, Mezuki attempted to move in before it was then impaled from behind from a spear of light. Multiple spears of light were in the sky, and rained down upon the Mezuki, making the Mezuki neigh in pain while being impaled by multiple spears. It soon collapsed to the ground, neighing weakly before collapsing. It soon faded away in gold dust.

Kokabiel then launched his spear at Asuka. She jumped to the side to narrowly avoid the incoming spear, but her eyes widened when the spear soon glowed and exploded right in front of her, sending her flying and rolling onto the ground.

He soon did the same thing to Lubbock as he launched a spear at him. Lubbock narrowly dodged the spear as he rolled out of the way, before he suffered the same effect like Asuka as he took full brunt of the explosion, sending him flying and rolling onto the ground.

He soon formed multiple spears of light above him and aimed them all at Yukina, her eyes widened at the incoming strike. The spears then launched, and Yukina spun her spear to deflect each incoming spear. However, one lone spear manage to get through her defenses and left a cut on her right thigh, making her wince in pain upon receiving the damage. She soon leapt back, and looked like she was struggling to stand up.

Seeing how the others were taken out, Takeshi's eyes widened when he saw Kokabiel turn his attention now on him.

"I commend you brat. You've actually managed to give me some trouble despite how weak you are. But in the end, you humans are all the same! Made to die before the Fallen Angel's might!" Kokabiel formed a spear of light in his hand and prepared to throw it.

'Not good! I can't stop now, otherwise the spell will still activate. But at the same time...!' Takeshi thought in panic as he was now stuck in this situation. Yukina stepped in front of him while her right leg looked like it had a hard time standing him, and raised her spear in a defensive manner. Takeshi looked at her with surprise when she did this.

"Die-!"

"Smashing Pumpkin!"

It was as if some higher force decided to aid Takeshi once more, as a large pumpkin fell from the sky and crashed straight down into Kokabiel, catching him off guard as he didn't expect it. When the pumpkin landed, it soon glowed with energy, and then proceeded to explode, engulfing Kokabiel in the explosion.

Takeshi, completed taken aback by this sudden intrusion, could only gape at what just happened before him.

"Nya~! Did I miss the party?"

Everyone looked up towards the sky, and soon found a figure in in front of the moon while sitting on what appears to be a giant pumpkin.

This figure revealed to be a young woman tall with large breasts and an alluring figure. She has short violet hair with long strands on each side of her face that curl up and around to resemble her tail. She wore a bauble that can be seen below her neck. She has a set of purple cat-like ears with pink tips instead of human ears, which are initially hidden by her hat. Her black witch's hat coils around at the end and retains her bright yellow cat eyes. She also has two curled up purple cat tails. She was dressed in a witch outfit, which consists of a black-blue dress that shows off her shoulders and wraps around her neck, long, open sleeves that reveal her hands and shoulders, a short skirt with a white frill and long high-heeled boots that curl upwards at the toes.

Everyone looked at the new person who entered the fray, but the young woman didn't pay attention to any of them. Except for one person.

"Nya, as much as I love having attention, don't you have something important to do?" the young woman asked while looking towards Takeshi with a smile.

Takeshi blinked at the woman's words before he realized he realized what she meant. He soon focused on the magic circle beneath him, and soon focused his spell once more.

With the Mana Leak in progress, the magic circle began to lose a lot of energy to the point where it is flickering a lot. Not before long, the magic circle was that of a 5 feet diameter.

When Yukina saw this, she soon took this chance and pointed her spear towards the magic circle.

"I, Sword Shaman of the High God and priestess of the Lion, beseech thee. Dawn light of exorcism, spirit wolf of snowy mist, grant me the divine might of thy steel, that I may smite a hundred evil spirits!" Yukina chanted, before multiple magic circles appeared at the end of her spear.

"Hah!" Yukina then thrusted her spear into the magic circle, and energy sparked when the spear and magic circle came into contact. Takeshi looked at her with surprise on what she was doing.

"My spear is able nullify magic! Thanks to you, it makes nullifying Kokabiel's spell much easier! Remember Takeshi-san, this is our fight!" Yukina told him with a determined tone and expression. Takeshi looked at here with surprise, before he nodded at her and focused on what he should be doing.

With the combined efforts of Takeshi's spell and Yukina's nullifying spear, the magic circle soon flickered wildly while magic energy leaked everywhere.

Soon enough, the magic circle itself broke apart, disappearing into golden particles.

"Alright!" Takeshi exclaimed with victory.

"We did it!" Yukina said while looking elated on what she accomplished.

"I can't believe it...he pulled it off...!" Rias said with surprise, along with her Peerage who looked completely surprised by this.

"To think a Magician was able to pull this off..." Xenovia muttered.

"Heh...!" Erika simply gave a proud smirk towards Takeshi while leaning against the tree for support while holding onto her side.

"Hurray..." Lubbock said while he was lying on the floor while putting his arm up in the air.

"We...did it..." Asuka said in relief as she managed to herself up.

The young woman's expression didn't change as she kept smiling towards Takeshi.

The moment, unfortunately, ended quickly when rubble and smoke was blown off of Kokabiel. The Cadre himself looked blooded and bruised all over his body, his clothes was burnt and torn, and his hair was a mess.

Kokabiel just looked at all of them with a pissed expression.

"...So...you destroyed my magic circle, huh?" Kokabiel said to all of them. None of them answered Kokabiel as they stood there with the guard up, so Kokabiel just growled.

"Well it doesn't matter! Since it's gone, I guess I have no choice but to wipe this town out myself!" Kokabiel said as he soon took off for the sky and stopped there. Raising his hands, a giant spear of light soon formed in the sky.

"...This isn't good. If he launches that, this whole area is going to be reduced to rubble." Erika commented while narrowing her eyes at the spear before her.

"What!?" Asuka cried out in shock.

"Oh c'mon, give us a break!" Lubbock shouted in indignation.

"Oh no...I spent all of that effort and magic into destroying his spell!" Takeshi muttered with alarm.

"This isn't good...!" Yukina said with alarm.

Just before Kokabiel could launch his spear, a new voice entered the scene.

"Fufufu. Interesting."

It was at this point that everyone still couldn't stop themselves from surprised by newcomers to this scene.

Everyone looked up towards the sky, and saw a figure floating up in the sky. It descended while cutting the abyss sky by sending out a white light.

A white thing was glowing, which didn't even have a slight shadow in this dark night. It was floating off the ground by an inch. A white plated armour. There were jewels across various locations on the armour. It also had armour on the face so we couldn't see the expression of this person. The eight wings of light growing from the back were giving out a divine glow in the dark night. It had a different shape and colour, but it was similar to the Boosted Gear's Scale-mail.

[Well well, that's the Divine Dividing, huh?] Jingzhu commented.

'...The Vanishing Dragon!' Takeshi thought in recognition and surprise.

"…Vanishing Dragon." Kokabiel said while making a sound with his tongue by the presence of the white armour. "One of the Longinus, "Divine Dividing"… If you are already in armour mode it means that it's in the Balance-Breaker state. "Divine Dividing Scale-mail". Just like the "Boosted Gear" it truly is an annoying thing."

Takeshi gave a look towards Erika, and Erika simply gave a small smile while nodding, as if saying that that things will finally be resolved.

"…So you were attracted to the "Red". Vanishing Dragon. If you get in my wa..."

Before Kokabiel finished his sentence, his black wing went up into the air. Then there was blood coming out of him.

"It's like the wing of a crow. It has a disgusting colour to it. Azazel's wing is much darker and has the colour of everlasting darkness you know?"

Takeshi's eyes widened when he watched the Vanishing Dragon move in speeds so fast that it was enough to catch Kokabiel off guard.

"Y…You! My wing!" Kokabiel cried out in rage and pain upon having his wing plucked off, but the Vanishing Dragon laughed quietly.

"It's a symbol that you have fallen. There's no need for wings for those who stooped down even below the earth, right? Are you still planning to fly?"

"Vanishing-Dragon! Are you opposing me!"

Kokabiel created a countless number of spears of light in the sky, but Vanishing-Dragon wasn't intimidated by it.

"My name is Albion."

(Divide!)

The aura around Kokabiel got reduced immediately, and half of the spears of light in the sky also vanished.

"One of the abilities of my "Divine Dividing". It halves the power of those I touch every 10 seconds. Your power will become my power. You don't have time! If you don't defeat me quickly, you will become so weak that you can't even beat a human."

(Divide!)

"Damn you!"

He tried to attack the Hakuryuukou with a spear of light and a sword of light, but Hakuryuukou swung his arm to the side and vaporised them. While Kokabiel was having a hard time fighting, his powers were getting halved.

(Divide!)

After a few sounds, Kokabiel's movement fell so low that Takeshi believed that with Issei's Gift given to him once more, he can use his offensive spells to give Kokabiel some serious wounds. The Hakuryuukou sighed.

"…Already the power of a middle-level fallen-angel, huh. Boring. I thought I could have a bit more fun…"

Albion disappeared into a blur while creating tracks of light.

THRUST!

The Hakuryuukou's fist went deep into Kokabiel's stomach. Kokabiel's body bent a lot and he vomited on the ground.

"…I…Impossible… me…"

"What? You said a common phrase of a grunt. "Impossible? Me?" What's after that? "This can't be?" Is it?" the Hakuryuukou laughed while sounding amused by this.

"Finally, someone gets it." Erika agreed with the White Dragon.

"Wow, he just got owned." Lubbock said while whistling upon the sight.

"...Amazing..." Asuka quietly said with awe.

"Agreed." Takeshi said while looking at this one-sided fight.

The Hakuryuukou dug his fist further into the Cadre, making the Cadre cry out in pain.

"I was told by Azazel to take you back even if by force. You acted a bit too much."

"You! So that's how it is! Azazel… Azazeeeeel! I…I…!"

THRUST!

The Hakuryuukou's punch hit straight in the Kokabiel's face, making Kokabiel crumbled down and fell onto the ground. It was then the Hakuryuukou put the defeated Kokabiel on his shoulder.

"Looks like I have to carry Freed as well. There are things I need to ask him. We will deal with him after that." the Hakuryuukou walked toward Freed, who was on the ground, was then picked up and carried by the White Dragon's arm. He then tried to fly up while spreading his wings of light after retrieving the two.

"Are you ignoring me, huh, white-one." a voice came from Issei's Boosted Gear, with its jewel shining.

(So you were awake, red-one.)

"We finally met, but in a situation like this."

(That's all right. It's our destiny to fight one day. Things like this happen.)

"But white-one. I can't feel the hostility from you like before."

(Red-one. Your hostility is incredibly low as well.)

"Looks like both of us have things that interest us more than fighting."

(That's how it is. We should be having fun by ourselves for a while. It's not bad like this sometimes, right? Let's meet again, Ddraig.)

"That would also be fun, huh. See you then, Albion."

With the conversation over between them, Takeshi finally gave out a breath and collapsed to the ground, landing on his butt.

"It's finally over." Takeshi said with relief and exhaustion.

"Yep, that's one hell of a fight we got in buddy." Lubbock said while kneeling next to Takeshi and patting him on the shoulder.

"No kidding." Asuka said she sat on her knees with her legs sprawled out.

"You can say that again." Erika agreed, before turning to Takeshi. "Well now, I guess your plan worked. It was rather risky, but you've managed to pull through." Erika told him with an approving smile. Takeshi simply chuckled at her.

"There were a few close calls though, but we won in the end, right?" Takeshi pointed out while also smiling at Yukina for her efforts as well. Yukina simply smiled and nodded at him.

"I guess. Seriously, you and your luck. It gets the better of you, yet at the same time, it supports you. Weird on how things work out like that." Erika pointed out.

"Yep. It's pretty weird like that." Takeshi chuckled.

Meanwhile, the Hakuryuukou finished his conversation with Issei.

"You need strength to understand everything. Get stronger, my rival-kun, I will fight you one day." the Hakuryuukou told Issei, before turning towards Takeshi and his group.

"You." the Hakuryuukou said while pointing towards Erika. The red haired Fallen Angel simply blinked at the gesture and pointed at herself.

"Me?"

"Yes. I was told by Azazel that you are to return back to headquarters now, considering that this whole situation is taken cared of." the Hakuryuukou told her. When Erika heard this, she simply sighed.

"Damn, I guess my vacation is over then." Erika said, before she turned to Takeshi, who stood up and looked at her in surprise.

"You're leaving then?" Takeshi asked. Erika simply gave a small giggle.

"I guess so. Now that things are finally over, I don't have to worry about anyone killing me." Erika answered, before she extended her hand towards Takeshi.

"I gotta thank ya. You make things interesting when you're around. It's just never a dull moment with you." Erika told him, making Takeshi chuckle at this and return the handshake.

"What can I say? Trouble loves to find me." Takeshi said, before giving a grateful nod. "Thanks for all your help, Erika-san."

Erika gave a light friendly scoff as she gave him an expectant look.

"At this point, I think you're free to call me without any honorfics. I could do without it." Erika told him. Takeshi blinked upon this, before he simply nodded at her.

"...Alright then Erika." Takeshi answered while giving a friendly smile.

Erika simply gave a small smile as she turned around and made her ways towards the Hakuryuukou. She nodded at the armored figure, and then the two took off towards the sky, disappearing from everyone's sight.

As soon as they did, everyone soon gave out a breath of relief to see that things have been settled.

"It's...It's finally over." Takeshi gave a breath of relief, before he gave a small laugh. "I can't believe it...we've managed to save the town."

"Yep. And took a group of us misfits to just mess with Kokabiel." Lubbock chuckled.

"Who are you calling a misfit?" Asuka pouted, before she turned to the other person of the group. "So um...are we or are we not going to address her, who just showed up out of nowhere?"

Hearing this, the group noticed this and turned to look at the young woman who was simply watching them with an amused and catlike smile.

"Oh right..." Takeshi said, before he walked towards the mysterious woman. He gave a thankful smile.

"I don't know who you are, but thank you for the help." Takeshi said to the young woman. The young woman then pouted as she leaned towards Takeshi.

"You're so mean. Nyah~, don't you recognize me?" the young woman asked.

Her sentence got multiple reactions from the group.

Takeshi blinked upon confusion, before he turned to the group to see if they were referring to them. The group just looked just as lost as him. So he turned back to her and point his finger at himself.

"Me?" Takeshi asked.

"Yes, I'm talking to you master!" the girl chirped with a cheerful expression.

"M-Master?" Takeshi repeated with a befuddled tone.

"M-Master!?" Asuka yelled out in shock.

"Master!? You lucky son of a-, how come you didn't tell me you had a hot chick serving you!?" Lubbock shouted with envy.

"Takeshi-san, I never knew you had such a lecherous side..." Yukina muttered while narrowing her eyes at him.

"Hold on, this is all news to me as well!" Takeshi told the rest of the group in his defense, before he turned to the young woman who simply enjoyed the situation she is creating right now.

"What do you mean I'm your master? I never met you until now." Takeshi told her, trying to figure out who she is. The young woman simply pouted before she smiled once more.

"Of course we met! I even met you a long time ago when you were a toddler!" the woman told him.

"Toddler?" Takeshi was becoming more confused on where she is going with this.

"Of course. I was all on my own, fending for myself with no roof to cover me and keeping me warm." the young woman said with a mock somber tone and fake tears, before her expression brightened as she leaned in. "Until you came and took me in! I'll never forget your kindness!" the young woman told him, before her eyes gleamed as she decided to give him one more piece of crucial information.

"You even gave me a name when you decided to keep me in your home." the young woman told him.

Takeshi blinked upon hearing this, as his mind was processing what she just said.

'I took her in...met her when I was a toddler...I even gave her a name...wait...!' Takeshi thought to himself in shock as he finally recognized who this woman was.

"...Blair-chan...is that you...!?" Takeshi asked in shock.

"Wait, Blair-chan...isn't that the name of the cat you have back at...home..." Lubbock said before his eyes widened when he looked at Blair.

The woman smile grew wider when Takeshi recognized her.

"Nyah~, you got it master!" Blair cheered, before she done something that Takeshi never expected her to do.

She just jumped onto Takeshi and stuffed his face with her ample bosom.

"MPH!?" Takeshi made a shocked noise.

"Oh! I was so worried master! Taking on a Cadre so recklessly~! I was then I realized you were in danger and I've decided I could no long hide myself any longer! So me, being your pet, has decided to protect her loving master!" Blair chirped while continuing to smother his face with her breasts, while Takeshi was struggling to breath and get himself out of her grip.

"You lucky son of a bitch!" Lubbock shouted with envy.

"Yeah, I know, right!" Issei shouted in agreement and envy, before he cried out in pain as Rias was spanking him.

"Uh..." Asuka didn't know what to say of the situation as she is watching her friend being smothered by Blair's well developed breasts.

Yukina looked like she didn't know what to make of the situation.

Thankfully, for Takeshi, that moment didn't last long as another voice entered the scene.

"TAKESHI FUYUSHIMA!"

Unfortunately, that voice that broke into the scene was the voice Takeshi wanted to confront a lot later in time.

Blair blinked as she loosened her grip on Takeshi, making Takeshi separate himself from the young woman. Slowly turning around while lightly sweating, he soon saw the person making her way towards him.

Kiyome looked like she just ran a marathon, as her face was completely red while sweat was running down her face. She was heavily panting as she was trying to catch her breath.

It looked like she just ran all the way here with no break, which is what she actually did.

She slowly made her way towards him while she was glaring at him. Takeshi gulped nervously while the others parted ways, seeing how pissed off she is.

"Wait, Kiyome-chan, I can explain-" Takeshi tried to reason with her and calm her down.

SLAP!

The sound of a slap resounded through the air, and was followed along a thud. Takeshi stood there while holding onto his cheek, which had a red hand mark on it.

"...Yeah, I deserved that." Takeshi said while holding onto his cheek in pain. Kiyome was breathing quite heavily before she inhaled a large amount of air into her. As soon as she did, she exploded.

"What were you thinking!? Here you are, running off to a dangerous situation, trying to get yourself killed! Again!" Kiyome practically yelled at him with no reservation, not caring about the people around her.

"Kiyome-" Takeshi tried to calm her down, but she continued.

"Do you know how much you practically scare me whenever I find out that your life is in danger!? Do you think I enjoy seeing you risk your own life over something that could kill you at any moment!?" Kiyome questioned angrily.

"Kiyome-"

"Well I don't! I swear, you just keep on building up stress to the point where I believe I'm going to get white hair! I'm too young to be worrying about this sort of thing!" Kiyome continued.

"I'm-" Takeshi tried to speak up to calm her down.

SLAP!

Another slap was delivered to his face once more, this time on his other cheek, leading to two red hand marks on both sides.

One thing is for certain, it is that Takeshi learned that Kiyome is a lot more stronger than she looks, probably due to the fact that she tames beast for a living. He inwardly worried if this will lead to any serious bruises, but he puts that in the back of his mind as he focused on the current situation he is in.

"And you actually had the nerve to hypnotize me to sleep, just so you can run off and try to be the hero! There are so many things wrong on what you just did there!" Kiyome yelled at him.

It was at that point that she breathed a bit heavily from all the yelling she did at Takeshi. Takeshi, on the other hand, just looked at her with an owlish look. Seeing that he had the chance to speak up, he decided the first thing that came to mind.

"...Did you let it all out of your system?" Takeshi couldn't help but ask.

A moment of silence passed between the two.

SLAP!

Takeshi soon felt his right cheek return with a new sore, feeling the sting from the third slap.

"...Ow."

Kiyome just stared at him with a neutral expression for a moment, before she lowered her arm.

"...Yeah. I'm done." Kiyome told him, and then proceeded to exhale. "...Huh. All that running and yelling really does let it out of your system."

"Also the slaps." Takeshi pointed out.

"And the slaps." Kiyome added in, before she placed her hands on her hips and gave him an expectant look, looking like a mother expecting her child to explain the mess he caused.

He sighed, feeling relieved that he doesn't have to suffer any more of her slaps. He then gave her an apologetic look.

"...I won't make any excuses on what I did. I understand full well on how much I made you worry with my actions. My friends," Takeshi said while glancing at Lubbock and Asuka, "taught me this. I know its a bit rather late, but I empathize on how you felt when you see your friends putting themselves in dangerous situations."

Kiyome didn't say anything, but her expression told him that she wanted to hear more from him.

"...The only thing I can do is apologize for what I've done, and what I did in making you worry. Honestly, that makes me feel ashamed of myself, seeing how I betrayed my own ideals." Takeshi said with a remorseful tone.

"Betray your ideals?" Kiyome repeated with a confused expression.

"I'm supposed to make everyone happy. But in the process, I ended up making you unhappy throughout this whole incident, just so I can keep others happy and safe. It's rather cruel irony, I'm trying to bring contentment to everyone while I end up making a few unhappy." Takeshi said with a bitter smile, before he gave her a resolute expression.

"But Kiyome-chan, that is exactly why I had to to this. I'm doing this so I can protect your happiness." Takeshi told her.

"My happiness?" Kiyome repeated with confusion.

"Of course. Kokabiel was going to destroy this town, and possibly extend his destruction to other surrounding areas. Even if you did evacuate the area, there is still a chance his destruction could've reached you." Takeshi told her, and clenched his fist and put it close to his heart.

"You're important to me Kiyome-chan, and I would do anything it takes to protect your happiness. That is why I've decided to confront Kokabiel." Takeshi told her with a resolute tone.

Kiyome looked at him with a surprised look, and much to her surprise, she felt her cheeks heat up.

"I-I see." Kiyome replied, before she huffed and gave him a stern look, which was a bit weak and didn't have as much heat as earlier.

"But that still doesn't change the fact on what you did." Kiyome pointed out. Takeshi nodded in understanding.

"I know. I can't undo my actions, and I take full responsibility for it. The only thing I can do in this situation is to apologize for what I've done and do what it takes to make it up to you." Takeshi said with an apologetic look.

Silence passed between the two, before Kiyome sighed tiredly and shook her head.

"I swear Takeshi-kun, you're just going to be the death of me." Kiyome told him, before she closed the distance between them and brought him into a hug.

"...I'm just glad your safe." Kiyome softly whispered that only he could hear.

"Sorry for worrying you." Takeshi told her while patting her on the back.

The two were in their own little world while everyone just stood there a bit flabbergasted on what they witnessed.

"...Huh. It feels like I just witnessed a lover's quarrel and then they made up right on the spot." Lubbock muttered, before he just threw his hands up in the air. "You know what, forget it. I had a long night, and I'm pretty sure a good night's rest will do." Lubbock said as he walked away.

"Same." Asuka agreed as she begun walking away, as she was drained from what she just experienced.

"I guess I'll just wait for master to come home then." Blair said as she sat on her pumpkin and started floating away.

"...Are we sure that they're not a couple?" Issei asked.

"Shhh, just leave them be Issei." Rias told him sternly, as if she knew what was going on between the two of them and wanted to watch it progress further, before she decided to continue spanking him, much to Issei's displeasure.

The reinforcements from the Maou arrived thirty-minutes after everything ended, and the conflict with the Cadre has come to an end.

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It's over! It is finally over! I'm finally done with this damn arc that he stumped me for so long! I finally got this nightmare out of my way! Thank god!

Man, this took WAY too long to deal with. I apologize to those who had to sit in this arc for quite a while now. It's kind of hard trying to imagine the battle with Kokabiel with Takeshi's powers and everyone else involved. This is the best I can do.

On the other hand, I have some good news.

During my time stuck in this arc, I actually got really bored and started writing ahead on what would happen after this arc. And let me tell you, I kind of wrote a lot.

For the next upcoming chapter, I've actually written quite a lot where it is halfway done. Hopefully, progress won't be as slow as before, but I hold no promises.

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Visual References

Chiron - Think of Chiron from Type Moon, but his lower body is that of a horse

Mezuki - Think of Mezuki from Yu Gi Oh.

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Something I want to try out

So...something has been on my mind lately.

Sometimes, I have plot bunnies running through my head. And I tell myself, damn, I have to write this. And I think to myself, wow, this story is actually pretty good to write.

Problem is, however, is that I have no idea how to write that story into DxD fanfics.

It was then I came across BonesBoy15 Olympian One Offs, where it offers a bunch of one shots revolve around Percy Jackson x Naruto fanfics. Reading that fanfic lead me to thinking of doing a similar thing to BonesBoy15's idea.

You think I should do this, or should I just shelve my fanfic ideas until I find interest in it? The one shots are adoptable, or I might be able to develop into into a legitimate fanfic. I don't know, it all depends on how I feel about it.

What do you guys think? Let me know in the reviews.

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