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[DISCLAIMER]: I do not own Highschool DxD and Ajin. They all belong to their respective owners. Any and every names or plots that are similar to other fics or movies are coincidental (or is it?) while the only thing I owned is my OC.

The sun reddened as the sky began to darken. Raynare was on the rooftop of the Abandoned Church staring at the beautiful sunset on the horizon.

She watched the once beautiful sky of sunset darkened into the void of night once more. In that moment she reminisced the events that made her who she was today.

A beautiful angel, she once was. Like any other angel, she was, once, pure, innocent, kind, and loyal.

—But it was not for long.

When the Great War started, she watched as her fellow angelskin were ordered to fly straight into war's teeth. She watched as her brothers and sisters in arms fight and fall as she herself fought to either survive, help or avenge her fallen comrades.

Everything was ordinary at first. As an angel, she had a job to do, which was following any order God had given, and did so in those days in utmost perfection like any other angels would.

But one day, Raynare changed. Whenever she finished her duty perfectly that made either God or her leader smile and praise her for her accomplishments, she grew a certain addiction toward the warm feeling of being praised.

Yet, this addiction was also the reason of her fall. Her addiction grew so bad that she hated it whenever she saw someone else gets a praise for doing their job.

And thus, with the darkening feathers of her once pure white wings, she was casted out of Heaven for committing one of the most grievous of all crimes known to the Angelskin; she committed a sin; the Sin of Envy.

She fell from grace and seek shelter in the territories of the Grigori. The leader, Azazel, took her under his wings and comforted her in her shocked state when she fell from grace.

Needless to say, she became a loyalist of the Grigori and devoted herself to live for and only for her new master, Azazel.

However, Fate wasn't always kind. Her extreme loyal behavior caused her to be an object of ridicule by other Fallen Angels around her. It didn't help that in the peak of the Great War, Azazel was too busy taking command to have a time to be with her, and thus he didn't know what she was going through.

For two years she endured. For two years she waited. She waited for a chance to prove herself worthy of the attention of her master, but then, when the war was declared over, her dreams were soon crushed when she believed that she had missed her chance.

Azazel went off to heaven-knows-where, while she had to serve other leaders that she did not pledge her life to as she endured the never-ending chorus of insults from other Fallen Angels. For another few years, she endured and cried in those nights; she was alone.

But then, like a light shining upon a desperate souls, comes the person that became her savior.

Yes, a savior that had given her a new goal. A savior that gave her this mission, for the sake of getting her master's, Azazel's, attention once more.

With the Twilight Healing Sacred Gear, she'll make sure that she'll get all of his attention and show those that had once ridiculed her what she is capable of.

She'll get what she wants and she'll make those that have wronged her pay for what they have done.

No matter the cost.

"Oi, Raynare, where are you?!"

A feminine voice interrupted her thoughts. She was a Fallen Angel with blonde hair that was tied into a short twin-tail and wearing a gothic Lolita outfit.

"There you are! I've been looking all over the basement for you!"

"What do you want, Mittlet?" Raynare asked irritably.

"Geez, calm down, will you? I came to tell you that those stray exorcist grunts are still preparing the necessary equipment for the Ritual, judging from how it looks, I'd say it'll begin in one or two hours."

"Good. Now, I want you, Dohnaseek, and Kalawarner to guard in the forest around the Church. Since Asia fraternized with those disgusting devil, I want you to be ready for if they were to attack."

"Fine… But."

"But?"

"What about… her?"

Ah, yes, how could she forgot? The person that have been provoking her envy ever since she was ordered to watch over the Ritual and help Raynare with her task. It was a miracle that she pulled herself together, lest she'd either raze the whole building to the ground or kill her herself for such a humiliation.

Nonetheless, Raynare sighed in annoyance.

"I hate to say it but…The order from above was clear… I'll join you in a moment."

"I see… Okay, then. I'll be in my way."

And with that, Mittlet flew back inside and told her other Fallen Angels comrades of the plan. Meanwhile, Raynare gave a longing look upon the dark sky as a pang of anger and sorrow engulfed her mind.

'I'll get what I deserve after the Ritual tonight. I will finally have my vengeance upon those that have wronged me… and I will catch all of your attention to me…'

Then, narrowing her gaze as her memory of pain and loneliness sparked an anger that overtook her again, she flew inside with four words in mind.

'No matter the cost.'

A group of stray exorcists was walking toward the church. Some of them brought the equipment necessary for the Ritual they were ordered to do, while two out of the group stayed outside to guard the entrance.

As the sky darkened even more, one of them heard a sound.

*Chirp, chirp!*

"What the hell…?" One of them muttered, while looking vigilant.

"Wha? What's wrong?" The other one asked.

"… No… Nothing—"

But then the chirping returned.

"…You know what? I'll check it just to be sure. Besides, I gotta take a piss."

"You do know there is a bathroom inside right?"

"Yeah, but it smells and looks like shit."

"…Touché"

"Look, just wait a second. I'll be quick."

"Whatever."

The curious man walked closer toward the source of the sound; it came from the forest on the right side of the church.

'What kind of a bird chirps in the sunset?' was what the exorcist was thinking.

He walked slower, hoping to caught whatever it was that made the sound off guard, then with a jump, he yelled,

"GOTCHA!"

He scanned the area, but found nothing. He immediately felt dumb when he heard the other guy's voice,

"Oi, what's going on there?!"

"O-Oh, uh, nothing!"

"Then don't yell you stupid shit! A false alarm is the last thing we need here!"

"Yeah, yeah, sorry!"

He sighed and began to unzip his pants and began to take a piss by facing toward the Church's wall.

After he was done, with a sense of relief after answering the call of nature, he zipped his pants on and turned around and—

*SCHINK!*

He saw a mask, a creepy-smiley mask right in front of him. But that's not what took his attention, what did was the fact that he was slowly losing his power as he felt a stinging pain on his neck. He fell on his back and realized what happened when he saw the familiar red liquid that was pouring out of him.

—The masked man had sliced his throat.

He tried to scream in agony, only to realize that the pain doubled when he did so since it only caused him to push more blood into his throat. Even so, he couldn't help but scream in pain, although his screams came out as a mere gags as he was drowning in his own blood.

He took a good look at his killer, who was merely standing there watching him suffering a slow and painful death; it was as if he was enjoying the show.

His assailant was wearing a tuxedo and a top hat aside from the creepy smiley mask he was wearing; that caught some of his blood on it, making look even more menacing.

As the life on his eyes slowly began to fade, he would forever remember what his killer said nonchalantly after he had taken his life.

"At least I let you take one last piss."

"Oi, you done there?!"

The Other Guard waited for his fellow stray exorcist to comeback after answering his call of nature. But after a few minutes later, he grew suspicious and decided to go after him.

"If you are playing a prank on me, I swear that I promise you pain..."

Due to the darkness, he couldn't see clearly, but soon realized that he stepped on a wet ground that he thought to be where his friend took a piss.

"Oh fucking disgust—!"

He took a closer look at the ground he stepped on, it was red.

"What the…"

And when he followed the trail of blood with his eyes, his gaze fell upon a body that was laid on the ground, its throat sliced open with an expression that showed agony.

He gasped in shock and began to scream, but—

*STAB!*

He never got the chance to do so.

With a hand over his prey's mouth, and with the other, Kazuki plunged his butterfly knife into the man's spinal cord. Then with a twist that caused an audible cracking sound, he let his victim's body fell limp to the ground.

He pulled out his knife and folded it in.

Behind his mask, he frowned when he took a good look at his tuxedo.

"You got blood on my suit."

Trying not to think about it, he pulled the two corpses behind a nearby bush.

With that, he proceeded to walk toward the Church's entrance, but he stopped midway and glances back toward where he hid the two corpses.

Behind his mask, he had a deranged smile as he just got a sick idea.

The rest of the group of exorcists brought the equipment like chains and the likes toward a basement that was under the Church. The labyrinth-like basement caused Kazuki to stop dead on his tracks in one of the underground corridors.

He was invisible the entire time since he killed the two guards outside and he was now down here, still undetected for the last fifteen minutes, in the dimly lit corridors.

He was running out of time and thus did what he had to do; he gotta fish for information. He found an old, rusty, electric box and turned the lights off.

Some exorcist that were chatting and patrolling in the corridors gasped in shock. Silence filled the air in this pitch-black underground space.

Then suddenly,

"Huh—Ack!"

"GAAAH—MMPH—Gurk!"

"What the—Urk!"

"WHAT'S GOING O—Uck?!"

The dark was not a problem for Kazuki. He had a night vision lenses attached to the visors of his mask, therefore it was incredibly easy for him to silently walk behind his 'blinded' preys and deal his swift, lethal blows.

One by one, the exorcists that were once standing in the corridor fell limp to the floor as blood poured and painted the floor red.

However, despite being too dark to see anything, one of them realized that they were under attack.

"AN INTRUDER!"

"WHAT?! INTRU—AARGH!" Another one fell with a thud.

The remaining exorcists began to panic.

"OH MY GOD!"

"IT'S TOO DARK TO SEE DAMN IT!"

"Everybody stay calm! I have a flare right here! Follow my voice, I'm lighting it on!"

And with that, the exorcist that held the flare pulled out a lighter and lit it up. Another four exorcists immediately went closer toward him and they all scanned through the dark corridor.

They saw five dead bodies on the ground, still pouring fresh blood out of their stabbed backs or sliced throats.

Then with a gasp, something was thrown in front of them; it was a box.

"What the—?"

But before he could finish it, the box suddenly played a tune that silenced all of them; it was Jack-In-A-Box.

They all silently listened to the creepy tune as it played in front of them in this nigh pitch-black corridor, with no other source of light other than the flare.

When the tune was coming to an end, they slowly backed away from the box. Then when the tune stops, something popped out of the box.

—It was a human head.

The one holding the flare screamed as he was frozen in shock, while his other four comrade screamed and ran toward the other direction in fear.

But the four exorcists stopped when they saw something more sinister that was waiting for them the whole time; Kazuki standing right behind them, with his creepy ever-smiling smiley mask and his tuxedo stained with blood. Lots and LOTS of warm, fresh, blood.

Kazuki readied one of his hand and willed his IBM to take shape into a long invisible sword and then he spoke in a disturbing, cheery voice.

"Pop! Goes the weasel!"

With one swift motion, he cleaved their heads clean off of their shoulders', sparing the one holding the flare, which was trying to flee desperately in despair after watching him take the lives of his fellow stray exorcists.

However, Kazuki threw his butterfly knife at the lower part of his fleeing victim's back which caused him to fall face forward, paralyzed; it hit a vital nervous system.

The man was crying out in pain as well as screaming in fear when he realized that he was paralyzed at his stomach and everything below it. Kazuki merely stepped closer ever so slowly and pulled out his bloodied butterfly knife out of the man's back.

Then he got annoyed by the screaming, so he put a hand into his mouth and opened his mask.

He had a face that looked like he regretted killing the exorcists and said,

"Hey, hey, Calm down. Calm. Down. Listen. I don't want to do this, but… it's my job, okay? Look, I shouldn't do this but… I'll let you go."

The downed man's eyes widened in hope.

"IF you would tell me what I want to know… Do you understand?"

The man nodded profusely.

Kazuki smiled.

"Good. Where is the Ritual going to be held?"

"I-I-It's a-at the end of t-the corridor! T-turn right, then make a left, t-t-then make another left and k-keep going straight!"

The man closed his eyes in fear, but Kazuki spoke in a soothing voice which calmed him down.

"I'll keep my promise. I'll let you go."

The man felt a great relief and began to chant the word, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" as he slowly opened his eyes to look at Kazuki.

However—

*SCHINK!*

He was met with a knife to the heart and a creepy smiley mask on Kazuki's face.

As his life was fading, he cried in pure shock of despair and betrayal.

"W-Why…?"

The smiling mask made him imagine that he was smirking sadistically under it; the thought caused his soul to succumb into the pit of despair.

"I did say I'll let you go…"

Kazuki pulled out his knife with his face showing lack of any emotion behind his mask.

"But, I never said anything about letting you live."

Issei arrived at the entrance of the Church. He had asked for assistance from the Occult Research Club and according to Kiba, his King didn't actually give a permission nor did she forbid him from saving his nun friend.

He was hiding in the nearby forest with Koneko and Kiba as they scanned the entrance for any signs of guards or traps, which there were none.

"That's weird…"

Koneko flinched when she got closer toward the Church when she smelled a familiar scent that was running through her nose.

She widened her eyes when she realized what it was.

'…Blood?'

She glanced at the side of the Church to follow the source of the scent, yet time was of the essence and therefore she must forget about it and focus on the task at hand.

"Such a strong aura… There must be around more than twenty exorcists hiding in this building." Kiba commented.

"That doesn't matter! We must save Asia regardless of the circum—!"

Issei was about to finish his words, but was soon interrupted when Koneko simply kicked the Church's Door, knocking them out of their hinges.

"Koneko-chan why did you do that?!" Issei asked in panic.

"…I'm sure they know we're here." Koneko spoke blankly.

"O-Oooh… I see. Then, we gotta hurry!"

With that, the trio went proceeded on their way to rescue Asia. Issei scanned the dirty insides of the church; dust and cobwebs covered every inch of this building.

"What a horrible place…" he commented.

However, a familiar voice caused the three of them to stop dead on their tracks.

"Hey, hey, hey! What a reunion, I say! I am deeply moved!"

"Freed?!" shouted Issei.

"I never thought there would be a devil alive who could escape me. After all, I'm really freaking strong. So I thought I'd kill every devil the first time I met each of them, so you see…"

Freed put both of his hands inside of his robe and pulled out his light sword and his light gun, then he smiled sadistically as he released a strong bloodlust aura.

"I'm fucking pissed off. Fucking pissed at you shithead devil for making me look like a stupid prick."

"Shut up! Where is Asia?!" Issei yelled in worry.

"Ah, if you mean that shitty-sister devil-lover whore, then she's in the underground ceremony hall down those stairs. It's like a labyrinth down there, so remember this: keep going straight then take a right, then a left, then another left, then just keep going straight. You won't miss it."

Freed spoke nonchalantly.

"Wh-why would you—?"

But before Issei could even finish his question, Freed readied himself to charge at the three devils and cut him off.

"Well, it doesn't matter since you'll never make it down. "

Issei called out his sacred gear, while Kiba drew his sword. Koneko walked over toward the old wooden church seats and threw one of them in Freed's way.

"Break."

Freed's light sword cut through the wooden projectile effortlessly.

"That little cat-girl is so cliché." Freed commented.

The comment, however, made Koneko flinch as her face finally showed a tiny expression, for once in a blue moon, annoyance.

"'Little'?"

Koneko lifted even more benches and threw them all at Freed.

The priest simply dodged the projectiles while laughing in glee as he began shooting his light gun wildly at them, which caused the group to get down and seek protection behind the remaining pews.

When Freed's gun clicked empty though, Kiba, with his immense speed, rushed forward to cut him down.

Freed couldn't reload his gun with magic in time, so he parried Kiba's sword first before he filling his gun with his magic again.

"Don't fuck with me! Take this pretty boy!"

The sound of their swords clashing against each other echoed throughout the room.

"You're not bad." Commented Kiba.

Freed smirked when he realized that his light gun was now fully loaded.

"You're great too. You make me want to seriously blow your brains out."

Freed aimed his gun at Kiba's face, but Kiba's knightly experience had saved him by evading the pointblank shot with a back flip to dodge the bullet which grazed a part of his hair.

"I guess he's more than just a pretty face…" Issei breathed in amazement of watching Kiba's acrobatic skills.

"Well then, shall I become just a little bit serious to match your level?"

With that, the blade of Kiba's sword turned pitch-black and when Freed charged at him and swung his sword, his light sword suddenly flickered his sword clashed with Kiba's.

It appears that the light of his sword was dissipating.

"W-What the fuck is this shit?"

"A Holy Eraser. It's a demonic sword that envelops light." Kiba replied.

"Y-You also possessed an additional element?!"

But in his fit of confusion and disbelief, Kiba jumped back as he signaled Koneko to throw one of the benches at Freed, then he yelled at Issei.

"Now, Hyoudou-kun!"

"Alright! Take this, you shitty priest!"

Freed couldn't evade Issei who was charging at him, since he had to dodge the incoming projectiles that Koneko threw, causing Issei to land a good punch into his face.

"That was for Asia, you shitty priest!"

"How dare you?! Oh, I'm gonna enjoy fucking your face up, you—Ouch!"

Freed was too busy making threats that he didn't see one of the benches that Koneko throw at him.

Freed was outnumbered, he knew that, and as much as it would hurt his pride, he wasn't stupid enough to let himself be killed by something as stupid as pride. Thus, he chose the most logical course of action.

"To me, being killed by a Devil is one thing I'd never let slide. And so! Chaa-ching-see-ya!"

Freed pulled out one of his homemade flashbang and threw it on the ground, blinding Issei and his friends.

The trio looked around and decided to proceed toward the basement when they realized that the Stray Priest had ran away. They slowed down when they remembered what the priest said a few minutes ago; the corridors were like a labyrinth.

"Where was it again?" Issei asked.

"I think it was straight, right, left, left, and straight." Kiba replied.

"Okay, then we—!"

Whatever words Issei was going to say next died in his throat he saw what awaited him in front of him.

The floor was painted red as it was flooded with blood.

Yes, warm, fresh, thick, red blood.

There were ten exorcists laid dead on the ground with lethal blows dealt on either their backs or throats, some even got their heads chopped off.

The sight made the three cringed in disgust.

"W-What the hell is this?" Issei whispered in horror.

"…The priest did say ceremony… Is this supposed to be some kind of sacrifice?" Kiba wondered.

Issei then thought about Asia being sacrificed like these men, the thought almost made him vomit his lunch.

With a new sense of anger, he gulped down his fears and said.

"We don't have time for this, let's hurry before it's too late!"

The trio arrived at the underground ceremonial hall, which was a cavern deep under the Church, but the rest of the stray exorcists were there to greet them as they were finishing their ritual.

Issei's eyes then fell upon the altar in which a familiar figure was chained in a crucifix position.

His face turned into one of despair.

"ASIA!"

Though there were to other figure besides her, a robed person and, his ex-'girlfriend', Raynare.

She laughed maniacally at them and smiled sadistically.

"Welcome, Devil Company. Took you longer that I expected."

"I'm coming to save you Asi—!"

"Wait a second, Hyoudou-kun!"

Kiba pulled Issei back before he could rush forward and it was a good thing he did so, for Raynare had thrown her light spear which missed Issei by an inch and struck the ground in front of him.

The force caused the two boys to fall on their back.

"It's a touching reunion, but I'm sorry to say – the ceremony is almost over." Raynare smirked evilly.

When they had regained their balance, the cross behind Asia glowed a bright green light as she began to scream and writhe in pain.

Issei yelled at Raynare.

"You bitch, what are you doing to Asia?!"

But Kiba then cut him off when he realized what's going on.

"So, that's it... I know what the Fallen Angels are trying to do!"

Koneko and Issei looked at Kiba as he continued to explain.

"…They're stealing the sister's Sacred Gear."

"S-Steal her Sacred Gear? But what will happen to Asia?"

A sense despair began to form in Issei's stomach.

"C-Could it be…?"

"That's right, you devil scum! She'll die and her powers will be mine! Hahahaha!"

Raynare laughed maniacally.

"No one will be able to stop me and—!"

But before Raynare could finish, the robed person pushed Raynare out of the way with a… long golden… tentacle?

"You bitch, what do you think—!"

Another one those tentacle shot out and formed a blade at the end of it to strike something that was held by someone who was standing behind Raynare; it was a butterfly knife.

The invisible newcomer dodged the incoming then and blurred into existence, revealing a man wearing a black tuxedo, a top hat, and a creepy smile face; all stained with blood.

He wondered what gave him away, but the robed person, as if reading his mind, answered his question before he could even speak.

"The smell of blood gave you away."

"I see…"

Raynare and the three devil was shocked at the newcomer that seemed to be invisible just a few moments ago.

Koneko scanned the aura around her and she realized something,

'…No... It can't be!'

Yes, the familiar nothingness that had made her shiver in fear every time she goes to sleep since more than a week ago.

—It was Kazuki.

"Y-You bastard! Who are you?!" Raynare yelled at her assailant.

"I will give you only one warning… Stop."

"Like hell I will! KILL HIM!"

Despite failing to kill his prey, he soon turned his attention away from her and stared at the robed person in front of him. Kazuki realized something; the robed figure's bloodlust.

The person in front of him… is no priest. He or she, aside from the strange tentacle, was an experienced fighter—no, a murderer.

The robed figure shot a few other tentacles at him, all with a sharp ends, and was about to tear him into shreds. Kazuki had a hard time dodging all of them, due to their incredibly close distance and small space they are standing on, but nevertheless it wasn't impossible, yet—

*SCHLUB!*

One of them to impaled his stomach.

The three devils gasped in shock as Raynare smiled in victory.

However, such smile disappeared when the masked assassin suddenly rushed forward, pushing the tentacle that impaled him deeper, and with his IBM formed an invisible long sword.

The robed figure was caught off guard, but his or her reflexes managed to save the figure by jumping backward to evade the lethal blow, yet Kazuki's invisible sword managed to cut the robed figure's robe in half, revealing the person behind it.

—It was a girl.

She seemed to be as young as a normal highschool student and she was only a few inches taller compared to Koneko. She wore a gothic-style leather outfit and, again like Koneko, had a petite body build, albeit with a slightly bigger chest.

But what caught their attention wasn't what she looked like, it was her hair. A golden blonde, it was… but now some of it was dyed in red seeing as one of them impaled through Kazuki's stomach.

'Ahh, so that's what those tentacles are…'

The girl in question willed the part of her hair that impaled Kazuki to lift him up and slam him down to the ground, then to the wall, then to the ground again. She did so again and again before finally, throwing the now dying tuxedo-wearing assassin's body into the crowds of exorcists, which stepped back and let the body land on the ground in front of the three devils.

Issei moved closer to inspect him. Kazuki's mask was cracked badly, while he was tattered and bruised with blood bleeding profusely out of the hole in his stomach and on a few other parts on his body, due to the impact when golden-haired girl was slamming his body like a rag doll.

Finally, Kazuki's mask cracked and broke apart, revealing his face for everyone to see.

"K-Kazuki-san?!" Issei asked in disbelief.

"Y-YOU? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" Raynare screamed.

Despite the wounds, Kazuki wasn't dead… yet. And so, he shakily forced himself to stand up as he flipped another butterfly knife open.

"K-Kazuki-san don't move! You're bleed—!"

With a face devoid of emotion, combined with the blood and bruises that covered it, he shut Issei up and said.

"Go. Get. Asia. NOW."

Issei wanted to argue, but then another scream of pain from Asia caught his attention. He ran towards the group of exorcists and began to punch some of them.

But being out numbered, one of them was about to strike Issei's back with a light sword, however he was soon stopped with a knife to the temple.

The three devil only watched in amazement and fear, for the person in front of them was still fighting on, despite having a hole in a stomach and blood bleeding out of almost every part of his body; he didn't even show any slightest hint of pain.

"What are you staring at?! HURRY!"

Kazuki snapped them off of their confusion and thus the two began to help making a way for Issei to go and save Asia.

While Kazuki was enduring the hellish pain on his body, he felt that he was getting slower and weaker as he was dying slowly from blood loss.

With his knowledge of Muay Thai, he caught an exorcist off-guard and landed a vertical elbow strike on the top of his head, breaking his neck and, presumably, his spine.

Then with his knowledge of Judo he shifted the weight of someone behind him and slammed him down on the ground in front of him before taking his life in cold blood by stabbing his throat with his knife.

With the assistance of Kiba and Koneko, they managed to make a path for all of them to advance. Yet this was where the golden-blonde girl came to play.

She jumped high and, with her sharp-edged hair-tentacle, 'rained hell' upon them all.

Issei managed to run forward, but Kazuki, Kiba, and Koneko were caught in the attack. Kiba managed to grab Koneko out of the way and, with his Knight speed, evaded the attack, leaving Kazuki to receive the full damage of the attack that torn his body apart into pieces.

Kazuki fell on his back as more blood poured out of him as some of his organs were scattered all over the floor.

Kiba looked at Kazuki's corpse in horror, knowing for a fact that he had forgotten about him and was guilty of leaving him for dead.

The Golden Haired assassin landed in front of the two devils and no one moved a muscle.

—However.

"KYAAAAAAAA!"

Asia screamed louder as the pain she was suffering doubled exponentially for each passing seconds as the cross behind her glowed stronger and brighter.

Raynare, who was shocked by the revelation of Kazuki's presence, soon found herself laughing maniacally and sadistically as Asia's scream grew stronger and stronger.

Issei watched the scene in front of him unfold in despair, but alas, no matter how fast he ran—

"AAAAAA—aaahh…..!"

—It was too late.

"ASIAAA!"

Asia suddenly stops screaming as the glowing cross began to lose its light. A green glowing ring floated out of Asia's chest.

Raynare took it in her hands and stared at the Sacred Gear in her hands in amazement and pure happiness. She was too engrossed by it that she didn't notice Issei that came and untangled Asia out of the chains that held her in place.

"The Twilight Healing… at last… IT IS MINE!"

He laid Asia down and held her in his arms.

"Asia!"

Asia took a look at Issei and smiled weakly.

"I-Issei-kun…?"

"You're going to be okay, do you hear me?"

"Yes…!"

Raynare had put the rings on and watched the conversation between the two; she laughed.

"HAHAHA! Now that I got what I wanted, I'll give that useless girl back to you!"

"Don't talk shit to me! Give her Sacred Gear back at once!"

"Don't be foolish. I have set this plan in motion on orders from above. Sorry, but you two will need to be proof of my success."

She materialized a light spear as she smirked sadistically.

"But isn't this ideal? You get to die together."

"Hyoudou-kun don't listen to her!"

Shouted Kiba as he blocked another attack from the Golden Haired assassin, this time she shapeshifted her hands into sharp swords in addition of her hair.

Issei looked at Raynare and yelled in rage.

"RAYNARE!"

"DON'T YELL THAT NAME LIKE THAT! YOU'LL SOIL IT!"

'This girl is much more like devil!'

Raynare was going to kill Issei, but at that moment he dodged the light spear by jumping out of the way and immediately ran for the exit with Asia in his arms.

Issei ran and ran and ran, until he finally reached the surface of the Church where he laid Asia on her back on of the benches.

"Asia, look at me! Can you hear me?"

Issei was crying waterfall as he felt Asia was growing weaker in his hands.

"Don't go… Please don't go…! We're friends forever, aren't we? We'll plant flowers together and go to a bookstore and buy books together! Oh and—!"

"Issei-kun…"

Issei's voice became shaky when he replied.

"Y-Yes?"

'No…' Issei thought to himself.

"Thank you, for being my friend… and…" Asia started slowly with a smile.

'No, no, no, NO…!'

Asia let one last tear dropped before saying her last word.

"…Goodbye."

Silence fell as Asia's lifeless hand fell out of Issei's grasp.

A moment passed and he howled into the night in pain and sorrow.

"NOOOOO!"

Meanwhile, in the underground ceremonial hall, Raynare was about to pursue Issei when she saw him running for the exit.

—But then something happened.

A shockwave of energy was felt throughout the Church, and perhaps a bit further out into the forest. However, it wasn't a shockwave full of power…

It was a shockwave that sucked power.

The Stray Priest's magical weaponry shut down as Raynare's spear disintegrates. The two devils also felt their chess pieces' power disappeared as was the Golden Haired Assassin, whose hair and hands turned back into their original form.

—Any and every magic, in and around them, had disappeared.

Silence fell upon everyone present in the Underground Ceremonial Hall as their attention was nailed on the source of the shockwave.

—Kazuki.

As he proceeded to stand up, his wounds regenerated. Parts of his torn bodies, that were close to him, seemed to reattach themselves together as his blood that was splattered all over the floor seemed to seeped back into his body.

Black, dust-like smoke particles exploded out of and surrounded him like a swarm of insects as his body fully regenerated.

In the darkness, his pitch-black eyes seemed to glow a blood red light as the black dust-like particles began to slowly engulf his body.

Then, with a face devoid of any emotion, he spoke in an extremely disturbing voice that sent chills down everybody's spine.

"You have done a grave mistake…"

His legs were all covered as the particles was still going…

"Why wouldn't you stop… when you realize that I am here…?"

Everything below his torso was covered in the dust-like particles…

"Why… wouldn't you stop, when you have killed me…?"

The particles slowly covered every inch of his body…

"I tried warn you… I tried to warn all of you…"

Then the black dust-like particles covered his hands and formed a long sharp claw out of his fingers.

"…And yet, you didn't listen."

With that, every part of his body was covered in the pitch-black particle as he released a powerful killing intent.

"Now?"

He was ready now; Ready for blood; Ready for death; But more importantly…

A Bloodbath.

"You. PAY."

Author's Note:

Yeeeah, I guess this story is officially Mature-Rated now… I mean organs scattered on the floor isn't something that you'd see in a T-Rated story… I think? Eh.

Anyway, told you Kazuki's not a fighter. He's a Spy—an Assassin. Each and every one of his attacks are meant to lethally harm his opponents as swift as possible.

And even if he had some knowledge and experience with other types of martial arts, he could only to the basics and perhaps more.

Sooo yeah, to prevent even more spoilers, let's start the ILLUSTRATION TIME!

When Kazuki chopped the four priest heads off an invisible sword, imagine an invisible version of what Baraka from Mortal Kombat possesses.

Whenever his face is devoid of emotion, imagine the face of a rampaging Meliodas (from Seven Deadly Sins or Nanatsu no Taizai)

If you want to imagine his transformation think of it as an Ajin version of Naruto's Kyuubi's Fourth Tail Transformation, just minus the roars and he transform while still standing up.

His 'claws' here looks like Kuro'ssword-claws, from One Piece.

The rest of his body, when covered with IBM, is like the Ajin version of an Iron Man Suit.

Well, then. I guess that should be all for now. Apart from the fact that, Yay! Yami's here!

And no… no, she won't be in an immediate harem… but everything is better with waiting, right?

Sooo, yeah… Kazuki's powers will be revealed a bit in the next chapter, so stay tuned!

Anyway! Your supports give me strength! Your faves give me POWAAAH! And you're hate? They FEED my soul! \ :v /

Tell me what you think of this chapter, Aaand…

See ya next chapt, Capt!

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P.S.

My God, I broke my writing record… 6k words worth of story, brah!

(Plus this stupid Author's Notes to waste even more space, which totaled to 6k+ words! \ :v /)

Phew! I love writing this chapter!

But more importantly, I love you guys for your support! :)

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No homo, though. :v

(Not that I have a problem with that… just sayin'.)